My Homes: Now and Then

This is my current home is Las Vegas, Nevada.

Notice the tree in the real estate photo.

I rented this home 1 mile from my job.

This was taken at night. The light from the Luxor visible.

I rented the master bedroom here in my 1st home in Nevada.

I thought to hang a solar panel in a window was a good non destructive way to at least benefit a little and charge a phone or the like.

Before Las Vegas, I owned a home in Tempe, Arizona.

I rented a room off Craigslist. Some great memories and lessons learned. This is in Glendale Arizona.

I had an apartment next to the park and about a mile to my job. This is in Phoenix.

I rented an apartment in Gilbert, Arizona after I got an MCSE certification and seeking a better job.

This is in Bakersfield, California. I have years of memories… no further comment, at this time..

I seemed to clinch my fists in photos..

In Bakersfield, California. I had many years with my friend Michael P.

I lived with my sister here in Bakersfield.

I had this apartment in Bakersfield and it was very close to family, many friends and my job at Round Table Pizza.

An apartment down this walkway was my first living away from my parents. This is in Bakersfield.

This is in Moss Bluff, Louisiana near Lake Charles. I lived 9 months with my father and enjoyed free education.

I spent a lot of high school years with my mom and sister in Bakersfield here.

Here I had a moped and a paper route.

I had my own Basketball hoop in the alley. My 7th to 9th grade years.

We barely spent time in the front except when I had to mow the lawn. I believe my sister is posing to help finish a roll of film..

I used to carry bundles of newspapers upstairs to be folded for delivery. The reasoning was that my rubber bands were upstairs. Notice the cool ceilings.

Oildale, California is this house just north of Bakersfield. We told few, “We’re from Oildale”..

This house had a chain link fence around the front yard. We experienced a major dust storm that blew down a weeping willow tree.

I always had my own room. My first room in Bakersfield. I still have the gun poker picture. They are non functioning.

This is in Ojai, California. I love Ojai!

We ran all around the neighborhood, back by dark.

This is in Ventura, California. Look at the front door and the roof above it now compared to the 70’s.

I remember my sister and I playing in a boat in the garage. This is the same house as above in Ventura.

The mailbox is easily seen in this and the previous photo.

My father built this brick fireplace and the concrete square can still be seen on several Earth mapping software such as “NASA Worldwind” or “Google Earth”.

This house is in Santa Paula, California built in 1920 and sold for $424,500 last year.

This was my Grandparent’s house and the address here is listed in my birth records.

This house in Jacksonville, Florida was built in 1963.

I loved posing in front of this car. I found that on a 2nd day, I posed on the other side.

This is in Orange Park, Florida. I am believing now that this is a 2nd or 3rd home my parents lived at Doctor’s Lake near Jacksonville.

Another picture at a different angle and time perhaps. Is this a different house?

The plants keep changing in the photos. I appear to be at one of these houses shown above. Many pictures you see with black borders are photos of slides projected and not trimmed.

My father is walking me and all dressed up for some reason.

I was born in California while my parents lived at this Orange Park, Florida home on a lake. My father was overseas in the Navy, so my mother had me near his parents.

Another view of this home. These homes in the same complex must have been torn down as there are newer homes shown on Google maps.

Nothing moves in the universe (except us observers)

Light moves at the speed of light relative to an observer.   No matter how far the light has traveled and no matter how fast the object is moving, you see every ray of light coming into your eye at the speed of light.

I have learned from Physics and studying the Twin Paradox that time can slow down for one twin due to his traveling a great percentage of the speed of light.  I learned that if you could travel exactly the speed of light, you could be anywhere in the universe instantly, because you would not age.  However this is impossible to accomplish unless the mass of you plus the spacecraft equals zero.  Perhaps the observer in us has no mass and we travel through the universe with a space ship which is our body.

From this imaginary viewpoint looking at this observer, yourself or the twin traveling exactly the speed of light, he is motionless, has no thoughts and can not even push a button.  From our imaginary viewpoint (it’s imaginary because if there were another observer outside the spacecraft watching the twin be motionless, then we would be traveling at the same speed and therefore not be able to observe it, age, think or push a button)  the speed of light relative to that observer is still the speed of light.

What if the universe was already built?  What if the universe was a 3 dimensional fractal.  What if light only moves at the speed of light beCAUSE of time.  What if each ray of light that was going to go into your eye was motionless, waiting for you to get there for all of eternity and YOU zipped by it just in time because You are traveling at the speed of light?

Another idea I have is that if you imagine the twin at least being able to think, age and push a button, then he could be traveling 99.99999 or whatever percentage speed relative to the Earth (or whatever planet or star we mean when talking about the Twin Paradox).  An important point is that his speed must be relative to something else.  The fact that we can imagine ourselves watching this twin does not count.  Now to my idea, is that the light coming into his eyes, his body and spaceship make him.  Every moment of time he is created with a new copy of himself.

I say that all the light coming from every star you see at night that has been traveling towards you for thousands or billions of years is going to make you for an instant when the time is right.

If we were to imagine an imaginary viewpoint where we could see every pixel of light motionless and plotted on a 3 dimensional graph of x (length), y (height) and z (depth), and also see the “Path” that the observer is traveling, you would see the observer connected to each point of his past and his future.  You would see his whole life and see that he is still connected to his mother and everyone and everything.

 

Occupy Wall Street

I think that Corporations which legally are artificial “Persons” should have one of their rights removed by Congress.

A Corporation and a business is a privilege created by the government.  Currently as I am aware the only legal difference between “the people” and these Persons (Corporations) is that Corporations can not vote.

Since Congress creates the laws regarding commerce and the states create the laws with respect to Corporations, they are God, creator.  The government has the power to create and tax and should exercise its right as creator and manage these corporations financial dealings more strictly than real living humans.  It should not matter to one single living person because these Persons do not really exist except as pieces of paper.

We have checks and balances and the courts have upheld corporations rights to donate money to political elections.  I believe laws could be formulated that will limit and take away the privileges of companies to donate money in such a way as it would be upheld as Constitutional by the Supreme Court.  I’m speaking philosophically, I don’t know the details, but the people and the government should work together (and leave out the Corporate – “Persons”  to come up with laws which would be legal, fair and eventually be upheld to the Supreme Court.

I am not against money being donated by any individual working for any corporation.  There should be no limit upon a citizen how much he donates.  I believe corporations should funnel their money to its employees however the corporation sees fit, and then the individuals can donate the money in any amount.  We don’t want to deny an individuals rights, we do want to limit non-existent humans rights.

This is only one part of the solution.

It is my strong belief  that most of our country’s labor hours are spent fixing things that other people broke.  Wars, crime and our appetite for throwing stuff away and buying new hurts our economy by generally making everyone one of us to work harder and longer to pay for it all.  In economics, I’ve never heard the “Broken Window fallacy” taught, but it should be mandatory!  If a window is broken on purpose by another, the owner can now NOT buy what he wanted to buy, he must buy what he HAS to buy.  He must work harder and longer.

I can understand why others would WANT to work harder and longer, so at least they CAN work.  The only solution as I see it, is to educate people so they KNOW that we must conserve and not destroy and that it will help us net total in the future.