Overdue Nerd-gasm and YouTube Commenting I Lol'd At Between Myself and...
My psychcology squeeing I would have posted much sooner if I wasn't so busy yesterday. XD
Last Saturday's episode topic was on superstition! The illusionists, historians, and the narrator voice explained altogether that our brains are constant problem solvers, and if there is no answer our bleeped up brains just come up with one, no matter how strange or ridiculous it may be.
There are superstitions for almost every occasion. Your lucky shirt or whatever to help you through a gaming session. Those really old ones like "step on a crack and break your mother's back", "Bad luck if a black cat crosses your path", etc...
Did you know that sometime after the passing of Abraham Lincoln's 11 year son, he and his wife both participated with a fraud medium in saeances? (Did I spell that word right?) The First Lady was so heavy and distraught with grief that she wanted to make contact with her son in spirit.
There was this amazing visual 3D illusion in which there was this checkerboard. One gray square looks darker in that shade as our brains would perceive but actually they were the same shade of gray! Yet they still look different!
My absolute favorite visual brain teaser was the one with the red dragon. From far away it looked like a neat 3D puppet that was always looking at you, but up close it's just an inverted cardboard shape. SO COOL!
Did you know that a grilled cheese sandwhich that kinda looked like if had the face of Virgin Mary was sold on Ebay for $28,000 dollars?! Now that's just messed up!
I remember another visual illusion in which was this old photo graph that looked like two people and a bearded man's head was floating there. But looking closely, that floating head was really a baby wrapped up in a white cloth. Whoa. It's similar to the way we can see faces by looking at anything.
Oh and there was also this wild superstition from way back when in which a guy (I don't remember his name sadly) believed you could make animals appear with certain inanimate object and ingredient "recipes". Called spontaneous generation. His recipe for mice was soiled underwear and wheat. O.o
Overall it was a great episode! Remember, if you would like to see any of the 3 episodes so far, search for Your Bleeped Up Brain at History.com!
Also, here's a highlight from earlier in the afternoon that made had me so amused. I lol'd Turns out Light Yagami from Death Note has cloned YouTube accounts! Ahahaha he plans to make the world cleansed of all evil through YouTube. He replied to a comment I sent to him under this one video. Here's the whole thing of comments so far!
Light's original comment: "Hahahahahahhaha.... HHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! That's right.... I am Kira."
My witty reply to that: "Ah, but the question is, which Light is the TRUE Kira? *sees more than one Light Yagami on this page of comments* I'm guessing this is part of a back up plan, right?"
Light's reply I got today: "...How'd you know?"
I just could not resist replying: "I figured that would definitely be a very Kira thing to do. Dishing out every cunning and deceptive trick to stay on top, to still achieve for a picture-perfect world, free of evil. (But how can good exist without evil? No matter what, there is always conflict. Like light cannot exist without darkness--to which is *too* true in your case. Convenient double meanings, gotta love them.) I do hope we chat like this more often."
I'm sure the person who posts as that Light will get another laugh. I do hope this goes on, at least for a while! I might go bug L or Near too, if I see them active on Y.T. Damn I'd suscribe to a Rem account RIGHT AWAY if I saw one ahahahahahaaaa!
Last Saturday's episode topic was on superstition! The illusionists, historians, and the narrator voice explained altogether that our brains are constant problem solvers, and if there is no answer our bleeped up brains just come up with one, no matter how strange or ridiculous it may be.
There are superstitions for almost every occasion. Your lucky shirt or whatever to help you through a gaming session. Those really old ones like "step on a crack and break your mother's back", "Bad luck if a black cat crosses your path", etc...
Did you know that sometime after the passing of Abraham Lincoln's 11 year son, he and his wife both participated with a fraud medium in saeances? (Did I spell that word right?) The First Lady was so heavy and distraught with grief that she wanted to make contact with her son in spirit.
There was this amazing visual 3D illusion in which there was this checkerboard. One gray square looks darker in that shade as our brains would perceive but actually they were the same shade of gray! Yet they still look different!
My absolute favorite visual brain teaser was the one with the red dragon. From far away it looked like a neat 3D puppet that was always looking at you, but up close it's just an inverted cardboard shape. SO COOL!
Did you know that a grilled cheese sandwhich that kinda looked like if had the face of Virgin Mary was sold on Ebay for $28,000 dollars?! Now that's just messed up!
I remember another visual illusion in which was this old photo graph that looked like two people and a bearded man's head was floating there. But looking closely, that floating head was really a baby wrapped up in a white cloth. Whoa. It's similar to the way we can see faces by looking at anything.
Oh and there was also this wild superstition from way back when in which a guy (I don't remember his name sadly) believed you could make animals appear with certain inanimate object and ingredient "recipes". Called spontaneous generation. His recipe for mice was soiled underwear and wheat. O.o
Overall it was a great episode! Remember, if you would like to see any of the 3 episodes so far, search for Your Bleeped Up Brain at History.com!
Also, here's a highlight from earlier in the afternoon that made had me so amused. I lol'd Turns out Light Yagami from Death Note has cloned YouTube accounts! Ahahaha he plans to make the world cleansed of all evil through YouTube. He replied to a comment I sent to him under this one video. Here's the whole thing of comments so far!
Light's original comment: "Hahahahahahhaha.... HHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! That's right.... I am Kira."
My witty reply to that: "Ah, but the question is, which Light is the TRUE Kira? *sees more than one Light Yagami on this page of comments* I'm guessing this is part of a back up plan, right?"
Light's reply I got today: "...How'd you know?"
I just could not resist replying: "I figured that would definitely be a very Kira thing to do. Dishing out every cunning and deceptive trick to stay on top, to still achieve for a picture-perfect world, free of evil. (But how can good exist without evil? No matter what, there is always conflict. Like light cannot exist without darkness--to which is *too* true in your case. Convenient double meanings, gotta love them.) I do hope we chat like this more often."
I'm sure the person who posts as that Light will get another laugh. I do hope this goes on, at least for a while! I might go bug L or Near too, if I see them active on Y.T. Damn I'd suscribe to a Rem account RIGHT AWAY if I saw one ahahahahahaaaa!