So you think you're smarter than a rat.

One benefit to being in the Psychology program is that you get to train rats. I was assigned to work with rat #1 of the USU psych lab. His name is Eugene and he is a very smart rat in some ways and very a stupid one in others.
We're supposed to teach these rats do do a trick and then to only do the trick when a flash light is lit in their training cell. Eugene learned really fast that he was supposed to go through the hoop and look up in order to get his little treat but sometimes he gets frustrated and goes for the more the more feral approach.
Yesterday he was doing great until he noticed my hand was holding the flash light over his cell. He thought in his head "hmm, flashlight=food, bite flashlight!" unfortunately my hand was infront of the flash light and that is what his little yellow teeth caught hold of. I admit it hurt and it bled a bit but what really shocked me was how my hand looked after riding my bake to work.
I don't get queezy at the sight of blood but apparently i can't stand the smell of the iron in it. I guess I would fail miserably as a vampire.

Jake, don't bit the hand that feeds you.

Bikes, a reason to re-invent the wheel.

Since the dawn of time man has always wanted to go faster than his two feet could carry him. this was why he invented the horse and the wheel. for obvious reasons the wheel was more economic than the horse due to the fact that you don't have to feed a wheel and even if you only have one wheel you can make more, while it takes two horses to make another one.
now at the peak of our mental evolution man has come to a stand still. there is one issue that must be solved and no one seems to have the answer. how to stop flat tires on a bike. please raise your hand if you stopped riding your bike as a kid because you got a flat. bikes don't break because a of a flat tires, so why did we give it up for a minor set back? It is because Dad never had time to fix it for us. but lets not blame Dad, he's not to blame. It's your neighbor who let the goat head weeds grow in his yard!
i want to invent the indestructible bike tire and save humanity from this evolutionary stumbling block. Then and only then can we move on to greater mysteries and sciences e.g. how to make healthy cookie dough, what happened to the remote, and how to finally figure out what women want( this is an ongoing study that seems interminable since as of yet no woman has discovered this them self.)

Jake, top gear on my way home.