My mind. Enhanced.

I've always believed in the value of education. I've decided to finish my degree in something. This is to fulfill Aristotle's Ethos attribute. Ya know the whole Ethos, Pathos, Logos thing people seem to like talking about in a debate? I had an epiphany today. I concluded that all you need to master to become an engineer is two things: Math and English. Elementary to Highschool Math and English. Math and English which eventually evolve into Physics and Philosophy. Master those and the world becomes your very own giant sandbox.

Watch "Jeffrey Brenzel : The Essential Value of a Classic Education" on YouTube I'm currently watching this. It's feeding my insatiable hunger for knowledge. Nom nom nom. If wisdom was a cookie then I am the cookie monster.

Systemic Vascular Resistance (SVR). Dunno. Maybe a clue to help me save my mom.

I love robots. I love Transformers. I love being a nerd. And yesterday I gained a new follower. My new protégé. Jorry. We are going to invent the worlds first transforming building.

I cooked today. I made Feijoada. It's a Brazilian dish. The recipe can be found in the link below: http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/feijoada_brazilian_black_bean_stew It was time consuming but very delicious in my opinion. The homestay student seemed to have liked it just a little. He's Brazilian so he knows the good type of Feijoada. He politely said it was good but it tastes a little different from what he is used to. He invited me to come visit him in Brazil so he can cook me the same dish - but better. Haha. Fair enough.

So I'm learning how to play the piano. My aunt is providing the formal weekly 1 hr lessons and Gloria helps once in a while to tutor me in the interim. I'm actually quite enjoying it. I'm learning a lot faster than normal and my aunt says I've got a good brain for it. I listen to Mozart 23 and K 448 1st movements when I wake up and before I go to bed. Apparently it helps gives the brain a boost for about 15 minutes after listening to about 10 minutes worth of the scores. My brain. I can feel it getting better by the day.

I just completed an IQ test app downloaded from the Google Play store. I scored 113. Apparently that's an above average score. Approximately 16% of the US population is at this level. 2% are 120 IQ and above. I'm in the top 18%. That's nice to know. It's given me a good self esteem boost.

Say you were riding in a car with a bud, you notice he's driving a bit fast. You stay silent as you are not the driver. A cop shows up behind him and signals to pull over. Your bud is given a $300 speeding ticket. And here comes the surprise, your buddy asks you to pay for half of the ticket as you were the passenger and did not remind him to slow down. Do you pay him half the speeding ticket?

Here are a few slogans I've found for big tech companies IBM: Let's build a smarter planet. Motorola: Intelligence everywhere. Google: Don't be evil. Fascinating stuff.

He's been mentioned a few times in Kurzweil's book. Eric Drexler is an important figure known to have brought nanotechnology into the public light. I'm adding his name today as a bookmark for me to reference later in the future. Consuming his work is, logically, the next step after Kurzweil's. After Drexler, Kevin Warwick. In other news, here is a great short film by Kaleb Lechowski. If you think like me, you'll get it, then get excited and squeel like a happy little school boy. Click the link here:  R'ha

I'm sitting here in my car wondering what the current state of my reality is. Everything that has happened in the past couple of months just feels so surreal. I like where I am headed. I'm being honest when I say that. I like what I am doing and my potential for achieving things. I'm pushing myself further and in the process I'm doing good things and meeting good people. I'm on an elevator. Its only got one direction. Up.

As you can probably already tell from my previous posts, I like thinking about the future. Thinking is an understatement. Dreaming is a better suited word for it - maybe. But Futurism is definitely my philosophy. We have so much technological progress to look forward to in the coming years. For example, Google experiments like Project Glass, Android powered location based services, and self driving cars are some innovations that will enhance our lifestyle when we feel ready for it. Luddittes beware. The future is fast approaching. I quote Graffito when I say, "time is nature's way of preventing everything from happening at once." That's fine. I just want to live long enough to see that everything does actually happen. Whatever it is, I have a feeling it's gonna be great.

So, I had a quick chat with Mike S from work about technology and science. He gave me a few notable people to look at. Their names were Al-Khwarizmi (mathemetician, supposedly father of the algorithm), Al-Jazari (father of robotics), and King Cyrus. Mike S is Persian, as he briefed me on his knowledge of Iranian history and their contributions to modern day society his eyes glittered like jewels in the cosmos. He's a very capable man, humbled, and docile. Good man.

Took Mark out for a couple of errands, I felt obliged after I arrived late to pick him up in the morning for church. We played FIFA 2013. I got a primer course on the rules and formations of football aka soccer. That was fun. I then went to St. Patrick's for church at 5 pm. I liked it. A lot. So much I'm going back next week.

Had some hotpot today. Pretty good eats. Gloria hates hot pot due to previous, multiple food poisonings but I like it for the social aspect. Before dinner, we watched Blade Runner - directed by Ridley Scott. Good movie. It's basically a precautionary tale of futuristic, intelligent android and their place with humans on earth. There was a small ad in the movie that caught my eye - a commercial about space exploration in an off-world colony. Interesting. If this were to ever happen in our timeline us humans should build highly advanced spaceships, and they should look something like state of the art stealth bombers.

I hung out with Mark. Dude has got issues; which I call him out on all the time. He tends to agree. I told him he needs to sort himself out before he can help sort out others. I repaired a friendship at work today. We talked about his brilliance and laziness. Then we shook hands in mutual agreement and parted ways. Things will always be awkward between me and him, but now, less so.

It's nice to be around the company of decent, intelligent people. Conversation just seems to flow effortlessly. I told Anne about the book I'm reading and how it predicts the future of AI and the new spiritual machines. It scared her just a little. It was so cold out today. When I got home I tried to make a fist and it felt like my skin cracked at the knuckles. It hurt. Off topic, have you ever heard of the Unity cable project? It's a submarine fibre optic cable approximately 10,000 km in length linking Japan and the United States' telecommunications and internet services. It was a pretty big project. But how about making it bigger and linking the entire globe with one giant cable (the size of a subway tunnel) across the equator? That would be neat.

Today, I went back to work. First day after a five week holiday. I don't regret how I spent my five weeks off. It was good. Lots of self reflection and getting back in touch with friends. So, we went ahead and visited mom for a few minutes, then I took my very first piano lesson. My aunt is teaching me and I am looking forward to every lesson. In other news, some people are just plain childish. And there is no point in being angry over a child. They don't know any better.