Sean Hummer's Open Salon Blog

BBG Communications Complaints about Life

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:07:26 -0400

Happiness and success mean many different things to different people. According to BBG Communications, many equate success with having a high income career and happiness with owning many expensive possessions. Others see happiness and success as hinging on the accomplishment of a worthwhile purpose or goal with one’s life while completely disregarding material wealth. I fall into the latter category. I may have, one day, a prestigious career, an exorbitant salary, and a mansion to live in, but if I have not accomplished anything of lasting worth then I will see my life as having been lived without a purpose.

Thus to me, happiness and success is equivalent with purpose. A life without purpose is one where a person drifts despairingly along in an absurdist world where every event and relationship is meaningless and utterly worthless. A person without purpose realizes at the end of the rat race that he accomplished absolutely nothing overall. Any money he has earned will go to his children as well as all of his possessions. He will not be able to enjoy them once he is dead, and who knows how his descendants will use his hard-earned money? He will leave this world leaving nothing behind him save some money, some memories, and a tombstone. It seems that the world has played a very cruel joke on this person indeed.

A person’s life lived with a purpose, however, is a very different story. Purpose adds meaning to a life. That person will march determinedly along, actively working towards the goal. A person with purpose may very well achieve material wealth as well, but when his body fails him, he will leave a legacy behind. When prostrate on his deathbed, he will be able to say that he stood in the defense of liberty or that he broke poverty’s iron grip on a few more destitute people and delivered them to hope once more. Whatever cause he devoted his life to, if achieved, he will be satisfied in its fulfillment.

The most important choice a person can make to be both successful and happy is to choose to serve others in working toward something worthwhile to the world than to serve oneself in the pursuit of material gain. To choose service is to choose a life of purpose and meaning. While many believe that happiness and success comes only through monetary gain, this author is thoroughly convinced that purpose and service is the only way to make life worth living. How does this author declare that to the world? By choosing purpose.

BBG Communications Bigger is not Better - Nanotech

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:11:48 -0500

They say bigger is better, but not in the 21st Century. It seems smaller is better nowadays. According to the dictionary, Nanotechnology is any fabrication technology in which objects are designed and built by the specification and placement of individual atoms, or molecules, or where at least one dimension is on a scale of nanometers. It is hard to imagine, as one nanometer is one billionth of a meter!

Nanotechnology is still in its infant phases, scientists suggest that nano products won’t be available in a useable form until 2010-2015. All areas of our lives as they are now will be touched by nanotechnology. The possibilities of nanotechnology are staggering. Imagine scientists being able to make new materials that we have never seen before, knives that never need sharpening, better planes, and spaceships to nanobots. Imagine nanobots as little robots that go into your body and fight disease. Maybe you have a genetic disease; just one tablespoon of the nanobots, and they will enter your body, and your DNA to find the defective gene and repair it. When you control where every atom is, the possibilities are endless. Imagine your computer being the size of a dime. It’s completely possible.

As with any great invention, the likelihood of hazards also increase. Maybe these new materials that we are making will enter our bodies and cause harm. Maybe the wrong people will get their hands on nanotechnology creating superweapons and superbombs that cannot be detected by normal radar. Supercells created by nanotechnology and put into humans could cause other health problems that we have no idea about at this time.

Of course, all of these are maybes, advancement in technology always has its price, but the human race is about advancement. Where would we be today, if we still believed the world was flat?

BBG Communications London

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:11:57 -0500

Many people ask me about the City of London. I think very few people understand the true significance of the City and its History. The small, ancient City of London at its core once contained the whole settlement, but as the urban area grew the City resisted attempts to amalgamate it with its suburbs. 40% of Greater London is covered by the London "postal district", within which London forms part of postal addresses. The London telephone area code covers a larger area, similar in size to Greater London, although some outer districts are omitted and some places just outside are included.

The area within the orbital motorway is sometimes used to define the London area and the Greater London boundary has been aligned to it in places. Urban expansion is now restrained by a metropolitan green belt, although the built up area extends far beyond the boundary in places, resulting in a separately-defined Greater London Urban Area. Beyond this is the vast London commuter belt. In addition, the City is split by the River Thames into North and South, with an informal Central London area at its core.

BBG Communications Mexico: COMPUTER KILLED THE RADIO STAR

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:07:45 -0400

Today's computer has easily had the most impact on the world since it was invented. Its great impact lies in the fact that not only has it become our main source of information, but also our main source of communication and entertainment.

The internet can be credited with allowing us to keep in touch with others across the globe for a very low cost. I met a girl from Tokyo, Japan named Rica at summer camp five years ago. I converse with Rica on a weekly basis due to my ability to access email. Talking to Rica on the phone as often as we communicate through email would be unrealistic because international phone calls are quite expensive; that would cost well over the amount I pay for internet access each month. I can attribute my long-lasting friendship with someone I haven't seen since I met, who lives on a side of the world I have never seen, to email.

The internet is also today's main resource for obtaining information. I spent about half of my summer interning at an illustrated book company. There, I was assigned to research various topics for upcoming book projects. Using major search engines such as Google, I found piles of data and research on topics ranging from environmental artwork to the increasing popularity of Tibetan medicinal practices in the U.S.

What also makes the computer an amazing product of technology is its combination with other essential modern inventions. I can watch movies with the built-in DVD player that also doubles as a CD player. Downloading songs takes minutes, and once I have the opportunity to access any song at any time, without commercials or obnoxious interruptions, I have essentially replaced the radio. That's right folks, computer killed the radio star.

We take for granted our ability and great opportunity to easily access computers and all of their incredibly convenient functions, but it is true: with the computer, everything we want and need to know is literally at our fingertips.

BBG Communications: FUEL CELL TECHNOLOGY

Fri, 5 Jun 2009 20:06:18 -0400

The greatest invention of the 21st century is the fuel cell technology. Although fuel cell technology can be traced back to the early 20th century, it wasn’t recently that people have put more effort into developing fuel cells. Fuel cells will play the biggest impact in the way we live our lives during the 21st century and long after. It will change our way of life in almost every aspect.

Fuel cell technology is the technology that develops electricity naturally by separation of electrons. Fuel cell technology is categorized by what types of fuel cells they use. For example the most popular type of fuel cell right now is Phosphoric Acid; yet types of fuel cells are quickly being developed that will be more efficient and one day can be supplied at lower costs, such as Molten Carbonate and Sulfuric Acid. Fuel cells have many types of advantages compared to traditional way of producing power. One of the biggest advantages is that it produces energy with no pollution. Therefore, cars are going to be powered by fuel cells and won’t produce pollution. Another advantage is the types of fuel needed to power fuel cells. The most popular types of fuel cells are powered by very inexpensive fuels such as natural gas. This will allow automakers and homeowners to power their cars and electricity needs with very little expense. Also, fuel cell technology produces power at extremely higher efficiency compared to traditional ways of producing power. For example, the gasoline that powers vehicles produce less than 25% efficiency fuel to power, but fuel cell technology can be as high as 85% efficient.

Fuel cells will change the way of life. They will make it possible for everyone to use electricity and other electric devices with very little electricity expense. Most important, fuel cells will help the environment and the future for generations to come. Fuel cells will have a large impact in our lives because it will make us independent from crude oil supplied from foreign countries. Imported crude oil plays a major role in our economy. Fuel cells will change all that in many ways. People worldwide will not have to worry about the price of the gasoline since gasoline will no longer be needed. Fuel cells will change the way everyone commutes, whether it’s just a short drive to work or a long vacation, it will be easy and affordable for everyone to go anywhere.

Fuel cell is the biggest and most important invention of the 21st century. It will make everyone’s life better in many ways. It will help the environment, it will make the cost of power less expensive, and it will make foreign crude oil a thing from the past. That is why fuel cell is the greatest invention of the 21st century.