Monday, March 30, 2015

27 Shades of White (the color)

Like, really, there are SHADES of WHITE.

Wiki time! :D

According to our very good friend Mr. Wikipedia, there are these whites called Web Colors. These whites love to hang out on the computer screen and digital world.

List:
White
White Smoke
Snow
Honeydew
Mint Cream
Azure
Alice Blue
Ghost White
Seashell
Beige
Old Lace
Floral White
Ivory
Antique White
Linen
Lavender Blush

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shades_of_white

Okay, so lots of these seem to actually be whiter colors of other colors. How could they possibly be WHITE? I have no idea.

Here are the ones categorized as "off-white" colors:
Ghost White
White Smoke
Baby Powder
Snow
Ivory
Floral White
Seashell
Cornsilk
Old Lace
Cream
Beige
Linen
Antique White
Champagne
Eggshell
Dutch White (now this one is basically a milky coffee brown)
Bone
Vanilla (this is almost completely a darker skin yellow orange pale color)
Flax
Navajo White
Ecru (almost completely grayish yellowish)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shades_of_white#Variations_of_white_.28off-white_colors.29

So, yeah. I don't think these should be categorized as white because they aren't. Some are so different that they should just give up and be a color of their own.

And here are some whites that I think should be added :)
Tissue
Marshmallow
Recycled Paper
Eyeball
Human Teeth
Alpaca
Fangs
Cotton Candy

Give me some shades of whites YOU think should be added to the list.

See ya later alligators! :D









Thursday, March 19, 2015

Fantasy Picture Edits of Oregon Scenary

These are some pictures that I took myself that I did some editing on.

The first picture I can't put the original up because people's faces are in them and they are my friends and I don't really want to expose them to the world behind their backs.

So here's the pic edit instead.

Title: Otherworldly

I really like how the words came out on this and the moon-ish planet looks nice there.













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This is a view of a mountain (I don't know the name, someone tell me!!) that I took from Vista House at Crown Point in Multnomah County in Oregon.













And here is the picture edit:

Title: A Planetary Kiss for Oregonian Mountaintops

I actually wanted to make it a kiss for "name of mountain here" but I couldn't figure out the name of the mountain no matter how hard I searched. So I just gave up :/

No, it's not Mt. Hood. The shape is too different. And it didn't look like Larch Mountain or Hamilton Mountain. I would really appreciate if someone tell me what mountain this is. I took this photo from the parking lot at Vista House.




Hope you liked the edits :)  I only used PicMonkey for these, believe it or not.

Have a fantasy-ish random night, day, afternoon, and see ya later alligators! :D



Wednesday, March 18, 2015

More Crazy Answers to More Crazy Thoughts

So yesterday, or the post before this one, I answered to some of the questions in the first two pages of crazythoughts.com

The next are from page 3 which is linked here: crazythoughts.com/index3


Q: In some books, why do they have blank pages at the very end?

A: Well, that's for if you want to write the rest of the story yourself or take notes, right?



Q: Why can't donuts be square? 

A: Good question! And why can't they be triangle?



Q: If there's a speed of sound and a speed of light, is there a speed of smell?

A: Maybe... And how about a speed of breath?



Q: What do Greeks say when they don't understand something?

A: Whoever asked this is obviously not human. They'd probably just say "I don't know" in Greek.



Q: Why do they call them "Free Gifts"? Aren't all gifts free?

A: Well, when you buy it to give it to someone, obviously it's not free; you're BUYING it. So, maybe some places give out "free" gifts so some people with no money or only a little money can get a gift for free to give to someone.



Q: Do the English people eat English muffins, or are they just called muffins? 

A: They might call them American muffins because in France, the French kiss is called the "English kiss" (true story about the kiss).



Q: Why is a carrot more orange than an orange?

A: Because the word "orange" was invented after the carrot was created. Then someone invented a fruit the color orange and everyone else got lazy naming it and just decided to call it an orange. The lemon was close to being called yellow as well as the grape was close to being called purple-and-sometimes-green.



Q: Why do people say "heads up" when you should duck?

A: Because back when people hunted ducks, the ducks would fly over their heads. Now most ducks stick to waddling so you have to "duck" to see them.



Q: Why does a round pizza come in a square box?

A: Because a long time ago, it was rude to put a square pizza in a round box or a round pizza in a round box.


Q: If it's zero degrees outside today and it's supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?

A: Two (Too) cold.



Q: Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?

A: It's some kind of genetic disorder that prevents him from getting one.



Q: Can you cry under water?

A: Certainly. How do you think the sea became so salty? All those people over all those years crying buckets in the water made the sea so salty.



Q: Why do they put holes in crackers?

A: Crackers were initially made to look like Swiss cheese to fool people.



Q: Why do they call it "raw sewage"? Is there any other kind?

A: Spoiled sewage. Ewwww :0



Q: Why is tuna sometimes called "tuna fish"? Chicken is never called "chicken bird".

A: Tuna used to be a name of a kind disgusting bug that no one liked to touch or eat. So before the bug went extinct from climate change, many people were mistaken to eating the tuna bug when they were actually eating the fish. So, someone decided it was time to call the fish, "tuna fish" because it was discovered after the bug tuna was.



Q: If someone owns a piece of land, do they own it all the way to the center of the earth?

A: "Yes, I own this pizza (piece of) land here."



Q: If you put a chameleon in a room full of mirrors, what color would it turn?

A: Someone should definitely try that! :D



Q: What are the handles for corn on the cob called?

A: Cob knobs.



Q: Do sheep get static cling when they rub against one another?

A: In the olden days before plastic was invented, kids used to rub sheep together to watch the static electricity do its magic.



Q: If you had a three story house and were in the second floor, isn't it possible that you can be upstairs and downstairs at the same time?

A: This question is not funny at all because it makes absolutely perfect sense :/



Q: Why do they say "easy as pie"? Making a pie is not that easy.

A: Long ago "pie" used to be the verb form for "breath" in an ancient village language that is now gone. If it's easy as "pie"ing then, well, makes sense, right? "Breath"ing isn't so hard, is it?



Q: Why are plastic bears the only animal you can get honey from? Why can't you get honey from a plastic bee? 

A: Yeah, and why are jelly beans shaped like cashew nuts?



Q: Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that something new to eat will have materialized?

A: Because in our cavemen days, it did materialize, or rather, it burst out into the clearing from the bush it was hiding under.



Q: Can you "stare off into space" when you're in space?

A: I think you should "stare off into solar system" or "stare off into galaxy" instead.



Q: If something "goes without saying", why do people still say it? 

A: Because we all know we aren't telepathic yet.



Q: Why do we say we're head over heels when we're happy? Isn't that the way we normally are?

A: Then we need to change it to heels over head so that we can actually do a back flip.



Q: If prunes are dehydrated plums, where does prune juice come from?

A: From un-dehydrated prunes.



Q: Why are you "in" a movie, but "on" TV?

A: You're "on" stage and "in" a play, too. Someone answer this question!



Q: When French people swear, do they say "pardon my English?"

A: I think it'll be kinda cute if they did.



Q: How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered? 

A: Semi-VIP?



Okay, that's about it. The last two pages were actually a bit boring because they were true. It's more fun if they're only sort of true.

Hope you enjoyed it though :)

Later alligators :D



Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Crazy Answers to Crazy Thoughts


crazythoughts.com


This link goes to a fun-looking website I found that asks some pretty interesting questions. Some of them are actually kinda rude but ignore those.

And I'm gonna answer some that I liked (that aren't too rude) cuz not all my posts are supposed to be serious stuff.


Q: If man evolved from monkeys, how come we still have monkeys? 

A: Well, supposedly we evolved from a certain kind of alpha monkey. Maybe they were kings of the Ape-ish world of All Great Monkey-ness. But the lesser monkeys didn't have the right DNA and stuff to evolve to the Great Human Beans. So obviously we will still have monkeys because there had HAD to be some monkeys that were farmers and peasants and of other lower class.



Q: When does it stop being partly cloudy and start being partly sunny?

A: Obviously, when it wants to.



Q: If God sneezes, what should you say? 

A: Scream "Oh my GOD!!!". Because God just caused a sudden miniature hurricane in your area.



Q: Is there a time limit on fortune cookie predictions?

A: Maybe the lucky numbers have something to do with that... maybe the numbers are actually a code to hide the deadline for your predictions.



Q: What is Satan's last name?

A: Yes, that's right. It is Satan What. No one can guess it cuz no one realizes they are actually saying the name in the question.



Q: Is it legal to travel down a road in reverse, as long as your following the direction of the traffic?

A: Someone should definitely try that! :D



Q: Why is it that when we "skate on thin ice", we can "get in hot water"?

A: Because there used to be a large lake covered in thin ice that peopled were super tempted to skate on but underneath that ice was a volcano made of boiling hot water that magically didn't melt the ice. The government people and the other kinds of authorities warned people that they will get fined or in deep trouble if they skated on that ice. But one day an idiot person did and because he was an idiot, the ice decided to scare him and cracked under his feet even though it had never melted against the hot boiling water volcano. So the idiot got in hot water. Then the authorities and such found out so they fined him and he got in trouble. That's how it came about that when we "skate on thin ice" we could "get in hot water".


Q: Why are the little styrofoam pieces called peanuts?

A: It should be interesting to note that the little Styrofoam pieces were called peanuts BEFORE someone actually found a nut that looked just like it and started to call the nut a "peanut". The nut that you eat was not called a peanut before. It was just called "Curvy Strange Nut" but no one would buy it because of the name. Then all the way from across the sea from somewhere in Europe, someone brought the Styrofoam peanuts to show to the Americans in a way to kind of boast their inventions. The Styrofoam peanuts were very popular for some strange reason and many people wanted bags and bags of them. The man who grew the "Curvy Strange Nut" thought the peanut looked just like the nut he was growing and decided to call it "peanut" instead. That made his sales go right up to the top. Years go by and ALAS everyone forgot that the Styrofoam peanut came before the one that you eat.



Q: Why does the Easter bunny carry eggs? Rabbits don't lay eggs.

A: Because the chickens took forever in delivering the eggs themselves. They kept getting sidetracked with every crumb or worm they passed on the way.


Q: If milk goes bad if not refrigerated, why does it not go bad inside the cow?

A: Obviously because cows are magical and filled with good luck. I mean, look at what happen to Jack after he gave his cow up for a bean? The bean was MAGICAL and grew into a beanstalk that took him on the adventure of his life and made him and his mother super rich at the end.


Q: Why is the Lone Ranger called 'Lone' if he always has his Indian friend Tonto with him?

A: Because "Lone" is the name of the place that he was a ranger at. It doesn't mean "a-Lone". No one asked anyone to put an "a" in front of "Lone".



Q: How far east can you go before you're heading west?

A: Hmm, never mind that. The Russian Far East is actually kinda north from my point of view.



Q: If London Bridge is standing why is there a song about it falling down?

A: London Bridge in the song is actually a person who had very poor balance when standing up and kept falling down without actually hitting the ground. He'd just kinda be leaning severely. People made fun of poor London and often told the lady (the "my fair lady" in the song) that he liked, that he was falling down again just to make him look bad to her but that only made her like him even more. They got married and had a few kids in the end. One of the kids had very poor balance when falling down and kept standing up.



Q: Why do we sing "Rock a bye baby" to lull a baby to sleep when the song is about putting your baby in a tree and letting the wind crash the cradle on the ground?

A: It was actually a creepy song sung by a psycho mother who hated babies and wanted to kill them by putting them in a tree and making the wind do the job to make the babies go to sleep, FOREVER. Someone found the song long after the psycho mother died and never really looked into the true meaning and now here we are, singing it to our babies in hopes to make them go to sleep.



Q: What does PU stand for (as in "PU, that stinks!")?

A: Peppers Understand. Because we all know for a fact that all peppers have good understanding about everything.



Q: If Mars had earthquakes would they be called marsquakes?

A: You know, they should. We should have jupiterquakes and saturnquakes, too.



Q: Why is it called a funny bone, when if you hit it, it's not funny at all?

 
A: Because a long long long time ago, our funny bone used to actually laugh and make very good and funny jokes when we hit it and it was called a funny bone. Then we evolved and got smarter than our funny bone so it stopped laughing and making jokes. Then, finally, it became completely silent and started to hurt and feel weird instead. Sort of like a revenge because we humans had the nerve to say it wasn't actually really funny all that long long time ago. It's feelings were hurt.



Q: If you speak only one language, are you lingual? 

A: I think that would be "singual".




So, hope you enjoyed that! Some of them I got a little creatively carried away but, anyway. Happy Random Day and see you later alligators! :D

7-7 What to talk about or NOT with a guy on first meet-up day.

So, believe it or not I HAVE been on "dates". I say "dates" because to me it was just two friends getting together to have a cup of coffee and those two friends happen to be the opposite sex.

I suppose a lot of girls and young women who aren't very experienced in this world don't always know that right questions or topics to talk about with a guy because, let's face it, women and men are like two different species. It's like a lizard and a bunny and I'm not saying which is which; this is just for comparison. We can be so humongously different that sometimes we can't STAND to be around each other.

Anyway, here are some questions and topics I ask and talk about when I have a first encounter with a new guy who I could or could not be interested in pursuing a relationship. You can do as I do but keep in mind that I am STILL trying to understand this different species called "men". Also, the first set of questions are basically in order from 1-4.


MUST ASK QUESTIONS ON FIRST MEET-UP / FIRST ENCOUNTER

1. So, how old were you again?
To me, asking how old someone is is kinda rude. So I say "again" even though they haven't told me before. This question links to the next one.

2. Do you work or are you a student or...?
I like to keep this vague. To give the guy an open question. Not just "Do you work?" because that only brings out a simple "yes" or "no". I try to ask questions in a way so the guy won't answer so very simply. I have had guys that don't really want to talk about themselves unless they're specifically asked "What is your work?"

3. Work version: So what is it exactly that you do? Do you enjoy it?
3. Student version: What's your major? I know a lot of people must ask you this but, why did you choose "such and such major name here"?
These questions show that you want to get to know them. Anyway, that's what I think. Also, just a people thing, but generally I have found that and heard that people like to talk about themselves. It's nice to know that someone is almost as interested in what you are passionate about or just your life in general. People like to be heard.

4. What do you do in your free time? / What is your hobby?
Again, like 3, people love talking about themselves. And here, don't try to force-like something that the guy likes. But don't say you don't like it either. Just show vague interest. Get them to talk more about it. I think guys like girls who are interested, don't you?
EXAMPLE: "Your work sounds like it takes up a lot of time. But when you do have time, what do you like to do? Any hobbies or..."
See, the vagueness of the end part of the conversation? I do that a lot. I don't know if it's good but I like to keep the questions open. Some people don't have hobbies but they have a side job that they love to do in their free time or something like that. Really, I HAVE met guys who have no hobbies.


Other questions you can ask if you're interested in this guy and want to show it more:

5. Do you have siblings?
After you're tired of talking about "light" stuff like hobbies and such you can go personal somewhat.

6. Any pets?
This is a must for me because if I go far in the relationship I don't want to suddenly find out the guy I'm dating hates cats with a passion or doesn't care at all about the well-being of animals.

7. When they don't have pets but want one: If you could have any kind of pet, any kind at all, what kind of pet would you like to have?
Just a fun question. You can talk about, say, the pros and cons of having a pet iguana or a pet kangaroo even though they may be impossible. If you know anyone with strange pets, you can talk about that, too.

Well, for me, that's probably about all the questions I would ask on first encounter. Just for meaty conversation, you know?

The next list is "Questions to Definitely Avoid" (in my opinion and from what I've heard).


DANGER BEWARE questions

1. Do you have any girlfriends?
Girl, don't sound so needy. Even if you are desperate to find a guy, do not ask this question unless either he asks you first or you decide to go on a second or third date.

2. What do you look for in a girl?
This is treading thin ice in my opinion. You are slightly letting the guy control how you act and dress by asking him the kind of girl he likes. After answering, some guys might think you'll act or dress that way the next time you meet, if you do. If you're not true to yourself, it's is so freakishly easy to tell that you are being fake. Do you want the guy to like you the way you are or not?

3. How much money do you make?
Just no. Too personal and what are you, a gold digger?

4. DO NOT ASK ABOUT THEIR SEX LIFE!!!

5. I know this sounds crazy, but don't ask them to marry you on first encounter.
They will freak out unless they have the same mindset. Don't scare them away.

6. Don't tell them about your preferences in a guy. Girl, your stakes are too high.
Not all guys will meet every single criteria of Mr. Perfect. There will be some things that you like and some things that you might just need to learn to like if you want to have a relationship with that particular guy. I heard some relationship-expert lady say you shouldn't tell a guy your preferences for a guy because then he'll try to meet all your expectations so that he could get to you. But that will only make him a fake.

7. Don't tell them about your sex life or about the pros and cons of past boyfriends.
For past boyfriends, don't tell too much either when they ask. Try not to rant too much even though those boyfriends may have gotten on your nerves.


Well, that's about it. Hope I shed some light on your darkened path toward finding the "right guy". Good luck, fellow girls and young women.

Friday, March 6, 2015

What's going on with: the Kyoto Protocol and other stuff?

What's going on with: the Kyoto Protocol?

In my opinion, nothing. In fact, I think lots of people forgot it even exists.



What's going on with: the end of the earth scandal?

Uhm, stupidity and tons of bored people brainwashing religious maniacs. On a softer note, not all people are religious maniacs. They are just easily brainwashed.



What's going on with: Japanese politics?

Failure. It's like they've tried everything but women prime ministers and something other than a Republican Party or a Democratic Party.



What's going on with: nuclear weapons?

The truth needs to go out that they are not peacekeepers but fear-inducers.



What's going on with: the Mexican-American boarder?

The wall needs to come down. THEN you can regulate drugs.



What's going on with: saving the earth so humans can live?

I'm furious with how much is NOT going on.



What's going on with: Justin Bieber?

I don't care.



What's going on with: people who live in slums?

Obviously not enough because they are STILL living in slums.



What's going on with: iPhones and other smartphones?

Addiction to the point of smartphone-itis. Chinese workers are dying from making them. Seriously people, do you really need the "next version" so so right away?



What's going on with: K-POP?

Companies pooping out products of singing dancing people.



What's going on with: Psy?

*sigh* He was so famous once...



What's going on with: humans?

Failure. We need to admit that WE are KILLING our roommate Mr. Nature.

Monday, March 2, 2015

Which came first; instincts or feelings?

So I was wondering... and my mind was wandering, when we talk about human rights, we often attach feelings to it. Sort of, "Oh, look at the poor child, the poor mother, the poor family, the poor this, the poor that..." And then we have this thing called empathy where we feel the feelings of the other person. Most of us have the ability to understand the suffering of another person even if we haven't been down that road before. We also know that each human being has a right. A right to live, to breath, and to be on this earth.

Many people argue that animals have the same rights. Animal rights. But then this got me thinking; if human rights evolved from empathy which evolved from feeling something, how can animal rights have evolved?