Stay back! If I stare at the lock really hard, it'll burst into flames and melt. [-Bolt 2008]

Camera + Balloon = Outer Space Pictures

Using a $77 Nikon Coolpix and a $60 latex balloon filled with helium, a team of teenage students captured these remarkable shots from 20 miles above the Earth's surface. Radio-synced to Google Earth, the team tracked the package as it soared 885 feet per minute into the sky, taking shots on a periodic timer. The balloon eventually failed around 100,000 before the system parachuted to the ground. The students were able to recover the package that landed about 6 miles from the launch site., but it was only after they tentatively extracted the SD card sitting safely inside that they discovered the fantastic fruits of their labor.
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Dreaming of Trina-Bacon

The Forbidden & The Tragedy

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Mirrored: I was inspired by Twilight, but don't group me with all those crazy fans. I'm a die hard even before the movie, and I refuse to have any affiliation with the franchise around the hit. The movie was kind of suckish but the cinematography was brilliant. I was turned on by the visual aspect of the movie. And that is where this one came from.

I also thought the symbolism around the apple is truly fascinating. In the Greek culture, the apple is a symbol of love and sexuality. While other cultures view it as a sign of divinity as they were considered the food of the gods. I chose to go with the more religious approach. In the Bible, the apple is considered the forbidden fruit or the greatest sin as told in the story of Adam and Eve. Funny how this very little fruit cause the fall of man.

Spring Break, Baby

Oh man, I'm so behind on this... You know, spring break isn't really all that great. All it does is make you extremely lazy and procrastinate on your homework. You become a couch potato over the course of a week and then it off to school again. I went back to school this week and it was horrible. I couldn't concentrate on anything and had to rush to finish all my work 12 hours before class starts. It sucks a lot! They should cut out spring break and move it to the last week of school. Get a head start on my summer vacation. Or maybe for the next spring break, I'll just go to school. Even if no one's going to be there. So lame..

So a couple weeks ago, Jenny took us to Uvas Canyon Park for some awesome hiking. Its gorgeous over there - there’s waterfalls, wild animals, awesome foliage, endless mountain ranges, and a whole lot more. I think we bonded pretty well. I hung out with Judy a lot. She’s so giddy and happy all the time. I’m calling her to female version of Tim. Although, I’m positive she could possibly be happier than Tim!



After that, I went to the San Bruno Mountain State Park. Don't worry; I brought a Crayon with me. It was fun, but exhausting. I wouldn’t recommend that hike if you're not a hardcore hiker. It’s rocky, and steep, and hot and cold (LOL), and has a bunch of bugs flying around. I had to whip out my whip!



On Friday after fellowship, some of us stopped by Borders to witness the Twilight DVD release. It was just as boring as the other release party. I knew better, but the fangirl in me just couldn’t resist. We didn't stay long, just 10 - 15 minutes. They were doing contests and I sent out my army of apprentices to do my bidding. Bwuahahahhaa. The next day was even funnier. Our TV can sometimes pick up our neighbors cable signal – so they would watch new movie releases sometimes and we would watch it with them. LOL. So that morning, Mandy can screaming into my room and dragged my by the pants out of bed to watch Twilight. Only it wasn’t twilight, it was a commercial. Grrr.. Later on that day, I was flipping through and found the movie! I screamed of course and had Mandy join my in an array of girly squeals and hops. Also that evening, it came on again, but this time I kept my cool. The parents were in the room and it felt too awkward to watch it with them, so I left.

Sunday, I planned on going to Target and getting the Twilight DVD. Steph spontaneously joined me. We snatched the last one. I wasn’t going to because I saw that it was the only one there and I figure it could be crappy. So I set off to search for another copy. But I ended up with that first one. The Target guy was staring at me weirdly. LOL. We shopped and went back to my place to watch clips from the DVD. It was sooooo hilarious!!! I can’t go into details because you had to be there to witness our retarded behaviors….

That’s my spring break. Muah.

Answers

Why must there always be a church answer? It seems like every time I try to go deep into some problem, I always end up with a church answer. Its better sometimes to just see from a worldly perspective. It wrong, but its a lot easier to understand when dealing with certain issues. Well, maybe its just me then. Not everyone agrees with the worldly view and a lot of them are full on focus on the word of the Bible. Which makes sense because thats what we strive for - but I just don't want to hear it sometimes. I rather hear some blatant fabrication of the truth just to feel better. Very naive of me, I know. Maybe I'm just more worldly than godly. I think I've had this discussion before - I see things very black and white. So it makes sense for me to be stubborn and relentless with these touchy issues. Wow, I've strayed far away from my initial motive. Anyway, I'm just sick of church answers. Sometimes.

Rappin Flight Attendant

Haven't seen this one in a while..

http://www.xkcd.com/15/

Aliens playing SWAT

Funny story. We played SWAT with the entire fellowship group. And for those who are reading this and are oblivious to the game of SWAT - The game is basically hide-and-seek but played in the dark with nothing but a flashlight and couple different rules. Nonetheless, it was group two's turn to hide (I snuck over to the other group 8D), Steph and I ran to Pastor Mark's office and hid in the back corner of the closet. We curled up on the ground and covered ourselves with the jackets hanging above. The seeking begins and we sit patiently. The timer was almost up and we were the last two to still be found. In comes Neilson. He searches around, spots the corner we're hiding in, sticks the flashlight under the jackets and stares at my feet for a good long moment and finally says, "That's not a person!" and rushes off (That was a run on sentence….). I couldn’t help but laugh out loud. Apparently, I'm not a human to him. I must have outer worldly legs....

Killing Mandys

Rewind. It’s a typical Thursday night and this little tall one is nothing more than a ball of energy. She jumps up and down in her seat eagerly waiting to pounce on the next moving object. Sadly, it was her dear sister who suffered from this spontaneous attack. Her sister was strangled and dragged across the room like an old rag doll. Her parents were in an utter shock when they came about the remains of their youngest. Thus, in order to restore some sort of balance, they sent her off to the deep wilderness with nothing more than a flashlight, a digital camera, and four other victims. Up there, they tortured themselves with blinding flashes of light. They counted the numerous stars above and laughed the night away like aimless hyenas.


LOL. Just kidding. We just went on a random moonlit hike around Mt Davidson. No Mandys were harmed in the making of that night.

Made of Awesome

And & Talent!

Escalator Etiquette

Okay, get this - so you're getting off whatever public transportation you were on and you follow the haphazard crowd of people up the moving stairs. Everything is going well - you follow in line, board the moving platform and shuffle to the left side ONLY to find that its been trafficked! By some idiot who likes to mess with the dozens of people who are late for work or its just some old tourist who's new to the playground. I'm sure this has happened to all of you. Some dumb bloke breaks the moving-left-aisle rule. And whats worst is when you're coming down the escalator, you hear your train at the bottom, you race down hoping that with your supernatural speed you could miraculously jump right into the train. You put it in full gear and come blazing down when some apostrophe blocks your way. He and his friend takes up both sides of the empty escalator and chats carelessly down. And all while ignoring the speed racer behind them. Downright unethical and should be scorched under molten lava!