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Hubble Gets a Reprieve

Good news - the decision to cease the Servicing Mission to HST (Hubble Space Telescope) is now being re-considered. Let's hope for the best. If you want to get involved, please visit Sky and Telescope website to learn what you can do something abt that.

Bubblewrap!!!!!

http://www.7fire.com/flash/bubblewrap.swf

If you are DYING to destroy the bubblewrap but don't have it handy, here is YOUR opportunity to do that. I know one of my friends who is bubblewrap freak....Nanette! :)

Meet the inventor of 'CtrlAltDelete'

I got the CNN summary news on my pager and noticed the article about CtrlAltDelete guy.....It piqued my curiousity and decided to read this article. It is really cool that the invention of that guy other than Bill Gates made it possible for us to get out of "loop" or bail out the crashed program or even OS! *grins* Thank to him, so we are not at mercy of "black hole" of PC world! :)

Help for Hubble: Officials Mull Donations, Russian Service Mission

When I first heard about the servicing mission to Hubble Space Telescope (HST) being cancelled, I was shocked at first then got upset abt that. The accomplishment of HST is still priceless considering that the atmosphere between Earth and Space is removed to allow us to have crystal and beautifully detailed pictures of what the space is really look like. What's more, two instruments that were planned to add to HST during Servicing Mission 4 are probably "wasted"! I hope that we will find a way to save HST from letting it go and not having another telescope in space for few years! *sigh*

Lake Drive Change

Got this article via digest email....Wow, the principle of day elementary/middle school that I attended is still around after all. :)

Great truths about life

I was cleaning out of my mailbox and found the email from a friend of mine, Billy. I decided to post it here. :) So funny!

GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT LIFE, THAT LITTLE CHILDREN HAVE LEARNED:
1) No matter how hard you try, you can't baptize cats.
2) When your Mom is mad at your Dad, don't let her brush your hair.
3) If your sister hits you, don't hit her back. They always catch the second person.
4) Never ask your 3-year old brother to hold a tomato.
5) You can't trust dogs to watch your food.
6) Don't sneeze when someone is cutting your hair.
7) Never hold a Dust-Buster and a cat at the same time.
8) You can't hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk.
9) Don't wear polka-dot underwear under white shorts.
10) The best place to be when you're sad is Grandma's lap.

GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT LIFE, THAT ADULTS HAVE LEARNED:
1) Raising teenagers is like nailing Jell-O to a tree.
2) Wrinkles don't hurt.
3) Families are like fudge . . .mostly sweet, with a few nuts.
4) Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
5) Laughing is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside.
6) Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy.

GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT GROWING OLD:
1) Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
2) Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get.
3) When you fall down, you wonder what else you can do while you're down there.
4) You're getting old when you get the same sensation from a rocking chair that you once got from a roller coaster.
5) It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.
6) Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.
7) Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.

THE FOUR STAGES OF LIFE:
1) You believe in Santa Claus.
2) You don't believe in Santa Claus.
3) You are Santa Claus.
4) You look like Santa Claus.

SUCCESS:
At age 4 success is . . . not peeing in your pants.
At age 12 success is . . . having friends.
At age 16 success is . . . having a drivers license.
At age 20 success is . . . having sex.
At age 35 success is . . . having money.
At age 50 success is . . . having money.
At age 60 success is . . . having sex.
At age 70 success is . . . having a drivers license.
At age 75 success is . . . having friends.
At age 80 success is . . . not peeing in your pants.

Sin City - What we did there....

This past weekend, my sorority big sis, Cindy, and I escaped to the Sin City (Las Vegas) and Phoenix. We had a wuuuunderful time in both places!

We went to many places in the Sin City:

1) Bally's
2) Stratosphere
3) Bungy
4) Venetian
5) Luxor
6) New York - New York
7) Belargio's
8) Mirage

I introduced the concept of hostelling at USA Las Vegas to Cindy....it was her first experience....I have been there in 2000 when I was backpacking through Southwestern states. She now knew what the hostels were all about. :)

We flew to Phoenix to visit our old college buddies....Brenda, Alynn and Brian were great to throw a party called "Blast from Past" and invite college buddies from CA and AZ area to join celebrating and taking a trip down the memory lane. *grins* What even more was a NICE surprise from my sorority sister, Julie....She told me previously that she had other plans and was unable to attend to the party. I was like darn! However, she showed up at the party and my jaw was dropped seeing her there! I was so thrilled! Her friend that came with her wanted to go to the party, so they planned on going to the place that they were planned before and drove to the party to surprise us, Cindy and me. :) I love surprises. Debra who moved to other side of coast was there. It was really good to see her. We saw videotapes of our hideous and unbelievable hairdo's, fashions, glasses and etc....LOL In addition, they had raw vegetarian catering that was personally made by hostesses!!!! They were so deicious....what was even greater was that they were wheat-free!!!!!! It was the first time I could eat anything at the party without just eating out of potato chips bowl!!!

Cindy and I made it to home barely on top of the delay and storm! :) Thanks, Cindy, for a GREEEAT weekend! Just holler if you want a luantic and neurotic gal to keep u occupied while traveling. *grins*

Bungy Las Vegas!!!

Ok, the words are out!.....I did a bungee-jump in Las Vegas this past weekend! :) Many thanks to my big sorority sis, Cindy, for taking me to the Bungy place to have this kind of opportunity that I have been dying for!!!! :) Really....when we drove down the Strip, I saw the Bungy. I ranted abt it...how I wanted to go bungee jumping so badly. She looked at me and said, "Are you serious?". I said, "YEAHH!". She took an U-turn and brought me to that place. I couldn't believe it in my own eyes......I passed up several opportunities cuz my friends didn't want to do it or take the time for me to do it....but, she did take time to let me to get this oppotunity. She is swell gal! :)

http://www.aj-hackett.com/lasvegas/

Beautiful view, wasn't it? *grins* The man who took videotape of me...said my jump was good...dive was beautiful and when I came up, it showed how much I LOVED it....hee! Scott, a guy in the picture front of you, was really cool guy. He knew fingerspelling which was extremely helpful. He came from Alaska....going to UNLV. :) Cindy took digital video of my jump on her video camera.....It is cool to get two POVs. :)

I showed the videotape to my parents tonight....they didn't know until they saw the videotape. Their jaws dropped and looked at me like I was OUT OF MY MIND!!!! Hee hee! I loved it....wanna to do it more and go for extreme bungee jump!!!!

Call the Relay Service via AIM on your pager or from computer

Got the details from my friend, Carmen. Good news for customers who want to use relay service on pager....free service rather than cough up some dough for supplementary service! :)
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In case many of you know or don't know, you can now call the Relay Service through your AIM.. (its free!!) Read the following information to set it up. Pretty simple and if you can't figure it out then you have a major problem.. :-)

Here's the info below, go all the way down and click on
http://www.lormarlogic.com/realtime_service.htm

www.lormarlogic.com

Go down that page and look for option 1 and click on that link and go from there.

Follow instructions and resgister and then you're all set! You make relay calls though AIM

In AIM, set up a new group list called mobileTTY and then add two new buddy names - mobiletty and mobiletty48.

CBS Censorship - Agree or Disagree?

http://www.moveon.org/cbs/ad/

I received an email from my friend, Janaki....If CBS chose to carry White House's, beer companies' and tobacco companies' ADs, but not PETA's and MoveOn's ADs. I think as long as the content of ADs is decent for general audience, the network should obligate to carry out these messages. I viewed the ADs and thought it was decent enough. If you want to send in a petition, please click on the link above and follow the instruction to do that.