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Country: Philippines
Director: Cesar S.B. Abella
Starring : Nika Madrid , Rev Reyes, Rizza Rossini, Shanghai, ...
Release day: 2006 (Philippines)
The story is, a girl lives alone in a rural area of the Philippines and works as a prostitute. Many of the male villagers in the area want to have sex with her or have crushes on her, and most of them barge their way into her house and assault her, where, after 30 seconds or so, she gives in and has sex with them, which she appears to enjoy greatly. One of the boys has a crush on her, and gets mad when she continues her job as a prostitute, and tries to get her to give it up.
Mitos (Nika Madrid) is a typical bar girl whoe sells flesh just to augment a living. Danny Boy (Rev Reyes), a typical school teenager who fell in love with her despite being a prositute.
Everything altered when she let Danny Boy experience his "first time". Both share the course of bodily fascination and enjoy the intensity of lustful obsession...until one day, guilt feelings envelop her conscience. Because of their dissimilar level of soul, she decided to give up everything and went back to the province.
Will genuine hoard their boundless relationship or intense passion be the reason for them to lay back once more in each other's heart?
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Glad to see at least things are going smoothly so far. I hope I can keep up with all of these blogs. Everyone who did not see the wonderful pictures you gave me are simple awed by them, thank you both so very much.
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Anyway, the point is... WE'RE BACK ON THE ROAD AGAIN! or plane... why does this have to be so difficult.
Well, I'll fill you in on the events of the last few days.
It's been a whirlwind, the last week and a half. Moving out of our apartment, Gabrielle's parents coming to Winnipeg to make some sort of record for the longest distance travelled for the least amount of visit time, and quitting our jobs, only to end it all by packing up all of our things and going traveling again. Work finished Friday, and we've left Tuesday morning... what the heck were we thinking.
But we're here now, sitting in transit to London in Chicago's O'Hare Airport, having strangely managed to not only land here early, but we've also gotten to our new gate with little difficulty. It's too easy... that or we're actually getting good at this! I'm gonna go with the second one 'cause it boosts my ego.
Normally a good idea is to leave a week or so between quitting your job and moving out of your apartment / house and traveling - giving yourself enough time for everything to percolate before you leave in between all of your packing and last minute visiting. We decided to forgo this option - foolishly - very foolishly - and are paying for it with exhaustion, over-packed bags, and a lack of realization that we're actually going on a trip.
So it's back into travel blog writing! Forgive us a bit while we get the hang of this again. It's been awhile since we last did this on the road. Having read over some of our past blogs, we're going to try and improve our writing and descriptions as well, leaving you with a more vivid experience - enhanced by the power of our new and vastly improved cameras. Prepared to have your socks 'wowed' off. If you aren't wearing any, put some on for the sole purpose of having them ejected across the room.
First stop, London England for a 24 hour tour. This will be followed by Portugal, Spain, Morocco, more Spain, a brief interlude in Spain, even more Spain, finished off with a boat. Then France, Italy, Spain... again, New York, and a circuitous route back to Winnipeg which we haven't booked yet but may involve Boston and the French speaking part of our home and native land... well, one of our home's and quasi-native lands.
Ok! So it's started now. Are you 'wowed' yet? I know I will be the second I actually realize where we're going. In the mean time, I hope the airplane gives out some peanuts.
All our best in Transit, and needing much sleep
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RUSH: Do you remember Valerie Plame? Do you remember how you heard about her? Do you really remember how you first heard about Valerie Plame? Robert Novak, the late Robert Novak wrote a column in which he casually mentioned that he'd been told that Valerie Plame, wife of Joe Wilson, had been over there supposedly on a mission assessing Iranian and other Middle Eastern nuclear capabilities. Supposedly Novak outed her as a CIA agent, and thus destroyed her career and ruined her life and made her a target.
This begot a special prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, to dig deep to find out who it was that told Novak, except by the time Fitzgerald got in gear, we already knew. It was a guy named Richard Armitage, who worked with Colin Powell at the State Department who had outed Valerie Plame. Novak did not reveal his source at first. But it came to be known that it was Armitage who did it. A man by the name of Scooter Libby was found guilty of it in a witch hunt, and for years the media was obsessed with who in the world would out this woman. Why, what kind of ignorance and lack of attention, what kind arrogance could lead to people simply outing the identity of a very brilliant, it was said, very effective, just totally valuable CIA agent, Valerie Plame.
Meanwhile, she and her husband were on the covers of magazines in Washington driving around town in convertibles, not doing a thing to keep her identity secret. Richard Armitage, who was the original leaker, was never made to pay a single price for this. Scooter Libby was the target of a witch hunt special counsel. Scooter Libby, who worked for Dick Cheney, which is what made him an exciting target. They tried to get Karl Rove as well. So for, what was it, two years the media couldn't let go of this. And we're told what a dangerous, reckless bunch of incompetents were at the Bush presidency, the Bush administration. And outing this poor woman because her husband did something that Bush didn't like, came back and said that the Iranians weren't doing nukes, or somebody wasn't. It was all about the yellowcake trip to Niger.
And so it was said that the Bush administration purposely outed her name to get back at her husband, and they're both kind of... elevator doesn't go all the way to the top. Oh, yeah, they had the movie and everything. Naomi Watts starred as Valerie Plame in the movie. It was an absolute media frenzy, and the guy who leaked -- first thing, the leak was not that big a deal anyway. But secondly, the guy who leaked her name to Novak never -- when people found out he did it they left him alone, because he was with Colin Powell, and they were both anti-George W. Bush. So they were on the right side as far as the media was concerned.
So what happens this past weekend? Obama, in trouble with the VA, has to make a super-secret trip to Afghanistan to prove his bona fides with the military. And the White House leaks accidentally, quote, unquote, accidentally the name of the CIA station chief in Kabul. Not some analyst at Langley protected by security there, but the CIA station chief in Afghanistan, in Kabul, twice! And they were told by somebody at the Washington Post who somehow knew that the name -- it was supposedly on the guest list, appearing with Bush at Bagram Air Force Base. And somebody at the Washington Post recognized it, "That's the CIA station chief," and told the Regime about it, and the Regime (gagging sound).
The media, "Why, it's just unfortunate. It's just a momentary lapse." This leak, the CIA station chief in Kabul, this is a death warrant making his name public. And the same media that couldn't get enough of the Valerie Plame leak is treating this as, "Ah, just another unfortunate thing. Just another unfortunate incident in a terrible year for Obama." I don't know whether they did it on purpose. I have no idea. It doesn't matter. They're just totally inept and incompetent, and it just goes to show, if you ask me, in the final analysis, they don't care that much. They really just don't care.
RUSH: You know, actually as I remember it, Richard Armitage outed Valerie Plame to Bob Woodward first a month before Robert Novak found out about it. And Armitage said, "Yeah, Wilson, he's mad about all kinds of stuff, and, you know, his wife is over the agency." It was Wilson that was telling people, when you get right down to it. But the whole thing was outrageous. Scooter Libby didn't do anything, but forget that. The media couldn't let go of it.
It was so bad. It was life-threatening. It destroyed this woman's life and her marriage and her world, and oh, my God, it was horrible. And they let go the name of the station chief at Kabul and it's just an accident, not intentional, didn't mean anything by it, unfortunate, name got posted in a list that it wasn't supposed to, blah, blah, blah, blah. Sickening, this double standard that exists, because it's destructive.
RUSH: "Well, you know, it's just an accident that we outed the CIA station chief in Kabul." Here, grab sound bite number three. We have a little montage here. Poor Scooter Libby. Valerie Plame was sitting at a desk in Virginia. Her husband outed her, and then Armitage outed her to Bob Woodward who couldn't believe what he was hearing, and then Novak ends up outing her in his column, and she ends up being famous and having movies and books written about her and so forth. And Scooter Libby gets found guilty for leaking her when he didn't have anything to do with it. The Regime comes long and outs the CIA station chief in Afghanistan, and the media treats it like a little side note.
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KRISTEN WELKER: The White House quickly fixed its error.
BRIANNA KEILAR: And a big oops from the White House.
RUSH: You can't fix the error. What's this poor guy gonna do? He's just been outed. And there are pictures of him now in addition to his name. He was up there with Obama. Here's Jonathan Martin. Let's see. The New York Times talking with John King at CNN this morning on CNN's New Day, the Inside Politics segment. And here's the conversation they had.
JOHN KING: Keystone Kops element to this. Is this just a second-term mistake? Is it some tired military person in Afghanistan?
JONATHAN MARTIN: It does strike me as when it rains it pours, that these guys are just going through a rough patch. and even a sort of feel-good event to go in and support the troops, they can't even do that without something going wrong.
RUSH: Oh, it's such a shame. It's just, you know, when it rains it pours. Man, it's just so unfortunate. It's so sad. Poor Obama, he's trying so hard, and he's so smart, oh, God, he's so smart, yeah, victimized once again by stupid idiot underlings. Wow, it's just man, when it rains, it pours. Here's John Bolton, he was on Fox this morning. Bill Hemmer said, "Look, others contend the Valerie Plame incident was similar, when she sent her husband to Africa to investigate some claims of evidence that Saddam was doing something nefarious, so her name goes public. Is this a fair comparison, John?"
BOLTON: No, I don't think so. I mean, Valerie Plame's name was made public by Rich Armitage, Secretary Colin Powell's deputy, and then resulted in some very unfair treatment of a lot of other people in the Bush administration, like Scooter Libby, but that was just a malicious piece of gossip. This is utter incompetence. There is no justification for this. There's no explanation for it. It's like there's nobody in charge at the White House. I think it's a problem that runs through Obama's administration. Who is in charge on these things?
RUSH: They don't care, is the bottom line. This is so beneath them, all this CIA station chief secrecy stuff. (imitating Obama) "Hell, I'm only over here 'cause I'm in trouble on the VA anyway."


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- Tori of Fairy Foxes. Example in episode 4:
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- Jimbob in GEOWeasel occasionally goes off tangents and snaps back with non sequiturs. Nar is usually The Ditz, but in one case can apparently understand Jimbob's outbursts.
Nar: Hey, Jim, how's the weather?
Jimbob: Apples and cream pie!
Nar: Yeah, it does look like it's gonna rain.
- At one point, Weas is able to read minds. Two characters have thoughts in their normal voices, but Jim just has backmasked music playing in his head.
- The Homestar Runner universe has a number of these:
- Homestar Runner is usually The Ditz, but his energetic, active stupidity often results in some surreal dialogs (or monologues).
"Say, you got a girlfriend? Well, what if your girlfriend was a wooden spoon and an orange plastic bowl? That'd be really weird, man. What kind of screwed-up kid are you? We don't recruit your kind! Get out of here!"
- Or the way he talks to the movies in the theater. Not as in, "Oh no don't do that!! He's right behind you!", just small talk to the characters. Sometimes about a salad he plans to make. "Yeah, I figured I'd just cut up some iceberg lettuce, throw some tomatoes on there, maybe a little catalina. Nothing fancy, nothing fancy..." Homestar is often naive to the world around him, so he often needs Pom Pom to help him... too bad Pom Pom is The Unintelligible.
Homestar: (upon walking into a cemetery) Oh man, Pom Pom, this is gonna be so great! First, we'll hit Space Mountain, then over to Mr. Toad's, then Tom Sawyer's Island, and don't forget, we parked in the Goofy lot!
- Homsar is the Lord Mayor of Cloudcuckooland. He communicates largely in non-sequiturs with only the flimsiest connection to the topic at hand, and his disconnection from reality is so strong that he breaks the laws of physics (by levitating either himself or his hat) every time he speaks. He also somehow managed to survive having a Heavy Lourde dropped on him.
Homsar: Oh no! You shanked my Jengaship!
Strong Sad: I shanked your Jengaship? We're playing Connect Four.
- According to episode 2 of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, Homsar is apparently just speaking his own incomprehensible language rather than being a true Cloudcuckoolander. Strong Bad can temporarily understand Homsar, who is actually quite articulate to those who can understand him. To anybody else, any conversation those two have ends up as a series of confusing ramblings.
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- Marshie is just dadaist terror personified.
"You better believe it's new Fluffy Puff Malloween orange and black flavored marshmallows! "They Taste the Same, but Loo—" [violent coughing] Sorry. Must've got a toenail caught in m'throat!
- Coach Z has his share of weirdness:
Marzipan: Coach Z, might I ask why you're buying up all the "great for baby" items?
Coach Z: I'd prefer that you didn't...
- Strong Mad has his moments, both because he speaks in a loud voice and because, as Strong Bad points out, he has "a pretty tenuous grasp on the English language." Example:
Strong Bad: Hey, Strong Mad! What, uh... What's my favorite movie?
Strong Mad: GARBLEDINA!!!!
- Strong Mad also likes to make dinosaur-themed art (i.e., an MS Paint drawing, a claymation film) and made a "portrait" of Strong Bad out of glitter and macaroni. And, as seen in Strong Bad Email #58: "dragon" (the email from whence Trogdor originated), instead of drawing a picture of a dragon, Strong Mad carves the word "DAGRON" into a table, which Strong Bad doesn't seem to mind.
- One can safely say that there's also a Cloudcuckoolander Ball being tossed around constantly in the Homestar Runner universe, with Bubs,Strong Bad and Marzipan being prime recipients for it.
Marzipan: Oh, these [crayons] don't actually color anything, so no "life blossom" feels more special than the others.
- In the Teen Girl Squad series, there is The Ugly One, who is a mindless follower of Cheerleader and is slightly more eccentric than the other girls. She is readily included in the Squad's Cheerleader-led activities, such as shopping, spring break vacation, and jumping into a lion's mouth.
- Homestar Runner is usually The Ditz, but his energetic, active stupidity often results in some surreal dialogs (or monologues).
- If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device: Warp's clearly been hard on Kaldor Draigo's mind. Let's just say that he can leap from talking about stealing Karamazov's throne into talking about tiny men coming out his beard (kill them all!) and leave it at that.
- Trisha Cappelletti and Trisha 2 from The Most Popular Girls in School.
- Red vs. Blue's Caboose started off as a profoundly stupid recruit, but between Flanderization and mental trauma from possession by a rogue AI, he quickly loses much of his grasp on reality. He thinks his commander is a gay robot, plans to use his Purple Heart and future medals to build a purple person ("and we will be best friends"), is in love with a tank, and, as journeys to the center of his mind reveal, has wildly inaccurate beliefs about literally everyone else he comes in contact with. He also has a bizarrely good intuitive understanding of AIs and electronics and general—even if he has no idea on a conscious level how any of it works, to the point of believing electricity is invisible magic.
Joel: [watching Gus and Burnie argue on the podcast] Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Kiss! ...One day, that's gonna work.
- Look behind the scenes, especially in Rooster Teeth podcasts or the various Achievement Hunter shows, and you might start to get the feeling that Caboose's voice actor, Joel Heyman, is himself a Cloudcuckoolander. Caboose's weird, spacy antics might not be acting.
- Nora. She constantly bounces around like a kid on a sugar rush, leading poor Ren to try to keep up. At one point, she tells a story about a fight she and Ren were in, with Ren correcting details. Turns out it was a dream. She's so crazy Ren has to correct her recounting of her own dreams.
Nora: There we were...in the middle of the night...
Ren: It was day.
Nora: We were surrounded by Ursae.
Ren: They were beowolves.
Nora: [shoots to her feet] DOZENS OF THEM!
Ren: Two of 'em.
Nora: But they were no match. And in the end Ren and I took them down and made a boatload of lien selling ursae skin rugs!
Ren: [sighs] She's been having this recurring dream for nearly a month now...
- Also, presumably, Ruby and Yang's father, Taiyang.
Yang: Oh, I know what will cheer you up! [walks over to the table and picks up a small cylinder]
Ruby: What's that?
Yang: I dunno yet. Dad sent it to us. I thought we could open it together!
Ruby: Ooooh! Something from home! [opens it, a small corgi falls out]
Zwei: Woof! Woof!
Ruby: ZWEI!!
Blake: He sent a dog!?
Weiss: In the mail!?
Yang: [smiles] Oh, he does stuff like this all the time.
Blake: Your father or your dog?
- Adding to the example (and the humour of the situation), in the mail tube along with Zwei were a few dozen tins of dog food and a can opener, implying that somehow, Taiyang believed that Zwei would have had to use that to feed himself.
- Nora. She constantly bounces around like a kid on a sugar rush, leading poor Ren to try to keep up. At one point, she tells a story about a fight she and Ren were in, with Ren correcting details. Turns out it was a dream. She's so crazy Ren has to correct her recounting of her own dreams.
- In Ultra Fast Pony, Sweetie Belle admits that she doesn't live in the same world as the rest of the cast:
Apple Bloom: Sweetie Belle, you're just living in your own little world most of the time, aren't you?
Sweetie Belle: In my world, everything is made of sulphur!
- raocow, whose Lets Plays are filled with some of the most surreal non-sequitur commentary you'll ever hear. They're filled with happiness and mashed potatoes. That's pretty great.
- He's also known to invert Sanity Slippage, sounding increasingly normal the more trouble he's having with a game.
- That Guy with the Glasses
- Chester A. Bum. To sum it up in 12 words-"CHANGE! YA GOT CHANGE! Oh, c'mon, help a guy out here...CHANGE!"
- Nella also gets into this territory sometimes, especially when My Little Pony is involved.
- Ask That Guy with the Glasses is a quite psychotic version of the trope.
- The Nostalgia Critic is fooling nobody when he tries to tell people that he lives in the realms of the real world.
Doug: Lewis, do you think the characters in your show are real?
- Bennett the Sage, who once creeped out Ask That Guy with the Glasses.
- In spite of his name, Angry Joe leans more toward this.
- Atop the Fourth Wall's rendition of Snowflame, largely because he's high as a kite.
- From "The Review Must Go On":
Lewis: Oh Doug, I'm not deranged. Only Harvey and Pollo are real.
- Deconstructed with Rebecca from Demo Reel. She really isn't all there, but it's half-faked to get more work as an actress, she drops all "kooky" when it comes to feminism, and the abuse she suffered is the cause of at least some of it.
- Chuck Tingle - a lame Midwest dad who writes surreal erotic fiction about dinosaurs, unicorns and 'getting pounded in the butt by my own butt', and has an ongoing feud with his next-door neighbour. A Small Name, Big Ego with a PHD in massage who believes in being a 'true buckaroo' with one's 'hard buds' and that 'love is real for all who kiss', he has his son Jon edit his baffling internet posts, started a political campaign to get Channing Tatum elected president under a belief that Barack Obama was attempting to limit the flavours of ice cream to chocolate, vanilla and strawberry, and refers to his enemies as '#antibuckaroo devilmen'. Most apparent in his hand-drawn vlogs, where he reviews Star Wars villains such as 'Dark Vader', 'Grims Reaper' and 'Jon Hunt' and posts details of his attempts to humiliate his next-door neighbour by dressing as 'Mike Myers the Batman'. According to an AMA by his son/editor, Chuck is an autistic savant who suffers from schizophrenia and is indeed as strange as his online persona might suggest.
- Youtube personality Toby Turner, A.K.A. Tobuscus. Some of the verbal/mental tangents he goes on during his videos must be seen to be believed.
- The title character of 80's Dan is like this in how he treats The '80s compared to modern day.
- In Bad Lip Reading video Midieval Land Fun-Time World (a Real Trailer, Fake Movie based on clips from Game of Thrones) nearly everyone is a cloudcuckoolander besides Only Sane Man Eddie Stark, but Jimmy Whispers especially stands out.
- Jimmy Whispers: I was working on a gravity belt.
- Beyond the Impossible: After living on Earth for a full year, Torn hasnt picked up the meaning of the most basic things (he didnt know what Earth or North were) just because he wasnt paying much attention. Bob Null qualifies as well: he thinks the best place to keep the Heart of the Universe is in the fridge:
-You put the most valuable device in the world in the fridge Noriko repeats skeptically.
-Im afraid to ask why.
-Nobody would search there. Unless it was a hungry thief or something.
-I knew I had reason to be afraid.
- Internet wrestling parody Brawlers On A Budget has Coma, formerly half of the Head Trauma Boys. Due to taking too many chairshots, he communicates entirely in non sequiturs, and is known to wear such outfits as a toga with a tutu. His current tag team partner, Hallucination Boy, sees everything as oncoming trains.
Coma: Fly fishermen at thirty paces! Invert the muskrat!
- Broken Saints has Masayuki, a slightly off-kilter young egg farmer who the aged Shinto priest Kamimura encounters early on in his journey. He relates to Kamimura a lesson about eggs and poop that his father once told him, which, naturally, turns out to be a metaphor for one of the main messages of the entire epic series, and is called back to in the Grand Finale.
- "Weird" Jimmy and Lionel of Chad Vader. This installment of in-universe training videos particularly highlights many of the hallmark idiosyncrasies of the former:
Jimmy: [instructing viewers on the proper techniques imperative to mopping] "But even more important than your grip is listen to your mop, because mops talk. They'll tell you where the dirtiest parts of the floor are... and the dirtiest parts of your soul."
- King Humphrey VII/II of New Albion from the Chaos Timeline. While living in a modern world, he stills claims he's the rightful ruler of Britain, Canada, the other former colonies and big parts of Europe.
- Ginny from Dangerous Lunatics quite definitely qualifies. Turns out she actually can make walls melt, though.
"My daddy makes toasters for a living! I like to look at the MOON!"
- Demyx from Demyx Time:
David Bowie is the Goblyn King! He does not age!
- Denny's official Tumblr blog. People have called it the advertising equivalent of 2AM night-blogging.
- Zack from Echo Chamber. Is he trying to be funny or is he actually this stupid? The world may never know.
Zack: Do you guys keep your dead cat in a box, too?
- Admiral Jenkins in Edict Zero Fis plays this one straight. Captain Socrates, however, seems to skirt the border between this and Obfuscating Insanity.
- In Endless Saturdays, Robert.
- Tyler of Epic Meal Time is often seen goofing around and picking his nose, but ever since he left the show over disputes. Prince Atari took over.
- Fictosophy: In "Jedi Coworker," Tom is so much of a Star Wars fan that he organizes a Jedi Temple, not realizing that Steve, his coworker, isn't interested.
- Severin from Fragile is very much a Cloudcuckoolander. (Especially in the first bit, where he's at the grocery store, talking to himself about soup cans.) Though, this is kind of explained by his mental disorders (Asperger's Syndrome, although he claims he's also got hypomania).
- Every character from Friday Night Cranks has been this at one point, but Barney, Brendan, and Michelle probably qualify best.
- In The Gamer's Alliance, the amnesiac wanderer Ronove really doesn't understand what's going on most of the time. For example, when demons are about to invade the Sarquil capital during the Vanna arc, he decides to go on a picnic outside the city walls and convince the demon horde to surrender by offering them cake. When he is forced to impersonate King Marcus, his rousing speech to the Grand Alliance's army goes well at first until he decides to put his own spin on it (which involves his favourite dessert):
Ronove: There's something important that I must share with you before we begin our march. Something terrible happened last night, something that truly, should I say, PISSED ME OFF! Here's what happened. There's an inn in this city that has this amazing strawberry cake, but the last FIVE FREAKING TIMES I've tried to order it, they don't have it! This is clearly unacceptable! If the king can't eat his daily strawberry cake... man, if that isn't god-moding, I don't know what is! I also have another announcement to make: henceforth this day of the week shall be officially known as Cake Day! Strawberry cake will become our national food, and we'll build bakeries and stuff everywhere so that you, my dear subjects, can have your daily dose of this excellent dessert!
- This review of Genetos plays with the trope. One of the two reviewers makes increasingly nonsensical comments, punctuated with ones that are actually insightful. In the end it turns out to have all been due to Iji's scrambler which he left running after a previous review.
- Supervillains Simon bar Sinister and his twin sister/lover (yes, its that sort of relationship) Penny Dreadful, from the Global Guardians PBEM Universe. They'd be seen as a lot more comical than they are if they weren't also Axe Crazy murderers.
- Clara from The Guild could be considered one as well.
Codex: He's in my bathroom. Pooing evidently.Clara: Oh. I hate poo...
- The Gungan Council has Spencer Jacobs and Io Akima.
- June Diane Raphael, in her role as one of the hosts of How Did This Get Made?, has a reputation for rather off-the-wall questions and trying to piece together very bizarre facts from even more bizarre movies. Even in episodes where June isn't on the show, Jason Mantzoukas may respond to a similarly absurd statement with, "Well, you see, June..."
June: What, exactly, is a "Street Fighter?"
- The titular character from John Dies at the End. His antics include: Creating an elaborate system of coded phrases that sound even more incriminating than the messages they are intended to conceal; Leaving random and often inappropriate comments on customer's files at his work; Threatening to "dick-slap" random strangers; doggedly reusing the same tired pun multiple times throughout one fight; and refusing to abandon a gimmick which he thought up several years prior at four in the morning while drunk. His status as a Undisclosed's resident Cloudcuckoolander is one of the main reasons he is able to blog about all the supernatural stuff that happens to him without bringing down The Masquerade.
- If there was ever any doubt as to whether John was truly the god of Cloudcuckoolanders, it disappeared with this update.
- Speaking of Cracked; Daniel O'Brien, or at least his fictionalized alter ego, has tried to do things like challenge Google to a death race and believes that establishing dominance is an important part of cooking.
- Just like his real-life counterpart, David Lynch, The John Dredge Nothing To Do With Anything Show's "partly acclaimed avant-garde film director and weather forecaster": Amongst other things, he made a ten-hour film about a talking lamp, followed by a sequel about a talking bell. Later, he transformed his kitchen into a room for storing gold bars.
John: Why, it's amateur film director and avant-garde weather man, David Lynch. If you don't mind me saying so, David, you look like you've been dragged through a picket fence backwards.
David Lynch: That's one of my hobbies, John.
John: Well, apart from being dragged through a picket fence backwards, what have you been up to recently?
David Lynch: I've been nailing things to other things, John.
John: Why?
David Lynch: I don't know. I suppose I'm just naturally gifted at that sort of thing.
- Julia's boss Justin Credible from KateModern, in a way that veers back and forth between creepy and amusing. To give you some idea, he puts his clothes on backwards, makes his office in a toilet and plasters the walls with photos of Lee dressed as a jockey and Julia in a bikini, "forgets" to pay his employees and keeps coming up with bizarre ideas for TV shows (all of which are awful).
- Damian of makemebad35 fame on Youtube. Most, if not all, of his videos involve him doing and saying some of the strangest shit even by Youtube standards. There are a few times he plays a bit of a straight man type, but even then he's still a bit off.
- Rainbow Dash from My Little Pony: The Mentally Advanced Series, particularly in the Spin-Off series Rainbow Dash Presents, in which she reads famous/infamous fanfics, with "reads" being used only in the broadest of terms. One particular example is the infamously Grim Dark Cupcakes, which is turned into more of a romantic comedy between Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash (mostly due to Rainbow Dash skimming it over breakfast) and involves a conversation between Mrs. Cake and Pinkie Pie about her actions in the basement. Which is more about Pinkie not working when she's supposed to and cluttering the basement with the souvenirs of her heinous crimes.
- Big Yamma from Omni Bleach Abridged; He basically does every thing on a whim, from requesting an execution because he wants to see it, to buying a gold, Gem Encrusted Twilight Sparkle cane on in impulse, to calling a meeting out of boredom. It's rather horrifying and speaks leagues about the incompetence of the Soul Society's Government.
- Random Assault: With some of the jokes, bits and tangents Mitch has come up with, he might as well be.
- Survival of the Fittest
Mitch: Dog eat dog. Dogs don't eat dogs, they eat birds and cats and Kibblebits if they have a family. Those words are silly. But I would have gotten that right if that silly glasses boy hadn't answered before me. Yes, I would have gotten it right.
- Mitch Gunter. The following quote is all of the explanation required.
- Sven Kekule from V1. V4 gives us Cisco Vasquez, Maria Graham and Lily Ainsworth, amongst others, including Albert Lions, at least following his adoption.
- Brigadier-General David Adams from The Program. He started reciting impromptu poetry during an announcement. (He's supposed to be updating the kids on who's dead.)
- Title character Thalia in Thalia's Musings. Wedding peacocks, nuff said. Also she glued herself to her chair.
- Most of the Theatricans in Theatrica have sunk into Cloudcuckoolander territory, mainly as a result of their ancient history and isolation.
- Sonty Mick, from These Web Comics Are So Bad. He harshly judges every webcomic based on bizarre standards that never get explained to his readers.
- Tom Milsom:
Tom: (talking about a fly) He was like a rainbow...
- The lines from "Booya" in a Let's Play of UFO Aftermath, which are more often than not followed by other members of the group...well...
- The Wallflower Report is a blog written from the point of view of (fictional) Cloudcuckoolander Ariella Rasputin Wallflower. Her two most recurring 'landerisms are her disbelief of trees (atreeism) and her paranoia concerning squirrels.
- Elrich, a setting in The Wanderer's Library, is full of them, but the living fruit are on a whole new level.
- Welcome to Night Vale: Similar to the entries for The Addams Family and Green Acres, everyone but Carlos in the town of Night Vale. Cecil seems like the worst offender, as the narrator, but a lot of his stories imply that the rest of the townspeople are even worse.
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Today, like everyday, I got on the train heading back from my university campus in Preston. Usually, it takes 20 minutes. When I sat down, I realised it was a non-stop service to Glasgow and the doors had closed. It took me 7 hours by train and a lift from my best friend at 2 a.m. to get home. FML
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the method used is to find what's known as an integrating factor. Integrating factor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hi, I am trying to solve an assignment in chemistry which involves an ODE. The equation is:
where ka, kb, and [A]0 are all constants.
My book provides a solution for equations of the form:
I plugged this in for my case and the correct answer came out. For future reference, what method can I look up to solve an equation like this, or how is it actually classified? I think it is nonlinear?
Thank you!
the method used is to find what's known as an integrating factor. Integrating factor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Another method: since this is a linear equation, you can separate it into a "homogeneous" part, which is easy to solve since it is "separable": . Find the general solution to that and add any one solution to the entire equation. And since the equation has constant coefficients, a function of the form should work. Put that into the equation and see what A must be in order that this must satisfy the equation.
Thanks for the help to both of you!
One question: HallsofIvy mentions that the equation is separable into [tex]\frac{d[I]}{I}=-k_{b}dt[\tex]
but I thought it wasn't separable because of the exponential term on the right-hand side of the original equation? Can you just ignore that term, since it doesn't seem to appear in HallsofIvy's homogeneous equation?
I also wasn't sure if it was linear because (at least in Wikipedia) a linear equation has all unknown functions and their derivatives to the first power, but I had a function f(t) that was an exponential function.
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When Wikipedia refers to "unknown functions" here, it is referring to the function, I, that you are trying to solve for. Any other function is a "known" function.


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Here I am back from a week and a half roaming New England and eastern New York State and I have been struck how this is the year of wheat - everyone is brewing a wheat beer and calling it that or "summer ale" or some such thing. Time was a summer ale was just a crappy light beer. Now it means flavour and here are four examples - posing in front of my gift to me, a case of Thousand Islands Pale Ale - from right across the USA: Partly Sunny from central NY; Celis White from Michigan; Summer Breeze from Massachusetts; and Sweaty Betty from Colorado. But are they a style or a trend? I'll be up all night trying to figure that one out.
- Partly Sunny, Ithaca Beer Co.: I am a big fan of most of the beers from Ithaca Beer Co., especially the Flower Power IPA and this one is up there. It bills itself as "Wheat Beer Brewed with Spices!" on the label. It pours a light golden-ish straw and gives off a strong smell of passionfruit. There is only a thin whisp of a white rim. In the mouth, there is plenty of lemon and passionfruit but not in the syrupy sense as there is a good cutting handful of bright hops in each beer as well as well as that tell-tale grassiness of wheat...and I am going to say malted wheat rather than raw wheat. I can't come to call this a Belgian white-style beer (aka witbier) as it is too light and not cloudy from rolled raw wheat so it is like "an American wheat into which the brewer has plunked the sorts of fruit additions you would expect from a Belgian white". But try to stick that on an inch-by-inch spot label.
20% of BAers say this is not their thing and I am not surprised by that at all. They categorize it as a Belgian witbier and if I was drinking it as such I would be saying the same thing. This is a candidate for not winning the tiara as it is a long way from Hoegaarden. In itself, however...and not unlike me, it is quite fine in its own way and, quite unlike me, gets better the more stinkingly hot it gets outside.
- Wachusett Summer Breeze: I have had two of of the beers - their IPA and brown - from this north-central Massachusetts brewer and liked them both. Neither is an extreme example of their style and neither is this wheat beer. It pours a slightly lighter straw than the beer from Ithaca above again with the thin white rim of foam. And there isn't any fruit flavour added - though there is a citrus tang which I would think was from the wheat and hop selection. This is a straight up US wheat: slightly grassy, clean and bright in the mouth. There is some malt richness and that note of graininess to it as well so you know you are dealing with a real beer and not some additive jacked-up macro.
A lot of BAers are unhappy noting mainly it is too light in flavour. I have a hard time finding fault with this as lightness is clearly the brewer's intention. I would think that when you have the word "breeze" on the label, lightness is one quality you might be expecting. On a day with as much stinkingosity as today, I am not wanting sweet crystal malt, heavy roast barley or heady hops. I am looking for light with flavour and this is one I would reach for.
- Celis White: cloudy mid-straw with white foam, rim and lace. Quite a creamy Belgian witbier from the savior of the style or at least the brewery that bears the name. The nose has tropical aromas of passionfruit and nutmeg. In the mouth there is porridge from the raw grain, green grass, lemony citrus, passionfuit, vanilla and a hint of cinnamon and nutmeg. A slightly drying note in the finish.
This compared to Summer Breeze above makes for a great example of why the label "wheat beer" is too broad to convey much meaning as it covers too many styles. 94% of BAers give the thumbs up. For me, the raw grain is more pronounced that other witbiers reviewed in these parts. It is a quarter notch thicker than Hoegaarden. Maybe an autumnal wit.
- Sweaty Betty: another wheat beer, another style as this beer from the Boulder Beer Company of Colorado calls itsef a "wheat blonde" - and it tastes like it with both the grassiness of wheat and round richness of a Belgian blonde...though the brewery call is a "Bavarian wheat"...which I think means a hefeweizen...which this beer is not. Hmmm. Whatever style it is, this beer pours a bright burnished straw gold with white rim and foam. The taste includes plenty of light summer fruit freshness - pear and peach - with some perspective thrown in with the grass of the wheat and some slight graininess. This is quite a juicey and more-ish brew.
10% of BAers say no to this beer, with plenty of complaint about its distance from a hefe. Again, the tragedy of style undermines focus on the fluid itself.


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Saturday, August 30, 2008
Testing .22 ammunition for velocity and accuracy. Lessons learned?
I've been building up to this range test for a few weeks now. Tweaking the rifle and gathering rim fire ammunition to squander.
I had two goals, besides the obvious one of spending a day trying to wear out the Marlins barrel. I wanted a look at the velocity numbers of various makes of .22 ammo, and I wanted to pin down what the Marlin shoots best.
As a side bar, I was very curious if velocity consistency is a key to rim fire accuracy, as it is in a center fire. With my heavy barrel varmint rifle I look for less than 20 fps variation shot to shot. This tells me I have a load with consistent internal ballistics. I expect the same from any match ammunition I load, including pistol rounds.
My plan for the days testing was to fire a twenty round string of each cartridge. All from the same rifle, same targets, same bench, same shooter, etc. Fired into four groups of five rounds each, this should provide a rough but fair result in the search for the most accurate (as far as this Marlin is concerned, anyway).
Shooting every round over my chronograph and recording the data, I would then have a decent record of each brands average velocity and it's variations. I wasn't sure what the data would show, but it would be interesting to see the results and chart them.
The shooting day started at 9am for me, and abruptly came to a temporary stop at 9:05. A nest of yellow jackets had adopted the fifty yard back stop I chose, and my initial setup target was their new God.
I had planned to attach a dozen targets to a sheet of cardboard, cutting out some down time spent hanging paper. The Cardboard had a target on it I use to set up and align the chrono. For some reason the little wasps thought this target was the most fascinating thing ever seen, and swarmed it. Hovering by the hundreds in front of it, worshiping like Obamaites at the convention.
Four partial cans of wasp spray only thinned them out a little, so I came to an agreement with the little buggers. I left them the target they loved so much, and I hung mine a few feet over to the right. The separation agreement worked well for all concerned. I proceeded to fire a dozen foulers, and set up the alignment of the chronograph. The rest of the day I co-existed with the yellow jackets in a strange form of shooty peace. Each time I looked through the spotting scope, I could see mounds of little wasps crawling over the large target. The smaller targets I was shooting for record they completely ignored.
Each target was numbered, for a total of sixteen targets. The numbers matched those at the top of data sheets I had preprinted and arranged in a binder. Each page was used to record the make and model of the cartridge, along with all the velocity data collected. The speed of each round fired was noted, along with average velocity, highs and lows, extreme spread, standard deviation, and average deviation for the string.
Accuracy was measured hours after the shoot, looking only at the numbered targets in the binder. Groups were checked and averaged without knowing what cartridge was mated to which target. The target data was then transferred to the cartridge data sheets for comparison. This round-about method helped me leave my own ammunition prejudices aside as I looked for results.
In this first chart (click to enlarge for easier reading), I have listed each type tested, it's average velocity, extreme velocity spread, and average group size.
At first blush, the results would seem pretty confusing. The ammunition with the best accuracy did not always have the least velocity variations. The question remains in my mind... how much of the data is flawed simply because I needed to concentrate more....to shoot better?
Anecdotal evidence suggests this may be a significant factor. Many of the targets showed four shots touching, then a flier an inch away. The velocity numbers don't always explain the fliers.
Some targets were clear, with large groups dispersed evenly around the bullseye. Others showed excellent promise for tight groups, till a blasted flier opened it up. Fliers are always a question..... was it the ammunition or the shooter?
The data showed that wide velocity variations were not solely the realm of cheap ammunition. While Federal bulk pack had a huge spread, so did some very expensive RWS subsonic. In addition, accuracy seemed to be dependent on velocity numbers to only a small degree. Far more important were bullet weight and style. The ammunition loaded with lighter bullets of a more conical shape shot the worst from this Marlin 780. CCI Quik-Shok stood out from the crowd in that manner, with very high velocity bullets fired into groups so large their was no reason to measure them. The Marlin clearly despised the Quik-Shok round.
Most impressive, velocity and accuracy wise, were the relatively expensive match rounds. Both the Eley and the Fiocchi shot a few astounding groups and both had the lowest velocity variations of the pack. Where the Federal bulk pack made consistently large groups, the Eley would land four rounds in one wide hole, then another hole half an inch off the groups center.
On the other hand, at $70 a brick (500 rounds), I won't be rushing out to buy a case of Eley anytime soon.
In the range of reasonably priced ammunition, both the PMC Sidewinders and the Federal Champion 510 ammunition built promising groups without wild velocity variations, although 80+ fps is still a pretty wide spread. CCI Subsonic hollow points did the same.
What did I learn, after firing sixteen different rounds with serious intent? Clearly I can go buy a few bricks of Federal Champion and have a reasonable expectation it will perform decently in this Marlin. CCI Subsonics will make an excellent small game round for the rifle as well. Past that.....
The Match ammunition? For what it costs, I think I'll pass. I'm not doing any shooting with this rifle that demands that kind of potential, especially at the price. 0.75" - 0.80" groups at fifty yards make this a fine squirrel rifle, and at $2.80 a box for the Federal I can shoot as much as I like.
I had planned to test half a dozen types of .22 short as well, but their accuracy was so poor from the Marlin that it became pointless. CCI CB Long was also tested, but its such a different animal that it doesn't belong in this mix at all.
One fact I did come away with... every rifle is very different. Replacing the Marlin 780 on the bench with my new CZ452, it was a different ball game. The Eley that had 40 fps variations in the Marlin had only a 13 fps spread in the CZ. The Federal bulk that had so-so accuracy in the Marlin grouped exceptionally well in the CZ. The longer barrel on the CZ resulted in lower velocities as well.
I would have enjoyed being able to announce "This .22 Ammunition is the best! Your rifle will love it and you will be pleased!". But.... I can't do that. Each rifle is different, especially in rim fire. The only conclusions I can draw are the obvious ones..... each shooter will have to run these tests (at least the accuracy portion) for them self, with each different rim fire rifle they are interested in.
On the other hand.... that just means a lot of shooting. How bad can that be?
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Izzat last photo thru the new Tasco scope? Looks pretty good in the pic.
- August 31, 2008 at 10:47 PM
- Carteach0 said...
Yes sir, it is. I'm happy with it so far. Its a $20 used scope and it's going to work fine on that .22.
The paralax isn't quite right for 50 yards, but I had no problem picking out (and picking off) the yellow jackets on the target.
The want list is long, and a Remington 40X with a 24x Leopold is on the list. Just not near the top.
- August 31, 2008 at 10:57 PM
- Old NFO said...
Excellent post with some interesting results! I'm not surprised at the small variations in the target ammo, but I am surprised at the spreads you encountered. And as you said, the key point is what the rifle likes!\
Thanks for the update!
- September 2, 2008 at 8:27 PM
- immagikman said...
Great informative post. I am very impressed with the degree of care you took to make things as accurate as possible. You barrel modification in and of itself was something I had never even thought or heard of.
- September 2, 2008 at 10:34 PM
After competing in a postal match last winter with my Marlin 39, I came to the same conclusions you did, except I had no verification of bullet speeds and used 6 or so different brands of ammo. The Dynamit Noble Target ammo ended up being the best of the bunch for that 39a, the surprise was that Remington 550 bulk pack was right on par with it. Just goes to show that expensive ammo, won't always get you the best accuracy.
Thanks for the detailed results of your test. It is interesting to see the variance of bullet speeds within the same brand lots.
- September 4, 2008 at 3:53 PM
- Brigid said...
Very informative. Though you've shot with me enough times to know I operate on the "blind squirrel" method of placement.
Works for me. But this was pretty cool.
- September 6, 2008 at 2:28 PM
- immagikman said...
Blind Squirrel method? :)
- September 7, 2008 at 11:32 PM
- Carteach0 said...
Brigid is being modest.
I'd rather let Mengela give me a root canal than be down range of her.
- September 8, 2008 at 5:57 AM
- immagikman said...
I know, I've seen the groupings she has posted. While I don't believe everything I read on "teh interwebz"
I'll eat my shorts if she is not as honest as the day is long.
I aspire to shoot in the same class as her. I'm working on it and have a coach now to help me correct my bad habits.
- September 8, 2008 at 4:52 PM
Thank you for your test.
I don't see any windflags. Did you use any?
- December 2, 2008 at 12:04 PM
- Carteach0 said...
It's been a while, but as I recall I was happy to run the test that day, as there was no wind. It was also the day of a rifle match, and scores reflected the mild weather :-)
- December 2, 2008 at 5:01 PM