The MixedDrink Rant

Fate/Natural Selection

2010-03-06T17:45:00.000-05:00

So I went to a seminar today on health food, and it was great. I hope to enjoy a healthier lifestyle in the future.

But one thing caught my mind during the seminar; Dr.Rallis talked about how Doctors should be preventing disease with lifestyle coaching. But my question is, would the world not be more overpopulated than it already is? With all those people not dying from common disease, we'd turn into fucking China. There would be so many people on the streets it would be ridiculous.

Which brings me to a fact of life I think I have recently realised. Whatever we do won't matter that much and and what ever we do, we're fucked.

- MixedDrink

Interfering with evolution

2010-02-24T16:27:00.000-05:00

I just noticed this the other day but, with all this nature crap David Suzuki pisses on us have we ever stopped to think about the way to world is supposed to run? Sure, we humans are killing many different innocent species everyday, but what about the species being killed by other species of wild animals? Is that not natural selection? Is that not the reason our world is the way it is today? If every shitty animal that can barely survive is saved by humans, than in thousands of years the world is going to be a place of very shitty animals! Invasive species are a problem, hunters are a problem, and pollution is a problem. Could enviromentalists please put more focus on these already popular topics? People are wasting their energy, if a species can't survive on its own then leave it be.

- MixedDrink

C'mon asshole.

2010-02-11T15:45:00.000-05:00

Personally, on my top ten list of things I hate these people make number five. People who have a shit fit over nothing at all, and then when you're offended they act like its just you being a dick. C'mon people, get over yourselves. If I simply ask you a question, don't tell me you don't give a shit or something like that, because your going to sound like an asshole. Then you act surprised when I tell you to fuck off yourself. Shut the hell up, please?

- MixedDrink

Well, I'm all blogged out

2010-02-08T21:06:00.000-05:00

I have absolutely nothing to write about, sorry to tell you. If anything, I would just ramble on about my book some more. Want me to blog some more? Well, you probably know me; so feel free to comment or talk to me on facebook or msn or something with a suggestion on what to write about. My writing is all being sapped from both english class, and my book. I could really use your help!

- MixedDrink

Volcano - Excerpt Two

2010-01-22T20:47:00.002-05:00

Check out this second Excerpt from my book, a personal favourite chapter of mine: Chapter Two.

Read dat' shit after the Jump.

Oh baby!

CHAPTER TWO

“We are the nobodies

Wanna be somebodies

When we’re dead,

they’ll know just who we are”

The Nobodies, Marilyn Manson

Honestly, I never really cared to hurt anyone in this. Well, I did, but if there were to have been an alternative to this I would of taken it. You see, I wanted to send the world a message, and the only way anyone is going to listen is if we go off and do shit like this. Have anti-bullying programs ever worked? No, didn’t think so. Kid’s aren’t going to respond to a bunch of commercials on TV, a bunch of suspensions from school. However, maybe at least the kids who now go to my old school won’t treat people like shit for all the wrong reasons, simply out of fear of getting a bullet in their head. The message hits close to home, doesn’t it? “Pick on me, and I’ll blow the brains out the side of your head.”

I hate that word, “bullying”, it’s such a stupid fucking word. It’s not bullying that’s the problem, it’s just general fucking disrespect. Oh hey, that kid’s not like you get the fuck over it! Hey Yian Smitch, how does it feel to get kicked out of the popular group?

You got fucking BRACES, all that shit you gave me and my friends for being different really backfired on your ass didn’t it?

I swear, if any of you stupid fucks say I copied someone, or that I was trying to imitate this or that… FUCK YOU. You know how many fucking other things we thought of? How many things we drafted, how many things we thought through like it was a fucking cure for cancer? Yeah well, a-fucking-lot. We knew we’d only get one fucking shot, didn’t you think we wanted it to be perfect? I wanted to crash a PLANE into my school, but we decided not to. People would think we’re like trying to imitate fucking terrorists or something, and if we told our friends to stay home from school that day they might say something or some fuck. Another problem with that is the obvious fact that it is fucking hard to fly a plane. We also thought of using chemical warfare of some kind, mustard gas or poison or something, and we’d stab/shoot the remaining survivors. But again, people would think we’re trying to be fucking terrorists or something. BY THE WAY, I don’t hate my country, just my school, fuck off George Bush, I am NOT terrororizering your country!

Almost forgot, I really want to make this clear… no one knew we were going to do this. Alice had no notion, I mean, guys like things that go pow. Its not exactly fucking rocket science, why would she question it? The most all-american fucks out there are god damn marksmen. My parents didn’t know either, so fuck off. No they weren’t bad parents, they just had their own motherfucking lives to live. They need not worry about mine. Busy people do busy things, busy things become priority one, and priority one becomes a distraction from the rest of the world.

My friends, my family, hell even my dog had never seen our tools of destruction. It was just Dave and I, straight up. If you convict any of my god damn loved ones or peers you better believe my next act will be in the motherfucking courtroom they were convicted in. This is a serious warning… watch the fuck out.

On a related note, if any news network edits our videos to make them the way they want, they better say goodbye to half of their employees in 36 odd years. That’d be fucking massive, timed bombs… the affiliates of half the country just blown into dust and twisted metal. Haha, I might even just use napalm bombs. ‘Cause you know, the buildings never really did anything... its the people that need to die.

Nothing will go wrong next time, trust me. I’ve got almost four decades to plan it out perfectly. I’m not going to be some old crippled guy, I’m exercising in here just so I can live long enough to see the fire burn yet again. It’ll be fucking beautiful, it’ll be the ultimate revenge. It’ll- no… I’ll go down in history, again.

I’ve requested to my warden that I could stop taking my medication, stating that my homicidal attitude had begun once I started on these anti-depressants. She however, denied it. Which makes me incredibly fucking angry. If its going to help, why the fuck wouldn’t she? I mean, she should at least try and see if my attitude improves. But no… my doctor doesn’t think it’s a good idea. They could probably ease me off of it but it would probably take up their precious taxpayers money. I mean, they need that for the eight barbwire fences they are constructing around the perimeter. Considering we already have three, I’m obviously being sarcastic. Infact, last I heard the government of California cut state-wide prisons budgets by 10%, motherfucking Arnold Schwarzenegger. Damn nazi fuck.

Jesus, I am so mad. I hate this place, even more than I hated Valencia. I’m here all alone, shit food, nothing to do. Thirty-six more years, thirty-six. Counting off the days, one by one. Nothing else to do, besides write in this fucking book, and exercise. They put me here, said it was for my own good, bullshit. I’ve become even more insane rotting here, I’m just going to go back into the world the way I was. I’m not dying in here, I’m going to be in my mid-fifties when I get out of here, that won’t stop me. I’m going to be on the news then too, but they’re probably just going to hide my past, I don’t think the government would enjoy having their prosecution system laughed at. Someone, some Micheal Moore imitating piece of shit is going to point out my lack of rehabilitation. I just know it.

It’ll be beautiful, fucking pandemonium. I’ll orchestrate it like a beautifully bittersweet symphony, explosions and screaming and fires roaring. I feel like a massive climatic event is in order, something massive. Something the world has never seen before done by anyone with no political power over a country. Taking advantage of new technology of course, I could set bombs… have them activatable over the Internet. I could set them all over town… in fact, better yet, the country. Beautifully covered by the news networks of this nation.

Noting this technology of even today, I could be in a different country, on the other side of the world, by the time the even breaks out. Yeah… I could live on. It’d have to be a sloppy country, or I’d need fake documents being a criminal and all. Maybe I could obtain some fake passports and ID cards. I guess it all depends on how difficult they will be to forge in 2047.

I’d imagine having these documents forged wouldn’t be too difficult a challenge. I mean, hackers and other criminals have adapted to newer anti-criminal techniques… why shouldn’t the mob still sell forgeries in the future?

I guess it doesn’t matter at this very moment really; I have a couple of life times to figure this all out. Ironically, putting me in here may take more lives than it has figuratively saved.

You’d be surprised, but I am holding my own in prison. I look like the stereotypical homicidal psychopath and people seem to not feel a reason to start stuff with me. I’m in a prison gang, obviously. But it’s the makeshift gang of weirdo people who snapped. We don’t participate in prison riots or anything similar, and no-one feels the need to start one over us, thankfully. I am no longer in a juvenile institution; which I thought was going to be the end of me. I was kind of expecting to be sent to an adult facility in the first place, but the judge charged me as a Juvinile due to my age (my birthday is in May) and my circumstances. I believe the judge really was convinced that the drugs I was taking had a very negative effect on me.

How come I’m in this place? Shouldn’t I be in some counseling or something?"

- MixedDrink

Youth in Revolt - The book was better

2010-01-09T11:28:00.002-05:00

I saw Youth in Revolt today, and was not disappointed. As a movie it was bloody amazing; clever, funny, exciting. If you have never read the book by C.D. Payne, go watch the movie, because the book will ruin it for you. The book is ten times better than the movie, which says something because the movie was absolutely amazing all on its own.

After you've seen the movie, read the book. Don't be hesitant because you already know whats going to happen, because you don't. The book is different in an incredible variety of ways, none of which I am going to spoil for you.

Go to your local theaters and see the movie, and then go pick the book up with the link below.

- MixedDrink

Volcano - Excerpt

2010-01-03T16:23:00.001-05:00

The new year is here and I am no longer in a shitty mood, so I've decided to give you all an excerpt from my work in progress. The book, if you haven't already read, is called Volcano and is about two boys who shoot up their school. Detailing the main Character, Kyle's ramblings and views on life before his plans don't go so well. The excerpt is a personal rant I wrote at the beginning of the book, as not to yet reveal any plot points.

More after the jump.

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" You know what fucking pisses me off? People being scared of everything ever. Get over you're god damn selves. No-one is going to attack your god for saken city, especially you whiney scared fucks who live out in the countryside or in Canada or some shit. You should probably be more worried about your fucking home being broken into to, or getting mugged in a downtown alleyway. But no, we fucking bitch and complain and cower from of all things terrorists. Terrorists don't exist, 9/11 was some fucking insurance scam and the Taliban want to seem badass or something. So the USA invades fucking Afghanistan and buttfucks it, and the Taliban want a turn to buttfuck back. Stop the buttfucking please, no more, I can't take any more of it. What are they in Iraq for? Definitely not freedom, or democracy. But capitalism, well I guess they do go fucking hand in hand. How come the price of gas went up after Dubya started buttfucking Saddam Hussein? Greedy fucks, trying to fuel the economy and all that whilst simultaneously buttfucking the average Joe. The economy this, the economy that. No, greedy fucking capitalist CEOs want their god damn bonuses, but the company can't afford it this year. Way to go Steve Jobs, he may be a dick but at least he doesn't get a bonus. I've had friends whos parents had to chase fucking jobs all over the country; one of which who was prepared to move out west. Damn liquid dinosaur fossil fucks are worth the lives of hundreds of people? Dear god. My father went to Afghanistan, fought alongside the Americans. I was scared as shit, the yanks are killed in much greater numbers than the Canadians. Thankfully, he made it home. Fuck the war. When was the last just war anyways, seventy years ago now? Jesus. The americans haven't seen anything to fight for, without some greedy aspect to it, since world war two.

What’s the deal with humanity? Fuck Jerry Seinfeld, I'm being serious. We split the atom and make a fucking bomb to vapourize the Japanese. I mean, I'm not saying they weren't doing anything, they definitely were and they deserved it at the time. Ever hear about that guy who was on a business trip to Hiroshima on August 6^th, 1945? Yeah well, he got off the train and a city got fucking destroyed; but for the science! So spent a couple days in a shelter, and decided to go back home.. to Nagasaki. Two motherfucking atom bombs, and the guy is still alive today at the age of ninety-three. I couldn't tell you if the son of a bitch is lucky, or unlucky. I guess, take your pick. Little bit of both maybe? Buffet style of course, wouldn't have it any other way.

In the theme of this novel, ever heard of that girl who attended Columbine High School at the time of the shooting? Yeah, she survived with no injuries, luckily. So she went on the continue on her life, at Virginia Tech. What incredibly unlikely things, its like being hit by a meteorite. Which, coincidentally a women also happened to be. Epic fail. How come these people all epicly fail? Do they happen to be incredibly lucky in all other aspects of life? Do they earn incredible wages and change the world, all the while accidentally falling off the sides of different vehicles? I damn hope so. If these people live a life like you or me, something is wrong. They definitely deserve something better, they've had their fair share of pain. I'm surprised that Asian guy doesn't have cancer. He probably saw a doctor about it, I mean, if Toronto was nuked I probably wouldn't dust off my shoulder and continue on into my journey of irreversible testicular cancer. Woohoo, what a fun idea. Natures Vasectomy after all, except you know, the tumour 3 inches in diameter hanging down your pants for a few months or years until you can get god damn surgery in Canada. At least we're not the states, how unlucky do you have to make people seem? The United States makes people with fucking cancer have even shittier lives than they already have due to said cancer. Hospital bills, what the fuck. Yay Obama. Healthcare and all that, great success. Except you could probably get off your ass and actually fucking do something. Wasn't that supposed to be settled by august of 2009? Fail. C'mon, you can do better than that. You’re an intelligent black-butnotreallyblack-guy. You heard me, Obama isn't black. He was raised by a bunch of white people in a white Neighbourhood. Ever heard that song, “She aint pretty (But she looks that way”? Well, he aint black (but he looks that way). This is in no way a bad thing, I'm surprised the red states were even tolerant enough to elect in a kind of black president. Then again, not really like I can see hicks voting, their too lazy shooting cans out on the front porch. I love stereotypes, they're so much fun. I ride a polar bear and eat maple syrup everyday. Come to think of it, I haven't had maple syrup since Christmas when I had pancakes. I really do not eat that stuff much, its shitty for you. Fuck that, I want to be able to not shit my pants when I'm old.

Not dissing old people of course, I empathize,

you’re treated like a child. These people are fucking smarter in a wise sense than the people who take care of them. Their brains are decaying, the cells inside of them dying. That must suck, truly. Why can't your body just shut off instead of slowly killing itself off? Not so fun. Live fast die young. I wish that was really something you could do without looking like a fucking ass.

How come infamous and famous figures generally look so damn weird? Stalin, shave the damn mustache... he looked like an Italian barber. Hitler, just no, I don't know why you thought that mustache might have looked nice or something but you looks like you got curious and forgot you wiped some shit on your upper lip to smell. What if Hitler ever got pink eye? That would've been comical. I don't think you can take someone seriously as a person of too much power when they've somehow managed to get fecal matter into their eyes.

Life is fucking stupid. Mother nature fucking makes the winters of world war two the coldest of the century. I guess it crippled the Germans, you win some you lose some.

Have you ever noticed that Bowflex commercials are tailored to who they think will buy them? The weight commercials are all these buff, steroide-aholic guys that clearly need to be using more weight than is available from the system. The treadmills and such? It has middle aged, short haired blonde women and late twenties skinny but fit men. Ad persuasion, what a thing. I need money, I've been trying to get people to click on ads on my blog. Dammit people if you like the damn blog at least pretend you're interested in some new fucking credit card, its not like you have to sign up for it. Adsense makes sure the site does not have any viruses or malicious scripts on it, so just click on the motherfucking ad so I can get paid. I've made like seven dollars and a few cents. Oh joy, that'll almost pay off the amount it costs to buy the domain. TheMixedDrinkRant.com , I'm surprised it was taken but hell I'm not fucking complaining! Sometimes there are conveniences that just set you up for some success, this is how people become prosperous. You can't let these things slip, or it'll all go to shit.

I watch Documentaries a lot. Why did Hitler like that fucking dog so much? Dude, it only liked you because to feed it incredibly delicious chicken dinners fit for a decent four star restaurant. Dogs are loyal, sometimes too loyal. I like cats, they'll pretty much tell me to fuck off, and I like that. My dog is fat and lazy, but I love her. I think she fought in some war or some shit in a past life, because there is nothing she'll hesitate less to do than fucking take the day and rest. Not like she has much else to do anyways. Not only that, but somehow she is instinctively violent towards the sight of even toy guns. I sound like a fucking crazy person, fuck it, animals are sick. I saw some video of some guys throwing a dog off a bridge, holy shit I want to fucking kill those men. Really when I see things like this I think I would have no regret in hitting some sort off switch that launches a nuke at their general area. Fuck civillians.

A friend of mine sent me a short-link from twitter to an entry for “offensive” on encyclopedia dramatica. What a fucking dick. There was a lot of disgusting shit there, but oddly nothing seemed to gross me out or surprise me. I don't have enough faith in humanity to be disgusted by these things. I am surprised that people are all to keen in documenting retarded shit such as this. Humanity, what the fuck. A quarter of the world are freaky shits with weird fetishes, psychological issues and murderers. The rest of our fair world is the people who are scared of said psychopaths, deviants and murderers. Yeehaw, we live for so much don't we? Call me bitter, but we're fucked up. Sure, we're an incredibly intelligent and successful species of earth but thats our downfall. We've only been successful because at this point in time we have failed to kill all of each other. But have no fear, we're getting there. We're pretty much just trying to develop some kind of weapons system that wipes out everyone said launchers don't like, whilst happening in such a way that no-one can retaliate and act on the return address associated with giant Inter-continental Ballistic Missiles. Is that a missile? No, its my countries dick. Its coming to rape you. What a great message, the countries of the nuclear club are such dicks. Except the French, they're just freaked out for some god damn reason. What’s with North Korea? Try capitalism, its pretty fucking sweet. I can steal movies off the internet and save the trip down to the ol' allyway. C'mon Kim Jong-il, give it the old college try!"

2010

2010-01-01T13:01:00.002-05:00

It's 2010, I'm now 15 and we are in a new decade.
...Nothing has changed.

Great success!

- MixedDrink

Adobe flash plugin, arrrrrgh!

2009-12-30T15:32:00.002-05:00

When I was younger, I said adobe was going to ruin Flash. Turns out I wasn't fucking wrong!

Since the late flash 9, everything has been screwing up thanks to Adobe! First it messes up flash based uploaders, and now its just generally messed up. I can't enjoy any streaming content or flash games online because its using 98% of my processor and skips like a mother fucker. I got my Samsung NC10, installed ubuntu on it, installed the ubuntu restricted extras and then foolishly updated the system. Part of this update was Flash 10 R42, the source of the problem. I've tried everything, but to install Flash 9 with the terminal on my linux I need to update my GLibc. Even touching glibc is a BAAAAD idea. So I'm fucked and now I have to reinstall. Don't update your flash plugin if it asks you to!

Is anyone else having these problems?

- MixedDrink

Theories

2009-12-19T15:19:00.000-05:00

Something that bugs the bloody shit out of me is what people say about theories. I was watching Breakfast Television the other day when they mentioned global warming like it was a fact. I went apeshit inside of my mind.

It is THEORY, not a fact. A theory is, according to dictionary.com; "A coherent group of general propositions used as principles of explanation for a class of phenomena..." We have NOT confirmed the theory of global warming, we have no factual evidence we are responsible for climate change, just theoretical evidence.

People seem to take theories as if the author stated them as fact, especially in things people disagree with such as conspiracy theories. Well, guess what? A theory is an idea, get the fuck over it. People have ideas, and they always will. Do not believe a theory cannot be proved wrong, because for thousands of years we have been doing that and we are proved wrong.

"Anything that will be invented, has been invented."

- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. patent office, 1899

Fail.

- MixedDrink

Canada, and the United States. A big fat rant.

2009-12-16T07:21:00.001-05:00

So I was browsing the interwebs again today and I came across this site.

Very interesting indeed, he's been campaigning for years for CBS to let Canadians on survivor. The site was first launched almost exactly 5 years ago and CBS still won't budge. This is a grand display of how Canada is rejected by the United States. Americans like to feel like they have security, secluded from other countries from east to west. But being Americans, they're scared shitless they border anything at all. Mexico to the Americans however; is like the special brother of the USA; they don't really like them, and they can't understand them, but they have to deal with them anyways. Because we are a very developed nation, the USA believes we should fuck off for lack of a better term. Well Americans, we are your neighbor.. get the fuck over it. We don't talk funny, we don't live off maple syrup, and we don't do much differently. Just like you, we have stereotypes. CBS, your not going to lose viewers if Canadians are on CBS. Infact, you'll earn more.

Its also an incredible display of how Canadians need to leech of the United States. We posses now too much of US culture, and that's a terrible thing. When someone is a dick, would you want to act like them? Well, that's what we're doing, and thats why Canadians are getting killed in Afghanistan.

I hate to bring up the old Canadian VS. American debate, but I'm not intentionally. We are slowly becoming the United States culture-wise, minus the guns. Let's stop and think about this for a second, let's not be American.

"Listen up! Im an American,
and I know just what to be scared of.
When I hear the word foreign I go
immediately down to the GroceryCo
for my anti-terrorism do-it-yourself
home kit that they got there up on the shelf.
With my stubbornly health, I cant get exploded;
havent got wealth enough to devote it
in such large measure to picking up bits,
so Id better be prepared on the terrorist tip!
And I do that there in the simplest way:
by carefully considering Canad-i-a
and deeming its shiftiness quotient high
(got a notion why and its ocean sized)
and Im mostly fine with you people, but watch it.
Canadia strikes me as unpatriotic."

- Canadia, MC Frontalot.

This song is just a joke, but its got a nice satire to it.

- MixedDrink

War.

2009-12-08T16:32:00.004-05:00

War, the whole world is about war. Remember the world was all shitting their pants to get into space? Yeah, war. War has never been absent from our lives, or the lives of others.

But something people don't realize is that war is a very necessary thing, unfortunately. Without war, none of us would ever get off our high horses and do anything. Every little thing you use, every little thing you do is likely a result of war. That computer your reading this on? Yeah, war. That inexpensive food you are able to purchase? War. That car you use to get around? All war.

In life we must give up something for something else, we always have. Nothing comes to us on a silver platter, not to me, and not to some rich fuck. To get something, we must buy it. To get something else, we must earn it. Our nature has sacrificed peace for evolution, just like how we sacrifice money for things.

Our species is floating around in the outer spheres of the earth, all because of war. If we were never said, we'd never feel happy. If we were never bored, nothing would be exciting. If there were no war, there would be no wonder.

If war had never been, the world would be an empty alone feeling planet. It would take us weeks to even get to our vacation destinations. The plane was evolved by war, from some hovering iron shitfest to a technology riveting B-2. Ironically, Orville Wright believed the plane would end war.

So you crazy hippies, I say to you... war is terrible. But fuck you, its not going anywhere and I'm sorry for that. Thankfully, very few of our citizens will likely experience war. We have advanced very far, and are preventing wars. But hell, not like we can prevent 'em all.

We should even be proud, we posses the technology to kill each other with the flick of a switch. But we don't do it! It may be for selfish reasons but hell, it's impressive we're even THAT polite.

"This shit is really tempting."

I'm not promoting war, I'm not demoting it. Its a terrible thing but your gullible if you really believe world peace is achievable.

- MixedDrink

Happy Birthday to The MixedDrink Rant

2009-12-07T20:50:00.001-05:00

As of today, The MixedDrink Rant is two years old! With over 2000 unique visitors over the past two years, we have grown 150%!

Traffic at the MixedDrink Rant, December 20th 2008 - December 7th 2009

The MixedDrink Rant has enjoyed the visits of people from all over the globe, 30 different countries! From east to west, The MixedDrink Rant has been seen.

Traffic sources of The MixedDrink Rant. Lightest to darkest indicates traffic heaviness.

Sadly, we are still not earning a positive profit; we are losing about $5 a year. However, ad revenue is picking up and we just need $10 a year to break even!

So happy birthday to The MixedDrink Rant! Its been a great year and hopes for many more to come.

- MixedDrink

I Want a Goat

2009-12-06T10:39:00.000-05:00

Its holiday time again, and the perfect time to donate to a charity. Personally, my favourite charity is IWantaGoat.com. Check it out, $20 = one goat. These goats could save a family, and it'll cost you about as much as a trip to the movies.

- MixedDrink

"Love"

2009-12-03T19:05:00.006-05:00

Firstly, this came up in a discussion our our forms. You can find the thread themixeddrinkrant.freeforums.org/music-t48.html

Kids think they "love" people, they don't even know what love is! I mean, neither do I but that's my point! We're too young to know what it truly means, or to fully understand it. The term "love" is tossed around these days like some hip lingo, but people really don't understand it. A lot of people seem to think they "love" someone. No, you admire them. You're 14, you have no sort of emotional attachment to a girlfriend or boyfriend to constitutes love.

Fail.

I personally, hesitate very much before I even mention "love" or "loving someone", even if it is in a platonic manner. Love is a delicate, mysterious thing (not to sound like an ~~afternoon~~ afterschool special) and its something we won't fully understand for angsty years to come.

Of course, I speak of loving a partner. There are all kinds of love, all of which the world needs. But even so this is something you should not be throwing around, its a strong word, and should be handled as such. It has become such a casual thing to say "Love you", at the end of a conversation with a partner; and that's fine. Its an admirational kind of love, but really, there is no need for the serious thought of love at this age; such as Justin Bieber has been putting into your heads.

- MixedDrink

100th post! :)

2012 Review

2009-11-17T20:57:00.000-05:00

I guess I should've written this on Friday when I saw the movie, but so be it.

Two-thousand and twelve was one of those "end of the world movies", obviously. I don't like these movies, the plot is dull. "Run away! ... Run away again! ... Run away from more stuff! ...We ran away! :D"

That said, at least The Day After Tomorrow had a good plot, you know... save the kid bip bop and all that. But 2012 didn't, it was just running away from stuff, the rest was filler to extend the movie by like an hour. That said, the movie was ironically way too long.

As humorous as the crazy hobo radio DJ in the movie was, it still didn't make it a good movie. But I'm not going to lie I like shit my pants during those scenes. This however makes a good aspect for children or preteens. My friends seemed to enjoy the movie but they are kind of dipshits, so I'm not quite sure thats a good quote.

Overall, it was just a special effects show. An excuse to shove John Cusack in the middle of CG animated volcanoes. Not to mention, the actors where dreadful anyways. If you have older kids (but not teenagers, I don't think.), sure.. see this movie. But otherwise I'd stay away from it... it was Knowing all over again.

- MixedDrink

New Design

2009-11-03T18:22:00.000-05:00

In case you havent noticed, I did a redesign for my blog. Like it or not, comment please. I'd really love your feedback!

...and as per request, Molly Ringwald and Lazers.

Thanks!

- MixedDrink

The History of the Mouse

2009-11-01T19:33:00.007-05:00

"It would be wonderful if I can inspire others, who are struggling to realize their dreams, to say 'if this country kid could do it, let me keep slogging away'." - Douglas Engelbart

This man invented the mouse.

Yes, that thing in your hand thar'? That random object that magically moves the pointy thing on the screen, so you can scroll through your porn and pictures of cats doing funny things? Have you ever thought twice about it?

A lot of people think the mouse was invented by Apple Computers, fail. Xerox stole the idea, sorry Doug. Xerox computers however, in the 80's were expensive as all hell. So naturally Apple did what they do best and steal ideas from complete failures. (Infact, a patent filed in the late 19th century for a music player looks suspiciously like the original iPod. The man who filed this patent could never get the money together, and he lost the patent. It was to hold up to two songs.)

"Muhahaha! YOUR MINE." - Apple PR Rep, circa 1972

The first mouse was nothing more than a couple of metal wheels in a wooden case. It had limitations, such as only being able to move on X and Y axis. Try it, try and click on something without moving your mouse diagonally. Hard right?

In 1972, one Bill English was to recognize the mouses flaws and fix them. It could roll in eight different directions. Meaning up and down, sideways and diagonally. Great success!

Ergonomics at its best.

Trackball mouses however, and incredibly outdated by today's standards. You are very likely using an Optical mouse. You know, the glowing red light on the bottom? Its not just for looks, although it may be fascinating!

One of the first Optical Mouse patents was filed by Steve Kirsch of Mouse Systems. This was in 1980, and unluckily for him... the technology didn't gain traction until the following decade. It seems people were far too busy for pretty red lights back in the 80's.

Screw computers! Rubix cubes are the way of the future!

Unless you own Apple's mighty mouse, your probably use your scroll wheel a good bit. The scroll wheel was invented by Eric Michelman in 1995, and is widely sucessful. However, like many of these geniuses, he probably didn't get any of the cut. I think its wise to stay away from the mouse business.

The mouse hasn't exactly changed in enough of a way for us to give a shit about until the advent of Multi-touch, increasingly common on laptop trackpads. Apple Computers has developed the "Magic Mouse", a mouse device that basically throws a laptop trackpad on top of an awkward mouse.

..and it still only has one button.

We shall see what the mouse has for us in store in the future, hopefully with some kind of futuristic crystal ball typed thing. But for now, the mouse was left us with Carpel tunnel, and a warm fuzzy feeling in our hearts. Unfortuanetly, Douglas Engelbart never made a penny off of the mouse. But we shall remember him, and his wooden box.

- MixedDrink

I learned a lot of this information (and borrowed some images, for none commercial purposes) from gearlog.com. Thanks GearLog!

Halloween is here again

2009-10-31T11:17:00.003-04:00

Halloween is here again, and low and behold my costume is completely last minute. I am being, wait for it, a kitten. Yes, leave it to me to be a kitten. I was originally going to be a kid with swine flu but my sister informed me it was in terribly bad taste, due to the death of 3 kids in Toronto. Although I did get a giant LOL from a couple of people my age, I don't think old people would enjoy it to much.

I was originally going to give out candy or go to someone's house... but no-one is doing anything exciting so I'll be going out Trick or Treating with my buddy Scott. Ahhh free candy.

Slutty Girls in Slutty Halloween Costumes: A Tribute -- powered by Cracked.com

"Whorin it up."

- MixedDrink

Playstation 3 YLOD (Yellow Light of Death), opinion?

2009-10-30T13:19:00.002-04:00

Amazing news (in case you couldn't tell, I'm having an amazing sargasm right now),
my Playstation 3 bricked the other night while I was playing Call Of Duty 4 (seems everyone's ps3 fails whilst the best game is stuck in it). I've looked online everywhere for a fix and it seems 80% of the time it is just a case of the thermal compound and shitty solder. However, a user by the name of Eljaca on DigitalHome.ca (the thread can be found here) has alerted other users in the thread that while it did fix his playstation temporarily, it just kept crashing on him again and again a couple of months in between. So it seems this fix is temporary, and I may be screwed.

Fuck.

What I want to know from you is, if we have to buy another console what should we go with... a PS3 Slim or an Xbox 36O? Right now we are thinking of the Slim, because paying for Live would piss me off. But let me know of your opinion! PS3 or 360, the age old dilemma.

- MixedDrink

The Texting Problem

2009-10-20T07:07:00.003-04:00

The texting problem...
to put it simply, I'd like to know who the fuck you are when you message me. But Rogers (My cellular provider, also known as Satan) does not offer this service on pay as you go or possibly even in general. Sure, there is caller ID. But even without Caller ID its a lot easier to identify someone over voice.

Evil son of a bitch

Sometimes shitfucks get my cellphone number by shoulder creeping my friends, and start texting me. DO NOT, DO NOT FUCKING TAKE A NUMBER OF SOMEONE'S PHONE OR YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE. It doesn't matter if you know that person, or a friends with them. Do not take their number off someone else's phone. Get their number from them.

In the summer, a friend of mine text me and tried to convince me I was sexy, and she thought I was a man named "John". I tried looking up the number on a database and I got the postal code of one Avery Hellas. I asked if it was her and low and behold, it was Mailee.

Pardon my language, I am in a shit mood.
- MixedDrink

Epic story - A man and his dog

2009-10-10T17:25:00.004-04:00

Wow, one of those days. I did not think I was going to do anything today.

I phoned up my friend Tyler and we decided to go to the Dollar Store... we screwed around there for a while trying to find the whackiest thing to do (and most plausible). We decided not to go with my favourite, digging a hole with a spoon... because the only dirt in the area was away from the roads. So we went with a dinosaur puzzle.

We scraggled up the road and did our puzzle on a greenbox (its like an electrical thing). Man was it hard! The big pieces were easy but the little ones blew my mind. Mainly because a lot of the pieces were non-descriptive rocks. But we got 'er done. Kind of...

One piece away from completion a black lab boots it down a busy main street in front of our eyes. He veers of the sidewalk into the first lane on the right, this is when I started booting it after him.

I ran faster than I ever have in my life, but this damn dog was good. He hopped the traffic rail and made his way down a hill. I looked back to see where my buddy-guy Tyler was, for a quick second... and when I looked back the dog was gone. We didn't know whether he went towards Zhers or into the forest. We chose to look in the forest because.. well.. it was more likely that he wouldn't get help if he did venture into the woods alone.

We made our path through bush seemingly untouched my humans (besides the odd sewer manhole here and there xD). We had to make our own paths, however... unluckily for him, Tyler was wearing shorts and a t-shirt. I happened to wear a long sleeve t-shirt and jeans today. So he is currently covered in the local plantlife and scratches.

We made our way a small amount through the woods, we stopped at a house that looked like it had an open fence... conveniently it had a black lab. We swear, it was the god damn dog. But the lady at that house said it was her dog, and that she had seen no other dog run by. But we both agreed, she seemed like the kind of person who doesn't pay attention to their pet until they won't shut the fuck up (the dog was barking, thats why she came outside.)

So we walked another couple minutes, but decided to turn back because we could no longer hear the barking coming from the other direction. It was much faster going to back than it was coming forwards, probably because we went in zig-zags looking for the dog.

Tyler and I picked the burs of his shorts, praying no babes walked by and saw us picking plants off each other. But thankfully, none did. xD Tyler went home, as did I. But I can't help wondering where the fuck that dog went off to... and if its okay.

Huh.
- MixedDrink

Kids hate old things... what the fu-

2009-10-05T18:01:00.002-04:00

WHAT THE HELL?
Everyone around me bitches about things being old, specifically songs.
SONGS? Songs don't age... stupid children. Infact, old songs are often much better than new songs! "This song is so old!"... who cares? Beatles>Jonas Brothers. Both to swoon of teenage girls.. but the Beatles could actually sing.

Other old things... oh god. We as a society throw away enough already! We have been throwing awaying completely useful things just because we don't want them anymore... garbage used to be broken things that had no use!

People say my phone is "gay" or "shit" because it is old. You know what? I love my phone more than I could ever love another. Its a brick, I've fallen in the pool with the mofo... try that with a modern phone. If you were to even drop your phone from 3 feet... it would probably explode.

- MixedDrink

Tim Hortons, Holy Bananas.

2009-09-21T06:49:00.003-04:00

So I was going to karate the other day (an hour earlier, whoops. Wrong schedule) and Jessica and Justin came early as well. So we went to Tim Horton's to waste time.

Not to be like an episode of family guy and go from one thing to another for no damn reason, but Timmie's is giving out these Nutrition Guides now. Now if you couldn't tell, Tim Horton's is not the kind of place you go to "make healthy eating choices" like stated on this nutrition guide. A maple dip donut, just 62g has 210 calories and 8 grams of fat.

Oh but what about Timbits? Pretty much worse, a Honey Dip is 60 calories and 1 gram of fat. Holybananas, if you eat like 4 you've eaten half a meal.

On the other hand, a toasted Chicken Club ( an actual meal) is 440 calories and 9 grams of fat. Woohoo.

I don't care if you eat at Tim Horton's, but I really think this is the kind of place that should be hiding these things a little better. ;)

- MixedDrink

Negativity

2009-09-04T09:39:00.003-04:00

Now, you may think I'm a negative person. But trust me, I'm not. People always ask me why I have to be so negative all the time, and the fact is... I don't feel it necessary to comment on something I like. I like a lot of things, I hate a lot of things... just like everyone else.

I don't talk on rollercoasters (Unless I'm loling at the reactions of the people behind me) because I'm enjoying myself. The same goes with when I'm not talking in class, I'm probably content enough to not give a shit about whats happening around me.

Inside my Karate Dojo, I've never badmouthed someone once in my life. Because I'm happy. I'm with my friends, and I'm doing what I love to do, exercising.

So I'm sorry if you think I'm a mean or negative person, and I'm grateful if you know me enough to think otherwise.

- MixedDrink