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Virtuoso - music theory board game
not for the faint of heart
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Virtuoso - music theory board game
not for the faint of heart
The Pitch: the game of graphic design
Lego Settlers of Catan (LDraw rendering)
Arrested Development Clue Board Game
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Lucille Bluth in the Model Home with the Cornballer?
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'Around the Commonwealth by Aeroplane' board game, 1910.
The Northern Territory wasn't separated from South Australia until 1911. Highly interesting and educational eh?
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Sunday, August 10, 2014
How To Dad
I have to admit, I don't usually post commercials on my blog.
But this one....I just had to.
A commercial that shows the dad to be a proactive leader in the household, with a family reacting positively to his leadership, needs to go viral.
Like Awesome viral.
Long live awesome Dads.
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Sunday, August 3, 2014
It's here. I am officially 21.
It's ok, you can celebrate. :)
But really. 21. I was thinking about that the other day, and was wondering what I had to show for 21 years of life. What was the number 1 thing I have learned at my ripe old age of 21?
I tried really hard to narrow it down to one thing. I tried hard, but to no avail. Life has a thrown too many lessons hand tailored by God in my direction for me to narrow it down to just one.
The first lesson, is rather obvious, but profound.
God is good.
And yes, apparently it took me 21 years to really find that out. :)
Through all my trials, biffs, stumblings, scrapes and spiritual abrasions, God has never let me go hungry, never left me in a ditch, never said 'fooey on this kid' and hucked me out for the trash pickup. He has always been there, always led me ( when I would actually listen...... ) always been handling my life so I never need worry, never need fear, despite the fact that I usually did anyway.
One of the verses that has been the most comfort to me recently is Philippians 1:6 -
Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete
until the day of Jesus Christ;
Paraphrased down to 'God will finish what he has started' for quick and easy memory and reminders.
God will finish what he has started. I cling to that promise, knowing that Gods promises are the only thing I can cling to in life, and that he will finish sanctifying me - some day.
The second thing I learned is a bit original. Well, actually it isn't really original at all, but I compiled the truth of it into an original one-liner, that I am very fond of.
We have all seen those one liner quotes from various famous or so-called smart people through time. Well, someday, I hope this quote goes that viral. It might do the world some good.
"Those who are the most surprised at your sins and your sin nature, are the least in touch with their own."
There it is. It's even in quotes - quoting me. :) So there, my first official quote. If I am to be remembered saying anything, I hope this line appears in there somewhere.
The truth behind it is as old as old, but as God has revealed this truth me to recently, I kinda compiled it down to a simple phrase for easy memory. I like simple and catchy one-liners that convey heaps of truth, because I find them the easiest to remember in a tight spot.
But seriously. Those who get the most surprised, and even offended, insulted, and upset, when they find out how much of a sinner you really are, how black your heart really is, how deep the stain of sin has really sink in your life, are the ones who are the most oblivious, or hard hearted towards their own sin-encrusted souls.
I have a friend in the web - she probably will read this and know I am talking about her - who went through some rough times recently. On being convicted by her sin, and confessing it at large on have web, she didn't receive love, compassion, and friendly and god-centered help from friends coming alongside and pointing her in the right direction, rejoicing with her in the freedom of her release from her sins.
She was hated. She was spurned. She was turned away by some of her friends, because they couldn't believe how 'bad' she really was.
She did receive comfort from others, and even help and prayer, but still, she was rejected for merely being honest.
Folks, I am sorry to say, but those people have more sin down deep than she does, and what's worse, they are blind to it, by their own choice.
The people who are really in touch with their own soul, really convicted by God as to the wickedness of their own, the ones who are starting to realize, and experience the far reaching effects their sin nature has on every aspect of their life, are not surprised when they find their friends in the same boat. They know their own depravity, and therefore understands and rejoices when someone else finds themselves in similar waters.
I struggle so much with my own lack of faith, doubt, pride, anger, lust, greed, lack of self control, that sometimes I wonder if I am the only one with such problems. Of course I know others do, but when nobody talks, nobody knows.
I will summarize the point with a resolution, in hopes of helping being the solution to the problem - To be more open. A resolution to be more honest as to how I really am. If people are having a hard time being open as about their problems, then I guess I will try to do my part to make it easier, and tell more people how I really am doing.
Which lately, hasn't been so hot.
I find myself struggling so hard with doing what I know I should be doing. My inner self is surprisingly selfish and hostile to everything that gets in the way of what I want to do. I honestly have been rather surprised at my own depravity.
I am finding out that I am a rebel. I die-hard rebel, and not just one in grey wool - one in black, or at least, with a black heart.
And since I was surprised, I guess that means I guess I didn't understand my own sin nature, which then explains why I was surprised, because I didn't understand....
Sorry, gets a bit circular there.
But anyway, It has become more and more clear to me that the only thing good in me is Christ.
Period. Flat out. No joke. I guess Paul wasn't kidding.
I thought I was a pretty good dude. You know, smart, homeschooled, didn't shoot people, was pretty nice, had lots of friends, could shoot pretty straight, hunt, fish better than most in my groups, big muscles, yada yada yada.
Your mind can tell you big and mighty things when it is trying to avoid the realization of your own real lost-ness and depravity.
But then of course, God doesn't leave you there. Thankfully. Breaks them lies. Reveals cold hard truth.
Then starts building.
He is teaching me to honor him in my heart, and not just the outside. Submitting don't come natural to me.
Yes Mullins fans, I learned that quote from him. :)
So my life is one solid battle right now, with moments of victory and moments of defeat, often not too far apart. Praying, fighting, falling, failing.
And getting back up again.
For a Righteous man may fall seven times, and rise again,
Proverbs 24:16
So all of you out there who think I am a little nuts - I am. Lately my biggest Public-Enemy-#1 has been myself.
But I am bound and determined,
I will go down.
He must increase, I must decrease.
God will finish what he has started.
And it certainly wont be by 22. : )
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Saturday, May 31, 2014
Close, But No Cigar
Especially for us younger generation, the thoughts, ideas, and daydreams of romance, marriage, and love tend to be rather at the forefront of our minds.
Just admit it.
We can give lots of good, solid biblical reason for it, and lots of them are truly legit.
But what about the world? Lately I have kinda been wondering at the vast obsession of lovers and romance, physical, and emotional. Being ' in love ' is right next door to being ' in heaven '.
Why the hype? Honestly, relationships can be painful, and the world usually tend to try to ward off pain with a ten foot stick slathered in GMO's and Corn Syrup. They are always looking for the ultimate romance, the ultimate fill in the next lover, the next moonlight night, the next long kiss, the next .... yeah, I'll stop there.
But despite all the hearts and arrows, I think the rest of the world might be closer to the answer than they, or we, realize.
We tend to bash the rest of the world for being so obsessed with romance and love (again, emotional and physical) that we miss the vast point that drives the whole situation, and it puts the world in a different light altogether. And in fact, many of them got the boat while we flounder in the water after missing the pier completely.
God says that he instituted marriage - romance and the whole sheebang included - as a picture of the relationship between Christ and his church. A picture of our relationship with God.
Romances are really about relationships. Deep, loving, caring, relationships.
For the unsaved person, that is as good as it gets in this world - they have no relationships with God, so the next best thing is with each-other.
They actually got closer to the heart message of life than many of us Christians. They have found (even if they don't realize it) that nothing is quite as good as a good relationship.
And what do most of us Christians harp over way too often?
Say it....
Can't have tattoos. Can't go out dates. Can't have boyfriends. Can't wear makeup. Can't drink.
You know the lineup - all the things we harp and obsess over, and have a hissyfit around when someone else disagrees, or even worse, crosses the line, because we all know the world will cease to orbit the sun, the mountain will cave in, and the seas will turn to molten magma if the Jones' decide to drink a beer on the lawn.
Now don't get me wrong - I am never saying rules are a bad thing, by a long stretch, I am just saying that the Christian world tends to hang limbo there and squawk at anyone who doesn't have their monkey-bars spaced the same distance apart.
But it is so much more than that.
Christianity is about nothing more than relationships, and how Christ came to ultimately fix our broken relationship with him, and we can then have good relationships with everyone else down here because of our relationship with him.
Sure, there are rules - God made them, so I can't exactly argue can I? Of course we need to obey them.
Just saying.
But one of the biggest reason why we are commanded not to sin, is that it ruins our relationship with God. It was our sin in the garden that ruined our relationship with God in the first place.
See? The world, in all their sensual driven madness, was close, so close, to the ultimate answer. They know (for the most part....) that it can't be in stuff - even big boys with their big boy toys want to have their guy and girl friends out with them on the water and on the dunes.
They just missed who the relationship is with.
We happen to know, and can benefit from that relationship in more ways than we yet know, but we certainly have no right to look down on the world for their drive towards romance.
They know, and are trying as hard as they can to find the ultimate relationship, but can't because the only ultimate relationship is to be had with God - any other relationship will eventually let you down.
They are so close.
But, quoth the old adage, no cigar.
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Sunday, May 18, 2014
The Top Ten Myths About Country Life - Debunked
Ok, this post has been floating about in my mind now for a while, and at last, I am bringing it down to earth and to the cybernook I call my blog.
So, I have found there is a lot of hype about the country life, and whether you know it or not, a lot you believe about living in the country probably isn't true - unless of course you already live there, in which case you should relate to this post marvelously.
Ready for them? I wish I could arrange these in 10 - 1 order, but I cant decide in which order they should go. I will however save the biggest myth for the last - nice little climax. :)
So here we go -The Top Ten myths about the Country.
#10 - Everybody is nice and polite in the country
Ha, I so wish this was true, but no, to do that, we would have to eliminate all people - which would make country living rather hard wouldn't it?
I have heard of, and met, my share of country jerks, and while they might not be in the same quantities as un the city, oh boy do they exist.
#9 - Everybody in the country listens to country music.
This is one is debatable as to whether or not it is preferable, but no, certainly not true. I have heard a good share of everything else out in my neck of the woods.
Granted, I would say country music is preferred out here, but is not unanimous across the board.
#8 - Everybody in the country dun be dumb rednecks.
Ok, just because you know me doesn't mean you can judge the rest of us that way. :D
But really, my neighbor, plus one guy I know pretty well up the road, are engineers at Boeing. Seriously. They have some serious smarts up there, and the country is littered with people who are far brighter than you ever dreamed a pair of simple jeans and t-shirt could hold.
Speaking of which .....
#7 - Everybody in the country wears jeans, or overalls.
I have seen a wide variety of clothes out here, from jeans, to overalls, to coveralls, to shorts, shorts so short you cant even call them shorts anymore, Khakis, skinny jeans, jeans with so many holes there is more holes than jeans, dress pants, yeah. It's all here. Jeans certainly have center stage, but again, is not unanimous.
#6 - Everybody in the country has cows and chickens at the very least.
Dead wrong. Me and my neighbor are the only ones on our street that has chickens. Cows appear about once every two blocks. You would not believe the amount of people who move out here just to get some land and make it look nice, then just sit at it and stare at it. Literally. There are tons of people out my way who have no animals besides dogs, and maybe a stray barn cat or two.
#5 - Goats are these lovely quiet animals that stand still to be milked, and sheep are docile and follow the shepherd quietly wherever he goes.
Let me inform you.
When Christ compared Christians to sheep, that wasn't exactly a compliment. Sheep are scatterbrained, dumb, do whatever everybody else is doing, even if it is dumber than what they are presently doing, are obsessed with food, and can get so scared they will literally kill themselves.
Sound familiar?
Oh, and when he compared the unsaved to goats - Ha - depending on the goat, that could be a flat out insult. Of course Christ wasn't insulting people - goats are actually a very god word picture of unsaved people - It's just that goats in real life are so downright .... (thinking of nice word...) .... Evil.
I have heard stories of nice, quiet, behaving goats, kinda like all those rumors you hear about dragons in Antarctica.
And yes, they will eat anything.
Goats will intentionally look for ways to do what you know you don't want them to do, and you can see them calculating in their minds how much longer they can pull off their mischief until you get to them.
I plain out don't like goats, and sheep are ok - for their purpose.
The way I see it, there is a reason God said sheep are going to Heaven, and goats are going to Hell.
Just saying.
#4 - We live on Ham, steak, mashed potatoes, fried chicken, and home-baked pies.
Oh Golly I wish. I would be one happy dude - imagine all that meat..... Oh yeah, I could do that - if I was flat out rich.
#3 - We spend the evenings sitting on the front porch and watch the sunset.
Like, never.
We are usually busy feeding animals at that time - everyday. Silly things need feeding regularly.
Some of us don't even have a front porch. We do, and it even has a swing in it, but we hardly ever get to use it. :)
#2 - We all have rocking chairs on the front porch.
Literally, the last time I saw a legit rocking chair was at Cracker Barrel. Nuff Said.
Ready for the #1 Myth about the country life? This might surprise you.
They just don't. Know why?
Because they crow ALL. THE. TIME. - I heard one crow at 3:00 A.M once. They crow in the morning. They crow in the evening. They crow anytime in-between they feel like it. They just crow.
Honestly, I really have no idea where this one came from, because it is so far out there, it just simply had to be nearly made up out of someones head. Someone woke up, heard the rooster crow, and just randomly decided that the rooster had to be crowing at the sun, because he obviously wasn't crowing at the llama.
Or something like that...
So there they are! All ten of them, debunked. Country like just ain't what it's all chalked up to be.
Got any other country myths that your backwoods life has debunked? I would love to hear them!
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Sunday, May 11, 2014
From time to time for sheer amusements sake and for just 'keeping tabs on the culture', I watch videos on youtube where people argue about gun control. The majority I see are Piers Morgan vs. _____, and most of them follow the same basic blueprint.
Anti-gunner says world would be safer if
only law enforcement had guns, or make guns ridiculously hard to get a hold of. Gun advocate throws in a few statistics about how things are safer with guns, and proceeds to get adamant about their guns and their constitutional rights, ending in a stereo-typical 'you can have my guns one round at a time' statement.
Piers rightly states that most gun advocates that get on that type of show all do that, with little variation. He appears to be dead right.
Of course, the gun advocates are usually right in their analysis, when it comes to statistics, motivations, etc., but over and over again, it seems to me that they miss the real mark. There is a real point, way deep down past the layers of anti-gunners arguments, rules, and TV talk shows.
The real nugget? The real deal behind guns, drugs, teen drivers, and cattle ranchers?
They (Fill in that Pronoun with your party of choice) think they can make the world safe. They think that with all their rules, regulations, and lack of freedom, keeping the law-abiding citizen tacked to his chair in an attempt to pin the criminal, that somehow, someway,
the world will be safe
Oh the word, they roll it around in their mouth in sheer joy at it's sound. They harp on it daily, as a matter of fact. Gun control is worth it - stiffer driving laws are worth it - higher taxes for 'better' schools are worth it -
if they can only keep one person safe.
I have been thinking on this, and I want to see if I can put this question, this issue, to rest in one fell swoop, because the answer is not what it may at first appear.
Fear is a deadly thing, and to be honest, it drives most people. Fear of looking bad in front of their friends. Fear of losing money in the stock market. Fear of being hurt. Fear of pain. Fear of insignificance. Fear of insecurity. Fear of fear itself.
In this case, fear of un-safety. ( I just found out that isn't a word..... oh well.)
In the New Captain America (review coming sometime.... I hope..) there is a stunning line.
Nick Fury has just finished telling Cap how they are about to launch their next step in anti-terrorism - basically to kill anyone who might even be the tiniest possibility of a terrorist with massive souped-up drones.
Cap: I thought the punishment came after the crime?
Nick: Here at Shield we take the world as it is, not as we like it to be.
By holding a gun to everybody's head and calling it freedom.
Freedom is the other side of the coin.
Freedom is never safe. Total safety is never free. Think about it. If you have the freedom to cut yourself if you pick up that knife sitting next to you, there is a slight risk in that freedom. You just might be dumb and cut yourself. If, however, that knife is removed, technically you no longer have the freedom to hurt yourself with that knife, and again, technically the risk is gone. You are safe now, right?
The world is scared stiff of getting hurt and getting rubbed wrong, so of course the way to make everybody safe is to make sure that no-one is free.
The bad guys in Cap 2 ( no spoilers out there for those who haven't yet seen it ) say in the movie that the world can't be trusted with its own freedom - they have to take it away to make it safe.
Sure, freedom is scary. It means someone might use their freedom to do you harm. They might use their freedom to do something you don't like. The list goes on of things that they could do with their freedom that are potentially harmful, and the quick and obvious solution is to just take away all freedom - far, far safer that way.
The militia, or even worse, the rabble minded public at large, might decide to storm the capital if capitol hill does something they decide is dumb, therefore lets just make things much safer and remove all public guns. Oh yes, that's better. Safe....
All you gun-toters and conservatives out there, pause just a second though. Don't get yourself too saddled up on your high-horse there. You ain't off the hook either.
Christ commands us to love. Love unconditionally as a matter of fact, and unconditional love is unsafe.
It's hard, admit it.
Ladies, if you do the right thing and don't snap back when your husband is rude to you and run roughshod and (gasp!) unloving over your life, and love him back and serve him, it means he still has the potential to keep on doing it. And that hurts. Are you going to keep loving him? Serving him?
Guys, when she is disrespecting you, not honoring you, loving her when she is being nasty and a bit of a jerk is not second nature. Being loving keeps you open to more hurt, more pain.
It's so much easier to take away their freedom to hurt you, by merely walling yourself up, and being unloving back.
So much safer.
And that is ultimately why tyranny is wrong - it is the ultimate version of distrust and lack of love. One man in a big chair thinks that to keep himself and his rule safe and happy, he must keep the entire nation under his heavy and blood stained thumb, because freedom is far, far to dangerous. Any and all freedom is a threat to him, so it must all go. Every last bit of freedom.
But Christ knew this, and still left those around him free. Free to hurt him, free to kill him - and kept loving them even when they did.
And he had total freedom to wall them all off, blast them all to smithereens, and bring the world back down to serene safety.
Oh that word is starting to bug me...... maybe that is why I like guns without safety's.... That thought literally just came through my mind. Odd.
Anyway, he didn't do any of that. He used his freedom to love them back, and ultimately, that freedom and love, is what makes us free today, and what makes us love him today.
Odd isn't it? Without freedom, we cant love. If God never gave us freedom to hate him, we would never actually have the choice to love him. To make the conscious choice one way, there has to be the possibility, and the freedom, of turning the opposite way.
And that is one of the reasons why I think we should have no other laws besides the biblical laws, because then, and only then, are we being totally loving to our neighbor. I don't believe we should have stupid laws that try to keep ourselves safe from other peoples stupidity.
Like age limits on driving and owning guns. Really? Just have the laws in place to punish them if they actually do do something biblically worthy of punishment from the state. Like killing somebody.
But hey, whatcha know, the Bible has laws on how to deal with that.
Lets not have anymore of these laws that make the cops come out and play sandbox mediator when we have a fender bender, so nobody can ever be taken advantage of by a jerk who insists it was your fault he hit your bumper, and takes off down the road, leaving you having to now repair your car.
It's just a big-fat case of not really loving your neighbor.
But lets be a little more down home shall we?
Let's no longer wall everybody off who is hurting us, be unloving, because that is the easiest way to keep us and our emotions safe.
Lets instead be open - be loving - be ready to be hurt, be ready to be taken advantage of, be ready for humiliation, be content with things being '
', because then, and only then, are we really, truly, loving.
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Frozen: Review
Ok, I know everybody and their brother (sister?) have been harping about this movie ever since it came out. Some say it's amazing, some say it's typical Disney garbage, and of course there is everything in-between.
I'm not here to shoot a dead horse, but in my opinion, it seems everybody else's attempts to lay the beast low has rather missed the mark.
So, with no further ado, lets get down to the chilly. Catchy songs, excellent graphics, and witty humor have made this movie the most popular Disney since the Lion King.
Major spoiler alert
- Just throwing that out there. This movie requires an overlay for the review to really make any sense.
So, the story line follows the lives of two girls, Elsa and Anna, daughters of the king of a place I am not going to try to spell.
Elsa has the powers from birth to create almost anything related to ice, snow, frost, or winter, and growing up, she uses those powers to have fun with her little sister Anna, playing in the homemade snow in the great room of the castle.
In a freak accident however, Anna is hurt by an icy blast to the head from Elsa, attempting to make a snow mound to keep her from falling. Anna is unconscious and growing slowly colder, and her parents rush her to some stone trolls who heal Anna, but say that it is safer that Anna's memories of Elsa's powers be erased from her mind, but still leaving the memories of the good times they had together. Elsa is told that she needs to stay away from her sister, so as not to hurt her again. The castle doors are to be locked, the staff is reduced, in the kings attempts to hide Elsa's powers
Elsa and Anna grow up, Elsa eternally locked in her room to try to mask her ever growing power, and Anna, of course having no memories of the accident is constantly wondering why they can't play anymore.
When the parents die at sea, Elsa is left in command when she comes of age, as queen of the kingdom.
When the castle doors are opened at the coronation day, attention starved Anna bumps into a dashing young prince Hans, prince of another kingdom far away, but not destined for a throne due to 12 older brothers ahead of him in line for kingship.
Anna falls head over heels for Hans, and that night announces to Elsa, who has come out from her room for the coronation, wearing gloves to try to keep her power contained, that Her and Hans are getting married.
Elsa of course refuses the arrangement, and in an altercation between her and Anna and the crowd that ensues, loses control and throws layers of ice around the castle and surrounding area.
Elsa is of course mortified at the slip, and the people at the castle are horrified at her powers, some calling her a monster. Elsa flees the castle across the harbor, the water turning to ice under her feet as she runs.
Elsa retreats to the North mountain, and using her powers for the first time to its fullest extent, builds an ice palace for her to live in, sad that she had to flee, but immensely happy that she no longer has to conceal her powers and is free to enjoy them and use them. Unknown to her though, is that now the entire area is now in a solid wintery state, even freezing all the ships into the harbor.
Anna sets off to find Elsa, and along the way runs into an ice cutter, Kristof, with his reindeer Sven, and shortly after runs into Olaf - a magical talking snowman made by Elsa.
Anna is led to Elsa by Olaf, and in an attempt to convince her to come back, accidentally gets a shard of ice through her heart, and is kicked out of the ice palace by Elsa's personal snow giant.
Kristof takes Anna to his 'family' of stone trolls that adopted him when he was young, the eldest of the trolls telling them that if Anna didn't do an act of true love shortly, her heart would completely freeze, and her entire body would turn completely to ice. Some of the Stone Trolls think that a true loves kiss just might pull it off.
Kristof rushes Anna back down the mountain towards the Castle, meanwhile, Hans has lead an expedition towards Elsa to try to bring her back himself. An ice fight ensues, and Elsa is captured and brought back to the castle in custody.
Kristof arrives after Hans returns, and turns Anna back over to Hans, and Anna demands that he kiss her, in order to save her. Hans, once alone with her, slowly freezing to death from the inside out, tells her that he never really loved her, and only wanted to marry her so he could make his way to a throne, never going to get there any other way, since he is the youngest of 13 brothers in a distant kingdom. He reveals his plot to kill Elsa and makes himself king, and dousing the fire so as to eliminate all warmth, locks Anna in the room to die.
Olaf, the jovial snowman he is, hacks into the room by picking the lock with his carrot nose (hows that for ingenuity) and starts a fire to warm Anna, telling her that Kristof showed her more love than Hans, doing all that he did for her, and Anna thinks that he might be her true love.
She heads out of the room that is now unlocked, but Elsa escaped her cell, and is now whipping up a massive storm over the country.
Kristof, who was leaving the area but sees the storm and heads back towards Anna, riding hard on his trusty Sven.
All the characters meet in the frozen Harbor. Elsa is trying to leave the area, Hans is trying to catch her, Anna is freezing to death inside and out, seconds left before she dies, trying to make it to Kristof. On her way towards Kristof, she sees Hans getting ready to kill Elsa, and turning around, stands in the way of Hans, finally turning completely to ice, Hans' sword shattering on her frozen body. Elsa is mortified, but in a few seconds, Anna turns back into human form, having performed the 'true act of love' before she died, thus thawing her out.
Hans is chucked in jail, Elsa unwinterfies the area, on learning that love can thaw a frozen heart, and everybody goes back to happy lives, Kristof in charge of the ice business for the area, and Elsa rulling happily in the castle, using her ice powers for peoples enjoyment at the castle.
Ok, sorry that took so long, but this story required some elaboration to fully explain my opinion of it.
I will have to admit, I was prepared to like this movie, and came with very high expectations due to tid-bits I head heard from friends.
This story is built on two levels. One level follows Elsa, the other follows Anna. One level is great, the other level, and unfortunately the more predominate, is not so great.
The side that follow Elsa is deep, realistic and involved, as you see her constantly battling her deep fears, emotions constantly raging to and fro in her. She is torn by her love for Anna, whom she wants to be with but can't, and her fear of the world knowing her powers. The audience gets very connected with Elsa and her turmoil right off the bat, I think because we all can relate with all trying to stuff who we really are and what we really are afraid of. One also feels a lot of pity for her, as she as portrayed as misunderstood and confused. The chords struck by Elsa and her struggles go deep into human nature, giving her side of the movie a feeling of depth and reality not seen in many movies, let alone Disney movies. One can relate to her as a person - a real person.
She thinks she can be free and have peace by leaving everything behind and living by herself and do whatever she likes. But she soon finds out that doing that resulted in freezing the entire country over. Her selfishness ruins things for everybody. When she finally learns she can still be her, yet use her powers to help people, she finds peace and fulfillment. Meaning and purpose were found doing what she was good at for the help of others.
That side of the movie was great, and refreshing.
But unfortunately, that side of the movie is the smaller, and less prominent side.
The other level follows Anna, attention starved, and looking for love. The Anna side is *not* deep, and follows the general well-trodden path of Disney romance. Her personality is shallow, with little real emotion besides wanting love and attention, and is the typical Disney heroine - Pretty, fearless, slightly dingy, but overly focused on romance and marriage. There is little to no remnant of real humanity left in Anna, but is all hollywood girls are made up to be.
And that is why I think this story gets so much credit from people. The beginning of the story focuses a lot on Elsa and her struggles, setting the story up very well indeed, setting the stage for a very deep and resolving climax about the real meaning of love and not being afraid of who we are.
Yet it doesn't deliver. It poses this great, deep heart level problem, and then tries to answer the deep questions and heart problems with the garden variety romance typical of most Disney's. It starts deep, and ends shallow. It ends on a note that doesn't resolve.
The entire 'Anna' side of the movie centers around the 'love' theme, and Anna spends most of that time thinking that 'true love' is that mushy feeling that gives you a buzz. Granted, she finds out Hans is a stinker, 'true love' is all bunk, and Kristof is really her hero, but it is all still a romance - call it a back-door romance if you want, but it is still a romance. So, when at the end, she suddenly turns from going to Kristof and sacrifices herself for Elsa, it doesn't fit with the rest of her character that has been propounded for the entire movie. It feels faked and scripted.
This side of the movie is shallow and lacks lasting meaning.
So you have the two halves of the movie working away as the movie progresses, but then they try to tie the two halves together at the end, and say that love (granted, they do say love sacrifices itself for those it loves), the right guy, the bad dude chucked, and happily ever after will solve all the problems. They try to have the same fix for both halves, which of course leaves one side hanging - in this case the good side was left unanswered, and the shallow side was patched on as a pseudo-fix.
I could go on, but you get the general gist. Overall, I really was disappointed and not impressed.
But, I will throw in a caveat.
If you watch this movie with a Biblical worldview, there is a lot of good that can be picked out of the movie. A lot of good. 'True love at first sight' romance is bashed pretty solidly. Score. Kristof, slightly seclusive, selfish, and withdrawn at first, goes through a nice, if not hurried character growth by the end of the movie. Very nice touch. The slice of 'true love sacrifices itself for others' that is there at the end is very nice, and pretty well done. What good it has, it does well.
But you have to have your brain turned on during the movie. The danger with this movie, is that if you don't think your way through it,
you don't realize the problem they pose at the beginning isn't solved by the resolution at the end.
You end up thinking that the quasi-romance, she gets the guy, happily ever after is the answer to *both* problems.
That is why I am not overall impressed with this movie. For the rest of the non-thinking world, this movie is deadly, especially for girls. It sets them up thinking that all their deep heart longings and problems in life can and will solved by merely finding the right guy. Granted, it might not be the 'love at first sight' finding the guy, but romance still is posed as the answer.
One has to do some serious shifting aside of all the Disney styro-snow, to get a message out of the movie that is worth it.
And I think if you can do the mental snow shoveling required, you will walk away refreshed by the movie - but the shoveling is serious. I don't recomend this movie for most girls, because (my mom agreed) girls will have a harder time wading past the romance than the boys will. It's not the best for boys, but it shouldn't affect them as much.
So, all in all, if you could have the movie just focused on Elsa, I think they could have a great movie. Or if they made the movie three times as long, and sorted out all the wrong feelings, and had characters come around in a way that felt more realistic, it could have had potential.
As it is, it's ok. It isn't one of my favorites, but the songs are catchy, and Olaf is awesome. He got pretty close to tying Rhino for my favorite animated character.
I give it 3 out of 5 stars. Above average, but still not as great as it's hyped up to be.
Have you seen it? What is your take on the movie? (and what's your favorite Olaf line?) : )
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Sunday, March 16, 2014
Slice of Heaven - Glimpse of God
Ok, guys, sorry it has been a while. Lots of stuff - as usual - happening all over the place.
But, I came down with something, giving me some time to finally blog. I have had so many different blog ideas lately, ranging from finally posting reviews on Thor 2 and the second Hobbit, to doing a completely random post on the top ten myths about farm life and country living, and other things that pop into my head as I go through my daily jaunts.
This particular topic has been in the back of my mind for a while now, longer than most other topics.
It all got started with a quote from C.S. Lewis, in the last Chronicles of Narnia book.
"Listen, Peter. When Aslan said you could never go back to Narnia, he meant the Narnia you were thinking of. But that was not the real Narnia. That had a beginning and an end. It was only a shadow or a copy of the real Narnia which has always been here and will always be here: just our old world, England and all, is only a shadow or copy of something in Aslan's real world."
The quote goes on longer than that, but you get the general gist. It goes on to compare the old Narnia and the new Narnia to looking in a mirror and seeing a landscape behind you. Like, but not quite the same.
Two thoughts emerged from this quote. One is pure speculation, the other, might have a little more validity.
First thought: is our heavens and earth right now, a mere shadow and glimpse of the new heavens and new earth?
Do we like stunning scenery, high mountains, blue oceans, green pastures, white waterfalls, and thick forests, because somehow, someway, they are a glimpse of heaven?
As an outdoorsy, I get a good view of the whopping world that is out there that God has made -
But just imagine the
new heavens
and the
new earth
Like I said, that is all merely speculation. it could be a legitimate speculation, but a speculation none-the-less.
The second thought, I think has a little more validity, and the more I think about it, the more it makes sense.
How much of what we like about life, whether it be music, outdoors, sewing, or epic adventures, do we like them because somehow, without even realizing it, we like them because they somehow reflect the
of God?
This isn't a reprimand along the lines of 'liking things that only somehow are overtly reminiscent of God', this is meant to pose a possible reason why we enjoy life, because it points back to it's origin.
Maybe we like the the tiny flowers on the side of the path, because somehow, they are a glimpse of God. A glimpse of how even the tiny details, or the smallest obedience matters so much to him.
Or how about the night sky? Maybe that is an insight to his vast creativity.
Or maybe the reason we appreciate beauty in the first place is because God in himself is beautiful.
We like people who are personable and can relate, because we know that God is personal, and relate-able.
Or how about music?
(warning - all pieces reference here are some my personal favorites, so if you think there is a slight bias....you might be right)
Maybe we like pieces like this, because we know God has a kind, soft heart towards those who are his.
Or maybe we like sad pieces because Jesus himself wept at a friends death.
And epic music - oh boy - maybe we like it because God has an epic plan for our life, if we merely obey him.
And maybe we like majestic music, because it is a taste of what we will hear in heaven praising God.
Maybe we like pieces that remind us of the memories and joys of home, because we know that God has made the home and family one of the key elements to his plan.
All of you non - LOTR fans, just ignore the fact that this music is from there and enjoy the piece. You'll be glad you did. : )
Maybe, just maybe those are a tiny insight as to the nature of God. Just maybe. : )
I think there has to be something within mankind that we don't realize, that is naturally drawn to the things that reflect and mirror the nature and characteristics of God, despite the fact that they try to deny his existence.
I think he gives us those things as extra reminders, as pointers, to remind us of him.
But that is my theory, and no more than that.
What things about the world and life remind you of the character of God?
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You hurt yourself on the outside, to try to kill the thing on the inside
Every night I slip under the covers
with my eyelids heavy and my muscles strained
while my limbs sink into the mattress without finding relief
and every night I toss and turn because the storm raging inside of me
refuses to calm down and settle for a while.
Every morning I wake up
with my eyelids heavy and my muscles strained
they are aching
and my bones refuse to hold me up
while my body betrays me
and wants nothing more than to go back to sleep.
The blood in my veins has long been replaced by exhaustion and tiredness
and I have forgotten what it feels like to be awake years ago.
As I walk through the day,
my body tired and aching,
I feel nothing but pain and fatigue
and I'm a mess
because my body is tired,
so tired,
and there's no relief, no escape,
there's no life left in me
and I'm tired,
just so tired
because my soul carries a burden
it can't bear any longer.


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Yes! But I'm waiting on a new tablet currently. The one I have is too impercise and the quality of the blog would dip if I was to use it. I wouldn't want that. Soon though! Soon an update and a conclusion.
((Just keepin' y'all up why things have been slow. I apologize for taking so long!))
It's a certain Zebra/Robot/Zedbra's birthday! (Hint: It's Zed from Ask Grimdark Big Mac).
Well, at least it was when I started this. I've loved his blogs since they started, and I think he deserves some mention. Happy Birthday man!
((Oh gosh thank you for this! And the apple! Which has gone MYSTERIOUSLY MISSING??!?!
Gosh guys you should really check out Erthilo's stuff! He's a dear friend of mine and has all the hip art that I do so love!
When you go to a chainsaw con with a man it sticks with you!))
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Happy Birthday Mod!
(Oh gosh! This is absolutely wonderful thank you! Y'all should check out Starry dawn! I'm doing it now and I'm liking what I see!)
WHAT'S THE THIS THING This Friday, I'm going to be doing a 24 hour charity stream in aid of Dublin Simon Community, a charity for the homeless near where I live. You can read about them on their website here! I'll be setting up the stream and sound-checking from 11:40pm GMT on Thursday December 19th (my birthday!) and I'll start the games from Midnight (7pm EST, 4pm PST).
Why them in particular? In October, Dublin Simon's van was stolen. The van contained collection buckets, hi-vis jackets, signs and other branded stuff, and neither the van nor the stuff has been recovered. Seriously, who steals from a charity?
What's going to be in this stream? I'm going to start off by playing through Sonic Adventure 2 (hence the City Escape splash image), then Sonic Generations (if I can get it working). After that, if there's still time, I'm going to be taking votes for the game I play! Options include Bastion, Dust: An Elysian Tail, Jet Set Radio, League of Legends, N, Portal 1 & 2 (this should be fun near the end), Red Faction Armageddon (if you really want me to suffer - I also have all the other RF games), The Stanley Parable, Super Meat Boy, Surgeon Simulator 2013 (another sleep-deprived amusement generator), and WH40k Space Marine. Obviously I won't get through all of them, but we'll see which ones I can tackle in the time we have! Also an option is a short drawstream! Quality not guaranteed during sleep-deprived stages.
I'm also going to be on microphone through the whole thing and in a Skype call with some people for a substantial part of it! I'd list who there's probably going to be there, but it's going to be so unpredictable who's going to be there when that I've just included some of them in the picture above and left it at that.
Where can I donate! I have a GoFundMe page for this through which I'll be accepting donations! The page is currently live if you want to give donations ahead of time. My target is very experimental because I have no point of reference, but please give as much as you can spare! Van theft is really annoying.
What if I can't donate? Reblog!
Reminder that this is tonight! I'll be doing some more bandwidth and stream tests beforehand so if you show up early you'll get um… that.
I'll try to show up, to help the cause and ask questions most relevant.
For example, "What is a sonic?" "Is that sonic?" "Does sonic ever go that fast REALLY?"
And hey it's for a good cause so give if you can! And check out a great cool dude on his birthday! He's hip! He's probably funny!
There's Something About Fuego…
2UMBLR 2WO YEAR 2PECIAL 2/7: Grimdark Big Macintosh
It's hard not to be influenced in some way by GDBM's humour, and you can quite clearly see the descent of my blog into playful absurdity in a matter of posts after starting. GDBM helped teach me how to be absolutely ridiculous, but also to wear it with a straight face - don't overdo the joke. The best part is that to talk to Zed is to step into a world of this kind of humour (one of the chats we're in is called "Santa Claus for Alarm" right now and the picture is rotating between various pictures of Santas in unusual situations).
Oh gosh man I`m touched by seeing this I really am! I didn`t know I had such an impact on you either haha, but I could say a lot of the almost same things about you! Heck the way you animate, how much you`ve improved in your art it`s all so inspiring! To hear your work took bits of my work and how I`ve had my work to work on a vice versa plane it just`s just Cherry! Hehe I can`t really express it all, but that Carlton dancing gif did pretty well at summing it up))
Welcome to the world of Tumblrpon, the home of the many drawblogs (drawn response blogs) you may have seen on EQD! At this panel, we will discuss topics such as how to create a successful drawblog, how to ask good questions to help drawblogs thrive, and introduce you to this often-bizarre subset of the Brony fandom.
Hosted By: Fisherpon, CrusaderVX, Raikissu, and AutonomousZed
Here's a video of most of the panel that I did with friends at Bronycan! The initial concept was pretty much a carbon copy of TJ's at Bronycon, but we reworked it from the ground up to give it our own special flare. I was kinda worried that we wouldn't get much of an audience, since Bronycan is kind of a small convention, but I was happily surprised to find that we got a pretty decent turnout!
Look at the pics below and see if you can find yourself~
Unfortunately, the Celestia Radio crew that was recording us had an equipment failure. :(
Thankfully, I had set up my own camera as backup. :)
Unfortunately, that camera randomly turned itself off halfway through, meaning that I don't have the entire thing. :C
It made it all the way through us talking about Tumblr itself and the types of blogs, but failed partway through us talking about social interaction. That means that we don't have any footage of us taking questions. Kinda sad.
Us panelists (Me, CrusaderVX, Rai, and AutonomousZed had a whale of a time, the audience dynamic was pretty good, we had some great questions, and I think it turned out pretty damn well.
Since at Bronycon, we didn't end up making a presentation, I wanted to make sure that we had one for this one. I'm really pleased with the final product in that regard. You can see the individual slides of the presentation at the end of the video (set to music!), but in case you're too lazy to watch the whole vid here they are:
[several slides that were basically the front page of AskMLCblobs, AskLittleRicePaddy, Ask-King-Sombra, AskPirateDash, Ask-KnightTrixie, Ask-Grimdark-BigMac, AskTerry, Jumped-Out-PinkieAnswers, and AskSpirit]
I included an absolute tonof drawblogs in the slides, so I'm not going to put a full list right here. Instead, I'm going to link a pastebin. Disclaimer: Relative position/size in the slides mean nothing except that's where the picture fit well. Presence in the slides means nothing either except that that blog came to mind when I was brainstorming. Sorry if I forgot yours.
Thanks to everyone who came, and I hope to see you again next year!
((OH goodness it's finally here!
Check it out you guys! Fisher, Crusader, Me and some other blog got together and talked about tumblr pon. Check us out before we cut out! And make funny remarks at how I say ,"Like" "Um", and studder live!
PS you can't see it but I put like six tick marks on my shirt, but I didn't make them bold enough so no one noticed.
PPS I also just woke up not too long before this
PPPS I almost referred to the down with molestia thing while it was still a hot issue since I was silly and though it was funny. WHOOPS!))


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At the beginning of this no-budget cheapie, Adam Sandler tells us this is a "loosely thrown together story" built around free access to a cruise ship and "a lot of good-looking women." So they get an A for truth in advertising. Sandler (very green in his first feature film) plays Shecky Moskowitz, a cruise ship waiter with dreams of being a standup comedian. At one point, General Manuel Noriega sends some goons to take over the ship. And there's a lot of voluptuous women hanging around in bikinis. So much for the plot. Sold as a wacky sex comedy, Going Overboard is more of a funny-nose-and-glasses movie, desperately trying anything for a laugh. Sandler's trademark being-funny-by-being-unfunny hadn't started to click yet. Only Billy Zane (as a sort of long-suffering-Jewish-grandmother-ish King Neptune) and Adam Rifkin (as a self-absorbed, mossy-toothed heavy metal star) seem to have any comic timing. A number of the supporting cast would go on to play roles in other, better Adam Sandler movies. Look fast for Billy Bob Thornton(!), appearing here as "Dave the heckler." --Geof Miller
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i started this at first to just like and re-blog things i found hilarious but now i am finding i might actually have something to say. most of the time this blog is just ridiculousness, but with a splash of science, religion and politics... oh and kitties!!!
abortion won't stop because you made it nearly impossible to have clinical support
LGBT people won't stop loving each other because you banned marriage equality
sex won't stop because of your abstinence only education programs
"If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve."-Jellos Biafra
(Source: werebohen)
Alternative Titles for "My Cat From Hell"
-Some people don't have brains
-I have to clean the litterbox?
-My couch is more important to me than my cat's life
-My boyfriend's a Prick
-I scare the hell out of my cat but WHY WON'T HE LOVE ME?!
-My cat can go outside?!
-Jackson Galaxy knocks common sense into morons
-Yes, you have to play with your cat
-Throwing two strange cats together sometimes ends badly
Here are some excerpts from Elliot Rodger's 'manifesto'. as you can see, serious racism as well as misogyny. This wasn't the result of a mental illness, this is all-consuming entitlement. Obviously the shit we are teaching kids isn't working. Spend more time teaching boys that virginity doesn't matter, that they don't 'deserve' a girl at the end of the day because they are human beings, not prizes. That seeking help and advice doesn't make you weak or a 'pussy'. Please, please stop this from happening again.
(Source: femmeasfuck)
Things the UCSB shooting should prompt discussion about:
- Violence against women
- A man's sense of entitlement to have and claim the bodies of women
- Rape culture
- Violence against women
- How masculinity is connected to lose of virginity
- Violence against women
- Gun control
- Violence against women
- How women are called "sluts" for having sex but then literally murdered for not having sex
- Violence against women
- Violence against women
- Violence against women
Time for the charm bomb to explode!
(Source: fatandnerdy)
(via dannybrito)
(Source: sasaq)
the year is 2014 AD. the human race has existed for over 200,000 years. men still think women pee out of the vagina.
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So, please tell me all about the easily accessible vegan food pantries you support. And the vegan homeless shelters. Oh, and those vegan options at the American free school lunch program. I'm really interested. And then tell me about how vegan options are easily accessible in poverty-stricken rural areas. Please tell me how it's easier to come across free fruits and veggies than road kill and an over population of deer in the American Mid-West. And then tell me why you want to hate the poor?
Alright, I hope nobody minds but I'm going to answer this one straight (no jokes, no satire). I'm just not in the mood to come up with an entire comedy routine for this. Partly because I'm tired, and partly because this inane talking point is the one that pisses me off the most, out of all them.
I'll give you a little introduction about myself. I was born in the Dominican Republic. I spent the first 7 years of my life there and I went back there every summer until I was a teen. If you don't know, it's an extremely poor country. Not as poor as Haiti, but pretty far away economically from the United States (which is where I live now), Canada, Western Europe, and chances are from any country from which people will most likely be reading this from.
I did not grow up poor. My parents were middle class (by Dominican standards). My grandparents owned a chicken farm.
I knew plenty of poor people. No matter where you go in the Dominican Republic, they are everywhere. Looking back on my childhood, whenever I went to a friend's house (it was much more like a shack with a tin roof, than a "house") and if I so happened to catch them while they were eating, I have absolutely no recollection of ever seeing meat on the table.
You know the kind of foods that I always saw? I saw things like rice, potatoes, corn, yucca (root vegetable like potatoes), beans, lentils, peas, breads, and fruits on the table.
I would never venture to say that they were 100% vegan, because obviously I doubt they were. But I'll bet every last cent that that I have that at the very least 85% of the food they ate (and everybody in their socioeconomic status) was plant-based. Do you know why? Because it's the cheapest.
It doesn't take a genius to figure this out. From an agricultural standpoint, the lower you eat on the food chain, the less time and resources go towards the finished product, then the less the finished product is going to cost. If you are growing crops to feed animals and then feeding animals to people, then that's a lot more time and resources going towards the finished "product". If you are growing crops to feed people directly, then that's obviously less time and resource intensive (which makes it less costly).
As countries get richer, the more animal products they consume. That's what's going on in China right now.
You most likely being born and raised in the United States and most likely never step foot out of the country and seen how poor people (you know the people that you are so concerned about) eat in other nations. I can assure you they are not dining on hamburgers, hot dogs, bacon, chicken mcnuggets, etc…..
You also, most likely being born and raised in the United States, think the real free market price cost of a hamburger is 99 cents. It's not even close. The massive subsidies that the government gets, through my taxes, artificially lowers the price of meat and dairy to a much more manageable cost to the consumer.
Now for a person, such as yourself who absolutely hates elitism like you claim you do, can you tell me anything more disgustingly elitist than somebody else having to pick up the tab for your taste preference? Please enlighten me why I, and others, have to pay for something that I find disgustingly cruel, but because people like yourself, and millions of others don't want to pay the full price for a steak? I'm dying to know the answer to this.
If the American public had to pay the REAL free market price cost of meat and dairy, your god-damn head would spin. American culture would be completely different than what you see it today. It would be a more economically honest society.
As far as vegan homeless shelters and vegan food pantries, I doubt there are any. But do you honestly think because there aren't any (which there might be for all I know), that somehow means plant foods are more elitist than animal based foods?????
The reason why they probably don't exist is because the people who run these operations, while I'm sure being extremely kind-hearted and philanthropic people, they most likely were born and raised in the United States, and have developed the indoctrinated belief that a "meal" is not a "meal" unless there is a piece of animal flesh on the table. Just because they believe that, it sure as hell doesn't make it so.
The idea of serving solely plant-based foods will inherently be cheaper for the same reasons I've gone over. More than likely, the idea is just simply not in their radar, like most people.
To give you an idea of what's possible. Here is a prison that went vegetarian solely because of it being cheaper. It had nothing to do with ethics, the environment, etc… Pure dollars and cents. Here is a prison in California where half the inmates were served vegan food. That half had remarkably lower incidences of violence and much better fellowship (which goes to show you that there is more to this issue than just dollars and cents).
Do you want to know what people such as yourself who bring up this absurd talking point should be shouting from the rooftops about? You should DEMAND that every last red cent of the government subsidies that are going to the meat and dairy industry go towards plant-based foods that are already cheap.
So, you would take every cent that goes to meat and dairy, and give it people that produce rice, potatoes, beans, lentils, peas, etc…. You know what that will do? It will massively reduce the price of these already insanely cheap foods. So if you were to go to the store and you'd normally see cans of beans being sold at the current price for about 80-90 cents a can, would know only cost 20-30 cents a can. You can do this with cheap fruits as well. Bananas are a very inexpensive fruit, Slash the already cheap price by at least half with the subsidy, then all of a sudden everybody can eat fruit.
This means practically ANYBODY could afford healthy, vitamin and nutrient dense foods (much more so than meat and dairy) no matter where on the economic ladder you are. This means the food pantries and homeless shelters can stock up on MORE food for less money, which means more people get to eat.
Do you know why this will never happen?
1) People are completely ignorant about the government subsidies that go to the meat and dairy industry, and more than likely have no interest in learning about these things, because out of sight, out of mind.
2) (This is the big reason). I DON'T WANT TO GIVE UP MY SHIT!!!! I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO PAY $10 FOR A HAMBURGER!!!! WHY IS LIFE IS SO CRUEL!!!!!!! I'M THE VICTIM!!!!
Whenever somebody brings up poverty, when they are asked to "go vegan". It is the biggest bunch of bullshit I've ever heard. Do you know why people say this? Because other people say it. They just simply regurgitate the same things other people say without thinking about what they are saying for more than a half a second before they vomit it out of their mouths.
No thinking about how the agricultural process works, no thinking about the subsidies, no thinking about what the poorest people in the world eat….people just simply talking out of their asses.
It's just people who are confronted with something that makes them uncomfortable and instead of thinking about why they are getting so defensive about their beliefs, they just flail miserably just hoping to land a punch, so they'll say anything.
The onslaught of bullshit that comes out of people's mouths when confronted with this issue is never-ending. You have people who will be using a computer with electricity and internet connection writing about the INUIT TRIBE, as if that has anything to do with them. Just take a look at my blog to see how many people think they're like lions, or how much people suddenly give a shit about a plant's life, or any of the mindless things that comes out of people's mouths when it comes to this issue. You don't have to take my word for it. Just read it.
How come I never hear this kind of stuff about the poor when you've got celebrity chefs who display and present food to the public as a form of entertainment? Here are all these starving people, and we have game shows about food. It's weird…..I never hear a peep about poor people when this comes up.
How come whenever there is a hot dog eating contest, I never hear about this????? Don't you think that it's kind of sadistic to have a contest to see who can be the most wasteful and shove as much shit down their throat as possible when there are people starving? Hmm….crickets…
How come I never hear about anyone commenting on a culture that treats food like nothing more than a test of one's gluttony or are barbecues a place to pray for those that don't have any food? It's been a while since I've been to one….Maybe it's changed since last I've gone.
How come I never hear about how wasteful it is to lose countless amounts of food and calories through the crops that are grown only to get a microscopic amount of food and calories back from the animals that society eats for a taste preference all the meanwhile people are starving?
How come I never hear about the poor people in impoverished nations who are starving, meanwhile others in that same nation are growing crops not to feed them, but to feed farm animals that would peacefully not exist in the first place, if it wasn't for the people's demand of meat and dairy?
It's weird….I never hear about these things. But tell somebody to eat solely plants, and then all of a sudden you are hearing about poor people and about people who live in the arctic.
Let's just for arguments sake say that eating things like beans, lentils, rice, etc,…was more elitist and unaffordable to the poor. I hope I pointed out how much bullshit this is, but let's just play devil's advocate here for teensy second.
We live in a world where Anthony Bourdain has over 1.5 million people following him on Twitter. I'm going to take a stab in the dark and say these people don't eat in soup kitchens. What's their excuse?
We live in a world where people will spend $30 a pound for fillet mignon. I know this because I actually used to work in a meat department for a supermarket. I did it for four years. I know how much your average person spends on things like meat and dairy, and it's a HELL of a lot more than what I spend on groceries.
I have to ask……what's their excuse? Let me guess….they are going to tell me something about poor people existing somewhere in some time in some space in some part of the world.
DEMAND makes the world we live in, not supply. The world's marketplace is what we demand it to be. No one is asking a person who is eating at a soup kitchen to vote with their dollar, because they don't have the dollar to vote with. They are living on charity (not that there is anything wrong with that by any means). Instead we are asking for people who can vote with their dollar to change the world.
The more people demand something, the more the paradigm shifts. The more the paradigm shits, the more peaceful of a world we can live in for everybody (just a clue…..the human species is not the only one that exists).
Right now, we have a world that reflects the demand of people to have Burger King, Mcdonalds,Arbys, Hardees, Wendy's, Popeyes, steakhouses, etc in just about every civilized corner"(the list goes on and on). I know one thing is for certain. This world the people demanded does not exist because starving people demanded it.
And as far as the road-kill being easier to find in the American Mid-west, by all means….have at it. What I wouldn't give for a meat-eater put his money where his mouth is and act like the carnivore that he claims to be, and eat up a free meal like that. The animal was killed by accident. It wasn't done on purpose. They are dead anyway. Go ahead and eat them. Just make sure to take a video of you eating the road kill so I can see how many other "genetic" meat-eating humans would be hungry at that site.
And as far as the over-population of deer, did you ever think that maybe humans are overpopulated? Did you ever think that the deer has every right to exist on land that they were previously able to roam freely in but now has become part of the infrastructure of mankind because for some reason they think birth control is the work of the devil, so they keep on popping out kids like a god-damn pez dispenser?
I don't think I've ever met a single hunter who uses the overpopulation talking point as nothing more than an excuse to get off on killing something. I have yet to see a photo of a hunter with a sad look on their face after they killed an animal because "overpopulation" made them do it, not because they wanted to. Show me a photo of that. I'd love to see it.
At the end of the day, this has nothing to do with poor people, or the inuit tribe, or our ancestors did it, or lions do it, or protein, or any other bullshit that I've heard a million times. It's simply a childishly global epidemic case of I-don't-want-to-itis.
If anybody ever gets posed this kind of bullshit talking point, feel free to send them to this post or you can send them to my vegan privilege post or the most recent one I did as response to this. You can copy and paste and plagiarize me if you want. I don't care.
We all want to be model
Why did they put clothing on a refrigerator?????
see it's funny because I'M BIG and REFRIGERATORS are BIG. it's a joke, do you get it? because refrigerators are big. and i am also big. the joke is based on the comparison between the two. because, you see, refrigerators are large.
and get this
i am ALSO large.
and furthermore, refrigerators are known for how much space they take up. and, if you'll notice, i do too.
both of us are big, so it's funny
do you not
why aren't you laughing yet?
because, see me? i'm big. like a refrigerator
it's funny because we're the same
i don't know how i can make this any clearer
two things are big: one is a refrigerator, and the other is me
ugh this humor is too sophisticated for you
The outfit was cute, but then I scrolled down and the response was so amazing. You are fantastic.
bow to the queen
her eyeliner game so sharp she don't even need to slay your sorry ass
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Couldn't love this more.
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October 15, 2009
Co-hosted by the American Public Health Association, PolicyLink and others, the Transportation for America Health Summit incorporated both a policy briefing and individual meetings with lawmakers in Washington, D.C. this week to highlight the connection between health and transportation.
Thursday morning's briefing, titled "Get Moving! Mobilizing for a Healthier Transportation System," showcased four high level experts on health and transportation including a youth wellness advocate and Transportation for America Director James Corless.
"America's transportation system affects our health in profound ways, and we have a unique opportunity to forge a new direction that makes us healthier and saves us money over the long term," Corless said.
Joining Corless as panelists were Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association; Dr. Richard Jackson, chair and professor of Environmental Health and Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles; Dr. Joe Thompson, director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity; Shireen Malekafzali, senior associate at PolicyLink and editor of "The Transportation Prescription;" and 14-year-old Julia Lopez, a youth wellness advocate.
Briefing topics included the relationship between vehicle-generated pollution and respiratory complications; access to health care services, groceries and other essential destinations; active living and obesity prevention; the safety implications of our transportation policies; the health effects of greenhouse gas emissions; and overarching equity concerns among low-income and minority populations.
"We really are at a transportation crossroads," said Dr. Benjamin. "Without transformational change in our priorities, we will perpetuate a transportation status quo that puts our health at risk, exacerbates health inequities and clouds our future. I am excited to be a part of this discussion and look forward to our continued participation in Transportation for America's diverse coalition."
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Joe Flacco had no touchdowns and no interceptions. He had a prototypical "B minus Man" game. To mediocrity and beyond. But that was enough. The Ravens still passed their test against a very talented Detroit Lions team. Justin Tucker came through in the clutch…which means the whole game…and I ain't lion!
How does a team lead just about every stat in the game and still lose? Detroit beat the Ravens in total yardage, number of first downs rushing, number of first downs passing, red zone efficiency, and time of possession. But they also beat the Ravens in penalties, interceptions, and number of dropped passes (a big thank you to Megatron who gave us the ball twice and a drop in the end zone during a key two point conversion near the end of the game).
So did the Ravens win the game with fast-actin tenacity or did the Lions hand over the game like a welfare check? As always, it's some of both. Baltimore made some awesome plays. Detroit did too. But the Ravens made fewer mistakes…and won. Eight penalties and three turnovers aren't a good recipe for success. Really, the game should not have been this close.
Baltimore should have won this game fairly easily. They had five drives end in field goals. Yup…that's twenty points they coulda, woulda, shoulda had. But in the end they put their foot through the uprights of the Lions and walked away with a win. Only one night after we watched Pittsburgh smash the Bengals in the mouth, the Ravens kicked the Lions in the… shin?


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Hi all,My brother in law purchased a new asus laptop on the weekend and we can't get it to connect to the 5ghz N-channel. We have seperate SSID's for the 2.4 and 5 ghz bands and seperate passwords. His iPad/AppleTv see the SSID for the 5ghz and connect fine, but his new laptop can't even see it. Not sure of the firmware version he currently has on the E3000, but I know its not the latest. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If anymore info is needed just ask.Thanks...
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Does the laptop support the 5GHz band? Might seem like a silly question, but I bought an ASUS laptop this summer and it does not (I also have an E3000, coincidentally).
A lot of notebooks, even newer models, do not necessarily have dual-band N connectvity. Double-check your notebook's features to see if the wifi connector supports dual band or not. It does not matter what brand the notebook is, it is a matter of what that individual model supports. There are ASUS notebooks that have 5ghz 11n connectivity and there are some that do not.The E3000 always was dual band, so although he should have the most up to date firmware installed, that should not be an issue. Besides which, you already know that there is an existing SSID for that 5ghz band. If other devices can find it, and the notebook can not...BTW, if the notebook does not support 5ghz 11N, and if that is an issue, he could opt to put in a dual band usb wireless adapter.--Deeds, not words
Thanks for the help. I'll get him to check with speccy and see whats installed. The website where he bought it from says its included:Model K55A-DH51-CAOperating System Windows 8 (64 bits)Type Consumer NotebooksProcessor Intel i5-3210M (2.50 GHz)Standard Memory 6GB DDR3Memory Expansion Max. to 8GBHard Drive 500GB HDDOptical Drive DVD-WriterDisplay Size 15.6" (1366x768)Display Technology Active Matrix TFT Color LCDGraphics Intel HD Graphic 4000Wireless 802.11b/g/nBluetooth YesWebcam YesHDMI Yes
Thanks for the help. I'll get him to check with speccy and see whats installed. The website where he bought it from says its included:Wireless 802.11b/g/n
So I talked to my brother in law and he tried connecting with my nephews laptop (Asus) and it couldn't see it either but he could see it with my nieces mac book. So I think we need to look at the asus laptops.
What I've found is when wifi is advertised as 802.11b/g/n, it's 2.4GHz only as b/g only work on 2.4GHz.When they advertise it as 802.11a/b/g/n, it's dual band because 802.11a is 5GHz only.N can work at 2.4 or 5GHz, so just having it on the spec sheet doesn't tell you which bands are supported.Hence if it only lists the 2.4GHz standards (b/g) then its 2.4GHz only. If it lists 802.11a as well (a/b/g) then it supports 2.4 and 5.99% of the time, if it says b/g/n, its 2.4GHz. There may be a rare exception, but unlikely because they'd like to add a/b/g/n to make the spec sheet look better. Likewise, when buying anything, if it says b/g/n, assume it's 2.4GHz only. If it says a/b/g/n, it'll support 5GHz as well. (This includes smartphones, tablets, cameras, game consoles, anything that uspports wifi).


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You're talking to me.
It's morning and I just had
the most incredible dream last night.
It was like a well-written movie, with
banter so sharp it could cut through the screen,
containing a cast of colorful characters,
and a plot that ties up all nice and neat when
the hour and a half is up-
It had some post-post-modern hero
who found the courage to spill his heart,
in a tumble of tender, private truths,
to a freshly re-imagined grownup Disney princess.
It was the kind of dream you wish you could stay in forever.
You're still talking while
I sip my tea and listen. I meant to tell you
my dream earlier,
but I didn't know how to bring it up,
and I let the moment slip by, somehow.
How strange,
my tea has a gold ball in it.
It's like a Golden Snitch,
warm, ornate and brilliant,
a little treasure right beneath
my nose, like it was waiting for me.
I should show you,
you'd like it,
I wonder if you've noticed it ye-
You've noticed.
I set it down.
I'm listening again.
You're talking again.
It's morning.
I wake up.


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All Customer Reviews for "7mm Billabong XERO ENDURO Cold Water Booties"
Average Customer Review: 22 Reviews
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Very impressed!, 12.31.2013
Reviewer: Jeff Gerlitz (, )
I have never owned a wetsuit, dry suit or any type of apparel that goes along with it. Boots, gloves, hood etc.
I'm getting into a new sport here in Seattle which gets you in the water and out of the water throughout the duration. Kind of like surfing. The water here in Lake Washington is currently 44 degrees F and the air temp is about the same.
I can't say I've had a full day of use with them yet as I'm still waiting on my dry suit to arrive. I did however, put my booties on and stepped into lake Washington and stood there for 10 minutes. Did not notice a temperature change at all on my feet! Zero water got in and my feet were actually slightly swelled up from getting warm in the booties after taking them off.
Again, this is not a great test but from what I have already tried and the other rave reviews out there, I believe this boot will do exactly what I need it to do.
Reviewer: SteveO (, )
I live in Bethany Beach Delaware. I surf, paddle and train year round - no matter what conditions I'll be facing, staying warm is a struggle. Though I will not surf in these 7mil booties, they work perfectly on my SUP and various crafts. 5mil booties are perfectly ok for surfing in the coldest waters during the winter in the Mid-Atlantic - but for SUP, surfski or paddling - you'll need these Bong-7mil-Xero-Golds!
Perfect for Windsurfing, 11.16.2013
Reviewer: Dan6454 (, )
I wanted a 7mm boot that didn't have the traditional thick sole of a dive bootie. I wanted to be able to get in the foot straps and have some feel for the board with out feeling like I was wearing regular shoes. These seem to fit the bill. I should only have to enlarge my foot straps a little and frozen feet won't be the reason for calling it a day early and late in the windsurfing season in Oregon.
You're going to wear them where?, 4.26.2013
Reviewer: Mountain Man (, )
A trout stream in the Eastern USA has to be the coldest water you will ever encounter. In the Applachian Mountains, the coldest purest water ever is a trout stream. But to prospect for gold, one must be able to withstand it for hours on end. My approach has been to buy all of the outer extremities apparel, try it then buy the wetsuit and put it all together and test it. These booties are supposed to be the best and from what I have discovered using unheated pools, and freshly filled hottubs, they are just the perfect thing. Also read all of the previous post, they do run big, I wear a size 9 1/2 hunting boot, I bought a size 8 in these, they fit perfectly, and they were very warm in the living room when I first put them on. The individual toes and dividers are a little weird, but all in all I am looking forward to the real test in North Georgia, on Memorial Day!
Love them!!!, 2.16.2012
Reviewer: R. Alden (, )
I am very impressed with these booties! I had an old pair of booties and replaced them with these. Much to my surprise my feet were kept very warm while surfing in January in Rhode Island! They are very comfortable too. I would recommend these to anyone for cold water sports.
Great for the Lakes! , 11.15.2011
Reviewer: superior surfer (, )
Very good design and construction. Comfortable, easy to get on and off and very warm! They do run big compared to other brands. Go with your shoe size or even a size down if you like a really snug fit.
Note: These are the internal split-toe model not the round toe that is pictured.
Toasty, but, 9.16.2011
Reviewer: Oregon shark bait (, )
Very warm booty, but the inner toe splitter has fallen out on two pair. Not a screaming big deal, but they could probably figure out a more robust way to construct the little membrane between the big toe and the little toes.
Would concur with the assessment that they run large. I wear an 11 shoe, and could probably wear a 9 in these.
Super warm, odd sizing, 2.22.2011
Reviewer: Washingtonian (, )
Used these in February in Oregon, feet did not get even the slightest bit cold. But, they run really big. An 11 shoe is generally pretty tight on me, and size 10 is the biggest I would go in these (I had to exchange 11s for 10s, and they are certainly not too tight).
Great Product, 12.21.2010
Reviewer: Karl (, )
I hate for my feet to get cold!! These 7mm booties did the trick.Surfed 41 Degree water for 4 hours and my feet NEVER felt cold.
Perfect for winters on Jersey Shore, 12.3.2010
Reviewer: SurfandSUP (, )
Wore these for stand-up paddling and didn't feel the 50 degree water at all. Ordered true to my shoe size and they fit true to size. But, O probably should have ordered a size smaller for winter surfing. Very warm but they don't feel as big and clukny as other coldwater boots.
warm and toasty, 11.23.2010
Reviewer: Damon (, )
Used these boots today surfing in cleveland ohio...the water was 47 and my feet were toasty warm for 4 hours straight....my only complaint is that I ordered my regular shoe size 10, great fit dry, but they got sloppy when the water made it's way in, so I guessed I should have ordered a bit smaller. But other than that they are great boots and the ankle strap is a nice touch!
great boot for swimming, 11.9.2010
Reviewer: Steph Coll (, )
I have been swimming with these boots (and 3mm swim socks) in water temperatures in the lower 40s for an hour at a time. My feet stay warm during the entire swim. (My feet get cold after about 30 minutes when wearing only layers of swim socks.) Flexibility is great, but bear in mind they are very buoyant.
warm and wide, 11.5.2010
Reviewer: ABC sailman (, )
I windsurf in water down to the high 30s and these boots keep my feet toasty. The only quibble I have is that they make my feet much wider and I have to reset all the foot straps on my boards to accomodate them ;however it is well worth the effort,great booties!!
chrissup, 11.1.2010
Reviewer: chris huffman (, )
so far very warm and comfy on the board. no leaking what so ever.
Great Booties super satisfied!!, 5.7.2010
Reviewer: Erwin (, )
Felt like my feet were in 90 degrees of water the whole time and i suffer from poor circulation in my toes. Never once did i feel cold or uncomfortable in these booties. I highly recommend them.
epic booties., 4.16.2010
Reviewer: leecee (port washington, WI)
these booties are a MUST for freshwater surfing in the frigid waters of lake michigan. keep my toes nice and toasty in even 35 degree fahrenheit water. the straps are killer. if you're a half size i'd go to the lower size rather that the higher. that's what i did, and they fit like a glove. also, you'd think that 7mm booties wouldn't be very flexible. i use them for surfing, and there is hardly constriction. wonderful buy. very pleased.
Nothing short of excellent!!!, 2.27.2010
Reviewer: Karl from NC (Havelock, NC)
Very comfortable!! Was in 45 degree water for a 4 hour session and my feet were warm the entire time!!These are tops in my book!
High Quality, 2.6.2010
Reviewer: Michael Kenyon (Santa Monica, CA)
I bought these because in water below 60F, my feet would go numb in 30 minutes with 3mm boots due to Raynaud's phenomenon. So far, my feet have been warm and comfortable, I'm very pleased.
Good fit, 4.20.2009
Reviewer: (, )
If your a half size go down definitely. Water was 40 and my feet were warm and comfortable...def quality boots
5 stars so far, 1.1.2009
Reviewer: (, )
I have used mine about five times for winter surfing and am impressed. Was out for 2 hours in 1 degree air temp/33 degree water temp on Lake Erie and my feet were toasty and comfortable. The double straps are killer.
awsome booties, 12.29.2008
Reviewer: (, )
36 degree water and my feet were sweating. The poly fleece is so comfortable I feel like I'm wearing garfeild slippers.
Reviewer: (, )
Warm boots. Plush poly fleece lining. A solid investment for cold water surfing.
Back to 7mm Billabong XERO ENDURO Cold Water Booties
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