You can find almost anything that you can imagine on ebay. You can buy anything from cars to wigs to peanut butter, without even leaving your house. Of course, not everything on ebay is reliable. In an attempt to get around this problem the founders of ebay created the trust system, where all ebay users can rate each other based on how satisfactory they find the items that they buy from a certain person. This makes it especially useful when you are looking to buy something expensive, and dont want to get ripped off.
But what makes ebay so special? Many people believe that ebay is unique because you can find almost anything you can imagine on ebay. So lets say that you were looking to buy a container of jiff peanut butter. the price might be anywhere from 1 cent to, say, 10. but the shipping and handling charges might cost, say, ten dollars. meaning that if you were looking to buy some jiff peanut butter, you could find some for a cent and only pay like 10 dollars in shipping and handling. That's a bargain when you consider all the time, effort, and gas it would take to go down to the store yourself and buy the peanut butter, especially when gas prices are at a an average of 3.50 a gallon.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
ellipticals
I know a person who insists that elliptical are a great arm exercise. I beg to differ. I tried to tell this person that ellipticals are machines that are meant to work out your legs, like running up stairs or running in general. But this stubborn person keeps trying to tell me that she gets good arm workouts from her elliptical and that it really does workout your arms as much as you legs.
So, finally, we decided to look it up to see who was right. So I googled it and the websites I went to said that ellipticals were good for legs joints and ankles. It said nothing whatsoever about ellipticals providing arm workouts. So she decided that I used a biased search and she decided to type in the words “elliptical arm workout”. After clicking on the first website, she expected to find something that would prove that ellipticals did work out your arms. Instead what we found was a website with 3 sentences, none of them talking about arm workouts. So we checked out other websites with the word arm highlighted and bolded. Ironically, these websites were all about “good” ellipticals without any arm support; they were recommending that people use these types.
So then after all of this, the most that she was willing to admit was that ellipticals worked out MORE lower body that upper body, but she was still so obstinate that she would not admit that I was right and she was wrong. Until this day, she still believes that she is right.
So, finally, we decided to look it up to see who was right. So I googled it and the websites I went to said that ellipticals were good for legs joints and ankles. It said nothing whatsoever about ellipticals providing arm workouts. So she decided that I used a biased search and she decided to type in the words “elliptical arm workout”. After clicking on the first website, she expected to find something that would prove that ellipticals did work out your arms. Instead what we found was a website with 3 sentences, none of them talking about arm workouts. So we checked out other websites with the word arm highlighted and bolded. Ironically, these websites were all about “good” ellipticals without any arm support; they were recommending that people use these types.
So then after all of this, the most that she was willing to admit was that ellipticals worked out MORE lower body that upper body, but she was still so obstinate that she would not admit that I was right and she was wrong. Until this day, she still believes that she is right.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Epilepsy
Epilepsy is a serious neurological condition that many people are diagnosed with. Epilepsy can be defined as a series of seizure that are caused because of unknown reasons(that is, not being the cause of alcohol, or extremely low blood pressure) according to Epilepsy.com .
The seizure might be related to brain injury or it might be hereditary. Some of you might ask, "well what exactly is a seizure". The answer is simple. A seizure is a "surge of electrical activity in the brain that usually affects how a person feels or acts for a short time."
What makes seizures dangerous, is that they can happen at any time, and at any place without warning and there is no way of subduing the seizure.
At epilepsy.com there is a great indicator of pre-seizure, actual seizure, and post-seizure symptoms that one might find useful when trying to find out if they themselves had a seizure. You can find the list HERE. For more information you can visit their website at Epilspy.com.
For a visual of a seizure click HERE
The seizure might be related to brain injury or it might be hereditary. Some of you might ask, "well what exactly is a seizure". The answer is simple. A seizure is a "surge of electrical activity in the brain that usually affects how a person feels or acts for a short time."
What makes seizures dangerous, is that they can happen at any time, and at any place without warning and there is no way of subduing the seizure.
At epilepsy.com there is a great indicator of pre-seizure, actual seizure, and post-seizure symptoms that one might find useful when trying to find out if they themselves had a seizure. You can find the list HERE. For more information you can visit their website at Epilspy.com.
For a visual of a seizure click HERE
Thursday, April 17, 2008
PETA
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animanls, is a great organization that is still going strong till this day. There website can be found HERE
personally i want to thank my vegetarian friend Trevor for introducing me to this fabulous organization. They do so many wonderful things for all the neglected and abused animals of todays world. They work hard to expose the mistreatment of animals by major corporation and even the government. Some of there information is faulty, and some of it isnt proven, but if the info was not so exaggerated, it would make for a very strong argument.
I even found some ads on their website that targeted kids. There was one in particualr that i found very amusing, and that i would say was strangely effective. There was a PS2 game called Whiplash, where you are a rabbit and you have to combat all of the evil animal testers. The only problem is that when you click on it to buy it, it tells you that the game doesnt exist; this can make it difficult for people to get ahold of this game.
its no wonder that PETA is such an impact in the world today. With games like this, and campaignes like the "Kentuky Fried Cruelty" one, its only a matter of time before all of the Michael Vicks out there are reprimanded.
personally i want to thank my vegetarian friend Trevor for introducing me to this fabulous organization. They do so many wonderful things for all the neglected and abused animals of todays world. They work hard to expose the mistreatment of animals by major corporation and even the government. Some of there information is faulty, and some of it isnt proven, but if the info was not so exaggerated, it would make for a very strong argument.
I even found some ads on their website that targeted kids. There was one in particualr that i found very amusing, and that i would say was strangely effective. There was a PS2 game called Whiplash, where you are a rabbit and you have to combat all of the evil animal testers. The only problem is that when you click on it to buy it, it tells you that the game doesnt exist; this can make it difficult for people to get ahold of this game.
its no wonder that PETA is such an impact in the world today. With games like this, and campaignes like the "Kentuky Fried Cruelty" one, its only a matter of time before all of the Michael Vicks out there are reprimanded.
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