European Youth Hostels in Rio De Janeiro do not Accept Brazilian Travelers

I was told by my Swedish neighbor Tomas that the European run youth hostels in Rio de Janeiro do not accept Brazilian travelers.  The reason is that when they do too many things end up being reported stolen.  Another point of reference in the Latin Business Model.  ( LBM ).  The bottom 3 states of Brazil that are more Germanic than the rest and known to be the best for doing business are reputed to want to be an independent nation from the rest of Brazil.  These states are Parana, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande de Sul.  I say go for it.  Read more…

Night Sweats – For me a sign of sleeping deeply

All my life I have associated waking up with a sweat soaked bed with having slept very deeply.  I became curious to know what the physiological mechanism associated with this.  I was surprised to find out the only explainations online are ones that have negative health connotations.  They are listed in most articles as: Menopause Anxiety Medications such as certain high blood pressure drugs, over-the-counter fever reducers and antipsychotics Drug or alcohol abuse Gastrointestinal reflux disease (GERD) Diabetes I am male so I’m going to rule out menopause.  The trouble with these explainations is that sweating at night is something that Read more…

How long does it take to die from co2?

This is an excellent question and it requires a 2 part answer depending on whether you believe in MMGW or not. If you believe: When you exhale you put out CO2 from your lungs. Thus you are increasing the process of anthropogenic warming. Therefore you should immediately hold your breath. You will thus die in something under 10 minutes. If you do not believe: Do not hold your breath.

When the Portuguese Tried to Retain Their African Colonies

The following story was recounted to me by my Portuguese neighbor here in Brazil. The troop of guys would go into a village and look for a pregnant girl.  They would cut the baby out of her stomach and put it up on a stick. I’m right wing.  I’m pretty disciplined.  But you would never get me to do this.  I would probably start offing my guys if they did this.  Its hard to believe this story but my common sense says that history is full of such act.  Think of this next time when you think governments are forces for Read more…

Tommy and Tordy Tell Of a Time that Norwegian and Swedish May Not be Spoken

My neighbors here in Brazil are from Portugal, Norway and Sweden.  Tordy of Norway tells me that a majority of people under the age of 65 in Norway speak english.   Tommy says a similar thing about Sweden.  According to them their is alot of english on their televisions.  Norway has a population with a grand total of 4 million people. Essentially one large city in the USA. In order for them to have a successful economy they must hook into a larger business economic complex.   Looking at the Pareto chart one can see the most efficient choice for this.  That of the Read more…

Where did the term Mulata come from?

Mulata is a term for a cross bred human constituted from Black and White races.  The term originates from MULE. The cross bred result from a horse and donkey.  However while mules are very rarely fertile quite the opposite is true with humans.  If the country in question is Brazil the women are VERY fertile. You can immediately see this from their hip to waist ratios.  To put it bluntly these women are the classic coke bottle shape every man wants in a woman.  They want this shape because it is a signal of fertility. Some people take offense to this Read more…

Is it Possible to Pick Fly Shit out of Black Pepper?

The essense of the problem is one of detection.  There is a whole area of signal processing called SIGNAL DETECTION THEORY.  Its an interesting course.  I took it from Doug Cochran as ASU.  So how do you pick fly shit out of black pepper?  You can not do it.  The joke infers that the 2 things are identical.  Being indentical they can not be discerned. So stop worrying.  You won’t taste the difference.

How Long Will Wikipedia Last?

The following is cut and paste from a comment about WIKIPEDIA Poster #1 Infuriating features of Wikipedia practices are: 1.The ease with which an article can be torpedoed by half wits. 2. Failure by Wikipedia to recognise the validity of a topic that only the writer has published and worked on in any depth, and by its archaic rules that disallow referring to one’s own work which provides detailed theory to be followed up. 3.The sheer bureacracy involved in submitting an article for it to be retained by the system. Poster #2 One of the principal problems with Wikipedia is its Read more…