Bits & Bites 1

This term the room I share during my prep has changed and I've enjoyed getting to know another one of the English teachers at the school. Unfortunately, for my picky self that is, he is both a gourmet and a gourmand. He puts me to shame. While in Japan, he even taught himself to eat natto! So, I've been braver than usual lately.

• Last week I ate a cookie with raisins in it. I didn't squirm. I didn't flinch. I didn't even squinch! In fact, I barely noticed them. How many cookies have I turned down needlessly? No more!

• I declined guacamole on a hamburger when out for lunch and found I couldn't justify why I didn't like it. So, a few weeks later I picked up some sushi for supper. I had a vegetarian roll that just so happened to have some avocado in it. I was brave. I removed it from the roll and ate it on its own. It tasted like nothing I've ever, well, actually it tasted like nothing. It was soft, mushy nothingness squishing terribly in my mouth. I remember why I don't like avocados.

Tomorrow, we're going out for lunch again. Wish me luck.

Coyotes Patch

Not only am I a hockey enthusiast, but I am hockey design enthusiast as well. I like to make jerseys, logos, and what not.

I was inspired by a post from icethetics. Part of the new deal to keep the Coyotes in Glendale is a change of name from Phoenix to Arizona. They are going to make that change for next season. The post shows the new word mark for the team and a changed shoulder patch. I thought the new shoulder patch didn't use the state abbreviation very well. I felt there was a lot of empty space, so I thought I'd try my hand at remaking the patch myself.

Here it is:

I decided to simplify the palette and do something a bit different with the letters.

Just A Thought #1

I know that a second is a fixed unit; however, since I first heard about how some dinosaurs were so large it took seconds for nerve signals to travel to the brain, I've separated the idea of absolute time and experienced time.
Experienced time is the rate at which our nervous system can process stimuli and act. In absolute time, this time is unique to each species, since each species has a unique anatomy. It is with this time that we measure our days and our lifespans. We view mice and insects as preternaturally fast. Spider-Man's precognitive spider sense is one example that comes to mind. We view the behemoths of ages past as plodding imbeciles and wonder how they could possibly have survived at such a slow pace. However, our opinions are based on our experiential time.
If I was to somehow become a diplodocus, mamenchisaurus, or even a amphicoelias, in absolute time my experienced time would have lengthened, but I wouldn't notice the difference. Experienced time is constant. What I would notice is that I lived in a world of incredibly fast little creatures that somehow seemed to know in advance if I was trying to squish them.
If I were to become a fly, I still I wouldn't notice a difference in the passing of time, but I'd live in a world of incredibly slow giants. I'd laugh at them as they try to squish me and wonder how beings could possibly exist if they move and react that slowly.
I think it boils down to relativity and perspective. We say a worker bee has a lifespan of a year, but if it can process its environment 40 times faster than we can, has it not lived 40 years in that span?