Never Break up with her on the Way There

I watched a TV show called Air Emergencies last night.  This particular show detailed the story of how an Egyptian Air pilot dove and airplane into the sea killing everyone on board and destroying the artwork of technology that is a Boeing 767. Investigators learned that  Gameel Al-Batouti was supposedly reprimanded for inappropriate behavior with female guests at the hotel pennsylvania , a New York City hotel often used by EgyptAir crews. Hatem Roushdy, an EgyptAir official said to be responsible for the alleged reprimand was a passenger on Flight 990. The details of the reprimand included the removal of Gameel Al-Batouti's privilege of flying any flight to the United States, and that Flight 990 would be his last. I could have advised the people involved in this incident because I learned a hard lesson several years back. That lesson is:     DO NOT BREAK UP WITH HER ON THE WAY TO YOUR VACATION DESTINATION. I was dating a American nurse.  She had a really hot body.  Unfortunately she also had the bad bitch attitude that most attractive American women have.  She invited me to go to Ouray Colorado.  When we were in the car she informed me that I was paying all the expenses!  Typical !  …  Being a manly man I assumed that if I invited her to go somewhere I wanted to go that I would pay everything.  But her idea of a smart vacation was to invite me to go and then on the way there invite me to pay for it all.  I had already had enough of her attitude up to that point.  I decided I could not take it any more and wanted to break up with her.  Unfortunately at the time I was inexperienced with women.  So by the time we hit the first part of Colorado after leaving Arizona I mentioned that I do not think we should see each other after we get back to Arizona.  She was that annoying that I felt it imperative to say it right away. Long story short after reaching Ouray she proceeded to alternate between a prementrual rage where she wielded a carved wooden pine tree like a club and then acting apologetic.  After a bit she called the local sheriff not once but twice.  First time she said ooh no problem we worked it out.  Second time in the morning I said I had enough and asked the sheriff for a ride to the country line.  In the end I paid about 500 for a rental car to drive back to Arizona. TakeAway lesson:  Wait till you are back to break up with her. Which brings me to the Egypt Air crash.  If I would have been there I would have suggested not telling Gameel Al-Batouti until he was comfortably back in Egypt.  They he would not have a plane under his control shortly after being canned.  He would also have family to comfort him.  He was obviously mentally unstable from one aspect or another and familiar surroundings and a cooling down period would have helped. Unfortunately we all learn this lesson the hard way.  My lesson was relatively cheap compared to getting obliterated in an air crash.  Unfortunately those who populate government and high places in business often are priviledged and do not have adequate life experience bring to bear on judgements.

One Breath

Is short for "one breath of air" used to enter lower s-star rated crappers.  With this one breath you try to enter said bathroom, apply ass gasket, do your business and exit before needing to take another breath.  This is greatly facilitated by availability and use of a handicrapper.

Handicrapper

Handicrapper is a portmanteau of Handicapped and Crapper and a play on the word handy ( in the sense of facile ). The wry sense of humor in the phrase comes in to play because it sounds like handicapped which is the real reason why the stall is larger. I have been a proponent of larger stalls everywhere for a long time now.  This increased space makes manuevering easier to do.    This should be the main and most significant issue ever raised by congress. Its just about a politicians mental speed limit.     The larger size facilitates the one breath application of ass gasket, defecation and high speed exit of lower s-star rated bathrooms.

Scrapies is Deadly

If you have ever been in a poorly maintained loo you may have seen a toilet with a chronic condition of scrapies.  This is where the toilet goes spinning round making its mark on the toilet in a semi arc.  Severity of the disease is rated as follows * Less than 1/4 turn : initial phases of the disease * Less than 1/2 turn : moderate secondary phase of scrappies. * Near full turn:  Severe case of scrappies.  Ass gasket are recommended when using this toilet.

Deal JuJitsu Carlos Coquet Computer Maverick and the Sale of the Osborn Like XT

In 1992 I bought out a computer school.  For the total of 1500 dollars I got -1- a bunch of computer desks, chairs -2- television projection units ( an ancient version of DLP ) -3- washer / dryer -4- a couple of computers -5- god knows what else

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This was one of the computers This was my first deal where I was trying to make a buck on my own.  So I ended up with all this stuff piled up in the garage and now needed to sell it!  One of the more memorable encounters selling this stuff was with Carlos Coquet the Computer Maverick.

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Carlos' business card.  Colorful character, colorful card He called up and got directions.  He was driving from North Scottsdale to Litchfield Park Arizona.  It took him about 50 minutes to drive there.  I had listed the computer for 120 dollars but he did what everyone tries to do when they buy secondhand…they try to finagle a lower price.  Carlos: I am looking at this computer and I think I could not possibly pay more than 80$ for it. Me: Well … I have another guy coming to see it tomorrow night.  If he does not buy it then you can come back and buy it. Carlos: Ooohhh the drive here was so long.  Alright I will give you the 120. Me: chuckling inside and thinking..there was not another person coming to look at the computer.  But finally the endless ripping I had been sustaining as a novice seller had come to an end.  I had finally learned a little deal jujitsu.

Sonofa! After receiving the comment below regarding calling the number I googled Carlos and found his website:

http://www.computermaverick.com/

… I still do not exactly know what a computer maverick is but that is 95% of the fun.

UPDATE:  As you will see below a couple of people below have reported Carlos has passed away.   Some commenters had criticized me for placing his card here with his information.  I no longer have any self doubt about this.  My heart is warmed by the people who left comments regarding his passing and how they miss him.  It's interesting how the really good people can pass through your life very rapidly and leave a trace that in the end increased my humanity.  Carlos we miss you.

Quantum Computing Parallelism Explained

How does parallelism arise?

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Assumptions: -1- You had a 3 bit register with each bit in a mix of both states —  states 0 and  state 1 -2- You then perform operations on the register When you perform the operation you will be performing the operation on all the possible values 000  through 111.  Thus is explained the parallelism of quantum computing.  That is its advantage over classical computing.   If you do not understand how a physical system can be in both states at the same time you need to go back and study more quantum mechanics.   More detailed explaination here  An introductory course online