China's Smoking

Smokin' away!

It seems that America is under a new Red Scare.  This time, it's about China.

Politicians from Obama to Bohner feel that China is getting ahead of America.  Just from last week's State of the Union address Obama incited this motivation that we need to do big things.

Now to calm those pessimists, China has a smoking problem.  Economist and health experts predict that an estimated of 2 million people will die each year from tobacco-related problems in China.  By 2030, that could rise to 3.5 million per year.

According to the article, there are more than 300 million smokers in China.  That's a lot of wasted productivity.  If each smoker wastes about an hour smoking each day, that would be over 101 billion man-hours lost of productivity each year.

Sorry China, but that's a lot of wasted time.

Filling up a Tool Kit

What you need to have to create a tool kit.

• Screw drivers
• Solid with a long shaft



Now just imagine tools

• Mini Screwdriver set
• Electric drill
• Drill bits
• Hammer
• There is no need to get an expensive one, you will only use it once and a while.
• Random screws, nails, and bolts
• Just get a plastic container, like a peanut butter jar, and store those random screws, nails and bolts form other projects.
• Pliers
• You can get sets that contain everything you need, like nippers, needle nose, and multipurpose ones.
• Wrenches
• I recommend that you get a multipurpose racketing one for sure.  It really speeds up the jobs.  
• Duct tape
• This is for the quick and easy repair of those things that you will probably replace soon.  
• Measuring tape
• No need to splurge, you will probably break it or lose it.  
• Electrical equipment - optional equipment if you have the balls and the experience to deal with electricity.
• Wire cutters
• Outlet tester or multimeter
• Electrical tape
• Case
• This can be as showy, or traditional you want.  
• It should be able to contain all of your tools along with some capability of organization.
• Mine is in a metal briefcase that looks like its from a movie.

Having a tool kit comes in handy from college tinkering, to house fixing.  

Off the grid...

From a financial standpoint, I could not survive any longer paying for 3G service for my Mytouch from T-mobile.  It was a great phone, one that I even reviewed.   I was paying, through my parents, around $30 a month for unlimited data and texting.

Not just that, but I had put in a couple hundred bucks back in September to get an iPad that I sincerely hold close to my heart.  I was in constant Wifi access when I was either at home, in my dorm, or at class.  I didn't need to have 3G anymore.

So, I confronted my father to make the drive to the T-mobile store and pick up a 'dump' phone.  At the end of the day, I ended with the a very slick-looking Samsung Gravity 3 (see right).

This is my first phone to have a full keyboard, so I'm a little excited for this next chapter in my life.

Now, got to do some Particle Mechanics and Material Science homework for tomorrow.  There's that massive Nor'easter coming up the coast, and apparently, 7 to 12 inches of snow is supposed to fall in the Capital Region.  Can't wait to see my 8am canceled.

Back to School

Back to school with less than I have ever brought. Imagine that.

For the first time ever, I had to worry about my credit limit when I was buying my books. Those engineering textbooks are worth their weight in gold.

Moved into a frat house. Drinking has already commenced.

Obama a hypocrite?

An article from foxnews is about Obama not taking public financing.

Obama is the first candadite to not take public financing since Watergate. Obama raised $602 million since the start of the campaign.

That is ridiculous to have control over that much money, and be a socialist. How about he gives that money to the poor guy, and the middle class and the rich can keep there own money. The "spreading of wealth" concepts that he totally exposed to Joe the Plumber, shows that he is completely on the left. Anyone that knows history or economics knows that socialism or spreading of wealth does not work, nor has it ever worked. Why should it work now? This idea is just like welfare and we already know that welfare does not work.

To get back on the point, this massive amount of money will be the roots for corruption. Always was and always will.