extraversion.kam(il)

you were supposed to dance!

2008-04-05T21:47:00.001-07:00

support global warming!

2008-03-23T18:19:00.000-07:00

...I want my beach-front property.

i support your awareness of my support

2008-03-16T16:45:00.000-07:00

I always wondered what the hell the point of these was. I don't really understand why people didn't just give directly to the charity instead of wasting part of the money on the damn car magnets. I guess I don't realize the smugness of some people and how they suddenly become good citizens who are "aware" of the issues plaguing the back of their vehicle. If you really want to make a gesture, give to the damn charity, or send actual care packages to our troops, because putting a magnet on the back of your car to try to make it look like you give a shit; makes you look like a fool.

It's really sad how much money is made off of these damn things and most of it doesn't see the charity it's supposed to support.

sometimes it's personal

2008-03-12T19:07:00.000-07:00

I truly believe that there's no such thing as reality. Only our perception of it.

SCI UHNCE

2008-01-06T21:23:00.000-08:00

A peek into what we can expect from the wonderful world of science in 2008.

COLLEGE

2007-10-15T10:54:00.000-07:00

If only today's educational system could keep up with the changing times.

pale blue dot

2007-09-10T15:21:00.000-07:00

If you measure significance in terms of physical size. This is mind opening...

pop another...

2007-08-29T10:28:00.001-07:00

We are quickly becoming a medicated society. Watch television for an hour and count the number of new drug commercials you see. We fill ourselves so much with these pills, you have to wonder what the hell we are becoming. I think if we continue this cycle, we may just end up losing ourselves.

An interesting documentary on the topic.

why the japanese are way ahead of us...

2007-07-09T16:46:00.000-07:00

...because they don't take themselves so seriously.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll2kajMH2u0&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84_QL1kEmH4

2007-06-06T23:42:00.000-07:00

The mind is not to be meant to be shaped into some standard.

Viva la revolucion!

2007-05-01T23:46:00.001-07:00

09-F9-11-02-9D-74-E3-5B-D8-41-56-C5-63-56-88-C0

If you don't know, look it up!

GO HOKIES!

2007-04-18T01:50:00.000-07:00

Sad really...

we are the world...we are the statistics

2007-04-11T19:42:00.000-07:00

A nice thought provoking look at world flags.

Courtesy of BrazilianArtists.net

An engineer's wet dream...

2007-04-04T19:47:00.000-07:00

Imagine farms in New York City.

another tube video to make you think

2007-02-25T22:36:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljbI-363A2Q

Feel free to be skeptical about any of the numbers they throw out as I am a bit skeptical of some of them myself. But the stuff in the first 3 minutes, I can definitely believe.

future soulful investments

2007-02-19T21:39:00.000-08:00

I'm working on leaving my armchair commentary to actually get myself involved in something. This blogging culture doesn't seem to give us much in return. Let's do OUR best to actually do something. We like to say we are building awareness but we are only making people aware that we are a highly opinionated generation. It's easy to hand a homeless man a book, but it's something else to actually get him to read it and learn. Well I guess I don't have a better answer right now, but I'll do my best to show you the difference actually going out there makes.

net neutrality

2006-12-17T12:24:00.000-08:00

Today we have a wonderful freedom called the internet. It gives us access to an incredible amount of information. However, if you have heard of net neutrality, you know that that freedom is in danger. Here's a little video that explains the basic idea behind net neutrality:

here

or if you found that one a bit boring try this one...

here

both hosted by YouTube

Be sure to let your friends become aware of this issue and let your leaders know that this is in fact an important issue because right now the government believes it isn't. But imagine not being able to go on your favorite website because your ISP doesn't give access to it or makes it so slow it's unusable.

if you want a good laugh

2006-12-13T23:06:00.000-08:00

I really wish we had great game shows like this in the US. Hell I'd love to try this with my friends at home.

Click the link below to watch...

hilarity awaits!

hosted by iFilms.

who REALLY killed the electric car?

2006-11-18T18:14:00.000-08:00

So today I watched the film Who Killed the Electric Car?, directed by Chris Paine.

I have to say I was really disappointed with the movie. Instead of presenting a good technical argument for why the car was "killed". I felt like I was a watching a film whose first half was a commercial for the EV1 and the second half which was your typical conspiracy theory/fear mongering mockumentary.

But you know what, I know what REALLY killed the electric car, it's

practicality and the hybrid

In essence, the idea of the hybrid solved the problems that the electric car couldn't fix. For example, the lack of mobility of the electric car was due to the fact that there was no infrastructure and the lengthy recharge time would make long trips impossible. By using gas as a main source of fuel, the hybrid car is able to survive within the current fuel infrastructure and at the same time maintain the efficiency and "greenness" of an electric motor. Now I'm not going to turn this into an article on why you should buy a hybrid so I'll end it there. But I want to disillusion people to the type of arguments these "documentaries" present and how important it is to question and look at every side of the argument and understand the importance of technical arguments when it comes to technical issues rather than simply pointing fingers. And yes I do agree that GM's recall of the car could have been handled better (as they have admitted on their own corporate website), but you have to understand the amount of imperfections the car still had and the fact that GM was accountable for the car's safety issues and the safety of the drivers. G'day.

immigration and stabilizationalismology for dummies

2006-11-16T01:03:00.000-08:00

So I was watching this video from an article from one of my most favoritist sites ever called digg.com

Here's a link to the specific article:

gobbedy goo!

hosted by digg.com of course

After reading some others opinions and slowly "tearing at the fabric" of this guy's argument. Such as the fact that those 1 million gumballs are probably supporting 4 gumballs each, I started thinking about where our world is headed in terms of population. In the US, I have noticed that the idea of the "traditional family" is waning as slowly more and more people are having less and less children and with some taking the Christian Troy route and not getting hitched at all. Yes, it seems that the divorce rate is only getting higher and higher and birth rate lower and lower. Add this in with the growing awareness and use (hopefully) of contraceptives in third world countries where population growth is a problem; And we see then that once the baby boomer populations start to die out...(yay for the job market) and the impact of child limits in China takes its long term effect, the population growth curve will start to level off. Maybe even dropping. Short and to the point, I know thats how you like it. After this optimistic realization and sigh of relief, I take my leave. But shit, I could be completely wrong.

oh it all makes sense now

2006-11-14T03:50:00.000-08:00

If you want nothing, you have everything.

another random thought of the day...

sprankton....a noun

2006-11-02T00:41:00.000-08:00

disease you get from chewing too much

A special presentation from the good folks at sickanimation.com

let the drinking begin!

2006-11-01T12:35:00.000-08:00

woohoo!

credits to http://www.dailymail.co.uk for the article

another hypothesis

2006-10-22T14:29:00.000-07:00

If all activity in the universe is a function of time, then there was a point when t was equal to 0. Many would say this is where the big bang theory comes in, but the big bang is a pile of doo-doo to me. That's not to say that I have a better answer (yet), but accepting that as the theory for the beginning of everything is just as silly as saying "God" created the world in 7 days or whatever theopolitical nonsense is thrown about nowadays. Yes I just said theopolitical and I know it's not a word. To get to the point, I accept the fact that I simply don't know the answer. Which brings me to the daily existential episode/break/extravaganza. This idea is simply that the purpose of existence is to find a purpose or create one. Depressing? Yeah, sounds depressing and cyclic, but I'd say it's less depressing then saying we live one life, and how we live that one life (as influenced as it is by genetics, environment, luck) determines an eternity. So then the answer is always in the question. Food for thought, need more development on that one.

for anyone who feels incapable

2006-10-21T03:10:00.000-07:00

Many amazing people I have met or read about aren't amazing because they are extraordinary, but because they are ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

gravity, what an annoyance

2006-10-18T00:15:00.000-07:00

Ok, since noone else has given a good rational explanation for gravity, I thought I'd give it a shot. Since the only other phenomena that involves attraction between mass is polar molecules (electrons and protons), perhaps we can make a connection between this and gravity. Maybe, gravity is a function of the ratio of a volume of a mass to the number of polar molecules that mass contains. Of course this would require some insight into the number of polar molecules in the sun, or even the rate at which any type of "polar" phenomenon occurs in the sun, but it's a start. In the next few minutes I will probably disprove this theory, but hey its worth some thought at the moment. I will also need some insight into what happens in a black hole since a black hole is supposed to be the result of the collapse of a gravitational field, but even this occurence can be connected to polarity that is favored in a particular direction, thus the creation of a funnel that sucks in all matter and even light.

Ok none of it is probably reasonable or even worth an intellectual thought, I take it back.

i'm back

2006-10-15T18:55:00.000-07:00

Well it's been a while since I've looked at this blog, I looked back at some of my old posts and saw how much my view of the world has changed since I've become a freshman in college. Almost scary really, but anyways, I need somewhere away from my computer to start posting my thoughts for that book I'm going to finally/maybe write some day. It's probably going to be a lot of gibberish and not cohesive in the least bit, but to me it's something. So I've decided to make it online since I have been switching hardrives a lot and keep forgetting to back up these things. ..

...And if you think that is just a clever excuse to draw attention to myself through an online blog, you are absolutely right.

Hello

2004-09-11T19:16:00.000-07:00

I read somewhere that reading white text on a black background is far less straining on the eyes than a white background with black text.