When your scared...

Something illogical has occurred to me. When someone is scared of the dark, or noises at night, or big scary things, they hide under their covers. What doesn't make sense is it is actually much darker underneath the covers, since no light at all is able to get in. Also: with covers draped over your head how would you be able to see said horror that would be sneaking up on you to eat your flesh and defile your body.

It is all very illogical. However, that doesn't stop me from cowering beneath my covers whenever I get scared. Perhaps I shall have to consult a psychiatric specialist to find out the reason people do such a silly thing...

In the mean time I shall suggest a better means of stemming off late night fears. Get a firearm of some sort (preferably a pistol) and hide it under your pillow. Let those monsters sneak up on you!... instead of a firearm you could go with a big metal object... if you don't have one of those go for a little metal object. If you are without any of the above I suggest hiding under your bed. If you can't hide under your bed I suggest tactically withdrawing under the covers, where of course you will be much safer.

If you don't have any of those, my suggestion is... um... well that would mean your poor and sleeping outside, and in that case you have more to worry about than flesheating monsters - try hobo's, serial killers, mongoose, chickens, rabid house cats, and axe wielding murders.

Too true...

I don't even need to blog about my angst with the internet when my good friend Sohmer (okay not my good friend... more of a guy-who-writes-web-comics-that-I-read) sums it up in such a better way:

"I've talked before about the demise of written language, largely due to the internet. With symbols, shorthand and 'leet speak' so common online, I can only shudder in horror at the thought of how future generations will write to each other.

What's become even more disturbing to me, however, is how lazy we've gotten about communicating. Allow me to give you an example.

It's John's birthday today and being the close friends that you are, you seek to wish him a very happy birthday. To accomplish this feat, you will:

A )Write on his facebook Wall
B )Send him a twitter message, never forgetting the @
C )Compose a MySpace Private Message
D )Send him an E-mail
E )Head on over to Hallmark.com, to grab one of their many clever birthday e-cards
F )Mention him in your next Blog post
G )Comment on his LiveJournal post
H )Send a Txt Message
I )Pick up the Phone and Call him

Be honest with yourself, which option did you choose?

All of us, myself included, have gotten lazy. Technology may have enabled it, but we made the choice, and we continue to make that choice. As time goes on, I suspect that the pick up the phone option won't even appear in your thought process.

What we're doing is creating a society that is so impersonal, that our children will feel more comfortable typing on a keyboard in the privacy of their own home, as opposed to direct human interaction. That's not a pleasant though, to me.

Do me a favor, won't you? Next time you need to get in touch with someone, whatever the reason, either pick up the phone or go see them face to face.

It makes a difference."

It's like poetry, just more awesome... and doesn't rhyme... and doesn't really match format.... actually it's nothing like poetry...

Yahoo... raises more questions.

Recently I have become addicted to yahoo answers. I enjoy helping people that fail at using google, in fact my info page even has a fun new quote: "If people knew how to use google, there wouldn't be a yahoo answers section for video & online games".

Obviously that is the section that I stick to, since I can be the most helpful there. The neat thing about yahoo answers is you get points for answering questions, and more points for getting the BEST answer (and it makes you feel like a hero). Now, I've been using it for 3 days, and have answered 41 questions, received 3 best answers, and 36 of the questions are still open (so I might get best answer for them still, and most likely will).

Its fun, but obviously since I'm blogging about it, it has its downside. That actually isn't the stupid people that can't use google, they make me giggle. When I can spend 5 seconds googling something, and copy and past the answer and the url (as my source), its funny. It is the people with HORRIBLE spelling, grammar, questions, or... well... not questions. To show my frustration with some of these people:

i am a human warroir and i like my warroir a lot. but a lot of people say that the warroir sucs.and i think i want to become a death knight but i want too be a waroir. im just wondering if the death knight is better than the warior or r they the same. i really want to be a waroir but people say it sucs.and i was just thinking when blizzard makes a new expansion pack they might make the waroir better. so my main question is the waroir or death knight better.please tell me the differences. and also i really like my waroir im in lvl 16 and i am thinking of becoming a deathknight.but want to be a waroir forever.but people say they suc. i will give u 10 points.

See? WHAT THE HELL?! Usually they aren't that bad, but there are a lot of times where I have to figure out what the person is asking before I can even answer their question, sometimes I just give up.

I stick to answering questions in the video & online game section (which, I guess is where the stupid people are, damn 1337 kids and their hibbity hop spelling for "u" and "r" and "ne") but that doesn't mean I don't go check out other sections for a laugh, for an upchuck, whichever. For instance:

"I had unprotected sex today, stupid i no, but i got my period yesterday, will i still get preganant?" - that means she was on her period while having sex... unprotected sex.... /barf.

[paraphrased, trust me, you didn't want to see the original] "oh man!!!! what do I do!!! my brother just found out I've been cutting myself. He just went down to tell my dad!!! What do I do?!?!!?! I'm so scared, omg" - ya, you get the jist.

"can I get pregnant from giving a guy [oral sex]" - hehehehehehe

To sum it up:

The best way to sum up the internet is by using wikipedia. However, the best way to summarize the users you will regularly find on the internet:



True story, if your giggling quite hard right now its probably because you have seen that happen about 1000 times (usually if you frequent youtube).

No one messes with the Batman.

You might of heard about this, maybe not, either way.

Christian Bale is starring in Terminator 4 as John Conner. While on set, doing his acting thing, apparently the light guy had to cut across the area (the cameras were not rolling at the time). What do normal people go? Pause and wait. What does Batman do? Rips off his head and rapes the corpse.

He verbally raped this camera man, for a good 2 minutes, at least. Since youtube is... well... youtube, somehow the audio recording made it up. However, what this means is there has been about 3,000,000,000 spoofs and distortions of the original, so its kind of buried. However, family guy did a spoof using the actual recording of Bale.

[Note: The other person (not Peter) IS Christian Bale, and IS the actual recording of him flipping on the lights man]



(family guy's is pretty funny, I wish I could find the whole unedited non-spoof version though, I want to know what the camera man actually responded with)

The 'famous'

[long time no post. With school, WoW, my comic, and my girlfriend, it is kind of hard to get around to update, however I will stick to a schedule if an agreeable one is posted in the comments section of this post.]

When someone says "famous people" the first thought of most is the Hollywood Stars, or stupid blonds who abuse their fame, and are stupid. However, the internet community has its own famous people, that are equally, if not more so, awesome.

At the forefront of internet stars are the Web Comic writers, and the Youtube stars. This is about the second category. I was going to go into a whole bunch of the more famous youtubers and what they do and such, but then I thought...

No.

Souljaboy is one of those 'stars' so screw that crap. Also the vast majority are either really really really stupid, or gay and stupid. I forgot to mention the Parquor people, and the continental dancers. If your really interested in the famous of youtube, they had an award ceremony where a large amount of said famous people showed up. That would be [here].

The person I will talk about, is one with actual talent: Bo Burnham. This is a 18 year old, that sings some really hilarious songs, that are well done. He was at that award ceremony. Actually, there will be less talking about him, and more going "if you don't know about this guy, check him out, here are links to all his current youtube songs". Note: when I say good, I mean he has played at concerts because of his youtube fame.

Sorry, but the songs that he does that are on youtube the piano is a little loud (when the piano is used). However if you feel the need I know thepiratebay happens to have his CD "Bo Fo Sho" (I do not support Pirating this... *cough*). His CD also has 3 songs that ARE NOT on youtube (from bo), but are fucking amazing.

My whole family...



Highschool Party:


New Math


Welcome to Youtube


My Better Half:


I'm Bo Yo


Cookout


A love Ballad


My Perfect Woman


Rehab Center for Fictional Characters


My "little" Secret:


I put these in the order of MY personal favorite to least favorite out of his youtube songs. So, if you do end up watching them all (they're worth it) think about dropping a comment with your order.

END OF THE WORLD!!!

'ze zombies are coming!

A roadsign on the side of a highway in Austin, Texas warns motorists of what is up ahead - living dead apocalypse.


That is what the sign really said, and the picture was taken on a cell phone camera. However, the sign is not of the legal, or literal manner. It was in fact the work of a 'hacker' who broke the lock, and reprogrammed the sign to say "CAUTION! ZOMBIES AHEAD!!!! SEEK COLD CLIMATES!". Then the 'hacker' changed the password on the lock, and ran away, meaning the sign had to be fully reset.

Rumour has it that this was a just an advertising scheme by Capcom for Resident Evil 5. However an official statement from a Capcom employee states that this 100% had nothing to do with them, since it is illegal. That doesn't stop them from receiving free marketing however.

A lot of people aren't too happy about this, mainly the police. This "work of a master hacker" doesn't really break major laws, the most severe is actually "vandalism". The "master hacker" comment was made by Austin's Chief of Police."How to Hack a Road Sign" has been posted on the Internet, and to me it doesn't seem like a very hard thing to do... in fact it seems like its pretty easy.

So... who wants to change a road sign to say:
"HONK IF YOUR GAY FOR JESUS" ?

Esca-Rancher.

So, a lot of people have fond memories of the show Escaflowne. It was one of the first anime on TV that were pretty widely watched by a younger audience. The show is (in a nutshell) about a group of people who pilot medieval mechs, on a mythical planet, fighting against an evil nation.

More of the people reading this however, probably remember the show Monster Rancher. That also had a person who got teleported to a mythic land to fight an evil nation of baddies. However, instead of mechs, they had monsters that they summoned from discs they found.

I fondly remember both of these shows, and have actually recently watched both; Monster Rancher was last year, and I just spent the weekend watching Escaflowne. While watching Escaflowne the first time (first of this time, so friday)), I watched it in Japanese with English subs (everyone who watches anime knows the japanese voices are much better, however sometimes the case is not wanting to read). The second time I watched it with my girlfriend, and she wanted to watch it in english, because she 'remembered the english being OK'. It wasn't. However, as I was watching it I realized something: Escaflowne, has many of the Monster Rancher voice actors.

A quick IMDB reveals I was right!:

• Genki = Dilandau
  
  • Andrew Francis
• Tiger of the Wind = Allan
  
  • Brian Drummond
• Folken = Moo
  
  • Paul Dobson
• Golem = Dornkirk
  
  • Richard Newman
• Captain Jim (Gel Leader) = Bulgus
  
  • Michael Dobson
• Tournoment Announcer = The Mole Man
  
  • Terry Klassen
• Big Blue = Gaddes
  
  • Ward Perry
• Mocchi = Eriyh
  
  • Janyse Jaud

I think that is pretty funny just how many are shared between the two. The sad thing is the person that voices Genki and Dilandau sucks for both roles... or well... its more suited for Genki but still.