James Higgins: Blog / Raves

So why are snakes so poisonous? Like they don't need that much venom to stun a mouse. half the poisonous snakes pack a wallop that could drop an elephant. Snakes are not taking any chances.
Is there something missing in the food chain? Or is the venom in a snake bite just a by-product. It's not actually designed to be poisonous it just happens to be seriously toxic. Is it a digestion aid?
And what happens if they bite their tongue?

I wonder how much energy could be harvested if gymnasiums hooked all their exercise machines up to the grid.
Think on it.
Every day,there are thousands of people pumping like mad for nothing. We could harness all that kinetic energy and turn it into electricity. Who knows, maybe we could power a whole town for next to mothing.
If it worked, then we could apply the same technology to playgrounds' swings and roundabouts.

Have fun, get fit, save the environment and reduce your bills. Not a bad deal.

We would have become a hamster society. Which is ok in Bellingham as this town is full of hamsters already. Belling Hamsters.

What do you think?

Could postal trucks be fitted with snow ploughs for getting into side streets during snow storms?
The Postal Service must have a fair sized fleet that would be driving those routes anyway.
I'm sure there are logistical reasons to do with weight of accumulated snow versus weight of postal trucks that make this idea impossible but it seems like a fairly reasonable idea. Even it they only ploughed shallow snow on a few streets, it would all help.
Just thinking out loud.

Also why hasn't anyone yet invented the car that can parallel park by simply driving sideways 90 degrees. Do away with all that backing and forwarding. A car should be able to drive up beside a kirb parking, turn the wheels to 90 digrees and then drive sideways crab style into the space.
Like I said, I'm just thinking out loud.

What's the difference between the right to assemble and the right to loiter?

Write anything. Type an initial or a number. Just something to show that someone looked.

I think this is more for my own sanity than anything.
Sometimes I see the carefree destruction going on around me and I think maybe I'm imagining it or I'm over reacting.

It's not getting better is it?
I mean they weren't strip mining mountains a hundred years ago. There weren't oil spills wiping out eco systems. There weren't 7 billion poops needing sorted every day. There weren't so many animals hanging on to existance by a claw.
They weren't testing nuclear weapons in the pacific back a century ago. Sprawl wasn't happening in the blink of an eye. I could go on all day.

Could you?
Or is it just me?