Lights Out, Laguna Niguel.

It was a mildly breezy and calm summer night. Out of nowhere "it" sprang upon us like a three legged kitten on a wounded cricket. Yes, I am speaking of the dreaded Orange County Rolling Blackout! Ok, so it really wasn't as dramatic as I make it seem but Ive gotten this far so I may as well make it interesting for the both of us. To be quite honest it was a planned outage, we knew about it for a month, only we forgot it was happening until about 5 minutes before ground zero. Whats a guy to do but light up a candle or two, sit on the couch in silence, and revel in the splendor of this mini dark age that has been thrust upon him. His only company, a blind cat who's only thought is how to get back to the safety of his owners bed without the sound of the saltwater fish tank to guide him. Ah...the silence, which lasts only for a minute until a car alarm goes off, opens up time for events and activities only hours ago deemed not worthy to complete. Finally, the litter box can be changed, the dusty acoustic can be tuned...and played, cups and dishes transported to the kitchen, and a bed could be made. I stood on the porch for a while, staring into the stars that are usually not visible from my neighborhood, and made silent plans to myself now that the most important things I thought the world had to offer me had temporarily deceased. "I should walk the pier more late at night", "I need to write more birthday and holiday cards to family and friends", "I need to make more time for myself". All of these plans put on hold as a chill in the air brought me back inside. What do I find but my trusty old phone. At least you didnt let me down. I broke the silence with a text message, maybe to prove that all was not lost. A response! Another! Now a late night photo session with the cat. I seem a little more excited than I should over things so mundane. Once again, the planets align and the world is as it should be. Lights on!

Vamos A Llamar, Cazafantasmas!

is how you say "Who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters!"

If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it still make a sound?

I just got this off of Yahoo! frontpage and the answers from viewers are pretty solid.....for instance....

Well sound is: "the sensation produced by stimulation of the organs of hearing by vibrations transmitted through the air or other medium."
So technically, if the energy vibrations that would cause sound never reach the 'organs of hearing', then no- it does not make a sound.
It's kind of like the 'Schroeders Cat' experiment...you never know unless you observe it, but to observe it would change the outcome...




Depends how "clever" you want to be about it.
If you ignore for a moment all the animals that may live in said forest, and ignore the fact that trees themselves are living entities then the question is not does the tree falling make a sound but does the tree exist in the first place.
This kind of thinking though is why Einstein thought quantum physics was bunkum.

Well since "sound" was around before the evolution of our ears then yes, yes it does....However "sound" in this case could be something totally different to our sensory experience of it...so yeah its complex but id go for yes...due to the evolution of our ears to process the dangers that come with loud noises...if you wanna go all post modern then you could say that "sound" cant be observed from an extrasensory angle therefore cannot exist independent of the listener and so on...but yeah...it makes a sound..





I think "complexity" is exactly what they were going for when they created the question. It's a paradox in a way. Technically it still makes a sound but can a sound really exist if it isn't heard?. It is a rhetorical question in every sense of the word.





Depends on what you think sound is.
If sound is the air vibration, then the answer is yes.
If sound is only sound if it affects someone´s nervous system, then the answer is no.

Update since Its been a lil while...

First things first...check out the hilarious but true ad that I found on craigslist w4m section:

I SAW YOU GET HIT BY THAT TRUCK - w4m - 30 (COSTA MESA)
Reply to: pers-jdyha-1166096225@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]
Date: 2009-05-11, 5:48PM PDT

YOU WERE HIT IN A SPLIT SECOND. BUT FINE!!!!! I LOOKED AT YOU, U LOOKED BACK, BUT I THINK U WERE DRUNK. ARE U OK?! DINNER?!

...people make me laugh. Man, what a month May was! The last two weeks of May went like this; Flight of the Conchords concert, 29th birthday, fly to Indy, MayDay with Erica, Indy 500, Memorial day with mom and the 4 wheeler, fly back to LA, Fleetwood Mac concert with SRae, and the 311 secret show. WOW! I am beat. Not to mention that I came home to a house full of *gasp* fleas! Fucking fleas! I f-ing hate fleas! I have so far spent more than 15 hours fighting the flea infestation. I am sure that I am exaggerating but I hate them so much. Howie, however got so flea bitten that he became anemic and had to be rushed to the Banfield Pet Hospital for $587 worth of lifesaving care. This is twice this year that I have saved this little furball's life but I have to say that it is all worth it.

This year is great so far. I am having so much fun and I think Im beginning to figure it all out again!