Fat....and a very longlasting clock

It has been that kind of week.

I've been busy on a lot of fronts, and thus neglected my  posts here.

Let me make up for it a bit with a double post on two stories that have little to do with one another except they caught my attention.



#1: It's those potato chips that are making you fat. At least now we know what to blame, right?



#2: The founder of Amazon.com is building a clock that he wants to last for 10,000 years. And it it not just a lark by a man with more money than sense. Go to his website to read about the project, which is designed to make us all think long term. Really long term. Here's a quote from the man with the money:

 “Over the lifetime of this clock, the United States won’t exist. Whole civilizations will rise and fall. New systems of government will be invented. You can’t imagine the world — no one can — that we’re trying to get this clock to pass through.”

                                            Jeff Bezos, AMAZON founder

Wow.