New hype after the last stand

I have just finished watching X-Men: The Last Stand.



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In the first part of X-Men, the mutants are slowing becoming known to humans. In the second installment of the trilogy(?) the mutants begin be viewed as enemies.

In the last(?) movie, humans have come to terms living together. They are recognized and respected as equals.

In the final scene, I saw Warren Worthington gliding over a park with a blond boy looking up at him.

And an idea struck me! My guess is boys will come up to their moms and dads say, "I wanna have wings like his!"

The next best discovery in the X-Men world after "The Cure" will be "The Mutator."

Commonwealth and communism

Commonwealth according to Wikipedia was derived from an English noun in the 15th century. The old meaning of wealth of wealth is well-being. Wikipedia further defines commonwealth as "... a state or nation-state governed for the common good ..."

Communism on the other hand is defined as a "... socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of a classless, stateless society based on ownership of the means of production."

By limiting the definitions of these two words, we can say that both have a, albeit, common meaning: equally for all.

Both forms of governing a nation has similar flaws. Classes exist under communism while the common good is not sought in commonwealths.

Those who defined these words meant how they are defined. Those who put these words to use, use them the way they believe it may be used.

If communism is implemented as I believe it should have been, the share of the leaders in the production income should be the same as those who labor in the fields.

If there is indeed a commonwealth, then there is no such terms as the privileged few or marginalized group.

I think all forms of governance have been crafted to answer the needs of a nation or state at that time. Implemented properly, it will serve its purpose. It is the implementers who sometimes loose sight of what they are supposed to do. and that is when the flaw is made.

Chain of ideas - nuclear powered car

During my childhood days, I had conceptualized the construction of a nuclear powered car. All electronic, all automatic, all power.

My concept then is the creation of a compact fusion reactor. Heavy water is fed to the reactor chamber that is teeming with deuterium that will allow for sustainable fusion reaction. The deuterium is heated by multiple lasers focused at the center of the reactor sphere.

Heated water produced by the reaction is taken into a steam generator whose steam propels a steam trubine attached to a generator. This generator provides the power for the car and its on board electronics.

All these are in the hood of the car. Electric motors attached to the rear wheels move the car.

And this car is an example of something powered by water. Very abundant. Now being abused.

Chain of ideas - butter is healthy

Now, I may have made a misconception here but I saw from one television program that states: "our bodies are used to butter and is therefore able to break this down compared to using margarine." I may have mixed up to two but I had evidence - from National Geographics' Seconds from Disaster - that butter is the better of the two.

In the aforementioned episode, combustible margarine had caused the freaky accident in the English Channel underwater tunnel.

Now I may be confused here because if margarine is easily combustible, does that mean that our bodies can easily "burn" it?

Oh hell... let me check our fridge...

Well, we are using margarine. With out cholesterol. So I guess it's "our bodies are used to margarine and is therefore able to break this down compared to using butter."

Happy eating!

Chain of ideas - cooking with garlic

It is said that garlic is able to reduce incidence of high blood pressure.

There was a time that every morning I would go to our office clinic and have my blood pressure checked. We are issued a green card where we put our blood pressure readings for the day. For almost a month or two, I had recorded blood pressures as high as 140/100 and twice or thrice was I made to take medicines for hypertension.

Every time I get a high blood reading, I always tell the doc that it is caused by my walking for about 2 kilometers to the office (1+ miles).

Later on, I heard from a friend that garlic helps maintain a level blood pressure. Level in the lows that is.

I have also noticed some of my friends cook their meals with sauteed garlic.

Henceforth, I took interest in cooking food using garlic. This food ranged from veggies to meat to pork all sauteed in, unfortunately, high fat oil. It ended when I saw from an episode of Oprah where the doctor-guests said that vegetable oil has less cholesterol compared to other types of oils.

So it came to me changing from using regular cooking oil to vegetable or coconut oil.

Healthy and delicious.

Chain of ideas - subordinate leadership

The phrase "good leaders are good followers" we can deduce that leaders became good ones because they had been good followers in the past.

But is not only limited to that deduction. Leaders themselves are followers as well. Take military structure for example.

Privates are subordinates to sergeants who have several levels of sergeant-hood.

Sergeants are subordinates themselves to military officers ranging from 2nd Lieutenant up to Colonel. Each officer in that level is subordinate to the next.

These officers are themselves subordinates to various generals from the brigadier to the five-start general with each general subordinate to the one with more stars on their shoulders that what they have.

These generals are likewise subordinates to the senior officials of their defense departments which has it's own hierarchy.

The defense hierarchy is also subordinate to the Commander-in-Chief which is the head of the state or sovereign.

Government leaders themselves are subordinates to the will of the people (in democratic countries as far as I remember). In some cases, the government leaders are subordinates to their campaign contributors, businesses, and, for the case of male leaders, to their wives. :)

This can go on this time considering the "people."

But who is the "leader-est" of them all? Well, each to his own belief. :)

Chain of ideas - resale of public utility

List of resellable public utility items:

1. water meter - got wrench? will steal. water meters are often removed from their attachments for resale by thieves.

2. electric power line - black outs are not that bad. enterprising individuals take this opportunity to steal power cables. with some courage and some luck, they get away without being electrocuted.

3. cable television line - no need for blackouts here.

4. telephone line - copper wires are best sold on a per kilogram/pound basis.

5. electricity - just tap in to somebody's power line or even from the mains. other venture capitalists allow other people to tap in to their power lines and charge them a fixed monthly rate.

6. water - a rubber hose here, a t-connector there, tap into the main water line and voila! free water.

7. telephone - all you will need is a plier, some telephone wires, and a cheap phone unit.

8. cable connection - a more sophisticated connection is needed here. it is called a signal splitter.

NOTE: these are illegal activities and are punishable by law.

Chain of ideas - Filipino and Italian

One day, I was asked by my wife to cook some food. I have no idea what to do then. It was a good thing I was tuned in to one of our favorite cable channels in the office - The LifeStyle Network.

The show was featuring Italian cooking at that time - the pizza. Then I suddenly remembered one episode of another show from that channel where the "bachelor" cooked pasta for his friends. In that same instant I thought "hey! if Italians eat pasta and Filipinos eat rice, it can therefore be concluded that pasta to Italians is rice to Filipinos!" And so came the answer to my previous problem: what to cook.

I went to the kitchen after the show and looked at what I can conjure from the fridge and cupboard. I found the following items:

1. left over rice from last night
2. tomatoes
3. tomato sauce
4. garlic
5. onions
6. left over fried beef strips
7. butter

I began then began dicing 1 tomato, 4 cloves of garlic, and 1 bulb of onion while I thawed the left-over rice with tap water and the beef strips at room temperature.

I then proceeded to sautee the diced tomato, garlic and onion in a small slice of butter. After such time that I believe the tomato was cooked enough, I added the beef strips. I drained the water from the rice pot and mixed the rice with the sauteed ingredients as if cooking fried rice.

I poured a bit of soy sauce on the concoction and sprinkled some salt.

After I am satisfied with the way the rice was cooked, I added some tomato sauce on the pan and mixed the contents in low heat.

In under 15 minutes I have the Filipino version of the pasta ready for munching.

It tasted good and was among the best "inventions" I have made along with my mechado-adobo cross.

I will share that recipe once I get my thoughts organized on how I did it then.