Well the TRANSIT OF VENUS is today. So check it out, if you don't know what it is it is basically the process of venus Sorry for the dramatic effect and such but hey once in 105 years so it deserves some sort of effect. Basically it will be Venus floating in front of the sun. Once again I don't want to take any responsibility for anybody going blind but the best way to look at it is through a pin hole camera.
My Rendition of the Transit
Fish for friend!
Ghosting
Anyway did I mention my science start yeah I blame this. Anyway I gave up TV because of commercials, they just don't seem to rub me the right way for instance today during my Daria marathon I ran across a Buick commercial that compared the amount of thoughts a human has cmpared to a car... What are advertisers thinking? I must be missing the psychology of advertising sooo much because I feel insulted more often then not. While were at it why is Hagandazz advertising making me confuse the ice cream for a christian church. Overall adverts are really starting to fail me. Just complete and utter failing.
Vi-vi-video update. I got enough Mountain Dew in me to write a book, and instead with all the creative juices flowing. I feel like posting some videos that per usual are not mine but are pretty spiffy... Did I really use spiffy twice in one day? So we have a substitute for my philosophy class. We were talking about the ethics behind legalizing Medical Marijuana which I personally oppose but she said something that I hear people say a lot which goes along the lines of. "What drug will we randomly legalize next?" Now being the polite respectful student I am I said. "Hold on there is a difference between legalizing Marijuana for medicinal purposes (despite it being an incredibly wonderful placebo) and legalizing crystal meth for shits and giggles." Speaking of shits and giggles... Plungers and squeaking...
Not my best transition into a video but hey lets keep rocking rolling and moving. Next up we have some more government related stuff. Due to my Math teacher who is a certified bad ass for the record I stumbled upon this set of experiments. Three of which I don't care for at all but the final one titled For the Love of Dolphin caught my interest if you are too lazy like most of the youth today to actually read the entire article I managed to find some Roosters Teeth to chew through the talking for you. Anyway the basic summary of this is the one thing we always need to keep in mind when practicing science. Is what you are doing even practical? I don't know how this one slipped through the cracks of an institutional review board, or what idiot thought this was a good idea, or where they got the dolphin... Yeah let me just get to the point the experiment was flawed and stupid knock it off scientists... You could be off curing cancer, understanding genetics, preventing the next big epidemic but instead you dropped acid with dolphins. Not the most shinning moment of Scientific history but you know what. At least we aren't making backwards progress.
Anyway other then that I leave you with ponies, which by the way just wrapped up another season (I know a bit late on the ball with that announcement) but at least The Hub has purchased 13 more episodes of this adorable show. If you are looking for some other shows to get into check out Arrested Development, Shin Chan, and my personal favorite Daria!
Cheers! (Especially to my mate over at Freckled Productions who provided the first video...) -A.O
Alright so short little post because I want to explain this picture. It was done ONLY with a circle tool. NOTHING ELSE. I am not saying I have talent (because it was posted in a thread on canv.as which challenged others to do the same and they had some amazing ones.) I am just damn proud of what I did. It took a long time and honestly it does seem like something I would genuinely make. I didn't try and go overboard for once I just had fun. You know fun right? The thing you used to have a lot of as a kid. So some little advice. Sit back relax and enjoy the little things. Make a name for yourself don't make money for your name because money won't remember you while your name can live forever.
Cheers
-A.O
I have learned defining things for me is a very hard process. Ever since I worked with kids who pop the "what is an orange... oh its a fruit. well then what is a fruit... well its something with seeds on the inside you can eat?" sort of thought train I learned to think of life in terms of binary or the computer language of ones and zeros. Computers use binary because they need everything described to them like those smart alec children who ask what everything is in a snobby way. I find approaching things with true or false statements while lengthy and not efficient gets the job done. So when asked to define virtues I need to take it apart piece by piece. To start off with breaking things down I take things to there most base level of description. Past nouns and verbs down to the two basic categories of labels and descriptions because I define them in this circular way, all descriptions are labels and all labels are descriptions. A label is a name, a description describes. There is no technical difference between the two they are interchangeable but for my purposes a label is something we take and put objects in and descriptions are what we describe objects with in order to them put them in the appropriate label. Moving past that train of thought and hopping back the virtue express we now address what a virtue is considered in the human English language (because in between languages my philosophy might change seeing as language is the first way in which we describe the world to others). Virtue in the English language is a noun which means you would expect find a physical object associated with it as all nouns are persons, places, or things. Unfortunately when Meno tried to wise up to Socrates he made the same mistake to think that all virtues could be defined as a person a place or a thing. In all honesty virtue cannot be measured at all. A virtue is just a name for any trait or characteristic we find valuable in another human being; and what is value but the idea that something means something to someone? See even that last sentence right there was sketchy. This being said all virtues are different for different people. What virtue seems to be universal so far I have asked several people from high school students about what exactly is virtues and generally what I boiled it down to is a smile. Which really is just a show of warmth and kindness. Even though the intentions behind a smile can be different, the general message is not. While virtues take many shapes and forms but the general idea stays consistent. A virtue is something admirable found in someone. Unfortunately like a lot of the universe that isn't static.
I got grilled by a sub and a teacher for being cynical. Not my problem. Honestly I don't respect a lot of people due to cynicism, but the people I do respect I all but revere. Although there is no rule book saying I have to be really positive. I don't really believe I should reward behavior that you need to do.
Oh also sleeping in class someone pulled the fire alarm.
Cheers
A.O
