Jaffe Juice

I thought it would be fitting to post a blog about this.. for who if you don't know is a fairly popular blogger.
Ok, so Jaffe gives a good lecture.. but he is a contradiction to his very own message. Which is most interesting because that message he is contradicting is in fact to not be inconsistent, and to build a dialog. After two hours of good showmanship and ideas try getting through to him. You'll get an experience worse than apple gives out. Ask him a question and he'll rattle off some form response saved away in his brain. A response that he has no doubt refined but not changed much over his period of lecturing. Your opinions fall on the deaf ears similar to companies that only care if you have some position or role to dictate the worth of your message.

~~ Shape up Jaffe, because it could be
it could be genuine trust

You may need to lie to yourself in order to succeed

Entailed are just some tidbits I heard on Npr a little earlier today. A group of people have been running tests conjunctively relating to self recognition and white matter. It seems a good number of people put alone in a room will not recognize their own voice among a number of other voices placed throughout the space. The voice says 'come over here,' and while these people may not consciously realize it's their voice, their body still reacts by sweating and through electrical activity. So those are two disparate perceptions contained in one person.

A correlation is drawn between this and lying. Another researcher found that compulsive liars tend to have 30% more white matter in their brains. White matter simply put, being the substance that connects information among itself. Thus their ability to have immediate recall in a situation is heightened. It is not certain whether this is a product of lying, or a genetic predisposition. At the age of 2 most humans shoot up in white matter growth, gaining to ability to lie.

With these findings in mind another group of researchers formulated a number of questions that can be considered fairly universally true of homosapiens. For example, have you ever enjoyed your bowel movements? Have you ever worried about being sexually inadequate? Have you ever fantasized about being raped or raping someone?! Ever considered killing yourself? One may disagree with a few of the questions, but in my opinion the majority were something people probably would have thought about at least once. These questions were asked of a range of people. One striking group was a team of swimmers, which had players with very similar physical abilities. The striking conclusion was that the players who performed the best and most consistently were the ones who also answered no across the board on these questions. Suggesting that in order to function successfully under many social environments it helps to lie to yourself. This turned out to be true in the business world and other areas as well. It was also suggested that these 'no' answerers were also happier.. but I assume they were asked how happy they were, and that could be factored into the unclear self image as well. This is a somewhat more subjective area than success I realize.

So, overall it seems if you let your conscious mind relax and structure things the way it likes, and let your subconscious mind take care of the 'truths,' you may be a faster swimmer, bigger money earner, and bigger progenitor. I also suggest that it is not some line between these two polar people, but rather a majority of people living somewhere in the middle.... and to go a little eastern on you I say we should unify the east and west not live in the middle. The ego and the self.

A little look at minnesota

Minnesota and the great lakes have 20% of the worlds fresh water resources.  Half of that is contained in lake superior.  A lake which has an average temperature of 40 degrees F, which keeps the surrounding area cool in the summer and warmer in the winter.  This is a huge positive, but at the same time the largest oil pipeline in the US is running under MN soil.  3m is by far the largest polluter of this state, and ranked in the nation.  Not to mention pfoa's and pvc's being found in newborns and even polar bears.  They are the leading powdered resin producer.  These are all bio-accumulants, which means they do not process through organic systems similarly to asbestos and fiber glass.

(refer : http://www.healthybuilding.net/news/060224pfoa.html

http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/projects/2005/02/toxictraces/timeline.shtml) 

next step writing books and journalism investigation related to Frank Herbert

http://www.writersdigest.com/writingprompts.asp

China cleans up one-child slogans (from bbc)

It gave examples of "low quality" slogans posted on rural banners or the internet: "Raise fewer babies but more piggies", "Houses toppled, cows confiscated, if abortion demand rejected" and "One more baby means one more tomb."

Among the new slogans recommended are "The mother earth is too tired to sustain more children" and "Both boys and girls are parents' hearts."

China's 28-year-old family planning policy limits most urban couples to just one child and allows some families in the countryside to have a second child if their first is a girl.

Critics say it has led to forced abortions, sterilizations and a dangerously imbalanced sex ratio due to a traditional preference for male heirs, which has prompted some families to abort female foetuses in the hope of getting boys.

China has the largest population in the world - 1.3bn in 2005 - and says its policies have helped limit its growth rate.

Thai cops punished by Hello KittyHello Kitty, in handbag form
The Hello Kitty cartoon character is known across AsiaPolice chiefs in the Thai capital, Bangkok, have come up with a new way of punishing officers who break the rules - an eye-catching Hello Kitty armband.The armband is large, bright pink and has a Hello Kitty motif with two hearts embroidered on it.From today, officers who are late, park in the wrong place or commit other minor transgressions will have to wear it for several days.The armband is designed to shame the wearer, police officials said."This is to help build discipline. We should not let small offences go unnoticed," Police Colonel Pongpat Chayapan told Reuters news agency."Guilty officers will be made to wear the armbands in the office for a few days, with instructions not to disclose their offences. Let people guess what they have done," he said.Further offences would be dealt with using a more traditional disciplinary panel, he said.The cartoon character Hello Kitty was first introduced by Japanese company Sanrio in 1974.The cute round-faced cat has become an Asia-wide marketing phenomenon, with Hello Kitty products such as stationery, hair accessories and kitchen appliances available across the region.

of these things I give freely

destiny keeps leaving little notes with shaky hand writing
she's been kidnapped, locked in a basement somewhere
but I still feel her everywhere
making these things I do feel lonely
making them feel beautiful
making me write little notes everyday

a quote

"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way, and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theatre."

- Frank Zappa, 1977

Becoming a Freethinker and a Scientist *Einstein*

One can refer to this from the perspective of any life searching activity

Becoming a Freethinker and a Scientist
By Albert Einstein

Taken from:
Albert Einstein's Autobiographical Notes
Open Court Publishing Company,
LaSalle and Chicago, Illinois, 1979. pp 3-5.


When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase most men restlessly through life. Moreover, I soon discovered the cruelty of that chase, which in those years was much more carefully covered up by hypocrisy and glittering words than is the case today. By the mere existence of his stomach everyone was condemned to participate in that chase. The stomach might well be satisfied by such participation, but not man insofar as he is a thinking and feeling being.

As the first way out there was religion, which is implanted into every child by way of the traditional education-machine. Thus I came - though the child of entirely irreligious (Jewish) parents - to a deep religiousness, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of twelve. Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression. Mistrust of every kind of authority grew out of this experience, a skeptical attitude toward the convictions that were alive in any specific social environment-an attitude that has never again left me, even though, later on, it has been tempered by a better insight into the causal connections.

It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which was thus lost, was a first attempt to free myself from the chains of the "merely personal," from an existence dominated by wishes, hopes, and primitive feelings. Out yonder there was this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking. The contemplation of this world beckoned as a liberation, and I soon noticed that many a man whom I had learned to esteem and to admire had found inner freedom and security in its pursuit. The mental grasp of this extra-personal world within the frame of our capabilities presented itself to my mind, half consciously, half unconsciously, as a supreme goal. Similarly motivated men of the present and of the past, as well as the insights they had achieved, were the friends who could not be lost. The road to this paradise was not as comfortable and alluring as the road to the religious paradise; but it has shown itself reliable, and I have never regretted having chosen it.

Tycho to start

Not expecting too much. Heavy handed dreams, like those of the past. Juggling. Drink quick and believe in your future. Beliefs ever changing, always present. Warmth of a beautiful feline queen in your lap. The intriquicies of fur radiating up along the bridge between her nose and furrowed neck. The spell is broken and she's clawing up the canvas, scratching open the illusory insulation. Still love. Still thorough and williaming. Still kitchy grins. Still standing up.
She's gone and I am alone in my room clicking away. A distant fall sunlight so still. Left with my music, campfire smell on my jacket, twisted spine, desires still cooking over varnished and painted wood of childrens bed lofts.