Everyone has these certain perceptions of themselves. Imaginations, I guess you would call them...fantasies. My metaphysics teacher--Dr. Jim Fahey talks about being a conscious person as being an actor in a play. Self-Consciousness on the other hand is like being an actor in a play but being able to envision yourself on stage as an observer in the audience. It requires being aware of oneself. This is the gift of self-consciousness--the ability to have an idea of yourself--if even far-fetched! These self-perceptions make people seem a lot cooler in their minds than they really are. I guess the kids with the best imaginations evolve into these people...And everyone--myself included--has this cool not-quite alter ego, but this idea of who they wish they were. Personally I always kind of wanted to be the huge, tough guy, which, for someone short like me only serves to make me more of a grumpy-looking leprechaun!
When I travel I like to play games with myself (not dirty ones you perverts) wherein I make up a character to pretend I am for the day. For example, at airports, bus trips, etc. where I may or may not end up talking to complete strangers I make up new situations and stuff and act my way through them. Yes I may be crazy, but don't even pretend that this doesn't sound like fun.
Today I remembered my only car accident--not even an accident, a fender bender. The other vehicle was a family friend who had pulled into our driveway and parked behind my mom's suburban. The lady was driving a suburban of her own--I call it the EGGmobile because the first three characters of the license plate are EGG. I don't know how I managed to back up into it--its a freaking suburban just sitting there in the driveway. It MUST have had some super top secret experimental active camouflage.
The word from DHMC is that Josh has been outfitted with a sweet helmet to protect him for when he starts walking around (this is on the DL though, shhhh! ;) ). Hopefully its awesome and powerrangers-ey, or perhaps made of steel so he could be a superhero that headbutts criminals who he fights at nights while the hospital staff is out. THAT will be my next comic methinks!
Workouts have been gettign increasingly more difficult due to my sickness. I'm doing a rest-pause routine wherein I do maybe 3 sets with a weight that I can do around 10 reps with--I do as many as I an until I fail, wait 20 seconds, do as many as I can again (maybe 5) and then 20 more seconds, and do it again for about 2. That is one set. The first phase of the set I can do okay but then I get way fatigued due to the hypercold Sarah gave me (jerk!) and I start doing poor for phases two and three.
At the very beginning of 2012 there is a scene with a solar neutrino experiment where the solution boils. Explanation: the sun ejects large amounts of particles called neutrinos each second due to fusion reactions. These neutrinos are so small and fast moving that their path length (the average length that they travel before interacting with something) is dependent on how dense the material they travel through is (for obvious reasons). If these neutrinos were traveling through a medium as dense as the sun's core, their path length would be 3 light years or 3.1038479*10^(14) football fields. In order to detect these neutrinos in earth, a vat of chlorine solution is held deep within the earth free from outside influences. Whenever a neutrino reacts with the solution, a chlorine atom transforms into a radioactive isotope of Argon so measuring the amount of Argon present in the solution after time tells you the change in the rate of neutrino reactions. However, due to the huge path length of the neutrinos, the experiment will result in only one or two reactions per month under normal conditions. In 2012, the neutrino detection chamber's chlorine solution is seen to be boiling. The actors explain that this is because there are so many neutrinos being emitted that the solution is reacting violently. I want everyone to know how ridiculous this is--only if the entire mass of the sun were made into neutrinos instantly and shot into that detector would something like that occur. Furthermore, if that many neutrinos were being emitted and reacting, wouldn't these cosmic rays have already fried all life on the planet? I'm pretty sure that the cosmic rays that that feigned experiment call for would have already burned Earth to a crisp. That's not the only scientific problem I had with the movie too...
Trust me, if you know any science, the movie will not be enjoyable.
I found this cool though--here's a video of a guy from IGN picking on Final Fantasy. I've been trying to say this for years!
Stay sunny dudes! And pardon me for the sciencey tangent.
"Silence and Valor"
-B
Hahaha, but what about super-Cusack?? Isn't he worth it? He can hold his breath for 12 minutes!
ReplyDeleteAnd you're right, definitely a hypercold.