A little thought on water...

I was taking a glass of cool refreshing water up to the office with me when a thought struck, "Water isn't clear."

The musing began thus:

Isn't it odd that water is so essential to life, the one liquid we most need, and it happens to be clear.

I wonder if anyone has thought about this before.

Wait, maybe it isn't clear. Maybe it just looks clear because being the liquid we evolved in it is both necessary and our light perception system (eyes and brain) filter out the distortions in water.

Our eyes and brains evolved in a medium of water and so the eyesight that evolved is one that manages the water distortions to such a degree that they virtually vanish...


So, that is what happened in my head on the way up from the kitchen.

Cool, now what do you think?

J. Sweeney

An Awful Juxtaposition

Weekly Musings – An Awful Juxtaposition

J. Sweeney
August 16, 2007

I am going to keep this brief. If they show up, please consider the two articles linked below. One is about women in Iraq forced to prostitution in order to feed their children. The other is about the engagement of the U.S. President’s daughter.

Some women are struggling to keep their children fed after their husbands died in a war started by a man who lives in a palace and gets to look forward to his daughter’s wedding.

George Bush deserves to be impeached. If he were a decent human being he would have resigned after no weapons were found. If the democrats were capable of leadership they would force his resignation or impeach him.

It is essential that we as citizens send a message to the world that our leaders are not tyrants, free to make war with our children and treasure without being accountable. We owe it to the dead in Iraq and to the millions suffering to hold our leaders accountable.

IMPEACH BUSH

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/08/15/iraq.prostitution/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/16/jenna.bush/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Thank you Jessica (and Amazon)

Well, it finally happened. After years of working in software and building websites for others, I finally sold a simple product online to a customer. Using Amazon's website I listed and sold an old book. I'm heading to the UPS store to ship the book.

If I were making a list of things young people should know how to do, selling a product online would definitely be one of them. This is the equivelent of working at the corner store for a summer back in our nation's golden era. Partcipating in the exchange of goods and services as a provider not just as a consumer has value for young people trying to acquire a real sense of how society works.

Anyway, I'm off to ship the book. Who knows, this may be the start of a new way to fund my main hobby, stock investing...

J. Sweeney