Ok, we have had enough...

As much as we at the crazy enjoy a good conspiracy theory, and unusual and unsolved mysteries, we have to say we are fed up with this crazy 2012 stuff. We have all heard some nutcase spout the extremely insane falderall about the Mayan Calendar ending in 2012. So ok, let's settle this once and for all. In the Temple of Inscriptions in Palenque, there is a Mayan carving dated to Oct 21, 4772. Now if the Mayans believed that the world was going to end in 2012 why would they have carved that date into that rock. I'll tell you why, because the Mayan calendar doesn't end in 2012, that date was considered a change in cycle for the Mayans, one they would have celebrated had they been smart enough, or strong enough, or simply lucky enough to have survived to this time.
But the all wise all seeing Mayan civilization has been wiped from the face of the earth. So we here at the Crazy are preparing for the great cycle changing celebration of 2012. (The Mayans would have wanted it that way.) So break out your Naranjo's and prepare for celebration. (Oh by the way the Naranjo was a penis perforator used to cause the penis to bleed for the gods. Those Mayans were a wild and crazy bunch.) So stop the crazy 2012 stuff, please or we will come after you with our Naranjo's. And don't even get us started on that Niburu crap. Just had to get this out of our system, ciao for now.

Trying to fill time..

I noticed recently that I don't like waiting. It actually came as a surprise to me. I always thought of myself as a patient person, but recently it seems I have been spending a lot of time waiting. Waiting for the bus, waiting for someone to show up, waiting for a phone call. And when you are waiting you can't do anything else. Read a book? Listen to the Radio? I'm a person who once he picks up a book doesn't like to put it down until I've finished it, but in the swirling chaos that is my life that is impossible. I've had to relegate my reading to bathroom visits and quick glances at past read books and magazines. You can only read a copy of Readers Digest or Time magazine so many times before you start feeling the whole world is full of anecdotal idiots and religious fanatics. It's gotten so I'm not sure that "This happened to me" isn't my life story. (Remember the time I fought off a grizzly bear with a dust devil and styling mousse.) And the Radio gets switched on for about 20 minutes a day while I do dishes. (Actually longer than 20 minutes as It seems to take forever to find anything worth listening to. First I turn on Glenn Beck and listen to him for five minutes or so and then spend the next half hour hiding under the table waiting for the socialists or communists, or worse yet ATHIESTS to come through my door. (Glenn Becks paranoia seems to be growing exponentially.) Then I turn on Rush Limbaugh, and if I'm lucky and time it just right I can turn it off before I hear him say a word. (One of the great pleasures of my life is shutting off Rush Limbaugh.) And the point. There is no point, I hate waiting. And that's what I'm doing right now. And now that this is done, what next? Well... anyone?

Sometimes mundane is all you get...

We haven't been spending a lot of time posting here at the crazy for a while, sometimes life gets in the way. It comes down to "What is more important, posting on the blog or doing the laundry?" and a much as we would like to say it's posting on the blog the truth is the laundry needs doing. As do the cat boxes, the lizard cage needs cleaning, the lizard (Saura for those of you who have read the blog all the way through.) needs feeding, and of course we need to put Connal on the bus, and get Connal off the bus. We need to do dishes, sweep floors, grocery shop, make dinner, (Usually Lisa does this, sometimes she lets me help.) Then of course there is the family time, where we share our daily lives and experiences, try to engage Connal in something other than T.V. and video games. Some days we spend more time worrying than doing. Worrying about money, worrying about Connal's cough. (Took him to the Doc yesterday, mild bronchitis, it seems his room is too dry, got to fill the humidifier more until summer comes.) Worrying about Lisa's health, rheumatoid arthritis is a bitch. Worrying about my weight. There is a peanut butter Akka (A minor goddess or female spirit from Finland.) who tempts me every day. (The siren call of the peanut butter sandwich calls to me in the night, and I must resist, but when she teams with the Hunger Gnome I admit my will is weak.) The point of all this is that sometimes when we sit down to write on the blog, life gets in the way, which is as it should be. So if you sit down to read this and find it filled with details of duties and diatribes of dust. Bear with us, such is life, and we wouldn't have it any other way. Ciao for now.

The truth is out there... somewhere...

Our friend Greg recently pointed out to us that you can pretty much get information to support any argument or any point of view on the Internet. And after spending some time trying to do that we were forced to agree. One example is the differing views any search of the Internet finds when researching Evolution vs Creation, (which for some odd reason most people think are mutually exclusive) A simple search for those terms in any search engine brings forth about three and a half million web pages expounding multiple given theories about creation and evolution, (including articles mentioning Greek and Roman gods, ancient astronauts, and the flying spaghetti monster.)
As far as we at the crazy can tell there are millions of intelligent people out there trying to answer the very same questions that humans have asked since they first noticed the night sky. Unfortunately there are also millions of not so intelligent people out there trying to answer the same questions. So how does someone decide what is true and what is not when dipping our toes in the decidedly cold water of the Internet stream. The better half of the writing team at the crazy mentioned something which we think can be a clue, in reading a facebook posting that held a forceful opinion she said absolutes are generally a mistake. (or words to that effect.) And this half of the crazy crew agrees. Many of the web pages we stumbled across in our coffee sucking bleary eyed Sunday morning news and views search surprised us with the absolute authority they convey. So try to keep an open mind. At least try to look at an idea from the other persons point of view before you form your own opinion. And also remember that there are some questions that simply don't have a clear cut answer. Questions like "Is there a god?" or "What happens to us after we die?" may never be answered to each of our satisfaction. Some people know there is a god. And any scientist can tell you what happens to a human body after death. But the person who knows there is a god won't be able to prove it to you in any concrete way. And the scientist who can tell you about putrefaction and decay can't tell you what happens to the id (or soul if you like) of what used to be a person. So hopefully our readers will forgive us when we post our absolutes when working on our blog. We will try to keep an open mind, really we will, but like all the millions of people out there feverishly typing away on blogs and web pages throughout the world, we have an opinion. And sometimes that opinion will color our commentary. But if you have a different opinion than ours, please let us know. Maybe we can learn something. Because we here at the crazy do believe that the search for knowledge can never be wrong. Just a thought, Ciao for now.

Another one of those days....

We all have THOSE mornings sometimes, slept on the wrong side, air too dry and sinuses stuffed with cabbage (or that's what it feels like anyway) bones ache, muscles sore, stumbling blindly to the coffee pot in the hope of some respite from the grogginess. Forgetting to turn on the coffee pot so we have to wait another 5 minutes. Sitting down at the computer to read the news, whoops, grabbed the wrong glasses, can't see crap with these. Then finally getting a hot cup of coffee, and sitting looking out the window as the sun begins to warm the yard, the water is just beginning to drip from the rooftop as the snow melts just a little. Stepping onto the porch, it's still quiet, a few crows off in the distance making a little racket but nothing too annoying. Already warming up out there. Not bad for March in upper michigan. Hmmnn this coffee is good, ahh my honey is beginning to move around upstairs, feeling better already, just a matter of attitude. It doesn't take much to make a bad morning into a good one, just don't sweat the small stuff folks. Or maybe, pay more attention to the little gifts that life gives you. Ciao for now.

Part II of good news..

Daniel Nocera (The Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy and Professor of Chemistry at MIT) claims to have developed a way to remove hydrogen from water using solar panels. The claim is that he can remove 30 Kilowats of energy from about a liter of water, in about four hours time. If all this holds up to be true, people may soon have their own energy producing plant in their own homes.
Could you imagine the possibilities, getting off the electric and gas grids and powering your home with water and the power of the sun. No batteries required to store the energy, and in areas where a lot of rain or snow falls the energy production would be almost free. We can only hope this is true.
We at the Crazy are crossing our fingers. (And toes) and any other cross able digits. Ciao for now.

And now... Newtons's Balls!?!

Here it is, Friday morning, Connal is off to school, and sweety is sleeping peacefully upstairs. And with time to drink some coffee (with caffeine this time thank you.) And read the news (a lot of which is bad.) We came across a few news stories that brightened our spirits almost as much as the warmer weather and copious sunshine have done for us lately. The first story is probably going to be a bit confusing, but believe us, it's worth the brain bend. It seems that Masahiro Hotta as found a way to transmit energy from one point to another, without losing any of the energy potential, or in any way heating the conduit between the two points. Which is a chain of subatomic particles. (Think Newtons Balls, nooo not THOSE balls, (you people really should clean up your minds a little) Remember those balls on chains that executives have on their desks, where you swing the one ball and it hits the next causing a chain reaction which causes the last ball in the line to swing out and back again. Those are called Newtons Balls. use that as an image when thinking this through.) Hotta has used Schroedingers wave function (explained a bit in an earlier blog entry) to design a way to transmit energy from point A to point B at the speed of light. You can imagine the potential uses for this idea... they are unlimited. It works like this. (Prepare for serious brain bending) a string of entangled ions oscillate back and forth in an electric field trap, Measuring the state of the first ion injects energy into the system in the form of a phonon, a quantum of oscillation. performing the right kind of measurement on the last ion extracts this energy. Since this can be done at the speed of light (in principle), the phonon doesn't travel across the intermediate ions so there is no heating of these ions. The energy has been transmitted without traveling across the intervening space. Hotta is calling this teleportation. But since the potential energy is still sitting on the first ion, we think it should be called creation. Those of you who have ever watched Star Trek (and we know who we are don't we.) Remember the food synthesizer. The idea Masahiro Hotta has come up with could actually be put to such use. (Ok, we understand how far fetched the whole idea sounds, but the potential is there. The technology is not.) It may be centuries before the full impact and effect of Masahiro Hotta's idea come to full fruition. But we at the crazy are certainly pleased to see these sorts of ideas being put to use. I guess we don't have time to get to the second article of good news today. So we will leave that for another blog entry. Just more of this weird and wild world we live in. May quantum particles fill your brain. (Oh wait, they already do.) Ciao for now.

Bleary eyed meanderings after a long night...

It seems the sandman has fully abandoned our house. Sleep is rare in coming and fleeting at best.
Spent some of the night reading translations of the Sanskrit tablets from India, One was particularly interesting. In a section of the Bhagavata Purana which dates to about 5000 BC. (And again mentions events taking place thousands of years before.) They mention flying chariots made of metal that shoot light beams which destroy any object they are pointed at. The airships were called Vimanas. They would fight air wars, and destroy entire cities. The Vimanas were piloted by the kings and princes of India which according to the Sanskrit tablets took place long before recorded history. What are we to think of this? Did the people of earth have technology lost in time? Were they simply science fiction stories, sort of a pre bronze age Buck Rogers, or Flash Gordon? Was it Aliens? (Had to throw that last one in... we can certainly see how Eric Von Daniken made his claims if he based them on these writings.) The human imagination knows no bounds, but it is interesting is it not? Food for thought, ciao for now.