It rains again today. Fortunately I have a new umbrella that I get to carry around campus, a gift I got from my recent visit to the Red Cross blood donation center. It's really nice that the Red Cross has began to give out things other than t-shirts for their blood drive. Hopefully I'll be able to get one of those fancy sweatshirts they've been touting about.

I have to admit, I'm addicted to dancing. This has become more of my life where I have been taking a class at UMBC for latin dancing on the weekends and then going about once a week to a live band locally. It's a bunch of fun and a great way to keep those kg's off.

Scottie has a good point in his reply to my previous post. There are a good many of things to be careful of in this world and being aware of them is a first step. Working towards improving the world is what I try my best to do. The worst thing to do is to denounce that the problem even exists, this is nothing but blasphemy.

In 2007 Khurana published an article [headache] that demonstrates how headaches are the body's way of indicating to us that something is wrong. The stronger the headache the more worrisome the symptoms are.

I'd look around and see all those towers around us and think about what that means for those of us who live *near* towers that are radiating us without our consent. It doesn't matter how strong your tissue is in your brain, or for that matter in your hip, abdomen, or anywhere else in your body. If you plan to live long, avoid medical complications, and maybe even have kids... it has been made clear that having a cellphone near you or using one is a sure step in direction of loosing those plans.

My question now is how long will it take us to realize the effects the power lines are having on humans to limit those and burry them.

When people do any sort of down mixing of music, if someone like myself tries to make psudospectrums or do tempo / speed adjustments in music any sort, the downmixing codec compressions will cause severe artifacts to show up. Hence, when I am slowing or speeding music up to use it as dance music, it gets something I would refer to as the jitters at the higher frequencies. Hence forth I'll keep my MiniDisks, and those discounted Amazon CDs will always be for me. I still remember my first 33/45/78 rpm speed vinyl record player and dancing to some classics in near double time. ;)

I'm looking forward to my next trip to Europe though I haven't decided where to go yet. Steve has mentioned that Scandinavia would be a good destination, so heading back to Norway may be in my near term future. :)

Viele Grüße,

- Paul Schou ]]> http://www.paulschou.com/?cid=1115 http://www.paulschou.com/?cid=1115 Fri, 15 Feb 08 06:12:22 GMT paul NASA Launch Schedule vCal which I made to anyone who is interested. Enjoy! ]]> http://www.paulschou.com/?cid=1114 http://www.paulschou.com/?cid=1114 Tue, 05 Feb 08 18:53:20 GMT paul http://www.paulschou.com/?cid=1113 http://www.paulschou.com/?cid=1113 Sun, 18 Nov 07 19:40:59 GMT paul I read about a really awesome movement called One Voice today with a website located at onevoicemovement.org. It's a movement acting towards linking up people across the divide between Israelis and Palestinians, mainly youth and younger generations that want to have hope in a more secure and peaceful future, by not focusing on differences, but focusing on working as `one voice'. Linking friends together across the divide makes the division between peoples blurred. This is such a `crazy movement' that it may just work, and it would be awesome if it did!

It's such an amazing movement that it has drummed up international supporters, such as IBM to contribute over $250,000 to this cause. Just imagine posters, bumper stickers, and youth soliciting politicians to not hold their group's personal agendas, but to work for a real compromise... It may be frowned upon by parents, but really... if we intend to rewrite history books and make peace, then an exciting / awesome / radical movement is definitly deserving of our best support. I cannot help but imagine the potential these Palestinian and Israeli `kids' may bring.

In other news, good job to the participants of this years grand challenge. Imagine a vehicle in an urban city, stop signs, traffic, and no driver. Thanks to many new products and ideas of many students, this is now a reality thanks to this advance research program. I look forward to what is next. : ) ]]> http://www.paulschou.com/?cid=1112 http://www.paulschou.com/?cid=1112 Tue, 13 Mar 07 03:07:01 GMT paul

This semester I was assigned to be a TA for the electronics lab, which is an awesome experience. It is fun seeing all the students learning about electronics and being able to sit down and figure things out when they are not working just right

In other news, I am busy preparing for a talk I give this week and then spring break, which means no one will be on campus next week. NASA has with its STEREO-B were calibrating some cameras and captured this image. It's pretty neat and I look forward to STEREO A and B becoming operational and adding many new ways to study our sun. Together with SOHO I hope we will finally have 24/7 space observing of the corona.