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Showing posts with label RANDOM. Show all posts

25 June 2013

June 2013 Update: E-cow-nomics

I know it's off the internet...
But even a pic I took would make it
tiny to read...
Because I'm bored and having writer's block on my blog. Call it me selling out or lazy, that's fine. I'll get off my ass and finish my Mass Effect 2 review... or maybe beat Persona 4 Golden.

My brain is in a state similar to fried chicken because I'm spending too much time writing my Persona 3 fanfic. An activity that originally started out of boredom back during the spring semester has exploded into a 400+ page, six Word documented project that is still incomplete. ...I still don't know why I'm still writing it. At this rate, it'll be longer than Les Miserables.

Otherwise Fangirl's life is... is... is... um...

...I got a new poster to take to college. It'll proudly sit right next to the one on the menstrual cycle I got from the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia.

Yeah. This thing. XD
I just love dry, quirky humor like this.
... This might be me selling out, but oh well. My fanfic destroyed my brain. That's a good excuse... right?

Introducing the explanation of 21 economic models... using cows! Too bad the font is too tiny to read of the picture...


Socialism: You have two cows. You give one to your neighbor.

Communism: You have two cows. The State takes both and gives you some milk.

Fascism: You have two cows. The State takes both then sells you some milk.

Nazism: You have two cows. The State takes both and shoots you.

Bureaucratism: You have two cows. The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then throws the milk away.

Traditional Capitalism: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income.

Surrealism: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.

American Corporation: You have two cows. You sell one and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. Later, you hire a consultant to analyse why the cow had dropped dead.

Venture Capitalism - Icelandic Corporation: You have two cows. You sell all three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island Company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. You sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release.
The public then buys your bull.

French Corporation: You have two cows. You go on strike, organise a riot, and block the roads, because you want three cows.

Japanese Corporation: You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create a clever cow cartoon image called "Cowkimon" and market it worldwide.

German Corporation: You have two cows. You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves.

Italian Corporation: You have two cows, but you don't know where they are. You decide to have lunch.

Russian Corporation: You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have forty-two cows. You count again and learn you have two cows.

Swiss Corporation: You have five thousand cows. None of them belong to you. You charge the owners for storing them.

Chinese Corporation: You have two cows. You have three hundred people milking them. You claim you have full employment, and high bovine productivity. You arrest the newsman who reported the real situation.

Indian Corporation: You have two cows. You worship them.

British Corporation: You have two cows. Both are mad.

Iraqi Corporation: Everyone thinks you have lots of cows. You tell them you have none. No one believes you, so they bomb you and invade your country. You still have no cows, but at least you are a part of Democracy.

Australian Corporation: You have two cows. Business seems pretty good. You close offices and go for a few beers to celebrate.

New Zealand Corporation: You have two cows. The one on the left looks very attractive.


And everyone gets made fun of. :)


Back to writing I guess... *sigh* I need something to make me smile...



^///_///^
... Someone make this happen. NOW.

27 March 2013

Political Compass, Many Months Later

Last time I took this political quiz, almost exactly one year ago...


Your political compass

Economic Left/Right: -1.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.74




Now...


Your political compass

Economic Left/Right: -6.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.82


Holy crap.

The moderately liberal libertarian transformed into an extremely communistic libertarian. My Republican best friend might not be happy about that. @_@ And like many people, I am still disenchanted by the choices in politicians. So I guess we're all in the same boat about something.

See where you fall: http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

26 March 2012

No Wonder the Voting Booth Looks More and More Unpleasant...

Based off a quiz I took while bored, I appear to be a moderately left libertarian.

Your political compass

Economic Left/Right: -1.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.74


Apparently not one of the presidential candidates for this year share my ideals. Not only that, but everyone is EXACTLY the SAME! (Except Santorum still scares the crap out of me...)


Happy Election Year! *sobs*

08 October 2011

I Won't Die THAT Easily!!

Last Halloween, there was an ongoing joke with my friends that I would be one of the first people to be attacked or die in a horror film. Sure, I was bouncing off the walls with all the chocolate and cookies that refused to leave my field of vision, but how dare they compare me to the cliched blond being the first to go!

To those jerks, I shall shove this in their faces:


Thanks, Tenebris for teh link! :)

11 September 2011

"And everyone wears a mask..."

To briefly break the anime mood that my blog has indulged in lately, I just found this and wanted to post it.




It's been a looooooooong time since I last saw it, but I love MirrorMask. I find movies where artistic and surreal (severe understatement in this case) designs are the main focus tend to be a hit or an unwatchable miss - for subjective reasons - but this is a really fascinating film. This song should have been in the movie because "Wake the White Queen" by The Crüxshadows really captures the spirit of the film beautifully.

Guess that's another band to research. Haha!

25 August 2011

[Trying to] Stay Positive

My Mac in a relaxing place...
The inner pessimist in me is trying her best to think happy thoughts as Sunday draws near. No matter how many times we check the Weather Channel, hurricane Irene is still heading towards us with a huge grin. From the looks of it, my area's warning signs are between high and extreme. Great: so much for avoiding Florida at all costs.

Plus... our sump pump is dead. Just in time. Hopefully we can get it replaced quickly, yet not ruining my day with dad that took weeks of planning. Damn Murphy's Law. >.<

I'm sure all we'll get is high wind and lots of water, but it still doesn't help that I have no idea how long it'll take. Looks like I'll need to focus on happy thoughts, like music and anime instead of calm beaches, flowers, and flying poptarts. You know, the stuff that really puts an individual in a good mood?

A bit of light reading during the hurricane, no?
Speaking of which... to get my mind on a higher plane... some random stuff I guess to make my blog less blah with the dark background...

The one collection I'm proud of. :)

04 July 2011

Amping Up the Creepy

Are those falling things human corpses or dead, wingless higurashi cicadas? o_O

02 July 2011

Random Is My Middle Name

1. Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4 and write the sentence here: "Alek still struggled, holding his breath for what felt like minutes, but his lungs finally rebelled." (from Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld))
2. Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What’s there? a bar stool
3. What is the last thing you watched on TV? The Colbert Report
4. Without looking, guess what time it is: around 5 or so
5. Now look at the clock. What is the actual time? 5. I win 
6. With the exception of the computer, what can you hear? kids playing outside
7. When did you last step outside? What were you doing? walking my dog and getting the mail
8. Before you started this survey, what did you look at? my blog. duh
9. What are you wearing? University of Pennsylvania shirt, denim capris, bracelets
10. Did you dream last night? can't remember
11. When did you last laugh? my memory sucks
12. What is on the walls of the room you are in? my posters of various things: London, St. Scream, Ville Valo, Sasuke from Naruto, etc...
13. Seen anything weird lately? my shorter hair... o_O
14. What is the last film you saw? The Italian Job (2003)
15. If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy? I would save a big bit for college and the rest to a personal travel fund.
16. Tell me something about you that I don’t know. I'm scared of spiders.
17. If you could change one thing about the world, what would you change? the list goes on and on...
18. Do you like to dance? hell no
19. What do you think of the president? he's the president
20. Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her? ... idk
21. Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?  ... idk
22. Would you ever consider living abroad? of course! I just need a job and money...
23. What do you want to say to God when you reach the pearly gates? if there are any religious psychos in there, forget heaven and hell, please erase my existence

11 June 2011

A Family Tree

NOTE: from the Metal: A Headbanger's Journey documentary.

Wandering around the internet is great fun, especially when one runs into something kinda cool. At least to me, I found this cool. As an amateur fan, I'd like to spend more time researching heavy metal. :)

22 May 2011

Creeped Out Fangirl Is Creeped Out (o_O)

Looks like the eerie end of the world still hasn't arrived. Well, if the Bible only has one truth, it would be that no one will ever truly know when the apocalypse shall come. And until I die, I will laugh at such unfulfilled predictions. Besides, it would be more likely for me to get run over by a bus tomorrow.

Despite that, however, I have had my rarely high dose of creepy for the past few days.

Higurashi: When They Cry. That is all.


I guess my morbid fascination for horror will never die. heh... heh... 0_o

14 April 2011

There's a Poem in My Pocket

As much as I love music and lyrics... poetry is a medium I either enjoy or loathe. No in betweens. No exceptions. I might like a little of Poe and Frost's "The Road Not Taken", but not popular stuff by Silverstein or Whitman's classics. When Poetri and Taylor Mali visted my school to present their works, they were energetic and very entertaining (Fangirl endorces them: look 'em up!). Despite their creative personalities, nothing has changed my mind on such art. Writing rants and essays are hard enough: make me write a poem and prepare for steam and fire shooting out my head.

But I am now a bit less of a Grinch. Today is supposedly National Poem in Your Pocket Day. Poems were passed around the school today, and I received this nice piece (*shock*):

"The Dead"

The Dead are always looking down on us, they say.
While we are putting on our shoes or eating a steak,
They are looking down through the glass bottom boats of heaven
As they row themselves slowly through eternity.

They watch the tops of our heads moving below on earth,
And when we lie down in a field or on a couch,
Drugged perhaps by the hum of a long afternoon,
They think we are looking back at them,
Which makes them lift their oars and fall silent
And wait, like parents, for us to close our eyes.
- Billy Collins

05 April 2011

Vid for Lulz

New rant is coming up shortly, don't worry.

So enjoy the wait with this. Jeremy is hilarious. Find him on Youtube and watch his videos and reviews... NOW!


12 February 2011

Singles Awareness Day Is Near! >:P

Just a HIM song that I loved so much this year: "In the Arms of Rain"
The original is beautiful, the acoustic version is sweet, but this... is breathtaking in my opinion.
Enjoy or avoid. Pick your poison. :P


Happy Early Single's Awareness Day. :P

01 February 2011

February Update

Dear viewers, for the millionth time, I'm sorry for not being active until the last minute in January. One might say I was preoccupied...

Anywho, back on track. February seems to be the month of love and chocolates while waiting for snow to melt and spring to come back. I quite frankly find nothing grand about this month except with celebrating my being a HIM fan. Do not be surprised if I am a Scrooge-like character in my rants.

Speaking of rants, there are was one I wanted to post up around January 24, but I didn't get around to it. So how about I continue to blacken the red and pink gooey muck this month brings by ranting like a left-winged Nazi-Socialist? Wait... even right wingers do that too. How about "like a loud, obnoxious American" instead? :)

Yeah, the post might be one of the more heated topics that most don't like to discuss over the dinner table, but from a family with a nurse who talks about blood, organs, and nasty wounds, it doesn't bother me. So it's all up to you.

Otherwise, it's the usual. Reviews, rants, updates. Blah, blah, blah. Goodbye. :P

PS - my friend told me about this video, and it's hilarious. I just wanted to share it. (And as one who has played up until that point in the game, I can agree that James is a liiiiiiiiiiiittle dumb. XD)

16 December 2010

My Art

(FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER!!!!!!! Credit goes to MOI!!!!!! XD)

I just finished a piece that's due tomorrow for my Studio Art 1 class. Procrastination is a demon I still must defeat, but it hasn't destroyed my soul yet. ;) We were given three weeks to work on it; I drew this both last night and a few minutes ago.

I'm proud that though I do complain a bit, I have some form of artistic talent. Looks like I need to use it more often. :P

Photo piece is based on:

If anyone comments, say nothing mean, or else you die. XD

24 October 2010

MCR Transmissions

Because I'm such a strange person who likes My Chemical Romance.
This will keep me entertained for a short while until Nov 22. XD

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