WEEKLY ROUND-UP! 1/2-1/8 2012

WEEKLY ROUND-UP:

EVERYTHING IS BETTER WITH UNICORNS WEEK!

7. TOY REVIEW: DOCTOR WHO: The 11th Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver

So, this was a rather embarrassing first vlog, but I learned some things from it: 1. Get better lighting. 2. Look at the camera and focus on it as if its a person. 3. Relax and next time try to use an alternate persona. 4. Find a better editing program. 

Thanks for all the support from my friends during this learning period.

6. WTF WEDNESDAY! RIKI-OH! THE STORY OF RICKY! WARNING! NSFW!

The fact that I was able to find this film on Youtube, watch it in it's entirety, and share it with you guys is in itself a glorious example of the Internet's power. Maybe if I'm feeling spicy I'll write a view of this glorious film over the weekend. Its by far one of the best manga to live-action adaptations of all time.

5. WORD OF THE DAY! 1/7/12. Barbarism.

I'd been wanting an excuse to post this for a while. I got into a lot of genre fan culture last year, but the two with the most girl power were definitely Lauren Faust's My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (the spiritual successor to the Powerpuff Girls) and HBO's brilliant Game of Thrones series.

4. WORD OF THE DAY! 1/6/12. Pimping.

This kid is seriously cooler than any other Ginger you will ever meet. He is truly the King of the Gingers.

3. WORD OF THE DAY! 1/5/12. Celibate.

 A glorious dedication to one of my favorite web comic series, but more importantly a dedication to one of my favorite web comics ever. The expressions of these soft stylized unicorns as they think their silly, dirty little thoughts is priceless.

2. WORD OF THE DAY! 1/3/12. Pixel.

Pokemon references + Honey! I Shrunk the Kids! references = Will kids get my references in ten years?

1. TABLE TOP TALES: HAKUNA MATATA DECK

So, I got a bunch of cards over break but, alas, I am currently awaiting my last card purchase as a late b-day present and then will be taking a break for a while. I gotta say that I am really having a lot of fun with Magic. I especially like playing with my friends and, even more so, when we play games where are decks are more evenly matched and don't use cheap tricks. In those situations, it becomes a mix of chess and poker! 

I never felt like Yu-Gi-Oh or Pokemon TCGs were ever quite that sophisticated.

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WORD OF THE DAY! 1/3/12

pixel [pik-suhl]
noun
1. the smallest element of an image that can be individually processed in a video display system.

EX. In a 2-D world, we can assume that you shrink another individual by dividing their pixels down until they reach a smaller ratio of tightly packed bits. You could reduce an individual, even a group of individual or an entire world, down into smaller and smaller bit ratios until their entire world becomes binary and could fit on a data cartridge.

The advantages of shrinking parts of the world are quite staggering. World hunger could be solved by reversing the pixelation division and blowing up a food item to enormous size. Assuming that molecules are mostly empty space, if we can expand that empty space without bursting the confines of the materials, we can create more matter. More matter means more food.

Imagine how this could solve the fuel crisis? You could shrink your space ship or expand your fuel. The world's gas crisis would be ended and exploration into sub-molecular space would be possible.

The only obstacle in this process would be in the energy source of the pixelation ray. Yet, we can assume that some form of this technology can be backwards engineered from pokeballs.