The Mouse is on the Wheel. Look at 'im go!
Not unlike a former smoker giving into his urges to grab that sneaky fag, I have given into the urge to attract attention in a medium that remains unexplored to me. The Blog.
What can you expect?
The ramblings of a mad man?
I can tell you what not to expect:
#1: ... ummmm
Actually, turns out I can't do that... I don't know what to expect.
Who am I?
Still working that one out myself.
Why a blog?
I make quite alot of observations, mostly to myself in the verbal form, attracting weird (and sympathetic) looks on public transport, however those observations deemed worthy enough to be imparted onto peers have left impressions mostly good, sometimes funny, sometimes controversial. Many a time have I been told, if you just listened back to yourself you'd be as confused as I am or you would find that "you sir, are quite the fool"... so here's my chance to impart, and then immediately reflect on my speutemesque liquid lunacy projected forth out of my pie-hole.
Being in my late 20's I've found myself already falling behind in the technophilia race.
It came early.
I was expecting it in my late 30's.
No, I'm not yet calling this the Interweb, nor am I on Facespace etc etc. But I am in iPhone (for verbal diarrhea)/iPad(for googling diarrhea)/iPoo(for regular diarrhea) denial, that being, I don't NEED one and because I am a full-time student, I recognise that getting one now would be (not unlike as state government purchasing a desalination plant) financially foolish.
So, like a chubby john wayne, straddling my mighty steed, racing along the train tracks, leaving the denial station behind, trying to get a grasp on the railing of the backcar of the technology train just ahead, and yet, still out of grasp, with my last breathe I yell:
"STOP THAT TRAIN, I WANNA START A FUCKING BLOG!"
So a B to the Log it is. ... (Jebus, even my gangster typing sounds L to the Ame.)
What with the mouse and wheel?
I love the image of this little white lab mouse, being in my head, and whenever I think its because the little fellah is going for a trot on that exercise wheel.. because there's a piece of cheese on a stick in front of him attached to his head..... (yes I am special).
It's also a silent tribute to lab mice (and rodents) world-wide, for they are the final experimental testing ground before humans in many cases, allowing many of us to live, at the expense of their existence.
I hope I entertain, I hope you learn something, I hope you don't take me too seriously.
Part of being involved in the science community is sharing the crazy goss that wakes up my mouse, so you may, from time to time, find my rambling on about your (you males) being female from the get-go regardless of gender, your eyeball (not unlike a BP oilrig) being incorrectly designed but getting away with it, cows being more closely related to whales than to horses etc etc
I am an apprentice atheist.
I am an apprentice skeptic.
Atheism, Skepticism, two words, which until recently (a few years), I have had a negative bias towards, brainwashed into me by large institutions in which I was immersed for the first 20years of my life.
As a apprentice critical thinking atheist & skeptic, I will try and obey the following. I will not say anything lacking evidence or reason. That said, anything said that is incorrect, I will easily stand corrected given reasonable evidence to the contrary. I thrive on making mistakes once, even twice, allowing me to L E A R N. I hate being wrong (bite me, I'm human) , but pride myself on accepting reason in order to correct my views.
I will not live with false opinions just because those opinions are mine.
Questioning things is vital to our existence.
"Centuries ago, we knew so much about so little, know we know so little about so much."
(Wish I knew whose quote that is.... if I find it I will reference it in the future)
You will find me constantly questioning of religion, quackery and SCAMs (supplements, complementary and alternative medicine), my pet favourites being Homeopathy (although it is such as scam that I feel like I'm teaching you to suck eggs to tell you why it doesn't work), Acupuncture and Chiropractic.
I will endeavour to end each blog with a quote, and something interesting that is in anyway related to science (because that narrows it down....).
Catch you next time.
N
Not unlike a former smoker giving into his urges to grab that sneaky fag, I have given into the urge to attract attention in a medium that remains unexplored to me. The Blog.
What can you expect?
The ramblings of a mad man?
I can tell you what not to expect:
#1: ... ummmm
Actually, turns out I can't do that... I don't know what to expect.
Who am I?
Still working that one out myself.
Why a blog?
I make quite alot of observations, mostly to myself in the verbal form, attracting weird (and sympathetic) looks on public transport, however those observations deemed worthy enough to be imparted onto peers have left impressions mostly good, sometimes funny, sometimes controversial. Many a time have I been told, if you just listened back to yourself you'd be as confused as I am or you would find that "you sir, are quite the fool"... so here's my chance to impart, and then immediately reflect on my speutemesque liquid lunacy projected forth out of my pie-hole.
Being in my late 20's I've found myself already falling behind in the technophilia race.
It came early.
I was expecting it in my late 30's.
No, I'm not yet calling this the Interweb, nor am I on Facespace etc etc. But I am in iPhone (for verbal diarrhea)/iPad(for googling diarrhea)/iPoo(for regular diarrhea) denial, that being, I don't NEED one and because I am a full-time student, I recognise that getting one now would be (not unlike as state government purchasing a desalination plant) financially foolish.
So, like a chubby john wayne, straddling my mighty steed, racing along the train tracks, leaving the denial station behind, trying to get a grasp on the railing of the backcar of the technology train just ahead, and yet, still out of grasp, with my last breathe I yell:
"STOP THAT TRAIN, I WANNA START A FUCKING BLOG!"
So a B to the Log it is. ... (Jebus, even my gangster typing sounds L to the Ame.)
What with the mouse and wheel?
I love the image of this little white lab mouse, being in my head, and whenever I think its because the little fellah is going for a trot on that exercise wheel.. because there's a piece of cheese on a stick in front of him attached to his head..... (yes I am special).
It's also a silent tribute to lab mice (and rodents) world-wide, for they are the final experimental testing ground before humans in many cases, allowing many of us to live, at the expense of their existence.
I hope I entertain, I hope you learn something, I hope you don't take me too seriously.
Part of being involved in the science community is sharing the crazy goss that wakes up my mouse, so you may, from time to time, find my rambling on about your (you males) being female from the get-go regardless of gender, your eyeball (not unlike a BP oilrig) being incorrectly designed but getting away with it, cows being more closely related to whales than to horses etc etc
I am an apprentice atheist.
I am an apprentice skeptic.
Atheism, Skepticism, two words, which until recently (a few years), I have had a negative bias towards, brainwashed into me by large institutions in which I was immersed for the first 20years of my life.
As a apprentice critical thinking atheist & skeptic, I will try and obey the following. I will not say anything lacking evidence or reason. That said, anything said that is incorrect, I will easily stand corrected given reasonable evidence to the contrary. I thrive on making mistakes once, even twice, allowing me to L E A R N. I hate being wrong (bite me, I'm human) , but pride myself on accepting reason in order to correct my views.
I will not live with false opinions just because those opinions are mine.
Questioning things is vital to our existence.
"Centuries ago, we knew so much about so little, know we know so little about so much."
(Wish I knew whose quote that is.... if I find it I will reference it in the future)
You will find me constantly questioning of religion, quackery and SCAMs (supplements, complementary and alternative medicine), my pet favourites being Homeopathy (although it is such as scam that I feel like I'm teaching you to suck eggs to tell you why it doesn't work), Acupuncture and Chiropractic.
I will endeavour to end each blog with a quote, and something interesting that is in anyway related to science (because that narrows it down....).
Catch you next time.
N
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" In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind old men as guides."
Heinrich Heine, Gedanken und Einfalle
Sham acupuncture (pricking someone with a toothpick) has been found to produce similar results to real acupuncture (sticking needles into your skin) in regards to relief of pain from a variety of ailments. This demonstrates the placebo effect. In fact, due to soreness and risk of infection you are better off having fake acupuncture with the toothpicks.... or stop wasting your money altogether on this unproven, out-of-date, unproven treatment.
Grossly Paraphrased from Quackcast #27. A podcast on SCAMs by Mark Crislip (http://moremark.squarespace.com/)
