April 2011
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The Dunning-Kruger Effect →
Now, here’s an interesting transcript.
You know how there’s always that person on American Idol who is convinced that she is the best singer ever? Or that person who thinks he can draw better than anyone else? Or those thousands of folks on the Internet who think others are actually interested in viewing photos upon photos of them standing in front of a mirror with duckfaced...
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50 Unexplainable Black and White Photos →
24 has been explained to some degree, though there’s no reason for the world’s smallest man to be in that part of the world’s tallest man’s coat.
Thanks to Simon Pegg for the link! :D
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Clicking here for Petite Lap Giraffe →
They are the best from Russia.
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Paranoia
Every time I use the word “I,” in speech or in text, I cringe a bit.
It makes me feel as though I’m acting like a self-centered, spoiled brat of an only child.
I sometimes tell myself I’m overexaggerating and that plenty of people use the word “I” with such frequency or more, but that doesn’t work.
Then I remember that I’m living a far more...
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Dilemma
College. Career.
Zoology/ethology/ecology, photography, or graphic novel-ing?
I could always become an ethologist or wildlife ecologist and do art on the side. I lovelovelove animal biology, especially the ecological and behavioral aspects of Kingdom Animalia. Plus, I might be able to engage in some photography during field studies. However, I would leave less time to work on...
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Colored Bubbles
Apparantly, they’re not a good idea.
My mom got three bottles of Crayola’s “washable colored bubbles” as gifts for my sister’s two kids (our mom’s grandkids, haha) for when we visited them earlier this week. They were pretty cool, but after playing with the bubbles a bit, my dad and I decided that we shouldn’t use them much seeing that they were quite...
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Corrupting the youth
While my parents and I were in Texas, my sister, brother-in-law, and two nephews went over to Brazos Bend State Park to see the cute widdle alligators.
We decided that my sister and her husband deserved a break from the kids, so the 4-year-old and 3-year-old (Kai and Jaiden, respectively) sat in the back of my parents’ rental car, and their parents took their “aoi kuruma” (as...
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Just got back from Houston!
I was going to upload a few alligator photos (and possibly one of my nephew with a massive, mutant strawberry) but the computer feels like being a jerk and won’t let me upload anything to the interwebs.
And don’t say it’s because I’m using a Windows; the iPad is far more annoying.
But the trip, itself, was fun. Now, where’d that AP Calc homework go…?
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I write too much on religious allegories.
At least, in English papers.
I have to wonder what my teachers think of it. The 8-10 page paper I’m working on now (at least 3 pages left to go! 0_o) is based completely on characters’ views of religion and Christianity.
I’m a goody-two-shoes. And sometimes, worryingly, I’m among the first to catch a biblical reference.
Ironically, I don’t believe in the vast...
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Guess who took these photos! →
The photos of the bull elk and Kelly the kestral, at least. Seeing that page always gives me a happy :)
This page does too, but it’s a bit more subtle. Now I have to go to the Henry Vilas Zoo XD
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In addition...
Hekinan will probably be okay. It’s not exactly a coastal city, and it’s pretty far from the wreckage. My grandparents are probably eating breakfast and watching the news right now. Fish, rice, potatoes, and pickled greens, perhaps. With tea and instant coffee, of course.
That being said, there are still burning houses floating around Japan and over 1000 deaths, (someone said...
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Juxtaposition
Reading Moby Dick while listening to Mumford & Sons’ “Thistles and Weeds” seems to add a bit to both.
Then Parry Gripp’s “Fuzzy Fuzzy Cute Cute” came up on my playlist.
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“I then asked Queequeg whether he himself was ever troubled with...”
– Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
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Voting 2011: zombie edition →
Shaun vs. Tallahassee
For a guy living in a country without too many guns, Shaun does a pretty good job against the zombies. He and his team use a cricket bat, a tetherball pole, a plastic lawn chair, vinyl records, a shovel, a fire extinguisher, and even an ashtray before resorting to gunfire. They’re quite dangerous.
Diane gets extra points for using David’s leg as a weapon.
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Here's one for the Mythbusters:
According to Herman Melville and as proven by the Mythbusters, bullets cannot travel through water at fatal velocities. However, Melville says that shooting from the crow’s nest, as opposed to the ship’s deck, allows the bullets move fast enough to kill narwhals.
Of course, this is coming from a dead person who believed whales are fish, but it could be interesting to test.
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Rango
I saw it today! :D
It’s pretty good. The movie has a few homages to other movies, a good Danny Elfman song, a soundtrack by Hans Zimmer, Johnny Depp as a lizard, and Bill Nighy!
Yup. Bill Nighy. Davy Jones, Rufus Scrimgeour, Slartibartfast, “Not my dad,” and that clueless guy in G-Force. He’s in every movie. Every single one.
Look, now; he’s behind you!
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