To all you "Me Monsters"

The other day I was sitting in my macroeconomics class which is at 8:00am. Everything was starting to get a bit fuzzy because it's early in the morning and the teacher was droning on about Buehler or something. Well he starts asking us questions about the economy and most of which are rhetorical. A simply yes or no or even a simply nod will do but in walks classmate X. I don't know classmate X's name so we will call him Charly. I hear the teacher ask a question while at the very same time Charly opens the door and starts yelling the answer, which wasn't correct, and then proceeds to talk over the teacher as he takes off his backpack. I was so shocked by the fact that he knew an answer before the door was even all the way open was as though I was sitting in a Broadway play and suddenly the secret lover appears behind you in the aisleway singing his head off at his love on stage! Well the class sighed and didn't think anything of it until the class following that one where the teacher asked another question and Charly bursts into the classroom blurting out another answer, partially correct. I can see the teacher getting annoyed, but the whole class just bursts out laughing and Charly flatly says, "He always asks questions I can answer." We were all laughing at the fact that he had the brass to draw attention to his noisy late entrance twice in a row by interupting and yelling! It so looked like they were rehearsing Charly's entrance into class again and again. I hope Charly does it agian i always need a wake up in Macroeconomics.

Dedicated to Lyndon & Missy

This one is for Lyndon and Missy, but mostly Missy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8ln6vcUrMA&feature=related

Halloween!

I must warn you, your head may explode from awesomeness! I can actually transform! Enjoy.

Wheeled back packs

Backpacks with wheels have to be the worst invention in the history of the world! I hate them!

Let me tell you why... Today I was trying to get to my class. The halls here are narrow and there are a lot of people, so when the brief opportunity to swing around someone who is walking like a zombie and drinking a red bull comes up and I will take it. Unfortunately they happen to be towing their backpack behind them. It's is the equivalent of driving down an Africa highway passing a semi with a head wind and a truck is coming your way. Either the opening has to be huge or you have to fall back behind the semi and follow Mr. putt-putt in front of you for hours. Grrrrr.

Secondly, fat people should not carry these; they make them look even lazier then before.

Thirdly, when you get to an area of walking and everyone is cris-crossing in the courtyard, you have to pick your way through. You’re doing fine until you wait for the person in front of you to move left and you begin to walk expecting a normal person to be wearing their backpack. No; insead you endo over their trailing backpack which extends about five yards behind them. “Sorry didn’t see your maimed attempt to carry your own bag.”

Fourthly, they are like a dog who injures its legs and has to now wheel itself around the yard chasing birds. Backpacks go on your back. Luggage goes in the airport, get it strait people!

Fifthly, if you’re a teacher do not buy one of these, it make you look like you couldn’t figure out how to pick up a bag and put it on your back. Bad for first impressions…

Please don’t ever buy a backpack with wheels! Please!

I have discovered the reason a yawn is contagious!

The other day I was at work. For you who don't know I drive around a forklift most of the day which is often prety brain-less. In in effort to force my mind to work, I think! Novel idea I know. Sometime, not often though, I have a break through!

Yawning. Why do we yawn? I was humming along on my forklift and I realized yawning is so that we can stay awake. Of course the real reason is because our brain wants more oxygen, but the reason it wants more is because it wants to stay awake. Brains can be quite greedy.

What other action does your body take that elivates your oxygen to greedy brain ratio? Fear.
When I frighten someone, they will gasp, and suck in large volumes of air. All that air is for energy to either beat me up or run away from me. Thus yawning and gasping acomplish the same thing. It makes you more awake then you use to be.

The reason yawning is contagious is because fear is contagious. When someone is scared there is a natural reation within other people to be scared also. Something of a herd reation. When there is danger all the birds fly away. Because others saw the need to elevate there awareness I will too. Don't worry it's natural, and that is why a yawn is contagious. Someone saw fit to elevate their level of awareness and so I will also...(yawn)...elevate my awareness too.

The purpose of a congressman

Q: Why did the founding fathers give us congressman/women?
A: So they could go to Washington and vote for the people. Because the farmer wasn't going to travel all the way to Washington to vote. Time wise it wouldn't have worked.

Q: Since we now have the internet and can "be in Washington" to cast our vote, should we still allow a few persuadable people vote for things we don't want?
A: No.

I'm not trying to overthrow the Government here, I'm just stating the facts of why congressperson where sent there in the first place and why we should not let them lull us into destruction. We can vote for our own laws. Each voice could be heard. Take the government away from the few and give it back to the people.

Thoughts...anyone...