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  1. lomk
    It's something I think about from time to time...about how the US is so far away from Asia. Let's face it. The Pacific Ocean is VAST! But here's something I didn't really think about until I was studying some maps.
     
    The United States is technically only 50 miles away from Asia!
     

     
    Now I know that Wikipedia isn't always the best source for information, but seriously...how inaccurate could the map be? Anyway, the article said that there'd be two bridges, each about 25 miles long and a third bridge would connect the Diomede Islands, but it'd be so short, it wouldn't add much distance.
     
    So there you have it.
     
    Russia is a part of Asia. Alaska is a part of the United States. Sure, I live a long way from Alaska. According to Google Maps, if I were to take the Alaska Highway, Anchorage is 69 hours away.
     
    So yeah. You now know the United States and Asia are very close to one another. Geographically, of course
     
    Or maybe you knew that in the back of your head, but never thought about it.
  2. lomk
    I did a blog entry on this subject earlier this year.
     
    Then yesterday, I saw an article on Facebook about a 22 month old toddler being locked in a car for 8 hours who subsequently died.
     
    According to the father of the child, he was supposed to take his son to daycare; however, he forgot the child was in the car and went to work instead. He left work that afternoon and noticed the child was in the back of the car. He pulled over and performed CPR in an attempt to resuscitate the child, but to no avail. He was pronounced dead on the scene.
     
    This bothers me.
     
    A lot.
     
    In my aforementioned blog entry, I noted that the interior of my car reached 126°F. That's hot enough to kill someone. If you're a child and you can't open the door, you'll die in that kind of heat, and it won't be extremely quick either. You'll suffer. Heatstroke is no way to go out.
     
    You don't need numbers and you don't need to be super educated to know that it gets hot in your car on a hot day. All you have to do is open your door. If it feels pretty hot in there, why in the hell would you leave another living thing in there? You don't need numbers or education. You need common fucking sense.
     
    Even more bothersome to me is that he said that he forgot the child was in the car.
     
    How do you forget?! Toddlers don't just sit in their car seats. All small children are hyperactive beasts. That kid would have been squirming or trying to talk to his father or banging something around...point being: that toddler would have made some kind of noise, a constant reminder that he's there in the back seat. I don't buy the story that he forgot the kid was in the car. That's a load of bullshit. You have to be on something to not notice your kid back there.
     
    Anyway, my local news reported that he's been charged with murder. I think he deserves it. There's no legitimate excuse for something like this. It's common sense. This kind of thing happens way too often, and it makes me sick.
  3. lomk
    I'm subscribed to Marques Brownlee on YouTube. I'm into tech and whatnot and I like the stuff he talks about. This video is a little old but in it, he has a dummy iPhone 6.
     


     
    Now, I just want to say that it's not things like battery life, display resolution (which still isn't 1080p, but I guess you don't really need anything much higher than 720p on a display this small, but that's a discussion for later), screen size, clock speed, RAM, etc. that won't have me sold on this one.
     
    It's that design.
     
    This is possibly the ugliest iPhone I've ever seen. And I have to say that I really liked the designs of the iPhones 4 and 5. The square edges were pretty cool. It was hardware, specs, and iOS that kept me away from iPhones after I got rid of my iPod Touch. Especially iOS. I think iOS 4 was the last truly good version, but - again - different discussion for a later time.
     
    In my opinion, pretty much every Android and Windows phone out there looks better than this. But hell, even if I did love the design of the phone, I'd still stay away from iPhones.
     
    The phone I really want right now is the OnePlus One. Even though it doesn't have SD card support (which is something the Galaxy S5 has over pretty much everything - it can take up to 128 gigs of additional storage), the OnePlus One looks sexy, and it'll be something that pretty much nobody else has. I really hope I can find a way to get one at some point in time!
  4. lomk
    I've been pretty inactive here lately. I've got a lot going on. It's been good and it's been bad. Right now, I'm not having the best of days.
     
    First of all, I graduated college about a 3 weeks ago. I now have a BBA in accounting. Since getting my degree, I've been looking for work at many accounting firms. They either weren't hiring or they interviewed me only to never give me a call back. As it is, I am still jobless, looking for work.
     
    I talked to my mom today, and she said it probably wouldn't be a bad idea for me to take work at wherever I can find it. If that means being a waiter or a carhop for the summer, then that's what it might have to be in the meantime. She told me that it would be nice if I could find something applicable to my degree, but I might have to swallow my pride and this attitude that I've been wearing that "I didn't just get my 4 year degree to stock shelves or deliver food." Admittedly, I've been doing that. But wouldn't you feel the same way if you put in 4 years and thousands of dollars to your education?
     
    I did get an interview today. But I think I botched it on one question. Some people are telling me that I'm just being too hard on myself and my interviewer probably knew I was very nervous. It's true. I need a job right now.
     
    I need a job because recently, my Prelude finally decided to have major trouble. It's in the shape where it can be driven, but it's not fit to be driven. I jumped a small connector the other day so the check engine light would give me some codes. I got 8 (bad TDC sensor), 67 (bad catalytic converter), 80 (bad EGR valve), and 70 (auto transmission malfunction). As far as the transmission goes, it seems to work just fine. As for everything else, I'm looking at fixing it all. I need to. And it'll be cheaper than buying a new car, which I can't afford to do right now.
     
    I guess it's not all bad. I did graduate with honors (cum laude - my grade point average was 3.57) and I have a beautiful girlfriend now. I can find solace that while I once thought I was perpetually single, I now have someone to call mine.
     
    It's not looking so great right now.
     
    ...Welcome to adulthood, Space Woona...
     
    I guess once you hit the bottom, the only way to go is up. I'm ready to advance. Hopefully this summer quits sucking soon.
  5. lomk
    So we've noticed how the royal sisters' manes seem to flow forever.
     


     
    Yes?
     
    Their hair flows all the time. Cadence's doesn't. And neither does Twilight's.
     
    Now before I move on, I have to point out that since their manes flow like they do, I always expected them to be kinda water-like. Like, if I were to run my hand through Luna's mane, I would expect to pull it out and it would be all wet. Which would probably make bathing for them kinda awkward.
     
    Tia: Luna!! Can you get me a towel!
    Luna: Sure thing sis!
    "Thanks!"
    *a few seconds later..*
    "Luna!! Can you bring me another towel?"
    "Fair sister, we have already bro't to thee a towel. Thou require another?"
    "Yes."
    *a few more seconds later*
    "Luuuunaaaaa...I need another towel!"
    *Luna opens the door* "What could you possibly be doing in---Mother of God..."
    There is a mound of soaking wet towels on the floor and Celestia, in tears of terror and confusion, is vigorously rubbing the towel through her hair trying to dry it
    "I don't know what's happening Luna!! Make it stoooooooop!!!"
    "Hold on, Celestia! I'll call somepony!!"
     
    The rest is open to interpretation lol
     

     
    So anyway, since I always thought that their hair was liquid-like, it felt kinda weird to see Pip pull on her hair. It's freaking adorable but also kinda weird. I expected there to be a splash of some kind
     
    Anyway, back to what I was saying (now that the rabbit has been chased)
     
    I think it's because there is a special shampoo that only the royal sisters have access to. To have the flowey hair doesn't require one to be a princess. You just need their shampoo.
     
    This is possible. Remember when Luna was no longer Nightmare Moon? How her hair was...normal? She hadn't had the royal flowing shampoo in 1,000 years. And Nightmare Moon's hair flowed because it was powered by evil nightmare magic. The next time we saw Luna, she had flowing hair. Chances are she took a bath between her transformation and Luna Eclipsed.
     
    Now, you might ask, "Where does one find this shampoo? From what would it be made?" A very astute question, young student!
     
    Have you ever read "Rainbow Factory?"
     
    Rainbow is just another term for shampoo in Equestria. Rainbow Dash? Yeah, she's also called Shampoo Dash. She's the mascot for Head & Shoulders. It's her second job. She's gotta be able to pay for all that Daring Do merch somehow and, let's face it, being a weather pony doesn't pay well.
     
    Now regular shampoo doesn't have the magical ability to make a pony's hair flow like the shampoo from Rainbow Factory. They have to grind fillies and colts up to make it because they're magical. And only ground up fillies and colts can make special hair flowey shampoo.
     
    I kid, of course...
     
    But now that I think of it...what if Rainbow Dash got a hold of their shampoo...?
     
     
     
     
    Anyway, I feel like this sums up today's blog entry quite nicely.
     


  8. lomk
    By now, it should be common knowledge that you're not supposed to leave kids in the car when you go somewhere. But the sad truth is that some of us forget that. In fact, in 2013, at least 44 children died because they were left in a hot car, and there have been 2 child deaths in hot cars in 2014 (source)
     
    I got a little curious. So now with summer coming up on us, I decided that I wanted to know exactly how hot it gets in a car in the summer.
     
    I live in western Oklahoma. Here, it gets really, really hot during the summer. Today, the temperature peaked out at 100°F (37.8°C). Keep in mind that today is only May 5. It's normal for it to get around 110°F (43.3°C) for weeks at a time during June through August.
     
    I picked a particularly warm and sunny day. Again the temperature is 100°F (37.8°C) and there isn't a cloud in the sky.
     

     
    Next, I had to pick a test subject. I used my own 2000 Honda Prelude
     

     
    And a measuring device. Previously, I used this to keep tabs on the temperature outside, but I got a newer and better one so I retired this old thing until I decided to experiment with it. This thing had been inside all day so that's why the temperature says only 76°F
     

     
    Now I wanted to prevent any bias that might have been caused if I left it out in direct sunlight so I put the probe in my glove compartment.
     

     
    At 1:43 PM, these were my readings:
     
    Indoor Temperature: 69°F (20.6°C) | Outdoor Temperature 93°F (33.9°C) | Car Temperature 91°F (32.8°C)
     
    Now, mind you, these temperatures were taken about 4 minutes after I placed the probe in my car. Also, note that in those four minutes, the temperature jumped from 76°F to 91°F. Quite a leap.
     

     
    I waited a number of hours to let the inside of the car heat up. At 5:04 PM (3 hours and 21 minutes later), these were my readings:
     
    Indoor Temperature: 71°F (21.7°C) | Outdoor Temperature: 100°F (37.8°C) | Car Temperature: 126°F (52.2°C)
     

     
    I would have checked it sooner to see how quickly it heats up to that temperature, but I've been studying for finals today and I wasn't able to check it all the time. I think it's safe to say it probably reached that temperature within an hour, though.
     
    I've been locked in a car when it's hot outside. When you're a kid, you don't always think with a level head like you can as an adult. Had I been thinking like my adult self when it happened to me back in 2003, I would have just opened the door. But when you're a kid, you don't want to get in trouble or be kidnapped.
     
    If you're a parent, you have absolutely no reason whatsoever to leave your child in the car. Which is worse? To put up with your kid being loud and hyper in the store or to find your kid dead in your car? At 126°F (52.2°C), someone could succumb to heatstroke within minutes
     
    If you're a parent, these numbers should be startling to you. If you've done this before, this should be a wake up call.
     
    The danger is real! Do not leave your children or pets in the car!
  9. lomk
    I'm not a console gamer, but I do have a PS3. Only reason I do is because I gave up trying to convert my brother and my roommate to PC and I had nobody else to play Borderlands 2 with...One day, they'll figure it out. Anyway, I do have a PS3. Wired it up to my PC monitor and we had my brother over. We just used our spare tv and let him hook up to that one and we had a small LAN party of our own! :D
     

     
    The awesomeness that was my living room for the last four hours...ah...love it
     
    If only we had a fourth guy over...Then the LAN party would have been complete lol
  10. lomk
    There are certain things in this world that are only good hot like spaghetti or coffee
     
    And there are certain things in this world that are only good cold like ice cream or a soda
     
    And then there's pizza.
     
    Whoever created the first pizza deserves a nobel prize. There are laws that dictate tastiness versus temperature and they proved every one of those wrong
  11. lomk
    As the title says, I just watched the movie. There are a few things I can take from the movie.
     
    1. It just strengthens my belief that Mark Twain was on to something with "The Lowest Animal."
    2. The fact that anyone could treat anyone that way and sleep at night is appalling
    3. I found out that, as a man at 21 years old, I still retain the ability to cry
    4. Unless you can stand intense violence and some gore, this movie isn't for you.
    5. I now hate white people. And I'm white.
     
    As a friend of mine who is a social worker (who also interviewed a rapist today...yeah they don't pay her nearly enough to do that kind of thing) said earlier today, "People are the real monsters."
     
    Good movie. But a lot to take in. And hard to watch.
  12. lomk
    She thinks she's cool... :okiedokielokie:
     

     
    So yeah, you'd think that after being a brony for nearly 2 years, I'd have more plushies, buuuuuut I don't. So when I saw Fluttershy (among others) at the store today, I couldn't resist it!
     
    Granted she isn't of superb quality, but do keep in mind that I'm jobless and money is tight at the moment. When I do get a job, first thing I'm getting is a quality hand made Luna or Fluttershy. Either way, she'll have to suffice for now. I'm just happy to add her to my pony merch collection
     
    And this is where I'll be keeping her
     

     
    She appears to be confused by the Tetris
     

     
    Can't wait to acquire MOAR!!!
  14. lomk

    I made vibrating pony gifs.

    By lomk,

    I have too much fun with this kind of shit. And I have too much time on my hands. This is the product of that. Jesus help us all.
     
    MAXIMUM BOOKS
     
     
     
    MAXIMUM SMILE
     
     
     
    MAXIMUM FATIGUE
     
     
     
    MAXIMUM AWESOME
     
     
     
    MAXIMUM FABULOUS
     
     
     
    MAXIMUM YAY
     
     
     
    MAXIMUM BANISHMENT
     
     
     
    MAXIMUM RAGE
     
     
     
    If you want to use any of these for any reason, go right ahead
  17. lomk
    I was thinking back to 2006 - 2007 ish when I saw this commercial on the television. I remember back then this was frickin hilarious. And today, it is frickin hilarious. Some of you may never have seen it before. In case you haven't, here it is.

    "It is the most sophisticated piece of technology you will ever pee on"

  18. lomk
    What I'm consciously telling myself right now: "Go to bed, Space Woona. You have a difficult exam in the morning and you need to rest."
     
    What my ADHD is screaming: "♪♫AND I WULD WAKL FIEV HUNDRED MIELS AND I WOUL DWALK FIEV HUNEDRED MOAR!♫♫...."
     

     
    *sigh* story of my life.
     

     
    Well I'm gonna try to go to bed now.
  20. lomk
    I just woke up like five minutes ago from an odd dream.
     
    So last night I dreamed that I lived in this apartment complex with the Mane Six. The building we were all in was long two story building with one side. I lived in an apartment on the far left side on the first floor of the building (facing the front) with Twilight. Rarity lived in the one above us, Applejack had one in the middle downstairs, Pinkie Pie never lived in any one apartment, Fluttershy lived upstairs on the opposite end of Twilight and me, and Rainbow Dash was her next door neighbor to the left.
     
    Well one day, I walked in my apartment and caught a glimpse of Twilight and Fluttershy in my room. Immediately as I went to say something, Fluttershy flew out the window and Twilight teleported to her room. They both thought they were slick. I just kinda shrugged it off. I didn't mind as long as they didn't break anything or throw TP all over the place.
     
    I explained this to Twilight, who was was kinda embarrassed about it but understood right away that I wasn't angry due to the lack of broken things or toilet paper. We hugged. We made up.
     
    After that, I laid on my bed, pulled out my cell phone, and called Fluttershy. No answer. I called again. Went to her voicemail again. I went over to her place and knocked. The door never opened. Not even Angel would open it.
     
    This whole dream centered around trying to get in touch with Fluttershy but failing to do so. I just wanted her to tell me what she was doing before asking my roommate (who I knew would tell me in the end).
     
    But that's where it ended. I woke up. Now I'll never know if she was secretly trying to steal my things or if she was in there crying her eyes out. Gotta love that. -_-
     
    Anyway, I'm just going to assume for now that she just borrowed my Batman movies and was afraid to ask me personally
  21. lomk
    I'm a gamer. It's something I've been pretty proud of my whole life. I don't entirely fit in with the community of people who call themselves "gamers." I'm talking about the people who only play Call of Duty, who only buy Xbox or PlayStation because Nintendo consoles are generally underpowered these days in comparison to its competitors and they don't have the graphical capabilities of Nintendo's competitors. And I have to agree that this is true starting with the GameCube. Nintendo probably has a different target market. Anyway, the console war is a debate in itself that should be spared for a different time.
     
    Now I have to say that most games do present a challenge these days. There are some hard games out there. I just finished Borderlands 2 on True Vault Hunter Mode. And it was a challenge. I'm not sure that I want to try Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode. At least, I'm not doing it solo like I did the previous two modes. And Borderlands 2 wasn't even that tough on the harder difficulty. Now I know there are some truly hard games out there like Demon Souls and Dark Souls. I haven't played them yet and I'm not sure that I want to spend money on a game I can't beat. It makes as much sense to me as buying Dickens' "Great Expectations" as a first grader. When I was six years old, I couldn't hope to be able to read that book. Hell, when I was 13, I missed most of it.
     
    Now lately, I've clocked a lot of hours on Borderlands 2. I mean, A LOT. I have it both on my PC and on the PS3 I just picked up a few days ago (I had to get a PS3 because after months of trying, I can't convince my roommate or my brother to kill their consoles and switch to PC and the PS3 is relatively cheap nowadays). Steam says I've got 104 hours on Borderlands 2. It's second only to Skyrim, which I've played 282 hours. But I've owned Skyrim for nearly 2 years now. I've only owned Borderlands 2 for a few months. And I know I've clocked at least 20 more hours this week on the PlayStation. So I decided to take a break from Borderlands today.
     
    In fact, I wanted to get retro with my gaming today.
     
    Now when I say "retro" I'm talking about a game on a platform that is so old that even though it looked good then, it looks like crap today, the console it was on is no longer relevant and 99% of the games on said console is all abandonware anyway. Like the companies know they won't make any more money from these games so they don't see the point in going after the copyrights that have been infringed upon. There's no profit to be made. That cow is out of milk.
     
    I started today with a little GameBoy Tetris. You know, the game with the famous A theme? Tetris has been around for a long time and everyone knows what it is. There have been hundreds or thousands of variations of Tetris. But I just like the classic play-til-you-fill-the-play-field style of Tetris. Now I generally play Tetris on my phone. I'm pretty good at it on there. So I thought I would do pretty well on the Game Boy Tetris. It turns out that it doesn't translate very well. My best game on my phone was 882,107 with 488 lines made. The best I could possibly do on the Game Boy Tetris was a meager 71,418 with only 91 lines. Button presses are much slower than finger drags in positioning a piece and the delay between when the piece hits the bottom and when it sets is much smaller on the Game Boy. In a nutshell, coming from Tetris on my smartphone to going back to the past, Tetris is a brutal game.
     
    Then I played some Super Metroid. This is actually an old game I've never played. But I did play Zero Mission on the GBA not long ago and I wanted to try it out. I just can't platform very well anymore. I can't get used to the way Samus jumps. And I keep running out of rockets! I'll be coming back to this game later, but for now, I'm done with it.
     
    Finally (after watching an interesting documentary on the coelacanth) I ended up playing Mortal Kombat II. I used to be awesome at the game when I was 7. But I haven't played the game in 14 years. The last time I played this game was before some of you were even born. So there. If that helps to put it in perspective of how long it's been. Now I can remember being 7 and the only person I could never beat at this game was my father. I did beat him every now and again but I think he just let me win that one time every hundred or so just because he knew I'd say something like, "Yeah Dad! I kicked your ass!!" just to gauge my mom's reaction. So yeah, I haven't played this game in a long time and I just wanted to check it out again after 14 years. It was easy when I was young and the game hasn't changed since it got its first release. And as it turns out, I suck at this game too. The furthest I made it was Round 2 of the second fight. I did find the difficulty settings. I turned them down to "Very easy" and went back. The farthest I made it was the 4th fight. And then I gave up. The game is that hard for me.
     
    So at the end of the day my day has been unproductive and less than enjoyable. It does have nostalgic going for it, though.
     
    I'm beginning to believe that I was a much better gamer when I was a kid than I am as an adult.
  22. lomk
    I'm at a loss for words.
     

     
    For the record, I LOVE Girl Scouts cookies. Especially thin mints. I don't buy them often. I bought some tonight and this was the first time I bought Girl Scout cookies in a couple years because when I buy Girl Scout cookies, I make them disappear. Anyway, I just saw a commercial for it on TV so it HAS to be real.
     
    You guys, if I see this stuff at the store, I'm buying all of it. Then I will go home and drink coffee by the gallon.
  23. lomk
    I've always been told that drinking milk from the jug is a bad thing. Well, folks, I'm here to convince you that it's a good thing. Now you might say, "But drinking from the jug spreads germs!" And I'll say, "How about a nice, hot cup of SHUT THE HELL UP?!"
     
    So how is drinking milk from the jug good? Well, Johnny boy, when you drink directly from the jug, what is the thing you do not use? A cup. When you don't use a cup, that is a cup that doesn't end up in the sink and that means there are less dishes to wash. When there are less dishes to wash, there are less dishes to rinse. When there are less dishes to rinse, you save water. And when you save water, Mother Nature smiles upon you for helping to save finite water for future generations.
     
    And if you use disposable cups, you've eliminated one cup from ending up in a landfill for the time being.
     
    So if you drink the milk out of the jug, give yourself a pat on the back. You've earned it.
  25. lomk
    WARNING: May contain spoilers!
     
    Earlier today, I was playing Borderlands 2 online with my brother on the PSN. I was Lv. 24. He was Lv. 26. And we fought a Lv. 28 BNK-3R. I was very under leveled after he went to check on his sick girlfriend, I decided to farm the BNK-3R and do some level grinding while I was at it. My stuff sucked and I wanted better equipment. The BNK-3R has a chance to drop the legendary weapon Bitch or the legendary shield Sham. I've been looking to get the Bitch for a very long time on my PC. I've fought the BNK-3R at least 100 times and I still haven't had a Bitch drop on my PC. Well on the 4th fight on the BNK-3R on the PS3, this happens.
     

     
    I finally get my first Bitch drop. Granted, it wasn't on my PC. Which sorta pissed me off because if I were on my PC, this gun would be Lv. 50 and not Lv. 25, but I finally got it and I get to see what it's like. I've been using it for a while and it's a really good gun. Well about 20 more fights down the line, this happens
     

     
    I got 2 Bitch drops in the same 2½ hours.
     
    I am pretty fucking excited.
     
    So I texted my brother these pictures and rubbed it in his face because we mess with each other about finding legendary stuff all the time. Now I find 2 legendary things and it feels so damn good to rub it in his face
     
    I asked him a question I never thought I would ask him in my life:
     
    "I have two Bitches and I'm willing to share. Would you like one of my Bitches?" :D
     
    (Because what do I need two of them for?)
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