To Infinity, and Beyond!

I guess this site is for real but Virgin Galactic
says they will be offering space flights to customers in two to
three years. VG will be using three spacecraft built by the
same company as Burt Rutan’s SpaceShipOne
and will charge passengers (astronauts?) $170-200,00 USD.

Can Money Buy You Well Being?

Does economic status correlate with well being? How do you
define well being? Interesting questions and someone at the
American Psychological Society (sorry, I have no idea who they
are) did a study (summary
here) on just this subject:

Our thesis is that well-being should become a primary
focus of policymakers, and that its rigorous measurement is a
primary policy imperative. Well-being, which we define as
peoples’ positive evaluations of their lives, includes
positive emotion, engagement, satisfaction, and meaning
(Seligman, 2002). Although economics currently plays a
central role in policy decisions because it is assumed that
money increases well-being, we propose that well-being needs
to be assessed more directly, because there are distressingly
large, measurable slippages between economic indicators and
well-being.

Bic This Lock

If the thought of loosing your bicycle because someone used
a Bic pen to open your expensive bike lock was bad, think how’d
you feel if your kids opened your gun cabinet using
the same technique. See the story
here.

Santa Cruz – Hawaii’s Second Home?

Who would have thought Santa Cruz would have a radio station
that plays only Hawaiian music? Or hula studio, outrigger canoe
club, ukulele club, or plate lunch stand? But according to this
article from the Santa Cruz Sentinel
here, things Hawaiian are going over swimmingly in far off
California.

Aloha!