Whoa

I haven't posted since my class stopped requiring me to do so, however, I just saw a Geico commercial and felt the need to express that....either they are brilliant and beyond my head...or advertising is falling off the deep end...or perhaps it's that ever since I read Animal Farm pigs kinda creep me out.

Music

Have Fun

Every summer the list of fun experiences to have always falls short of having all of its items crossed off. Almost as if there was an obstacle attached to every plan made, wait, there always is, but if it's worth the experience, it's worth the struggle, whatever that may be. Well, for about 9 months college students scurry around meeting deadlines for a class here and a class there. School is great, but I would bet money that one of those summer times offers more lifetime knowledge than a 5 page double spaced paper. There is always time to do the things that are required but not desired, but never enough time to do the things desired. Turn the switch this summer.

I Kinda Want to Know What they Do

We are alien-like. We drive on highways at unnatural speeds with our minds conditioned to think it’s perfectly normal to be in a machine moving that fast. Not to mention all the streaks in the sky left by jets traveling at even more unnatural speeds. Now consider all the technologies required to make this happen. It is truly extraordinary what mankind has been able to fabricate in what really is a short amount of time. A farmer in the 1850’s would have thought it the end of the world if he saw the rigs used to put seed in the ground now. We even put man on the moon way back in 69, and somehow, it is claimed that one man, within a certain mountain range or two cannot be found. Ha!

Circus and Bread

Religion, a taboo topic of conversation in just about every realm of society. But hey, how bout them Huskers, or what about the Packers, and what player did what last week. People openly talk and disagree on this regularly, often times while they snack on something quick and easy. But when it comes to the topics that have more punch to them, and that actually have an effect on the way we live, everyone shies away. Modern day circus and bread?

String Theory

I recently gave up on the idea of a fourth dimension, I don't know if I ever actually believed it, but it always itched my curiosity. From time to time I'd read up on it or listen to lectures in hope of making the concept click. Well, just when I lost interest, I found this guy. He lays it out quite nice, but just don't care anymore. Check it out.

Peanut Butter

"Listen science, your attempts to discover the awesome, mysterious forces that formed and continue to shape our universe have nothing to do with religion. Keep your 'hard evidence' chocolate out of our 'personal faith' peanut butter. God found Adam under a cabbage leaf. Read the bible." -Stephen Colbert

Nothing against chocolate, it does serve its purpose from time to time. But if treats had an aura or character about them, chocolate would definitely be the deceiver. Something sneaky and sly, out to get ya.

Peanut butter on the other hand would have a peaceful mellow aura about it. Perhaps I am bias though, I am somewhat of a peanut butter connoisseur, or addict, perhaps both. And despite the many moments I've delighted myself with a mouthful of Extra Crunchy JIF, I hadn't become curious as to the origins of this ever palate fulfilling food paste. Until this morning.

To my surprise, evidence of the first peanuts being mashed to become a pasty substance dates back hundreds of years ago and is linked to the Aztecs.

Growing up in a traditionally Mexican household, peanut butter was a foreign food in the kitchen. Well at least that's what I thought, after this morning, I've found a cultural connection, or perhaps, just a loosely manipulated link that I will now employ to please and justify my cravings.