Humans vs. Bernoulli

I was thinking about traffic. I would say I was bored, but that wasn't the case. I was just awake.

When a two or three lane road is compressed down into a one lane road due to construction or design, the speed of the traffic flow from the cars slows down and creates increased pressure at the "bottleneck."

Bernoulli's principle, on the other hand, shows that when dealing with the dynamics of fluid motion, the flow will speed up and the pressure will decrease, like when dealing with an airfoil, piping, or a water hose (which is simply another form of piping).

What is it about a system comprised of intelligent entities that causes human flow to slow down at a bottleneck instead of speed up?

I'm grounded

You know, when I got in trouble as a child, my parents might give me a spanking, send me to my room, make me write sentences or do times tables, sit me down for a 2 hour lecture, or make me put my nose in the corner.

But what I hated more than anything in the world was being grounded.

It's interesting how as an adult, though, being "grounded" without my head in the clouds and my brain wandering aimlessly in my imaginations actually helps to free me so that I can wander happily in life.

The more I let go and stop trying to control the world around me, the more grounded and at ease I become, and my energy and happiness shoots through the roof.

Even if I'm still in the dog house.

I mean really - have you ever tried staying angry at a child that won't stop laughing? If you're a decent person, it just can't be done.

WTF

Google+ and YouTube are pissing me off.

Apparently I can't have YouTube playlists anymore without having my Google+ account re-activated.

And then all my playlists went private for some reason, so now I'm having to manually unlock them.

Grrrrrrrrrr.

Emotions

It's takes 30min for him to get to the section of discussion I'm pointing out, but I love that Alan Watts viewed emotions the same way I did (just with less neuroscientific terminology): Emotions are nothing more than the brain's interpretation of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.