A MarketPlace of Ideas

Yikes yet another effect of global warming. This hoax in retreat is getting desperate now that global temperatures are diminishing. You might ask don’t you know its cooling now because its warming. er ….was that its warming now because its cooling ? no no no no both!  Anyway get out your short cheerleader skirt and let your pom poms hang down if you believe in the farce!

Ok now I can see how this story got started:

Editor: I need a global warming story pronto!

Writer: Damn…I’m about out! We’ve been beating this byline to death….

Editor: Have it on my desk in one hour.

Writer(to self): Where the hell did I put the random story dartboard?! Ah there it is. Everybody stand clear….throwing 3…2….1 NOW! Results? Health issues / Obesity. Damn this is going to be really obtuse story. Oh well at least the obtuse obese storyline has some onomatopoeia about it. What is onomatopoeia anyway?! Later on that I have to get to work. mmmm Obesity. mmmm Global Warming… Ok yeah. Fatasses eat alot. Then they fart. Methane is much more potent as a greenhouse gas than CO2. Yeah that’s the ticket!

Later that day in the editors office:

Editor: mmmm Obesity induced Global Warming……We need a new crisis fast.

Anyway the idea that obesity contributes to global warming is about the only one of the stories in circulation I believe. Have you ever seen a fat person sweat ?

Moral of the story ? Don’t be obeast.

When I think of John McCain the last thing I think of is hard on.  Although the idea of John McCain being cornered and cornholed is amusing.

Let me make one thing perfectly clear.

   John McCain hugging a great big imaginary nut

If you have ever done any amount of selling on ebay you know they can be a pain.

If you have ever sold anything on Craigslist you know how good it is as a tool.  It does not realize the full market value of many things but it doesn’t cost much ( free for the most part ).

In the dealings with Craigslist ebay is crying foul because they are not going to get their way.  They functionally hate Craigslist because ebay needs to be a monopoly to not fear getting up every morning.  Their costs are simply too much. 

For a person actively doing business through ebay they effectively skim 10’s of percent off of the profit.  Imagine you are buying something for 80$ and selling for 100$.  Ebay tends to take about 5% minimum with Paypal included.  That means they take 5$ on your 100$ sale.  But that is 25% of your profit !!

Ebay is a dead man walking and that is why they are backing up their position with Kijiji or however you spell that site.   They need a model for the inevitable time when their revenue model falls flat on its stony nose!

Craig Newmark is a commy but I still like him.  In this case the commy is acting out like a capitalist.  He owns the majority of the company.  Tough luck ebay.  I’m sure you’ve dicked more than the price you paid for your CL stock out of us poor users.  You know…those times you cancel auctions because of this or that rule ….like if a person posts a competing payment scheme or you only want to accept wire transfers and DON’T refund listing costs or the time involved in the listing! ( when they do this the listing is fully erased…..you have to start from scratch.)

Remember the fainting goats? You know the woman supposedly fainting because Mr Obama is so hot? Obviously a fake.  Mr Big Ears is no Paul Newman.

There are hints of things to come.  Already we are hearing the canard that white folks are just a bunch of racists who won’t vote for him.   I would if he was had Clarence Thomas’ political views and obvious intellectual heft.  But he does not.   Expect to see the MSM attempt to write a script where white people are guilted into voting for Obama.

I would love to see a black man elected president so I never have to hear another tale of racial woe is me.  We all have problems and no one wants to listen to cry babies. 

But you should not be “guilted” into voting for anyone.   The results are bad enough the normal way.

I just finished watching a video presentation by Stephanie Wehner on Quantum Entanglement.

Stephanie has a very nice voice and is easy on the eyes.   I wish more women were like her.  With Pamela Anderson when the money runs out I’m sure she does too.  With Stephanie when the money runs out you can sit at home quantum entangled with her.

That sweet voice of hers makes me melt.  Best of all in the photo I absconded with suggests a sense of humor.  I would like to show her my qubits. 

This is Rita’s Village on a cloudy day.  I am not gay.

The first time I stayed here it was all guys.  The nice thing about all guys is that when they want to pursue a woman they LEAVE.  The flip side of that is that if you have all women in the place and you are the only guy what is going to happen?  

…….Here’s a clue: There are going to be a bunch of dumbass guys hanging around all hours thinking if they wait long enough they will get some pussy.  Generally the dynamic is the guy goes to the girls house.   On top of that when women as a rule are not really as mentally active as men. Thus they tend to not be as funny or entertaining to be around.  With a girlfriend if she gets too boring you can leave and go home right?  Well in this case they’re boring and I’m not even having sex with them but where do I retreat?  There is no escaping insipid visitors in this situation.  They are friendly but have the intellect of 

1- physical education teachers  — 30%

2- physical therapists — 20%

3- tourism majors — 30% yes its actually a major….you can major in fucking off. 

4- architecture — 5% - but its not american style architecture education that grinds you to a pulp so these do not have to be highly unique people as I am accustomed to in the USA

5- 15% unknown –  balance unknown major

 They’re not Brasileiras so they just are not as pretty as the local fair.  And what are the odds you meet a girl out of only 8 that you have real chemistry with?  Pretty low all things considered unless you just want a quickly.  But quicklys are not for me in this setting. It could get ugly fast and where do you escape to?! 

As for security at least with guys you’re able to get to know them and understand the security risk. With girls around you’ll have all sorts of blokes showing up and there is likely to be a new face in the crowd that you have no idea who they are.

I know this might sound a little harsh but this blog is all about dynamics of human behavior if nothing else.  I don’t pull punches in this sort of writing. The information is meant to be useful.  Not kind.

So thus yes you can have 8 female neighbors and have it be a very nonoptimal situation even if you are hetero. 

How about you? Are you gay yet?

When doing hard core high testosterone engineering I learned something about my machine.  Designing cutting edge RF circuit cards was a highly constrained exercise in the use of imagination for creativity.

Highly constrained creativity is the type Richard Feynman talked about when he talked about creativity and physics.  He liked it more because it was creativity and imagination you could actually DO something with other than write yet another BS filled science fiction movie with John Travolta in alien drag.

Imagine you are working on a highly constrained creativity project.  You start packing your head full of all the constraints.  For example you want to design a new car.  The constraints might be:

 1- have 4 wheels

 2- get 200 miles per gallon

 3- plug in hybrid electric

 4- use gasoline, alcohol 

 5- go 200 miles per hour

What I discovered was that if you pack your head full of all the information about a design task for 3 days straight on the 3rd day is when you start to get the really good ideas.  Up till then the results of your constraints and your imagination are not fully cooked.

You own and business and you want to encourage gym usage on the part of your employees.  What is the optimum method?  Do you pay the total cost of the membership?

The smartest solution is how the owner of EFDATA Bob Fitting handled gym memberships. Gym memberships were subsidized but not free. His explanation was if its free EVERYBODY signs up and they 1 in 10 uses what his company paid for.

His solution? It was to charge a nominal fee large enough that you had to really WANT to use the membership or it made no sense. It was like 20 bucks a month. Just enough to make them make a decision.

This is a flip side view of the same idea that people do not respect things they get for a low cost.  For example if you are too nice unless the person(s) you are dealing with are very mature and have alot of experience dealing with people you are bound to get short shrift.  Even then it pays to toughen up sometimes. 

But then some people are just so sweet they are really not capable of stinking the place up.

Its a delicate balance knowing when to spray.  What does Mr. Skanks say?

Sugar cane ethanol is great.  You can smell a subtle caramel scent that comes from it.  Click here to access internet olfactory interface

Its great stuff to gargle with or rinse your skin with or use as aftershave.

The nice thing about ethanol is that its not toxic like isopropyl alcohol.  Thus you can use it like gin to brush your teeth and they will feel very smooth.  The caramel scent is there because when you heat sugar it caramelizes.   Your body will absorb some alchohol if you rub it on your skin.  Thus using USA rubbing alcohol you are going to absorb a much less friendly version of alcohol with Isopropyl.

I can buy 1 liter for the equivalent of 2 dollars here in Brazil.  Its one of those small subtle delights you can have on the cheap. 

Its not denatured and I have seen guys that look like they are preparing for a picnic pick up 10 bottles at a time.  Not a good idea but I think they do drink it.  But then it is their body after all.

But the USA is too uptight about taxing every last drop of ethanol.   They want to protect the jerks who control this particular business.  Its very annoying to me.   I am not a drinker and all I get when I drink is a headache.  But I do like to rinse with it.

If you do get your hands on some of this stuff make sure to stay away from open flame.  Its highly flamable and its what they use to light their barbeque grills!!

One of the funniest crook stories I ever heard was the story of how a ranger had been called out to capture and transfer a bobcat to a more appropriate location.  The only thing the ranger had to put the bobcat in was a toolbox.  He did so after capturing it and left it in his truck.  While he was away from his truck a couple of car thieves made off with truck and contents. 

They found the truck skidded off of the road with the interior bloodied up.  Seems the greedy crooks had opened the toolbox while driving. The bobcat was of course highly annoyed at having been in the box and proceeded to go medieval on them.