www.kurukshetra.org.in

10:15.a.m.: Networks class had already eaten 5 minutes into the break time. All of us (second year engineers-to-be) were getting restless. A familiar baritone calls out 72 that signals the end of the class. Hell! no. Seniors? Again! Four seniors march in. There is one that I know and she is not the type to ruin my break. Sigh! As we wait for them to let the cat out of the basket, they wait for us to settle.

“Kurukshetra” says an anonymous (then) senior. It triggered a vague memory. Without getting into the actual details of the talk, what they wanted was – IDEAS for new events are welcome. Thus, started my tryst with K! Thinking back, I have had a really good time and many cherished memories of K! There have been major anxious times, surprised times, ayyo times, gleeful times, despo times, frusty times, crush-ed times, happy times. But overall I’ve always had a good time.

Kurukshetra has been one great learning experience for me. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that K! has helped me find more about myself while indulging in some hilarious fun. Jotting all of them down here would make an incredibly long post. So here goes a succinct description.

Adventure

Hatching ideas

Late nights at CEG

heated healthy arguments

bliss that comes with knowledge

INBOX

try your strength & trust

Damn! I wasted my first year

writing like never before

Pushin’ it harder and faster

explore – People – Connect – waiting –  WOW

did that even exist before?

busy as busy can get

blanked out

(Place : Vivek Audi, Event : Cerebra. Oh! boy, you’vegotta be there to see it for yourself)

experience of a life time

The environment that K! creates is irresistible. It literally sucked me in like a black hole. I could easily add a lot more platitudes (like “bigger and better”, “we are doing it because we can”… get the drift?) but K’09 – my initiation year – was such a personal experience that these clichés would render it redundant. As someone who was pretty skeptic (and late) in understanding the gung-ho about K! it took some time to realize what drove the movers and shakers at CTF. As a matter of fact, when this realization dawned, I knew that that was what was and still is driving me too.

S.Swathi Meenakshi

Event Coordinator, Prove or Disprove, K ‘09

Guest Lectures and Workshops Team, K ‘10

After dinner, we decide to knock back a few in the bar where we were denied earlier. The wedding party has moved on and the weekenders are left to lie by the “Clockwork Orange” fireplace. Jonathan Adler’s design of the lounge with all its George Jetson’s accoutrements creates a very inviting atmosphere to kick back and have a few cocktails. Couples linger in the hanging chairs and sofas sipping their drinks. Shag rugs and tiki wall hangings, great place for people watching and lounging with a lovely lady.

Below are pictures of the lounge area just off the bar and Mr. Parker’s restaurant.

The Pomegranate Martini is slightly sweet but still has a bit of kick. Definitely a ladies drink that goes down easy and comes in a cocktail glass that makes for a pleasantly delicate display. The consistency is just right, or as the women there described it, “It gets you drunk without the alcohol taste.”

As we lie in our sliding chairs over the shag rug I feel like I am on the set of Valley of the Dolls. The women who pass by are all dressed in modern versions of very sixties attire and there is a noticeable lack of the typical LA douchebags and their Ed Hardy shirts. The cocktails and the interior design have an unexpected effect. People here actually respect the environment they are in. The conversations are muted and everyone seems to be focused on enjoying their drinks and the atmosphere that Jonathan Adler has so gently put us in.

I have often heard great reviews about the hotel, the food, the bar and so far all of it has been true. But the entire evening, I can’t figure out what makes this place so different from dozens of other SoCal bars pretending to be somewhere else. It could be the alcohol or the warmth of the Jetson’s fire. It is not that we are in a faux bar of a bygone era like so many Hollywood bars. We are somewhere else. It is a weekend getaway from Los Angeles. It is a real place. The history is real, the atmosphere is it’s own. The feeling of being on that set from Valley of the Dolls ends when you walk the grounds and stop expecting to see exposed plywood and two by fours around every corner. Then it hits me. It is the entire hotel. From the valet, to the entrance, the bar and lounge and of course Mr. Parker’s. The drinks, classic timeless libations with a modern twist serve as the red pill or the blue and down through the rabbit hole you go. A few manhattans, pomegranate martini’s and here we sit among other couples behaving unusually proper for southern California. The women sit up a little straighter and are all in skirts as opposed to their usual Nebraska on the ocean garb of jeans and a t-shirt. They exude a slightly more feminine atmosphere and delicateness as they sip at their vermillion cocktail glasses. The men wear jackets and behave slightly more gentlemanly, as they may have before the years of feminism and the unisex movement. We are in a bar that is a time machine.

Brannon Howse using GOIP Tech and STRETCH Technology’s Hellescope discernmentalizes that Emergents are actually Atheistic Communists:

Emerging Trouble

 The pastors and authors of one of America’s fastest growing spiritual movements, the Emergent Church, sing the praises of socialism. As I’ll explain in more detail later, the Emergent Church champions the neo-Marxist call for a utopian society through spiritual evolution where good and evil merge to form a “better” third option. This idea derives from the belief system of philosophers such as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and finds its contemporary manifestation in the “Third Way” movement of Bill Clinton and Tony Blair. In the Third Way, capitalism, socialism, and communism merge to form a misanthropic combination of the three. This blending is now represented in the terms “the New World Order” and “the new enlightenment.”

 The Third Way promotes Communitarianism, a toxic blend of communism, socialism, atheism, and Cosmic Humanism. Communitarians believe in universal health care, government-subsidized housing and education, radical environmentalism, Fabian socialism, and the like.

An article on the website of the Democratic Leadership Council explains how Clinton and Blair have promoted Third Way thinking across the globe:

On Sunday, April 25, 1999, President Clinton and the DLC hosted a historic roundtable discussion, “The Third Way: Progressive Governance for the 21st Century, “with five world leaders including British PM Tony Blair, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, Dutch PM Wim Kok, and Italian PM Massimo D’Alema, the First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and DLC President Al From.[4]

Starting with Bill Clinton’s Presidential campaign in 1992, Third Way thinking is reshaping progressive politics throughout the world. Inspired by the example of Clinton and the New Democrats, Tony Blair in Britain led a revitalized New Labour party back to power in 1997. The victory of Gerhard Shroeder and the Social Democrats in Germany the next year confirmed the revival of center-left parties which either control or are part of the governing coalition forming throughout the European Union. From Latin America to Australia and New Zealand, Third Way ideas also are taking hold.

Not to be hoodwinked by the window dressing of Third Way advocates, however, Vaclav Klaus, prime minister of the Czech Republic, warns against the real future it offers: “The Third Way is the fastest route to the Third World.”[5] But that seems to be where communitarians want to take us.

Grave Influence: 21 Radicals and Their Worldviews that Rule America from the Grave

This is it, the one book you need to read if you want to understand the big picture, connect all the dots, and understand current times, and future events and trends that will be unfolding. This ground-breaking book by best-selling author Brannon Howse is the result of thousands of hours of research over many years and is must reading for every teenager and adult.

Brannon reveals how the worldviews of 21 dead people are still influencing every aspect of American life and vying for the hearts and minds of adults and students. Whether we are discussing, law, science, economics, history, family, social issues, education or religion, the people and worldviews seeking to further their agenda in these disciplines are almost always connected back to four major forces. Brannon reveals the connection between occultism/pagan spirituality, the apostate church, the educational establishment and government/corporations.

Through this book you will come to understand the oppositions worldview, heroes, goals, strategies, masking terms, networks and targets. Those who share the worldviews of these 21 enemies of our constitutional republic and Biblical worldview do not want their agenda and its consequences to be revealed to the American people. Above all, they do not want us to equip and train our children and grandchildren with a Biblical worldview by which to recognize, reject, and fight against their seductive and destructive lies. This book will equip you to do just that as Brannon gives specific and pro-active responses you can take to make this the finest hour for the American church.

Here is the list of twenty-one for which Brannon has dug up worldview facts you must know and prepare to oppose:
 
Saul Alinsky, Karl Marx, John Dewey, John Maynard Keynes, Aldous Huxley, Charles Darwin, Friedrich Nietzsche, Margaret Sanger, William James, Alice Bailey, Helen Schuman, Sigmund Freud, Alfred Kinsey, Benjamin Bloom, B.F. Skinner, The Frankfurt School, Soren Kierkegaard, Julius Wellhausen, Christopher Columbus Langdell, Betty Friedan and Roger Baldwin

Topics covered include:

Corporate fascism, sustainable development, the Third Way, global governance, dialectic process, the Delphi technique, the Cloward-Piven Strategy and deliberate chaos, community organizing, Fabian socialism, the federal reserve and a fiat currency, America’s decline is Europe’s gain, cultural Marxism, government mandated youth service, legal positivism, postmodernism, soft-despotism, higher-criticism, pagan spirituality, feminism, welfare-state capitalism, the false-dominate church, the Emergent Church, the spiritual battle for America, the United Nations and occultism, unmasking the one-world religion, the deconstructionists in the culture and in the church, psychological labeling of dissenters, behavior modification, a planned economy, the assault on parental authority, the two tracks to globalism, Keynesian economics, collectivism, similarities between America and Nazi Germany, national leaders are a reflection of the people, social justice, why the culture war is lost if the church goes weak, is God judging America?, When and why does God judge a nation?, the environmentalist/globalist connection, cultural revolution/sexual revolution, the right to die becomes the duty to die, the true purpose of the law, why the State wants the children, are we all God’s children? And much, much more.

Click here to order now:
http://www.worldviewweekend.com/secure/store/product.php?ProductID=1044

We agree that Emergents are Absolutely evil. Just look at how a typical Emergent looks:

This is why ye must avoid those evil Emergent heretics: Iggy, Tripp Fuller, The Groundworks, Mike Morrell and TheoPoet.

Time Machine backup images can be mounted as regular disks using the hdiutil command.

All you need to do is

sudo hdiutil attach <time_machine_file.sparsebundle>

If your Time Machine backup file is on a network share you need to connect to the server and mount the share before you can run the hdiutil command.

It may take some time especially on slow networks or big image files.

Great to see these instructions!  If you follow this, it will work.  Click here to read.

There are 8 hard drives in my pc. One failed this morning and lawfully minded Murphy dictated it would be my Snow Leopard drive.

Fear not, I have Time Machine all up to date… Reinstalling the OS and then shutting down, maybe one step too far already. Sigh. Where are the instructions?! Stop the screaming!

So as to comment or post at True/Slant,
I was required to datify, to exfoliate my psyche, to parade my je ne sais qua.  I rather liked the somewhat unexpected questions, as I hope you will – and here are my gemlike responses:

Q&A: Personal
What I’m Currently Addicted To…
Harpsichord music & poetry, particularly St.-John Perse, Rilke, Eugenio Montale, Robert Duncan.

This Is Annoying Me…
Canada’s Conservative government’s cover-up of complicity in torture in Afghan prisons.

This Is Making Me Worry…
The gradual disappearance of agreeable sociability in everyday life.

This Is Bringing Me Joy…
Firesign Theatre

I’m Running From…
sheer exuberance?

This Is Helping Me Create…
my creativity.

This Is Making Me Think – Hard…
surrealist pen fling tri-frog!

This Makes My Teeth Itch
Hair pain and string theory.

Can’t Do Without
Futurama, Pogo, Calvin and Hobbes. Opus the penguin, Don Martin, Groucho.

Favorite Voices
Tallis Scholars

My Most Awkward Moment
ongoing…

My Secret Ambition
is to write something really funny for ‘Modern Drunkard’ magazine.

Q&A: Professional
I’m Known For…
My vivid amnesia during toad-stretching moments, held stellate in a Liquid Square Design.

My Current Project
The Church of No Return, located at the intercourse of Brain and Mod-way, at varying distances from the Centre for Peripheral Studies.

My Greatest Achievement
Calling my high school vice-principal a crypto-nazi to his face, an act of great courage at the time, and an accurate assessment I stand by today.

My Biggest Regret
No time machine.

I Truly Respect
Sophie Scholl, Dietrich Bonhöffer, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Rev. King and all who have had the courage to risk truth in the face of powerful evil. As Charles Péguy said,” He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers”

Moments I’d Like To Forget
‘Moments’? what are ‘moments’?

How I Pay For This Wardrobe
we agreed not to discuss this

Blocks I’ve Been Around
“No Beer And No TV Make Homer something something”

Things That Really Happened
this seems rather arbitrary

Where I’d Like To Be 10 Years From Now
in a time machine

Why True/Slant
I really liked Matt Taibbi’s insightful column on Sarah Palin as a WWE-like phenomenon.

There are many situations that require you to restore backups to different computers, other than the one from where the data was originally backed up from. In the case of Apple’s Time Machine the restore procedure to different machines is not very intuitive. You have to use the “secret” option key…

There is a supported way to restore Time Machine backups of other computers using the “option-key” click on the Time Machine menu. If you want to use it just do the following:

1. Connect the Time Machine disk to the Mac you want to restore the files to
2. Set the “Show time machine status in the menu bar” In System Preferences -> Time Machine.
3. Click the Time Machine icon in the menu bar and keeping the mouse button pressed, press the “Option” key.
4. Select “Browse Other Time Machine Disks”
5. Select the disk you want
6. click Use Selected Disk

The Time Machine will open with the selected disk and you can use it to restore the files.

If, like me, you are using a non supported Time Machine configuration, where the backup disk is mounted using SMB or AFP (see this post on how to enable that) then the procedure above will not work directly. In my case I backup to my Buffalo TeraStation NAS, and the “Browse Other Time Machine Disks” window shows up empty, with no disk to select.

In order for this to work you need to first mount the Time Machine disk by hand in using the command line.

1. Mount the shared folder where your Time Machine backups are stored
2. Open a Terminal window and cd to the Time Machine volume. in my case I called it backups

   sudo cd /Volumes/backups

3. use hdiutil to mount the specific Time Machine .sparsebundle file

   sudo hdiutil attach <time_machine_file.sparsebundle>

Now you should be able to see the mounted volume in Finder, with all the backups listed as folders, and you can copy any files directly from it. Remember that mounting the disk may take some time due to the size of the disk and network connection speed, especially If you do this over a WiFi network.

Another option is to repeat the supported Time Machine procedure  outlined in the beginning of this post. You should now see the mounted disk as a Time Machine disk. Select the the disk and click “Use Selected Disk” and Time Machine will open on the selected disk just like with a Time Machine supported back up disk.

Personally I like to copy them directly from the Finder but your preference may vary so I document both ways of achieving this goal. Hope this helps.

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I know that there are lots of media centers that connect your computer and your media collection to your TV but I think that the best one out there at the moment is Apple TV. Why I here you ask?

Well, the reason why it is the best is the way that it works, the connectivity between iTunes and Apple TV. Then you can also count in the Time Machine back up system, I now have my iTunes library on Apple TV and back up on my Time Capsule, and that is why Apple make some of the best equipment in the world.

“I only run when I’m being chased…”

-My Wife and many of my non-running friends

Why do I run? For one, I run because I am being chased. By whom? By the same entity that chases all of us. Time. I know that eventually I will lose this race. It is inevitable. But I run knowing that I can put years between me and that ultimate runner.

There are the obvious ways in which running puts off Father Time. As we improve our general health we tend to physically age more slowly.

What follows is one of my favorite quotes from Christopher McDougall’s Born To Run:

“You could literally halt epidemics in their tracks with this one remedy,” he said. He flashed two fingers up in a peace sign, then slowly rotated them downward till they were scissoring through space. The Running Man.

“So simple,” he said. “Just move your legs.”

For me that was an “aha!” moment. All of the common Western diseases can cut our “run” short. The simple act of running can prevent a countless number of these ailments from affecting our society so pervasively the way they do today.

But you know what else running can do? It can literally slow down time.

Yes, I said literally.

Based on Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity, the Twin Paradox states that if one twin were to fly off in a rocket at close to light speed, fly around space for a while and then return to Earth, he would return to find his twin brother had aged dramatically more than he.  This is based on the fact that the speed of light is the same for every observer, no matter how fast he or she is going.  It has been proven in experiments.  Years ago, scientists sent several planes with atomic clocks on board to fly around the world.  Before they took off, the clocks on the planes were synchronized with an atomic clock on the ground.  When the aircrafts returned from their jaunts around the world, it was shown that the clocks on the airplanes were slightly behind the clock on the ground.  The faster one goes, the slower time moves for him or her.  At the speed of light, time essentially stops.

The faster and longer you run, the more time slows down for you. You age at a slower rate.  Sadly, you can run your whole life and only slow down time by a imperceptible amount, but I find knowing what we can do as runners poetic…beautiful. As runners we can control Time. We cannot ultimately defeat him, but by the simple act of running, we can tweak him.

I am being chased. That is one reason why I run.

Physicists returned to their future on Friday. About 10 p.m. last night outside Geneva, scientists at CERN succeeded in sending beams of protons clockwise around the 17-mile underground magnetic racetrack known as the Large Hadron Collider.

In pictures: Cern Large Hadron Collider restarts – BBC News

Well my Apple time Capsule has eventually reached the limits of it’s 500GB disc space – or more correctly 497.96GB – Formatted free disk space.
It has survived this long with back-ups going as far back in time as 7th June 2009 so can’t complain I suppose.
Can’t really ‘foil’ upgrading and replacing with a 2TB version, for I can think of more useful things to spend my cash on.

So worth noting that this is an event that I knew would be coming but still alas I feel rather disquieted that ‘older’ backups will now be erased to make room for the newer ones, suppose it’s like life really out with the ‘old’ and in with the ‘new’.

Here is how.  Nice writeup.  Click here.

Bueno aquí viene el primero de una serie de tutoriales que iremos poniendo sobre todo lo que rodea a la gran manzana.Hoy el primero de todos es como hacer el cambio a Snow Leopard usando Time Machine e instalando desde cero.

Lo Primero de todo, si no lo tenéis echo ya, es realizar una copia de seguridad con Time Machine. Para eso os vais a Preferencias del Sistema.

Cuando entréis en la instalación, seleccionáis el idioma y le vais dando siguiente hasta que os aparezca en qué unidad queréis instalar Snow LeopardA continuación, en la barra de arriba, os vais a Utilidades / Utilidad de Discos y os aparecerá la ventana con todas las unidades de disco (tanto internas como externas) que tenemos conectadas.

Aquí es donde tenéis que asignarle un nombre a vuestra unidad de Disco (os recomiendo Macintosh HD) y elegis formato Mac OS Plus (con registro)

Pulsamos borrar (esto nos formateará nuestro disco interno en el formato que le hayamos dicho).

Una vez que termine el proceso de borrado, que durará unos pocos segundos, cerráis la Utilidad de Discos, esperáis que se reinicie el ordenador, y en la instalación le dais a Siguiente. Entonces empezará a comprobar el DVD por si tiene algún error, esta opción la podéis omitir.

Cuando termine el proceso de instalación os pedirá vuestros datos y que registréis el producto.

Y ya para terminar os saldrá el Asistente de Migración.

Aquí es donde tenéis que seleccionar la opción: De una copia de seguridad de Time Machine.

Una vez le deis a continuar, seleccionáis el volumen donde tengáis la copia de Time Machine (hemos de tener el disco de la copia conectado, claro está), y esperáis a que transfiera la información. Cuando termine ya lo tendréis todo como en Leopard pero en Snow Leopard!

Espero que os sirva de ayuda, cualquier duda o problema dejadlo en comentarios.

Nos vemos!

While Zombie Nation is haunting North America and finishing up this year with some shows in Australia, he has a small surprise waiting for you:

Download Zombie Nation Time Machine DJ Mix

Mr. Zombie has put together a brilliant quick-fire mix of his most recent hits and then takes us on a journey to his past glories.

Tracklisting
————————- 2009
01 Filter Jerks
02 Worth It
03 Shottieville
04 Mystery Meat Affair
05 Get It
06 Radio Controlled
07 The Fact
08 Seas of Grease
09 Supercake 53
10 Bass Kaput
11 Forza
12 Mas de Todo
13 Worth It pt. 2
14 T’s Flute
————————- 2006
15 Don’t Touch
16 Booster
17 Slomo
18 Taxi Extreme
19 Paeng Paeng
20 Talks
———————— 2003
21 Souls at Zero
22 Chowpatty Slices
23 Tape Me
———————— 1999
24 The Stand
25 Rythmbox

Zombie Nation Studio report
www.zombienation.com

Printmaking is rad.

If I had a time machine, I still wouldn’t skip Etching’s labor intensive demands.The process can be Zen-like… this is where the radness comes in!

This particular image has taken quite a bit of elbow grease and time, probably over 36 hrs I would guess. The good news is that I’m really learning to manipulate the Intaglio on the zinc plate.

So, I thought it would be fun to see the progress steps together in a video. It shows the begining sketch, the Soft Ground LINE print, the AQUATINT and the BURNISHING steps. The final frame is a TWO COLOR PRINT done with a dark oil based ink and a glowy green transparent ink roll.

“Change Machine” |  9″x12″

MORE about the Printmaking Process.

This is what really happens when you build a time machine.

3 Things I Would Do If I Built a Time Machine
1) Stop Plaxico Burress from taking a gun to Latin Quarter Nightclub in November 2008
2) Get Abraham Lincoln, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Joan of Arc, Freud, Socrates, and 1989 Keanu Reeves to help me on a school presentation to pass history class.
3) Punch myself from a week ago in the face for actually saying the words, “I like the new Miley Cyrus song”.

This is a video of me (sitting in the lawn chair at the start) and my little brother, Mathew (behind the shed yelling bear noises at the start).
I posted this video on YouTube about July 2008 (the summer before ninth grade, I believe. I was thirteen, Mathew was … nine, I think?).
It was about a year and a half ago, I believe. It feels like it was longer, though.
There’s been a lot that’s happened since then.

I started high school.
I won an art award.
I went through 9 exams.
I went camping at a beautiful provincial park with the student’s council.
I gained like, 10 of some of my best friends in the world at pathfinders.
I got a facebook account.
I got a blog.
I’ve attempted to finish writing several novels.
I got an iPod.
I went ‘out west’ for the third time in my life.
I visited Vancouver for the first time in my life.
I dipped my feet in the Pacific ocean.
I went to my first high school dance.
I went to Niagara Falls on a (geography class) field trip with some really great people and got in trouble with the teachers because we brought too much sugary pop and chips for our own good and all had sugar rushes at midnight.
I had the time of my life in Dinner Theatre.
I discovered a secret passageway in my school’s proproom hidden behind shelves.
I invented the word ‘AWESOMAZING’.
I’ve made a zillion more people laugh.
I joined my city’s youth council.
I met the mayor.
I discovered Twilight a few weeks after the above video was filmed.
I’ve come to terms with myself. (I am not so ashamed of who I am anymore. Because I am awesomazing.)
I spent a night in a haunted hotel.
I contacted a ghost. (One of my BFF’s birthday party. Her place was haunted so we pretended to be like TAPS.)
I sang ‘Tomorrow’ (from Annie) at the top of my lungs in the middle of a forest while cleaning an outhouse.
I sang ‘Tomorrow’ (from Annie) at the top of my lungs in the middle of a forest with some of my very best friends.
I have learned that everything has flaws but that doesn’t mean it isn’t beautiful and perfect by all means.
My kitten turned three years old.
I discovered that I truly would prefer world peace over all the money in the world anyday.
I have done way more than I ever thought I would and today it has occured to me that the past two years of my life have been worth every second, and I wouldn’t change anything at all.
I really truly wouldn’t.

This is a video of me (sitting in the lawn chair at the start) and my little brother, Mathew (behind the shed yelling bear noises at the start).
I posted this video on YouTube about July 2008 (the summer before ninth grade, I believe. I was thirteen, Mathew was … nine, I think?).
It was about a year and a half ago, I believe. It feels like it was longer, though.
There’s been a lot that’s happened since then.

I started high school.
I won an art award.
I went through 9 exams.
I went camping at a beautiful provincial park with the student’s council.
I gained like, 10 of some of my best friends in the world at pathfinders.
I got a facebook account.
I got a blog.
I’ve attempted to finish writing several novels.
I got an iPod.
I went ‘out west’ for the third time in my life.
I visited Vancouver for the first time in my life.
I dipped my feet in the Pacific ocean.
I went to my first high school dance.
I went to Niagara Falls on a (geography class) field trip with some really great people and got in trouble with the teachers because we brought too much sugary pop and chips for our own good and all had sugar rushes at midnight.
I had the time of my life in Dinner Theatre.
I discovered a secret passageway in my school’s proproom hidden behind shelves.
I invented the word ‘AWESOMAZING’.
I’ve made a zillion more people laugh.
I joined my city’s youth council.
I met the mayor.
I discovered Twilight a few weeks after the above video was filmed.
I’ve come to terms with myself. (I am not so ashamed of who I am anymore. Because I am awesomazing.)
I spent a night in a haunted hotel.
I contacted a ghost. (One of my BFF’s birthday party. Her place was haunted so we pretended to be like TAPS.)
I sang ‘Tomorrow’ (from Annie) at the top of my lungs in the middle of a forest while cleaning an outhouse.
I sang ‘Tomorrow’ (from Annie) at the top of my lungs in the middle of a forest with some of my very best friends.
I have learned that everything has flaws but that doesn’t mean it isn’t beautiful and perfect by all means.
My kitten turned three years old.
I discovered that I truly would prefer world peace over all the money in the world anyday.
I have done way more than I ever thought I would and today it has occured to me that the past two years of my life have been worth every second, and I wouldn’t change anything at all.
I really truly wouldn’t.

This is a video of me (sitting in the lawn chair at the start) and my little brother, Mathew (behind the shed yelling bear noises at the start).
I posted this video on YouTube about July 2008 (the summer before ninth grade, I believe. I was thirteen, Mathew was … nine, I think?).
It was about a year and a half ago, I believe. It feels like it was longer, though.
There’s been a lot that’s happened since then.

I started high school.
I won an art award.
I went through 9 exams.
I went camping at a beautiful provincial park with the student’s council.
I gained like, 10 of some of my best friends in the world at pathfinders.
I got a facebook account.
I got a blog.
I’ve attempted to finish writing several novels.
I got an iPod.
I went ‘out west’ for the third time in my life.
I visited Vancouver for the first time in my life.
I dipped my feet in the Pacific ocean.
I went to my first high school dance.
I went to Niagara Falls on a (geography class) field trip with some really great people and got in trouble with the teachers because we brought too much sugary pop and chips for our own good and all had sugar rushes at midnight.
I had the time of my life in Dinner Theatre.
I discovered a secret passageway in my school’s proproom hidden behind shelves.
I invented the word ‘AWESOMAZING’.
I’ve made a zillion more people laugh.
I joined my city’s youth council.
I met the mayor.
I discovered Twilight a few weeks after the above video was filmed.
I’ve come to terms with myself. (I am not so ashamed of who I am anymore. Because I am awesomazing.)
I spent a night in a haunted hotel.
I contacted a ghost. (One of my BFF’s birthday party. Her place was haunted so we pretended to be like TAPS.)
I sang ‘Tomorrow’ (from Annie) at the top of my lungs in the middle of a forest while cleaning an outhouse.
I sang ‘Tomorrow’ (from Annie) at the top of my lungs in the middle of a forest with some of my very best friends.
I have learned that everything has flaws but that doesn’t mean it isn’t beautiful and perfect by all means.
My kitten turned three years old.
I discovered that I truly would prefer world peace over all the money in the world anyday.
I have done way more than I ever thought I would and today it has occured to me that the past two years of my life have been worth every second, and I wouldn’t change anything at all.
I really truly wouldn’t.

In 1532 on November 16th Pizarro captured Atahualpa. He and his army would then go on to masacre the Incas. 477 years later, Nacho Donut will travel through time to set things right.