The bad side of copyrights

So, FOX, you sue youtube and then go and put someone else's pics up on the web for what reason now? Lemme just ask: WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING?!

So now I'm gonna give you the second greatest irony on the planet: I can charge my iphone and ipod from my xbox 360.

BAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA-OHOHHHOOOOOO

sorry.

Post-christmas list and stuff

Interesting gifts:

1. iPhone
2. iPod (80 gig. Yeah, it's repetitive, but hey, now I can have my music and talk on the phone also)
3. Martin acoustic guitar
4. Armani: Night (cologne)
5. 3 ties
6. type 2 diabetes (candy)
7. Clocky
8. some CDs: Eric Clapton, Hard-fi, and the Killers
9. Flight of the Conchords
10. SkullCandy headphones
11. Hand-knitted socks (size 12, the best pair of socks I have now, and definitely my favorite pair.)

I've got some other gifts, too.

Okay, the reason I get so many frikkin gifts (just in case you're curious) is because I've got 23 relatives on my dad's side of the family. On my mom's side, it's around 16 to 18. Crazy.

One perilous step closer

We are officially one step closer to me digging out my out-of-use PSP and plugging it in.



PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! SQUARE ENIX! RELEASE FFVII AND CHRONO TRIGGER ON THE PSP!!!!!!!

I mean, how long is it gonna take you guys to realize that Final Fantasy VII DESERVES to be released on PSP; this is, of course, considering that it also deserves a graphical facelift and a release for the PS3..........

And what about Chrono Trigger?
Look, you and I both know that people care enough about it to do something like this, and try to bring it back.

So why not just give us YOUR take on it? Seriously, why make people cease and desist if you're gonna do next to nothing with it anyways?

I'm just sayin'.


Edit: You stopped something beautiful.

Finals Week

hiatus.....

Well, grats to the kid, but don't think that videogames solve all your problems.

This is just random. Brilliant, but random. So grats to the kid.

But what the hell? Am I the only one here that notices the comment section increasingly showing a display of lower and lower still intelligence?

First post: I'm glad he's alive and all. But he's a noob for playing a Hunter in the first place.

Second post: I think it would probably be moosi

Okay, there are about half a billion posts about the plural of moose. The CORRECT FORM for the PLURAL OF MOOSE is MOOSE, which the blog author put CORRECTLY.
ugh.

There are more. It gets a lot better.

"Good for him and his sister, but isn't this exactly what we don't want gamers to do? You know, imitate things in real life just because they saw it on a videogame." - knives

Who cares?

And the response to that comment post in fact runs NO SHORTER than 44 lines. Geez, make it clear, speak out LOUD AND PROUD that you are an English major. PLEASE.

That comment section embodies pretty much all the internet stereotypes out there. Great job, people.
.......lol

Just something interesting, I gotta bring this up

This news story easily earns the award for the worst possible title:

US marine guilty of Iraq killing

Kay, let's think this one through. The story deals with a U.S. Marine who stabbed a friendly Iraqi soldier to death. Granted, while the story title probably sounded good to the author, it sounds terrible when put into other context: of course U.S. Marines are killing Iraqis. We manage to kill droves of insurgents every day. That's why, at first glance, the title to this story seems to be a parody of itself. God-awful British wordbutchery, at it's finest.

....no, what I just did is God-awful AMERICAN wordbutchery. Get it right. Geez.


However, I truly want to talk about this:

Call for rethink in obesity fight

Granted, people don't want to be fat. Sure. There's something for that, it's called exercising regularly and watching what you eat. Hell, I eat lots of stuff. BUT THEN I BALANCE IT OUT WITH NOT EATING SO MUCH. If you're overweight and you know it, don't just sit there and feel sorry for yourself; just don't eat as much, get your greens, and go exercise. Simple. 30 minutes every morning you can be jogging, if you're not so lazy that you just want to sleep in. Norway, Schnorway. Do I look at nutrition facts when I buy stuff? Hell no! Would I, if they made them bigger? Probably not. The people who are the size they want to be don't watch that kind of stuff. Those who are truly unhappy, do. So don't try to convince the rest of us to eat better. I wanna have my cake, eat it, sleep in it, and suck it through my nose, all at the same time.

Now I'm not saying I hate fat people. I characterize those of girth as having "more to love." I'm just saying, those people who are big probably don't do so much exercise on a regular basis as some other people.

Also, I'm criticizing the British. Tough love.

mmkay, I know this is a couple days late, but....

Some asshat named Tom Brokaw decided to bash on video games and blogs, saying they were "cancerous," in relation to the Vtech shootings:

"No, I don’t. I think… to get back to something we were talking about earlier in general thematic terms, I don’t think we’re doing a very good job about talking about violence in this country, either. You know, Virginia Tech went away. We didn’t have any ongoing dialogue in our communities or on the air about the corrosive effect of violence.

It was not what he, what people saw of him on the air that will drive them, it’s what they read in blog sites, and what they see in video games. It’s that kind of stuff that I think is cancerous. And I’m a free speech absolutist, but I think that at the same time, we have to have free speech in some kind of a context. And part of that context is a discussion of the possible effects of it. "

Now, unlike my Bill O'Riley post, this is large enough of a block of text to where it ISN'T out of context. So guess what!

I'm gonna prove him wrong right now!

Behold! THE ONE BLOG TO PROVE HIM WRONG!

:D
After seeing this blog, and its obvious lack of ability to incite violence (unless you really hate cute things), there's no way that he can be right. Seriously.

How big is the internet?

The age-old question. How big indeed?

A confusing subject, as well. Because I'll get numbers like "5 million terrabytes," from here, then I'll get "very small," from here.

Yahoo is incorrect, the internet is huge. The amount of data that the phone companies need to handle daily is fairly huge. Exact numbers? I could tell you, but you'd be very confused.


So, say, we ask a different question!

How big is the world network?

That would include every server on earth, meaning even your computer. As you sit here and read this data, your computer is interacting with the internet, thus it is part of the world network.

Now, here's where the sketchiest math you've ever seen comes into play:

I couldn't find how many people on earth own a computer, but I did come across a questionable source (from a forum) saying that the statistic for the percent of the population that "owns a computer" (finger-quotes while I type, because of those who have computer access) numbers about 66% of the population.
Shortly after typing the above, I found an even more questionable statistic that states that 76% of the US population "owns a computer" (finger-quotes while I type again). Source

Mmkay, since everyone else is making up statistics, let's make ours up too.
Say about 50% of the population owns ONE computer (as opposed to those geeks and big businesses that own like, huge amounts of computers). Hypothetically, theoretically.

Say each computer has on average......about 75 gigs of memory. Why not?

Now, say each "big business" (finger-quotes while I type) (in the world) owns their own server, "big business" for all sakes and purposes being a business that is big on the internet, that requires a lot of memory for their server. Say there are two, maybe three billion "big businesses" in the world. Each owns a server composed of five, hell ten terabytes of information (a reasonable number, considering one's computer nowadays can have at least one to one and a half terabytes easy of HD space, and two to four gigs of ram, at least on the high-end machines). Hypothetically, theoretically.

Now, for the math.

3.3 billion computers, each with 75 gigabytes of memory.
3 billion businesses, each server has 10 terabytes of memory.

for the computers, google spat this out:

two hundred forty-seven billion five hundred million gigabytes = 241,699,219 terabytes

So it is written, so shall it be done.

Now, add about 30 billion terabytes due to the businesses, and....
you've got 30,241,699,219 terabytes, rough estimate.

Official statistic:
The size of the world network, according to a rough estimation, is 30,241,699,219 terabytes in size.
For those of you who don't know what a terabyte is, that's about 30,967,500,000,000 gigabytes.

W00T!!!! 50 VISITS!!!!

HURRAY!!!!!
:D


.....I suck.



So, uh, yeah. Some idiot named Bill O'Riley (he's a radio show host; what a moron) is bashing on Video Games, video game culture, and computer culture. Lemme analyze a couple choice quotes for you here, just to give you an example of what type, what calibur of man we are dealing with here....

"American society is changing for the worse because of the machines… In the past to flee the real world people usually chose drugs or alcohol… now you don’t have to do that, Now all you have to do is have enough money to buy a machine…"

True. Well, what follows this is the following:

"Basically what you have is a large portion of the population, mostly younger people under the age of 45, who don’t deal with reality - ever. So they don’t know what day it is; they don’t know temperature it is; they don’t know what their neighbor looks like. They don’t know anything… because they are constantly diverted by a machine. Now what this does is it takes a person away from reality because they’ve created their own reality…"

Uh, look. Taken out of context, it sounds like he's actually supporting the use of drugs, instead of video games. Am I the only one who noticed this? I'm no expert, but at least I know better than to make it sound like I'm advocating drugs. He, who makes his living from being a radio show host, should at least know better. What a moron. And it gets even better;

"it’s going to have a staggeringly negative effect, all of this, for America… did you ever talk to these computer geeks? I mean, can you carry on a conversation with them? …I really fear for the United States because, believe me, the jihadists? They’re not playing the video games. They’re killing real people over there."

So now he's playing on stereotypes? Computer GEEKS?! Okay, I consider myself a computer geek, sure. Can you carry on a conversation with me? of COURSE. He makes it sound like anybody who knows what they're talking about when they talk about computers is unable to function in society. Well, what about Bill Gates, the most wealthy man on earth? What about him?

Yes, yes I have carried on conversations with computer geeks. And your point is what? I really don't see a point to you insulting people, slutty mc slutbag.

Also, he says this:

"The have-nots are growing. Why are they growing? Because the skill set that is necessary to earn a decent living is being deemphasized in a fantasy world of football games and shooting zombies and all that…. Now you have the “knows” and the “know-nots”, because if you spend all your youth being prisoners of machines….. you’re not going to know anything…. You’re gonna fail."

Except, of course, in the inevitable case of a zombie apocalypse; the computer nerds and resi-evil fans shall inherit the earth.

Source material

Heroes of the East: Drunken Boxing

Someday, I want to learn to do Drunken Boxing.



Also someday, I want to see Heroes of the East.

The Origin of Christmas

I'd like to take a break from the days of Christmas thingamajig I'm doing to tell you something interesting. (also because I started the "days of christmas" posts wayyy too early, even for it to finish on my birthday)


So, I'd like to tell you the origin of Christmas.

The origin of Christmas dates back to the second century after the birth of Christ, (site note-B.C. does stand for before Christ, but A.D. does NOT stand for "after death." It stands for "anno domini," which is Latin for "in the year of our lord.") which is when we have the earliest reference to Christmas being celebrated on the 25th of December. The original holiday celebrated on the 25th of December is in fact the pagan holiday of Saturnalia, which honored Saturn, the god of sowing (as in seeds, not clothes). The holiday, as was celebrated by the Romans, was in honor of the birth of the sun. Even the Christmas tree had its roots in paganism; the Norse pagans and Druids held evergreens in high regard since they did not "die" during winter, but instead stayed green. This they saw as manifestations of some deity or another.

They even decorated their trees with ornaments: coins, fruits, and charms hung from the branches. The Saxons were the first to put lights on trees in the form of candles. Roman pagans exchanged evergreen branches as signs of good luck, and decorated their homes with them.
This tradition was not practiced by Christians until the 16th century. Prince Albert is credited with starting the trend in England by bringing a tree to Windsor castle in 1841. In America, the first recorded sighting of a tree was in 1830, when a church erected one in an effort to raise funds. Note, this was at a time when Christmas trees were viewed as a PAGAN symbol. And, predictably enough, sixty years later, Christmas trees were fashionable, and ornaments were being imported from Germany. And of course, whereas in Britain, the trees were about waist height, in America they spanned from floor to ceiling. This was probably so that we could cram as much food as we could onto the tree: apples, nuts, berries, marzipan, and of course, cookies.

So, you all may be wondering, "Why would Christians decide to celebrate a pagan holiday?" Well, the truth of the matter is, ancient Christians were conservative enough to actually think that the Saturnalia was in fact TOO ROWDY. This can be taken to mean that people died in the arena, or the birth rate went up, or that people drank and drank and drank and woke up in a foreign country. The Romans were always rowdy, it seems....

Another advantage that celebrating Christmas on Saturnalia had was that it looked better to hopeful converts. So that there was no incentive not to join. Not that they wished for everyone to conform, but they wanted everyone to conform. Whatever.

Look at it this way: if you're large, you don't want to have to diet. However, if there were, say, a diet that....oh, required you to eat nothing but what you've been eating, and just a bit of work on the side, it would seem a lot less painful to diet.

Now replace "large" with "pagan"....and that's exactly what I'm trying to say. Perfect.

And now, for an explanation of what Christmas is all about:



And there you have it. Early Merry Christmas, everyone.



edit: Okay, now they're just making stuff up.

Talk, talk, talk. All talk.

Meh. So we're three weeks away from the end of school.
And something big is coming up.
Thanksgiving has already happened.
No, not Christmas. Bigger than Christmas.

It's my birthday. That's right, folks! On the 19th of this month of December, I turn 18. And the SECOND I turn 18, I'm going to begin shamelessly advertising on my website. Because the top THREE motivators EVAR for me are the following:
1. Money
2. Sex
3. Fear

And this is MONEY we're talking about.
So guess what?!
I'll put on some ads.


Okay, I've gotta bring something up. Today is the weirdest day ever......everything seems to be about the second top motivator; sex.

First, my calculus teacher, while trying to draw a chute on the blackboard (for a diagram), accidentally drew a penis. Great.
Then, psychology, I walk in, sit down, and we begin talking about sex. The psychology of sex, heterosexuality, homosexuality, blah blah blah.

Then, a friend of mine:
X: yea
X: anywho
X: have you masturbated today?
: yesterday
: but not today
X: o
X: well
X: its a good day for it
X: its also a good day
X: to lay around with no clothes on xD


In other news, I'm gonna do something special for my birthday. For those of you who enjoy video games (as I'm sure most of you do), and are sad about how you didn't ever get to play some of those legendary video games, I've got a gift.
In honor of the 12 days of Christmas, I am uploading 12 files, 2 of which are emulators and 10 of which are the roms of some of the best video games ever. Hand-picked, John certified.
I swear that if you don't find at least one video game in this list that you enjoy, you don't like video games.
So that's something to look forward to; it'll happen sometime soon. Promise.

Edit: I can no longer distribute copyrighted materials.......
Ad Sense forbids me.....