Final Blog

If this blog was a magazine subscription, I am ready to cancel my subscription. So here is my final blog post. To all my fans and the 700+ page views that I have logged over the year, I am sorry, but I have to do whats best for me and retire from the blog game. I dont know what I will do with all this time on a thursday from around 8-8:30, but I know I will use all that nee time wisely. I have enjoyed writing for nickobblock, and I appreciate the oppurtunity, but I am ready to move on. 

So whats next? In the immediate future, I will just be hanging out, enjoying my new half hour of free time, far away from this blog. But dont get me wrong, it's been real, it's been fun, it just hasn't been real fun.

Insider Info of Car Mirrors

I have an aunt who is an engineer for the US Department of Transportation. She does many interesting things involving technologies that can do incredible things like prevent car crashes by allowing the vehicles to communicate with each other. Those technologies are already in some cars and they are now standard in all new cars. She also told me about some of the ideas they have for the future. She told me that in a short time, side view mirrors will be obsolete and off all cars. Instead, a camera will be pointed backwards from the side of the car, and the picture will appear on a high technology wind shield. This will save on gas mileage by making the cars more aerodynamic, and it will also prevent mirrors from being sideswiped and broken off, because they will no longer be there. This is something currently in the works, and, in fact, on the day I talked to her, she had the privilege of test driving with mirrors on the windshield in the fancy simulator below at the US Department of Transportation at the Volpe Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She personally was not a fan of this but she recognizes it can save a lot of money by giving cars better gas mileage, and she knows she just has to get used to a major change like that.

The Aztecs

Thinking back to the last time I was about to graduate on to a new school, I found myself trying to remember what it was like a the end of 8th grade at Parker Middle School. Those were great times being the top dogs ready to go on to high school, but I can remember my history teacher making us learn about the Aztecs right up until the final bell. Those Aztec were actually a very interesting people. Some compare them to the greatest of earl civilizations like Rome, but I am not sure I agree. I know that they could really take care of themselves, and they were excellent at building structures and farming, but those were some WILD dudes. Human sacrifice was actually the number one thing in their religion. Every day the priest would just rip a bunch of people hearts out then roll them down the stairs of the temple, and no one would bat an eye. Sure they were advanced, but that is some savage behavior.