quack please.

Sometimes I lie awake at night thinking about things that I don’t know if anyone else ever thinks about. Then I get a bee in my bonnet that I wish someone *had* thought about it before, at least enough to have made a website about it so that I could read and be assured that not only am I not the only crazy one who thinks about these things, but someone must’ve been loonier, because they actually researched enough to compile the information that I wish I knew into a compact form and put it on the intarwebs. Such things that I’ve been thinking about include:

the optimum positioning and directioning for fans (be they box fans, oscilating fans, small fans, large fans, whatever) to sufficiently cool a house or room that doesn’t have a/c

>>Initial google searches for this turned up cooling fans for PCs, but by the second page of results I found this page: How to Use Window Fans for Home Cooling which in turn led me to the following pages:
How to Sleep Comfortably on a Hot Night and
How to Keep Cool without Air Conditioning

It still wasn’t *exactly* what I was looking for, but let me tell you, it would’ve helped a lot had I known it three days ago… or even just yesterday.

Now the second thing I’ve been thinking about has proven significantly harder to find. I’m very much a conspiracy theorist and a…whaddayacallit… I don’t know, but I’m one of those people who sees signs of an impending apocalypse in major world events? so anyway, I was thinking about the recent (last few years or so) extreme weather events… tornadoes, heat waves, hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, wildfires, floods, etc. etc. etc…. and I want to see if anyone has compiled a list of all these extreme weather events with a discussion of how they relate to the End Times… nearly everything I’ve found no matter what my search terms were, is by some scientist who so very deftly (and might i add, condescendingly) discounted that any of the recent extreme weather has anything to do with the “end of the world”, and some of them even attempt to debunk global warming. Though I myself am a skeptic of “global warming” theories (come on, the most recent Ice Age was about 11,000 years ago, which in the grand scheme of the earth’s existence is a very short time… of course the earth is still warming up! But I digress…), I don’t want a website by a scientist. I want a website by some quack who spends way too much time with their nose buried in the Book of Revelations, Nostradamus, and analyses of the Mayan calendar. Where is my quack?

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June 11, 2008

I definitely spent far too much time this past year working on fan positioning – just ask my roommates, its all i talked about for a few days. As to the End Times, I wish I could help, and I’m pretty sure i’ve seen such sites, but they were given to me as links (which i lost) and they may be in the dark side of the internet.

Dude, it’s 55 degrees here @ 4:30 in the afternoon. Global warming??? Hell there were snow flurries on the other side of the state yesterday, and a blizzard in the mountains.

June 12, 2008

go to the science section of the bookstore and look up ‘Apocalypse 2012’. You’re welcome in advance. ~

June 12, 2008

You need to look for a site that has terrible font choices, layout, and RANDOMLY USES ALL CAPS LIKE THIS IN THE MIDDLE OF SENTENCES FOR NO REASON.

June 12, 2008

hmmmmmmm that apocalypse 2012 has me interested. I think of very weird things sometimes too

June 13, 2008

Here are some numbers for your weather theory… which I agree with. Number of tornadoes in… 2005: 1,264 2006: 1,106 2007: 1,100 confirmed; 1,300 reported 2008: 350 confirmed so far; 1,577 reported

June 13, 2008

Number of earthquakes in… 1990: 16,612 1995: 21,007 2000: 22,256 2005: 30,478 2006: 29,568 2007: 29,671 2008: 10,530 so far

June 13, 2008

Number of Atlantic Hurricanes… 1995: 21 (3 cat. 4, 0 cat. 5) 2000: 18 (2 cat. 4, 0 cat. 5) 2005: 31 (2 cat. 4, 3 cat. 5) 2006: 9 (0 cat. 4, 0 cat. 5) 2007: 17 (0 cat. 4, 2 cat. 5) 2008: 1 so far

June 13, 2008

Couldn’t find any stats for Tsunamies. But, I did find that there are on average 2 a year, and a major one every 4 years. Hope this info helps your theory! Robert

June 14, 2008

I think the world is ending in 2012 or 2013? The Mayans said so. Or maybe it was the Aztecs. Either way . . . I’m just glad I got to read all the Harry Potters before it ended!