Every once in a while, I think about the people who inspire me to be my best.
Most people would say one of their parents, or someone famous who is now long gone, but I won't. Not that I do not look up to my parents, they are great people, but they are not the inspiration behind my goals. Someone who is famous, and maybe did some great work in their life and had a few good quotes is not someone I'm looking to when the going gets tough either. NOT ME.
The people who inspire me are the people I surround myself with in my everyday life. I see them working hard to overcome their own hurdles in life, and do it without fear. These are the people who inspire me.
I am not saying all of my friends inspire me... not at all, some of them in fact are huge disappointments in my opinion. There are, however, a golden few, who truly make me excited to achieve even half of what they have.
I look at how much they have grown and I want to do just as well as them, or maybe even better. And I know if they can do it so can I.
People who love to learn and grow and share ideas. People who want to do well in their lives and know THEY did it themselves, those are who inspire me.
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
october 26th is no longer a good day in history.
I love getting that call from a friend I haven't talked to in years, and we used to be really close, and do everything together, then I come to find out, they are calling to get another friends number... and that is all. Not even a "Hey how are you?" Just a "Can I get so and so's number?" Ya sure here it is.
Also, Happy Birthday to someone I used to know.
Also, Happy Birthday to someone I used to know.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Time.
If you move fast enough, and I mean faster than sound and light and most things we can kind of wrap our heads around, I am told then and only then, you can "out run" time.
It's hard to explain, because it is pretty much impossible (because of our lack of the proper technology) but theoretically it is possible. Basically, if you go fast enough, you will go faster than time.
Time is also moving, but at a constant rate, that never changes, but time isn't a real thing, it is just a unit of measurement that we have created, like an inch or a kilogram. So our time line of time is always going the same "speed" so technically all we need to do is go faster than time.
Speed is already a graph of its own, it is a measurement of distance vs. time: How far do you move in a specific amount of time.
SO, let's say you travel 100 miles in 1 second (fast, I know) but you start to accelerate, so now you are going 1,000 miles in 1 second, or 100 miles in some fraction of 1 second, now you start going even faster, let's say 100,000,000 miles in 1 second, or 100 miles in an even smaller fraction of 1 second. Technically Time can go to the infinitely small, but realistically it cannot, so if you go fast enough, you will be going that 100 miles in such a small fraction of 1 second that time cannot get any smaller and we will be going faster than time!
When they send astronauts into space, inside of the astronauts' ship, is a nuclear clock, and on earth is another nuclear clock, they are both set to exactly the same time, down to an infinitely small fraction of a second. Well when the astronauts come home, the clocks are compared, and they are no longer the same exact time. The difference is very small, but it is still a difference. The astronauts' clock was a few minutes 'younger' than the clock left on earth. Since getting a space ship into space takes pretty high speeds, the astronauts travel faster than time, at least a tiny bit, enough to make a difference on the clocks!
Pretty cool shit.
It's hard to explain, because it is pretty much impossible (because of our lack of the proper technology) but theoretically it is possible. Basically, if you go fast enough, you will go faster than time.
Time is also moving, but at a constant rate, that never changes, but time isn't a real thing, it is just a unit of measurement that we have created, like an inch or a kilogram. So our time line of time is always going the same "speed" so technically all we need to do is go faster than time.
Speed is already a graph of its own, it is a measurement of distance vs. time: How far do you move in a specific amount of time.
SO, let's say you travel 100 miles in 1 second (fast, I know) but you start to accelerate, so now you are going 1,000 miles in 1 second, or 100 miles in some fraction of 1 second, now you start going even faster, let's say 100,000,000 miles in 1 second, or 100 miles in an even smaller fraction of 1 second. Technically Time can go to the infinitely small, but realistically it cannot, so if you go fast enough, you will be going that 100 miles in such a small fraction of 1 second that time cannot get any smaller and we will be going faster than time!
When they send astronauts into space, inside of the astronauts' ship, is a nuclear clock, and on earth is another nuclear clock, they are both set to exactly the same time, down to an infinitely small fraction of a second. Well when the astronauts come home, the clocks are compared, and they are no longer the same exact time. The difference is very small, but it is still a difference. The astronauts' clock was a few minutes 'younger' than the clock left on earth. Since getting a space ship into space takes pretty high speeds, the astronauts travel faster than time, at least a tiny bit, enough to make a difference on the clocks!
Pretty cool shit.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Secret Dinner Society
Remnants of Thai night: some beautiful Thai basil and some spicy hot Thai chili's.
Good company, some new friends and some old, gathered to help make and enjoy a Thai dinner, oh and some Thai beers!!
Although Thai night did not go the way I originally planned it to go a little under two years ago, it was a very nice evening, and I think I am happier with how it turned out, then how I envisioned it some time ago.
The food needs some work, but it was not too disappointing. I had my favorite sous chef with me (I need to come up a new word for what to call Dana, because sous chef implies he is literally "below" me and he is not, he is beside me, but for lack of a better word, I will just say partner (which isn't a bad word, because that is exactly what we are in the kitchen: partners!))
I really enjoy cooking. I am not a master of things I make, but I always want to improve on what I do. And I love having Dana in the kitchen with me, because we are always giving each other feedback and bouncing new ideas off each other. It is so much fun. Even when the food I make isn't good, in my opinion, I am still happy.
I always say to people who don't like to cook that "if you like to eat you should at least know to cook"
I am always inspired by food, and I like that!
Good company, some new friends and some old, gathered to help make and enjoy a Thai dinner, oh and some Thai beers!!
Although Thai night did not go the way I originally planned it to go a little under two years ago, it was a very nice evening, and I think I am happier with how it turned out, then how I envisioned it some time ago.
The food needs some work, but it was not too disappointing. I had my favorite sous chef with me (I need to come up a new word for what to call Dana, because sous chef implies he is literally "below" me and he is not, he is beside me, but for lack of a better word, I will just say partner (which isn't a bad word, because that is exactly what we are in the kitchen: partners!))
I really enjoy cooking. I am not a master of things I make, but I always want to improve on what I do. And I love having Dana in the kitchen with me, because we are always giving each other feedback and bouncing new ideas off each other. It is so much fun. Even when the food I make isn't good, in my opinion, I am still happy.
I always say to people who don't like to cook that "if you like to eat you should at least know to cook"
I am always inspired by food, and I like that!
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