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Nukit

2009-12-27T07:17:54Z

Interesting website where you can blow up your favorite cities with a simulated nuclear devices *plus asteroid impact bonus. Surprisingly if a 15kt device fell in the core of DT toronto, we North Yorkians might actually survive the blast...fallout would be a different story though.

http://www.carloslabs.com/node/16

Why?

2009-12-27T07:04:08Z

Clearly the first thermobaric device missed its carpet bomb drop because Sex in the City II just popped out a trailer today on Apple’s website.

Christmas festives

2009-12-26T05:26:47Z

Christmas Art

After six hours slaving away…well 3 of those hours spent slaving away watching my friend’s aunt help me sew Ada’s Christmas present…I brought Dimpy into existent….next year I’m purchasing it instead! :P

Thanks to Ada, I can draw green things on my wall without my mom yelling at me!

It was the last snow flake to ever touch the burning horizon.

2009-12-25T17:23:25Z

Merry Christmas to all my Livejournal peeps :D

YaHHH a dream!

2009-12-25T03:34:24Z

I was walking past Schulick and being blown back by a torrential wind storm where people were literally flying. As the windstorm dies down, I bumped into an old friend Lisa from the graphics design program who I’ve not seen in ages! We stopped to talk when all of a sudden a converted TTC bus filled with stereo surround sound system pulled into the middle intersection of York Blvd. People begin to clamber around the bus and jacking in their MP3 players playing Rap beats. Soon enough security came to disperse the crowd and everyone leaves. I continue heading down to Keele and York Blvd where I jay-walked to the island divider. While waiting on the island divider, a pickup truck containing lawn mowers makes a hard U-turn nearly knocking me over. I perform a stealthy ninja role to avoid being hit by the truck. The truck than speeds off in a cloud of dust.

Avatar colors

2009-12-21T17:07:06Z

Cameron has done it again.

Gahhhhh flapping around in the cinematic excess of Avatar’s glorious virtual universe. Hmm where should I start. The film’s narrative is nothing new; imagine Dances with the Wolves and Last Samurai combined its DNA with Cameron’s epic story telling capability. It’s a good move for Cameron to delay the production of the film till the proper technology was available since the film would not have been as epic if it wasn’t for the stunning visual special effects *possibly even boring. There were times that I didn’t want to watch the real world…I want artificially created imagery!

It’s also interesting to observe that within a three hour film that a multiverse can be created. I won’t be surprised if an Avatar based industry can be created. **Which already has since UBISOFT has created an Avatar PC game back in 2007.

Colonel Quaritch: is super badass!

The fauna of the planet was also very well thought out. The continuity of symbiotic relations between the inhabitants and other living creatures of the planet was explicitly maintained, especially through their little fiber optic neural pathways **seems like on Pandora a native can just plug themselves into anything, hey there flower..hey there mauling beast like animal **plugs in. I also like how the wildlife of Pandora were created to fit with their environmental ecological location, all the animals except of the Na’vi seems to have a direct breathing passage into the lungs. Rather than breathing through a nasal fixing, their atmosphere intakes are located on the chest.

Scientific things to think about:
- Natural occurring carbon fiber within the bone structure. Very interesting notion since CF can only be artificially created. One of the first signs of using composite fabrication techniques was during the time of ancient Egypt where reeds and wood from the surrounding Nile regions were bonded together using a special resin to create one of the first composite bow.
- Unobtanium: Interesting property, it’s very stable and responsive to a magnetic field within room temperature. A mineral like this would be very important within antimatter and fusion research.
- Amplify mobility platform. A very interesting design, such exoskeleton suits has been invented but never at this size and level of operation. Operating such devices would take lots of practice since the 1:1 movement ratio and factoring in cockpit space would prove difficult.
- Working at Pandora: It takes 6 years to get there and Jake signed on for a 6 year tour. Add in another 6 years of return traveling time…..meaning 18 years of your life is gone, but since the crew are stored in suspended animation they only age for 6 of the years. Meaning…..everyone/everything would have drastically changed by the time they got home.

Electronic bits 001010011110100101001010100

2009-12-17T02:41:02Z

Make way for cinematic excess! Ironman 2’s trailer is out!! And it’s full of gadgetry eye oogling galore! **dreamy addiction glazed eyes.

On other news in the animal kingdom, reason number three why I need to get myself a pet octopus.

This little fellow likes to carry his home around with him, a coconut shell.

Everything is so hazy and cloudy.

2009-12-15T23:13:06Z

**crawls….drags…..drag……**chokes *chokes. I felt like I just dragged myself through a Canadian winter in the middle of Alberta (I lied because I’ve never experienced an Albertan winter)…but gasp………..as of this moment, all academic responsibility for the next 2 weeks has been evacuated from my system. Mentally fried and in-operable to higher brain functions.

Will commence Operation Attend Kami's birthday.

The sky is grey.

2009-12-13T16:52:26Z

Environmentalists has their worries that humans will snuff the planet out with CO2 created emissions…fine….than what about the massive Supervolcano under Yellowstone park? An article was written in the Sunday Insight about a 65km wide volcano mouth still actively/dormant, spewing out lovely steam geysers for travelers **aww such cute guise tactic. If the volcano does explode, it’ll pretty much blacken out half of United States and parts of Canada too. Interestingly enough, I remember reading about these “supervolcanoes” in last months’National Geographics..but in all honesty, super volcanoes has been documented within human history for centuries..we just forgot about them.

So after years of protesting, lobbying...all the nuclear waste has been removed from the sea...saved the penguins..carbon capture has captured the last bit of human created CO2....the Yellowstone caldera decides to give way and three years of darkness begins.

Hmm just to think about, maybe the road wasn’t meteorite strike, or nuclear devastation..it could have been a volcano **maybe it’s a good thing they didn’t put it in because it’ll be way too hokey for a father and son cannibal drama.

New word of the day: Ejecta

• In volcanology, particles that came out of a volcanic vent, traveled through the air or under water, and fell back on the ground surface or on the ocean floor. Ejecta can consist of:
1. Juvenile particles - (fragmented magma and free crystals)
2. Cognate or accessory particles - older volcanic rocks from the same volcano
3. Accidental particles - derived from the rocks under the volcano.

Somewhere on this planet, someone is getting hit with a foam bat.

2009-12-13T00:47:19Z

Okay, so I watched Monster Camp couple of weeks ago which left a dissatisfying taste in my mouth of how grand LARPing could be….so I went around the internet with my un-free time and found a cooler and even epic version of Monster Camp **psh Monster Camp seems like small fry compare to the battle shown on this trailer.

For the sake of pure uhmm..creepiness…these guys have a ballista! I want a home mounted ballista!

After doing some research, Darkon has around 100-300 or so players. Compare to the larger scale events held in Germany Drachenfest which glorifies 5000 players *imagine 2500 angry/passionate/yelling Germans swarming towards you with foam sticks….hold your ground hold you….fuck this! ***RUNS!

Sadly the Quebec base LARPing camp Bicolline only bosts 2000 players housed within a 140 hectares playground accompanied by 100 buidings.

With that said, Drachenfest seems so much cooler.

My fuhrer why not give Tumblr a try?

2009-12-10T23:37:26Z

I don't have a Twitter account, but I do have Livejournal,...what does that make me?

Oh well, I will Tweet about how i've seen the best acting through this video in the past thirty seconds.

xD XD

Pardon my stupedity...but this was the original translation from the film Downfall

BITTER BITTER BITTER

2009-12-09T06:38:07Z

Alright I have to admit that my temper is at wickers end right now…even with afternoon naps to replace the lost sleep, I think I’m starting to react to loud popping sounds * the house is saturated with popping noise of nail guns and the continuous rumbling of idle trucks. For an entire week when I was doing the stop animation I’ve been exposed to more house noise than my parents combined together…..I need to get out of this house..away from noise…lol library..there are less noise in there.

I think my temper is starting to flare out in my cycling because I’ve become way more aggressive than I ever should be…especially with people cutting me off or deliberately tailgating me……For the past week I’ve actually kicked car doors and angrily knocked on some windows……not very Calvin like. At one point I nearly lost it and had to restrain myself from using the U-lock as a window breaking device.
* I was procrastinating today so I designed a saddle bag which would dispense 10 grams of C4 charges to tailgating vehicles, enough to just blow the engine block or disable the vehicle cold in its tracks.
** I’m not too sure but drivers are getting worse during the winter season or something! I try my best to stick with traffic rules and give the right of ways to cars..but even with that implement going on I seem to always find myself in tight situations.

At one point this week I nearly made a very bad remark at someone for being stupid…a remark that would’ve easily caused a shouting match.

**gahhh what’s happening to me!

Unstable mind at work

2009-12-07T14:41:25Z

If I had $600,000 would invest in a UNICAT expedition vehicle? This practically self-contained vehicle can traverse it’s occupants around the globe at an almost limitless duration: The only thing holding you back is a 2000 mile fuel tank *twin 120 gallon fuel tnak which would cost you 800 bucks to fill up, basic maintenance, and the amount of food you can carry. Surprisingly there is an 8 kilowatt generator on board, augmented by three roof solar panels, and if that’s not cool enough a reverse osmosis water filtration plant.

Another awesome feature it has is a

Clearly Spartan living quarters was not included on the selection menu of the advertisement pamphlet.

After lusting the possibilities of what I can fill this truck/land yacht with, I have to wonder if I really need such luxury. Fine if I was in the middle of a desert I can see myself very hard pressed to live from the contents of my backpack like some minimalist vagabond would declare. THAN AGAIN…..if there was a zombie invasion I can modify it with a machine gun nest and a zombie plow.

**I googled ultimate survival vehicle and UNICAT came out on the search results. Critics were complaining that the vehicle needs more solar panels to survive killer cockroach infestation.

The ringing in my head.

2009-12-07T13:51:39Z

Sick and tired of natural quiet suburban background noise? Well look no further, now introducing “The Symphony of Suburban Construction CD collection” This 20 part CD collection contains 8 years of vibrant and genuine construction sounds; guarantee to rattle your calm collected sanity.

Special in our collection that would guarantee authentic separation from other Suburban Construction CD:
- 5th movement of Early Morning Honey Truck
- The concerto of Farsi swearing
- Nail Gun Rapido
- 10 Hours day segments
- And our extra special bonus: Additional movements to fill in those quiet New Year and Christmas snow filled mornings, bright and early at 7:30.

This collection would guarantee all our customers a lost of mental self control. If you begin to feel the effects of short temper and random bouts of un-controlled anxiety, than our product has done its job. Your love ones would appreciate the new you as you cause dramatic outburst by the slightest hint of *pops pops in the air.

Limited supply of stock is available, so get your “The Symphony of Suburban Construction CD” now. Only for $654092.09 your love ones will appreciate the gift you have bestowed on them.

FUCK!!!!

Walk....walk.....walk.....walk.

2009-11-28T06:36:56Z

The Road just like its novel counterpart displays a stunning eeriness of our civilization gone south to the point that life itself is barely sustainable. Those who are left standing become wandering starving refugees. As people become desperate for canned goods, those who are on the extreme levels of survivalism begin to harvest human for their meat.

The film itself has no problem adapting to the novel; barren wasteland is all that remains. The highlight of the film has to be of Mortensen and McPhee’s astounding acting ability to bring fourth this father and son relationship through the harshest of events.

After watching the film, I walked home imagining how North York would be like if something as bad as the Road came into effect *it would be pretty bad. One thing that really shocked me when I got home was feeling how picky I’ve became to sequence my post-apocalyptic-emaciated-induced munchy. Clearly the pickle was not doing it’s trick, crave something extra special….had some cereal and yet I felt starving..damn it….I don’t think this starvation can be pushed away!

I’ve come to agree that if a meteorite falls or North America or suffer horrendously through a nuclear holocaust; I’m a tad hard pressed to figure out a reason why I need to survive any longer. If the impact doesn’t kill you, starvation will, besides we only have a 4-6 months opportunity to harvest enough edibles to last us through 8 months of freezer box living conditions. Western civilization and its soft living standards has literally zapped our instinct of self reliance and survival capabilities..I can probably start counting the number of people I know who would die before the first winter has gone by.

Than again, we can start heading down south where the Mexico and Brazil would be forcefully evicting US nad Canadian aliens from entering their boarders, how ironic xD

**looking into my fridge, we would not survive two weeks without food rationing..if that doesn’t kill us, the lack of firearm would prove to be a challenge.

Right eye lid twitch.

2009-11-18T02:26:14Z

I’m not too sure how to describe it………it’s like watching a faultyPatriot missile diving into an Iraqi orphanage…at the same time the resulting fire bomb is so beautiful..and and….can’t stare away….either in shock/awe that’s how you win hearts and mind!

Pokes mass with stick.

2009-11-18T02:14:23Z

Made bread today…somewhat successful, first prototype was too dry and I forgot to put in butter, whoops. No harm done, the second prototype was a lot better, only five tablespoon of heart stopping goodness *my mom was giving me the frowns…and my dad was literally medicating himself with spoonful of butter secretly in-front of the TV. All in all, the bread came out; first one was a tad hard, as hard as dinner roles on an airplane, the second one was less hard and I was just perfect for moi.

Next stop, pizza dough for Thursday!

Need to hit the bed early! Freaking house construction are starting up at 7:30 again. Another month of construction till they probably get the roof on! One thing is driving me nuts right now is that they're also working through the weekends...AGAIN!

I feel calm...and subtle...and an andnn aan *Japanese pain sound effects.

2009-11-17T06:33:36Z

As of this moment, I’m going to convert sheer and panic into complete euphoria **oh heck I’m just trying to kid myself; like the episode of Seinfield…Serenity now serenity now.

On the schedule:
- Attempt of making bread tomorrow **spur of the moment! Want to play with dough
- Work on film set..arts and crafts extreme.
- Try to finish make bread….
- Work on essay which is due on the 7th
- Glue arts and crafts together
- Prepare for Leonid Meteor shower.

Wednesday:
- Work on freakin essay.
- Purchase Super 8mm cartridge
- Prepare more dough for Thursday Pizza film night. Going to recommend *force Pouya to show Mary and Max.
- Early night

Thursday:
- Survive through work and class.
- Get home and prep for home made pizza night.

Friday-Sunday:
- Blue Mountain cottage trip for friend’s bday **really really bad choice in decision making! Not even sure how long I’m gone for.

Monday:
- Survive work
- Freak out in film class **28 Days Later style
- Obtain single frame camera.

Tuesday-Thursday:
- If all the strings in the universe aligns…allowing me three whole days of fluidic shooting. ‘

Thursday evening:
- Star Wars concert! (Yes not another good judgement)

Friday-Sunday
- Native American pow-wow festival in Hamilton. (I’ve had to skip out three years in a role because of FRAKKING ESSAYS! This time they moved the location even further away. CARPE DIEM!!!

Between than to Dec 7
Mad FREAK OUT!......YES….I CAN ALMOST TASTE THE SANITY!......UAUAHHAHA **gargle gargle.

Useless Novel Spoiler

2009-11-16T05:06:53Z

I’m not too sure if I’m feeling depressed right now because I’m reading the Road or maybe from over cycling. But so far in the novel our main protagonists has stumble on to an underground fallout bunker stuffed with survival stores.

For some reason anytime there is survival or quest where food is running scarce, three pages of survival supplies is like discovering a secret level in Diablo II filled with the riches of war spoils. So far they’ve mention a can of peaches and I felt like running to the closest Metro and obtaining a can of peaches.

It’s strange that even when I’m in the warm comfort of my own home that I feel starved for pizza after reading such simple passages.

My favorite example of this would have to be Soylent Green when Heston and Robinsons are sharing a simple dinner over plain lettuce and beef stew. It’s a very plain meal **actually beef stew is a once in a while delicacy for me….but heck, every time I watch this scene I swell up with the utter sheer pleasure of euphoria.

Blowing out 234 birthday candles.

2009-11-15T17:33:16Z

There was a fascinating article today in the Toronto star on Ray Kurzweil’s thesis about life extension to the point of immortality. The thesis theorizes that by 20 years immortality can be achieved with technological innovations. Of course you won’t survive gun wounds or a cement mixer truck running over you, but at least aging and cell degeneration can be solved with technology.

For all of those neurotics worried about dying, hopefully you can live for another 20 years so that you can treat your worried soul.

Very fascinating notion which can also lead to other fascinating debates:
- Of course such life changing technology is going to cost a phenomenal amount of profit. This means that third world countries will be dying off at a consistent average life span, while selected people in developed nations are going to live forever…consuming even more resources!
- Euthanasia: There’s a saying that we’ll become ultimately bored of living, not too sure if that is true or now, have never lived like an immortal before..than again you have people in their 80s playing Mayor and still running marathons. Back to the point, if people have lived so long and become bored, they’ll have an interesting way of ending their lives if euthanasia debate has not been solved by 2100.
- Over population: Factor in bullet one, you might have a good portion of ultr-wealthy-elites who can live for a substantial amount of years.
- Religion…….too much to ponder about.

The Average Canadian male lives for 83 years 78 for female. Do the math, I’m probably too old to ride long distance by 75-85, so that gives me about 50 odd years of riding expectancy.

Where are the good people?

2009-11-14T03:35:59Z

Can’t wait can’t wait! Author of the novel No Country for Old Men, McCarthy brings a new stunning thriller about humanity at its gritty edge saturated in a post-apocalyptic backdrop. Only half way through the novel and I’m feeling the starvation and sheer exhaustion of the father and son characters.

Note: Judging from the trailer; these actors have way too much meat and fat in them to persuade me they’re suffering from extreme starvation.

Too bad the movie has only limited release in the states, but I’m desperately waiting for it to hit Toronto’s silver screen.

I'll have fries with that too

2009-11-11T22:29:47Z

Pweeeee..Apparently..nite vision goggles is now included as a side order of Modern Warfare Prestige Edition.

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2009/11/modern-warfare-2-night-vision/

Very good review....and they have highlight one of the main disadvantage of hi-tech goggles. These things supposedly rob you of depth perception, great for stumbling down stairs late in the night. Can't believe elite helicopter pilots are trained to fly multi-million dollar army bladed aircraft wearing one of these suckers.

Need more emotions!

2009-11-11T06:20:28Z

I admit that I’m a horrible writer; I’m always searching for words while trying to create something which is recognized as a cohesive “sentence”. Maybe it’s the lacking of emotions which writers like to base off of..or I’m completely high from endorphins after a strenuous/painful bike ride **where the rest of my day feels like a cloudy haze of gigglyness. I’m surprised I haven’t developed a higher tolerance to endorphins and all the natural pain killer hormones of the rainbow.

But watching 1 hour of No Punctuation game reviews online my long lost vocabulary that I was supposed to absorb during University miraculously reappear for a split moment of time, 45 minutes and 12 seconds at most. After that time it expires and I dwindle back to grade 5 verbal skills. Maybe this has to be my daily routine from now on.

Wake up, listen to an hour of fast pace non punctuated critical rants which has no emotional feelings at all by Yahtzee who brutally destroys games which are rated “best of the year” by other game critics.

Gahhh writing skill expired….mentally drained and in need of recharge.

Can hurt you in 100 different ways.

2009-11-09T00:43:17Z

After watching Man Staring at Goats last night, I was intrigued by the little predator tool which George Clooney demonstrated on Ewan McGregor with such comedic intensity; yet it’s biodegradable and somewhat funny looking. Little that anyone would know that it can cause so much human pain and discomfort *although the secret is out now…it’s not that innocent looking anymore. I like multi-purpose tools….they’re fascinating and they’re useful; impresses lady by gouging out guy friend’s eyeball with a predator tool.

Surprisingly I found the tool online, and it’s so…interesting.

With that many useful function, you probably can start doing combo hits with it…..strike the individual in the head, follow by cutting them in the face, and than go for the nasal bridge.. you can even attach cute Japanese charms on the bottom of it to further camouflage it’s dangerousness. This is something you can smuggle into a club with and the bouncers would have no clue at all.

Additional training videos.

There is that version..and than there is this hardy human bash rock ATAX survival knife.

This tool can: hack, slash, cut, pummel, compass, slingshot, range finder, skinner, sexy table top piece.

Wrap me with love.

2009-11-07T16:59:05Z

After a great crusade of searching for the best burrito restaurant in Toronto with Ada, a quick and pre-emptive mission was decided to try making home made burrito. First timer’s outcome was interesting. We made a semi descent interior burrito slurry mixture of guacamole, rice, and salsa; a tad too much raw garlic resulting in questionable human decimating burps the following morning.

The slight downfall would have to be the steak chunks and flatbread goodness. Steak chunks were poorly marinated, 7 hours short of the recommended time and it tasted…sour…too much lime juice and beer :P Something which can be improved on.

The tortilla flat bread turned out to be the greatest challenge. Seems like we’re still in the amateur level since our soft bread turned into a hard taco shell instead: except for Ada’s. So far the internet research may have yielded two possible reasons:

- cooked on way too high of a temperature.
- Dough was too thick? Resulting poor cooking consistency.

http://www.norecipes.com/2009/07/23/how-to-make-tortillas/