Can't Sleep again - The small Vietnamese Theory

I don't know if this is the way everyone else is, but normally when I think about things, my mind flitters from idea to idea. Somehow I manage to cover quite a broad range of things in the space my sister thinks of a few. Usually I don't dwell on anything for any prolonged period of time, and take the quick and simple solutions to problems along thw way. Take for instance what I'm doing now - Can't sleep, so the soluation is to sit in bed with my wireless stuff and blog.

THe problem is now that I seem to be stuck thinking about a couple of things over the past week or so. I can't seem to get them out of my head. Its quite frustrating actually. I'm just so used to thinking about things and solving the problems (if there is one), or discovering something.

As an aside,, while on the way home from badminton the other day, I came up with a rather ridiculous theory as to why theres so many small Vietnamese people in this generation. So it goes like this: The Vietnam war was aroud '79. So there was a lot of stuff going on, lots of people dying and so forth. In that kind of warfare, snipers were pretty dominant. So if you youi're tall, and in the jungle, you're more likely to get shot than if you're small and in the jungle. It deson't really matter how far you can see, but rather on what you can see. In desert warfare, thats a different story - theres nowhere to hide. So during the years that the war was going on, all the tall soldiers were more likely to be shot than the smaller ones, thus restricting the gene pool in the country to generally smaller people.

This works well because most of the Vietnamese people I know are around my age. So, if the war ended in '79, the adults who survived would be having kids soon after that. So for everyone remainging in Vietnam, they're more likely to be procreating with people who haven't been shot during the way (i.e. the little people). Little people and little people make more little people.

Okay so thats turned out to be more than an aside, and it certainly wasn't what I've been thinking about for the last week or so, but I thought it was pretty good, and couildn't really find any holes in the theory...

I think we'll just leave it at that tonight.