Mental Potpourri: Medley of Musings

Just Some Shoes...

2012-04-26T20:27:00.002-07:00

Every so often I stumble upon something that I have never seen before. This time it's some type of shoe. Shoes can be pretty weird, but until today I had never heard of "ballet heels"...I can't find any reason why anyone would ever want to wear a pair of these hideous things....

I don't even know what else to say...

Next Blog

2012-03-20T12:48:00.000-07:00

You know that button in the top menu? The "Next Blog >>" button? Do you know what it does? Have you ever clicked it?

Well, what it does should be fairly obvious.

Anyway, I clicked it fir the first time today, just to see where it took me and I ended up in some strange lands...well, not really.

There are so many blogs on this site that I don't know why people would ever bothing with hitting the 'next blog' button.

I clicked it and got a family's blog about their missisionary trips, a school district's legislation information, and three ELS related blogs...hm.

Maybe I'll try it again some other time, for a longer amount of time.. For now I can't really see my screen because I'm sitting in front of a window at my school. Technically that could be anywhere because most of my school's walls are windows. Anyhow, I think I'm facing East, and the sun is shining into my eyeballs...

>.<

Top 10 Places You Can’t Go

2012-03-20T12:38:00.001-07:00

Top 10 Places You Can’t Go

Read this...if you like. If found it kind of interesting. Though, it would have helped if I had heard of half of the places on the list XD;;

Leap Year

2012-02-29T18:05:00.000-08:00

It's Leap Year Day... Leap Day? ..... February 29th! Happy Birthday to all of those (surprisingly older looking for their age..haha) people born on twenty ninth of the fourth month~

Apparently women can propose to their men today...though I don't see why they can't do it on any other day (or year) if they are the kind of person who would want to do that.

Personally, I would not want to propose to my boyfriend at all. I think I would feel like I was missing out, and I'm sure he would hate me for taking that away from him (at least my current boyfriend would feel that way).

There is a reason for everything! So why do we randomly have an extra day every four years? Any guesses? If you didn't already know, it's because every year is actually 365.25 days long... We obviously can't have a random quarter-length day every year, so they are added up at the end of four years and we get one whole day!

Apparently this started in the days of Julius Caesar.

'Leap Year' would seem to apply to the entire year.. I mean, a single day wouldn't be called 'year'. I guess it's the year where leaping takes place? If feels more like...slowing down? taking an extra day doesn't seem to involve any leaping... that makes it sound like we lose a day, or maybe the whole year! The year that is leaped over...hmm...

Maybe it's a year for leaping! ....I'm just going to stop now..

Explaining My Last Post Somewhat..

2012-02-21T19:56:00.000-08:00

Hello!
So, last night I blogged and typed up a load of nonsense.
So! Here we go:

New keyboard: new laptop. I spilled water on my old dell and it kind of died. So, my dad got me a new laptop that is actually new (my last one I got used from a friend). It's an HP Pavilion G6 something 1C40CA maybe. It's pretty decent so far. It's 64 bit, got Radeon graphics, Windows 7...and it's AMD. I've never used an AMD computer before, but it doesn't seem to be different than any Intel computer. For some reason though, it won't play .avi files on Windows Media Player or DivX player, but they do play on Windows Media Classic... I have all of the right codecs, so I really have no idea what the problem is.

Anyways, yesterday I was having some issues installing the Sims 3 Generations expansion pack. Well, the installation went just fine, but when I tried to play it I got a weird error. (0x024e424f) was the "code" thing at the end of it. I ended up fixing it by using a crack. Now it starts up just fine, and I don't need the disc, haha!

At the same time my TV was having issues. I was trying to watch something recorded on my DVR because we were recording two other things simultaneously. But, a weird error popped up at the bottom, in a blue box, saying something about not being connected to the drive. I think my dad fixed it today..

Also at the same time, I was working on editing a paper that was due this morning before 8am. I did end up finishing...and then didn't end up going to class because of nausea and vomiting whooohooo. Thankfully I only needed to hand in my paper electronically.

If you have an HP laptop kinda like mine, and it's randomly changing brightness, changing brighter and darker, dimmer and brighter... It was doing this to me, and kind of driving me crazy, so after dealing with all of that stuff in the evening, I went on a hunt for answers.

How to fix this: it's called Vari-Bright. To turn it off you have to get to the menu connected to the Radeon graphics card. From the start menu, type CCC into the search. It's called something catalyst control, but typing in the actual name of it didn't help my find it. From there there's a menu about gaming or something and then PowerPlay, from there you can untick the Vari-Bright box, and voila! it's fixed. Yay.

Am I missing anything? :P

Nothing In February Yet Eh?

2012-02-21T00:44:00.000-08:00

Nothing except that one below this one!
Yeah, that's right, I freaked myself out thinking someone had hacked me or something only to think "heeey wait a minute..."
Yeah..
I will blog later, I really can't think right now. I just finished editing (hah, suuuure) a philosophy paper and fixing my Sims 3 expansion that wasn't working. What an interesting combination...
And, now I'm tired and thinking about weird things and typing words into this box instead of reading for my class tomorrow...and instead of sleeping!!! I'd better get on that.
Well, anyways, I apologize for wasting your time..."you" who probably isn't really anyone because no one reads my stuff... maybe this is a good thing then? I'm not wasting anyone's time...except my own maybe.
AH well... argh, still getting used to this new keyboard. AS I SAID I WILL GET TO NEW STUFF LATER I AM DONE WITH PROCRASTINATING... you know, it wasn't until about half way through typing the word "procrastinating" that I actually turned caps lock on..? I think I'm one of those people who prefers to type in all caps while holding shift down..curious.
ANywas. Goodnight.
(gosh dangit keyboard)

Happy Birthday To You Two

2012-02-12T15:58:00.013-08:00

Today in 1809, I believe, was the day that both Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born. Same day, same year. Very interesting.

I don't know most birthdays of famous people, although I'm sure there are many more that happen on the same days as each other. Apparently a bunch of famous-ish people were born on the same day as me according to the internet, but I haven't really heard of any of them.

If you want to know who you're born on the birthday of you can check on this site. I actually have no idea how to use it, but I found my birthday on there somehow. I'm sure you're smart, you should be able to figure it out.

Happy Birthday to anyone who shares this birthday with these two famous dead people :D

On another, completely irrelevant, note. This is my first "scheduled post", and I want to see if this really works...lol. I'm such a dork.

People Who: Wear Blue Eyeshadow

2012-01-31T11:50:00.001-08:00

This bothers me like you wouldn't imagine.

People wear blue, especially baby blue eyeshadow, when they shouldn't. How do you know when you should or shouldn't wear it? Well, if you have a darker complexion, say if you are African American or Italian or something, chances are that you might be able to get away with it. The darker your.complexion is, it would seem, the better it looks. Also, I would suggest mid range blues or darker, because baby blue rarely looks good on anyone. Going to the other extreme, if you happen to have a very light complexion, you might be able to get away with a very light blue. Don't confuse this with baby blue that I just finished complaining about, thing more towards white. Subtle blues, you could say...a hint.

Blue eyes: I know makeup commercials say that you should wear blue to highlight the blue in your eyes, but I'm going to challenge that. If you are like me and have not so bright, or a slightly less obvious blue, a dull blue maybe, or dark, blue eyeshadow is also probably not a good idea. The only thing I can say is that you should be able to wear hints of blue in makeup, this will accentuate the blue in your eyes. Also, try sticking to more neural colours, bright blues are best to just be avoided. I find the brighter the blue and the more of it that is worn, the less your eyes actually look blue. When I wear blue eyeshadow, if I'm wearing a little too much my eye colour begins to look quite dull.

For my eyes, which are a darker blue, browns tend to look the best, warmer browns or cooler browns. I find my eyes pop when I wear slightly more redy browns or goldy browns...or just gold. Also, whenever I wear eyeshadow I never wear less than two shades or colour. I like to do the whole contour shadows and highlights thing. I also like to wear bits of purple (as opposed to blue) and foresty greens in rare instances.

As a general rule, bright colours don't usually look that great as eyeshadows on most people. There are exceptions of course, but like I said, general. Muted, subtle, just hints, and neutral versions of colour tend to look the best.

I also find that older women are the ones who wear baby blue eyeshadow the most. These are also the people who, in my opinion, should avoid it the most. I can not recall there ever being a time in my life where I have seen someone (especially caucasian or older) and thought that it looked good....

Just consider this next time you think of wearing that bright colour on your eyelids.

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Textbooks

2012-01-19T09:26:00.001-08:00

When going to meet someone, you think every person might be them, even when they don't fit the description.... He said the guy was tall, but maybe he's more of an average height, and I didn't get a hair colour or anything. I have a name, but that doesn't tell me much, though I might have an ethnicity from it...but maybe not.

Textbooks are way too expensive. You think university students' wallets are drains by tuition? My books cost a good chunk of money too..

With meeting people who I've contacted over Craigslist or Locazu.com, I've bought two books used so far, I have one this morning, and another one hopefully within the next week. In total, from my original purchase amount, I will have saved abouttttt.... $100.00.

Haha, the guy I was meeting actually found me while I was writing this post. And he was quite tall XD

Some other places people get used textbooks from are places like Amazon, random other sites that sell books, buy and sell Facebook trade groups..etc... You can also rest textbooks. I haven't done this personally, but some people would pursue this option, as it can potentially be quite a bit cheer than buying the book.

I don't know, I have a lot more university to go. Maybe I'll have tried evey type of book buying, selling, borrowing, renting.. I guess I'll find out!

Now.. off to class!

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SOPA and PIPA

2012-01-18T17:18:00.001-08:00

What the heck are these you may ask?

SOPA is the 'Stop Online Piracy Act'
and
PIPA is the 'Protect IP Act'

Various websites (such as Wikipedia) are 'blacked out', or shut down for today in protest.

Wikipedia, at them moment, only says info about these two bills and why it is against them and whatnot.

A snippet from their page:

"SOPA and PIPA represent two bills in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate respectively. SOPA is short for the "Stop Online Piracy Act," and PIPA is an acronym for the "Protect IP Act." ("IP" stands for "intellectual property.") In short, these bills are efforts to stop copyright infringement committed by foreign web sites, but, in our opinion, they do so in a way that actually infringes free expression while harming the Internet"

I believe that SOPA grants the power to censor content on websites that includes anything copyrighted, and PIPA can block sites altogether. (But don't take my word on that, I might have them backwards, or mixed up a bit)

You can find these on Wikipedia at the moment, but I will also share these links:

Here you can track SOPA

Here you can track PIPA

and here will tell you a little bit about why everyone is saying that it's so bad (or at least one person's opinion).

So, basically people are freaking out because the internet is supposed to be all about sharing information and connecting and all that. But, I do get where some of this is coming from. I mean, censoring twitter posts and such things that are completely harmless and ultimately useless has no point. However, stopping piracy of software, movies, ect.. I get that part. I like downloading the occasional missed TV show, or something in another language that I can't find here, but I don't know how justified it is to download all pirated programs and movies that are still in the theatres.
I am against the bills, of course, otherwise my blog would probably be shut down even though I'm based out of Canada... I agree with some of the ideas behind the bills and where they are coming from, but they just aren't going at it the right way. This is just making everyone mad.

Do some research and decide for yourself. What do you think?

Aside: if you enjoy memes and all that then these might entertain you/help you understand SOPA
http://9gag.com/gag/1933358?ref=sopa
http://9gag.com/gag/1114501?ref=sopa
and there are many more where that came from...

Just a Random Fact - Vending Machine Deaths

2012-01-18T16:59:00.000-08:00

At least 37 people have died since 1978 from shaking vending machines (trying to get free stuff), and at least 100 people have been injured.

Looks like they failed pretty hard...lol...no? okay..

I don't think I've ever shaken a vending machine to try and get free stuff out of it. I'm sure I've hit one before when it didn't want to give me something that I'd paid for...but that's about it.

Old Videogames :)

2012-01-16T16:18:00.001-08:00

Yesterday I bought a Super Nintendo :D
I purchased it from some guy off of Craigslist for $50.00. It included, two controllers (one of which I'm confused about the working condition) and 7 games: Mario World, Super Mario Allstars, Donkey Kong Country, Mighty Morphing Power Rangers, some fishing game (aka Super Black Bass), a crappy racing game (aka Stunt Race FX), and another game that I've never heard of (aka Darius Twin).
The only games I've gotten a chance to play so far are that racing game (hence why I know it's crappy), and Power Rangers. Power Rangers is a side-scrolling fighting game, and it's great. Hahaha. Well, I just really like power rangers, I don't know about you though. Maybe you woudn't appreciate it as much as I do. In any case, it's actually not that bad of a game.

I am delaying playing the Mario and Donkey Kong games, because I have played them before and I feel a little like I am saving the best for last.

Now, I just need some NES games to play besides Super Mario Bros. And maybe some more decent SNES games and I'll be set :P

(mine is actually yellowed, but this this what it would look like if it was new :P)

Public Transit and Whatnot

2012-01-13T13:38:00.000-08:00

So, since I take the bus to school twice almost every week day, sometimes I notice weird things. Some things really aren't all that crazy, but sometimes I wonder about some of these people..
The other day I was sitting across from a guy who kept petting his balding head...lol
I saw a lady the other day who was wearing a Jonas brothers hat.
There was this guy yesterday who kept playing guitar on his leg and moving around while he played some baseball game at full volume on his phone >.<
On a bus ride with my boyfriend, I saw an 18-wheeler semi truck pulled over by a cop on a motorcycle. It was funny because of the size difference. I also don't see cops on motorbikes that often these days..
I watched as a lady was being arrested beside her car. That was an interesting sight.
I've been in the bus as it slammed on the breaks, sending people practically flying into each other.
I've also been in the bus as it hit another car, well, tapped a car.

What really bothers me is when people listen to their music on their ipods so loud that I can hear all of the words.. The reason you have tiny speakers in your ears is so that other people don't have to listen to your music.. Also, have fun loosing your hearing at a young age, let me know how fun it is when you can't blast music loud enough to hear it at all.

A fun experience (not really) from this past semester: The bus driver apparently didn't know all of the various routes that the buses take from my point A to point B. There are a bunch of different ones because of construction going on at different places on different days. This driver, I don't know, maybe he was new to this route or something, because we ended up going down the freeway, past the exit to go towards my school, and then over the bridge. He had no idea where he was going, so one of the passengers directed him toward Ikea, where he turned around. He was directed to the nearest skytrain staion, where all of the passengers were dropped off. Here, we were actually closer to the big campus, which itself is a half hour bus-and-skytrain trip from the campus that I go to for all of my classes. So, we hopped on the skytrain, had to transfer skytrains at the next station, and then made it to school in the knick of time....just in time for a midterm of mine.

So, like I was saying here, we also have a skytrain system. I have no idea where else in the world they have skytrains, or anything like them. Probably more than I can think of.. I know in Japan they have 'bullet' trains, or Shinkansen,, which (the newer ones at least) can go over 300 km/h (180ish mph). I'm not entirely sure why you would need to get anywhere that fast unless you were travelling distances.
Anyways, I don't go on the skytrain very often. The only time I do is when I want to go to Downtown Vancouver or some place where it would be more convenient than driving. (Or apparently when I get dropped off by lost bus drivers..lol)
I found that if I sit backwards on the skytrain (because they have seats facing both directions) I get motionsick instantly. It's kinda weird, and really annoying.

Getting Back In

2012-01-10T19:32:00.000-08:00

So, back to school as of last Thursday...yeah I know...Thursday. My weeks are a little bit all over the place. I'm off on Mondays, I'm at school for 9 hours on Tuesdays, Wednesdays I have class from 9:30-11:20am, Thursdays I'm there for 8 hours, and Friday I'm there for less than one hour...9:30-10:20am. Bleh.. So, today being my longest day, and the first Tuesday this semester. So, I'm kinda dead.

On the bus ride on the way to school, there was this guy sitting next to me, and he had this book. I thought he was sleeping on the book or something, like, he fell asleep while reading or..I don't know. He had his hood up and whatnot. Well he wasn't sleeping, I figured that out when he turned the page of the book and stared intensely at the page....all of six cm from his face..or like 3.5 inches...lol, near-sighted much?
During my Philosophy lecture and tutorial this morning I had to sit and stare as the girl in front of me was wearing her sweater inside out. Lol.... it kinda bothered me though. Sigh. I just wanted to poke her, but I don't think she would've appreciated it much...I mean, what's she gonna do? Strip in the middle of class? Lol, no.

Then, after my philosophy lecture and tutorial, I had a three hour break until class. My friends ditched me, so I sat at a table by myself for three hours until I had 'Psychology and Law', which was a three hour lecture. Nothing too interesting happened during that one... :P

Tawny Creepin

2012-01-07T17:05:00.001-08:00

While I was typing up part of my last post last night, one of my kitties was creepin.

I pet her like she wanted and she was a happy kitty, lol

Autocomplete: How

2012-01-07T17:00:00.000-08:00

So, as you probably know, Google has an autocomplete feature that shows you things commonly searched when you type into the search bar. Instead of posting weird things that I found (which I might do at some point), I decided I would figure out the top searched thing for each ... thing that I typed in. This time I started everything with "how" and followed it with a word or two like "it" "is" "does" etc. If they are questions I will try and answer them! (why not right? :P)

Everything in purple is what I typed in, and the following in black is what Google gave me. I know I should've done it the other way around, but it's kinda late to do that now. Too much work...
Anyyyywaysss..

how to download YouTube videos
there are many sites to do this, depending on whether you want the entire video or just the mp3.
For mp3 use a site like this or this.
For downloading the actual video... maybe something like this, or maybe this. I haven't tried these two for myself.

how to do long division
anyone in math class should know how to do this, it's useful for doing division of course.
It's easiest when dividing a number by a one digit number, but still works for everything else.
say 68 ÷ 4
becomes 4|68 (I can't find the proper symbol)
4 goes into 6 once so a one is written over the six, six minus one four is two, so two is the remainder and written underneath the six
1
4|68
2
the eight is brought down to make 2 into 28
1
4|68
28
four goes into 28 seven times, so a seven is placed above the eight. The 28 created by multiplying 4x7 is subtracted from the 28. 28-28=0.
17
4|68
28
-28
=0

So, 68÷4=17
Go here for something more complicated

how do i love thee
let me count the ways

how do you know
I'm going to assume this is talking about love?
unless of course they are referring to a movie by the same title, which pops up when you type this in.
As for my first guess, if you 'knew', you wouldn't be asking ;)

how do we see
Light enters our eyes though the cornea which flips the image upside down. The light passes through the lens where it is bent and projected onto the retina at the back of the eye. It is then picked up by the optic nerve and interpreted by the brain.
There are also rods, cones, and ganglion cells involved...but if you want more details you can look it up yourself :P

how does icloud work
Icloud works the same way other cloud networks work. Like Dropbox, which is cloud storage. I don't use apple products but from what I see, it works like any other cloud network. Information from one device is stored in sort of 'cyberspace', which is available on your other apple devices.

how does the internet work
I am not motivated enough to simplify this. Just go here to find out :P

how can i keep from singing
Ah, a song title.

how can you mend a broken heart
another song

how can we stop global warming
Hm, well. Use the car less and walk or ride your bike, take the bus. Buy local goods instead of imported. Get creative.

how are you in French
"Comment ça va?" (como sa va)
Très bien

how are the northern lights formed
also known as aurora borealis,
"Colors and patterns are from the types of ions or atoms being energized as they collide with the atmosphere and are affected by lines of magnetic force."

how are we doing
um...

how are myths different from other stories
A story is something told about anything by anyone.
A myth is usually more traditional or culturally significant. Stories told of gods and godesses are myths. They usually try to explain historical events I think. Like, a Greek goddess is the reason for good harvest...or something like that.

how its made
the TV show.

how is babby formed
when I first saw this one I was kind of confused. I was thinking "either people really can't spell or..." and then I found that it was some flash video based on a yahoo answers question
click here to see it... it's completely ridiculous.

how is the periodic table organized
The periodic table of elements is organized by weight of each element. It's also organized in periods and families. Periods go horizontally, families go vertically. Elements in the same family have similar qualities.

how come you never go there lyrics
How come you never go there?
How come I'm--- yeah...no

how fast does hair grow
About 1.25cm or 0.5in per month, and 15cm or 6in per year. It depends on the person though, not everyone's hair grows at the same rate.

how slow cooker works

Less heat, food takes longer to cook.

And, there you have it.
Ta-da

Meme

2011-12-30T15:00:00.000-08:00

This has been bothering me for a while...whenever I run into another person and mention 'memes' they always pronounce it differently. I've gotten 'meemee' 'mem' and other such things.

Correct pronunciation of "meme"?

From Dictionary.com:

NES

2011-12-26T17:08:00.001-08:00

So, like I said, my boyfriend got me an NES for Christmas <3
I've been searching the dark depths of the internet for games. I would not go with online stores as their prices can be astronomical and I don't want to pay for shipping
I don't trust Ebay...
I've tried Craigslist and found a bunch of games for sale, but either they are selling them for more than I'd want to pay or trying to sell 40 games at once....
So..yeah.
I've found some people who I'm considering contacting to see if I can get a deal out of them for buying multiple games from them.
My boyfriend insists that I get a hard drive full of games to plug into the cartridge slot... I've looked but I don't think they even exist.
Games I'm currently searching for:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II
The Legend of Zelda
Super Mario Bros. 2/3 (I've never played 2)
Kirby's Adventure (I absolutely love this game..but can't seem to find it anywhere :( )
Paperboy (I actually hate this game, but I want to have it for memories of my childhood frustration...lol)
Mega Man (which one? I don't know, I've heard they're decent games though)
Final Fantasy (I've also never played this one because no one with an NES had this game)

I'm sure there are others..just none I can think of off the top of my head

When summer comes around I'll be checking ALL the garage sales!!

Nativity

2011-12-24T22:26:00.002-08:00

Just the 'Precious Moments' nativity Scene... it's probably as old as me. I set this little thing up every year.. Merry Christmas~

Enjoy the birth of Jesus with these little guys

Photography credit: moi.....please don't steal these pictures <3

Christmas Eve~ ♥

2011-12-24T21:04:00.000-08:00

Today is Christmas Eve! it's actually starting to feel like Christmas. It's still hard to believe though...maybe it's because we don't have any snow..
:(

So, after coming home from the Christmas Eve service at church we had my boyfriend and his family over for dinner, which was nice~
Me and him exchanged gifts because he brought mine, so why not! I got him a backpack and he got me an NES. I'm probably one of the few girls that I can think of that would want something like that for Christmas. Hahahaha. I'm probably going to steal one of the small flatscreen TVs that we have randomly around the house and put it in my room so I can play my NES and Sega Genesis :P
Earlier today my family exchanged our Secret Santa gifts. There are five of us, and I had my mom, so I got her some Bath and Body Works stuff.
My dad had me and he got me a hamster :D Actually, "hamster" was the only thing I had on my xmas wishlist XD
He's a little 'panda hamster', and I haven't given him a name yet. He needs a T name...that's just a thing we do.. name all of our pets with T names.
So, I was thinking of Thor, Toby (Tobias), Taro, Tiberius, Tuxedo....etc. He's black and white, with a black lighning bolt shape on his back. ♥
I'm sure I'll put a picture of him up at some point... let's just hope my cats don't eat him before that!

MERRY CHRISTSMAS

and here's a stolen ASCII Christmas Tree~

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Christmas Time

2011-12-22T22:51:00.000-08:00

To me it doesn't really feel like Christmas yet...which is interesting since it's in like three days. Maybe it's because my Christmas tree is in a different room than I'm used to. We have three pets that are all under a year old and we didn't want them to destroy it XD
I haven't wrapped any presents yet.

I'm actually not a big Xmas person. I mean, there's nothing wrong with liking Christmas! I mean, being christian I celebrate the birth of Jesus and all that. I'm just not an overly-festive person. I won't sneer at people to say Merry Chrstmas to me, hardly, I say it to people too. It's just that I don't like listening to the same songs fifty-billion times again, I don't really want to watch all twelve of those movies again. I don't know. I'm just not a huge Chrstmas fan. :P
Sorry if you absolutely adore Christmas! That's totally fine, I'll just leave that to you, I'll be over here.... having a little less enthusiasm.

Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ, even though he was actually supposed to have been born some time in the Spring. It doesn't really matter, it's just a day that was picked to celebrate it.
Christmas was a celebration of the Winter Solstice before it was used as the day to celebrate the birth of Christ. (I think. Don't take my word on that one..)
Christmas is (apparently) the day Isaac Newton was born! I really hope you know who that is...

If there are other random things that happen around here, I'll mention them later.

Merry Christmas~~!

My Highschool - Video Wars

2011-12-18T14:32:00.001-08:00

I have graduated highschool already, but when I did attend I went to WGSS. Whooooo Gators!

The teachers and students have wars in various things and try to beat the other at whatever it may be. We had student-teacher basketball games, dodge ball games, and various things like that.

More recently, the students did a LipDub. If you don't know what a lipdub is then go search them up on Youtube. Basically, it's a bunch of people lip-syncing to songs and showing school spirit and such. I don't know if all lipdubs are done by school necessarily, but a lot of them are.

But first, the teachers at my school did a flashmob during the annual Christmas assembly. It ended up on the news even. Christmas 2010.

Here it is. The view where you see the left sides of everyone from the back-side is where I was filming from. I was in video classes for a couple years so I got to know my teacher really well. He got me, a friend of mine, my boyfriend, and a couple other random people to film it. It was kinda fun because we got to know about it when no one else knew.

Next is the student lipdub! It was coordinated by students and included all students (I think). I was in the little team in which my friend was the leader of (student council member and student body vice president, she had the authority to do it :P). I was in charge of a random hallway on the upper floor, and had to yell at people at random times to run to various places. Early 2011.

This is it. It was a lot of fun to make, and only took like two tries.

Okay so now we have the Staff Lipdub. Let me just say that they had an unfair advantage. Since they are the teachers and staff they are allowed to use all of the equipment, go into any room, and do it whenever they wanted to. For the student one, we could only do it right after school, and had limited amounts of people and things we could use. The teachers, because they had so much freedom, also made theirs like twice as long as ours. And, since the one doing the filming and editing and whatnot was the same teacher that had helped a little/watched us struggle with the student one, he knew what he was doing. Late 2011.

Happy viewing :P

Konami Code

2011-12-18T00:49:00.000-08:00

So, if you haven't noticed, I have added a box to the side that tells of of the "Konami Code".
First of all, if you do not know what Konami is....... get out...now.... haha, jk.....
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>.>
Anyway
(So, Konami is a videogame company.. this is their site)

The "Konami Code" has been used for many years in games to give players random bonuses...like extra lives ot whatever.
Since we live in the age of technology and blogs that have editable HTML code, we can put this code into our ...code.
(I could tell you exactly how I did it, but it's not too difficult to look it up for yourself on Google :P For me: Copy and Paste plus minor editing and... there you have it.)

In games this code is up up down down left right left right b a start. Since there is no "start" button on keyboards (typically), we use "Enter" instead.

So, try it here on my blog :)

PS: if you didn't know this already- this code also works on Facebook~!

Wonders of a Popular Search Engine

2011-12-18T00:12:00.001-08:00

(AKA: things to do when you are bored!)

Google! Everyone's grandma and their dog knows how to use google and has used it at least once in their life. The people at Google like to fiddle around with programming, and include things that users (if they can find them) find amusing! They come in different shapes and sizes these easter eggs..

Currently- in the spirit of Christmas, or at least winter, type "let it snow" into google. Do you really want to defrost? Yeah..me neither..to bad though, you can't actually click on anything when it gets all foggy.

DO A BARREL ROLL- yeah type "do a barrel roll" into google. Self explanatory.

Not the same but... go to "thatsloco.com" it's 'Google Loco" and you can use it like regular google, just typing in funny symbols and stuff.

Googoth- another site, that is currently under maintenance. Used to look up dark and goth-y things... I guess...lol. "Googoth.com"

I have yet to try this one BUT- go to Picasa and "ctrl+shift+Y" repeat and apparently teddy bears will start appearing

"http://www.google.com/onceuponatime/mentalplex/" - year 2000 April fool's joke, was supposed to read your mind and predict what you were going to search for...or something

Go to your Gmail and to the spam folder....recipe with spam? check! (at the top part above the messages)

I'm sure there are other ones, but they are not readily available in my mind or on the interwebs at the moment. I will edit this if I find any more interesting ones (or not if I'm too lazy).

(Ed: Type "tilt" into google, and ...y'know... it tilts :P)

Things I use Google for?
-how to spell things
-dictionary (either directing me to an online dictionary, or just defining it for me after i type "[xyz] definition")
-actually searching things...
mostly it's the first two though, lol

Happy Googling!!

Google Search Me

2011-12-16T17:20:00.000-08:00

So...apparently when you search this blog on Google you get the very beginning of the first post I posted. Yes I realize that I am a loser who searches up herself on Google....
Anywayyyys, so, if you look up "Mental Potpourri: Medley of Musings", or also probably "mindofjet.blogspot.com" or whatever, then you'd see under the title something along the lines of:

"5 days ago – Hello there, this is my first blog post on this...well...blog. I am not entirely sure what sorts of things will appear in future posts, but I guess we'll ..."

Yeeeaaaahhhhh....
So, I hope it changes, but since I don't expect a ton of traffic it doesn't matter anyways.
..........

(Forever Alone for the un-internet-meme-educated ones)