Just a cog in the Machine...

Doug's LEGO Robotics Page

"A home page is an electronic ego trip. "

Doug Wyman's Home Page

"With my masks, I do not seek to capture or render some external truth. Instead, I seek to give form to raw emotion, raw memory."

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Doug Uptmor's Online Gallery.

"Well, being able to track a face from images contributes toward the ability to monitor a user's attention and reactions automatically and without intrusion, and has obvious benefits in human-machine interaction."

"You lookin' at me, Doug?

"After 8 years of making Web pages, I still haven't learned anything about Web design," said Doug Beeferman.

I can relate...thank goodness for the 'blog thang.

Doug Mink "helped discover the rings of Uranus."


...and some of us discover nothing more than ring around the collar.

"Now you can be brilliant and flawless forever. But you have to be cremated first. A company based in the Chicago suburb of Elk Grove Village has accepted its first deposit for manufactured diamonds made from carbon captured during the cremation process so that loved ones -- family members or even pets -- could be mounted into a ring, pendant or other jewelry....

"After three years of trial and error using the cremated remains of several animals and a cadaver, VandenBiesen said, a diamond-manufacturing laboratory outside of Munich, Germany, reported success in April. The lab, owned by an American company, said that one human body could yield up to 50 stones of varying sizes ...."

"Life Gem officials say the process begins when technicians control oxygen levels during cremation to prevent carbon in the body from converting to carbon dioxide. The incineration is interrupted so the technician can collect the body's carbon in the form of a dark powder. The powder then is sent to a Pennsylvania company where it is heated in a vacuum at extreme temperatures to produce graphite. Only about a thimbleful is needed to produce a stone, Herro said. The graphite is sent to the German lab and placed into autoclaves that simulate the intense pressure and temperature needed to create the stones. Because so little material is needed to make a stone, a family still would receive an urn containing their loved one's ashes. Life Gem says it guarantees that diamonds can be made only when the company oversees the cremation process.

"Doug Ahlgrim, director of Ahlgrim & Sons Funeral Services' four locations in the Northwest suburbs, said he is training his staff to explain the new product to customers. ... 'This is sorely needed for families who choose cremation,' Ahlgrim said. 'An urn is beautiful in its own right, but you certainly can't take it wherever you go.' "

...said grim Doug, all sparkling.

www.Doug.com

...'nuff said.

"Throw me a frickin’ bone here!"

Talk to Doug Erwin, at the Smithsonian.

"Workers from the National Museum of Natural History and the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman unearthed the remains of two tyrannosaurs along with a triceratops at a dig on remote Hell Creek this summer. In recent years, the site has emerged as a rich trove of all sorts of dinosaur bones. [...] The Smithsonian's share of the Hell Creek T. rex includes a femur (thigh bone), a tibia (shin bone) and a complete foot, with toes. Last summer dinosaur hobbyist Nathan Myhrvold, a former head of research for Microsoft and a sponsor of the digs, discovered a partly exposed bone that led to the discovery of the fossil trove, which was excavated this summer.

'It is phenomenally well preserved. These additions tell us more about how T. rex lived,' said Doug Erwin, the Smithsonian's interim director and curator of the paleobiology department. Horner's research, Erwin said, is focused on the ecology of the dinosaurs and their metabolism. 'We are not trying to find new dinosaurs but trying to understand the world they lived in,' Erwin said."


"T. Rex Marks the Spot
Dinosaur Bones Found in Montana Are Heading for the Smithsonian"
by Jacqueline Trescott
Washington Post, 21August 2002

Dig!

"Dogs must not bark for more than six minutes in any hour between 7am and 10pm, or more than three minutes an hour between 10pm and 7am. If not controlled, home owners can be taken to court or dog may be removed from premises."

Says the Courier Mail, on 10 August 2002.

"University of Queensland local government specialist Doug Tucker said the daunting array of restrictions was a reflection of our increasingly urban society."

Explain that to your dog, Doug.

Every Doug has his day.