Built a one hundred-room mansion complete with gas chambers, trap doors, acid vats, lime pits, fake walls and secret entrances. During the 1893 World's Fair he rented rooms to visitors. He then killed most of his lodgers and continued his insurance fraud scheme.

He also lured women to his "torture castle" with the promise of marriage. Instead, he would force them to sign over their savings, then throw them down an elevator shaft and gas them to death. In the basement of the castle he dismembered and skinned his prey and experimented with their corpses.

He killed over 200 people.

Dax.-

Lead me not into temptation, I can find the way myself.

Dax.-

The positive actions you take do not stop with you. The chain-reaction you create does not end with you. It sets the stage for more positive actions, and then for even more on top of those.

Somewhere today, someone's life has just been made better. In some way today, our world is becoming a better place because of something you did.

Put the best of yourself into all you do, and your own unique positiveness will be spread far and wide. The influence you have is immensely greater than it may appear on the surface.

Live each moment with goodness, truth and integrity, and in more ways than you can possibly know, you'll be making the someone's world a better place.

Dax.-

It's been more than a month since they passed a new law that allows homosexual couples to get married. Many judges and mayors are opposing because this goes against their beliefs.

This has created an intense war in different sectors in the goverment and among the people. Now that homosexuals have the freedom to get married, the straight will live in a dictatorship because their jobs are at stake.

The funny thing is that living as a couple is not natural, and I mean between straight male/female I understand it's part of our society and culture, but come on, especially you guys, you have to go against your instincts to stay with the same woman forever, right? So why would a homosexual person want to get married? I think it's crazy.... not wrong, but crazy!

LOL.

Dax.-

Much has been said about MMORP's, but there is one thing we are forgetting, our time for leisure has become a stressing time full of tasks, hatred, and extra things to worry about.

Not only, your leasure time, you may lose, what about your sleeping time?

A recent survey published by the Washington Post, in its article Silicon Dreams: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A12190-2000May16&notFound=true

asked more than a thousand EverQuest players via e-mail about their experiences on- and off-line. Some of the results were that women players tend to work at developing the characters they create and to interact with other players; men generally try to rack up points and kill things. But some of the results were intriguing. About half of the respondents said they had had EverQuest dreams. Most of them had dreams like Hunt's, basically continuing to play the game while sleeping.

As times change, the Net is now real life to some, a way to evade yourself from an ugly life you don't like.

The problem and the way I see it is that in that virtual world you can't escape the ugliness of human nature, so you will still suffer the anguish, hatred, anger, agony, ... because in that virtual world you are not alone, there is real people, who hiding behind a character will become even worse humans than they are in real life.

Dax.-

Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp, US cartoonist (1909 - 1979) http://www.lil-abner.com/cappbio.html

Happines is not in our circumstances but in ourselves. If you tell yourself that there is something great in your life and start to believe it, you will see happiness.

Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient, said Mr Aristotle once. Many have argued that happiness is something self contained and independent from external situations.

... still if you need to think of something positive in your life to make you feel happy, or on the other side, think of something unhappy in your life to make you feel miserable, what did Aristotle really mean?

Dax.-

"I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity." I envy Shieldy. I wish I could be like him :(

The program wasn't complex, and it wasn't very long,
Though it seemed a bit erratic, its results were seldom wrong.
But that little error nagged us, so we stayed up late one night -
Found a missing comma, and we thought that fixed it right -

(Chorus)
But the bug came back, the bug came back. We thought it was a gonner
But the bugstard would just remain in coma.

We put away our documents, rewrote the code from scratch
To find out where the new and older versions didn't match.
A subtle shift of logic showed where we had gone astray;
We felt a bit embarrassed, but at least it ran okay -

(Chorus)

But the bug came back, the bug came back. We thought it was a gonner
But the bugstard would just remain in coma.

We wrote in other languages, from FORTH to APL
And ev'ry one ran ev'ry time - just sometimes not too well.
Translation to assembler didn't give us any clue;
The COBOL version crashed on ev'ry system it went through -

We gave it to the hackers - the folks who code for fun -
And wondered why they couldn't get the stupid thing to run.
Only one day later, they no longer wished to play -
Three paranoids... one suicide... and six who ran away...

(Chorus)

But the bug came back, the bug came back. We thought it was a gonner
But the bugstard would just remain in coma.

We got a summer student in to check the code by hand,
With paper, pen and calculator, run through each command,
The lights went out -- the air went thin and queer --
A sudden FLASH! of lightning -- and the student... disappeared..

(Chorus)

But the bug came back, the bug came back. We thought it was a gonner
But the bugstard would just remain in coma.

(Copyright 1991 by Joel Polowin. Music: "The Cat Came Back" by Harry Miller)