Britney Spears guide to Semiconductor Physics: semiconductor physics, Edge Emitting Lasers and VCSELs Thanks for the link Elliot.

He brought Krispy Kreme Doughnuts to work. All hail, Lance, King of sugary treats! May the Gods shine favourably upon you.

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Above is a picture of Nathan and his twin baby brothers, Jordan and Hunter. Jordan and Hunter are 1 year old today and Nathan will be 13 tomorrow. That’s kind of cool. Three New Years babies! And two in one shot. Ma and pa, Wendy and Rick (same folks from the Hallowe’en House) are pleased as punch and proud as peacocks. As they should be. Those are some great young fellers you got there.

I need to get back into shape. End of story. I used to study martial arts and made it as high as the equivalent of a brown sash in Pai Lum (White Dragon) Kung Fu. I even had the pleasure of studying personally with the late Grandmaster of the style Daniel K Pai in Rhode Island. I left the style in the early 90’s as I moved away from my Sifu (teacher) and never went back. I’m looking at Sowakan Dojo – Yoshinkan Aikido right now. Aikido, traslated as “the art of peace”, is a non-competitive softer style martial art. One famous Aikido praticioner is the actor, and apparently not exactly a nice guy, Stephen Seagal.

It’s time to get moving again.

take a look at these pots to pee in!

Check out the Alas, the Grim Reaper Never Takes a Holiday section on the Georgia Straight (Vancouver’s weekly free entertainment magazine). It’s quite the list of Obits. My friend Paul sent me the page to look at in the paper edition of this week’s Straight, but I knew it’d be on the web too.

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Go and check out Redate: The Creative Anniversary Calculator and enter your birthday to find out some interesting anniversaries for yourself. For example, my birthdate is August 5th, 1969; on Monday, 23 June 2003 I will be 55 Venusian years old.