Ponderings 8/19/12

1. Parents should start naming their kids with unique and new names. (Feel free to throw in numbers, and symbols) Your kids will thank you when they are signing up for gmail, twitter, and other social media accounts.

2. Wild animals must be very confused about humans. Some want to kill them, while others just want pictures of them. (Also animals must freak out the first few times they see cameras pointed at them)

3. After Usain Bolt claimed he was the greatest athlete of all time, I started thinking about the criteria that should be considered when trying to compare athletes.
A. Popularity of the sport worldwide
B. Number of people who play sport (What is the size of pool of all potential challengers)
C. Number of Countries where sport is played
D. Number of championships/medals (This needs to be weighted by the number of medals or championships available to an athlete. For example swimming has many more medals and titles than boxing)
E. Number of years being Number 1
F. Influence athlete has on sport (technique, rules, brand, popularity)
Based on the above, I think Bolt is in the discussion but doesn't have enough A, B, C, or E to be the greatest.

4. Cameras should add  a feature where as someone starts walking into your picture the camera starts beeping. This would either get the picture intruder to stop or to let the picture taker know he will need to wait.


5.If National Parks ever get cell phone service or WIFI get ready for some awesome apps to help you with all of the below.
A. Can I eat this Berry?
B. How many miles left in this hike?
C. Where is the trail?
D. Is there any other cell phone near me? Am I secluded enough to use wilderness as my bathroom?
E. Which hikes are people seeing cool wildlife on?
F. How far back is my slow hiking buddy? How far ahead is my super-fit hiking buddy?
G. What are some good hiking riddles?

6. Do you really trust the people sitting in the emergency aisle to be able to fulfill their responsibilities in an emergency?

Ponderings 8/5/12

1A. I have to keep reminding myself not to go to ESPN, Facebook, Twitter or any news site during the Olympics until after watching prime time coverage.
1B. I also really need to invent an Olympic Sport, so I can make it to the Olympics!
1C. Who knows where I can play handball?

2. The badminton fiasco in the Olympics happens in all sports. (Losing for draft position, playoff seed for favorable matchup, etc.) Why would a country want to have two of their teams play each other before the finals? However, throwing a match its absolutely not fair to the fans and the opposing team.
I think the moral of the story is to get the organizers to fix it before something like this can happen.
One way is to create a rule where countries cannot play each other until it cannot be avoided. Another way is to make the tournament double elimination so that the original elimination draw is not as important.

3. Email should let you easily rename attachments. In the meantime be careful about what you name your files when you are sending them.

4. Seeing so many American female Olympic Athletes be crazy about Justin Bieber, makes me feel very old.

5. Cell phones should have a feature where when you are getting a call you can press 1 button to text common replies like: "Driving, will be there soon", "On another call", "Busy, will hit you up in a bit".
Note: Apparently I need an Android phone as this comes native on them.

5B. Anytime you arrive in a new city, Facebook should have a feature : "Alert relevant friends I'm in town". Which is not just a status post, but actually a text to all of your friends in the area.

6. Could anyone understand Bane?