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Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
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Does the amount of food in your refrigerator matter in how much it runs? Does an empty fridge use less energy because there's nothing in it to cool? I guess you can take that further and say does the contents of the fridge make a difference. Does a fridge full of liquids require more energy than a fridge full of fruit? I guess it all comes down to how much energy does it take to cool air...If I were to make a prediction, i would say a vacuous space would take more energy because a solid or liquid would act as an insulator...I googled, but couldn't find anything...
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here's something nice and friendly
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Public enemy or one of those early 90s gangster rap groups should have done a song called 'kuf'd from behind' and talked about cops and sexual assault. I don't know if the FCC would catch on to the pun of 'kuf'd' or not. I thought about this on my run today. Welcome to the inner workings of my brain; scary, isn't it?
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Posted by sixf00t4 on Monday, August 18, 2008 @ 19:21:50 EDT (63 reads)
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I read in a book a while back, forget what it was, that to catch raccoons, all you have to do is stick something shiny in a log that won't come out easily, and when a raccoon sees it, it will not let it go if it can't get it out of the hole. Something similar happened today on my walk to work today that was hilarious, to me at least. Someone had dropped a ziplock bag of cashews or something on the sidewalk and a bird was pulling and pecking away at it. It was really showing signs of desperation in its efforts. I was picturing the monkey banging on something it couldn't figure out. I'd almost want to do this for entertainment purposes when I get bored. Would that be animal abuse?
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Posted by sixf00t4 on Thursday, July 24, 2008 @ 17:30:59 EDT (139 reads)
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So I'm taking a shower, and I'm doing my Stevie Wonder impression facing the water, and I wonder where I learned that behavior. I mean, I don't think I was ever told how to take a shower. Sure, we all were washed in the tub growing up, sometimes with others, but when we got old enough to take a shower, you were just pointed in the right direction, told how to engage the shower head, and left to it. Weird. I think that's why so many people have so many different ways of taking showers. Some people like "me time" in the shower and just hang out and sing and do whatever you want to because you're naked and no one is around. Some people just want to get in and out for those same reasons; you're naked and no one is around. There's certainly a ritual that goes into taking showers too, that just develops like a Pavlovian response. Water falling on my head -- grab the shampoo. It's all taboo too, isn't it? You can't ask someone what they do in the shower in normal dinner conversation. You can ask someone what their morning routine is, or their normal route to work, or even the way they like their ice-cream, but shower time is private time. I'm not saying I'm wanting to ask people the question, just that there are tons of variations that include radios, brushing teeth, rinsing and repeating, duration, and so much more, that really gives some insight into the personality of a person, but no one talks about it.
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Posted by sixf00t4 on Monday, July 21, 2008 @ 19:44:14 EDT (155 reads)
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A question of morals: Should I be the enabler?
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So the lot across from your house is over grown with weeds and you decide to clean it up. You get out your tools and get to work. A few minutes later, a guy walks by and starts to talk to you by saying things like, "So you got tired of it looking bad?" and then he starts to help you out by pulling weeds for you. Then another gent strolls by, your new friend and him walk about 30 feet away from you, huddle close to one another, and you see what looks to be an exchange of something. You do not know what was exchanged, but their hands certainly met with more than a hand shake. Then your new friend comes back and helps you out by using your weed whacker and doing a great job. You take a break, offer him some water, and he offers some conversation about how he likes just to help people and pick up a few bucks here and there. He says the barber down the street pays him $20 to pick up trash from the lot next to him. So you know he's expecting money now. After an hour or maybe a little more, you're all done. What you thought might be an all day effort was just completed thanks your new friend. Now, do you pay him for his work? Do you give him a talk about drugs? Do you offer to help him if he needs it?
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Some girls love their cats more than their boyfriend
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Do you ever think there's been a situation where someone had to chose to date someone with the same name as their pet? Like, if I had a dog named Jessica...I'd be pretty hesitant to ever dating a girl named Jessica...really, I think she'd feel the same about me. Right?
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With video cameras getting smaller and smaller, I'd like to see a headband with cameras sewn into it on the front, back, and both sides. This headband would be worn by athletes like in the NBA. It'd be great to get that first person point of view on things like fast breaks or dunks, or even as reviews on close calls to see what the player saw. We pay major athletes and idolize enough already, why not throw a camera on them to get the fans even closer?
...which would be the next step...once you have 360 camera on a player, you can design a helmet or special screen for people to watch through and feel like they ARE the player. If enough cameras are on and you can map their locations to a relation field, you'll even be able to do free roam viewing, so that you can be watching the game as if you're standing on the court, you'd just be jumping to the camera that has your current view in it.
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Had this idea for a story during the night, when i was partially dreaming, partially awake, which really makes the best setting for cognitive creativity. Your mind has the boundaries of normal thought and imagination removed, but your logic is present enough to keep it all in order. Anyway, I digress.
The main character is the narrator, even though I criticize that so often, it must be done. He's a ~30 something guy, and everything around him, life as he knows it is in reverse. Everyone and everything is moving chronologically and silently backwards. It's as if someone hit the rewind button on his life, but he's not there. It wasn't always like this, he lead a normal life, up until something traumatic happened, like his wife dying while giving birth. So as his life is moving in reverse, if he interacts with life to change it, he gets to participate in "forward life" again. So, he likes to hang out at morgues, funeral homes, and read the newspaper, to see what happened, and then he can go change it. As an less dramatic example, and maybe how he finds out this ability, he's walking down the street, sees a girl trip over the leash of a guy walking his dog, so as everything is moving backwards, he stops to pet the dog and delays the owner from tripping the girl, and all of a sudden, it's forward life, and he's talking to the owner and maybe even he makes a comment that the girl hears like, "These dogs are so excited! You better hold them back before the end of tripping these beautiful women walk by."
So he becomes a superhero of sorts, but he's not getting any recognition because he's alone. So, pulling in "Early edition" (remember that TV show) and maybe even a Quantum Leap (since he's zapped back to reverse life) story possibilities, but the circumstances are unique. But there's a lot you can do with that set up, add some humor with him liking to just sit at home sometimes and watch movies in fast forward. You can throw in some religion with him asking what his purpose is, is he supposed to be saving lives, did he make 1 mistake and he's getting a redo, it's just taking a lot of time to get there? And then what happens when he reaches his own birth? He'll be aging like normal. I have a few ideas, but obviously I can't give them out here...
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Posted by sixf00t4 on Saturday, May 10, 2008 @ 10:34:06 EDT (440 reads)
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Debt cannot transfer to anyone but a spouse, correct? The way it worked when my dad died was that those that were owed money from my dad could come after his assets, such as his house, by placing a lien on the property. So what happens when someone is single and has huge amounts of debt, but no assets? I'm just trying to see if there is a flaw in the systtem to abuse, and it would seem that a smart dying person would by all kinds of gifts and non titled/deeded items for people on credit cards, selling all their assets and giving that money away too, and there's nothing creditors can do about it. Another situation would be the value in dead people's credit cards. Maybe it's a little too dimented for some to contemplate, but I'm surprised more old folks aren't held captive in their houses, a few online orders made and shipped to their house in their names, and then the robbers leave untraced. right? This isn't common, right? Even some crooked in house nurses could be doing this with ease.
I dunno, I'm just thinking ahead, really. I'd love to max out credit cards a few days before I die and give the stuff away to charities and such and no one has to pay for it.
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Posted by sixf00t4 on Tuesday, May 06, 2008 @ 15:10:49 EDT (429 reads)
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The little things you do.
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I've always been taciturn, but usually that's because I'm too busy watching any analyzing. Sometimes I get a kick out the little things that people do, not because they need to or even want to, but because they're conditioned to do so.
when people sneeze, perfect strangers will still say a variation of "God bless you." From what research I remember, this has roots back into Egyptian cultures when they believed the soul escaped from the nose after death. This is why the Sphinx has it's nose broken off; grave robbers would break the nose so that demons and spirits could not come out and haunt them. So saying "God bless you" seems like a polite thing to say, but it just seems like something so strange to do.
The camera of the yesterday was based on expensive and limited film cartridges. People had to carry rolls of film, and if someone walked infront of your shot as you took a picture, they just wasted a picture, and if it was the last picture on the roll, you had to change it out, wasting precious time. With digital cameras, that are so quick and easy to use, cameras are able to hold thousands of photos, and if you mess a shot up, just take it again. So many people still act like they killed my cat if they walked infront of my shot. It's cool, we live in an age of technological innovation! It should still be considered rude to walk infront of a camera, but don't worry about throwing your back out trying to duck below the shot.
Chivalry in the workplace just doesn't work. Do men really need to let the lady in the elevator first? that leaves you in front of them and if they get off before you, they have to fight around you. That's stupid. How about we all just get on the elevator and be on our way? At the end of the day, let's just get off the blooming thing too! The door will not close on me, so you don't need to hold it awkwardly as I walk out.
Sometimes people need tradition for the sake of tradition, or something familiar. It's a little unnerving at times.
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Posted by sixf00t4 on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 @ 14:10:34 EDT (403 reads)
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