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Greetings, readers!
I am guessing that at this point, a number of you have seen that using a scythe to control the grass population in a yard may be more effective than the more technologically advanced weed whacker. However, in case you have not, I am mentioning it in this post.
Questions that come to my mind are: 1) Why do competitions like this exist? and 2) If scythes are, in fact, that much more impressive, why are they not used more frequently? 3) How much did the owner of the yard used pay to get the competition hosted there, so as to be able to avoid mowing it for a while? 4) Why did the scyther/reaper pass up the opportunity to dress up as Death / the Grim Reaper, and laugh maniacally as thousands of blades of grass are sacrificed to his every whim?
…Cheery.
And with those mysteries, Readers, I wish you a good beginning to your week.
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Greetings, readers!
I found out that an animal of nightmares for your world exists– a spider snake. This snake has a tail that looks like a spider when it moves, in order to attract its prey.
Personally, I do not think I would go towards something that looked like a spider– a pretty butterfly would be more effective. However, I guess that the motion is more difficult to reproduce.
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Maybe I should start doing a weekly rant or something. Because I AM ANNOYED AS HECK.
I generally use Google Chrome for my web browsing, due to my computer seemingly have developed a semi-allergy to Firefox, and Internet Explorer being internet Explorer. (And besides– who on earth uses “Seamonkey”?)
But recently, they turned my bookmarks thing into a trial user for the betatest bookmark stars system. AND I LOATHE IT.
The way things work right now, I have a nice system to my bookmarks. Few people would necessarily be able to follow it, because I have a few things that I “just remember” where they are, but that’s beside the point. The point is I have a system.
And besides, I often do my bookmarking, or visiting of old bookmarks, without using a mouse at all.
And that’s where chrome REALLY messed things up for me. They made it so I wasn’t able to use my keyboard to put a file into a designated folder. I needed to click. EWWW. That is legitimately one of the most obnoxious things a web browser has ever done to me– made it so that I need to use a mouse for something I should be able to use Hotkeys for.
In fact, that’s part of why I kept using Firefox for so long– for a while, Firefox still allowed me to email webpages, all through hotkeys.
Then, eventually, they basically stopped that feature. And everything else got to be too obnoxious.
But the point stands. I KEPT USING A BROWSER THAT I DIDN’T LIKE FOR THE SAKE OF HOTKEYS. I ABANDONED IT WHEN THE HOTKEY CAPABILITY LEFT.
So all that to say, GOOGLE, YOU BETTER LET ME BE ABLE TO USE MY HOTKEYS!!! I LIKE CHOOSING WHERE MY BOOKMARKS GO, VIA ARROW KEY AND SPACEBAR!!!!
Fortunately, however, I was able to find a friendly help site that showed me how to get back to normal bookmarking. So, I can currently use my keyboard to bookmark and sort my bookmarks. So I’m only currently disgruntled and potentially aggravated, not actually furious… for now.
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Greetings, readers!
I do not know if you have seen this yet– I encountered it yesterday, and it seems to be gaining popularity.
It is an extraordinarily over-the-top patriotic advertisement… for Sizzler restaurants.
…
Wow.
That is definitely similar to my reaction, although were a few surprises for me in this ad.
First, I found it amusing how “American patriotic” the music sounds. There must be something in the instrumentation of that style that is associated with American Patriotism.
Second, after accounting for the patriotism: I am quite surprised the member of the Navy did not propose to the woman he was with. (Maybe that would have been even more too-over-the-top for them?)
Third, what on earth were the creators of this advertisement doing with the creepy whisper at the end? The sinister sound clashes with the “Hooray America!” feel of the rest of the video.
And it has been randomly going through my head for the past few days. And I think that it’s because of the quality of the song. It is totally nonsensical, but it is SO oddly specific, it sounds like it comes from a very detailed world, and therefore should make sense.
I mean seriously. THE “genetically modified salamander with a face just like George Cloony”? It sounds like there HAS to be a legend behind that in whatever world the song is in.
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Fluffsters, I’m annoyed.
I somewhere yesterday, and the speaker said something that I highly disagree with, and so I’m writing to rant express my thoughts.
You see, he tried to use a reference to the movie Tangled. And although it could have been done well, he instead decided to go with the “fact” presented on this meme:
As I said, this could have been done ok except for one minor detail… THIS “FACT” IS WRONG IN EVERY SINGLE WAY.
Yes, you read that correctly. For some reason, there seems to be this hypothesis that Flynn is a Disney Hero, because he doesn’t sing and dance. I disagree. I disagree heartily. I disagree with the entire premise that Flynn Rider is the only Disney character to question why everybody is singing.
To refresh your memories, here’s the scene being referred to.
So, yes. He has an expression of “Seriously?” throughout the entire scene. He also explicitly says “Sorry boys, I don’t sing.” And that is where the entire premise of the meme stems from.
SO, here we go.
First, the premise that Flynn is even questioning why everybody is singing.
I would like to make the case that he’s not even doing that.
I trust you are going to explain? The character does seem to have a look of disbelief throughout the entire time…
Don’t worry, I’m getting to that.
You see, I’d claim that his disbelief comes not from the singing, but from the content of what’s being sung… and by who’s singing.
The entire point of the song is that the folks of the Snuggly Duckling are a study in paradoxes. They look “Big, mean, and scary.” What are they doing singing about their dreams… Especially dreams that are so ridiculous? From Flynn’s perspective, dreams of that sort, and singing about dreams of that sort is not cool.
Flynn basically says as much when he ends up joining the song. First, he has a look of contempt when the folks ask him about his dream. Then, he simply says “I don’t sing.” He doesn’t make any sort of judgment call about singing in general, just about himself singing. Then, he sings about his dream, he sings “I have dreams like you, no really! Just, much less ‘touchy feely’…“. To repeat, this is what he’s especially baffled by in this scene. IT’S NOT THAT HE IS QUESTIONING EVERYONE SINGING. HE’S QUESTIONING THE TOUCHY-FEELY OF IT. Especially in light of the fact that it looked like they were going to cause serious problems for Rapunzel, not start talking (or singing) about touchy-feelies. So, NO. FLYNN IS NOT QUESTIONING WHY EVERYONE IS SINGING AND DANCING. HE’S QUESTIONING WHY THEY’RE SINGING/DANCING ABOUT TOUCHY-FEELY TOPICS. (I feel like he would not object to Aladin’s “One Jump” song, for instance…)
So, yeah. He’s not actually questioning the singing and dancing. But even if you don’t buy into that argument, I HAVE EVEN STRONGER EVIDENCE THAT HE IS NOT THE ONLY CHARACTER TO QUESTION THE SINGING AND DANCING.
As my evidence, take this scene from a Disney movie:
Did you catch that?
“No, don’t sing. LET’S JUST WALK.” (emphasis added.)
And then, “He knows this song, too?”, “I don’t dance”, and “I don’t sing”.
Also, note that Robert, unlike Flynn, never actually joins the singing routine. In fact, he’s actually trying to stop the singing because it’s NOT NORMAL.
The Disney movie “Enchanted” is OBVIOUS PROOF BY COUNTEREXAMPLE that THIS ENTIRE MEME IS FALSE. Flynn is NOT the “only” Disney character to question everyone’s singing and dancing. (Even if you don’t buy into my argument above.)
Although actually, if you don’t buy into my argument, then you’d probably be required to accept Cogsworth as another example of a Disney character objecting to random song and dance routines. Take the first ten seconds of this clip of “Be Our Guest” as proof.
Thus, my point is made. THAT MEME IS FALSE AND I HAVE NO CLUE WHY PEOPLE MADE IT IN THE FIRST PLACE BECAUSE IT IS WRONG. FLYNN RIDER IS NOT THE ONLY DISNEY CHARACTER TO QUESTION WHY A RANDOM SONG AND DANCE ROUTINE IS OCCURRING.
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Hiya, Fluffsters!
So I recently remembered about a student short movie production from a few years ago. (At least, it started as a senior project.) It’s really fun, and worth watching. Especially on a Sunday afternoon, when you probably don’t have that much else going on right now.
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Hiya, Fluffsters!
Yesterday, I came across a totally weird song. It’s totally harmless. But it’s WAAAY nonsensical.
Yes, even by my standards.
That is impressive. I am a bit hesitant about this song…
It’s called “Neon Pegasus.”
And it is legitimately one of the most random things I have ever encountered. I love it, but it’s nonsensical. And very random. It’s almost like a four-year-old randomly generated ideas that the song-writer put together.
