So, funny story. When I was just starting up my new blog about running I was unable to find a suitable name for it so I just named it to something cheesy and ridiculous. It's only a day later that I found a better name for it, and that new name pretty much fits my other blog (Sulatang Tapunan).
What is Sulatang Takbuhan? Similarly to my previous blog, Sulatang Tapunan, Sulatang Takbuhan (sue-lah-tahng thak-boo-han) is a combination of two Tagalog words that roughly translates to "Running Journal". Or something. Actual translation is "Running Writing", but it sounds pointless and retarded.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Sunday, March 28, 2010
New blog - Running for Freedom
So I've made a new blog today. I named it Running for Freedom because it's about running (who would've guessed) and it needs to complement Sulatang Tapunan well. Another reason for me creating this blog is because adding topics about running in the midst of rants and opinions would be very confusing for the lot of my readers. Writing them in a separate blog would be easier.
Oh, and I'm going to write a bit more frequently now, both in Sulatang Tapunan and Running for Freedom. The end of my high school life gave me a few months of leisure time, I do hope I spend it more on running and writing rather than procrastinating and fiddling with my computers.
Oh, and I'm going to write a bit more frequently now, both in Sulatang Tapunan and Running for Freedom. The end of my high school life gave me a few months of leisure time, I do hope I spend it more on running and writing rather than procrastinating and fiddling with my computers.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Why Earth hour is kinda not worth it
Earth Hour is about to commence worldwide tonight whenever eight and a half in the evening strikes at your timezone, and ends an hour later. In case you are either living under the rock or someone who thinks environmentalism is all hippy nonsense (good for you by the way), Earth Hour is a worldwide cultist environmentalist procession held every 27th of March. During this particular hour in the Earth time, some millions of retards who think the world is dying because of all the "greenhouse gases" and methane we fart out everyday is increasing exponentially.
While you were lost in my words, you are probably asking, "Why did people think of this idea?".
Some four years ago, a bunch ofhippies environmentalists emerged from their 60's style cocoons called "Traveller" or "Stargazer" or whatever cheesy name pot-fueled individuals give to old Volkswagen vans painted with psychedelic colors. Emerging from their cramped homes, they looked up and were immediately blinded by the bright city lights. Shielding and averting their eyes from the barrage of lighting, they make a gesture of contact to whatever deity they made up and say, "Holy shit, that's bright! Need to do something about this..."
These environmentalists then packed together and thought of plans concerning this "problem". After paying various media companies with endless supplies of pot and manipulating their own media network, the National Geographic Network, they broadcasted mass propaganda of plans about turning off lights for a day on a particular day (March 27th), which they dubbed, "Turn the lights off for Christ's sake" hour.
Of course, people protested for turning lights off for 24 hours would be like forcing the US military to put their weapons down and let the terrorists ram suicide planes up their asses. The allotted time period for light-killing was reduced to 12 hours, then 6, then 3, and finally, they gave up and settled on an hour of darkness. Additionally, they changed the name of the said procession to "Earth Hour", because the previous name was inappropriate because of the vast variety of religions worldwide. People had to create variations for their respective faiths, which spawned horrible names such as "Turn the lights off for Mohammed's sake" and "Turn the lights off for my mom's sake".
So why is it not worth it? Well the system of creating power goes this way: Power plants create power, distributors store them and send them to people. Now when you turn off every electrical device in your home for some time, the distributor will stop charging (no pun intended) you your electrical needs and will store the remaining charges (again, no pun intended) somewhere else. But the power producers and their power plants will not stop creating electricity, and will continue to burn fossil fuels (most of the time) and pump shit into the air.
To make it simpler, it's only a handful of people who practice Earth Hour, and there are still people out there who needs the juice, maybe to engage in the lovely activity of Facebooking or the even more lovely activity of watching porn. If total Earth Hour would be implemented, that is, turning off all power production for an hour, the effects would be catastrophic. People who are thinking and denies hippy movements will go into total "holy shit it's dark" disorders and the porn industry will most likely topple for the lack of people watching because they turned off their computers.
Of course, the idea of total Earth Hour is very unlikely. However, when you examine Earth Hour in the whole, you'll find out that it doesn't do anything for the environment at all, it only makes everything bat-shit dark and may cause an exponential increase in battery, flashlight and mobile data charging sales.
So what will you do? Will you participate? Or not? As for me, I'm going to join in this commotion, since it's a growing trend and all humans (such as yours truly) have the utmost tendency to go where everybody else is at. I'm guessing that's the same reason why a lot of people join Facebook.
Greenhouse gases in action.
While you were lost in my words, you are probably asking, "Why did people think of this idea?".
Some four years ago, a bunch of
My eyes! They burn!
These environmentalists then packed together and thought of plans concerning this "problem". After paying various media companies with endless supplies of pot and manipulating their own media network, the National Geographic Network, they broadcasted mass propaganda of plans about turning off lights for a day on a particular day (March 27th), which they dubbed, "Turn the lights off for Christ's sake" hour.
Of course, people protested for turning lights off for 24 hours would be like forcing the US military to put their weapons down and let the terrorists ram suicide planes up their asses. The allotted time period for light-killing was reduced to 12 hours, then 6, then 3, and finally, they gave up and settled on an hour of darkness. Additionally, they changed the name of the said procession to "Earth Hour", because the previous name was inappropriate because of the vast variety of religions worldwide. People had to create variations for their respective faiths, which spawned horrible names such as "Turn the lights off for Mohammed's sake" and "Turn the lights off for my mom's sake".
One of the pioneers who penned the "Turn the lights off for my mom's sake" variation of Earth hour.
So why is it not worth it? Well the system of creating power goes this way: Power plants create power, distributors store them and send them to people. Now when you turn off every electrical device in your home for some time, the distributor will stop charging (no pun intended) you your electrical needs and will store the remaining charges (again, no pun intended) somewhere else. But the power producers and their power plants will not stop creating electricity, and will continue to burn fossil fuels (most of the time) and pump shit into the air.
Pumping shit into the air at its finest.
To make it simpler, it's only a handful of people who practice Earth Hour, and there are still people out there who needs the juice, maybe to engage in the lovely activity of Facebooking or the even more lovely activity of watching porn. If total Earth Hour would be implemented, that is, turning off all power production for an hour, the effects would be catastrophic. People who are thinking and denies hippy movements will go into total "holy shit it's dark" disorders and the porn industry will most likely topple for the lack of people watching because they turned off their computers.
My porn! It's gone!
Of course, the idea of total Earth Hour is very unlikely. However, when you examine Earth Hour in the whole, you'll find out that it doesn't do anything for the environment at all, it only makes everything bat-shit dark and may cause an exponential increase in battery, flashlight and mobile data charging sales.
So what will you do? Will you participate? Or not? As for me, I'm going to join in this commotion, since it's a growing trend and all humans (such as yours truly) have the utmost tendency to go where everybody else is at. I'm guessing that's the same reason why a lot of people join Facebook.
Above: Facebook, only less weirder.
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