Basicly me ranting about whatever gets into my head, anything from music to movies, from anime to astrophysics, it's all possible.
It's getting extremly tempting to buy 1 with upcoming game like Conker: Live and Reloaded, an awesome looking Unreal Championship 2, Knights of the Old republic 2 . They just line them up, waiting for me to succumb to the dark side and hand over my money to them.
Check out these trailers:
Conker : Live and Reloaded
Unreal Championship 2
I've found a nice online radio station 24/7 old blues, no comercials or anything. I've been listening to it pretty much all the time :)
It's got it's own site: Blues on Air There's a link there that will tell you how to listen in.
Money Money it's so funny in a richm..... O.o
Eh... Move along, nothing to see here....
Here go watch this clip ( 3:20 minutes ) of 2 asian girls making a fool out of themselfes, pay special attention to the last 2 seconds of the video :)
Shoo, off you go....
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It's so funny.....
So today I'm sitting behind my computer in my room as usual. And suddenly out the corner of me eye I can see 2 black flashes outside my window. Rather bored at the time and somewhat intriqued into what the flashes may have been, I stick my head out the window. Not even a second has passed since I have done that and something drops down from above, I can't quite make it out during its fall.
The cats lying in the sun in the backyard scramble for cover when it hits the pavement. Now that it has stopped moving I can get a better look at it, it turns out to be a somewhat young bird. I have no idea what caused it to fall like that, but now it's dead, kinda sad. It probably broke it's neck on the fall. That's nature for ye.
I was browsing FTD's FTD3 program, it's kinda like a big indexer of everything that has or is going to get posted to usenet ( newsgroups ) by certain people. And my eye fell on this title, to my surprise this was a Adam Sandler movie, I have enjoyed several of his movies i.e. Happy Gimore, Little Nicky. So I went on to download it.
* A couple of hours later....*
This was not the kind of movie I was expecting, I liked it tho. This movie was a bit more serious then I am used to seeing him in. Character wise there were a few surprises, They guy that played "Sam" ( Sean Astin ) in Lord of the Rings played the part of "The Brother" who had a little steroid / speech impetement problem. Then Rob Sneider showed up as the somewhat messed up local . A while into the movie, Dan Akroyed ( Personaly I loved him in the Blues Brother movies ) showed up as a doctor. And of course Drew barrymore who performed the role of Lucy surprisingly well, showing that she ranks up there with the best female actresses of today.
All in all it was a good movie, I'd give it a 7.5/10.
I've been playing Astrowars lately, it's an free online game, no downloads required or anything. Takes maybe 15-30 minutes a day to play. It's quite addicting, give it a try if you want. Not much else happening lately, 1 of the books I ordered has arrived ( Hitchiker's Guide to The Galaxy ) I'll probably start reading it tonite :)
Astrowars
Well uhm... not this one, but my other one. I finnaly settled on a font. Go check it out, not much for now but it's a start. Home
For all you US people:
Quotes:
"The Pentagon has quietly begun a public campaign to fill all 10,350 draft board positions and 11,070 appeals board slots nationwide.. Though this is an unpopular election year topic, military experts and influential members of congress are suggesting that if Rumsfeld's prediction of a "long, hard slog" in Iraq and Afghanistan [and a permanent state of war on "terrorism"] proves accurate, the U.S. may have no choice but to draft."
"Dodging the draft will be more difficult than those from the Vietnam era.
College and Canada will not be options. In December 2001, Canada and the U.S. signed a "smart border declaration," which could be used to keep would-be draft dodgers in."
Source:
U.S. Congres
I hope it doesn't pass.
"A multi-bladed knife destined for Melbourne's streets was among a cache of weapons seized by Customs yesterday."
Wow, pretty cool looking if you ask me.
Source: Anticlown
Yesterday evening I found myself without something to do and at some point I decided I wanted to read a good book. So I started looking around and came to the conclusion that I don't own a lot of books. Let alone ones that I haven't already read multiple times. So today I browsed through Bol which has a assortment of books. Then I read a bit around a forum which I visit and people seemed to reccomend "The Wheel of Time series" "The Sword of Truth series" and a book called "The Da Vinci Code" so I hoped on over to Bol and ordered me:
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( Contains all 5 books )
The Wheel of Time Set #01 ( Contains the first 3 books )
The Da Vinci Code
The Sword of Truth Set #01 ( Contains the first 3 books )
They were decently priced at around 25 bucks per set, the H-Guide was a mere 20 and the Da Vinci Code a mere 12 so I ended up with around 82 $ worth of books ( 12 books total ). Now I know that H-Guide is worth every penny that I spend on it, I just hope the rest will be just as good.
To what kind of tunes do you listen?
I recently uhm.... "aquired" " 
some new tracks and found myself just repeating the same songs over and over again. Maybe that's my thing, repetative music, my father made that remark aswell the other day. Tho if I liked repetitive music you'd almost immidiatly put me in the group that listens to Trance, House and that sort of music. Don't, I hardly ever listen to it, I do like the occasional upbeat track but it's not something I would be able to listen to all day long.
Groups / Singer I could and something still am listening to all day are: Linkin Park, Queen, Paul Simon, Dire Straits. What surprised me is that when I looked at the list I found that around 75 % of the names were "old" groups i.e. the music your parents used to listen to. Maybe it has something to do with memories, I remember hearing the Dire straits and Beatles in the car on trips and on vacation, maybe I affiliated certain memories / feelings to the music. So the fact taht I like them could be abit nostalgia ( I wonder if I spelled that correctly 
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Today I plugged in Linkin Parks : Re-Animated CD into winamp and I have to say I still enjoy listening to the tracks even tho most of them are just remixed version of their previous album "Hybrid Theory". I think I even like these more then the originals, not to mention that they had a really nice cover design for the album, and that the clips for "In The End" and the one with all the CGI were great.
Maybe I like the old sounds so much because they are a break from the current modern sounds that I listen to, I could probably go on and on thinking about reasons why I like them, I just know that I like them for some reason.
Hmm my attempt to somehow incorporate smillies into the blog hasn't exactly worked out well guess it's back to the drawing book.
Just a Heads up...
If things are messed up a bit it's because I'm tinkering with the template and unfortunatly it's not always doing what I want.
I'm trying to make those lines at the bottom of a post match up to those on the sidebar, it annoyed me that they didn't. I thought it was because I was tampering with the template but now that I think about it, it might have been like this since the start and I just didn't notice.
I'm sure we're all aware of the current science fiction shows on TV, i.e. Star Trek: Enterprise, Stargate SG1, Andromeda etc. The current spin off from the orginal Star Trek series wasn't recieved that well as the previous spin offs, due to the whole concept behind it, and is in danger of getting canceled if they don't up their ratings. Now I was wondering the other day while enjoying the good weather in the backyard, what would be an "original" concept nowadays as a science fiction show? I ran some ideas through my head...
Being stuck in different dimensions? Nope, already done in Quantum Leap. Being stuck in a different Galaxy ? Nope, already been done with Star Trek: Voyager. Life aboard a space station? Nope, already been done in Star Trek: Deep space nine. Finding out what happened to a group of your race who set of into space ages ago? Nope, see Battlestar Galactica. Traveling to other planets while not using ships ? Nope, see Stargate SG1. A science fiction western ? Nope, been done with Blake 7 and Firefly ( damn them for canceling it ). Exploring the galaxy? Nope see any Star Trek series. Having an alien race come to earth for some purpose unkown and intergrating their technology in human society? Nope, see Earth Final Conflict.
As you can see this does not bode well for future science fiction series. I am aware that there are tons more SciFi series out there but most of those also touch on different concepts, Let's hope some one like Gene Roddenberry steps up and puts out some great series/concepts.
Now you're probably wondering what the hell "Sesquipedalian Ebullitions" means, well I'll tell you it means something in the vacinity of Emotional outbursts.... I think... My understanding of the latin language ( I assume it's latin ) is slim at best. By now you probably have noticed that there is a link in the words, this does not lead to a translation but it leads to another blog.
While I was reading it this morning it pointed to a site called "God Hates Fags", like her I suggest you go over there and use their contact button and give them a piece of your mind. While I was browsing the site, I spotted a section called memorials and that's when I really went "What The Fuck?!". In my opinion this kind of behaviour ranks right up there with Nazism. I can't believe any hosting company would actualy host these sort of sites, then again they probably can't do much against it. Freedom of speech can be such an extreme thing, it's a great concept but then when you see these kind of things you wonder....
It's amazing how those so called "Books of God" can be called the origin of so much death and agony. The only religion that I can think of that hasn't caused so much damage is Buddhism, you know with the Dali Lahma and such. Then again I probably don't know enough of it's history to be sure of that.
Next year I'm starting my new computer science classes, so I decided I need to familiarize myself with some coding languages such as html, php, java to start with. I'm currently in my 2nd day of tampering with html and so far so good. But that's probably because I have only touched the basics so far, the hard stuff is yet to come. This is what I have done so far while messing around with html, all done in notepad, no fancy assistants.
All thanks to this site: HTML Goodies.
Downloaded a good Japanese movie today, Zatoichi . I won't bore you with the details of the movie since if I do I will most likely spoil the movie for those that want to see it anyway. It's somewhat of a Samurai / Assasin movie, but kinda the "feel good" kind. I got tipped of about this movie at the place where I usual get tipped off about Asian movies. The place in question is called OMNI Forums . It's basicly a forum for people that enjoy Anime and post anime to the newsgroups, in this case only in DVD format. They also have a section for Asian media, you need to sign up for the forums to be able to view it, don't worry no ads or anything.
If you're unfamiliar with what newsgroups are I'll give a short explanation on what it is. If you already know you can skip this part. Newsgroups or otherwise known as Usenet is like a HUGE forum where people can leave behind messages and engage in discussion about their favourite passtime.
Somewhere along the line from only messages people started to post files along with it so nowadays everyday hundered upon hundred of Gigabytes of data or being send to newsgroups. Pretty much everything can be found i.e. Anime, Movies, TV shows, Music, Games and pretty much whatever else you can thing about. Usualy your ISP ( the company from which you get your interent acces ) will allow you acces to it. However in 90 % of the case it's restricted acces so there are companies that offer unlimited acces to them for a small fee. One of these companies is Usenetserver I have been with them for 5 months now and I have nothing to complain about.
On a somewhat sad note Full Metal Alchemist got licensed and will be showing on Cartoon network soon. I'm sure that it won't stop people from fansubbing it which is a good thing but it will discourage certain groups with higher quality of subbing to drop the series.
Apparantly we aren't all going to be boiled alive and die, Solar wind to shield Earth during pole flip , so much for Hollywoods next Doomsday movie :). Kinda cool if you think about it, having a backup ozon layer which pops out when it's needed most.
South Africa will be hosting the 2010 World Cup Soccer. I personaly am happy about FIFA's decision to award the 2010 games to South Africa and not to 1 of the 3 competing countries i.e. Morroco, Libya and Egypt. Although Eqypt would have been a nice too, but they aren't in much need of an economic boost as far as I know. Besides bringing an economic boost to the South African region, I hope that they enjoy the game as much as the rest of the world does.
It apears Pixar and Disney have once again come up with what looks like another fun CGI movie called "The Incredibles". I have watched the trailer a good 4 times now already and will probably watch it a couple more times before the movie is out. If you want to watch the trailer you can do so here. You will need Quicktime which you can get here. The teaser is also quite amusing.
I only yesterday got wind of the whole situation involving Nick Berg, the american who was decapitated with a knive. I found out about it while I was reading Euronews I usualy go there for my news needs. You can watch news items there without having some kind of subscription like CNN. Unfortunaly for me I was stupid enough to click on the video feed for that particular story. It didn't actualy show much detail, it stopped at the point where it would actualy become horrorific. Which was a good thing because I don't need to see that. I wasn't so much affected by the video but by the sounds at the end of it *starts feeling sick*, I knew that Al Qaida were a bunch of F*cked up people but this really takes the cake.
I couldn't get the image / sounds out of my head all day, in the end I did find a way to get over it. It's not what I would call a particulary "sane" way of dealing with it. Then again as long as it's all in my head and I don't act on it, not that I could anyway, it doesn't matter much. I was imagining nuking the whole Arabic world just to get rid of that small percentage of people who interpretate the Koran in such a way that it justifies killing other people. I know that this has also been done in relation with the Bible, the crusades in the Dark ages were no picknick and they would kill every one not willing to convert. However I would think that in this day and age people would "smarten" up so to speak. I also don't see the point in killing an (semi)innocent person in such a barbaric manner. I am a little dissapointed in how much attention the media has given this, that's exactly what the sick f*cks who made this video had in mind.
Unfortunaly I don't see the end for this kind of behaviour anytime soon, eleminating such a fanatical group as Al Quaida might be impossible, I can pretty much say for sure that the ideas that Al Quida spreads won't die out for some years to come. If you take a look at other terrorist organasations such as ETA ( spanish balk separist group ) which has been around for at least 2 decades now, it's the same with HAMAS ( palastinian independance / palestinian state group ). You still hear almost on a weekly basis that some idiot blows himself up or that a car bomb went off. It's hard to understand the mentality behind these groups, I mean since when did commiting mass suicide get you anywhere ?
I, for one, am eagerly awaiting the day this planet comes to it's sences and realizes that there are better ways of spending our time then to "bash each others head in".
Ah yes, a new day a new beginning. The cat dragged me out of bed again, keeps scratching at the door until I get out of bed, sometimes I wonder who's the pet around here. Best not to think about it to much... After that I couldn't get back to sleep so I went about my morning routine. After that was done I powered up the computer and read my daily comics, I noticed Garfield had it's web site redesigned, looks alot better now. Sinfest was weird as usual, funny but weird. There a couple more that I read but I won't list them all now. 1 more day til E3 is upon us, can't wait to play the Guild wars "free for all trial".
Edit: It apears they opened up early so I'm off to play :)
Hmm what to rant about today, not much happening lately... I suppose I could put down a thought I had today or yesterday... I think... Anyway....
It's about everything and nothing, it's about the stuff that we're all made off. Moleculs, atoms, protons, electrons, quarks. I was thinking: if I was able to see quarks with my eyes, like I see my monitor in front of me now, what would the world look like. I'd imagine you'd see almost nothing. My hands, this keyboard I'm using, my glass of water, my eyes, the air that I breath are all made up of tiny little particles. So I could see all the little quarks ( I am using quarks as an example, I think they found 2 smaller particles. However I have forgotten the name for them ) jumping from proton to electron and from atom to atom. I suppose you could compare it to standing outside in a really heavy rainfall. Imagine that you're standing there and you see all the drops coming down in front of you but you're vision of what you're watching is vague at best. Or another possibility would be that you would see everything, take water for an example, or air for that matter. It's all moleculs, all incredibly small particle upon particle and yet we see through them like they almost weren't there. We see the grass outside yet we don't "really" see the air that's between you and the grass.
Another thing about moleculs is that they seem to come with a certain density. Imagine a glass aquarium filled with water, now we drop a metal ball into it. Of course it will sink and drop straigth to the botom, and it will stay there. Every one expects this to happen, from when we were young we all knew that if we'd throw a rock into water the rock would still be the rock, just siting at the bottom of the water. If both the water and the ball are made up, when you break them down, of the same compounds, atoms upon atoms now why would that same metal ball when you drop it on let's say the ground, stay on the ground and not go through it. Density I think is the answer, the density of the ball and the ground must either be A. B.density = G.density or B.density < G.density I think anyway, I'm not that familair with the laws of science and physics but it's just something that came up while I was bored.
Wow I'm getting Flashbacks from High School science class :S
Hmm what to put in here... I guess I put most of it in my profile already. Go check that out if you haven't already :)
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