indefatigablog

it’s funny…

doesn’t matter who you are or where you live. people are generally moody.

most every day i ride the bus downtown to work and everyday i see the exact same people. do they nod or give any indication that they recognize one another? how about when i smile or say “mornin’”?

no.

in fact, they are even rude sometimes!

please pardon the hippy-love-posting but COME ON!

everyone must have a J-O-B and everyone must commute to W-O-R-K but not everyone has to be a D-I-C-K about it.

it would all be soooo much less painful if we were even just MILDLY more cordial to one another.

it prolly wouldn’t work, but if i were to print off some steps to make commuting less of a grudge match, they would look something like this:

1. smile - looking at people as if they’re a dog that’s pissed on your rug doesn’t encourage anyone to have a great day, much less be nice to you.

2. say “hi” once in a while. it works great and feels that way, too. most times people won’t expect you to carry on a full conversation after, either.

3. don’t be afraid. fear bleeds out of people in many ways and makes an impact on others.

4. don’t judge people quietly behind your eyes. they’re not who you think they are. really.

5. patience is the key to a peaceful world.

6. don’t worry what people think about your shoes, your smell, your hair. they’re not thinking about you anyways you selfish bastard.

; )

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Finland now holds the world record for the longest non-stop round of karaoke singing. The country already holds the record for the largest number of karaoke singers at any given time.

The previous record was 145 hours, as held by China. However, in a karaoke bar in Kouvola, a small town on Finland’s southern coast, the record was surpassed on Wednesday, with the ultimate goal being 240 hours non-stop.

Finns travelled long distances to participate at the event, which was broadcast live on the internet.

The record goes alongside Finland’s other record for karaoke, that of the largest number singing at any given time. This is held by 80,000 fans of the Finnish hard rock band Lordi, who had met in Helsinki, for the band to give a brief free concert to celebrate their victory at that year’s Eurovision. The show culminated with all 80,000 joining in with the band on the winning song, Hard Rock Hallelujah.

A new karaoke record = Hard Rock Hallelujah

and here it is:

[shrug]

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SCIENTISTS claim to have broken the ultimate speed record - by making photons travel faster than light.

Exceeding the speed of light, 186,000 miles per second, is supposed to be impossible.

According to Einstein’s special theory of relativity, it would take an infinite amount of energy to accelerate an object through the light barrier.

But two German physicists now claim to have forced light to overcome its own speed limit using a phenomenon known as quantum tunnelling.

In an experiment, microwave photons, energetic packets of light, appeared to travel “instantaneously” between two prisms forming the halves of a cube placed a metre apart.

When the prisms were placed together, photons fired at one edge passed straight through them, as expected.

After they were moved apart, most of the photons reflected off the first prism they encountered and were picked up by a detector. But a few photons appeared to “tunnel” through the gap separating them as if the prisms were still held together.

Although these photons had travelled further, they arrived at their detector at exactly the same time as the reflected photons. In effect, they had travelled faster than light.

Dr Gunter Nimtz, one of the physicists from the University of Koblenz, told New Scientist: “This is the only violation of special relativity that I know of.”

taken from the Scotsman

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indeed, people LOVE to talk about their iPhones and i do think they’re nifty but Maddox makes some good points in his tirade about the new device that has people in a tizzy.

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