I'm a fairly tech savvy guy. My computer breaks, I can fix it. People seek me out when they can't figure something out. When it comes to Javascript, though, I'm pretty sure that's powered by black sorcery.
I just thought of something today. As certain technologies, like text to speech and dictation programs, get more advanced, will our society someday evolve beyond the need for literacy? What do we even use literacy for these days anyway?
-Reading signs.
-Sending letters and emails.
-Reading and writing books, articles, magazines, etc.
-Chatting online.
As computers become more and more advanced, a lot what is written could instead be dictated to a computer, which would then filter out
Yeah, they were up for a few minutes today, but "the Man" wanted them taken down. Luckily, SPIRIT snagged them before they vanished. The first word is their English name and the second word is their Pokedex species in Italian... for reasons I won't go into. Enjoy.
* Victini Vittoria 0,4 m 4,0 kg
* Snivy Serperba 0,6 m 8,1 kg
* Servine Serperba 0,8 m 16,0 kg
* Serperior Regale 3,3 m 63,0 kg
* Tepig Suinfuoco 0,5 m 9,9 kg
* Pignite Suinfuoco 1,0 m 55,5 kg
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Why, Dobby? WHY!?!?!?!?!? Your death was sadder than Moody, Burbage, Hedwig, Bathilda, Dumbledore, Sirius, and Cedric's deaths put together times a billion!
Also, they left out Phineas Nigellus, so how did Snape find them?
Everything involving paperwork and school administration will go perfectly and I won't have to worry about such things as my exam mysteriously vanishing. Luckily I went into the exam with a passing mark, so it isn't vital that they find it, but I really don't want a 55% mark.
Wikipedia was unhelpful in this regard, so I bring my question to you. As a child, when you played tag, there would have been a "safe zone" that while touched prevented you from becoming It. I would like to know what term you used to name this safe zone.
Personally, everyone I knew called it T (short for time-out). Wikipedia calls this "gool" or "base". What names do you know of?
Another yuletide has come and gone and here's what I did this year. On Christmas Eve, I went out Christmas shopping and the weather decided to punish me for my procrastination with bucketing rain. Soaked to the bone, I managed to buy something for everyone. My family came from Canada to visit me in France, allowing me to see them in person for the first time in four months, which in of itself was a great present. They were pretty jet-lagged, but we managed to make it to our apartment (which
Have you ever met or seen someone who looks like, sounds like, acts like someone else you know? It's freaky, isn't it? Especially that brief moment where you suddenly realize why they were so familiar.
I imagine this is how LEGO minifigs feel when they see a certain minifig face reused.
The United States and other countries constantly ridicule Canada for not having as large a military as them. However, we have reasons for this.
Canada has a military base in the most northern settlement in the world: Alert, Nunavut. Why? We've seen enough Christmas specials to know that Christmas is ALWAYS in danger of being cancelled. Let's see the Grinch get past the full force of the Secret Canadian Special Forces, though.
You can thank us when you wake up on Christmas morning and f
Dumbledore: Good evening and welcome to Hogwarts! This year's houses: where all the smart, attractive and/or weird people go -- Ravenclaw! Where all the evil, ugly, and/or stupid people go -- Slytherin! Where all the cool, important, and/or plot-relevant people go -- Gryffindor! And where everyone else goes -- Ryan Stiles, I mean, Hufflepuff! And I'm your Headmaster Dumbledore, welcome to Hogwarts! Come on, let's have some fun.
*Takes his place at the table.*
Dumbledore: Welcome to H
Why do shooting games always need to be so graphic? Why can't they make a shooting game where your enemies don't explode into a massive sea of blood, body parts flying haphazardly as they cry in sheer anguish for death's sweet embrace?
I like killing imaginary video game characters as much as the next guy, but why do games have to try to inflict war veteran post-traumatic stress disorder upon me? I'm into things being realistic and all, but what happened to playing games for fun?
Long ago, on Christmas Day 2005, a young lad named SPIRIT received two particular Christmas presents: a wallet and an iRiver .mp3 player. It was on this day that a mighty fellowship was born: The Fellowship of Things SPIRIT Carries Around in His Pockets. This mighty fellowship would help SPIRIT through many battles, occasionally adding or losing members, but always making SPIRIT proud to live in a society when men's pants had decent pockets.
Here is a list of all noteworthy members of the f
When I first heard that some people had gone ahead and made a full-length comedic musical based on the Harry Potter saga, I initially had incredibly low expectations for the project. Just a few days ago, though, I decided to sit down and check it out and gosh darn if it isn't one of the funniest things I've ever seen. I highly recommend watching it for Potter fans everywhere, but a word of warning, there is a bit of foul language in it. It's called A Very Potter Musical and it has a sequel A
Fact 1: According to the US Census Bureau, there are approximately 2 deaths per second worldwide.
Fact 2: According to Mattel, 2 Barbie dolls are sold every second around the world.
Draw your own conclusions.
Ah, SPIRIT has homework again, so you know what that means? Yep, a procrastinatory trip down memory lane looking at some gems from his Brickshelf gallery.
Gotta love the classics.
Anyone remember when this movie was eventually supposed to happen?
A MOC of Thok I made back in late 2005 based on preliminary pictures
Movie-style Jaller.
"You and Ashbear got no wrong-quarrel. Just doing her duty."
The truth comes out at last.
Best idea for LEGO ever.
The wondrous da
So turns out I'm going to have a new neighbour spending the night in my building. Don't know if you've heard of him, goes by the name of Hu Jintao. He's apparently a pretty big deal, like the president of China or something.
Yeah, that's right, Hu Jintao is my neighbour now. B) Granted, I'm in a part of the building that's completely locked off from him and there are police EVERYWHERE so I'll probably never see him, but that's a lot closer than most of you will probably ever get.
Now t
So, as most of you probably don't know, when Tahu killed all the Rahkshi in the last comic with the golden armour, he actually gained their powers. Now, according to Greg, not every type of Rahkshi would have been sent on the invasion of Bara Magna so he probably doesn't have all 42 powers, but if you were in charge of the storyline, which powers would you give Tahu, which ones would you not give him, and why? (For your convenience, here's my Flash Kraata Maker).
So here's what I think:
Guns, scary elves, and bail; suspect freed
By The Canadian Press
MONTREAL - A man who allegedly armed himself with high-powered weapons because he believed elves were stalking him has been granted bail.
David Abitbol will have to respect a number of conditions which include surrendering his firearms and not using electronic devices like computers to communicate with others.
His father has also agreed to post $25,000 bail.
Testimony at his bail hearing revealed that Abitbol thought
A little something I thought of today with regards to being unique: there's a difference between standing out and sticking out. I have great respect for the former and great disdain for the latter.
This has been philosophy with SPIRIT. Tune in next time to see an explanation of why everyone in the world is incredibly stupid, especially SPIRIT.
So my body has decided that it likes to play jokes on me and it has formed a cluster of acne on my forehead in the shape of a lightning bolt. Doesn't even have the decency to supply me with magic powers to compensate.
So I'm going through some old files and I find this. You might've already seen something similar to it in a previous blog entry, but here's a longer/alternate version I wrote for some unknown reason and rather than let it rot on my hard drive, I thought I'd post it here.
Takua:
Little town
It's a quiet village
Ev'ry day
Feels like it's so slow
Little town
Full of little people
Waking up to say:
Ta-Matoran:
Hello!
Hello!
Hello! Hello! Hello!
Takua:
There goes the farmer w
So yeah, today's my half birthday. I can hardly believe it's been six months already since then and yet, so much has happened in that time.
I'd also like to take this time to mention three groups of people I don't like:
1) Music snobs. Who do you think you are?! What gives you the right?!
2) People who sign into IM programs with their status set to as "Away". Who do you think you are?! What gives you the right?!
3) People who make short online videos with intros that are like tw
