Brain Diarrhea

New update for the sake of updating for you reading pleasure. Since I haven't had time to post anything edifying on bikes (although one on my latest obsession fixies, yeah go look it up, will be posted someday), and I'm too lazy to post up pictures of the shelf I made about three weeks ago all you will get is a new segment called "Brain Diarrhea", which probably won't come back again ever.

Godzilla vs. Davis - Yeah, awesome, as Peter Griffin would say

Davis should have taller buildings - I mean look, if you want to have housing close to school you can't build out you've got to build up. This could increase the amount of people using bicycles for transportation and cut down on the number of Unitrans buses needed. Plus there is a housing scarcity in Davis. With the influx of what seem to be progressively larger number of freshman, instead of moving people farther out and encroaching on land that should be left alone the people of Davis should consider building up. Then again this is coming from guys that think about Godzilla destroying Davis.

Preservation of Culture - I think that a culture should be a cherished object, one that is irreplaceable and in all likelihood can never be recreated. Culture is something honed and refined over many generations. Things like distinct food, garb, music, and philosophy, etc. are part of what makes a culture. They serve as points of reference, like how people compare high food to French cuisine. They are different perspectives to living, like how to treat your elders or how people view each other. In the United States there are cultures inside of the American culture. From my friend's stories of his relatives in Wisconsin or the South he always says they are very polite and respectful people. While in California we say what the fuck? It's interesting as the modern age progresses and we see a smaller world how will cultures well established or small semi-isolated will be affected.
Even today small cultures are dying. For example, in China the rush for money has left people deciding between their local village culture (language, etc.) which leaves them in poverty, or going to the big city and teaching their children Mandarin exclusively and forgetting the past. Which is what many people are doing. Maybe I am wrong and that culture is something forgettable and I just can't see this because I'm not in the real world yet. Maybe it's more appropriate for children of one culture born into another to just assimilate and forget the past, because it is hard to have both in this modern world. (A more fleshed out writing will be done.... Someday)

Quarter system should be ultra killed - The system moves so god damn fast that it's hard for the material from one quarter soak in and become second nature, ready for use in another quarter. Now maybe if you were some genius or just studied every second of the day then fine this won't apply to you. All I know is that instructors are rushed to cram everything into the 10? weeks we have, sometimes skipping material because there wasn't enough time. It's like a mad dash every quarter to cram a book or four into our heads. Maybe I shouldn't go to the school, or I'm not studying enough (Bullshiiit!), hell I wouldn't mind taking less classes if that meant I would remember/ understand the material I learned better.

Learning a language is cool shit in my book. I have great respect for people that do take the time and energy to learn.

Giant U shaped electromagnet destroying Japan - Don't think about, just move on

Computer Jesus - the comic, look for issues of this brilliant work of art in summer 2008. Only available on my blog and bikiblog (probably)

That about does it. Time to go back to doing homework like I should have been doing, story of every college student's life right?