Stoplights are a Go.

I was on StumbleUpon (one of my favorite websites) and came across this concept for a new stoplight. I find the idea intriguing and think it would help with traffic quite a bit, because you'll know exactly how much time is being spent while at a stoplight.



The concept is simple as you can see. The hourglass shows how much 'sand' is left before the color changes. In the case of a yellow light it shows you how much time is left before you are either able to go or how much time you have to stop.

However, this thought on time swiftly followed the traffic lights leaving me wondering if traffic lights that show how time runs out would be a good idea after all?



I can't imagine life without time. I can't imagine not having an i-phone or a clock or a computer somewhere near by to tell me what time of day it is. What did our ancestors do before they began marking the passing of time with sundials? Did they worry over all the things we worry over now? Did they imagine their time, their lives, slipping like sand through a vast hourglass, slowly disappearing?

We have a tendency to see time as a finite thing. A thing that ends. And it does, in a sense. For all of us the clock will eventually cease to tick, the sand cease to fall, the sun cease to set. We end, therefore, for us, time ends.

Time however is immeasurable. It is like taffy, pulled out into endless ropes of forever. It pulls further and further. We do not have the capability to even begin to comprehend the infinite amount of time there is stretching out before us. Yawning out like a black chasm, an endlessly long tunnel.

I think that makes it scary. Time will go on. Life will go on. We won't. We will end. Everything ends. But even after everything is gone, there will still be time. In the abyss of everything there will always be time.

Disgusted

* Mood: Outraged
* Listening to: the reports on MSN.com
* Drinking: Coffee

I cannot understand why someone would break into a museum and destroy the priceless histories within.

For those of you who don't know the Cairo Museum was broken into and several (I don't know an exact number) artifacts were destroyed, needlessly. Even two mummies did not escape the desecration.

I agree, wholeheartedly, with Dr. Zahi Hawass "My heart is broken and my blood is boiling".

Who does that? Who goes out and ravages history's final remnants? We have only this one life and it is spent reaping the rewards of History's lessons and we choose rather to destroy it than to preserve it! Who cares about history? Who cares about some dead guys wrapped in cloth in a museum somewhere thousands of miles across the ocean?

I CARE! We are the products of history! We are history in the making! Why would we ever choose to destroy rather than to protect?!

It is ridiculous! I have completely lost faith in a humanity that robs the dead and desecrates a house of History.

I'm a Barbie Girl

Hey everyone! So I am stumbling (AGAIN) and I am going to share with you what I have found interesting. I hope to have something a little more uniform than this eventually, but for now this is the randomness that is my blog. Please enjoy and tell your friends!!

Some Websites ^^
http://www.alterfin.com/dominique/
http://virtualfunzone.com/literally-live-pictures.html

TWO news item that are too good to wait for the news blog!
Meet the first LEGALLY GENDERLESS person. It is named Norrie May-Welby and is from Australia. A VERY interesting article, I think. I hope you enjoy it.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/03/16/2010-03-16_no_sex_for_me_please_extranssexual_briton_is_first_legally_genderless_person.html

I personally love Archaeology and so I am incredibly interested in this article about a 4,000 year old cemetery discovered in the middle of a desert in Tibet.
http://www.theage.com.au/world/desert-riddle-unearthed-ancient-western-boat-people-20100316-qcks.html

You get not one, not two, but FOUR pictures for the day!!

HELLO KIDNEY!


I wanna place a bet of $100 on the Count von Count!


Mona Lisa never looked so tasty!


I love BioShock! ^^


A few Quotes I really like
"Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values."
Ayn Rand (Objectivist)

"Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart."
William Jennings Bryan (Lawyer)

and in honor of Women's History month a few quotes on women.
"No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer should women not be allowed to be a citizen at all."
Ginny B. Waite (Female Politician)

"We women must listen to our inner voice. It is easier for women to do this as they are not afraid to say what they feel."
Indra Devi (a Disciple of Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya)

"Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women."
Rita Mae Brown (Author)

And, because I COMPLETELY spaced African-American History Month (I usually don't forget it as it is my favorite month besides September)
"No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women."
Bell Hooks (Author, Feminist)

"We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges."
Barack Obama (The First Black President)

"Genius is an African who dreams up snow."
Vladimir Nabokov (Novelist)

And a recipe for good measure!!

7-Up Apple Dumplings recipe
makes: 10 Servings

2 c Sugar
10 Large apples
1 ts Cinnamon
1 Can biscuits
1/2 ts Nutmeg
1 ts Nutmeg
1 Stick butter
1 ts Cinnamon
20 oz 7-up
12 Butter

In saucepan combine first group of sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, butter and the
7- up.

Heat until melted, set aside.

Peel and core apples, separate dough from 1 can biscuits. Separate and roll out each biscuit individually and place 1 apple in each.

Combine second group of sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg.

Sprinkle 1 tsp. of this mixture in center of each apple along with 2 T.
butter.

Fold biscuit around apple and pinch dough. Put dumplings in 9 x 13"
pan. Pour sauce over each dumpling.

Bake at 375 degrees for 45 minutes.