Relatively speaking...

So I travel a lot for races, I mean a lot. I swear I can recite the safety warning in both english and french while sleeping (and I almost failed french 9), but this much air time has got me thinking. I am slightly younger because of it.

Relatively speaking someone who is traveling at speed compared to a reference point it experiencing time slower then the stable reference point. This dilation is the principle of relativity. Thus because I travel a lot, therefore I am traveling at a faster speed then someone on a stable reference point i.e the ground my biological clock is a fraction of a fraction behind the said reference points biological clock, however as stated the difference is so fractionally small it pretty much is obsolete. for negligible results I would have to be traveling at, you guessed it, relativistic speeds, i.e. a percentage of the "c" the speed of light. However even in an extremely small and arguably unimportant way I am younger the the average population.... this hit me after 30 hours of no sleep

 

for those curious... this is what I listen to

Crazy good!!!

Aprils almost up, and I haven't blogged s*** all!

To anyone who might see this....

I am still alive (if you haven't noticed by the hilarious turtle video) but it has been too long and I feel compelled to write something. So in review of april everything has been well, and I am looking forward to next month. That seems to be all for the moment. I really don't have much to say in detail about it, In conclusion I will talk about a highlight of my month beside from the fact that it was my birthday, at a later point I might attach a video of this months highlight (yes the turtle was a highlight of march). so I went to the killers live at the SOFA, got a floor ticket, a T-shirt, and all I have to say for it was.... They are absolutely amazing live, they sound great. My floor seat managed to get me 20 feet back from center stage, If you ever get the chance go see them live, its well worth it.

I'm still alive!

thats right I'm still here, and here is something for you.

Think about this for a moment

Recently I have been reading around on the inter-tron about what started as fuel efficient cars, this lead to hybrid cars, then to plug in hybrids, full electrics, low mass vehicles, and up to hybrid bicycles. The final destination of my searching was what one bike can do. If every adult in the world rode a stationary bike for eight hours a day to generate electricity, they would crank out 80 gigawatts, the equivalence of 11 nuclear reactors, which is about enough to power roughly over a quarter of france, but still only half of 1 percent of our energy needs. However there is this new term which is called "negawatts", the effects of not using energy in the traditional form that we are used to, i.e. oil, and petroleum products. If each american driver cycled to work just one day a week, the US would cut there persian gulf oil imports in half! Now I'm not too sure on the exact numbers but most everyone knows how to ride a bike, and a majority of that own a working bike. Just looking at these numbers if two days cycled persian oil is cut out completely, three days canadian tar sands cut by a third. For five days, a standard monday to friday job, the US is no longer dependent on foreign oil. Now I think it is going to be pretty close to impossible to get every working person in america to do that. However just thinking about what is possible is amazing, and all it takes is a bike. 

On a lighter note

After a few posts of negativity I think it is about time for some positive news. I vaguely overheard recently that there is some break through in science which allows people who are normally allergic to peanuts to not eat them without the often fatal side effects. Personally I think this is awesome, peanuts, especially peanut butter is amazing, I could not see myself living without it. The same goes for shellfish, and the majority of seafood. 

If your not going to listen to the "don't do drugs" lesson, at least give me a go

So I have been sick for the past two weeks, and it absolutely sucks monkey balls. Kids! don't get sick, you'll thank me someday for this lesson, or come to the realization at the worst possible moment that "dammit, he was right, it does suck monkey balls".  That is all.