April 14, 2013

Last night I used my webcam to record myself sleeping. That sounds kind of creepy but I have always wondered what I do in my sleep. One of the main reasons I bought a webcam, along with recording guitar riffs, was to record myself sleeping. It was very underwhelming. I changed positions several times but I didn't snore or talk in my sleep. At one point I put both of my arms in the air and then slowly itched each one. That was the most interesting thing. I'm disappointed. I might try it again tonight. Or several more times just to get a wider sample. Or never again. I haven't decided yet.

Today was an uneventful day. Like all of my Sundays. I played a lot of Black Ops 2 and spent most of that time feeling frustrated because the lag was ridiculous. I played a lot of games and I had maybe two or three where the lag wasn't awful. It is even more evident when you're using a shotgun and you aim point-blank at a dude and nothing happens. It's hard enough using a shotgun to begin with, lag can make it miserable. Despite all that, I came “close” to getting the gold camo on the KSG. I still have a few Revenge medals to get which shouldn't be too hard, but I have to get six more Bloodthirsty medals. Those are a pain in the butt. In a game today I managed to get two in a row, which turns out to be a Merciless medal (ten kills in a row). That will never happen again.

Here is some stuff from The Book Of The Dead.

To get back at Marianne Charpillon for not sleeping with him and then stealing all of his money, Casanova trained a parrot to say Miss Charpillon is more of a whore than her mother. Charpillon wanted to sue the parrot for libel.

John Harvey Kellogg was a trained gynecologist and he was still a virgin when he died at 91.

In 1942, Henry Ford and George Washington Carver had the idea to make a plastic car body from soybeans that weighed 30% less than a steel body and ran on grain alcohol. WWII sidetracked these plans.

“I'm not a paranoid deranged millionaire. Goddamit, I'm a billionaire.” - Howard Hughes

“If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he is weaving a tapestry, he had better shut up.” - William Morris.

“You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird.” - Richard Feynman

“As for fame, what is it? A gilded butt for ever pierced with the arrows of malignancy.” - Edward Jenner

Vaccination is short for vaccine inoculation. It comes from the Latin vacca, “cow”, because cowpox was used to inoculate people against smallpox.

From 1822 to 1855, the presidency of Mexico changed hands thirty six times. General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna became president eleven different times during this period. Even after he gave half of Mexico to the United States. Along with other horrible things.

“The late 1860s found [Santa Anna] living in exile on Staten Island in New York. Here, inadvertently, he made his most significant and lasting contribution to world history. He had become friendly with an American inventor, Thomas Adams. Adams was intrigued by the general's habit of chewing chicle, the gum from the evergreen Manilkara tree, something Mexicans had been doing since the times of the Mayan empire. Adams hoped to make it into a cheap rubber substitute and bought a tone of chicle from Santa Anna, just in case. He failed to make rubber, but discovered that, by adding sugar, he had a terrific new confectionery product: chewing gum. In 1871, he launched it as Adams New York No. 1. His company later merged with Wrigley's. In 2006 the chewing-gum giant had a turnover of $4.6 billion and a 63 percent global market share.”