Sink or Swim

Now who hasn’t heard of Josef Fritzl?

The Austrian who held his own daughter, Elisabeth captive for 24 years and fathered her 7 children. There’s more to that news. Apparently, he left Elisabeth underground together with 3 other children, as him and his wife kept the other 3 children above ground, while he threw out the one that died as a baby.

I’m seriously bothered by this. I wonder what happened to them, how he was like to them all, and its not like anyone cared to speak about this so I don’t think anybody’s ever going to find out about the truth anytime soon. According to news, he’s facing what, 15 years of imprisonment. Unbelievable much? I would like to volunteer and become a criminal for one day and perhaps take this pervert’s life. What way, I’d still have to figure out.

The most twisted of all stories I have heard so far that for a person who has seen a lot I still feel extremely bothered by this.

The best way to make fun of friends is by pulling off pranks! Why wait until April 1st when you can do one anytime? There are a lot of fun stuff you can do but the best way is to embarass them then upload it on the internet, for everyone to see! Here’s five things you can try out, just make sure you don’t get caught before pulling it off!

1. Take a picture of your friend while he’s asleep - This is a classic, and it’s easy to pull off during drinking parties or sleepovers. You can also try drawing on his/her face before taking the photo! For great effect, make sure you post it in a site lots of people are sure to come in, like your blog or in social media sites.

Here’s an example:

2. Record the prank on video and upload it! - Suprising a friend and getting his reaction on video is comedy gold, and will be a guaranteed hit! You can also do pranks to a sleeping friend, preferably after doing #1 for more laughs. Just make sure you have a handicam to record it, then upload it to sites like youtube!

3. The Prank Call - How do you do a prank call in style? Right now there are applications called “soundboards” which have recorded voices that you can play over the phone to fool your friends! For this to work you need a speaker phone and a mic. Then after recording, go ahead and upload it! Here’s one using the famous “Kerpal” soundboard:

4. Scary Maze Prank - This is actually a part of #2, but it’s a surefire way to scare your friends silly! There’s a flash game that shows a maze that your friend will be trying to solve, and after solving it a scary face from “The Exorcist” will come up! Once he screams in fear, make sure you record their reaction!

5.Elaborate Pranks - These pranks require the most work but they’ll surely fool everyone and leave them clueless! They require extensive planning and a budget, but pulling off these practical jokes will be priceless. Check out this neat office prank as an example:

Well, those are some surefire ways to fool your friends and family! Just make sure you don’t get anyone hurt while doing it, it’s all for good clean fun! And watch out, who knows you might be the one getting pranked!

Of all the days I left my driver’s license, I actually got pulled over. A result of Murphy’s Law they say. And of all the days that I needed to rush it just had to happen today. I also broke my ipod - I pulled out right when it said do not disconnect. That was completely stupid, but I panicked out of too much rushing. I need a break.

Being a guy who never really cares about anything much, I haven’t really taken that much precaution in other things since lately. I didn’t know that there had been a research conducted by some specialists about the increase of risk in skin cancer due to the use of excess sunscreen.

Yup that’s right, the excessive use of sunscreen. Apparently the countries where sunscreen have been heavily promoted are statistically the ones that have higher numbers of skin cancer patients. More than a decade ago, studies have shown that Professor Johan Moan of the Norwegian Cancer Institute found that the yearly incidence of melanoma in Norway had increased by 350% for men and by 440% for women during the period 1957 to 1984.

In an estimation, an amout of 32,000 heads suffering from skin cancer can produce a rate of about 6,500 fatal cases via estimation. This is a huge number and what I find particularly interesting here is the fact that this has nothing to do with the ozone depletion. Studies show that at the time the numbers have increased greatly, no drastic change from the ozone have taken place that could cause this problem.

Sunscreen might have done all this. The chemicals that are within the sunscreen we use are also responsible for the depression of the immune system — which is supposed to help us regulate our bodies to protect ourselves from the sun. Not only that, a driven fact is also staying out too much in the sun because of the use of sunscreen and the thought that since nobody’s getting any darker means they’re safe from having their bodies toasted by the UV rays.

Of course, all of which have been researched upon by specialists, I think most of them make sense. Then again, its not like I’m going to stop using the sunscreen but perhaps stay a decent amount of time under the sun.

From last week’s post, I’m still looking for Marco’s before the shutter shot, but he’s lucky I haven’t found it yet.

You really never know who’s watching huh. So my boys and I went to a party over the weekend to celebrate Josh’s birthday and thats what happens when you say Josh, we mean parties that last over 3 days. His dad has a cabin and a humongous estate back home that it was always filled with people. Im glad I’m friends with him I get to trash his place and not have to pay for it. Hell I saved his life several times like a soldier is to his buddy!!!

So we filled up the tub with cold ice and we were planning to put Josh in it once he gets smashed. LOL! But of course god knows whatever the fuck is in that tub. I dunno if anyone ever got a goat to pee in there or if someone put rotten eggs, point was it was a horrible looking tub full of gunk and that’s where we thought of laying our partner to rest once he gets his proper dose of Drunkeness. LOL

But see. His mom went in to pick up something in the guest room and saw the tub. With me holding a can of Crisco basically just caught in the act. I’ve got nothing to do with this guy in the photo, but if you want candid, pretty embarrassing, yeah.

So she looked at me I just said, “uhhhh its an experiment…. :D” She gave me the most disappointed, “Kade, what the hell is that AGAIN” look.

So mother just called. She’s stopping by my aunts for a week and she’s visiting my hell hole of an apartment. I am sick too. So the only advantage I see here is that I get to boss her around. But yeah my mom and I are cool. Since dad left she took care of me so I’m giving back to her.

ON the lighter side of things, there are just some things that are not right. LOL I found number 2 - well the current number 2 too funny on iby’s Not Right Photos. I’ve a ton of not right photos too. Probably join in and let my friends hate me for life, hahaha! You know that look when someone clicks on the shutter without counting and comes out such an ugly face? My best bud Marco has the ugliest before-shutter-photo. And I mean the ugliest. Speaking of which I’m gonna go try find it and post it online. LOL!!!

Okay so I got hired. I have a more regular job now, but its work from home. Not bad, works out for me although the demands are quite high. Its a tricky field, so to speak. I’m what, a couple of weeks into it. Still trying to get used to it all, hope I last. But with the looks of things, I just might not! *coughs*

This week was unbelievably tiring. My work and personal life have been getting maltreatment from each other. I woke up at 4 in the morning today to do a production shoot that badly needed my assistance and a friend was deeply involved in the project so, I really had to show up. It went well, but after that, another responsibility had to be taken care of.

The sound engineer was obscenely late by 3 hours and so the rest of the working hours had to be moved later, which produced commotion between my work and I. I couldn’t have simplified the day any better as time had been truly victimized. After the realization, another thing popped into mind. I had other responsibilities.

I had to head on to another video production–which also involved friends out of town. I was doing head of the scripts for 2 projects in the same day. What kind of luck is this! The past few weeks have been quiet, you know the scheduling god could’ve done something about this, but no.

I am working in between work right now, as we speak.

So I was on my way to work today and I saw a group of students shooting a music video. Well, what made me say that was the fact that there was music being played in the background, but I could be wrong. It could be music to… help them feel what they were doing? Honestly, I have absolutely no idea what they were doing.

Time flies quick as my grandfather (He made 8 children). Long gone are the days when videocams were humongous you couldn’t just take them along with you anywhere. The handycam we have nowadays used to be considered spycams. The advent of the Minox Leica Digital edition shook my world. Lomography has yet blossomed once more and digital movie making has made millions of new directors the past 5 years alone.

Everyone can be a director now. Independent filmmakers win Oscars these days. It won’t be long until we all can become artists and make our own videos and compete in festivals all over the world. I’ve seen it happen and we’ve only just begun.

What’s up with Baron Davis nowadays?  Well…. He just invited people to challenge him.  You would think that if Baron Davis challenges you it would happen in a basketball court with a ball and would require slam dunks.  But no, this guy has a life outside the NBA and apparently it’s in a social networking site.

Baron Davis has challenged the world to have, own, grow the best beard ever.  According to AOL Sports, Davis has started an online competition that requires people to grow a beard and compete with him online, as to who has the best beard in town.

So he’s a talented basketball player, an indies filmmaker and now a beard challenger.  What’s going to be next? Funny though — this is a testament that this guy is truly fantastic.  It is also proof that not all basketball players are dumb.  He’s a great player, he’s rich and he’s down to earth and fun enough to compete with the whole world as to who has the best beard.  Amazingly enough, some of the readers of this article are taking up the challenge. Should I join the challenge as well?