I had just finished my homework and was looking forward to busting a few heads with Condemned: Criminal Origins when all of a sudden my computer and ventilator went out; power-outage. Not strange considering it was over 30 degrees Celsius (almost 90 Fahrenheit) and everyone had their air-co on. On the bright side it did give me a chance to catch up on my outstanding bills. Afterwards I decided to do some candle-light drawing, but just when I had lit my candles the vent came back on and almost blew them out, talking about a mood killer. But screw electricity, I'm gonna turn my pc off now and get to drawing, a hobby I've been seriously neglecting as of late. If it turns out to be ok I might post it here later, but odds are it won't be that good seeing as how it's been several months since I've drawn anything. (I could hit myself.) This is foamy, signing off. [edit] sorry about the grey background my scanner is messed up and screwed up the contrast[/edit]
It's skinhead but I like quite a lot of their songs :cry: In my defence it's Irish so isn't really skinhead as skinhead is something English, and they've played at several anti-racist so they're certainly not boneheads. But it's still a bit in contrast to my metal, industrial and darkwave collection. Oh and another apocalypse has come and gone :/. So much for june the sixth 2006. Wacky christians.
Tomorrow I'm going to confirm that my grandfather (as an active member of the resistance movement) was indeed involved in arresting two highranking NSB (nationale socialistische bond, a nazi party in the Netherlands during WW2) people and that it indeed happened at where now the Dam (in amsterdam) is. There are two photographs in a book on which he can be seen as well as 2 seconds of video footage by a famous documentary maker. On the photographs and the video footage you can see him holding a revolver and co-escorting two NSB **** By pure chance I managed to identify several people and items which can be seen in both photos and/or one photo and the video footage thus linking all three (the shadows also match, and according to the shadows I believe it was at about 7AM probably may 6). After searching on google earth I think it's sure that it was on what is now known as the Dam, so tomorrow I'm going overthere to find evidence wether this is indeed true. My grandfather was also involved in blowing up a nazi arms factory and had shot a high ranking nazi sympathiser. He was 19 when germany invaded the Netherlands and 24 when they were driven out and throughout this whole time he was an active resistance fighter, he had been imprisoned and was due for deportation when his girlfriend managed to get him out.
It's really very simple, you go into a casino and walk up to people and play 50/50 bets. Now, if you win, you go to the next person. If you lose, you double or nothing until you have everything back, this shouldn't take more than a couple of times. The idea is that you win about an equal amount of times as you lose. But, when you win you win more than you lose when you lose. Over an average. Obviously if you have $1000 you should begin with betting only about a hundred bucks, after 20 rounds you'll have about $2000.
I love scary games, I've played through F.E.A.R., I've played some nights away on Doom 3 and for some time I've been trying to get my hands on Call of Cthulhu (reported to be scarier than Doom 3 so I really want it), which they don't seem to sell, anywhere. Strange though that such a thing as a little girl (Alma) can scare you. I guess it's just the fact that she's out of place that makes it so scary. Just like a clown in that B-movie. In normal life neither are really scary. Sure they're both annoying as hell, but not scary. Take Doom 3, you've got all the reason to be scared there, it's dark, it's got zombies and demons, it's claustrophobic (though I love both large and small spaces). It was also doom 3 that had the most effect on me. Sure, I don't play it anymore as after one time through you're desensitized and you'll have to wait a couple o' months to make the game interesting again. And I didn't take it particurarely hard (unlike a certain friend of mine who had a mental breakdown). But a long time after I still get comfort in pressing the number 3 (which is the shotgun, the weapon you'll use the most), weird huh? But scary games tend to get less scary after the first try, hell I still play FEAR but I don't get a single scare anymore, I just do it for the graphics and amazing firefights. Now, if you'll excuse me, after buying a new mobile phone (I lost the code on my old one :D), I bought Condemnded for pc, and some murder scenes and crazy enemies await my arrival. Don't let the pinky bite you on the way out.
Time travel is a curious science, more so in what changes could and would be made when travelling backwards in time rather than wether it actually is possible. In the classic "Back to the Future" (spoilers ahead) we see how Marty almost ends his own existence when through his interference his mother fails to fall for his father in the past. According to the Doc. he would himself disapear if he wouldn't be able to fix it. An interesting theory, but completely flawed. Why would he disappear, there's no reason for it, he was there, back in the past, and according to the laws of physics matter and energy can not simply seize to exist. In fact, doesn't the Chaos Theory prove that even if he hadn't interfered with his parents lives everything would still have changed? Think about it, life is a constant game of chance, what would the odds be that every die (die - dice, fig., not lit.) would roll the same way a second time around? In Startrek: First Contact (spoilers ahead) we can see how the Borg travel backwards in time and attack the Earth, how the crew from the Enterprise mingle with 21st century civilians. Again what would be the odds that when the crew return to the 24th century they would find an equal universe as the one they left when they followed the Borg sphere into the 21st century? So, if you travel an hour back in time, wouldn't there be two of you? In fact, couldn't you in theory create a whole army of yourself? Many hands make light work. Get a gun, travel back in time, and have yourself do your bidding and then kill your (other) self. Kinda like Homer Simpson in that halloween episode where he cloned himself with his magical hammock.
Often used by atheists as proof that an omnipotent being can not exist is the question "Can God create a rock so heavy he cannot himself lift it?" Considering that our earth, our solar system, even our galaxy is constantly moving, that we are constantly moving even though we think we might be standing/sitting still proves that everything is relative. Now consider this, God creates the rock but yet he moves it, not by moving the rock itself, but by moving everything else, including himself in the opposite direction. Thusly both moving AND not moving the rock. (For the rock to be "heavy" it would have to be on the influence of other matter of course, and for it to be attracted rather than the opposite way it would have to be lighter than the other object, so God would still not be able to move "everything else" but this is all just on what-if terms anyway.) No, I'm not a Christian, and an omnipotent being is still impossible, but this just sprung to my mind.
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