Dyer Predictions: The Gee-Gees

While surfing around I came across a new fun sounding acronym that’s anything but: the Gee-Gees. No it’s not a name of another band , and it gives a surreal meaning to the phrase ‘stayin alive’. It stands for Global Geophysical events, and according to Gwynne Dyer, there’s nothing much anyone can about them when they come.

One such Gee-Gee is a mega tsunami awaiting the Atlantic Ocean. Scientists believe that if a volcano erupts in La Palma in the Canary Islands, it would create a huge landslide that would cause waves as high as 165 feet to hit the East Coast. Some speculate that as many as 150 million would die from such a catastrophe. Of course given enough time, warned people could evacuate to higher grounds before the waves reach shore. The Asian tsunami took nearly two hours to reach Indian peninsula. The distance from the Canary Islands to New York or Boston is much greater. But what if all of this happened in the middle of a sever winter blizzard? Not only will avoiding the crushing waves be difficult, but also rescue efforts in the immediate aftermath, where seconds count, would be severely hindered. Sounds like a plot for another Hollywood disaster movie.

As for reality, ‘other’ scientists dispute these findings as overblown. They say the landslide of the volcanic island would happen in stages and the island would sink, if it actually did, gradually and hence cause mini, not mega, tsunamis.

Take My Blog, Please

I don't feel like blogging today. I haven't felt like this since I started out blogging ten days ago. What's wrong? Is it blog burnout? Does this happen to other bloggers too? Nobody warned me. And what would become of my blog? Can I hand it down to somebody else to continue on it? What would the readers' reaction be? The ones who didn't read what I wrote to begin with? Will they be let down? Angry? Resentful?

Another thing about blogging is: do I want it one-way? Do I want to write what I want to and exclude others? Or do I want everyone to contribute? Will it be more valuable as time goes by or less valuable? What would I want to read about in my blogs ten years from now? Lets imagine that blogging was available in 1995 and that I was a very active blogger. What would I wish now to have been writing about on a daily basis?

If At First You Don't Suck Seed

Suck, suck again. I love making puns, to the point where I sometimes annoy friends by repeating what they just said in a totally different meaning. That may explain why my name on this blog is (joking aside) Joe King Ass-Eyed. Or should I have chosen Joe Ken Gas-Eyed? Or how about Joe Ken Gus Sighed. (Sighed indeed).

Do I seem unfocused? Maybe it's because I AM unfocused. Not only that, but my writings are very lame. They lack substance. I myself don't know what the point is. Can blogs commit suicide? What if they come back to life again? This is only my eighth posting on my first blog and still I haven't gotten quite the hang of it.