It's Good No One Reads This

Not that I would really care anyway. I'm just glad there's no one guffawing at my ridiculously emo self-pitying posts. Just thought I'd put that out there. Yep. Anyway, I was away at nerd camp for the past couple of weeks. I learned on the second-to-last day that one of the counselors had a relationship (implying sex) with a camper. How fucked up is that? I thought that guy had better judgment. Reality sucks.

Cryptic

I feel that if my dad could just take a step back and look at himself through everyone else's eyes, things would be a lot easier on my family.

Walks

So I went walking today. I took me maybe 2 hours. And apparently that caused everyone in the house to flip out. I don't really feel like typing now, but yeah, my parents are crazy. Not the lovable kind of crazy. The terrible parents kind of crazy.

I Like Poker Better

It has come to my attention that that last post would probably make a better drinking game than poker. But I don't drink... so... yeah.

America's Funniest Home Videos Poker

Fun game to play:
1st, start watching America's Funniest Home Videos (AFV)
2nd, pull out the family poker chip set
3rd, pass out chips equally, each chip is the same amount
4th, each time a video starts, everyone puts in a chip
5th,
for 2 people, one person chooses "someone gets hurt" and the other gets "someone gets scared or in general not hurt"
for 3 people, one person chooses "someone falls" another person gets "someone gets scared" and the third gets "other (usually involves babies)"
for 4 people "something with pets", "something with babies", "someone gets scared", "someone falls"
for more, make up your own
6th, whoever was right wins the pot
7th, if there's a tie/dispute/video that falls into multiple categories, divide pot equally by winners. This also includes if 2 people choose the same thing (that's allowed)
8th, when you run out of chips, you lose, if the show ends and you have the most or are the last alive, you win!
9th, if ever you see a pet scare a baby and the baby causes the pet to fall, everybody wins! If someone called that previously and no one else did, they win automatically. And no one else

My Pokeymanz, Let Me Scrutinize Them

So, I have a theory. I know, big surprise. Anyway, Pokemon, the popular chibi-cock-fighting game, first off, is awesome. Second, I'm using too many commas. Third, has subliminal messages implanted within. Since nothing I ever think of is the first time someone has thought of it, I'm sure this is old news, but yeah. Before I get to my point, I want to present an example. Magikarp. It turns into Gyarados. Magikarp is obviously a fish-based pokemon. Gyarados is some kind of aquatic reptile. What does one call the process a pokemon undergoes to change from one form to another? Oh, that's right, evolution. Magikarp, a fish, evolves into Gyarados, a reptile. Isn't that a little strange? The same can be said for Feebas and Milotic. Or to some extent Remoraid and Octillery. I think there's evolutionist propaganda in Pokemon. I feel like a million people across the world could yell at my face "Duh!" right now, but no one's even going to read this, so who cares. But the propaganda doesn't end there. Pop quiz, what do scientists consider the closest living relative to the Tyrannosaurus Rex? Time's up, the chicken. Or more vaguely the bird, this is speculation though, so it might not be true. Yoshi; what's he thought of as? A dinosaur. Super Smash Bros. Brawl; Final Smash. Yoshi's is that he grows (evolves?) a pair of wings and the ability to breath fire. The dinosaur grows wings. Not so convinced? Have you seen these wings? Big, feathery, eagle-esque wings, not reptilian, pterodactyl-esque wings. The dinosaur gains a pair of bird wings. Now I know I'm using a lot of fragment sentences, but that falls into the same category. Nintendo is easing these ideas into our mind so we are more accepting of them. It's just something to think about. And by the by, Nintendo is still awesome and the best of the three main competitors in the console war, subliminal mind control or not.

Tech Support

According to what the blog-o-sphere says, the minute you call tech support, either they are useless or you're an idiot.

That Angst Thing Again

I just came to the sad realization that every time I laugh, the thing that goes through my parent's minds is "He isn't doing work."

How the Media Views Things

I know that not all news media people do this but, say, I dunno, FOX News got a hold of a story: child brings pet raccoon into school for show-and-tell, raccoon bites schoolgirl. By this I mean the girl got to aggressive with the raccoon and it nipped her. When the child who brought it in was interviewed, he didn't know the health records of the raccoon. FERAL RACCOON BITES LOCAL SCHOOL GIRL. WHERE WERE THE TEACHERS?

Nothing New

I know I've been amateur-ly-ish philosophical that last few days, but I don't feel like doing that now. I just want to say I've finally fulfilled one of my easier life goals; citing Shakespeare in an argument. My sister was saying how she liked this said store better before it changed it's name a few years ago, and I responded with "I rose by any other word would smell as sweet." Owned her ass. Yeah that's right, don't cross me bitch. But seriously, it was awesome.

That Angst Thing Again

You know, I was pondering the whole popular click stereotype, and I think it is poorly defined. It's not what Disney Channel (yes I'm harping on them again, they're like my conservative media) thinks, where they are all extremely obnoxious and everyone has to like them except the protagonist. I think it's more that, there's this group of really social people, who obviously get out more and probably have sex earlier in life, and that lifestyle is looked up to. These people are usually for some reason or another, very outspoken. I know this doesn't define them, it's just ties on to the culture; I know this because I joke around in a very crude humor style with these people roughly four or five times a week. I also know that it's not the physical attractiveness of the people, all be it that does help. I believe it to be the situation and lifestyle of the person to be what other people envy, not the people themselves. I really stopped remembering what my point of writing this was, I just think the entertainment industry doesn't have this down, and because of this all of their "marketed to young teenagers" shows that six through eight-year-old girls watch regularly is badly altering the opinion of these people; it's makes them look for and classify situations as they would be on a sitcom. They believe, or want, life to be like these shows, and because of that they have a strongly influenced opinion on topics such as popularity and clicks which originated from the really extremist stereotypical characters found on those shows. Yeah, that sounds like what I meant to say. I do want to make it clear, I don't have much of a problem with these people for the most part, if you are around them enough, class, work, etc., you start to see their good points as well as the bad. That is to say, my list of who to shoot when I lose my mind Columbine-style is blank.
I had another point, but I lost it somewhere in the middle of that. Oh well.

Something that actually relates to an experience of mine.

So, I had to take all these pictures for class, using rule of thirds and such. I liked taking pictures that contrast man and nature, so I did that. In the commercial center of town there's these large areas of grass surrounded by road. I walked around there taking pictures of things that tickled my fancy. At one point, when I was more or less finished, I was at the edge of a parking lot for the local store, waiting for a dozen or so cars to pass, I was in no hurry, they probably were, so I forfeited my right of way. This whole time I was walking around, I kept waving to cars that passed nearby. I occasionally caught a glimpse of someone smiling and waving back, which made me feel good. So naturally I continued doing this for these dozen or so cars. Actually about eight of these cars, I noticed an arrow painted on the pavement to my right. I though that might be a cool picture, so I crouched down and got a more ants-eye-view perspective. At this time, a car was passing, so I swiveled and waved. Then a kid, probably at a age of about thirteen stuck his head out the window, and from what I guessed shouted "Weird." I sounded like "Eared", but I guessed that since ear is not a verb he must have meant that. I continued waving for a second, then began to study the arrow again. I continuously wonder what I feel about this boy's statement. I would believe I would be angry, but he's right, I am weird. I like that about myself. So I could take it as a compliment, but that was obviously not how it was intended. Very puzzling. It's also one of those opportunities where you'd imagine a sufficient comeback later on, but in this instance, he was is a car speeding past me, there would be no time; which in a way makes me happier it didn't affect me in any visible way immediately. I, in ways wish that said boy would have looked in a mirror, see my continue studying the arrow and waving to the next cars, and be angry, or have whomever was in the driver's seat chastise him even in some small way. I feel that I know the latter isn't true, but what can you do? It's quite the feeling though, randomly walking through a common area, almost completely devoid of other people, and waving at cars. I think I'll do it again some time. Maybe I'm weird, or maybe I'm just content.

The Laws of Life

#π: Ken Akamatsu is a god among the living.

No seriously, he is the greatest mind that humanity has ever seen. Screw civil rights activists and physicists, Love Hina is like if you took the Mona Lisa and fed it creativity steroids, whilst taking something of equal skill and mastery and training it from birth to be the most entertaining thing on the planet. And these things had a baby, which was then simultaneously blessed by Jesus, Muhammad, Flying Spaghetti Monster, and whatever other prophets you think are cool, including Chuck Norris. And then this baby was transformed into an inspiration that hit the most talented manga-ka on the planet. It's just that good. It's GODLY.

That Angst Thing

The problem with finishing something before others is you arrive at a mental dilemma; am I efficient or forgetful? That is to say am I more capable than others or did I miss something?

3rd Weekly Liguistically Related Bet

Yeah, seems soon but that's because this post is preemptive while the other was late. Tomorrow we plan to start every sentence we say with "Well...", and it's going to be awesome. There are exceptions of onomatopoeia and sentences that have like three or less words. I don't want to have to say "Well, what?" or "Well, ha ha ha ha ha ha (me laughing)."

The Laws of Life

#3: If you or someone else ever repairs a sports ball, that is not inflatable, from a state of no usability to a near premium condition, the person(s) responsible for the fix are entitled to draw a face on the ball.

This face can be as intricate as possible, but the owner of the ball, while they are not allowed to tell you you can't draw a face on the ball, must approve the design. The design also must be a face, but can elaborate as far as an entire head, or in the case the head of the creature is also the body, limbs are also allowed.

2nd Weekly Linguistically Related Bet

The following takes place in real time Friday, March 28th, 2008 from 8:27am-3:41pm. This week we ended every sentence in an upward infliction, which is probably impossible to recreate in text, so I won't try. Just keeping you imaginary guys in the loop.

Drawing

You know, for a long time I've really wanted to do some kind of Webcomic. I just know I'm the kind of person who won't handle the commitment though, and I hate getting criticism about anything I do (notice comments are disabled). So, I'd make it really low-key and just put it on DeviantArt or something. But the thing is, I really can't draw that well, I can draw alright, but not at a level where the quality of the final thing is worth the time spent. So I think I'll try and take up some drawing classes see if I can't improve any. I made this a while ago, it's pretty terrible. Can you spot the massive inconsistency?

Disney Channel

Have you ever noticed that every character on a Disney channel show is a stereotype? And to the extreme too, nerds, delinquents, jocks, poor people, I mean come on. Everything in moderation you freaking cooperate air heads. I bet around 13% of the reason stereotypes are still around is because they make Micheal Eisner crack up.

This again

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Annoyance

I really hate those people who think it's cool to challenge everything in class. Like a teacher will say something and they need to speak out. I don't ahve a problem with that behaviour per say, but that whole archetype of people are just so infuriating.

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The Laws of Life

#4: Never volunteer for any kind of stage performance.

The typical person will volunteer for the attention received. But the majority of the time this will end in humiliation. So unless looking like an idiot in front of a crowd is a favourite pastime for you, NEVER volunteer for a stage performance.

1st Weekly Linguistically Related Bet

Me and my friend Luke, primarily me, thought of a great challenge. Tomorrow we have to replace every verb we write or say with "joust". The only exceptions are the word "be" and contractions, because they are really hard to interpret. Also, if a conversation is important, talking to a teacher, superior, significant other, etc. Well, I joust to joust out of here.

Sleep Talking

You know, I once slept over a friend's house and fell asleep pretty early. According to my friend I kept mumbling for a while, and the only thing I actually said was "broken arm". Weirdly enough, the following day this jerk pushed me down and my wrist broke. And according to a cousin, while at a family vacation house, I once said in my sleep "I'm sleeping at a ninety degree angle".

Samantha Who

I haven't seen this show personally, so I have no idea whether or not it's any good. But I bet most of it's popularity came from the fact one of the earlier episodes was entitled "The Virgin".

Chicken and Egg

You know the debate of which came first, the chicken and the egg? We know a chicken exists, as most of us had seen one, and many have eaten a cooked one at some point or another. Now the idea is that for a chicken to have been born, it must have come from an egg. But for a egg to exist, a chicken must have lain it. I've been thinking about this extensively, and you know, it's fairly obvious. On one hand, the egg came first, the fish lied an egg that eventually turned into an amphibian. This amphibian lies an egg that will one day become reptile. Then an unexplained event occurs, at least to my knowledge, and eventually feathers appear, on birds. Eventually, a chicken evolves and will continue laying eggs to preserve it's species. Through this series of events, the egg comes first, the protection system for the undeveloped embryo of many a creature. In this aspect of life, the egg dominates over the chicken. But of course if the chicken came first, then the other explanation must be the truth; to quote the fictional but philosophical character Sherlock Holmes, "Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth." Basing the debate on this idea, the only idea left is a chicken existed without an egg existing. The only real theory that covers this area is a or many gods created life, and within that category the chicken. This raises many scrutinies because it's unlikely that life ever, well, popped into being with all the necessary aspects for it's survival, even with predators. They would have to also be in a stage of life that means they exceeded the egg stage; which frankly isn't hard to believe because because they would also need to be able to care for themselves and be past any stages of life where in they are no longer dependent on a maternal figure. These aside, if the chicken came first, these conditions are those that must exist. And for the sake of equality, the egg theory has holes too, although the only that come to mind are how in the world did the egg come into existence, and at what need? And the, like I mentioned, how did a reptilian ever turn into a feathered creature? I know the existence of such dinosaurs as pterodactyls could prove a connection, although I've heard that the Tyrannosaurus Rex is a mildly close relative of the chicken. Not to mention that if the giant meteor did really come down and eradicate all the dinosaurs, how could they be ancestors of the chicken? But through these reasoning, I fell I have not answered the question, but eradicated it. It comes down to whether you believe in intelligent design or evolution.

Auctioneer

I had to muscle through an oral presentation today. Four times. With 30% less of a time frame than the length of the presentation. Somehow I can still talk, a lot. It's like after a long run you need to walk for a minute. Of course now, I can't talk at all, but whatever.

I thought of a paradox

50% of the people who read this statistic will think it's true.

Broken Mirrors

Do people who make mirrors get bad luck? They obviously have to cut the mirrors to size, so doesn't that qualify as breaking mirrors?

Lunar Eclipse 2008