Arm Pillo Kickstarter Rejection

Edit: The Arm Pillo is available through www.simpleinno.com and through http://www.amazon.com

So, apparently, it's not as easy to get on Kickstarter.com as I thought. If you don't know what kickstarter is, well, basically it's a site that allows you to crowd-source funding for your project or product. You provide a video and different levels of rewards for certain amounts of money donated. We just had a normal Arm Pillo level and a fleece or leopard print level. They said the Arm Pillo didn't "fit" with kickstarter. I guess the Arm Pillo doesn't fit anywhere, except around your arm. This is a setback, but throughout my life, I've rarely fit in anywhere, so I will persist. Below is the video we made, there was an intro we made for kickstarter, but I decided to take it out, mostly out of spite, though it was pretty funny. We put up a website www.simpleinno.com that has the Arm Pillo along with a few other products for sale.

Hunger Games

Yes, I, a twenty three year old male have read the Hunger Games Trilogy. And it was good. The movie of the first installment, however, did not live up to my expectations. I hated the cinematography, it was shot like a British sci-fi show, most of which I cannot stand solely for the way they are shot. The CGI was mostly terrible (the flames during the entrance of the contestants were uninspired). For a world that's supposed to be in the future, everything seemed like it was straight out of the 1950s. The lack of detail in the story was understandable due to the time constraint, but details such as the victors crown being split between Katniss and Peeta at the end would have added no time and needed no explanation. Rant, rant, rant. 7/10.

Caution: Lots Of Website Traffic

Caution: If Inception made your head hurt, this post may do the same.

Online marketing is pretty tough. There's essentially infinite competition if you want YouTube views on your video or for a picture you post to one of the many image hosting sites. Same goes for articles. Why would you read this if there was something more entertaining or informative, even if it's not exactly related?

So, through my research I've found the best way to get more traffic is to write about getting more traffic. It's so meta. Like real world Inception level meta. It seems pretty obvious to me that people who are writing about helping others get more traffic are really looking for more traffic for themselves, but they always try to veil that fact. I, however, like to keep it real, so, yes, I hope this article gets me more traffic. I also hope that this newly increased traffic helps promote my Arm Pillo which is kind of a silly product, but it's actually very useful. So that's it. To summarize:

1. Write about getting more traffic to get more traffic
2. Keep it real
3. Arm Pillo, Arm Pillo, Arm Pillo, Arm Pillo.

New Years Resolutions

1. Floss everyday- I got some cavities in between my teeth
2. Network with people better - Everyone is interesting
3. Fart around less (both literally and figuratively a.k.a. less internet)
4. Dress nicer
5. Shave everyday


2012 Stop playin'. No games. Get serious. Have fun.

My Unfounded Theories 3: Distant Aliens Think We Move Slowly Due To Special Relativity

Hear me out. It all depends on your frame of reference. Light is the fastest thing in every reference frame, but in certain reference frames we will be moving near the speed of light. So, the Earth is moving around the sun at 30,000 meters per second, and around the Milky Way at around 250,000 meters per second an around the Local Group of galaxies at 300,000 meters per second. These speeds are a couple of orders of magnitude lower than the speed of light (300,000,000 meters per second), but as you take your reference frame as being deeper and deeper into space, the faster we a relatively moving.

So what kind of implications does this have? Well, in inertial reference frames, time dilation is an observed effect that causes time in a fast moving object to slow down. So, if there was another planet very far away and it was moving very fast, it would appear to us that clock on that planet would tick very slowly. If there was life on that planet, it would appear that life would grow very slowly. The same would be true of us from their perspective. This is pretty cool, because if aliens tried to sneak up on us, they might think we were sloths, but when they get here they would see that we move quickly. Unless they know about relativity and took it into account. Here's to hoping Einstein was the smartest person/thing ever.

Watch a pulse of light at a trillion frames per second

So, at MIT they made a high speed camera that can capture a trillion frames per second and that's fast enough to watch a pulse of light in slow motion. Crazy. How did they do this, you ask? They use a bunch of light sensors that are slow on their own, but are timed to take a picture one trillionth of a second apart. To reduce the number of sensors that they needed to use they took photos that were only about a pixel high and as wide as their scene. Then scanned the whole scene from top to bottom with the camera. Since the light pulse was a highly repeatable event, they could do a bunch of trials and then mesh all of the line videos together. I JUST SAW LIGHT! Yeah, whatever, I see light 16 hours a day.

My Unfounded Theories 2: Where does the time go?

So, how's the space-time continuum been treating you lately? This is my standard greeting when I'm feeling a little bit pompous. Well, time is pretty crazy when you think about it. It's the fourth dimension, it's the first non-spatial one (the second one is possibilities? Ah, who knows), but mathematically it can pretty much just be lumped with the spatial ones. People have pondered about what time is for all of humanity, so don't expect a definitive conclusion from this post. The problem seems to be that we really have no way of probing time. For probing space, we have things like the LHC and telescopes, but nothing of the like for time. We know it slows down as you move faster thanks to that Einstein, but not much else. Are we just moving along one time-path in a sea of infinite, or even finite, possible time paths? Do our decisions dictate our path, or is it predetermined? And this is the problem. Thinking about time gets speculative very quickly, and it is tough to reel back in.