Holiday Tidings

Oh hai! I DO still have a blog here!

(Of course, as soon as this blog is no longer counted toward credit, I start using meme-speak....)

And my absence can be explained by my computer crashing every time I tried to open the blog. Huh. I'm glad it waited til after the class was over before crashing.

Well then, how shall I summarize the last few weeks since I last posted here?

• After my birthday, Christmas and a sale at BestBuy, I now have an Android superphone, a Kobo eReader tablet and an upgraded, full-size HP laptop. The dinosaur flip phone is dead and the HP Mini is now my kid brother's computer.
• And yes, I named the Android "HK-47", the Kobo "My Datapad" and the laptop "Darth Megabyte" (The mini was named Darth Byte).
• I hate my hometown. If you hear anything in the news about Three Hills, know that I refuse to associate myself with that town or Prairie. Not for the reasons you may think.
• I'm finding it much harder to re-read the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy as quickly as I did when I was twelve. Maybe perhaps now I actually have a social life and the Internet. So, unless I can finish half of Fellowship of the Ring and the other two books by tomorrow evening...
• On that note, I have Shakespeare's plays on my Kobo. I am well-pleased with this.
• I've proven myself a complete geek by downloading Pazaak apps and playing those.
• It is possible for a cat to hide in the engine of a truck for a 150 km trip to Red Deer and (aside from being scared out of five or so lives) survive intact. Yes, I know this from personal experience. Stupid cat.
• I. Hate. Winter. Driving.
• Dentists.
• The interrogations about my boyfriend from my assorted family members WILL NEVER END.
• Oh yeah, something about Kim Jong Il dying or something?...

And lo, for there is my life update. See you all sometime next year!

Can we say "Busted"?

Those of us who watch Discovery Channel on a semi-regular basis are probably quite familiar with the popular show "Mythbusters", in which a team of scientists take on some of the most well-known myths around (anything from Hollywood movie magic to ancient legends to old wives' sayings) to prove their validity.

Recently, they were firing off cannon balls at a bomb range near Dublin, California. Sounds like a typical day for the Mythbusters, no?

Well, it was, until one cannon ball missed the target, went flying over the hill, tore through a house, bounced across four lanes of traffic, bounced off another roof and finally ended up smashing through a minivan window. No one's quite sure how nobody got hurt.

In a word: Ooops.

In a few more words: The show is now undergoing an investigation and current myths are, understandably, on hold for an undetermined length of time.

Link to the YouTube version of the story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj-CErr0VOY&feature=share