Coke and Menthos

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Aids

Aids is a virus that has spread all over the world, mainly hitting Africa. But there was one thing that got me thinking, If a cell containing aids is heated to 60 degrees Celsius (not that much, our body is at 37 degrees) then the aids would die.
This got me thinking so I did a little research, sadly if you heat a body up to 43 or so degrees (core temperature), the person will die (there had to be a catch!). Then I thought about how the blood is cleaned (in hospitals), a tube is put through someone's arm, the blood comes out, gets heated, cooled, and goes back into the bloodstream, what if there was a way to do this for the body, being able to target individual cells and only heat them to kill the aids.
Thoughts and comments?

Labels: , ,

File extension library

File extension library is a site I use quite often. This site is useful to check what that file type is, and mostly what you can do with it. Having made movies, I have seen countless video files and have often wondered what these file types were, a quick search told me all about them! Also when you download different files you can always be wondering what the extension is, which is why I thought this would appeal to everyone. The site itself is nicely organized, its clear, fast, and quite simple to use. If ever you don't know what kind of file type you stumbled upon, just head there!
file extension pdf

Labels: ,

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Reality televisions shows

Are these really reality shows?
When I ask this question I really ask how real it is. I know that these shows feature real people and their real relations, but the thing is that these people are hand picked to not get along together.
I remember watching the Real World, and seeing that they put a person who is openly homosexual with another who is quite homophobe. These people are obviously buff and well they will basically get into a fight.
I believe this world is not real because it has been populated by people NOT chosen at random. This altars the personalities and therefore the relationships they would have.
What are your thoughts on this?

Labels: ,

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Good, long day

Well I had a great day today,
I started off the day quite early, at around 8 AM. It always feels like I have so much more time if I start of the day quite early. I just got my liscence this week and so I drove to go surfing, which was loads of fun.
I then got to a nice little surfing break, it was pretty warm out, so that was obviously nice.
The waves were about shoulder-head high (measured when the surfer is standing up) and were also crowded. I caught some good ones but it wasnt that great of a session, mostly compared to my last ones which were each more amazing then the other.
After that I headed home, I got caught in traffic and decided to take a side street instead of the main big street, well I regretted this decision when I had to turn back into the main street. It took me 20 minutes to get through 2 blocks, just to get me back into some more traffic. Anyways, I got home, ate, got dressed and all that and then headed down to my girlfriend's house by bike.
Well the bike ride was nice exept my bike scares me as it needs some repairing and the chain can basically derail whenever. It was really warm outside which I also loved.
After that I saw my girlfriend and stayed with her for a couple hours, that was quite enjoyable. She then had to leave so I headed back home on my bike. I stopped at a Rite aid to pick up a drink, got a great deal on it and just sipped it while basking in the sun on a bench next to the store. I just love stopping for half an hour or so and just relaxing. After that I passed by wallgreens, got some CD-r's to put some tunes on for car rides and now I am home, just relaxing.
Mmmmmm what a good day.

Labels: , , , , , ,

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Car shopping

Well, I got my liscence a couple days ago and now am car shopping.
I have been saving up for a car for a couple years now, and the time has come to spend that money!
I was wondering what kind of problems you encountered while car shopping, and tips you might have for me.
I am looking for a car thats big enough to fit surfboards (6 feet long) or simply has 4 windows that you can bring up and down (with that i can put the surfboard on the roof). I am also looking for something pretty cheap with good gas mileage and that is reliable.
I am pretty sure that with my funds i cannot fufill all of that, but I have been looking at Jeep Cherokee's, which have about 20 mpg and have a nice motor and you can fit basically anything in the trunk.
Picture (1990 model, I am looking for cars around that year because of the price):

Thursday, May 15, 2008

A bad day turned into a good one

Well today was not such a good day to start with and then got much much better.
The morning started off slow, I did not have much fun and had a test. Then things did not improve, and today is a long day as i get off at 5. Well I finish school and check my phone to see when the bus arrives, it is one minute. I quickly run out and get stuck in the middle of the street I had to cross, if I had made it I could catch the bus.
Well normally the bus runs every 10 minutes, so I check my phone again and notice the 30 minute wait in between buses.
Now the problem is, after that much wait, the bus is bound to be full and not let me in. I decide to start walking down to get to the bridge which is far away. All along I keep track of were the bus is. Turns out the 30 minute wait would have been a 45 minute wait. Well I walked pretty far and had to chose weather to walk through a huge park to the bridge or wait 10 minutes or so for a bus. Because I had already walked about 50 minutes, I decide to walk it out and what a wonderful trip it turned out to be! The walk to the bridge was about half an hour, the park was nice, I saw a huge abandoned building, beautiful views of the bay.
Well the rest of my day went well, and overall now, when I think about my day, it feels like it was a good day.

Labels: , ,

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Recruitment services and you

First of all I wanted to explain what a recruitment service is. A recruitment service is basically a company that links you to a company for you to find a job.
Now the thing is, you have nothing to lose by signing up on one of these sites.
These sites win money because businesses pay to be on their site and pay for the company to find them workers that could interest them. Now for these companies to work, they need a huge user base (many people wanting to get a job through the service). To be appealing to the workers they need to offer a free, well done service.
So when you sign up for these sites, you are the one who the service is trying to link to companies that want workers.
Now the question you should ask yourself is why would you not want to be contacted by companies that want you as their worker? It does not take long to get listed by these sites like that companies can contact you. In reality, these companies try to make their service as enjoyable and short as possible, to deliver you, the user, a pleasing experience.
Even if you do have a job, maybe you can find a better one, one that pays more or that you will enjoy more. You basically have nothing to lose by signing up for these sites.
I recommend trying out this site: jobs in finance

Labels: , , ,