My Asynchronous-ness

As discussed with my friend today over IM, the quality of my posts has gone down in recent history... as has the frequency. Somehow I think they are somewhat related... perhaps not as much interesting stuff has been happening to me lately, or perhaps I am becoming jaded and the stuff is still happening, but I am not enjoying the quirkiness of life. Either way... to remedy the problem, I am going to try to blog more to vent more thoughts and hopefully flush out any blogging block.

here is an interesting thought for all you runners, or other excercisers, out there. I talked with laura about this today... what do you think about when you are a running and do you remember what you think about and the thoughts you have? I seem to never remember anything specific that I think about when running... i remember general topics of thought, but not individual thoughts. it is a little bit like a dream... but with more motion and stiffness afterwards. actually I take that back... i did remember something after the fact and this is a bit of a longwinded story...

so when I was running today I heard a whining when a car drove by... and I was like... hmm that sounds like a super charger. and being the engineer that I am I start thinking about when to use a supercharger vs. a turbocharger and what the plusses and minuses are for each. when I was thinking about the supercharger, i was like... when freeway driving at constant speeds superchargers are less efficient because they are driven through a gear or belt directly from the motor... where a turbo is driven from the exhaust and is thus more efficient. There is a name for the type of loss and I couldn't for the life of me remember what it was called... something loss... totally was drawing a blank. it had something to do with evil creatures that suck blood or nutrients from something... like a leech or a lamprey eel or something... i just could't remember the word.

Later that afternoon at the zoo, I was looking at some of the plaques that they have in front of the animals and I saw the missing word... and it was parasitic!! a supercharger is a parasitic loss. when i saw that I just started smiling... it was funny...