Top 10 Reasons Why Life is Infinitely Better Reading Books
…and not watching movies. (This is in reference to non-fiction books, btw — and quality reads, not crap).
Movies leave you under a spell; an illusory haze so you cannot see. Books give control of the haze others are under.
Movies manufacture illusion without you knowing it, while books allow you to choose experience illusion, without decoupling [...]
I Don’t Use Beds
One interesting fact about is me that I don’t sleep on beds. Since 2003, I haven’t slept on a bed. I started this practice while studying spider monkeys in the yucatan jungle of Mexico. Obviously, we slept in tents in the yucatan and there were no mattress beds in the tents — just the refreshingly [...]
Some Excerpts of Beginning Fiction Writing I Did
John Kuczmarski
Beginning Fiction Writing
Beginnings 250 (Perspective w/light)
June 7, 2005
Rekindle the Rapport
The reflection of the office lamp on the window made it nearly impossible for Rebecca to see out into the ghostly summer night. Not that she was concerned with the arid desert evening; she was fervently pecking away at the conclusion to her “Metaphors of [...]
maslow_compilation_haroldwashingtonNotes
In “Maslow on Management”, Maslow talks about the necessity and importance of self-actualization, but realizes that frequently, “flakes and gurus” as he calls them, learn of a new trend and bank on that to earn capital. True, true, but we must also respect the passion of such “flakes and gurus”. After all, while [...]
Interesting Random Factoids — Toothbrushes and Temperature
Everyone Loves some Good Ol’ Factoids!!!
ToothbrushesOriginaly made in China by drilling holes in Ivory and inserting horse hair!They can be made by hand with fine copper wire and looping that around pig’s bristles, forming a tuft.
Celcius to Farenheit Conversion GeneralizationsCelcius TO Farenheit-20-40C = -4-104 F (60 degrees of Celcius equals roughly 100 degrees of Farenheit)-20—10 [...]
An Update of Acting, Comedy, NLP, Nature, Math Interests
I liked the days before all the massive spam bulk forwarding email freak fests…When an email was as rare as a letter from a friend or a postcard from a traveler…sigh.
In any case, I realized I’m very much like a kid. When I was a lot younger I never really dreamt of being a [...]
Remembering the 90s…Music Videos
digg_url = ‘http://validatelife.blogspot.com/2008/07/remembering-90smusic-videos.html’;I first discovered MTV in the 90s. Once the 21st century hit, I had peeled off into other interests, and if I hit up the MTV Channel post-90s I usually get bombarded with some rapper I don’t know decorated in “bling” or some odd band whose acoustics don’t really tickle my fancy. [...]
eReader iPhone App
Well, iPhone continues it’s assault in knocking off numerous other electronic devices. Along with GPS devices, household-wide remotes, now it’s the killer device for the Amazon Kindle Kindle.
It’s also going to slaughter the less popular Sony Reader
eReader.com released an elegant and intuitive eReader app on the app store. The app itself [...]
Tying in The World of A Story with Modern Shipping
3:51 AMJune 29, 2008 I just recieved an RCA cable (a special tv part I needed) that sold for $6.47 on ebay (including shipping) and it was shipped from Hong Kong! Why is that cool? Well, for one it’s a hella long way to ship something so cheaply. Reflecting upon ancient roman roads [...]
Alcohol Spirits
I Never Knew the Difference Between all these so here’s the skinny on the spirits of the world.Wine and beer are fermented, but All Hard Alcohol == Liquor == Spirits is DISTILLED, not fermented. Therefore, all the hard alcohol listed below are made through a distillation process. What is being distilled (potatoes, grains, [...]
Exciting Smogasbord of Random Trivia
I’ve had an ongoing list of various research trivia projects from Eucalyptus leaves to Cinco De Mayo.
I finally got around to research them, but some of the excerpts are almost too small for their own article, so I pooled the trivia research findings all here.
Here’s the results.
Eucalyptus
Cinco De Mayo“5th of May” || US version of [...]
How Soap Does its Thing
Water molecules are attracted to each other by means of the very subtle, but certainly existest, Van der Waals force. In a normal body of water, water molecules are equally pulling on each other, except at the surface of the water. There, the water molecules pull together creating a dome shape. This [...]
