Not Receiving Angry Mail About Not Updating

What’s up guys?

I haven’t updated in a while. Busy with stuff I guess. The thing is, if I committed to wasting time instead of pledging to do homework and then accomplishing only half of it, I would have tons of time to do other stuff like write.

No one sent me any hate mail though, and for that I am thankful? The question mark implies a mixed feeling. I am happy that no one bothered me about having too much work for school to do, midterms, maths, and numerous meetings with 3 separate groups. But this also means that no one actually cares weather or not I’m writing anything. To that I say, tough nuts! I’m gonna keep writing, being self referential, not doing research, and talking about nothing in particular!

Case in point, it’s time for this to be over.

CONCEPT: 4/5 – People not sending me angry emails is a great idea.

INNOVATION: 4/5 – Actually, sending me angry emails would be fairly innovative, as it doesn’t really happen very much.

SATISFACTION: 3/5 – I’m satisfied, but also un, because an email may have prompted me to get going again.

EXECUTION: 5/5 – Awesome, flawless even!

FUN FACTOR: ?/5 – I don’t understand what this means.

OVERALL: 5/10 – A mixed blessing. Don’t try to be funny and send me an email all being like “where you been??! I read a website!”

Commenting On Posts

Try it, you’ll like it

Since I’ve never done it myself, I’m not sure the procedure. I assume it’s fairly easy, but I think commenting on a post requires clicking on the COMMENT thingy above each one.

Go on, it’s okay. I like hearing what people think. If you ever left a comment and were sad because I didn’t reply, please don’t be. I haven’t replied to any of the comments left on the site. What do you think, would it be better if I did? I think follow ups may make this seem like a more legitimate enterprise. Would you be more interested in commenting if there were FABULOUS PRIZES involved?

Leaving comments is cool, and lets me see who’s reading the site. It also gives me valuable counter information to my normal ranting, which I enjoy. I’ve decided to embrace critiscism whenever possible, because if you can’t take it you shouldn’t dish it out. So correct grammar, point out flaws in arguments, and generally get all up/grill etc.

CONCEPT: 4/5 – Leaving a comment is a cool way to let people know you’re cool!

INNOVATION: 4/5 – There’s still time, you can be one of the first.

SATISFACTION: 4/5 – The only thing more satisfying is passing a law you penned. When was the last time you did that?

EXECUTION: YOU/5 – This, gentle reader, I leave to your discretion.

FUN FACTOR: 3/5 – Reading’s more fun than contributing.

OVERALL: 7/10 – Aw, you don’t have to if you don’t want to.

15 Minutes

It’s all I have

A lot can happen in 15 minutes (let’s start off how no essay ever should, sweeping generalizations and obvious statements), for instance, a cat can be born, the universe can start, or you can sit quietly. 15 minutes is also the smallest amount of time that it is possible to give someone to get ready to go somewhere. They might be angry if they need longer, but by law this is all you are required to give. This is also the minimum amount of time it takes any human being to get out of bed. The first foot takes 5 minutes, the other foot 5, and the last 5 minutes is spent making an unhappy face.

15 minutes is how long most drives take, and how long spaghetti takes to prepare (with sauce), so you can multitask and complete both of these things at the same time. 15 minutes is the maximum amount of time a person has ever held their breath, although I think my brother was cheating and may have been breathing through his nose.

CONCEPT: 3/5 – 15 minutes is a pretty good amount of time. You can divide it into chunks of 15, 5, 3, and 1. So divide it up how you like, and then spend each section doing something different!

INNOVATION: 2/5 – Monks invented this a long time ago, but they measured it in the average time it took for a honey bee to return to the hive. For accuracy, thousands of monks were required to chase individual bees throughout the fields of Britain so that they could tell if it was really the same bee. They counted time-to-hive by saying “One Stone Henge, Two Stone Henge,” under their breath.

SATISFACTION: 4/5 – You can get a lot done, but there’s only about twenty 15 minute segments to each day, so use them wisely.

EXECUTION: 5/5 -Flawless.

FUN FACTOR: 5/5 – Depends what you’re doing, but I’ll assume is eating honey.

OVERALL: 6/10 – Good enough.

Weekend War Zone #1 – Burning Rubber, Cold, Seven Samurai

Get Ready!

Since this is the first Weekend War Zone, I’ll explain. I will quickly review three items (because chances are most Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays I’m not going to have time to write reviews) and determine a winner. Think you already know the winner? You may be surprised!

Burning Rubber - On the smell chain, this is somewhere just under decaying flesh, which is actually the worst smell in the world for people because the scent molecules of dead meat invade all olfactory receptors as an evolutionary guard against, well, death (did I make that up? Look it up!) Rubber has no business burning. There’s nothing that can be accomplished by having rubber burn that is useful to society or any one person, ever. It smells absolutely awful, pollutes like a B, and usually means your car is just about ready to explode. Terrible in every instance.

CONCEPT: 0/5 -No.

INNOVATION: 1/5 – Rubber is a boon to mankind. Burning it is not original. Anarchists have been around for a long time.

SATISFACTION: 0/5 – Next to none, unless you.. No, none.

EXECUTION: 4/5 – It really burns good sometimes. All bubbly and drippy too. Smells as bad as possible; props.

FUN FACTOR: 2/5 – One time I held a piece of rubber on a stick and lit it on fire. The fire made little VOOP VOOP noises as the melting rubber dripped flaming onto the ground.

OVERALL: 3/10 – There is no reason for this.

Cold – Not the illness, the temperature. The lack of energy. Most people don’t enjoy being cold, and while I can see it may be uncomfortable for them, it’s also slightly based on what you think is cold. People who grow up in cold climates, or are raised by wolves, often have a higher tolerance for cold suggesting that it’s not universal as to what is uncomfortable. Cold is used in science, to cool things, like Cold Fusion, and Wars (Cold War.) How nice is it to have a nice cold milkshake on a hot summer’s day, or a cold refreshing kiss from your chilly girlfriend on cool winter’s night in a warm van? I’ll tell you how nice below.

CONCEPT: 5/5 – The opposite of hot, and most of outer space is cold. Has done many things for science and food expiration.

INNOVATION: 3/5 – Everyone gets a little tired of cold. “Okay, I’m ready to be warm now,” is a common sentiment. There is nothing else quite like it, however.

SATISFACTION: 4/5 – I can’t think of many ways cold could be better, except maybe to be a little warmer sometimes.

EXECUTION: 5/5 – Well done!

FUN FACTOR: 0/5 – While cold allows for great things, like superconductors, it’s just not all that amusing. I know some people will say “I love ice skating! Cold is great!” To you I say: wouldn’t you rather warm skate? Ice skating isn’t even the subject!

OVERALL: 9/10 – Near flawless in it’s execution. It’s doing a number on my hands as I type this!

Seven Samurai – Seven Samurai is a movie by Akira Kurosawa. It was made in 1954, and is about seven samurai who defend a town of rice farmers from a horde of bandits for no pay but all the rice they can eat. It’s renowned for it’s photography, portrayal of emotion and class division in 16th century japan. It’s also got action, and some funny bits.

CONCEPT: 4/5 – Think of a cool samurai. Now think of seven. Pretty good!

INNOVATION: 4/5 – The 16th century was a long time ago, and there were already lots of samurai movies when this came out, but it still managed to be innovative.

SATISFACTION: 4/5 – A beautiful movie.

EXECUTION: 5/5 – Incredibly well made. Moving, and memorable.

FUN FACTOR: 2/5 – Can be pretty long to sit through. But it’s not all about having fun. Sometimes being grown up means more that just having fun whenever you want and taunting children who can’t.

OVERALL: 9/10 – One of the best movies ever made, and complete classic.

Verdict – So, who wins? Burning rubber is an obvious dud, but Cold and Seven Samurai both come in with a solid 9. In this case the winner is, COLD. Seven Samurai may have influenced many lives with it’s savage and beautiful view of human life, but not nearly as many lives as the savage beauty of the Cold. What other condition can all people relate to? What else could make thermometers worthwhile? What else could make fresh fallen snow on Christmas morning? Only cold.

Life in Review

Daily reviews of daily things. Articles, books, websites, smells, video games, food, sensations, concepts, conversations, drinks, activities, music, people, bits of earth, etc.

The idea is intriguing, and adds a feeling of usefulness to what would otherwise be a fairly straightforward journal. A formula will also be followed, including but not limited to:

Title – What the review is of.

What – More in depth blurb or explanation.

Body – Description and observations about the subject.

Pros/Cons – An optional component where the pros and cons of the subject are weighed.

Ratings – Rank the subject against other subjects. Subjects will be rated out of 5 in CONCEPT, INNOVATION, SATISFACTION, EXECUTION, and FUN FACTOR. There may also by an additional rating based on other observations of the subject as well as an OVERALL score which is out of 10, and is not an average of previous ratings.

There will also be swears.

CONCEPT: 3/5 – Interesting. Will be fun to watch play out.

INNOVATION: 2/5 – Blogs and Reviews are both nothing new, but at least an ounce of creativity is required which warrants a 2.

SATISFACTION: Remains-to-be-seen/5 – This will be updated in the future with an accurate score.

EXECUTION: 3/5 – The fact that I got off my ass and made a blog is pretty good. I’ll give myself a congratulatory ‘3′.

FUN FACTOR: 4/5 – If this ever gets below a ‘2′ I may have to discontinue writing.

OVERALL: 8/10 – Commitment and creative output are in conflict! Let’s watch!