favorite videos

a list of a few of my absolute favorite videos from the last year or so. they're mostly under a minute each because for some reason I don't have the patience for video. I wanted to make this list cause I keep loosing them on my twitter so I want a place I can come back to and keep laughing my face off. not going to bother embedding cause I'm too lazy. 

inventing the clock

vaccinated. let the party commence! 

angry ikea employee

put it outside!

harry and william

possum vs skunk (no sound)

dog at the beach

"but it got stuck in my butthole"

phil collins deer

not funny but awesome ditty about not needing to be polite to creepy men

periods

6 Guys Get Quizzed On Periods — And Fail Miserably (article)



i asked rip and he gave himself a 2, which i thought was pretty fair rating, tho also probably a bit low since he has two sisters and i'm pretty open about talking about my period. i also asked him how often he thought women change their tampons and he, correctly, said that we probably change them at different intervals depending how far along we were on our period, and that we change them 3-4 times a day. actually, at first he said 2-3 times, so i clarified and said "so every 12-8 hours" and he said "oh, right, cause it's like 24 hours." hahaha, so he changed his answer to 3-4 times a day, which is a great guess!

i'd give myself an 8 on period knowledge. i know a lot but i certainly don't know everything!

i also think we should really talk more about periods. half of the people will get them at some point in their life. and i did some math before and figured that at any time, 1/10 of the population is menstruating.

check that out!

The Psychology Of Why Guys Really Check Out Other Women!

lies!! as a woman who remembers every man i've ever seen in a bikini AND whether or not either of us was on a beach, i cannot believe that men don't remember every bikini-clad woman they've seen!!

hahahah, but seriously. i get it. mentally it all makes sense. emotionally tho...

baader-meinhof

you know this occurrence, you just don't know the name of it. frequency illusion, also known as baader-meinhof phenomenon (not to be confused with the red army faction of kind of the same name!) is where once you notice / learn something, you see it EVERYWHERE.

wikipedia defines it as: the illusion in which a word, a name or other thing that has recently come to one's attention suddenly seems to appear with improbable frequency shortly afterwards

short article on why it happens and an even shorter article on how it go it's name. 

the most recent time i remember this happening was a couple years ago when i finally committed to memory the term "rube goldberg machine." i'd learnt it before for always forgot it, so wanted to make a point of remembering it. and for a while it seemed like the universe was intent of me remember the term too! a rube goldberg device, btw, is where they have long and complicated contraptions meant to do a very simple thing. a video of it is as follows:

got milk?

have you seen this milk commercial? it's my most favorite commercial in YEARS!

x-gen bio

i did my x-gen paddler bio thing, and here are some of the more interesting questions and answers but you can watch the video too. answers are the same, explanations are not since i didn't prepare explanations when writing out my answers so they're a little all over the place, hahah.

If you had to do one form of exercise, which would you choose… strength training or cardio? Why? - NONE! i hate exercise. i literally did not know how to spell the word correctly until just a couple years ago. even now i always have to sound that word out. idiotic. ...exercise, that is, not me :)

If you could be any animal, what would it be and why? - a predatory bird. because predators are way better than prey and cause who wouldn't want to be able to fly?!

What is one of the things you would put on your bucket list? - go to petra!

Describe yourself in three words. - volunteering, precise, curious

If you were famous, what would you be famous for? - would love to be known for philanthropy

What was your favorite cartoon growing up? - chip and dale rescue ranges, batman animated

What is the thing you are most afraid of? - falling down stairs. seriously. you will likely never catch me running up or down stairs. and skipping steps? mwaahahaha, no way! that's way too advanced for a klutz like me! (esp at sports stadiums with those aluminum benches? FUCK NO. i have visual flashes getting amputated mid-shin from falling up or down those damn things. legs going one way, me going the other. it's not pretty.)

If you were a super hero, what would your powers be? - time manipulation

Who do you admire and why? - jeannette rankin and melinda gates. jeannette rankin was the first female congressman, and she was voted in even before women had national right to vote!! melinda gates because she's an amazing woman and because her husband (bill gates) said she's the reason he's so philanthropic. she opened his mind and heart towards giving and given they have!

ray rice

this ray rice thing. i'm not going to link any articles since i don't want to color your opinion if you haven't seen the video yet. so here's the video.



i absolutely think ray rice should be cut from the ravens and suspended by the nfl. if he doesn't admit to any wrongdoing then he should probably be cut from the nfl entirely.

i think that accidents to happen. he could have accidentally knocked her unconscious. she rushed at him, he deflected her, she then fell head first into the handrail. so the fall could have knocked her out. EXCEPT that if he didn't mean to hit her unconscious he would've checked on her once she hit the floor! but he doesn't move to check on her. he doesn't even shift her body so she's a little more comfortable. when he drags her out of the elevator he isn't careful with her. he doesn't even make sure that she's completely out of the elevator. and psychically, he is able to. he just does not care to. and all that, to me, shows that this is not a one time accident. this is domestic abuse.

they both need to go to counseling. go separately. we can't make her press charges against him, but hopefully, through counseling they'll both realize that he was wrong. if the govt can charge him with aggregated assault or battery, they should. she is currently in denial about what happened. she has defended him, and has said she didn't agree with the nfl suspension. but she is wrong. i mean, sheesh, has she watched the video?

i also think there should be a criminal investigation about how the nfl commissioner roger goodell handled the case before tmz published the elevator video. but that's a different discussion.

5 gyres expedition

earlier this month i entered the 5 gyres expedition contest. person with the most facebook votes won an expedition with 5 gyres to learn more about the issue of plastic pollution in our oceans. important stuff! i didn't win the contest (did reasonably well tho, placing in the upper middle) but so many people were so supportive! there was the usual voting and commenting, but people even shared, reposted, and reminded their friends to vote. it was really sweet.

for me, the contest wasn't even close. the day i put up my video the first place guy already had 1.9k votes. and the gap got even wider as time progressed. but apparently there was all kinds of controversy about the winner. turns out the both first and second place had bots voting for them, but for some reason 5 gyres only disqualified one of the guys. weird stuff! but anyway, the guy who gets to go is a nature photographer so that's pretty great since i'm sure his reach is much bigger than most.

special mention goes out to rip for helping with the video. i had my ideas, but rip made the video much funnier and made it about a million times better than what i could've done, so thanks!

another mention goes to mike whom i'll talk about in my next post.

nambian nights

february 4, 2013's astronomy "picture" of the day!

the aurora

december 19th's astronomy "picture" of the day!

full moon sillouettes

january 30's astronomy "picture" of the day!

solar eclipse

december 10th's astronomy "picture" of the day

endeavor moves

october 22nd's astronomy picture of the day

1min history lession

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap121114.html

halloween

it goes without saying that i have a huge problem with unnecessarily slutty halloween costumes. there's a pretty funny tumblr called "fuck no sexist halloween costumes" that has side by side comparisons of some costume ideas.

but i'm actually blogging about the video clip from abc's "what would you do?" if you're too busy/lazy to watch the 7+min clip, you can see the gif summary here.

rip and i talked about something similar, which i blogged about. i'm not going to go into detail about how i feel and why (since my opinions haven't changed), but i wouldn't have too big of a problem if my kids wanted to cross dress for halloween. i myself did it in high school for god's sake.

7 minutes of terror

video explaining some of the challenges of getting to mars. (btw, the music is fantastic!)


july 31st's astronomy "picture" of the day.

the moon!

 omg this is an amazing video!

march 20th's astronomy picture of the day!

sanitation twins

hehe, i love to recycle but this video is hilarious. and it also definitely makes me want to watch the show. :)

moving sky

Aurora 2012 from Christian Mülhauser on Vimeo (watch it with the sound turned on and up!)
february 9th's astronomy photo of the day!

brinicle!!

this brinicle stuff is freaking amazing! short video, must watch! read the video description for info. for slightly more info, read this article. for more details, go look it up yourself. :)

btw, those starfish and sea urchins are STUPID! also, they're so cute "walking" around!