Not much of a post today

I'm too busy watching the stock market crashing after the house voted down the bailout package. So, if you follow the market it's been kind of a brutal day. Oh well, it's only money, right? On a lighter note I put a track on the SPs by Better than Ezra. I don't really listen to them now, but I liked them in the nineties. Picked that song because it reminds me of my favorite season... fall. I guess it's a personal favorite song and puts me in a good mood even when the dow drops almost six-hundred points.

Not sure if this is true...

But I thought it was worthy of a post anyway. This article is disturbing to me. I watched Super Size Me on DVD and say the bonus material stuff. As part of the bonus stuff he did something similar to this, but with the fries and they didn't change at all. Granted he kept them for a few months, not a dozen years... so my point is I'm inclined to believe this is the real (disgusting) deal.

Work is for suckers

A co-worker of mine is one of the people working to put on The Hairy Man Festival here in Round Rock. It sounds like fun, so if you're reading this and live (or will be )in the greater Austin you ought to check it out. Plus it raises food/money for people in the area. Unfortunately, like a sucker I've keeping my self groomed for and going to work when I could have just been growing it all out and won some prize money instead. Who needs a job (and respectability) when your nickname in high school was Teen Wolf? I obviously wasn't thinking ahead on that one.

Not to scare you too much

But I did find this a little troubling. I'm not trying to scare you out of flying either, it's still safer than driving. You all remember Jim Carey's lecture at the beginning of Dumb and Dumber (while he's driving the limo). I know it's bad to fall asleep if you're working at an office. Even worse if you're a doctor because someone might die, but at least it would probably be only one. Sleeping as a pilot... that's pretty bad. To me the craziest part is that it was both the pilot and the co-pilot. I guess they weren't smart enough or had the will power to have one say to the other "Hey man, I'm really out of it today. Could you cover while I sleep this one off?"

Here's an interesting map I found. The map shows the size of each state's economy, and puts the name of a country with an economy of the same size in that state in its place. For example, since I live in Texas my state has the same size economy as Canada. I thought this was cool (but I did study economics).

Politics alert, I'm back on the soap box

Alright, so I've said before that I really don't want this blog to be about politics... or at least not about me going off about the things I think. At the same time I think information is key, and as part of this I feel like if I find something useful, you all might find it useful too. I want to link to this debate. This was put on by a group called intelligence squared I think this is really informative. I'm not going to lie if you want to read the transcript it's over eighty pages, so if you're serious about this you'll need to set aside a good thirty minutes to an hour if you're going to read it (It's a transcript, so eighty pages will go quickly. At the same time bits of it are a somewhat technical so you may spend five minutes on one page and thirty seconds on the next). The debate deals with one of the key issues of the election, and one of the issues I feel that I understand least, health insurance. I really feel this debate is ideal to link to for me personally, because I feel both sides were well represented. I'm familiar with the work of several of the people who were involved, and I can tell you that even though I don't agree with them all that these are intelligent people. I know that everybody is busy, and as an economics major I might be more into this than the average American, but this is really time well spent to become informed on something like this. Like I've said before this is your money and your health (two things aspects of life I consider to be on the top of my list in importance) that are being debated. As far as the comments... I'm not sure if you guys will want to use those to express your opinions of the debate itself, or health insurance in general or what. I feel like as part of the blog I would prefer to leave my own opinions out, but that doesn't mean anyone reading this has to.

Also, I would encourage you to tell friends/co-students/workers, etc... any one you know who has an interest in politics at all to visit the Music Snobs(to get the link, or send them their directly to the site). I feel the information is that good, and would like to hear other people's impressions from the debate too. Hope you can all take time to look into this.

Science put to good work

A cure for cancer, who needs that when scientist can really get some work done. Click here to see what I mean. It's a song that is supposed to be the most annoying song ever. I actually thought it was kind of funny. It is way long though, so I didn't make it to the grand finale. The article also has a link to the "Most wanted song" which I think is also funny. Funny, because I would never want this song. Yikes. You'll have to give them both a listen and decide for yourselves.