So I was looking up random stuff on the internet today while watching the Colts and Jets AFC Championship game and I found this link to an optical illusion that starts a battle between your right and left brains.

The illusion below will spin clockwise or counter-clockwise depending on which side of your brain you are using to process it. Check out this article for all the details. When I first looked at this I thought it had to be a trick that it was just randomly changing direction so I did a little test. I started by staring at the picture for a little bit. It was spinning to the right. Then I started…

Charles M. Schulz was the creator of the ‘Peanuts’ comic strips.

I received this mass email and I usually just read them and keep the interesting ones and all the rest but I seldom pass any on and I refuse to do it via email. Just a quark I have I guess. But this is one I felt I should share.

You don’t have to actually answer any of the questions. Just ponder them. Read the following straight through, and you’ll get the point.

Question Set 1:
1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world.
2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.
3. Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer Prize.
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So wow, I get heartburn all the time. Usually it strikes me when I’m sitting up late at night watching infomercials because I can’t sleep. Unfortunately this happens way too often. Well, it’s never fun and I have heard of this remedy from people over the years but I always just hated the idea of drinking baking soda and water to cure the burn. Well tonight I was having a particularly bad episode and so I decided to give it a try. Only this time, I used a 500 mL bottle of grape flavored Propel fitness water with 5/8 tsp. of baking soda. I shook it up and poured it into a cup for easy chugging. Well I didn’t need…

Well it’s that time of year again! Merry Christmas! I have been back home in St. Louis now for a week and it has been wonderful. It’s nice to see the fam again and the pets. Man each time I come home the animals are older and stiffer. One day I’ll come home and they’ll be dead . That is sad to think about it however inevitable it is.

Well, this week has been mostly staying up late and sleeping in late. It has been so nice to be able to do that without worrying about missing class or work. Happily this entry should be short simply because the week has been relatively uneventful. I’ve…

I haven’t been much good for anything lately. Between being sick for the past 3 weeks or so and it having just been October, my head and my heart just want to give up and lay down and die. It has all been way too much. Tonight as I began to play catchup on all my assignments, I came across several things I wrote years ago after Lorna’s death. It was a mistake to re-read them right now. They took me back and I haven’t been able to get hold of myself long enough to start back on my assignments in 8 hours now. Anyway, I felt like I should share these things with all 0 people who visit my…

I’m not sure why I even maintain this site. Honestly, I seldom write entries here. These personal websites for nobody’s like me seem to no longer be needed, what with facebook and myspace and twitter and all the other devices given us by the WEB gods to maintain contact and communication with people. However, when occasion permits, I still enjoy writing a few tidbits from time to time. In fact, here is one now!

Here is my quick life update. The semester is drawing to a close and I am behind, as usual, with my homework. I have two major projects that I need to be working on that I haven’t had much time for until now. I have to…

So I found something fun today… I exist as a town in Western Sweden.

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I even have my own website to talk about myself as a town in Western Sweden! -> ME!

29 Jan 2009 – Thursday

This morning I woke up to my cat running through the kitchen. She was super hyper and wouldn’t stop. She loves to go run around outside but she HATES the cold so she’s been stuck inside all winter. I heard her paws slapping the floor along with the sound of her claws scraping the floor as she tried to get a grip on the linoleum. At one point it sounded like she had lost control taking a turn too quickly and slid across the floor into the wall. Then a bunch of dishes hit the floor cuz she jumped on the counter and knocked the dish drying rack to the floor.

27 Jan 2009 – Tuesday

This is gonna be a really simple entry. I woke up and, while it’s not exactly something new, I heard my brother snoring in his room. It was funny though cuz even though he does snore on occasion, I can’t ever hear it in my room. His snoring started off soft but it slowly would get louder and louder then he’d kinda half wake himself up and it would get quiet for a few minutes then the entire process would start over.

22 Jan 2009 – Thursday

I was again walking downtown late at night and this time I was walking near the library.  While I was standing on the sidewalk between The Leonardo and the library I saw a cat huddling next to the building trying to keep warm. I stopped to pet it and that was when I very faintly heard what sounded like two people talking in the courtyard. I walked toward the sound and it got louder and louder until I realized it was too loud. Upon futher investigation, I found that there is a talk radio station that broadcasts out of a little shop in the library’s outdoor courtyard and they keep a speaker on just outside…

- Air Quality

Last weekend it was cold and cloudy and the air was fine and clear.  Last Monday night as I prepared for bed, I all of a sudden felt that small tickle in the back and top of my throat that very quickly turned into a dry soreness.  My eyes started to burn and my nose started to become stuffed up.  I knew I was getting sick.  I pumped myself full of vitiman c and zinc, ate a banana and downed a glass of water then went to bed.  I hoped that that would head the sickness off at the pass.  Unfortunately I was wrong.  I woke up the next morning feeling awful.  I couldn’t breathe and I…

20 Jan 2009 – Tuesday

Late at night, or early in the morning depending on your perspective, I like to go walk the streets. Tonight I went downtown to listen to Salt Lake City sleep. As I walked along the mostly deserted and icy sidewalk, I could hear my footsteps in four distinct parts. First the sound of the toe then the heel following and then the echo of each. I could hear the echo of the toe overlap the sound of my heel hitting the concrete. As I walked along listening to this, I heard, faintly in the distance behind me, the same pattern. Another lost soul pacing the streets at night. He was moving quicker than I was…