Sophrology

Many people take their lives too seriously and some not enough; so as I would more set myself in the second category I am inclined to try to help others reach a closer understanding of how they may get closer to it without necessarily reaching it.
For those who still are at GE, remember that in the last weeks of 2006 the company organized a weeks of free activities that were there to help you relax, and one of those activities was sophrology.

It may seem like not much, but if taken seriously it is a practice that could help anyone reach any desired level of inner peace, a possibility that too few even consider.

So just enjoy life and rest in peace...

New Years (like everyone else)

For those who might still be reading some of this.. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I personally had a great one, the kind where you don't drink but have fun as if you had 3 grams of alcohol at the tip of each finger. A real blast! All in the company of a few very nice ladies, ex-students of the school I attend.

But all good things come to an end and now it's back to studying: books, homework, stress, exams, grades, notes, rumors. Not so much of a blast...

I hope all you are having fun and enjoying your free time.

enjoy!

Ultimate GE based post

now is for the time of goodbyes to all...

Note that farewell means the wish for a good trip, and for the moment my journey has not begun just yet. So worry not, for we will meet again soon.

I only say goodbye to the people I met here as to show them that I am sad to leave them so soon. It has been a gripping experience and I will surely not forget the most delightful time I had with all. There is no one person to thank, so I thank them all. I only wish I had more time to do so.

To say a word about GE, well, I now understand the enthusiasm my finance teacher had when referring to it. It has great values and really puts forward the one who matters the most: that small individual worker who with his neighbor will make things happen. It's like an ant's nest where coordination is key and when one member falls the rest feel. But it doesn't only see things small, it also makes things as big as the planet's health matter just as much; values are based on using the best out of people to make the world a better place for all; now this may seem ambitious, but the best one can do is try... and GE sure does.

Values aside, all that is left is for me is to note that i have absolutely no regrets and I wish to live such an inviting experience once more.


Life does go on, but now the path has gotten a whole lot nicer...

Penultimate GE based post

I can't find anything else to do so I am now going to list the different things I learned here at GE:

- if I saw an airplane in the sky and it were making a racket, I would then say: "IF IT WAS A G.E.-MADE ENGINE IT WOULDN'T MAKE ALL THAT NOISE!!!". Some people may call that brainwashing, I call it understanding values.

- workwise... nothing much, I spent half my time here, & I am being generous, fiddling with my thumbs, & I do regret not being more proactive. But I do have strong thumbs now! :-)

- I also finally learned that wherever you go you will always meet the best people in the world and that there's no need to go looking for them at the far end of this planet, mots of the time they will even be you next door neighbors.

- in a certain way it was also made clear to me that smoking is bad, drinking is bad, watching TV is bad, eating junkfood is bad, and a lot of other things are bad; but the real lesson is that there's no worth living if there is no risk of ending it, or in a less extreme way: carpe diem quad minimum credula postero... seize the day and trust not the morrow; nothing is sure about it, so why live on assumptions.

- enjoy...

Antepenultimate GE based post

Here I am living my before last day at GE Healthcare.
I must say that it has been a long stay, & in the end I realized that I really did enjoyed it.
But the goodbyes, regrets, and thank-yous will come tomorrow.
For now I can only regret leaving the people from the bi-weekly basketball games, I met some wonderful and very interesting people there. If it weren't for those matches I would have gained 20kg and grown long hair and a beard. Instead I now play like Vince Carter and only gained a few bruises.
:-)

Why is it called Bluetooth?

Harald Bluetooth was king of Denmark in the late 900s. He managed to unite Denmark and part of Norway into a single kingdom then introduced Christianity into Denmark. He left a large monument, the Jelling rune stone, in memory of his parents. He was killed in 986 during a battle with his son, Svend Forkbeard. Choosing this name for the standard indicates how important companies from the Nordic region (nations including Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland) are to the communications industry, even if it says little about the way the technology works.


Source: howstuffworks.com

Ho, ho, ho!

Weekend under the theme of family and friends all in the spirit of Christmas festivity.

Saturday, with a colleague I went to this Factory outlet just outside of Paris to buy those xmas presents for Sis', Bro', Ma' & Pa'. Huge place, tons of people; very American style shopping & decoration; it even smells like an American mall!! One can even go through the indoor section with a small train that goes 'tchoo-tchoo' through the heard of people that pack up the place. You've also got all the rainbow-colored decoration and lights with Jingle Bells playing in every corner of the building. Christmas at its fullest..

Then Sunday, little trip to Normandy to see some family I hadn't seen in years. They all loved my passing by and I even got to meet my grandfather's cousin whom I had never even heard of before. I was amazed at how many people in our family own some sort of domain (one castle out of two we saw was part of the family's heritage).
Then I also laughed when I saw most houses in the area decorated for xmas as if they were trying to remind Santa that they still exist and where they live. Though strangely enough only retired people live there. I wonder if they sent their wish list to Santa as well.

What a world...

Ambitious Google

Read this and notice the ambitious character of Google's founders.

Apply if you dare...

:-)

link: http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html

Dumber than smart

For those who find themselves dumber than smart and smarter than dumb, and just try to find excuses for their incompetence. We are all far from perfect, but the least we can do is aspire towards it.
:-)

examples: 75 ways to use vinegar around the house
Saving money with peroxide

Multimedia search engine

A cool music, movie, and actor search engine that sorts search results by affinity to what you actually searched for.
A good way to discover new bands and movies through your taste in the subject.

Enjoy!



www.liveplasma.com

Interesting coincidence

For those who might feel concerned, the silicon gel used in breast implants was invented by... General Electric.

:-)


note: breast augmentation was the third most performed surgical cosmetic procedures in 2002, 2003, and 2004 in the US.

Try your best

Try out this test, I take it more as a test of English as a funky language:
http://intelligence-test.net/part1/
It's freeky how the answers are soooooo simple.
Enjoy...

tip: all the ones I found were simple every-day expressions (EXACTLY like the example), requiring only common sense or basic knowledge.

what the...? (alcohol related)

The word "toast," meaning a wish of good health, started in ancient Rome, where a piece of toasted bread was dropped into wine.

The origin of the word cocktail is said to have come from the metaphor of the morning rooster while drinking small quantities of alcohol at the break of dawn to lessen the effect of a hang-over, & also from putting a cock's tail in the glass to mark it as alcoholic (this came after).

The longest bar in the world is 684 feet (or about 208.5 meters) long and is located at the New Bulldog in Rock Island, Illinois... bloody americans.

Each molecule of alcohol is less than a billionth of a meter long and consists of a few atoms of oxygen, carbon and hydrogen. At least you know now what's going down your throat.

One glass of milk can give a person a .02 blood alcohol concentration on a Breathalyzer test. That’s enough in some places for persons under age 21 to lose their drivers license and be fined.

If a young Tiriki (Kenya) man offers beer to a woman and she spits some of it into his mouth, they are engaged to be married. Hmmmmm....that makes the single life seem a little more attractive.

In the 1600's thermometers were filled with brandy instead of mercury... Ever got drunk with Brandy and felt a little warmer?

Methyphobia is fear of alcohol... back to that dream I had after a weery Friday night.

Dipsomania refers to an abnormal or insatiable craving for alcohol... back to just before that weery Friday night.

"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is commonly believed to be the only English sentence devised to include all the letters of the alphabet. However, typesetters have another such sentence: "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs."

Most vegetable, and virtually all fruit juices, contain alcohol.

There is a cloud of alcohol in outer space with enough alcohol to make four trillion-trillion drinks. It's free for the taking. . . but it's 10,000 light years away.

Chinese fortune...

Cow with no legs, ground beef.

A man who sneezes without his hanky takes matters into his own hands.

A man who drops his watch in the toilet is bound to have a shitty time.

He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot.

Never have sex with a stranger unless you are stranger than them.

Babies conceived on the back seat of a car with automatic transmission grow up to be shiftless bastards.

War does not determine who is right, war determines who is left.

Just because men have one, doesn't mean they have to be one.

Support bacteria -- it's the only culture some people have!

Men who run behind cars get exhausted.

It's ok to let a fool kiss you, but don't let a kiss fool you.

Virginity is like bubble, one prick & it's all gone.

I am what I am...

You Are Cookie Monster

Misunderstood as a primal monster, you're a true hedonist with a huge sweet tooth. You are usually feeling: Hungry. Cookies are preferred, but you'll eat anything if cookies aren't around. You are famous for: Your slightly crazy eyes and usual way of speaking How you life your life: In the moment. "Me want COOKIE!"

The Sesame Street Personality Quiz

I'm a superhero

Your Superhero Profile

Your Superhero Name is The Ambush Devil Your Superpower is Accessorizing Your Weakness is Dust Your Weapon is Your Toxic Hammer Your Mode of Transportation is Sleigh

What's your Superhero Name?

Now who would have guessed that...

(thx for the link Melinda)

The Duke Nuked'em

Note: this post is for informational purposes only, and I cannot be held resposible for any attempt on making a nuclear reaction (/bomb) in your bath tub, if you don't have a bath tub then in your shower, and if you don't have a shower either then I don't know you.

A nuclear reaction is a process where two nuclear particles collide, to simplify things I will only be going over the two most known reactions: fusion and fission.

A fusion reaction is, as the words says, the process of combining two lighter elements to create a larger one. That is what takes place in the sun as well as in hydrogen bombs, and so, that is how one can create a huge amount of energy. In short, two elements are thrown at eachother at very high speeds and depending on their weight they will either release energy or absorb it (the split point being at the Iron or Nickel state). The problem is that it currently uses more energy than it produces to be able to control it, so for the moment it is pointless to use it as a clean energy source.

A fission reaction is the oposite: spliting one larger element in to two smaller ones. We first used that reaction on August 6th, 1945, over Hiroshima. We then understood its potential and started using it as an energy source. The danger of a nuclear fission is that when started it undergoes a chain reaction: to split the element one bombards it with a neutron, but when done that reaction will produce another several neutrons enabling multiple other reactions to take place; so unless you are working with only one of those atoms it is strongly suggested to find the means to control the outgoing neutrons. This is what can be done in a nuclear reactor and was what failed at Chernobyl.
The main elements used in this process is a metal called Uranium (we'll drop Plutonium for this time). But it can only take place with Uranium 235 (235 being its atomic weight) and not Uranium 238 (accounting for 99% of earth's supply). So when extracted they must be seperated, a process also known as Uranium enrichment. But it is a very difficult and costly process: one must spin the compound at extremely hight speeds (aproximating 10,000 rpm) as to send the heavier atoms (U238) to the outside, and this must be done several times round. To understand this better you must know that a nuclear reactor uses Uranium enriched at 5% (5% U235 & 95% U238) whereas a nuclear bomb needs Uranium enriched at 90%, and to achieve the latter one must have aproximately 100,000 centrifuges (the machine that spins); which is most reassuringly not the case of Iraq.


post dedicated to Ricardas who complained about my posts being too boring (he's one of those guys who has nor bath tub nor shower)

Corporate Lesson 1:

A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is
finishing up her shower, when the doorbell rings.
The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs
downstairs. When she opens the door, there stands
Bob, the next door neighbor. Before she says a word,
Bob says, "I'll give you $800 to drop that towel,"
After thinking for a moment, the woman drops her
towel and stands naked in front of Bob.
After a few seconds, Bob hands her $800 dollars and leaves.
The woman wraps back up in the towel and goes back
upstairs. When she gets to the bathroom, her husband
asks, "Who was that?" "It was Bob the next door
neighbor," she replies.
"Great!" the husband says, "did he say anything
about the $800 he owes me?"
Moral of the story: If you share critical
information pertaining to credit and risk with your
shareholders in time, you may be in a position to
prevent avoidable exposure.

Corporate Lesson 2:

A priest offered a lift to a Nun.
She got in and crossed her legs, forcing her gown to reveal a leg.
The priest nearly had an accident. After controlling
the car, he stealthily slid his hand up her leg.
The nun said, "Father, remember Psalm 129?"
The priest removed his hand.
But, changing gears, he let his hand slide up her leg again.
The nun once again said, "Father, remember Psalm 129?"
The priest apologized "Sorry sister but the flesh is weak."
Arriving at the convent, the nun went on her way.
On his arrival at the church, the priest rushed to look up Psalm 129.
It said, "Go forth and seek, further up, you will find glory."
Moral of the story: If you are not well informed in
your job, you might miss a great opportunity.

Corporate Lesson 3:

A sales rep, an administration clerk, and the

manager are walking to lunch when they find an

antique oil lamp.

They rub it and a Genie comes out.

The Genie says, "I'll give each of you just one wish."

"Me first! Me first!" says the admin clerk.

"I want to be in the Bahamas, driving a speedboat,

without a care in the world." Poof! She's gone.

"Me next! Me next!" says the sales rep. "I want to

be in Hawaii, relaxing on the beach with my personal

masseuse, an endless supply of Pina Coladas and the

love of my life." Poof! He's gone.

"OK, you're up," the Genie says to the manager.

The manager says, "I want those two back in the office after lunch."

Moral of the story: Always let your boss have the first say.