Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Prediction

So, I have mostly sworn off of making sports predictions. One always looks bad when the vagueries of chance turn out to not be in your favor. I am going to suspend that rule for March Madness however. I'm not going to talk about BYU, or Utah. I am going to talk about a blow out in the making. Marquette vs. Utah State.

Utah State won 30 games this year, thats insane. They beat Utah, nearly beat BYU, and blew through the WAC like they were playing High Schools. Marq is from the Big East (this is where you are supposed to gasp in awe). They've probably never heard of Boise (where the game will be played) and barely are able to condescend to play there. Utah State fans will drive up to Boise and they will be able to watch Marquette get lit up, this thing is going to be a blowout. You can take that to the bank.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Back to geek stuff. Star Trek: The Movie.

Go here watch the trailer, it is awesome. If we are lucky the movie will live up to that trailer.

Chiropractors Part 2: Unknown

So, I went to the Chiropractor. A lot of things that he did were pretty awesome, he has this table with rollers on it that you just lay on as it massages your back with a heat pad and electric things on your back. It felt great, wish I had one at home. Then he did get a few good pops out of my back when he messed with it. However, I think I am now sure that it is/was a muscle thing. Either a pull or a tear. I felt pretty good as I left the place, then as I cooled down, my back just tightened back up and this morning I hurt again, but I can pretty much tell that it is muscle pain. So, to be fair to chiropractors, I don't think there is anything he could have done to help a pulled/torn muscle.

Final determination, unable to quantify his overall effect. So, I don't know how well chiropractors work.

But I still hurt.

Friday, March 13, 2009

Chiropractors Part 1: Do they work

So, I was helping my neighbor move last night and something in my back popped. I wasn't lifting or twisting (the two big killers), I was pulling a big appliance dolly with a freezer on it. Who knows what kind of irreperable harm I have done to myself, right now I'm willing to have back removal surgery. Anyway, I have made an appointment with a chiropractor for this afternoon. Part 2 of this stirring in depth investigative report will be whether or not I will survive to perform my Elder's Quorum duties again.

Monday, March 9, 2009

Two more Obama decisions, one indifferent, one bad.

Yucca mountain. So, after we have spent 16 billion dollars to prepare Yucca mountain to be the depository for the nations spent fuel rods, the Obama administration has decided to scrap it because, as the energy seceretary says "we can do better". Thats all fine and good, and may even be true, but I think that is beside the point. We currently have spent fuel rods that have to be stored on site. By law, the federal government is supposed to take possesion of those, and store them, they currently are not. In order to comply with the law, Yucca mountain was chosen as the site. We have spent the money, but now, I guess, the mountain will just sit unused. Is there possibly a better option, who knows. Is the status quo better than Yucca mountain, by no stretch of the imagination. Anyway, it seems to be political pandering that doesn't help anything, and is actually harmful, and wasteful. Big disagreement from me.

Second, stem cells. Here I could have done an entire post on this topic, but something else has me a little more miffed, so this one will stay on the shorter side. Stem cells are a hotly debated topic, problem is, I think the argument is on the complete wrong portion of the process in my opinion.

Currently those who go through the in vitro process harvest and fertilize more eggs than they use, when they are not used, the vast majority get dumped down the sink (maybe not the exact technical process, but the result is the same.) Anyway, the arument is over whether or not these embryos should be used (or actually whether or not federal funding should be used) in research. So, people can have their safe moral stance against it, because surely a human life > research, right? I would agree, but don't think that is the comparison. When these embryos are going to be flushed, shouldn't our debate be about whether or not its moral to create so many embryos that will never be used, and discard the excess? By the time we hit research stage, these embryos are disposable either way. But it is harder to take a moral stance against people who want to have a baby. It makes the debate more complex, but I think its more intellectually honest.

So, I am kind of indifferent to Obama's lifting of the ban on research money.