I hate to say it but I wasn’t entirely impressed with this years fireworks celebration for Canada’s 142nd Birthday.
It was short, and the pyrotechnics were really lame. The ones people bought from the corner stores and shot them off on the other side of the river were almost better.
There was one point where they shot off a bunch of white candlestick ones that lasted for about a minute and a half. I was sitting there, jaw dropped open, wondering, “what the hell is this shit?”
There were some nice ones, but the crappy ones outweighed the good ones. Most of them were just tiny explosions of sparkling colors. I like the ones that go way up and explode lighting up the entire area. There were maybe 4 or 5 of those ones.
I left feeling ripped off. I wish I didn’t waste my time walking all the way there for that boring show.
You would figure they would spend some good money on the Nations Birthday. I mean C’mon!
I took some pictures but, like last year, I used the fireworks setting on my camera and as you can see it doesn’t do a great job. Next time I’m going to use the night settings and stay away from the fireworks settings. You would figure a fireworks setting for taking pictures of fireworks would work huh? LOL
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Friday Jun 26, 2009
North Korea
Is it just me, or does anybody else find North Korea’s actions lately a bit concerning?
After the UN tried so very hard to dismantle and bury so many nuclear missiles, these ass hats in North Korea go and pull this shit.
If things keep heading in the direction they’re going now. There will sure to be an all out war I bet.
What is it with these tiny countries?
Tens of thousands of North Koreans shouted slogans to denounce international sanctions at a rally in central Pyongyang on Thursday, as the communist country vowed to enlarge its atomic arsenal and warned of a “fire shower of nuclear retaliation” in the event of a U.S. attack.
It’s almost as if they WANT the US to attack. All these statements coming from them sound like they’re just trying to provoke the US into war.
The new U.N. resolution – passed to punish Pyongyang after its May 25 nuclear test – seeks to clamp down on North Korea’s trading of banned arms and weapons-related material by requiring U.N. member states to request inspections of ships carrying suspicious cargo.
North Korea has said it would consider any interception of its ships a declaration of war.
Don’t you just find that crazy?!
It’s like a little chiwawa picking a fight with a pitbull.
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Thursday Jun 25, 2009
See that? On the left?
Yea! That’s right! The Green Screen….. What? No she’s just a model to show scale.
Sorry, but even though she’s nice looking, she’s not the topic of this post. Sorry.
I would have a fancy background like that. If I could afford it
Well.. ANYWAY!
My point is that these things can be ordered online, so you (particularly family) know what I want.
Well, the thing that brought this up was a comment a friend made. Well… actually it was a LOL at a line I used on my Facebook. It was a line I used in a video I made on my way to a job, a different job I was working. A job I enjoyed doing too. Except, I didn’t fit in. I wasn’t a bible thumper and I was at at loss as to proving certain instances of sabotage. You know when you’re not wanted? That feeling was so powerful there.
Well enough about that fuck hole run of a mill operation, that’s run by a group of cackling gossip holey rolling hens.
There was a video I did one day that included a music track of me singing, I owe, I owe, It’s Off to work I go! I’ve got bills to pay, and I work all day, cause I owe, I owe, I owe, I owe!
Well, it seems to have traveled! It’s actually a common saying now! I don’t think it was from me. Shit happens that way, but my initial idea was to do a flash animation of this one. But instead I did a video of me going to work in the morning.
Well the song came up again on face-book……
This is a project that I want to restart.. I want to have my Bro’s Lip Sink with Chiclets buck teeth. That was the initial plan. Have Them sing to the tune a few times and I would edit the entire thing to make a video.
Unfortunately, that sweet green screen idea, with $1 store greeen construction paper SUCKS!!!!
I would have to plaster my entire wall to do this, and I can’t so it means the object getting closer to the green screen and that causes Shadows and shit! In order to cast a full body on green screen, they need to be a few feet away from it. (see picture) or some nasty shadows screw everything up.
Bet you’ll have that song stuck in your head now.
UPDATE:
Here’s something similar to what I wanted to do. Singing Bro’s
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Wednesday Jun 17, 2009
I don’t know if it’s just the folks I work with that hate their lives so much that they have to make up shit in order to make themselves feel better about themselves, or make up shit to try and impress other people.
I know the job I have is probably the shittiest jobs on the go, but I let people know that. I don’t hide the fact that I work in a crappy call center. It sucks that I work in one, but I don’t go around making shit up to try and make people think I’m better than they are.
I guess what I’m saying is, I am not impressed with what you did or what you SAY you did or can do. Not a lot of things impress me by just somebody saying they did this or that, or that they can do this or that.
However, if you said you could do 40 back-flips and then demonstrated that you can do 40 back-flips by actually doing 40 back-flips in front of me, then fuck yea! I would be impressed. But if you just say you can or you could do 40 back-flips without showing that you can actually do it, then I don’t really give a shit and don’t want to hear your bullshit.
If it makes you feel better to make up bullshit stories then you have self esteem issues you need to take care of or you’re going to end up feeling even shittier wen you realize you’re bullshit stories are just that…. Stories. And you’ll realize that you wasted your time bullshitting instead of actually doing.
That reminds me of a saying my Friend quoted on Facebook. “Grow, or go”
I realize that I don’t have the most glorious job in the world, but I don’t go around denying that with bullshit stories. I have done a few things in my past that have actually impressed people. But I showed proof of that. I just didn’t say shit and not provide proof or demonstrate what I said I did or have done. I wish I could get a real job doing the stuff I want but I haven’t gotten lucky with landing a job doing that. YET.
I’m hearing people, or I have people telling me that they are Aviation Instructors, have several businesses and are setting up other people in businesses, some say they’re Super Models, some say their actors, and so on. All these people have these alternate glamorous lifestyles or have these very rare talents or degrees and yet they work in a fucking call center.
I know I say I design web sites and stuff, but yet I’m working in a fucking call center, but I am applying for jobs that I qualify for and unfortunately never get because there are a lot of other people with the same experience or have more. But these people have experience or talents that are rare and could probably land a better job than a fucking call center. OH, and I should mention that some of these people are kids, or look like they just got out of prison, or are an extra in some Redneck Trailer Park Beer Movie.
You just know they’re full of shit. But you refrain from telling them that and let them live in their little fantasy world. But lately, I’m getting overwhelmed with bullshit stories that I might eventually just tell them to shut the fuck up and stop talking bullshit to me.
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Tuesday Jun 16, 2009
The GERD has been acting up really bad lately. So bad that it has been waking me up in the middle of the night from massive chest pains, and during the day the burning acid makes it way up to my throat and burns the hell out of it.
To make matters worse, I have just two pills left and I have nothing to buy any more. I’ve been popping them like candy which is why I ran out way sooner than I should have. But the pain gets so intense, I can’t help pop them like candy.
I would make a Doctors Appointment, but that would be pointless for a couple of reasons. One would be that I don’t know my work schedule from one week to the next and by the time I do it’s to late to book one. And two, I am flat broke and wouldn’t be able to buy the prescription that I know she will prescribe me anyway.
They say stress doesn’t really make it worse, but I’m thinking people who say that don’t actually have the condition in the first place. Because when I’m at work and I get some asshole on the line (which is about 99.9999% of the time) and they start ranting about some fucked up thing which is their fault or is because of their impatience and stupidity, I can feel the burning sensation make it’s way up my chest and start to burn and cause chest pains.
It’s so bad now that even burping burns like hell.
It’s going to really suck when I take my last two pills. I’m going to be so screwed. Probably end up going to the hospital by the end of the week..
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Saturday Jun 13, 2009
meteorite
Can you imagine, you’re walking down the street one day. Minding your own business and carrying on with whatever it is you just happen to be doing at the moment. Not a care in the world and glancing up and seeing a fireball coming straight at you?
Well that’s what happened when a teenager was hit by a meteorite travelling at 30,000mph – and lived to tell the tale.
The 14 year old boy said he just saw a ball of light and the next thing he knew there was a sharp pain in his hand and then was followed by very loud bangs the sound of thunder.
The white-hot meteorite bounced off the schoolboy’s hand and hit the ground so hard it left a foot-long crater in the tarmac – as well as a three-inch scar on his hand.
Kind of puts the thought in your head of just how safe is it to even go outside doesn’t it. The little bugger was some lucky too. If that pea sized rock was traveling so fast as to rip up a foot-long crater he probably wouldn’t have been so lucky if he just happen to leave home seconds sooner or later. He could have been struck in the head.
In the actual news article, they say that there is only one other known case where a person has survived being hit by a meteorite. So I wonder what the number is of people NOT surviving getting hit by a meteorite?
Chances of being struck by a meteorite are around one in 100 million.
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