YouTube represent!  Now put your hands up!

Why do I like these nerd parodies more than the originals?  Seriously, I wouldn’t listen to the original of this song other than to see Katy Perry ski pole with the whip cream bikini*, and I didn’t care for Owl City’s “Fireflies” until that Harry Potter parody from All Caps.

(video from California Dorks (Parody of Katy Perry’s California Gurls) by Skyway Flyer (via jasonmundaymusic))

* …well, that, the side boob, and partial nudity.

So, stick around here on my WordPress site — WordPress who on top of a powerful user community has actual real people answering support questions — or you can follow me on Twitter.

I’ve created a Tumblr site. That’s where you’ll find me for awhile.

p.s. You can get there from both http://tumblr.rollerfeet.com and http://rollerfeet.tumblr.com.

Don’t worry too much, though, this infection will mysteriouly clear up by 2:00am (in your time zone) on November first AFTER Daylight Savings begins.

A recent “Believe it or not” cartoon led me to data that: of the fresh water in the world only 0.3 percent is surface water which I verified(?) at Wikipedia.com along with the fact that two-thirds of [fresh water] is frozen in glaciers, I started to wonder about how much water the human race contains and where, in relation, that water is (or is going to come from). I wonder about the noise made that the polar ice caps are melting, and I wonder how the volumes and ratios of population growth and polar ice cap melting align, since the water in a living body is stably “trapped” in itself and therefore removed from the global cycle of water circulation.

The pertinent data I can come up with is that the human body is about 60% water in adult males and 55% in adult females, that the sex ratio is commonly assumed to be 105 boys to 100 girls but the current world wide sex ratio at birth is 107 boys to 100 girls. Also, I found data on world population history that I can use to calculate the amount of H2O mass “trapped” in humans. To get conservative figures, I assumed that the average human mass is 60 kg and applied the 100/105 ratio.

                 1800    1850    1900    1950     1999    2050      2150

World Pop.         978   1,262   1,650   2,521    5,978   8,909     9,746
F. Water        15,743  20,315  26,561  40,582   96,231  143,413  156,887 
M. Water        18,033  23,270  30,424  46,485  110,228  164,273  179,707 
Total H2O       33,777  43,585  56,985  87,067  206,460  307,686  336,594 
Delta H2O                  29%     31%     53%      137%     49%       9%

(population in “millions”; mass in Mg)

So I can show the amount of water in humans is currently over 307 metric tons, and the change in that amount over the last 5 decades is an increase of 50%.

I’ve found charts about the rate change in the polar ice caps, but I can’t find anything with actual numbers. Anyone know what that is? or does anyone have arguments about my approach?

Here’s a spoiler video about this collective-hive-mind internet performance piece that sort of blows me away…now that I understand it. Initially I have to admit I was annoyed and didn’t truly understand, but that happens a lot in my relationship with art.

Any engineers or bike riders/makers want to try and clear this up?

At first, this was just about trying to get the new iPhone. I figured I would get one for me and give my wife my “old” one (that just came back new/refurb from the Genius bar two months ago). I’m willing to spend a little cash to do this, and it would give AT&T the chance to charge me another $30/month since we’d be adding an additional iPhone to our plan. I guessed it would benefit them to cut me a deal, but I’ve been rebuffed multiple times and told that I would have to pay $200 more per phone than the deal they are giving new customers.

So, I started doing the math, looking at many options including selling my current iPhone (which goes for an amazingly good price on eBay) and it turns out I could actually “make” money switching to T-Mobile, getting both of us the Google phone. (I could probably even take the money I’m “making” and buy the new T-Mobile phone when it’s released in the coming months.) Take a look at this:

Looking at that savings and thinking about the increased cost to upgrade Becky and I to new iPhones (over $400), plus the extra monthly cost, makes me angry enough to consider canceling my AT&T U-Verse package, too. …I should start seeing how much I could save by doing that.

f AT&T.

I don’t hold it against them, though. I’d just love to see my ideas implemented for a bigger audience, where I can use them too.

…and she always smells like methylmethacrylate…

1. It is two words, methyl methacrylate.
2. Methyl methacrylate is actually a compound used to make plastics like plexiglas and PVC pipe. (It would make more sense for her dad, Mac, to smell like methyl methacrylate.)
3. The word she should have used is methyl acrylate which is “present in nail lacquer”.
4. Juno pronounces it “methyl methacralyte”. My chemistry knowledge is limited, but I don’t think there is such a thing. (Any chemist who wants to correct me, please do.)

IMDb avenger to the rescue!

Now that my world is shattered, I have to decide if I should quote the movie directly or corrected for the sake of science.

Dear Diablo Cody- Shame, shame.