8th Post (The Dude won!)

It's been a while since my last post (due to schoolwork/chronic laziness), but it has since come to my attention that I have at least 1 devoted reader, so I will try to keep these posts as regular as a well functioning colon.

Lots of things have happened since my last post, but first thing's first. Congratulations to Jeff Bridges for FINALLY winning an Oscar for The Big Lebowski. The Dude lives on!

As I've mentioned before, I have a procrasination problem, and I've been using this very true picture to motivate myself
Anyways, now that we've got the pleasantries out of the way, on to more stimulating crap. I saw another fascinating Ted Talk that I just had to share with you guy(s).



In this video, Daniel Kahneman (from wikipedia: "notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, behavioral economics and hedonic psychology.", so you know he's one cool Jew.) talks about our experiences vs. our memories. He explains that there are two separate selves, the remembering self, and the present self (who only exists for about 3 seconds at a time) and the discrepancies between experiences and our memories of them. An interesting point he brings up is the lack of reason for how much weight we put on our memories, when in reality we spend much less time remembering something than actually experiencing it. Seeing as he is an economist first, these ideas must have come from an economical point of view, yet its very interesting to see his breakdown of our psychological processes and mannerisms with regards to something as fundamentally important and scarily uncertain as memory.

Before I finish, I wanted to remind people just how sexually kinky the Ancient Romans were. Most people probably don't realize that Ancient Romans were much more open sexually than today's culture, (for example, they had no problems with gays, but I guess today that can just be blamed on religion. Which btw leads to stupid shit like this) which is interesting because it begs the question "Why?".

Okay I'm done for now internet, see you next time.

***Bonus Picture: (I know you'll appreciate this Anton)

PS. This is kinda cool
Potential Tax Revenue From Weed Infographic

Sixth Post (cool pictures)

Bill Gates was featured on Ted Talks a few days ago (great site fyi), and he gave a pretty interesting talk about poverty, energy, and climate. Check it out if you have time.

Personally, I've never been convinced that human CO2 emissions are responsible for the current climate change, but he makes many good points about steps we can take to reduce poverty, and use energy more efficiently. Not very comforting was his belief that we will require energy "miracles" to reach some of these goals, which he seems to think will require a sort of Manhattan Project to happen. Somehow I have a feeling that the before we get to his goal, factor P in his equation will drop dramatically.

Here are some of the pics I tried to post yesterday while failing miserably.











































More cool pics:
Pictures Taken at Just the Right Time

That's it for now.
-Murday

PS. This is kinda cool.
All People Are Exactly The Same