I am so hungry.

I think it's funny that I am not writing an email to a person, but to
an inanimate program that will never read this thing.  It will just
copy and place this thing into a text box, without look at the
context. I can write about how much I dread the person I emailing and
it won't matter, because I am not writing to a person. It is just a
machine, without emotion, and can not comprehend the meaning of this
message.

This comes in complete contrast to all of the previous emails I have
written hitherto to people. People who can adjust, interpret, learn
and do all things human.

The latter, to learn is to not make us human, no. To be able to learn
is to be able to live. We, as people, are not the only things on
earth exclusive to learning, cats do it dogs do it, all living things
do it. Thus to learn is to live.

The future seems a more livelier place. With the advent of the
computer, the internet, and technology the process of being able to
learn is accessible to many how would never see this opportunity at
any previous time of history. Take for example this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx2P1_M-7UA . Produced by the renown
learning institution Yale University, the video is just a series of
videos provided free on the internet, for anyone with internet access
to view, and to learn. The spread of knowledge will be exponentially
greater then ever before.

The irony about this situation is that it is an inanimate system, who
cannot possibly comprehend the meaning of all of this, providing you
the methods of what it can not understand.

Shit it worked.

Now I can email a post to my blog that will forward it to my facebook notes.

Be calm, be calm.

My left earphone is out, I don't know if it's the plugs or the player.
I can't test it out yet, so I will give you the results later.

Also I am trying this blog by email thing out.

There's something wrong with the Chinese Zodiac

Earlier this morning I discovered I had no money in my wallet, not really a shock to me, but knowing that I needed money today, I went into some money that I put away. This money was from Chinese New Year, all thirty dollars of it. I don't like spending it, it feels funny to me that parents and relatives give me money at my age. But never the less, the money is welcome when your starving in front of a computer screen, fingers barely have the strength to push down the keys.

The envelopes are not the only thing peculiar about the whole New Year thing. I also find the order of Zodiac animals funny.

The story I was told of how the order was found is that the animals had a race. Which ever animal who finished first would be first, second is second, and so on. The order the Chinese Zodiac animals finish as follows:

Rat
Ox
Tiger
Rabbit
Dragon
Snake
Horse
Ram
Monkey
Rooster
Dog
Pig

There are many things I find unbelievable in this order.

Firstly, how the rat finished ahead of the ox. The story goes that the rat climbed on the ox's head and the rat claimed victory and it crossed before the ox. Have you even seen an ox's head? It's pretty much like a cows, they have a snout that leads its body. For the rat to place in first it must have been not just on the head, but on the nose of the ox. When on the nose of the ox, the rat would have been in complete view from the eyes of the ox. Not only that, but the ox is not that stubborn not to notice a rat on top of it. (full disclosure: I am an ox)

Secondly, the complete order of finishers is unbelievable.
A snake ahead of a horse? Horses trample snakes in the wild.
A rooster before the dog? There is no way a rooster, who can fly well because on its bodyweight, and can't run well because of aerodynamic drag from its feathers, finishes before a sprinting dog with four legs. The rooster is probably the slowest animal here
I have yet to see evidence that an Ox is indeed the fastest animal. I would think that a horse or a tiger could easily catch it. Maybe in an endurance race could the ox even have a chance at winning.


Here is my realistic order of Zodiac animals:
Horse
Tiger
Ram
Ox
Rabbit
Dog
Rat
Dragon (Chinese dragons aren't fast I saw one in Chinatown of all places)
Monkey
Pig
Snake
Rooster

I would also like to see the Chinese make a year 4700 version of the race with more animals like a panda, one of though extinct river dolphins, an elephant, an aardvark, more birds like a hayabusa and ostrich. They could also import a cheetah and get a greyhound for the dog.

I remember watching a movie in school, where these kids were trying to save a cheetah, and for them to save it, the cheetah would have to win a race versus greyhounds. The story was fictional, but I would like the Chinese to recreate that scenario in real life.

Now this is random,

Random and coincidental,

I was studying for my Maths test and stumbled upon this:

PDF warning (get Foxit reader though, Searsly)
http://faculty.msmc.edu/daven/answers/calc3/fall00/q4-answers.pdf
Check out page 2

Ten points for a haiku?

No wonder they were talking about grade inflation in college on KUOW NPR:
http://www.kuow.org/program.php?id=16977





(also for the people who didn't get my 'maths' reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj2NOTanzWI)

Monitor the weak

This computer monitor keeps flickering on and off, killing productivity. If this monitor were human it would have some form of narcolepsy. Also if this monitor were human I would feel sorry for it, being as it never is able to experience the outside world.

Haiku Sampler

Purell cleanses hands.
Microbial genocide.
I feel power.

Pen pushes freely.
Flowing lines translate anger.
Class action lawsuit.

Nokia, the love.
Age does not hide your beauty.
You are Forever.

New Orleans, Mad.
New Orleans, FEMA failure.
New Orleans, is my home.
(New Orleans can be said three different ways, four syllables (Nu Or Lee Anns), three syllables (Nu Or Leans), and two (Naw Lins). The first line uses four syllables, seconds uses three syllables, forth uses two. The further way you move from New Orleans the more syllables people use to say it. In this haiku, I tried to convey the different perspectives people from different areas have of New Orleans.)

Sunlight pierces skin.
Caramelizing light pigment.
Clouds seen in background.

Tears fall from her face.
Betrayal poisons the heart.
We die from each drop.

Eraser of wrongs.
You do your job well, thank you.
Only with pencil.

Draw a Circle!!

Direction

You drew a circle.
If not do so.











What direction did you draw it? Clockwise or counterclockwise (or anti-clockwise)?. And which hand did you draw it with?

Me, being of right hand dominance, drew the circle clockwise. I have asked this of a few other people, and they show the same,
one right handed male chef drew it clockwise.
one right handed female artist drew it clockwise.
one right handed male student drew it counter clockwise.
of the outcome of the male student, another male student and female student also drew a circle CCW (all right hander), but their results will not be included because there might have been some influence of the first student who drew it CCW, and because they knew what I was testing.

quite interesting, in the 'Clockwise' entry of wikipedia, it says:

Most left-handed humans prefer to draw circles clockwise and traverse buildings clockwise, as most right-handed people prefer to draw circles and traverse buildings counterclockwise. It is believed that this can be attributed to a dominant brain hemispheres. ^[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clockwise#In_humans
From the citation:
Theodore H. Blau, The torque test: A measurement of cerebral dominance. 1974, American Psychological Association.

I do not know how factual the information above can be, but given results I have tested, I can not accept this as fact.

I still need results from left handed people.

Post #150 will be the first

Draw a Circle.

Possum

I look like i defecated on my desk and i'm just looking at it, wondering what i should do next.

Ji-ber-ish

This isn't a blog about me, cause I be typing so crass, I don't know what that means though. Fuck, shit isn't banned on TV anymore, you just can't say shit as the excrement. I remember watching E.R. , Dr. Greene's farewell episode, Dr. Greene had a inoperable brain tumor. While in Hawaii, in his final days, struggling with his motor functions, he tripped on feel to the ground. He then cried 'Shit' while exploding into tears.

It was a powerful scene, and very appropriate use of the 'expletive' that captured his frustration with his cancer.

Awfulness does not mean Heredity.

I haven't had an espresso post in a while, so here I go.
From this school's tully's I had a double. In my lifetime, I have recently bought this home coffee maker. the Maker has varying degrees of strength. Every morning I have a small teacup size coffee that was made for iced-coffee without the iced. It is concentrated well, but of course it is not espresso brewed in a pressurized arena. It has the same qualities as espresso but espresso it is not.

So I notice the creama, a tan layer covering the base. tasting it I realize that I have grown accustom to the bitterness. I do not remember the other qualities.

Also I am sensitive to caffine.

I am just posting for the sake of posting.

Winter months going through my head,
Contaminating all brain matter,
Frost bite destroys all memories,
Blood clots restricting circulation,
Food impassioned, cannot relieve illness,
Motor skills, paralyzed by,
by, by,
Sunlight breaks through the clouds,
Spring is coming upon us.




What the fuck am I smoking?