Heart Attacks -- Infarction

Some quick medical jargon.

Myocardial Infarction (MI). Sound familiar? Well how about "Heart Attack". The same. Infarction is the diseased state of a temporary (or permanent) loss of blood to tissue. The heart, composed of myocardial tissue, that doesn't get enough (or no) blood for a period of time experiences a Myocardial Infarction, or Heart Attack. Nifty to know; not nifty to experience.

To Puff or Definitely not to Puff

Take a drag of that cigarette (not!). Here's what will happen if you do (so don't!)...

1. Hyperglycemia. Your biochemical insulin production completely shuts down so your glucose blood level balance gets out of rhythm Glucose levels rise. You become temporarily hyperglycemic.
2. Dopamine Incease. Neurosynaptic re-uptake transporters for dopamine become blocked so the amount of dopamine in the synapses keeps flowing and the recieving cell continues recieving the neurotransmitters. Dopamine pleasure circuits keep firing, but become "abused" and will be more difficult to fire in the future.
3. Epinephrine Release. Your brain's hormonal centers start a sequence that releases epinephrine. You feel temporarily more alert, but later, your flight/fight response will be thrown out of whack by this repetitive "false alarm".

Those happen with every drag -- a drag, yeah...that's right!

This of course doesn't mention the long-term build-up. The emphyzema, angina pectoris (chest pain due to lack of blood to the heart, or ischemia), chronic bronchitis, system fibrosis (lung tissuue scarring), throat, gum, and lung cancer. Yeah, not fun!

FUA -- Full Universal Address

I've come to realize how truly insignificant -- because of their instability, tendency to produce conflict, and mercurial nature -- most of the religious, political, and social ballyhoo is, compared to the science of our planet, solar system, and galaxy. Squabbling over borders and domains truly is rubbish, when we glance at our global "home". And considering what "Wired" concluded, only about 24 humans have actually seen the entire earth from space with their own eyes, we could grow a lot by attuning ourselves to our spatial placement.

It's especially easy to be keen on global awareness on "earth day", but we should develop not just a year-long reverence for our planet, but a perpetual fascination with our entire placement in galactic space.

Let's examine our FUA.

If, say, you want to give the "Full Universal Address" (the FUA ;) of yourself and you, for example, are located in Santa Monica, you really shouldn't stop after the "Country". After all, what if there's another Santa Monica, CA, United States located on some other planet in a totally different and distinct solar system, in a completely different galaxy, and galaxy cluster! So, really, you should say this:

City -- Santa Monica
State -- CA
Zip - 90401
Country - United States
Hemisphere - Western Hemisphere, Northern Hemisphere
Planet - Earth
Solar System - 'Our Solar System'
Galactic Vicinity Within Our Galaxy -- Orion's Arm
Galaxy -Milky Way (Nearest neighboring galaxy = Messier 31, Andromeda)
Mini (dozens) Galaxy Cluster -- Local Group
Larger (thousands) Galaxy Cluster -- Virgo Supercluster
The Universe

Questions.
1. Does "our solar system" have any more of a scientific name than "our solar sytem"?

It really sounds lame, but "no".

2. What is the name (if any ) of our globular cluster and distance from galactic center within the Milky Way?

We are located not in a surrounding satellite globular cluster but actual within the MilkWay disk, 28,000 light years away from the galactic center. Considering that we are located 2.3 ly away from Andromeda galaxy, the nearest galaxy hovers 27,997.7 ly closer (or 12,173.9 times closer) than our own MilkayWay galactic center!

Here's a great site on galactic centers, nearby galaxies and the like.

3. Finally, I've been doing research to make this more complete and ran into Messier objects (to advanced astronomers I'm sure they're familiar, but they were fairly new to me). Does the Local Group and/or Virgo Cluster have some more scientific-sounding Messier Group name? "local group" and "virgo cluser" (not unlike "our solar system")?

Again, it sounds incredibly lame and informal, but our galaxy cluster is the Local Group and the super galaxy cluster is the Virgo Supercluster.

4. Finally, can this be expanded out any more? Are their "quadrants" of the universe or something in which the Virgo Cluster would be located?

It seems like there should be universal quadrants but superclusters is about all we have now. See an awesome image of the spatial rending of the entire visible universe at THE site for spatial universe zooming (at increments of x10), Atlas-of-the-Universe.

An Introductory Assemblage of Linux Tidbits

In learning more about the linux kernal, platform, and OS, I had countless “key clarification” that, frankly, turned on the “light bulb” and really helped me understand what the hell is going on the linux world. This includes some of those essentials and a few not-so-essential-but-very-cool findings, as well.

Linux Installing File Formats (most to least complicated to install)
1. Source code (needs compiling and file placement, no wizard)
2. Binary (needs file placement, no wizard)
3. Package (. deb, .rpm automatically installs pre-compiled files into necessary folders, no wizard)
4. SE binary (automatically installs pre-compiled files into necessary folders, wizard)

Software Installation Dependency
Windows and macs provide huge clunky install files that already have all the system software code already installed in it. Linux files don't come with dependcy files, so to uninstall or install a program, you may need to respectively install or install dependency files. Yo u experiene dependency hell, when a package needs dependency files, which, themselves, need depency files!

Mounting Files -- Basics
Linux is so cool because you can add any harddrive and make it “normal architecture” that automatically mounts by adding to the /etc/fstab file, creating a directory for it under /media/ folder. Note: remarkable how like this is with Big Brother updates. Everything must be updated and cross-referenced if a “BB surplus reference was changed for example”. To add a constant external drive you have to change /etc/fstab, /media/ references to it! Then it shows up in Places.
Also, realized that me criticizing with evidence why some advice is wrong is very similar to showing command line errors in terminal! It's not insulting; quite informative and helpful! A person who looks at it as insults shouldn't really be using it!

Linux OS
Linux just refers to the kernel; the sensitive part of the OS that does everything. GNU provides the shell, the libraries, and the components that all a user to use the linux kernel. The shell prevents bad commands from destroying the kernel, so the shell is a necessary buffer. GNOME is a GUI shell, but typically the terminal is what is referred to as “shell”. GNU/Linux then is the whole OS – shell, libraries, AND kernel.

Shell Commands
Whenever you type a command in the shell, it is really running just a small little program (ls, cd, totem – all programs). The terminal knows where to find these programs by looking in specific folders. echo $PATH lists these folders. For me, they're /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games , seperated by a colon. If the program is found in one of those folders just typing the command will launch it, otherwise you'll have to type the direct location of the command (or add it's folder to the PATH) or if the program is in the current folder, just precede it with “./” (./ means execute it right here). So way's to run programs:
./ -- if program is in current folder
“program name” if program is in PATH variable
“location/of/program” -- exact location of program name.

Extensibility Flexibility
Linux epitomizes life because you can change and do ANYTHING to the OS – if you want a folder to pop out a certain way, a menu to be added to a menu, anything, you can change it in linux!

System Variables
These tell, among other things, where commands are located for them to be executed from the command-line prompt. You can see the code for system variables with the “set” command.

Aliases
AWESOME trick. To permanently create an alias (another shortcut for a command or sequence of commands) just append to the end of the .bashrc file (the resource file for all bash shell work terminals) the following line
alias ='linux command'
so for example to create a shortcut for sudo apt-get install, an enormously painful experience to keep typing, just add this line of code to your .bashrc file:
alias sagi='sudo apt-get install'

Awesome! (Note: you must not have any spaces between the “=” sign (That threw me off at first). Just restart the terminal window or reboot and tot download a program just type:
sagi program_name

Psychology=Clarity, Music=Expression of that Clarity

Psychology concentrates and focuses and un-dilutes yoru voice; then music is how your express it. you need both. Psychology to get clear and then music to then use that clarity!

Eras of Music

• 750-1820 – Classical – balance and structure
• 1820-1900 – Romantic – emotional, large, programmatic
• Beyond 1900 – 20th Century – limitless

• 750-1820 – Classical – balance and structure
• 1820-1900 – Romantic – emotional, large, programmatic
• Beyond 1900 – 20th Century – limitless

I'm currently bouncing between classical and romantic music. 20th century -- limitless is where I'm headed bay-baby!

Pleasure and Business Writing Style

I don't know you personally but, you have provided me with a very social and psychological distinctive insight. You wrote:

I meant that I am only using these dots when I write private e-mail not business e-mails.I meant that I am only using these dots when I write private e-mail not business e-mails.

It's very important to have a seperate "business email" way of communicating, so that your fun, personal method of communicating can go-all out and truly be enjoyable.

For example, the above writing was "business email" formal, structure, proper, and logical sound writing.

This is fun writing:

What's up kitty-lover yo? You flow with the elipsEEs because you like the kittIES....Yeah, yeah, hella, hella hella fun talking the personal kitty-kat pat-tat feline jive.....Man, I'm flowin' like a bee hive!

So it's quite clear the pertinent necessity of discovering and utilizing both forms of writing and speaking! One is highly liberating because it is fun and freely associative (personal writing); the other is highly liberating because it is structured, logical, and ideologically expressive of your belief (business writing)!

The positive sides of business writing is its formality and structured message; the downsides is that it is slow, cumbersome and bland. But it changes the structure of your thinking for the better

The positives of personal/pleasure writing is its fun, free association; the downsides is that too much of it can look cheesy and unintelligent. But it instantly changes your feelings.

In short, business writing changes thought; personal/pleasure writing changes emotions.

Sincerely,
John Kooz

Why Life is Infinitely Better Reading Books

...and not watching movies. (This is in reference to non-fiction books, btw -- and quality reads, not crap).

1. Movies leave you under a spell; an illusory haze so you cannot see. Books give control of the haze others are under.

2. Movies manufacture illusion without you knowing it, while books allow you to choose experience illusion, without decoupling awareness from experience.

3. Books enable to you to explain and teach about illusions and reality, placing you at "cause" instead of at "effect" where you are a victim of illusion.

4.. Books clarify and provide understandings. Movies merely create suspence and foreshadowing.

5. You think more clearly with a book because your brain gets neurological activity firing that is congruent with the logic of the book. Kind of like a "mental-cerebral" version of "if you smile, you'll feel happy". If you read a smart book, you'll think more intelligently. Movies trick and obfuscate intelligence.

6. Books, you have total control over the pace, and "order you read", movies (unless you fumble with FF and RW buttons, you do not have the same control.

7. Books, your vision is the movie and you are the director; movies lack that customization.

8. Books teach and entertain and create more cohesive thinking; movies, merely entertain with an inkling of "teaching".

9. Both movies and books inspire, but books provide an inspiration that is more enduring beacuse it is "your own version" of the inspiration.

10. Finally, books don't need electrical outlets, high-tech dvd players, surround sound and the like. Books are portable; you can bring them anywhere. Laptops are fixing that with movies, but with a book, you use your "built-in" surround sound, imax, widescreen mental imagery vision, which is infinitely more crisp, alive, and exciting than a movie screen.

I'm a former movie junkie (thousands and reruns) and have rediscovered the joy of reading!

By the way, why do I keep doing this blog? Because I believe sharing these ideas to be incredibly important and vital. You can try to convince me otherwise, but won't have much luck.

I think the ultimate underlying mutual understanding here is this: "You read the right books, on a topic, skill-set, or value you want to acquire, and you will program your mind to genuinely live that life". Movies are a quick way to glimpse at, and live vicariously through the characters and plots of other (fictional, screenplay) stories, and, unmistakenly, Incredible sources of cool inspiration.

Why do so many Millenials (almost every member of the IWR club) LOVE Office Space? Because we're constantly mobile, we loathe actual stagnant office spaces, but don't mind the internet and that dynamic exchange at all. However, watching the movie "Office Space" will merely create a vicarious, temporary, short-lived feeling of "freedom" from something in your real life that you wish to escape. If you actually want to CHANGE your life, books will do that for you. I guess an analogy is a movie is the ignition (it can start the desire or create awareness of a desired change) but then the book is the actual car (it supplies the programming you need in order to get you where you want to go).

Another example. Watch "I know what women want" and you start to laugh and feel great because that would be an awesome feeling. Wow! But then when it comes to actually "knowing what women want" there are books that help you actually create that "knowledge", not by mind-reading or fantastical whooey-looey, but by using NLP and anchoring and quality relationship rapport strategies so you and her get heard more and ultimately mutually share each other's interests and thus, collectively "know what each other wants" and in a kind of emotional, physical-kinesthetic mutualistic symbyosis, provide that.