2008

Krissy and I are trying to take a vacation to Atlantic City at the end of this month. It all depends on the money situation, and right now it isn’t looking promising. Hopefully I will be able to earn a bit more money this month than usual, maybe I will get some freelance work. I have a lot of work to do for the social networking site I am working on, hopefully a lot of it will be done by the time we go, but due to problems arising I don’t know, I am pretty sure I can get a good chunk done though.

I love video games. No matter how old I get, I don’t think I will ever outgrow them. There are a bunch I want now and I can’t afford. If I had the money I would pick up Super Smash Bros Brawl, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, and put a preorder in for Grand Theft Auto 4. I doubt that I will be able to pick up any of those games anytime soon, but it would be nice if I get get a large amount of money at once so I could.

What I have been doing is taking the free Blockbuster coupon each month and going out and renting a game from them. I play it intensely for a week and most likely get tired of it by the time I bring it back. This keeps me from wanting to go out and buy games. Later this month I hope to do the same with Grand Theft Auto 4, but it is such a popular game I don’t even think I would be able to rent it for a few weeks at least.

Renting games isn’t the only way I keep my mind off the new games that I want. I also play free games online. There was this one game that I was playing a while back, Nitto 1320 Legends – Free Live Online Drag Racing Game, that kept me from wanting to play Burnout: Paradise for a few weeks. It is a really cool game, you race against other people online for free. You don’t need to worry about steering, since it is a drag racing game, you just need to control the pedals. I felt like I was in the scene of The Fast and the Furious, when they are at race wars. It is definitely a great game and anyone fiending for some racing without spending money I suggest you try it out.

Do you think Martin Luthor King actually changed anything? If it was just a bunch of people demanding change, without a leader, do you think the outcome would be the same, or do you think things would be the same now as it was then? If you think they would, then do you think hippies changed anything in the 60’s?

However you look at it, things changed when Martin Luthor King stood up and spoke, also when hippies took the stage at Woodstock. It may not have changed the way they had wanted, but it did cause change. We are at another pivotal point in history, one where change is drastically needed. The financial situation in this country is horrible, the oil prices are ridiculously high, and the healthcare system needs a serious overhaul. It is time for a change. A lot of people are looking for that change in the most obvious of places, a different kind of president. Obviously the only election right now is between gender and race. When people want change they go for the most superficial way of getting it, and right now that way is to elect something different as president.

I know I have been endorsing Obama and I still think he is the best person for the job, but listening to Hillary lately and to what Obama has been saying about Hillary’s proposals, Hillary doesn’t seem as bad as I thought. I don’t think that she is the best person for the job because she closely resembles the republican party. I also believe that the world is in a much different place than when her husband took over and she would try and get it back to the way things were by doing the same old thing, which I don’t think would work in this case. We need new ideas, from a person who hasn’t been there long enough to be corrupted.

The choice is yours, and if your state hasn’t yet voted then I strongly suggest you go out and vote. If your state has voted and your candidate is loosing, or might loose the election, don’t switch to the other party. Mccain is just like Bush and will keep the same policies in effect. Do you want four more years of the same old things? Four more years of things being horrible for us Americans?

That is supposedly a Valentine’s Day card, but I would much rather use it for an anniversary card. I mean look at it, two happy people on what appears to be their wedding day doesn’t really scream Valentine’s Day, to me I see an anniversary. Maybe their 30th or some other big one, to remind the other of how it used to be. Studies show that people being remembered of how something was could make them act in some ways resemble who they used to be. If two people were reminded of that then maybe there would be less divorce in this country and people would be happier.

Imagine if Custom Photo Cards could make the world a better place? If giving that card could make people happier and show people what they’ve been missing then why wouldn’t you? One day you will be in a place that you don’t know who you are anymore, you won’t know who your husband or wife is anymore and you won’t know how you got there, wouldn’t you want someone to help remind you of the past? You may not understand now, but years down the road, maybe you will remember this blog post and realize that I was right all along, that something needs to bring you back to the peopel you once were.

I updated the Leprakhauns brand plugins for WordPress so that they work better with WordPress 2.5. They worked fine before, but now they will work with the write page section as well as the write post page. I also moved them to the sidebar because it seems to be the best place for them seeing as how a lot of people couldn’t find them the other way. Give me some feedback on what you guys think of the new plugins.

I have been checking out this site, blogtv. They allow you to put on nonadult live show. They aren’t like the other live show sites though, whose design is very confusing, blogtv is very clean, no excess confusing stuff making you think something is there and it really isn’t. If you’ve visited live stream websites before then you know what I mean.

I don’t think I would ever do anything adult, or at least not yet, so I might set up a live tv channel with them. Would anyone want to see me sit in front of the computer frustrated during a live broadcast, being frustrated at money and that I can’t get something working? Would anyone watch?

They say that when you are moving then time slows down for you. If you go in an airplane then time slows down for you, if you go faster than that then it slows down even more. The closer you travel at the speed of light the more time slows down. In theory if you travel at the speed of light then you simply don’t age at all. That part is only a theory because nothing with mass can travel that fast.

Physicists say that to think this way would be throwing the laws of nature out the window. I learned this stuff in high school in my physics class, and the teacher didn’t once say that it was impossible, they said it was theoretical and cannot be proven or disproven just yet. The consensus is if you travel fast than the speed of light that you could turn around and see yourself going backwards, essentially seeing yourself go back to the point in which you started traveling that fast.

Thinking about this today lead me to question that, seeing as how if you are moving at faster than the speed of light, then light cannot wrap around you and therefore your presence would be unknown. Einstein thought that traveling faster than the speed of light was possible. Just by proving that the faster you move, the more time slows down, showed him that time could be manipulated with movement, so why wouldn’t time be manipulated in such a way that we travel back or forward in time?

Many people believe that time travel is impossible because we have yet to see any futuristic tourists. Of course this might be because time travel is too dangerous and we wouldn’t want to see them fall into the wrong hands, so we simply do not use it in the future. Another possibility would be that people do travel here but are careful enough to know what they change and how it will affect the future, so as to avoid a grandfather paradox. Another idea is that anything a time traveler does is already done and is part of history. There is yet another possibility, going back in time creates an alternate timeline in which the traveler can do anything he wishes and not affect the current one.

We may never know if it is possible to time travel, until the day comes in which we invent a way to do it. I think one thing is safe to say though, a delorean will not be doing the time traveling, even though that would be pretty cool.

As you can tell, I have updated the home page of Lep’s Lair so as to answer some questions that people have whenever they first come here. I think it brings everything together in a nice way, after all the other way it made it seem like the site was all about the blog, when I have said time and again that I did not want that to be the main focus of the site and now it is just a feature.

There was another reason I did this though. Now that I have the blog in a separate category, I can keep things blog related with it. I could have categories, or other blog features that would add to it, without having it on the entire site. All in all I believe that this will add to the functionality of the site and be the best thing for it.

I just upgraded to WordPress 2.5 and the backend is… different. It takes some getting used to I suppose, but it is all right I suppose. I did notice that the gravatars aren’t working so I have to see why that is. On the plus side though, the Leprakhauns Wordcount Plugin is working great in this new version.

Everyone knows that oysters have pearls inside them, but what if they had something that was more valuable? Imagine if a pearl had a diamond inside them. Could you imagine how inexpensive the common diamonds would be? They would no longer be so expensive per karat. Imagine it if even the most common of people could have 3 karat diamond rings. Of course something so common might make them less desirable, even with the way they look. If they were so common would people still want them as presents and for engagement and wedding rings? Being less expensive wouldn’t make them any less visually appealing, but people want something of worth, not just something to look at right? If diamonds were in place of pearls then it might make them less expensive than say crystals or even cubic zirconias.

Of course Gulf oysters don’t have diamonds, although they do have many other things that you might not be aware of. Oysters are a good source of inc, vitamin B-12, and omega-3 fatty acids. While they may be good for you, a percentage of individuals could become seriously ill if the oyster’s disease is transferred to an at risk individual. Of course anyone eating oysters is safe, as long as they are fully cooked, but undercooked ones could potentially cause more harm than good.

Cnn is reporting that Raul Castro has lifted the ban on cell phones and that ordinary citizens would be getting them. Within the first few weeks of being officially in charge, the new Castro has begun letting more and more freedom into Cuba. I wonder what his brother, Fidel thinks. Maybe America should send Barbara Walters over there to find out, seeing as how they seem to have a special relationship when it comes to interviews.

I think it would be especially interesting to see how Fidel feels about his brother’s policies. Maybe it was something that Fidel had wanted too, but couldn’t just trust? Maybe all this is just a ploy to get some capitalist aid from democratic countries like the United States and the UK? I don’t know, but I’d definitely like to hear Fidel’s and the citizen’s of Cuba’s reactions to the policies.

Greed, and power stem from one of two things. One of those things as you can tell by the title is money. The other thing is brute force.

Money can buy you anything you want, therefor it is natural and greed should follow with the money. With money you also have power. The power to buy and sell things, and occasionally people in certain cases.The power to get the things they want and do the things they wish to do.

Brute force is just as powerful as having money. You can manipulate people by forcing them to do something. Controlling people with threats and violence can be just as powerful as controlling them with money. Sometimes it is even more powerful than money, people can turn down money, but the threat of violence can move mountains when even a high dollar amount won’t.

Is money really the root of all evil? Other countries have oil which means that they have money, but the United States has the brute force behind it. Does that mean that the countries are threatened? No because with their money they can buy protection against the force and then they would have both the power of money and force.

So is money really the root of all evil, is it really as powerful as people say, or is it the money with the force to back it up that is the true power?