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Why I Dislike Cars

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 14:00 — 12.8MB) | Embed (Here are the rudimentary points.  Listen to the Audio blog for the full discussion!) I loathe, abhor, vehemently, dislike cars. Here’s Why: 1. Tragic Calamity and Death injuries flipped defensive driving stress 2. Financial Scam, Hoax, and...

Atheism FTW: How and Why Fabrications of Religion Occur

Atheism FTW: How and Why Fabrications of Religion Occur

Feb 26, 2012

Welcome to Sunday Mass…that is not Mass…Instead, enjoy your weekly, healthy prescriptive dose of Atheism! There are many reasons. The human species, being conscious and posessing a neocortex, has more awareness to question and to probe. What is that “giant orb in the sky”? People deduced that the solar system was heliocentric long before...

12 Classical Music Masterpieces: Dvorak’s Cello Concerto – Three Movements (Part 2 of 12)

12 Classical Music Masterpieces: Dvorak’s Cello Concerto –  Three Movements (Part 2 of 12)

Feb 21, 2012

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 20:51 — 19.1MB) | Embed Introduction All descriptions of the movements on this page are the sole property and work of John Thomas Kooz. Originally this page was simply a list of all the music that appeared in audio blog snippets (as intros or outros usually) around the Validate Your Life Network,...

OverClock! What is the “System Clock” on your Computer?

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:11:05 — 65.1MB) | Embed The system clock is another name for the speed of your Front Side Bus. Therefore, to understand what one means by “system clock” we’ll have to understand a few things.   The Triple Bus There are three main buses or electrical paths/roads/circuits...

Atheism FTW: What I Am and Am Not Criticizing About Religion

Atheism FTW: What I Am and Am Not Criticizing About Religion

Feb 19, 2012

Given that increase of understanding results in decrease of fear (and vice versa), Then an increase of understanding results in an increase of love (the opposite of fear) (and vice versa). This is an interesting equation. But it proves that because atheists more often understand nuances of nature (the xylem and phloem support structure of trees, the...

Be the Cat Vet: Avoid Convulsant Flea Topicals

Be the Cat Vet: Avoid Convulsant Flea Topicals

Feb 17, 2012

If I were a vicious, clever, and serious enough lawyer (I hold no legal credentials) I would sue the pants off this company: Sergeant.  More specifically, Sergeant’s Pet Care Products.  They have caused in a few instances, the deaths of many pets, and in many, many instances a slew of worried pet-human-friends panicked about what to do with their pet...

Intelligence and Atheism

Intelligence and Atheism

Feb 16, 2012

Those who are intelligent must tread a fine line to achieve success because the average majority status quo will ridicule, belittle, and humiliate them because of their own insecurity. If you are intelligent you must be wary of the status quo average people, for they will ridicule, chide, and try to injure you; the mediocrity aims to keep others mediocre. The...

What Are the Top Five Things You’d Like to Install in Your Life?

In his abode, Lord Byron kept: “Eight enormous dogs, three monkeys, five cats, an eagle, a crow, and a falcon” http://neuroticpoets.com/byron/ That was in addition to 10 bloody horses!  All those pets (minus the horses) roamed freely throughout the house!  Obviously Byron liked animals and the companionship and the ability to observe natural fauna...

Advanced Chess Notes from Pandolfini’s Book

Wow, Pandolfini seriously understands isolated pawn tactics! Comprehending the isolated d-pawn strategies MASSIVELY helps opening decisions! When confronted with a complex center squares bind, you can make the initiative to cause the game to end up in (what Pandolfini calls) a Pattern A or Pattern B pawn structure for the isolated d-pawn. In both patterns the...

The Average Rarely Evaluates Themselves as Average

“Because if you are like most people, then like most people, you don’t know you’re like most people. Science has given us a lot of facts about the average person, and one of hte most reliable of these facts is that hte average person doesnt’ see herself [or himself] as average. Most studnets see themselves as more intelligent than the...

Money as Declining Marginal Utility

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 9:03 — 8.3MB) | Embed “Economists explain that wealth has ‘declining marginal utility,’ which is a fancy way of saying that it hurts to be hungry, cold, sick, tired, and scared, but once you’ve brought your way out of these burdens the rest of your money is an increasingly...

Change in Content Posting Frequency

For many, many months I have been interested in revamping and/or decreasing the content of this blog.  As mentioned in this post frequency will likely decrease due to the presence of other important projects.    Send article as PDF