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Happy Halloween!

The Colorado Rockies are entering into the world series for the first time ever tonight. Exciting stuff. I’ll be watching the game and cheering on the Rockies. Will you?

I too am embarrassed and a bit disgusted with how the ticket sales for the Rockies world series home games went (as many of you are). Right now there is no real way to let Rockies management know how disappointed it’s fans are with how the whole thing has been handled. Here is my idea: every Rockies fan boycott next seasons first nationally televised homegame. Simply don’t attend. This will hurt both the rockies managements ego and their pocketbooks. We’ll have to wait for the 2008 schedule to come out before we find out if this game will be opening day or not (if so, plans might need to be changed) but regardless, if enough people do this, it’ll let rockies management know how upset us true rockies fans are. What do you think? Another website to check out is Crashtober if you are interested in trying to do something about it.

In the mean time, go out and root for your favorite team!

Below is a photo I took I took while watching the Rockies win the National League Championship. Also below is a quick video I took of the scene (unfortunately my camera ran out of batteries and I only got about three seconds of video).

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Ecological Footprint is a resource management tool that measures how much land and water area a human population requires to produce the resources it consumes and to absorb its wastes under prevailing technology. Essentially, it measures human demand on nature.The science is actually pretty robust which gives it tremendous merit. Right now, humanity’s Ecological Footprint is over 23% larger than what the planet can regenerate. Ecological Footprint accounting shows that, as of October 6, 2007, humanity has consumed the total amount of new resources that our planet can produce this year.

Figure out what your personal ecological footprint is. Full disclosure of my own personal Ecological Footprint can be found after the jump (and no, I’m not proud of it).

Q: Assuming that (a) Tom Cruise’s level of consumption is in parallel with his annual salary, and that (b) everyone on earth has the opportunity to live like Tom Cruise: How many Earths would we need to sustain this level of consumption?

A: About 2700 Earths. 2700 fricking Earths!

I’m left handed. That’s supposed to indicate that I am more right-brained and my thinking is more visual-simultaneous based versus the linear-sequential thinking of right handers. I don’t know if that’s true or not. But the theory of brain lateralization says this is generally true (And by “generally” I mean 95% of right handers have their language functions in the left hemisphere, only 18.8% of left-handers have their language function lateralized in the right hemisphere. Additionally, 19.8% of left-handers have even bilateral language functions). My personality would indicate that I’m more left-brained, despite my handedness. Here are the characteristics of right and left-brained people:

Left Brain Functions:

sequential
uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
language: grammar/words, pattern perception, literal
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
analytical
safe
verbal

Right Brain Functions:

simultaneous
uses feeling
“big picture” oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can “get it” (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
language: intonation/emphasis, prosody, pragmatic, contextual
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
holistic
risk taking
imagistic

Below is an optical illusion that is supposed to help determine your “brain-dedness”. What direction is she spinning for you? If the girl is spinning counterclockwise then you use more of the left side of your brain. If the girl is spinning clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa.

For me she was spinning counterclockwise and I had trouble believing she could spin the other way. After about a minute I was able to get her to switch by concentrating on the point where her foot meets her foots shadow.