P.P.C. Sisauy
Bio
If my bio can be in the form of a quote, it would be: Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people's thinking. -Steve Jobs
Stories (12/0)
The Bagpiper and the Septic Tank
What do you do if you find yourself feeling down, frustrated, or even downright depressed? And, have you ever met someone in your life whom, even after he/she's gone, can still make you smile and even chuckle for at least 10 seconds?
By P.P.C. Sisauy6 months ago in Humor
The Romantic Ghost of Highway 6
On a long and lonesome US Highway 6, West of Iowa City, I could hear the engine of my black metallic 4-doors sedan humming like 66 humming birds flying on top of its hood. I departed from the campus of the University of Iowa about 40 minutes ago, where I had a great time visiting as always with a good friend whom I first met during our elementary school days. I was trying my best to keep a steady pace driving towards Grinnell. It was almost midnight. I had my radio turned on and tuned to a soft-rock station. The car stereo volume was several decibels just above the humming sound of my car’s engine. It was a very clear night with little or no wind. My car just sped past the town of Merango and I figured that I should be back in my dorm room in approximately 46 minutes tops. As I was approaching Ladora, a glitch on my car radio occurred. It didn’t sound static like a mis-tuned radio. It was as if there was someone actually turning the radio tuning knob rapidly left and right. Then, it suddenly stopped and the sound of the soft-rock music I had set it on when I was departing Iowa City came back on, clearly and sharply.
By P.P.C. Sisauy6 months ago in Fiction
Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?
A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honor and no grace; all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
By P.P.C. Sisauy6 months ago in The Swamp
Gratitude will manifest anything you want
I really wanted to share the following wisdom with everyone. It has changed my life. I hope it will change yours! Another of my favorite guru, Mr. Wayne Dyer said many times: "If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." Doctor Joe Dispenza's teachings have done exactly just that, changed the way I look at things in all kinds of positive ways. Thank you in advanced to everyone who gets to read this. I am forever grateful to you.
By P.P.C. Sisauy6 months ago in Motivation
Shani Louk
Shani Louk, a 23-year-old German-Israeli woman who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival by Hamas militants on October 7, 2023 has been declared dead, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said. “We are devastated to share that the body of 23 year old German-Israeli Shani was found and identified,” the ministry posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Monday. A source involved with her identification told a news reporter. Here death was announced after forensic examiners found a bone fragment from her skull. The bone fragment was from the petrous part of the temporal bone, which is at the base of the skull, normally near the carotid artery, a major blood vessel that provides blood to the brain. A DNA test concluded the fragment belonged to Louk. This beautiful young lady was attending the festival in southern Israel when Hamas breached the border between Gaza and Israel. She was kidnapped at the festival and “tortured and paraded around Gaza by Hamas terrorists,” the foreign ministry statement said, adding that she “experienced unfathomable horrors.”
By P.P.C. Sisauy6 months ago in Humans
Bamboo
During my first year of high school, way back in the mid-1980s, I wrote the following short poem in our 9th grade English class. Mrs. Cox, our English teacher was raving and oohing/aahing about it in our class to the point of getting my classmates to call me a teacher's pet. For a whole week, she kept reading it out loud in our class as well as in the other English classes which she was assigned to teach that year. I was puzzled and dumbfounded of why Mrs. Cox liked it so much.
By P.P.C. Sisauy6 months ago in Poets
An Atheist
I have a freestyle poem which I cannot submit for review because it doesn't meet the 100 words requirement. So, please bear with me awhile as I attempt to add more words to satisfy the words count. I've been a disbeliever all my life. I like Santa Claus as well as other great fictional characters. I would love to meet them if they exist. However, all my life I've been surrounded by people who've tried to get me to believe in something which cannot be verified to exist.
By P.P.C. Sisauy6 months ago in Poets
The Best Explanation of Bitcoin of All Time!
What is bitcoin? What does Bitcoin do? Is it perfect, neither was email when it was invented in 1972. Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today, my name is Peter Van Valkenburgh, and I'm the director of research at Coin Center, an independent non-profit focused on the public policy issues affecting cryptocurrency and public Blockchain networks. What is bitcoin? Bitcoin is the world's first cryptocurrency and it works because of the world's first public Blockchain network. What does Bitcoin do? It's simple. It lets you send and receive value to and from anyone in the world using nothing more than a computer and an internet connection. Now, why is it revolutionary? Because unlike every other tool for sending money over the Internet it works without the need to trust a middleman. The lack of any corporation in between means that Bitcoin is the world's first public digital payments infrastructure, and by public I simply mean available to all and not owned by any single entity. Now, we have public infrastructure for information, for websites for email it's called the internet but the only public payments infrastructure that we have is cash, as in paper money, and it only works in face-to-face transactions. Before Bitcoin if you wanted to pay someone remotely over the phone or the internet then you could not use public infrastructure. You would rely on a private bank to open their books and add a ledger entry that debits you and credits the person you're paying, and if you both don't use the same bank well then there'll be multiple Banks and multiple ledger entries in between. With Bitcoin the Ledger is the public Blockchain, and anyone can add an entry to that ledger transferring their Bitcoins to someone else and anyone regardless of their nationality, race, religion, gender, sex, or credit worthiness can for absolutely no cost create a Bitcoin address in order to receive payments digitally. Bitcoin is the world's first globally accessible public money. Is it perfect? No, neither was email when it was invented in 1972. Bitcoin's not the best money on every margin, uh it's not yet accepted everywhere. It's not used often to quote prices, and it's not always a stable store of value, but it is working, and the mere fact that it works without trusted intermediaries is amazing. It's a computer science breakthrough and it will be as significant for freedom, prosperity, and human flourishing. As the birth of the internet. And Bitcoin is just the beginning. If we can replace private payments infrastructure then we can replace other private choke points to human interaction as well. Now, why should we want to build more public infrastructure? Why should we embrace Blockchains over corporate intermediaries? Why should we tolerate their inefficiencies and work to make them better? Why should we want the pioneers of this technology here in the United States and not fleeing overseas? A simple reason, because the corporate intermediaries providing today's critical but privately owned infrastructure are becoming fewer, larger, and more powerful, and their failures are increasingly grave. So roughly half of all Americans, 143 million people had their social security numbers exposed to hackers because of a breach at Equifax. The Swift network has relayed hundreds of millions of dollars in fraudulent transactions because of hacked member banks in Bangladesh, Vietnam, Ecuador, and Russia. The FBI suspects now that the largest of these hacks was perpetrated by North Korea. A corrupt low-level employees at an Indian bank, Punjab National were able to fraudulently certify Swift messages stealing 1.8 billion dollars. It's the largest electronic bank robbery in history; in fact, it's the largest bank robbery in history. In October 2016, an estimated 1.2 million Internet connected devices were hacked and turned into a botnet that for several hours made prominent websites unavailable across Europe and North America, including CNN and Fox News, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Increasingly physical machines are being connected to the internet to augment their capabilities. They're wired through servers that are owned and maintained by private and trusted intermediaries, the so-called Internet of Things. Pacemakers from St Jude's Hospital have been hacked. Baby monitors from TRENDnet have been hacked, and jeeps from Jeep have been hacked to the point where they can be remotely commandeered and driven off the road. Now those vulnerabilities are inescapable in systems that have single points of failure. It doesn't matter if the point of failure is a corporation or if it's a government, there shouldn't be a single point of failure. Similar choke points existed before the internet. If you wanted to deliver a message you'd have to go through one of three television broadcasters or a handful of newspapers. Private corporations are essential, but no critical infrastructure should rely on one or two. The internet removed single points of failure in communications infrastructure and ushered in a wave of competition among new media corporations … building on top of its public rails. Blockchains can similarly disintermediate critical payments and IOT infrastructure. The technology is not yet ready to answer all of those questions today, but it is our best hope, and as with the internet in the 1990s we need a light touch pro-innovation policy to ensure that these innovations flourish in America for the benefit and security of all Americans.
By P.P.C. Sisauy6 months ago in Education
Olivia Rodrigo
Olivia Rodrigo is one of the most popular and talented singers and actress of our time. She was born on February 20th, 2003 in Temecula, California. She attended Lisa J. Mails Elementary School and Dorothy McElhinney Middle School. She grew up in a family of music lovers. Her father, a Filipino-American is a family therapist, and her mother is a teacher of German and Irish ancestry. At a very young age Olivia developed a passion for singing and performing. She started playing the piano at age seven. Speaking with MTV UK in 2021, she revealed that it was actually her parents who pushed her to take piano lessons at a young age.
By P.P.C. Sisauy6 months ago in Art
Thomas Tuchel talks about Bayern's expectations, the Champions League, the Premier League, Harry Kane, and Mathys Tel
The Bayern coach, who could reach a third Champions League final in five seasons, reveals his beliefs on a host of subjects in this UEFA interview.
By P.P.C. Sisauy6 months ago in Interview
