You Know Nothin' Jon Snow

That's what she said.

Season 4 is about to end *sigh*  and it'd be 2015 before we get to watch Peter Dinklage and the rest of the gang. "You had to pick The Imp."  Yes of course.  He is the most popular character.  "No he's not."  Alright, name another character who's actor's name got used as the lyrics of the show's title sequence?  No one. Only Peter Dinklage.  *cue intro song* Come on, sing with me now..  "Peter Dinklage, Peter Dinklage, Peter Dinklage, Peter Dinklage .."

Fair warning.  What you are about to see is an Honest Trailer of Game of Thrones Seasons 1-3, which is pretty much, well, an honest trailer of Game of Thrones..  You have been warned.

Hit the jump for the video and the link to other Honest Trailers.

The Hellevator

0 to 60 or in this case 1 to 31 in 15 seconds flat.

It's the nightmare that everyone riding an elevator dreads..  "Riding with a clown with a pet skunk?" No. Why would a clown have a pet skunk?  As I was saying .. "Being trapped in the elevator with a moose?" No.  Moose? As I was saying .. "Riding with a giant tarantula that's singing Everything is Awesome?" Wait, what? You've got some weird stuff going on in your mind there pal.  Who are you?  "I am your father." Really.  "Ok ok, I am your conscience."  Right.  I don't have one you dweeb. "Now you do."  Go away.  "I can't.  I'm part of you."  "Inside you." ... "What does that even mean ... ?"

Let's just get on with the clip.

The New Mortal Kombat Will Want To Make You

I dunno, finish someone off?

Get it?  Finish someone off?  Ha ha ha.  <sarcasm voice> "Very clever."  </sarcasm voice> I know right?  Sometimes I even surprise myself.  But hey, have you seen the trailer yet?  It's the new installment in the Mortal Kombat franchise, Mortal Kombat X. "Is it read as Eks or Ten?"  I don't know.  Why would you care anyway?  It's a new Mortal Kombat and if the gameplay mechanics *cough* environmental objects *cough* would be as good as the trailer then it's going to be an awesome game.  If there's one thing that I don't like though, it is the outcome of the fight.  Oh and the music.  Guess that makes it two.

Hit the jump for the video.

One Direction At Their Finest

So fine your undies will undo themselves.

They say that there's a true and tested formula for a boyband to succeed.  1.  Good looks, 2.  Good dancing skills, 3.  Good singing voice.  Pick two.  So you might ask, what are the two traits of One Direction then?  Why don't you go ahead and find out for yourselves.  I guarantee, you will get a blast figuring out which. My take, it's the hair.

Hit the jump for the One Direction Infection.

The Best Description of How Wealthy Bill Gates Is

No, filthy rich is not it.

We humans have a very limited capacity in picturing large numbers.  An average person is capped at imagining thousands.. tens of thousands for the gifted ones.. hundreds of thousands, maybe Stephen Hawking. Approach the million mark and it becomes blurry.  But a billion?  Forget it.  Case in point, can you really comprehend how big a billion is?  Yes? No?  Then consider this, if you start counting from 0 and a number for every second, it would take you 31.7 years to reach a billion.

Now how about Bill Gate's worth in money.  That's 50 billion.. actually it's 77 billion now give or take a few millions.  How would you picture that?  Staggering would be an understatement.  Even Jackie Chan is confused.  Lucky for us, Neil deGrasse Tyson's here to save the day.

Hit the jump to see a very good take at describing how wealthy the world's wealthiest man is.  If anything, it would be a good pickup line.

A Game of Death

Or in plain words, crazy Russian kids having fun.

We all know the story, It's all fun and games until that little slip.. and BOOM! Or more appropriately, SPLAT!  Stupid?  No doubt.  Dangerous?  Absolutely.  But you gotta admit, what they're doing is just awe-inspiring.  I'm literally holding my breath as I watch them do their stunts.  Just when I thought I've seen it all when it comes to climbing towers without safety harnesses then these guys, these guys just take it to a whole new level. Insanity.  At this rate, I hazard their life expectancy wouldn't be very long. Not that they care anyway.

Hit the jump to watch and get your palms all sweaty.

Insane Downhill Bike Run

INSANE.

Believe me, after a few seconds of watching the run and I'm sure you'll agree a hundred percent.  The event is Valparaiso Cerro Abajo 2013.  The guy is Red Bull rider, Marcelo Gutierez..  A guy with balls the size of watermelons.  And I'm not talking about regular sized watermelons, no sir, I'm talking about them show size watermelons.

That being said, it's a marvel how he manages to ride that mountain bike. Pure skills brother.  Pure skills.

Video after the jump.

Fat

It's what eating fast food makes you.

My homie Jules once said that hamburgers are the cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast, so imagine a world where animals ate what the major percentage of the world's population eat in a daily basis.  What do you think would hunting be like? One word - bouncy and hilarious.

"You said one word." Yes and the cake is a lie.  "..."

Hit the jump to see the clip.

Terrible Boat Accident Should Not Be Funny

But it is.

I wanted to say "But sadly it is," however, I'm not sure if by adding "sadly" would be less mean and actually make a point that making fun of someone's demise is wrong or by doing so would add more insult because it meant that it was indeed funny and thereby saying that making fun of someone's demise is alright. .. Wait.. or is it the other way around ... Now I'm confused.  What I'm saying is, I'm concerned that by saying that it is or it is not would imply that I'm a hypocrite either way and make me less of a credible writer no matter what path I choose despite me being sorry for the passengers, because come on, between the boat driver and the one who edited the original clip, this is just way too funny to pass up.

Keep going to see the take down.

So That's How Big the Universe Is

My calculations were off by a parsec but it was pretty close.

I've always been fascinated by the cosmos and its incomprehensible scale. It's such a fascination that if I meet God and he tells me that I can have one wish, my wish would be to "actually see" the universe in its entirety. That'd be awesome.

My kids are fascinated too. They love it when I talk to them about stars that are bigger than the sun. I love how they listen with eyes wide open as I show them how big the sun would be (beachball) if the earth would be the size of a pepper corn and just how small the sun would be (smaller than a dot) if it were compared to the biggest star (beachball) known to men. So this page is just a sweet sweet visual aide that I could show to them. To top it off, the scale even shows dinosaurs! How neat is that huh?

Props to the creators Cary Huang and Michael Huang.

Go here if you're as excited as I am - http://htwins.net/scale2/ 

Here comes the man in black.

When Celebrities are Commoners

'Tis all one, I will show myself a tyrant: when I have fought with the men, I will be cruel with the
maids, and cut off their heads.

"Say what?"  That is Shakespeare mon frere'.  "Yeah, so what's the point?"  Shakespeare, royalties, commoners?  "Doesn't make any sense."  Ahh... Indeed, I should have ask'd you that before.  "Good, glad to see you come around."  Now I'll tell you without asking: my master is the great rich Capulet; and if you be not of the house of Montagues, I pray, come and crush a cup of wine. Rest you merry!  "You're hopeless."  Begone! Foul beast!  Begone!

Arrr, now what say you, you of noble blood shall go on to the clicky clicky. "That's pirate, not Shakespeare."  Begone!  Foul beast!  Arrr!  

Do the clicky clicky.

Pretty Awesome Short Films

Hollywood could surely use a page (or two) out of these director's notebook.

Here's a couple of short films that will make you wish they were full featured films.  What do you get when you combine The Hunger Games, Oblivion, and Predators?  You get Project Skyborn by Marko Slavnic. A nice short Sci-Fi that messes up your mind.  The second one, Lights Out by David Sandberg has the feel of Paranormal Activity with a pinch of The Conjuring.  Quite scary.  It's the reason why I'm not sleeping with the lights off at the moment.

I'm telling you, both shorts are guaranteed to have you wanting for more, or your money back.  "I didn't pay for anything."  Oh did I forget to mention?  I'm charging your credit card $1,000,000.00 for each visit you make here. *wink* *wink*

Hit the jump to watch the short films.

How To Ruin An Expensive Sport Bike

And be an organ donor too!

If you're not going fast you're not doing it right.  I'm sure I've read that somewhere about owning super cars and super bikes.  Not sure if that is a company slogan or just a bunch of nonsense that someone with a deathwish wrote down in a review. Whichever the case maybe is not important because this guy must have also read that statement and is actually living up to it.

With such recklessness and total disregard for safety, it's a wonder how he's managed to stay alive up to this point.  It's a wonder still how he's gone out of this accident unscathe, well maybe a broken bone or two but he still lives!  Ooo! I know! I know!  "What?" He's Johnny Blaze.  "Johny who?"  Johny Blaze, the Ghost Rider..  You know, flaming motorbike, a flaming skull for a head? "..." Played by Nicolas Cage?  Pictured above?  "Oh yeah."  You're a bit slow on the uptake aren't you?  I kid, I kid.

Well anyway, keep going to see the video..  wish I could say the crash and burn video, but I don't want to give you false hopes,  it's just a crash.. but a good one! Promise.

Infomercial's Finest

Call them exaggerated but these ploys actually work.

Do you always have free time in your hands?  Does your mind continuously sit idle for more than 30 minutes even when you are supposed to be on a deadline?  Do you find yourself looking at a distance with a blank expression on your face even when you're talking to your boss?  If you do, then it's time for your dose of The Musings of a Sillyman! ..

"Lame."  Shut it. I know it's lame.  It's supposed to be lame.

Anyway, I guess the clip after the jump would do a lot worse better than that.

Everyone's a critic these days.

Flying a Phantom Drone Into a Fireworks Display

Damn fine or stupid idea, you decide.

Fireworks in all its fiery beauty are best enjoyed from afar, yes?  I guess that's the general consensus because well, standing a meter from an exploding pyrotechnic may not be the best of ideas especially if you are concerned about staying alive. Thanks to these guys though, we can see the fireworks in a whole new perspective, and that is being right in the middle of it.  Personally, I would not risk a $500 drone to pull this stunt.

True story.  I once had a close call of being burned by fireworks when I was a kid.  You see, on New Year's Day, my friends and I would go out on the streets collecting black powder from fireworks that failed to go off from the previous night.  We knew it's dangerous but we were kids.. we were oblivious that the danger is real.  So there was this time when we've collected maybe a soda can-full of black powder.  That time we had the idea of laying it out on the ground in a trail just like in the cartoons, you know the one where Bugs Bunny is battling out Yosemite Sam in Bunker Hill Bunny.

I lit it up, and boy, it was not like the cartoons at all.  The fire chewed the trail of black powder so fast that it happened in a flash.  And there I was, sitting just several inches away from the end of the trail where we had a pile of black powder as the finale.  I recall a flash of blinding light and the heat so close to my face. The smell of singed hair in the air. Luckily I was unscathed, but boy was it close.

Keep going to see the drone being more than singed, no doubt.

Amazing Video of Corals from 150,000 Macro Shots

Alrighty, what would be an appropriate first post after a beachy (yes, there's such a word) vacation?  I know, showcase the beauty that one can find in them.. Or under them, if you want to be more technical.

The video is a mashup of 150,000 macro shots of corals by marine biologist and photographer Daniel Stoupin based in Queensland, Australia.  I'd say he's got some mad photography skillz (pardon the leet speak) and even madder patience. "Huh?" Did you read that?  150,000 pictures.  In perspective, that's about 149,990 pictures more than what I would include in the video if I were the one to create this mashup. Yes, you'll get 10 pictures if it were me..  Possibly 11, if I wake up on the right side of the bed.

Hah! Like that happens.

Well you know what to do to see the clip.

The Boy's Back in Town!

Oh yes!

It was an extremely fun and terribly tiring two weeks of sun, sand, and sea.. It was so tiring that I actually felt the need for a holiday from my holidays. Imagine that. But the most that got beaten was, you guess it, my wallet.  It's so thin now that I'm afraid it's bulimic.  I'm telling you, grand vacations are not good for your wallet.. not at all. But who am I kidding, would I do another grand vacation again?  Hell yeah!

"That's great and all, but where's our presents?" Err.  Here's a picture we snapped of Boracay beach, would that be enough?

By the way, I'm still reeling from all the activities that I may still need to rest out a bit before I can resume regular blogging, so don't hold your breaths just yet, you lovely folks you.

Blogger on Summer Vacation

As above.

So until I come back, here's a 3-hour soothing video of the beach for you awesome folks, just because.



Blogging again soon.

From Bike to Mattress

Fair trade I suppose.

Alright, you can't make this story up.  A guy riding his bike gets sideswept by a pickup truck but in a very fortunate twist of fate, instead of hitting the hard pavement, the biker lands on top of a soft mattress.  Wait what?  Yes, the truck that hit the biker carried the same mattress that saved his very life.  Sounds impossible right?

Well keep going to see for yourself.

Unlucky Tractor Man is Unlucky

Sh*t happens sometimes.. sometimes always.

Some bad days are exceptionally bad.  They're so bad that describing them as bad is like describing a nuclear explosion as a big bang.  It's like waking up on the wrong side of the bed at the wrong time in a wrong place with a bad headache, a bad stomach, and a bad black eye (both eyes) from a bad party the previous night. It's like the Inception of bad days.

The guy in this video has that.

Keep going to see it.