Wednesday, December 11, 2002
Tuesday, December 10, 2002
Monday, December 09, 2002
The slingshot/ball trick:
You may have remembered a story on a reality tv show about the black military guy that shoots a white kid who was parked in front of his house because he thought they shot through his window. He was aquitted of the murder charges. The story is kind of long and I wont go into it. But there were a group of kids who were out cruising in one guys parents car because they were away on vacation.
Their story says they were just cruising and using a slingshot to shoot at stuff. The accidentally broke this guys window and they were sitting there thinking about what to do. The guy, is woken up by the sound of the window breaking, which he said sounded like a gunshot. But instead of turning on a light like most people did, he grabs his M9 and sneaks out to the side of the house to investigate whats going on. Because he had heard of some burgularys in the neiborhood and was alert to possible intruders.
He comes behind the car which is parked in front of his house and running and claims the kid goes for a gun and he shoots the kid. He dies of course. There are some key details in this story that no one ever figured out:
1) These kids are the ones who did the burgularys
2) Every time this punks parents went away for vacation they took the car out for a cruise
3) They were using the slingshot to break the windows of houses they thought were empty. If a light turned on, someone was inside the house. If not, they'd park, get out and proceed to enter the house through the now broken window. One guy goes in and goes to the front door and opens it and they proceed to take all they want.
This is a pretty common pretext for burglarys. Think about it. You kids playing with your ball. Oops, ball get rolled into someones driveway. No big deal, just walk up and get it. And while your up there, do a quick scope of the property. Is there a dog? Piles of newspapers? Are they on vacation? Hear anyone inside.
Next thing you know the ball is thrown into the backyard (oh its by accident). Someone has to go over the fence to get the ball. More opportunitys to case your joint out. And if anyone catchs you, act all innocent and childlike. After all, its just some kids playing with a ball, slingshot or bb gun RIGHT? Wrong.
This is all pretext. Not very goot pretext but people still seem to fall for this scam. Next thing a window is broken. If it feels right the go in for it or come back later when its dark. After all you can always say you were going in to get your ball. Same thing these punks were doing. I cant believe these animals never got caught. The surviving boys should all be put in prison for murder because their friend got shot. Well, they always can. Thanks to people like me.
Something they'll always have to live with is the death of their friend. They went to court and lied through their teeth. If/when they get caught they are going down. More people should know about stuff like this. There was a house across the street that had this happen. And guess what? Broken window and neiborhood punk kids (without fathers) with a slingshot and always dribbling a ball around and rolling it into peoples yards.
Yeah, and I was born yesterday. My mom and I are hip to these punks. There was a crime unit across the street investigating the break in. Like they say. Most of the time, if your a victim of a crime its someone you know.
It rains hard and fast. With lots of thunder and lightining. This is the lightning capital of the world. Very dangerous. When it rains, you go inside. Period. But this is a grey, overcast sky, drizzling. Sometimes it picks up to a moderate rainfall. And its fairly cold out. About 55-60. And guess what? The neiborhood punks are out there walking around like its a freaking festival. Like they have nothing better to do? This one kid we find out from a niebor has already been Baker acted twice....
Sunday, December 08, 2002
I remember reading his book on human anatomy and being inspired by his sections on the human brain. For instance, he clearly explains the brain in no uncertain terms. The motor area of the brain takes the up the most space in the brain. For instance, a blue whale has a brain the size of a city block square. But it has many muscles and most of the brain is devoted to motor activitys. The brain at birth is virtually smooth. The human brain is rougly the size of holding your two fists side to side. With each side representing the left and right hemispheres. The brain can only grow by increasing its surface area. This is where folds of the brain come in. At a point, theoretically, the brain can no longer increase its surface area at which point a kind of backwards (evolutionary?) progression would occur (at least at a behavioral standpoint).
Sherlock holmes had a dictim: "If you can write it down, dont bother commiting it to memory". Einstien had dictims on mathematics that reflected sherlocks dictim. Intelligence is simply stored data. It says nothing on what you can do, if anything, with the info. The real purpose of the brain should be to intergrate information (memorys are truly external). In other words, the harder you work, the dumber you get. Something I have also observed. The purveyors of the hardgainer philosophy always seem to be attempting to get others to do the work they so desperatly need to do if they even have a of snowballs chance in hell of achieving their expectations. So they can take credit for it as proof that their ideas are real or work?
They avoid cold, hard data (context) like the plague because it is so much like reality. A cold, harsh, bitter reality they are unable to concieve and are ill equiped to utilize. The image is that of someon grasping and clawing at the air, trying to take hold of life. So instead, they become parasitic... implanting their desires into the minds of others as "importance"...
Expect less, achieve more
