UCSD: Best Party School Ever!

     When one thinks of an awesome party school, they usually think of a campus thats blaring music and is intoxicated 24/7. The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) is not this way at all. It's students have the reputation of being no-lifed, secluded bookworms who live in the library 24/7. "Brian," you may ask, "if this is so, then why is UCSD the best party school ever?" Well theoretical question asker, I shall tell you. Every May UCSD holds their annual Sun God Festival, a huge music festival that transforms these bookworms into complete party animals. The vitality you feel on campus during Sun God is an amazing feeling. I get all giddy and excited just being on campus, before I even get on the field hosting the festival itself. 
     On the field they have three different venues; the main stage, the midway, and my favorite part the dance tent. The main stage has featured bands such as Relient K, Jimmy Eat World, Crystal Castles, Drake, and Wiz Khalifa. The midway usually hosts stand up comics, Cirque Berzerk, various dance crews, and bands like the Axis of Awesome. And the dance tent is host to many DJ's and bands like Shark Attack, Robbed by Robots, and other awesomeness!
     So for an event to turn some of college's most studious into complete party monsters, to me, makes UCSD the best party school ever!

HAPPY SUN GOD!!

Captain Planet: The Forgotten Super Hero

     Deep down in our hearts, we never did forget this shiny blue- skinned, green mulleted hero of the ecosystem. But we don't bring him into question when we ask if Spider-Man would kick Sabertooth's ass either. This righteous hero of Earth and nonpolluting captivated the many eyes of children in the early ninety's to reduce, reuse, and recycle in a way teacher's in public schools could never accomplish. So I've caught an episode or two lately on Boomerang when they play it at 3A.M. and I'm still in front of the T.V. I remember watching back in the day and how the Planeteers always wanted me to make a compost heap in my backyard and tell big corporations to stop polluting, and their super catchy theme song that without prompting (or seeing/hearing in a decade) broke out into spontaneously in high school and last month. While watching these episodes, I heard some terms that I don't remember then but are pretty heated political  debate topics of today, like global warming. Once I heard that I then thought, 'why is global warming just now (well past 6-7 years mostly) coming into question, when a children's T.V. show 20 years ago was talking about it?' Which I then proceeded to think why don't we have congress and the rest of the world's leaders sit down and watch a Captain Planet marathon so they can learn what fossil fuels are doing to the planet and how to slow down global warming and help keep the Earth clean? I really don't see why oil barons aren't picking up on these renewable energy resources, they don't need to give up oil, but if they went to solar, after the initial cost of setup and operations, they would virtually be making pure profit due to a low cost for maintenance and no need to hire so many people to gather the fuel and refine it etc. All in all it would cut costs in the long run and save the planet. 

     Captain Planet is comprised five teens from all over the globe, except for Australia, fuck Australia right? I mean its just a big deserty England anyways right? Thats how I feel most media thinks of Australia when they're thinking global diversity and trying to incorporate all the continents. So the Planeteers are Kwame: the calm, cool and collected leader wielding the powers of Earth from Africa; Wheeler: the hot headed American who's used as comic relief and blurts out the ignorance's of American people wielding the powers of Fire; Linka: the barely English speaking (only Planeteer who speaks English poorly by the way) Soviet Russian (to prove how Russians were no longer bad guys after the Cold War) sex appeal wielding the powers of Wind; Gi: the spunky East Asian girl wielding the powers of Water; and last and certainly least, Ma-Ti: the South American youngster who always falls into the trap set up by the badies first and who always needs to be saved wielding the powers of Heart. Ma-Ti is so lame and useless that they give him a monkey just so he's not a complete waste of time.

"By your powers combined, I am Captain Planet!"

     And remember kids, the power is yours!

My International Audience

     While looking at my "stats" for my blog I have noticed that my posts have gone past the borders from sea to shining sea, and has reached a few abroad. Every time I see that my eyes shimmer and sparkle in awe and love, and it just makes my day.

Before you get all excited U.S., I'm fairly sure that most
of those 259 views are mine,  definitely half are. :/

     So I thank you Mexico, Canada, U.K., Malaysia, Indonesia, Italy, Puerto Rico, Australia, New Zealand, France, Latvia and Argentina. You guys are my heroes! Even if you guys aren't reading this and just happened to have skimmed across my site by chance I still thank you. So please continue to read, if desired of course, and make yourself known. I'd be happy to connect with my audience.

     Also while looking at my stats, it seems that you guys like rainbows and Tron. So I guess I should add more stuff like that huh?

     Anyway, hope you guys enjoy it. I love you all! Muah :*

Why's Everyone After My Cell Phone?

     I've noticed lately the huge rise in claims of importance to recycle one's old electronics; cells, batteries, laptops, etc. But why does one have to go to a special location to do it and not just toss it in the recycling receptacle every trash day? Is it because the recycling thats picked up every Monday morning from my blue can actually just goes to the same place as the black can? Or is it a much larger operation?

     Maybe these 'recyclers' are taking the old electronics for some sinister scheme. A scheme so sinister it could involve the production of robots! Thats right! The government is possibly taking our outdated, malfunctioning, replaced electronics to maybe make robot armies to perhaps take over the world. We have to stand up against this malfeasant robot army scheme and create a rebel alliance to counteract these robotic overlords, if that is the case.

Writing > Reading

     Normally, a good writer is also an avid reader, but I barely read and I like to write. Am I some strange anomaly, or is it just a product of the times. The way we communicate now a days via e-mail, IMing, text messaging, facebook; we write all day long. So with us communicating to each other by writing all day long its no wonder why I like to write even without reading avidly. But am I writing because I like to write? Or because, like the rest of my generation, I like to hear myself talk?

Immovable Object vs. Unstoppable Force

See Chuck Norris does have a chin, not a third fist.

     The age old saying "when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object." Will one triumph over the other? Which one is it better to be? Its a paradox, for if they meet at a 'stalemate' then the immovable object wins since the unstoppable force has, well stopped. And if the force does proceed past the object then the object is no longer unmovable, right? I may have a loop hole to all this madness.

Shazam vs. Superman

     So said loophole, it deals with the size ratio between the object and the force. Say the unstoppable force is a laser beam roughly an inch in diameter, and the unmovable object is a large mountain [like there's small mountain, in comparison to inch-wide laser beams]. If the laser beam goes all the way though the mountain, the laser being the force never stopped and the mountain never moved. Huzzah! Eureka! I have solved this age old paradox! I'll now accept my Nobel Peace Prize.

The Juggernaut [Left]
The Blob [Right]

So Many Decisions

     Next month I'm due for a new phone upgrade, and just in time, since my current phone is glitching out on me, biggest glitch being the fact I can't hear phone calls unless I have the head set or speaker phone on. And to think that the EnV3 was so cool two years ago and now its an ancient artifact. I'm thinking about getting a smart phone with my upgrade, and since I'm on the Verizon network the big debate is Droid vs. iPhone. I'm leaning towards iPhone since I'm already familiar with it and I like Mac products. That does however kind of take away of the allure of figuring out your new toy [phone] on the first day, but I'm familiar with the iPhone 3 not 4 so I'll still have some fun. I'm not 100% though on if I want a touch screen for my phone, a touch screen is fine and all, but for my phone I do enjoy buttons which the Droid 2 has. If I did decide against the iPhone and went for the Droid, (theres multiple Doids, I'd probably go for either the 2 or the X) I'd lean more towards the 2 since it has a qwerty keyboard as opposed to a full touch screen. But I can't make any final decisions on the matter until I'm at the store making the upgrade knowing prices and such. I might not even have a smart phone next month at all. Who knows, but I will most likely give an update on it when it happens.

Grindr Logo

     So I do have an iPhone 3 that was a hand-me-down from my cousin when he upgraded, that I use for internet access and app-ing. While perusing the app store under the category "Social Networking," I found the Grindr app which a friend of mine has been razzing me to get. Grindr is an app that helps Gay and Bi curious guys find each other. "Hey Brian, why are you talking about Grindr?" said the theoretical voice. Good question. As I said I've heard about the app but never before seen the logo, until last night. And I just think that the logo looks really cool. 

     When I saw the Grindr app, I decided to take a look to see what all the hubbub was about, and I saw this theoretical meeting of two guys via the app. The conversation to the left is two guys chatting for the first time and before they say 'how are you?' they plan to meet up. This would NEVER happen between a heterosexual guy and girl. Gay people (men and women) seem to have this awesome openness when it comes to flirting and dating. Straight people always beat around the bush, and pussyfoot around; but if they didn't, it wouldn't work out!? While pondering this situation last night I had an epiphany about it; women are afraid of men, and men are afraid that women are afraid of them. So with all these fears heterosexuals have put up an obstacle course for dating that gay people decided to tear down since no one really like jumping through these hoops. So women: not all guys are complete douches (most probably are, but whatever), descent guys do exist. So next time you're out and about checking out groups of hot studly men type creatures, maybe you shouldn't try to hit up the alpha male of the group because he's most likely to be a douche. Just like the food pyramid, the very top is full of fats and oils. So maybe go more for the stud who seems next in line, he may be your knight in shining armor. But then again, if you're checking out a hoard of bros who have a designated 'alpha male,' there's a 90% chance that they're all complete douches. :/

Fats and oils: use sparingly