a true sign of the apocalypse

so i listen to the radio on itunes at work during the day. i switch between classical guitar, comedy and christian stations. so back to the point of this post.


i dont really understand the trend lately for christian artists to take a "secular" song and just resing it and try to make it sound more "christian".

they dont change the words just sing it... worse.

i think its sickening, really. if the radio stations want to play that song then play the original. i dont see how a different person singing it makes it a different song. same words same meaning, just different sound.

the latest one i heard prompted me to make this post.

evanescence is a really cool band. i like their sound i have some of their music, and most of the songs have what seem to be a underlying christian shadow, so to speak.

so i was listening to, i forget what station it was but, a christian itunes station. and all of a sudden "bring me to life" comes on but it sounds horrible.

its not evanescence, that made me upset. because it wasnt just some song cover it was a cover of a really good song that i have.




oh and thats not even the worst part.


the cover was by JOHN TESH





John Tesh...






thats gotta be in Revelation somewhere...

80's cartoons

ok so the other day i wore my thundercats tshirt to work and this sparked a conversation that i just had to share.

i will leave out the reminiscing about the awsomeness that is thundercats. because it is. awesome. dont argue.

ok but on to the real post about the "controlled diversity", as i like to call it, of the 80's cartoon which happened to carry over into the early 90's. what i mean by this is that the feeble attempts for diversity in the cartoon just went to prolong the ethnic stereotypes of the time.
this unbelievably deep thought spurred from my realization that panthro was "the token black guy". he was effectively the Mr. T of the thundercats. he was tougher then all the rest, bald, and his specialty was making stuff from out of thin air. just like MR.T.

and this is not limited to thundercats. transformers had Jazz, G.I.Joe had Sgt. Stalker, the list goes on.

i would have to say that the worlds all time worst cartoon would have to be Captain Planet. now i grew up with this too so dont get mad. hear me out.
2 major reasons why it was the worst cartoon.


1. it was completely force feed PC crap. the diversity was completly unrealistic, and as children we went along with it because of shear ignorance. 5 people 5 ethnicities, all working in unison to save the world, from villains who want to ruin the planet. which leads me to my next reason.

2. complete green wash. all the villains didnt want to take over the world they wanted to pollute it. now when have you ever heard of a bad guy who just wants to make things dirty. the fact that gia was the earths spirit personified, and that captain planet was the five elementals put together. its just astonishing. i wouldnt be surprised if that show was funded by green peace and peta.

oh well ive ranted enough just makes you think.

Fact #1

Who invented the telephone?

Antonio Meucci.

An erratic, sometimes brilliant Florentine inventor, Meucci arrived in the United States in 1850. In 1860 he first demonstrated a working model of an electric device he called the teletrofono. he filed a caveat (a kind of stopgap patent) in 1871, five years before Alexander Graham Bell's telephone patent.
In the same year, Meucci fell ill after he was badly scalded when the Staten Island ferry's boiler exploded. Unable to speak much English, and living on charity, he failed to send the $10 required to renew his caveat in 1874.
When Bell's patent was registered in 1876, Meucci sued. He'd sent his original sketches and working models to the lab at Western Union. By an extraordinary coincidence, Bell worked in the very same lab, and the models had mysteriously disappeared.
Meucci died in 1889, while his case against Bell was still under way. As a result, it was Bell, not Meucci, who got the credit for the invention. In 2004 the balance was partly redressed by the U.S. house of Representatives, which passed a resolution that "the life and achievements of Antonio Meucci should be recognized, and his work in the invention of the telephone should be acknowledged."
Not that Bell was a complete fraud. As a young man he did teach his dog to say "how are you, grandmamma?" as a way of communicating with her when she was in a different room. And he made the telephone a practical tool.

---from "The Book of General Ignorance"

hope you enjoyed it. i did.

so i got this book for christmas. its great. i love learning, especially odd facts and other useless knowledge and this book it pretty much written for me. when i found in borders a somewhat expected it to be dedicated to me. no really. its that perfect for me. so i have decided why keep these facts to my self?

from now on i will be posting the really good stuff. im about halfway through but ill go back through.

interesting facts about me

i hate urinals. if there is a toilet and a urinal next to each other ill use the toilet.

i like laffy taffy, especially banana.

i love technology.

i cant turn the design part of my brain off, i constantly look at things and evaluate the design.

i dont like raw tomatoes, wont eat them.

oooohhhh BURN

better hurry WGA its gettin ugly.