Gravity Kills

I saw this story here and decided to share. A 22-year-old Reston man was found dead yesterday after he tried to use accessory straps (the stretchy little ropes with hooks on each end) to bungee jump off a 70-foot railroad trestle, police said. Fairfax County police said Eric A. Barcia, a fast-food worker, taped a bunch of these straps together, wrapped an end around one foot, anchored the other end to the trestle at Lake Accotink Park, jumped … and hit the pavement. Warren Carmichael, a police spokesman, said investigators think Barcia was alone because his car was found nearby. “The length of the cord that he had assembled was greater than the distance between the trestle and the ground.” Police say the apparent cause of death was “major trauma”. An autopsy was scheduled for later that week. Inasmuch as the circumstance is grave, the hilarity in stupidity remains profound.

Challenge: The Third Boolean

I thought I’d share one of the pressing thoughts in my head. One which may have enough ground to become a project.

Over the months, I have been posting out of spontaneous thought or as a result of certain happenstances that I view in tangerine light – something other than lime for a change. But anyways, they have not been pressing issues on my mind. This thought, on the other hand, holds me hostage. The ransom? Mindless pondering. I employ you to think as you read with the promise of some enlightenment at the end.

First, the introductory story. Once, during the history of the owner of this blog, he had an argument with a brother from another mother – literally though, people often stood awestruck on the reality that they weren’t related despite the immense resemblance in looks and complementing qualities in character. The cause of the argument is lost in history – as is every other important piece of information. But the argument survived. The argument began thus: “Fathom along brother… despite the largeness of the world and the vastness of it’s possibilities, at every point in time, there are only two options: yes or no, true or false, one or zero”, the blogger urged. “Don’t bother me”, his brother from another mother said. (For brevity, let us refer to this brother from another mother as BFAM). After a couple minutes of TV and thought – we hope – BFAM chooses to challenge the motion that there only exists two possibilities at a time. Feeling pretty confident, BFAM challenged with, “I mean, if you want to choose from a list of entities, I don’t think that’s a yes/no question, is it?”. “No”, the blogger succumbed sarcastically, “but if you break down the decision of making a list into the basic do-I-want-this-entity-in-my-list type question, you should fall back to the yes/no question”. And this went on with more intellectual examples, theses, theories and laws. This argument is yet to come to a conclusion.