Self aware dog

I was remembering my dog this morning while watching a story about dolphins. They think dolphins are self aware. Well I know my dog was unless I misunderstand the term.

My dog loved his bath. as soon as I pulled the shower curtian back he would leap in with his tail wagging. I used my removable shower head to give him a bath with, and Johnsons baby shampoo to prevent eye burn. I had to close the door to the bathroom as soon as he jumped in the bath because if I didn't he would jump out upon completion and go sprinting down the stairs and sliding into things all over the living room wood floors with wet feet. So I kept him pinned in until I got through towel drying him.

As soon as he got out he went wild and wanted out in the back yard and would run circles around the yard for about 5 minutes. When I let him back in he would go in the downstairs master bath and stand in front of the full length mirror on the closet door and spin around slowly looking, checking himself out. He was checking his good looking clean self out. I thought that was the funniest damn thing and I sure miss that dog.

In all the 10 Years I had him I never once took video of this behavior and wish I would have. I have seen dogs bark at themselves in the mirror but he knew it was him and that is why I say he was self aware and a bit vain. Never saw him checking out his teeth though :)

Dont' Touch other peoples new Iphone 6

Okay, so you don't own an Iphone 6 because you are not going to give Apple your fingerprint. You may be wrong, no, you are wrong. Here is what happens. Scenario: You are out with a friend and he just got his new Iphone 6. You explain to him how you don't want one because it can read your fingerprints and store them on a data base. Your friend blows you off calling you paranoid. Later that night at the bar your friend get's a funny email and wants to show it to you and hands you his phone.

Here is where everything goes wrong. You take his phone and running in the back ground is software that reads the fingerprints that touch the screen sensor. The Iphone does not recognize the fingerprint for his Iphone you just took and it immediate records the unknown fingerprint and takes a picture of the user (that would be you) as you are reading the email.

Now without your knowledge the Iphone just recorded your fingerprint and photo to go with it and you are none the wiser. Don't touch other peoples new Iphones. You just became a victim of his folly.

I hate 9/11 anniversaries

9/11 anniversaries suck. Every year it consumes the media, from news outlets to internet to television (just turn on the History channel). The reason I hate it is because the whole damn story about what happened is a lie. I can't tell you what exactly happened the the story they are giving us is bullshit. Secondly it reminds me of all the other lies that were piled on top of it like WMD's in Iraq that got us into unnecessary wars and they keep spreading based on the original lie. Thirdly the lie of they did it because they hate our freedoms while the government used that lie to systematically remove the freedoms we once enjoyed with the permission of most of the dumb butts that still believe the first lie. The government who claimed they hate our freedoms was the one that took them away not the terrorists. We no longer have a 4th or 5th amendment and one could argue that the whole of the Bill of Right's was shredded based on that lie.

One would think the American people would wake up to this, but they are either to emotionally invested in it or are suffering from so much cognitive dissonance they can't bring themselves to use logic and critical thinking to stop this runaway train rolling straight to the Hell that is a totalitarian police state. So screw 9/11 and the lying liars that bring it up every year and further inflame the ignorant populace. The American people have become cowards afraid of a bunch of camel riding Islamic, mostly retards, and gave up everything we fought and bled for. If you are afraid of the terrorists defined and not the government that defines them then you will soon become the one defined as the terrorist as it stands now. Stop being afraid become an American again. Demand your rights and tell anyone that brings up 9/11 as an excuse to shut up.

Breaking News

A Physicist’s View of the Afterlife:

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.—Dr. Alan Ross Hugenot has spent decades contemplating the conundrums of physics, along with the enigma of human consciousness.
Hugenot holds a doctorate of science in mechanical engineering, and has had a successful career in marine engineering, serving on committees that write the ship-building standards for the United States. He studied physics and mechanical engineering at the Oregon Institute of Technology. 

“I did things using Newtonian physics to create ships,” he said, “but the whole time, I knew better. There’s this whole other world that our five senses don’t register.” He gave a talk on the science of the afterlife at the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) 2014 Conference in Newport Beach, Calif., on Aug. 29.

Exploring the scientific theories related to this other world, Hugenot has wondered whether the consciousness of living human beings as well as the “souls” of the dead reside in dark matter or dark energy. He has pondered the implications of the power our consciousness seems to have over physical reality.
Hugenot told of a near-death experience in the 1970s during which he experienced part of this other world. He found it “more real than this place.”

 Who is living in the real world? The longtime deceased relative or you looking at his picture on the wall?

Christian Thought Experiment

I don't believe it will ever be possible to terraform Mars or travel to distance stars where there are habital planets. But this is a Christian thought experiment. We now concede that both of these things are possible and given a suffucient amout of time we can do it 100% for sure, let's say in the next 100 years (Remember thought experiment).

Now given this with the reading of the Bible front to back does it forbid that this could ever happen such as where is Christ going to return ect. I heard a preacher on TV saying that one day man would reach for the stars because God didn't put them there for us not to be able to explore (paraphrasing). Personally my reading of the Bible no matter the technological advances that men will never leave Earth in any permanent way to establish an alternate self sustaining civilization on another planet or moon.

Funerals, Dirges and Tombstones

On my way home from the doctor office today, my mother was being unusually quiet. I knew something was on her mind but I was enjoying the peace and quiet (I can't drive myself when on narcotic pain relievers). Suddenly she breaks her silence with this simple sentence "Shouldn't we be making plans?" Not for sure what she was talking about I said, "I can't answer such a generic question." I looked over at her and could see the wheels spinning. After what seemed like a very very long pause she said, "Your funeral."

I said well what's to plan, I want to be buried in our family plot and have a Catholic Mass that's just about the jist of it. She started in on a list of things saying "I need to know...", Music Tombstone eulogy ect. I told her other than the Mass the funeral is for the living, not the dead and since we are all Catholics a traditional Catholic funeral. The where's, whens and what's should be most convienent to you and the family.

The reason I am telling this is because it completely took by surprise and how many people ever expect to be going down the road and asked that question? It was a bit shocking and at the same time comforting. Mom had seemed to be in denial and now I see she is preparing herself. She said My brother was coming to see me next week as it is his birthday. I was telling her I will glad to see him and his family. She said, he is not bringing his family. I asked her why and she said she didn't know.

So I guess I'll wait and see what is on his mind. Today was definitely one of my weirder days.