Fail to Reject

I had one of the Dr. Mario songs in my head this morning, which made me think about this awesome song I heard once. It is by virt, and is found here: Dr. Mario - Funky Pills If you like Dr. Mario, you probably have the songs in your head too. Listen to this for fun, man. P.S. I know it's Friday, not Thursday.

Sorry, folk, I can't think of any science experiments for today. But I do have a story... I was at a bookstore in a mall yesterday, and while perusing a book, I heard a Russian family talking amongst themselves. The wife was talking to her husband, when she said (in Russian) "What time is it?" I immeadiately looked at my watch and said (in English) "8 o'clock," to which she replied, "Thank you." After a brief period of silence, she asked "You speak Russian?" I said, "yes." Then she walked away, and I continued looking at my book. That is all. I think she was quite surprised that I could understand her. Normally, I would say that Russians speaking Russian in public places in the United States would not think that anyone could understand them. Ya vsyo znaiyu.

I really am sorry to ALL my faithful readers for missing Monday throgh Wednesday this week. I guess I got busy. So you are probably wondering what I would've said. On Monday, I would've said: "Go and find some of your own garbage, or make a code and have someone decipher it! Do it yourself!" On Tuesday, I would've said: "Go and conduct your own scientific experiments! GOSH!" On Wednesday, I would've said: "There are tons of computer applications! Go download one yourself!" And today, I talk about a picture. Well, maybe I will post a picture. Oh. I got it. I won't post it, but I will redirect you to it. It's like a picture redirection service. This is a pixelfreak poster picture. It is really awesome: Look! At! This! Commenters will report on how they did with codes, science, and computer applications.

Pete Townshend (of the band The Who), sang this song called "Face Dances Part Two" off of the 1982 album "All the Best Cowboys have Chinese Eyes". It is a good song. The meter is 5/4, and it is a quite catchy song. Go find it and give it a listen. Here is a link to the album information.

Pumpkins. Not this time of year. In the autumn. Picture credit to KE.

Metroid is a video game. The original came out in 1986 for the Nintendo Entertainment System. There have been many more games made in the Metroid series since then, including one for the Gameboy, one for Super Nintendo, two for Gameboy Advanced, and two for the GameCube. A guy named Stemage loved the music from the game so much, he made metal versions of the songs. They are really great. When I first heard them about 1.5 years ago, I was enamoured by the quality and the coolity, not to mention the nostalgia of the songs. I also was a long-time fan of the Metroid soundtrack. So, if you like Metroid and you like metal, you'll love Metroid Metal: www.metroidmetal.com . My favorite song is the Brinstar theme .

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If you are interested in an application to manipulate images and photos, then I recommend the Gimp. The Gimp is an acronym for the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is similar to Paint Shop Pro and other graphics applications. The Gimp is currently at version 2.2.3 and is available for download at gimp.org . It is a cross-platform application, which means it is available for multiple operating systems (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X). For new users the interface might be confusing, because the Gimp uses multiple windows: one for the tools, one for tool options, one for image layers, etc., one for any other dialogs, and one for each image you are editing. But, the Gimp is completely customizable to make it any way you want. The way I like it is with all the tools and dialogs in one window, but in tabs on the right of the screen, and then a window for each image I am editing. When you get more advanced using the Gimp, you can also create scripts to perform automated tasks for yo...

This questioned has intrigued me for quite some time. I decided to take a look at it today. First lets look at the definitions of the words: Retinal : Of or relating to the retina of the eye. Sieve : A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow, with the bottom perforated, or made of hair, wire, or the like, woven in meshes. See also cribiform cells. Myopic : 1. unable to see distant objects clearly [syn: nearsighted] [ant: farsighted] 2. lacking foresight or scope; Slop : 1. Spilled or splashed liquid. 2 Soft mud or slush. 3 Unappetizing watery food or soup. Okay, so another way of saying Retinal Sieve is perhaps, "an eye that filters finer and coarser parts," and another way of saying Myopic Slop is, "near objects that look like mud," or "muddy objects that are nearsighted." I am assuming that when sieving something, one would want to ...

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It's the shoes. Picture taken by CP.

To kick off the music section of this weblog, I will point you to a song I wrote in January 2003 as part of Bullet Lodge , a songwriting lodge which is a chapter of the Immersion Composition Society . (ICS) Bullet Lodge is a game, you have to write at least six songs in a 24-hour period. These songs become a day-album, which is then shared with other members of the lodge at monthly meetings. In addition to helping one to become a better songwriter and increasing one's ability to record, the pressure aspect of doing it in a day makes it extremely fun. See the above links for more information about Bullet Lodge and ICS. This particular song that I am showcasing comes from the second day album I made called "A League Itself Entirely Negated". The song is called Shopping Planet. Part of the reason how this came about is that we were to somehow put the phrase "Wal-martian" into one of our songs. Enjoy. Link to Shopping Planet (mp3)

You might have heard of Mozilla Foundation's internet browser, and that it is a good web browser. Well, it is. I use Firefox because I love the control, the tabbed browsing, pop-up blocker, customization features, and the fact that it is standards compliant. Some people say, "Who cares if it is standards compliant? What does that mean?" It means that developers can design web sites and know how it will appear in the web browsers and not have to make tweaks to the code to cater to all the different web browsers. Think of the plumbing in your house. You rely on the manufacturers to create plumbing parts according to standards, otherwise, you'll never know if the pipes that you are buying will fit into your house. So, I recommend that you download a copy of Mozilla Firefox 1.0 and give it a try. It is free, of course. www.mozilla.org

This is a part of a conversation I had with a friend a few days ago: Okay. So, last night with Eric at Perkins, I ordered tea with lemon as my meal. I dipped the teabag into the hot water, and the water turned a smooth and silky green, ever deepening into a nice toasty forest hue. Normal, right? Well, then I added a squeeze of lemon. Suddenly the tea turned fiery purple! Rich grilled fuchsia! Dark hot pink! We stared at this mysterious mug of chameleon chamomile and hibiscus broth. Maybe the acid in the lemon did something to the chlorophyll to break it down, such that the underlying anthocyanin pigments were able to flood forthwith? Then I remembered that cabbage is a natural litmus solution... cabbage water changes colors in response to pH level. So maybe this tea was doing that, too. How do we test this hypothesis, though? We need a source of alkaline to counteract the acid in the tea and see if it turns back to green. Where do we find alkaline solutions in ...

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I could try to crush my head.

Welcome to the internet! There are a lot of people here on the internet. Lots of blogs. Why add to it? I don't know. There is so much information on the internet, you're probably sick of it. So am I. But isn't it neat? So, nobody will read this, but thats okay. I will continue to write these until I get really bored of it. -Sumpy