Guitar Guitar Guitar!!!!

     I practiced my acoustic a lot today and then did some on the electric as well. I also ordered 2 dozen picks and a guitar stand. If you know those times when you are more inspired to practice, well this is one of them. I have a Takamine G340SC and a Jackson SL2H. Unfortunately my amp is crap but that doesn't affect the finger work that needs to be done. I've been working to improve just outright technical proficiency in the picking hand and strength in my left hand. Piano is doing some help I can notice already, and I see this will be a dual benefit. The best thing I know of doing so far for that is repeating scale type patterns and also ones that shift up or down. Picks similar to Fender medium are the best for me. I'd like to see what other guitarists of different styles prefer just out of curiosity.

Hammer Throlololo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ1TEjhZLCM
This is a pretty funny video.

Got My Wisdom Teeth Taken Out

     The only remarkable memory of the procedure itself was out of embarrassment trying not to smile from the nitrous oxide. Next they put the IV in my hand and I don't remember going out, so it must have been sudden. When I went home, the pain wasn't bad. It never ended up hurting and I didn't ever have to use the pain pills. I guess the anti-inflammatory medication did its job well. Unfortunately I had some bad gas and more recently periods of dizziness. I was supposed to be knocked out the day of the surgery but after sleeping a little bit I was back 80 percent or so and able to function fine. Hopefully later surgeries I may have to have end up going this well.

$8 an hour outside is harder than working inside

     The 1st time when I worked like 7 hours without food and wore my back out I had to think of it as getting paid to work out. This time I was applying a weather proof coating to all of this wood I stacked and it was not fun because of all this crap I got all over myself. Then I got rained on. I just thought how back at the office I pack boxes at, the same three hours would have passed by easily. I'm looking at making some relatively passive income. I want to learn about investment, and of course it would be nice to get things figured out and start selling on ebay.

Parkour and Freerunning Training

     Parkour is a discipline where one trains his or her body to go through difficult obstacles with smooth and efficient movement. Like with martial arts, most of the experience is defined by the training itself. Freerunning is different in that practitioners move about with the most creative and visually appealing movements rather than ones designed to move quickly. Usually I train doing a mix of both although I mainly focus on parkour techniques. I haven't put much work into flipping or handstands because I'm more into parkour but I do plan on getting some basic flips down solid eventually and learning handstands. This summer I'm going to do a lot of work on running faster, jumping higher, doing better climbups, and being able to do all of that for a longer period of time. If you haven't heard of it, watch a lot of videos on youtube, and look up the MTV show as well as the G4 show. My friend Drew who taught me a lot is on the G4 show and hopefully there will be more seasons to come. When you look at that stuff, don't just think you can't do it. It is a day to day process and you don't have to do risky things you aren't ready for. Preparation and safety is essential, and it is very fun as well to train.

Bach is the greatest

     I'm just saying what anyone into polyphony can agree with. The man was like Neo living in the Matrix. He was a total badass and took no prisoners. Once he threw his wig at a student and said that they should have been a cobbler. Another time when probably jealous musicians, one of which he insulted by comparing his bassoon playing to a goat, tried to attack him, he fended them off with a ceremonial dagger he had with him. The man had a limited time on earth not leaving any room for incompetence. In all seriousness though, Bach is a one time deal. Rarely does the world ever get people with such a winning combination of talent, work ethic, and opportunity. Here is a good documentary laying out some of the basics about him. http://adf.ly/1XMyz  Just for the hell of it, I'll add a link to something awesome. http://adf.ly/1XN0a That particular pedal solo is usually never played so fast but Koopman is showing the type of flair Bach undoubtedly let loose as it was remarked that he could play things with his feet that others couldn't play with their hands. His music is teeming with technical and intellectual power; so lively and so full that it is just the extreme of the extreme.

Government Auctions

     I've been wanting to start buying things and selling them on ebay. I'm going to start small with garage sales around town and stuff like that but eventually I'd like to make some larger purchases with government liquidation, government auctions of seized criminal stuff, and wholesale sites online. Unfortunately the 1st two require you to arrange your own shipping if it isn't close enough to drive and the latter usually requires a business license and/or very large minimum purchases. This stuff is crazy though. Not only are there huge trucks and ridiculous things being sold, but they are selling boxes of 50 laptops with the hard drives removed and the way bidding is going so far it can be had for less than $10 per laptop. I also saw in Ohio a lot of 70 fireman helmets being sold. There are a lot of random things but huge deals. http://adf.ly/1XMjw

Weird Haunting Composer

     Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa was a very odd composer and person. http://adf.ly/1XME0 You can read on his background there but I will summarize. He was a renaissance composer known for his odd leaps in tonality, with that oddness arguably not being matched until well into the 19th century. His music is very emotional and haunting at times, and that could be said to reflect his life. When he caught his wife with her lover, he killed them both, with the man dressed in women's clothing and his wife stabbed many times. He then left them outside for the public to see and monks had sex with her dead body. She was still pretty young and supposedly beautiful so I guess stab wounds and lifelessness wouldn't be enough to keep them off. After the murders he went through a period of manic depression. He actually remarried, and eventually began to beat her and had servants beat him as well. If you think that is weird, you should hear his music. http://adf.ly/1XMVA  This is a great example of his beautiful and haunting music.

Breaking Bad, Prison Break, and Dexter

 When I found out from a friend on facebook about a show where a high school chemistry teacher began selling methamphetamine, it was not long after that I had the torrents running and megavideo streaming. It was a few weeks before I would begin my freshman year of college, and I was totally hooked on the show. For several days I did nothing at all other than watch the show for hours and hours into the night. Breaking Bad is that show, and it is great from the action, plot twists, depth of characterization, and outright cleverness. I am interested in chemistry so it motivated me toward doing some home chemistry myself, except I never got around to more than burning the lithium from batteries and obviously had no plans of making drugs. Anyway, I later came across the show Prison Break. It has changed so much throughout the seasons. Everything is basically revolving around death threats and blackmail though. I'm still watching the series now and it is very entertaining but you kind of wish for things to not always go wrong or complicate as they do. Everything is always a cliffhanger so it is like a drug you wish you never started but can't give up. Playstation network is down so I have no 'Nicorette' for this addiction. Dexter I began to watch at my friend's house and just watched the first few episodes. It looked to be another great show but differs from the others in that there appears, at least from what I saw, to be some stability rather than one thing after another all of the time. I still need to check out 24 and maybe Weeds but I also need to keep away from spending too much time watching this stuff.

Penny Auction Websites

I looked up these sites after a friend on facebook posted a picture on how he bought an itunes card worth $125 or something for over 90% off. Here's the short explanation. The prices start at 0 and raise a penny usually with every bid, and each bid adds time to the auction, selling at a massive discount while the website obviously makes a huge cut. Here's why: the bids cost around 60 cents varying with the website. While some offer safety mechanisms so people don't end up wasting their bids, don't count on buying a lot of bids. There are more losers than winners and a lot of times the winners just power their way through wasting a lot of bids and not even getting a good deal. You could make teams to outlast the most powerful bidders and split the winnings but that same time could be spent finding better ways to make money.  Here's what you can do. Certain sites have promotional codes for free bids. I got 16 free bids. I blew the first 9 trying to win bid packages. I had 7 left, but I had realized that you need to find something with cautious bidders and get lucky in the end, with each bidder hoping another will keep it going. That means never go on anything big unless you have the combined power to take on everybody else. Anyway, with 7 bids left, it took only 2 bids for me to win a 64 oz stainless steel flask they valued at $30. Of course you could get it online for as low as $15, but I only had to pay around $5 and most was shipping and tax. I felt like a winner, but realized that people blow their money on these feelings. I'm therefore going to stick to using promotional codes for free bids. Here's the website: http://adf.ly/1Tu4Y   The promotional code I used was espn. Don't trust these sites by investing in many bids unless you are doing so with the risk understood. They are cheating everyone, so figure out how to cheat them.

Continuation

     I don't really care to write much more about this stuff because it is getting boring to me. NWO Bilderburg group trilateral commission Illuminati Freemasons are together to bring one world government. That is the basic conspiracy. Depending on how deep you go, supposedly the reptilians are behind all of this, who were the Annunaki from the sumerian religion. Not so exciting, but pretty dumb.
     I don't know how many people actually believe these things. I know the USA has underground bases, but that doesn't mean to just assume the most wild things you can make up. I heard more recently from someone that Tupac was killed by the Illuminati. That sounds like a load of crap when you consider the amount of petty gang disputes rappers are involved in, and how little importance he has compared to others. Now on to better things...

Ridiculous things that some people believe

     Because of the nature of that first post, I guess it will naturally follow to get into some of the common conspiracies. Unfortunately I haven't watched that show with Jesse Ventura as it is probably interesting. I guess I'll start with the dumbest ones first.
     Free energy devices! The ones that work aren't actually free energy devices but easy ways of getting energy. Solar panels could be seen as this kind of free energy because you don't do anything and it collects energy from the sun, and a proposed free energy device using quasicrystals: http://adf.ly/MNOX claims to capture electromagnetic radiation similarly. I would not invest in something like this until it is proven, but the basic idea of it is sound at least. Quasicrystals are incredibly amazing things though, because they only have crystalline properties on the large scale, while they appear irregular on a small scale. That itself is very strange, and it also is how other types of crystalline structures show symmetries in a higher spacial dimension. To get back on topic though, it just may happen to be that quasicrystals cannot redirect electromagnetic radiation as claimed. I need to look into it. The real dumb free energy device is the electrolysis of water alleged to improve gas mileage. You'll hear talk about "HHO" gas and "Brown's" gas. These aren't actual truths. They claim that there is some magical intermediate gas that comes out that takes less energy to produce than it gives in combustion. The reality is: 2H2O (liquid)  -> 2H2 (gas) + O2 (gas)  The energy required to break it apart is more than can be contained from the heat of combustion of what is produced. This is obvious and I only looked into it to see if it improves efficiency by making the rest of the fuel burn better, and that isn't true relative to how much energy an upgraded alternator would take, or how little would be normally produced. Cars can run on hydrogen, though, as well as natural gas, and you can collect natural gas (which is methane mostly) from composting things. There are all kinds of free energy scams out there and the way to know is usually how they explain where the energy is coming from. Anything referring to semi-spiritual energies or alternative science would be the type of scam I'm talking about.
     Now I'll have to move on to Nikola Tesla. He was an amazing inventor and scientist. http://adf.ly/MPse Children learn about the lightbulb being made by Edison as if he was one of the greatest geniuses ever, or even the greatest of the time. I guess the foundations for our entire modern electrical system, which are the foundations for 20th century development, are to be ignored entirely (AC power), along with his invention of the radio which was stolen from him. Tesla and Edison had a bitter rivalry. Tesla wouldn't like Edison because he screwed Tesla over badly, and he criticized Edison for his lack of theoretical knowledge. Anyway, that isn't related. The conspiracies came out of his inventions being so ahead of their time, and some of the sketches and devices being confiscated when he died. There is a minor story about him having an electric car that ran powered by a small mysterious black box, another about him almost getting killed while attempting time travel which he allegedly discovered, and another about a U.S. ship disappearing or getting messed up in a time travel experiment or something gone wrong. More interesting than those entirely silly stories, however, are those more based on his writings. http://adf.ly/MPuK Many of his theories would allegedly rely on physics different than standard models to work. Various notions based on the term "unified field theory" are found in all kinds of conspiracies, and especially what is said relating to Tesla, and there may be some truth to what Tesla believed as he was working on a theory relating gravity and electromagnetism, but modern conspiracies distort this using their claims http://adf.ly/MQLK. The link before the most recent cites the time he used radio waves and accidentally caused some destruction in Colorado and how the physics of that work out according to their theory. http://adf.ly/MQRP The beginning post reflects the typical kinds of things thought. It, however, ties into the more general conspiracy web about aliens, illuminati, NWO, etc. that I'll get into later. http://adf.ly/MQaJ This page is one of the more interesting. Tesla was said to be a showman, but with this and several other postulations of his in mind, that could be understated. These are obviously some extreme claims Tesla made, and even more extreme claims made by the site. http://adf.ly/MQjz HAARP, alleged to purposely affect weather and cause earthquakes, is another Tesla conspiracy. I'll just post this now and move on to the rest at another time.

Introduction to Me

     Because this blog is just about my ideas and random crap I decide to put up here, it would help to first introduce myself. My main interests are usually things that are based in deep thought, novel ideas, inventiveness, and creativity. The biggest thing that I'm into is J.S. Bach's music and that of other composers as well as progressive/technical metal, but there is also science, philosophy, historical speculation, inventions, short stories (H.P. Lovecraft is my favorite), and all kinds of random other stuff. I'll put a lot of cool links on here and talk about them as well.
      Not too long ago, I was watching youtube videos on fractals and then I got into watching things about sacred geometry. That stuff got very interesting although you can quickly come upon crap to weed out. It is the same way if you want to learn about the Sumerian religion and Annunaki. Their religion in ways can be interpreted to propose that aliens engineered humans, and there are many archeological finds with things depicting what really appear to be depictions of spacecraft and their operators. I find it interesting at least how their religion came about to be, and it is ironically more plausible than the things that are made up in other religions (many of which were almost directly derived from this religion). There is so much that we don't know about early civilization, which is hinted further by finds which provide good evidence that the Sphinx and great pyramids were actually built around 10,500 BCE. The Sphinx wear comes from rain, which hasn't been there since around then, and they are exactly aligned with stars in reference to that time. If not built then, there is at least meaning to that year. Truly rational thinking guides one to keep a certain degree of plausibility in thinking of things that aren't debunked while rooting out the baseless claims and derived conspiracy stories. Just because people make up crap about UFO's does not mean that there are not a huge number of sightings and unedited videos. The Nasa ones are the most convincing. As to what they are and what pilots them, it is all speculation really.
     That little off topic paragraph shows the fine line I ride on. The boundaries of what we know have many people making up crap on one side, and others completely doubting solid yet ambiguous evidence.