Weekend ReCap

Friday

Day 9 120*10

Watched: Greenfingers could have swore this was a lifetime movie of the week but hey I dig Clive Owens so I thought I would give it a chance. Sometimes when you roll the dice you lose.


Saturday


Celebrated the completion of my first cycle of 120*10

Celebrated -
* Went tanning (One of the best birthday gifts ever, who doesn't feel better when they are tan?)

* Hair cut. (Who doesn't feel better when they get their hair cut?)

* Fitted for a Tux. (Formal party coming up next weekend)


Read: Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell. This book rocked it was the first one of his works that I actually liked. I would definitely check it out.

Went to Vinas for dinner.

Went to Tailgate and in the course of full disclosure while I didn't smoke I did enjoy a rather nice Gimlet and a Jack and Coke.



Sunday

Day 11 120*10

Went Tanning.

Did home work.

Eternity and the Modern Perception of Time

"Imagine all of the oceans, seas and lakes are filled with sand and every thousand years a bird removes one grain of sand and flies always with it. When all of the seas, lakes and oceans are empty you still would have only filled an insignificant unnoticeable amount of time in eternity."

--Thomas Aquinas

Remembered - Blog Worth Meter - 1.5

"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing."

--Ben Franklin (Attributed)

Ockham's razor and Homeland Security

There is a fable that I am fond of about Americans spending billions of dollars to create a pen that would write in the zero gravity of space, while the Russians simply brought a pencil. While this is just a fable I like what it says about being practical. Solving the problem at hand with the simplest solution in the most effective manner possible.

I the wake of 9-11 we found ourselves transformed. Billions of dollars poured into airport security to make sure no one would ever be able to hijack a plane and crash it into another building. We bought new scanners, made TSA a common household term, created all sorts of rules and restrictions on what people could travel with, wasted billions of dollars in productivity standing in line.

People forget we actually already had metal detectors, police dogs etc.

This is evident that this hijackers didn't take over the plans with guns because they couldn't get those on the plane, they used box cutters.

This is billions of additional security.

This is a Ockham's razor test.

This is America's real version of the pen in space theory.

What did other countries do? What should we have done?

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The answer: Build thicker doors that lock from the inside cock pit


Day 9 :)

Coup de Grace

When I was younger I was driving to work one afternoon whene a little squirrel decided to play chicken with my car and lost...well almost lost...

I looked in my rear view mirror and saw it flopping around in the street. I pulled over and after a brief assessment of what I had on hand to end its life, I made my way over to the squirrel with my car jack.

I remember standing over it's squirming, erratic body and closing my eyes. I raised the jack and I said a little prayer that if I was not meant to kill this creature god will move it before the blow strikes it. (I was young and still had god delusions)

I never saw it hit the squirrel because I didn't open my eyes until I was walking back to my car, but I know I hit it because I felt it.

I remember driving away and I was mad at myself for praying before I did it and not having my eyes open. I shifted the blame for what I was about to do to a boogie man to easy my burden of guilt.

Never again

For the record I believe in the coup de grace and not just cause it is a cool term.

But I think I am in the minorty ...

Investment Tip: Sink All of Your Money into Forever Stamps

Over the last 5 years the price of stamps has increased 10% making this one of the best performing investments in the entire marketplace. Beating T-bills in safety and value or any major indices over the same period. I suggest immediately cashing in your piggy bank and heading down to the post office and buying as many rolls of forever stamps as you can.

In 50 years when you are selling your 42 cent stamps for $8000.00 I hope you will send me a thank-you card.

That is if the post office is still there.

Or America for that matter.

I guess nothing is forever..

Not even stamps.

Day 7

Boredom is Extinction

What if the dinosaurs just got really bored and all committed suicide? After all they were here for millions of years. Maybe they were just so tired of chasing for food or having family members getting eaten ect they actually jumped into those tar pits or off the sides of mountains? I mean a million years is a long time to do the same boring shit over and over again.

Day 6 Without Vodka or Smokes

Weekend ReCap

*Technically this was last weekends review but apparently I messed up on the publish dates and this went out as year ago or something, but I figure why not do it here again. The reason I do these is to track a few of my goals like books and movies read since I do most of those on the weekends. That and I think how people spend their free time says a lot about them - like I am a lazy escapist.

Friday

Power 120 * 10 Day Two (I will explain this one in time)

Watched: Burn After Reading - This was a good movie:)


Saturday

In a depressing but inspiring turn of events I decided to watch the Bucket List and Read: The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. I think it was right mood, right time, right book and movie. I burned through them and just took a while to absorb them and think about a few aspects of my life I need to realign. Good start to the new year for a different look at the frame work of life and an internal self check at the sand in my hour glass.

Power 120* 10 Day Three


Sunday

Power 120 * 10 Day Four

Made a fire, cleaned out drawers, boxed up old books, tossed out old magazines, worked on my paper for school.

Watched Towelhead - It was an interesting thought provoking movie

Bubbler aka Drinking Fountain

When I make\win a million dollars my first piece of purchased extravagance might be a drinking fountain that dispenses vodka and my mixer of choice. This way I can regulate the temperature and stop making ice and washing dishes.

Piece of Advise #1254112

Never put a stamp on an envelope before you address the envelope.