cracked.com

Here are some Cracked.com articles I've enjoyed today:

• Fifteen best songs about masturbation
• Four reasons apartment hunting sucks
• Five reasons why anti-conformity is worse than conformity
• Ten people who will haunt you on Facebook

Goodnight!

-AMB

ancient aliens

So it's a Saturday night and me and my main squeeze are taking it easy at home. I'm actually exhausted, I guess staying up late and yammering on about TV wasn't a good way to get a good night's rest.

I have 3-4 notes written from this one show we just watched on the PVR, it was called Ancient Aliens and it airs (aired?) on the History Channel. This one was called 'Chariot's, God's and Beyond'. Now that I'm browsing online about it, I can see that show was the pilot, and there are two seasons about this stuff! Honestly, I don't know if I can watch anymore shows, the pilot actually freaked me out. Literally, ask JB. I will post about the topics I wrote down and reference the show and this post as I do over however long it takes me to do them all!

So... the show is basically all about how there were aliens on Earth years and years and years ago, and everything is based on architecture, religion, books and all kinds of neat stuff. Books like the Bible, and some story of Ezechiel's wheel. It's messed up. They say that there's things that cannot be explained easily. Such as the pyramids, about how precise they are and how hard they were to build. And about how there are pyramid similar buildings all over the world (i.e Mayan. Hello!? 2012?). The three great pyramids are located at the center of the Earth in respect to longitude and latitude, which is before some major history of maps and that sort of knowledge of geography. The center of the Earth exactly. Whaaat? And alien air strips on top of some mountain (sorry I can't find a photo). And! The oldest city in the world, Puma Punku, how it was built and tools that seemed to have been needed to construct it - alien tools maybe? There's lots more, and I find it all to be very interesting!

After typing this and getting my courage up to google 2012, I feel calmer with the belief and less freaked out that Mayan scientists think this is more than likely spiritual or something, like a new age. Mayan's didn't write about doom. [Side note: Mayan's may also have been aliens, according to that show. Some boss guy Mayan was like 8 feet tall] But others say 2012 could be a collision with another planet. I thought that if Mayans were aliens they were really smart and could tell us or warn us about the future. Anyway, I'm going with the new age thing, it makes me feel better!

To summarize: check out 'Ancient Aliens'

-AMB

drunk tv observations

I was flicking channels on the TV - it's 3:20 am on Saturday morning, I'm just getting in (fun night!). I was putting notes in notepad about a blog post. But I decided to write instead of waiting, plus by the time I'm done new shows will be on the hour on the boob tube. I will add all my links to sites/info tomorrow because that will just take too long right now.

- I clicked on 'How It's Made' (did you ever see the candy episode? youtube video!!) Anyway, I caught the last 30 seconds of how they make bagged ice salt. Guess what they said? It takes an HOUR to make that from start to finish. Oh that's normal you think? Start to finish from MINING IT to BAGGING IT. That's no time! I guess making salt isn't a complicated process, but I missed the first part of the show lol!

- Guess what? I love the Next Generation series of Star Trek. Just that one, not any other one. Love it! Don't quiz me, I would never win a trivia game or anything. But I like the show! There's a movie marathon on now on some channel, and I'm probably going to watch the start of a movie. It's ok, I'm a lovable nerd :)

- It's Amanda-TV heaven now by the way, at three thirty in the morning. I'm a re-run junkie, and there are tons of shows to choose from! Family Guy, Bobby Flay's Showdown, Simpsons, How It's Made, American Dad, Friends and a crap load of movies. * Editor's note: I went with Family Guy, it was the episode where Peter grew a mustache!

- Also one more thing. I hate when, on the dish guide, I mistake a really interesting half-title for something awesome, and when you read the show summary info, it sounds so boring. * Editor's note: I wrote something (like 10 lines!) that I mistook on the guide,the 30 min show 'Don't Tell My Mother' (last night he was in Pakistan) with the end of the movie 'Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead'. Looking today, it might have just been the alcohol talking, so I deleted it :)

Anyway, it's 3:30 am. Good night!

-AMB

booing habs fans

O hi.

So I had some ideas about posts, 99% of which I've forgotten about. The solution to this to may be to not wait a week to blog. I have to try and remember to make jot notes in my phone or something.

I was watching the NHL playoffs the other night with my main squeeze. And when I say "watching" that usually means I'm doing something on the computer, listening to commentary, asking questions about skate tape, and pointing out if someone has funny looking eyebrows. O and watching Coach's Corner! One thing I also do is listen to people screaming things on the ice and in the stands.

It was a Boston vs. Montreal game, being played in Montreal. Every time that Zdeno Chara had the puck, a huge loud "Boooo!" would resonate from the crowd. Every. Single. Time. All you sportsfans (Carebear shoutout!) may remember the March 8th Chara hit on Max Pacioretty. Obviously Montreal fans are none too pleased with this guy, and they brought out the boos. I thought it was hilarious - interesting-hilarious, not funny-hilarious. It made me curious to what this guy had to say about the hit, and really about what players intentions are. Well from what I can find, there's a lot of chatter about this stuff on the ol' interwebz. This ESPN article says that Pacioretty said it was "part of the game" and that Chara didn't intend to hurt the guy. Even if he was on a mission to hurt, there's no way you'd be able to admit that now. There'd be a lot more than booing to worry about. I also saw Don Cherry comment on how Chara was acting more cautious and not hitting shortly after the Pacioretty hit. So I guess the news and points are about oh, hitting in hockey (I barely watch hockey, and I've heard about this a hundred times), and if there should have been a more severe punishment for Chara. Why players are running around delievering head blows on purpose, I don't know.

I'm always saying about sports hits: Oh I don't think he didn't mean to hurt him. Maybe that's not 100% true, body checks are not entirely OH&S approved! Accidents happen too, someone turns or moves and a bump to the arm turns into a bump in the head or back. But I can't imagine players wanting to really injure one another. But then again people hurt one another all the time, why should I believe that a hockey game is the exception. In my line of work I should know better. Sometimes people just are down right evil.

Tune in next October when I'll be on the hunt for the continuing fan boo-ing in Montreal!

-AMB