Pokemon Yellow and Fireflies

    Hello everyone, yeah it's been a while. Sorry if you went into withdrawal from not reading a new blog post, but I kind of doubt that happened because my readership is not that extensive. Probably because I haven't really told anyone about my blog. But still, I think I'm doing better than my friend's blog that I linked some time in the past. I just thought of a bunch of things I should probably talk about now, so this random part at the top may be a bit more substantial this week since I have to explain to you all the reasons why I failed at writing a blog post until now.

    First of all, I want to apologize for the fact that my last blog post had very little content (my second point was basically just empty space), I did mean to actually write something for that, but I realized I wasn't done and I was on my way out the door to go camping for the weekend (last weekend), so I just sort of posted what I had. I thought it was clever at the time, but Doing Nothing is more awesome than I gave it credit for in that post. I may revisit it in the future or update my last post if I'm bored sometime.

    Second, I have not had very much sleep recently. Pretty much since going to the midnight screening of Harry Potter the day before my last post. I actually had an interview at 9:30 am the same day as the midnight screening (I got the job), so that was interesting. Then I went camping as mentioned above, and the ground is not comfortable to sleep on, also it thunderstormed one night, and our tent leaked, so that was also uncomfortable. But don' let my negative thunderstorming experience make you think thunderstorms aren't awesome anymore. They're still cool. Then I had a dentist appointment first thing in the morning the day I got back from camping. Then I started my job...for one day (no I didn't get fired). By the way, there's a lot less time to update your blog when you're not unemployed. Then I left for Indianapolis at 6:30 the next morning, and had to wake up early for a robotics competition the next two days. And I'm working again this week. Maybe I can sleep this weekend. Oh but I'm leaving for Orlando tomorrow. Sigh. Maybe next summer I can have a nap.

    Third, I went to Indianapolis for a robotics competition. You probably knew that because I just told you. It was the Indiana Robotics Invitiational. My brother's high school robotics team went, and I'm cool, so I went too. Indiana on the other hand was not cool. In fact, it was unbearably hot. There and everywhere actually; including the swimming pool at the Ramada in Lansing. But aside from that the robotics tournament was awesome (maybe I can tell you how awesome some other time).

    Fourthly, if that's a word (I've never had this many points to make), I had relatives over sometime in the middle of all those things I already said. They were Chinese. My family is Chinese. I have a Chinese family; well half Chinese at least. I didn't get to see them too much because of all my escapades, but I did go on a tour of a dairy farm with them. We saw some cows.

    Anyway, that's a brief excerpt from my eventual autobiography. Now onto more pressing matters, such as the awesomeness of Pokemon Yellow and Fireflies, both of which are inspired by road tripping to and from Indianapolis this past weekend. Remember, becoming awesome is not a spectator sport, so get out there and start being awesome.

Pokemon Yellow

Level of Awesomeness: Ash-ome

What Is It: It is a Gameboy game. If you have not played a Pokemon game, then you are just the worst kind of person. The object of the game is to become the best Pokemon trainer in the history of time. What sets Pokemon Yellow apart from the other Pokemon games, besides the fact I am currently playing it, is that Pikachu follows you around on screen, so you look like this:

Notice the awesomeness

Rather than this:

So lonely. Not awesome.

Also, in Pokemon Yellow your rival (err...what was his name again?) is a huge asshole because the first thing he does is steal the Pokemon that Professor Oak was going to give you, so you don't feel bad about beating him up on countless occasions throughout the game.

Why Is It Awesome: In Pokemon Yellow, when you go to the Pokemon Centre, Pikachu jumps up on the counter to get healed, and stands on the counter afterward. This creates a break in your dialogue with Nurse Joy, and drastically reduces the number of times you accidentally reheal your Pokemon. Sooo convenient, and so awesome.

Fireflies

Level of Awesomeness: 1,000 Hugs From 10,000 Lightning Bugs

What Is It:

NOT THIS!

This.

I know it's hard to see, but it's a video of real fireflies (extremely hard to find on YouTube due to the number of people in the entertainment industry who think Fireflies or Fireflies at Night are good song names, or who name their television program Firefly). Last weekend, on my road trip from here to Indianapolis and back, I encountered fireflies for the first time. It was a magical moment that took place while walking through an abandoned construction site from the local Bennigans to our derelict Ramada on the rarely visited outskirts of Lansing, Michigan. Luckily there was no one around (shocking, right?!) to watch us running around aimlessly in a parking lot with our arms outstretched trying to catch flying bugs that were only visible for fractions of a second and then faded away into  blackness and disappeared.

Why Is It Awesome: Because they light up. WTF is that? That is so cool! I can't do that :( Still awesome though.

A Very Potter Musical and Doing Nothing

    Hello everyone, depending on when I end up finishing this post it will be somewhere around the release of the last Harry Potter movie, which you'll know I'm excited for (also Winnie the Pooh). As such, I feel I should write about something that has some relation to Harry Potter, and that thing is A Very Potter Musical because it is the most awesome Harry Potter thing (well that and A Very Potter Sequel, but you should probably watch AVPM first). So without further ado, I present A Very Potter Musical and Doing Nothing. Remember, becoming awesome is not a spectator sport, so get out there and start being "totally awesome".

A Very Potter Musical

Level of Awesomeness: Supermegafoxyawesomehot

What Is It: A musical about Harry Potter. If you like Harry Potter (which you do) then you'll love this. Now you might be thinking Bah I hate musicals because they're dumb, but you'd be a damn fool not to watch this. Sure it might take days if not 2 and a half hours of your time to watch it, but you will never regret your decision. I'll help you get started. Press play. Do it now. Now. Do it.

That wasn't so bad was it? And it only gets hilariouser and hilariouser. And now that you've started watching it you might as well watch the rest. Go ahead and watch it now. You've already seen it? Well now's the perfect time to rewatch it because it is still just as awesome as it was the first time.

Why Is It Awesome: Besides the fact it has Darren Criss in it, A Very Potter Musical is so awesome because all the characters are awesome and the songs are awesome and the dialogue is awesome.

Doing Nothing

Level of Awesomeness: ____________________

What Is It:







Why Is It Awesome:






Sweet.

Sporcle and Novelty T-Shirts

    Hello everyone, it has been a long time yes, but I was distracted by one of the awesome things I'm going to write about, so you know it's pretty awesome. Secondly, as you may know from my previous post featuring guest writer Holly, I was watching Harry Potter movies. Except for somehow we only watched 2 of the movies, so that kind of failed. Also it was Canada Day and Scottish Festival last weekend. For those of you who don't know Scottish Festival is where my town displays its outrageous Scottishness (In fact, I've heard from multiple sources that our town is more Scottish than Scotland, so that's exciting). Furthermore, I went to see Kung Fu Panda 2 and Cars 2, which were both awesome, so if you've seen Kung Fu Panda and/or Cars (the last time I saw Cars was in Greek on a train from Florence to Rome when the kid beside me was watching it) you should definitely check out the sequels. And I coach soccer, which I can't remember if I said before, but we had a game and lost 14-0, so I was sad. But now I'm not sad, which means it's time to discuss awesomeness once again. Today we'll be discussing a website called Sporcle and Novelty T-Shirts, which you can also find on websites. Remember, becoming awesome is not a spectator sport, so get out there and start being awesome.

Sporcle

Level of Awesomeness: Mentally Stimulating

What Is It: Do you remember how you used to love writing tests in school? No? That's probably because if you got too many questions wrong you would fail and at the end of that slippery slope wind up being homeless for the rest of your life. Well Sporcle allows you to test your knowledge without the threat of failure (since it's just a quiz on the Internet) and in subjects that you might actually find interesting like movies and music for example. Maybe you want to find out how many of the original 150 Pokemon you can name or if you can name every Disney movie ever made or if you can tell the difference between The Beatles and Rebecca Black. Technically you could also use Sporcle to learn things that might actually help you in school like what are all the elements on the periodic table or the names of all the countries in the world, but that would be lame and something only someone like me would do. If you are thinking of a particular type of quiz you wish they had on Sporcle, but you don't see it in my suggestions do not despair. THERE ARE MORE THAN 5 QUIZZES!!! Go to Sporcle now, and type in what you're looking for.

Why Is It Awesome: Because you get to feel smart when you can name a bunch of useless facts or list off every item in a meaningless list, but if for some reason you can't there's no need to worry; no one cares how you did, and you won't ruin your life by failing. Finally, a place to show how much you know about insignificant things. Awesome.

Novelty T-Shirts

Level of Awesomeness: Letting mute people tell jokes since the 1960's

What Is It: Look down at your chest. Are you wearing a shirt? For the purposes of this demonstration you are. Does your shirt have short sleeves? Yes? Perfect. Does it have a funny picture or say something funny on it? If yes, congratulations you have a novelty t-shirt. If no, you need to buy a novelty t-shirt. Let's go shoppinggg!!!

Go Here -> Busted Tees

And Here -> Snorg Tees

And Here -> LOLmart

And Here -> Threadless (also sells other awesome shirts)

Now wait until your t-shirt arrives. Put it on.

Why Is It Awesome: Look in the mirror. You look awesome. Actually this is probably the best you have ever looked in your entire life, and it's all thanks to your novelty t-shirt.

I love Harry Potter

I love Harry Potter and my best friend Holly. Also, David is my best friend because he is my brother.

My brother and I are watching the entire Harry Potter series with his friends. I don't have my friends around with me because I don't have any.

ETA: I also really like cats.

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A big thanks to Holly for writing this post for me. Stay tuned for further discussion of Harry Potter in the future.