Intuiton and Insanity

And then there was Blog....

2009-09-24T17:09:00.000-07:00

For years upon years humans have felt the compulsive need to write down what they are thinking, feeling, or seeing in a way that others can see it. It may've started with the ancient civilizations that did what all our mothers have screamed about and wrote their stories on the walls (however inflated with some dietys popping in for tea or some such). It could've also been all those odd men and women that decided to keep these odd little books called diarys where they recorded some rather personal thoughts but left them out in the open for the public to find them. Personally my favorite idea is the monks who in their lack of women and social lives learned to write just about every little thing down and neatly store it for people to read about.

Interestingly enough the internet aspect of the whole recording shebang happenedevolved from the online diary, where people would keep a running account of their personal lives. Most such writers called themselves diarists, journalists, or journalers. A few called themselves "escribitionists". In 1994 a man called Justin Hall began what would be 11 years of personal blogging while attending Swarthmore College. Since then we have begun using these lovely little weblogs to record epic events, fantabulous ideas, and finally the degeneration to dissing schoolkids and posting funny picture of our stoned cats. Not that I think records are bad but there may be a tiny little line to draw between recording world events and what you found in your lunch today...

I guess all I have to say is KIIP: Keep It Interesting People!

(And no, we do not care about the stray nosehair you found this morning either, just in case you may be wondering)

Back to School Shopping List

2009-08-21T12:31:00.000-07:00

Seeing as a large part of us bloggers will be going back to school or know people that will be going back to school I'll help you ease in by making a list of this year's must have school supplies.

First off, for those snooze button bugs: THE CRAZY CLOCKY

From the moment you should be up and moving so will this clock. Instead of beeping idlely, this little mover jumps right off your table and runs away, forcing you to actively hunt it down for your peace.

Next up, looking sharp with something sharp: SWITCHBLADE COMB

Hey boys, wanna look good but not sacrifice your "tough points"? Well this lovely little comb looks like a switchblade and pops like a switchblade but instead of one of those pesky sharp blades there's a fabulous little comb inside. So next time you get pulled to the office nobody will give you crap about the comb up your sleeve.

Third our morbidly useful: DEAD FRED

This funny plastic fellow's fate is your ticket to keeping a pen around. Dead Fred is a well-designed holder in the shape of a dead man helping you store pens, release stress, and even pratcice all at the same time! Remember Fred died for your ~~sins~~ pens!

Last but certianly not least: THE STUDY BALL

This wonderful new gadget of distractable students allows you to program in the desired study time then sit your butt down and the weighted device does not release you until you have completed your study time. The wonderful new Study Ball is usefull for students, parents of students, unmotivated home-based workers, annoying children, and even those darned employees that find the need to roam around much too often.

ENJOY YOUR BACK TO SCHOOL SHOPPING!

Columbine Blame

2009-03-10T17:53:00.000-07:00

WARNING: THIS IS MEANT AS AN EXAMPLE TO MAKE YOU THINK SO NATURALLY, IT WILL RUFFLE SOME FEATHERS

From this I'd like to draw some statements; Columbine was a tragedy but what happened was the fault of, and only of, the individuals that commited the crime. Lately the blame has been spreading to individuals like Maralyn Manison for his music and even the entireity of the goth culture because of their dark nature.

Quite frankly, the blame shoul be on the people directly surrounding the chalenged boys. According to all AFTER reports (notice that they were only taken into consideration AFTER a tradgedy occured) there had been many extremely noticable signs of dangerous intentions in both of the shooters. According to the reports of other students Eric Harris started a website that displayed instructions on how they caused or planned to cause disruptions and troubble and even how to make certian dangerous explosives. Other material included blurbs Harris had written concerning his hatred of society in general and his desire to kill those who annoyed him. As the date of the shooting neared, Harris also began noting the completion of pipe bombs on his site, as well as a gun count and hit list of individuals he wished to target, although it never mentioned his overall plot.

Before the leaders and pollititions and even mothers go out on their tyraids about the negitive cultural influences of society I chalenge them to first promote a new sort of defense. Watchfulness and Action. First of all our greatest defense against tragidies such as Columbine are to pick up on the warning signs. People that are alienated and speak (not nessecarily act) violently are at high risk. Of course, learning is no good without application. Once you think you are seeing signs that threaten yourself of others you need to report it. Tell anyone from a boss to a teacher to a school counsler to even a parent and have actions taken to ensure your personal safety. If you don't act you are not only potentially puting yourself in danger but the people around you.

PREVENTION WILL BE OUR GREATEST ATTACK AGAINST THESE HORRORS

Shoes No More?

2009-02-22T10:25:00.000-08:00

Now I know you all either loved or hated the viral YouTube video Shoes staring Liam as the sassy transvestite shopaholic, Kelly, but I have a new parody that will rock your socks off!

Shannon Lark, the woman in charge of the horror film production company The Chainsaw Mafia and manager, gore wrangler, and dancer for the very FIRST zombie dance troupe in HISTORY, Living Dead Girlz put together this wonderful parody the YouTube sensation Shoes.

Messing With Your Heads

2008-11-07T19:51:00.000-08:00

Sorry for the lack of blogage ladies and gentlemen! Lately I've been rather preoccupied with important duties and small shining objects on the sidewalks....

Anyways..... During my leave of internet antisocialness I spent some time thinking (start worrying) about the subliminal consciousness and such things that people are constantly approving and denying. In my wonderment I fell upon some "hypnosis" websites and such offering programs that claim to be able to do such things as make you sleep easier, hypnotise yourself into a trance, quit annoying habits (such as smoking, alchahol, and picking your neighbor's nose), and even some that offered the chance for out of body experiences. I even found an application for iPhones called BrainHacker that offers such sounds that will mess with your binural beats (brainwaves) to provide you with sleep, concentration, awakeness, and more!

Sounds great right? Right? Being a creative person, i decided to look more into it and I stumbled upon a website called Brain Wave Generator that has a downloadable program that claims to be able to hack into brainwaves and trick your subconscious mind into doing what you want it to do as specified by the downloadable files that can play through the first program.

The site has lots of positive feedback but also a few WARNINGS: "Use of brain waves and binural beats at your own risk. We hold no responsibility for blown retina's, hemorrhaged brain arteries. " It turns out that too much mental stimulation can raise your blood pressure to unsafe levels and cause some MINOR SIDE AFFECTS like blown arteries and even death. Correct me if I'm wrong but in most cases death can be a bad thing...

What should you draw from this you ask? Be careful when using internet-found mindfuck devices because they might just blow your mind (literally!)

Poisons to Die For

2008-10-19T16:38:00.000-07:00

Ever had an enemy that you think the world would be a bit better without? Here's a little bit of knowledge that may help you deal with *cough*dispose of*cough cough* that lucky fiend. This is a list of five of the world's deadliest poisons, enjoy!
(Thanks to Lady Arsenic at http://ladyarsenic.blogspot.com/ for the lovely list)

1)Botulinum. Even the name scares me. I remember an old story I heard when I was a kid about someone getting infected by botulism from an old can of tuna. I haven't eaten canned tuna since. Experts say that botulinum is THE most deadly poison known to man. When contracted, the nervous system completely shuts down and you die in excruciating pain.

2)Anthrax. Touching Anthrax to your skin can infect you. However, the scariest and most deadly form of Anthrax is inhaled. Once inhaled, you experience cold or flu-like symptoms that don't go away for several days. This is followed by complete respiratory collapse.

3)Ricin. This toxin is made from the castor bean. Twice as deadly as cobra venom, two-tenths of a milligram is a lethal dose. At one point, the U.S. Army considered using ricin as a chemical weapon. In 1978, the Bulgarian secret police secretly followed a well-known dissident and radical author and shot him in the leg with a pellet containing the deadly poison ricin. The weapon they used to fire the pellet was a modified umbrella.

4)Sarin. Sarin is an extremely deadly nerve gas. Initial symptoms are a runny nose and tightness in the chest. Breathing soon becomes constricted and nausea sets in. Next, you lose control of all your bodily functions and quickly become comatose. At that point, your body convulses and spasms while you suffocate. Scary, huh? This deadly poison was put on the UN's Weapon's of Mass Destruction list in 1993.

5)Cyanide. Considered the "movie star" of deadly poisons due to its prevalence in crime fiction and movies, this very deadly poison (and effective plot device) is produced from certain bacteria, fungus, and plants. Exposure by inhalation or ingestion leads to seizures, cardiac arrest, and ultimately death.

Post Secret

2008-09-25T17:16:00.000-07:00

Ever felt the urge to simply confess your deepest, darkest secret and see what people think?

Post Secret started as one man's idea to let the world tell the rest of the world what they were hiding. Frank Warren started by handing out blank postcards, addressed to him and telling people to write down their secret and sent it annonomusly. The cards just kept pouring in and eventually Mr. Warren turned all those postcards into a community art project. Now you can see them in books and showings all over America.
I think it's pretty cool idea, what about you?

Interesting Facts for Bored People

2008-09-12T16:10:00.000-07:00

Bored out of your mind? I have the perfect thing for you (no it's not candy, sorry).
Here I have a crapload of interesting facts that you probally don't know and will never need to know...

US Dollars are not made out of paper, they are made out of cotton.
The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper. (this explains a bit...)
The dot over the letter I is called a "tittle."
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled. (Fail)
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
Most lipstick contains fish scales (eeww).
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.
Leonardo DaVinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time. (Hence, multitasking was invented.)
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was never a recorded Wendy before!
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!
Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was a Captain Kirk's mask painted white.
If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19 , you also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar (good to know).
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless).
The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. It's the same with apples!
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the Book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

"A rose by any other name"

2008-08-29T17:28:00.000-07:00

The famous words of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet..."

The phrase itself means that what an object is called matters not, only the object itself, but Shakespeare may've had another motive for useing sweet smelling roses in his famous play. In this case, Shakespeare may've been refering to a not so sweet smelling rose, the Rose Theatre. The Rose was a local rival to his Globe Theatre and is reputed to have had less than effective sanitary arrangements. The story goes that this was a coy joke about the smell. This certainly has the whiff of folk etymology about it, but it might just be true.

Cthulu For President

2008-08-28T10:54:00.000-07:00

Sick and tired of the presidential candidates?

Well say hello to your future presiedent: Cthulhu!

Cthulhu is the great old one, who should return from his slumber to take over the U.S. government and make this country a whole hell of a lot better as the leader of our executive branch. Or destroy it and drive everyone insane, kill us all, or something really nasty! Remember, Cthulhu for President, why vote for the lesser of two evils? For more information on Cthulhu's world conquest look here.

You Can't Fire Me!

2008-08-26T11:04:00.000-07:00

Ever wondered why job termanination is refered to as "being fired"? When medieval clans wanted to downsize and dispose of unwanted folks without murdering them, they just burned their houses to the ground as a small hint. Thus the phrase "to get fired" Next time you get fired (yes we've seen your work, it'll happen) just be glad that you didn't live in the medival times.

Is Peace A Good Thing?

2008-08-24T20:03:00.000-07:00

Peace. World Peace! Pax. Let there be peace! Der Friden. Peace and joy! Shalom. Strive for peace! Heiwa.

By now, you’re starting to hear a lot of people talking about world peace and with all the pain and suffering in the world, you might be starting to think that peace may just be a rather good idea. Sadly, peace itself may not be exactly what you’re looking for to end the strife. The idea of finding peace would mean that everyone is living in sameness. Not sounding bad yet? Imagine a world where no one was different. Everyone looked the same, everyone acted the same everything was the same. No one has an opinion because opinion becomes argument. Eventually music, color and all forms of art would be lost so that no one would have anything to argue about. Life itself would become dull and boring, but no one would notice because everyone was raised to think this is normal. Emotions themselves will simply disappear from humanity. But will it really be humanity anymore? Everything that could possibly make up a soul is gone. Will you pay your soul to have this peace? Is peace really what you want? Not me. I do not wish for this soulless peace on any one. Instead, I want the world to live in tolerance. Tolerant of the differences: race, religion, politics, social class, preference, style, everything. Everyone is entitled to their opinion and everyone else is willing to respect that opinion. Nobody will ever have to fight because they can accept the differences that people feel.

Tolerance. Think about it.

(For a broader view of my opinioins, try reading The Giver by Lowis Lowry)

Possibly Real Errors

2008-08-23T10:51:00.000-07:00

So here are some supposedly fabricated computer error messages.
But seriously, would you really be surprised if your computer popped up one of these?

Stop Animal Abuse

2008-08-21T19:07:00.000-07:00

You've heard it again and again, "Stop animal abuse".

After awhile, it seems to become yet another item on your list of "Ways to Save the World" the same list that includes "Stop Global Warming, End Crime, and Make World Peace". The seemingly untouchables. Some people are convinced that animal abuse should be ignored until we fix all the problems that the humans seem to be having at the moment (because there are sooo many). I believe that learning to be kind to the animals would be a wonderful place to start.

Imagine violence against an animal that has wronged the world many times over, spreading violence and anger everywhere it goes until it seems that the earth itself has given up on them. These animals have practically been raised to believe that violence against one another is a valid method of getting what they want, they have turned violence into a means of communication, a language among themselves. These animals are the modern Homo sapiens, humans.

Now imagine the rest of the animal kingdom. They live at peace with the rest of the world, as they always have, consuming only what they need and coexisting with other species in a basic food chain for their survival. For the most part they get along with each other, "live and let live". Some animals gave humans their trust and devotion for a home and food.
If people can't even treat a poor domestic animal with care, how can we be expected to first give the same liberties to the rest of the human race that has done such a poor job earning such liberties. To simply learn to treat animals better, we can make small steps to becoming kinder to each other.

Lets face it. The world could use a little more love, and animals are a nearly infinite source of love, as long as you can give open your heart enough.