Doug Boude (rhymes with 'loud')

Employers: Save Yourself And Your Employees Some Healthcare Cash!

2009-07-15T14:18:00-05:00

Health Benefits and the costs thereof. I won't even pretend to be anal enough to have managed to have wrapped my head around the unnecessarily over-complicated subject of health benefits, but I did just go through an experience regarding that topic that I feel is worthy of sharing.

The Scenario
I am the non-custodial parent of several children for which I provide support and me

I Have a Dream....

2008-11-22T12:41:53-05:00

The collective abilities of the many always surpass the few. This is common knowledge, and pervades every aspect of life so much so that we probably don't even take note of it. A pride of lions takes more game than one hunting solo; the most correct answer is the distillation of many people's opinions rather than that of a single individual; the list could go on ad finitum. So why then is it that so many people who catch the ent

The Perfect Alternative to Gas Powered Vehicles

2008-05-09T11:56:36-05:00

I'm sure by now we're all of the opinion that we have GOT to find an alternative to gas powered vehicles. I was musing on this very topic last weekend while sunning myself on the banks of the Guadalupe river, and came up with what I think is a GENIUS idea (though my wife whole heartedly disagrees for some reason):

A giant wind up car.

We know how the little wind up cars work...wind up a spring, then utilize th

Branson, Missouri to Become Deaf and Hard of Hearing Friendly

2008-01-11T18:58:00-05:00

(This is slightly off topic to those readers arriving from the technical aggregators, but nevertheless is an item of interest to all, I believe)

Okay i've been holding off on sharing this information for a little while now until things really began to materialize, but the time is now right to let the world know about S.E.E. ... Signed Entertainment Enterpris

Human Global Genetic Updates: Is it Really That Hard?

2007-08-28T10:48:00-05:00

So I'm sitting on the couch the other night watching a documentary on Gigantism...a condition in humans where uncontrolled growth occurs due to a genetic defect...when the narrator says that "unfortunately it is beyond the scope of our current abilities to correct this condition at the genetic level...". Suddenly I have an epiphany, that indeed it should be within the scope of our ability to correct this or any other gene

Human-Protist Symbiotic Experiment

2007-06-22T10:47:00-05:00

We all have one, don't we? A favorite protist. One protozoa out of them all that just stands out in our minds as THE protozoa, the one that captures our imagination and intrigues us to no end. Well, I must say that personally I have a list of about five protozoa that are at the top, but one has just recently topped them all: Triconympha. Oh yes, Paramecium with his 'oral groove' and cilia-covered body is amazing to behold as he swi

Water producing its own electricity

2006-05-30T00:00:00-05:00

Any conductor cutting through magnetic lines of flux induces a current in the conductor. A true statement and the principle of most electrical generators.

Water is a conductor.

What if I took narrow plastic tubing filled with water and treated it as if it were copper wire, coiled it around a ferrous core, and then passed a magnetic field over it.