Is it possible...?

I wanted to Google "is it possible to drink a gallon of milk in one hour" because my roommate claims it's not true (due to the size of your stomach and volume of a gallon).

I got as far as "is it possible to" in the search field and the automatic suggestion scroll yielded some interesting results. Apparently there are many women out there who are sexually uninformed...the first three results were:
"is it possible to get pregnant on your period"
"is it possible to be pregnant and still get your period"
"is it possible to get pregnant right after your period"


I am not going to get into the exact science of it, but YES, you can get pregnant while on your period or right after. And I am sure there is some scientific miracle that allows you to get your period while pregnant, but I don't know the exact details of that.

ANYWAYS...

back to my milk drinking conundrum.
One of the first results was this, a site where a guy dared his coworker to drink a gallon of milk in an hour, and hold it in for another hour.
http://www.loudermilk.org/milk/

I really want to try this. I mean, I hate puking, so I know that would NOT be fun...but the idea of drinking a gallon of milk in an hour seems like a piece of cake. Actually, I would probably be unable to eat a piece of cake in an hour b/c it's too sweet, so that's a bad analogy. But when super thirsty at dinner, I have the capability of drinking a third of a gallon of milk. My favorite cup at home is a 3/4 liter cup that makes the meal so much better by not raising the need for me to refill it as much (maybe only once, now).

Without a meal, I could totally stomach more milk. I LOVE milk. It would be great.
Someday, I will be up to this challenge.


One thing I wouldn't be able to stomach is a ton of peanut butter. Three hours ago I ate banana slices dipped in melted peanut butter and chocolate chips. And I STILL want to gag. I didn't even finish it...I ate half a banana. So, I don't recommend that.

Controversial? Or ground-breaking?

Our ethics teacher showed us some United Colors of Benetton ads in class yesterday, and here is one of them. What does this represent, what do you think is the message? What is the brand trying to say?


Opinions?

Bruce Willis in HSM3

I know what you're thinking. Ew, High School Musical.

But this? It's worth it.

No biggie.

Today my Ethics teacher showed us a clip that moveon.org made for youtube.

After showing this, some girl raised her hand, asking what it was for, since she didn't understand what it was advertising. The teacher explained it was for MoveOn.org, an anti-Bush site. He also said "I'm also not sure how old this is...I believe it said somewhere in there '3 trillion dollars in debt'...Ha, that's a small number compared to now, three trillion was the good ole' days."




PS: this video is a parody of this original video:

Halloween Playlist

I forgot to post this one, I guess it's a little late, but oh well.


I have here a playlist I made for our Halloween party. Enjoy.


Funeral for a friend/Love lies bleeding--elton john
Wild night--Van morrison
After midnight--eric clapton
scarecrow--beck
midnight rambler--the rolling stones
time of the seasons--the zombies
Slayed--overseer
brain damage--pink floyd
7 deadly sins--traveling wilburys
sunday blody sunday--U2
Lucretia MacEvil--Blood, Sweat, and Tears
Scary Monsters and Super Creps (live)--David Bowie
Black Magic Woman (Gypsy Queen)--Santana
World Wide Suicide--Pearl Jam
Evil Gal Blues--Dinah Washington
Sympathy for the Devil--The Rolling Stones
Hollywood Nocturne--The Brian Setzer Orchestra
Monster--Steppenwolf
I'm your boogie man--KC and the Sunshine Band
Don't fear the reaper--Blue Oyster Cult
The Killing Moon --Echo and the Bunnyman
The Boogie Monster--Gnarls Barkley
Lie in OUr Graves--DMB
Zombie Zoo--Tom Petty
Skeleton Song--Kate Nash
Evil Ways--Santana
A-Punk--Vampire Weekend
Poison Cup--M Ward
Monster Hospital--Metric
She Drives me Crazy--Fine Young Cannibals
Shadowplay--The killers
Brain Stew--Green Day
I Like Nightmares--The Who
Boris the Spider--The Who
Gravedigger--Dave Matthews
Mack the Knife--Bobby Darin
Bones--The Killers
Cherub Rock--Smashing Pumpkins
Phantom Punch--Sondre Lerche
Bad Moon Rising--CCR
Killer Queen--Queen
Witchy woman--the eagles
superstition--stevie wonder
evil woman--soul hooligan
I put a spell on you--Screamin' jay hawkins
Ghost riders in the sky--the blues brothers
stray cat strut--stray cats
house of wolves--my chemical romance
kiko and the lavender moon--los lobos
werewolves of london--warren zevon
blood--my chemical romance
twisted nerve--bernard Herrmann
Devil inside--INXS
Evil woman--the doobie brothers
alfred hitchcock tv theme--jeff alexander
moondance--van morrison
phantom limb--the shins
dead!--my chemical romance
friday night--lily allen
devil's haircut--beck
young blood--the coasters
season of the witch--the blues brothers
strange brew--cream

huh?

I was standing on the streetcorner waiting for the light to change to cross Michigan Avenue when I see a college-aged boy, wearing jeans covered in patches (not like, "i have holes" patches, but like "7-inch quilting squares of various colors" kind of patches, like he is dressed to be in some theatrical production) running across the busy intersection, almost hit by two cabs. He stops and the cabs stop, approximately 5 feet from each other, and the guy dramatically waves his hand and bows, as if giving permission to the cab to continue moving while he waits for it to pass. The cab driver waves his hand angrily, then the buy leaps several times across the street, sweeping his arms at his sides as if to gain the momentum of a prancing elf, to the sidewalk where I am standing.

He takes off his burnt-orange crocheted winter hat, tosses it on the ground face up, and proceeds to sing or shout or something. It took me a moment, amongst the street noise of the cabs honking, cars vrooming and people shouting to hear what he is singing, which happened to be "99 Red Balloons" by Nena. I stood there, staring at the traffic light, grinning and lauging to myself at the strangeness that just happened.

Things darken in the Twilight

If you haven't already heard, the movie adaptation of Twilight (based on a book) is garnering a LOT of attention from fans, namely 13-17 year old girls. In the past week, this has been in the news A LOT, because girls have been dying, slowly, from their lack of Robert Pattinson bites. Seriously.

Apparently there have been events at malls and stuff to promote the movie and give out free stuff/let fans get autographs/let fans meet the cast. And the stores have waved their white flags early to the voracious fans, letting them come in a day early or before the designated time of the event, thus leaving the people later in line to cry of disappointment. Some fans were sad, many were ANGRY.

-One fan, according to the news, equated not meeting Pattinson with "getting shot in the stomach"
-One fan claimed the stores were exercising "false advertising"

And, in semi-unrelated news, a young girl asked the vampire-playing actor to "bite her." Yes, these are our future leaders.

What's up, NASA?

In my Reporting and Writing class today, we had a lab that asked us to write on 3 topics that should be reported on more.
My 3 topics were:
-24 hour news (and how it's completely unnecessary)
-Russian-American relations (remember when we hated you back in the cold war? well, we're cool now. Wait, except for that whole Georgia thing. Except, well, I don't know anymore)
-Nasa and Space Exploration

That last one gathered most of my interest, yet strangely enough, was the shortest paragraph of the three. Basically I said "When's the last time you heard about NASA? I bet a WHILE." Did you know that we just found out our Mars lander unit DIED on Nov. 2nd? As in, we can't communicate with it anymore? Yeah, well it HAPPENED. And no one cared. Except me. Because that means MARS PICTURES! And they found ice and minerals that show signs of water! And they gathered SAMPLES! And it was, according to some NASA website, the most successful mission on Mars YET. Thrilling. There's also a Mars ROVER, (which is drastically different from a LANDER, but I am really not sure how) that is encountering DUST STORMS. I really hope it makes it. Didja know that we're going into space soon with a SHUTTLE?! TONIGHT! At 7:55pm EST! Fingers crossed it looks something like what happened in that movie with Jodie Foster (Contact). Speaking of Contact, remember all those space movies? What happened to that trend? Red Planet? Apollo 13? Mission to Mars? So many movies destined to be repeated on TNT and USA for forever.

I also wrote in my paper how we should focus more on NASA because they come up with cool stuff, like cushy mattresses and space blankets that look like foil (super-futuristic). And CAT scanning machines and MRI machines and flash-frozen food (um, hello Ore-Ida taters!). So yeah, NASA is pretty big news.

Now, I think I will check NASA news daily just so I can be a super nerd. And because it's the closest I can get to the nerd-dom that I experienced when visiting the Fermi Lab for an AP Physics field trip senior year of high school.

I also have to say I got a kick out of hearing one of my classmates write about an under-reported story she found about a cat who was found after being missing for 13 years. At the end of her paragraph she said she wrote "I know this is not really news-worthy, but I had to write on it because it made me laugh out loud."



In other news, it looks like Batman left his grappling hook and wire hanging off of my classroom building. Or, at least that's what it looked/sounded like from the 14th story window.

Jim Gordon took an axe, gave his mother forty whacks...

Well, not exactly an axe, but a hammer.


I was listening to the song "Layla." I looked at the iTunes info and it said it was Derek and the Dominoes. I thought it was a Clapton song. I went to wikipedia where I found that this band was created by Clapton and the song had a bit of Duane Allman guitar in it.

Well, I was reading the wikipedia page and found that separate sounding parts of the song were composed separately by Clapton and a guy named Jim Gordon. Of course, thinking he was the police dude from Batman, I wanted to read up more on this guy. I was skimming past his musical career stuff trying to figure out if he was famous for anything I knew, and apparently he's worked with every musician EVER (not really, but a lot). Then, I see the title "retirement and incarceration." Of course, this piqued my interest. I read onward. This is what I found (from Wikipedia.com)

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In the late 1970s, Gordon complained of hearing voices in his head, primarily those of his mother. Unfortunately, his physicians did not diagnose his condition as schizophrenia and instead treated him for alcohol abuse.

In June 1983, he murdered his mother with a hammer. It was not until his trial in 1984 that he was properly diagnosed. Due to the fact that his attorney was unable to use the insanity defense, he was sentenced to 16 years to life in prison with a possibility of parole. He has served his sentence at the California Men's Colony in San Luis Obispo, Atascadero State Hospital in Atascadero, and the State Medical Corrections Facility in Vacaville. As of 2008, he remains incarcerated. Currently, there is a petition on line to assist him in either being released from prison or placed in a facility where he is able to receive more sophisticated treatment.
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WHOA. That is more than I was expecting to find.
Imagine listening to the guitar/piano slower half of Layla while reading this. A bit ironic.

I always am so curious about morbid things like this. Poor guy...no one helped him in his opening stages of schizophrenia.

Supernova Girl

I was randomly humming the song from Zenon: Girl of the 21st century today. Remember that? "Zoom zoom zoom, make my heart go boom boom--my supernova girl!"

Yeah, so I was singing it aloud when I realized that the lyrics are slightly more intelligent than I thought, or at least one part is.

Here is the beginning of the song until the chorus:

___
Stargazing megafast
You hit me like a cosmic blast
You've given me a Technicolor world

Putting me in Overdrive
Speed of light, I'm so alive!
Could you be my supernova girl?

Interplanetary, Megastellar, Hydrostatic
There's no gravity between us
Our love is automatic!

(Zoom Zoom Zoom) Make my heart go
(Boom Boom) My Supernova Girl(x4)
____

So that stanza before the chorus says "there's no gravity between us, our love is automatic"...well, if you know any physics, then you know that there is always gravitational attraction between any two objects on our planet. For example, if a glass of water is sitting on a table next to a lamp, there is a gravitational force between the lamp and the table, the glass and the table, and the lamp and the glass. My high school physics teacher would always joke (and I would always laugh, b/c I'm a nerd like that) that if someone were to hit on you and say "don't you feel some attraction here?" you could always respond "No, it's simply gravitational."

Get it? Gravitational attraction! Haha! ahh....

So, back to the song, the lyrics go "There's no gravity between us, our love is automatic," implying there is no gravitational attraction, just a loving attraction!

Amazing! Clearly the writer of this song knows his/her basic gravitational physics!

Well, I thought it was pretty amazing.

Gross!

This guy apparently gets a lot of freebies, and his favorite by far is this company cookbook he got with a bunch of terrible, gross, recipes.


http://www.amalah.com/photos/the_company_cookbook/index.html

This is Daniel Cook

I love the kid's short show "This is Daniel Cook," about a 6-year old boy who learns about people's jobs. Basically Daniel just makes hilarious candid remarks to which the older people really don't know how to respond.

Today he met a train conductor.

Daniel: Is this an old train or a new one?
Old Train guy: Well, this is an old one. This was made in 1912.
Daniel: WOW! I was born in 1996.
Old Train guy: Holy cats!

EDIT:
Here is a preview for the show. It makes me smile (and laugh) every time I see it.






I also just found this. "Water is the best way to un-thirst you"