Tonkas

Are hardcore! Alright, admit it, you all loved them at one time or another. they appeal especially to children because they are big and yellow and undisputedly cool. Every small boy between the age of 2 and 5 wants to operate heavy-duty construction equipment. They know this and are proud of it. The true physiological appeal of these toys are that, as a small child, the desire to become part of something bigger and more powerful than ourselves is particularly acute as we are:
A) small
B) Often ignored or passed over, our opinions not valued
so we aspire to become part of something that is definitely
A) BIG.
B) respected and valued (if a bulldozer was charging you and you where a Lego man, wouldn't you move, too?)
So that is why most small children are innately attracted to Tonka trucks.
Most people probably don't give a flying bulldozer.

Spread the joy, spread the creativity, spread minecraft

Well, you may know about minecraft. you may or may not be interested. But if you are, spread the joy, the

and the minecraft.
visit
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Julian Smith

is a youtube star. He has some pretty funny videos (search on youtube, adurpdurpdurp) like Malk or Racist coffee or Hot cool-aid. You might want to check out every single other video by him, too. Their good. He writes the songs he sings (and the songs his buddy sings, too) as well as doing all of his own camera work. And, on a tangent, about doing your own camera work, theses guys do all sorts of tutorials on how to do your own professional grade camera work: http://www.youtube.com/user/CorridorDigital
Anyways, on the tangent of youtube, I like it. It's full of all sorts of fun stuff, bro. So if you find anything good, send it to me in the comments.

Milk: sustinance

Alrighty. Been a while since I posted about milk, yes? well, thats probably because this is the first time I've posted just after breakfast for quite a while as well. So, anyways, i was thinking. about milk. And it's many uses. Yes, of course you can just drink it, but you can also use it to bake cakes (in minecraft too!) biscuits or pie shells or all sorts of other wonderful things! You can obtain both cheese and butter from milk, which both have plenty of uses. But why, we should ask, has the milk of other animals become such a prevalent part of our diet? Well, after several late-night CBC talk shows worth of research,  I believe I have come to a conclusion. Let me start at the beginning: When man was a lone hunter-gatherer, roaming the wild, his primary sources of food where meat and berries/fruits. Each fulfilled an essential to a healthy diet: meat gave fats and proteins, wile the fruits and berries provided sugars. Early hunter-gatherers had little to no carbohydrates in their diets. They exercised a lot and ate quite lean, nothing like the amount of sugars and meat we eat today. on top of that, all of their meat was grass-fed, containing greater amounts of protein and less fat. With this good balance of proteins, fats ( yes. you DO need fats to be healthy) sugars, and exercise, hunter-gatherers where healthy people. then came along agriculture. now, this provided stability and the roots for civilization, but also less than enough fats and proteins and to many carbohydrates and sugars. since we are not cows, digesting the proteins contained in grains is next to impossible, since they are coated in cellulose. So agriculturalists had several options:

A) keep hunts to supplement their food with occasional meat
B) Domesticate beasts for slaughter
C) Domesticate Animals to obtain eggs and milk, the two main edible animal by-products

So this is what they did. they obtained exercise by tilling their fields and all of their nutriments though milk [And some other foods, like pie :)  ] to create a balanced and sustainable lifestyle that would last millennial. Then McDonald's came along and ruined all that. Oh well. the moral of the story is: Drink milk. Do exercises. Live healthy.

Justin Beiber

is a tool. But that aside, he has really made me gain a new appreciation for exactly how cold it is outside of a dance when you flee his horrible voice.

See-through life forms

Have always amazed me. To me, it is incredible (and entertaining) that a living thing should be clear. I mean, its like, craziness! imagine going to the doctor, and having him look through your chest and tell you exactly what's wrong with you? Neat! You make a better window than a door. The one problem is that most of these species reside deep underwater, and we know little about them. in fact, scientist estimate that human research has only discovered ten percent of oceanic species, and we have knowledge of about 230,000 species! that's a lot of different fishies. (Yes, it's spelled wrong.) So, while I am writing this, I am researching marine biology in other tabs, and I've found some pretty cool stuff!

Okay. so this fish isn't see-through. but it's pretty neat.

You can see its brain. Oh yeah. That's ludicrous. Its brain.

Now, this is just downright cool.
So, have you noticed? pretty much all of the coolest animals ever are... fish. we know so little about them, and the ones that are newly discovered are more and more interesting. did you know that scientists recently discovered a eel-like thing that is part animal, part plant? Like, it had plant cells in it. It's some sort of sea slug, called Elysia Chlorotica. craz-i-ness.Anyways, i have sort of a recently blooming ( like today kind of recently) interest in marine biology. So maybe I'll post some more about it...

Lumas

Are cute, squishy, soft small (mostly) floating star-people that appear in Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2. I'm posting this mostly since my last post was about Waltz for Luma, and some of you might be wondering what in Mario a Luma is, but also since somebody told me that my blog is enriched superbly when I ad an occasional image, so I thought that I would add an image of a Luma.

So these are Lumas. So cute! so squishy! Don't you wish you could hug one? Yes. You do. The only, erm... well... strange thing about Lumas is the exploding Lumas. Well...  I'll let you see for yourself.


                                  *TRANS-FORM!!!*
yeah. um. so. Awkward. sorry. you probably didn't want to see that... i told you, the hungry Lumas are... Strange.

Waltz For Luma

Is a blog that people actually care about- some people, at least. the girl who does Waltz for Luma publishes sheet music from videogames. And other things. Like classical music, or stuff. It's mostly pretty challenging, and if you play music, don't wave it off in a generalized "bad music" group- Millions of dollars are spent to develop good soundtracks, and not in vain. the music is lovely. you can find the home page at: http://aivitran.blogspot.com/. My personal favorites include Mario and Zelda, But she also composes original pieces and has music from practically any Nintendo game- you name it, she's got it. If your just interested in listening, she has all sorts of tracks, to. Fun stuff.

Snow

Falls form the sky, right? Wrong. Ever since somebody broke the weather (insert least favorite politician involved negatively in climate change debate here) It stays volatile enough that it's more likely for it to rain then freeze into slippery ice than to fall as snow like it's supposed to. Even if it doesn't precipitate at all, then the warm, unpleasant, slushy weather that skips along above zero will melt the snow during the day, and then the normal, sub-zero night time temperatures will freeze the water into slippery ice. yay. The abnormal warmth of the day makes for slush and puddles, a kind of elongated, unpleasant springtime. The big thaw is never fun, but if it thaws every day and freezes every night? horrible. Just awful. And people have the gall to say that people in northerly climes Like climate change? I am sorry, but anything that shortens my sledding/skating  season and drops puddles the size of my house's footprint at every bend is not good in any way by me.

One star

sounds like "one time" by justin bebeir, doesn't it? well, it has nothing to do with that annoying child. The reason I'm posting about one star is that I play Mario games, see? And in a Mario game, you go through a variety of challenges to collect stars. Except for most of them, which are two-d. So anyways, I was playing my Mario game, ladydadyda, when i realized that I only had one challenge left to entirely finish the game. like, 240 stars finish. Gold crown finish. 100% finish. And the reason this was really exiting is that I had recently finished the game that comes before that, Super Mario Galaxy, and gotten 100% on it. so, now I'm about to get Super Mario Galaxy 2 at 100%.  Exiting. so I go looking for this last star, and this is what I find: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGvueFef3Nc
(actual, this is a video of someone else going it, just so you get the idea.)
It's not as easy as it looks. I tried like twenty times before my mom made me go to bed, and It's rad-dic-a-lous.
seriously.

This is a star, officially called a power star. Green stars do appear in number one, but in number two they are an extra challenge for after you have beaten the game normally.

Being Sick

Is a bit of a problem, since your body wants rest and the rest of the world still wants you to keep on working without a single penny lost in lost efficiency. You could take a day off, but that would require you to do some makeup work for the day you missed- and more often then not, making up for lost time is harder than being their in the first place. Thus, you will probably go to work or school telling yourself that your not really sick and that it will pass quickly. Then, because you're exerting yourself to much, a slight cough that should be gone in a few days persists for weeks, making you ever more miserable and more venerable to infection from other common sicknesses floating around in place with lots of people (chances are your not the only one sick) like the stomach flu. repeat cycle.

Boffers

are basically violent, bloody medieval weapons turned foam. they are composed of a core (usually PVC tube, since it's the cheapest, but graphite is used too) and a wrap of foam around them. The foam layer around the Boffer differs according to intended use; if you're going for full on hits, that may require several layers of padding,  maybe an inch and a half, as well as a cloth wrapping to reduce the chance of welts- but if you're just wanting to have a duel with your friends, a PVC tube with pipe insulation or a pool noddle around it should do fine. Boffering is pretty much a fun workout that allows you to get out your combative rage without actually hurting anyone. If you are interested in Boffers and want to find out more, click here.
if you are interested in making Boffers, click here.
Have fun bashing your buddies.