Write a 365 page book

We all seem to go through life doing the same old, same old.  This is a totally cliche idea, but what if we actually treat our lives like a book.  Live to remember those who taught us so much.  Walk in their shoes now that they're gone.  Be better people.  Meet someone new and learn from them, then let them go and move on with your life.  We too often cling to the things that pull us down because they're familiar. Lets all start making ourselves better, stronger, more powerful, and more caring individuals.  And now that we're all done with that hippy shit...drinking fixes everything, just don't be an alcoholic. Come out of your comfort zone and be the person everyone else wants to be.  I know that's my new years resolution, be even more of a badass than I was last year.  I'll wear a suit more often, wear that loud tie that people envy, wear the bright colored pants that all the women love and men need to hate on. Most importantly, I'll be the best damn friend I can be to the people who need it.

So get out there folks, get out there and put your best foot forward. Save the world, save the children, save the puppies, whatever you do, be better human beings. 

Lands' End Canvas

So i know most of us on the internet are viewed as social outcasts that wear graphic tees with the likes of south park, witty retorts, and internet memes spewed across them.  My favorite happens to be the "protect your nuts" t-shirt with a squirrel holding a gun.  I used to own one of those until an unfortunate laundry accident where i lost a number of earthy brown colored friends of mine...among them, quicksilver and bilabong t-shirts. I think that was the point i told myself i had to graduate to a newer more sophisticated style of dress.  Enter Lands' end.  I love this place for when i feel like dressing like a full blown adult.  Lots of sweaters, dress shirts, chino pants, blazers.  It's like J crew except they actually have good prices.

Lands' End Canvas

 Anyway, I'm not affiliated with these guys in any way (but i do buy their stuff) so if you're in the market for some new threads that make you look like an adult and a bad ass all at the same time, they've got 30% off their entire site until November 13th, just use promo code:FAMILY and pin: 1511  doesn't that Madison bike blazer just look freaking awesome?

The Starbucks Diet

So it would appear that some lady lost 76 pounds on a Starbucks diet recently.  I'm impressed, really, as all the food there seems to be about 500 calories other than black coffee of course. Apparently bistro boxes are the exception to the rule (protein platter anyone?) Granted you’re eating every 5 hours with very few calories and as much coffee as you want to keep that oral fixation to a minimum.  It’s like everyone’s favorite Jarrod from subway.  The guy lost something like 300 pounds but once he was out of the spotlight those pounds just started adding up again.  This lady is a law librarian and seems to understand calories in calories out so I’ll follow her on twitter and hope she keeps up with it(i don't think she has a twitter). As much as I love those sugary drinks from Starbucks I'd much prefer some fresh deli meat and cheese, but to each his own.

I guess you could put together a decent composition from Starbucks if you really wanted to, but why would you want to is the question.  You can get a higher quality cheaper meal from the local grocery store for less effort.  And then you’re not tempted by the high calorie drinks like mocha frapachino with whip for an exorbitant amount of calories.  Maybe it’s just me and my lack of dedication to my diet, but I can’t pass on delicious chocolaty goodness when it’s just sitting right in front of me.
So after reading that, I want to propose a question.  Should we all go on the Starbucks diet?  I’m going to say yes and lets all drink Starbucks coffee and be happy and get skinny at the same time.  Unless we all start experiencing miserable mood swings due to caffeine overload and calorie withdrawals, then I’m out and am going back to pizza and cookies and cake.  If you’re in that boat, you might as well check out my pintrest to make your mouth water with all the good food posted on there, and women seem to enjoy posting half naked pictures of themselves and other hot chicks in their “motivational” boards.  It’s motivational alright.  

Source:
http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/starbucks-diet-one-woman-dropped-80-pounds-coffee-211600454.html

Harvard using DNA to Store Information?

Well, It would appear the geniuses at Harvard have done yet another amazing thing with DNA.  After sequencing the stuff for years, they have discovered how to store text information in strands of DNA.  By taking the four letter sequencing of DNA strands and modifying it to code for text and location in the book the text is taken from they have been able to store 704 Terabytes in a gram of  DNA.

Lets put that into perspective.  A 1 Terabyte Hard Drive weighs a little over 450grams.  So putting 400 of these 1 gram DNA packets in the same space would give you about 280,000 Tb of information storage.  Or if we wanted to run in the other direction, a one gram piece of DNA that could fit on the tip of your finger would take the equivalent of 700 1Tb Hard drives weighing 700lbs, thats like 5 or 6 normal people...or one really really fat person.

It would appear the way of encoding and decoding all his information on the fly with your smart phone isn't quite perfected yet, but I'm sure someones already working on an app for that. Imagine being able to give a hand shake with a binding contract and then lets add some skynet crazy nanobots that instagib you if you renege on said contract. I should probably be working with these guys at Harvard to make their mind blowing ideas even more spectacular.