Saturday, May 30, 2009

Things That Make You Go "Hmm" 2

Today's randomness.

I was wondering just how much gas you could save in a years time if you simply buckle up before starting the car.

Do you think there are more cases of people with skin cancer on the left side of their body? Since that's the side that gets more sun on a constant. Think about it. When your driving in your car, the left arm and side of face have sun at all times but the right side is pretty blocked. Now, what would be even more interesting. If they did this as an actual study and found that skin cancer was in fact more common on the left side of the body and perhaps due to this little theory of mine. Then, my next question would further into having a test done in Europe, Australia and other countries that drive on the opposite side. Would they have a higher occurrence of skin cancer on the right side of their bodies?

Why is it that I can set the font on this blog at Trebuchet, Small on a Mac and it's different than on a PC. Why? I know a lot about computers and even a lot about fonts, true types ect. I did take typography class. I even took computer programming. Yet this, I don't understand.

Why do I think like this? Is it normal? Do I want to be normal? What defines normal? Is it all subjective? Is there anything that is not subjective? Truly?

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Are the steering wheels on the other side in those countries? If not, the sun would still hit them just like it does us...right...or am I thinking too much?

Liz said...

To Joel, yes the steering wheels are on the right, and they drive on the left, so I think EB is correct in that their right sides are closer to the window and would theoretically get more sun.

EB, there are many questions in this blog entry, but it cracks me up!! the skin cancer thing is definitely worth a scientific study or two. Also I think your thoughts are normal, just more interesting than the average person, and you have the guts to say what you think.