Wednesday, May 26, 2004


adult add...
posted @ 13:27 by ryan in [ Tidbits... ]

I have read that about three to four percent of adults suffer from adult add...

in the United States that would probably make it around mabe 20,000 people...

perhaps that represents all of the diagnosed cases, because there are probably many people walking around that do not know they have it...

that would have to be the case, because why would a pharmaceutical company mass produce a drug that can only treat 20,000 people...

let us suppose it takes three pills a day, times 365 days a year, times 20,000, time... say $5 a pill...

$109.5 million

um...

so, ok.

I wonder how much those pills actually cost...

because if I had AADD there is no way that I would drop five and a half grand on medicine for myself - especially if I made it this far in life without needing them...

I really do not think that I have AADD, I just probably have a short attention span.

or something.

arrggghhh...

gotta work.



Tuesday, May 25, 2004


all natural...
posted @ 11:39 by ryan in [ Tidbits... ]

what is natural mango passion flavor?

because the juice that I am drinking is labled "All Natural" and I am wondering how natural is the natural mango passion flavor...

Is it merely a concoction of chemicals that simply taste like mango passions?

What does mango passion taste like?

I did not even know that mangoes were capable of passion?

If mango passion has a taste, does human passion have a taste?

What does my passion taste like?

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How natural is ascorbic acid? I am pretty sure that it does not exist in nature as ascorbic acid... I would think that it would require some process that would extract the acid from whatever...

vingar is acetic acid... for that to exist naturally there would have had to have been apples squished (naturally, of course) pool in an area that will not allow evaporation but allow fermentation.

of course, existing naturally does not necessarily mean "natural"...

perhaps, if nothing is added to the ingredient it is deemed "natural"...

so where can I extract citric acid and ascorbic acid in their pure form?

I heard that citric acid is good for cleaning... it must be, they put it in those cleaners... plus it gives it a good dose of tartness.

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by the way, I am drinking a nantucket nectars orange mango...

how "natural" is that? there are naturally no oranges in nantucket, and I am positive that mangoes cannot possible be indiginous to the area...

:-P

but it sure beats plain orange juice...

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it has got to be all of the natural cane sugar that was added to it.



Monday, May 24, 2004


leaps and bounds...
posted @ 08:40 by ryan in [ Tidbits... ]

quantum physics.

superposition of states.

decoherence.

gravity.

SchrÖdinger's cat.

I have been reading about it. trying to understand it.

from what I can grasp is that quantum mechanics tries to describe the behavior of particles - as in atoms or smaller.

apparently they, the atoms or smaller, can be affected by mere observation, so that what you would expect a particle to do will only happen if you are watching it... or not watching it... or vice versa...

it is bending my brain, but it is quite interesting...

if you care...

if you happen to have any knowledge on this subject matter and are fairly confident that you are competent in your ability to speak in lay terms, then please...

let me buy you a cup of coffee and explain it to me....

in small words.



Tuesday, May 04, 2004


Instant messaging
posted @ 12:42 by ryan in [ Tidbits... ]

I am working on my blogs.

these messages will hopefully make sense.

Of course, there are messages within message.

You can never tell...



but then if you did, I do not think that you would care so much...

so yeah.

it is in the foundation where things begin.