Farewell to a melting glacier

This is an article sent to me by a student BBC NEWS Americas Farewell to a melting glacier it is amazing how glaciers are melting away! So sad in deed.

Playing with Time

Playing with Time What a wonderful experience must be for young kids to play with time! This is an exhibit that is going on at the San Diego Museum of Natural History. A dear friend of mine just went there ant told me about it. I haven't been to see it but I'll try ASAP.

Harvest time

It is so difficult to know when is the right time to harvest. As we go along in our lives things start to happen in a way that -if you don't force them- fit together. In one of my classes one student came with a great idea: somebody should write a book "for dummies" about environmental stewardship! So my answer was why don't you write it? So I recommended that she started a blog where she would be posting her ideas and...
here it is! "Stewardship for Dummies"
By doing so she gave me a great feeling of optimism, the Lord has given us the challenges and the tools to face those challenges.

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing. So I'll be using it to post directly from my Flickr account. Hope this is going to make it a lot easier to put pictures here. The Youtube account for some reason that I don't figure out is not working :-(

Time for Women in Mining

Women in Mining
Have a look at this interesting site.

Diving down to an oil rig

Time takes a different view when diving down to an oil rig.

Year's End

Year's end brings a lot of thinking and a lot of remembering. Thinking about future plans and feeling the moment to be in the present preparing to move into the new year. As people normally spend most of their time either thinking about the future or remembering the past lose site of the present, the present is what we have; not the future nor the past!
beginning of the year-resolutions will bring a renewed effort to continue improving one's life and preparing the way for our children. Thinking about or children is always nurturing and challenging. As we would like the best for them and we desire that nothing goes wrong in their lives but life is life and there is no way that we can stop "things" from happening.
Jorge and I were cleaning the gutters today when all of a sudden he start to slide down the roof. I thought he was going to fall to the ground but he managed to stop using his foot and the cable sustaining the electricity cables. Immediately I got a ladder and help him down. It was a scare! But luckily nothing serious happened but it made me think that in a matter of a fraction of a second something can happen.

Time's person of the year

This year the featured person in Time magazine is...YOU!
That is me!
The reason been that we are all using the internet in a way that has surpased any expectation. New sites such as you tube where one can post our own produced videos that could be family, like this one:


pets like this one:


or something related to your profession or hobies, like this one where I did an experiment in my kitchen imploding a can:


The other tool that we can use is a site where we can post photographs such as Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/terrakron is the site where I put my pictures.

So anyways, it looks that thinking about the new millenium science and technology once again are sowing the way.

Cybertime

The use of cygber-technology in pedagogy and androgogy is changing the way in which we time the learning process. The teaching-learning association through a computer or paralel to a computer changes the framework in the relationship. Schedules can be organized through an asynchronous communication via forums and messenger boards in a way that all participants will be able to fit in, regardless of their individual aptitudes.

As Time goes bye

Not long ago our cat Lilly had kittens, now that they are grown she is still very loving and caring, this is a good example of how she behaves.

Time Riddle

What is at the beginning of eternity, at the end of time, at the beginning of the end and at the end of every place?

Ideal time

Time is real and ideal. Objective and subjective, is paradoxic.
Defined as a dimension i.e. a measureable. If we are to take the latin mensure as the ruth for measure. The dimension given by events in a sequence that is ordered and organized in what many see as a linear system. But what we see might be be obscured by what we know, i.e. common sense. And as we know common sense has misleaded us so many times before. Remember "the earth is flat"?

Monday morning

This is a special Monday. Why? Because is before Tuesday November 7. All Mondays come before a Tuesday, so what makes this one different? Why is November 7 a different Tuesday?...Mid-Term Elections!
Mid-Term is a time term that gives the impression of a bench mark, a bench-mark indicating the direction of the whole process, in this case the progress of the evolution of a political organization. Our Country. Many changes are being sought but the idea that the changes are going to occur on Tuesday is in a way misleading because the change has already occurred. What is coming is the aknowledgement of the change, manifested on a ballot count and the certification of a winer in the race. Who ever wins an incumbent or a challenger will represent a change. Even incumbents are campaining as candidates of change, candidates of no rubber stamping the official agenda. Incumbents that either belong to the opposition party or present themselves as renegades of the extreme policies that their party represent.
It will be interesting to see how we are going to digest this change.

Portland Syncopated Drummers

Rhythm and internal timing, what is there to synchronize? But as soon as one gets into the rhythm the heart starts to go at the same pace. How interesting.

Synchronic events

There are times, maybe lots of times, that society is synchronized in a way that is under the surface and is very difficult to see this synchronization. Events are happening all over the place and many people are having similar ideas and similar feelings but as these people are not aware of each other they think that they are isolated and what they are doing is completele nuts or unique. So even if it is original but not unique or distinctive means that the time is ripe for these ideas. It is time for the changes proposed in these ideas and the time is ripe to undertand them (maybe?)
Some times these ideas have been proposed many years ago and have been dormat in obscure places maybe in books that at the time of their publication were quite popular but after so many years they have to be unearthened from deep places in basements or garage sales!

Motorcycle accident

Bad timing. In this video we can appreciate how important is the timing of events. The car is turning into the gas station when at the same time a motorcyclist is coming in that road. Terrible coincidence!!!

Connections

An article in The Oregonian today Wednesday September 27, 2006 about “older” galaxies being studied by astronomers using the Hubble telescope are interesting in many ways. For one thing shows how as time goes on more and more information is gathered unleashing mysteries. One of the astronomers is John Blakeslee from Washington State University who together with other three found about five hundred galaxies that were formed when the universe was very young. According to the article the formation of these galaxies formed when the universe had about 7% of its present age of about 13.7 Ga. These ages are so immense that are beyond the scope of our human comprehension.
Supported by a grant from Paul Allen a group of scientists was able to map the brain of a mouse. One of the purposes of this project was to unravel the connections physical and genetic of the brain. To read more about the news go to: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060927/ap_on_sc/mouse_brain_map where you can read that the information obtained is going to be accessible on line free to all in order to help world wide collaboration on this subject. Both the 100 million dollars invested and the world wide impact that this project will accomplish are somewhat out of our human comprehension. One aspect that is worth mentioning is that the 3-D mapping cost of about 41 million dollars is under the 50 million budgeted meaning that the time used is less that the time expected. Some times –most of the times- one takes more time than expected to accomplish a project so this case is a good example of the flexibility needed when pursuing a goal. This flexibility included in the planning of a project is one of our more difficult elements to deal with.
On the other hand there is also an article in The Oregonian about the re-opening of Crater Lake to visitors after the lake has been cleaned of “tui chub” a noxious fish that took over the lake and was destroyed using harsh chemicals. This cleanup operation took several years of planning and obtaining the necessary permits and a few weeks for its accomplishment. These times are surely within our human comprehension.
What is the connection between these two articles? We as a race are open to the understanding of times scales that are within and beyond our own frame of reference.

Time to adapt

In our lives we have to adapt to many things. Going back to school every year after summer breaks, going on vacation, visiting friends, every morning there is something new. As we have to adapt to new situations we take time doing it. Some times a lot of time, some times not so much!
So the question is: How do we make it so it takes the minimum time to adapt? How important is that we make this time as efficient as possible. How can we be intentional about it?

Crashing Times

So now I have been disconnected and lsow to respond because my pc crashed!
It is time to think about replacing it or upgrading. So far the benefits of replacing it far outweight those of an upgrade.
I lost data as I had to format my "C" drive and reinstall the software. Lots of pictures and worse of all the papers and thoughts about my book.
So where should I start? I have to repair an rewrite lots of papers.
Luckly some ideas are here in this blog so hopefully I will be able to remember and recreate some of those papers.
Wish me luck!

Sad Time Passes Slowly

Last month Roberto Loranca had a terrible motorcycle accident. He was hit and run over by a 16 yo girl DUII. What was this girl doing driving under the influence? What was she thinking? Why did she trying to excape run over the motorcyclist on the ground? Roberto lives in Oaxaca and I didn't know him. Not personally anyway! Now I know him and have talked to him on the phone. I got the news through a forum called motolatino and have been part of a "friends of Loranca" kind of group.
As I think about what happened to this rider my sense of time has slowed down. The sadness of knowing that this young man who became a father while at the hospital will never be able to walk is overwhelming and terrifying. It is such a insightful feeling to hear him on the phone so optimistic about the future as we talk about the "light-weight-titanium" wheelchair that we will try to get him.
First thought are what can we do now, we want everything to happen right now. But we must realize that time will come and that we have to be ready for this new friend as he will be there for many years to come!