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Day: September 13, 2005

wise investment

Note to self: invest in your future.

If only I was smart enough to do the research, patent this technology and market it, investing in reproduction of microscopic hair cells in the cochlea located in the inner ears would make me a billionaire. My generation is going to have severe hearing loss when we get older, and the iPods and iPod knockoffs are one of the main causes.

But that’s like saying guns cause death.

Ah, very true. People with guns can cause death, not the guns themselves. So, let me rephrase this:

People who constantly use iPods and iPod knockoffs at high levels will go deaf unless they limit the amount of noise they allow into their ears on a daily basis. I’ve already got hearing loss with my ongoing, annoying tinnitus, most of which wasn’t even caused by my CD/digital music players.

I think this really is the best research to invest in right now and when I manage to figure out way of doing it, I also plan to invest money in this area. I’m definitely going to need the help as I age because hearing loss runs rampant in my family already.

blackout

Much of Los Angeles “went dark” yesterday during the middle of the afternoon. I have to quote this phrase because, well, the sun was shining brightly. But for much of the afternoon, power was off for nearly a million people. Luckily, and strangely enough, we had no interruption here in Santa Monica. People were affected a few miles east of here. By the time I left work, it was like nothing had happened. I got back to my room and the clock light was flashing.

The biggest pain about this power outage was that my web host provider Dreamhost went down for a few hours. In fact, my e-mail was out all day and didn’t get back up until about 9pm or so. I hate losing access to my e-mail like would frequently happen at my previous webhost. But, according to another DreamHost user, this is the first time something major like this has happened since 1998. So I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt. In fact, Dreamhost stated they had backup generators in place, but their network providers also went down and they were forced to evacuate the building.

You may continue spamming me now.