Justin Germino Ramblings

Tomorrow afternoon the family flies out to Orlando, where we will begin our first family Disney cruise and we are all extremely excited.  I have my Goofy shirt packed and plan on acting 1/4 of my age for three whole days, I am so hoping that Buzz Lightyear is on the boat, because my two year old is obsessed with Buzz.  I really enjoy these types of journeys they really renew the spirit and make you feel like a kid again.  This will also be the first time I have taken my children on a cruise.

-Justin Germino

This week I will be spending time queuing blog posts, and tying up loose ends at work so that I can enjoy my 4 day Disney cruise with the family and not have to worry or stress about work or unfinished projects at home. Even though I will probably have around 600 emails waiting for me to sift through when I get back on Sunday night, I am leaving all technology behind on this vacation. I am very much looking forward to just being a kid again (wait, I am always acting like a child, whats the difference?)

-Justin Germino

Found this on a website somewhere and thought it pretty funny, showing the differences between a man and a woman.

Are women really all that complicated? Or are men just that simple?

My whole family will be going on our first Disney cruise in only four days, and we are almost completely packed and ready to go. My son came down with a sore throat last week, and my throat is a little scratchy, so I hope nobody gets sick and we don’t suffer a travel emergency while on our vacation.

One thing we are bringing is our portalable DVD player so our kids can watch movies on the 5 hours of plane flight, we are looking forward to just putting work away for four days and just immersing ourselves with our kids. My wife is probably even more excited than the kids, I haven’t seen her look forward to a vacation this much since we went to Hawaii.

-Justin Germino

Damien Riley was kind enough to let me guest post on his Inspiration blog called Postcards from the Funny Farm or (PFTFF) for short.  I wrote my point of view on when you should give up when the going gets tough, and it applies to bloggers or any line of work.   You can read my guest post on Postcards From The Funny Farm titled “When is the right time to say: I Quit?” and let me know what you think.

-Justin Germino

I want to give kudos to Popular Science magazine for their latest issue which highlights some of the brightest kids coming out of High School including students who already have multiple patents pending and are using technology and their raw gift of intellect and desire to help humanity to develop robotics, drugs and other sciences to help human kind as a whole.  Most of these kid geniuses glamorized already have won tens of thousands of dollars in scholarship money, have received 1400 SAT scores and many have been offered full free passes to such institutions as Harvard and MIT.

I wanted to also note that most of the gifted and brilliant kids were “home schooled” and this just proves that public education systems just aren’t up to snuff in this country.  The other thing I wanted to point out is that if more companies, TV shows and society as a whole glamorized achievements and abilities of these kids instead of football players, actors and celebrities then we would probably be further along scientifically and academically than we are now as a Nation.

Here’s hoping the future generations can solve some of the worlds toughest problems, and thanks to popular science for showcasing these genius kids as rockstars in science and technology.

-Justin Germino

This concluded my son’s first week of school and I am already dismayed by the school he is going to, the District supposedly allowed schools to determine if they would require homework in grades K-5 and this school opted to not provide kids any homework for first grade. My son was used to getting homework in Kindergarten and I didn’t want him to get used to no homework, I also think with school lessons being so short homework is required to help instill and reinforce the learning requirements.

This is most distressing, the teacher seems a little apathetic as well about the kids and their general learning, and research shows the principal of the school has a similar mentality. The only positive note is they can give homework to kids whose parents request, so we opted in to have homework assigned to our son weekly. We need to keep on top of the school and system to make sure he is getting a proper education.

I guess what you pay for, and public school systems are getting worse every year it seems.

-Justin Germino

Ninety nine percent of mammals who have children have the instinct to nurture and care for their children, it is an oddly disturbing trend when reading the news on how Mother’s, Father’s can injure or harm their children or babies in any ordeal. I read news stories on how a father drowns his toddler in the pool, or how a mother savagely mutilates her two year old while high on one drug or another.

These articles always cause me grief and leave me greatly disturbed that there is so much suffering and violence not only in the world itself, but in what is supposed to be a great and civilized Nation. How are we expected to stand up and assist global issues when we can’t even fix whats broken in our own society, justice needs to be overhauled, in fact people themselves need to be overhauled.

The only problem is, I don’t know how to solve these problems I can only lament like so many others that they exist. If I had solutions or answers, I would have gone into politics to push for solutions. For now I just hope someone comes along with a suggestion or solutions to problems that are widespread and one of the biggest is that children are just not protected enough in this world.

All children are born innocent and deserve a chance at a healthy, happy and successful upbringing. This does not matter where they are born, raised or live and somehow the International laws on human rights are failing on a global level.

-Justin Germino

You have heard about it and seen the commercials on television, now you can see exactly what I think of The Magic Jack. I actually purchased this product about four months ago and have completely ditched my landline now and use the Magic Jack exclusively in my home in place of my land line.

Simple and easy to use, just watch my video on why I think the MagicJack is a revolutionary product that replaces the home phone in your house for a fraction of the cost:

-Justin Germino

A study conducted by Oxford University on Rats who were fed high fat and low protein diets have shown that rats who take in excessive fat not only have heart problems, but apparently show the effects of having decreased mental capacity as well. Because fat makes muscles less effective at effective at using oxygen, this causes the heart to enlarge and also deprives various body systems of oxygen including the brain.

Rats fed this high fat diet made considerably more mistakes when traversing a maze than rats who were kept lean and with optimal protein, low fat diets. These same rats made more frequent mistakes after just nine days of consuming such bad diets, and performed better on the mazes prior to starting the high fat diets.

Bottom line, we all know fast food is bad for you, and time, money and studies continuously show how fast food has nothing but negative impact on our physical health, yet humans continue to eat it. You can complain about people who smoke cigarettes, while you are chowing down on your fast food burger and fries and not even realize you are doing just as much if not more physical damage to your body as smoking.

You can go here to read the full article about Fast Food Makes You Less Intelligent.