Movie Update: The Martian is definitely worth a watch.

Just finished The Martian starring Matt Damon. Ridley Scott's still got it. That story was Solid and I was awaiting to help bring Mark home. Must own on Blu-Ray
(The last 10 years has been a revival of the Sci-fi genre)

Big think vids if you wanna digest some knowledge

DIY ARTICLE!!!!!! Hobbit holes and more

1. How To Build A Five Gallon Bucket Hydroelectric Generator

This generator is easy to build and easy to maintain. The way that this 5 gallon bucket hydroelectric generator was constructed was to use common martial that most people could get there hands on. Most of the components used in the generator are readily available just about anywhere in the world. A 5-gallon bucket should be your base and the rest will easily fall into place.

2. Two Uses for Vinegar!!!!! yay

I know, how exciting right? Of all the articles on all the topics I have found the most interesting one! because vinegar has only 2 uses....... (sarcasm)

3.  100-Year-Old Way to Filter Rainwater in a Barrel

A tattered, 4-inch thick, 1909 book I happily secured for $8 in a thrift store reveals, among umpteen-thousand other every-day skills, how to make homemade water filters. The instructions in “Household Discoveries and Mrs. Curtis’s Cookbook” are quite basic as everyone had a rain barrel back then and presumably knew how to clean the water. Now, 104 years later, I am thankful the authors had the foresight to preserve their knowledge for us, and pointed out that rainwater collected in barrels from a roof is a necessity in some locations, but also is best for laundry and “often more wholesome for drinking purposes than hard water.”

Last but never least!

4. The hobbit hole project!

BONUS VIDEO!

Kittens Review Star Wars: a BB-8 tale

I just saw this video posted by one of my friends ans I HADDD to share it. awwwwww

Adorable cats, Star Wars, cute little cardboard back drops........what their not to like? AND.....its doubles as BOTH a review for kittens as well as an adoption promo. I mean c'mon......
unless you're heartless or don't like cats who can't support this!? (at the very least......star wars

Oh satire........ You got me, as the kids these days say, 'Laughing out Loud'

I love satire. I just love comedy in general, you can tell the truth while being funny or at the very least while not being so grizzly about it. I also love how you can use satire to point out the outrageous-ness of things. So with that spirit in mind I have for you a couple of my favorite articles that have circulated their way to me in the last week or two

#1. Gay Teen Worried He Might Be Christian

LOUISVILLE, KY—At first glance, high school senior Lucas Faber, 18, seems like any ordinary gay teen. He's a member of his school's swing choir, enjoys shopping at the mall, and has sex with other males his age. But lately, a growing worry has begun to plague this young gay man. A gnawing feeling that, deep down, he may be a fundamentalist, right-wing Christian. -Link to Article here

hahahahahahahahahahahaha. This article had me rolling, figuratively of course. It's funny to me because people don't think that their worldview isnt as ridiculous from the outside looking in. Oh it is great, like how people think that somebody who is gay is less than a person. Asinine I tell ya.
But for more articles following the theme of satire, please continue reading.

Draw Circuits instantly!!!! (spread the word to help them revolutionize teaching circuitry)

Spread the word today! This little Company sounds like they are an education based company. They aren't trying to revolutionize the world or anything but just make it easier to teach electronics to anybody on ANY surface you can draw on. How cool. IF this catches on who knows, cardboard circuit boards? its possible! I'd highly recommend checking out their website too at circuitscribe.com.
If you can and decided too support their endeavors (donate if you can)

The Ulitmate Debunking tool (well maybe not ultimate but it is a blanket model for sure)

The Skepdick page on FB is toooo spot on for the rational skeptic.

I saw this the other day. Now I've definitely posted Conspiracy Stuff before but I have come a long way since then. I am not saying that conspiracyies don't happen because they legitimately do, but few and far between. I mean how can the NWO keep its operations underwraps for decades when 5 professional people with the backing of a political party (I'm talking about watergate if you cant see where this is going...) can't pull of the theiving of documents in an unsecure building. IT just doesn't seem reasonable. Plausible yes, reasonable.....no. Sandy Hook is the only thing that I can cry foul on since 9/11 although I am sure that with time I'll be able to come to terms with that horrible tragedy instead of creating a narrative that jutifies and/or denies that innocent children were killed. ANYWAYS..... I am getting off topic. I came across this video that poses a very simple question for a lot of conspiracy theories and it involved rich people....... It is quite comical and applicable 

I just......wow....

This is soooooo cliche, yet so accurate. The only thing missing is the 15 Harley Quinns you run into....

Some Costume Updates

Yeah........Shane from the Walking dead is gonna be the Punisher in season 2 of Netflix's hit show 'Daredevil'. Here's a reminder incase you forgot..........

Happy Force Friday all!

IT's that time again............... The new toyline just came out at midnight for Star Wars: The Force Awakens (aks Episode 7). Did you go yet? How was it? Disappointed? (apparently a lot of people are). Who cares Go check out the new toys!!!!!!

I've only been able to afford this Kylo Ren saber... But I aint even mad yo. It is pretty BOSS

My Buddy Nick's Haul from the night!

My Buddy Nathan's Haul from his trip(s)

Here's Pt 1......Pt. 2 is comin in Labor Day biotch! (September's MEME Round-up!)

This is some poo right here...... Wes Craven, sadly passes away at 76. R.I.P

Horror Legend WES CRAVEN passed away on Sunday, August 30th, 2015.

This is most heinous indeed..................

CUE DARTH VADER VOICE: nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Further details if you continue reading

Quentin Tarantino's New Movie 'The Hateful 8' has a trailer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think Quentin Tarantino has found his niche-- The Spaghetti Western. This movie AND his last 2 have all been as such and all have been met with mainstream success and favorable opinions. That being said....... Today a trailer dropped for his newly awaited movie 'The Hateful 8' and might I say..........
TASTY!

Continue reading for the trailer. And a lil sneak peak at another piece of potential cinematic gold!

Your new Roman Emperor: Augutus MemeRoundus Upperdicous

MEME ROUND-UP TIIIIIME!

That's right...... It's summer. It's August. It's............... time for another monthly addition of MEME ROUND-UP!

Second Sleep may be for you as well! I want to segment my sleep

.......shoot I usually have 4-6 hrs nightly anyways. Gimme 2 4-hour blocks and I'd be chipper as heck
(yeah I have to say heck and keep offensive content to a minimum

Segmented Sleep is the practice of what is arguably a natural human sleeping pattern consisting of two sleeping period divided by a wakeful period. . Historian A. Roger Ekirch argued that before the Industrial Revolution, segmented sleep could have been the dominant way that people slept in Western civilization/Culture. IT has also been argued to be an agent in stress relief.

"The existence of our sleeping twice per night was first uncovered by Roger Ekirch, professor of History at Virginia Tech.  

 His research found that we didn’t always sleep in one eight hour chunk. We used to sleep in two shorter periods, over a longer range of night. This range was about 12 hours long, and began with a sleep of three to four hours, wakefulness of two to three hours, then sleep again until morning.  

References are scattered throughout literature, court documents, personal papers, and the ephemera of the past. What is surprising is not that people slept in two sessions, but that the concept was so incredibly common. Two-piece sleeping was the standard, accepted way to sleep." --The Sourced BBC article

Amazon has Ekirch’s book At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past by the way! I found that out hile perusing and it is rife with example of segmented sleep.

I heard about this little phemomenon a while back and finally got around to actually research it. It seems pretty legit. Scientists are starting to think that this may be our natural sleep cycle as well. Which to me would make sense because 1/3 of your day just sleeping...c'mon in a world of survival where there is no government to keep ya safe. It seems very anti-evolutionary. Ekirch credits this to modern electricity giving us that artificial light feeling. He did a study where people were deprived of light and most reverted back to their 1st sleep.2nd sleep cycle within a few weeks.

This is what wikipedia Also has in the 'Segmented Sleep' Entry

"The human circadian rhythm regulates the human sleep-wake cycle of wakefulness during the day and sleep at night. Ekirch suggests that it is due to the modern use of electric lighting that most modern humans do not practice segmented sleep, which is a concern for some scientists.[8] Superimposed on this basic rhythm is a secondary one of light sleep in the early afternoon and quiet wakefulness in the early morning. 

The brain exhibits high levels of the pituitary hormone prolactin during the period of nighttime wakefulness, which may contribute to the feeling of peace that many people associate with it.[9] It is in many ways similar to the hypnagogic and hypnopompic states which occur just before falling asleep and upon waking, respectively." -Wikpedia

Much like the experience of Wehr's subjects, these references describe a first sleep which began about two hours after dusk, followed by waking period of one or two hours and then a second sleep. "It's not just the number of references - it is the way they refer to it, as if it was common knowledge," Ekirch says. During this waking period people were quite active. They often got up, went to the toilet or smoked tobacco and some even visited neighbours. Most people stayed in bed, read, wrote and often prayed. Countless prayer manuals from the late 15th Century offered special prayers for the hours in between sleeps. And these hours weren't entirely solitary - people often chatted to bed-fellows or had sex.
 Between segments null Some people: Jog and take photographs Practise yoga Have dinner... Ten strange things people do at night A doctor's manual from 16th Century France even advised couples that the best time to conceive was not at the end of a long day's labour but "after the first sleep", when "they have more enjoyment" and "do it better". --The Sourced BBC article

Another Article on the subject 

Anticipation.....EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP. The Star Wars Panel is tomorrow

Only Two trailers I want to see at Comic-Con this year are......

AND

This just in: Sinister 2 trailer sneaks into Comic-Con (not really)

I did not know a new trailer for this was out. I just found it while filtering through new trailers. Wow. I missed that one................ The first Sinister was very well done in my opinion. I liked the slow build up and the kinda pseudo-noir feeling to it. I also love the characters and the twist ending. This and the conjuring both really caught me by surprise. It's nice to know that the horror genre still has tricks up its sleeves instead of gorror-porn. But yeah...this trailer. Nice.

Yeah Science B-Words!

"Imagine an oasis of warm sunlight surrounded by a desert of freezing cold darkness. Robots inside the oasis perform scientific lab analyses and process icy regolith brought from excavations in the neighboring darkness. This oasis, about the size of a football field, lies in a valley about twice the size of Washington DC, surrounded by peaks the size of Mount Rainier. From its low angle on the horizon, the sun’s rays never shine over the peaks into the valley, until heliostats unfold on these peaks and redirect the rays down to form the oasis of sunlight. This place becomes a large science laboratory and the largest off-Earth producer of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen for fueling inter-planetary trips." -The Source Article (click here via nasa.gov)

This idea is one of the coolest floating around in the possible future. Using reflectors to make perpetual solar energy. F-yeah! I say it at least once a week. "Now is an exciting time for science." WE are pushing the envelop on virtually every facet of every field. The connected world has many problems but we all help progress science. It is awe-inspiring and magnificent. I hope to get a field job in Engineering or Mechanics or Electrical Engineering one day but until then I will help with science education....well.....if passing along info counts as that......Continue reading for more info

Comic-Con 2015 aNd its new trailers (as of this post)

More info flooding from Comic-con and elsewhere (as usual). Not sure where this falls under but I've been excited about this production for quite sometime. I used to love reading goosebumps in elementary school back in the 90s so that child in me is giddy with joy. People seem to be so-so about this but I personally am pumped! Jack Black, killer gnomes, the hauned mask, that dummy (don't remember his name....wait It's slappy). One criticism I've heard it that is has the that 'night at the museum' feeling but I am cool with that......anyways.......yeah More trailers just continyue (screw it im leaving the spelling error, its how it sounds anyways) reading .

Comic-Con 2015 Bombshells be droppin'

Some first official pics of the New ghostbusters for the new movie Steel Magnolais.......kidding, It's ghostbusters! shocking right. I don't know..............I AM lovin me some Ecto-1 and the proton packs look on-point.

Happy Birthday America (kind of) PREEMPTIVE MEME ROUND UP!!!! RAWR