Monday, May 16, 2011

Why oh Why?

Is anybody up for some self-esteem boosting? My suggestion is to start up your car and move you way on down to you local Wal-Mart. However if you feel like saving on gas I would recommend surfing you way to peopleofwalmart.com. It is hard to believe that people would stoop to such a low level and go out like that in public. Either they don’t care or they don’t know better. Anyways is a great way to get a laugh or make you feel like the king/queen of England. It appears that low prices draw the creatures from the dark side into the fluorescent lighted aisles of cheap made in china products. Below I will provide you with some examples of the people of Wal-Mart. But feel free to go to peopleofwalmart.com for “infinite lolz.”

Say NO to Crack, and that job app.



Excuse me but you have a carpet on your head.



Git-r-dun



and so on......

A Wind of Inspiration

Have you ever seen the show, “Hoarding: Buried Alive?” Well it is on TLC channel, I think, and it is a show about people with hoarding disorders. Having a hoarding disorder, a person will refuse to throw away any thing they hold in possession. Also they tend to buy more then they need. So their house begins to fill up with junk that they think is precious family heirlooms. So they eventually have to clean up their houses after receiving a notice of their house being condemned.
Even though I do not have a hording disorder I can take a peek at my room and think that if I don’t do anything to fix it may become over run with junk and infested with ants. So as warm weather approaches I take my inspiration to clean my room before disaster happens. That means breaking out the shop vacuum and a giant trashcan. After many laborious hours, I can actually see my carpet and walk through my room without tripping over clutter.

Even at best when I watched that show, it made me feel a lot better about myself because, compared to them I look like a person with OCD. To show you here is a picture of a house with a hoarder.

Btw this is NOT my room :P

Gone Fishing

They say that if you give a man a fish then he will eat for the day, but if you teach the man to fish then he can eat for a life time. Well, a couple weeks ago I picked up a new past time and that is fishing. The idea came to me like a cool breeze. I figured that since the summer is coming if would need something to do in the nice weather. Between nine credit hours of summer school and a part time job, I figured I needed something else to do.

The basics of fishing are not that hard actually. I find the hardest part is putting the hook on the line. Hooks are meant to be sharp and man are they. One foul move and there is a insanely sharp piece of metal in your finger (speaking from personal experience here). I tend not to use live bait because I would not want to be a worm speared several times over just to be drowned in the water or eaten alive. So I find that synthetic baits will suffice in catching fish. Speaking of catching fish the little rascals are harder to get off the hook then on. They have needle like fins they use to spear my fingertips at any given chance. But at least they get put back in to the water afterwards.

As of this given moment I have caught four whole fish. I would starve if I had to live off of that. But I am looking forward to summer and all of the good times that await me ahead. Have a safe summer y’all.

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Fractured English

As modern technology makes the world smaller and communication faster things are bound to shorten up a bit. Like our English skills for example has been blown into little itty bitty bits by instant messaging. Everybody has at least one time sent a message that looked like this, “r u rdy 2 prty?” I think it is just a matter of being lazy. Also we have developed a language in our language that everybody has seen at least once or twice. What I am talking about its 31337 or 1337 speak. This is where numbers/symbols are letters. Here is a helpful (but not limited to) code: 4=a, 8=b, <=c |)=d, 3=e, |= =f, 6=g, #=h, 1=I, ]=j, |<=k, 1=l, /\/\=m, /\/=n, 0=o, 9=p 9=q, |2=r, 5=s, 7=t, (_)=u, \/=v, \/\/=w, %=x, ‘/= y, 2=z. 50 /\/0\/\/ ‘/0(_) |
Don’t forget about our internet slang abbreviations. Noted in the dictionary “lol” is abbreviation for laughing out loud. This in my book is one of the most over used words. Lol has brothers too: Rofl (rolling on the floor laughing), lmao (laughing my 455 off), Roflmao (rolling on the floor laughing my 455 off), gtg (got to go), brb (be right back), afk (away from keyboard), ttyl (talk to you later), ttfn (ta ta for now), and the list goes on and on. Then we finally reach the creative end of the internet emoticons. These are used to express the persons feelings or use of contex kind of like being sarcastic. Your are garbage :P. The little tongue out probably means they are just kidding or ‘jk-ing’ Use your imagination for these :-) :) L L ^_^ -_- >_< :D :O :P ;) ;-) :’( d(^_^d) thumbs up ( :: [] ::) and there is thousands m04r. So yeah the internet and instant communication has probably d00me3d the g3n3r47ion of tmmrw lol jk idk…:P

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Greenbacks: A Conspiracy Theory.

I don’t know about everybody else but I feel like the money I earn is burning a hole in my wallet. I have been keeping up the news lately and I don’t like what I have been hearing. First they said that there is going to be a spike in meat prices due to some cause in cattle numbers. That means that the hamburger on the grill is going to be more now. Secondly, correct I if I’m wrong but I heard that the makers of Hersey’s chocolate is raising their prices also by ten percent. That may not seem like a lot but that’s a dime to a dollar or a chocolate bar. Third topic I would like to bring up is the rise in gas prices. It seems like I blink and now it costs three dollars to a gallon. Sneeze and it is three fifty, take a breath and now it’s about three seventy five dollars to the gallon. Right now I know that it is cheaper to fill up the bottomless tank with 2%milk at the moment. I don’t know whether it is due to inflation, increased demand, or aliens from mars. All I know is that somebody has their hand in my wallet. At least it is better than hearing, “oh our poor economy.” Oh on a off-hand note, not related to any of this. I find myself wondering why when I heard this news report, “We are checking Illinois for radiation, which might have come from the Japan Tsunami disaster.” Why??? Well they say they found trace amounts in milk and grass clippings. So??? Well they said that they are just small amounts, found in everyday life. WHY ARE YOU WASTING MY TIME!?!?!

Hmm...Art?

Now I cannot declare myself an art fend but everybody can appreciate art now and then, whether it is Macaroni art to the works of Di Vinci. Well I recently found myself surfing the internet looking at a cool and strange arts of the viral world. One of the strange arts that I came across would be three dimensional chalk arts on the side walk. This is where a talented artist puts time and passion into a slab of concrete. As I look at these colorful eye teasers I begin think of what a shame it is, one rain and the entire canvas is erased. All of that time wasted, oh well not my problem. I find myself looking at optical illusions because you can’t believe what your eyes are seeing (really). Mostly I find it a quite nice time killer. Below I have posted some pictures I found on the internet. First, Here is an example of some cool 3d chalk art. Second, Look at this, actually the lines in the middle are set straight, crazy.

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Top Five List :D

There is a lot of top five lists that I could go on about, but I feel like my top five books I have read seems fitting. Now I do not tend to read many books a pass time, however there are some times that I read books for fun (weird right?). It goes by top picks

To start off my first favorite book I have read would be “October Sky.” This book was an autobiography written about a boy dubbed “Sonny” who lived in a mining town in the mountains of west Virginia. Ever since Sonny saw Sputnik in the sky he wanted to work at NASA alongside his idle Dr. Werner Von Braun a rocket scientist. However the town he came from was that you graduated high school and became a miner. This is a truly inspirational book because out of all of the odds against him Sonny worked hard and eventually accomplished his dream of working at NASA. It is my first pick because it just goes to show that you can do anything as long as you believe in yourself and never let anything stop you from doing it.

My Second Favorite book is “The House of the Scorpion.” It is actually an interesting story to how I got to read this book. Long ago somebody left this book under their desk and when I came in it was under mine. So I said finder’s keepers and hey I had a free book. Well since it looked so darn nice I decided to read it. It was actually a nice fiction story set in the future about a boy who was cloned to give this ancient wealthy drug his parts he needed. In essence he was grown for body parts. Well this wasn’t the first clone this drug lord had. But this boy was special; he got to live by escaping. Eventually the drug lord dies and the clone lives a productive life after everybody dies in the funeral. It is probably the only book I read more than twice.

My Third favorite book would be “Were the Red Fern Grows.” I was forced to read it in school; however I found that it was actually nice and chose to read it again later. It is about man remembering when he was a boy who lives in a small town and has barely any money to his name. Well this boy got older and wanted to hunt. He asked his parents for money to buy hunting dogs, but they said we don’t have the money. So he raised money over two years and got him two fine hunting hounds. Then he trained them. They were good raccoon hunting dogs; in fact they won the hunting games. But one night of hunting they were attacked by a mountain lion. One dog dies, and then the other can’t live without the other, so it dies. And now the boy has no dogs that he worked so hard for. Then he moved out of the town, but when he came back to his town years after. He went to the burial ground to find that a red fern had grown in between the deceased dogs and that had a story behind it, but case in point it was given by angels. It is a nice book however it is sad also.

My Fourth Favorite book would be “Hatchet.” This book is about a nightmare situation that this boy gets into. His mom and dad are divorced, and over the summer he gets to see his dad who works in Canada. Well his mom gave him a hatchet to take with him to see his dad. Well on the plane ride there the pilot suffers a heart attack and dies, sets the plane off course and crashed in a lake. Nobody could find him so the boy had to learn to survive by himself. With help from his hatched he made fire, hunted, and shelter. Without the hatchet he would have been most likely dead. However a tornado came through the woods and hit the lake exposing the plane. And he went to the plane got the emergency pack and accidentally left the emergency transmitter on and was rescued. The thing that I learned from this book is that anything could happen. But don’t take anything you have for granted because you could lose it.

Finally my fifth favorite book would be “Velocity” which is a very cool thriller book. Were this random guy his tracked down by serial killer. The serial killer messes with him by killing this innocent woman to whom he laid the fate of in his hands, a slow or fast death. The killer is known to have female victims. Then he sends a guy over to his house to tell him to keep playing his game. Then the psycho kills the guy he sent to his house in his bathtub. So he has to hide it from the police by dumping it in a volcano shaft. Case in point the protagonist has a race against time to find and stop the killer before he gets killed himself. It was a good book that keep me on the edge of my seat with every page.