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Friday, May 4, 2012

20 Things a Mother Should Tell Her Son

Apparently, this is going around Facebook and the women are loving it:


My take on what is written here (just off the top of my head):
1. Lie. Women are the sexual gatekeepers.
2. This advice should go for women too.
3. This advice should go for women too. Also, make sure your tampons, pads, etc. make it into the proper waste can.
4. This advice should go for women too, in TRIPLICATE.
5. This advice should go for women too, especially in today's feminazi, grrrrl power world.
6. Women, be spiritual followers. We cannot be leaders without followers.
7. This advice should go for women too. This also means do not swing at your husband or boyfriend either. The moment you do, you cease to be a woman and become a target. They might decide to return the favor and you WILL deserve it.
8. This advice should go for women too. Of course, this should be tempered by wisdom and a heavy dose of Truth.
9. Lie. Women do not want this. Chivalry or equality, pick ONE.
10. This advice should go for women too. Don't dress like a slut, get piercings, tattoos or other "modifications" and try to act like a lady even though the vast majority of you are not and never will be a lady.
11. Lie. Women do not want this. They want a strong, alpha jerk. You decide to be 'tender', you will fall into the creep category in no time at all.
12. Complete and utter BULLSHIT.
13. This advice should go for women too. Manners never go out of style. Of course, this means that you must be worthy of this treatment.
14. Agreed. Please do not dress yourself like a slut with your tits falling out and your ass hanging out. We also DO NOT WANT TO KNOW IF YOU WAX OR NOT.
15. This advice should go for women too. But it will never happen, women travel in packs and act like magpies. They all desire the same things, think the same things, say the same things, and act the same way.
16. Giving him sex for no reason is always a good idea. Do this frequently.
17. Men should be a seekers of Truth and not be blindly patriotic.
18. Agreed. We also do not wish to hear about your medical problems or sexual escapades on the bus or in a restaurant or anywhere else for that matter when you are having your girl's day out.
19. Irrelevant. The chances are high that this is absolutely correct. The ex-wife indeed becomes the gatekeeper. MGTOW.
20. I am sure your phone works just fine. Learn to use it.
FINALLY:
-----> Women have no clue what they want and that includes your mother.
 

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Book Review

Book Review: Of Thee I Zing, by Laura Ingraham (Hardcover on Amazon)

I had never read Laura Ingraham before and had never listened to her radio show either. As such, I came into this book with no opinion one way or another about this book or the author. I did not take long for me to gain opinions for both as well as the topics she focuses on.

Book:
This book is a very fast read. The average reader should clear through this in less then two hours (305 pages). The print is large and the topics are short and sweet. Most of the topics she zeros in on are less then three pages and often less then one.

Topics:
Ingraham hits everything with a very sharp eye and an even sharper tongue. Aging hippies, muffin tops, feel good Churchianity, schools, lack of manners - all are targets. It was a fun read initially, but then I grew restless as I continued through the middle part of the book. I already know there is something wrong in our society, but where were the solutions or even the causes of our societal decline? This book turned into one big, long rant about the symptoms of our decline with no solutions in sight. As I slogged through the last 100 pages or so, I got to the point of just trying to finish the darn thing without jumping out of a window. This went from a fun read to 'raising awareness,' a singularly useless thing to do.

Author:
Laura Ingraham has a very sharp tongue. She can cut a topic to the bone in a single sentence. This is probably why she is a single mother and has been engaged twice (not married either time.) No man will tolerate this no matter how attractive she is. Learning this diminished her and her efforts in my eyes. I will not be purchasing or reading any of her other books.

Monday, April 30, 2012

Guild Wars 2

The Guild Wars 2 Beta weekend was a blast. My wife and I enjoyed trying out the new MMO from Arena Net.

Some thoughts:
- Totally enjoyed the game. If this is merely the Beta, the real game should be amazing.
- The graphics were cartoony even on the highest level, but keep in mind that your CPU was rendering most of the graphics, My graphics card sat at idle most of the game (570GTX).
- The pay for teleport needs to go.
- The lowering your level for an area is a great idea, but they went too low. When you are an ‘acting’ level 4 going against two level 3s and get killed, it is too low. I think the level should be set where you can fight a group of three enemies to a standstill. In other words, three level 3s vs. your level 5.
- The healing skills are a bit too weak, a small buff would help them here –> faster recharge?
- The spawning and re-spawning was too fast. The spawns need to spawn at a slower rate. Several times I would be rezzing someone and two enemies would spawn right on me that we had just killed…yeah, I died. Also, have the spawns come from somewhere…i.e. the wolves spawn out of a cave and run out, etc.
- Just read that the Golem Banker guy that comes in the Deluxe Digital and the CE version of the game is temporary (5 days then gone). I would suggest that it would be better if he was a permanent item (permanent summoning stone) available through /bonus BUT only in the large cities. Letting him be used in the world once every 24 hours would be a nice bonus too.
- Give us a way to earn gems through quests.
- Have crafting contribute a small amount of XP to main character XP.
- Give us a select key please (‘C’ in GW1).
- Allow us to change worlds once for free in the first 30 days of the game, then charge for a world change. When my wife came on, my world was full. We wanted to play the game together.
- Give us an ‘aggro’ circle in the radar and mark the enemies on the radar ala GW1. I would suggest 1000 as the measurement.

Thank you ArenaNet for this great game, and GW1 too. Several of my chars celebrated the six year mark recently.

Update:
"Give us a select key please (‘C’ in GW1)."
Just learned that there was a key binding for this (Thanks, Grey Freeman).

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Very Cool Musical Instruments

These are really cool musical instruments.

Sweet Home Alabama

House of the Rising Sun

Dueling Banjos

In the Hall of the Mountain King

And some other guys:

The Masters of Lightning Play Toccata & Fugue in D Minor with Zeusaphones

It is not often you see Tesla coils making music. He is using over 24kw to do this!
Totally awesome!

From the description below the first video:

These are two gigantic solid state musical Tesla Coils. A Tesla Coil is a special type of transformer invented by Nikola Tesla that is able to generating extremely large voltages using a phenomenon known as electrical resonance. Each coil in this video is capable of generating a 13 foot spark. This equates to about 500,000 volts of electricity.

The primary drive system for the coils consists of high power semiconductors arranged into an H-Bridge switching configuration. During a spark event, the coil is pulsed on for a few hundred millionths of a second. During this short time, thousands of amps circulate within the primary tank circuit and the energy is coupled into the secondary resonator through magnetism.

So what appears to be a continuous burst of sparks is actually a specific number of sparks generated per second. By modulating the number of sparks that emit from the coil each second, different tones can be produced by the coils.

These coils were constructed by Eric Goodchild and Steven Caton.

Eric Goodchild is currently an EE student at ASU Polytechnic.
His personal website is: http://www.goodchildengineering.net/

Steven Caton is currently an EE student at UCLA
His personal website is: http://stevencaton.com/

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Happy Easter!

Please remember the reason for this day is not bunnies, eggs, and jelly beans.

He is Risen! He is Risen indeed!

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Happy National Athiest's Day!

"Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools." Romans 1:22 NIV