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Odd Stories

2007-06-25T07:44:00.000-07:00

Well the title of this one is pretty self explanitory. On Yahoo, I found two stories that were quite odd. One made me chuckle a little, the other made my mind boggle.

The first one was in Edinburg, Texas. In Texas, a guy (for the guy's sake, they didn't mention his name) was caught growing 900 kilograms of marijuana. So before he could be caught by police, he set fire to his marijuana garden and left. Because of the fire, 35 firefighters came to try to extinguish the blaze, going at half an hour and using 4 000 litres of water (just picture 11 268 pop cans being dumped on a fire and you've got the idea). All 35 of them came back so high they couldn't pass a drug test despite wearing air packs to not inhale the fumes. This made me chuckle just because I could just imagine that. I see at least 35 stoners if not more infront of my school everyday. Just put them in firesuits and you've got this story. I also think it's pretty sad if you spend your entire life dependant on these drugs. So your willing to spend 24/7 growing them until you get caught and then your going to arsen your crops. I think that's a really sad way to live, and all the more reason you shouldn't do drugs. I have a friend who is a former drugie and he's helped kids study who's missed school due to rehab. Just ask him, they're not worth it.

Here's the link to the story:http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/070622/koddities/oddity_pot_fire

The second one was stupid from the opening title. "Video game addiction: A new diagnosis?." According to a leading council of the U.S. largest doctors, (it was reported from Chicago so that's where I'm guessing it's from) they say video games on certain kids can be as powerfully addictive as heroin. They said that it should be included in a widely used mental illness manual by the American Psychiatric Association. This is stupid right from the get go and it's stupid left, right and center. First, look at the group who's using this. It's a group of doctors! A leading group of doctors! Don't get me wrong though, not all doctors. Doctors have an extremly job in society and one that not many people can do, I respect those doctors completly. It's the bad research doctors that just try to be as "safe" as humanly possible while taking away the fun in life. The doctors that are about as loose as a tightrope, those are the ones I'm targeting. These are the same kinds of people that say that television causes violance, the same people that take everything Liberal/Conservative word for word and the other Liberal/Conservative none. The people who think they know everything that goes on in Iraq even though they've never been there. This is coming from those kinds of people, why should we believe them? Also, if video games really have that kind of effect, why aren't they illegal? Heroin, cocaine, ecstacy and other drugs are illegal, alchohal is illegal to people under 16-21 depending on where your from, cigarettes under 19, gambling is illegal under 18, so if video games are really that addictive and that horrible for you, why aren't they illegal? Also, personal experiance, I have played video games on and off since I was 8. I got a Nintendo 64 for Christmas, I had a Game Boy Colour when I was 9, then I got an XBox in December 03'. When I was 8-10 I played alot, maybe 2 1/2 hours a day. At 11-13 I played 1 1/2 hours a day. Now I play about 1 hour every week and a half. Even though I played abit, none of these periods was I ever addicted. I mostly played out of boredom, if something more interesting came up, then I did that. And it wasn't hard to leave my game system. This is the same way with most of my friends, we play if we have nothing better to do, if someone comes up with something more interesting, we do it. Now I do know some people that are hard core gamers, but even they aren't addicted. They have lives. I doubt any of these doctors have ever played a single level of a game in their lifetime.

So anyway, that's my blog for today. See you round!

Ottawa Playoff Run, Jason Becker

2007-05-18T15:48:00.000-07:00

"Ba da ba da da ba da ba da da ba da ba da da, ELEVATION!, BA BA OO OO OO BA BA OO OO OO BA BA"

Hello Blogspot, let's get started!

I'm obviously really happy about Ottawa's playoff run so far this year (if you know me AT ALL, then you know I'm a huge Ottawa Senators fan) . Ottawa after the nine years previous of making the playoffs and underachieving, Ottawa's finally got a team that knows what the price of success is and is willing to pay the price. Daniel Alfredsson is playing like the leader he's capable of, the rest of the offence is firing hard, the defence is playing really well, we're hitting well and blocking shots, our special teams are great and we couldn't ask any more of Ray Emery. The best part is, if we can win one of the games on Saturday, Monday or Wednesday. We'll make the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time in modern Senators history (in your face Toronto Maple Leafs! FORTY, count that, FORTY years of not making the Stanley Cup Finals much less winning the Cup.) Many Leafs fans complain to me that the Senators never won at all, why should you complain. Well, Ottawa HAS actually won the Cup. In 1927, the old Ottawa Senators won the Cup and went out of business in 1934 (7 year drought) then we came back in 1992 and haven't won since. 15 years. 15+7=22. Almost half the amount of the Leafs drought (should I also mention that at that time they're were 10 teams in the league, 12 of Toronto's 13 Stanley Cup's were in the Original Six era! CHOKE!

Ok, enough of that. From the glory to the revenge to the inspiring. This is guy is extremly inspiring. A guy named Jason Becker, who when he was one of the best guitarists of his genre (metal) and in music at the time. He was doing things like playing guitar with his left hand and twirling a yo-yo at the same time, he was the best and at 20, he got his big break. He became the guitarist for the new David Lee Roth band. Only a week after joining that band, he was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) which is a disease that slowly cuts off brain messages to the muscles meaning that eventually he'd never be able to play guitar again. Despite this, he finished David Lee Roth's gold record "A Little Ain't Enough". Until 1996 when he lost ability to move his mouth. He kept composing with a computer program. He moved his head to the left or right to move the cursor by motion sensor and moved his mouth down to click the piano key he wanted the note in. Now he uses eye movements to talk with people, each eye movement represents a letter. And he composes with his eyes. This guy is brillant, even with ALS crippling his body and his voice, he remains optimistic about life and his music is better now than before ALS in my opinion. He is a true musical genious!

That's my blog for today. Thanks for reading and leave your comments, good or bad! I'm off to Ottawa for the May 2-4 weekend. I'll see you later, BYE!

Beggining

2007-05-15T15:16:00.000-07:00

(This will be an opening blog for everyone who's not familiar with my stuff on YouTube.)

Hello,

My name is Dan. I'm a 15 year old male from Oakville, Ontario which is a suburb of Toronto. I'm a huge fan of all sorts of music and all kinds of different bands. I play the guitar, drums and I sing. I play hockey and soccer and I love to hang out with my friends and go on YouTube (which is where I started my video blogs.) If you want to find out everything about me, go to www.youtube.com/profile?user=BloggerMusicMan.

(For everyone)

I started to do blogs just simply because video was getting a little annoying and I wanted to try something new. Blogs give something that video doesn't, video has things that blogs don't. With video you get the face expressions, apperance and overall connection (partly because you know someone exists.) But blogs, give the reader a sense of wonder and imagination, much like reading a book, they convey someone's true thoughts (because anyone can just blurt something out and not mean it, there have been moments like that in my videos and I'm sure in your life you've said something you regret.) I just wanted to try something new.