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Yep, even more crap we couldn't find a place for. Nothing really special here but I'm sure it'll fill up eventually. Eveything always does.
We sometimes wonder what the hell The Architect was meaning and what The Matrix is all about. Here I hope to explain what my interpretation of The Architect speech really meant.
My interpretation was that the war against Zion was always going to happen, Neo really had no difference in that outcome either way. Oracle set things right for the Architect's program by discovering that if humans were given a choice on some level, then their brains could handle the program. Of course there was always going to be skeptics so the program (for this sake will just call it Neo since that was the human the program was installed to) was created and inserted in a human so that humans who would not accept the programming would be set free and led back to Zion for eventual termination by the machines. Neo would be assimilated into the source code, thinking it was for the better of mankind and another Neo program would be created to start the process all over again. But in Matrix Reloaded, the 6th version of the Neo program had generated an anomaly that resulted in his caring for a particular human being too much and thus overwhelming his logic and reason (his love for Trinity, love makes you do stupid things). This resulted in him making the opposite choice of his predecessors and thus disrupting the loop effect that the machines have had on both Zion and The Matrix.
I embellished a bit on my 'take' of all that was said and shown in the film and I'd like to clarify on the program being installed to a human thing. Human's are grown in the machine world through genetic engineering or something. Anyway at the end of Matrix Reloaded we see through the film that Smith installs himself into a human that was jacked into the matrix. So why couldn't another program do the same thing? In The Matrix 1 we saw a baby being fed intravenously which means there is a birthing process and the 'jack lead' that plugs them into the matrix is installed onto the baby from infancy. The kid would grow up never knowing it would become The One (installed with the Neo program) and thus the cycle of freeing disbelieving minds and destroying them later in Zion could continue.
But anyway that's my long-winded take on what The Architect and the first two movies said. I hope it might of cleared up any thoughts or questions you had on the whole mixed up plot behind The Matrix.
Okay today I'm going to give you some cool things to do in the microwave, most of it is dumb but more of a funny dumb, like me claiming I can beat Gazunta at Street Fighter (any Street Fighter). So anyways here are some of my favourite things to do with the microwave...
1. Take an old CD or CD-R and put it in the oven, standing up. Put it against a glass cup or so. Don't use any metal as a holder. Turn on the microwave for about 2 seconds and watch the pyro display. Notice the difference in the pattern that will show up in the metal layer in the CD between a normal silver CD and a green or gold or blue CD-R. Make sure you don't inhale the gas that comes out of the CD. It's not too good for your health, so they say. And please note that the CD will be unusable afterwards!
2. Place a wooden tooth pick standing up in your oven and light the top so it burns slowly. I placed mine between the clip of a plastic pencil top. A cork will do fine too I guess. Matches instead of the tooth pick will also do but they will produce less spectacular effects. Now close the door and see what happens. You didn't expect that eh? Nice yellow / orange / green / blue fireballs going up from the stick. Uh,.... yes as you might suspect, your oven will become a bit black inside here and there. But I had no problems cleaning it up. Take care that the plastic inside your oven won't melt because of the burning stick (the plastic on the top of my oven hangs down a bit now ;-}. I also tried pieces of burning charcole and a burning piece of a beer-mat. Materials like that also work (they only need to glow, not burn) but the tooth pick works best. The actual flame doesn't have to be big for good effects.
3. The light bulb in the microwave oven. You can take an old one, it doesn't have to function anymore to give the desired effect. However, the glass has to be intact so the gas is still inside. I noticed that small bulbs won't work. I used a 230 V / 60 W one. Again you won't believe what you see ! All kinds of colors coming out of the bulb. But you should take care here. Sooner or later your bulb will explode. I tried mine for 10 seconds, let it cool down (probably not enough) then I tried it for another 10 seconds, let it cool down (probably not enough again) and then after 2 seconds after turning it on again it exploded inside the oven. The door of my oven was way thick enough, so all glass stayed inside. It's quite easy to clean up the glass and I don't think it will do much harm to your oven. However, my second lightbulb never exploded! The glas gets very hot but it won't blow up! From 2 people I received the tip to put the bulb in a bowl of water in the microwave oven to cool it down so it won't explode. It works but the bulb might receive too little energy to light as brightly as it does without water around it. You may also try fluro tubes but be warned... You get a creepy Exorcist type effect. Oh and I must stress that you only leave your tube in for 1 second... Don't ask.
4. A mate of mine suggested using a Christmas Tree ornament, so I did. It was pretty cool and gave off the same kinda effect as the CD but as a 3d Glowing Ball.
5. After some extensive testing of other objects, I put a bar of soap in the microwave. After 3 minutes the damn thing was 5 times the original size!
6. The Grapes of Wrath. Cut a grape in half. Not all the way, just leave a little skin between the two halves. Place the cut grape on a plate - round sides down, flat (cut) side up, still attached or just touching if severed. Start the microwave. You will not believe the arcs and plasma you can get out of a little grape. This trick does not always work, but one out of 10-15 grape will give a spectacular show. I have cut them top to bottom and side to side, both ways works. I have tried large green seedless grapes and smaller purple grapes, the smaller ones tend to perform better. I also noticed that there was some correlation between their angle in the microwave and the arcing.
7. Place a Peanut M&M in the microwave. The yummy and delicious candy will spark and burn. Note, please don't eat the M&M afterwards.
Okay that's all I got right now. If you have any other suggestions for me then please let me know.
Have you seen the line-up for 2006's Big Day Out? It makes me want to vomit in my eye sockets and squint. I just want to tear my ears off and shove them inside my bloody eardrums just at the thought of having to sit through one single second of that collection of crap calamity. It's just fucking puke! I wouldn't even see that shit if THEY paid ME... It's crap, but here's an idea, why should I just sit here and gripe when I could use my internets access to send them a little message?
Hey BDO promoters, here's a quote you can throw up on your site... "AGGGHHHH!!!!"
And you can quote me... But to be fair, I guess I should state that I have actually never heard a lot of these bands (as I'm sure my international audience hasn't either). As such, I'm prepared to accept some critism about this little rant and I apologize if I seem a little rash in my opinion forming. However, I still have to ask the relevant questions. Questions such as, who am I to demand that I actually be entertained for $300 (factoring in the cost of travel, merch, alcohol, food, ticket, etc.)?? It does seem mighty selfish of me to expect that I could perhaps maybe, actually get some value for money now doesn't it? But hey, I guess the Big Day Out just isn't "for" me. I guess I just don't get "it".
Fucking mainstream shit... Since when did being "Indy" warrant a massive concert with thousands of fans and t-shirt sales going threw the roof? These fans are the same dipshits that were head bopping to Eminem back when he first started. Yeah, the same TWATS that were out buying wife-beaters and baggy Fubu jeans because Slim Shadey came out and said "Hi, my name is..."
I hate them... I hate them all so very much. But to be fair, I'm not attacking "selling out" or anything like that, hell I'm all for it. Kudos to you if you can get enough people to like you, that you actually CAN sell shirts and CD's and what-not. What I am annoyed at though is how this is all just a fad. Emo, ScrEmo, Black Hair Dye, Band Shirts, Wristbands, Nails Painted With White-Out & Sharpie Permanent Marker... All of it is just a fad and I personally believe it to be dumbing our youth. But hey, if this wasn't doing it, something else should would be, let's just be grateful the latest fad isn't involving the permanent scaring of skin with ink... Oh wait, it is.
The sad fact is that at some time, for some reason, young teens to adults stopped thinking for themselves. So okay, they haven't realised that yet, but even those that have seen that and are thinking for themselves, they're still having to go along with the crowd, purely because it's what society is deeming "the norm". And if you ain't up with "the norm" well too bad, because last years music/fashion has already been thrown out. Clothing, music, movies, you either keep up with it or you get left behind.
Take me for instance... I went out the other day to buy 5 regular T-Shirts, all black (because I'm a grub and black is easy to keep clean and it can go with anything). Fine right? I'll just pop into the shop and get 5 plain black tees, how hard can that be? Really fucking hard apparently! I couldn't find one single 5XL t-shirt that didn't have some stupid slogan, band name or graffittied crap on it. And the worst thing about it? I'm the biggest advocator against this kind of mainstream fashion, so now I look like a hypocrite because the fashion outlets listen to MTV about what to stock in their stores.
I don't know who to blame, is it the store or the people they're catering too? Would the kids wear this crap if it wasn't there? Of course not, but would the store stock it if the kids didn't want to wear it? Of course not! So what came first? The chicken or the egg? Who do I blame for my hypocricy? I have no answers but what I do know is that I want to keep up, I want to be that hypocrite. I'm tired of being left behind and I'm sick of just not "getting" my friends because I don't understand what they're talking about...
They have a fashion sense I just don't fit.
They have a musical taste I just can't swallow.
They have a hairstyle I could never dare to wear.
But I want to keep up with them and fit in with the crowd. So I'm forced to go and pay for outfits I don't want, to go to a concert for a band I don't like, wearing a hairstyle I'd rather set on fire, than step outside with. I wouldn't call myself a non-conformist, I just don't fit into any mold soceity deems fit. I'm not a Metal-Head, I'm not a Labourer, I'm not a Sports Fan, I'm not a Rock-Chick, I'm not a Beret Wearing Coffee Drinker... I'm not even a Geek, Nerd or Dork. I'm not up to date on the latest gadgets and gizmos. I'm not a brainiac with a head full of knowledge. I'm not awkward in social situations. I'm nothing. I'm nobody. I'm the drifter. I'm Societies Nomad... Is that a bad thing? Why do we have this desire to fit into a mold?
Why can't we... just be?
