There was an event recently in my city that made me this of the topic of how important fire alarms are in a home. I personally think that the more you do for yourself the better off you will be. Remember God helps those who help themselves, that always what I believe to the bottom of my soul. If people choose not to care of what they can do for themselves, then they should never cry over the spilled milk once it has been spilled,metaphorically speaking. Well anyway the story that caused me to think out this, was that there was a fire in a house and where the mother of 4 kids I think or maybe one more kid or less. Had to throw them outside her second story window into a snow bank in order to save them, they had some minor injuries but they survived. This all cause a debated over the news wires stating if she had a smoke alarm this wouldn’t have happened but then I saw this news report. Watch it and you tell me what you think! This was kind of clear about there is never a sure thing when it was to living or dieing, this is also something that I turly believe when it come to Gods will and fate. So check it out!…….

Well this another debate on talk radio that made me kind of think and get pissed at the same time. It’s about ones best friend hitting on one’s wife and the wife thinking about letting her husband know what his best friend did. First the talk show host who by the way is a women , said that one should not make a great deal out of this and that the women’s code doesn’t except the squealing of something she calls minor to the husband that would effect the relationship with ones best friend. While I was hearing her sprout all the crap out, I was getting madder by the second. First a best friend would never ever think of doing something like that.One a best friend by definition is someone that is there for you when you need them or not and hitting on one wife is not on the definition of best friend list. In my book if someone you call a best friend did that sort of thing what else would he do to you without thinking twice like maybe rob or steel anything  that you may have, stabbing you in the back is all that person would be good for. Second what kind of personal pride can a person have after keeping secrets &  living a lie. I think that if one would like a personal relationship to last, it would mostly need truth and honesty to begin with before it can continue grow and last until the end. Well anyway I leave with a clip from the honeymooner that can leaving you laughing and thinking. Remember with honesty as a policy no-one can ever dought one’s partner in life!…etc. So enjoy.

Dealing with a psychopath at work takes guts, that is the title of an article that was in my weekend newspaper that I found very interesting. It starts off by talking about what a psychopath is. It states that even the politest people have called their boss a psycho over Friday beers or while lamenting a work problem to a spouse at dinner. But few of us actually mean it. Which I agree, then it states that one person in 100 is a psychopath. Meaning that they lack a moral compass, sense of responsibility or empathy (this is a personality disorder, not a mental illness). And although they are overrepresented in the prison system, according to research by American psychologist Paul Babiak, and his Canadian counter part Robert Hare, psychopaths are also well represented in corporate environments. This is also a point I totally agree with, since I’ve been witnessing this for many years myself. Also in their book, Snakes In Suites, Babiak and Hare detail how psychopaths manipulate work environments to get what they want and how the rest of us can protect ourselves. “These individuals have charisma, they have strong verbal skills and they’re able to really weave a compelling story about themselves.” Babiak said. “They’re also quite good amateur psychologist. They can figure out quite easily the needs, desires, weaknesses, hot spots in individuals they deal with, so they tailor their conversation to begin to build what might be called emotional bonds with individuals”. So while you’ve been suspicious about the shipping-room guy with the pit stains, it might be the debonair sales consultant guy down the Aile who’s manipulating things behind the scenes. Babiak explains that while they’re effective at manipulating people-telling lies, breaking down relationships between colleagues, etc. Psychopaths aren’t smarter than the general population. They’re simply driven exclusively by their own desires, and they’ve become skilled at pursuing what they want, whether that’s someone else’s job or personal amusement. Psychopaths are easily bored and enjoy stirring the pot, Babiak says. “When a psychopath meets a new person, someone they’ve never met before, they immediately assess their utility to them. ‘Do they have some kind of technical skill that I might make use of later?’ Usually to help get them to do their work for them. Or, ‘Does this person have a connection I could take advantage of?’ Or, even more base, ‘Do they have money, power or sex that I want?’ “he said. Psychopaths are also masters at breaking down communication between colleagues, in an effort to control the spread of information to their own personal advantage. They enjoy private meetings, secret get-togethers and malicious gossip. Which again I personally see all to often, as a new employee, you might be particularly vulnerable to a psychopath - particularly one who’s well-established in an organization. “Because if they’ve been there long enough they’ve built up a network of alliances in the organization, and should the new person uncover them, or feel uncomfortable about them or, in the worst case, be perceived as a rival, then the psychopath behind the scenes again will begin to pull strings, and soon the person is in trouble with their boss or the organization.” There isn’t much a person can do to avoid a workplace with a psychopath. Even if the hiring manager is a psychopath, a would-be employee is usually too focused on their performance to notice anything fishy at an interview. But if you do find yourself in a workplace where your boss or colleague appears psychopathic, zip your lip. It’s important to never label someone a psychopath. “First of all, it pisses them off if they are a psychopath. “Secondly, you’re not a psychologist, so it’s not appropriate for you to label someone,” Babiak said. However, there are things you can do. Develop a strong relationship with your boss and your boss’s boss. Be a “stellar performer” and keep samples of your work and performance reviews. Document weird behaviour. Keep a day-timer at home where you log your boss’s antics. “Not that you’re necessarily going to out them or be a whistle-blower, but there may be a time when your boss - if he or she is a psychopath - turns on you, and you’re going to want to defend yourself.”

I am a person that loves to laugh, be it either a joke, prank or plain out slapstick comedy routine. I will laugh at anything that isn’t malicious or hurtful in intent. I can’t understand how anyone can find anything that is hurtful being physical or physiological in delivery called funny or humorous. For example I’ve  seen this video that I would like to show here, where one person is sleeping on a chair and where some guys decide that they are going to catapult him into a swimming pool and have a laugh doing it but end up it goes way wrong and they end up catapulting him somewhere further, I think a parking lot because you hear him him a parked car as the alarm goes off. To me just thinking about doing something physical to someone while there not in a conscious state is both idiotic & wrong. People so really take a moment before they end up regretting there actions. I leave this video so you can get the to see what I am taking about. If you really want to understand I good prank check my comedy site at www.jackscomedyhouse.com I posted some funny ones up.

Today I finally came across some people that really made me think to myself and say that people are getting lazier by the minute and that human intelligence is really dropping by the waste basket. The reason I say a bold comment like that is that today I had 4 different kind of clients come in with their newly purchased laptop saying that it was broken and that they couldn’t get it working. It took me 2 minutes to get it up and running, not because I consider my self smart in any way but that I can take a minute and just by plain logic and deduction see what the problem was and see that they placed the computer on sleep mode. My pet peeve is that if they just looked at there 5 page manual of trouble shooting for two seconds they would see that it’s clearly explained with pictures and all and also what really kills me is the way they got the computer into this point! Which is, that not one of them knew how to log off a computer correctly.The way they turn the systems off was with the physical off button and not by windows shut down. At work we joke around allot about idiotic people, saying to each other that there better off buying a toaster! and they should forget about anything that need a bit of effort to use. Sometimes I think back to my college years, where I had one particular teacher in my engineering class that would say to me each time I asked for some help on solving a problem. He would say to me in plain and in a simple manner, “READ THE BOOK!”. Well I found this little video that shows what kind of people are out there and that their better off buying a toaster! Worst case scenario they burn the toast.

Well one of my pet peeve is when someone tries to sweet talk you in the act of trying to get something from you, either by all out flattery,praises or with sexual advances. A recent event this week at work made me think of all the times through my years I had people, praise, sweet talk, flirt & try all out seduction in trying to get something from me. It something that really burns me because false praise, flattery or anything else only shows how low a person with no respect or pride in themselves will go to get what they want. In the end the real truth is it never works out for the person, and all it leaves is a bad taste and impression of the person that tried there charms etc..I’ll give some examples of want I mean, the examples are of my personal experiences. I first talk about the event that happened this week that started me thinking of all this. Well it begins with a good looking women that want into my retail store looking to purchase a new computer, to comes to me normally asking me to consult on her purchase. Now all is going as usual until she starts explaining to me the reason she needs a computer. The reason being that she is a porn star and that she would like to broadcast her sexual acts over the Internet. I personally was taken a bit back since she started out blunt about it, which at first fazed me just a bit but I continued going on with the consultation and judged her not. What started me thinking that she was trying to get something from me was right after the consultant. This is where I started to feel uncomfortable & peeved, first I would like to say that me being a man who loves beautiful women I am not opposed to someone flirting or coming on to me if they find me attractive etc…but what I am opposed to is when they try to used what they have as a good looking person to get something especially if they try to get it from me. Well back to what happened, so right after she started walking really close to me right into my personal space, then her perfect white dentine smile with the false flattery ” your so smart, you really know your stuff, how did you get this smart? etc…” all while licking her lips constantly. I tell you her persona changed instantly, I was sweating in my pants I couldn’t even look her straight in the eyes anymore. I just cut the conversation while backing away as she continued her advances showing that I was not interested in what she was offering, which she understood. It finally ended with her asking me if I new of any other retail outlets that had good deals and of she went without buying anything in the end. After this event what made me think that she wanted something from me like maybe a reduction in price or free computer technician in her back pocket, was that the computer I consulted her on was at a fantastic great price! We have been selling them like hot bread, which not one sane person would leave the store without it if they were really looking to purchase a computer. This is one event that just adds to many events the I have personal witnessed that had false praises, flattery etc.. others would be like bosses making people an employee of the month, but not giving a shit about the honor because there reasons for giving it was because the person hasn’t been one before not because they really earned it. Also because they wanted peace between employees & staff & not jealousy etc. and so on . Anyway I can continue on and on but all leave it at this,saying that our fast pace society today really reflex’s clearly the direction that civilization is going by it’s actions so I leave you with this little video that I found so enjoy and feel free to leave any comments.

For love or for money! If you had a choice what would you choose to marry for? That is the question. I ask this because recently I was hearing this debate on talk radio, which I wondered myself what the of the majority people would choose. They say that the percentage increases when you begin to ask people going up in age range. For example if you asked in the 20-30 years of age, they say that below 40% would choose money over love. As you go older in the 30-40 years of age, they say over 50% would choose money instead of love and over 50 years of age it becomes well over 60%. The talk radio started out the debate reading a letter that was sent in to the radio station asking for them for help. In the letter the person stated that he was fixed up on a blind date by his fiend with this girl that at first new nothing about, he didn’t know that see was rich etc…But the as the relationship was moving forward he began to find out that she & her family are wealthy, & that she was much older that what see looked. He Is 28 and she is 39 years of age, This become relevant because as they continue to date she begin to treat him to expensive gifts, trips etc….and she fall in love and asks him to marry her and also wants to have kids right away because her biological clock is ticking. The only thing is he likes her but doens’t love her and that’s why he wrote the letter asking the question is it OK to marry for money and forget love because his love will be on easy street until the day he dies..

I personally could never marry for money, not because I am above living in comfort and enjoying the good things in life. It’s just I could never be someone that was bought and kept like a person would buy and keep a pet animal. Example a bird in a cage, no-mater how large and beautiful a cage would be, there is still only one person, one master that has the key to the door etc…

I leave you this you tube video that I found that’s funny and at the same time explains a bit of the meaning behind my personal statement. So Enjoy….

Perception, let me first give you a definition taken from the dictionary.

Perception

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perception, in psychology, mental organization and interpretation of sensory information. The Gestalt psychologists studied extensively the ways in which people organize and select from the vast array of stimuli that are presented to them, concentrating particularly on visual stimuli. Perception is influenced by a variety of factors, including the intensity and physical dimensions of the stimulus; such activities of the sense organs as effects of preceding stimulation; the subject’s past experience; attention factors such as readiness to respond to a stimulus; and motivation and emotional state of the subject. Stimulus elements in visual organization form perceived patterns according to their nearness to each other, their similarity, the tendency for the subject to perceive complete figures, and the ability of the subject to distinguish important figures from background. Perceptual constancy is the tendency of a subject to interpret one object in the same manner, regardless of such variations as distance, angle of sight, or brightness. Through selective attention, the subject focuses on a limited number of stimuli, and ignores those that are considered less important. Depth perception, considered to be innate in most animals, is produced by a variety of visual cues indicating perspective, and by a slight disparity in the images of an object on the two retinas. An absolute threshold is the minimal physical intensity of a stimulus that a subject can normally perceive, whereas a difference threshold is the minimal amount of change in a stimulus that can be consciously detected by the subject. Recent studies have shown that stimuli are actually perceived in the brain, while sensory organs merely gather the signals. William Dobelle’s research, for instance, has offered significant hope for the blind.

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All in all, in my own terms I would say people will always see what they want to see rather than see what the full picture ends up showing. Perception is a cause of countless argument’s between friends and family and I always say that one should see the full picture before comments are made! Once this is understood, wisdom should come. I leave you will this little video that will explain what I mean so please enjoy!

I always thought that kids today have an easier time getting things then when I was growing up. Parents tend to give them everything and anything they want so that they can have an easier time with them. Place them in front of the TV or give then a video-games to play etc.. I myself am guilty of doing such things, I find myself doing these things in part trying do be a fun loving parent and also so I can get some alone time and avoid any confrontations with them etc. Ever since my son’s birth four years ago, I have noticed what a child today in this fast paced society is lacking and that’s there will to go out and explore and work for something, which will give them that feeling of accomplishment by one’s own hands and hard work etc. I myself starting working at the age of ten, I was a paperboy & a grocery delivery boy. All so I can buy what I wanted without my father disapproving of it, because I worked for what I wanted and also he made sure that I understood nothing in life is easy. Anyway I finally understand what is the hardest thing about having this gift of life that God has bestowed to the human race and that’s being a parent. So I leave you this little video that I found that can make you think before the decisions are made by both heads. Enjoy!

Well I have been noticing lately through the years that the holiday spirit is becoming less & less visible, I have notice more than usual because my related job in customer service. To this date this year I haven’t even gotten one happy holiday or merry Christmas greeting from either a customer or friend or family. All I see are people coming up to me and complaining that they have waited over 10 min and still haven’t gotten service yet , but what really pisses me off is that they complain when they see full well that I & everyone else are busy with serving other customers etc.. All I would like to really do is grab that person by the ear and explain to them that the door they just walked in swings both ways and that they can leave if they find that the wait time is to long and just stop complaining to the people that don’t give a rats ass that there waiting in a time that naturally is a busy time of the year. This is why I ponder for the good old days when friends, family really cared about getting together and enjoying each ones company like the old movies that play on TV this time of year show ” good meal,presents,music & singing etc.. I lived all that while in my youth, but now I can’t stand the crap & monotonous routine of the expected meal & gifts for the kids in the fast pace wealth driven society. I really feel sorry for this & the next generation of kids that will be growing up and missing the great warmth of what it means to have good will to all men & women. Well anyway I would like to wish everyone happy holidays and a merry christmas with a happy new year. I also found this unique song that I would like to share so please enjoy!