If you read my blog a handful of days ago, you probably remember the topic about bacon.

Coincidentially, Meekakitty released a new music video today about bacon.

You should watch it.

It’s awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3DAjQhChRs

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Topic #98: Write a rant about the pointlessness of rants. If you don’t like paradoxical topics, write a rant about why you don’t like paradoxes. If you don’t want to write about that, write about how disappointed you are with my lame choices for topics.

I actually don’t think that all rants are pointless. Rants written by people of power usually do have some effect if a lot of people read it because people with good persuasion skills could alter the thoughts of many people at once just by writing a critical piece. However, seeing as the prompt is about how useless rants are, I’ll focus on the remainder of rants – the rants written by regular people that are generally not read very much.

I agree that it’s important for people to write about their opinions and experiences and share what they have learned so others can learn from it too. However, most people with blogs don’t have very many readers. Is it really worth the time to write an elaborate post when only a handful of people are going to read it? What’s the threshhold for the number of readers required to make a rant worth writing? Do I even have enough readers to make this rant worth writing?

So Far in 2011…

Number of Taco Bell tacos eaten: 24

Number of times I did my own laundry: 3

In case you were wondering, the reason I was extremely busy yesterday was because I had to finish up an extra credit paper for educational psychology. It was due before midnight last night, but my professor gave me a few extra hours of time if I needed it (which I did, and used).

I was originally hoping for the topic of the paper to be about the effects of victimization of bullying for adolescents, but I ended up being short of time and not being able to find enough information. I used the information that I did find, which was the reason particular individuals are bullied, and why bullies bully in the first place. This surprisingly filled up the entire length limit, so I didn’t have to add anything more in. I have no idea how I managed to write so much about a topic that seems like it can be covered in a few sentences.

I would post my paper here like I did with my last educational psychology paper, but I don’t think this one is quite worthy enough to be publicly posted for everyone to read. So you don’t get to read it.

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Topic #97: If you could pilot any vehicle, what would it be? (F-35, Death Star, The Enterprise, an aircraft carrier, anything goes). Why? Where would you go? What would you do?

I don’t know enough about aircraft so I can’t name a specific vehicle, but I would like to pilot something similar to a helicopter that doesn’t need a lot of space to take off and land. If I know correctly, airplanes need a lot of space to accelerate before taking off, but helicopters can start flying by lifting off vertically.

I would use this helicopter to go places where I need to go. Now that I’m at university, I don’t really need a vehicle to take me places because I can just walk, but once I go back to my hometown for summer break, having a helicopter would be extremely useful.

For example, instead of driving in a car for about two hours to go back to my hometown, I could just pack all my stuff into a helicopter and fly back. When I go to my local community college to take classes over the summer, instead of driving 20 minutes, I could just fly to class. When I go to my family’s business to work, instead of driving 30 minutes, i can just fly there and not have to worry about traffic.

Other than for practical uses, I don’t really have a strong desire to use aircraft. I know that a lot of people have an odd interest in cars and planes, but I find them quite boring and bland.

So Far in 2011…

Number of Taco Bell tacos eaten: 24

Number of times I did my own laundry: 3

I just decided to address something that a handful of people noticed about my Twitter account. The temporary difference that you saw was present because I was doing a small experiment with my Twitter account. Everything has gone back to normal, so if you check now, the difference will be gone.

If you didn’t notice anything over the past two days, then that’s good. There’s no reason to be concerned about it because it was a temporary experiment and everything is back to normal now.

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Topic #96: Write about something to do with bacon. Do you like it? hate it? Wish there more of it, or less? Do you like the way it looks, or do you wish you never saw it again? What do you think of bacon flavored chocolate, or the significance of the phrase “bringing home the bacon?”

I like bacon, but I pretty much like all meat. I don’t know if there needs to be less bacon, but I know for sure that there doesn’t need to be more of it, especially not in America. There are plenty of fat people who do not need to be eating more greasy meat regularly.

I don’t really mind the way it looks because it just looks like strips of meat. I don’t really pay attention to the way meat looks when I’m eating it, particularly because I’m better off eating it thinking about it as food rather than a dead, cooked animal.

I have never heard of bacon-flavored chocolate before, and I don’t think it sounds like a very good idea. I’ve never tried it before, so if I’m offered bacon-flavored chocolate, I would probably try it, but I don’t think it would be something that I would like eating. As for the last question, I have no idea what “bringing home the bacon” means, and I’m not very motivated to Google it because I dislike phrases with non-literal meanings and prefer to use precise, accurate language.

So Far in 2011…

Number of Taco Bell tacos eaten: 24

Number of times I did my own laundry: 3

Remember a while back how I had issues with my Dell laptop and I had to request service multiple times to get it in working condition?

My laptop is not functioning once again; this time, even watching a YouTube video makes my laptop overheat and shut itself down. I’ve already tried vacuuming my laptop, and the technician already cleaned out dust from my fan for me when he came to repair other parts of my laptop.

I don’t like making generalizations about a company’s entire line of products just based off of one product because it’s possible that I just got a defective product, but I know for sure that I’m not going to get another Dell Inspiron, seeing as multiple repair attempts haven’t fully resolved the problem, and even more problems are constantly popping up.

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Topic #95: What rare talent do you have that most people don’t know? If you don’t have a rare talent, what talent do you wish you had? Why? What’s stopping you from trying to get it?

I don’t think I have many talents that I would consider rare, but there are some skills that I have that a lot of people don’t expect me to have. For example, because I am generally quiet in real life, most people who do not know me from the Internet do not expect me to be a martial artist or a musical performer.

A skill that a lot of people have that I particularly excel at is typing. I have met a lot of typists who type relatively quickly – 100 to 120 words per minute at their record speed. However, my overall average in general is about 134 words per minute, and my average when typing only basic English text can go upwards of 150 words per minute. When I’m instant messaging, I’m using words that I use extremely frequently and am used to typing often, so I can type about 170 words per minute. Most people generally don’t believe me when I say I can type this quickly; when they see me typing, they usually don’t believe it’s something a human can do, and say that the sound of my typing sounds like hail.

A rare talent that I wish I had was extreme agility. I already have a decent amount of agility, being able to run relatively quickly and being flexible enough to accomplish things many other people cannot. However, I would like to be even more agile – agile enough that I would be able to do stunts that only experienced martial artists are able to do, such as jump off of building walls projecting upwards to climb the building and doing flips to avoid obstacles. I think the only thing stopping me from achieving this is my involvement in other activities that require my time. People who are able to do these stunts do this as a profession and are training nearly all day. Because I am currently a university student and have a job, I don’t have to time to exercise and train all day.

So Far in 2011…

Number of Taco Bell tacos eaten: 24

Number of times I did my own laundry: 3

Tip of the Day: If the hour button on your alarm clock isn’t working very well, shaking the alarm clock probably isn’t a good idea. Or else it might stop working completely and you’ll only be able to wake up between 8:00 AM and 8:59 AM.

Yes, I realize that I have an iPod Touch that I can set an alarm on, but the alarm app on here is so unreliable that I prefer to have a regular alarm clock that was built for the sole purpose of waking people up.

If you don’t know what I’m talking about, then I’m referring to the random bugs that have been popping up in the alarm app. On January 1 of this year, the alarm randomly stopped working, then randomly started working perfectly fine again a few days later. A few days after the switch to daylight saving time, the alarm started randomly going off an hour early.

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Topic #94: When was the last time you were scared? What happened? What did you learn? Are you still afraid of that situation?

Depending on what this prompt is defining as scared, I have a different responses.

If “scared” means “shocked” or “frightened,” then the last time I got scared was when someone attempted to shock or frighten me and actually did it successfully. Normally, when I’m in a standard social situation, I don’t get frightened because I’m usually expecting the unexpected. However, when I am alone for a long period of time and I don’t expect interference from other people, I usually get surprised easily because I’m in an extremely relaxed state and a small disruption may catch me off guard.

If “scared” means “afraid,” then in the most generic sense, I am afraid of the unknown. Specifically, I am afraid of things that have a high risk of negative consequences and a high risk of failure – things where I do not know what the outcome will be. The best example of this that is most applicable to me is getting lost. I have a horrible sense of direction and get lost very easily, so whenever I do not have some sort of easy-to-read map or a navigation system, I get concerned about not being able to find my way to my destination. And in case you were wondering, no, I am not afraid of any tangible objects like spiders or snakes.

So Far in 2011…

Number of Taco Bell tacos eaten: 24

Number of times I did my own laundry: 3

Happy Good Friday.

Yesterday was Thursday. Tomorrow is Saturday. And Sunday comes afterward.

Typing that just reminded me of a horrible parody of Rebecca Black’s Friday music video called Sunday. It was about this girl who was humiliating herself and singing about how she can’t wait for Easter Sunday.

If you haven’t seen Rebecca Black’s Friday yet, you should go on YouTube and search for it. (Also, where have you been, it went viral about two months ago.) I’m telling you to watch it not because it’s worth your time, but because it’s something that everyone should watch at least once just to know what it is.

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Topic #93: What would your profession be if you didn’t need money?

If I didn’t need money, my profession would probably be an online entertainer, similar to what I’m doing now. The only difference would be that I would have much more content and would be able to produce better content because I would have more time to work on my content before releasing it.

Another change you would see is that there would be no more paid advertisements on my website (either that or I would activate them only long enough to make enough money to pay for all hosting fees so my website can be run completely independently, then turn them off). There would still probably be some advertisements on my website, but those advertisements would only be for supporting friends who would like more publicity rather than huge companies that pay me like Google and Amazon.

So Far in 2011…

Number of Taco Bell tacos eaten: 24

Number of times I did my own laundry: 3