Friday, June 17, 2011
Farewell
This was fun and a good warm up. But for now I will say farewell. New and better things to come...stay tuned...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Friday, March 18, 2011
Facebook Photo Feelings, Words, and Phrases
I was going through my Facebook photos today. And when I say going through them I mean all of them. The first Facebook photo in my album dates back to first semester of my sophomore year of college. That would be Fall 2005. Yup...6 years ago.
Girlfriends of the past. The old me. Then the new me. Then the old me and yet again another new me. If anything to this point it has proven my life to be cyclical.
I have decided to list the words that I felt and thought along with some phrases as I was looking through them. Give yours a look through...see how much you have changed.
Words: Sad, Happy, Regret, Aspire, Inspired, New, Old, Want, Miss, Grateful, Thankful, More, Unknowing, Hawkeyes, Friends, The Good ol' Days, Hello, Goodbye, Graduate, Party, No Tomorrow, Now, Family, Past, Present, Future?, Best Times of My Life.
If a picture is worth a thousand words and I have a bit over a thousand photos then I should have written a million words. But in my photos these are the words, phrases, and feelings that matter to me. So that saying can go climb a tree!
Girlfriends of the past. The old me. Then the new me. Then the old me and yet again another new me. If anything to this point it has proven my life to be cyclical.
I have decided to list the words that I felt and thought along with some phrases as I was looking through them. Give yours a look through...see how much you have changed.
Words: Sad, Happy, Regret, Aspire, Inspired, New, Old, Want, Miss, Grateful, Thankful, More, Unknowing, Hawkeyes, Friends, The Good ol' Days, Hello, Goodbye, Graduate, Party, No Tomorrow, Now, Family, Past, Present, Future?, Best Times of My Life.
If a picture is worth a thousand words and I have a bit over a thousand photos then I should have written a million words. But in my photos these are the words, phrases, and feelings that matter to me. So that saying can go climb a tree!
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Burps That Taste Like Lunch...Not Dinner
Okay ladies and gentlemen. For this one I am reaching out to you.
Why when you burp does it sometimes taste like a food that you had earlier in the day even if you have eaten since.
For example: You have a piece of cucumber involved in your lunch. Later that evening you have pasta with red sauce. While watching American Idol you burp. You are alone so it is loud...and awesome. Then you notice that it tastes like cucumber and not what you just ate.
Insert more examples...won't write them because they are endless.
Let me know what you find!
Why when you burp does it sometimes taste like a food that you had earlier in the day even if you have eaten since.
For example: You have a piece of cucumber involved in your lunch. Later that evening you have pasta with red sauce. While watching American Idol you burp. You are alone so it is loud...and awesome. Then you notice that it tastes like cucumber and not what you just ate.
Insert more examples...won't write them because they are endless.
Let me know what you find!
The Common Keyboard
Who in the hell decided and why are the keys on a keyboard arranged the way they are...QWERTY?
After some research I found that there are many theories. Can you believe that, theories about the keyboard. Ridiculous. But, there was an overwhelmingly popular theory. So lets go with that.
Back in the day the inventor of the typewriter (his name doesn't matter because this isn't about him) was having an issuing with jamming. You know how typewriter works. You strike a key and a hammer raises and strikes the paper. Here is what the problem was. People were getting to fast and the typewriter was jamming...a lot. So the inventor decided to take all of the most commonly used keys (back then) and moved them to the outside to make them harder to reach. This moron thought that it would prevent people from using the keys and frequently. How does that work? From the resulting stupidity you now have the most common QWERTY arrangement as the standard.
Are there other arrangements?
Yes. It is called Dvorak and it contradicts the mental instability of the the typewriter genius. How? By place the most commonly used keys on the home row. GENIUS! Except, we have been typing so long on the QWERTY arrangement and it is what is taught in schools that Dvorak has not proven to be faster. This is because you must learn a new arrangement. It has been tested and even someone who knows the Dvorak well is no faster than someone who know QWERTY equally well.
What does this mean...nothing. But I am WAY too lazy to learn Dvorak. Even the name sucks.
After some research I found that there are many theories. Can you believe that, theories about the keyboard. Ridiculous. But, there was an overwhelmingly popular theory. So lets go with that.
Back in the day the inventor of the typewriter (his name doesn't matter because this isn't about him) was having an issuing with jamming. You know how typewriter works. You strike a key and a hammer raises and strikes the paper. Here is what the problem was. People were getting to fast and the typewriter was jamming...a lot. So the inventor decided to take all of the most commonly used keys (back then) and moved them to the outside to make them harder to reach. This moron thought that it would prevent people from using the keys and frequently. How does that work? From the resulting stupidity you now have the most common QWERTY arrangement as the standard.
Are there other arrangements?
Yes. It is called Dvorak and it contradicts the mental instability of the the typewriter genius. How? By place the most commonly used keys on the home row. GENIUS! Except, we have been typing so long on the QWERTY arrangement and it is what is taught in schools that Dvorak has not proven to be faster. This is because you must learn a new arrangement. It has been tested and even someone who knows the Dvorak well is no faster than someone who know QWERTY equally well.
What does this mean...nothing. But I am WAY too lazy to learn Dvorak. Even the name sucks.
Water Towers
Before I lived in Colorado, where there are no water towers, I lived in the Chicagoland area...lots and lots of water towers. While driving home from my previous job the other day I began to wonder. "What do they do and how do they work?"
Arrived home, parked car, and headed directly to the world of endless information. Found this one rather easily. HowThingsWork is a fantastic website for this simple minded brain of mine. Here is what I found out.
What they do...or how they work...whatever?
Felt dumb when I got this part of my answer. They work based on gravity. Shocking I know. Basically water fills up the "tub" with a water pump from a city water line. Also think about the water tower on one pipeline. Easier to picture and more importantly easier for me to explain. When water is being filled by one end of the pipeline the other end is closed. Thus, the water stays in the "tub," also shocking. When the water in the tower is needed they open the closed in and it rests with gravity. That's pretty much the how without revealing the why.
Why do we have water towers?
In major metropolitan areas they have busy hours and slow hours for water consumption. Guess when the busiest time of the day is? I will tell you because you won't guess. In the morning. Once again...shocking. I know that I am using that word a lot, but when read in the write context you can imagine the look of disappointment on my face when I found out that this was a simple thing. Damn.
At night is when the water is pumped into the tower because there isn't a lot of demand for the water so they can turn attention to the tower. Once the tower is filled over night there will be ample amounts of water for everyone to make sure that working around them for the day won't be an awful experience. The tower can't be filled while during high demand hours because then no one would have water...well not no one, but not everyone. The city without the water towers would also have the same problem...not enough water.
Simple enough I know. But then I moved to the Denver area. MAJOR metropolitan...NO water towers. Water towers attacked again. Went home and got on the world wide web. Guess what folks...Colorado has mountains and...they are AWESOME! You should check them out. Anyway to sum it up quickly water towers buried in foothills...gravity runs them downhill to residents.
Arrived home, parked car, and headed directly to the world of endless information. Found this one rather easily. HowThingsWork is a fantastic website for this simple minded brain of mine. Here is what I found out.
What they do...or how they work...whatever?
Felt dumb when I got this part of my answer. They work based on gravity. Shocking I know. Basically water fills up the "tub" with a water pump from a city water line. Also think about the water tower on one pipeline. Easier to picture and more importantly easier for me to explain. When water is being filled by one end of the pipeline the other end is closed. Thus, the water stays in the "tub," also shocking. When the water in the tower is needed they open the closed in and it rests with gravity. That's pretty much the how without revealing the why.
Why do we have water towers?
In major metropolitan areas they have busy hours and slow hours for water consumption. Guess when the busiest time of the day is? I will tell you because you won't guess. In the morning. Once again...shocking. I know that I am using that word a lot, but when read in the write context you can imagine the look of disappointment on my face when I found out that this was a simple thing. Damn.
At night is when the water is pumped into the tower because there isn't a lot of demand for the water so they can turn attention to the tower. Once the tower is filled over night there will be ample amounts of water for everyone to make sure that working around them for the day won't be an awful experience. The tower can't be filled while during high demand hours because then no one would have water...well not no one, but not everyone. The city without the water towers would also have the same problem...not enough water.
Simple enough I know. But then I moved to the Denver area. MAJOR metropolitan...NO water towers. Water towers attacked again. Went home and got on the world wide web. Guess what folks...Colorado has mountains and...they are AWESOME! You should check them out. Anyway to sum it up quickly water towers buried in foothills...gravity runs them downhill to residents.
Welcome...to me?
So I am giving this thing a shot. Not too sure what the content will be. But for starters it will be about my mid-day distractions that leave me paralyzed to move on until I have an answer. I call these moments my "light bulb moments." The name doesn't really make sense because they aren't ideas that I have. But what's in a name...Shakespeare...classic. The look on my face in these moments is kind of like when you call to a dog and they turn their head and lift their eyebrows up (adorable). When this occurs in my life it means that I have come across something that seems so simple yet I don't know how it works or why it is the way it is.
I doubt I can be too entertaining. I am first and foremost not a blog reader and not a writer. But I have decided that I need to share these things. Not for you, but for me. This way I can feel as if I have moved on...until the next "light bulb moment."
So while I go through my day working, or driving, or even hanging out with friends, I seem to find myself occasionally Under the Table and Dreaming. And now if you stumble upon this, you can join me under there.
I doubt I can be too entertaining. I am first and foremost not a blog reader and not a writer. But I have decided that I need to share these things. Not for you, but for me. This way I can feel as if I have moved on...until the next "light bulb moment."
So while I go through my day working, or driving, or even hanging out with friends, I seem to find myself occasionally Under the Table and Dreaming. And now if you stumble upon this, you can join me under there.
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