Personality Test
So I took this personality test in some website called "Personality100" From what I heard from my friend, this is pretty accurate. The website used a comparative sort of system in which it compares your traits with the average person. Which makes sense considering that if we were to talk about anyone's personality we would talk about how the person stands out in certain traits more so than an average person. Anyway, here's my results:
Extroversion
Average Male - 85%
Average Female - 67%
Your Score - 75%
You are more outgoing than the average male is. When people interact with you, they immediately notice that you are not shy about meeting and greeting new people. This is one of the most influential parts of your personality.
The average female is also quite extroverted. Like you, she prefers to be surrounded by movement and activity. This aspect of your personality works very well with females. When it comes to partnership and friendship, most females prefer a male that is moderate to high in his extroversion level.
Emotionality
Average Male - 74%
Average Female - 76%
Your Score - 27%
You are more relaxed and calm than the average male and female are when it comes to stress and feeling intense emotions. The average male and female are more reactive to their feelings and mood swings than you are. Your balanced way of dealing with emotions is a guiding part of your personality.
Apparently the test is more detailed than this, but I don't feel the urge to pay 30$ just to see it.
I be Wanted!
Okay, so I've gotten back back from my camping trip and am now going into employment. There were numerous things that happened during my camping trip and numerous jokes I've been exposed to, such as a joke where me and kid brother were inside a tipi and my friend Scott decides to come around kick it shouting "I'm a European explorer! I'm going to destroy your culture, take your land, and make you go to reform schools!" Which made me chuckle quite a bit. We also went to some amusement park known as Upper Clemens Park... That was a pretty good time, I'd say. It's been awhile since I've been to any amusement park and shouting while being on the roller coaster and eating poutine afterwords didn't disappoint.
I finally got myself a job this summer... I'm to be working in an enviro depot this Sunday. Although not exactly the most glamorous job, I guess it'll to give me something to do over the summer for a job.
As far as movies go, I've recently seen Wanted with my friend Alex. Seeing the previews initially made me think that this movie really wasn't going to be anything special, but rather a mediocre action film with rather generic characters... Although I wasn't too impressed with it, it was a lot better than what I initially thought it'd be. And yes, the blogs title is based on this movie.
You see, the movie is quite entertaining because it's fast-paced and it's hard to predict what will happen next. The story of the movie was a little far-fetched but it had its good points. Such as the moment where Wesley questioned the morality of killing people and how Fox told him about her past which convinced Wesley to kill people. Wesley's character himself is rather likableness. He isn't the generic hero trying to justify some moral idea, he's there for purely himself and all senses is a pure asshole, and I don't think that idea could have been shown off more than when he left his job. Although he had some moral ideas around the end, I never really got the idea he was preaching the morality but rather following for his desires. If anything, Wesley's character is part of what made this movie great. But the other characters weren't really anything spectacular and interesting, so it seem that all the interest was pretty well droned in on Wesley which can be considered a flaw. Although the story really isn't anything particularly great or interesting, it was enough to put together the movie and let it move at its pace.
Another aspect of this movie I enjoyed were just how crazy and inventive the fight scenes were. They pull of some crazy ass crap like that scene where the guy jumps across the building and the bulletime effects which, although the concept not being entirely original, seemed sort of unique in its own way from other movies and had a great sense of style to it. The action is incredibly fast-paced, and it's hard to predict how it will result. To me, this was the highlight of the movie because the action scenes were quite well thought out and it kept you hooked to the screen while it occurred. The flaws for this, though, is how the characters never seem fatigued by the fights they're in. Sure, there was a moment where Wesley was shot in the arm and had to recover but in moments such as around the end of the movie, no matter how much damage Wesley took it never seemed to affect him. In fact, Wesley in general seems unstoppable in most cases. Perhaps some weakness could have been necessary....? But then again, it really isn't a big deal and I'm sort of nitpicking.
Overall, it isn't an incredible movie but an above mediocre movie that's worth the watch.
As for anime, I've watched quite a bit lately. In fact, I also went to an anime meeting sorts and watched a few series I'm unfamiliar with as well. Half of what was shown there was crap I've already seen, so I'm not going to touch on those. Here's the rundown of what I watched:
Gate Keepers: No wonder this one was put in first at the meeting thing. This is nothing but pure cheese and anime cliches. This one is totally being dropped in my list.
Eiken: The same as above, only much more shittier and with much larger breasted females.
The Big O: This one was quite impressive. The animation style resembled more of a DC inspired animation more so than the typical anime style from which it is. In fact, the main character reminded me a lot of Bruce Wayne{AKA the secret identity of Batman}. Everything was nicely stringed together and despite being fairly typical, it was all fairly enjoyable. Although I do have this series on hold, I'll get back to it with hopes that it'll continue to be a nicely put together series.
Nebari No Ou: This series is quite nice. I'm enjoying it thus far, I just hope it doesn't fall apart later on.
xxxHolic Kei: I'm a rather large fan of xxxHolic. Although I wasn't too impressed with the first arc in this series, the show is starting to get back to its originally great self and I'm really liking the way it's touching in on its character development.
Juuni Kokuki: At first, I thought the anime was going to be full of crap and annoying characters{especially the main ones}. But I was told by numerous people to keep watching it up until Ep.10 which is where it supposedly starts to get better... Of course, I like to give any series a chance to get better so I figured I'd sit through this one... But I can tell you now, I'm definitely starting to like it now. I can't really lift above an 8, but this one looks like it has a lot of potential to be one of my faves.
Slayers Revolution: Slayers is a decent series throughout and this one definitely makes a good first impression. The animation is good, the plot is fast paced and fun, the fights are decently entertaining, and Lina is as awesome as ever. I don't expect this to be a totally great anime, but I never had expectations of such and I'm looking forward to future episodes of this one.
Naruto Shippuuden: It's still not getting anywhere... Despite this series having an incredible start, it sure went downhill pretty badly.
Bleach: I almost wonder why I bother with the anime and its filler crap... I much prefer the manga as it skips all of it.
Today in Life...
Okay, it's been a while since I've wrote anything in my blog. To top this, this is pretty well the first blog I've made that isn't some analogy of something.
Anyway Summer has come, school's gone for some time, I got my academic awards from the school, and I'm currently doing nothing but sitting on my unemployed ass looking for a job... Okay, I'm not really doing that at all. I'm more like waiting for my phone call back for a job. As far as that goes, I fear that will take quite some time and I will be unemployed probably until or after the end of summer.
So far, the Summer for has been fairly uneventful. I went swimming, biking, etc every now and then. You know, the casual crap people do in the summer. Though I've been far more lazy then active during this summer. Though I do plan on going camping with my parents and maybe a friend or two. I honestly wish I could spend a camping trip with my dad and just a few of my friends... I think that'd be an awesome trip. But as far as camping goes, It's something I use to do quite a bit but don't as much very often anymore. Those trips were quite great though... I did quite a bit during those trips and due to it I earned a pleasure for hiking.
Anyway, as far as anime goes... I really haven't watched any in a while. The most I've watched is a bit of Gilgamesh, The Kite series, and the typical series I usually watch being One Piece and Code Geass. Of course Code Geass and One Piece are awesome without me having to explain why, so I felt like it's more worth getting into the other two series:
Gilgamesh: So far, not very entertaining. Everything about it has been just so incredibly bland and uninteresting. It's not entirely bad and I do find it watchable at least, but it's not anywhere near as good as what have been saying it to be.
Kite: This is a decent little OVA. The sound and animation quality weren't anything totally noteworthy, but I found that its character development was quite nice and what made this one worth watching. Although its characters weren't incredibly memorable or even all that detailed... It just got me attached to them and wanting to know their outcome. The plot had some fairly nice twists thrown in and out but the ending was fairly dumb I found... To me, it just felt a little rushed and lacked the emotion I'd liked it to have. Personally, I think this should have been a series instead of a one hour OVA. I'd say the turnout and character developmet could have been much better if they focused they're attention to a much larger story then the short one we got. In the end, it's a good OVA worth watching but lacked the greatness it potentially had.
Kite Liberator: This one is apparently a sequel to the original Kite...But quite frankly, there's pretty no connection at all to the previous OVA. There's no reference to the previous title{save for, perhaps, one scene} and it's an entirely new and different story all together. To add to this, I'd say it's a slight bit less graphic too. A lot of thing in this one is quite differnet then the previous one, too. Most notably, it's style is different too. The animation is way more better than the last and the sound quality is better too.. Err... Too lazy to write much on this in my blog so I figured I might as well write a review on these OVA's and maybe a comparison blog.
In non-anime related stuff, I haven't seen any movies since Prince Caspian about a month or so ago, so nothing to say in that department. Of course, I'm still watching Battlestar Galactica... Re-runs at the moment that is. I've also been keeping up with the wrestling industry more often recently, too..
As far as that goes, I must say that I'm surprised that WWE has become more interesting as of late. Although I still find WWE holds back its talent a little and that TNA is still better, I think that the fact that WWE has become far less predictable is appreciable on my part. It was fairly believe by most people that one of the world champions was going to change as a result of the draft, but no one figured they'd both retain their titles and have Punk come in and use MITB to get the title from Edge. That was pretty damn unpredictable and it's rather satisfying seeing Edge get knocked off his throne after being up in the main event for so long. Also, Punk is awesome and I think WWE is just due to get better with him as the champion...
For games, my most recent purchase Metal Gear Solid 4 has had me hooked for quite some time. I'd say it's definitely the best next-gen I've played so far. But as of right now, it's annoying the hell out of me trying to get the update to work since the thing can't hold it's connection together to the end of update installation. Because of that, I unfortunately can't play Metal Gear Online until I get that to work. Goddammit.... There's actually quite a few people I actually would like to challenge online. Not only that, but Grand Theft Auto online is voided from me due to that as well and I really want to get to playing online when Soul Calibur 4 comes out, too.
Tommy Douglas
Tommy Douglas was born in 1904 in Falkirk, Scotland. In 1910, he and his family moved to Canada. As a child, he had osteomyelitisan {infection of the bone or bone marrow, usually caused by pyogenic bacteria or mycobacteria. It can be usefully subclassifed on the basis of the causative organism, the route, duration and anatomic location of the infection.}. If he hadn’t got medical attention from a doctor, it would have become amputated. This is said to be where he got his ideals of the health care system where he believed that people shouldn’t be dependent on generosity in order to achieve good health. During WW1, Tommy and his family returned to Glascow. Then they went to Winnipeg in 1919, inconveniantly to end in the middle of the Winnpeg General Strike. Considering the fact that this was considered one of the biggest strikes in Canadian history and it’s violent nature, it’s no surprise that he saw two people being murdered and cops coming at the strikers with guns and clubs.
Tommy had a boxing carreer at the age of fifteen. His most notable accomplishment at this is when he obtained the lightweight championship of Manitoba and had kept until 1924. In this year, Tommy had went to Brandon College to study for ministry. He graduated from this college in 1930 with a masters degree in socialology in 1933. In 1935, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons.
Despite not being a federal member of the parliament and not yet a Member of the Legislative Assembly, he was elected Saskacthewan CCF in 1942 and didn’t resign from the house of Commons unti 1944. He had won all the elections up to 1960. His innovations in politics included the likes of free health care and large amounts of crown coporations{business that’s state controlled, the term is most widely used in Canada due to this}.
In 1962, Douglas had received a Doctors of Law from the univeristy of Saskacthewan. Douglas resigned as NDP leader in 1971 but still hold his seat within the House of Commons. He basically served as the NDP critic when David Lewis took his position. Douglas had retired from politics in 1979 and served as board of directors in a oil company known as Husky Oil. After gaining a few awards before the end of his life, he died on 1986.
Aliens and Such
Being as this universe is so massive, I seriously doubt that we are the only form of intellectual beings in this galaxy. I believe among all those stars, there's planets rotation around it that have a form of intellectual life of sorts.
But I myself seriously doubt that aliens have been encountered by us. My suggesting of people thinking it exists would lie within the idea of hallucinations. Nothing is happening when the brain is flat lined. The hallucination occurs while the brain is still going, then the brain flatlines and nothing registers. So the person THINKS it is happening.
If CNS arousal reaches a sufficient level {I would assume seeing a Mack truck bearing down on you at 65mph would suffice} and the sympathetic nervous system is triggered, it can cause the arousal system responsible for REM sleep {which is when we dream} to kick on. So the REM intrusion, I believe, is the explanation for alien abduction stories {ever notice how they almost unfailingly occur at night, in someone's bedroom?}.
The idea of extraterrestrial life being possible, scientifically, would stream off the idea that all life on earth is based off of the building block element of carbon with water as the solvent in which the biochemical reactions take place. This is the suggestion that people believe makes up the creatures on other planets with roughly the same make-up. Because Earth (and subsequently, all life on Earth) is made up of "star dust" or rather mass formed from stars which have gone supernova, it is apparent that the millions of other stars which can even be seen from Earth have been formed by the same sorts of particles. The combination of carbon and water in its chemical format {CH2O} is a chemical form of the sugars, which non only provides life with energy to which animal life depends on {largely through the oxidation of glucose, a six carbon sugar}, but it also the structural elements for life {such as the sugar ribose, a five carbon sugar, in the molecules DNA and RNA}. Plants{as I could imagine most of you know} gets its energy from through the conversion of light and creates photosynthesis. The significance of this, of course, is that photosynthesis creates carbon and oxygen as by-product through this process which is very vital to life. Life also requires methane{methane derivitives} and partially-oxidized {carbon oxides} states. then it requires nitrogen as a reduced ammonia derivative in all proteins, sulfur as a derivative of hydrogen sulfide in some necessary proteins, and phosphorus oxidized to phosphates in genetic material and in energy transfer. Adequate water as a solvent supplies adequate oxygen as constituents of biochemical substances.
Pure water is usefull because it has a natural PH, meaning that due to its continued disc dissociation between hydroxide and hydronium ions it's important. So as a result, it can dissolve both positive metallic ions and negative non-metallic ions. To continue the fact that organic molecules can be either hydrophobic {repelled by water} or hydrophilic {soluble in water} creates the ability of organic compounds to orient themselves to form water-enclosing membranes. Due to the fact that solid water{ice} is far less dense then liquid, which means ice floats above water. This is legit because it means that earth's oceans can't slowly be frozen solid. To add on, the Van Der Waals forces between their molecules give it the ability to store in energy with evaporation to which condensation is released. This helps moderate climate, cooling the tropics and warming the poles, helping to maintain a thermodynamic stability needed for life.
Carbon is rather fundamental to terrestrial life due to its immense flexibility in creating covalent chemical bonds with a variety of non-metallic elements, principally nitrogen, oxygen and hydrogen. Carbon dioxide and water together to enable the storage of solar energy in sugars, such as glucose. The oxidation of glucose releases biochemical energy needed to fuel all other biochemical reactions.
The ability to form organic acids {–COOH} and amine bases {–NH2} gives it the possibility of neutralisation dehydrating reactions to build long polymer peptides and catalytic proteins from monomer amino acids, and with phosphates to build not only DNA, the information storing molecule of inheritance, but also adenosine triphosphate (ATP) the principal energy "currency" of cellular life.
Giving the relatively usefulness and abundance in sustaining life, it can be easily assumed that life elsewhere in the universe can take advantage of these factors utilize these basic components. Though the thing is that other elements and solvents for life may be capable of making organisms be able to live there. For instance, silicon the most alternative carbon{though this is improbable}. Silicon life forms are proposed to have a crystalline morphology, and are theorized to be able to exist in high temperatures, such as on planets which are very close to their star. Life forms based in ammonia rather than water are also considered, though this solution appears less optimal than water.
So in the end, it's all based on what life can or cannot live off of. Though by our own standards, no one could live normally within anywhere in the Milky Way besides Earth. Any other planet of such is unknown.
2008 Royal Rumble overview
Okay, so this is kind of old. But I figured what the hell? I might as well right a review for the last wrestling PPV I seen.
At the end of the PPV, I guess you could say I was Very, and severely, PISSED OFF. Seriously, you should hear how loudly me and my friend Alex were shouting in anger at the ending of it. Initally, we were thinking the RR was going to ruin Wrestlemania, but we were wrong. Wrestlemania this year turned out to be a fairly good event, which is why I regret not seeing it.
MVP{Most Vulnerable Power Ranger} Vs Ric Flair
To be honest, I never paid much attention to this match. I spent most of the time in this match making fun of MVP by taunting him for dressing like a Power Ranger and having an extremely crappy gimmick and persona. Though to be honest, I actually find that he could be talented if he wasn't made to be some pushover idiot who runs from a challenge virtually all the time. I honestly would like MVP more if they made him into a face and actually had him wrestle instead of just running away like a coward all the time. His gimmick and abilities on the mike are even more terrible, and yet they continuously put him on it and even give him his own interview segment goddammit. This is what's annoying me with WWE, that they're taking talent like him and making him into a piece of crap I really don't care for. In terms of this match, from what I've seen it was fairly mediocre. Both wrestlers did pretty well, but nothing too over the top. This was one of the few matchs that MVP didn't act like a complete coward in and actually put on a clean match... Which is what I would like to see more of from him.
JBL VS Y2J
this match was pretty boring I found. Jericho had a lot of energy and was awesome to watch as usual, of course, but JBL was another story. At the Royal Rumble, JBL was relatively lazy and seemed like he had little to no energy doing anything at all. Even his face seemed that way, he didn't looked too enthused to be wrestling. Which is why I question why he even went back into the ring in the first place. JBL, unlike a majority of the superstars in the WWE, is quite involved in politics and business. He can't train like the other superstars and it really shows here. I laughed at his incompetance when Jericho did a bulldog on JBL but he was too late to react to it and simply fell down in the fashion as if Jericho did hit him with it. Which prooves that JBL has became a slob in the ring now. After this match, I'm really unsure of how the rest of JBL's matchs are going to be like. Hopefully he'll either quit for good or actually try to wrestle the way we know he's capable of doing. I've seen his earlier matchs, and I know he doesn't suck this bad.
Rey Mysterio vs Edge and his group of whores
I knew who was going to win this one from the start. There's no way that WWE was going to let Mysterio go around with the WHT being what the situation is now. But this was a good match anyway you look at it. Mysterio and Edge had showed a lot of energy in this match I found. What I like about Edge is that you never know when he'll hit you with the spear. He can come out of nowhere and just finished you off with when you least expect it. But I personally found Edge to be an annoyance ever since he became heel. He was a lot better as a face in my opinion. All of his storylines and his abilities on the mike had become horrendous after the change. Especially that whole relationship crap with Vickie Guerrero which is even worse then the Eddie storylines a few years back. His Edgehead group is relatively crappy too. They're nothing like Evolution, D-X or even the Cabinent for that matter. They have no personality whatsoever and all they really are is Edge's two little whores Anyway, I wasn't really thinking too much of this match while it was going on though because the Royal Rumble match was the thing primarily in my mind. The match had a lot of good points with these two. The best part was definitely the ending with Mysterio owning Vickie and then Edge catching Rey with the spear in midair. That was totally awesome and it was a great way to finish the match by all means.
Crazy Italian guy with the two whores
Oh yays. Now Maria is announcing she's going to be in Playboy. This proves that the females of WWE aren't there for wrestling, but rather to be sleezy whores to add sex appeal. Though this part of the show was worth it to see Santino. I found Santino to be very weak on the mike as a face, but when he became heel he was frickin awesome. I can't help but laugh at how he mocks the aspects of virtually every city he visits. This was the case here too, which was totally awesome. Although I'm not really a fan of his wrestling talents, he's one of the guys that should be on the mike more. With that said, he should also break up with Maria, cause she sucks real bad.
Randy Orton, the man who rises his arms in the air to show everyone how stupid he is vs the emo styled Jeff Hardy
Main events had gotten much better ever since Orton became champion. This is no exception, and it's definitely the best match of the night besides the Royal Rumble. Jeff Hardy was going all out with his high flying manuvers. The way he dodged Orton's manuvers were crazy and just pure awesome. Hardy was at his best in this match as Orton was. Orton had done a good job of putting up a good fight with Hardy and really made the match quite epic. The finish with Orton reversing the twist of fate with the RKO was quite awesome too.... Savor a great main event match like this while it lasts, as main events will turn to crap again once Cena wins the title again.
Royal Rumble
I must say, the Royal Rumble matchs are always great and I found myself shouting quite a bit during this match. It started out great, with Undertaker and HBK being the first people in. I laughed when Santino came in third and stood between the two and got eliminated the way he did. I still adore the guy though. Then after that, Khali came and got eliminated by Taker and HBK pretty quickly which was unexpected I found. then it was Hardcore Holly, who didn't get eliminated right away like the last two guys. The match pretty well had a bunch of random guys pouring in and the match got pretty hetic like it usually does. The Undertaker and HBK was the most notable here. Their performance was pretty tense against each, I actually thought they were going to be the last 4 there. But no that didn't happen as HBK eliminated Taker at around the 24th person and then HBK gets eliminated by Kennedy soon thereafter. I think the upset of Benjamin is worth of mention too. Benjamin came in doing a sweet acrobatic that took out Morrison, Snitsky, and Miz and then he does a kick thing to someone{forget who was, I think was either Mark Henry or Taker} but right in the middle him being totally awesome, Michaels comes in and kicks him out while he was only in there for like 0:30. That's bull. Benjamin, in my opinion, is really the one who deserves to win the rumble more so then any of the guys in there. Benjamin needs to get a serious push, as he always pulls off some great matchs and is just plain awesome all the time. But WWE doesn't care, whatever gives them profit works. I was rather surprised to see Snuka and Piper in it. Their appearence wasn't much of anything, but hey it's always good to see legends like them I guess. When it came to the end of the rumble.... I almost commited assault. As I was waiting to see who was number 30, hoping it was the Big Show, we get that idiot Cena. Right then and there, I knew he was going to win. In the end, it was Batista, HHH, and Cena. Batista gets eliminated first of course. Then it was this big showdown with Cena and HHH. The showdown was purely mediocre and is crap in comparison to the Taker and Michaels showdown last year. Cena came in out of no where and really gave me the biggest dissapointment of the month. Those annoying kids I sat beside were cheering for him and it drove me nuts! Unless Taker goes against Michaels I'm going to skip Wrestlemania this year. Cena just screwed over my pleasure in that event. What a bad way to end such a great match I say.