Month: November 2013

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My Favorite Quotes

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I bet you’ve heard quite a few quotes that have brought a smile to your face. Maybe it was inspiring, maybe it was optimistic, or maybe it was just funny (like all the quotes you’ll see here). Either way, there are some good quotes out there. Here are a few of my favorites.

When I die, I want to go peacefully like my grandfather did–in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car.

-Bob Monkhouse

My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far I’ve finished two bags of M&Ms and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.

-Dave Barry

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

-Douglas Adams

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

-Socrates

If at first you don’t succeed . . . so much for skydiving.

-Henny Youngman

Children: You spend the first 2 years of their life teaching them to walk and talk. Then you spend the next 16 telling them to sit down and shut up.

-Anonymous

I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.

-Also Anonymous

And lastly…

Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

-Isaac Asimov

Maybe you didn’t understand some of these quotes. Just reread them, partially because I don’t have the time to explain in another blog post, and partially because I am just too lazy to write that blog post. Anyway, these are my favorite quotes. Thanks for reading!

Source: quotery.com

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Ten Reasons Why the Portal Gun Should Be Invented

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Actually, this one is only 5.

So, as you may or may not know, there is a game out there called Portal. I recommend you play it, it’s very good. And when you finally beat that after hours of problem solving and enduring the rambling-on of a condescending robot, you can play the sequel. I really enjoyed the game. Not because it teased my brain, not because it was a phenomenal game, but because of a device called a (You guessed it) portal gun. This thing is AMAZING. You can use it on any surface specially made for portals. Just point and shoot. It can go on the celings or walls or floors, it even comes in 2 colors! White and, well, white. But the portals are blue and orange! So, now that you know something about this magnificent and sadly theoretical device, let’s get to the reasons why it should be invented.

Numero Uno: With a portal gun (Brought to you by the creators of combustible lemons, aerial faithplates, turrets, etc., Aperture Science), you will never be late again! Shoot one portal, shoot another walk/fall through and you’re good!

Reason #2: If you ever feel like skydiving, just shoot a portal above you and another below you. It’s all the fun of falling without the altitude sickness! Just don’t hit your head on the ledge of the portal. That hurts.

Reason #3: The portal gun even picks things up for you! Anything from couches to machineguns to cubes with hearts on them.

Reason #4 (I’m already running low on reasons. I’m probably missing something.): Your portal gun never runs out of battery! Isn’t that cool? Imagine an iPad you never have to charge, or a machinegun you never have to reload. You can fire as much as you want!

Reason #5 (That’s all, folks!): The portal gun is like a badge of honor (-able geekiness.). So, being a nerd, I have to have it. The practical uses are great, but imagine telling your friends that you have a gun that creates portals.

So, this is why I think portal guns should be invented. The thing about this is that it will probably never happen, but hey, I can dream. So, until next time, au revior, and have fun with the condescending robot!

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Ten Reasons Why My Parents Should Let Me Go to Minecon

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So, unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past year or so, you’ve probably heard of a game called Minecraft. You probably don’t play this game, dismissing it as stupid and badly designed. But the only thing that sucks are the graphics, and they have texturepacks for that.

There are some, however, that don’t think it’s so bad. Some, like me, have a minor case of severe Minecraft addiction (Oddly enough, that’s a Portal 2 reference.), others just think it’s kinda cool. Now, about 12,600,000 people have bought the game for PC or Mac, and for all of those people, about a 1/3 are the obsessive, play-it-the-second-you-get-home-because-screw-homework type of gamers, and they need a place to gather amongst their people. And thus Minecon was born, with all the fans dressing up as their favorite creature (Snow Golems seem to be the current trend), or just looking over the newest update like this:

Cat or Alien?
Photo Credit: Umberto Salvagnin via Compfight

All of these details (especially the ones about the Snow Golems) bring us to our first reason.

Reason #1: Minecon is the only place you can dress up like a shipwrecked cube person without people wondering what the [WORD OMITTED] is wrong with you. Also, you can dress up like a creeper or something. As long as it’s 16x, they don’t care.

Reason #2: You have an excuse to travel the world and stay in plush hotels reserved for your kind. Nobody really disagrees on anything meaningful.

Reason #3: You could meet some very well-known YouTubers, such as SkyDoesMinecraft, the Yogscast, Rooster Teeth, Slamacow (I think), and many more.

Reason #4: Okay, so maybe meeting internet stars isn’t really your cup of tea. What if you could meet the Mojang producers? You might run into Jens, Jeb, or perhaps even Notch.

Reason #5 (Halfway done!): Probably one of the most important reasons of all: it’s scheduled during the school year! For the non-gamers that are inevitably reading this and looking at this post like, “What you talkin’ about, bruh?”, imagine getting to miss school to go to the Super Bowl or the Rose Bowl or to see your favorite team play against their rival. Wouldn’t that be nice? I think so, too.

Reason #6: You never have to sleep. There’s always something better to do, like waste your time on a pre-release, watch some YouTube for the occasion, or enjoy a modpack of your choice. (Any FTB fans out there? Yep, thought so.)

Reason #7: They have lots of merchandise (Not to mention the free stuff you get for coming) and collectible objects to take from other people who want them just as badly and sell it back to them at a ridiculously high price, like $19.99. (Because $20 is just mean.) Hey, that’s economics for you.

Reason #8: Hotels usually have free WiFi. I love those two words together in a sentence, free and WiFi. Wow, I should really get a life.

Reason #9 (Almost there!): I could probably see a whole bunch of people, get their usernames, and invite them on the local server. (Same story as Zod and CMC. Don’t ask.)

And lastly, Reason Number Ten: I would have something interesting to post instead of just rambling on about why I should go to a nerd convention.

This has been one of (hopefully) many posts in the “Ten Reasons Why…” series. Maybe I’ll do a Halo one next time. Whatever.

NOTE: The amount of people that have downloaded the game is probably out-of-date by the time you read this. Also, this website, www.minecraft.net, is here just in case you really have been living under a rock for a year or so and want some more information. Just go to the aforementioned site and please don’t pepper me with questions. Bug the Mojang team. They have time for that.