Wow... Subtle...

Just watch..


Hey! Stop thinking of it like that, perv!! hahahaha

Grab your ankles

I just heard that next year the taxes in California are going to go up to 30%! What the fuck?!? That's like the taxes in Europe!!! So let me get this straight- people who DIDN'T DO ANYTHING to earn their money are now going to get a break?!? This is such bullshit. My standard of living is going to utterly change now thanks to Obama. Thanks a lot, prez.

Creative Speculation...

I was just thinking about this coming presidential election. There's a lot of clout about Obama- how the muslims say he's one of them, how Europe loves him, and some people jokingly refer to him as 'Obamessiah'. I've never been clear why I'm against Obama I just instinctually think voting for him is not right.

So it got me thinking..

What if Obama is the one who brings peace to the world? I mean he could be the guy who the Jews AND the Muslims listen to for an actual peace process in the middle east. Two presidential terms is 8 years, so what if by the 7th year an assassination attempt is attempted on him? Since he's done so much to 'repair' the world people all over the globe fear for his death and then near the edge of his mortality he survives, and 'resurrects' as it were... He did come from humble beginnings, much like Jesus did as the son of a carpenter.

See what I'm getting at here?

What if during the last few years of his presidency he does something, by no ill will of his own, to bring about the apocolypse? Who says the final Antichrist will be so overtly evil like Hitler? Maybe he's just a good person who is taken advantage of by evil as a vessel to do things that seem good and just at first but as they develop, prove to be something diametrically opposed?

I know this is right on the edge of the most tin foil hate speculation you could get, but I've never had a good vibe for voting for him, not that I think he's 'ooo evil' but just something else. I decided to think a little creatively and apply my faith and see what happens.. you know, this next presidential term ends just a month before 12-21-12- the Mayan Apocolypse. Food for thought...

Poignancy

I thought this take on a popular commercial to make a point was pretty clever and accurate.

National Erosion

I think these quotes put things rightly..


People in the US are turning into sheep and allowing the media to spoon feed them information, however slanted, and they obey.

I am not a sheep. I am a hippo.

A pissed hippo.

EPIC FAIL

This is some commercial, from the late 90s I think, for a college that does game design- or something. Just watch...

Now, I work in the games industry. And nothing in this commercial could be further from the truth on how to make a platform or PC game. It's just so stupid in it's design as an advertisment that I just laugh.
I laugh hard.

Interesting...

I find it ironic that Christianity claims to be this tollerant, loving faith, yet it's the least tollerant on the whole chart...

Anyways, food for thought.

Quite an amazing movie.

This short movie one an Oscar for best short animation in 1990. I think it has a lot of meaning to it and definitely holds a moral at the end that can easily be applied to reality.

I think the music box represents greed or addiction. Something that upsets the balance of harmony between men and brings out the individualism in us to the point self destruction. At the end of the movie it only brings a conclusion that only greed or an addiction could lead- absolute loss.

Bullshit Plot Holes of The Matrix

Thanks to the triumph of the human will and several baffling plot contrivances, Neo sacrifices himself and convinces the machines who are enslaving humanity to stop enslaving humanity quite so much.

Over a beautiful sunset, the machines send their Colonel Sanders avatar to announce that any humans who want to be freed from the matrix will be allowed to do so. Thanks, Neo!

But wait!!

Hey, remember in the first movie where they said they don't pull adults out of the matrix? You know, because finding out that every experience they ever had was false and that the real world is a frozen wasteland destroys their mind?

Well, in this new world, the whole, "All of society, history and culture is a computer generated hoax" thing isn't going to stay a secret for long. How do you think society would react to finding that out? How do you think the major religions would react?

Why would anyone get up to go to work after that ("Build a house? Why can't the matrix just freaking generate one")? How do you think starving third-world nations would regard their machine masters, knowing that their misery is purely the invention of the machines, and that the matrix could in fact have rained food down from the sky any time it wanted, but just chose not to?

The world would descend into utter chaos. Luckily, the people can escape the madness any time they want by exiting the matrix!

Oh, wait, they can't. The one city where people can live has been devastated by the robot attack, and there is nothing close to enough housing, food, clothing, fresh water, etc to accommodate even a small country.

Fuck you, Neo!

The Societal Double Standard

If a man happens to be seen nude through his bedroom window by a woman, he's guilty of indecent exposure. If a man happens to see a woman nude in her bedroom window, he's a peeping tom.

Some Exposure

My art for Project Cosmos finally premiered on Wired.com today. It wasn't what I thought it would be. The art I gave them to replace the one they wanted to use was never posted and they added the one that I offered to replace. Plus, they didn't add the link to my Project Cosmos website, so I kinda feel like I wasted my time trying to rush that site out the door in under a week.

I was included with a group of very talented artists, and most of them had amazing illustrations. The piece of my art that was added is just a conceptual painting, no background or anything and I feel it's going to be shoved down a peg by the nicer illustrations. I don't want people to think that that is all I'm capable of. I hate when my public image is slanted and I only have a partial amount of control over it.

It must totally sound like I'm shitting all over Wired. I'm not. I'm gratefull they chose me, and an artist is their own worst critic, but I'm just irritated that I thought what was going to happen, what I was expecting, didn't materialize.

Here's the link if you want to check it out.

Hi America- this map is for you people.

Oh Goody...

Now that the House has passed the vaunted Bail Out, I'd just like to say a few things...

Congratulations Baby Boomers!!!!
You have succeeded in pushing off the inevitable to your kids and grand kids. You'll be long gone by the time we have to square our dept.

Thanks.

Regretablly,
Your Descendants.

Awesome

This is probably the most poignant and badass fan video I've seen made of the new Battlestar Galactica series. If you haven't seen this show, WATCH IT. I know people who loath scifi and are addicted to this show like heroine. It's easily the most badass scifi show I've ever seen. EVER.

God, please let this be the seeds of a new space race.

Earlier last week, the Chinese put two men in space. Check it out, or some of it at least and then read on.



While that's a great step for the Chinese, I have to say as an American, it was creepy. There it was- two men in EVA suits that look suspiciously like knock offs of our's and waving their crimson flags in the inky void.

At this rate China is probably 5-7 years from a manned lunar landing if they get their game on, which it appears they are doing.

WHEN they land, they have already stated their intention is to establish a manned base. Know what that means for us? They, not the USA, are going to get the "pick of the litter" in real estate. We're going to get to choose second, or later. Nobody says they'll stop at just one base. To say it another way, if there so happens to be any really choice place to be on the moon...they'll get it before we do.

Not to mention there's craploads of unrefined ore on the moon just waiting to be mined such as insane amounts of iron, olivine, pyroxine, plagioclase, various basalts, magnesium, aluminum, silicas, oh and let's not forget Helium3.

Helium3 is exceedingly rare on Earth and it's the proposed fuel source for second generation Nuclear Fusion research over Tritium which isn't as efficient. Many people suspect the next 'oil boom' will be on the moon to mine Helium3.

So what happens if the Chinese, a nation who's very interestd in becoming the next Superpower, puts a permanant, manned station on the moon? They could achieve a signifigant leap ahead economically by having a terrestrial body the diameter of Asia all to themselves.

I really hope that in the coming years, the US government gets it's thumb out of it's ass and starts giving NASA the proper funding they require so that their very talented scientists can create some amazing technologies that will trickle down to the private sector.

Imagine a future where a lot of Terrestrial mining here on Earth for common base ores cease because it's more numerous on the Moon? The Moon is a dead world, you can't fuck up it's envrionment because it has none and we can help improve the state of the environment here on Earth, our only home.

I really hope China is on the cusp of setting off another space race because there's nothing like a fire under your ass to spur innovation.

Spaceships!

Here is a work in progress of a ship I'm working on for my universe. I'll eventually do other views.

I'm sorry, USA, but you're card has been declined.

The "easy credit" economy we live in today has only been around since WWII. But it is all most of us know.Unfortunately, it now turns out that there was a systemic problem that built up, and is finally causing the system to irrevocably collapse.
And the two post-WWII remedies for economic downturn, inflation and growth, will no longer work to fix the problem. Neither US presidential candidate are aware of this yet, so are proposing the traditional remedies, which won't work.

On the plus side, what we are facing is not necessarily economic catastrophe, but the complete reordering of our economy back to the pre-WWII "pay as you go" economy.
The title for this will be "The Collapse of the International Credit System." For the government, it will mean the end of ALL deficit spending. If they don't have the money, the US government cannot pay for it. A balanced budget constitutional amendment will be unnecessary. No one will loan the government extra money to spend.

For individuals, it will mean that all credit cards will be canceled. All transactions will have to take place with either debit cards, paper money, or for a while, bank issued personal check. Except for the very few businesses that have instant electronic check debit, however, checks will soon no longer be accepted by businesses, because there will be a flood of overdrafts, so the banks will have to cancel personal checking as well.

Most retail business in the US will have to be done with debit cards. This is because less than 5% of our currency is "backed" with paper money. But since many transactions cannot be done with debit cards, the end result is that cash will be worth far more than its face value. That is, even if something priced a dollar will still cost a debit card dollar, you will be able to buy it for a dime, in cash.

And the US mints are already at 100% capacity production. Therefore, there is no physical way the government can print more money to reverse this astounding cash-only deflation, within six months to a year. High denomination bills will also have to be printed, but these will be closely controlled and monitored for only business to business transactions.

International trade, except in exchange for paper money, will come to a halt. However, because the US exports vital food to other countries, we can sell them food in exchange for inflated debt relief. That is, a bushel of wheat sold for $100 in US national debt held by foreigners, or for only $10 if they have cash.

The end result of this will be a return to the old saying "We will only give you a loan if you don't need it." Nobody, no individual, no company, and not the government will be able to get credit unless they put up *more* than 100% collateral.

This is as it was before the war, and this is how it will be again. The "easy credit" economy was great while it lasted, but it is impossible to sustain beyond its 60+ year old life. At least we already know the rules to the old way of doing business, so we have an economic system to return to.

But the days of credit are rapidly drawing to a close. Recommend you have more than the usual amount of cash on hand at home. If it's only on a computer, you might be boned.
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Complacency was bad, yes, but then America has had a strong conservationist voice in its ranks since the 60's, before almost any other nation. It was just drowned out by trailer park breeders for the most part.

We'd always had our toe in the shiate. See Nixon. See the Reagan years and subsequent Punk scene. Bush just burst out with it to the Rove degree. While Nixon and Reagan raked in mere billions with dirty national deals in Panama, Nicaragua et. al. Bush came bursting out of the closet, flaming with imperialism to the tune of trillions.

We had cheap gas because we had cheap loans. Our GDP was high enough that NO ONE wanted to see us stop. The last eight years have seen America cease to be productive. Why? The same massive propaganda blitz that divided the nation in half and made two terms of GW possible froze us in our tracks. We are a polarized nation. Racism, sexism, homophobia, and stupidity are at an all-time high. Our public schools are a joke. We have failed to progress...

...at a crucial time in history.

With technological and industrial growth increasing globally at an exponential rate, religion and Fox news have turned non-issues like gay marriage and stem cell research into our retarded Achilles heel. The best and brightest in America? Gut shot with stupidity.

And for the last eight years the rest of the world has fukked, sukked, and laughed its ass off while advancing at an alarming rate.

And we have gone back to church. Enjoy your third world. You voted for it. Apparently.

Har, har, har

Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Live Webcam!!

Man this is great. In case you don't know what the LHC is, it's the world's largest particle collider. It's a ring buried under 30 feet of ground that's 17 miles in diameter. Its purpose is to smash atoms together to discover and study the smallest things in the universe. A lot of people have said that this thing could destroy the world by creating a black hole. Well, I've been watching it for a while now. I mean nothing exciting has happened yet but it's fun to watch science at work. Check it out!

Getting some attention!

Okay, so my Project Cosmos universe is starting to see some attention. It's recently been added to the prestegious 'Conceptships' art blog where a lot of the art from the best of the best stack is put on display. Check it out!

Just a few more days

So in a few days is 9/11. I don't think about that day any more. But, many of us, not then born, remember Pearl Harbor. I will remember 9/11 for the rest of my life.

That day was a wake up call to the West that some elements within Islam, not all of Islam by any means, but a large proportion, had declared war on our culture. This war continues. It is not something "made up" by the Republicans, it is not just a few wild eyed crazies in the caves of Afghanistan. No, the Islamic world resents us. They still recall the days of their glory. They still recall the time, centuries ago, when their armies marched in triumph across the face of the Mediterranean world, Byzantium, India, right up to the doors of Vienna. They recall when their physicians, philosophers, scientists, poets and artists were far beyond anything that barbaric Europe could muster. These days are long gone now. They chafe under the knowledge that even with their oil wealth, their culture has stagnated and fallen far behind the West. They, like children, blame us for their failure.

No amount of war, no amount of terror, no amount of savagery will restore their former glory. They must, if they are to survive, cast aside their 14th century shackles and bring Islam and the Islamic world into the community of nations.

Yeah, so I don't post much art on here, sorry about that :p To make up for it, here is a painting I finished earlier this evening. It's a scifi military officer.

Witch hunt, anyone??

Wow.

On August 28 a 40 year old woman was sent to prison for 30 YEARS for having sex with a 16 year old young man several times.

30 years. Yes, with a 3 and a 0.

Look, I understand we have to maintain some order of civilization and laws are needed, but 30 years, people? That's just outragous. Did she really scar that teen all that badly? Do you think that 16 year old is going to need fucking counseling?

No. He won't. In fact he probably will brag about it to his friends. Meanwhile this woman is going to lose over a quarter of her life to jail time because she had sex.

Seriously, is our nation so petrofied of sexuality that we're willing to fearmonger to our people and burn into their heads that sex in any form is taboo? That we're willing to distort the facts in order to make a point? A point to what? That sexual intercourse is dirty? That, God forbid you have it with someone half you're age, that you're an evil bastard who should burn at the stake? Because that's what's happening. If this was such a big deal then why hasn't this been happening since the 60s or 70s? It hasn't or at least not in the magnatude it's at today.

Legislaters and the media have been sturring up this tornado of fear. Ever notice how suddenly there's all these news reports of teachers having sex with students? The media and the puritan do gooders, who think it's still the Victorian age, are making it out to sound like it's this rash of evil sweeping over the country and 'we should keep an eye out!' Please. Students were sleeping with teachers ever since the invention of school. It's not new. The whole age of consent idea is rediculous, anyways. Nature created an age of consent- it's called puberty, dumbshits.

And to punish someone so severely is crazy. Seriously, I could go outside, get in my car and 'accidentally' kill someone with it and be charged with manslaughter and get away with half the sentence this poor women recieved. It's out of control. At worst, this woman should have gotten a couple years in jail and at the minimum a few years of probation.

What happened to balancing the sentence to the crime?? It's utterly insane that sentences are being doled out like this merely for having intercourse.

IT'S JUST SEX, PEOPLE!!

FUCKING CHRIST...

Yes, she was considerably older than the teen. And culturally it's quite frowned upon. But I wouldn't consider it so vile and evil that it deserves a 30 year prison sentence. Something like that I would picture happening in Saudi Arabia or Pakistan, not the United States.

The double standard that makes me laugh is that if the teen where 22 and the woman was 46 suddenly this wouldn't look so bad. Everyone would think, 'oh the guy's just dating a cougar; big deal.' Hell there are celebrity couples who have age differences larger than 24 years and yet it's all okay. "Well, Nate, those couples are both consenting adults." And what, a 16 year old isn't capable of making an adult decision? Is there some magic date in their lives when they turn 18 that suddenly that are capable of making coherent, adult choices?? Wow. Tell me, please if this is true, as I missed that part in biology class.

I have friends who are 18 and 19 who were as mature at 16 than some 50 year olds I know. So what's with the whole student/teacher scare tactics, media? Legislation? Do you people even hear what you're saying when you spout this crap to the sheep who you disseminate your information and laws to? You people need to be bitch slapped- hard, and brought back to reality.

Doodling

Thought I'd post a little head study I painted. Nothin' too fancy. :)

Pure awesome.

This was awesome

Just watch it. It's so damn funny.

Why Indiana Jones 4 sucked

The problems with Indy IV (apart from the farking aliens):

1) Surviving a nukular blast in a fridge.
2) The cutesy little prairie dogs. (Fark you, Lucas!)
3) Some random guys with blowguns and costumes hanging out at an ancient cemetery for apparently no reason. It was like we'd switched into a Scooby Doo cartoon.
3a) Blowgun darts only have one pointy end.
4) Ray Winstone's character, Mac, betrays Indy roughly 249 times in the movie, and Indy continues to trust him over and over again.
5) Indy doesn't use a gun once in this movie. He never uses the whip as a weapon. Maybe he could have thrown some walkie-talkies at the bad guys.
6) In the other three movies, Indy solves puzzles and hunts for some sort of treasure. In #4, Indy follows some crazy guy through the jungle.
7) The prop skull looked like it had all the weight and shape of a football. That was one of the dopiest looking things I've ever seen in a movie.
8) Are we meant to believe an entire tribe of people spend their time hiding in the walls, in cramped spaces, of a temple just waiting for interlopers to come by? Shouldn't they be out hunting and gathering, or something?
9) The three waterfalls gag was lame.
10) "Everything is funnier with monkeys." This is a great truth to all things in life, yet this film disproved it. I seriously nearly got up and walked out of the theater when Cate Blanchett got attacked by Commie-hatin' monkeys.
11) The road-making vehicle gets blown up (with pieces of it flying in the opposite direction of the blast). Afterwards, a chase occurs down a TWO LANE ROAD in the middle of the jungle in the middle of farking nowhere. How'd those roads get there and who in their right mind builds a two lane road in the middle of farking nowhere? Do they even have two lane roads in North Dakota? Didn't think so.
12) The overdone CGI ending.

In summary, fark you, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.

Please keep in mind that I am perfectly willing to suspend disbelief in an Indiana Jones movie as long as the rules make sense in the genre they're playing in. The previous movies all did so. The fourth movie did not. This was not just a bad Indiana Jones movie, it was a downright horrible movie. I wanted to like it, but there was no possible way I could.

Oh yeah, good times... that was sarcasm, people!

People often buy into this myth that we will be able to plug our cars in and that will fix our energy crisis. Do the math - the energy potential in a barrel of oil versus a barrel of coal is substantial. One barrel can be refined into far more gasoline that carries a heat capacity that's strong enough to explode and drive our engine. Coal doesn't have this explosive punch found with oil. The density of oil is much higher. To produce the same amount of energy that is needed to run our cars, we will have to vastly increase the use of our coal reserves. Yes these reserves are large, but the bottlenecking issue of building new plants ("clean" ones that won't pump massive amounts of S02, Mercury and CO2 into the air) is a major issue. No one wants a new plant in their back yard. These plants take a while to get a license and for them to become sustainable. Other issues include the bottleneck of transportation of this coal. Our railway services are already having a difficult time taking the coal from Wyoming/Montana/West Virg. to the coal plants around the country.

Other's banter about the wonders of nuclear power. I can conceide that nuclear power has worked from some nations, like France and Japan. However, their nuclear plants are pretty well subsidized by their state. The expense of electricity production with all the added safeguards, the necessary concrete, the nuclear engineers, regular engineers, physicists, the refinement of uranium from the coal beds that we find it in etc. makes the cost of nuclear power pretty expensive. If we mass produce the plants (this will take 20 years to even begin looking feasible for mass production) they will only manage to meet current increases in demand for electricity. With about 70% of our oil consumption being used by vehicles - if we all begin to transition to electricity the strain on this source will be immense! The New York Blackout in 1998 (?) is an example of how shotty our current power infrastructure is. Even if we add the plants, our load carrying capacity is pretty awful right now. The cost of this electricity will skyrocket and will most likely be more expensive than the gas prices you are paying for right now.

Renewables - these are a good clean alternative, but are currently expensive to build and there are issues with their ability to produce a base load capacity to meet constant and peak demand (during hot or cold weather periods).

Elecricity --> Fuel cars conclusion - Look this day will eventually come. There are so many hurdles technological, economical, and structural issues that must be overcome before it's even possible for this nation to rely on this strategy. We are talking about a massive transition on a scale that this country has never really dealt with before. We've had small scale upgrades and new technology being introduced (like more efficient cars, the railways, or new highway systems), but we have never had a project that reaches the scale of altering the over 100 million or so cars that we currently have on the road. The American (and foreign citizens) public need to be prepared for a heavy transition period that will not be easy, swift, or cheap. Costs will stay high and will continue to rise. We should all begin our preperation to live in a world where a dollar, yen, donar etc. will not be able to buy as much as it would have when cheap energy was around. It's just math - if our world can produce things quickly and cheaply with easy to reach oil that was just seeping out of the ground 40 years ago, our world will have a difficult time producing the same amount of goods when that oil is harder to find and more expensive. Energy is the foundation of economies. If you get less out of the same amount of work, your currency and the goods that you produce will be reduced.

DRILL 4 OIL in ANWR AND OFFSHORE! This claim misses the point - drilling for offshore oil is not going to return us to a world of cheap oil. Oil was seeping out of the ground in Texas when it was discovered. It was easy to capture and then refine for gasoline. The cost of taking oil out of the ground on ocean platforms is much more expensive. The projects themselves do not guarantee that they'll find very much oil. It's more of a guessing game then drilling for oil in ANWR right now. Regardless - the speed at which we can find new oil reserves off the coast versus the speed of large oil finds in the early 1900's will not be nearly the same. Demand for this oil will continue to rise at a rapid pace that it will overshadow any netgains these oilrigs will be able to produce. Add into your calculation the failure rate of the rigs in finding large quantities of oil, and you will begin to understand that this Bush argument is just a red herring.

ANWR - Even if we drilling in ANWR tomorrow and automagically began to pump the oil to the US through the current pipeline you will not see much of a difference at the pump.

MSNBC:
"But even in the best case, the price impact - decades from now - would amount to about 1 percent of current market prices. If work started today, production would peak in 2027 - when increased production would have the biggest impact on prices. According to Department of Energy projections, that impact would cut the prices of light sweet crude (in 2006 dollars) by 41 cents per barrel in 2026 for the low estimate, 75 cents per barrel in 2025 for the mean oil resource case, and $1.44 per barrel in 2027 for the high estimate."

The era of cheap oil is dead.

Greek Erotica

...Ok so not really. But seriously, after watching the first vid you'd really question these boy's sexuality if you didn't know them... :|

The conversation went in many exciting directions. One of which was the classification of what type of cereal each person was. Clearly a meeting of the minds here... :)

More random nonesense...

These vids were taken the night before Nick's wedding. Goodtimes were to be had. :)

Random Fun

Okay, so I am sitting here at work, basically doing nothing, and thinking back on a little disucssion that my brother, Nick and I had some years back about the races in Star Trek and how they would represent the world's religions. It was kinda funny because Nick and I had watched a fair amount of Star Trek and knew enough about the lore and the cannon to make some connections. So here we go; if you've never watched Star Trek before this will probably go over your head, but it's funny nonetheless because it's pretty true if you think about it :p

United Federation of Planets- The Jews for sure.

The Klingons- The Muslims.

The Bajorans- Bhuddists.

The Dominion- Christians all the way.

The Borg- Mormons LMAO.

The Romulans- Athiests.

Hahaha, so yeah, that's it. I told you if would go over your head if you had no clue about Star Trek, but still, it's pretty funny how well they match up given the historical track record of the relgions that are associated to their fictional regime.
:p

Get back to a simpler time.

When I watch the news or read an article online I eventually hear or read about some stupid, frivilous law being passed that seems to go against the grain of the natural order of things or is completely asinine. To me it seems like government is just getting their hands in freaking everything- things they don't have any right to moderate. I sometimes wonder if the countdown for mankind was started when Beaurocracy was invented.

I look forward to an international grassroots movement directed at governments at all levels, with one and only one objective:

"LEAVE US THE HELL ALONE!!!!!"

Ironically, only when there is economic catastrophe, depriving governments of the heroin-like money they demand, will we finally be freed of their idiocies. Not because the people or the governments are wiser, but just because they can no longer AFFORD to be nannies.
Go ahead, smoke in a bar. If somebody makes an issue of it, slap them across the face, HARD. If they go whining to a cop, the cop will just shrug. "Sorry, lady. Maybe next time you won't get in somebody's face like the little prune ass you are."
If somebody wants to watch a porn movie, no problem. If they can afford eating fatty food, no problem. If they want to smoke crack, no problem. Because it is just plain NOT government's business. There are a lot similarities between Humans and the wild animals that stick our noses up to, and that's a whole different discussion, but what I'm saying is that things need to return to a simpler time. A time when the Government worries about taking care of the nation's broader political issues instead of trying to shove their doctrine down the throat of every man, woman, and child like they are now.
Political Correctedness is the little sister to Beaurocracy that's bringing us down as a nation. You don't want to hear snide remarks? You get offended at crude talk? Hey guess what, the person talking has just as much a right to talk shit as much as you do to not hear it, so take a walk.
In science, the simplist theory always is the best one, know why? Because it's concise, graceful, and efficient. Can you imagine a Universe where beaurocracy is part of the natural order? Christ, nothing would ever get done. We'd all still be single celled protozoas swimming around in our own primordial snot.
Nature is an extremely fine tuned machine, one that we need to take more notes from and apply to our governments. Beaurcocracies, modern forms of order are man made synthetic constructs that run against the grain of Nature and in the end only makes life harder for people.
Why do you think engineers take their best ideas and inspiration from nature?? Hmm... let me think- because Nature knows what the fuck it's doing maybe!?!!? Maybe if government modelled their rules and regulations from Nature too we'd all be living a more ordered, natural life.

...What. The. Fuck.

no, seriously. WTF.

America: From land of the free, to land of lost liberties and ignorance.

Alright, so read this article in the link. And then come back here for the commentary below.

Finger printing coming in, now they want it when you leave.

What, exactly, is this going to accomplish? Does the TSA have access to Bin Laden's fingerprints?

So, let's speak hypothetically here. A "terrorist" boards a plane with the intention of flying it into a building. This terrorist doesn't have a record, so collecting said terrorists fingerprints is simply a "precautionary" measure. MK Ultra and PsyOps haven't had much success, so we can't read people's minds, yet. Now, the terrorist succeeds in highjacking the plane and flies it into a building. What, exactly, do you do with the then-and-now worthless fingerprints you collected before the unknown terrorist was allowed to board the plane? Wait to use them during the zombie revolution?

This act by itself is meaningless. All of this is just a convoluted series of nonsensical maneouvers that will, one day, allow the government to pass legislation allowing them to stop any citizen on the street, ID and fingerprint them, and then ransack their person and home without a warrant. Paranoiac? Just you watch. You don't win at chess by exposing all your moves in the beginning. Well Terrorists, you guys really did just totally kick our asses in the war on terrorism.

Move along, citizen. Nothing to see here.

Darwin at work: An example for society.

Anyone with half a brain knows who Darwin is and what he stands for- the theory of biological evolution and nature's bias towards intelligence, strength, and general heartiness over complete and utter dumbasses- the dumbasses die off while the the stronger, smarter, yada, yada survive and breed thus passing their genes onto the next generation of critter. It's a nice simple system and it works. It also allows for a nice balance in the environment.

Now take this video for example.





I laughed a few times. It's a dog, obviously not incredibly bright, gleefully leaping from a moving vehicle at an unsafe speed, in order to play with his sprinting companion. This, people, is pure Darwinian evolution at work. A smart dog, would not leap from a vehicle as it's common sense would inform it that doing so would result in injury, death, and at the least a severe shaming in the dog community by it's peers. If this happened with no people around, nature would let that dog head on off to heaven. Survival of the fittest has done it's job. That dog obviously did something way stupid and is now enabling the wild environment the ability to benefit from it's absence.

Humans are an anomaly. See, any Human with half a heart would have stopped to help the brainless pooch. And morally it's the right thing to do. But here's where the abberation starts. Humans break the laws of nature. We disrupt the basic laws of Darwinian evolution by enabling the dumb, malformed, and generally weak to live. This places a burden on the people who are strong, productive, and intelligent to provide for the former. Statistically, the lesser intelligent breed more. Alot. This brings about all kinds of stress upon the socially enabled and thus breaks these laws of Darwinian selection.

Humans are fundamentally different from animals, and thus our sentience, our moral compass, often interdicts what our baser, more feral instincts compell us to do. I can't say we all just ignore the moral and ethical lessons that Humanity has learned over the last five thousand years that recorded civilization has existed and leave the weak out to fend for themselves. But it would be interesting to imagine a world where Societies acted in such a manner.

Would the world be a better place?

Eddie Izzard

This bloke is fucking hillarious. If I ever get a chance to see him perform live I'm so going. Here are some of his sketches for your enjoyment. :)

Eddie on Stonehenge



Eddie on World War 2



The difference between American and British movies

Best PSA everrr

Okay my mate down under showed me this PSA advert for speeding and generally bad driving. It was great because, you know, there is some truth to it. Akin to why men buy overly large trucks or excessively fast cars...

Woohoo!!

I got my car back yesterday and I am totally stoked! It's just like I never left it :D. I miss the power she's got under the hood too.

I also got my Project Cosmos movie poster printed too and it came out soooo nice. I'm definitely going to have to get it framed for sure. There it is...

The photo doesn't do it justice AT ALL. It's so much cooler in person.

Fucking hell...

This weekend was going alright until about, oh, 4:00pm today. It then took an immediate nose dive straight into the ground, and just didn't stop.

Basically, I was driving behind an SUV, around 80 feet and we were doing about 70mph. There was some road debris up ahead but I didn't see it because of mammoth SUV in front of me. Well the clearance of the SUV allowed it to cruise right over the obstruction but my car is quite low to the ground, I ended up hitting it. Yes, you are saying, "why didn't you just dodge the obsticle?" Well given that I'm about 80 feet from the SUV and we're doing around 70-75mph that gives me, like just under one second to react and do something, which is pretty much impossible. By the time I saw the debris and realised it was way too big to just drive over it had already mangled the lower front of my car. I pulled over and inspected the result. Pretty much the whole lower portion of the car is was totalled. The splash guard was bend backwards pretty badly and the nose of the car was completely smashed. I drove about half a mile with the car like that but the splash guard was acting like an air scoop and it began to skid on the pavement. Fearing it would tear off and cause even more damage I pulled over.

Coming to the fast realization that my car was pretty much not going anywhere and that I was in the middle of BFE with mountains all around me, I pondered if i could even get a cell signal- which I couldn't... wonderful. There are santa anna winds blowing and at around 430-5 it was already feeling like 40F with the wind. I remembered that I had Onstar and thanked myself that I was smart enough to actually have it. It works off a satellite phone instead of a cellular network so getting someone to talk to was easy. After some conversation I a tow truck was sent out to get me, but it's ninety minutes out AND they are going to tow me back to the nearest Pontiac dealership that's in EL CENTRO. It's in completely the opposite direction I want to be heading. Fucking great. So, the tower finally shows up and it's like 730 now, the temperature is nearing about 30F and I still am beside myself that this shit has actually happened to me.

So we get back to El Centro and the Pontiac place is closed with a minimal crew there. It looks like they have a garage but I don't know if they have a body shop, so I have to call them tomorrow morning to find out WTF is going to happen to my car that is now 130 miles away from me in some town that I've visited by driving through it.

Plus, my other car, the Celica is sitting in the parking lot at LAX because my friend who I rented it out to flew to New York. I can't believe the amount of shit odds that had to all coelesce together for tonight to happen. I mean, I didn't trade in my Celica for reasons JUST LIKE THIS. And now I don't even have access to it. Plus I to figure out how I'm gonna get a rental because I'm not sure if I have that on my insurance. As for the repairs on the car, well, it's probably going to be at least a month for it to be fixed, and while it is under warranty I'm not sure running into shit on the road falls under it; although I know I have an extended warranty thingy so maybe I might actually have some grace and the dealership will pay for it... *knocks on wood*.

*sigh* I can't believe this shit. My Celica hit road debris too once and fucked it up just like this car is fucked. I mean I can dodge car accidents but appearantly inanimate objects are just attracted to my vehicles like magnets. I'm so pissed at myself.

I mean if I had just left a half hour later to go home someone else would have hit that crap and I'd be home on time instead for 5 hours late. Eh, I can play 'shoulda-coulda-woulda' all night but that fact remains that my car is fucked and 2 hours away from me... I am so pissed you have no idea...

An example for the rest of the west

Canada, that big mass of cold weather and pine forests up north of us may be the butt of a lot of our jokes but they as a people have an honor and sense of pride that people here in The States and Britain get an 'F', if we were to be graded.



It's troop support.



Most of the people who are going off to foreign lands to risk their lives come home to be treated as if they did some horrible in justice. I think it's just wrong and many people have just lost their respect that these young men and women easily have earned.



Which brings me back to Canada.



From the air base in Trenton, Ontario, the funeral cortege passes along motorways lined with scores of people holding Canadian flags, some with a hand on their heart, carrying banners emblazoned with the words "we support our troops."
All 50 of the motorway bridges on the journey into Toronto were said to have been packed with the general public.
As the cortege passes fire engines and police cars, officers and emergency workers solemnly salute as children wave flags.



Seriously, this is how it's supposed to be done. It's the least we could do for the fallen men and women who died for the liberties we take for granted.

It all makes sense now...

Dilbert's "Salary Theorem" states that "Engineers and scientists can never earn as much as business executives, sales people, accountants and especially liberal arts majors." This theorem can now be supported by a mathematical equation based on the following two well known postulates:
Postulate 1: Knowledge is Power.
Postulate 2: Time is Money.
As every engineer knows: Power = Work / Time.
Since: Knowledge = Power, then Knowledge = Work / Time, and Time = Money, then Knowledge = Work / Money.
Solving for Money, we get: Money = Work / Knowledge.
Thus, as Knowledge approaches zero, money approaches infinity, regardless of the amount of work done.

Pure Awesome Hillarity

Okay this is pure hillarity. It's basically World War 2 in the form of a multiplayer realtime strategy video game. It's so great because this is pretty much exactly how chats go down in the multiplayer... just read it's great... :)

*Hitler[AoE] has joined the game.*
*Eisenhower has joined the game.*
*paTTon has joined the game.*
*Churchill has joined the game.*
*benny-tow has joined the game.*
*T0J0 has joined the game.*
*Roosevelt has joined the game.*
*Stalin has joined the game.*
*deGaulle has joined the game.*
Roosevelt: hey sup
T0J0: y0
Stalin: hi
Churchill: hi
Hitler[AoE]: cool, i start with panzer tanks!
paTTon: lol more like panzy tanks
T0J0: lol
Roosevelt: o this fockin sucks i got a depression!
benny-tow: haha america sux
Stalin: hey hitler you dont fight me i dont fight u, cool?
Hitler[AoE]: sure whatever
Stalin: cool
deGaulle: **** Hitler rushed some1 help
Hitler[AoE]: lol byebye frenchy
Roosevelt: i dont got crap to help, sry
Churchill: wtf the luftwaffle is attacking me
Roosevelt: get antiair guns
Churchill: i cant afford them
benny-tow: u n00bs know what team talk is?
paTTon: stfu
Roosevelt: o yah hit the navajo button guys
deGaulle: Eisenhower ur worthless come help me quick
Eisenhower: i cant do **** til rosevelt gives me an army
paTTon: yah hurry the fock up
Churchill: d00d im gettin pounded
deGaulle: this is fockin weak u guys suck
*deGaulle has left the game.*
Roosevelt: im gonna attack the axis k?
benny-tow: with what? ur wheelchair?
benny-tow: lol did u mess up ur legs AND ur head?
Hitler[AoE]: ROFLMAO
T0J0: lol o no america im comin 4 u
Roosevelt: wtf! thats bullsh1t u fags im gunna kick ur asses
T0J0: not without ur harbors u wont! lol
Roosevelt: u little biotch ill get u
Hitler[AoE]: wtf
Hitler[AoE]: america hax, u had depression and now u got a huge fockin army
Hitler[AoE]: thats bullsh1t u hacker
Churchill: lol no more france for u hitler
Hitler[AoE]: tojo help me!
T0J0: wtf u want me to do, im on the other side of the world retard
Hitler[AoE]: fine ill clear you a path
Stalin: WTF u arsshoel! WE HAD A FoCKIN TRUCE
Hitler[AoE]: i changed my mind lol
benny-tow: haha
benny-tow: hey ur losing ur guys in africa im gonna need help in italy soon sum1
T0J0: o **** i cant help u i got my hands full
Hitler[AoE]: im 2 busy 2 help
Roosevelt: yah thats right biznitch im comin for ya
Stalin: church help me
Churchill: like u helped me before? sure ill just sit here
Stalin: dont be an arss
Churchill: dont be a commie. oops too late
Eisenhower: LOL
benny-tow: hahahh oh sh1t help
Hitler[AoE]: o man ur focked
paTTon: oh what now biotch
Roosevelt: whos the cripple now lol
*benny-tow has been eliminated.*
benny-tow: lame
Roosevelt: gj paTTon
paTTon: thnx
Hitler[AoE]: WTF Eisenhower hax hes killing all my sh1t
Hitler[AoE]: quit u hacker so u dont ruin my record
Eisenhower: Nuts!
benny-tow: wtf that mean?
Eisenhower: meant to say nutsack lol finger slipped
paTTon: coming to get u hitler u paper hanging hun cocksocker
Stalin: rofl
T0J0: HAHAHHAA
Hitler[AoE]: u guys are fockin gay
Hitler[AoE]: ur never getting in my city
*Hitler[AoE] has been eliminated.*
benny-tow: OMG u noob you killed yourself
Eisenhower: ROFLOLOLOL
Stalin: OMG LMAO!
Hitler[AoE]: WTF i didnt click there omg this game blows
*Hitler[AoE] has left the game*
paTTon: hahahhah
T0J0: WTF my teammates are n00bs
benny-tow: shut up noob
Roosevelt: haha wut a moron
paTTon: wtf am i gunna do now?
Eisenhower: yah me too
T0J0: why dont u attack me o thats right u dont got no ships lololol
Eisenhower: fock u
paTTon: lemme go thru ur base commie
Stalin: go to hell lol
paTTon: fock this sh1t im goin afk
Eisenhower: yah this is gay
*Roosevelt has left the game.*
Hitler[AoE]: wtf?
Eisenhower: sh1t now we need some1 to join
*tru_m4n has joined the game.*
tru_m4n: hi all
T0J0: hey
Stalin: sup
Churchill: hi
tru_m4n: OMG OMG OMG i got all his stuff!
tru_m4n: NUKES! HOLY **** I GOT NUKES
Stalin: d00d gimmie some plz
tru_m4n: no way i only got like a couple
Stalin: omg dont be gay gimmie nuculer secrets
T0J0: wtf is nukes?
T0J0: holy sh*tholysh*thoylshti!!!111
*T0J0 has been eliminated.*
*The Allied team has won the game!*
Eisenhower: awesome!
Churchill: gg noobs no re
T0J0: thats bullsh*t u fockin suck
*T0J0 has left the game.*
*Eisenhower has left the game.*
Stalin: next game im not going to be on ur team, u guys didnt help me for ****
Churchill: wutever, we didnt need ur help neway dumbarss
tru_m4n: l8r all
benny-tow: bye
Churchill: l8r
Stalin: fock u all
tru_m4n: shut up commie lol
*tru_m4n has left the game.*
benny-tow: lololol u commie
Churchill: ROFL
Churchill: bye commie
*Churchill has left the game.*
*benny-tow has left the game.*
Stalin: i hate u all fags
*Stalin has left the game.*
paTTon: lol no1 is left
paTTon: weeeee i got a jeep
*paTTon has been eliminated.*
paTTon: o sh1t!
*paTTon has left the game.*

...randomness

So I was emptying out my phone of digital refuse when I happened upon a little vid I took a few weeks back of my roommate, Sofia, typing away on her lappy in the kitchen. Instead of throwing it out I figured I may as well make a blog of it; I mean less has been blogged about, you know?

Card Art!!

The latest expansion for Legends of Norrath, the digital trading card game has shipped today which means I get to show off the art I did for it!! Many of my friends who worked on the expansion have posted their work in their blogs. One of my favorite card artists for LON is my friend Thomas Sincich. He's really talented and you can check out his blog here where he's posted his card art. Anyways, here's the cards I worked on...

Thanks goes to my good friend Sofia Andersson for allowing me to use her as model reference for this card. Thanks fia!! ;)

Sushi night

Yeah ever since one of my good friends introduced me to sushi it's been one of my favorite cuisines. If I go out to eat I generally don't care if I'm with company or not, but sushi is entirely another matter- it's magical. Yes, eating sushi is like being transported to another dimension where the air is sweet, the sun smiles back at you, bunnies bounce about happily and posies sing sweet music that gives you butterflies. I just can't eat sushi alone. There's a first for everything though. Yesterday (wednesday), I was so starved for sushi but I couldn't find anyone to go with me (biatches!!), so I had to settle for a measly turkey sandwich and I sulked in my thinmints cursing my friends under my breath as my usurped appetite cried in pain. Tonight I just couldn't take it; my willpower was undone. I said screw it (it was closer to the f-bomb), and I decided to go by myself.
MMM sushi. In that first bite I was transported to that happy place, the sun greeted me hello and posies sang in my arrival. I ate like a fucking pig.

Here's the rap sheet...
1 Halbut
1 Eel Roll
1 Kappa Roll
1 Volcano Roll
1 Dragon Roll
1 Hamachi
1 Edamame
1 Ca. Roll
1 Rainbow Roll
(the last two I ordered after I finished the rest because I wasn't finish yet.)


$ 76.00

cha-ching!!

add in the insanely hot and sexy waitress tip for being nice, prompt, and well, fucking fine.

$ 12.00

Total
$ 88.00 bones

Finally eating sushi?
$ Priceless

Welcome to America... land of the idiot.

Yes, I'm sure there are people the world over just as ignorant and moronic as these fellows you are about to see, but I have a feeling that this number is juuuuust a bit higher in the States. I don't count 3rd world nations because, well, they don't have the education. Here, there's no excuse. Just watch *sigh*

Got wall space?

So since 2006 i've been workig on science fiction property of mine. It's pretty damn big in scope and a several months ago last year I printed out a prototype of the first in a line of galactic maps. Here is the first one... it's 6 feet wide by 3 feet tall.



... Sorry about the glare. :\

Why Girls Don't Fart

Yeah, just watch it...

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1803422/

Gotta love YTMND's

Okay so this little link I'm providin is what's know to the internet culture as a YTMND or 'You're The Man Now Dog'. Don't ask why it's called this, it would take a whole essay to explain it.

Now a bit of insight into the link. It's a little animated movie of static images to audio. They use the common internet acronym LOL (laugh out loud) as a pun and the punchline.

Some of you may not get this, and that's cool because this is a very specific niche joke. If you do then yay you got the joke...

Once it loads, hit F5 to immediately refresh the clip because the audio and visuals won't be sync'd correctly (a common issue with YTMNDs).

Have fun!!
http://lolismychild.ytmnd.com/

Comedy Gold

Alright, so some of you may not get this, and that's okay because this gag is kind of a Generation X oriented deal which could go over the heads of the Baby Boomers and which ever generation comes befoe the X'ers...

So anyway, this gag mixes a video game cult classic and a very familiar 80's tune.

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1803224/

Legends of Norrath Trading Card Art

Alright everyone. I thought I would post some of my card art that I created for Sony Online Entertainment's Legends of Norrath trading card game. These paintings vary up and down in the speed it took me to make them and they are in no particular order. Some of these I used human reference and others I did from memory because of time contraints. I have other cards that I've done but I will post those at a later time...

Woot!

Okay, so I just encountered a lovely woman named Sarah Bareilles. She's an entertainer and i'm smitten by her music- okay she's way cute too. Aside from the shallow aesthetics, Sarah has a beautifully powerful voice and a talented pianist, which is also my favorite instrument. I'll probably be playing this Album her's (called Little Voice by the way) for good while. :)

Check out her video :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR5xv3pt7KI

Hello...? *tap *tap ...anybody there?

Just making sure this stuff works. I may be posting my art on here once in a while, but for now it's just going to be random rants and whatnot...

:)