Two completely unrelated topics

I had two things that I wanted to say and so I don't forget about them I'll post them both at once, even though they are not related at all with one another.

First off, I think there may be a lot we can learn about the brain if we study what happens when people are on LSD:

How can our brain override what our eyes see and replace it with what it thinks? How much of the world do we actually see in reality then? Also how can two people get on the same trip? It seems like there is more to the brain if we unlock it, and LSD could be a key...
Woah... that kinda sounded like a hippie thing to say...
More LSDness here here and here.

And now for something completely different:
You know the bars that they put with music that goes up and down based on how loud different frequencies are? Well, one of my biggest pet peeves is when they make fake ones that move, but are just image loops. There is one at the K-State football games that pops up from time to time on the jumbotron that fills in the word "LOUDER". It doesn't matter how loud the crowd is, the bars fill up the same way each time. Myspace and Quicktime also has the fake bar graphs in their programs. It is so annoying. Stop making them already, they serve no purpose. Geez.

Wabash Cannonball

K-State showed that they are actually a worthy team this weekend with a fairly sound beating of Marshal. The game ended with a score of 23-7 but we could have scored a couple more touchdowns if we didn't commit so many penalties.
I had a good time at the game and my abs got a good workout doing the Wabash many-a-times.


***K-State football update*** K-State football had a good Sunday night in the NFL, Rock Cartwright scored the only touchdown for the Washington Redskins on a kickoff return. Also Terrance Newman was named co-"Rock Star" of the game.

Make Tacos NOT War

Best war protest ever:

via Spinning Girl

A few good blogs

I need your help, I am looking for a couple of new blogs to read. What you can do is tell me your two or three favorite blogs (other than mine ^_^ ) . I will go through them select my favorite, maybe make them a cheesy award, and in the end have a couple more entertaining blogs to read.

So again I ask; what are some good blogs that you read?

A Million Dollar Idea

I had a really good idea on the way to Radina's this morning. Why don't golf courses place an extra green by the place why you normally tee off and then on every other week have everyone play the course backwards? this would give people a reason to get out every week so that they can play the course each direction.

...If you use this idea in a golf course could you please give me a percent of your earnings (say 3~4%)? I am tring to earn 22 million dollars as quickly as possible by posting good ideas on this blog...

The state of K-State football

So now that we are two weeks into the season how do things look for K-State football? Well, surprisingly I have the same feelings about them now than I did at the start of the year. Those feelings are a since of hope, with a slight twitch of impending doom. With this being Prince's first year of coaching I didn't really have too high of hopes for the team, be we do have a good core of young players to build on. But with the news that Dylan Meier would be the starting quarterback almost all hope of a good season was dashed, especially after seeing his performance over the first game.
Fortunately, this last weekend he was good more times than he was a dork, and coupled with Clayton being back in the line-up we put together a good game. Now I know that FAU is 118 out of 119 in the NCAA power rankings, but we still had our timing down and we didn't mess up the easy plays like we did in the first week.
So will K-State go to a bowl game? Let's look at the schedule:

Illinois St. - Won
Florida Atlantic - Won
Marshall - 75% Win
Louisville - 5% Win
at Baylor - 65% Win
OK State - 55% Win
Nebraska - 20% Win
at Missouri - 25% Win
Iowa State - 45% Win
at Colorado - 75% Win
Texas - 10% Win
at Kansas - 60% Win

So if the Cats win all the games that I think they have a good shot at they should go 6-6 and get a bowl bid because they travel well to bowl games. It is possible that we will finish 3rd in the Big XII North (Missouri and Nebraska will be one and two), and so the bowl we goto should be somewhat decent.

I think overall things are looking up for K-State football. We are not good enough to be a big player this year, or even next, but I think within the next three to five years we should be back in the top 20 and playing for the Big XII title.

Now only if I can find a way to keep our basketball team from being good so that I don't have to hear about that "sport" all the time...

Remember

where we have been.

Megalopyge opercularis

Here is a video of Megalopyge opercularis (Puss Caterpillar):


Here is some information about Megalopyge opercularis from Wikipedia:

The 'fur' of the larva contains venomous spines that cause extremely painful reactions in human skin upon contact. The reactions are sometimes localized to the affected area but are often very severe, radiating through the limb and causing numbness, tingling, rashes and blisters, and more systemic symptoms such as chest pain and anaphylaxis. Ironically, the resemblance of the larvae to soft, colorful cotton balls encourages people to pick them up and pet them.

Here is somebody who touched one:

When I was 7 years old playing in the backyard.I accidently rubbed my hand on this puss caterpillar & suffered afterwards.There was a burning itching sensation which developed into multiple red bumps & lesions all over my hand.Later on that day,I developed a fever & nausea.My parents rubbed natural herbal medicine on my hand to sooth the pain a little because we were poor so the hospital was out of the question.Next day,a huge bump filled with liquid developed in the middle of my hand surrounded by smaller red liquid bumps which still burned like hell.After a couple of days of natural treatments.The liquid bump bursted with oozing pus,revealing the red tender skin underneath.I still felt nauseated,but I felt alot better.A week later,my hand completely healed.Even though all this happened when I was a kid.I still remember it like it was yesterday.So always remember,a pus caterpillar has hidden hollow spines in it's fur filled with toxic poison.

Enjoy your day. ^_^

"Is it sabotage or is it pen attack?"

From Time Magazine:

A reporter went backstage, showed Senator Gerald P. Nye an Associated Press bulletin, stating that his country had been attacked. Snapped Gerald Nye, all wound up for an anti-war speech: "It sounds terribly fishy to me. . . . Is it sabotage or is it pen attack? . . ."
...
That night he spoke at Pittsburgh's First Baptist Church. His manner and tone were bitter and defeatist: ". . . just what Britain had planned for us"; "we have been maneuvered into this by the President."

That was the day of the Pearl Harbor attack.

More from Time during the Pre-WWII 40's:

While debate on the Lend-Lease Bill rolled on last week, many a U. S. citizen raised shrill anti-war cries. Speaking for the leftist majority of the American Youth Congress, Executive Secretary Joseph Cad-den declared: "America's youth have repudiated every attempt on the part of the Administration and its lackeys to put over this war program."
In front of the British Embassy paraded lady members of the Paul Revere Sentinels and Women's Neutrality League, brandishing placards which blared: "Benedict Arnold Helped England, Too," "Move Over, Unknown Soldier."
"[Sen.] Pepper is a coward," screeched Mrs. Dilling. "He's just an old scaredy-cat and won't talk to us. How much is he getting to sell this Republic out? I'm hot and bothered. We came here to protest against this dictatorship and war bill. . . .
Paul A. F. Warnholtz bellowed, in the Alliance's News Letter: "They are usually old men, sterile biologically, and sterile even of all dreams and memories of life, love and youth, and would deny the right of youth to live. Their senile bodies, their cold, calculating brains, frequently find compensation for their lost youth in hatred and false ambitions for glory and gold. . . ."
Mr. Ford suggested that the U. S. give both England and the Axis powers "the tools to keep on fighting until they both collapse." Said he: "There is no righteousness in either cause. ... If we can keep both sides fighting long enough, until they cannot fight any more, then maybe the little people will open their eyes. . . . When both nations finally collapse into internal dissolution, then the U. S. can play the role for which it has the strength and the ability."

Sound familiar? (The American Dictatorship, war for money, anyone who wants war is wrong, etc...)

A popular voice is not always the right one; it is better to stand up for what is right than to take the easy way out of a hard fight.

Political Pork

Political Pork is a local talk show that deals with current events here at K-State and around the world. One of the host is Republican and the other is Libertarian, and they both are pretty funny and unbiased. They usually have good points and they make some of the more boring topics of the current news worth listening about. Throw in a call from the frequent Liberal caller Joann, and you have one good hour of talk show.

For the last couple of years we would listen to Political Pork on K-State's radio station on the way to hockey practice on Mondays. Unfortunately hockey practice moved to Tuesday/Thursday so I have not had a chance to catch their shows.

Well who took the initiate to solve this problem? Thats right, I did. I have added a podcast of their show to the side bar on the right. Now you and I can enjoy their wit and charm any time that we want.

Your cheers flatter me.

Color

Light-emitting shirts:


Paint Bombs:


Blue Man Group:

Happy 2nd Blogday!

Well I never. I wasn't paying attention and missed this blog's second birthday. I know I don't need to tell all of you, my loyal, raving, awesome fans, but I started this blog on September 3rd 2004. Since that fateful day I have achieved many things, but what I am most proud of is my rank of 5th for the Google search of "quitting crack".

So how did I make it to two years with almost daily posts? I simply followed these three rules:
1. Never apologize for not posting.
2. Post something if I find it interesting; don't worry about if others will.
3. Don't make rules about what I can or can not post.

I would also like to take this time to thank you guys for reading my blog. I especially would like to thank those people who read this without having to (i.e. not my friends or family. They have to, because I will start talking about something when I am with them, and then, when I realize that they have no idea what I am talking about I say; "I posted about it on my blog, didn't you read it?" After a year or so of this I have tricked many of them into reading my blog so that they have some idea about what I am rambling on about.)

Alright, thanks again for reading, and maybe by year three Google will see my vast knowledge of everything and see this blog as a priceless gem of the internet and will buy it out for $22 million. And then I can blog about all the awesome things you can do with $22 million dollars.

Rock on.

Killer Game

Dude, I am so getting the when it comes out. The graphics are awesome!

Kansas City Renaissance Festival

Hear ye, hear ye! I just got back from the KC Ren Fest. It was very, very good. I went to Denver's Ren Fest when I was a kid, and I liked it, but I don't remember too much of it. But from what I do remember KC's was much better.

First off the festival is huge and there were many times throughout the day where we found new places to explore. Secondly everyone was very nice and there were alot of people dressed up (we dressed in our pirate costumes since today was pirate day). Thirdly, and most importantly, the price was right (about $16 a person, and we were even able to score a two-for-one deal).
Everyone that I talked to about the festival on Friday said that it was good, and i believed them, but I didn't really think it would be this good.

If you are in the Kansas City area you really should check out the Renaissance Festival, you won't be disappointed.

More posts about today:
Nicole's Renaissance Festival Fun
Michelle's KC Ren Fest

Google Image Labeler

Google has thought of a good way to improve their image search; they made a game of it. You and a random partner view a picture and write key words for it, if you match key words you get points and go on to a new picture. It really is a good idea, and actually is kinda fun. My high score so far is 900 points. If you have a minute you have enough time to play, check it.