the end of yesterdays post, i said i was going to pull a subject out of a hat, and talk about that, with the help of a wikipedia article. i'll probably do some further research.
this will allow me to say my views on a wide variety of things, making this blog a record on my opininons, of random things. yeah, thats an awesome blog idea. (note sarcasm. its difficult to portray sarcasm through just the medium of words, so thats the 'tell')
i hope it will also show anyone who reads this blog that an encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone can actually be very informative, mainly because the people who edit the pages into humorous parodies of their subject are balanced by many no-nonsense self righteous moderators. you may say thats only the popular pages that get moderated, but just remember, if a page on wikipedia has been made, obviously someone cares about the subject.
today, to choose the subject i clicked 'random page.' thats a fun thing to do when you're bored you learn so much apparently useless information.
first, i learnt the focker D.C.I. is a type of plane. it sounded like a detective or a policeman to me at first.
then i found out that some guy called thomas nash killed a bear. thats literally all that was on the page. he killed a bear. i naturally assume he was canadian for some reason. i don't know why.
then there was a turkish dam called the bayramdere dam built between 1999 and 2002.
then i found a certain 'red dwarf' episode. red dwarf is an awesome show. if you don't know what it is, its about a guy, on a space ship called the red dwarf, who is put in stasis as punishment for brining a cat on the ship. while hes in stasis, some idiot caused an accident which killed himself and the entire crew, except the stasis guy, called lister, and the cat, and her kittens, who hid, somewhere, on the ship.
the computer lets lister out 3 million years later, after the fatal consequence of the accident has been fixed, and the ship is livable again. his companions are a descendant of his cat that has evolved into a near human thing, a hologram of the idiot that caused the accident, who was also listers roommate (they never really got on, the computer chose him because he would keep lister sane) and the sentient part of the ships computer, holly. who, for some reason, turns into a female in the later seasons. i never saw the episode to explain that.
as they try to to get back to earth, a lot of, ridiculous stuff happens, and they never miss an opportunity to pay each other out. i suppose its sort of like 'the three stooges' in space, and at the same time, nothing like that at all. if you haven't seen it, you need to, now. i'm serious. download it, or hire it out or something.
wait, what was i talking about? oh right, well, yeah i think i've said enough. this was just an introduction, really, i'll do a proper one in a few days.
here is a video of an awesome guy doing a cartwheel at the wedding, yesterday, or last night, or earlier today or whatever the hell it is. what wedding, may you ask? you bloody well know which wedding, don't make me say it.
i wish i got that excited about stuff, other than food.
Saturday 30 April 2011
Friday 29 April 2011
so, i've realised i probably need to figure this thing out
to further explain the title, i think this blog is starting to become irrelevant to pretty much anything that could ever exist. not that it was ever relevant to begin with.
I'm not going to stop blogging though. that's giving up, and giving up, in general, is just disappointing, for everyone involved. the word 'weak' comes to mind, as well, but lets not go there....
i might stop blogging for a while, to work out what a theme, a direction for this blog, improve my writing style, do something to make this blog something i can be proud of. not that I'm ashamed of it or anything, i just think i could do so much better.
i could just keep plodding along, expecting a direction or a theme to naturally coalesce, which comes from my natural writing style and my opinions about stuff. and it will, but it won't be much of a direction. i need my natural writing style and my opinions to fill a given purpose, to push me in a chosen direction, not the other way around.
which i guess would be... i don't actually know what the other way round would be.
i always think something in this sort of situation, i don't remember where it came from, i think i heard it from a TV show, or a movie when i was little, and I've sort of taken it to heart:
either do something intelligently, or not at all.
so, I'm going to think about what I'm actually going to do with this blog. I've chosen to this thing intelligently.
of course if we think of the formation of a purposeful blog as an algebraic equation.... um, okay, i'm not going to go into details about that, but basically, i should use my opinions and thoughts, my interests, my view on the world, not as building blocks to fill a given unknown purpose, but as a purpose, a direction in itself.
i've found the purpose of this blog: to do whatever the hell i please. i'll pick a random subject out of a hat or something, and state my opinions on it, and try to learn as much about it, as a wikipedia page will give.
I'm not going to stop blogging though. that's giving up, and giving up, in general, is just disappointing, for everyone involved. the word 'weak' comes to mind, as well, but lets not go there....
i might stop blogging for a while, to work out what a theme, a direction for this blog, improve my writing style, do something to make this blog something i can be proud of. not that I'm ashamed of it or anything, i just think i could do so much better.
i could just keep plodding along, expecting a direction or a theme to naturally coalesce, which comes from my natural writing style and my opinions about stuff. and it will, but it won't be much of a direction. i need my natural writing style and my opinions to fill a given purpose, to push me in a chosen direction, not the other way around.
which i guess would be... i don't actually know what the other way round would be.
i always think something in this sort of situation, i don't remember where it came from, i think i heard it from a TV show, or a movie when i was little, and I've sort of taken it to heart:
either do something intelligently, or not at all.
so, I'm going to think about what I'm actually going to do with this blog. I've chosen to this thing intelligently.
of course if we think of the formation of a purposeful blog as an algebraic equation.... um, okay, i'm not going to go into details about that, but basically, i should use my opinions and thoughts, my interests, my view on the world, not as building blocks to fill a given unknown purpose, but as a purpose, a direction in itself.
i've found the purpose of this blog: to do whatever the hell i please. i'll pick a random subject out of a hat or something, and state my opinions on it, and try to learn as much about it, as a wikipedia page will give.
Thursday 28 April 2011
hungry beast
while i'm sure many people are already aware of the tv show 'hungry beast', on ABC2 (or is it ABC1? no, its ABC2. i just looked it up, apparently its ABC1, how about that?) i think it deserves as many viewers and advertising as it can possibly get. not that being mentioned in this blog can really be called advertising, unless you count graffiti on a tree in the middle of the bush advertising. well technically, i guess it is but...
anyway, Hungry Beast is a tv show, on ABC1, at 9:30pm on wednesdays and on ABC2 at 10:15pm on thursdays.
its sort of like a current affairs show, except it has a sort of high school-university sort of amateurish feel to it, while at the same time being highly informative, showing the facts, the truth behind so much of day to day life, which sort of makes you realise theres something wrong with todays civilised world. or at least thats what i get from it. its kind of sad, because they use it with facts, logic, understanding, common sense and down to earthness, you don't usually find in a current affairs program.
maybe i'm not being clear. its not sad they're using these tools, its sad both because they're rare in current affairs shows, and because the information they put out is true. i mean what the information means about the world, thats the sad part.
its also usually extremely funny. theres an ongoing skit about mary poppins being a drug dealer. and the police are trying to get this small blue bird to spill the beans about her whereabouts...
hmm, is there such thing as blue canaries? i hope you see where i'm going with this...
because if not, this is kind of awkward. maybe you should go for a walk, or watch some tv. just, come back later.
if you don't live in australia, but you like the sound of Hungry Beast, heres their website:
http://hungrybeast.abc.net.au/
if you can watch it, i highly recommend it. go on the website to see this weeks episode.
i wanted to put a picture a friend showed me of barack obama riding a unicorn naked, but i can't find the pic, and shes not online so i can't ask her. it'll be on here tomorrow though, with much fanfare.
for now, following this weeks apparent vein of family guy, is, well, this:
anyway, Hungry Beast is a tv show, on ABC1, at 9:30pm on wednesdays and on ABC2 at 10:15pm on thursdays.
its sort of like a current affairs show, except it has a sort of high school-university sort of amateurish feel to it, while at the same time being highly informative, showing the facts, the truth behind so much of day to day life, which sort of makes you realise theres something wrong with todays civilised world. or at least thats what i get from it. its kind of sad, because they use it with facts, logic, understanding, common sense and down to earthness, you don't usually find in a current affairs program.
maybe i'm not being clear. its not sad they're using these tools, its sad both because they're rare in current affairs shows, and because the information they put out is true. i mean what the information means about the world, thats the sad part.
its also usually extremely funny. theres an ongoing skit about mary poppins being a drug dealer. and the police are trying to get this small blue bird to spill the beans about her whereabouts...
hmm, is there such thing as blue canaries? i hope you see where i'm going with this...
because if not, this is kind of awkward. maybe you should go for a walk, or watch some tv. just, come back later.
if you don't live in australia, but you like the sound of Hungry Beast, heres their website:
http://hungrybeast.abc.net.au/
if you can watch it, i highly recommend it. go on the website to see this weeks episode.
i wanted to put a picture a friend showed me of barack obama riding a unicorn naked, but i can't find the pic, and shes not online so i can't ask her. it'll be on here tomorrow though, with much fanfare.
for now, following this weeks apparent vein of family guy, is, well, this:
Wednesday 27 April 2011
thats right. posting the very next day. straight back on the wagon....
yeah, i'm awesome. or i have too much time on my hands. probably the latter.
anyway.
my favourite phrase at the moment is 'long viva vida.' its spanish for 'long live life.' if someone made t shirts, or a bumper sticker with that phrase on it, i'd buy it. i'm serious. it has so many levels.
because this is a blog, i should really try to explain my fondness for this phrase, but i'm not sure if it needs to be explained, or even can be. you just feel it in your (i have to say it...) soul. i'll try though. to me, it means everything good in life, the things that can never be taken from you while you still live, mostly because if you have these things taken away from you, or you throw them away, you're not living. i don't want to list them because i'm sure everyone has a different idea of what these things are.
wow, that was actually pretty easy. i mean, i'm amazed at how easy it was to explain the feeling i get when i say that. i feel a bit, simple now.
heres a video i abruptly thought of today at work.
i'm not encouraging the views of michael moore, i just find this funny, and the part about the national rifle association in 1871 i find very interesting.
and heres a clip from family guy. enjoy. but sorry about the quality. i don't know why people upload this stuff, its stupid. just listen to what cleveland says.
anyway.
my favourite phrase at the moment is 'long viva vida.' its spanish for 'long live life.' if someone made t shirts, or a bumper sticker with that phrase on it, i'd buy it. i'm serious. it has so many levels.
because this is a blog, i should really try to explain my fondness for this phrase, but i'm not sure if it needs to be explained, or even can be. you just feel it in your (i have to say it...) soul. i'll try though. to me, it means everything good in life, the things that can never be taken from you while you still live, mostly because if you have these things taken away from you, or you throw them away, you're not living. i don't want to list them because i'm sure everyone has a different idea of what these things are.
wow, that was actually pretty easy. i mean, i'm amazed at how easy it was to explain the feeling i get when i say that. i feel a bit, simple now.
heres a video i abruptly thought of today at work.
i'm not encouraging the views of michael moore, i just find this funny, and the part about the national rifle association in 1871 i find very interesting.
and heres a clip from family guy. enjoy. but sorry about the quality. i don't know why people upload this stuff, its stupid. just listen to what cleveland says.
Tuesday 26 April 2011
first post in five days
its been about 5ive days since i posted anything, because i was camping.
i love camping. playing cards, fishing, kayaking, building fires, accidentally causing a very small bushfire, putting it out and trying to hide the singed trees from the officials... just a very relaxed sort of attitude for the entire 5 days really.
its always better to camp with people, because then you'll usually end up sitting around the fire drinking, talking and laughing until about 2 in the morning. and that is really fun, until you have to get up the next morning at around 6-7 to get the fire going for breakfast.
and of course, camping would not be complete without cooking marshmallows on the fire! or just burning the outside to a crisp and letting the insides melt.
heres the funny multimedia. its family guy. sorry about the huludotcm bits at the beginning and end. i'll do 2 to make up for that.
i need a name for this part of the post. kinda like the daily shows 'moment of zen'. hmm. i'll get onto that.
i love camping. playing cards, fishing, kayaking, building fires, accidentally causing a very small bushfire, putting it out and trying to hide the singed trees from the officials... just a very relaxed sort of attitude for the entire 5 days really.
its always better to camp with people, because then you'll usually end up sitting around the fire drinking, talking and laughing until about 2 in the morning. and that is really fun, until you have to get up the next morning at around 6-7 to get the fire going for breakfast.
and of course, camping would not be complete without cooking marshmallows on the fire! or just burning the outside to a crisp and letting the insides melt.
heres the funny multimedia. its family guy. sorry about the huludotcm bits at the beginning and end. i'll do 2 to make up for that.
i need a name for this part of the post. kinda like the daily shows 'moment of zen'. hmm. i'll get onto that.
Tuesday 19 April 2011
my internet is so slow, i have to wait for the post, uh, poster thing to load. its been 12 minutes now.
as the name of this post says, my internet is very slow. its getting really annoying. i can't see pictures or videos.
but enough of my problems.
today, this blog had its first russian visitor. to celebrate this momentous achievement, here is a russian themed picture i find pretty funny.
but enough of my problems.
today, this blog had its first russian visitor. to celebrate this momentous achievement, here is a russian themed picture i find pretty funny.
i just love how the bears so relaxed, and the people are comfortable enough to keep walking as they look at it. i don't care if it is photoshopped. its almost like that scene in the incredibles, with the strong guy on the verandah eating an apple, except its a grizzly (is it?) bear, on a busy suburban bridge.
Monday 18 April 2011
rainy days
a rainy day, as we all know, is a beautiful thing. i don't even know where to begin to describe it.
theres something about the sky. that light shade of grey that looks like early morning, that makes you a bit sleepy and relaxed.
the rain looks like little slivers of silver (try saying that 5 times as fast as you can) as it falls to the ground, and the sound it makes as it hits the roof is very comforting.
both of these make all the foliage from the trees and the grass explode with color.
It is Beauty.
of course, its just a cold, miserable day if you don't have shelter. so, pray for the homeless on a rainy day.
as beautiful as a rainy day is, it is pretty easy to be bored on one. you can always watch a movie, listen to music, read creepypasta (scary stories) on the internet, read a book, or finish that assignment that desperately needs finishing (ahem). you were probably going to do those things anyway today, but its raining, so all those outdoor activitites you may or may not have been planning on doing are out.
i was going to go to the library so i would be able to put a funny picture or a video in this post, but my car is not working.
for something rain related, go to http://www.rainymood.com/ it is a continuous loop of rain sounds. very relaxing.
if you want some scary stories, look for any story by H.P. lovecraft, the father of modern horror. stephen king calls him 'the greatest american horror writer in history.'
theres something about the sky. that light shade of grey that looks like early morning, that makes you a bit sleepy and relaxed.
the rain looks like little slivers of silver (try saying that 5 times as fast as you can) as it falls to the ground, and the sound it makes as it hits the roof is very comforting.
both of these make all the foliage from the trees and the grass explode with color.
It is Beauty.
of course, its just a cold, miserable day if you don't have shelter. so, pray for the homeless on a rainy day.
as beautiful as a rainy day is, it is pretty easy to be bored on one. you can always watch a movie, listen to music, read creepypasta (scary stories) on the internet, read a book, or finish that assignment that desperately needs finishing (ahem). you were probably going to do those things anyway today, but its raining, so all those outdoor activitites you may or may not have been planning on doing are out.
i was going to go to the library so i would be able to put a funny picture or a video in this post, but my car is not working.
for something rain related, go to http://www.rainymood.com/ it is a continuous loop of rain sounds. very relaxing.
if you want some scary stories, look for any story by H.P. lovecraft, the father of modern horror. stephen king calls him 'the greatest american horror writer in history.'
Saturday 16 April 2011
got rid of the caution zombies ahead picture
as much as i love that pic, i think it had to go. this blog is not about zombies approaching (at least not yet).
this blog doesn't seem to really have an 'about' description, except perhaps whatevers going on in my head at the time of writing, or a video or picture i want to share.
to replace it, i have put a picture of me, because no matter what this blog becomes, I will always be part of it. without me, this blog ceases to exist. without you, the viewer, this blog ceases to matter, to have meaning.
wow, i totally just thought of that. i'm clearly awesome.
this is probably the most embarrasing picture of me, apart from one where i'm in womens clothing, doing a gangsta pose. i don't have that pic, in fact i'm not sure where it is, which should be troubling to me now i think of it. if i ever find it, it will be on a post by itself, along with an explanation.
i think i'll alternate between that pic and a bunch of others. yeah, i like that idea.
my internet is a bit screwed so afraid there is no multimedia. my condolences. maybe you'll be similarly enterntained with my fine weaving of simple words into vast tapestries of wonderment?
yeah, i don't believe that either.
i know, look up a band called larc en ciel. they're japanese, but with a french name! and their choruses are in english. i like them, not saying you'll like them too, but i think they're worth checking out.
this blog doesn't seem to really have an 'about' description, except perhaps whatevers going on in my head at the time of writing, or a video or picture i want to share.
to replace it, i have put a picture of me, because no matter what this blog becomes, I will always be part of it. without me, this blog ceases to exist. without you, the viewer, this blog ceases to matter, to have meaning.
wow, i totally just thought of that. i'm clearly awesome.
this is probably the most embarrasing picture of me, apart from one where i'm in womens clothing, doing a gangsta pose. i don't have that pic, in fact i'm not sure where it is, which should be troubling to me now i think of it. if i ever find it, it will be on a post by itself, along with an explanation.
i think i'll alternate between that pic and a bunch of others. yeah, i like that idea.
my internet is a bit screwed so afraid there is no multimedia. my condolences. maybe you'll be similarly enterntained with my fine weaving of simple words into vast tapestries of wonderment?
yeah, i don't believe that either.
i know, look up a band called larc en ciel. they're japanese, but with a french name! and their choruses are in english. i like them, not saying you'll like them too, but i think they're worth checking out.
Thursday 14 April 2011
lord of the rings how it should have ended
i've heard of this video a couple of times, but i've never actually seen it until now.
its hilarious. i like the idea but IT WOULD NEVER HAVE WORKED! read below if you want to know why.
on second thoughts i won't. its not really important to anyone, except perhaps tolkien himself. if you want to know why it would not have worked, read the 'silmarilion.' its a good book, the entire history of middle earth from the creation by illuvatar, to the destruction of the one ring, and a little beyond.
also, think about it. sauron, paranoid, always thinking about the ring, gets distracted by two men, an elf and a dwarf shouting 'you suck?' long enough for a giant eagle carrying 4 hobbits and a wizard to fly into the middle of mordor, who were not seen by archers, or those ballista thingies, or the catapults? ridiculous!
and the fact that the rings power of of possessiveness gets stronger the closer it is to mount doom, so frodo wouldn't drop it in. and even if he did, what if he missed?
...oh, i couldn't resist. theres a lot more too, but, i won't bore you with it.
i'm not a nerd, i just care too much about this kind of stuff.
which makes me a nerd.
oh, and before i forget (ha!), LOTR was not based in any way on WW2. he started to think about a sequel to the hobbit in 1937, and by 1938 the beginnings of the trilogy and mythology had been formed. he didn't finish writing until 1949.
"It is neither allegorical nor topical....I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence." he hated the idea that people thought this about his work.
its hilarious. i like the idea but IT WOULD NEVER HAVE WORKED! read below if you want to know why.
on second thoughts i won't. its not really important to anyone, except perhaps tolkien himself. if you want to know why it would not have worked, read the 'silmarilion.' its a good book, the entire history of middle earth from the creation by illuvatar, to the destruction of the one ring, and a little beyond.
also, think about it. sauron, paranoid, always thinking about the ring, gets distracted by two men, an elf and a dwarf shouting 'you suck?' long enough for a giant eagle carrying 4 hobbits and a wizard to fly into the middle of mordor, who were not seen by archers, or those ballista thingies, or the catapults? ridiculous!
and the fact that the rings power of of possessiveness gets stronger the closer it is to mount doom, so frodo wouldn't drop it in. and even if he did, what if he missed?
...oh, i couldn't resist. theres a lot more too, but, i won't bore you with it.
i'm not a nerd, i just care too much about this kind of stuff.
which makes me a nerd.
oh, and before i forget (ha!), LOTR was not based in any way on WW2. he started to think about a sequel to the hobbit in 1937, and by 1938 the beginnings of the trilogy and mythology had been formed. he didn't finish writing until 1949.
"It is neither allegorical nor topical....I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence." he hated the idea that people thought this about his work.
Wednesday 13 April 2011
littlefears (creepypasta videos)
a girl on youtube reads creepypasta (stories designed to unnerve or scare) on youtube, aligned with video. the video gives off a vibe that puts you in the mood for a scary story. it awesome. this was picked at random.
for more, go to
http://www.youtube.com/thelittlefears#p/u/29/VVS4Agu5LTg
for more, go to
http://www.youtube.com/thelittlefears#p/u/29/VVS4Agu5LTg
Tuesday 12 April 2011
realisations
my sister wanted to look at my blog, so i showed it to her. what i noticed her doing was scrolling to the end of each post to look at whatever pic or video i had posted, withou reading anything.. so from now on, i'm going to put whatever multimedia i do in the beginning of my post. so, without frther ado, here is:
this, from http://www.funnyordie.com/ . if you haven't seen this, then you probably have better things to do with your life. lucky.
oh, does have slight swearing. not that it matters...
i've also realised what this blog seems to be becoming. everytime i have thought of a way to increase views, make this blog more entertaining, i have posted my idea, and ran with it. thats what this blog is. i'm beginning to see it as a sort of documentation on the evolution of a blog and the bloggers experience of writing in the blog. something like that. i'm not sure how to explain it better. regardless, evey blog does this unconciously, its difficult not to.
another bit, kinda related but sorta not: i keep getting ideas about how to make my blog more successful, posting my idea and then trying it out. they never seem to work, but i'm going to keep trying.
if it think of a way to explain it better, it'll be in the next post.
wanna see a sorta disturbing pic? if you've followed any of my links of 'creepy pasta' (google it if not, worth a few hours of your time) then you've seen it. it stays in my memory all the time. theres a pic similar to this, only it looks so much like my cousin it isn't funny. i can't find that one at the moment, so heres this one:
it creeps me out to the extent i'm keeping it down there, and i didn't save it to my computer.
this, from http://www.funnyordie.com/ . if you haven't seen this, then you probably have better things to do with your life. lucky.
oh, does have slight swearing. not that it matters...
i've also realised what this blog seems to be becoming. everytime i have thought of a way to increase views, make this blog more entertaining, i have posted my idea, and ran with it. thats what this blog is. i'm beginning to see it as a sort of documentation on the evolution of a blog and the bloggers experience of writing in the blog. something like that. i'm not sure how to explain it better. regardless, evey blog does this unconciously, its difficult not to.
another bit, kinda related but sorta not: i keep getting ideas about how to make my blog more successful, posting my idea and then trying it out. they never seem to work, but i'm going to keep trying.
if it think of a way to explain it better, it'll be in the next post.
wanna see a sorta disturbing pic? if you've followed any of my links of 'creepy pasta' (google it if not, worth a few hours of your time) then you've seen it. it stays in my memory all the time. theres a pic similar to this, only it looks so much like my cousin it isn't funny. i can't find that one at the moment, so heres this one:
it creeps me out to the extent i'm keeping it down there, and i didn't save it to my computer.
Monday 11 April 2011
climate change, part 2: human impact
i know, the title of this almost sounds like a Hollywood action blockbuster. no? really? what if you replaced the 'human' with... oh, never mind.
anyway, before i continue to the human impact of global warming, here is a pic that depicts the damage human civilisation has done to the world.
as you can see, climate change is definitely one of the three things we should be worried about, but biodiversity and the nitrogen cycle are things that we should give much more attention. for anyone that doesn't know, our manipulation of the nitrogen cycle has caused areas of the sea to be devoid of life, due to algal blooms.
now, on to the human impact on the natural process of climate change.
the amount of greenhouse gases that human civilisation emits into the atmosphere, compared to the amount emitted by natural processes, is very, very small.
however, this doesn't mean we're not doing any damage, because it all adds up. it can be described the same way as scientific progress: 'on the shoulders of giants.'
in science when one person makes a momentous discovery, it is usually due to the discoveries made before him, without which he wouldn't have the knowledge or the tools/techniques to do anything.
so, while we make a small contribution to greenhouse emissions, it may still be enough to have an effect, however a small one.
as the pic above shows, we're barely doing anything to tip the scales askew in the cycle of climate change, let alone send it crashing into reverse within a few days, as the media often portrays.
i think we have a comfortable amount of time to change our greenhouse emissions for the better, no need for alarmist mass media scare shows about how we're all going to die horribly. we have easily enough time to let the nature of technology to run its course, the development of more efficient, less polluting technologies.
by the time our civilisation has the potential to destroy the climate change cycle with our current technology, we'll have moved on to other technologies, both more ecological, efficient, and probably cheaper.
so, don't worry about climate, or global warming, or whatever its called now. I'm not really sure how to put it in simpler terms, but i really shouldn't have to.
also the Australian carbon tax = stupidity. its only going to drop world temperatures by 0.01* over 100 years, at $900 a year to each taxpayer. even if we did need a drop in temperature, the gains mean nothing, for a very large loss. i could understand if it was 1*, but 0.01? its just the government pretending to do something, for votes.
if you read this and part 1, i hope you gained something from this. and if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. if you want to defend the carbon tax, don't hesitate to.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527491.200-from-ocean-to-ozone-earths-nine-lifesupport-systems.html - the article i got the pic from, with a lot of information about the damage of human civilisation to the world. might need to subscribe, whch is why:
http://cruxcatalyst.blogspot.com/2010/04/earths-nine-life-support-systems.html - here is a blog that has copy pasted, some of it at least, on nitrogen and biodiversity. the global warming article is very informative as well,
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18577-earths-nine-lifesupport-systems-climate-change.html -here it is. to get the whole nine life support system bit:
http://www.newscientist.com/special/ocean-to-ozone-earths-nine-life-support-systems - here it is.
i keep all of these on just in case some don't work for you.
remember how i asked if you wanted to see a dog riding a unicycle? well, here's a pic drawn by waveh on deviant art, of two dogs riding a unicorn. in my book, this is close enough to get cigar.
OK, so its a robot unicorn. and i personally don't like the look on the smaller dogs face, or the larger one for that matter. anyway, enjoy.
anyway, before i continue to the human impact of global warming, here is a pic that depicts the damage human civilisation has done to the world.
now, on to the human impact on the natural process of climate change.
the amount of greenhouse gases that human civilisation emits into the atmosphere, compared to the amount emitted by natural processes, is very, very small.
however, this doesn't mean we're not doing any damage, because it all adds up. it can be described the same way as scientific progress: 'on the shoulders of giants.'
in science when one person makes a momentous discovery, it is usually due to the discoveries made before him, without which he wouldn't have the knowledge or the tools/techniques to do anything.
so, while we make a small contribution to greenhouse emissions, it may still be enough to have an effect, however a small one.
as the pic above shows, we're barely doing anything to tip the scales askew in the cycle of climate change, let alone send it crashing into reverse within a few days, as the media often portrays.
i think we have a comfortable amount of time to change our greenhouse emissions for the better, no need for alarmist mass media scare shows about how we're all going to die horribly. we have easily enough time to let the nature of technology to run its course, the development of more efficient, less polluting technologies.
by the time our civilisation has the potential to destroy the climate change cycle with our current technology, we'll have moved on to other technologies, both more ecological, efficient, and probably cheaper.
so, don't worry about climate, or global warming, or whatever its called now. I'm not really sure how to put it in simpler terms, but i really shouldn't have to.
also the Australian carbon tax = stupidity. its only going to drop world temperatures by 0.01* over 100 years, at $900 a year to each taxpayer. even if we did need a drop in temperature, the gains mean nothing, for a very large loss. i could understand if it was 1*, but 0.01? its just the government pretending to do something, for votes.
if you read this and part 1, i hope you gained something from this. and if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. if you want to defend the carbon tax, don't hesitate to.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527491.200-from-ocean-to-ozone-earths-nine-lifesupport-systems.html - the article i got the pic from, with a lot of information about the damage of human civilisation to the world. might need to subscribe, whch is why:
http://cruxcatalyst.blogspot.com/2010/04/earths-nine-life-support-systems.html - here is a blog that has copy pasted, some of it at least, on nitrogen and biodiversity. the global warming article is very informative as well,
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18577-earths-nine-lifesupport-systems-climate-change.html -here it is. to get the whole nine life support system bit:
http://www.newscientist.com/special/ocean-to-ozone-earths-nine-life-support-systems - here it is.
i keep all of these on just in case some don't work for you.
remember how i asked if you wanted to see a dog riding a unicycle? well, here's a pic drawn by waveh on deviant art, of two dogs riding a unicorn. in my book, this is close enough to get cigar.
Sunday 10 April 2011
climate change, or global warming, or whatever
so, in my first post i said that i would explain the climate change or global warming thing in a clear concise way, the scientific facts that most people seem to not realise. i suppose to day is as good a day as any to do that.
this will not be a crazy-time rant thing (see the 'libya' post, about two days ago) I'll do it better this time, hopefully.
first of all, climate change is 100% a natural phenomenon, it has been happening since just before there has been life on earth. it is necessary for life to exist.
chemical processes, some biological, some not, cause build ups of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, heating the earth up, making it more habitable for life. after a while, the earth gets hot enough that over a few thousand years, the ice caps on the equator melt, making more liquid water in the world. the earth is then cooled down over another few thousand years by the liquid water, most of the greenhouse gases are absorbed by the water and consequently trapped in soils, to be consumed by life processes.
this creates a cooling of the earths global temperature. the cooling effect cause the processes that cause greenhouses gases to go up in the atmosphere to cause warming to increase, setting in motion the whole cycle .
here is a picture version of this cycle, during the medieval warm period and the little ice age, which caused the downfall of viking culture:
probably not the best pic i know. I'll try to find a better one later. this is a very short version of the cycle. there are graphs of the larger cycle, spanning very long stretches of time, but these are very hard to come by, even on the Internet.
so the question that should be controversial is not 'does climate change exist?' or 'are humans responsible for it?' but 'is human activity able to knock this fragile balancing act askew?'
what will happen to earth if this cycle is broken can be seen if we look at the two nearest planets, mars and Venus.
if we put too much greenhouses gases in the atmosphere, so that even if the water is saturated by it and the earth keeps getting hotter, over a very, very long time, the earth would come to resemble Venus.
if we do the opposite, not enough greenhouse gases so the earth keeps getting cooler, we'll end up like mars.
the hockey stick graph doesn't really show much, since the ones i have found only go back a thousand years. far enough to show the earth is getting hotter, in the last 200 years, not far enough back to show the larger cycle of heating up and cooling down.
OK, so the fact that climate change is a natural process is now out of the way, as well as the consequences of what will happen if that process is disturbed too much. also that the graphs that only show the last thousand years don't show the full story, and even though they are the majority, other more reliable graphs that show longer amounts of time do exist. somewhere.
I'll continue this tomorrow. i don't want to bore anyone away with a wall of text. its a pretty simple subject, theres just a fair bit of stuff to talk about.
wanna see a dog riding a unicycle? sorry, all i have is an advertisement for mainstream media. but its by john la joie!!!
this will not be a crazy-time rant thing (see the 'libya' post, about two days ago) I'll do it better this time, hopefully.
first of all, climate change is 100% a natural phenomenon, it has been happening since just before there has been life on earth. it is necessary for life to exist.
chemical processes, some biological, some not, cause build ups of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, heating the earth up, making it more habitable for life. after a while, the earth gets hot enough that over a few thousand years, the ice caps on the equator melt, making more liquid water in the world. the earth is then cooled down over another few thousand years by the liquid water, most of the greenhouse gases are absorbed by the water and consequently trapped in soils, to be consumed by life processes.
this creates a cooling of the earths global temperature. the cooling effect cause the processes that cause greenhouses gases to go up in the atmosphere to cause warming to increase, setting in motion the whole cycle .
here is a picture version of this cycle, during the medieval warm period and the little ice age, which caused the downfall of viking culture:
so the question that should be controversial is not 'does climate change exist?' or 'are humans responsible for it?' but 'is human activity able to knock this fragile balancing act askew?'
what will happen to earth if this cycle is broken can be seen if we look at the two nearest planets, mars and Venus.
if we put too much greenhouses gases in the atmosphere, so that even if the water is saturated by it and the earth keeps getting hotter, over a very, very long time, the earth would come to resemble Venus.
if we do the opposite, not enough greenhouse gases so the earth keeps getting cooler, we'll end up like mars.
the hockey stick graph doesn't really show much, since the ones i have found only go back a thousand years. far enough to show the earth is getting hotter, in the last 200 years, not far enough back to show the larger cycle of heating up and cooling down.
OK, so the fact that climate change is a natural process is now out of the way, as well as the consequences of what will happen if that process is disturbed too much. also that the graphs that only show the last thousand years don't show the full story, and even though they are the majority, other more reliable graphs that show longer amounts of time do exist. somewhere.
I'll continue this tomorrow. i don't want to bore anyone away with a wall of text. its a pretty simple subject, theres just a fair bit of stuff to talk about.
wanna see a dog riding a unicycle? sorry, all i have is an advertisement for mainstream media. but its by john la joie!!!
Saturday 9 April 2011
so... how about this weather, right?
ok, so... that last post was an insane rant about the world. awesome. it wasn't even a strictly legible rant, it had no structure and just... went crazy. reading it again, i don't know why i posted that. if you can pick out the basic point, or points - i'm not even sure which - it seems to be saying that the rebelion in libya is justified, and it is, and that the UN needs to be more aware of whats happening in the world, and not act selfishly. less talk more action, etc. all that jazz. its all been said before, and will be again. i would delete that post, but its a large part of the evolution of this blog, and the picture of robert pattinson down the bottom makes me laugh till i cry. my sister sometimes uses it to win arguments with me.
but before i go into another huge rant about rants and the hypocrisy of saying 'less talk more action' in a blog...
this is called 'they're taking the hobbits to isengard'. go ahead guess why. i bet you'll never guess why.
i also want to say the music in the LOTR movies is awesome.
but before i go into another huge rant about rants and the hypocrisy of saying 'less talk more action' in a blog...
this is called 'they're taking the hobbits to isengard'. go ahead guess why. i bet you'll never guess why.
i also want to say the music in the LOTR movies is awesome.
Friday 8 April 2011
libya, and to a lesser extent, robert pattinson
so, i don't exactly know how to say (write(type)) this, i don't even know what i'm going to be saying yet, properly, so i'm just going to dive right in and speak my mind. not that is any different to any other post on here.
i think whats happening in libya is awesome. not the fact that people are dying, people are killing each other and the whole place is going to hell, but that people are fighting for their freedom.
libya is the most censored country in the middle east and north africa. anyone found guilty of founding a political party is executed. political conversations - just talking about politics- with a foreigner is met with 3 years in prison. the libyan government - gaddaffi - puts bounties on its critics, such as $1 million US on the head of a libyan-british journalist. just to be clear, thats ASSASSINATION. just saying 'gadhaffi is a shithead' could get you killed.
gadhaffi has been in power since 1969, and since then the government has grown corrupt, with gadhaffi putting family and tribe members in office using government money on luxurious holiday homes and stuff. this is what the at first friendly protests were about; democratic elections, more freedom, less corruption
as the protests were dispersed in more and more violent ways, the protesters were, in my opinion, forced to become violent in turn to get their point across.
i mean, you can't talk to someone in english if the only language they know is italian. you have to talk to them in italian. speak the same language.
so the protest became bloody. and gadhaffi went all out trying to scare the populace out of rebellion, attempting to control the media, arresting, threatening and murdering journalists. he said in a televised broadcast many frankly insane things, such as
'those whop don't love me don't deserve to live.'
he ordered soldiers who refused to fire upon civilians to be executed, in some cases burnt alive. he sent snipers, artillery and gunships to fire upon demonstrators, and in some cases government personnel drove cars through waves of demonstrators with the purpose of running them over. i don't see any reason to say for sure that the thugs reported throughout the country attacking families in their homes with hammers and knives, or driving around randomly attacking civilians who look dissentful, but it definitely sounds like he had something to do with them.
he also paid people to protest the protesters, to support his government, apparently US$2000 per person. apparently, at one point there were about 50.
the rebels were gaining ground at a phenomenal rate, until they started to feel the blows of the air force, the gun ships, the bombing runs and the anti aircraft guns mowing them down.
official talks of a no fly zone began on 28 february, by the british prime minister, to the UN. the US secretary of defence was reluctant, because it would require military action. russia, china, india, romania and turkey were opposed to the idea. i don't know why, but i don't like them anymore. i never liked the US, so nothings changed there. france was in favour of it, as well as other countries. my respect for france has gone up considerably, and i hope to find which other countries were in favour of it. apparently kevin rudd was also in favour of a no fly zone, telling other countries that was australias official position. it wasn't. julia gillard was against it, probably because america was. kevin and julias role might have been reversed if kevin was prime minister, so he shouldn't really get any points, but i'll give him the benefit of the doubt.
on the 12th of march, the arab league asked the UN to impose a no fly zone over libya, and USA changed its mind. by the 17th, the no ly zone had been implemented, just as the rebellion had almost been entirely quashed.
that is of course an extremely watered down version of the events that led to the uprising, and the eventual no fly zone. for more information, go to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Libyan_uprising i know, it wikipedia, but i stand by the facts you can get from it. there are people who literally have nothing better to do than correct it. if ou are in doubt about a page, look for references, and check out the discussion page.
http://roosterteeth.com/members/journal/?uid=81745&page=1 a blog by a guy in libya at the time. it used to have videos of people doing things to get back at gadhaffi, such as putting up posters, ripping posters down, a few with guns, but they were taken down before some of the aforementioned thugs could find them. i think hes in tunisia at the moment.
i guess what i'm trying to say with this, vey large post, that has probably been extremely boring
(if you made it this far, you deserve a medal, or at least some ice cream or a coke. go ahead, treat yourself)
and rant like, is that talking about an issue without actually doing anything about it is just like doing nothing. government officials can have as many meetings, Summits as they want, for global wariming, overpopulation, destruction of biodiversity etc, its not going to do anything.
um, heres a pic that i think is funny. hope you enjoy it.
i laugh uncontrollably when i see this. i actually kinda like robert pattinson, after i found out he tried to portray edward cullen as creepy stalker guy.
i think whats happening in libya is awesome. not the fact that people are dying, people are killing each other and the whole place is going to hell, but that people are fighting for their freedom.
libya is the most censored country in the middle east and north africa. anyone found guilty of founding a political party is executed. political conversations - just talking about politics- with a foreigner is met with 3 years in prison. the libyan government - gaddaffi - puts bounties on its critics, such as $1 million US on the head of a libyan-british journalist. just to be clear, thats ASSASSINATION. just saying 'gadhaffi is a shithead' could get you killed.
gadhaffi has been in power since 1969, and since then the government has grown corrupt, with gadhaffi putting family and tribe members in office using government money on luxurious holiday homes and stuff. this is what the at first friendly protests were about; democratic elections, more freedom, less corruption
as the protests were dispersed in more and more violent ways, the protesters were, in my opinion, forced to become violent in turn to get their point across.
i mean, you can't talk to someone in english if the only language they know is italian. you have to talk to them in italian. speak the same language.
so the protest became bloody. and gadhaffi went all out trying to scare the populace out of rebellion, attempting to control the media, arresting, threatening and murdering journalists. he said in a televised broadcast many frankly insane things, such as
'those whop don't love me don't deserve to live.'
he ordered soldiers who refused to fire upon civilians to be executed, in some cases burnt alive. he sent snipers, artillery and gunships to fire upon demonstrators, and in some cases government personnel drove cars through waves of demonstrators with the purpose of running them over. i don't see any reason to say for sure that the thugs reported throughout the country attacking families in their homes with hammers and knives, or driving around randomly attacking civilians who look dissentful, but it definitely sounds like he had something to do with them.
he also paid people to protest the protesters, to support his government, apparently US$2000 per person. apparently, at one point there were about 50.
the rebels were gaining ground at a phenomenal rate, until they started to feel the blows of the air force, the gun ships, the bombing runs and the anti aircraft guns mowing them down.
official talks of a no fly zone began on 28 february, by the british prime minister, to the UN. the US secretary of defence was reluctant, because it would require military action. russia, china, india, romania and turkey were opposed to the idea. i don't know why, but i don't like them anymore. i never liked the US, so nothings changed there. france was in favour of it, as well as other countries. my respect for france has gone up considerably, and i hope to find which other countries were in favour of it. apparently kevin rudd was also in favour of a no fly zone, telling other countries that was australias official position. it wasn't. julia gillard was against it, probably because america was. kevin and julias role might have been reversed if kevin was prime minister, so he shouldn't really get any points, but i'll give him the benefit of the doubt.
on the 12th of march, the arab league asked the UN to impose a no fly zone over libya, and USA changed its mind. by the 17th, the no ly zone had been implemented, just as the rebellion had almost been entirely quashed.
that is of course an extremely watered down version of the events that led to the uprising, and the eventual no fly zone. for more information, go to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Libyan_uprising i know, it wikipedia, but i stand by the facts you can get from it. there are people who literally have nothing better to do than correct it. if ou are in doubt about a page, look for references, and check out the discussion page.
http://roosterteeth.com/members/journal/?uid=81745&page=1 a blog by a guy in libya at the time. it used to have videos of people doing things to get back at gadhaffi, such as putting up posters, ripping posters down, a few with guns, but they were taken down before some of the aforementioned thugs could find them. i think hes in tunisia at the moment.
i guess what i'm trying to say with this, vey large post, that has probably been extremely boring
(if you made it this far, you deserve a medal, or at least some ice cream or a coke. go ahead, treat yourself)
and rant like, is that talking about an issue without actually doing anything about it is just like doing nothing. government officials can have as many meetings, Summits as they want, for global wariming, overpopulation, destruction of biodiversity etc, its not going to do anything.
um, heres a pic that i think is funny. hope you enjoy it.
Thursday 7 April 2011
demotivators
demotivators. you can't help but love them. any attempt to describe them doesn't catch their true form. saying its a picture with a funny caption doesn't do it justice. sometimes the caption is in no way related to the picture. or sometimes its like this:
see no picture. its kind of not funny, until you realise this... thing was created through hundreds of people adding their own ideas to some lost original idea to try to make this more funny. its like reading a forum.
however, i do like these:
so, enjoy those pics, hope you had a laugh. for more, visit
UPDATE/EDIT THINGY 11/05/11: i have deduced, from the fact this post is one of my most popular, that people seem to arrive at this blog by clicking on a pic, probably on google images after typing 'demotivators.' i would just like to let you know, that there are plenty of other funny pictures and video clips on this blog. explore. enjoy.
Tuesday 5 April 2011
don't know what to write
i've been trying to write a blog post each day, not really sure why but it just seems like a good idea. a friend said you should put a new post up regularly and often, for a number of reasons. one a day is pretty regular and often, so i guess thats why. today, i just don't know what i could write about.
of course, when in doubt, just say (write(type)) what you think. that works, apparently.
has anyone seen the live action version movie of 'the wind in the willows?' i have. i always thought the weasel song was the best scene, it was just so awesome and it scared me a bit too. here it is for your enjoyment.
of course, when in doubt, just say (write(type)) what you think. that works, apparently.
has anyone seen the live action version movie of 'the wind in the willows?' i have. i always thought the weasel song was the best scene, it was just so awesome and it scared me a bit too. here it is for your enjoyment.
Monday 4 April 2011
april fools day
a bit late, but i've just abruptly realised how much i love april fools day. this april fools day (and last years), i woke up with that feeling i used to get for christmas and birthdays, which i haven't felt since i was 13, and looked at all the stuff tv stations like the BBC, websites like youtube, and companies like Blizzard put out on april fools (not that i rushed out of bed to look at this stuff, that seems a bit weird to me). its like, nearly all other 'special days' have been completely taken over by materialism too much, you know, christmas presents, easter chocolate, valentines day, uh stuff, halloween lollies (not that i really do anything, although i like the idea of dressing up) and birthday cake and presents, where kids and adults too think mostly of the stuff. But april fools day is still a day when the whole day is just about having fun, being ridiculous and creativity. in the future someone will probably find a way to cash in on this, but for the moment, it is one of the best days of the year.
here is a pic, funny but i think holds a lot of wisdom. just like all funny things.
it makes fun of creationists, not religious people. religious people are awesome.
creationists deserve to be ridiculed.
here is a pic, funny but i think holds a lot of wisdom. just like all funny things.
it makes fun of creationists, not religious people. religious people are awesome.
creationists deserve to be ridiculed.
Sunday 3 April 2011
sarah o' bannon
Sarah O' Bannon
Coffins used to be built with holes in them, attached to six feet of copper tubing and a bell. The tubing would allow air for victims buried under the mistaken impression they were dead. In a certain small town Harold, the local gravedigger, upon hearing a bell one night, went to go see if it was children pretending to be spirits. Sometimes it was also the wind. This time, it wasn't either. A voice from below begged and pleaded to be unburied.
"Are you Sarah O'Bannon?" Harold asked.
"Yes!" The muffled voice asserted.
"You were born on September 17, 1827?"
"Yes!"
"The gravestone here says you died on February 20, 1857."
"No, I'm alive, it was a mistake! Dig me up, set me free!"
"Sorry about this, ma'am," Harold said, stepping on the bell to silence it and plugging up the copper tube with dirt. "But this is August. Whatever you are down there, you sure as hell ain't alive no more, and you ain't comin' up."
"Are you Sarah O'Bannon?" Harold asked.
"Yes!" The muffled voice asserted.
"You were born on September 17, 1827?"
"Yes!"
"The gravestone here says you died on February 20, 1857."
"No, I'm alive, it was a mistake! Dig me up, set me free!"
"Sorry about this, ma'am," Harold said, stepping on the bell to silence it and plugging up the copper tube with dirt. "But this is August. Whatever you are down there, you sure as hell ain't alive no more, and you ain't comin' up."
scary stories
ok, not scary stories, but some of them certainly give a chill. these are a bunch of websites that show something called 'creepy pasta' - essentially, scary stories.
my favourite at the moment is this one, called candle cove. probably the most well known of these scary stories. sorry about the wall of text, but it is a good story.
again sorry about the wall of text. this story seems to have originated on http://www.ichorfalls.com/, which is filled with these kinds of stories. another good one is http://www.creepypasta.com/, though some links don't work.
if you like series', theres the holders series, at www.holders.org . my favorite is the holder of doom.
and, if you made it this far in this post, heres a pic:
by screamasinclair on deviant art.
sweet dreams, gentlemen. and ladies. and everything inbetween!
my favourite at the moment is this one, called candle cove. probably the most well known of these scary stories. sorry about the wall of text, but it is a good story.
NetNostalgia Forum - Television (local)
Skyshale033
Subject: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Does anyone remember this kid’s show? It was called Candle Cove and I must have been 6 or 7. I never found reference to it anywhere so I think it was on a local station around 1971 or 1972. I lived in Ironton at the time. I don’t remember which station, but I do remember it was on at a weird time, like 4:00 PM.
mike_painter65
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
it seems really familiar to me…..i grew up outside of ashland and was 9 yrs old in 72. candle cove…was it about pirates? i remember a pirate marionete at the mouth of a cave talking to a little girl
Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
YES! Okay I’m not crazy! I remember Pirate Percy. I was always kind of scared of him. He looked like he was built from parts of other dolls, real low-budget. His head was an old porcelain baby doll, looked like an antique that didn’t belong on the body. I don’t remember what station this was! I don’t think it was WTSF though.
Jaren_2005
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Sorry to ressurect this old thread but I know exactly what show you mean, Skyshale. I think Candle Cove ran for only a couple months in ‘71, not ‘72. I was 12 and I watched it a few times with my brother. It was channel 58, whatever station that was. My mom would let me switch to it after the news. Let me see what I remember.
It took place in Candle cove, and it was about a little girl who imagined herself to be friends with pirates. The pirate ship was called the Laughingstock, and Pirate Percy wasn’t a very good pirate because he got scared too easily. And there was calliope music constantly playing. Don’t remember the girl’s name. Janice or Jade or something. Think it was Janice.
Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Thank you Jaren!!! Memories flooded back when you mentioned the Laughingstock and channel 58. I remember the bow of the ship was a wooden smiling face, with the lower jaw submerged. It looked like it was swallowing the sea and it had that awful Ed Wynn voice and laugh. I especially remember how jarring it was when they switched from the wooden/plastic model, to the foam puppet version of the head that talked.
mike_painter65
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
ha ha i remember now too.
do you remember this part skyshale: “you have…to go…INSIDE.”
Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Ugh mike, I got a chill reading that. Yes I remember. That’s what the ship always told Percy when there was a spooky place he had to go in, like a cave or a dark room where the treasure was. And the camera would push in on Laughingstock’s face with each pause. YOU HAVE… TO GO… INSIDE. With his two eyes askew and that flopping foam jaw and the fishing line that opened and closed it. Ugh. It just looked so cheap and awful.
You guys remember the villain? He had a face that was just a handlebar mustache above really tall, narrow teeth.
kevin_hart
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
i honestly, honestly thought the villain was pirate percy. i was about 5 when this show was on. nightmare fuel.
Jaren_2005
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
That wasn’t the villain, the puppet with the mustache. That was the villain’s sidekick, Horace Horrible. He had a monocle too, but it was on top of the mustache. I used to think that meant he had only one eye.
But yeah, the villain was another marionette. The Skin-Taker. I can’t believe what they let us watch back then.
kevin_hart
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
jesus h. christ, the skin taker. what kind of a kids show were we watching? i seriously could not look at the screen when the skin taker showed up. he just descended out of nowhere on his strings, just a dirty skeleton wearing that brown top hat and cape. and his glass eyes that were too big for his skull. christ almighty.
Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Wasn’t his top hat and cloak all sewn up crazily? Was that supposed to be children’s skin??
mike_painter65
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
yeah i think so. rememer his mouth didn’t open and close, his jaw just slid back and foth. i remember the little girl said “why does your mouth move like that” and the skin-taker didn’t look at the girl but at the camera and said “TO GRIND YOUR SKIN”
Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
I’m so relieved that other people remember this terrible show!
I used to have this awful memory, a bad dream I had where the opening jingle ended, the show faded in from black, and all the characters were there, but the camera was just cutting to each of their faces, and they were just screaming, and the puppets and marionettes were flailing spastically, and just all screaming, screaming. The girl was just moaning and crying like she had been through hours of this. I woke up many times from that nightmare. I used to wet the bed when I had it.
kevin_hart
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
i don’t think that was a dream. i remember that. i remember that was an episode.
Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
No no no, not possible. There was no plot or anything, I mean literally just standing in place crying and screaming for the whole show.
kevin_hart
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
maybe i’m manufacturing the memory because you said that, but i swear to god i remember seeing what you described. they just screamed.
Jaren_2005
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Oh God. Yes. The little girl, Janice, I remember seeing her shake. And the Skin-Taker screaming through his gnashing teeth, his jaw careening so wildly I thought it would come off its wire hinges. I turned it off and it was the last time I watched. I ran to tell my brother and we didn’t have the courage to turn it back on.
mike_painter65
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
i visited my mom today at the nursing home. i asked her about when i was little in the early 70s, when i was 8 or 9 and if she remebered a kid’s show, candle cove. she said she was suprised i could remember that and i asked why, and she said “because i used to think it was so strange that you said ‘i’m gona go watch candle cove now mom’ and then you would tune the tv to static and juts watch dead air for 30 minutes. you had a big imagination with your little pirate show.”
Skyshale033
Subject: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Does anyone remember this kid’s show? It was called Candle Cove and I must have been 6 or 7. I never found reference to it anywhere so I think it was on a local station around 1971 or 1972. I lived in Ironton at the time. I don’t remember which station, but I do remember it was on at a weird time, like 4:00 PM.
mike_painter65
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
it seems really familiar to me…..i grew up outside of ashland and was 9 yrs old in 72. candle cove…was it about pirates? i remember a pirate marionete at the mouth of a cave talking to a little girl
Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
YES! Okay I’m not crazy! I remember Pirate Percy. I was always kind of scared of him. He looked like he was built from parts of other dolls, real low-budget. His head was an old porcelain baby doll, looked like an antique that didn’t belong on the body. I don’t remember what station this was! I don’t think it was WTSF though.
Jaren_2005
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Sorry to ressurect this old thread but I know exactly what show you mean, Skyshale. I think Candle Cove ran for only a couple months in ‘71, not ‘72. I was 12 and I watched it a few times with my brother. It was channel 58, whatever station that was. My mom would let me switch to it after the news. Let me see what I remember.
It took place in Candle cove, and it was about a little girl who imagined herself to be friends with pirates. The pirate ship was called the Laughingstock, and Pirate Percy wasn’t a very good pirate because he got scared too easily. And there was calliope music constantly playing. Don’t remember the girl’s name. Janice or Jade or something. Think it was Janice.
Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Thank you Jaren!!! Memories flooded back when you mentioned the Laughingstock and channel 58. I remember the bow of the ship was a wooden smiling face, with the lower jaw submerged. It looked like it was swallowing the sea and it had that awful Ed Wynn voice and laugh. I especially remember how jarring it was when they switched from the wooden/plastic model, to the foam puppet version of the head that talked.
mike_painter65
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
ha ha i remember now too.
do you remember this part skyshale: “you have…to go…INSIDE.”Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Ugh mike, I got a chill reading that. Yes I remember. That’s what the ship always told Percy when there was a spooky place he had to go in, like a cave or a dark room where the treasure was. And the camera would push in on Laughingstock’s face with each pause. YOU HAVE… TO GO… INSIDE. With his two eyes askew and that flopping foam jaw and the fishing line that opened and closed it. Ugh. It just looked so cheap and awful.
You guys remember the villain? He had a face that was just a handlebar mustache above really tall, narrow teeth.
kevin_hart
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
i honestly, honestly thought the villain was pirate percy. i was about 5 when this show was on. nightmare fuel.
Jaren_2005
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
That wasn’t the villain, the puppet with the mustache. That was the villain’s sidekick, Horace Horrible. He had a monocle too, but it was on top of the mustache. I used to think that meant he had only one eye.
But yeah, the villain was another marionette. The Skin-Taker. I can’t believe what they let us watch back then.
kevin_hart
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
jesus h. christ, the skin taker. what kind of a kids show were we watching? i seriously could not look at the screen when the skin taker showed up. he just descended out of nowhere on his strings, just a dirty skeleton wearing that brown top hat and cape. and his glass eyes that were too big for his skull. christ almighty.
Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Wasn’t his top hat and cloak all sewn up crazily? Was that supposed to be children’s skin??
mike_painter65
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
yeah i think so. rememer his mouth didn’t open and close, his jaw just slid back and foth. i remember the little girl said “why does your mouth move like that” and the skin-taker didn’t look at the girl but at the camera and said “TO GRIND YOUR SKIN”
Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
I’m so relieved that other people remember this terrible show!
I used to have this awful memory, a bad dream I had where the opening jingle ended, the show faded in from black, and all the characters were there, but the camera was just cutting to each of their faces, and they were just screaming, and the puppets and marionettes were flailing spastically, and just all screaming, screaming. The girl was just moaning and crying like she had been through hours of this. I woke up many times from that nightmare. I used to wet the bed when I had it.
kevin_hart
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
i don’t think that was a dream. i remember that. i remember that was an episode.
Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
No no no, not possible. There was no plot or anything, I mean literally just standing in place crying and screaming for the whole show.
kevin_hart
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
maybe i’m manufacturing the memory because you said that, but i swear to god i remember seeing what you described. they just screamed.
Jaren_2005
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Oh God. Yes. The little girl, Janice, I remember seeing her shake. And the Skin-Taker screaming through his gnashing teeth, his jaw careening so wildly I thought it would come off its wire hinges. I turned it off and it was the last time I watched. I ran to tell my brother and we didn’t have the courage to turn it back on.
mike_painter65
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
i visited my mom today at the nursing home. i asked her about when i was little in the early 70s, when i was 8 or 9 and if she remebered a kid’s show, candle cove. she said she was suprised i could remember that and i asked why, and she said “because i used to think it was so strange that you said ‘i’m gona go watch candle cove now mom’ and then you would tune the tv to static and juts watch dead air for 30 minutes. you had a big imagination with your little pirate show.”
again sorry about the wall of text. this story seems to have originated on http://www.ichorfalls.com/, which is filled with these kinds of stories. another good one is http://www.creepypasta.com/, though some links don't work.
if you like series', theres the holders series, at www.holders.org . my favorite is the holder of doom.
and, if you made it this far in this post, heres a pic:
by screamasinclair on deviant art.sweet dreams, gentlemen. and ladies. and everything inbetween!
Saturday 2 April 2011
horadric cube app
perhaps he was going to the formal of the sewing school he went to, and when some guys drove past in a stolen armored car filled with bank money, he threw the sewing machine, it crashed their car on the riverside, and he's like 'dude! the sewing machines OK! and i totally saved the day!'
but, that doesn't explain the angle of the car, or why the guy in the brown uniform looks unimpressed at the people taking the picture. and i'm not sure thats an armored car.
and check this out: http://us.blizzard.com/diablo3/media/horadrapp/#horadrapp-disclaimer its an april fools thing by blizzard, who always make the best april fools stuff. for some of the jokes, you need to know a little about blizzard, but most of its okay.
and if you ever get a chance to see the movie donnie darko, watch it. if you hate how in movies they need to explain even the most obvious part of the plot, this is the movie for you. i don't think i've ever seen a more thought provoking film.
Friday 1 April 2011
ok, starting over...
this blog business is difficult. i think i sorta jumped in the deep end, tried to do too much.
so i'm gonna restart, just simple stuff first. a funny picture/ video i found, and maybe a thought. maybe i'll do other stuff later, only time will tell.
funny pic:
personally, that morning i was wondering why someone was filming a firemans hat spinning in a pile of smoking rubble, but, maybe i was focusing on the wrong thing.
oh and at bronx zoo, a cobra escaped, and some guy created this: http://twitter.com/bronxzooscobra its awesome. i particularly enjoyed the indiana jones quip.
and a thought. hmm. imagination is not just for children. i wish i was imaginative. then i could write awesome stuff about... stuff and... things.
so i'm gonna restart, just simple stuff first. a funny picture/ video i found, and maybe a thought. maybe i'll do other stuff later, only time will tell.
funny pic:
oh and at bronx zoo, a cobra escaped, and some guy created this: http://twitter.com/bronxzooscobra its awesome. i particularly enjoyed the indiana jones quip.
and a thought. hmm. imagination is not just for children. i wish i was imaginative. then i could write awesome stuff about... stuff and... things.
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