Friday, September 30, 2005

Do people who have lost memories due to brain damage, like Alzheimers, recover them in the afterlife?

Can this case be used to debate that there is no afterlife?

Or can this case be used to debate that the afterlife is not tied to one individual but to a greater force that is the sum of the individual life forces.

Thursday, September 29, 2005

I just realized that we all may be able to improve gas mileage by NOT filling up our tanks.

Gas weighs about 6 lbs per gallon.

If i filled up my 14 gallon tank i'd be initially lugging about 84lbs of extra weight.

Since I "average" about 25 miles to the gallon, I can travel 350 miles on a full tank.

My drive to work and back home is about 10 miles each day, which means i only need to fill up every 35 days.

However, what if i only filled up with just enough gas to drive for the week.

At my current estimated gas mileage of 25miles/gallon i would only need to carry about 3 gallons of gas to get me thru the 70 miles a week.

This means i only need to lug around an initial weight of 18 pounds of gas each week.

My car would be lighter and i may see a better improvement in gas mileage.

Maybe I only need 2 gallons of gas per week?!

The downsides would be that i'd have to stop at a gas station each weekend, and that gas prices might be higher which may cost me more money.

But the point of this observation is how to improve on gas mileage....NOT how to save on gas costs.

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Today i rediscovered why I dislike moving clothes dryers.

For some reason people love to install these things with the shortest accordian like vent hoses.

So when one moves the dryer the hose becomes disconnected and it's impossible to put back on.

Today I got behind the dryer and pulled it towards me as close as possible in order to attach the short vent hose.

However, if i was successful i'd have to climb over the dryer with my 225lb weight and hope i didn't buckle the top of the dryer.

30 sweaty minutes later, the end of the vent hose became shredded and it was not going to attach to the dryer.

So for those of you in similar situations just go to Home Depot and buy a really long hose.

It'll save you alot of time and frustration.

Monday, September 26, 2005

When I first heard about blogging and what people were paying to get blog sites built i was rolling my eyes.

I'm vice president of technology for an entertainment company in hollywood and understand blogging technology very well.

It is nothing more than a simple website with a backend database.

It cracks me up when i hear of people spending up to $150,000 to have their weBLOGging sites built for them.

Most people aren't aware of free blogging sites such as blogger.com.

So hopefully this is the first of my many observations in life i hope to share with everyone.