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Cereal Bomb!

2011-04-30T21:21:00.000-07:00

So you wake up one morning. You went to the CR and finally into the kitchen. You grabbed a box of cereal and that cold milk on the fridge. And you say: "Ow, f*ck!"

Ever wonder what's under the bowl of that cereal?

Cereal helped americans won the Battle of Iwo Jima.

Not the Serial Killer. Idiot.

December 7, 1941, early morning, when Japanese forces bombarded Pearl Harbor on Hawaii. Those american troops woke up from that alarm clock. Some others woke up on heaven, sadly.
The japanese made use all of their air force to shake that island up. USA responded to the request of Japan.

Since US troops were outnumbered, the government chose not to payback immediately. In the course of 4 years, volunteers across USA went to Military settlements to enlist for the "great war" against Japan.

Where's the cereal?

Oh yeah, you are looking for the cereal. Uhm, you remember Quaker Oats? That's the one.
Physicists and Chemists figured out that cereal have a high explosive power. Explosive power?

Get a funnel with a hose attached to the narrow tube. Hose would be about 12-20 inches long. Stand two feet from a gas burner. Then blow the oats from the end of the hose. The funnel must be in line with the burner. Watch and see ze flame!

Any cereal, rich in carbohydrates, when finely divided (e.g. corn starch) and suspended in air (like a cloud of dust) is highly combustible and many flour mills have suffered serious damage as a result of stray sparks.

Quaker Oats company went from commercial-making oats to military-bomb-maker. All workers of Quaker company and some troops from the military joined forces to fill a mortar container with Quaker Oats!

Then the rest of the story will be the victory of USA versus Japan.

See how that boy said "Ow, F*ck!" in the start of this entry.

Naw yu Know!

Posted in Manila

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Original Blog entry (c) 2011- All text above are from this blog. The topic and researches are done from the credit below

Topic from Discovery Channel's "how stuff works" Discover Channel (c)

100th Island of Hundred Islands

2011-04-28T17:06:00.000-07:00

Technically, not the 100th.

This vacation, we went to our province in Alaminos City, Pangasinan. And yes, it is home to the National Park of the Philippines: Hundred Islands National Park.

By the numbers, it is composed of 124 islands during low tide and 123 if on high tide.

Since we are just a local and we cannot call ourselves completely tourists, we only explored one island which is Quezon Island.

Departing Lucap Wharf

Arriving at Lucap Wharf from Brgy. Alos, Alaminos City (near Alaminos-Mabini Boundary) at exactly 10:30 am, we board a chartered "large banca" with a maximum capacity of 15 passengers plus 2 crew and load. Total fee for the private banca for back-and-forth travel is 2,500 pesos.

En route to Quezon Island.

We chose to be privatized, so we are offered three choices of route going to the island. First choice is the "Normal Route". This route is the most common used when going to one of the three developed islands. This route will give you roughly 3/4 sighting of all the islands. From Lucap wharf, you will be entering a inverted "c" shape route thru quezon Isalnd which will traverse thru most of the islands. It is best for value.

Second is the "Circle route". Simply, you will be toured practically all of the islands. We didn't choose this. We are scared of high waves that time.

Then finally the "direct route". From Lucap Wharf, Quezon island is just dead straight ahead. Unlike the usual 20 minutes if going there thru "Normal Route", we arrived at Quezon Is. for about 12 minutes thru the direct route. Cutting off travel time drastically for nearly half. But is is not recommended for first timers because en-route you will only see 3-10 islands and then a "circle-to dock" method to quezon Is. port.

Arriving Quezon Is.. Straight-ahead from Lucap. Quezon Is. is at 11 oclock from the tip of the banca. The one with a red roof.

Past vs Present

Way back when we last visited Hundred Is. in 2007, there's not too much to do on Quezon aside from swimming and eating on the cottages. Today, I was surprised when I compared the one in the past and the one I recently visited. There are Kayak boat rentals, parasailing, glass bottom boats to see the giant clams below and near Quezon Is., there is the new zipline adventure.

We can take all of this adventure Hundred Islands can give us if my Mom would let us. Sadly, it's a big NO.

On the kayak. Me on the violet with the shades on.

If there are many attractions, there are a lot of tourists going there. I remembered last 2007, eating at the beachfront is strictly imposed. Also the littering around cottages were prohibited. But this time, it's different. There are piles of waste on every corner of the cottages area. Despite the presence of Garbage bins, trashes are at the side of it.

Useless bins.

On the way back

Yeah, I know you are excited to see the 100th island. I was excited to see that there too. Unfortunately, I can't show you the pic of the 100th island. Simply because it's too far.

But I've managed to snap the 124th island, the last island during low tide. At first I thought is was a shoal or an island with sands on it and a lagoon inside. But I was wrong when the driver of the banca ( I was told to call him driver instead of sailor or something, because he's steering on car wheels. Not boat wheel! ) told us that there is the last island.

The small bump near the center. Yes, that's it. The 124th island.

You only see this thing during low tide. Others don't see it because it's high tide or low tide but not this low. You only see the extreme tip when regular low tides. We are lucky this time. We've got low-low tide!

Arriving at the Dock.

After a total of 16 minutes traveling going to the docks. We are on earth AGAIN. It was a lengthly trip because of "bow waves", waves that are coming towards the front of the banca. And also the wind.

Arriving at the private dock. Steering thru 10 meter-high bamboo stick

After arriving Mom was headed to buy souvenirs. We are towards buying that can benefit our stomach. Ice Scramble and Kwek Kwek

And we love it!

And that's it for the Hundred Islands adventure and the 124th island.

I realized, "why I included my whole trip when my title is only for the 124th island?"

Anyways, I hope you like it.

REMEMBER!

>Bring SUN BLOCK! And don't forget to USE it!
>Bring WATER
>also ICE BLOCK. We want ice cold drinks. Ice is available at the city proper. So buy one there before you go ahead. 50 pesos for 1/2 block.

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Posted in Manila

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Fly with your House! - "Up" recreated in real life!

2011-03-16T17:21:00.000-07:00

A two-men team from National Geographic Channel just recreated one of the most awesome and unbelievable films from Disney, "Up".

Up up and away: The house that made us "ahhh"

Those guys just removed the "un" in the unbelievable as the guys hooked up 300 8' balloons at a 16 x 16 house. This event is a feature of the show "How hard can it be" from National Geographic Channel starting Fall 2011.

Not only this is for the show, but it also set a record for the largest balloon cluster ever atempted. The entire experimental "housecraft" was over 10 stories high and reached an altitude of 10,000 feet and flew approximately one hour.

Credits: National Geo Channel and mymodernmet.com

-posted in Manila

Search and you shall find!

2011-03-15T20:24:00.000-07:00

I was bored. So I searched almost everything on the web. From "asdfghjkl" to weird names and that, I came up searching these stuffs. Maybe It's funny though.

Have a look:

1. Electro Recycling: Potty train your e-waste

2. Adidas: Impossible is nothing

3. McDonald Joker

4. Powerhouse Gym Building Outdoor Ad

5. Jumbo Peanut

6. EDF Orangutan

7. Dove Simpson: Anti Frizz Cream

8. DHL: Trojan

9. Braun Series: Bring out the human in men

10. Braun Series 1

11. Bad Food Bad Dog

12. Joy of Pepsi

13.McDonald’s Vs Burger King

14. McDonald’s Christmas French Fries

15. Real hiphop

16. Jobsintown.de: Life is too short for the wrong job

17. Monster.com: Caught on a wrong job?

18. Clorets: Bad breath

19. Condom ad: Don’t be stupid

20. Denver Save Water

21. Halls: Breathe

22. Heinz-Thick Ketchup

23. Hot Sauce-Hole Through T-Shirt Ad

26. 8in1 Dental Snacks: Bad Dog Breath

27. Findus Fraich’Frites: Granny’s fries without the Granny

28. Hyundai Coupe. 0 to 100 km/h in 8.4 se

29. Olympus Optical zoom

30. Dog Toast: You eat what you touch.

31. Pure Yoga: Yoga Classes Now On

32. Sunkist: Chinese Orange

33. Animal Planet: Wildlife

34. Noodle Slurper Mondo Pasta: Boat

35. Nike: Just Do It

36. Silk Soft Tissue Paper

37.Penline Art Supply, Office Stationary

38. Mountain Riders: Its time for a spring cleaning

39. RSPCA: Show Us Some Love. We will return the favor

40. Stockholms hundforum

41. Softlan Ultra: Wrestling

42. Sheetz: Finally a fry good enough for

43. Ripolin: Yours walls deserve a paint which will age well

44. Repella: Change the way insects see you

45. Queer Travel . de: The other side of Amercia

46. Kiss FM 97.7: iPod…I’m your father

47. Pepsi: French Kiss and Lifeguard

48. Minery Foot Care: Baby

49. Fiat: Boxes: Thinking of changing your van? New Fiat Ducato.

50. Sedex Express Courier: Trust us we deliver it fast

51. Coca Cola Light

52. Career Builder.com: May be its time to move on

53. Buenos Aires Zoo: The kangaroos have arrived

54. Tesa: The world needs a tape like this

55. Arena: Water Instinct

56. Utopolis Group of Cinemas: Reality Sucks

57. Dean’s finest old Scotch Whisky: Surprisingly mild

See, searching with effort do end up with great results.

We really owe Google for these.

Credits: http://www.adglitz.com/category/uncategorized/

Thanks google!

President's Action Group ... on Facebook

2011-03-15T03:35:00.000-07:00

Some guys on Facebook created a fan page regarding P-Noy, his action group?

Screenshot of the B.A.Y.A.G. Page on Facebook.

They entitled their page: Benigno Aquino Youth Action Group or B.A.Y.A.G. (no, really!)

The group was formed a month after the presidential elections (P-Noy was declared the winner then).

"We came up with the name after some brainstorming sessions, after that, the unabbreviated word came up. We then agreed with the name. But we abbreviate it to make it short when registering it on Facebook. Accidentally, B.A.Y.A.G. was the frontline name of the group."
said one of the anonymous admins of the page.

As no projects/programs launched nor initiated, the page was also intended for fun and recreational purposes only. Like the others.

"We tend not to offend anyone with the creation of this page, it's only for fun, for us"

Although the name was good, the acronym doesn't seem right for some with pigmentation on their brain (GREEN MINDED!)

"We also created this page because we want to help P-Noy in his plans and means to the youth. We want to help as far as we can. We have strong hopes to tito Noy for the Philippines"

As of writing, the page has 531 fans. They are calling for more!

Fan Page site: P-Noy Action Group

-posted in Manila

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2010-12-28T21:07:00.000-08:00

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HTTP Error 418: I'm a Teapot

2010-12-26T20:37:00.000-08:00

Okay, tired of the lame Error 404: File Not Found or the selfish Error 403: Forbidden?

Well, not anymore till I present to you ERROR 418: I'm a teapot.

It started in 1998. I don't have a computer and an internet access then. So, I didn't and you also probably didn't see that error code on your browsers ( assuming you're the same age as mine ).

Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP) described in the RFC 2324 of 1998 memorandum. A 5-page memorandum that talks completely about the HTCPCP and the Error Code 418: I'm a teapot.

Link: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2324.html

In the RFC memo, the boys just had an introduction:

"There is coffee all over the world. Increasingly, in a world in which
   computing is ubiquitous, the computists want to make coffee. Coffee
   brewing is an art, but the distributed intelligence of the web-
   connected world transcends art.  Thus, there is a strong, dark, rich
   requirement for a protocol designed espressoly for the brewing of
   coffee. Coffee is brewed using coffee pots.  Networked coffee pots
   require a control protocol if they are to be controlled."

At that decade, experiments have started on how they can control an object ( appliance ) thru internet. Status monitors have placed on Coke Vending Machines to monitor their status.

However, the first to be on the internet is the Internet Toaster.

An example of a HTCPCP code: ( if you want some additions asked by your barista at Starbucks )

Accept-Additions = "Accept-Additions" ":"
                          #( addition-range [ accept-params ] )

        addition-type   = ( "*"
                          | milk-type
                          | syrup-type
                          | sweetener-type
                          | spice-type
                          | alcohol-type
                          ) *( ";" parameter )
        milk-type       = ( "Cream" | "Half-and-half" | "Whole-milk"
                          | "Part-Skim" | "Skim" | "Non-Dairy" )
        syrup-type      = ( "Vanilla" | "Almond" | "Raspberry"
                          | "Chocolate" )
        alcohol-type    = ( "Whisky" | "Rum" | "Kahlua" | "Aquavit" )

There are also methods introduced for the HTCPCP:

GET method:

        in HTTP version: means to retrieve whatever information

        in HTCPCP: The data is associated with coffee pots

WHEN method: Okay, you finish mixing the coffee. But, it's not good. Milk is introduced at this point. Use this method to say WHEN do they stop pouing milk in your coffee.

The HTCPCP has 2 return codes:

HTTP code 406: Not acceptable

        > Automated Coffee pots cannot provide additions

and HTTP/HTCPCP code 418: I'm a teapot

        > Anyone who attempts to brew a coffee on a teapot must be charged with code 418. The teapot is short, stout and made of ceramic man! You cannot brew coffee in there!

The Emacs have the plan to fully implement it, but Mozila's lack of support in the protocol

caused it to have uncontrollable bugs within the protocol.

We could have enjoy this protocol if Mozila supported it.

Some boys are reviving it. Ten years after the publication of

RFC 2324. A fictional Web-Controlled Coffee Consortium (WC3) published a first draft of " "HTCPCP vocabulary in RDF"

Now you can drink coffee online.

YOU WANT TO SEE THE ERROR CODE?: Click ME!

resources: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2324

                  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes

                   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_Text_Coffee_Pot_Control_Protocol

How to stay your drunken bf/gf aware that is having party at other's place?

2010-12-26T02:15:00.000-08:00

Are your bf/gf having party at other's place?

He/She is drunk.

And don't want to get him/her attached to other unknown people?

Okay, here's the situation: Your Girlfriend is having party at a drinking house. She is drunk but she is still able to do things. Then, she told you thru text that an unknown person wants to dance with her.

SO YOU CAN'T SEE HER WHILE SHE IS DRINKING ALCOHOL.

Then you may want to follow these tips to avoid it.

1. KNOW her hangout for tonight. Obviously .Before she leaves your house or her house, ask her where she's going. As a committed couple, you MUST share information. But still, with limitations; not all.

By knowing where she will be hanging out, as the one who cannot watch what she will be doing, you can use the answer to find her in case of emergency. Or if you are overprotective that much, you can sneakingly come to that place and watch her. Big Brother Style.

2. ORIENT with her your plan. Make her know that you will be calling or texting regularly to know her condition or status.

3. CONNECT with her friends. Know who she will be hanging out with. Get her companions' number. Use this as an alternative method to know what your girlfriend is currently doing. You don't want to get your girlfriend dancing with others, do you?

4. TEXT HER, like the way you normally do. This is a great way to keep both of you busy, especially the one in the party. If your girlfriend is texting or doing something that'll make her busy, people who'd like to dance with won't bother her much anymore.

Text her some stories, make her describe the place she is hanging out, what she's been drinking or if she is drunk already. These topics may look so overprotective but trust me, these all worth it. For good.

BUT, do remember that your partner is on a party. Do you know what party is? Loud music and electrifying lights. If she didn't reply as expected, she maybe didn't hear the message or call tone.

5. WATCH OUT. When texting to each other, DO NOT tackle about intimate things (i.e. intimate organs, SoPs and others). This will arouse her to the max especially if she is already drunk. Common sense, man! If she is aroused by the time a guy wants to dance or get her out. She will be favoring the guy who wants her. Therefore, BANG LUCK for that guy.

and you may want to

6. STICK with her. 2 methods I use.

> Thru text - Okay, the party starts at 9pm. You may want to stick with her thru texting, even the party ends at 5am.

and> Go to the Place - sneakingly go to the party site or club. Sit at a table or chair that is enough you can scope your bf/gf. Just don't get any girl sitting beside you (call girls or club girls). AVOID IT! You have a girlfriend dude! STICK TO ONE not TWO IS BETTER THAN ONE!

FINALLY, it pays off and you have a protected and safe boyfriend or girlfriend when she goes home. VIA SATELLITE! WIRELESSLY!

Final note: This post is my personal view/commentary or tips only. I cannot assure you the full guarantee, fool-proof tips. But some of it will work. Reality-tested.

First Post

2010-12-25T06:52:00.000-08:00

FIrst Post to be posted.

Welcome to TheMinery! This will be the future home of some posts regarding home, school, places, commentary, people, tv shows, entertainment, food or pretty much everything you can imagine.

I don't have much to say.

Welcome again.

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas

also

Have a Prosperous and Safe New Year to all

blogging from Manila

About The Author

2010-12-25T05:36:00.000-08:00

The author is a simple High School student of some sort of age. He resides in Manila, Philippines with a zip code of 1007.

He loves to surf the Internet for some stuff. He loves to Facebook, although he doesn't have a Twitter nor Tumblr account.

He started blogging on December 25, 2010. He just wanted to type some content on the web and reach people thru this blog.

He also loves travelling cross-country or abroad. On a budget or when funds permit. He also snap pictures using his 3-year old point and shoot digital camera. Still, it concludes excellent results as far enthusiasts criticized it. He is a beginner. Maybe advanced at Point and Shoot but he is afraid to try out those big, professional dSLRs. He nay not be the best photographer but he enjoys sharing it through this blog.

He wants a Canon 600d, Canon 5d Mark II, Portable audio recorder, lights, external monitor and a high-speed gaming CPU.

He also loves books. He written a book before. 1 chapter with 2 pages, back to back. He wants it to be a script to screen.

He loves Cinematography asides from Photography.

He then loves to play... with little kids.

Look up for inspiration. Look down for desperation.
But never look side by side for information :))

-posted in Manila. December 25, 2010