The Syko Ward

Holy freaking hell!!! This is so fucking awesome. This is some dudes house, here in Riverside, Ca, right now. I wish I could have come up with this idea!

I must say. That this little quiz actually got me pegged pretty well. I loved Art class. Any art class. The rest of the stuff i did at school I could hardly care about as a kid. Still do like doing most stuff with my hands. I paint, write, draw, build models, and a bunch more. Enjoy!!

You Were a Creative Kid

When you were a kid, you always had to be doing something with your hands. Whether you were painting a picture or just doodling, you had to be creating something. You were too busy thinking about your future creations to listen in school. It’s likely that every part of school was a challenge for you, except for art class.

WOW!! Now this is cool! Google, one of the largest and most popular search engines, and my favorite, has announced that it will creating a new operating system based off of their Chrome browser. It will be primarily focused towards Netbooks and Acer, third largest PC maker, has already started making netbooks that will compatible with Google’s Android operating System. Android is the system that Google released for various smart phones and other mobile devices. Using this new Operating system would essentially make computers cheaper as there would be no licensing needed for the operating system as is the case for Windows. Google will rely mostly on the on the open-source programming community to expand and develop it’s Chrome browser.

I can’t wait to test this out. This could end up being a major change in the world as it mat knock Microsoft out of the running at some point. I personally really like open-source programs and software because in many cases it is just as powerful if not more so than the privately created software like Office. I use Open Office myself and have no issues. I all also have a PC running Ubuntu and it runs faster than my XP Pro machine, and uses less RAM!! I will follow this closely.

Ok…so I started doing searches online for myself to see where I stand. So far if you search sykoward or The Syko Ward on Google, I’m number 1. Woohoo!!! But check this out. I used to answer alot of Questions on Yahoo Answers. Still do sometimes. It’s fun. But looking at searches I found this:Drug3k.com. Looks like it’s supposed to be some medical site. But check out the post. It’s completely ripped from Yahoo Answers!! And this is my reply from there. That is not my picture, but it is my post.

They are using this as their own without acknowledging where it came from. At least if punk something I tell where I got it. LOL!! Just thought this was interesting.

WOW!! I have been a Sci-fi fan for years. I love authors like Isaac Asimov, Stephen Baxter, Orson Scott Card, Greg Bear and more. The technology that they come up with in Sci-fi is just amazing and would be and incredible boon to man if possible. Here are technologies that may that are emerging that would be life changing.

Printable batteries.
Check out this Yahoo article from Livescience.com:http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090702/sc_livescience/tinynewbatteryisprintable

And 2 more from LiveScience.com:
Microscopic Battery made from live Viruses: http://www.livescience.com/technology/080820-micro-batteries.html

Superbots: http://www.livescience.com/technology/090623-robot-combine.html

I just hope I get to see some of this stuff and more before the end.

1. Money isn’t made out of paper; it’s made out of cotton.

2. The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the varieties of pickle the company once had.

3. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks – otherwise it will digest itself (eeww).

4. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.

5. The dot over the letter ‘i’ is called a “tittle”.

6. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

7. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.

8. A duck’s quack doesn’t echo … no one knows why.

9. 40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

10. Every person has a unique tongue print (no licking at the scene of a crime!).

11. 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

12. The ’spot’ on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was albino.

13. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

14. During the chariot scene in ‘Ben Hur’ a small red car can be seen in the distance.

15. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

16. Chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.

17. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
18. Most lipstick contains fish scales (eeww).

19. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.

20. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

21. Upper and lower case letters are named ‘upper’ and ‘lower’ because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the ‘upper case’ letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, ‘lower case’ letters.

22. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time ( … and multi-tasking was invented).

23. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

24. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

25. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before!

26. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!

27. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa’s lips.

28. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

29. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original “Halloween” was a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

30. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar ( … good to know … ).

31. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand (and you thought this list was completly useless).

32. The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb (sign of a true civilized society … not).

33. American Airlines saved $40,000 in ‘87 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.

34. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

35. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. It’s the same with apples! (guess what I’m buying on my next trip to the grocery store!)

36. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

37. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

38. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

39. Back in the mid to late 80’s, an IBM compatible computer wasn’t considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft’s Flight Simulator game.

40. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them (families taking long car rides should adopt this same policy).

Here are some quotes I thought would be fun to put up.

“Only after disaster can you be resurrected, its only after you’ve lost everything that you are free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart. This is your life and its ending one minute at a time.” -Tyler Durden ‘FightClub’

“Being grown up isn’t half as fun as growing up.” -The Ataris

“I don’t have ‘pet peeves’, I have major psychotic fucking hatreds.”-George Carlin

Have a good one!

Ok. So today is Friday the 13th. Supposedly the unluckiest day of the year. For some they could say it was their wedding or their birthday. LOL!! But for me….I believe this is the luckiest day of the year for me. Always have. Good example…..today my General Manager is not here today and she is normally a very big pain the ass! HAHAHAHHA!!! Anyways, here’s and article I borrowed from Yahoo, who borrowed it from LiveScience.com. It’s pretty interesting and seemed to fit in today. Enjoy!

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If you fear Friday the 13th, then batten down the hatches. This week’s unlucky day is the first of three this year.

The next Friday the 13th comes in March, followed by Nov. 13. Such a triple whammy comes around only every 11 years, said Thomas Fernsler, a math specialist at the University of Delaware who has studied the number 13 for more than 20 years.

By the numbers

Here are 13 more facts about the infamous day, courtesy of Fernsler and some of our own research:

1. The British Navy built a ship named Friday the 13th. On its maiden voyage, the vessel left dock on a Friday the 13th, and was never heard from again.

2. The ill-fated Apollo 13 launched at 13:13 CST on Apr. 11, 1970. The sum of the date’s digits (4-11-70) is 13 (as in 4+1+1+7+0 = 13). And the explosion that crippled the spacecraft occurred on April 13 (not a Friday). The crew did make it back to Earth safely, however.

3. Many hospitals have no room 13, while some tall buildings skip the 13th floor.

4. Fear of Friday the 13th – one of the most popular myths in science – is called paraskavedekatriaphobia as well as friggatriskaidekaphobia. Triskaidekaphobia is fear of the number 13.

5. Quarterback Dan Marino wore No. 13 throughout his career with the Miami Dolphins. Despite being a superb quarterback (some call him one of the best ever), he got to the Super Bowl just once, in 1985, and was trounced 38-16 by the San Francisco 49ers and Joe Montana (who wore No. 16 and won all four Super Bowls he played in).

6. Butch Cassidy, notorious American train and bank robber, was born on Friday, April 13, 1866.

7. Fidel Castro was born on Friday, Aug. 13, 1926.

8. President Franklin D. Roosevelt would not travel on the 13th day of any month and would never host 13 guests at a meal. Napoleon and Herbert Hoover were also triskaidekaphobic, with an abnormal fear of the number 13.

9. Superstitious diners in Paris can hire a quatorzieme, or professional 14th guest.

10. Mark Twain once was the 13th guest at a dinner party. A friend warned him not to go. “It was bad luck,” Twain later told the friend. “They only had food for 12.”

11. Woodrow Wilson considered 13 his lucky number, though his experience didn’t support such faith. He arrived in Normandy, France on Friday, Dec. 13, 1918, for peace talks, only to return with a treaty he couldn’t get Congress to sign. (The ship’s crew wanted to dock the next day due to superstitions, Fernsler said.) He toured the United States to rally support for the treaty, and while traveling, suffered a near-fatal stroke.

12. The number 13 suffers from its position after 12, according to numerologists who consider the latter to be a complete number – 12 months in a year, 12 signs of the zodiac, 12 gods of Olympus, 12 labors of Hercules, 12 tribes of Israel, 12 apostles of Jesus, 12 days of Christmas and 12 eggs in a dozen.

13. The seals on the back of a dollar bill include 13 steps on the pyramid, 13 stars above the eagle’s head, 13 war arrows in the eagle’s claw and 13 leaves on the olive branch. So far there’s been no evidence tying these long-ago design decisions to the present economic situation.

Origins of Friday the 13th

Where’s all this superstition come from? Nobody knows for sure. But it may date back to Biblical times (the 13th guest at the Last Supper betrayed Jesus). By the Middle Ages, both Friday and 13 were considered bearers of bad fortune.

Meanwhile the belief that numbers are connected to life and physical things – called numerology – has a long history.

“You can trace it all the way from the followers of Pythagoras, whose maxim to describe the universe was ‘all is number,’” says Mario Livio, an astrophysicist and author of “The Equation That Couldn’t Be Solved” (Simon & Schuster, 2005). Thinkers who studied under the famous Greek mathematician combined numbers in different ways to explain everything around them, Livio said.

In modern times, numerology has become a type of para-science, much like the meaningless predictions of astrology, scientists say.

“People are subconsciously drawn towards specific numbers because they know that they need the experiences, attributes or lessons, associated with them, that are contained within their potential,” says professional numerologist Sonia Ducie. “Numerology can ‘make sense’ of an individual’s life (health, career, relationships, situations and issues) by recognizing which number cycle they are in, and by giving them clarity.”

Mathematicians dismiss numerology as having no scientific merit, however.

“I don’t endorse this at all,” Livio said, when asked to comment on the popularity of commercial numerology for a story prior to the date 06/06/06. Seemingly coincidental connections between numbers will always appear if you look hard enough, he said.

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Have a great Great Friday the 13th and a great Valentines Day tomorrow. Ya know…..that’s usually a more unlucky day for many than Friday the 13th is. See ya!