Are Americans Stupid ? [ October 6th, 2008 ] Posted in » Random
Well, i happen to like america but this video does say it all.
The Triops Died
It finally happened….The Triops died. Yep i came downstairs on sunday morning to find all 5 had sunk to the bottom of the tank and thats where they planned to stay. It was actually quite sad to see them dead especially after seeing them grow from just an egg.
One thing i will say is don’t buy the little fellas if you don’t like bad smells because they stank.
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Review #2 Of Jellyfish
Im in a video game
Ane for the soundtrack to an action packed video game, this ones right up your alley. Dynamics may need a little attention in as far as the intrument interacting with each other. As a stand alone tune, it probably need a littl emore variation to maintain 6.09 minutes of interest. I liked the half time feel at around 3.25.
- Muffinguy from Wamberal, New South Wales, Australia on 1Oct2008
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Motorway Lessons Should Be A Standard
This has probably been covered by many a blog or article but, why is it that not many people know what to do when they are on the motorway. Most of my working day involves driving and believe me ive seen it all when it comes to stupid people. Saying that it wasn’t until today that i actually started getting annoyed by this breed of people.
We were on the M3 coming back from Bognor to Reading when we came across a car in the fast lane doing 65mph with no other traffic on the road. I don’t get it, are these people really that insecure that the mere fact of driving in the “slow lane” scares them in to thinking that they will catch something from that part of tarmac.
I really do think that most of the accidents on the roads these days are because of these people.
Anyway back to the guy today. We were coming up on the slow lane and following the highway code we moved into the fast lane so that we didn’t under take this fool. Finally he saw that there was a van behind and moved over (6 miles later) as we over took him he looked at us and mouthed “wankers”. Correct me if i’m wrong but this guy was at fault.
I might be a bit harsh here but honestly the only people that know how to drive are lorry drivers and van drivers. I just wish that people would stop being scared of the slow lane and get in it. Just because the motorway ain’t busy don’t mean you should be in the middle or fast lanes.
STAY IN THE SLOW UNTILL YOU NEED TO OVERTAKE……
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Review #1 Of Jellyfish
hipnotic line
high rithm for this track, a bit like Aphex Twin (and that’s a compliment), great sequences and mixes of different rithms. ipnotic and surreal.
- aintext from Bologna, Italy on 28Sep2008
This track can be purchased at:
http://slotvent.com/products-page/music-downloads/slotvent—jellyfish/
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Reverbnation And My Music
Yet again my music has started to amaze me again as this morning i logged onto Reverbnation to find that my artist profile has reached number 19 in the Electronica charts. This is probably the biggest charts that i have been in and its out f 12,000 other artist. Its not much for people reading to get excited but for me its made me happy so i figured that i would share it.
If you want to visit my reverbnation page you can at http://reverbnation.com/slotvent
Heres one of the songs that is on the profile, you can also purchase the mp3 in my store.
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Time For A New Recession
All you seem to hear about these days are the talk of a new recession kicking in late this year. Will it hapen or wont it happen ? No one really knows whats going on at the moment, anything that you read on the internet, see on the news or just hear in talk, just ends in a bit of a grey area where people aint really sure.
With a child on the way in my house i must admit that all of this is getting a bit scary, and it should do for everyone. Im already seeing it at work where people on site are being laid off. It makes me wonder how safe any of our jobs are. Id like to think that ill be ok as it seems to be labourers that are loosing jobs at the moment. But once all they are gone whos next ?
Whilst trawling through the next i came accross some steps that you can do to try and cope with the upcoming recession.
Step1
Start immediately putting cash away into some sort of reserve fund. Most experts advise familes to have an emergency fund that is equivalent to your living expenses of a six month period. Open a savings account and start stashing as much as you can afford to take out of each paycheck. Make sure that you will have access to the cash in case of an emergency, a layoff or a job loss.
Step2
Be smart enough to know that this too shall pass. Take advantage of the fear that is surrounding the stock market at this point. The time to invest is when the price is low, which is when others are being told by their brokers to sell. Smart investments happen when times are rough, and buying stocks during this decline could be the wisest move, if you have the extra money.
Step3
Consider taking a second job. Having a second job could save you from hardship if one of the companies decide to layoff or let people go. Overtime work should be taken, if you are offered it by your employer. You may even need to have other members of your family go to work in order to make ends meet.
Step4
Lower your consumption. This is an excellent way to cope with a recession, and it is one of the most universal suggestions by the financial experts. By lowering your expenditures, you will be ensuring a lower living expense and that should be your ultimate goal. Eating out, going shopping, going to the movies and other entertainment should be cut down to a level that you can live comfortably with.
Step5
Try to shop smart and take up bargain hunting. When it is necessary for you to buy clothes, for example, shop at the discount shops first. There are great deals and bargains to be found at second hand stores, also. You can better cope with a recession when you are spending less and saving more money
Hope this helps.
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Tricky Questions
How many of these can you get? Especially the last 4 are challenging. They are great for bars.
Q1. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms: The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven’t eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?
Q2. A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?
Q3. A magician was boasting one day at how long he could hold his breath under water. His record was 6 minutes. A kid that was listening said, “that’s nothing, I can stay under water for 10 minutes using no type of equipment or air pockets!” The magician told the kid if he could do that, he’d give him $10,000. The kid did it and won the money. Can you figure out how?
Q4. There are two plastic jugs filled with water. How could you put all of this water into a barrel, without using the jugs or any dividers, and still tell which water came from which jug?
Q5. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and grey when you throw it away?
Q6. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?
Q7. This is an unusual paragraph. I’m curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it! In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is unusual though. Study it, and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out! Try to do so without any coaching!
Q8. You are participating in a race. You overtake the second person. What position are you in?
Q9. If you overtake the last person, then you are…?
Q10. (in your head!) Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000. Now add 30. Add another 1000. Now add 20. Now add another 1000. Now add 10. What is the total?
Q11. Mary’s father has five daughters: 1. Nana, 2. Nene, 3. Nini, 4. Nono. What is the name of the fifth daughter?
Now how many could you answer?
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ANSWERS:-
A1. The third. Lions that haven’t eaten in three years are dead.
A2. The woman was a photographer. She shot a picture of her husband, developed it, and hung it up to dry.
A3. The kid filled a glass of water and held it over his head for 10 minutes.
A4. Colour and Freeze them first. Take them out of the jugs and put the ice in the barrel. You will be able to tell which water came from which jug.
A5. The answer is Charcoal. In Homer Simpson’s words: hmmmm… Barbecue.
A6. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.
A7. The letter “e”, which is the most common letter in the English language, does not appear once in the long paragraph
A8. If you answer that you are first, then you are absolutely wrong! If you overtake the second person and you take his place, you are second!
A9. If you answered that you are second to last, then you are wrong again. Tell me, how can you overtake the LAST person?!
A10. Did you get 5000? The correct answer is actually 4100. Don’t believe it? Check with your calculator!
A11. Nunu? NO! Of course not. The fifth daughter is Mary. Read the question again.
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Everything Is Free
At what point do throw the towel in and call it a day, by this I’m talking about the music that I make. I have been making music now for over 11 years. I have won awards, I have had my music on TV, I have played gigs, I have even had an e-mail from somebody that played my music at a beach party. But at what point do you suddenly decide that you want to start selling music. In an ideal world I would like to be the same as everyone else sell all my music make my millions, live in a big house with a fast car and just live the life of luxury for a few years.
Is it wrong to care about what people think when it comes to buying music?
When I first started making music it was purely for fun until I got approached to do some music works in TV. Maybe it was this that gave me the bug to see more money in the music and make my millions from here. But who would actually buy the music? The way things are going at the moment with chart topping bands and the lack of sales it really seems pointless to even think that I’m going to make money when famous people are struggling.
After today I realised that I am wasting my time in the pursuit of happiness that comes with selling music. I set up a store on the site today in order to sell every track I’ve ever written on this site only, after a bit of market research I realise that in order to sell my music I would have to undercut the professionals meaning there is no way I could charge more than $.60 per song. After setting up the store I realised one major flaw in the plan and this is PayPal. For me PayPal is the only way I can accept money online. So I went ahead and set up my PayPal store, I even went to great lengths to test everything was working. But, this is one and a major problem and that is that whenever I sell a track for $.60 PayPal actually take $.38 as a processing fee.
After seeing this and playing about with my calculator I would much rather give away all of my music.
So from here on in and coming soon on this site all of the music I’ve ever made will be available for free download to whoever wants to download music, the only thing I am going to do is add a donation button on the download page so if you feel the need to donate some money as a way of saying thank you for my music means of doing this are there.
I hope and think I’ve made the right decision and I would like to go back to the same frame of mind I was in when I first started making music and that is … on making this music for fun why should I charge people to listen to it.
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Today is a good day
It’s been a couple weeks since I bought rainbow six on the xbox and I am pleased to announce that today I finally completed it. It’s been a tough time am almost convinced I pushed “restart mission” more times than I killed the enemy. Now all I have to do is work towards gaining all the patches and awards on the game. So I’m pretty convinced that there is a lot more game play yet to be had with the game, I figured I would share with everyone that reads my blog I’ve finally completed my first game on the Xbox. The next game on my completion list will be grand theft auto, until then I think I had better go and buy some new batteries for the controller.
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