The Curiosity Blog

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Dear Marcia White,

Thank you for posting the ‘game-changing’, jaw-dropping ending in the title of your blog article thus ruining the surprise ending for millions of viewers across the world (yes, there are people outside of your timezone that watches Dexter AND uses the internets.)

What a cunt. Seriously.

When she posted her blog at “Le High Valley Live” (aka Express Times), the season finale was only a half hour through in Canada, hadn’t even started to air in the UK – not to mention other countries it will air it in the future –  and folks (including those in Marcia’s timezone) who DVR it, buy the DVDs, or watch it On –Demand with the whole family.

Even people that were just searching for “Dexter” in general got stung by this spoiler. (This also applies to folks search regular Google for ‘dexter’ and ‘rita’.)

not cool, Marcia. Not cool.

At least E! Had the brains to leave the spoiler at “. . . “ as we all know somebody was going to die. The show is about a serial killer, after all.

It makes me wonder what is wrong with this lady? How did she get this job if she can’t even have the decency to keep spoilers out of titles?  You would think she would have someone look over her submissions before they are released on to the world. You would also think that – as she claims to be a Dexter fan – she would be even more careful (out of sympathy for other Dexter fans, like this article) to avoid doing something like this. But then again, Marcia knew exactly what she was doing by putting this in her blog summary:

Marcia White probably steals candy from small children, too and then tells them "you should of held on to it tighter."

It says on her page that she is the “features editor” (whatever that means), so I guess with that title perhaps this is the kind of ‘talent’ that this media outlet looks for. Perhaps articles like this will get her promoted to film critic! I can see it now. (Stop reading if you don’t want any spoilers for popular movies of past years):

Star Wars V: Empire Strikes Back
Darth Vader is Luke’s Dad!
Usual Suspects:
Kevin Spacey’s character was the one that did it all along!
Sixth Sense:
Bruce Willis is DEAD the whole time!
Indiana Jones 4:
OMG! Aliens!

Okay. That’s all I got.

Seriously.

Two speeches this week – one to children, one to the nation – and another speech on Monday to Wall Street. On top of it all, he is still doing his weekly address online every Saturday morning. (I wonder when he films these and if he does more than one at a time or if the camera is just there for whenever he is in the ‘mood’.)

Awesome pic of the Pres

Looking at that site further, apparently this guy gives like 9000 speeches a day. When does he have time to do his job? I respect the whole importance in communication thing and for the most part would encourage it, but isn’t this volume just a tad time-consuming?

Is it normal for the US President to communicate this much? I honestly don’t recall seeing any past US Presidents on my television this frequently. Am I being ignorant?

Awesome pic of the PM - note the fireplace

In comparison, I believe the last time the Canadian Prime Minister addressed the nation was in December 2008. It was a pretty important deal about the potential collapse/take-over of our government, and even then his speech was only around 4 minutes long AND it was televised at 7 pm, as to not disrupt primetime shows.

Short, to the point, and considerate of our regularly scheduled programming and viewing habits (and the networks sensitivity to potential loss of advertising dollars.) Plus, it was filmed in a wooden room and began in a way that was like we just walked into his wooden office and interupted him from reading. All that was missing was a crackling fire in the corner and him wearing a cardigan.

In the wake of the controversy over the allegations of whether Glenn Beck raped and murdered a girl in 1990, Glenn Beck and his handlers are in the process of trying to shut down people’s first amendment rights and freedom to search for the truth. Certainly does not sound like someone who claims to “love” his country.

While no one is saying that Beck did commit these atrocious crimes, more questions have been raised with his continued silence while his handler’s claim that the site in question should be closed. In the complaint sent, it notes:

“The Domain Name gleenbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com fully incorporates and is confusingly similar to trademarks in which Complainants [Glenn Beck and Mercury Radio Inc.] own rights …” (emphasis added)

Confusingly similar? I’m not saying that there is any truth to this rumour, but it does make you wonder why Glenn Beck would claim to have any “similarities” to it, unless there was any truth to it.

On Glenn Beck’s show on September 8^th, short of admitting or rejecting these allegations – as any America-loving-person who did not rape or murder a girl in 1990 would obviously do – Beck informed his viewer that he used to experience blackouts, thereby keeping open the possibility that he did rape and murder a girl in 1990 . No one is claiming to have all the facts. All we are doing is asking questions. Sadly, if with this in mind maybe even Glenn Beck will never know the truth.

“by the end of this week people will go to jail” – Glenn Beck on Fox & Friends September 8, 2009

Boeing 737 Aeromexico  plane has been hijacked in Mexico with up to 104 passengers. Apparently the three hijackers are threatening to blow it up unless they get to speak to the president of Mexico.

The plane is currently landed in Mexico City.

It is live right now on CNN with Rick Sanchez translating the news to for us English speakers. Here is a link to the live feed.

Reports are saying that the passengers have been released. Interviews with some passengers note that most were not aware that the plane was hijacked. All passengers will be separated into groups and interviewed to make sure that there aren’t any of the hijackers pretending to be passengers.

Update: there were 5 suspected hijackers and they have been taken into custody. And they didn’t have a bomb.

It has almost become second-nature to me to immediately go to Twitter to find out what is happening with a site when it has gone down.  But it appears that Twitter has been on and off for the last day. When not working, you see a message that says “HTTP Server Error 503 No available server to handle this request”, which basically means:

“The Web server (running the Web site) is currently unable to handle the HTTP request due to a temporary overloading or maintenance of the server.”

So.. too many tweets or someone is working on it. Or too many tweets AND someone is working on it.

If you are lucky, you may even come across the other boring standard message:

So what am I supposed to do now? TechCrunch provides a great list of suggestions to abide your time while waiting patiently for Twitter to return.

Hopefully, Twitter will update their blog soon to let us know what’s going on, because it is getting pretty annoying. I hope Rick Sanchez’s show isn’t ruined too much because of this.

For those that are concerned about what Obama will be saying to school children tomorrow, you can relax as the text for his speech has been released.

I’ve read it and there isn’t anything in it to fear. No, Obama doesn’t try to indoctrinate your children into a life of communism, or whatever it is that some people are all up in arms about. And no, this is not the first time a president has addressed kids in school, either.

But for those that are still convinced that the speech may contain a hidden message that you do not want your children to hear and be brainwashed by, I give you Word Cloud Analysis.

This neat online tool takes text that you submit and generates a “word cloud” that gives “greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text”, so the more the word is repeated, the bigger it appears.

If you are curious and would like to compare, I also created a word cloud for both Bush Sr.’s and Reagan’s speeches and all three can be found below (you can click on them to view them at their full size):

Obama’s speech for September 8, 2009

Bush’s Speech, October 10, 1991

Reagan’s Speech November 14, 1988

(Note: there is a brief Q and A section that I didn’t include in the Word Cloud Analysis for Reagan’s speech.)

Can you really trust these eyes?

It is really creepy to think that when I am watching Glenn Beck and he is looking at the camera passionately about all the things we should most definitely worry about – like how the government may or may not be thinking of ways to reduce the population such as adding chemicals to the water to sterilize the population – that Glenn’s eyes might be that of a cold and calculated murderer that raped and murdered a girl in 1990. I am appalled that I may have been mistaken. I believed that Glenn Beck brought us the truth and could be trusted, but if these rumours that Glenn Beck allegedly raped and murdered a girl in 1990 are true, then I don’t know what to think.

So far the facts that I have seen on the internet:

1. Glenn beck was alive in 1990
2. There were girls in 1990
3. Glenn Beck has arms and legs that make him capable of committing a crime and fleeing the crime scene.
4. Glenn Beck has yet to publically confirm or deny the allegation, nor has he provided any proof otherwise
5. A Poll confirms that 83% of concerned people believe the Glenn Beck raped and murdered a girl in 1990.

So Glenn, are you going to answer these allegations? Where is the evidence that you did not rape and murder a girl in 1990? Your silence is deafening.

And WHY hasn’t the Mainstream Media (MSM) asked these questions? Are they afraid that it might be true that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a girl in 1990? We are all asking questions and we may not have all the answers, but it is vital that Glenn beck proves that he isn’t a rapist.

A grassroots campaign has started so we can get the answers we deserve and can be found here.

Here is a partial scan of the alleged police report regarding Glenn Beck raping and murdering a girl in 1990.

Here is a C & P of the story that broke on iReport:

May 10, 1990, 11 year old Robin Cornell and her 32 year old babysitter, Lisa Storey were found beaten, raped, and smothered to death in Cape Coral, Florida. Police are now interviewing local detectives to re-open the case, but if they don’t find any new leads by the end of the year it will be closed. They are also looking into airing an episode on Americas Most Wanted. This town desperately needs your help in solving this case.

Beck was also linked to the rape and murder of seven-year old Margaret Shrader in Harris County, Texas in 1990.

Update: The story is getting a lot of hits from people curious as to whether the allegations that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a girl in 1990 is true or not, so that must explain why the page currently isn’t working. That or the mainstream media is too afraid that the truth will come out. But you can find more links to evidence here, here and here.

I don’t know about this. I should really purchase myself a chalkboard to write it out to see all the connections. And I recommend that you do too.

First… this show is fucking horrible. Terrible casting, wooden acting and terrible writing. There was zero chemistry between any of the characters. I didn’t care for a single one of them. However, they did succeed in getting me to hate Carl (more than the rest), but not necessarily in the way in which they would have wanted. His character was written so flat and one-dimensional that in my mind he might as well of been running around on the screen, twirling his moustache dressed like this:

But for whatever reason (perhaps a combination of it being like a car wreck and in preparation for reluctantly sitting through Heroes) I watched the whole season. And in my own deranged way, enjoyed it.  Again, not because it was good, but because it was bad. (If you would like to read a real review on this show, you can find an excellent review here – or here.)

I just watched the season (series?) finale. Though there was some satisfaction, it was not exactly what I would have hoped. When all the main characters get trapped in Jack’s apartment by a gun-wielding man who thinks he will turn into a werewolf, then subsequently eat them, I found myself begging out loud “Please go there!! Please!” because that would have been an epic way for a series of this quality to end.

(It’s on FOX after all and they cancel great shows with low ratings, so why not bad shows with low ratings? oh wait… this is FOX. Actually come to think of it, I wouldn’t be surprised if it gets renewed.)

Unfortunately the only carnage that results out of this situation is one of the younger doctors getting shot in the leg and Jack insisting that the werewolf bite him on the arm so they can both be werewolves together. But alas, they don’t turn into werewolves.

What I did thoroughly enjoy was the last stand between Jack and Carl:

If this show comes back, I’ll most likely continue to watch, but I would be much happier if it didn’t.

I’ve had this domain for some time now – almost a year. Back in October, I purchased it around 4 am after a couple of days without sleep with the determination of using it to share with the world my thoughts and the information I had learned from the numerous questions rolling through my head and the subsequent research for the “answer”. I also thought that it would be a good platform to get me comfortable and more confident with my writing skills (or lack of, depending who you talk to) and putting my thoughts out there for the world to see.

Unfortunately there were a couple of problems with this; a combination of procrastination and lack of ability to focus on any one thing for even a short period of time.

I am an excellent procrastinator. One time in high school I had missed a deadline for submitting a paper, and feared I would get a zero. It wasn’t until after the deadline that I knew what to write about; the reason I didn’t write the paper in the first place, ‘procrastination’. I figured that combined with a good argument for procrastination presented in the paper, I could argue to the teacher that I only handed it in late for added emphasis to my thesis. And it worked.

Now for this blog, I would use excuse after excuse – the worst is that I felt I needed a theme. Okay. True, blogs generally are more “user friendly” if they are not lacking structure or treated like a diary. But the reality is, until I get in to the habit of doing this, I’m pretty much going to post whatever I damn well feel like. Hopefully this will become a habit, I will become more self-discipline and a theme will sprout from it in time.