Angry Writing

   you know how they say when you are mad you shouldn't say anything you might regret?
FUCK THAT.

   im pissed off right now and the only thing that cares are these keys. there is not a single person on this earth that fully understands me and my mind. i am not saying that my mind is anymore complicated than any other person's, but i am saying that there is no other that is so drastically misunderstood.

   not my friends nor my family even has a clue. my dad is the closest to understanding because his father is the source of our mutual problems. but, i am confident that even he, the one man who shares these vary things that he himself has passed down, does not fully understand. if you know me, i am sorry to say that you only know a small portion, and that portion is most likely the same one that everyone else "knows".

   there is a hidden majority of me inside that i rarely disclose. if you have witnessed this disclosure then you surely didn't understand it the way it was meant, because if you did i wouldn't have ever left your side since.

   this feeling of alienation is nothing novel to me, for i have grown used to it over years of introspection. i thought that fitting in was only important when you actually cared about fitting in. i am wrong. not fitting in is much harder than anyone who fits in could know (if you fit in you are laughing at this). one can not care about fitting in all they want, but the gap between those who fit and those who don't is still there and it is constantly getting wider. and let me tell you, its really lonely on my side.

aside: i love all of my friends and value our relationships very much for i wouldn't be me if it weren't for you.

I Miss My Team

   i just wanna compete again. i wanna go back to junior year and look through that face mask again. i want it all again. i want the sweat and the blood. i want the sprints, the super sets, and the plate workouts. i want the coaches' spit back on my face after he just got done telling me to put that fuckin' kid in the hospital. I want that controlled anger that I used to use. i want that competitive fire back; that one that drives you to do things you never would.
   one practice is all i need, i don't even need a game. just one practice with my team again would be all that i could ask for. i wanna practice til the sun goes down then turn those lights on that everyone used to hate and practice til the sun comes back up. i loved my team and i miss the security in knowing my boys wouldn't hesitate to flat back somebody i don't see. i remember when Carlos knocked himself out and tore the ligaments in that kid's neck because we always did the hitting, never took em. i remember freshmen year when Carey sent the quarterback out of the game screaming "i can't see anything". call me sick but i feed off that shit.

   The peoples effort to govern themselves has resulted in, for me, a mistrust of men and an utter reliance on my own ideas, beliefs, and thoughts. I realize the dangers of such solitude, but I have subconsciously determined the perils of people to be far greater than that of one man. I find that the gravity of our so called problems is far too much for the variety of human opinion, and I cannot find hope in any physical entity other than my bible.
   I am afraid I become what I never wanted to be: a budding conspiracy theorist with an empty trunk of trust and a thick canopy of paranoia for shelter. I have become an individual who is fearful of calculated fallacy and totally void of trust. My own family seems suspect to my suspicions. I feel as though I have been formed into a shape that I want to shed. In fact, being defined by a singular shape is the very thing I try to avoid.
   I'm tired of agenda's and being constantly being bombarded with various influences. I need reality and unfortunately I feel as though that is coming harder and harder to come by. When it comes to government and politics, I would rather spend my time "doing me" than worrying about what other people think. Cuz thats all it is to me is everyone's thoughts streaming by the public spotlight without any action. Is this the way to be?

Invisibility Cloaks: From Science Fiction to Reality

   The idea of invisibility cloaks is no longer a stretch of the human imagination, rather it has become another mere problem for man to solve. If we can.
   According to Alasdair Wilkins, a reporter for io9.com, there is, in theory, an "invisibility cloak that works in both space and time, shielding whole events from history itself."
   The latest development in 'invisibility technology' if you will, is what nationalgeographic.com calls a Space-Time Invisibility Cloak. "According to new research by British physicists, it's theoretically possible to create a material that can hide an entire bank heist from human eyes and surveillance cameras" (nationalgeographic.com).
   Excuse me!? Yes, you heard that right. Not only would the person committing the robbery be invisible, but both the robber and the entire criminal event would almost completely be erased from time and history itself. Almost.
   To realize the 'almost' part of the equation one must first understand how this cloak aims to render its preached invisibility.
   The concept is simple actually. We see our brain's interpretation of visible light coming through our eyes. Before the light reaches our eyes it hits the objects, people, and places we see and then hits our eyeballs at approximately 186,282 miles per SECOND. So, we actually see a slightly delayed image of our world.
   It is this delay that the cloak seeks to exploit. Basically, this cloak or material will slow down the light headed toward the observer, essentially delaying the images of whatever is to be hidden. Yes, the speed of light is constant, but it can slow down depending on the material that it passes through. In fact, researchers have slowed light down to a snail's crawl of 38mph.
   But the slowing of light must be carefully controlled to manipulate the time delay. Alasdair Wilkins describes the theoretical process well:

   "Let's say you're standing a mile away from an observer. You start slowly decreasing the speed of the light traveling towards the observer so that it's only traveling at 60 miles per hour, or a mile per minute. Since you're slowing the light down gradually, the observer won't be able to perceive the change. Once the light has reached 60 miles per hour, the observer is now seeing you as you were one minute ago. You've now created a one minute spacetime corridor. You've now got a minute to do whatever you want without the observer having any idea what you're up to."

   "Once your minute is up, you switch off the machine slowing down the light, it speeds back up, and the observer now sees you again as you are right now - or at least as you were a nanosecond ago. That minute is a temporally compressed blip that the observer cannot perceive."

   So cool right? I think so. Just the very thought of compressing a minute's worth of actions into an undetectable segment of time and virtually erasing it from history is absolutely mind blowing. But, wouldn't that history be your own memory therefore making it actual history? Maybe it would actually compress history, which is difficult to think about too. Now the question is how to make the 'invisibility machine' invisible, because it's no use if you wheel a heavy hunk of 'light-slowing' material in front of the security cameras before you disappear. Hmm...

Sources:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/07/110711-invisibility-cloak-events-space-time-bank-robbery-science/

http://io9.com/5691060/spacetime-invisibility-cloaks-can-hide-entire-events-inside-temporal-voids

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GOOGLE+: What Is It? And Is It Good?

   Following life's usual ironic fashion, Google's latest attempt in social networking seems to be blowing up Facebook, leaving some people scratching their noggins and wondering what the %@#! it is. As you may already know its called GOOGLE+. But, what you may have not known is that GOOGLE+ is projected to have the potential to "topple" Facebook. Will history prove consistent? Or will it be "third time's a charm" for Google after their last two major failures, Wave and Buzz (heard of them?)?
   According to Google's Official Blog: "Today, the connections between people increasingly happen online. Yet the subtlety and substance of real-world interactions are lost in the rigidness of our online tools."In this basic, human way, online sharing is awkward. Even broken. And we aim to fix it."
   In a sense both sites will be similar because GOOGLE+ is also basing its other features off a primary news feed, only they are labeling theirs the Stream. From there, the other four core elements will be called Huddles, Hangouts, Circles, and Sparks.

What Sparks may look like.

   Sparks is one feature that could be kind of cool. It's similar to StumbleUpon in that you can choose from a variety of interests, then receive videos, articles, pictures, etc. within that interest range. Obviously the option to share these interest will be easily accessible. However, there is always the risk that it could just become annoying spam.
   Now to the first, and maybe the coolest of the social elements, a Huddle. Huddles are usually meant to be short and quick meetings to convey some sort of information to several people, and that's essentially what these 'Huddles' are. They are group chats, in which all participants in the 'Huddle' can see what every other participant is saying. This could prove to be useful, when arranging an outing, party, vacation, you name it. It surely will be easier than juggling multiple friends over multiple text conversations. Okay, now from Huddles to Hangouts we go.
  Hangouts are about, well, hanging out with your friends. According to Google's demo, "Until teleportation arrives, it's the next best thing." Its basically a big group video chat in which everyone participating can see everyone else's live video; as if everyone is sitting in one big room. It seems like its just basic video calling. The difference is that you can have more than two calls in each chat, which apparently not all major services offer. We will see how that works.
  Now on to Circles. What are they? Well, they basically give you the ability to separate your friends into groups such as 'Band Mates' or 'Relatives'. " For example, you might want to catch up with your pals about your drunken Saturday night out, but you don't necessarily want your parents in your chat. You can keep your conversations separate by putting your contacts into 'circles' such as 'Work crew', 'Unimates' (www.pocket-lint.com). A simple click and drag is all you need to do to separate your friends into your specific 'Circles'.

What the 'Circles' page may look like

   GOOGLE+ also has some new privacy controls and is prepared for the mobile generation. "Supported by the Chrome, IE, Firefox and Safari browsers, Google+ will also be available on mobile devices - a vital element for any social networking platform"(www.pocket-lint.com). Learn more here.
   As of right now GOOGLE+ is currently testing the product with a soft launch, and only some are being invited to try it. To register for an early trial you can go to Google's sign-up page.
   So, what do you think (thanks for reading this far)? Are you going to give it a try? Upon review, it does seem to have some new features that could be pretty handy for our cyber generation. Circles, Hangouts, and especially Huddles could all have their own social niche they satisfy. Sparks could be really entertaining as long as it stays away from ads and things. However, it may be good to give it a second look considering it would most likely involve giving your information to Google, the world's #1 search engine and an information giant that is strapped with the power of the dollar. Besides, is it worth all the time waiting for your friends and contacts to slowly make the transition, if they even do? Is Facebook too far rooted in our time for any major change in social media sites?

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   Source: http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/40785/what-is-google-android-iphone-apps
  

Yao Ming Cuts It Short

 After a recent past riddled with injury Yao Ming , Houston Rockets center and face of NBA basketball in China, has decided to call it quits. Yes, he is one of the tallest to ever play the game, but he has decided to cut his career short according to Yahoo.com.

"He's going to retire now, according to Yahoo! Sports' Adrian Wojnarowski. The feet couldn't handle the man. What pair of feet ever could?"
Yao Ming was more than a hunk of flesh in the paint, he had skills, a solid low post game, and footwork better than half his country had on Dance Dance Revolution. He was big, his game was big, and so was his influence.
 Yao Ming's international status helped expand the popularity of American sports and the NBA further around the world. Though his jersey isn't even the number one NBA seller in China, he has undoubtedly brought American athletics to the doors of many.
 Unfortunately his body may have been more of a burden than a help, as the close to his career was dominated by chronic injury -- mainly dealing with ankles and feet --, which some say forced his hand on his recent decisions.
 "That frame was never worth it. Three initial seasons of playing over 80 games a year led to an average of 41 games a season between 2005 and 2011. A 77-game run in 2008-09 led to broken hearts amongst every basketball fan, as they watched him pull up lame on basic cable television on a Friday night, working as best he could to defeat the Lakers in the second round of the playoffs."

 He finally gets to move on.
 Yao was born on September 12, 1980 in Shanghai, China and would grow to become the first over-all pick in the 2002 NBA Draft.
The Houston Rockets picked him up and it is there he stayed until his decision. Through out his career in Houston, he averaged 19ppg and just over 9 rebounds/game, and certainly would have averaged more if his body held up.
  While the league and its other fans may not, I know I will sure miss one of the few asians in the league. 

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/Yao-Ming-is-retiring?urn=nba-wp6200