Even though they are always so simple, it always takes me a few tries to enter the correct words on those website security checks. Half of the time I can’t even see what letters they want me to type, and the other half I type the words correctly but it marks me wrong. After a few failed tries I start to question whether I actually am a robot.
Here is an example of the average word-typing-are-you-a-robot-checking-website-security-thing:
It’s not a very popular opinion to have, but I honestly prefer the cookie part of the Oreo over the frosting center. Apparently the man in this recently popular video agrees:
Although this is obviously a campaign run by Oreo, who, for many reasons I won’t discuss right now, has an awful marketing strategy, the machine is a great idea. Usually when I see or hear something I should of thought of I think, “Oh, why didn’t I think of that?” However, in this case no such thought crossed my mind, since I am confident that I would have thought of this within the near future. I would have posted about it, drawn a little picture with arrows labeling the parts, and praised the ingenuity of the invention, only to find out that someone had been actually building it in his garage. Then I would have felt kind of sad, dismayed that my idea wasn’t as original as I thought, and moved on to different exciting contraptions. Instead of feeling jealous that I didn’t think of this first, I genuinely found the video entertaining, despite it being downright fake. Maybe it’s because I don’t want to be like the guy in the video.
I draw Venn diagrams rectangularly. If the Venn diagram is more of a joke or for show I will use circles, since they will not need any amount of in-depth information. But for the majority of true comparison through Venn diagram, I draw them with square edges.
Installing internet regulation and security measures is like setting up a baby gate to defend the entrance to your house. I will provide an example. Let’s say a café sets up a wifi system for their customers, but requires a password and many different steps before you can actually use it. This may seem like decent protection, but it causes trouble for those who are genuinely trying to use the internet. Also, if someone was intent on doing something malicious to your system, they would tend to have the expertise to get around it. Therefore the security measure accomplishes nothing, and is a nuisance.
A baby, trying to crawl through the baby gate, would be unable. But a baby doesn’t pose much threat. If someone actually had the intentions to break into your house, they would knock over or step over the baby gate, rendering it pointless. All it does is creates a barrier for the average person to get through.
For those of you who are unaware, or for those from the future who forgot the extremely temporary internet craze that was the Harlem Shake, let me briefly explain. In a video, groups of people get together going about their normal day-to-day business. One person, usually wearing a helmet, is dancing wildly along with a song (in all the videos the same song is used). When the music in the song changes, the video cuts to everyone wildly dancing and doing random crazy things.
I think the Harlem Shake proves just how fast news and trends travel today. After the first video was made, parodies came flooding in, ranging from the elderly in retirement homes to college sports teams. The most interesting part, however, is that within a week, versions of the Harlem Shake came out that made fun of the whole process, telling people that the joke is old and no more videos should be made. As of today, I can say with a fairly high amount of confidence that no more Harlem Shake videos are going to gain significant traction.
Besides news traveling fast, stories, events, people, and trends are rising and dying quicker than ever. Because of the internet, the availability of video-recording devices, and faster networking, people can learn about way more things than before. As a result, people gain and lose interest in events on an almost day-to-day basis. The phrase “that’s so last month,” while usually meant to be a joke about fashion trends, seems more and more to be the case in many different areas. Even a few months ago watching all sorts of 2012 recap videos, it was shocking to remember events that even happened in the summer, let alone January (remember balloon boy?).
As technology advances, it is becoming more and more important to get on the bandwagon before something takes off, because before you know it, it will be old news.
Interviews to prove a point, especially with random people, are generally meaningless. Unless video footage is provided of the entire interview (approaching someone, asking the question, and getting the whole response), they don’t say much. With editing, the viewer has no idea what background was given to the interviewee, or what question was asked.
Let me provide an example. If I wanted to show that most people are against animal cruelty, I could precede my question with a detailed explanation of how chickens are raised just to be killed. I would throw in incendiary language such as “slaughtered” or “murdered,” and give a negative impression of the chicken farming process. As a result, I would get a lot of responses agreeing with me and be able to edit together a video showing how the majority of people interviewed support the rights of chickens.
This same idea applies to polls. By phrasing the question differently, I can easily pull out the results I want.
Whenever you see a video or poll like this, be skeptical and understand what might be going on that you can’t see.
I don’t like trail mix. If you remember my post about the amount of ingredients in foods, you already can guess why. I would like to expand on the specific example of trail mix and hopefully illuminate some insights along the way.
The design behind trail mix, if there is one at all, is that the salty components combine with the chocolately M&M’s to form a distinctive taste combination. Although I can admit that there is some validity to this combination, it is ruined by the overall disgusting nature of the nuts, raisins, and little broken pretzel bits. (I like pretzels, don’t get me wrong.) Honestly the only reason kids or adults with odd snack choices tolerate trail mix is because of the M&M’s. I would be the first person to pick out and eat all the M&M’s, but they are usually so contaminated by the salts and bad-tastiness to the point of inedibility.
Trail mix provides a unique metaphorical insight into our own lives. I guess the point is that you shouldn’t let the nuts and raisins in your life contaminate the M&M’s. Or you could just buy a pack of M&M’s from the vending machine instead. I don’t know what that would symbolize. But now all I can think about is that I want some M&M’s.
I find it odd how in many recent television shows and movies, adults play the roles of teenagers. Remember High School Musical, High School Musical 2, and High School Musical 3: Senior Year? Hopefully not. In these movies, popular actor Zac Efron plays a high school drama queen basketball star. He was already 19 when acting in the first movie, but by the third he was 21. When he is supposed to be an 18-year-old senior, he is in reality a 21-year-old man. Or, to point out a more obvious example, he was 22 when he played the main role in the movie 17 Again. In a different more recent example, actress Jennifer Lawrence (22) in The Hunger Games, played the role of a teenage girl.
Well, what difference does it make? When you have adults playing the roles of “highschoolers,” people generally not in contact with teenagers on a day-to-day basis gain a false sense of what they look like. Keep in mind, a 14-year-old girl is still in high school. Highschoolers are not these full-grown, well-developed adults movies and TV shows convince most people that they are.
Also, it artificially raises expectations of obnoxious preteen girls.
Most people are aware that EPCOT is a theme park part of Disney World in Florida. Most people, however, don’t know what the acronym stands for. Maybe “Exciting Place of Cool and Outstanding Terrificness?” Nope. It actually stands for the “Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow.”
Today I pondered the age old question: “How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?”
I thought about it for a while, before turning to Wolfram. It turns out that there was a research experiment performed on woodchucks entitled “The Ability of Woodchucks to Chuck Cellulose Fibers”, concluding that they are able to chuck approximately 361.9237 cubic centimeters of wood per day.
This is essentially the epitome of useless information, and for some reason I feel like I am finally prepared to go on a trivia game show.
Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs 