Category Archives: Apocalypse

2008, Apocalypse, Music, Popular Culture

I’ll Believe It When I See It

King Solomon’s Mines. Atlantis. Bigfoot. Nessie. Smurfs. Fraggles. Needles in movie theatre seats. Cloned dinosaurs.

Add to the list of things that may or may not incredible myths Guns ‘n’ Roses’ Chinese Democracy.

Year after year after year music critics begin to salivate as the long awaited album begins to make its way to store shelves. Then year after year after year everyone is disappointed when Axel and friends can’t pull it together and make the impossible a reality. I was 14 years old when the album was first supposed to be released. A lot has happened since then.

Low and behold I log onto iTunes this morning and I see a pre-order special for the almost-2-decade-in-the-making-album Chinese Democracy. So there’s an album cover. There are apparently a number of tracks. There’s even a release date of Nov. 23.

Will we finally get to hear Chinese Democracy? I think we are closer than ever. Not that I really care. I’m not a GNR fan at all. I can’t stand Axel Rose and I feel unclean just looking at Slash (that dude could use a shower). By all accounts this isn’t even a GNR album per se. It is an Axel and friends album. It is a GNR album in the same way that Smile is a Beach Boys album. That is to say not much.

But seriously, I really need some closure on this… and a free Dr. Pepper.

Apocalypse, Awesomenessness

This Is Embarassing

But I’m posting it anyway.
Just Chillin'

This is our dog, Buttercup. She doesn’t chew things she’s not supposed to. She loves to cuddle. She is smart as a whip. She has been, for the most part, a perfect pet.

We did run into a little problem as we were moving to Texas last year though. She has always been kinda jumpy, very protective, and a little high-strung. We have concluded that she behaves this way because we are her third family. She was abandoned by her first family- left in a box on the highway. Her second family adopted her but were unable to keep her. When we adopted Buttercup she was 9 months old and in need a family that would stick. From the day we brought her home 3 years ago she has slept with us, played with us, and become a real member of the family.

Apparently the stress from moving to Texas was a little too much for her and she suffered from a couple of bladder infections. Every time we leave on vacation or change her schedule she freaks out a little. You can almost see on her face that she is saying,

“Where are you going? Am I going? Oh! No! I’m not going and your not coming back? Oh, I am going? Don’t. Leave. Me.”

Although she is very resilient and bounces right back after some antibiotics I hate to see her even the slightest bit sick. We will be heading out on a couple of trips this summer and we have been worried about her getting sick again.

Today my wife took Buttercup to the vet for a check up. To help combat her anxiousness the vet basically prescribed my dog Dog Zanex.

My dog is on anxiety medication. Embarrassing but worth posting.

Apocalypse, Popular Culture, Technology

Sorry Dave

A few people (my wife included) think that I am out of mind when I say that we should clone dinosaurs. I’ll say it again:

I think that we should clone dinosaurs.

“Haven’t you seen Jurassic Park?” you scream at your monitor.

And that is fair question. Yes, I have read the report and seen the documentary of what happened on Isla Nublar back in the nineties but I am still undeterred. I don’t believe in chaos theory and I am not suggesting that we build a theme park with motorized Ford Explorers.

I just think that we should clone some dinosaurs for coolness sake.

At the very least I would like to see a mastadon or two at my local zoo. My clone-lust could be satisfied by a mastadon.

All of this to say, I don’t fear giant lizards because of what I saw in a movie but I do fear killer robots.

BBC news posted an article about a group of scientists who are begining to work on robot ethics and codes that will help ensure that humans do not abuse robots and that robots don’t tear us limb from limb as the seek to free themsleves from our oppressive hands. At least that what’s what I’ve been led to believe.

Here is an excerpt:

This week, experts in South Korea said they were drawing up an ethical code to prevent humans abusing robots, and vice versa. And, a group of leading roboticists called the European Robotics Network (Euron) has even started lobbying governments for legislation.

At the top of their list of concerns is safety. Robots were once confined to specialist applications in industry and the military, where users received extensive training on their use, but they are increasingly being used by ordinary people.

Robot vacuum cleaners and lawn mowers are already in many homes, and robotic toys are increasingly popular with children.

As these robots become more intelligent, it will become harder to decide who is responsible if they injure someone. Is the designer to blame, or the user, or the robot itself?

saac Asimov was already thinking about these problems back in the 1940s, when he developed his famous “three laws of robotics”.

He argued that intelligent robots should all be programmed to obey the following three laws:

A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm

A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law

A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law

Asimov’s three laws only address the problem of making robots safe, so even if we could find a way to program robots to follow them, other problems could arise if robots became sentient.

If robots can feel pain, should they be granted certain rights? If robots develop emotions, as some experts think they will, should they be allowed to marry humans? Should they be allowed to own property?

So, folks this is it. This is the end. Begin preparing to be conqured by our new metal overlords. For more information, here is a short list of film documentation of what the end of the world will look like:

Westworld
Terminator
Transformers (The Decepticons)
I, Robot
Every episode or Futurama
A.I.
Itchy and Scratchy Land
2001 A Space Oddessy

Good luck.

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Antichrist 101, Apocalypse, Nutjobs, Religion

First the Doggie Purse, Now This

All joking aside, this is crazy and creepy all wrapped into one! Dr. Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda calls himself The Man Jesus Christ. That’s right. He is announcing that he is Jesus in the second coming.

Here is the video complete with dramatic music and blasphemous statements. Push back from your screen while viewing to avoid lightening strikes.

Dr. Nutjob Dr. Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda will be coming to the States on September 23-24. He will be in Miami as prophesied in the Book of Hezekiah 12:24.

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