Dual monitors

I was forced to start using two monitors at work. It was about 18 months ago. They thought we would be "more productive". Turns out they were right. I love it and would never go back. If you have room....get a cheap monitor about the same size you have now and hook it up. It's easy and you'll love it.

Time - Gravity - Space

Have you ever thought..."this is the "modern" age. We know almost everything about the universe in which we live" I have....when I was younger. I thought this was a time where scientists knew almost everything and would surely know everything in my lifetime. However the more you look around you and look into space, the more you realize we know almost nothing. Most deep. important things taught today in schools are hypotheses. Even plate tectonics...let alone the nature of gravity, time, space and the relationship between them. This is a big deal. If we learn the truth of this relationship it would be the biggest discovery ever in history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime

Anyway, I just get thinking about this stuff on Sundays when my brain is not full of useless crap from the day to day horse shit that fills our lives. If more people thought about it, maybe we would figure it out. Think about it.

I happen to believe mankind knows more than we think possibly from reverse-engineering alien spacecraft and has probably explored our solar system and has advanced knowledge about space, time and gravity. I believe they (whoever they are) are suppressing the knowledge for reasons unknown.

This is my boring (for most of you) thought of the day #2.

Windows 7

I have been using Windows 7 for a few months now. I have switched a couple of friends over to it. Microsoft is letting us use it free for a year. I found a little 5 minute video that shows some of the changes you will see. There are a lot more changes but these are some of the ones you will notice first. (plus I am practicing putting videos in my blog)

So watch this little video if you want. It's pretty good if you want to know about the user interface changes you will find on your next computer. Anything you buy after about October of 2009 will probably come with Windows 7

How much of your life is on line?

I came across this little video and there is some truth to it. You never know what's going to happen and the last thing I want is to be a burden on my family if I got into a car accident or had a stroke. There are people thinking of this stuff.

Bank accounts , e-mail, Flickr, operating system are all examples of things you would want someone to have access upon your demise. It's interesting to think about it anyway.

Mom....don't say "you're freaking me out" I already know. Also HAPPY MOMS DAY!!!!

How do blind people dream?

I have never though about how a blind person might dream. Think about that. If you were born blind, would you "see" anything in your dreams. If you became blind during your life sometime I would imagine you would "see" in your dreams but how about the person who has been blind all their life? I am sure there is research about this but what an interesting question to contemplate. That's my thought of the day.

More about dreams. Have you ever heard this?

I have strange dreams as do most people. The range of subjects in dreams is astounding. I have had one 3 times now in which I see nothing. I wonder if I am dreaming because it "feels" like I am just lying there about to fall asleep or just waking up.

This dream is all audio. We would call it music I suppose but there are no words for this "sound". The closest sound I can come up with is a few thousand people (or beings) making unbelievable sounds that are all in harmony and make the most beautiful sound I have ever heard by far. It sounds like voices but not normal by any means.

I have thought that maybe I am hearing music from a radio station and somehow my mind is picking it up. This is not an option as this "music" is not like anything I have ever heard. Like a choir times a million.....I have also had "angels"(I know it's strange) pop into my mind.....has anybody heard this? I have had many strange experiences while sleeping and have learned that I am often not the only one having them. This is among the strangest. It just happened again about 3-4 days ago.

Leave a reply if you have heard anything like this, know what it is, or heard others talk about it. I have searched the internet and can't find anything. That's my though of the day.

The next Windows

The next operating system from Windows is called Windows 7. I have been testing the beta for about 5 months. It is great! Let’s get with the program and update before the end of the year. You’ve got to be on the “cutting edge” to keep up with our changing world. Haha I just want to quit working on old versions. I am forgetting how after not running them for months. Anyway that’s my thought of the day.

Here’s a shot of one of the desktop backgrounds it comes with and the new “Superbar” at the bottom. (I love this background…it’s almost disturbing with the faces. haha)

Windows Live Writer test

I am just being a geek. I am testing the Windows Live Writer downloaded from the new version of Windows 7 release candidate 1 leaked to the internet April 24, 2009. What a GREAT operating system. Most of you reading this will be buying a new computer at some point in the next year or two. Wait for Windows 7 to be released before you buy. If you don’t get a new computer….spend $150 and upgrade to Windows 7. This concludes the test of the Windows Live Writer.

Society needs geeks

I have realized lately that I have become a geek! I always had geeky tendencies but I am a fully developed geek now. The world needs geeks. It takes all kinds of people to make society run smoothly I suppose. I don't know if it's just a phase....I hope not. I really enjoy being geeky. Maybe it's time to get a pair of thick "Coke-bottle" glasses and put some duct tape in the middle where they rest on your nose. I have already embraced the anti-social hermit-like behavior years ago. If society implodes and we loose electricity here's what I will be doing. (Pedaling a generator with a computer in front of me)

Life is short. So is this post.

Life IS short. I never believed this when people told me but it's true. Get some hobbies. Launch model rockets. Get a massage. Get a bigger hard drive. Take a walk. Go goose hunting. Jump in a lake. Fly a freaking kite. We should all have more fun.

Dec 21, 2012

If you haven't heard about this date, you're probably normal. It's the end of the Mayan calendar. The Mayans were an ancient culture from south America. They seemed to have advanced knowledge about the earth revolving around the sun and the fact that we're part of a giant galaxy with a super-massive black hole in the center. They seemed to think something was going to happen on or near this date. I hope there is a rip in space and another dimension meshes with ours and there are strange creatures coming through holes in the space-time continuim. That would give me a chance to do some shooting. Whatever happens, I guess we'll all find out in about three years. I hope we can still have our computers and a coke in the morning and maybe some macadamia nuts. (I love those)

Spring is almost here!

What the hell is so nice about spring? The grass starts to grow...you have to mow it. The weeds start to grow....you have to spray or pull them. Everything seems to start moving faster. It seems like it's hectic in the spring and summer. Summer...there's another great season. It gets so hot you can't even breathe. I think I'll stick with winter. I can't wait until November gets here. I would even take mid-September. Goodbye winter...I'm going to miss you.

What's happening?

The U.S. government has spent more money in the last two months than all the money combined since the founding of the nation? We have been through the "Great depression"  Two world wars, and countless periods of "crisis". This is a scary time. The people of the United States are going to have to fight to get our freedom back. We have lost it. I hope it does not get as ugly as I think it will. We are going to end up eating vegetables we grow in our gardens, eating sheep and cows we raise and drinking goats milk. You can get a good goat on the KSL classifieds for about $60 by the way. That's my thought of the day.

Age of the internet

Why do all people not have internet access? If we don't kill ourselves as a race, we will be the last generation that can say "I know people who don't have internet access" I know we are all busy but this world wide information center we call the internet is becoming a necessity. I know why people resist it. It is overwhelming. There is so much information you could never see a millionth of it. I understand why people don't even want to start but what's better, laying on a couch watching TV or learning something new? The net will keep evolving and will be a lot different in ten years or twenty years but we are living in an amazing time. The explosion of the internet. It will probably be the way we get out education some day soon. It will change almost everything. It's as big or bigger that the industrial revolution that happened in the 20th century. I hope this revolution brings as much prosperity as the last one.

What are we doing here?

If you think about it, the universe is a huge place. So big we can't even comprehend it. We have vivid imaginations as humans, yet this thing we call the universe is incomprehensible to us. That is saying something. How did it form? Has it always been here? Thank goodness for people lke Albert Einstien who has given us a "human" way to look at this unimaginable place. We read books and watch movies about far away lands and magical places and beings. The most far away and magical place is above our heads. Even looking up is magical. If you look up, a person on the other side of the earth would have to look down to be looking the same direction. We are on a big ball moving through space with a strange force called gravity pulling us toward the center of the ball and holding the atmosphere in place so we can live. There are probably billions of other planets hurling through space somewhere doing the same thing. I see why people don't like to think about this stuff. It makes us feel small. We are small but having consciousness makes us significant. 

So what the hell are we doing here? Who knows. Is it a fluke? I doubt it. Is someone telling you THEY know the answers to these questions? Don't believe them. They don't. That's my thought of the day.

Elephants and dreams

I don't know what significance elephants have for me but I keep having dreams about elephants. What the hell is going on with that? I told a co-worker about one of those dreams and now he constantly teases me about it. I have these dreams about elephants messing with me as we walk down a dirt road. There are two elephants and they keep putting their trunks on my shoulder. I walk faster to get away from that elephant and another starts with the same thing! What the hell kind of dream is that? Last night I had that one and a dream in which me and 2 or 3 other guys walked into a village and shot a bunch of cats and birds. Then we took off on our motorcycles. One of the injured cats and one of the injured birds were following us so I slowed to help them. I fell behind the others guys so I left the injured animals behind. I started going so fast that when I hit a small bump, I jumped into the air and started flying (on the motorcycle) I never landed. Just kept flying. Dreams have to serve some purpose. I sure wish I knew what it was and what the elephants mean. I am always flying in my dreams too. Write your dreams down. They are fun to look at later. That's my thought of the day.

More on idiots.....

Here's what we should do. Give everybody an IQ test before they apply for a job. If you score 146.....you shouldn't be asked to work amongst idiots. 68% of people have IQs within 15 points of 100. They should be our workforce. Those below 85...we can find some ditches for them to dig. Those above 115 can be the managers of our companies. Those with IQs above about 130 can join "think tanks" to decide what the other people should do. I think everything should be decided by your IQ score. The people with high IQs should not be asked to mingle with other people. This way we would have fewer people go insane. People with high IQs should just be shut-ins who shop at Wal-Mart at 2:00 A.M. on Sunday morning and never talk to anyone (except the "think tank" and their families) and should not have to work! (except at the "think tank") That's my thought of the day.

Time - gravity - space

Time is a man-made way to keep track of changes that happen around us. Time is an illusion. It sure seems real but time passes differently for all people. Why is it that in 2009 we do not understand time?

Space seems to have a close relationship with time. It's easy to understand. If you are on the earth looking at a distant star, you are seeing a different point in that star's life than someone on another planet light years from here looking at the same star because of the "time" it takes for the light to travel to your observation point. That's the easy part....I think we can all understand that. It gets complicated from there. Why does time pass differently on the surface of the earth than on a satellite orbiting the earth? It must be gravity, which is another thing we don't understand. It is amazing to me to know how little human kind knows. These are fundamental laws of the universe, which is another thing we don't understand. 

We (humans) have a lot to learn. With all this technology we think we know it all. We don't know a damn thing.

Tax thought

I find myself thinking about the idiots in Washington since it's tax season. If we all had to write a check at this time of year, there would be more people that cared about this issue. Instead, most of us have our taxes taken out of our checks each pay period and we have learned to live with it. There was a reason the founders of our country put in the constitution something about the government not being able to collect tax by withholding. It dumbs us down and they can take more money and get too big. They have become too big and they are out of control! The government should be there to provide money for local police, fire departments, roads, bridges, and schools. That's just the STATE government. The federal government should be there to make sure we are not invaded and that's about it. If these idiots keep spending money like they are....there will be revolts. Try stopping withholding, saving your money all year and write a check next April 15th to the federal government for the tax you owe and see if I'm wrong. 

With the economy the way it is, the federal government is about to SPEND one trillion or more of your money. Common sense tells me this is not right. This will mean higher tax forever or until people put an end to this madness. We are turning into France. The people in Washington need to ask themselves what any socialist country has ever contributed to the world. The problem is they don't care as long as they have power. If you take all the people's money by taxing them....you leave them no incentive to invent. We are moving the wrong way too fast.

People...

I have noticed that about 80% of people are stupid. Why is this? Were they not breast fed when they were babies? Did they all touch lead paint when they were kids? Do they all just not care? I don't think so. I think common sense is a gift like being able to play music. Most people don't have common sense. This is a concern. How are we supposed to keep progressing as a society with so many stupid people. 

Common sense tells you not to elect a guy as President of the U.S. who goes to a church where they teach that the U.S. sucks. It does not matter what else he does. That one thing is enough. To think that America is populated with one hundred million people (at least) who think this is okay is disturbing. There is something wrong in the brains of these people!

Look around at the people you interact with at work or school or church and tell me they are smart, normal people. About 15-20% that's about all you'll find. The more people you are around, the more pronounced the stupidity. If I was in charge, everybody would have to take an I.Q. test to even leave their houses.