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Rick Bortnick's Nephew Incarcerated

It would appear that one of my teacher's nephews was arrested! I'm tenuously related to a criminal! Oh noes!

He was growing mushrooms. Psychedelic mushrooms. In Oregon. Meth territory.

It was not meant to be.

And here's a video.



Oh the things that happen.

Angry Rant By Someone Else

Look what can happen when you go away from the mainstream. You can find weird things. Things like this.



I like his final comment. It cracked me up.

So this one time I was doing some research on the CIA. You know those links that make an ad pop up? At least try to imagine them because they fit into the punchline.

So I see the phrase "rigorous training," and it's one of those links. So I hover my mouse over it. It said, "We can meet all your rigorous training needs." Funny.

Then I see a link for, "Spy satellites." I can't pass that up, so I hover my mouse over the link. The link disappears.

Humor

"Analyzing a joke is like dissecting a frog; you can find out how it works, but you have to kill it in the process."

More to be found here

Red Sauce's Future Struggle

Red Sauce is a UK based music group that specializes in covers. Incredibly convincing covers.

Of course, they have a mountain to climb if they think they can edge out the other red sauce in Google search listings.

Article

Apparently people still play Final Fantasy XI on their Xbox 360's! This interview proves it!

3D Paper Holograms - Now in Color

The Canadian company, "RabbitHoles," has found a way to make 3D holograms on a 2D surface (say, a poster). Not only that, but they've found a way to do it in color.


Prior to that, it couldn't be done in high resolution color. But now it can.

Who knows what you can expect from this?

For more, check out the article.

Why can't you mark something as spam and keep it?

I wish I could join the Facebook group, "i embarrass my friends and family in public". I really do.

But my mom doesn't get embarassed.

Well, it's the next month finally.

Now I can upload more stuff to flickr.

Ending of Portal Song - Still Alive - by Jonathan Coulton

Who knew that Portal ended in a song? I mean, know before you beat it?

So if you want to relive it, or don't know what I'm talking about at all, here's the video.



Better than Amped 3's ending song.

It's a shame that the Y2K "apocalypse" didn't happen; I was ready.

Pay it Forward - Great Concept, Promising Movie

Life; filled with surprise.

So I get a random blog comment. Wanting to see if it's spam or not, I check this link out, and it leads to a movie preview. Pretty cool. Granted, the concept looks cooler than the movie, but still.


[This is the preview I was talking about]

And this is a movie that I haven't heard of before, so rest assured this is new stuff.


I recommend you check it out. If not, then you'll still hear about it when the movie comes out. Just think; you could get a jump on pop culture.


Thank you, "dachu!".

I Imagine my Future Wikipedia Article

How to Lie Effectively

Two warnings. Firstly, the block quotes are not what they appear to be. Next, can you trust me? I may be talking like I know a bit about this, but that could all just be your gullibility.

Be consistent.

Make a story, and stick to it. If you contradict yourself, someone's going to know something's wrong. Then they might find your lie. Then you might be out of luck.

Don't lie.

This may seem counter intuitive, but try not to lie. Not about this thing, of course. But about other things. This will make you seem trustworthy. So when you tell this lie, someone's first instinct would be to trust you.

But wait, if people tell the truth just to later lie, how can you trust anyone? Congratulations, you're now a skeptic.

Secondly, it's a whole lot better to have a story and stick with it. So, tell the truth about littler things pertaining to your lie, that also don't give yourself away. There's nothing like the truth to establish a credible story. Just make sure to remember what you told the truth about.

Practice your poker face.

Some people believe they can tell when a person is lying just by their facial expressions. While this is hardly an effective way of determining if someone is lying or not, it could certainly lead to being found out. So try not to give someone a reason to think you're lying.

But, don't just use a poker face. If you never look like a stoic stone statue, then you probably don't want to break the pattern. Just look like you naturally do. No one notices your facial expression when it looks like normal.

Stay Sober

Alcohol lowers inhibitions. Alcohol plus liar equals confession.

Distraction

So someone knows that you're lying. But they don't know what you're lying about. So, distract them by revealing a fake lie. Or lead them on the wrong path.

If you're going to do this, make sure it really is a red herring. If they look into it and you get into trouble for something else, way to go. Also, if you're trying to implication fictional crimes in yourself, make sure they're fictional, or can be proved as such.

Gullible people

If you somehow have a choice of who to lie to, choose the most gullible person. That way, they'll believe you. Or not believe you, if your lie sucks.

Don't tell people where you learned this

While not necessarily a step in the actual lying, it'd be nice if people didn't know what exactly to look out for in a lie, eh?

Next, it'd be a whole lot better for society if the lying was kept to a minimum.

Hook, Line, and Sinker

So on Facebook, there's this application called, "How many 5 year olds can you take in a fight?" Just wait. It gets better.

On first glance, it looks like a normal quiz. You answer mildly odd questions which all seemingly relate towards the... subject material.

Then, when I finished the quiz, it asked me to invite 20 friends.

20 friends. To an application called "How many 5 year olds can you take in a fight?"

Which 20 friends wouldn't be morally outraged at this? Now that's a moral dilemma.

Who says life on the Internet can't be interesting?

Chiasmus Competition

So in my AP LAng class (short for Advanced Placement Language), we had a chiasmus competition.

Now, I'd like you all to observe this interesting phenomenon.

The theme was winter holidays. It was assumed that anything that did not fit the theme was kicked out.

So, I create three chiasmusi. "There is one Harish in our class, but no class in our Harish."

For those of you who don't know, Harish is a person. In my class.

Then I came up with this one. And another one, but I don't like that one so much. "Use wrapping paper on your gifts, but don't gift your wrapping paper."

Now, which one do you think would make it farther?

Apparently it was the mean and hurtful one. Even though it didn't even fit the theme.

So really people. Do we love hurting people that much?

Also, if you haven't figured out what chiasmus is yet, there's a website. www.chiasmus.com

Perk to Blogging

I'd have to say the biggest perk to having a blog is telling people to do things, then finding out that they actually did them.

Like, I told people to join my facebook ninja army. I look at my army weeks later, and there are 4 strangers in it.

Is that not a perk or what?

Now that it's winter break, the blogging hijinx can only get better.

Oh Gametap...

So I was reading some stuff on Gametap's website. Apparently they do reviews now.

I was reading this one review. It was of things released for digital download. Some of them were Gametap games.

Which is odd, because they gave some of them crappy scores. Which is weird, because companies usually try to be unusually favorable of their products.

And, if they're telling the truth, then why did Gametap pick such craptacular games to release?

Oh, Gametap...

Conspiracies about Conspiracies

Why do people not believe conspiracy theories? It's a conspiracy by conspiracy theorists.

If too many people believe conspiracy theories, then there would be a lot of infighting over who first came up with what conspiracy. If they're all unbelieved, there's none of that.

Wood Houses

Why are houses made of wood? It's a conspiracy by the people in Hollywood.

Houses made of wood; catch fire; need firemen to put out fire; firemen need firetrucks; people recognize, know, and like firetrucks.

Kongregate

I think you should all play some Kongregate.