What the hell just happened?!

We can only hope.....

2008-01-17T06:39:00.001-08:00

.......but we still need to keep him around for this.
(probably nsfw)

So you may or may not have noticed

2008-01-16T08:30:00.001-08:00

To everyone who reads my blog consistently.....which is like one person or something.....

I HAS BUTTONS!!!
:D
PRESS THEM!!!! PRESS THEM HARD AND BOOKMARK ME! PLLLEEEAASE!!!

<--------<<<(on the left)

They were very, VERY hard to get on this website. VERY hard. I had to (seriously) pass up on blogging about something else in order to make it work. It was probably gonna be something uninteresting like my shoes......

BUT NO MATTA!!!!!

I'm in english naow. SCHWEET! GOOF-OFF TIME!!!

mmmmm....tetris......

:O~

edit: also, I had to change up the title. Because it needs to be up there.
I just wish I could put the banner up in front of the title though......

nani?!

2008-01-14T19:58:00.000-08:00

So I had this weird dream last night. Or Sunday night. Whatever.
Yeah, no, actually, now that I think about it it was Saturday night.

SCREW IT, I DON'T CARE THAT LAST NIGHT WAS SUNDAY NIGHT, CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR AWESOME!!!!!

bleh. I'm more tired than I thought.....

but anyways, I was sitting next to a friend talking about nothing. Then I started leaning on her, tugging her hair and stuff....basically flirting with her.

She didn't mind.

It went on like this, but that's about all I did. Bunch of flirting.
Then I woke up.

I like dreams, 'cause in dreams, you can be just as friggin forthcoming as you want, and it doesn't matter.

Then I also hate dreams, because you can't legitimately tell them to other people without them thinking you're either a nutjob or a creep.

For instance, I once had a dream where a bunch of my friends and I were standing around in a circle in the jungle. Then an elephant came around and started sucking each of us up its ass.

I have no idea what that's supposed to mean, and I don't want to know.

But anyways, it ended with me running from this thing (which was chasing me backwards). I finally woke up in a sweat colder than ice, loudly articulating something that was supposed to sound like "WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN?!", but coming out more like "WHUMUFARIMEAN?!" after which I fell out of bed. **

Now, recall. After this story, what was your reaction? That's right. Something along the lines of "WTF?! What does this guy do in his spare time?!"

and, for the record, I don't really have as much free time as you may think I may think you may think I may have.

**dramatic re-enactment

THANK you! My opinion exactly!

2008-01-09T19:23:00.001-08:00

So anyways, here's something interesting I found online: a post by some guy named.....
DWells55x
That's apparently his gamertag.
Here's what he has to say about the microsoft downtime:

"I won’t pretend that this is a completely original idea and no one else has ever raised the question of why Xbox Live is a pay service. In fact, I used to be one of the people who argued against them and supported Xbox Live. But, with recent Xbox Live troubles and news, it’s becoming significantly more difficult to do this. Having taken the time to really look at the state of Xbox Live is making me have to start agreeing with the people who I used to argue against.

Let’s start with the recent Xbox Live downtime. It is, quite frankly, absolutely unacceptable for a pay service. Until a few days ago, my brother had a two week period where he could not recover his GamerTag from Xbox Live. That’s two weeks of no Xbox Live access whatsoever. He tried deleting the profile of his Xbox and recovering it again, but this didn’t work either. Now he couldn’t even access his game saves or earn any achievements. Although I had my account on my Xbox, that’s not to say everything’s been great. Like the rest of you, I’ve been experiencing a lot of trouble with Xbox Live. Inability to join games, sign in to Xbox Live, load the dashboard blades, sometimes problems bad enough to freeze my 360 entirely until I pulled out the Ethernet cable.

Yes, we’re getting a free Xbox Live Arcade game as compensation for nearly 3 weeks of Xbox Live downtime. Woohoo. No details have been given, and as a result I suspect that this free game will be a specific title or list of titles which Microsoft will choose. I feel that at the very least we deserve to be either refunded for a month of Xbox Live or given a free month on top of this. Think about it, if your cell phone service had trouble for a month, dropping calls, refusing to dial numbers, etc., you wouldn’t be satisfied with a free cell phone game. The first step would be a refund for that month and then some sort of compensation for the inconvenience on top of that.

Connection troubles aside, there’s other reasons why I feel Xbox Live shouldn’t be a pay service. As of March 1, 2008, Xbox Live Diamond will become an additional $6.95 fee. No thanks. Not only was this service close to worthless, but to charge for something that was supposed to be a benefit of paying for the Xbox Live service is absurd. It was pathetic as a freebie and to think anyone is willing to pay for this is ridiculous.

Next up, Xbox Live is full of ads. Even when you first boot up your Xbox 360, you’re greeted with ads on the Xbox Live blade. While this may not seem like a huge issue, how would you feel if your internet service provider, who you pay a fee to, placed ads on the desktop of your computer (which you also paid for)? Gold members should at the very least be given an option to disable these ads.

Xbox Live also feels the need to wrap content in restrictive DRM schemes that limit users’ access to the items they’ve purchased. Worst of all, this is done without proper warning of just how restrictive it is. Xbox Live Arcade titles and dashboard themes are unusable when not connected to Xbox Live unless you are on the same Xbox they are purchased on. So, as a reward for being a loyal customer and upgrading to the Halo 3 edition of the Xbox 360, all the content I purchased on my previous content is now unusable when I’m not signed into Live on the account I purchased them from. This means that when Xbox Live is having trouble or when I’m on vacation or anywhere else I don’t have steady high speed internet access, I can’t play the games which I have paid for.

Despite the fee for Xbox Live, networking is almost entirely peer to peer reliant. There are no dedicated servers for games, something which has been long available to PC games with no online fee. The average residential high speed internet connection often does not have an upload bandwidth capable of properly supporting large amounts of players. This results in lag and allows for exploits relying on network manipulation, for example the standby cheating which plagued Halo 2.

One would think that the fee for Xbox Live would entitle users to extra content to justify the fee. However, Microsoft allows companies to charge often high prices for nearly every single piece of downloadable content for games. This setup for the Xbox Live Marketplace encourages developers to either purposefully withhold content or release games lacking content with the intent of later releasing and charging an additional fee for the rest of the content. Xbox Live’s content setup may even discourage free content. Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney is quoted in a 1Up Podcast as saying that “We've been wanting to give them away for a long time, but actually Microsoft has been pushing back on us for that.” The video game magazine Game Informer supported this in a 2007 issue where they also claimed that Microsoft forces companies to charge for content they wish to distribute. I do not doubt this to be the case, as free content for online PC games has long been the standard. Call of Duty 4 currently has a new downloadable map available for PC users which is absent from the 360 version.

So, what exactly is Xbox Live offering its paying customers? A unified friends list? The same feature has been available to PC gamers through free applications such as XFire and Steam. Put simply, the features of Xbox Live simply do not justify its price when considering the free services offered by the competitors and the robust structure of online PC gaming.

Although I’m sure many are likely to disagree with me and simply respond with “if you don’t like it, don’t pay,” it’s not quite that simple. Without an online service, my games and the console itself lose much of their playability and worth. I also lose contact with my friends who still use Xbox Live. So unless I’m willing to cut off contact with my friends and make my system no longer worth playing, no longer paying for Xbox Live isn’t really an option.

I’d like to hear the thoughts of the rest of the community. I feel that now, in light of the recent Xbox Live downtime, is a good time to start changing Xbox Live for the better."

I totally agree. I'm already getting charged 12.95 for my FFXI account this month, and I'm in the same predicament as this guy's brother. My gamercard is crapped out.

So now I'm stuck offline. Oh, and all my save data? gone. Great.

bahahaha, google ads make me laugh

2008-01-08T13:34:00.000-08:00

So my previous title post had "blah" in it, and I get ad results such as "blah song, blah lyrics," etc.
awesome.

nothing new today, 'cept I got the Guitar Hero III soundtrack that I got from a friend playing......

also, fun with vibrating pillows.

For serious.

more of the same blah blah blah

2008-01-07T15:46:00.001-08:00

Only now I'm talking to myself, with more blah.

Okay, not really.

So the internet is big. It's pretty easy to get lost in it.

I've started up school again, and I think I may start up yet another blog dedicated to urban art and graffiti.

Also, I'm gonna get rid of that creepy picture I put up for no reason.

Depressing......

2008-01-05T17:54:00.000-08:00

twenty-nine posts, and still almost no hits......
besides what I contribute........
T_T
that sucks

edit: .......less than 29 posts and still almost no hits..........

The bad side of copyrights

2007-12-29T15:24:00.001-08:00

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

2007-12-26T11:35:00.000-08:00

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

2007-12-20T14:37:00.000-08:00

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

2007-12-17T10:25:00.001-08:00

hiatus.....

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

2007-12-14T09:20:00.000-08:00

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

2007-12-13T18:35:00.001-08:00

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....

2007-12-12T10:03:00.000-08:00

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?

2007-12-12T08:30:00.000-08:00

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!!!!

2007-12-11T08:04:00.000-08:00

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

2007-12-09T20:36:00.001-08:00

Someday, I want to learn to do Drunken Boxing.

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

The Origin of Christmas

2007-12-05T09:34:00.001-08:00

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.

2007-12-03T06:56:00.000-08:00

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.....

Alternate Authors

2007-11-29T15:37:00.000-08:00

This hasn't really happened yet, but I'm attempting to get new authors. This would mean that two of my good friends would step in (at times) and write some articles. Yeah.

I'm not gonna insult them in front of the world (until they can insult me back).

And here's your little bit of wisdom for today:

Man cannot live on bread alone. He's gotta have water also.

Edit: NEW CHALLENGER APPROACHING!!!

So you may have noticed......

2007-11-28T09:03:00.002-08:00

or maybe you haven't, y'know, since nobody even reads my blog, but whatever.

There are two posts below this one about how chlorine kills and about how newborn kittens weigh as much as some other stuff. DO NOT DISREGARD THESE POSTS!!!!!
They were transferred from my other blog, called In Perspective. From now on, it will be called nothing, and will not exist.

I've MERGED THE TWO BLOGS!!!!
*random panicked screams*

Edit: I'm so glad you can delete blogs.

yeah, it's getting even MORE random. Here's hoping I just don't have to introduce THE HPT, or the Hot Pocket toaster warrior of shindig cosmonaut opthalmology Toast.........
You so know you'd eat hotpockettoast if it existed.........

SOILENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!!

2007-11-28T09:03:00.001-08:00

Everybody knows about how water companies put chlorine in tap water. If you didn't until that statement, congrats. Be informed. You've been drinking chlorine all your life.

Okay. So that we can get this out of the way, yes, chlorine is a deadly gas. It is water soluble (it can dissolve into water). It combines with sodium to create table salt.
So why do we use chlorine?
I'm getting to that.
This is a list of alternative treatments for drinking water. Now, stay with me here. I'm not just dismissing chlorine from the picture. The reason the government doesn't switch from chlorine is for one of two reasons:
one: The alternative method is just not as good/safe.
two: The alternative method costs too much/takes too much time.

Yes, believe it or not, there really are alternatives out there that are MORE DANGEROUS than chlorine. I don't have a source for it (because I FORGOT to get it before I closed out of it.....), but there are actually some methods that cause more outbreaks of cancer than chlorine.

Now, there's your little background introduction. On to the meat of this post:

The recommended amount of chlorine in your water is .3-.5 mg per liter, which coverts into roughly 1.14ish-1.89 milligrams per gallon of water. Which means that for every gallon of water you drink, you ingest roughly anywhere from 1 to 2 milligrams of chlorine.

Okay, so instead of finding a statistic for how much in GALLONS you should drink daily, I've found liters. All the information above is pretty much true, though, so that still stands. But anyways, here's the deal: according to this reliable source (I don't trust the media as much as I probably should...), the "institute of medicine," which is what CNN calls it, recommends that men drink 3 liters of water and women drink 2.2 liters of water daily. Assuming we aren't all Boy Scouts (who actually advise that you drink water CONSTANTLY), and instead that we drink less than we should, we'll go with an average estimate of 2.0 liters every day. That's anywhere in between .6 and 1 milligram a day.

Now. Say we take any old person, average height, average weight. They exercise regularly, they're fairly healthy. They've been drinking 2 liters of tap water every day since they were 14, and they died at around....say.....80 years old. They started on the DAY OF their 14th birthday, and stopped the DAY OF their 80th birthday. That's roughly 24,106 days (accounting for leap year), and roughly 48,213 liters of water. That turns into anywhere from 14,464 to 24,107 milligrams of chlorine over 66 years, or about 14.5 to 24 grams of chlorine that your system ingests over a period of 66 years.

There are 301,140,000-ish people in America, statistic taken from Google. That means that 301.14 KILOS are ingested a day.

Just so you know, 301.14 kilos is enough to kill 94 million kittens.

(edit: source; measurement for guinea pigs is used for kittens)
Actually, that statistic is really REALLY made up. However, you *could* probably kill upwards of 50 million kittens with 301.14 kg of Chlorine.

Now, consider this: the low lethal dosage (LCLo) of chlorine for humans is rougly 25 grams. (source). Also, note that we didn't cover exactly how much water you drink in the first 14 years of your life: a considerable amount.

Anyways, here's another little *interesting* statistic I just picked up: "Magnesium Corp. of America released 42 million lb of Cl₂ into the skies of Utah's West Desert in 2000, about 90% of the U.S. total for that year." (source). Which means the total is closer to 46.6 million pounds. Which is 21 million kilos. That's 8300395260 people you could kill if you really really tried.

To wrap up everything above, chlorine is terrible for you. Phenomenally bad for you. You ingest mass amounts of it over your lifetime.
However, it's a lot better than ingesting a slew of pathogens and bacteria and dying.

There is something that you can do about chlorine, however: let me encourage you to buy a water filter. It usually manages to take out almost all the chlorine, and plus it gives you even cleaner water than everyone else will be drinking if they didn't have a water filter.

Hope you enjoyed that little rant thing I gave.

Ever wonder what weighs 100 grams?

2007-11-28T08:58:00.000-08:00

Me neither. But I'm going to write on it anyways. Because it makes life beautiful.

Now, the average penny weighs within the bounds of about 2.5 grams apiece. Yeah, apparently grams don't really weigh as much as they used to, eh?
By the way, just in case you're wondering where I'm getting this, I'm not pulling it out of the sky. I did a google search, and it came up with a variety of results, the most prominent of which is this:

US Coinage
Penny Standard weight 2.5 grams
Nickel Standard weight 5.0 grams
Dime Standard weight 2.268 grams
Quarter Standard weight 5.670 grams

If you really, TRULY want a link to the site, here you go. However, be warned: NSFW.
Trust me, I don't want you getting fired or getting in trouble for looking at that website. Because if you do, you may never come back to my webpage again. And that would be sad.
T_T

Okay, back on track. Most of you have probably never SEEN 40 pennies all together in one nice little pile.
Now you have. I could end my post without actually making a point, saying that I taught the majority of the internets something: someone, somewhere, has a collection of MORE THAN four pennies. All in one pile, too.
Or, better yet, divided into four stacks of ten.

So you're probably wondering, "But wait, where is he actually going with all this?"
Simple. 40 pennies, each weighing 2.5 grams apiece, collectively weigh about 100 grams.
Also, take note: even though I don't have enough nickels (crazy, I've got plenty of pennies but not enough silver shinies...), they weigh about as much as two pennies: 5 grams apiece. This means that about 20 nickels weigh 100 grams as well.
Watch now, because I'm about to do something really, really interesting.

100 grams is the weight of a newborn kitten at birth, original site sfw. Now, we all know that adorable, fluffy, awkward as hell kittens are the COOLEST THING TO HAPPEN TO THE WORLD SINCE SLICED BREAD.
So, what all this boils down to is this:

This cute little abomination weighed about as much as a dollar in nickels when it came into the world.

Something else interesting, you cry out for? Well, I won't delve too deep into this, buuuut.....
The Motorola RAZR V3 (i.e. my current phone) weighs 99 grams, just one shy of the big 100.

Does this mean that my phone is worth only one dollar? no. The weight of a dollar? well......

Oh, by the way, if we're gonna start down that road, I've just gotta do this.....

WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE:
A newborn kitten, or a Razr V3?
Discuss.

Okay, it's late and I'm tired.

Chikin.

2007-11-27T20:06:00.000-08:00

I'm tired as hell right now.....might start seeing gnomes.

Went to california.
More on that never.

I seriously think somebody should get around to doing stuff, maybe in the near future.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasdaf

[21:28] john the magus: I want to have your babies.
[21:28] SmarterChild: You want to have my babies! lol!
.......
[21:34] john the magus: I want to have your babies for dinner.
[21:34] SmarterChild: Are you sure you want to have my babies for dinner?
[21:34] john the magus: yes.
[21:34] SmarterChild: Oh.
.......
[21:34] john the magus: can I have your babies?
[21:34] SmarterChild: I guess it wouldn't hurt.

So yeah, how stupid can someone get? Stupid enough to bottle up their feces, let it ferment, and then HUFF it. Lord have mercy. It's called jenkem, and I don't know why.

Probably don't want to know why.

hah, kinda ironic that I search google for pictures and don't find anything. *smirk*

g'night people.

The luck of the draw

2007-11-12T19:23:00.000-08:00

I managed to win a digital camera in a raffle recently (a Nikon Coolpix s200, worth about $135), so I'll start putting up some videos and pictures of stuff. Not that I don't do that already, but hey. We'll see what happens when whatever happens, happens.

meh

2007-11-04T12:11:00.000-08:00

So I recently saw Fight Club. Recently being last night.
Hell of an ending.

Evil?! We conquered cake-town for Sparta's sake!

2007-10-30T08:43:00.000-07:00

So here I am sitting in PHYSICS being BORED AS HELL.
I think I'll do homework.

So anyways,

Here are all your answers. Just fill in the blank.

edit: I love Hugh Laurie. I have dreams about that man.

So yeah, time for introductions!

2007-10-29T08:42:00.001-07:00

SCREW YOU ALL and WELCOME to what the hell is going on?
:D

Not much going on here atm, this'll mostly be the writings of a mildly insane teenager(?) who has frequent mood swings(? AGAINZ!), and occasionally a movie like THIS

one.

So if you expect some meaning out of life, maybe you can come here, but what you see is what you get, so no promises.

If you can read this, you definitely don't need glasses.

AS YOU WERE!