http://matus1976.blogsome.com Philosophy, Science, Politics, Ethics, the future, inventing, technology, progress, immortality, Ayn Rand, Aristotle, Eudaimonism... Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:50:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My brother received a new shipment today which came in one of the smaller international shipping containers. These fantastic steel boxes are one of the most under appreciated foundations of modern trade. For centuries shipments moving from country to country, or from one mode of transportation to another, had to ... http://matus1976.blogsome.com/2009/11/22/ode-to-an-international-shipping-container/ My cousin asked -"do you believe in love at first site" Thoughts? My comments - As something mystical, no, but as a real tangible emotion - sure. The human brain is an immense and powerful pattern recognition system, as such it can easily recognize patterns we are not consciously ... http://matus1976.blogsome.com/2009/11/19/do-you-believe-in-love-at-first-site/ As many of you know, I was recently involved in a pretty serious motorcycle accident. I T-Boned a Dodge Intrepid doing around 30mph, and was thrown over the car Below are the details of it, the bike involved in it, the circumstances of the accident, what I learned about ... http://matus1976.blogsome.com/2009/08/23/motorcycle-accident-3d-recreation-and-thoughts/ Four months of swine flu deaths finally equal 1 seasonal flu day. See: http://bit.ly/v1fB6 http://matus1976.blogsome.com/2009/08/04/swine-flu/ Matus1976 Podcast Update - E10 - Comments on Love with excerpts from the Novel – “A Ship Made of Paper” http://tinyurl.com/kremjf http://matus1976.blogsome.com/2009/07/29/podcast-episode-10-update/ In my pursuit of gradually converting my V-STROM into a long distance touring vehicle, I’ve recently made some good upgrades to it. One is simply a larger windscreen, and the other is a Tablet PC converted to a GPS Tracking module and mounted on a Tank Bag! Before these modifications ... http://matus1976.blogsome.com/2009/05/25/v-strom-motorcycle-mods-tank-mounted-laptop-gps/ Day two of Italy and Greece started out with the vatican City. Prior to that, however, was one of the low points of the trips, the miserable event that Italians apparently call ‘breakfast’, which, at this hotel, consisted entirely of bread. Where’s my eggs? Bacon? Protein? ... http://matus1976.blogsome.com/2009/04/03/italy-and-greece-day-2-part-1/ Off to Italy and Greece! We met at a parking lot in Mystic, jumped on a bus and headed to JFK. We had 35 people in the group, from high schoolers to retirees. The trip and boarding was uneventful. I spent a good amount of time ... http://matus1976.blogsome.com/2009/03/28/italy-and-greece-day-1/ Objectivists consider Life as the objective standard of morality, the basis of ethical judgment.  Anything which harms life is evil, anything which is beneficial to life is good.  Now by “Life” objectivists do not mean the mere mechanical perpetuation of existence, but a particular kind of life, a fulfilling ... http://matus1976.blogsome.com/2008/12/18/the-objective-morality-of-environmentalism/ What is fusion? What elements are involved in this reaction in the sun? (Another YahooAnswer of mine to a good question) Fusion is the name of the nuclear reaction where one or more nucleons (a proton or a neutron) combine to form a larger atomic nuclei. The smallest and simplest ... http://matus1976.blogsome.com/2008/12/06/what-is-fusion-what-elements-are-involved-in-this-reaction-in-the-sun/