Bore Me To Sleep

MV Aurora (1977)

peterugh — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 04:15:25 -0700

MV Aurora (1977) The M/V Aurora is a feeder vessel for the Alaska Marine Highway System. The M/V Aurora was built in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin in 1977 by Peterson Shipbuilders and commissioned by the Alaska Marine Highway System the same year. The Aurora is the younger sister ship to the M/V LeConte and both serve or have served as feeder vessels that pick up passengers in small communities such as Pelican and Hoonah and take them to larger regional communities (this process is colloquially known as the "milk run"). However, unlike the LeConte, the Aurora was moved out of Southeast Alaska into Prince William Sound area in 2005 to take the place of the retired M/V Bartlett. This move, however, was highly controversial as the M/V Chenega, a fast ferry, was supposed to take this role and been promised for years in advance to the Prince William Sound area and specifically to be homeported in the city of Cordova. Instead, the ferry system reneged on this promise and moved the Chenega to a Ketchikan-Wrangell route. Currently, the Aurora is being hubbed out of Cordova (although, unlike the fast ferry, the Aurora operates 24-hours a day so it doesn't have a crew that lives in its homeport thus denying that city the economic stimulus of additional residents/jobs. This is the primary motive for the especially rancorous uproar from Cordova regarding the Chenega's route placement) and operating principally between Cordova, Whittier, and Valdez with whistle stops (the ferry only stops if there are prior reservations) in Tatitlek and Chenega Bay.

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Back to sleep

peterugh — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 04:06:26 -0700

We were offline for a while. Now we're back, have fun perusing the posts. Actually don't have fun, become incredibly bored perusing the posts.

Economic Graphs

peterugh — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:02:45 -0700

A selection of boring economic grpahs that are rather hard to understand. To see more visit the site they are from: Teach me Finance.com

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Syndesmology, Gray's Anatomy

peterugh — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:51:34 -0700

The following is a selection of text about cartilage from Gray's Anatomy 1918. Hopefully you won't find this terribly interesting and it will put you to sleep quickly.

THE BONES of the skeleton are joined to one another at different parts of their surfaces, and such connections are termed Joints or Articulations. Where the joints are immovable, as in the articulations between practically all the bones of the skull, the adjacent margins of the bones are almost in contact, being separated merely by a thin layer of fibrous membrane, named the sutural ligament. In certain regions at the base of the skull this fibrous membrane is replaced by a layer of cartilage. Where slight movement combined with great strength is required, the osseous surfaces are united by tough and elastic fibrocartilages, as in the joints between the vertebral bodies, and in the interpubic articulation. In the freely movable joints the surfaces are completely separated; the bones forming the articulation are expanded for greater convenience of mutual connection, covered by cartilage and enveloped by capsules of fibrous tissue. The cells lining the interior of the fibrous capsule form an imperfect membrane—the synovial membrane—which secretes a lubricating fluid. The joints are strengthened by strong fibrous bands called ligaments, which extend between the bones forming the joint. Read More »

Discussion of Phylogenetic Relationships

peterugh — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:25:51 -0700

This is an excerpt from "The Tree of Life Web Project". It is guaranteed to put the large majority of you to sleep. Goodnight in advance.

The kingdom Fungi is a diverse clade of heterotrophic organisms that shares some characters with animals such as chitinous structures, storage of glycogen, and mitochondrial codon UGA encoding tryptophan. Both animals and fungi have spores or gametes with a single smooth, posteriorly inserted flagellum, but only species of the basal chytrid phyla have retained this primitive character (Barr, 1992; Cavalier-Smith, 1987, 1995). Fungi, animals, and other heterotrophic protist-like organisms such as choanoflagellates and Mesomycetozoea are now considered part of the larger group termed opisthokonts (Cavalier-Smith, 1987) in reference to the posterior flagellum.

The branch uniting the fungi and animals is well-supported based on a number of molecular phylogenetic datasets, including the nuclear small subunit ribosomal RNA gene (Wainwright et al., 1993; Bruns et al. 1993), unique and shared sequence insertions in proteins such as elongation factor 1α (Baldauf and Palmer, 1993), entire mitochondrial genomes (Lang et al., 2002), and concatenated protein-coding genes (Steenkamp et al., 2006). Read More »

IRS Code Section Sec. 6103. Confidentiality...

peterugh — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:42:20 -0700

This comes from the US tax code regarding agricultural something or other. Use it to fall asleep if you can. I hope you don't get past the opening page. And if you get past the whole entry maybe check another post but after that, drink some warm milk and count sheep. Also start considering a career in Tax Law...

-CITE-
26 USC Sec. 6103 01/02/2006

-EXPCITE-
TITLE 26 - INTERNAL REVENUE CODE
Subtitle F - Procedure and Administration
CHAPTER 61 - INFORMATION AND RETURNS
Subchapter B - Miscellaneous Provisions

-HEAD-
Sec. 6103. Confidentiality and disclosure of returns and return
information

-STATUTE-
(a) General rule
Returns and return information shall be confidential, and except
as authorized by this title -
(1) no officer or employee of the United States,
(2) no officer or employee of any State, any local law
enforcement agency receiving information under subsection
(i)(7)(A), any local child support enforcement agency, or any
local agency administering a program listed in subsection
(l)(7)(D) who has or had access to returns or return information
under this section, and
(3) no other person (or officer or employee thereof) who has or
had access to returns or return information under subsection
(e)(1)(D)(iii), paragraph (6), (12), (16), (19), or (20) of
subsection (l), paragraph (2) or (4)(B) of subsection (m), or
subsection (n),

shall disclose any return or return information obtained by him in
any manner in connection with his service as such an officer or an
employee or otherwise or under the provisions of this section. For
purposes of this subsection, the term "officer or employee"
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Grass Growing

peterugh — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:12:47 -0700

Boredom of the day

Perhaps one of the most boring activities imaginable and a great way to fall asleep and beat that insomnia. If only the camera didn't move so much.

Welcome to Bore Me To Sleep

peterugh — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:24:15 -0700

Should you be asleep right now? Are you trying to sleep but can't? Has insomnia got you surfing the web at 3 AM when tomorrow comes early? Here at boremetosleep.com our goal is to put people to sleep. We provide content we hope you find so boring that you can't help but fall asleep right on the keyboard.

Drugs can be habit forming, counting sheep uses too much imagination and there's no one boring to talk to.

Here at boremetosleep.com you'll find a collection of text, pictures, videos and sounds so boring you will hopefully not get through one whole post.

Some people might find the economics and politics of agrarian life in Illinois in the mid 1800's interesting but most will not. Some people may find a 100 page instruction manual regarding the assembly of an industrial mixer stimulating but most will not.

However I believe no one will find a video of grass growing interesting.

Good luck with the insomnia, but first some things to note regarding the site. There are no distracting images to stimulate you. The colors are dark to help your eyes relax. There are a list of tags on the right to help you find what you need. Come back for the daily bore as linked under tags.

Please, get some sleep.

The boredom starts here.

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