How to Avoid Bringing Too Much When Traveling!
A huge fan of the “rolling clothes” WITH RUBBERBAND (Huge tip), I kept all my clothes like that even while at home!! I actually just stopped recently keeping all my clothes and rubberbanded AT HOME, but will likely do that on a trip.
My biggest problem is the “what if the opportunity arises for xyz?” [...]
Tuesday News Blip: Phoenix Lander!
Astronomy: The Phoenix craft of the “Mars Scout Program” to mars is a $475 million mission to launch and land the Phoenix spacecraft on the surface of Mars and explore it. When you consider the massive undertaking of such a project, NASA’s slim budget of $475 million is extremely frugal, pennies really, but [...]
Science: The journal of Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Science: The journal of Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion just announced a possible breakthrough for astronauts enduring long-distance space travel. The earth is protected from meteorites, high velocity cosmic rays, and other space debris from its surrounding “magnetosphere”. Cutting edge physicists aim to simulate this magnetosphere around a space craft. Scientists [...]
Tuesday News Blip: Crappy News, Genetic Mutations, and Greenhouse Auspiciousness
Legal Crap and Frightening News: There’s a lot of lame crap going on in the legal world. The attorney general of California sued three small trucking companies for violating labors to avoid paying payroll taxes. Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was convicted on 7 counts of corruption and should serve 5 years for each [...]
Tuesday News Blip
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Transportation: Interestingly enough, local Californians and many other commuters have grown a liking to the public transportation method of commuting they adopted to deal with outrageous gas prices not too long ago. Now that gas prices have dropped, many commuters still prefer the public transportation method. Hey, better for the [...]
Recent Celeb Scene and Global Positioning
Heath Ledger might win the oscar for his maniacal Joker character, making this the second posthumous “Best Actor” award in over 30 years, the most recent (hardly not recent) went to Peter Finch in Network in 1977.
Also, I noticed the ever-growing “I hate Paris club” has continued to spawn. Disdain for that woman — [...]
Around the World in 80 Days
135 years ago, Jules Verne Published Around the World in 80 days. The geography of the globe is roughly the same, but the economy and global boundaries have changed.
Phileas Fogg navigated the globe with 20,000 pounds or roughly $40,000 with currency conversion. Factoring inflation, however, one realizes good ol’ Mr. Fogg circumnavigated with [...]
Los Angeles Facts
In the United States
#1 Largest County
#2 2nd Largest City
Zip codes in CA run from 90000-96199. If you’re outside of that range, you’re in the wrong place!!! Haha!
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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, [...]
Worst Running Weather in the History of the World
Okay, maybe a bit of an exaggeration, but it was pretty insane.
First, all three types of precipitation – rain, hail, and snow. The only thing missing was cats and dogs.
Secondly, all of that lovely precipitation was blowing nearly completely horizontal with high wind gusts.
Thirdly, it was freezing, 5:30am, [...]
Hawaii and Punta Laguna, Mexico
The 2007 Hawaii journal is from February, 2007. It consists of the adventure experience visiting Waikiki, Waimea Bay, and the North Shore of Oahu, the surf heaven. While it was short and you always can “catch just one more wave”, it was certainly exciting.
The Punta Laguna, Mexico journal is from Summer of 2002. [...]
A Traveling Graduation of Sorts : 48 Hours of non-stopTravel, 5 Hours of Sleep
There’s only one bottom line here: this trip was NUTS (but highly productively itinerant)!
This is the photo album, journalized, recorded anthology of my most recent (and quite scintillating, expansive, and gloriously beautiful, I might add) trip up north from Santa Barbara, CA to Stayton, OR. This illustrates the visual (via photographs) and written [...]
I am also beginning to see the power of reciprocity . The best years of my lives were 98 and 99. Friends took me to see BNL, I dated beautiful women, I got into the most rewarding awesome classes. That was the “payday” from doing a lot of love-giving with Alexa and doing [...]
Harmony
I have realized the power of accessing the realization of choice. We all always have the choice to cause certain outcomes. For a LONG period of time I have been trying to make people aware of their limiting belief systems. I would try to be a “Tony Robbins” or some motivational coach [...]
