-Equinoxes are when the sun is right over the equator. The sun's light hits symmetrical places of the earth with same intensity. Solstices are when the earth 's poles (north or south) are tipped farthest away from the sun. Equinoxes are in the fall and the spring and solstices are in the summer and the winter. I'm sure I was taught this before but I forgot.

- During the biggest ice age- a long, long time ago- the weight of the glaciers bowed continents.

- Rudy Giuliani promises to end illegal immigration from Mexico if elected. He promises to do this by building a complete boarder fence and bumping up the number of boarder patrol officers to 18,000 instead of 12,000. He has no plan how Americans will start washing their own dishes, mowing their own yards, or cooking their own meals once he has eradicated immigrant labor.
- Rudy Giuliani routinely answers his cell phone when addressing large audiences. He says this will no longer be a problem as his wife just taught him how to use the vibration mode on the phone.
- I do not believe I'll be voting for Rudy Giuliani.

- The meteor that killed the dinosaurs ( I forget its name, I can't remember everything) was so devastating because of the total condition of the Earth and where the meteor hit. There was 10 % more oxygen in the atmosphere so the air was more combustible. Also, the meteor hit water about ten meters deep with a layer of sulfur underneath. The sulfur was thrown up into the air and the water instantaneously evaporated, creating acid rain that could burn the flesh off of creatures. 95% percent of the species on Earth were wiped out. That's the species, not of total life. For that the count goes higher. At least I think I have that right. Source is Bill Bryson.

- The amount of pain a person feels and their overall condition when gunshot is highly dependent upon the situation in which they were shot. Soldiers tend to not need as much morphine or medical care and the theory is they have more to look forward to. They get to leave combat, go home, be treated like a hero, etc. People shot randomly have much less to look forward to: lost work time, medical bills, possible death, etc. This leads people randomly shot close to home to beg for drugs to numb physical and emotional pain. Of course all this is null and void if the gunshot is fatal, no matter who the victim be. Source: radio lab.

-It's really hard to keep posting on this thing.
-Korean mosquitoes can squeeze through Korean window screens.
- I think I learn a foreign language better when I learn it slowly over a long period of time.
-Koreans do not take the air raid sirens seriously.

- Kinkos sucks. This is not a new revelation. I've known this for awhile. I'll admit that I'm not the most organized person in the world; however, everytime I've gone into a Kinkos there aren't enough employees and the ones who are there are disgruntled. I understand. When you get a nube trying to print something off and you ask them what format they have it in and the nube doesn't know, well there's only so much you can do. However, whenever I've had to mail something FedEx they just grunt and point to the FedEx stuff, and there's a lot of mailing forms and envelopes and insurance forms and such; so then I end up filling out the wrong form, and taking it up front, and the Kinkos people roll their eyes and hand me the right form while I'm trying to tell them what I need done, and they don't listen because they're tired of me already, and then the envelope isn't right because they didn't listen to what I was saying how, how the receiver has to be able to send the package back to me and meanwhile customers build up behind me and, hell, we both end up frustrated by the end. Kinkos, I suck as a customer but I wouldn't suck so bad if you would listen to what I was trying to do help me out, not just point me to a stack of FedEx forms. I'd like to say I'd be a better customer but (and I will say this in a very old person, snooty sort of way) I'd don't believe I'll be a customer again. That's what I learned today.

-Utilitarianism is a branch of philosophy that deals with the greater good. It basically says that better things for an individual and society are the things that bring us pleasure and anything that brings us pain is bad for an individual or society. From this there are two types of utilitarianism: hedonistic and something else I forget, but the something else I forget incorporates hedonism (eating, sex, sleep, etc.) and higher forms of pleasure (education, introspection, self improvement). John Stuart Mill is a big contributor to utilitarianism.
- I partially subscribe to Utilitarian beliefs but the vote is still out.
- Gambling alone durring the day is depressing.
- Gambling alone durring the day and loosing is very depressing.