Blogstorm

The forecast for next week is that there will be a strong storm of blogs... unlike anything before. Be prepared for the ultimate blog experience!

Patience...

I apologize for my poor blogging the pastr couple of weeks, but I've been quite... say... hm... busy. But there is a conference next week and since 90% of the talks will suck (as in most conferences) I will have nothing better to do that blog (hopefully they'll have wireless internet in the rooms). Tennessee, here we come!

Dichelostemma capitatum

The popular name for this flower is actually Blue Dicks. I am not kidding! Check any website you want. It grows in Death Valley around this time of the year. It has an even more funnier meaning in greek (too hard to explain). Have people run out of names or what?

Easter

This year's Easter was an event to remember. Saturday night in the church, Sakis Ruvas, Kwnstadinos Markoulakis (some of the most famous greek singer and actor respectively) and also to my surprise Tom Hanks gathered in Agia Sofia, the biggest orthodox church in the LA metropolitan area. I mean, we are not talking about seeing some average actor; Tom Hanks is top notch in Hollywood. Aparently his wife is greek and they came together. Sakis was in LA because he is planning(?) to star in a movie, and he chatted with Tom Hanks after the ceremony so there is definately something going on there.

Other "famous" people I have heppened to see around here: Will Smith, William H. Macy, Charles Barkley at the Tonight Show (Jay Leno); Forrest Whittaker at the Hundigton Park; and Shaquille O'Neal in Century City Cinemas watching the Last Samurai. Είμαστε πολύ LAινοί τελικά...

Time traveler's convention

When: May 7, 2005, 10:00pm EDT (08 May 2005 02:00:00 UTC)
Where: East Campus Courtyard at MIT. 42:21:36.025N, 71:05:16.332W (42.360007,-071.087870 in decimal degrees)

What is it:
The idea is very simple. We set a time and place where people from the future that have invented time machines should come back and visit us. We make this as publicly known as possible, so that people from the near or distant future have access to that information. Then, when they invent the time machine, the will come back and visit us. What should happen ideally is that many different people from different ages will show up at that time and place. If no one shows up, 2 things can have happened: 1) A time machine will never be invented 2) The convention was never known well enough so that the guys who have built it knew when to come back. So do whatever possible to get the message through. I put it in my blog with the hope that the internet (as said) will survive, and also my blog, so that future time-machinists will be able with a simple google(?) search to find the information when to come back. Good luck!