“Ladies, it is that time of year again! It is time to raise awareness for Breast Cancer. Remember the status about our bra color or where we put our purse?? It made more people aware of the problem as it went viral on FB and made the news.

Don`t tell any MEN what the status means! Copy, paste and resend this message to all your girl friends, let`s see if we can make it work like before, keep them guessing, let`s see if we make the news!

The idea is to use your birthdate, month and day only, no year!

Write: “I am going to live in (see corresponding city for your BD month below) for (day of your BD) months and a happy face.

Ex. if your BD was on February 14th, then I am going to live in London for 14 months!! :0)

January – Mexico
February – London
March – Miami
April – Dominican Republic
May – France
June – St. Petersburg
July – Austria
August – Germany
September – New York
October – Amsterdam
November – Las Vegas
December – Columbia

Optional: use “days” instead of “months” if your birth date is higher than a normal trip might be, such as for “27 days” whereas months might seem obviously untrue ~_^ “

The Dublin distributor made a name for itself and had quite a loyal following among “Peppers” (people who drink Dr. Pepper) who would seek out cans and bottles distributed from this single plant.

The Dr. Pepper/Snapple company (hence DP/S) recently came down on Dublin, on a trademark dispute, regarding Dublin‘s decision to break contract.

The reason Dublin Dr. Peppers are leaving the market and the reason the Dublin plant operators are losing their livelihood — is because of their own decision to purposefully break contract by (a) distributing out of territory, and (b) using a custom Dr. Pepper label.. is what brought the hammer down, not DP/S trying to ruin our fun.

In the same way that a landlord has complete liberty to evict you if you bring pets into property you’re renting, when the rental agreements states that pets aren’t allowed — so does DP/S have complete liberty to shut down operations that break contract with the original agreement.

Dublin Dr.Peppers would still be around if Dublin Dr.Pepper had kept to the agreement.

The reason a dam holds up a river so it won’t wash a town away, is because of the strength of the dam. When you take away pieces of the dam, you risk drowning the town.

When you have a peace treaty with a superpower, but go against the terms of the treaty by your own, willful decision, you bring upon you the threat of annihilation.

When you make an agreement with DP/S to distribute their product — and it is DP/S’s product, not yours — but you decide to break the terms of the agreement, you, yourself, risk destroying the market you’ve built and secured.

Laying blame on DP/S for taking down Dublin is like blaming the water for flowing down on you after you yourself destroyed the dam!

It’s like throwing a rock up into the air, and then blaming gravity for when it hits you on the head as you walk away in ignorant, peace of mind!

It’s sad that the town of Dublin is losing its major industry, and that the people there are losing their jobs — yes, we agree on that — BUT THE BLAME GOES TO DUBLIN.

Dublin created their own label, and created a kind of contraband market for their contract-breaking label that should not have existed in the first place, according to the agreement they had with DP/S. Grievances should be directed to those who created this false-market of Dublin-branded Dr. Peppers, not DP/S for enforcing the original terms of the agreement.

Note, however, that DP/S does still sell the sugar cane variety of its Dr. Pepper soft drink, but just through a different distributor (who can actually obey the rules) so the sweeter tasting, non-HFCS formula isn’t disappearing from the market — just the “Dublin” brand label is leaving.

I’d like a single lump sum of $300,000 on which to live — with the promise that over the course of the rest of my lifetime, I will have, myself, given away at least $400,000 out into the US economy.

The benefit to you, I admit, is largely novelty.

Sincerely, ablestmage

That said, in the game, I believe you should side with the Imperials, not the Stormcloaks. Here’s why.

The Imperials and the Stormcloaks are united in their desire to make Talos worship a right of every Nord, but the Stormcloaks refuse to admit it. The Imperials only agreed to the ban (that they only rarely or never enforce — only the Thalmor enforce it) as a bargaining chip to end the war with the Elves.

The Stormcloaks are a cluster of poorly organized lay-abouts, who just sit about and moan about how they can’t worship Talos out in the open like they used to, with the Thalmor roaming the neighborhood. However, instead of attacking the Thalmor directly — which are far fewer in number and are essentially there only because the Imperials have a treaty to let them in.. the Stormcloaks decide to attack the Imperials of their own blood. WHY?

Can’t you see that the Imperials are surely using this treaty as a strategy against the Thalmor, to let them in, and then suddenly make the strike? They can’t contact their Elven brethren when they’re way out in Riften or someplace, so that would be a prime opportunity to commit a fatal blow, an “Order 66″ as it were, against the Elves while their backs are turned believing themselves to be in security from attack, when instead the Imperials are simply sharpening their swords and lacing them with Drain Magicka poisons. The Stormcloaks are totally messing up the plan.

The best plan, if the Stormcloaks could actually think for a second, unlike the meat-head Ah-nold stereotypes they appear to be, is to become an Imperial, rise up through the ranks, and then sucker-punch the Thalmor with a surprise attack that will shatter their foothold and turn the tide widely into Nord favor. The Stormcloaks should be in support of Imperial efforts, not hampering it with their incessant whining and poorly-organized attacks that only strengthen the Thalmor advantage!

The Imperials, to use a metaphor, are becoming employees of the Thalmor, but using the money earned from it to buy a poison dagger to stab the Thalmor as they drift off to sleep in the big cushy office chair, believing they’re in safety and power..

Shadow Hide Y… er… Long Live Talos!

I didn’t want my kids to join band or orchestra, and risk being exposed to so much sax and violins.

It only leads to treble.

How clef-er.

I’ve been told I’m pretty sharp.

These jokes always fall flat.

People just don’t measure up.

We just don’t have the staff for it.

Didn’t you get my note?

I’ve had to scale back.

It’ll just take a minuet.

There have been some minor setbacks.

This was a major development.

Pfff!

This was just a prelude to a repeat offense.

I didn’t mean to de-bass your comment.

I think your G-string is a bit tight.

They’re not really my forte.

You’re not really in tune with what’s going on, are you?

Hey — give it a rest, retard.

It built up with a crescendo, but then went mute.

Wouldn’t mind putting some spit in THAT valve!

I think your valves need some oil.

Can’t you reed?

O-boe-y!

I have the weirdest tromboner right now.

Could you pass me that tuba toothpaste?

Don’t use that tone with me.

I just jazzed my pants!

No matter what card I play, he always has a spade to trumpet.

On a high note, however…

Pitch the idea to me tomorrow.

I got caught tambourine with the security settings.

You should triangling — it’s all in the wrist.

Mmm! These cello pudding pops are amazing!

I didn’t mean to harp on you about it.

Are you calling me a lyre?

We’ve really got to guitar act together.

Why did you banjo? She was too vocal.

I like how you conduct your business.

It was an accident! I didn’t mean to harmony one!

Well that was off-key.

She’s a great girl — you should meter next time!

The package is on its way, bound fermata-gascar.

Could you repeat that?

Wouldn’t mind practicing some of THOSE fingerings..

We’ll be working in concert with other professionals.

Tour three should do it.

This ring cymbalizes so much to me.

We couldn’t hire anyone full-time, but I supposed we could always just timpani-dy person from the shelter.

Blast it!

Keepin’ it trill, bro.

Do not open with a sharp instrument.

I think I’ve found a snare in your plan..

Are you sure? Yes Embouchure!

~ Infinite Gold Trick While You Sleep IRL ~

1. The easiest way to make gold without tricks is to chop wood. At most mills, there is a chopping block on the grass somewhere and a woodcutter’s axe lying around nearby. Take the axe, and walk up to the chopping block and activate it. You’ll go into a little animation to chop wood, and if you let it go (for about 30 seconds) when it’s done you’ll end up with 6 pieces of firewood. Take the firewood to the mill owner, and he/she’ll pay you for chopping them and take the wood. On average, the payment comes out to about 1 gold per second waiting for the animation to complete, or 60 gold per minute. The problem is that when the animation is over, you’ve got to look back down to restart the process — but not if you’ve got a companion with you. If you go into the command mode, you can order a companion like Lydia to chop wood for you, and your view never changes — you’ll just need something to press the button repeatedly. If you can figure out some kind of device that will press the button to order the character to chop wood repeatedly, and turn off the TV/monitor while you go to bed for the night, you could conceivably wake up in the morning and have one metric s#!t-ton of firewood to give to the mill owner. At 1-gold/1-second, if you were to sleep for 6 hours and no dragons were to attack or whatever system you set up to press the button didn’t get interrupted, you could have 21,600 gold worth of firewood when you wake up the next day.

~ Infinite Magicka ~

1. “After doing the College of Winterhold quest where you get the “Mystical Tuning Gloves” and purge the magicka reserves, keep the gloves and use the healing spell and equilibrium, while wearing the Archmage outfit and Savos Arens circlet, then switch to another spell, for some reason my magicka bar disappeared and i actually had infinite magicka, I then used telekenisis and rubberbanded my R1 and in 10 mins got Lvl 100 Alteration,” says one YouTube commenter. I haven’t tried this myself, as I’m not that far into the Winterhold quests, but looks promising. [via (from a comment)]

2. There’s at least one way you can essentially get infinite Magicka but requiring you to pause time for a few seconds, without needing to do some advanced quest first. You must have an item that increases your Magicka, such as a helmet that when equipped raises the number amount of total Magicka available to use. Once you cast all of it complete down to nothing, simply go to your menu, unequip it and then reequip it, and your magicka increases automatically (without having to wait for it to restore slowly). It’s easier to simply put the magicka-boosting item on Favorite, and from the favorite menu un/reequip while you’re in battle. The larger the Magicka boost you get from the item, the longer you’ll be able to cast without having to pause to un/reequip. [via]

~ Infinite Speech Leveling ~

1. In Riften, go to the Black-Briar Meadery and speak with Ungrien at the counter. Choose the option “Tell me about Maven Black-Briar” and after his response, you’ll get the option to Persuade. Select it, and you’ll get experience — but the option doesn’t disappear. You can go back and ask about Maven Black-Briar again, and persuade again, as often as you like. Continually pressing A will repeat the same conversation over and over, so you don’t need to switch conversation options to do it. Set up the controller on the floor with a book on the button under your foot while you’re at the computer surfing the web, and you can just tap your foot in the meantime, and change your perk options at each level up. I’m tapping my foot as I’m typing this very entry… [via]

~ Infinite Sprint ~

1. To sprint normally, you tap the left bumper (LB, above the left trigger), but doing so drains your Stamina. Instead, hold a torch in your left hand, and a sword in your right. Have the sword out and ready to fight, but sheath it and immediately begin sprinting by repeatedly tapping LB so that you run out of Stamina and it starts to flash. When it begins to flash, just hold down LB and you can sprint until you let off LB, regardless of whether you’re out of Stamina. [via]

~ Buy The Whiterun House Without Spending Gold ~

1. Although you’ll still need 5000 gold on hand for the trick to work, you’ll end up getting to keep it all. I must add, however, that when I tried this myself (which I saved first in case there was anything weird about it), I could not buy the decorations for the house afterward for some reason. The trick is to visit the man you buy the house from in the early hours of the night, say 3am or so, when he’s asleep. When he wakes up, he’ll be standing right next to a nightstand or wardrobe. When you agree to buy the house, back out of the conversation before the gold is deducted from you, and immediately put the gold in the nightstand or wardrobe nearby. He’ll still give you the key, but you can just get your gold back out of the place you put it, and keep it.

~ Infinite Destruction / Infinite One-Handed / Infinite Two-Handed Training ~

1. Near the very beginning as you’re being led out during the first dragon attack that saves you, try to trap the person leading you, such as by standing in front of him so he can’t move forward. We will never attack you, and you can used fire/weapons on him as much as you please.

~ Infinite Conjuration Training ~

1. Find a slaughterfish (a fish that attacks you) and step out onto the shore so that it is still in attack mode but can’t reach you. Cast a conjure weapon spell, and sheathe it back making it disappear, and repeat. As long as you’re in battle with something (also such as an archer that is far away but shooting arrows at you, or a chasing enemy that gets stuck in water similarly) then you can keep conjuring new weapons as much as you please and still get experience credit for it.

~ Infinite Restoration Training ~

1. Locate a dungeon trap that will be triggered indefinitely, such as the kind that shoots fire by stepping on a pressure plate or fires darts continuously. One example is a fire pressure plate in the cave where there Greybeards send you to locate the Horn, that shoots fire up continuously by standing on it. Simply stand on the plate or whatever device that causes damage, and continuously heal. If your magicka gets too low, just move off it and wait for it to restore, then repeat.

~ Infinite Illusion Training ~

1. Dual-cast Courage on any NPC. [via]

I am gradually updating this list, so if you find something concrete, please add it in comments and I’ll see about adding it =)

In a sense, it is a method for short-cutting research by simply emotionally eliminating all potential for “contamination” by germs as a failsafe method to avoid illness — but is often seen instead as wasteful and potentially more hazardous to prevent the body’s exposure to common sources germs it could easily handle to better prepare itself for future exposures that cannot be predicted.

WTF – Korean Nose Rollers ~~~ I have just been gobbling these videos up over the last 24 hours. I really did have to pop a melatonin to make myself sleepy so I would go to bed, watching their videos about Korean culture. These two, who are married, are like the perfect college friends you never had, who are funny all the time. They have two current serieseseses going on, TL;DR where they explain something at length about Korean culture or such, and WTF (Wonderful Treasure Find) where they try out and talk about a weird commercial product they bought while in Korea, like Nose Rollers or Eyebrow Tape.. Just BRILLIANT material all around.

Settlers of Catan Book Trailer ~~~ So the popular board game The Settlers of Catan is getting a novelization, and lately books have started getting their own “trailers” (like a movie preview/commercial).. I doubt I’ll get it, especially after seeing this trailer, but I’ll still enjoy a game or two =)

Fails of the Weak #57 ~~~ This is a regular feature for this channel, showing matchmaking games from Halo Reach where someone screwed up royally. Most of the fails are really ordinary, but a couple of them really shine through, like the exploding ghost in this one..

Halo 1 Original Tricks – p1 – Hold 3 Weapons, Cryo-chamber Glitches ~~~ This is the first in a new series of videos I’m making, to vaguely correspond with the release of Halo: Anniversary.. tricks and glitchy fun things that happen in Halo 1 (the original) to see if such things ever happen or are possible in Anniversary..

David Calvo juggles and solves Rubik’s Cubes ~~~ Not only can this show-off solve one of these annoying cubes.. but he can do it in one hand.. AND while juggling two other cubes in the other hand! ¬__¬;;;

It’s nice to say that I’ve created a blog that’s gotten over a million hits since it began, and has such a powerful Google pagerank that I can post about a fairly wide range of topics, search for my topic on Google within an hour, and find my blog’s article about it within the first couple pages of results.

I’m heavily considering switching over to a daily video format, in the sense of perhaps 5 videos per day with descriptions, like unto the style of several other video aggregators I regularly visit. For example:

SNSD – The Boys ~~ Finally, the next MV of super-gorgeous Korean pop group So Nyuh Shi Dae after a lengthy wait.. starting today! Thankfully Sunny’s hair is just a wig, and my Korean version of oshimen, YoonA, is the first one we see ^___^ but darn it, if I can’t keep hearing who let the dogs out in the chorus ~__^;; The rappish-section during mixed into the chorus reminds me of After School’s Bang! track, too..

Deviant Electronics – Oystadub ~~ Going through some old backup discs, I found a collection of goa-trance tracks a friend mailed me and had a bit of a memory stroll, way back from 1997 ~_^

Woman Defends 8-yo Boy From Grizzly ~~ David Letterman (an American evening television show host) interviews a woman who, with the help of her horse, repelled a giant American grizzly bear from a boy out on a wilderness tour. Great questions and backstory!

Voted Worst TV Ad in America, 2011 ~~ The results are in from a Consumerist poll, suggesting that this Luv’s commercial featuring animated diaper-clad youngsters competing for the greatest fecal eruption with no leakage is the worst America as to offer. As someone who will not be having children ever, I thought it was pretty fun to watch =)

How DNA Copies Itself ~~ Although we may disagree on how this process got started, I think we can each privately marvel just the same at the fact that this process did at some point begin and that it still continues to occur seemingly automatically..

I’ll see what I can do about getting one of these five-video posts going at least more than once per week, and will be suspending the random image posting for a while (unless popular demand insists upon its return) =)