ModernGeek

Yes, I know, I haven't blogged in over a week, but I have a REASON for that. The reason is, that I wanted to wait until today to post, because today is a very special day. Today is Pi(the number) day! It's the third month of the year, and the 14th day of the month, so the date could be written as 3.14.07, and as you can see the first two numbers make up the number Pi! When I realized this, I was like, "Woah... this is so nerdy I can't believe it."

Want to see the walls infront of you seem to breathe? Just click HERE........... now stare at the moving lines for at least half a minute, and then look at the wall infront of you.... yeah, I know, that's just about the most mind boggling thing I've ever seen, and the background music doesn't help. -_-

I'm sure you're all just sick and tired of hearing about me going on, and on about my resolution to boycott the RIAA for the month of March, but I just want to say that so far I have stayed true to my promise. Also, there's this contest that was put out by the MPAA(Motion Picture Association of America), which is RIAA's partner, except they deal with movies. And yes, I hate them just as much as I do the RIAA. Anyway, the point is they had this contest to see who could come up with the best anti-piracy video. But, the only problem is that, some of the videos are kind of disturbing.... take this one for example.

This video actually won fourth place in the contest. What the heck is up with the guy in the Halloween mask??? As someone on Youtube so rightly said, "So, the message is that if you illegally download, the police will come to your house dressed up in a scary Halloween mask and brutally murder you?" If this is the kind of "creativity" we're going to be seeing out of the MPAA then I fear for the future of movies...

EDIT: I found a discription of what the video is supposed to say to you. The letters PSA refer to the video.

The opening frames which consist of approximately 20 seconds catches the viewer's attention with flashing lights, a police car and officer, along with questions and statements. These statements pertain to the fact that piracy is not hurting anyone. The objective of the PSA is yet to be stated in the following frames.
The following 20 seconds contain graphical scenes and text to portray what you thought was right, is indeed wrong. The viewing audience at this point does not know what it is that is wrong, but is captivated by the uniqueness of the spot and now he or she feels obligated to discover the message. The person in the mask represents what we could consider a pirate. Stealing and threatening the innocent producer, actor, or film crew member. The following scene displays what we can consider the "death of creativity." Simply stated, if you steal someone's creative work, you are essentially killing off creativity.
The last 20 seconds of the PSA display the essential facts relative to piracy. "You can run, but you can't hide;" that is it's not if you will be caught pirating, but when you will be caught. If we can engrave this message into the viewing audiences head, the potential for them to recall the information and form a reaction is much greater then simply stating the facts.
The ending message of the PSA displays the sole purpose of the PSA and how piracy destroys creativity by eliminating jobs in the entertainment industry. It is our goal that this is a lasting impression on the viewing audience and that they will think twice before illegally downloading another video.

Hmmm, according to this I'm a guy dressed up in a halloween mask, who goes into peoples homes and kills them. I was watching more of these anti-piracy videos on Youtube, and alot of them use music from Pirates of the Caribbean... which is a copyrighted movie.... and by the way, the police never after the small fish(individual people in their homes) they have a hard enough time trying to catch the big ones(torrent site admins)

Speaking of piracy, Google is cracking down on copyrighted videos on Youtube... it's getting harder and harder to watch the anime Death Note on there. The fastest uploaders of the subbed episodes are slowly getting their accounts suspended. :(

Bye the way, I am able to defend my pro-piracy view, so ask away! Seriously, I love it when people say anti-piracy things, because then I get to argue back to them.

I saw this amazing chandelier made all out of GUMMY BEARS the other day on digg.com. Here are pics.

If that isn't amazing then I don't know what is....

I started Softball again this past Monday, and I forgot what shirt I was putting on that morning, so I when I realized I was going to be wearing a shirt that said "GEEK" on it, I said to myself "Oh great, labeled the team nerd within fifteen minutes..." I got alot of questions about it that night...

I've seen vending machines that have snacks, cokes, sandwhichs, watches, but FRESHLY MADE PIZZA???!!! That is something I have never heard of.

When I see things like this, I can't help but marvel at the wonders of the market, being able to create such marvelous things.

-Moderngeek