Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Best blog entery of the year

Here is a list of my favourite blog ententes I wrote this year: 
-Sonic VS Mario
Game carts VS Opical Media(today)
My vecation 
 Why I don't have cable Part III(or II?) [I can't find part 1]
Fix-it-felex for flash!
Qoute from the above: "Quick note, I actually do talk like("Pie, Pie!") when playing video games. "
a-liitle-thought-about-ascept-ratios.html
initrd and initramfs
The elemanation of mail delverly
All about Santa  << I think this is my personal forvoit entry of the year. Since I love the querkey imingitivy way it was written.
I wrote this entry as well and it is one of my fovoirts.

10 cool things I did this year:
-Sevied for 72ish-hours without power!
-I was best man for Jimmy Vemmer(photos are on Facebook) and the blog entery is here:
link
- My vecation which you can read about here 
- My Birthday party at which we played 4-way chesss
- Watching movies and documentiers with my parents(it's fun!)
- I made some major changes to my site, if you read my blog you can see what changed. I had to get to paid hosting to get it working but it was worth it.
-My temp Job at Solinst Cananda. Not just was it fun, chelling and rewarding(monitaly and with what I learned as a programmer) but I made a new friend.
- I also worked on project with Shawn Robinson of Thesportsdsahboard.com, project which I can't talk about yet....
-Those little moments that don't mean much at the time but add up to become something wonderful. Like watching TV, playing vidoe games or reading mangas.
I think my new-years resulstion for 2013, was to see my freinds more, I have done this to an extent  but I'd like to see them more in the new year. I'd also like to expand and meet more people, I will do this by having people over who I may not know that well but would like to get to know more. I would like too work on my lifeskills as well, do the londery more and learn to cook.
Other things tbat happend this year:
-The removal of pennies. 

Can you believe it's almost 2014 already. Wow, when I was 8, I thought 2014 was a long time in the future and we would have flying cars and stuff. It's amazing to be hear and look back and what the future truly is.

Things happening in the near year:
- I'm running a series of Myst Online events, which I started this December. I will continue to run them in the new year.
-I should be able to tell you about that project with Shawn some time in the new year.(other then it exists)  
- I will be working on some hacks for Robosapin(1), he has been sitting in the basement for too long.
- It is Prime Minster Steven Happer last full year, as the re-election is napping in 2015. (cheer if you don't like Happer very much)
- Those stupid stories of death in 2012 will look even more stupid, thoug funny enough, Decemeber 21st is now a day of bad luck since, that's when that ice storm hit.
- Things will come out with a 2014 copyright... ok so I'm scrapping the bottem of the barreal here. Have a happy near year!

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

The elemanation of mail delverly

The Canadian government wants to stop delivering mail door to door by 2019. Instead people can get their mail for a centralized location. Here are a list of reasons why I think this is a bad idea:

  • A lot of really good people will loose jobs, adding to our already bad employment rate.
  • It will be more difficult for the old and disabled to get their mail. 
  • It will be more difficult for people to get the mail in hevrly populated areas.
  • It is better for the environment to car pool or take the bus then it is to take an individual car to work. Similarly it is better for the environment to pool mail togeahter like they do rather then have severl diffrent people drive to pick it up. 
  • If your mailbox is not in walking distance you may not get the mail right away, you might "put it off" and miss an import message. 
  • Having all the mail in the same place might make snooping through someone elses mail more tempting. To stop this they might introduce a key but this can lead to the inconvenience of loosing your key.
  • Central mail boxes will have to be built and this will take space that could be used for something more useful like houses, office buildings or parks.
To end this post off, I would like to list all of the things we still get by physical mail:
  •  Physical goods bought online(though yes an expesive company like UPS is an alturative and they may contiune to deliver to your door.) 
  • Junk mail(did I say all the items on this list would be positve things) 
  • Cristmass presents(speaking of which I can't wait till Christmas too bad it will be a rather long wait :))
  • Legal stuff 
  • Bills(though you can have these sent to you online).
  • Letter from uh... older people(sorry) 
  • Other stuff 
So as you can see the phyiscal mail is not as useful as it once was but it still in use for many things.

Sunday, December 15, 2013

All about Santa

Updated Dec 1st, 2019

HO HO HO! I thought for fun I would right a FAQ about Santa is if he were a real person:

Q: If Santa exists, then shouldn't everyone believe in him when they see the extra presents under the tree? 

A: Santa uses memory alteration to make it seem to adults like he does not exist. He had to start this years ago since parents got concerned about a stranger giving their children presents.


Q: How does he get around the world in one night? 

A: The answer to this is "hidden in plain sight"! Clones! How else does he appear it several different malls at the same time! They is at least one Santa per city. The Santa tracker does not know this and tracks only one of him, who is the "main" one and checks up on the others. All the reindeer are also clones as well. He also uses advanced technology to alter the flow of time.

Lastly, for the children they open all their presents on Christmas eve(or other times), there are a different group of Santas. 

Q: Don't clones degrade over time? 

A: Yes they are reconstituted into the main Santa when done for the season.

Q: How does he live so long? 

A: He is an alien and he lives a lot longer than most people, typically 1000 years. When he is actually old, he will probably ask his son or daughter to take over for him. He looks old too humans but he is about 30 for his species.

Q: Why do some of the presents appear to come from retail stores and why only Christens and why only children? 

A: Even with advanced technology, the demand for toys is just too great, so he had to make some hard choices about who he would serve. (he will not elaborate on this). The nody and nice thing serves the same purpose.

Q: But how does he know who is nody and nice and Christen? 

A: The AI in his slay scans the time stream and tells him. It's not always right(so you get odd cases) but it passed a sort of Criminal Background Check for AIs(it's a thing Aliens invented)  and never will misuse this data.

Q: Why does he do this? 

A: He has monitored us for years and fallen in love with the good side of humanity.


Q: Wikipedia says he does not exist! 

A: First of all that's not a question, second of all their wrong on all sorts of stuff now aren't they.

Q: How do the reindeer fly? 

A:  They don't, the slay uses Anti-gravity. The slay also generates the time manipulation and this tech is extremely dangerous in the wrong hands, so he lied and said it was reindeer to keep people off the scent.

Q: What do the governments think about him? Do they know about him? 

A: Those that can remember he exists, love him, he promised not to get involved in political airfares.
  
Q: Why can't people see his workshop? 

A:  Because it's on his home planet, it was said to be at the north poll to keep us off the scent. (again so people don't get alien tech) .Santa uses Warp Travel to reach earth and deliver the goods.

Q: I'm a scientist one of the things you said here is unscientific and contradicts our current fundamental understanding of the universe, how do you explain this? 

A: Your understanding of the universe must be wrong then!

Q: How do you remember this? 

A:  Santa has decided that my blog is small enough that I can publish this information, he needs it as a backup in case he accidentally Mind Wipes himself.(remember the clones reconstitute themselves) 

Q: What about the elves? 

A:  Another kind of alien

Q: Didn't Santa once come around with a devel? 

A:  Parents started that rumour to make misbehaving children behave better

Q: What about people who don't have chimneys? 

A: He can teleport inside a house but this does cause the clones to degrade more rapidly so he prefers to go down the chimney if he can.

Q: Do any clones ever die? 

A: If they do, it never caused a problem and they reconstitute into the "main one" when this happens. 

Q: Why doesn't he work out much? 

A: Coca Cola popularised the 'large' Santa we know today, he loved it and stuck with it. He makes himself look like that each year via Physical Holograms, he is very fit. 

Q: If all the Santas are clones, how come some of them have look or act different? 

A: He likes to be diverse


Q: Does he prefer Santa or Father Christmas? (what they call him in the UK)

A:  He is one of those "just don't call me something rude" guys.

Q: How come Santa did not get me this or that? 

A: I don't know, ask him, not me!

Q: What about....? 

A: Do what I did and make it up ;)