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A Picture Tour of Santa Barbara, California

A Picture Tour of Santa Barbara, California, from a long time resident's point of view. Get the inside story of what really happens in Santa Barbara.

Sky & Telescope magazine, April 1996 - Suzanne Rich

Religious Studies

There is an immense lack of historical evidence that Jesus ever existed.¹
Crucified Saviors existed in many religions prior to the alleged time of Jesus.²
The Story of Jesus is an Astronomical Allegory for the Sun passing through the Zodiac each year.³ The sun is the original god that dies on the winter solstice and is reborn/resurrected 3 days later, on Christmas day!

Projects

Some High Speed Photography Photos I made of a Water Balloon and Rocket
Dual-Input Dual-Output Digitally Controlled Delay Timer
For high speed photography
Digitally Controlled Light Dimmer
(You don't have to clap)

My Diplomas

Technical Research Papers

HOW COMPUTERS GENERATE RANDOM NUMBERS. How do computers, which are completely deterministic machines, generate random numbers?

Paradoxes of Probability. A treatise on random numbers and probability theory wouldn't be complete without a number of paradoxes to thoroughly confuse you. Here are a few classic ones.
Generating random integers within a desired range
Using the C and C++ rand() function

THE PENTIUM DIVISION FLAW.
Two million original Pentium(TM) processors were sold in the first year. Then it was discovered they gave incorrect results.

CONTROLLING THE INVERTED PENDULUM.
An example of a digital feedback control system. I did this for fun back in college because no one else could do it. Intense mathematics.

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PROF. DELEY TALKS ABOUT...

Topics for a High School Math Club
The Problem With Boring American History
Recommended Books, Movies, and TV Shows
Life Scripts
Sex or a Relationship
You Can't Please Everyone
People who had way too much money and what became of them (under construction)
Homework and Search Engine Links [offsite]
BJ Pinchbecks's Homework Helper Links [offsite]
Topic Index

Prescient Professors
An Army War College faculty study published before the invasion of Iraq makes frustrating reading today. Warning that "a war tactically and operationally won can still lead to strategic loss if post-conflict operations are poorly planned or executed," the February 2003 study predicted many subsequent events with uncanny accuracy. After an "initial honeymoon period," it warned that "long-term gratitude is unlikely and suspicion of U.S. motives will increase. The United States is deeply distrusted in the Arab World because of strong ties to Israel and fears that it seeks...to control the region's oil." Instead of a healthy democracy, the professors forecast the emergence of parties "based on ethnic, religious, tribal and other factors," with their divisions exacerbated by armed militias. "An exit strategy will require the establishment of political stability which will be difficult to achieve given Iraq's fragmented population, weak political institutions and propensity for rule by violence," the study stated, predicting Iraqis would "take violent measures to hasten the departure of U.S. forces." "Merely toughening it out is not a solution," the war college faculty found, but neither was leaving. "The premature departure of U.S. troops could also result in civil war," they warned.

—Aviation Week & Space Technology. June 7, 2004. pg. 23

Bush is not incompetent — Conservative Ideology is Incompetent!
Bush’s disasters — Katrina, the Iraq War, the budget deficit — are the natural, inevitable result of his conservative governing philosophy. It is conservatism itself, carried out according to plan, that is at fault. The conservative vision is doing great harm to this country and the world!

The 9-11 Terrorist Attacks

How does one convince an intelligent well educated person, such as a hijacker who knows how to fly a large commercial aircraft, to go on a suicide mission of mass homicide? Read about Religion and Cultic Mind Control

Photograph by Jeroen Morriën

Why The Towers Fell Structural Engineer G Charles Clifton explains. [offsite]
National Institute of Standards and Technology Final Reports of the World Trade Center Disaster Very detailed reports on the Collapse [offsite]

Humor after 9-11. Humor gives us insight into our culture and human nature.

A Harris Poll, taken three weeks before the 2004 election, found that 41% of all voters—and 52% of those backing Mr. Bush— believed Saddam Hussein had "helped plan and support the hijackers" who had attacked the United States in 2001. In addition, 62% of all voters—and 84% of those who voted for Mr. Bush—believed that Hussein, the former Iraqi leader, had "strong links" to al-Qaeda. All these views were wrong.—Santa Barbara Newspress, Nov. 16, 2005.

THE BUSH PRESIDENCY My list of gripes and links to other web sites.

Newage music cross reference.
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HUMOROUS PROSE


David W. Deley	Susan Rice and David Deley (My Significant Other)

My List of Fun Sites to visit

Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Knowledge.

Enforced suppression of knowledge is never an education.
For example, Abstinence-Only Sex Education Leaves Young People Ignorant and Uneducated.

Q: Why is this page so plain?

A: See all the text? It's called content.
This web site has been optimized for speed of loading
for slow dial-up modems. Thus there is no fancy stuff
that would take a long time to load. Plus I like it
this way.

But for those of you who still want to see the
greatest most complex gaudiest graphical page
I shall make one just for you and place it here.

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