“Slenderman” sightings in the UK have prompted paranormal investigation.. reports of an 8-foot man haunting people, causing sleep paralysis.. The term ‘slenderman’ came from a Creepypasta a few years back, but the notion of a tall slender man with a pale white face has been in culture for centuries. What is strange about this is how many similar stories of this type of man are suddenly coming from the UK mining town of Staffordshire..
Sunday, January 25, 2015
Slendermen invade UK town?
“Bad skin day” leads bodyguards to hide Justin Bieber’s face from reporters..
Come on Biebs.. just admit it. You’re a human..
'Historic' Snowstorm Threatens New England With Likely Blizzard
New England is braced for “paralyzing, crippling blizzard-like conditions” as the second East Coast winter storm in as many days threatens to dump …
'Historic' Snowstorm Threatens New England With Likely Blizzard
OPERATIONAL MODELS ARE A GO..
A MAJOR BLIZZARD IS ABOUT HIT THE NORTHEAST..
This could be impressive and historic..
There are chances that by Tuesday parts of Jersey, New York, Boston, and others cities along the seaboard will be measuring the snow with a yard stick..
ACCUWEATHER has information.. This from the site:
Travel disruptions due to the snow should be anticipated as early as the Monday morning commute around Philadelphia and New York City.
The snow is expected to expand and intensify across New England throughout Monday and Monday night, pushing into Canada during the day on Tuesday.
"The worst conditions in eastern New England can be expected late Monday night through Tuesday morning," said AccuWeather.com Meteorologist Ben Noll.
Noll continued by saying that blizzard conditions will occur during this time.
As said by others, the time to prepare is now.. not just bread and milk, but enough batteries to withstand a major power outage.. The grid just ain’t what it used to be..
This is developing winter storm poised to begin tonight and last through Monday January 26.. be aware ..
Disneyland measles outbreak: Cases not limited to the unvaccinated
The LA TIMES,
As the measles outbreak that started at Disneyland grew to at least 70 cases Wednesday, much of the attention has focused on how the vast majority of patients were not vaccinated for the highly contagious disease.
But some medical experts also have expressed concern about the five patients who contracted measles despite being fully vaccinated.
2014 was already a record year for measles, according to the CDC.. This Disneyland outbreak could make that record fall if it continues to spread..
TIME magazine and many others have piled on despite the VACCINATED cases.. They are blaming anti vaccine crowd for the outbreak..
But let’s get real.. people from every part of the globe go to the cesspool known as Disneyland .. and it’s not shocking to think of horrid germs and diseases living fine lives among us the refuse of the park..
I think even more interesting with all of this: measles seems to be getting stronger than the vaccine.
Still can’t figure out why the United States cannot just separate MMR into three shots.
But .. I guess there’s something logical my un-educated mind is missing on that..
Disneyland measles outbreak: Cases not limited to the unvaccinated
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Just think.. there are billions upon billions of planets in billions of galaxies.. And each one makes a brilliantly amazing sound.. just like the few creepy ones presented in this brief video.
The voice of earth is amazing—just think of it as the conglomeration of everything that is on earth at any given moment. Listen close.. perhaps you’ll hear your own cries of pain or tears of happiness..
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Edward Snowden: Apple iPhone with Secret iFeature Allows Government to Spy on You
I think we know this already..
BUT there seems to be more than we know.. no?
Edward Snowden: Apple iPhone with Secret iFeature Allows Government to Spy on You
Saturday, January 24, 2015
Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday called the apparent killing of a Japanese captive by Islamic State militants "outrageous and impermissible," and again called for the release of a Japanese journalist being held by the group.
And more from REUTERS:
Abe, speaking to public broadcaster NHK, said chances were high that a recording and an image of what appeared to be the decapitated body of Japanese captive Harman Yukawa, which emerged late on Saturday, were authentic.
Abe also called for the immediate release of the remaining Japanese captive, reporter Kenji Goto, and said he was putting top priority on saving Goto’s life.
But he reiterated that Japan would not give in to terrorism.
"Such an act of terrorism is outrageous and impermissible, which causes me nothing but strong indignation," Abe said.
Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday called the apparent killing of a Japanese captive by Islamic State militants "outrageous and impermissible," and again called for the release of a Japanese journalist being held by the group.
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Because the night isn’t scary enough, here’s the SPONGEBOB theme slowed down 800%.
Be freaked..
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
When a Russian feels any foreign pressure, he will never give up his leader," Shuvalov said. "Never. We will survive any hardship in the country — eat less food, use less electricity.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov
Pootie Poot’s been awfully demanding lately.. more sex? less food?
Life in Russia..
Report says bodies found stacked at funeral home
A Jan. 12 inspection of Arkansas Funeral Care in Jacksonville found the funeral home’s cooler in its holding facility “filled beyond capacity with bodies,” according to a state inspector’s report, with two bodies “stacked on top of each other” and other bodies, not embalmed, lying outside the cooler.
The state Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors suspended the licenses of the funeral home and its manager, LeRoy Wood, during an emergency hearing Wednesday afternoon. Several hours later, officials with the state Crime Laboratory and the Pulaski County coroner’s office removed 31 bodies from the funeral home.
This is disgusting and shameful.. A special place in hell should exist for whoever would disrespect the dead in this way.
Report says bodies found stacked at funeral home
German scientists invent working teleporter, of sorts
New system destructively scans objects transmits them through encrypted communications across any distance and rebuilds it the other side
We are getting closer..
No excuse for missing work one day in the future with this technology..
German scientists invent working teleporter, of sorts
LAKES IN GREENLAND MYSTERIOUSLY DRAIN!? Scientists say that they are baffled–as would be anyone–at the sudden vanishing lakes in Greenland..
Get this: One lake was so large that a mile-wide crater was left behind after it was drained in the span of a few weeks. Another sub-glacial lake has been filled and emptied twice in the last two years..
One expert told ABC news that this shows that the ‘plumbing system under the ice’ is changing..
Keep in mind, this is BILLIONS OF GALLONS of water we are talking about.
Good thing we moved that DOOMSDAY CLOCK closer to midnight..
A study concludes that MONSANTO chemicals cause GENETIC damage to soybean workers!
The study was published in the journal Mutation Research/Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis, and it involved 127 people, including 81 exposed to biocides while working in the Brazilian soybean industry and 46 non-exposed individuals in a control group..
Even more, the study concludes that it causes DNA damage and cell death.
Japan Is Fighting ISIS with Super-Kawaii Tweets
The people of Japan have declared meme warfare on Jihadi John.
A few
Japan Is Fighting ISIS with Super-Kawaii Tweets
I love old postcards.. this one is of Ashland, PA.. If you’d see it now, you would never realize this 1907 card could have been the same town..
So often we think ‘progress’ is achieved.. but think back> AT that time we have railways to connect towns and cities.. we had downtowns where people would congregate for shopping and eating.. we had theaters.. so many towns had most of its people working in coal mining or manufacturing.
Sure the past was rough and tough.. but in 1907 when this was sketched, the town was also younger and more vibrant. Filled with business and life.
Now it has boarded up store fronts and dilapidated buildings. Chances are your town is the same, too.
I guess that’s progress..
Faux surprise face is the new duckface
A growing trend on Instagram seems to be people making a faux surprise face.
Goodbye duckface. It’s been real.
Faux surprise face is the new duckface
Friday, January 23, 2015
A-Treat Bottling Company closing after 97 years
A-Treat is closing its doors after 97 years of manufacturing and distributing soda to the Lehigh Valley and beyond.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
The best soda on earth..
Not good.
I seriously cannot explain just how bad of news this is. I know everything changes, everything evolves, and old things die, but this was probably my favorite brand name in Pennsylvania..
A-Treat Bottling Company closing after 97 years
Pope Francis: put your iPhone down and start talking - Telegraph
Pope Francis says families should put aside their iPhones and Twitter feeds and talk to each other
I’m completely okay with that..
Pope Francis: put your iPhone down and start talking - Telegraph
Pope sees 'shadows and dangers' amid Vatican attack fears
Pope Francis on Thursday told Italian police officers in charge of security around the Vatican that he saw “shadows and dangers”, but urged them not to give in to fear.
"On the horizon we see shadows and dangers which worry humanity," he said in the wake of an increase in security around the Vatican amid fears Islamic State extremists may be plotting to attack the head of the Roman Catholic Church.
Security was tightened in Saint Peter’s Square in September after intelligence services intercepted a possible plan to attack the Vatican. Iraq’s ambassador to the Holy See, Habib Al Sadr, at the time warned that “what has been declared by the self-declared Islamic State is clear.
Yesterday on NIGHT TERROR NEWS, I wrote a bit about the troubling ‘prophecies of the Pope’ that litter my mind. The news of this “shadows and dangers” comment provides even more fodder for the paranoid mind, the haunting images of a Pope standing overtop of his people during a final battle or perhaps even on being the last in a series prophetized by St. Malachy so many centuries ago..
This from the AP:
Iraq’s ambassador to the Holy See, Habib Al Sadr, at the time warned that “what has been declared by the self-declared Islamic State is clear. They want to kill the Pope. The threats against the Pope are credible.”
But are the prophetic words of Malachy, Pope Pius, and Nostradamus as credible as the threats?
Pope sees 'shadows and dangers' amid Vatican attack fears
The Pagan conquest
More information about something locally making big news.. The former Cardinal Brennan high school is going to be NORTH SCHUYLKILL MIDDLE SCHOOL very soon..
The former Catholic home to education was closed in 2007.. shuddered and tucked away in the annals of memory in the coal region..
Since the announcement was made that NS was going to take over CB, mixed emotions have developed..
There is one common thread, though. Most people seem to be quite fine that it will be used as a home to edumucation.. but there’s some other things which are getting some heated reactions among CB alumni, including the following:
- All religious relics will be subtracted from the property.. obviously crosses and Jesus can’t exist on a publicly funded taxpayer location. Including the giant cross on the mess of the new field house that was built in the late 1990s..
- All memories of CB will be eliminated..
- The çharger horse that exists throughout various places on the campus will be painted over with NS emblems..
- The blue and gold, once the color of CB pride, will be replaced with red and blue where ever it existed..
- The places of memories and reflections of past students and classes will be trampled on by people who have no clue what happened in certain rooms or buildings. That one is upsetting to me..
- There is a good chance the bell tower, once known for the signatures of past people, may be painted over. As though none of the sneak-signings ever even happened..
- Nate, the janitor, will not be there. And for that, it’s a great misfortune on future students..
I am not in the camp blaming NS for anything.
But instead I blame the Catholic Church. I blame them for having priests who molested children for 50 years, leading to a collapse in faith and lack of church attendance ,and lack of money, and death of Catholic education. If anyone is looking for a villain, they are your best option.
Meanwhile.. This is how CB once looked way in the past, and more recently in the past..
It’s over folks
The blue and gold blood has long dried up..
Rumor: Some Bad Shit Is Going Down At Tumblr
I knew there would be consequences if I caught up on my dash.
People knew there’d be SOME KIND OF MESS that happened once YAHOO! took over..
Now I just wish, before this mess becomes a full fledged website social networking crisis, they come up with a good backup for people who don’t use MACs.. just hoping..
Rumor: Some Bad Shit Is Going Down At Tumblr
From the start, the idea of Hatred was supposed to be like it is now. I mean, we somehow knew that the media and some people would find it disturbing and shocking, but we also felt that gamers need something like Hatred, because the market is filled with too many sterile and far too polite games. A little bit of dirt and murky atmosphere never hurt anyone. As you have seen lately, gamers have rushed into support this project, with amazing numbers of Greenlight votes. So if there is a need for such games, we feel that we did the game concept well.
Destructive Creations business developer Przemysław Szczepaniak in an interview with VICE about the controversial new game HATRED
Get read to read and hear a lot of debate and wild comments being made about this game.. The main plot of HATRED: You can play a mass murdering psychopath. And that’s about it..
You can do all the killing you want..
You can gameplay murder as long as you want..
One more point on the interview in VICE: The business developer Szczepaniak *say that five times fast* also said this about the brutal honesty of HATRED when compared to other games:
Any killing game is about violence. It doesn’t matter if you try to justify it by a twist in the storyline, because you are still killing to reach a certain goal. Killing is always wrong. We show with Hatred how killing can be cruel; we did not justify anything about [it] – this is our honesty.
There is no doubt.. if you play HATRED, you will kill and that’s the goal.. For some that is the beauty of this game. To others, that’s the real reason to be scared: The cover is off and the truth is being spoken.. HATRED wants you to score some good death numbers.. Confined to the GAME.. of course..
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., 75, talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015, for the first time since he suffered an eye injury and broken ribs on New Year’s Day, when a piece of exercise equipment he was using broke and sent him smashing into cabinets at his new home. Reid sais his re-election bid in 2016 is on track even though he’s been sidelined by an exercise accident. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt: "The Internet Will Disappear"
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt on Thursday predicted the end of the Internet as we know it.
I agree..
Note the ‘as we know it’ ending to his statement..
There are some clear thing to agree with on this assumption of our future.. Schmidt reminds us,
“There will be so many IP addresses…so many devices, sensors, things that you are wearing, things that you are interacting with that you won’t even sense it. It will be part of your presence all the time. Imagine you walk into a room, and the room is dynamic. And with your permission and all of that, you are interacting with the things going on in the room.”
It already is a part of our presence. Washing machines and refrigerators equipped to go online, Smart TVs being watched (and watching us) and now iWatches are on the way, making technology even closer to being implanted into our arms instead of just being worn on the outside of our skin.
The comments section on the HOLLYWOOD REPORTER story may be the most interesting.. many call Schmidt a creepy narcissistic evil entity, some call him a “Nazi” and say he deserves prison time.. One said “Google is full of nut jobs” .. and then this comment,
He’s also insane. Just model it out: 100 things in your house with IP addresses, all using electricity and all subject to configuration and durability problems. The learning curve alone is absurdly impossible. I feel like Khrushchev - I want to beat him with my shoe…
Sure, people have the chance to make witty and quick comments to stories on the Internet..But as fast and comedic as people can be, they are also purchasing the evil products that Schmidt spoke about. They are eating up smart TVs.. they are happily living a constantly-connected life on social media on their smartphones..
Schmidt is right.
The Internet is changing and it will never be the same again.
However, that’s not really a bad thing. It is just a thing.. Just as a stone tablet led to a fountain pen that led to a typewriter that led to a smart phone, it’s the progression of society and humanity. It just seems, lately, that we have steamrolled far more into the future than what human minds are capable of emotionally dealing with. At least to me.
BUT…
As with anything..
Technology can be amazing and give birth to freedoms of the mind, or it can become a technocratic hell on earth led by demons with human skin. We pick..
And we buy, either buy into the future of hope or the soon-to-be-days of demonic existence.
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt: "The Internet Will Disappear"
This is Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud.. he is taking over for his father, King Abdullah, 90, who just died.
I wonder if oil prices finally put Abdullah over the edge..
But the world sure had fun while he was alive, eh?
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No Joke. Brian Koerber on MASHABLE writes,
Brooklyn-based artist and hacker KATSU used his own fecal matter to create a portrait ofFacebook CEO and cofounder Mark Zuckerberg.
The pooptrait, which is currently on display at The Hole in New York City, is a part of KATSU’s first solo exhibition titled “Remember the Future.” The gallery was not immediately available for comment.
I suppose this is nice. I guess..
Actually I think it shows more than anything that the artist has a very healthy digestive system..
ISIS Posts Clock Counting Down To Zero Online As Time Is Running Out For Japanese Hostages
Militants affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have posted an online warning that the “countdown has begun” for the group to kill a pair of Japanese hostages.
A countdown clock?
ISIS continues to use modern technology to put death in the face of humanity..
This from AP:
The posting, which appeared Friday, shows a clock counting down to zero along with gruesome images of other hostages who have been beheaded by the group.
ISIS gave Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a 72-hour deadline – which expired Friday – to pay a $200 million ransom for the two hostages. The Friday posting on a forum popular among Islamic State militants and sympathizers did not show any images of the Japanese hostages.
Japan said it will not be paying the $200 million ransom that has been demanded..
According to various reports, officials are cautiously watching Internet postings and Twitter messages globally to watch for any sign that images or videos of murder have been posted..
But on the topic of ISIS itself, many are beginning to ponder the set and scenery of the videos being filmed. The shadows on the faces of the hostages don’t match the shadows of their bodies.. at time it looks like the speaker is superimposed and has a photoshopped hand.. And some have even joked that the background looks more like Luke Skywalker’s home planet from STAR WARS than it does a desert in the Middle East..
A good collection of thoughts and Twitter messages on the potential fakery is on THE DAILY SHEEPLE..
ISIS Posts Clock Counting Down To Zero Online As Time Is Running Out For Japanese Hostages
Thursday, January 22, 2015
BlackBerry CEO Wants Legislators To Make Developing BlackBerry Apps Mandatory
Okay.. pretty clear here, folks.. Blackberry is completely out of ideas..
BlackBerry CEO Wants Legislators To Make Developing BlackBerry Apps Mandatory
China is going to build a $242 billion (1.5 trillion yuan) high-speed rail link between Beijing and Moscow. The line will cut the journey time from five to 'two days', say Chinese authorities.
This is amazing news… and it should have been something America did first..
I long thought that one of the best initiatives President Obama could have done immediately in 2009 was to plan for a comprehensive high speed railway across the nation—a new Interstate system al-la- Eisenhower..
It could have changed America. Revolutionized travel.. Ate away early at OPEC margins.. and transformed this into a new American century of jobs and prosperity, and quick travel between small towns and big cities..
Instead we didn’t.
And now soon, you’ll be able to travel from from Beijing to Moscow in 2 days.
We have our chance…
China is going to build a $242 billion (1.5 trillion yuan) high-speed rail link between Beijing and Moscow. The line will cut the journey time from five to 'two days', say Chinese authorities.
The fix is in: Someone's got balls.
DEFLATEGATE shows us why it’s just not smart to even care about sports..
The fix is in: Someone's got balls.
Of Doomsdays and Clocks
The world is going to now witness a stream of media attention about the Doomsday Clock
- it wasn’t changed snice 2012
- until today it was five minutes until midnight
- it has been pushed to three minutes until midnight with today’s announcement
Perhaps if the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists REALLY wants to get some attention, they’d use the clock from DON’T HUG ME I’M SCARED..
And anyway, Justin Timberlake sang we only had four minutes to save the world.. I guess he was wrong..
A great question posed: Do atheist movie goers get scared during supernatural horror movies?
The answer provided by Robert Frost (not the poet):
“So, atheists can certainly get a thrill from supernatural movies, but they do miss out on the scariness being prolonged after the theater lights come back on. That’s a thrill reserved to those that can believe in the possibility of ghosts and demons.”
A great question posed: Do atheist movie goers get scared during supernatural horror movies?
Some coal region rumblings, news of the local fare. CARDIBAL BRENNAN, My former high school, closed for years, has been purchased by another school… The North Schuylkill school district has approved the plan to purchase the shuddered campus in Fountain Springs on Academy Lane.
Mixed emotions, but I don’t see the problem whatsoever in a school buying the school.
Let the supposedly learning continue.
George Lucas sounds off: Disney didn’t use any of his ideas in new STAR WARS movie..
But while some fans may seen this as a shot at Lucas, let’s get real.. the ‘newest’ STAR WARS movies were basically a triplet of trash, some of the worst films I have ever seen.
Especially the PHANTOM MENACE.. should we really ponder why Disney didn’t use the ideas?
Sure, a young George Lucas gave us Darth Vader.
But the modern Lucas gave us Jar Jar Binks..
I think a new direction was quite appropriate when considering that..
Sitting kills.
Make sure when you read this, you’re standing..
A new study suggests something we have long suspected: Sitting can kill.
And it’s deadly EVEN IF YOU EXERCISE..
Maybe it’s time to redesign classrooms and offices.
Donald Rumsfeld may have given us killer chemicals but he sure knows how to live long: Stand while working. It may be time for lots of other people to consider changing their lifestyles to live longer to have one..
DO NOT vape em if you got em
New lab tests imply that e-cigs are more dangerous than their dangerous counterpart..
From the information being provided on the study, they are FILLED with cancer causing chemicals.
Like a lot.. like more than real cigarettes..
What do avoid during sex: The woman on top.. Scientists now say that it is the most dangerous sexual position known to humans, leading to the majority of penile fractures in men..
Bet that never happens in the movies you watch..
What do avoid during sex: The woman on top.. Scientists now say that it is the most dangerous sexual position known to humans, leading to the majority of penile fractures in men..
A lot of people used to say, 'if you can watch TV a TV can watch you.' That was long before TV's could watch, listen, record, and admittedly analyze you..
SAMSUNG has been in the hot seat over just how invasive their smart TVs are.. Now people are wondering just what the creepy friend in our living room is doing with our images and private conversations..
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
The planet is amazing.. the planet is scary. This is the scene in the Pacific in Tonga… a volcano has been erupting for about a month.. And suddenly a new island has appeared. Tonga now has 177 islands. Update your maps accordingly..
The Yemen factor..
This could start getting very dicey very quickly..
Even more, it was announced today that Boehner bringing BIBI to the House to address Congress.
Obama said he didn’t know.. a surprise for The Commander in Chief after a raucous State of the Union..
The state of the union.. the state of a presidency.. a President, once unpopular, now becomes a populist.. ....he rants against the wealth and proclaims his pain for the poor–he begs a Republican majority to pass Middle Class reforms they will never consider.
But standing ovations were common on the left, eye rolls on the right. But he was dead on accurate.. no Keystone Pipeline when a bigger project could prevail.. no little ideas. Big ideas–but why does he cut NASA? Why doesn’t he stand in the way of intrusive spying and corporate giveaways? Because.. I suppose, he’s a politician.. I have a feeling that some of the KoolAid left over from 2008 will be back on the shelves by tomorrow morning’s news run.. Though there’s only two years left.. Two years that will feature no minimum wage increase.. no sick pay for nursing mothers.. no big jobs program.. no reforms for the Middle Class. However it will make a hell of a few issues for 2016. And that’s the point.. politics is always getting in the way of real reforms. The standing ovations are all for show. Theater at its finest. Or worst.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
The FUTURE is NOW.. A Chinese firm 3D-printed a 5-story house using construction waste ‘ink’ ..
3D printing is going to change everything..
3D printing is going to take on industries one at a time..
Construction will never be the same, nor will medicine..
Justin Bieber Will Be Roasted on Comedy Central
Justin Bieber is going to be roasted on COMEDY CENTRAL.. There is not a man, woman, or child alive (or even manchild) who does not look forward to every second of this..
But sadly, deep down, we know that this only inflates the already massive ego that Biebs possesses..
Justin Bieber Will Be Roasted on Comedy Central
Stress makes you behave a TODDLER, study claims
This explains why people in jobs across America resort to day-care-like behavior with the going gets tough..
Stress makes you behave a TODDLER, study claims
Horny Ghosts Are Prowling Remote Highway And Seducing Drivers, According To Paranormal Investigator
A highway to hell, or heaven. Depending on your predilection..
Horny Ghosts Are Prowling Remote Highway And Seducing Drivers, According To Paranormal Investigator
Too soon to know.. but very timely to prepare. There may be not one but two major snowstorms hitting the East Coast this weekend into next week.. If that occurs, we will be having heart pains and shoveling. If it does not, I will be grateful..
I am getting a little sick of the hazy shade of winter..
This was a scene today in Japan.. if you had any doubts that the future was going to look very different from the past and present, read about this news conference..
Japanese androids not only held this news conference, but they also chatted with baby droids..
TECHWORLD reprots,
If you find lifelike robots unnerving, try attending a news conference held by a pair of androids.
That was the scene on Tuesday in Tokyo when the androids Kodomoroid and Otonaroid introduced a new pair of communication robots developed by an Osaka-based company, Vstone, and its partners.
Sota and CommU, each about 30cm tall, engaged in dialog with their full-sized counterparts at the Miraikan technology museum as journalists looked on, entranced. The smaller, tabletop droids can only move their arms and upper bodies, but spoke in cute Japanese resembling the speech of a toddler.
Also they may be hitting the market around April..
Real feeling and emotions next?
If you think it’s creepy, get used to it.. This is the future. The future is obviously now..
This somewhat reminded me of the episode BE RIGHT BACK of the BLACK MIRROR series, where a woman was able to purchase an android version of her deceased lover..
That, or the movie HALLOWEEN 3..
Pick your poison.
And get ready to get a little roboto in the future..
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On YOUTUBE, user MrLegolize writes,
I was blocked by two trucks on south bound I-95 at exit 9 in NJ (New Brunswick exit). I only wanted to take a picture while i was awaiting for them to clear up… And then I heard a noise from behind…I was barely missed.
UPDATE (moved from the bottom of the description, since no one bothers to read it): Once I turned off camera, I called in 911 and reported the accident. After that I came to the truck and the rest of the cars to verify they were alright. After arrival of NJ State Trooper and his dismissal confirming that he does not require my presence, I left the scene.
Well.. that video is horrific, no?
I am perplexed more than anything as to why the video recorder is not freaked and screaming..
Seriously may be one of the scariest real videos I have ever seen showcasing the unnerving power of black ice..
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Facebook The Best Predictor of Your Actions
Using info on one’s Facebook page, new software proved itself better able to judge one’s personality than friends and family members could.
Just more proof that technology is becoming another arm of human behavior.. we are programming our personal Facebook pages to act as us.. This gives rise to the strong potential for Facebook to be programmed to automatically publish links and thoughts even after we are long dead..
Think about that one..
Deep..
Like BLACK MIRROR stuff there, don’t you think?
Facebook The Best Predictor of Your Actions
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Sort of bizarre.. PCN’s coverage of Tom Wolf’s inauguration has been showing this guy for quite some some. I think he’s testing some stuff.. or did he just step in front of the camera? Even more.. he looks like a cross between Michael Moore and Kevin Smith,
At one point, as noted in the photo, he looked pretty enthusiastic that so many people were seeing him instead of the new Governor..
In this tweet, @BigJoeBastardi is talking about a storm I have also been watching for this weekend.. At this point, the model he speaks of is forecasting a big hit on the East Coast..
Something I would truly not like.. my wife is set for a plane flight home this Saturday night. A MECS would be a troubling issue for that …
There’s another storm possible even AFTER this one 120 hours out—lots of time to go and lots of moving and shaking of models may still occur. We don’t know until we are about 38-48 hours away..
The ‘unverifiable’ legacy of Chris Kyle, the deadliest sniper in American history
Some food for thought on Chris Kyle from a 2014 WASHINGTON POST story.. the sniper we are all seemingly celebrating because of a movie ..
The ‘unverifiable’ legacy of Chris Kyle, the deadliest sniper in American history
Monday, January 19, 2015
ISIS members using animals to practice beheadings discovered in Israel
Seven ISIS members arrested in Haifa, Israel, for forming the terror group’s first cell in the country brutally slaughtered live animals as they practiced how to behead people.
ISIS members using animals to practice beheadings discovered in Israel
Fox Announces They Will Reboot 'The X-Files'
I am a little shaky about this..
I don’t know if the 1990s and all their glory can be recreated..
Then again, Art Bell plans on returning to broadcasting in July of this year.. so perhaps we can party like it’s 1999 all over again..
Fox Announces They Will Reboot 'The X-Files'
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AMERICA, seriously!?
Mark Dice proves in a new video that lots of Americans either think Martin Luther King JUST DIED or was the first African American to walk on the moon..
Dumber than a sack of rocks, America..
You make me very unproud..
Lee Greenwood needs to re-write his song if this keeps up..
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Tom Wolf, who becomes the Governor of Pennsylvania tomorrow, is making some history already.. he nominated Dr. Rachel Levine to the office of physician general. She’s a transgender woman.. But much more importantly, she has an impressive record and amazing reputation among people who know her..
Historic, yes.. But deeper I think than the skin deep issues are the ideals she possesses.. Perhaps a new take on medicine is coming to the Keystone State. Long overdue if that occurs!
It’s BLUE MONDAY. The saddest day of the year.. Bills are due. The doldrums setting in.. Winter is here. Moods are deflated. As are wallets. And the buying splurge we went on a month ago seems silly now. As it does every blue Monday of every year..
The Patriots may have deflated footballs in DeflateGate scandal
All the world’s a stage.. and the players are merely players. In sports, all the world’s a fix, and the schmucks are those who don’t think so.. From the world of football today, there is some big news called DeflateGate.. A source is telling reporters that the PATRIOTS may have deflated footballs in their 45-7 victory over the Colts on Sunday night.. READ MORE HERE»> The NFL is ‘investigating‘ ..
The Patriots may have deflated footballs in DeflateGate scandal
Sunday, January 18, 2015
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My wife is in St. Maarten for the week—my son and dog are both stuck with me alone for the week.. The strict regiment of 9pm nbedtime failed last night already.. I envision the day care start times as being late each day too if the pattern, already set in motion, continues..
Without delving too deep into my personal issues here, this has been a rough bit for me .. Eight crazy nights’ worth of being the loner dad—that doesn’t sound right does it?—and knowing that, while I peer out of my dirty coal-covered windows at a lazy winter gray sky my wife will be suffering through sunny days with 80 degree temperatures..
Nonetheless, these are the plights and perils of only one parent going on a vacation while the other does not.
However, in my strange mindset, my wife set me the photo you see with this post of the view from her airplane wing as she flew south.. My first thought was how much it resembled the scene from the Shatner TWILIGHT ZONE.. Really..
Maybe this is my other paranoia setting in—the fear of flying that was deeply ingrained in my non-traveling parents at an early age.
People of the coal region inflict that on others.. My wife, who was from Philadelphia, never had to worry about the sheltered mountain mentality of being fearful of change and discovering new things.. I suppose now 30+ years into that fear, it’s still so hard to overcome that I see visions of monsters on airplane wings..
My son has already announced that he listens to ‘mommy when she counts to three,’ but went on to remind me ‘but I am not going to listen to you when you do it!’ And then he belted out an evil laugh..
7 more days..
One week.
Either from parental hell or from angelic heaven.
Time will tell. As will moods—and God forbid some wretched snowstorm piles up this week, forcing us to maintain sanity in four walls.
While in St. Maarten? 85. Sunny. What else is new..
Saturday, January 17, 2015
That moment of disappointment
When you turn on the scifi channel and see “Friday the 13th” followed by “A Nightmare on Elm Street” and after being psyched for an 80s slasher fest find out they’re the remakes.
MY GOD.. I agree with this 10000%
'American Sniper' Makes Eastwood's Friday With $30.5M, Can It Hit $80M By Monday?
I haven’t seen the movie..quite frankly didn’t even read reviews.
But one friend posted this on Facebook tonight:
The silence coming out of the theater after seeing American Sniper spoke louder than any critique of the movie. Wow is only word to explain it.
I suppose a number of people are being deeply affected by this film..
'American Sniper' Makes Eastwood's Friday With $30.5M, Can It Hit $80M By Monday?
The bizarre ESP experiments conducted on aboriginal children without parental consent
More evidence reveals that kids in Canada were subjected to bizarre, cruel and unethical experimentation led by “quack scientists.”
This Washington POST story penned by Abby Phillip is a must read.. The aboriginal children in Canada were subjected to so much misery and torture—kids as young as three being separated from their families and taken into a cruel life of bondage a wards of the state..
But the latest news we see here is a little more on the odd side.. Phillip reports,
A recently uncovered experiment reveals the depths of the access given to so-called researchers seeking to find evidence that aboriginal children, by dint of their race, had extrasensory perception, also known as ESP, or a “sixth sense.”
Fifty children at the Indian Residential School in Brandon, Manitoba, became the subjects of a series of tests that sought to establish a new measure for identifying ESP and also to find evidence of supernatural abilities of “primitive” people.
In the end, there does not appear to be any harm suffered by the children—except unless you consider that they happily and willing participated in them surveys because they’d get candy as a reward, candy for their starving stomachs..
But the study also offered nothing worthwhile—the results of the ESP was no better than just the chance guesses kids can make..
While this specific study took place in 1940, I think a bigger question is what else occurred that we do not know..
And lest we forget, these schools—run by churches but funded by the government—had more than 150,000 total kids in throughout time and were closed in 1996. That’s in most of our lifetimes—1996 was not ancient history..
Phillip goes on to report,
“The mortality rates of these schools were vastly higher than the rest of Canada,” Mosby said. “This comes back to the dehumanizing elements of residential schools in Canada. The entire purpose of them was to destroy indigenous ways of life.”
Linklater, who unearthed the study, forwarded it to Mosby because the researcher had previously examined other experiments conducted on aboriginal children during that time period.
“There’s no parental consent, there’s no research studies that would have been ethical by our standards today, and these kids were exploited,” Linklater told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. “I don’t mean to say this to inspire white guilt, I’m using this as a tool for change.”
In 2008, Canada said sorry..
As rightfully so.
I think as time goes on and those who suffered—children of course, as always—we will learn even more about the tests far worse than this ESP bizarreity. Much darker things most likely occurred..
The bizarre ESP experiments conducted on aboriginal children without parental consent
A Taiwanese man has died after a three-day gaming binge at an internet cafe in the island's south, the second such case this year. The 32-year-old, identified by his family name Hsieh, was found slumped in his chair in the cafe in Kaohsiung city.
…til you drop.
And he did..
32 years young?
Did anyone know chronic gaming could be so deadly?
A Taiwanese man has died after a three-day gaming binge at an internet cafe in the island's south, the second such case this year. The 32-year-old, identified by his family name Hsieh, was found slumped in his chair in the cafe in Kaohsiung city.
Connecticut officials coordinate earthquake preparation
After daily earthquakes in eastern Connecticut over the past week, officials have met to discuss ways the state can respond and residents can prepare.
The situation is confusing and challenging—a place that has not shaken in centuries is constantly now moving..
Of course nothing large enough to be earth shattering or teeth chattering has happened at this point, officials must be anxious.. Residents who have homes not built to withstand large shakes must be equally upset about the daily earthquakes that are occurring.
Safe places are now being thought up.. disaster plans.. family meet up points, and ways to get in touch with loved ones should something bigger even occur.
Scientists are still attempting to state exactly why is happening and why.. It has been challenging . The New York TIMES reports it this way :
Connecticut sat in the middle of this massive body of land. Then, about 200 million years after Pangea was formed, it began pulling apart. As the world began to take the shape, tectonic plates were colliding and breaking apart with tremendous force, creating huge faults. One of those faults — extending from near New Haven north to Keene, N.H. — helped create the Connecticut Valley. Although that fault has been inactive for 140 million years, residual stresses still exist and can set off earthquakes.
Since 1980, there have been swarms of several hundreds of earthquakes in and around Moodus, and scientists believe the Indian name was the result of the small tremors that would shake the lands.
But those quakes were mostly only detectable by machines. Not so the most recent swarm.
Dino Chrisovechotis said that he lived through earthquakes as a child in Greece but that his neighbors could use some basic information.
“Nobody here knows anything about earthquakes,” said Mr. Chrisovechotis, standing in Gus’s Pub & Pizzarama in Plainfield, the restaurant of which he is a co-owner. “It’s crazy.”
Just yesterday, a larger earthquake struck on the NE edge of the craton in Canada..
Connecticut officials coordinate earthquake preparation
Friday, January 16, 2015
My Way News - Rethinking the big speech that isn't so big anymore
There’s a thought that grandiose meaningful speeches won’t be happening anymore.. I disagree. I think if a President ditched the TelePrompTer and spoke some off the cuff truth, maybe people would decide it’s television worth watching ..
My Way News - Rethinking the big speech that isn't so big anymore
Raif Badawi: Saudi King 'refers case to Supreme Court', says blogger's wife
They are waiting for his wounds to heal.
Let’s remember: Saudi Arabia is an ‘ally’..
Raif Badawi: Saudi King 'refers case to Supreme Court', says blogger's wife
Navy: China has not attacked U.S. aircraft carrier
One hell of a hacking just took place.. UPI announced that world war three began today with an attack by China and a response from the United States military..
Thankfully it is all not true..
Hacked.
And it surely freaked out a lot of people..
Navy: China has not attacked U.S. aircraft carrier
NASA live stream cuts out after alien UFO sighting, claims blogger
Scoff at the claim if you wish, but look at the stream of events.. Live coverage. UFO spotted. Live feed goes down.
On purpose or an accident? UFO ?? Or IFO..
NASA live stream cuts out after alien UFO sighting, claims blogger
‘Boy Who Came Back From Heaven’ going back to publisher
It was all fake.
A fairy tale..
Lots of people found lots of hope in a story that was never real to begin with, a hoax perpetrated in masses of people who desperately searched for light in the darkness of this world..
That is behavior worthy of an eternal hell…
‘Boy Who Came Back From Heaven’ going back to publisher
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