That is a funny question because NOBODY will ever have the exact right answer. Life from my understanding as a young lad (lol) is what you make of it. People spend their whole lives trying to figure out who or what they are suppossed to be, even wondering if there small existance is suppossed to be a piece of a bigger thing. You know, like "hey I am amazing at science, I cured cancer" type thing you know? World changing things... Albert Einstien was possibly made to change the world thinks..
But who am I to say I am right? Maybe we are just born, and completely meant to be random, and have really no purpose besides self-fulfillment. It is something that I have always wondered and decided to give it a shot to throw out how I think about things. I mean obviously what people do is recorded, and it changes the way our lives go on. I mean look at penicillin, somebody "stumbled" accross it and realized hey look! This cures soooo many things. What if maybe this person was meant do discover it? Or what if it was just some random thing found by somebody else and they were the ones who became famous. I mean it was discovered because somebody realized the reaction of now known penicillin and how it did things on a petri dish. I know I probably spelled some words wrong there, I am a business major... Not science!
Then I got thinking about how fast life can end. You know, those random things like car accidents, or wars. People who die before they naturally die you know? Was that what they were just meant to have happen? What if they died before they discovered something that could lead to the cure for the oil crisis, you know like an alternative energy that is completely clean and constantly available forever that nobody else noticed. Or maybe somebody who just had an idea, that linked together with a few other ideas causes the cure for all S.T.D's or something amazing..
What is the meaning of life to you? I mean obviously right now my perspective is, life is what you make of it. Life is who you choose to be, nobody will control that. If they do try and control you, then doesn't that mean they will eventually fade out of your life and you will continue on being yourself? I would hope so. Trends come and go, being yourself will always be in. I believe everyone has a reason for something, everyone is talented in different ways, some people accellerate in math, others in physical things. Some people have talents like sports, others can read and make analysis of a situation in a blink of an eye.
The meaning of life is just what you make of it. At least that is my take on things...
I read somewhere that most blogs fail within the first 3 months, similar to most businesses in the first 5 years. That got me thinking, this blog is still around after 3 months does that mean it is "smooth sailing" for me? Ha! Blogging is so rediculous.. I have been doing a personal research project that nobody knows about till well, now. When I was in Mass Communications first semester last fall, I was given the semester to do a project on "Online Advertising" well, being slightly nerdy at the time I was super pumped. I did the opposite of the project, I was suppossed to research other things and figure out how the internet has advertising and what makes it tick. I took the next step and created a website, got content, got visitors, and tried to see what could be made from the interweb.
Once the project was done, I couldn't get it out of my mind how interesting blogging and just the difficulty it is to get your writing coverage. So I started in on a new project, "how the hell do you get visitors to your blog" which has been about a eight month project for me.
So after pouring hour after hour of my life into the internet, my result? 80,000 visitors to my BMXunion.com blog. I am bummed because the sad thing is, there are websites out there that do that in one day. However, these sites are more broad to a bigger audience. I want to figure out how all of that works. I mean I have a good idea of what to do, but it is such a pain in the ass to get listed in directories and on search engines, I average about 45-50 visitors a day just from search engines on my other site which isn't much.
I want to learn how these people do viral videos on youtube, I mean obviously it is pointless now because everyone and their mother tries that trick but I think it would be cool to pull that one off.
So here is my propsal, by the end of the summer. I have to find a way to create something that gets me viral views. I am on this.
Oh by the way, my kind of nerdy self has been upgraded to pathetic nerd. I spend way too much time on a computer but it is a legit "business" for me now so I keep chugging away with it..
I had an interesting idea come to mind when I had went to change my AIM profile. Yes, AIM profile. The original "Tell the world about yourself" thing that I sware myspace got their idea from. I was thinking about the past and how when I was a kid, well... when I was in middle school 6ish years ago (weird to think I have had AIM for that long) EVERYONE had AIM. The thing to do was produce this awesome profile that everyone looked at when they were looking at peoples away messages, or talking to you... You may or may not understand this if you are older, but it was legit.
I remember when at one point the cool thing was to do a shout out thing where you pretty much listed all your friends and people would see how many profiles they could get in. Drama arose from all this when people were getting mad because "I wasn't in so and so's profile! I thought we were like B.F.F" I find this quite funny thinking about this. Another thing was to do the "yo this is my girlfriend I love her" thing, which was weird because we were in 7th grade and I highly doubt most people even know what the hell love is now and I am almost 20. I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE HELL LOVE IS... but that is just because I am not the dateable type haha. I could lie and say I am some pimp... but that is too cliche.. wait, do people even say pimp anymore!?
WOW how times change.
BRB! LOL! WTF! I find these things to be really awkward to say, but in all reality I am apart of the generation who really originated this horrible english, however it has just been destroyed by the younger kids these days, holy crap! Have you ever seen text messages, conversations, or even writing in general by these kids these days! WOW! I feel so weird seeing that, it is like a horrible grammerically destroyed form of a new language similar to english. I actually find that crap hard to write, actually.. I occassionally throw out the WTF! just because I find it super funny from the David Blaine's Street Magic on Youtube. You know what I am talking about, we all have seen it.
If you don't recall or know. Check out the rest if you haven't you can watch as they slowly destroy this amazing thing they have by continuing to make more videos from the same characters. Seriously, taking things too far are terrible, it leaves a bad image on the good work that has all ready been made.
I am sitting here trying to think of more and more things from the past that were just so awesome when I was a kid.
Oh back to AIM profiles! The other cool thing to do was put lyrics from the cool songs, you know so people think your into the cool bands and know the words. That, or the song has a relation to your "life". I honestly believe I had no idea what my life was until like mayyyyybe a year ago? No, like mid summer last year. I had no idea what I wanted to accomplish in my life and now I feel like I have at least an idea right?
This this halarious, why? because some guy is trying to read a girls "break up letter" to her boyfriend or whatever. Why is our future in trouble? WELL APPARENTLY IN THE FUTURE WE DON'T SPELL ANYTHING RIGHT!
Don't get my wrong, I am not perfect, I use commas correctly always, and I don't always spell everything right. Those are issues I have to work on, but still it bothers me when it happens. I just don't see why people feel this urge to either suck at spelling, or not even try to spell right at all. I sometimes wonder how out of their way a person goes to spell that bad. I just don't know where it goes from there but this letter really proves kids need to learn how to read and write better! If I ever have a kid, and it ends up being an emo kid that apparently cannot write, I will be pissed, probably sell the kid on the black market just because I wouldn't want to deal with that if I were a parent.
That is all.. What do you think? Any ideas of what you want me to talk about next?
Being rewarded for the things you accomplish in life are always cool. The first real reward I remember getting was soccer trophies, I played soccer from kindergarden until 7th grade. I was never awesome, but hey I sure as hell knew what I was doing. I remember getting trophies for that, but I sware everybody did just because nobody wants the kids feeling like failures, but maybe that would teach some kids to try harder. After that I got into football, oh yeah, 5th-8th grade I played, I got a few trophies in that too. I remember in 8th grade I broke my thumb right away in the season and had surgery, I came back two weeks before the championship game haha. I was still team manager or something when I couldn't play, and I played in the final game and got myself a trophy. Those were the glory days I tell ya. Since then I have moved on to more, independant awards. Last spring I won a video contest for making a video that highlighted something about the city I live in, the choice was the skatepark and the talent my friends and myself had, I blew the amature film makers out of the water (I have been filming and editing videos for about 5 years now I have over 50 videos on my YouTube page) so they didn't even know how they couldn't award me the win. I am going to try and do it again this year.
This is me, and my "o" face with my award, pretty niffty eh?
I am trying to think of other awards I have been given, I was a boy scout.. okay no, I was a cub scout. I was out of that after I realized that it wasn't all about shooting bb guns and making toy cars to race and it wasn't for me, but I had a lot of the awards for that. I guess.
I am finding this humorous to think of all these dumb things that have no meaning at all to you but make me think back a bunch, ooop! I thought of another.
I have a little secret, why is this a secret? Well... because I seriously have never heard of getting chicks because of this. When I was in elementry school, my friend had convinced me to join a childrens bowling league with him. Yes, little me in 4th grade, had my own ball with my name on it too. I think I still have it. I rocked, actually I am lying I was terrible. I sucked, I think I had like one or two 200 point games...Then again I was in 4th grade? I cannot even do that now! Well, I bet I could but I have a bad wrist so that stuff hurts to do. However, back to my point, I think I had accumulated about 10 trophy/medalian things like the dudes in the olympics get over the course of the two years I was in the league.... I actually kind of miss it now that I think of it.
Yes, you have been reading this garbage.
Want some advice? Here it is, think about your past and realize all of the things you have done or accomplished over the years, it will bring up some interesting memories that will trigger other memories you had forgotten and some how caused your brain to release and remind you.
Getting old sucks, it is 12:09 and I am tired and ready to crash. Then again it isn't 9 or something but still! I remember I used to be able to stay out till 4 in the morning and I would just be getting tired haha.
"And I'm Staring Down The Barrel of a .45" ... I am listening to .45 by Shinedown, yeah shut up! It is a sweet song, and NO I am not going to kill myself, I could never do that, I am too happy of a kid to even consider it.
However, I did laugh my ass off the other day, you know those damn emo kids! all right they try sooooo hard to be independant and different from everyone else, but I was at work and one girl came in, then 20 minutes later another one of them came in and I thought it was the same girl as the first time! They don't look any different and funny because that was their main goal in the first place.... DAMN EMO KIDS!
I am going to post a second post momentarily.. get stoked I thought of another blog post!
This week flew by, and I am sorry this blog never gets updated. Basically I have been super busy with enjoying summerish weather and updating the hell out of my other blog. So lets see, this week was my first official week of summer since my classes for the semester were over last wednesday. I enjoy the extra free time a lot!
Lets start this post out from last Sunday. Last Sunday was a busy day, I held a BMX contest at a localish indoor skate park. I sware you are probably thinking "Okay, sweet". Well let me elaborate. I took two months to plan, organize, compile, and get this show on the road. I had boxes ontop of boxes of prizes from sponsors, over 100 people attended, and everyone had a good time. This was awesome.
To continue on, this week was a good week. I have been really busy blogging it up and working hard to continue to grow the number of readers and visitors to my blogs. I actually just pulled my first ad deal outside of Google Adsense, so I am pretty happy about that, one step closer to accomplishing what I want to do with my life. Yes, it has been decided, I want to sit behind a computer all day blabbing it up for people to read and be entertained for point five seconds.
Working two part time jobs is a bummer, esspecially when you make less than $7 an hour at both, however, with my current life schedual I am dealing with it just because A.) I don't want a full time job, I did that in high school, made a lot of money and didn't have any fun in life. B.) I have priorities, like ride my bike all day! It is freeish till shit breaks and I live just fine. C.) I am in my "Poor College Student Days" so that means I have every exscuse in the world to work shit jobs and have as much fun as possible!
So, maybe I have been going out a lot, staying out late, and taking advantage of the fact that I don't have to be up at 8 a.m to go to a class where I am not learning anything anyways! haha. P.S I passed all my classes last semester, 2 b's and 2 c's haha WHAT! I never claimed to be a academic scholar. Plus, they are my generals! In all honesty, once I get to the business classes I will be putting in a whole lot more time to get better grade, I promise... I think. HA!
So, I am sitting here writing when I should be en-route to my buddy Ryans for a little shindig! This means I must say Good Bye, thanks for reading, I promise I will have more and better things to read soon! Just TRUST ME. I need a blog that is more broad to readers anyway.
So have you ever fallen into something and realized you loved it. No, not falling in love. Falling into something, much like I have with my other blog. This one doesn't get read, I have already told you this multiple times. I would love it if this blog got as many hits as my other blog, but there is just too many different topics being covered on here for it to go anywhere. If everything was a niche wouldn't we all blog about it?
However, I have been thinking about this a lot lately. I LOVE writing, I always have had a thing where I wanted my thoughts and words to be seen and read, but it wasn't until after my interviews and everything on my other site really got booming. I mean averaging a few hundred to a few thousands visitors a day is some what of a shock to be completely honest. I started with an idea, and then before I knew it I was e-mailing tons of interviews out, talking about promo videos, getting advertising ideas, and just other projects to go with it. I never thought I would be making a career out of writing.
I am not making a career... yet. However, I want to and I know that if I just keep up what I am doing it will happen. I just need to accomplish the stats that the bigger websites make and I got it. Adsense is nice, but I am not going to be making a ton of money off of that with how much of a niche BMX is. I do know that if I got real advertisers I could focus 100% of my time (work time that is) on writing and updating with other projects, that I could make it.
How do these other people Blog as a Career? I don't know what it is that gives people this ability to compell people into listening/reading what they have to say but I need to figure it out. I would love to be able to just sit and enjoy my time doing something I love. I want to be apart of so much and maybe writing is my key to it? I don't know.
Blogging is weird, because it is like opinions, everyone has them but few will listen. I need a loud speaker, ya know, something that just stands out and really gets peoples attention. Thats the tricky part.
Writing is amazing, journalism is amazing, marketing is amazing, seeing that with time your work pays off is cool.
If you have any advice, please, leave a comment and tell me how to get real advertisers outside of adsense!
So, with the recent release of the first production model of a hydrogen car from Honda in California the questions are blowing up. With every pro there will be a con, and with every optimist there will be a realist. However, this is a huge step in "going green" right?
Honda's first production Hydrogen Vehical
Honda Clarity
So, what exactly is the difference of this car from the cars?
The car is obviously running on Hydrogen, which requires a whole new system of how the car works. I mean, I am not a engineer at all but then again you probably are not either? So I will sum this up as best as I can.
The Fuel cell..
is the first point, the car runs on hydrogen fuel, but it idealy is running on electricity. This cell is called V Flow A hydrogen fuel cell produces electricity for the vehicle. The fuel cell combines hydrogen, which is stored in a fuel tank onboard the vehicle, with oxygen from the air to make electricity. The electricity then powers the electric motor, which in turn drives the front wheels. Water vapor and heat are the only byproducts.
A fuel cell is made up of a thin electrolyte film wedged between two electrode layers in between two separators. Several hundred layers of these cells are connected in a series. - Honda
So basically, the hydrogen is mixed to oxygen to cause a form of "combustion" of sorts, basically electrons and protons form and get used.. etc.. This is causing the motor to run, then when the car is in motion all the kinetic energy is getting stored into this battery cell. Causing the car to continue to run. Then when the hydrogen mixes with oxygen, it turns into water again and that is its emission. So that is the clean and basic view of how that works.
Photo: Honda
The Battery
With technology in how a battery works and has a life span growing all the time. It is fairly obvious that from the first electric based car, that they have developed a better, smaller, and lighter battery. This basically makes the car more efficient since it is lighter, and it makes the car roomier since they can now hide the battery under the seat in the back instead of taking up a ton of room like the 05' FXC.
The power train
This is obviously going to be how the car actually moves. I mean I am not a mechanic, but my brother is a diesel mechanic so I know a little bit about this stuff. Now with a different motor, a different battery, the car is designed different obviously, but the main point is. The car will run quieter, and smoother due to this new motor. It wont have all the same torque and stuff to haul ass, but it will haul your ass all over more efficiently. 30% more efficient than the previous prototype of the car, which I don't know exactly what this means but I do know it goes a ways.
Photo: Honda
FXC Motor
This is fairly basic
Due to the fact that the motor is completely different from a regular car since there is no gasoline, it is running on electricity remember. The engine got a lot lighter. With that being said, basically you get a smoother ride, and quieter with less things going on. This is huge because it basically made it so they had to redesign a lot of the parts in the motor.
This is what it looks like under the hood.
Photo: Hydrogencarsnow.com
This is what the fuel cell and motor look like just by themselves, very complex and unlike a typical motor or engine in any car.
So this basically shows the features of this hydrogen car from Honda.
Here is my theory.
With the recent spike in oil prices in the last month I believe close to $10 a barrel more? I started to think about this idea I kept having. Due to us being able to make a car run on hydrogen, and run on electricity oil companies have to be pissed. They officially have a car people knows exists that doesn't need there expencive shit to keep it moving. Pardon my swaring but I get a little annoyed.
So I think this spike in prices is just the oil companies final way to make a large chunk of change before the value of oil starts to go down. Because oil will probably be worth half of what it is worth now in a few years. I HOPE.
Once the cars are mass produces and fueling stations are set up this could be an end to like 70% of oil consumption everyday.
I know, oil is used in everyday life for manufacturing and everything too and actually right now a main source to produce this hydrogen.
Then again I see wind turbines and solar power picking up greatly recently and I am sure this will grow even faster now to generate plants to make this hydrogen. Thus giving even less emissions to produce a fuel for cars, which then actually proves the point that hey we are making the right steps and not going negative anymore.
I mean yeah, this isn't the perfect get out of oil, I am sure there will be flaws and revisions I am sure there will be better ideas. The final product those is that the fuel is renewable and if produced right it can be very cost efficient and cheap. I see this at least as a way to move forward..
I am tired of typing.
Take it as you will. I am just in this like you, unknowing what is what and who to believe. I am not an engineer, nor is my ideas proven as fact. This is just my idea. This will be expanded on.
I am a student in college full time, I also have two part time jobs, run a few websites, and keep myself busy riding BMX, and all sorts of other stuff.
