What people see as transportation are sometimes a lot different than what other people see as transportation. Let me give an example because even to me, that sounds a bit confusing. There is this old guy with a beard and baseball cap, and he travels everywhere on his Hover-Round scooter, and when I say everywhere, I mean he will actually drive it in the right lane of a traffic road, where he should be riding it around on the sidewalk. To him, that is his transportation - his small, land-craft that goes maybe five miles per hour...he rides in a thirty mile an hour traffic lane. Does he get ticketed for it? No.
Now-a-days, it's cool to drive a dirt bike around town. A recreational motorcycle primarily used in off-roading is now used on-road. That right there used to be illegal, license or no license, but I guess the law doesn't carry now. The popularity of riding a dirt bike around town was sparked when Tommy Vercetti, main character in the popular video game "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City" - the fourth installment in the GTA franchise, could jump on an unmanned dirt bike or steal it by kicking/stabbing/shooting a person off one, and driving it around. What was considered leisure fun or a better way to get through traffic in fictionalized Staunton Island (like Staten Island, NY) in the game, has now been modernized in the real world, and is seen as a...quick and better way to get around in the city. Does a person riding a dirt bike in the city get ticketed for it? No.
Join the fun now, kids!!! You thought those scooters were fun?! Or skateboards?! Now try Hover-round motorized disability assistance scooters!!! While driving to work, I witnessed two girls, about twelve, playing with their push-scooters, a little boy on his skateboard, and then trailing behind them, two kids had abducted a motorized Hover-round power chair, and were chasing the other three. Unbelievable! For one thing, I thought the only person who could ride in the motorized chair was the person with their doctor's permission? It's all cute and fun when grandpa or grandma is letting the kids ride on his/her lap while they circle around in the middle of the room, but minus the grandparent, and isn't it just theft? A person like myself would find it unsafe and negligent to go and let my kids or grand children go off riding around the neighborhood in my Hover-round. If they go too far, it could strand them out in some unknown neighborhood and they could get lost or worse, molested. Too many riders at a time on the power chair, and it could flip and burst into flames, serverely burning the children. I think at times, if the power chair is hit with projectiles or ram-rodded by a vehicle, it would just blow up, again, serverely burning the children. A vehicle could hit it and kill the children. After the vehicle hits it, the car flips in the air, striking other pedestrians or cars, causing a pile up or again, severely burning everyone in a flaming hell that could be prevented. This isn't coming from a paranoid freak, but a concerned citizen. I find it to be my responsibility to warn these parents of possible fatalities that would most likely ensue. The Hover-round is not a play thing, just like my parents told me exposed electrical sockets were not play things, cobras are not play things, wild dogs are not cute, teddy bears with switch-blades for hands are not cuddly, and fruitcake is toxic.
A message to the old guy on the Hover-round, the teenager on the dirt bike riding it in town, or the kids piling up on the Hover-round, thinking it's their personal automobile: other people don't watch their driving. Old man - I invision great and horrible pain in the future. Teenager on the dirt bike - It was rad when you did stunts for money on "GTAIII", "GTA: Vice City", and "GTA: San Andreas", but that was a video game...it was only cool in the video game. Continue to be a loser that can't and won't get laid. Finally, children on the Hover-round: one word - molestation or two words - burning children.
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Saturday, June 03, 2006
Hiding From Fact
I'm the master of filibusters and rants. I could rant all day about useless information, and after I was done, the government would slap a seal of approval, and give me a gold badge or a purple heart. I've come to realize this through conversations with friends, my own writing, but the biggest example of it is through my blog entries. They are huge! And I like to back my thoughts up with proof, so it looks like I know what I am talking about. Let's face it, some people in this world are unremitting bullshitters. I'm a sporadic bullshitter. I fell behind in an English class once. The day before a paper was due, which, I might add, this paper had to include sources out the butt, note cards, bibliography cards, numerous corrected and checked rough drafts. I had nothing of the sort. Twenty minutes in front of a computer, about ten if you include made-up note and bib. cards, and a few minutes it took to pass a few rough drafts to friends within other class periods, and I cranked out a bullshit paper. When I got it back, I had an A+. I also had a note towards the bottom of it, "way to go on the research!!! (smiley face)" A high school paper thought up at the last minute. Did the same for college English, and got an equally high grade. I can't do that with that many subjects in school, but when I do accomplish it, it is gold! This labels me as a sporadic bullshitter.
Upon many bullshitting fiascos I tend to accomplish in my blogs, I realized the longer the blog entry was, the fewer people would respond. No one responds to this blog, but my other blog on Xanga gets a relatively high feedback ratio. Does this mean that our generation is full of fewer readers? What I mean to ask is, are more Americans anti-readers?
I enjoy a good book here and there, but at times, I'll find myself unattractive to pages upon pages of words and dialog, especially after reading or just blindingly staring at a computer screen all day. Has it come down to a time factor when determining the make-up of readers in today's society? Most people I know always seem to be rushing. Their lives are in the fast lane and they hardly find the time for leisure, never really finding a time to read. I, on the other hand, am all about leisure. I find that I will be more productive after a nap or a break from work. I was in heaven this past week. Somehow, my work schedule ended up giving me five days off work, including Memorial Day. A break like that gave me rest and relaxation, before having to work a full week of nights and weekends. I found that I was happier, obviously, being away from a work load like that.
It's common sense that other countries are different in handling work efficiency. Take Japan, for instance. Part of their work schedule includes a "nap-time" like break, where workers can choose to sleep and rest up for more work. Upon further research of this topic, I found that some companies in Japan will even release aromas into the air to relax workers. For instance, lavender was exposed to children to test it's effects. Here's the link:
http://chemse.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/30/8/683
In the study they found that one group, exposed to lavender, worked better to another exposed to jasmine, lavender was said to have a sedative-like aroma that brings out euphoria. When exposed to the kids working 60 minutes on tests evaluating concentration and a lapse there of, during the 30 minute break between tests with the exposer of lavender, the students worked harder going into the next tests. This proves that the Japanese know what's good for their workers, although, I have no idea as to what their work days look like.
Does work stress tire a person out to the point where they want to be left alone in a vegetated state? Absolutely! There are days sometimes where I'll sleep for 12 hours after working eight hours with one break every four hours. It's that stress factor that runs you down, and caffeine is not the answer. You need that break to get your senses back. I've heard of game developers in America who have provided their workers with private massage therapists. The outcome: workers were willing to work longer hours - all they needed was a break, and a stop at the snack machine was not going to cut it!
Leisure time should be spent doing just that - leisure. Why should you be worried about taking a break off from work? More importantly, why shouldn't you be given a break? Some places of employment don't allow more than a week or less taken off by their employees and that is tragic. It's proven in all the studies that workers need consistent breaks. So it all trickles down to a necessity to rest. You go home from work, and what is the first thing you want to do? Flop in front of the television or get a cold beverage, and just relax. Do you ever want to just go home and open a copy of "Moby Dick" after doing extensive paper work at your job? Not really. Who's fault is it that test scores in reading and comprehending the material are low? It is industry! You work long hours completing endless amounts of paper work...you really should just sleep. You are driven to the point of exhaustion, and it doesn't help when you have kids. They see a parent not reading for leisure, and how does that help instill the WANT to read? It doesn't! Then, they are tested at schools in reading and arithmetic and the schools are shocked to see such a low outcome. The worst thing I hated in school was being forced to read a book I didn't want to. Why were classrooms forced to provide students with reading material in exchange for grades? Low testing in reading and arithmetic. As a parent, instill that WANT to read. I have a full understanding of families who don't do so because of three or more jobs and 14 to 18 hours of work a day. That's where industry ties in as a problem. Otherwise, read as much as you can, that's about as much as I can say on that point. Big companies out there, slave-pits, Walmart - give your employees some employee time! It's proven to be a high work-efficiency lifesaver. On the downside, you deal with mistakes and problems that could have been corrected if a certain employee would've been given some rest.
Upon many bullshitting fiascos I tend to accomplish in my blogs, I realized the longer the blog entry was, the fewer people would respond. No one responds to this blog, but my other blog on Xanga gets a relatively high feedback ratio. Does this mean that our generation is full of fewer readers? What I mean to ask is, are more Americans anti-readers?
I enjoy a good book here and there, but at times, I'll find myself unattractive to pages upon pages of words and dialog, especially after reading or just blindingly staring at a computer screen all day. Has it come down to a time factor when determining the make-up of readers in today's society? Most people I know always seem to be rushing. Their lives are in the fast lane and they hardly find the time for leisure, never really finding a time to read. I, on the other hand, am all about leisure. I find that I will be more productive after a nap or a break from work. I was in heaven this past week. Somehow, my work schedule ended up giving me five days off work, including Memorial Day. A break like that gave me rest and relaxation, before having to work a full week of nights and weekends. I found that I was happier, obviously, being away from a work load like that.
It's common sense that other countries are different in handling work efficiency. Take Japan, for instance. Part of their work schedule includes a "nap-time" like break, where workers can choose to sleep and rest up for more work. Upon further research of this topic, I found that some companies in Japan will even release aromas into the air to relax workers. For instance, lavender was exposed to children to test it's effects. Here's the link:
http://chemse.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/30/8/683
In the study they found that one group, exposed to lavender, worked better to another exposed to jasmine, lavender was said to have a sedative-like aroma that brings out euphoria. When exposed to the kids working 60 minutes on tests evaluating concentration and a lapse there of, during the 30 minute break between tests with the exposer of lavender, the students worked harder going into the next tests. This proves that the Japanese know what's good for their workers, although, I have no idea as to what their work days look like.
Does work stress tire a person out to the point where they want to be left alone in a vegetated state? Absolutely! There are days sometimes where I'll sleep for 12 hours after working eight hours with one break every four hours. It's that stress factor that runs you down, and caffeine is not the answer. You need that break to get your senses back. I've heard of game developers in America who have provided their workers with private massage therapists. The outcome: workers were willing to work longer hours - all they needed was a break, and a stop at the snack machine was not going to cut it!
Leisure time should be spent doing just that - leisure. Why should you be worried about taking a break off from work? More importantly, why shouldn't you be given a break? Some places of employment don't allow more than a week or less taken off by their employees and that is tragic. It's proven in all the studies that workers need consistent breaks. So it all trickles down to a necessity to rest. You go home from work, and what is the first thing you want to do? Flop in front of the television or get a cold beverage, and just relax. Do you ever want to just go home and open a copy of "Moby Dick" after doing extensive paper work at your job? Not really. Who's fault is it that test scores in reading and comprehending the material are low? It is industry! You work long hours completing endless amounts of paper work...you really should just sleep. You are driven to the point of exhaustion, and it doesn't help when you have kids. They see a parent not reading for leisure, and how does that help instill the WANT to read? It doesn't! Then, they are tested at schools in reading and arithmetic and the schools are shocked to see such a low outcome. The worst thing I hated in school was being forced to read a book I didn't want to. Why were classrooms forced to provide students with reading material in exchange for grades? Low testing in reading and arithmetic. As a parent, instill that WANT to read. I have a full understanding of families who don't do so because of three or more jobs and 14 to 18 hours of work a day. That's where industry ties in as a problem. Otherwise, read as much as you can, that's about as much as I can say on that point. Big companies out there, slave-pits, Walmart - give your employees some employee time! It's proven to be a high work-efficiency lifesaver. On the downside, you deal with mistakes and problems that could have been corrected if a certain employee would've been given some rest.
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