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Despite being the handy tech guy (at least I think) to a majority of the people who read this thing, I very rarely have done anything that would categorize this as a “Tech Blog” even though I read a handful of them everyday. It’s a new day!

I wanted to tell you all about an addon that I use in Firefox and is also available for Chrome if you use it. If you use Internet Explorer…that’s your problem. Sorry!

The addon/extension is called Adblock Plus. It will basically block all banner and flash adds on most websites (sorry Carolyn). After using it for a few weeks, anytime you browse the web without it you will wonder how anyone looks at the internet that way. It really is awesome. However, if you visit any websites where you don’t want to hide the ads because you want to support it, you can click on the handy little arrow next to the stop sign in the top right, and disable Adblock on that page. I do this on reddit, as I like to see the ads there. Below are the links for the Firefox and Chrome addons. Enjoy!

Adblock Plus for Firefox
Adblock for Chrome

Ev

This post is gonna be best viewed on a computer and not on a phone if that is how you are reading this. Just a heads up.

So the other day I was over at Scott’s house, and he had the surprise thingy from inside Cracker Jacks. Any of these pictures can be clicked on to increase their size.

Inside, there was a fact, which Scott was telling/quizzing me about.

Without telling the whole course of events at Scott’s house, I pretty much decided that it makes absolutely zero fucking sense. Let me demonstrate.

Notice the awesome part where I realized I used Pi*r^2 as the formula for the circumference and used the diameter as the radius. Since I was too lazy to redo the whole page I just crossed those parts out and fixed them. I know the ruler is hard to see but I wanted to provide somewhat of a scale. The letters are about 3/4 of an inch tall, which is a hell of a lot taller than any lined paper you’re gonna find in a student’s notebook. Anyway, as you can clearly see, something here is extremely fucked up.

Their numbers put the average word at being 4 feet in length of writing, and writing big in my terrible handwriting I got nearly half a foot. At the size I wrote you’d need to write a word nearly 8 times the length of mine (Hello), or 30 letters long. Antidisestablishmentarianism is only 28 letters long. So, umm….wtf.

Googling this fact, I basically couldn’t find anything remotely scientific backing up the “fact” except for people with ideas on how to test it, but it did not seem like anyone had ever really done it in a scientifically acceptable manner, if at all. Moral of the story: I don’t trust the facts inside Cracker Jack surprises. I recommending that the manufacturer begin a complete audit of all Fun Facts inserted into their products, and in the future, provide a respected source for where the fact originated. Alternatively, I could shut the fuck up.

I have no idea how I’m gonna make this post, especially when I’m the last person who should be making judgments on adults when I’ve failed so miserably at becoming one. Oh fucking well. It’s my blog. I’ll do as I please.

Alright, well I can’t figure out how to write this post yet or exactly what I want to say, but the core of the story is that my parents have suggested that I change my Facebook profile picture to something…”more mature” I guess. No? Why? Who gives a shit? I’m a weird goofy guy, and my profile picture might as well reflect that. I already have my Facebook privacy settings practically maxed out, and I regularly trim my friends list, and never accept or seek new FB friends that I wouldn’t want seeing the things I say.

One of my co-workers at my internship ( I guess technically my superior since she’s a full time legit employee) asked why I do that. I believe I answered somewhere along the lines of that I didn’t want all the political/religious comments and posts I make to damage my opportunities. I mean, that is realistic reasoning, but a little depressing that I could say something that seems so funny or obvious to me, but that adults (who are supposedly mature?) are so fragile that they might be so offended by it that it could hinder me professionally. It makes me somewhat jealous of teenagers who get to practice in real life not caring what other people think.

I guess I figured out what to write. As William Forrester said, “The first key to writing is… to write.” Here comes flying cars.

Of the many things they whine about (chief being my generation) the baby boomers love to punctuate shit with “and where are the fuckin flying cars?!?” or “they promised us flying cars!” Am I the only person who realizes how bad a fucking idea that is. Forget whether or not we have the technology! We can’t keep people from getting into cars with a .3 BAC and killing people. Shit, we can’t even keep sober people from killing people while driving. Twenty car pileups, cars bursting into flames, drive-by shootings, people throwing their cigarettes butts out the window (more on that in a sec), and people getting road-head, and everyone thinks we should move this shit off the ground and into the sky?!? Holy fucking hell. Forget cars falling out of the sky, which is by far the most dangerous and obvious reasons not to do this. That alone would kill tons of people and cause absurd amounts of damage. How about when some asshole throws their trash out the window and your toddler takes a McDonalds cup full of ice to the head from 100 feet up, or when someone’s cigarette butt lands on your roof in a pile of leaves and burns your house to the ground.

Here’s an idea. When people are no longer driving cars, and we can somehow (and I don’t see this ever happening) create something that is so redundant and fail-safe that it won’t just fall out of the sky cause it’s made in America, then maybe, MAYBE, we can have a real conversation about flying cars. As long as at the same time we can talk about the cars folding into a briefcase. Can’t the baby boomers just be happy that they have 21st century computers, telephones, address books, stereo systems, GPS systems, and practically the entire sum of human knowledge in their fucking pockets? I guess not.

Ev

I’d just like to mention that life is much more complicated than originally advertised. I had always assumed that my only task would be to use my special abilities to protect the innocent from evil villains. Also, there are less Princess kidnapping dinosaurs and monsters than I expected. What a load of shit.

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If the answer to that question (this post’s title) is yes, I have another. WHY? To explain my point more explicitly, I do in-fact believe that everyone who doesn’t support child abuse and its covering up, should leave the Catholic Church. In fact, I believe if you are pro-choice, pro-birth control, pro-marriage equality (and other general …Read More

I was talking with a friend about the timeline of the United State going from slavery, to the civil rights movement, to having a Black president. I think it’s evident that America could elect a woman president as well. The question that came up was about how long it would be before an atheist, homosexual, or …Read More

So I’m in the car listening to the radio last night, and it’s this show all about paranormal new-age weird shit. Anyway, this guy calls in and says he sometimes sees demons, and ghosts, and spirits and shit both when he’s awake and asleep. What do they tell him? I can tell you what they didn’t …Read More

I once again started writing a whole goddamn essay worth of a response to this that I just can’t finish in one sitting. That will be posted soon, but in the meantime, watch the video. Remember, it’s not that Washington D.C. is indifferent, its just corrupt. Video after the break.
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