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*petting* It's okay Rarity. They didn't mean it!
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I was browsing Imgur earlier and I ran into this.
Basically, this guy saw a squirrel drowning in a fountain in his town. Afraid to grab a wild critter with his bare hands, he used a mail bin in the trash to give the squirrel a platform to climb on and lifted it out of the fountain.
Cold, exhausted, and terrified, the squirrel climbed on his shoulder and in his jacket. When he took the squirrel home, he dried and warmed the critter up. The squirrel recovered and he visits this squirrel in the park regularly.
I reserve my right to cry at this kind of beauty
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I park my Prelude like this nowadays
And I look out my window and think, "Damn she got a booty."
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Don't know if someone's already done this before me but I had an idea and decided to execute regardless
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdbUeVuJM9Q&feature=youtu.be
And yes, I did just make this. So if you would please be so kind as to go to the YouTube page and drop me a like, it'd be appreciated. That way I know people actually enjoy the crappy videos I post on the internet
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Hai everybody! I've seen this kind of thing trending lately: people are blogging about why they love their favorite character. I haven't seen much in the way of Princess Luna. So I'm going to make a number of blog entries that sort of outline why I love her so much. There won't be much in the way of regularity when it comes to this. I may post something tonight and then I might post tomorrow and then I won't post another reason for another few days. I have other things going on. And my reasons don't have to be the same as yours. I don't expect them to be. Anyway, without further adieu, let's get this started.
Today, I'm going to be going over my first reason: Luna's color.
Okay, I know this is about as deep as the kiddie pool but bear with me.
The color blue. It's my favorite color of all. Blue means a lot of things to me, personally. There is always a lot of hidden context in the color blue. When you're feeling blue, it means you're feeling sad. Or maybe you feel sympathy for someone who feels sad. But Luna's blue isn't a bright blue like the sky we generally think about. It's a deep, mystical blue. When I think of Luna and her coat color, I think that there's more to this pony than meets the eye.
There is still so much to know about this pony...Who will hug her first?
The Season 4 openers blew me away. I knew there was a transformation. But the way they did it far surpassed my expectations. It was dramatic and heartbreaking simultaneously. To see Celestia and the look on her face...knowing she'd have to do what she did and that she might regret it for the next 1,000 years. Did I cry? Not on the outside. But there was more to it than what Twilight's flashback gave us. Luna felt shunned and ignored. Perhaps the denizens of Equestria forgot that it was Luna's duty to enter their dreams and comfort them. Alas, her job was a thanklesss one. Despite her amazing power (as it is never mentioned if Celestia has the ability to do something like enter dreams and since this power would be useless to her prior to Luna's turn and subsequent banisment, she probably doesn't), it's pretty likely that everyone forgot she even existed since her time of activity was during the night. It would have been easy to forget that she was there under the doctrine of "out of sight, out of mind."
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And what's to say that anything is different now in comparison to what it was 1,000 years prior? Ponies still sleep at night. Luna is good. She enters dreams and comforts ponies. But that's exactly the way it was before she turned. This leads me to believe that Luna doesn't want to turn again, but it's a battle she fights on a daily basis. She just does a good job of keeping it a secret.
That is why I love her coat color. Blue is deep and mysterious. I feel like there will always be so much more mystery surrounding Luna than there ever will be with Celestia.
Plus, blue is just a beautiful color
Keep it up Luna. Your fan club loves you. (hugs)
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I spent the last few hours typing this from scratch. It's a rough draft and I plan to go through a few edits before I'm done with him.
It's only taken my a year and a half to do this
Anyway it starts now
Stargazer – Male – 20 years old – Pegasus
APPREARANCE
Average build. Dark blue coat, dark brown mane with lighter brown highlights.
CUTIE MARK
A telescope pointed at a single star that symbolizes his love of astronomy.
CHARACTER TRAITS
Withdrawn – Not that this means he doesn’t like to make new friends. He loves to meet new ponies. However, you’ll rarely catch him making the first move.
Humble – He doesn’t boast about the good things he’s done. While he does talk about his own accomplishments with pride, he’d sooner stay in the background than take the credit, especially when working in a team. He exaggerates this quality from time to time, and it blows the door open to let others take advantage of his caring nature.
Team player – He’ll try his best to pull his share in the team.
Thinker – He doesn’t talk often, but when he does, he talks a lot. This is because he tries not to say anything unless he feels it will add to the conversation or he might just be acting a little…
Silly – He loves to have fun and goof off. He might even get a little hyper from time to time. However his hyperactivity makes his type of humor like playing roulette. It can either go well or it can go badly. He wants to make you laugh, but he can be exhausting or offensive.
Oblivious – His social skills are subpar and he has an especially difficult time reading others. He may offend someone and be none the wiser.
Well-meaning – Even if he does hurt your feelings, he means well. There is never malicious intent
People-pleaser – However, everything he does is for the benefit of another. He is risk-averse and avoids conflict. His biggest fear is that he would become a burden to another.
BACKSTORY
Stargazer was born to two Pegasi in Cloudsdale.
His father was a skilled carpenter and mechanic. Often he would be hired for jobs that required great skill and paid well enough to keep the family going. He also loved to work on machines, and could make a broken machine run like new given the time and tools. However, he was abusive and violent, often berating Stargazer for things beyond his control. When Stargazer was 15 years old, his father left the family.
His mother is a fog artist. Her art is very temporary and must always be completed with quickness. Her fog sculptures were highly regarded by her friends and family. However, because she could not leave Stargazer’s father and pursue her own dreams of having her works photographed and featured in a gallery, she never amounted to anything more than a star among the people who knew her. After Stargazer’s father left the family, she became depressed and withdrawn, seldom showing her face.
Stargazer did everything in his power to help create some kind of peace...some kind of order…but all was in vain.
Mere months after Stargazer was born, his father lost his job after he was caught with contraband. The family relocated to Trottingham. His father was always on the run from the law, and the family always got dragged wherever he went to stay under the radar. He has lived in Cloudsdale, Trottingham, Appleoosa, Detrot, Tramplevania, Fillydelphia, and even Marelin, Germaneigh. Due to the constant moving around, Stargazer hardly made friends in school. When he was 14, the family moved back to Trottingham, where he stayed after his father left.
In all this time, Stargazer had never earned his cutie mark for he was never given the chance to come into his own. He knew that when he was a colt, he enjoyed looking at the night sky. It helped him to get lost in his thoughts and to escape from reality. Maybe explore some distant planet. He wished upon every star every night that things would get better. He called to the stars…none of them answered. He wasn’t sure what was happening. If they heard him and were waiting for the right time or if they even existed at all.
Three weeks before his 18th birthday, Stargazer determined he had a choice: Stay with his mother and continue being dragged down by her depression or get away from it all and give the world a chance. He chose the latter. It was the first time he had ever made a choice for himself.
Stargazer hit rock bottom shortly before he turned 19. Having been on his own for a year, he had no job, no life, nothing. He felt empty and unfulfilled. But most of all, he didn’t feel anything…he just felt. Being young and reckless, he set off toward Ponyville, knowing the Everfree Forest wasn’t far from there. He had no way to get there except to hoof it so he set off walking. He had no money so the only food he had was the grasses that grew on the side of the road. It wasn’t the greatest food, but it was food and that’s what mattered. What was he going to do in the forest? He wasn’t sure. What would happen to him? He didn’t care anymore. He knew one of two possibilities would occur: he would either come out knowing something about himself or he wouldn’t come out at all. And at this point, he was fine with either.
After walking for 12 days, he finally arrived in Ponyville. He didn’t stop to say hi to anypony. He went straight for the forest. As he was about to enter, he was stopped by a yellow Pegasus with pink mane. She flew over from a small cottage in a tree not far from the entrance. She was obviously very uncomfortable talking to someone she’d never met, but she explained that it was the Everfree Forest; it’s dangerous to go alone. “Normally I don’t talk to other ponies I don’t know,” she explained, “but I thought you were going to go in there willingly and didn’t know of the danger. I couldn’t sit idly by and let such a terrible thing happen.”
“I know what the Everfree Forest is. And I’m going in there of my own volition. Please…don’t worry about me.”
“Oh…okay. Please be careful…we’ve had problems with a cockatrice in there…Just a few weeks ago a dear friend of mine was turned to stone…”
“It’s fine. I’ll be fine.”
Alone he went into the forest. All was peaceful. He just kept walking. He’d already walked all the way here so what difference did it make to walk a couple hours? He walked until he came upon a sight to behold: Celestia and Luna’s castle. He’d read about it, but never had he seen it himself. It was a magnificent ruin and he loved it for he loved to dabble a bit in history from time to time. He determined to explore the castle.
Exploring the castle, he lost track of time. How long had it been? A couple minutes? A couple hours? A couple days? He wasn’t sure.
He found himself walking up a spiral staircase that seemed to go on forever. He passed by an opening that led to a walkway and kept walking up. As he continued, however, the staircase came to a sudden halt. What lay above the staircase was a starry cosmic ceiling. The rest of the tower long since fallen. He turned around and descended to the opening in the tower. Crossing the walkway to another tower, he climbed to the top of this one. This tower too had a staircase that ended with the night sky as its ceiling; however, it was still standing firm. Looking around, there was a table on the far side with nothing but a telescope upon it. It was the only thing atop this tower. He knew what a telescope was, but had never seen one himself. It was magnificent.
He held the eyepiece up and couldn’t see anything out of it. How long had that telescope been here? He had no clue, but it must have been there for hundreds of years. But he was too sleepy to care. Stargazer put the telescope back on the table and fell asleep. Considering he was lying on the cold hard stone floor of that tower top, he was more comfortable than he had ever been. His eyes became heavy as he counted the stars in the sky and drifted asleep.
Stargazer was lying in a field, all alone. The night was clear and a light breeze brushed over the grassy meadow. A voice from behind him said, “Thou looketh not, and thou seeth not.” Stargazer turned round and saw an elderly bearded pony donning a starry cape and a starry pointed hat decorated with bells. “It’s Starswirl the Bearded!” he thought. “But how could this be? It’s a time long after his!” Then the voice of Princess Luna echoed, “I used to study the stars with Starswirl. The night is a beautiful thing and many ponies take it for granted. It is one of many reasons I felt so alienated in the past.” There was a pause as she turned her head and looked at the sky for a moment then back to him. “You have been through much, young colt. Do not lose hope, for your hope is what drives you and your hope will be what sets you free.”
He awoke. It was still night. Or was it the next night? Had he slept through the entire day and not known of it? Stargazer returned to the telescope on the table. This time, there was a cloth next to it. Odd…that hadn’t been there last night...No matter. He took the rag and polished the lenses and the metal of that telescope to a high mirror shine. He then plucked one of his own feathers and used it to clean out the crevices where the lenses met the metal and other fine cleaning the telescope required. If it was beautiful before, it was impeccable now. Stargazer held the eyepiece up.
He could see everything! Planets, moons, stars, galaxies…nothing was hidden from him!
“Astronomy is an art long lost in the world of Equestria.” Princess Luna descended to the tower. “It is only studied by very few. Those who pursue usually don’t get very far. Yet none so far have ventured to this castle. To look this deep in it and find the artifact that taught me to raise and lower the moon with such care and precision. I need it no longer as I can perform this task asleep. I bestow it upon you, Stargazer. You’ll never need it for what I needed it for, but I know it will be useful for you.” She hugged him and told him not to hurt anymore. And Stargazer fell asleep.
He awoke the next afternoon at that yellow and pink Pegasus’ house. What was her name? He never took the chance to get it…
“I’m Fluttershy, by the way. I tried my best not to worry about you, but when I found you in front of my door this morning I had no choice but to help you.”
A tear welled up, but he fought it. “And I’m Stargazer. Thank you so much, Fluttershy, but I have no way to pay you for your kindness and hospitalit—“
“You don’t need to do that. I’m happy to help. By the way, I’ve never seen a cutie mark like that before. What’s it mean?”
“Cutie mark?” Stargazer turned round and saw it for the first time…It was a telescope and a single star. “I think it means I know what I have to do.”
Stargazer’s cutie mark is a sign of his passion for the art and science of Astronomy. His dream is to be a pioneer in the field, and to expand what little knowledge there is about outer space in Equestria. His ultimate goal is to build an observatory and a museum dedicated to the stars and displaying the works of Princess Luna and Starswirl. Finding those works will mean going back to the forest and searching the castle for any remnants of their work, but he determined it was a risk associated with the passion, and if he were to lose his life, at least he would lose it doing what he loves.
Today, Stargazer lives in Cloudsdale again. He deemed it the best place to use his telescope because Cloudsdale is least affected by cloudy or stormy weather. He spends his days searching the castle and his nights studying the night sky.
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Keep in mind, now, that this is only a rough draft and I'm debating whether I should use canon characters in my backstory. I'm thinking if I do, I'm going to have to find ways to keep them from diverging from actual canon and forming their dialogues to be as canon as possible (except Starswirl as he doesn't have an actual appearance in FiM).
Anyway, tell me what you think! I'd love to hear ways I can improve him!!
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Disclaimer: This contains some language that is hidden in the fourth spoiler. Other than that, the rest of the entry is clean.
Disclaimer the second: There's some light computer jargon, and if that's not your thing, your head may hurt.
This is my Samsung Galaxy S4. (ignore the Toshiba laptop it's sitting on. I needed a surface that contrasted with the color of the phone lol)
I love my phone. It’s the first phone I’ve had that my parents weren’t paying the phone bill. That’s no fun to pay your own bill, but at least there’s some privacy in paying your own phone bill. Like, they don’t see where I go on there, and that’s good because I really don’t want them knowing I’m an active fan of My Little Pony.
So before I begin and for future reference, SD stands for Secure Digital.
For a while now I’ve had a 32 GB SD card in my phone. It came out of my old Motorola Electrify. I have a lot of high definition video (hours upon hours of 720p and 1080p content) and high fidelity audio (I re-ripped all my CDs to WAV and downloaded all my Bandcamp/Beatport content in FLAC) stored on this memory card. So much so that it’s completely full. I decided it’s time for an upgrade. So I went to my Walmart and looked at 64 GB SD cards. The per-gigabyte cost of an SD card rivals that of a solid state drive. Seriously, it does. The cost of that 64 GB card was $60. About 94¢ per gigabyte. I got my 128 GB SSD for about $150, excluding the cost of shipping and that equates to about $1.17 per gigabyte. And you can get a 1,000 GB hard drive for $70 (or 7¢ per gigabyte). The price of SD cards is awfully high, and I wasn’t going to pay that kind of premium for that card.
So I did some online shopping and I stumbled across this.
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A Samsung 64 GB Micro SD card. It was going for $30. I felt like it was a no-brainer. And they were selling fast. I also felt like it’d be cool to have a Samsung SD card for my Samsung phone. So, hastily, I placed an order for one on Thursday while they were in stock. On Saturday, I started looking into the formats for SD cards because I was curious as to how big an SD card can get. Turns out Micro SDXC supports capacities up to 2 terabytes! Incredible. So I was looking at the photo of the memory card I bought. Because I get antsy when waiting for things to come in the mail. I mean, I paid for it so I should get my stuff, right? I’m a little impatient like that. But as I was looking at the photo, I noticed something peculiar. A 64 GB SD card that uses the SDHC format?
Okay, I’m a computer guy. I love working with tech. For those of you who don’t know, right now, there are 3 formats of SD card. That’s explained in the spoiler.
I know that SDHC only supports capacities up to 32 GB. I bought my old SD card before there was SDXC and there was no such thing as a 64 GB SD card at the time. SDHC tops out at 32 GB. So how, then, did this card manage to have a capacity of 64 GB while being SDHC format? I went on Amazon to read reviews on this particular card.
It has 2 stars. The 5 star reviews were obviously scammers trying to make it look legit. But of the 48 reviews, 36 of them were for 1 star. Wanna know the titles of those reviews? “Counterfeit.” “Fake.” “Don’t buy.” “Knock-off.”
Womp womp. Guess who feels like an idiot. Yep. Me. But I wanted to give it a try. So when I got it in the mail today, I did. No success. It does nothing. I can’t put anything on it. And I should have known, too. I’m not mad because I got scammed. I’m mad because I should have known better than to jump on that. The rule of thumb is: if it’s too good to be true, it probably is.
So I want to warn you against these because if you’re not paying attention, everything is very convincing. I mean, you've got to give them props for making it look so so good that you'd think it's legit. But I’m usually so detail oriented, I normally would have been able to tell this was a scam from the beginning.
But be honest. Unless it’s used, there’s no way a legit 64 GB SD card is going to only run you $30.
Usually, you’re safest visiting your local computer/electronics store or Walmart. They’ll likely have a return policy if it doesn't work.
If you take nothing else from this, just always remember to look up what you're looking at on a review site like Amazon. Even if the product you're looking at sells out and it was legit, you'll have other opportunities to get what you want.
In the meantime, I’m going to go smack myself for being so dumb. Gah! I should have known better!
SanDisk is best.
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HOLY CRAP!
I'm not really sure how to feel about this. On one end of the spectrum, I understand what it's like to be poor. Perhaps she has an abusive boyfriend? But on the other end of that, if you're stealing out of necessity, there are plenty of welfare options available to you. You can make a half-decent living off of welfare. There are so many variables in this.
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Sometimes I play this game and it bugs out from time to time. And it's pretty funny. Other times, I find stumble on things that all came together and it made me laugh. And then there are other things I did specifically so I could take a picture of it and share it with the world one day.
Well that day is today.
#1 IT'S THE CIIIIIRRRRRRCLE OF LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFE!!!!!!!!
Seriously....trying to kill a dragon here and my horse goes Pride Rock on me....
#2. Dude....I am fucked up......
Yes Esbern....Tyou did just watch a pony absorb a dragon's soul. You didn't know Fluttershy was Dragonborn?
Actually it's probably those shrooms you ate earlier........
#3 Dafuq you lookin at?
This is Frostfall biotch!!!
#4: My new patented Pinkie Vision! Lets you shoot Pinkie Pies from your eyes!!
Just point, aim, and shoot! It's that simple!
This is all I've got for now
P.S. There should be more of these in the future.
And yes, I still play Skyrim
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As much as I hate tornado season, I've seen some of the prettiest skies during this time of year.
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Bridle Gossip, A Dog and Pony Show, The Best Night Ever, The Last Roundup, A Friend in Deed, MMMystery on the Friendship Express, Pinkie Pride, Filli Vanilli...
What do all of these episodes have in common?
They were written, either fully or in part by, Amy Keating Rogers.
And I fully enjoyed every one of these episodes. Some of them are in my BOAT (best of all time) list. In fact, the only episode she wrote that I didn't love was The Cutie Pox, and that was still actually a pretty dang good episode.
Keep it up, Amy. You do awesome things for this show!
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I just read in my textbook that in the rental car industry, Hertz used to hold a huge lead over Avis. There really is no distinction between one rental car company and another since they all use exactly the same products. Essentially, a rental car is a commodity. After scouring for EVERYTHING that would make them different from Hertz, they decided that the only difference between them and Hertz was that Hertz was number one and Avis was number two.
What did they do?
They did a ballsy marketing campaign that used the theme “We’re number two! We try harder!”
And it worked.
I’m laughing my ass off right now. That’s probably one of the most awesome marketing schemes I’ve ever heard of.
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Yeah, I know it. I've been very, very whiny as of late. I'm trying my best to cope with one of the most stressful weeks to any college student: finals week.
If you don't know about it or you're not in college (or university as they call it in Canada), finals week happens twice a year at the end of each semester. It's a very trying time, especially since college is usually like high school on steroids. On top of that, college students generally have to work, keep up their grades, and try to maintain a social life without going nuts. In fact, it's a lot like this
I need sleep. And good grades are expected of me. Thus, I haven't made many friends during my time in college. That gets quite depressing from time to time so I have to find ways to cope that don't involve drinking or self harm. I try to look for constructive ways to deal with it if I have the energy to do so. Like the other day when I walked 6 miles to take my mind off things. But today, I'm running on next to no sleep. I don't have the energy to do anything but whine and feel sorry for myself.
The problem is during finals week, you get a choice taken away from the triangle. You can only circle one.
Usually, finals aren't bad for me. I've only ever made a B on a final once or twice. I generally don't get test anxiety. This semester has been totally different. Seems like there aren't many things working out the way I'd like them to. And it's not the most loaded down semester I've ever done. I once took 20 hours in one semester and came out with 3 A's, 3 B's, and 1 C. This semester, I'm only taking 12 hours so there's no reason for me to have a C this semester. But I'm worried I'll get 2 of them after one very difficult final that I studied about 15 to 18 hours for and I don't think I did well on it, and another final for which I could only sleep 2 hours the night before taking it. I had to drink 6 cups of coffee this morning just to keep myself from falling asleep when I sit down. I've never drank that much coffee. Usually one or two do the trick. Any more than that, and I get shakier than a school bus on a bumpy road.
So yeah, I'm sorry if all my status updates as of late have been particularly whiny. I don't mean to do it. But it's the only way I've been able to keep my sanity over finals week. It's almost over. By next Monday, I should be returning to normal. Hopefully.
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Liek srsly you guise. Throthgar knows wut modz r best
I fuggin love this guy. It's an old video but if you haven't seen it yet, it's gold.
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The other day, I was shopping on eBay for a new SD card. The one I have in my Galaxy S4 has a total capacity of 32 gigabytes, and I've got it down to its last 13 megabytes. The only thing it can hold much of now is Word documents. So I shopped on eBay and picked up a 64 gigabyte SD card for about thirty bucks.
On a per gigabyte basis, that's extremely cheap, and that got me to thinking about the technology I had in high school. Let's rewind about 6 years. I was a sophomore in high school (that's the 10th grade). Our school didn't have a lot of money so all our computers were outdated. Windows Vista was out there, but it was trash so there weren't many people who upgraded. So all our school computers ran Windows XP. In my typing class, you had to have your own flash drive. If you couldn't afford that, then you could go cheaper and buy a pack of floppy disks because they were going obsolete and nobody used them anymore, but our computers had floppy drives and a pack of like 10 of them cost only a few bucks.
I put some money together and bought a flash drive. It was a Lexar 512 MB flash drive. It cost me $15. Remember when I said a per gigabyte basis back up there? That flash drive cost me $30 per gigabyte. That SD card I just bought. 64 gigabytes for $30? On a per gigabyte basis, that SD card cost me 47 cents! Looking at that old flash drive, it's more expensive, on a per gigabyte basis, than most solid state drives these days. And it only held, like, 100 songs.
Everyone these days takes their technology for granted. They only consume. They don't take a moment to appreciate exactly how many years of research went into the development of their cell phones. You guys, these were things that trekkies were being beat up for when they would pretend these things would exist in the future. And now the same kind of people who would have beat up the trekkies anywhere from 15 to 40 years ago use the exact devices that they dreamt would exist some day in the future.
When you think about it, it's amazing to see how far we've come. I recently got into using records to listen to music from time to time. One side of a record will play about 20 minutes of music, and a 33 RPM record is bigger than a dinner plate. These days, we have SD cards no bigger than your pinkie nail that will store 1,140 hours of MP3 files. I did the math. It's 47½ days. You could play all that music from the top and never repeat a song for over 2½ months.
It's amazing to think that most laptops you bought at the store when I was a kid only held 40 gigabytes. Kids these days grow up with PS3 and XBOX 360. I grew up with an old school Nintendo. When I was a kid, I learned the art of blowing in a ROM cartridge to make it work right.
So before you take that amazing device you call your cell phone for granted, take a moment to appreciate exactly how far we've come. Because my first phone was a flip phone that didn't have an outside screen, so when you opened it to see who it was, you answered the call...yeah that was annoying. I can remember when every rich kid carried around one of those old school Moto RAZRs with the annoying "Hello Moto" ringtone! So yeah. Your cell phone is an amazing piece of human advancement. Don't take it for granted because one day when cell phones will outperform today's high-end desktops, you'll be feeling about the same way I (and most tech people my age and older) feel today.
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Now a little back story: I'm a senior in college. My roommate has enough hours to be a senior but he's still probably 2 more years from actually finishing and getting a degree. But we're roughly the same age and we've been pretty close friends since 8th grade. We found we liked Pokemon (a lot) in high school and gaming is kind of our thing. But we're also pretty imaginative sometimes and we start making up some crazy stuff.
Anyway, this is a running gag between us for the last five or six years or so. It started when we were diagnosing cereal mascots with psychotic disorders.
Trix Rabbit: Lots of pent up anger because he sees no reason that Trix can only be for kids
Lucky the Leprechaun (Lucky Charms): Severe paranoia that "they're always after" his "Lucky Charms"
Sonny the Cuckoo Bird (Cocoa Puffs): Severe ADHD + Panic discorder. That bowl of Cocoa Puffs is always the straw that breaks the camel's back for this guy.
That's just a few. This eventually evolved into creating our own superhero. He was years in the making. He lives in a little of all of us who patrol the internet. He is the Nazi of Nazis. Some accept and love him. Others reject and hate him. He is....
He is...Grammarman.
It started with a conversation about people who are too lazy to be grammatically correct. We agreed that people spend 12 years in school being taught the only language they know. We're taught how to read, write, and use English for two-thirds of our childhoods. Therefore there's no reason to suck at it. If you were taught how to play piano for 12 years from the time you are 5 years old, would you absolutely suck at it or would you demonstrate some considerable skill? The same goes for language.
We also agreed that if you're multilingual, you get cut a lot more slack on this. I can see how it would be easy to confuse the spellings of various words when you can be thinking in two or more languages at any given moment. Alright, now that I have that mini-rant out of the way, let's move on.
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The story starts with a woman. One of those over the top feminist women who think guys are jerk bags when they hold the door because that makes them look weak. The Grammarphone (yes that's a pun on a gramophone--as in a vinyl record) goes off. It's a message from the store owner
Owner: Grammarman! We need your help!
Grammarman: I am on my way!
[Grammarman strides politely into the McDonalds to find our scene]
Grammarman: What is the problem here?
Cashier: We gave her pickles on her cheeseburger.
Woman: And I didn't want no pickles on my burger!
Grammarman: [to woman] Did you want pickles on your burger?
Woman: No! I didn't want no pickles on my burger
Grammarman: Those sentences contradict each other.
Woman: I didn't want no pickles and I got pickles!
Grammarman: Exactly.
Woman: And I told him I didn't want no pickles!
Grammarman: Then, ma'am, I fail to see the problem. If you "didn't want no pickles" and you got pickles, then you did, in fact, order pickles. You got exactly what you ordered. NOW SHUT UP AND GO EAT THE FOOD YOU ORDERED!
And so, thanks to our beloved Grammarman, a problem that never existed in the first place was resolved because someone was too stupid or lazy to properly use the only language he or she knows. What future struggles await our hero? Find out in the next issue of Grammarman!
We had too much time on our hands in high school
Grammarman hasn't popped up in conversation in a while, but his legacy lives on. Grammarman is the SSID for our internet router. We've also called it The Awesome Narwhal and NSA Monitoring Station before (thanks to Evilshy for that last one), but Grammarman is its current alias.
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This is gonna be a short one. Promise.
Only in Oklahoma does this stuff happen.
I think it's pretty funny and somewhat original although I'm sure he didn't plan on being arrested. It sort of sounds like white trailer trash type stuff if you ask me!
Rednecks. They live in my state!
But on a brighter note, I have A LOT of respect for that police officer. A lot of people will look down on police as the "filthy crooked pigs" but there are a lot of them in small towns are are really good people. Like this guy. You know, he didn't have to let him do that. He could have just been a hard ass and shoved the guy into the car and took off. The cop is only doing his job. So yeah, respect for that officer. Give that man a medal.
Source: http://www.news9.com/story/24234781/elk-city-man-proposes-to-girlfriend-while-getting-arrested
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Holy shit! People, this is some bad stuff! The roads are icy and driving conditions are extremely dangerous! My advice is to stay in your home and don't go out!
We've got bad snow all over the roads and conditions are treacherous! If you find yourself stranded, my word of advice is to dig a hole in the snow and get in it! If you want to get fancy, build an igloo!
Don't get ballsy and drive in this.
This is a typical "blizzard" in Oklahoma
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I'm actually pretty surprised I haven't seen this all over the place everywhere I go yet...
This is probably going to be an unpopular opinion but here I go anyway.
I read in the news today that The Pirate Bay has been seized by police. This is part of an article by TorrentFreak
This is sort of stirring up a bit of controversy. But I have agree with Rich in this video here.
Now I'm no angel. I was pretty stupid when I was a teenager and I didn't know exactly how big something like piracy was. When I was 14-16, I downloaded everything for free. Nowadays, I don't. If I can't buy it, I don't have it. It's as simple as that. Because now that I'm older, I see the effects of piracy. One single person doing it is pretty inconsequential. When it's thousands or even millions of people doing it, the numbers really add up. Companies want to turn a profit on their stuff so they have to hike up the price of software and such to combat the losses they take whenever people are obtaining illegal copies of that software. Or music or movie or whatever you're downloading. I guess what I'm trying to say is that if you get it for free, someone is going to end up paying for that, and it's going to likely be the people who buy it legitimately. Now is there anything fair about that?
You wouldn't just walk into a music store, take a bunch of CD's off the shelves and walk out expecting to get away with it. So what makes it okay to do it on the internet?
I'm not going to miss TPB if it's down perpetually. Besides, like Rich said, the very name indicates the purpose of this place. It was to let people obtain free things when they should have been paying for it. Sites like Megaupload are sort of a grey area. Of course I can't defend Megaupload. That site was for piracy as well, though they did a better job of keeping it inconspicuous. If I want online backup, I'm going to a trusted company that has been around a while like Google Drive (Google) or Skydrive (Microsoft). I don't even use those much because I keep physical backups. Online backup is good for when I don't have a flash drive handy and I want to access a file on a different computer or school work. I'm not keeping private stuff on my online backup.
But yeah, the very name of TPB made it pretty obvious to anyone who has more than 3 brain cells what their intention was. So I don't feel bad for these guys and I won't miss them.
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Everyone else is doing one so what the heck? Why not?
1: Do you sleep with your closet doors open or closed?
I sleep with the closet door the way I left the closet door. Why do people make a big deal of this anyway?
2: Do you take the shampoos and conditioner bottles from hotel?
I don’t even use the stuff, let alone take it.
3: Do you sleep with your sheets tucked in or out?
Out. I hate the feeling that tucked sheets make me feel gravitated to my bed.
4: Have you ever stolen a street sign before?
Funnily enough, yes! When I was 14, someone in my town knocked down a yield sign. It had been down for a few weeks so my friend and me went out with a ratchet and took off with it!
5: Do you like to use post-it notes?
They’re quite handy!
6: Do you cut out coupons but then never use them?
I used to cut out coupons until I realized I do exactly this. So I quit cutting them out.
7: Would you rather be attacked by a big bear or a swarm of a bees?
How about a swarm of puppies? That sounds a lot less painful.
8: Do you have freckles?
I used to have bad freckles when I was about 7. Fourteen years later, they’re not as bad
9: Do you always smile for pictures?
Screw pictures. I hate my own picture. :okiedokielokie:
10: What is your biggest pet peeve?
When my roommate forgets to turn off a light when he’s not in a room. If you’re not in the room, why pay for the extra electricity it takes to light the dadgum thing?!
11: Do you ever count your steps when you walk?
I’m too ADD to NOT count my steps!
12: Have you ever peed in the woods?
Round these parts, we don’t have woods. But we do have solitary trees here and there. And when I was a tyke, it wasn’t abnormal for me to go pee on a tree!
13: What about pooped in the woods?
I can’t say as much for this…
14: Do you ever dance even if theres no music playing?
Not that I know of…
15: Do you chew your pens and pencils?
I don’t chew them but I pull them apart!
16: How many people have you slept with this week?
I’m a virgin. And proud.
17: What size is your bed?
King, of course! And it’s amazing having all that room to myself!
18: What is your Song of the week?
The song of my life is “1979” by the Smashing Pumpkins
19: Is it okay for guys to wear pink?
But of course! I have a couple pink shirts myself. They’re a light pink. Not deep or hot pink. They’re closer to white than red on the pink scale
20: Do you still watch cartoons?
I’m a brony so this should be fairly obvious :comeatus:
21: Whats your least favorite movie?
Almost any horror movie. Those movies make me want to throw up before I ever get scared.
22: Where would you bury hidden treasure if you had some?
I wouldn’t bury it! I’d cash out and invest that money in stocks and retirement!
23: What do you drink with dinner?
Usually water. But I like a little Crown Royal and Coke
24: What do you dip a chicken nugget in?
Ranch all day!
25: What is your favorite food?
Real food: Filet Mignon cooked to a medium rare. Dessert: Cheesecake.
26: What movies could you watch over and over and still love?
The Shawshank Redemption is easily the only movie I could never get sick of
27: Last person you kissed/kissed you?
My ex. But that was well over 3 years ago and she’s a total [CENSORED]. Can we move on?
28: Were you ever a boy/girl scout?
Nope. I love the outdoors but it was never for me.
29: Would you ever strip or pose nude in a magazine?
If people really wanted to see that…I mean, if you want to see me nude, I can’t be held responsible for your loss of vision or the desire to gouge out your eyes
30: When was the last time you wrote a letter to someone on paper?
I have a German friend and she’s my pen pal. I wrote her a letter last month.
31: Can you change the oil on a car?
I’ve changed lots of oil! Cars, trucks, tractors…it’s kind of something you learn to do working on a farm
32: Ever gotten a speeding ticket?
Got pulled over going 84 in a 70 and again going 83 in a 65. Never got tickets for it
33: Ever ran out of gas?
Hah! I’m too anal! I fill up before the gas light even comes on!
34: Favorite kind of sandwich?
Italian BMT at Subway!
35: Best thing to eat for breakfast?
I like to scramble an egg and brown some sausage. Then I throw that in a tortilla with cheese and BAM! Breakfast burrito!
36: What is your usual bedtime?
Depends on the semester. Last semester, my normal bedtime was 8 PM because I was waking up anywhere from 2 – 4 AM every day. This semester, my bedtime is midnight since I don’t have to be up until 8 AM.
37: Are you lazy?
More so than I should be, to be blunt.
38: When you were a kid, what did you dress up as for Halloween?
My mother was excellent with a sewing machine. I usually went as Scorpion from Mortal Kombat!
39: What is your Chinese astrological sign?
Monkey!
40: How many languages can you speak?
Three. English, Pig Latin, and Martian.
41: Do you have any magazine subscriptions?
Nope. Never much cared for magazines.
42: Which are better legos or lincoln logs?
For building stuff or for plotting evil things for anyone who walks barefoot in your room? Because Legos fit the bill perfectly for both!
43: Are you stubborn?
No! -_-
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44: Who is better...Leno or Letterman?
I never really watch Letterman so I’m gonna have to go with Leno on this. Though Fallon is my favorite by far
45: Ever watch soap operas?
As a man, no. :okiedokielokie:
46: Are you afraid of heights?
On a roller coaster, no. On the side of a cliff, yes.
47: Do you sing in the car?
I sing, drum, and play guitar sometimes at stoplights. You wouldn't believe the kind of looks I get when people see it!
48: Do you sing in the shower?
Not really.
49: Do you dance in the car?
Nope. But do refer to #47 again.
50: Ever used a gun?
Plenty of times.
51: Last time you got a portrait taken by a photographer?
A couple years ago. I hated it. :okiedokielokie:
52: Do you think musicals are cheesy?
Hell no! I love a good musical!
53: Is Christmas stressful?
Now that I’m at the age where I have to buy things, it’s a hassle. Plus college finals the week before.Thank you, school, for ruining one of the best times of the year for me.
54: Ever eat a pierogi?
A what?
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55: Favorite type of fruit pie?
I don’t generally eat fruit (I know…bad habit) but I do like apple pie.
56: Occupations you wanted to be when you were a kid?
Astronomer. I used to be obsessed with space when I was younger. I still have an enthusiasm for it but not as much as I used to.
57: Do you believe in ghosts?
Not really.
58: Ever have a Deja-vu feeling?
No.
58: Ever have a Deja-vu feeling?
Yes.
59: Take a vitamin daily?
Nope. I prefer to get vitamins from food.
60: Wear slippers?
I have a pair I’ve worn maybe 3 times since I got them 3 years ago
61: Wear a bath robe?
Eh….it’s not for me.
62: What do you wear to bed?
My boxer shorts. I’d sleep nude but it’s a little too weird even if I’m alone.
63: First concert?
Never been to one.
64: Wal-Mart, Target or Kmart?
Do I have to pick? I dislike all three equally.
65: Nike or Adidas?
Nike
66: Cheetos Or Fritos?
Ever have a Cheeto Pot Pie? Didn’t think so.
67: Peanuts or Sunflower seeds?
Sunflower seeds! But only the kind with the shell removed. I never could master cracking a sunflower seed…
68: Ever hear of the group Tres Bien?
Nope.
69: Ever take dance lessons?
Again, nope.
70: Is there a profession you picture your future spouse doing?
Not particularly. If it’s love, then I’ll be happy with her occupation as long as it’s not editor in chief for Inspire magazine (if you don’t know what that is, it’s Taliban reading material).
71: Can you curl your tongue?
Odd question, but yes I can.
72: Ever won a spelling bee?
I almost did when I was in 5th grade. I can’t remember the word I got but the other kid got “casserole” and I was so mad because he got such an easy word! But 1st runner up is still good.
73: Have you ever cried because you were so happy?
Remember the German friend I talked about earlier? Yeah, we’re close enough that she does that sometimes.
74: Own any record albums?
I do and they’re worth their weight in gold to me
75: Own a record player?
YES!!! I love records and having an old record player is so awesome!
76: Regularly burn incense?
Nope.
77: Ever been in love?
More love questions? Ugh I hate these…yes….
78: Who would you like to see in concert?
Metallica.
79: What was the last concert you saw?
Refer to #63
80: Hot tea or cold tea?
Nothing beats hot peppermint tea.
81: Tea or coffee?
To wake up in the morning? Coffee.
82: Sugar or snickerdoodles?
Snickerdoodle. If nothing else, for the name.
83: Can you swim well?
I’m adequate but not adept.
84: Can you hold your breath without holding your nose?
There are people who can’t?
85: Are you patient?
Not really. I’m tolerant. I can put up with someone’s crap. But waiting kills me.
86: DJ or band, at a wedding?
Band for sure. Live bands are so cool
87: Ever won a contest?
I’ve got the worst luck ever so no.
88: Ever have plastic surgery?
No and I don’t plan on it.
89: Which are better black or green olives?
Olives? Ew…
90: Can you knit or crochet?
My grandma taught me how to crochet when I was younger but I haven’t done it in so long that I forgot how
91: Best room for a fireplace?
The living room/den hands down.
92: Do you want to get married?
One day, maybe. I’ve honestly given up hope on this one…can we please stop this kind of question?
93: I f married, how long have you been married?
I’m gonna cry now.
94: Who was your HS crush?
*Angry scribbles*
95:Do you cry and throw a fit until you get your own way?
No. If I don’t get my way, sometimes stuff happens.
96: Do you have kids?
No.
97: Do you want kids?
I want a family one day…
98: Whats your favorite color?
Blue.
99: Do you miss anyone right now?
Yes. My best friend…
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Found a better version!!! Thank you @Fillypino Fried
This made my day. HELL, THIS MADE MY WEEK!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D
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I saw this on Facebook and had to blog it.
"What are you doing in my house?"
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Like seriously. Notice how, at the end of "Generosity," Carriage #1 simply pulls out in front of Carriage #2 at the intersection in the red circle. Who had right of way? Did #1 legally make that left turn? Was #2 supposed to yield? Without a stoplight at this intersection, WHO KNOWS?!They were both fortunate that they missed each other (though just barely). A stoplight would be useful at this intersection! Somepony could be injured or killed! I just hope that none of those carriages were carrying any foals!
And what's up with Carriage #3 just sitting there on the side of the road?! Is he trying to be rear ended or sideswiped?! I mean, if he was parked, that'd be one thing. But there is far more than 18 inches of space between him and the curb. He's at least 2½ feet from the curb!
DOES NOPONY KNOW HOW TO DRIVE IN MANEHATTAN?!
Places not to visit:
1. The rough side of my town
2. Antarctica
3. Manehattan
Okay, rant over
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