Back To Reality (Podcast 1)
I was invited to do a podcast with a friend and his friends. I hesitated. I had just woken up, hadn’t eaten, smelled like ass and had a ton of homework to do. I was forced into it and I’m glad I was. It was fun! I hope to be more involved with the conversations next time.
Back to Reality
PS: I was having mic issues in the beginning and my computer forced restart in the middle of it. Also my name is Falkentyne in the show, but was referred to as Mike most of the time.
CAUTION: EXPLICIT!!! 18+
Guests: Falkentyne and Sky13r
Topics:
Relationship vs. Being Single
KeSPA vs. USA Gaming Communities
COD: Black Ops
Working Out
McNugget Rage
This video was just released today I believe, but it happened sometime last year according to the surveillance camera’s time.
Long story short, “Sorry ma’am we don’t serve Chicken McNuggets at this time”.
The woman was charged $1,500 and 60 days in prison.
Small Mountain Hike
My friend had to video record of some mountain climbers for a project, so he invited me to go with him to Horsetooth Reservoir. It was a beautiful day with bright skies and warm temps. Mind you, these pics were taken from my phone so the beauty has been somewhat destroyed, but it makes a point. I ended up laying down on a gigantic rock for 45 min, blowing off my mind to make inner peace with myself.
I-25 Wrong Way Crash
Now I don’t watch the news much, but this is a different case, I was involved. On July 5th, I was driving to pick up my friend from the airport who had gone to California for a week. Her flight was delayed and coming around 10 o’clock PM instead
Wrong Way Driver
of 8 o’clock PM. As we were driving back, she needed to get some snacks so we stopped at a gas station before heading back on the highway. This caused me to miss the exit to get onto the tollway, which is the
quickest way home. We were taking the long way route back to the highway and multiple times I had the urge just to take an exit and turn around to go back, but she insisted that I stay on the same road because it would take us to I-25 (which was true). About 5 minutes into merging into Interstate 25, driving on the passing lane, I eventually saw two white lights on the same lane as I was. The first thought that came to mind was “what the hell is that?” then asked “is that construction lights or something?” then came to the conclusion that “that might be a car coming right at me!”. Without exactly knowing it was in fact a car driving towards me, I instinctively swerved to the right. I had lost sight of the lights by this time as I was trying to gain control of the car as I tried to stay on the road. It was to much for the car to handle at such speeds
Vehicle where the passenger was killed
and hit the median 3 seconds after I had swerved out of the way. I estimate that I had hit the cement wall at 70+ MPH. At first I couldn’t see out of my right eye as it throbbed with pain, then I began to worry about my friend who actually ended up asking “are you ok?!” first. I responded with a yes. We got out of the car as smoke began to consume the inside. By the time I got out, there were cars pulling over to the side and I ran into a guy already on the phone talking to the police. I asked him “is it true, was there a car driving the wrong way?” He said “yes…you were lucky”. I was relieved to know I had survived, and with that, wasn’t seeing things.
I was told to sit on the wall because I kept my hand over my right eye that seemed as though I was in pain. Everyone kept telling me “it’s going to be ok, the ambulance is coming”. I held my hand over my right eye as it throbbed, not able to see out of it, I thought to myself “I won’t be able to see out of this eye ever again”. The police arrived first and asked for my insurance and driver’s license and a short story of what happened. Then the ambulance came. Multiple police cars were speeding across the other side of the road. I overheard the police saying she was still driving the wrong way and they were trying to catch her. The paramedic asked me question after question and encouraged me to be taken to the hospital due to the speed we had hit the wall. I took the offer without hesitation. As I was loaded onto the vehicle, one of the paramedics said “we got a 4-0″. I asked what that meant and he said “someone had died, it pretty much means the person’s vitals are gone by the time we get there”. We all assumed it was the driver who was going the wrong way.
Elizabeth Long's Vehicle
As soon as I got to the hospital my eye began to swell to the point where I couldn’t open my eye. The doctor asked if there was any other types of pain I was feeling as they put pressure around my eye and I didn’t feel much of anything. They wanted a scan of my skull just to be safe, I took the offer.
Good thing I did. An hour after the scan they had found a fracture underneath my right eye, but wasn’t serious enough to require surgery. Then the officer to took my insurance and ID came and found me to return my stuff and ask more questions. I asked, who was the person who died? He said “it was a passenger of a vehicle she had collided with, yes, it wasn’t the driver going the wrong way”.
The next day, I had received a call that the driver was Elizabeth Long was released from jail and that the death was Mary Warren. She was a 22, a CSU grad student, who lived in Fort Collins. Almost sounds like me!?
Their is more information and even a video of me talking to the reporter of CBS4 Denver. I am wearing an eye-patch due to the grossness of my swollen beat up eye (plus it’s cool!)
My friend and me talking to th reporter
No Respect!
Board game that was literally "boaring" haha
Went to a coffee shop to “chill” with a couple of my friends. This place has a bunch of games you can pull out and play at the table. It was a bold move, but we had my good friend go and choose the game for us. What does he come back with? Just as the picture depicts, a Rodney Dangerfield game called No Respect. While it took longer to describe the rules of the game than it was to play an entire game, it ended with the need to gouge our eyes out. It was tempting to play another round, but we moved on…just like Rodney Dangerfield, who probably wished this game and its entirety be lost and forgotten forever.
If buildings were ALIVE
An art muesuem in Germany has a unique way of attracting people. It looks like a projecting screen, but I believe its a set of screens on the building itself, about 555 of them. The heavy deep bass sounds, which I hope is coming from the building itself, does make the show more interactive.
Paco
The Japanese have constructed a 9 x 9 x 9 foot square box that has all the necessary equipment to well…live. it costs 6,300,000 yen… or 70,000 US dollars. I personally wouldn’t mind living in something compact and efficient, but I am a person of having people come over to hang. I dont think this would suffice.
The roof can be lifted and acts as a window… I think.
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This isn’t the bed, but a place to rest since theirs nothing else to do..
Nice little compact dinning room/sitting area.
Sitting in action. Cant tell how hard the surface is, but I hope its soft.
Nice little bathroom
Shower in action.
Sleeping area. Kinda claustrophobic to me, but what can you do.
Building Caught on Fire
I came home from work today and police tape was surrounding the area, cars couldn’t get into Stuart from Lemay. I was riding my bike and just waltzed right into my house with 2 firetrucks in front of my house. When I walked by my car, it was covered with ash. Then further down I see a building with a burnt hole on the top of the roof and a hole in a wall. Smoke plowing out f the building and I was like “hmm, I should take a pic of this and post this on my blog.”
More info HERE
Good stuff…
I sense art in this picture
Its better than bird poop
More carnage
Here is the best pic I could get, their was firemen and they were walking toward me and so I had to leave.
A daytime pic the next morning
Cosplay
Halloween is around the corner and it’s about time to start thinking about what be for the special occasion. For the past 3 years I’ve been dressed up as a woman. Wore a pink waitress outfit with a blonde wig and it’s about time to move on.
For this year I’ve come to 3 different choices.
Anti Sora from Kingdom Hearts
Cloud from FFVII Advent Children
Leon Kennedy
As far as I know, Im leaning towards Cloud, but I have time to decide. Can’t wait!
Danny MacAskill
I used to skateboard and I thought it was difficult to do anything other than ride the board itself. I can’t imagine trying to do tricks with something that’s the size of a human body, like a bike. Well Danny MacAskill defeats that with skill. “Skill is my middle name!” Ain’t that the truth (kinda)
The right way to use your mouth
Life can be cruel, so cruel that it leaves you without any arms. Life can be hard, so hard that your legs won’t move even though you want them to.
It’s everyone’s nightmare to lose the ability to use all of their limbs or in other words, become a quadriplegic. Unfortunately, their are many people who exist with quadriplegia, but their is one unique person we are looking into who defies the laws of human nature.
The mind can really push the limits of someones potential, far beyond anyones comprehension. Knowing me, I would give up on life if I lose a finger! Not Shiro Kotobuki. His work is superb, excellent, amazing, out of this world, and he draws all of them with his mouth! As far as I know, the reason for his handicap was due to some accident that paralyzed his body. Yet after losing a great deal, he managed to build himself anew. So how does his do it? He uses computer technology and a simple paint program. A ”pen” is attached to a stick that enables him to reach onto a white surface. Is that considered cheating? Of course not! Art doesn’t have to be strictly pen and paper. His artwork can also be seen elsewhere. He was also created the characters in Rumble Roses for the 360. The game itself was poor, but naturally the characters were beyond stunning.
Thanks to Fuji Televion for making it difficult to find videos of him working first hand at his desk, but I managed to find one through someone else’s site
Here’s some more of his beautiful creations
Windows 7 deals
Great deals for computer users interested in the new OS that’s coming out on October 22nd. If you pre-order Windows 7 through Newegg, Best Buy or directly from Microsoft, you get over 50% off the price and free shipping as soon as its released. $49.99 is a great deal for a new and improved version of Vista. Why get Windows 7? From what I hear it’s supposedly the ”best of the best” or to be put simply “Vista on crack.” Keep one thing in mind, this is the upgrade. If you have a problem dealing with buying a new OS that’s just an upgrade, then reconsider just buying the full edition, which will be considerably more expensive.
That’s not all! If you purchase a computer, net book, laptop, after June 26th (which is inevitable) and has a legal copy of Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, or Ultimate, you get Windows 7 free when it is released under the “free upgrade” program. I’m not sure how long this lasts, but I don’t think it’ll end anytime soon.
UPDATE: They have copies of the full edition on Microsoft’s website retailed for 199.99 for home premium and 299.99 for Professional.
How I almost got killed in a global nuclear war
This is a true story, my favorite of all stories of my personal experiences.
It was early June in 1980. I was a 19-year-old airman working for the base newspaper at the 416th Bombardment Wing at Griffiss AFB, in upstate New York. That base is now gone. People today might only have heard of this place as “a superfund cleanup site” or “Woodstock 1999.”
We worked next to the base historian. His name was Ray. We’d been waiting excitedly for a major exercise to start. Exercises were what we called war games. When there was a call for him to run upstairs for an emergency conference, we were sure the exercise had started. Time for me and my co-workers to break out our cameras and pads and run around taking pictures of the fun. Aircraft would take off, security people would run around in combat gear, officers would stand around looking like they were doing things. Good stuff.
So when Ray came back down from the commander’s office, saying, “It’s not an exercise,” we were non-plussed. “What is it then?” we asked him.
“It’s real.”
“What’s real?”
“They’ve just detected a massive launch of Soviet missiles.” I opened my mouth for an amazed outburst of some sort but he added, “but they’re not sure.”
“Not sure?” I asked. Pause for a beat. “When…will they be sure?”
“Well, in about 20 minutes, their submarine-launched missiles should hit us,” he said, meaning, us personally, standing around at this particular base. “Then they’ll be sure.”
“Oh.” I said.
Looking back at it now it strikes me that in every movie I’ve seen where people are given 20 minutes to live before the world is annihilated, one of two things happen:
1. Some heroic figure gives a speech about the horror of war contrasted with mankind’s capacity for love. Everyone steps outside to look at the sunset. Tears in their eyes. Emoting love and kindness as the missiles rain down. The camera’s at a low angle to make them look tall and noble. There’s mayonnaise on the lens to soften the picture as it focuses on a single flower.
2. Everyone suddenly goes berserk, raping, murdering, downloading music, cheating on their taxes and God knows what else.
So with 20 minutes to live before the world was annihilated, what did people do?
–One lady worked on her nail polish
–My NCO in charge worked on some report
–Our lieutenant called somebody to make arrangments for lunch
–Yeah, I can’t remember but everyone else was just being dull, dull. A little raping and killing would almost have been welcome.
Me, I had different ideas. Well they weren’t telling me to get back to work, thank goodness, so I was free for at LEAST the next 20 minutes.
First, I thought about calling my loved ones. Which at this time consisted of my mom and my dad. So I tried to call them. This was a breach…we had long distance codes but weren’t supposed to use them for unofficial business. But no one was home, in either case.
Second, I thought about…hmm, let’s see…RUNNING AWAY!! RUN! RUN THE HELL OUT OF THERE!! AAAHHHHHHH!!!
But I didn’t run. Was it because I was brave? Was it because I was going to face those Russkies with all the American grit and determination that we are famous for? (What is grit anyway, and how does it help in such situations?)
Well I’d had training. And my training told me that I was currently sitting a mere couple hundred yards from the flightline, the target of this possible nuclear attack. I was in the “instant and painless vaporization zone.” And it told me that in the few minutes I had left, jumping into my car and going at top speed, the most I could accomplish would be to move into the “burn horribly to death” zone, or at the VERY best, given no traffic and no cops stopping me, move out into the “crushed painfully to death by the shockwave” zone.
Clearly, running wasn’t an option. Both because I was so loyal and because I at least wanted a painless death. So what to do?
It struck me, then. I would go outside, find the best, blankest concrete wall facing the airfield that I could, and I would wave my arms real fast, and if I was lucky, would form a “blast angel” when the bomb went off. As my body vaporized it should leave a very cool-looking outline.
I went outside and only had to go a block or two to find the perfect wall. I started wondering then what time it was when they told me we had 20 minutes. I was thinking I would have to time it perfectly. Then I realized, as I stood there waving my arms, experimentally, that it would kill me too fast for me to form an angel. Dang. I would just look like a jerk standing there with his arms out.
Then I thought of something I could do, standing still. A great image for any visiting aliens or the evolved cockroaches who would inherit the Earth. I put my thumb to my nose, and stood sideways to the wall. I would thumb my nose at the universe! Ha ha!
You should realize that this was a relatively busy sidewalk. 19-year old airman stands by a blank wall thumbing his nose, glancing awkwardly toward the airfield. Fortunately, there are a lot of silly 19-year olds in the military, and people become used to them. I got odd glances but no comments.
And eventually, I realized that it was definitely past the 20-minute mark, and no bright flash inscribed my legacy onto the wall. I headed back to the office, and said to the historian, “Ah, well, no nuclear war today, huh?”
Ray replied, “Well it was just a computer glitch. They were pretty sure of that.”
“You…could have…mentioned that earlier.” I ground out. And went back to work.
Nerds
So here’s my first post. I was going to update you on who this mysterious girl named Nicole is, but I think I will save that for another day… today I want to talk about nerds. Since high school I have had some strange fascination with them. I feel I can relate to them, and prefer guys who can teach me how to build a robot over someone that can throw a mean fast ball. To me, sports contributes to society about as much as a fly contributes to my steak dinner.
Anyway, I bring this up because I stumbled upon this amazing website today. it’s a comic strip about embarrassing geek moments sent in by readers. If your bored, then this site is definitely something worth wasting another beautiful day to look at.
http://patheticgeekstories.com
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