Saturday night's main event: The fever returns

Just another Saturday night in parenting land.

It’s funny, my wife and I always have a tiny sense of dread about Saturday nights. It’s because whenever in the 20-month-history of our son Ayden’s life, he has been sick, teething, went to emergency rooms, or broke legs right before the weekend. And this weekend, yet again, is no different.

He’s running a low grade fever all day. Drinking lots of fluid, he was eating pretty well, and he was watching Caillou all day—listen, ALL DAY! ALL DAY!!! It’s his comfort so mom and dad let it happen. And now, he just fell asleep yet again with a fever running up. Motrin/Tylenol and all that stuff is ready for the night. I may turn in early in case he wakes up… then I’ll play Caillou yet again and listen to John B Wells on Coast to Coast AM in one ear. I think he’s talking about destruction coming with planet Nibiru. So while I comfort my son I’ll be scared to death at conspiracy madness 2012. Can’t wait.

Just hope the fever goes away. It may be a long night. But hopefully a long night of sleep. As parents out there may know though, it could also be a long night of AM cries and highs .. Wish us all luck here in the mountains of the coal region….

Sunset ..

Father and son enjoying the air.. Teletype Ayden was under the weather today with new teeth coming out. But he’ll never miss a chance to throw rocks

Awesome foliage with a shine from the sun

Blue above..

Lazy gray autumn day. Leaves are falling fast. Kind of not ready.

I’m highly jealous of my son Ayden. He got a brand new chair.

So why don’t they make chairs like this for adults, with adult things? I bet you’d sit in a chair with DEXTER if it was sold. But what about Honey Boo Boo?

I say give adults full body pajamas with feet and fabric chairs with images! Live like a kid again..

Mix a controversial call with really angry baseball fans and you’ll get this: A mess of a stadium, debris and garbage flying through the air onto the field, and nervous players hoping not to be hit with beer cans.
What a way to shine, Atlanta. More from CNN and more from ESPN..

This is actually a pretty interesting NBC story about how and where Americans tuned into the presidential debate. Over beers and laundry.. and lots of other places as well. Sixty-one million folks watched. 

A moment captured in time.

More on that theory that you're a projected simulation, not one that is real

There has been a popular thought lately among folks with astute degrees and high intelligence: The theory that we are not real, that life is just a projection, that humans and the race we have lived and are living is just a big quantum experiment. Or as Nancy Evans Bush said on Coast to Coast AM last week, we are a joke..

The newest example of this thought process comes from the NEW SCIENTIST, which places on its cover and talks in great detail in its issue, about what exactly reality is. The publication is also devoting a special section to that question on their website as well..  And it’s a great question. Think of the implication, the deep rooted potential, and the mighty ability to chaos that comes with the answer…

To me, reality is my own. I know my reality, I know my family, friends.. I know my job.. I know my hobbies, my fears, and my hopes. I don’t really know yours. And you don’t know mine. So reality, in a sense, is specific to the person having that reality. Do we share one ultimate reality? Maybe. Although atheists may say no, as will Christians, as will Muslims, and as will Mormons—along with any other religion, sect, tribe, or tribulation. Reality will be specific to them. And to someone who hallucinates on regular basis, well, it’s safe to assume few will ever be able to get a grip on their reality.

But what if we are nothing? What if we are a bit of bytes and coding in some quantum computer, somewhere out there..? Somewhere here? What if we are fake. Just projections. Just manifestations of software permitted to just ‘run with it’?  It may be difficult to imagine, but some are imagining just that: The very real potentialreality as we know it is just a computer simulation.

According to this dispatch in Kurzweil profiling the NEW SCIENTIST article, the notion that we could be computer simulations arose from black holes. Here is how they wrote it:

This bizarre idea arose from an argument over black holes. One of the fundamental tenets of physics is that information cannot be destroyed, but a black hole appears to violate this by swallowing things that contain information then gradually evaporating away. What happens to that information was the subject of a long debate between Stephen Hawking and several of his peers. In the end, Hawking lost the debate, conceding that the information is imprinted on the event horizon that defines the black hole’s boundary and escapes as the black hole evaporates.

This led theoretical physicists Leonard Susskind and Gerard’t Hooft to propose that the entire universe could also hold information at its boundary — with the consequence that our reality could be the projection of that information into the space within the boundary.

There are huge implications if you go down this road. If you strip humans of the flesh and bones we think we have, take away those memories and chalk them up to simulated experiences, and just say it’s all not real but a figment of some programmer, well.. that is massive. Are we just mindless bits and bytes living out some creepy SIM CITY type of game? How does the game end? Who started the game? …and if someone did truly start it, could consider that being or beings to be “God” ?? 

What role would free will play in a simulation? Would our SIMS and avatars be permitted to even possess such a gift?

And finally, if we are just flowing through some binary processor, what can one make of love and hate? What can you say about tears? 

Think of it this way: If tomorrow irrefutable evidence turned up that we truly were not real but instead a part of a quantum program, many people on this planet (which would not really be a planet in reality) would cry. They would have real wet watery tears flowing. Or would they? Permits the programmer would allow those tears to flow. And if he clicked to stop them… we’d just vanish with the program. 

For those who believe that we are in this world of fraud, I certainly hope the programmer or the god doesn’t accidentally walk by his desk and unplug the computer by accident. 

Finally, I say this: We make fake world, we grow fake plants in Farmville (does anyone play that still?) and we have pretend avatars. What if those avatars come alive, have feelings, and think they are real too. We suddenly become God. To them. But who would be God to us? The one who made us..whether it’s flesh and bones or endless 0s and 1s of data. 

Fascinating questions. Profound answers.

But none to be found!

What is reality? What are we? Maybe nothing more than a gigantic computer program.. A quantum sized fraud that forces us too believe we are real even though we are just projected

What is reality? What are we? Maybe nothing more than a gigantic computer program.. A quantum sized fraud that forces us too believe we are real even though we are just projected

theatlantic:

The cover of next week’s issue of The New Yorker.

Interesting cover.. Says a lot

What a mix!! Speculators, gas prices and shortages, and an election year

Get ready for five bucks a gallon..

What a mix!! Speculators, gas prices and shortages, and an election year

In 2004 George Bush was accused of having a listening device in his back during the debates, and now this year Mitt Romney is accused of using a cheat sheet

However the campaign says it was a handkerchief

Others may respond that only the elite use handkerchiefs

This is all getting to be too much. Wake me up when November ends

In 2004 George Bush was accused of having a listening device in his back during the debates, and now this year Mitt Romney is accused of using a cheat sheet

Imagine!!

The debate rehash: A blown chance.. or purposeful tactic?

While I am certainly not a paid analyst that regularly opines on politics are strategies behind candidates surges or splurges, I will say this: The debate the other night was one of the most horrendous public appearances for the President in years. Some are chiding him for losing touch.. losing his fire in his tiny string bean belly. Some are arguing that Michelle Obama was angry the debate fell on their wedding anniversary. Chris Matthews almost had a coronary on MSNBC afterwards, in his anger that Obama doesn’t watch his program on that network with the 5,000 or so others that do. And finally, an immense Al Gore theorized that Obama’s brain was hit because of Denver’s altitude. So with all of these theories, I think mine will be just as good!!

I think President Obama purposely blew the debate. I think he purposely didn’t have the fire in his belly. I think he knew that the unemployment number that was released today was going to be good (And it was, if the numbers are credible, unemployment is now 7.8%) .. President Obama may have felt that letting Mitt Romney win one for the Gipper was good. At the beginning. Get that victory out of the way, let Romney talk about Big Bird and unemployment, and just buy time until the Friday jobs report came out.. reinvigorate the campaign, let the media have a firestorm of positive stories, and come in to the next debate swinging.

That strategy in my mind makes sense. It works. Romney gets good press.. Obama gets shocked media people live on TV with wide eyes speculating about why he did so poor debating Mitt, the man the media think is a twit.

Because Obama knows that the media will come back home again. He knew the jobs numbers would be positive. He knew that there are two more debates. And he knows that October can bring many surprises.

What he may not have bet though is that 61 million people tuned in—the highest number since 1980, then 81 mil watched Carter square off with Reagan. And if 40 million or so don’t tune in to the next couple matches, perhaps the strategy of blowing the debate will work against the President. Time will tell.

I have a last theory, though, on Romney. I think they dug up the folks who did Ronald Reagan’s hair to do Romney’s. He looked like Reagan, in some weird way. He even seemed to want to sound like him. I don’t know if it was on purpose, or maybe it was the red tie, or maybe it was the stage, but Romney gave Republicans a taste of the visual past, looking like a President they loved. While Obama’s downed lips and nervous head nodding gave Democrats a burst of anger.

Perhaps the President needs a teleprompter? Remember in 2004 when people said George W. Bush had a device in his back for Karl Rove to tell him what to say? Perhaps President Obama was hoping somewhere in the audience Robert Gibbs would come to the rescue with a screen to give him answers.

But I think not. I think he gave the match early on to Mitt. And next time the President will win the debate. Third debate? I will not predict that one.

But I will make this final prediction: The Joe Biden/Paul Ryan debate will be a match made in heaven for political observers. It should be filled with nasty comments, fireworks, and verbal mutiny. Maybe a part of Biden’s entourage will be those biker chicks he got so friendly with….?

It’s all in the branding: G-Spirits, a liquor company, says alcohol will be poured down women’s breasts before being bottled. According to the company, every drop is poured.. Some calling it offensive…

More images (NOT SAFE FOR WORK)

I guess this could work. Until we see the ‘behind the scenes’ operations.. Factory conditions perhaps unclean? 

How many women are involved? Where are they from? Do they bathe beforehand? Are they French!? So many questions.. so many breasts.. so much liquor. 

Until answers come, I may stick to beer. 

Penthouse Club stripper ‘ruptured groom’s bladder at bachelor party after she slid down pole and landed on top of him’

Jesus surrounded by gays and transvestites creates firestorm among Serbians..

AND HERE I THOUGHT THIS WAS A BUYER’S MARKET!? THE AMITYVILLE HORROR HOUSE FOR SALE AGAIN, AND THE PRICE CONTINUES TO DROP.. 

The sellers insist it’s not demons but instead divorce driving them from the home..

But you may be able to argue that the demons the ruined the marriage, don’t you think? Just saying..