October 2004
Monthly Archive
Tue 26 Oct 2004
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The New York City subway celebrates its centennial anniversary this week. Its shocking when you realize that they had their subway system up and running 100 years ago!! Ya3ny imagine it was started before your grandfather was even born! Thats freakin ridiculous!!
When Dubai announced that their subway system will be complete in 2010, everybody was impressed. But now look at this way, they’re only 106 years behind!!! And thats Dubai we’re talking about, ya3ny for Kuwait it will probably happen when cows go 7ajjing on their horns.
Someone might comment and say, “but we dont need subways! New York had alot more people at the time!”……NOT TRUE! In 1900, NYC had less than 2 million people, and they decided to build the subway, good vision! Just look at Fahaheel highway, or any of the main highways actually in the morning at around 9 during Ramadan, its hell!
Anyway, just think about it, their subway system is celebrating 100 years, we just had our second bus company working last year 
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Totally different subject……
A friend of mine recommended this website, amazing art stuff, enjoy -
Complexification
Tue 26 Oct 2004
Posted by Q under
Kuwait[6] Comments
The New York City subway celebrates its centennial anniversary this week. Its shocking when you realize that they had their subway system up and running 100 years ago!! Ya3ny imagine it was started before your grandfather was even born! Thats freakin ridiculous!!
When Dubai announced that their subway system will be complete in 2010, everybody was impressed. But now look at this way, they’re only 106 years behind!!! And thats Dubai we’re talking about, ya3ny for Kuwait it will probably happen when cows go 7ajjing on their horns.
Someone might comment and say, “but we dont need subways! New York had alot more people at the time!”……NOT TRUE! In 1900, NYC had less than 2 million people, and they decided to build the subway, good vision! Just look at Fahaheel highway, or any of the main highways actually in the morning at around 9 during Ramadan, its hell!
Anyway, just think about it, their subway system is celebrating 100 years, we just had our second bus company working last year
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Totally different subject……
A friend of mine recommended this website, amazing art stuff, enjoy -
Complexification
Mon 25 Oct 2004
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Coming to work today, I heard on the radio that Tunisian president won by 94%, i smiled, then decided to try to find out how shit are we when it comes to democracy! Here are the results from my research…..enjoy 
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Libya - chief of state: Revolutionary Leader Col. Muammar Abu Minyar al-QADHAFI (since 1 September 1969); note - holds no official title, but is de facto chief of state
Iraq - Saddam 99% (1979 - 2003)
Tunisia - BinAli 94% (down from 99% last 2 times, in business since 1987-just won 5 more years)
Yemen - Ali Abdalla Salih 93% (ruling since 1993)
Syria - Bashar Al-Asad 93% (hmm….handling the family business started by daddy Hafez in 1970)
Egypt - Hosni 88% (this includes 35 independent candidates who suddenly joined his party after winning! LOL! P.S. - president since 1981)
Israel - Barak (1999) 56%
Israel - Sharon (2001) 62%
US - Bush 48%
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Final words, i7na mo kafo!
Mon 25 Oct 2004
Posted by Q under
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Coming to work today, I heard on the radio that Tunisian president won by 94%, i smiled, then decided to try to find out how shit are we when it comes to democracy! Here are the results from my research…..enjoy
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Libya - chief of state: Revolutionary Leader Col. Muammar Abu Minyar al-QADHAFI (since 1 September 1969); note - holds no official title, but is de facto chief of state
Iraq - Saddam 99% (1979 - 2003)
Tunisia - BinAli 94% (down from 99% last 2 times, in business since 1987-just won 5 more years)
Yemen - Ali Abdalla Salih 93% (ruling since 1993)
Syria - Bashar Al-Asad 93% (hmm….handling the family business started by daddy Hafez in 1970)
Egypt - Hosni 88% (this includes 35 independent candidates who suddenly joined his party after winning! LOL! P.S. - president since 1981)
Israel - Barak (1999) 56%
Israel - Sharon (2001) 62%
US - Bush 48%
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Final words, i7na mo kafo!
Mon 25 Oct 2004
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Yet another milestone reached in the life of Quba (my car) 
Hmmm……this odometer business made e start thinking….its such a cool device! It intrigued me! I wanted to learn more and more about it….so i did
From About.com, the link is here
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Inventors
| The History of the Odometer |
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An an odometer records the distance that a vehicle travels. A speedometer measures the speed of a moving vehicle. A tachometer indicates the speed of rotation of the engine.
Vitruvius
According to Encyclopedia Britannia, “About 15 BC, the Roman architect and engineer Vitruvius mounted a large wheel of known circumference in a small frame, in much the same fashion as the wheel is mounted on a wheelbarrow; when it was pushed along the ground by hand it automatically dropped a pebble into a container at each revolution, giving a measure of the distance traveled. It was, in effect, the first odometer.”
Chang Heng
Chang Heng the inventor of the known seismograph, also invented an odometer that had a figure that struck a drum as each li or 0.5 km went by to measure distance.
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662) invented a prototype of an odometer, a calculating machine called a pascaline. The pasacaline was constructed of gears and wheels. Each gear contained 10 teeth that when moved one complete revolution, advanced a second gear one place. This is the same principal employed in the mechanical odometer.
Thomas Savery - Odometer used on Ships
Thomas Savery (1650 - 1715) was an English military engineer and inventor who in 1698, patented the first crude steam engine, among Savery’s other inventions was an odometer for ships, a device that measured distance traveled.
Ben Franklin - Odometer used to Measure Postal Routes
Ben Franklin (1706–1790) is best known as a statesman and writer, however he was also an inventor who invented swim fins, bifocals, a glass armonica, watertight bulkheads for ships, the lightning rod, a wood stove, and an odometer. While serving as Postmaster General in 1775, Franklin decided to analyze the best routes for delivering the mail. He invented a simple odometer to help measure the mileage of the routes that he attached to his carriage.
William Clayton, Orson Pratt, Appleton Milo Harmon - Odometer called the Roadometer
An odometer called the “roadometer” was invented in 1847 by the Morman pioneers crossing the plains from Missouri to Utah. The roadometer attached to a wagon wheel and counted the revolutions of the wheel as the wagon traveled. It was designed by William Clayton and Orson Pratt, and built by carpenter Appleton Milo Harmon.
William Clayton was inspired to invent the roadometer by his first method of recording the distance the pioneers travelled each day. Clayton had determined that 360 revolutions of a wagon wheel made a mile, he then tied a red rag to the wheel and counted the revolutions to keep an accurate record of the mileage travelled. After seven days, this method became tiresome and Clayton went on to invent the roadometer, first used on the morning of May 12, 1847. William Clayton is also known for his writing of the pioneer hymn “Come, Come, Ye Saints.”
“I walked some this afternoon in company with Orson Pratt and suggested to him the idea of fixing a set of wooden cog wheels to the hub of a wagon wheel, in such order as to tell the exact number of miles we travel each day. He seemed to agree with me that it could be easily done at a trifling expense.”
“Brother Appleton Harmon is working at the machinery for the wagon to tell the distance we travel and expects to have it in operation tomorrow, which will save me the trouble of counting, as I have done, during the last four days.”
“About noon today Brother Appleton Harmon completed the machinery on the wagon called a ‘roadometer’ by adding a wheel to revolve once in ten miles, showing each mile and also each quarter mile we travel, and then casing the whole over so as to secure it from the weather.” ~ From William Clayton’s Journal
Samuel McKeen - Odometer used on Carriage
In 1854, Samuel McKeen of Nova Scotia designed an early version of the odometer, a device that measures mileage driven. His was attached to the side of a carriage and measured the miles with the turning of the wheels. |
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Now, you all embrace the numbers behind your steering wheel, and pay a little more attention to the ingenious historic device in ur car.
Mon 25 Oct 2004
Posted by Q under
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Yet another milestone reached in the life of Quba (my car)
Hmmm……this odometer business made e start thinking….its such a cool device! It intrigued me! I wanted to learn more and more about it….so i did
From About.com, the link is here
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Inventors
| The History of the Odometer |
|
|
An an odometer records the distance that a vehicle travels. A speedometer measures the speed of a moving vehicle. A tachometer indicates the speed of rotation of the engine.
Vitruvius
According to Encyclopedia Britannia, “About 15 BC, the Roman architect and engineer Vitruvius mounted a large wheel of known circumference in a small frame, in much the same fashion as the wheel is mounted on a wheelbarrow; when it was pushed along the ground by hand it automatically dropped a pebble into a container at each revolution, giving a measure of the distance traveled. It was, in effect, the first odometer.”
Chang Heng
Chang Heng the inventor of the known seismograph, also invented an odometer that had a figure that struck a drum as each li or 0.5 km went by to measure distance.
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662) invented a prototype of an odometer, a calculating machine called a pascaline. The pasacaline was constructed of gears and wheels. Each gear contained 10 teeth that when moved one complete revolution, advanced a second gear one place. This is the same principal employed in the mechanical odometer.
Thomas Savery - Odometer used on Ships
Thomas Savery (1650 - 1715) was an English military engineer and inventor who in 1698, patented the first crude steam engine, among Savery’s other inventions was an odometer for ships, a device that measured distance traveled.
Ben Franklin - Odometer used to Measure Postal Routes
Ben Franklin (1706–1790) is best known as a statesman and writer, however he was also an inventor who invented swim fins, bifocals, a glass armonica, watertight bulkheads for ships, the lightning rod, a wood stove, and an odometer. While serving as Postmaster General in 1775, Franklin decided to analyze the best routes for delivering the mail. He invented a simple odometer to help measure the mileage of the routes that he attached to his carriage.
William Clayton, Orson Pratt, Appleton Milo Harmon - Odometer called the Roadometer
An odometer called the “roadometer” was invented in 1847 by the Morman pioneers crossing the plains from Missouri to Utah. The roadometer attached to a wagon wheel and counted the revolutions of the wheel as the wagon traveled. It was designed by William Clayton and Orson Pratt, and built by carpenter Appleton Milo Harmon.
William Clayton was inspired to invent the roadometer by his first method of recording the distance the pioneers travelled each day. Clayton had determined that 360 revolutions of a wagon wheel made a mile, he then tied a red rag to the wheel and counted the revolutions to keep an accurate record of the mileage travelled. After seven days, this method became tiresome and Clayton went on to invent the roadometer, first used on the morning of May 12, 1847. William Clayton is also known for his writing of the pioneer hymn “Come, Come, Ye Saints.”
“I walked some this afternoon in company with Orson Pratt and suggested to him the idea of fixing a set of wooden cog wheels to the hub of a wagon wheel, in such order as to tell the exact number of miles we travel each day. He seemed to agree with me that it could be easily done at a trifling expense.”
“Brother Appleton Harmon is working at the machinery for the wagon to tell the distance we travel and expects to have it in operation tomorrow, which will save me the trouble of counting, as I have done, during the last four days.”
“About noon today Brother Appleton Harmon completed the machinery on the wagon called a ‘roadometer’ by adding a wheel to revolve once in ten miles, showing each mile and also each quarter mile we travel, and then casing the whole over so as to secure it from the weather.” ~ From William Clayton’s Journal
Samuel McKeen - Odometer used on Carriage
In 1854, Samuel McKeen of Nova Scotia designed an early version of the odometer, a device that measures mileage driven. His was attached to the side of a carriage and measured the miles with the turning of the wheels. |
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Now, you all embrace the numbers behind your steering wheel, and pay a little more attention to the ingenious historic device in ur car.
Sun 24 Oct 2004
Since the issue of not showing “Al6areeq ilaa Kabul” has been touched upon by zaydoun’s latest post, I think I should mention this.
Flipping through AlQabas, I found another show that was cancelled after a few days of airing. This article talks more about the KTV show (which i havent seen to be honest), and the circumstances behind its cancellation. Apparently, its a candid camera kind of thing, typical of every Ramadan in the past few years, but this time, the show does the joke on poor innocent kids!!!
Emm…..we’re talking about young unspoilt minds, little children who view the world in a way of which only a child is capable of. I would like to know, who in KTV decided “hmmm……you know what?? How about we pull some pranks on little kids and then embarass them on TV in front of millions, that should be fun!”
hahahahahaha…..seriously, how messed up will the kid be when he is surrounded by adults who blatantly lie to him, make a fool out of him, publicly humiliate him, then show it to everybody in their school and neighbourhood?!
Whoever decided to go on with this show was probably beaten up everyday as a kid publicly, and probably had his pants pulled down during recess on a regular basis.
The article seriously cracked me up! LOL!
Sun 24 Oct 2004
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Did you ever go to bed, close your eyes, yawn, start pulling the bedcover slightly until it touches your chin…….then start thinking, nonstop continuous thinking!! Its like all the ideas in the world are hidden in the back of your brain waiting for the wrong time to jump up!
You know something is brewing slowly, there is a large pot of jumbled thoughts and words, and your brain is concocting something out of all that chaos! You try to ignore it, but it just keeps popping up telling you, “I might disappear when you wake up tomorrow morning, and you know I’m good, otherwise I wouldnt be having this conversation with you!”
DAMN THOSE REBEL BRAIN CELLS!! LET ME SLEEP!
Anyway, thats the state I was in, had to get up, write these things down, and now I just had to vent!
Got to be up in 3 hours and a half!! :~~~(
I have a big proposal to work on tomorrow too…..Im screwed. Good Night!
Sat 23 Oct 2004
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Pretty cool, no? Once in a life time experience for both my car and I! e7im….please notice that I took this picture driving above 80 km/h on fahaheel highway! :-)
Sat 23 Oct 2004
Today’s restaurant of choice will be The Gaucho Grill.
As soon as we got there, someone opened the door, was friendly, asked if we had a reservation and so on. We got that sorted, then the hostess led us to our table, but only after offering us a tray of Ramadan specials like qamar deen and dates and so on. Im a sucker for small touches of hospitality and service.
The ambiance was excellent, very elegant and modern, with an open view of the kitchen, always a plus. Our waiter, Warren from South Africa came straight away. We ordered our drinks while we checked out the menus, which are interesting but not very practical. The bread provided before the meal comes with an excellent chilli sauce, or Argentinean ma3booch if u like, really good with the bread and butter.
I ordered seared tuna for starters, and a sirloin steak medium cooked with a side of spinach and garlic. The rest ordered the fillet steak also medium cooked. Before we decided on our steaks, Warren came with a tray of the four kinds of steaks and explained alot about each one, which was an excellent touch in my opinion.
The tuna came first, it was ok, nothing special at all.
The steaks came shortly afterwards, and for the first time in Kuwait, I got a steak that was actually medium when I ordered medium! It was perfectly cooked, part bloody! My sirloin was really gorgeous, so were the fillets, all in all the best piece of meat you will ever try in Kuwait.
Following the main, I ordered a chilli chocolate mousse, which at first I thought was average, just another chocolate pudding. But after a while i actually needed some water, the chilli effect came in a few seconds later, very very interesting mix! I love all types of fusion in food!
The price wasnt bad at all for steaks. It was 36KD for the three of us. The most interesting part of the whole night was Warren coming at the end and telling us that he wanted to recite a poem for us! He did, it was very funny and weird in a way, but that alone added alot of bonus marks for the restaurant, again im a sucker for these personal touches!
Overall……DO NOT MISS THIS RESTAURANT! If you like steak, this is the ONLY place worth trying in Kuwait. Terrace Grill is overpriced, overcooked, with average food. Entrecot (sp?) is good for what it is, but for real steak lovers, its the fast food of steaks.
Final Grade - 96/100
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