Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Microfreeze & Recording a missed show

Sure we have the technology to "microwave" things heating them up quickly. Seems to me like it should be possible then to reverse that and develop a "microfreeze" allowing you to create ice in seconds.

And since I'm putting ideas I've had out there for someone to put into creation and hopefully justly compensate me. There is another demand. We record channel 34 at 8:00pm...but aren't "all the channels" that we get coming through the cable at the same time...then they go into the tv...and we "fine tune" which "channel" we want to see. Why can't we "bulk record" the hour or two hour block. Capture whatever is coming through that cable BEFORE it was fine tuned by selecting a channel. Records it right onto an external hard drive that also has the hardware needed to respond to the "play" button. Then you could watch whatever channels were on between 8 and 9pm.

I sure hope my old friend Pat that went to Harding University with me back in 1979 I think it was...before he transferred to Louisiana in pursuit of an electrical engineering degree...I sure hope by random chance he reads this and creates this for me. (I know he'd cut me in an equitable idea fee).

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

The Tornado Ball

Picture a ball about as big as a recliner. It is clear, made out of something like Lexan or an acrylic dense enough to stop a close range .45 cal. bullet. Inside the ball a metal framework is built that a "video game recliner" like chair is mounted to this frame that works in such a way that even if the ball spins...the seat doesn't move much..and within the ball much of it was filled with something dense like an airbag that an airplane might use to land on the water, but this airbag is filled with some material more absorbing than air except for the area around the view. and door access.

A tornado comes...you climb in it, lock the door, turn on the inboard video cam, tighten all your straps and bam! it hits your house. You are shielded from all the debris it doesn't penetrate the ball. The winds lift you and you sail round and round this twisting hurricane...but not dizzily because the seat spins very slowly and moves very little...even if the ball is being spun violently.

You'd probably see gory sights, cows, cars, people, cats and dogs, and eventually plan on getting thrown pretty violently into something..at whatever speed the wind in that hurricane is spinning. But this crash ball is prepared for just that. It would be a "tornado ball" and many people would use them for protection. Especially with ever increasing RV parks...which is where our economy and life style is at this point rapidly increasing numbers. This Tornado Ball would offer protection. Keep the prices affordable.

Eventually as they prove safe, areas in the tornado alley would become high tourist season during tornado's most active months...people who would try to "ride the wave", or have their own video of their own "tornado ride".

Someday it may be hard to believe that I wrote this way back in 2009.

Electric car simple wondering

Personally, unless I've been mislead, it is a well established fact that cars can run great on hydrogen and that hydrogen is easily created from a renewable resource and doesn't omit the same dangers in emissions. This is one of those big "Duhs! mankind will look back on us for and see that we were so something that we knew these facts and it took us decades and decades to make the transition. Weird too that even all those "evil" terrorist producing countries are bankrupt if we switch over to hydrogen by say...end of next year?

In fact like Hitler had the common Folks-wagon designed for the common man...I believe we have government employees who could come up with and produce a dependable durable design and start production...and put these things out at a cost that covers the expenses involved so it is deficit neutral or even could include a marginal profit to help lower income tax. Private markets like Ford or Chevy could compete making whatever style and fancies they want but their would be the "citizen made" cars dependable, durable, plain, sturdy hydrogen cars no model change in years to come, just improvements and corrections...and most of the time upgrade kits would be available to people of earlier versions but the car would be the same so parts would be cheap and abundant.

But all that aside for some reason we will probably have to go through an "electric car" period because we thought of it before going hydrogen. So I'm wondering why can't an "electric car" have a small hydrogen/diesel/whatever motor driving an alternator via using advantages of multiple gears or centrifugal clutches or even hydraulic assisted alternators so this very small moped like fuel efficient engine could be used to run the alternator and keep the batteries at or nearly fully charged as a person drove down the road.

Doesn't that just make sense? Lots of good old country fishermen have electric trolling motors on their little flat bottom boat, but they also have a plywood mounted alternator and lawn mower engine...with pulleys and belt...to charge that trolling motor battery if they need to.

Same thing.

Monday, September 28, 2009

Helping People see a greater life

Recently in an attempt to encourage a friend to take the plunge and become as physically fit as you can other than the body parts that don't work of course.

Still having a ways to go myself the little pep talk motivated me at least to restart yet again...a regular exercise program. So the attempt had some good results even if I'm the only one that benefited from the pep talk.

What I could envision for them was how great it has been for me to lose the 65-70 pounds. The increase in "feel good" days. The increase in spontaneous energy like to jump up and do something. And even though I've had my self esteem/ self image trashed and thrashed quite a bit these past some odd years...when a person gets this one critical sector...the body...feeling its best...ahhh what a charge!!

I personally know it is there waiting for whosoever will.

Kind of reminds me how my older brother is always trying to get me to believe not only that I "can" make a good living in the internet world...but that I will be awesomely put at ease once I've done the projects and will kick myself for not having just done that sooner, not believing why I couldn't see how easy it was.

So yes...sadly, I do understand the dampening impact of doubt. But taking it by faith, or hope...I don't want to feel what I sensed in my friend "ya..i know i know but deep down i just can't picture that joy you speak of and me actually making it happen". So, I'll be working on my writing project today. And hopefully I'll have hot water for washing dishes today and getting this little camper cleaned up. Amazing how a person just has to include cleaning as their "piddling around" to stay at it enough to keep a small place clean.

Hope all will take a step towards the life of their dreams today.

Recluse Launches Week

Ma said my lack of internet presence was indicating I was becoming a recluse. Think I've always tended that way anyhow...LOL. Ok shortly after 5am while it was in the mid 60's almost...stars showing plainly overhead, I was walking briskly down my walking path, sometimes jogging or running for 10 cement squares, then walking..stopping once on the way out to do 10 pushups..and once on the way back...mixing jogging, walking, sprinting HA HA my sprinting I'd still need one of those slow moving vehicle triangles to warn those walking up behind me. Pitiful start but a start. A good 40-45 minute range moderation cardio.

Then I came home and straight away headed up the hill to the camp showers. Plenty of hot water, clean, well lit shower, good pressure, tall ceiling. Hot shower felt good, cleanliness felt good.

Then I headed back to my camper, its daybreak now, and I've gotta cut this short or else I'll burn the hamburger I'm making for breakfast.

Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Urgent or Important?

My oldest brother has patiently continued to give me advice through the years, some of it I've taken and regretted, some I've ignored and regretted, and some I've actually done and appreciated. Actually all of it has been appreciated. But the latest challenge he has tasked me with is separating the urgent (ie...appointments, things you MUST do today) from the important (ie..things that really matter towards getting your life where you want it).

One project per month gets to occupy the important spot...and it must be stayed on till completed. The "urgent" becomes relegated to a more minimal position (quite the opposite of conventional thinking) and needs to occupy as little of the day as possible while the primary focus is on the "important".

Now with my hearing loss, and especially with my ex (after becoming physically violent a second time which I assured her and all who were concerned about me would be the last) leaving with my hearing aids, cash and favorite statuettes...along with disabling the phone I could hear best out of...it is entirely possible some of his advice has been misheard. Be that as it may, what I "heard" seemed to me to be extremely accurate advice.

He also warned me that it required vigilance or diligence because the natural flow is to persist on the urgent until too tired to do the important and thus another day gone.

While I might make excuses for myself since I've had a tremendous amount of "urgent" this past few days in trying to move, change passwords, close accounts, open accounts, update records with new phone numbers, get a new phone, contact people to advise of my new number and a literal "hard and long as you can go" pace...since the whole uproar took place Saturday night and this is being written at the end of Wednesday...I still am aware that his "warning" is happening full blown at breakneck speed and even though the "urgent" list has been quite successfully mastered thus far, the "important" project (finishing the book I'm writing) has gone with very minuscule achievement.

Thursday though...my remaining urgent list is looking very small and Friday even smaller. So I'm really hopeful I will make myself get back to the important and plug away a good number of hours into it.

At Ma's reminder that I needed to update my profile photo here and another site, Pops took some pics and I've updated that. As I settle into what I hope is a long and successful bachelor life in a camper, and enjoy finishing some books and continue my employment applications...I'm anxious to really succeed at least this next day and the the day after that, etc..at devoting time and effort to the "important" with as much tenacity as I used in attacking the "urgent".

With any luck things will flow so well that I'll be back here in a few days to report great progress on my project. Thanks bro. don't give up, I'm a coming, I'm a coming...

Wednesday, September 02, 2009

A very nice beginning to Fall weather

Sitting on the porch facing the western sky and it is barely after 8am so the heat hasn't got here yet, just a breeze that feels like a quality air conditioner must be behind it. Life has calmed down a little and for that I'm ever so thankful. Personally I don't see the calm periods as brief reprieves between dramatic trauma, in my view of life the dramatic trauma are like forest fires...being on fire is not the "norm" for a forest and once it is put out, often the benefits to the forest are great, depending on how devastating the fire is.

My day to day life I orient myself to the peacefulness captured in my mind from childhood when so many many days were spent deep in a forest lying on my back near the top of a ridge just hearing the awesomeness of wind gently moving through the tops of very tall trees.

Home life is back to normal, once M80 discontinued the new medicine, the rage that had suddenly appeared and grew to a horrible outcome...almost immediately started dissipating and the peace and happiness is a tremendous relief. It is amazing to me what medications...or in this case an interaction between two medications, can do to a person, a family.

I've dealt with quite a few families that had violent eruptions caused by a variety of predictable ingredients like alcohol, methamphetamine, steroids...but as this experience has taught me...even well meaning physicians can whip out their RX pads and drastically change a person's life.

Thought my VA disability case was going to finally get started, the government sent me the requested paper work...but the only medical history they sent was from my enlistment physical. Amongst the other papers there was a page where they had checked off that before my discharge a complete physical was mandatory...though they never sent me for that physical or even told me about it. The VA rep said that should help my case since by not following through with that there is no ground for the government to claim "he was fine when he left here". With the clearance I had much of my records seem to be "elsewhere"...but the rep believes he will be able to get to it or he will get the state rep involved. Meanwhile he sent off a request for some very specific records and in a month or so they will either send him back the same thing they sent me...or hopefully...the records we need.

It has been a little over a year since I quit driving and yet my remaining hearing is still fading steadily away. While the locusts have grown louder !! (tinnitus) But mentally I've been progressing at interpreting that loud ringing as a "peaceful" and "natural" sound so it isn't as annoying as it use to be.

Hearing aids, now that is what is annoying. Makes my ears hurt to hear all that noise and for the minimal increase in speech distinction, they generally are not worth the literal pain. This set is either my 3rd or 4th set and I would say my last but a guy at the campground a few weeks ago had a set that he said really really made all the difference in the world...though his were close to $4000 and mine were around $1700 at a fraction above wholesale. The ear doctor was probably right though, he said with my type hearing loss there was a good chance hearing aids would not be of any benefit. Guess I'm still cheering for the last horse to pull into the lead on the last lap.

It is only in the mid 60's this morning so far so it is time to get hopping on my to do list. And for those of you who have my phone number I do have my old number back.
Speaking of which a bill collector just called me on it, seems I put an extra number into my bank account number when I paid my bill a week ago online and it through them off..LOL.