Dear Need For Speed

Driving, the act of it anyways, is trivial for most teens now. All the people in my generation played one of those arcade racing games and some (like your's truly) went even further by purchasing a wheel and pedal set so I can play it at home.

Of course, this has several consequences:

1. Teens now can basically drive the moment they get into a car
2. Teens now like to speed a butt-load
3. Teens parking skills are something to be looked upon like a plague

Numbers one and two can't really be addressed by racing games but three can be. So instead of Need for Speed Pro Steet game, it'll be Need for Proking! Guaranteed to improve your parking skills in thirty-two simple levels.

I need to go practice my parking.. be back later.


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The Word "PIE" Kind of Looks Like...

A few months ago, I stated an apparently obvious fact to my fellow Facebookers: "The word bed kind of looks like a bed." Apparently, everybody knew that fact or heard it way before I did.

The other logical things that look like what it means is obviously emoticons. If you show the symbol

:-)

to a caveman, he or she would instantly know that it's a human smiling. In fact, one of the first emoticons ever recorded is in a speech by Lincoln. In the speech, Lincoln put in parenthesis "applause and laughter ;)." There's a people that says that the ;) was actually a typo, and even though that may be true, I would like to think of Lincoln as the champion of racial rights and the inventor of the smiley face.

The modern smiley face was popularized on September 19, 1982 by a guy named Scott Fahlman. In a post on Carnegie Mellon's message board, he said:

19-Sep-82 11:44    Scott E  Fahlman             :-)
From: Scott E Fahlman <Fahlman at Cmu-20c>
 
I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:
        
:-)
        
Read it sideways.  Actually, it is probably more economical to mark
things that are NOT jokes, given current trends.  For this, use
        
:-( 

Then there are those words that require a bit of imagination, such as shark or llama. The shark is pretty obvious, with the 'k' as the tail and 'h' as the fins. The llama on the other hand, requires a picture:

Such a win of a picture of a llama.

I guess I should go back to my title and tell you what the word "PIE" looks like:

3.14
PIE

Flip it.

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Multimedia Friday

1. Why You Should Never Speed In Sweden:

That's right... instead of police, ARMY.

2. Parking Fail

3. I Love Space



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I'm Lazy

Instead of being original, I've decided to pull off some things from around the nets. 

8800 Pennies (just watch):



1 kilometer > 1 mile fail:

This is my grandfather. He died a year ago. He was a b.a.:

There is a bit of a back story on him and this picture as well. During the beginning of WWII he was in the Dutch Mounted Police (and the resistance), he refused to salute a Nazi and was thrown in a concentration camp. He narrowly escaped death when they accidentally let him go free the day before he was to be executed.

He spent the rest of the war in the resistance training new saboteurs and interrogating Nazis. He also apparantly was responsible for saving the lives of several paratroopers during Operation Market Garden by ferrying them across the Rheine in a yellow rubber dinghy.

After the liberation he joined the Stootroepers and thats when this picture was taken. He was the first Dutch army man to arrive in this small town on his motorcycle after the Germans had left and all the women wanted to have their picture taken with him.
He then went on to fight in the Dutch East Indies, for the rest of the war.

After the war he was employed by the Dutch Secret intelligence equivalent performing interrogations on ex-nazis and other enemies of the state. Then during the cold war he had to flee Europe for Canada when apparently the Russians found out the names of the interrogators families and threaten to kill them all.

He spent the rest of his years doing nothing much of importance, well besides raising a family and trying to forgot everything that happened to him.

We only found this all out after he had passed on, before that I just he was a funny old man who had a talent for really wiggling his ears, and a hatred of all types of violence.

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Major Whoops

From a friend down at Vero Beach who actually went to the camp...

*Hint - read the first line of the caption.

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Wheee, My First "Motivational Poster"

I was reading about Fibonacci numbers today... and tonight, my little brother was eating bunnies (click to go to larger resolution).

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The Beautry Pagent

Uhm, this is really weird... I got a letter from the Miss America organization asking me if I want to participate in Miss Florida. Notice the use of the word Miss...

So here's the letter (Click on the images to zoom them):

Inside it contains a letter (click image to read it):

They even included a nice brochure for me:

Uhm, anybody interested in actually participating in them, as I'm not eligible?

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Twilight

I find this picture ironic. Especially when most people using bittorrent are men. Must be downloading for their girlfriend...

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The Ridiculousness of Email

Take a look at my newest email spam that GMail didn't catch, just read through it....

	Hey there runiteking1, Valentine's Day is upon us, so for the next couple weeks we're sending people REVERSE matches. This newsletter contains users who will probably like you. As for whether you'll like them, we’re putting it at 10%.

New Around Blah BLah land Florida, United States

20 | F		nononon Tallahassee, Florida, United States i am a fun loving person who loves to have fun and hang out with friends. i dont tolerate drama and bullshit

20 | F		ataylor340 Folkston, Georgia, United States My name is Amanda and this is my second time on this site. I had to make a couple updates so I deleted my old one. I live in Folkston Georgia and work on Jekyll Island in law enforcement, but I am trying to get out. I am married to a wonderful guy but I am looking for a girlfriend. Not so much for...

20 | F		gggloriaa Atlanta, Georgia, United States Hi my name is Gloria. I am looking for a serious realtionship that could lead to marriage. The man of my dreams is an educated "Caucasian" man , a college student or college grad. between the ages of 21 to 28 years of age . And he can speak a little spanish.

20 | F		kelsmth06 Cartersville, Georgia, United States well i dont really know what to put on here...soo hello my name is kelly ill be 21 in march. i have a son who will be turning 2 this year. i like to think i am a fun person to be around most of the time, but i have my serious side when it needs to be there. well i just dont know what else to put...

20 | F		creal522 Melbourne, Florida, United States I am 20 years old and am sorta playing around with this online thing. I love to just be me. I work and hang out. I'm pretty much up for just about anything. But I do draw the line at drugs and stuff. Never done it never will. I love my family and friends very much. So hit me up

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The Carnivourus Cologne

Do you like... meat? Or how about that juicy, tasty  Whopper? Then Burger King has the right cologne for you!

Wait... what! Burger King?

This cologne is  "the scent of seduction with a hint of flame-broilled meat," the perfect companion for when you feel that eating that 1000 calories Whopper STILL won't satisfy you. Or maybe just to impress/chase away that nice lady who hates/loves PETA.

The thing even has a website, nicely named firemeetsdesire.com. The moment you enter the website, some nice seductive music pops on with the spray being in the midst of it all.

Next thing you now, roses pop out of nowhere to fill the screen...

The only thing that's missing is the King lying down there seductively:

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A Good Hint: Both For Physics and For Life

I was doing my physics problem yesterday and encountered this problem, take a look at that hint:

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King "Tiger" Jong-Il

The dictator of North Korea is ludicrous. I find him amazingly funny. You know, the hair, the height, the glasses, the egocentric attitute etc...

I mean, take a look:

And, I think he lost whatever respect he had after Team America came out ...

Still, while I was researching him for a class, a even more ludicrous subject came out.  Did you know that apparently Kim Jong-Il had a record 5 hole-in-ones in one round of golf? Oh, and don't forget that its the first time he played golf ever.

Realizing that there are greater challenges for his atheletic body, he didn't play any more golf after that. Instead he focused on serving the first serve in the tennis world to break the sound record. Don't believe that he got a 34 on a 72 course? Just ask any of his millions of half-starved citizens or the giant military.

The course that he played on was not avaliable to view as it was deemed too sacred for the normal human eye. Though, one picture has been smuggled out, and it is amazing:

Source

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The Virus of the American Dream

1. Congratulations President-Elect Obama! Hope you remember all your promises and wish you good luck at the White House! Take a listen to Obama's victory speech.

2. The worst possible virus...ever? How would you like to have a Miley Cyrus song play at full volume every time you turn on your computer? With no way to mute it, turn it down, or stop it?

Well, i was surfing the net at college yesterday on my laptop, im allowed to use it in lessons to take notes etc.
I shut it down after my free period and went to physics, switched my laptop on, and upon startup it started some EXTREEMLY annoying music

I looked at it, tried to put some headphones in (sadly my headphons jack appears to no longer be working) and my sound panel is blanked out, so i cant control the volume (MUTE IT!)
eventually i gave in that physics lesson and just used pen and paper.

so i got home and tried to mess about a bit with it, it appears to have a strange virus.
It plays "Miley Cyrus - See You Again" upon startup, each and every time, and just repeats at full volume, it wont accept headphones (just sees them as not there and continues to play)

I found miley.exe as a process, and im assuming thats what controlling it, but when i close it, its just reopens itself and starts playing again

anyone have any ideas? As i absolutly hate pop music, and this takes the buscuit -.-

3. A prototype cure of the AIDS virus?A possible breakthrough in AIDS research may be here due to a bone marrow transplant. Dr. Gero Hütter was performing a bone marrow transplant and accidentally might have removed all traces of the HIV virus from the patient's body.

Doctors have not been able to detect the virus in his blood for more than 600 days, despite his having ceased all conventional AIDS medication. Normally when a patient stops taking AIDS drugs, the virus stampedes through the body within weeks, or days.

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Chess, the Fun Way

I gotten into an obsession over chess in the summer but now sort of quit... anyways, found these on dirty.ru but took the best ones. Link here.

My personal favorite... :

ehhh, this is nice too....:

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Your Happy Dose of the Day

Being sick is not cool, especially when it is a three day weekend... so here's so thing that cheered my up.

1. I'm not for or against any political affiliation here but this is funny...


see Sarah Palin pictures

2. More politics? Yes....this time, I agree a bit.

3. More politics? Nahhh... funny stuff:



Want to play the game? Here's the link:
http://www.maniacworld.com/maze_game.htm

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Mr. Yates

Thanks to Logan and CollegeHumor.com:

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The Asian Translations

I talked about why one shouldn't translate to another language while not using a native speaker of that language. Maybe you remember the story where a Chinese restaurant displayed their name as "Object not found"? Well, how about another translation:

So while scientists in the western world has worked so hard to perfect making artificial beef, Chinese scientist has bypass the cow and went straight for the fowl. They now have perfected the art of making artificial duck meat.

And lets not even start talking about the picture... it's, almost... PERFECT. Of course, like every other food packaging, the picture is grossly over Photoshopped and the actual thing is much less delightful than that (I forgot to take a picture of the actual thing... how could I forget!?). 

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Fart on thy Officer?

Enough of me doing some stupid thing, lets look at other people's stupid mistakes shall we?

1. Do not fart at police. I repeat, do not release your flatulence on the cops... and here's why. In West Virgina, an arrest was made:

Jose Cruz, a 34-year-old man from West Virgina, has been charged with battery after farting on a police officer.

 So, how did the officers describe it?

While being fingerprinted, Cruz allegedly “lifted his leg and passed gas loudly on Ptlm. Parsons. The defendant then fanned the air with his hand in front of his rear onto” the cop. “The gas,” the complaint notes, “was very odorous and created contact of an insulting or provoking nature with Ptlm. Parsons.”

That must be ONE stinking fart.

Link

2. I'm afraid they might need additional funding for this project:

3. This story is extremely old, yet I never found it before. How sad of me. When the Simpson's movie was released, the producers used a pretty neat trick to draw people to see the movie:

ehh...

A 180-foot-tall drawing of Homer Simpson has appeared on a hill in the English countryside, right next to the famed Cerne Abbas Giant ...[a] revered symbol of fertility among pagans. It is Britain's largest chalk drawing, carved into the natural chalk rock beneath the turf.

 Link

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Free Juice?

1. Do you know what those "light" juices are made out of? Actually, they're just normal juices except watered down... at least that's what Mott is doing. From the Consumerist:

Here's a perfect example of why you should always approach "healthy" labeling on food products with a skeptical eye. Summer did a quick side-by-side comparison of regular Mott's apple juice with new Mott's Plus Light. What she found was that except for a few added vitamins, the Light product was just Mott's juice diluted by 50% with water—but selling for the same price as the 100% juice.

 Now, that's not a really nice thing to do Mott... bad Mott... bad.

2. Are you saying Tallahassee is a boring town? I totally agree, but we still get SOME cool things around here. Don't agree with me? Well, where in the world could you see someone get tased while nude, walking a dog? (hint: Tally-town).

Now the even more weird thing? The reason:

The man was asked what he was doing and told the officer, "Allah told me to watch a Bruce Willis movie and walk the dog," McCranie said

Yes.. I watch Bruce Willis movies and walk the dog too. 

3. 9/11 - I didn't post on 9/11 due to homework issues but a powerful picture had came to my attention today. Take a look at this photo from the Esquire. Probably one of the most powerful I've seen so far.

In the picture, he departs from this earth like an arrow. Although he has not chosen his fate, he appears to have, in his last instants of life, embraced it. If he were not falling, he might very well be flying. He appears relaxed, hurtling through the air. He appears comfortable in the grip of unimaginable motion.

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Super Me!

While going through some old nats photos, I came across one of the drawings during the competition. I guess I was a little bored during Interschool at Nationals...

Story to come tomorrow when I'm not loaded with homework. 

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