I’m not quite sure yet what this blog will be “about”, or if it will even stick to any sort of specific theme or topic, but I thought I’d open it up by giving a bit of the terribly anticlimactic backstory on how I decided to create it:

It started on a whim.  I had heard some random remark about a movie coming out called “Seven Pounds”.   I still have no idea why it’s called “Seven Pounds” – I haven’t seen it.  However, when I heard the title, I thought to myself “well, that name must refer to something.  Perhaps the weight of some important item?  Some part of the human body?”

I didn’t really do much investigation, but I thought maybe it was the average weight of the human brain.  It wasn’t.  The average weight of the human brain is between 1300 and 1400 grams.

For whatever reason, I decided that “1300 grams” would be a cool name for something with some sort of intellectual edge.  A band?  A publication?  A blog?

So, there you have it.  The probably better left untold genesis of 1300 grams…  Let’s see where it goes…  Over the next several days, I’ll try and start posting regularly.