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Sunday, January 23, 2011

Video of the Week #5: Seinfeld!

Well I had planned to upload a video of my all time favourite scene, but the author has disabled embedding, so instead I have a link to the video on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gbM2Kr3RdI

Be sure to check it out, you won't forget it. Particularly at the 1:25 mark.

Anyways, this wouldn't be a video of the week if there was no video, so I have found some various clips of the very best of Seinfeld all compiled into one video, as well as a little supplement of my second favourite scene, here you go!



Uploaded by Klayzone07

Here is the compilation of clips.



Uploaded by LupeWired

Thanks,
Dillon Wheeler

Monday, January 17, 2011

Song of the Week: honourable mention

by: Matt Gallagher

During my travels with the internet peoples, I stumbled upon this little gem.

We all know and love the iconic and memorable Jurassic park main score. Well a user by the name of birdfeeder has taken it upon himself to drastically reduce the rpm down to about 1000% of the original. It's an hour long track that sounds like a complete departure from the original. It's very atmospheric and dense. Give it a listen!


Jurassic Park Theme (1000% Slower) by birdfeeder

And here is the download link if you enjoy it enough!
http://www.mediafire.com/?51fhcm5lejdwfhh


thanks for listening,
Matt Gallagher

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Video of the Week #4: Georges St. Pierre!

Well for the video(s) this week, I've decided to upload two videos featuring my all-time favourite athlete and UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre.

Here is proof that GSP can be both a devastating fighter and a hilarious man.



Uploaded by ESPN

Here is the second video, showing us that Georges St. Pierre (if you have seen him before) isn't afraid to laugh at himself from time to time.



Uploaded by asylumchannel

Thanks,
Dillon Wheeler

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Song of the Week 8: And All That Could Have Been

by: Matt Gallagher

I’ve loved this song ever since I first heard it many a year ago. It is so damn haunting. I would describe it as building minimalism. Everything about it is shy and downplayed yet so much emotion and story is behind it. The vocals are so far off what one can usually expect from Trent. Truly great work. Hope you guys enjoy it!



uploaded by: orangepeelpro

Another great tune that fits within the same general mood is The great Below. Another personal favourite. Ive always felt these two go nicely hand in hand. This particular track comes from the album The Fragile. This particular video is taken from a live performance from the Fragility 2.0 tour in 2000. it opens with La Mer then concludes with The Great Below.


uploaded by: nemesiswontdie

Thanks for listening,
Matt Gallagher

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Quote of the Day #3: Oscar Wilde

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." - Oscar Wilde

Friday, January 7, 2011

Blog Post of the Week #6: Humans in Space and Hierarchy

Hierarchy - a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system

The hierarchy exists everywhere. From animate to inanimate objects. Mental and Physical. It's everywhere. The point of this though, is that there is a hierarchy in the biosphere. There are levels for everything, like the food chain. At the top of all of  these levels though, are us. Humans. We are the apex predators. The ultimate inhabitants. We top and trump every other animal before us. We are number one.

Yes, I love this picture.
Now, 

We are number one today. Tomorrow? I don't know, that's another discussion. What about before today though? What about (as far as we can tell) before 10,000 years when we "discovered" agriculture and became farmers? What topped those lists then?

Velociraptor
There can't be nothing. There has to be a species at the top, there is no other way to put it. Us modern human beings have only been on this Earth for a few million years, give or take. Pre-Human Hominids have been around much longer, but were not at the top. Sure they could use tools, but they were not as widespread or dominant as the Homo Sapiens. 

Before us? Well if we go back to the time of the dinosaurs, the velociraptor had one, if not the highest brain mass to body ratios but was it the most dominant dinosaur?

As far as we can tell? No.

So what was? The answer is unknown, some would say the obvious Tyrannosaurus Rex, Others would say any one of the numerous species of Sauropods (The long neck giraffe looking dinosaurs). Whatever the answer is, being the most dominant was not due to intelligence. 

What that was? Probably the dinosaurs with the most sheer strength and aggression mixed with high birth rates and survivability of their young. 

Does that make sense though? How can some "dumb" dinosaur rule the Earth? 

It seems to me that the only way to truly dominate the Earth is through intelligence.

always been one in the same
These two ships may have >>>>
So because something had to top the list, then there must be the possibility that Humans have always existed on the Earth, since the Earth could support life at least.






Here is my theory now.

Humans have always dominated and controlled the Earth. 

Why? Here are a couple points that I have been thinking and though out.

1. We are constantly discovering new human remains that are shattering previous records with age and tool use. E.g - The 700,000 year old remains of humans using boats to get to Crete.

2. Can evolution really explain how a 5 foot 9 inch 170 pound hairless monkey evolved from a rodent smaller than my hand? No.

3. Although we have tried and may have succeeded in reproduced "imagined" scenarios in which life started on Earth, we can not be sure that it did infect originate here. Meaning my theory doesn't seem so off now does it? Okay, it might.

Okay, so we have established the possibility that we have always controlled the Earth, so you now ask why aren't we more advanced? 

Well, in the billions and billions of years that we may have dominated the Earth, there have been many drastic changes to it. Land moving, Volcanoes erupting, Ice Ages plaguing  the land. 

If you think about any new age doomsday scenario, they are all the same. Nuclear bombs go off, block out the sun, cause a nuclear winter, humanity is in ruins but has survivors and those survivors attempt to rebuild.
So, a massive volcano erupts, sending the Earth into a one hundred year ice age. Most humans die off, small pockets remain, we rebuild and recover. Boom, another global event, rinse and repeat. 


You might be asking now, if we were sent to the Earth, where is the "mothership"? Well, take a look as NASA's plans with the 100 year spaceship. They propose sending a small colony on a one-way trip to Mars. Perhaps what the space humans did was send out a group of a few thousand humans to Earth, to colonize, populate,  dominate and then eventually do the same to another planet? (e.g Mars?).


When you put all these things together, and combine them with our current plans, situations, and scenarios then it seems all too likely that we were in fact placed on this planet, alone, naked, and primitive.

It must be a coincidence that
 all these boat remains showed up
 in Crete 700,000 years
 before they were invented.
Yeah, that is all it is.
 What we must do now is prepare for our ancestors return. Haha, just kidding. Or am I?

Thanks,
Dillon Wheeler.

Quote of the Day #2: Albert Einstein

Well, it's 10 minutes to a new day, might as well get an early start.

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein.

Wait, I didn't know Einstein was a philosopher?

Thanks,
Dillon Wheeler.

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Thanks,
Dillon Wheeler

Quote of the Day #1: Dillon Wheeler

Well in order to overload myself and possibly Matt with even more work, I decided to create a quote of the day.

Why you may ask? Well, really, I do not know! I thought just a moment ago, hey, we have a written post, a music post and a random video post of the week, why the hell not have a quote of the day, (day because it's a quote! How much work can one quote a day be?) and thus the quote of the day was created.

So to kick things off, I thought I might as well go with a quote from none other than myself!

Here it is:

"I am a puppet of fate, the master of free will." - Dillon Wheeler

Really think about that one, what do I really mean here?

Thanks,
Dillon Wheeler

P.S - Did I mention myself enough?

Song of the Week #7: Packt like Sardines in a Crushd tin Box

by: Matt Gallagher

This week I want to feature one of my favorite Radiohead tunes. This one comes off the album Amnesiac. I quite enjoy it for its very industrial everyday beats that make up the bulk of it and the and the heavy droning base that picks up a little bit in. The lyrics are another aspect that draws me to the song. They are untypical of the standard lyrical tropes in the majority of pop songs; very off putting and confrontational. Feels like built up anger being spilt out from a shy narrator.

There is no official video for the song, but I was able to find a very interesting fan made one by a youtube user known as RojamNairassoy. Very cool stuff.



And just because I can, here is another Radiohead tune that I quite enjoy. This one has an amazing video to accompany it. It was part of a contest the band had where fans submitted videos to accompany songs off their latest album In Rainbows.




Thanks for listening,
Matt Gallagher

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Video of the Week #3: Batman and the Joker

by: Matt Gallagher

This week the video is a Hilarious spoof of the Joker interrogation scene from "The Dark Knight". It's from a group called MonkeyAndApple. They feature some very funny sketches that are definitely worth a view. This is one of the funniest. Enjoy!



Blog Post of the Week #5: Post-Thoughts on The Universe

***Okay, this really isn't long or elaborate enough to warrant a blog post of the week, but it seemed to make more sense than saying blog post of the week #4 part 2, so here we are, the fifth featured post.***

So after writing the last post,  I decided to think about a few more things on the universe like: 

Maybe the universe is only a few hundred years old. 

Maybe even more frighteningly, the universe is only as old as you are.

I say this because they say that the universe is thirteen-point-whatever billion years old, yet the universe is over 150 billion lightyears in diameter. How can the universe be that large if light can not have even traveled that far in the time since the universes creation? If you say the universe is expanding like a balloon, after thirteen billion years, light expanding on opposite sides would only get 26 billion years apart and sure it may be an area that is unobservable, but astronomers have found a galaxy 42 billion lightyears away from the Earth. 

How do you explain this? 

Does this mean that time isn't always forward moving in the universe and that we are simply looking into the future to see this galaxy? Therefore, what are we? How do we see into the future? Can we see the end of the universe if we look hard enough?

For the universe being as old as you are, maybe we all live in our own separate universes, created when we were born and linked together by a higher power. When we die, that part or more simply, your own universe is simply shut down. Allowing for you to be gone, but for everyone you know to still exist in the web of connected multiverses. Kind of like a real-life matrix.

I had a more elaborate explanation to the last point, but as I thought about it and tried to write it down my mind erased it. Is that weird or what? (Thanks William Shatner).

Thanks,
Dillon Wheeler

Monday, January 3, 2011

Blog Post of the Week #4: The Universe and The Reality of It.


As I sit here thinking, I found that one thing I, myself, am having trouble comprehending, is just how LARGE the universe really is. 

We see the Earth as very large, the outer planets as insanely large and the sun as almost incomprehensibly large, but what about the universe itself? Our galaxy, the milky way is composed of an unimaginable amount of stars, just like our own, it seems like it is almost infinitely huge, now, the milky way is only one of countless galaxies. Billions of Trillions must exist out in the universe, if there even is a finite number to the amount of galaxies out there. So now, here we are, the milky way, in its unimaginable size, it is merely a speck on the grand scale. The universe is said to be over 13 billion years old, but that is not its size. Scientists have discovered that the universe is over 50 billions lightyears large. In fact, they have found two galaxies about 42 billions lightyears away from the Earth, one on each side, meaning that the two are 84 billion lightyears away from each other. 84 billion lightyears is such a distance, that I can not even comprehend how far that is. Even that infinite distance isn't much. That distance, is only the distance of the observable universe. What we can't see, is much larger than what we can see. The universe is so large, the diameter of the universe is over 150 billion lightyears and it is still expanding. 


As vast as this distance is, what I want to understand is what is beyond this distance? How is it possible that open space expands from nothing? The universe in which we are contained is our limitation to space. What happens on the outside of our universe? 

By this, the possibility of multiverses is probable. I see no way in which there can not be multiple universes, Each containing it's own matter and energy, just like our own. 

The only way I can put any sort of understanding to all of this is to think of it like J. J. Thomson thought of atoms, though his was the raisin bun model. 

So say the universe is a single chocolate chip (universe) , inside of a muffin (infinity) and the other chocolate chips are other universes. There they all are, placed inside of this muffin. Now as you bake this muffin, the chocolate chip melts inside of the muffin, expanding, spreading out but losing density (amount of particles in one area), much like the universe is doing now. So as the muffin (infinity) is baked, the chocolate chip (universe) expands, though neither one of the chocolate chips touch each other. After a certain time, the chocolate chip will no longer expand and that will be the end of the universe, similar to the theory of heat death of the universe.

So if you can picture this chocolate chip muffin and understand what I am saying, I will introduce the parts that I am having trouble understanding:

1. What would happen if the chocolate chip (universe) were to melt and touch another  chocolate chip (universe)?

2. What is the space that the universe is sitting in made of? What is this infinite realm inaccessible to anything in the universe, and incomprehensible to humans?

Regarding the first question, the only thing I can think of is dark flow, the force written in my other post.

Regarding the second question, the only thing I can even try to think of is maybe black holes are tears in the chocolate chip (universe) and lead to the muffin(infinity), that itself sounds sketchy. 

I guess the only way we will ever know anything is if someday we possess the technology to exceed the speed of light by many, many times and reach the edge of the universe, then figure out a way to take the plunge over and into another realm.

Last question: What started it all? What started the realm that is beyond the universe?

Thanks,
Dillon Wheeler

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Blog Post of the Week #3: New Years!

     Well since it is new years day today, I thought the main written post for this week would be appropriate if it were related to new years, I will hold true on my promise I had made so long ago about the post on memory, so instead of posting once a week, this will be the first instalment of five separate posts! The others will be coming shortly. I am currently trying to decide if I should post one a day, all at once, or a few at a time. I don't know, but what I do know is that I will catch up on this and have them posted sometime this week. They won't be extremely long like the previous ones but they will be decent sized so that you will be able to read them in their entirety.

     Anyways, for the first post, I thought I would write a little reflection of my life. Since it is the start of a New Year, I would like to write something major that I can remember from every year that I have been alive thus far.

The List of my Life:

1991 - The year I entered the world. Unknown and Unknowing.
1992 - The year I learned the most about the world.
1993 - The year I learned about relationships, with my newborn brother.
1994 - The year I learned more about life (and how to use the toilet).
1995 - This year I have no recollection of any significant events in my life though Im sure it was great!
1996 - The year I broke my Buzz Lightyear toy from Toy Story because I thought he could really fly (I threw him down the stairs while pressing the button that made him say "To infinity and beyond!"). To say the least, I cried after he broke.
1997 - The year I entered school and learned to write my name!
1998 - The year I realized how much I loved my Grandmother.
1999 - The year my Grandmother was taken from me. Also the year I met my best friend Nathan (and beat him up).
2000 - The year I thought would never come! (Y2K).
2001 - The year that made me a decade old, if I was a computer I would be a dinosaur!
2002 - The first year I had a computer with the internet.
2003 - The year I entered middle school, also the year my best friend moved to another province.
2004 - The year my life became consumed by a game called Tibia as it was my connection with Nathan.
2005 - The year I became friends with one of my best friends, Matt. (though we met the year prior, we weren't friends at the time)
2006 - The last year I would be in middle school and would be leaving with a large group of friends.
2007 - The year I entered High School and the year one of my closest cousins was killed.
2008 - The year I entered the year horribly because of my cousins death but then my best friend Nathan moved back to the city.
2009 - The last year of high school, the year my best friend Nathan left once more.
2010 - The year I entered extremely confused about what I would do with my life after High School also, Nathan made a comeback once again.
2011 - I now enter this year starting the second half of my first year in university, and I enter with a different outlook on life as this will be the year I enter the second decade of my life. If I were a car I would now be an old war-wagon (or an antique).

     Well there you have it, not too short, not too long, just right! There have been some ups and some downs, but that's life and this is my little retrospection on the life of Dillon Wheeler. Happy New Years! 2011 all the way! To infinity and beyond!

Thanks,
Dillon Wheeler

Song of the Week #6: Double Feature!

Well Happy New Years everyone!

Back again with the fifth instalment of the song of the week!

Oh boy do I have something special for you guys, a double feature!

Two songs instead of one!

Here is the reasoning behind it. Because I could not imagine a WORSE hell than being forced to listen to these two pieces of garbage over and over for all of eternity. Scary even thinking about, anyways enjoy!



Uploaded by the creator themselves! DevVevo!



Uploaded by the creator themselves! DevVevo!

Thanks,
Dillon Wheeler