An acapella cover of Gerudo Valley from Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, performed by Smooth McGroove.
Submitted by: rabalogy. Thank you!
(Source: elijahwood)
Now that humans have extended their reach to just about every part of Earth, the idea of “wilderness” is being challenged. If science fails to intervene on this island, a top predator goes extinct (and not because of us) and moose populations could go out of control. But does intervention to save the wolves destroy the meaning of “wilderness”? Where do we draw the line?
(via jtotheizzoe)Oh man, running into one fully-grown moose on Isle Royals was scary enough. I can’t imagine what that island would be like if there was a population boom. That said, whose place is it to say?
Obama’s one-liners during his speech at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
Slow Motion: Camera Flash Bulb Shot at 1052 FPS
WOOOO!
So, I bought myself a nexus 7 just a few days ago because my laptop is unwieldy and I needed something portable/more up-to-date, and my most excellent girlfriend just bought me a little keyboard to go with it! This is a test of the new keyboard. It is wonderful, due in no small part to the fact that it makes me feel like a giant.
rigor samsa
n. a kind of psychological exoskeleton that can protect you from pain and contain your anxieties, but always ends up cracking under pressure or hollowed out by time—and will keep growing back again and again, until you develop a more sophisticated emotional structure, held up by a strong and flexible spine, built less like a fortress than a cluster of treehouses.
it's frantastic!: Also this is funny to me, so
There’s that contest going around—maybe you’ve seen it on Facebook—where Smash (the television show that I don’t watch) is giving a high school a new theater. Which is great! I have no qualms, support the Arts, etc. But a lot of kids from my high school are sharing the link around because we are…
As an alumnus of Prospect (and as someone who was frequently involved in theater things there (seriously like upwards of 4 shows a year for three years)), I feel it is within my boundaries to say “yikes” to how some Prospect people are acting with regard to this theater competition thing. Like Fran says, Prospect doesn’t have a theater anyone would call “grand”, but I certainly wouldn’t think anyone would call it “bad”. I mean, the theater has a lighting and sound system, it seats more people than typically come to the shows in it, and perhaps most importantly, it exists. Several other contestant schools in this thing need a new theater because they don’t even have one! They’re doing performances in shared rooms, modified cafeterias, etc, or they aren’t doing performances at all because, as Fran said, the school was destroyed in in a hurricane. There’s entitlement and there’s Entitlement, Prospect.
Some percentages about the past 8 hours:
Time spent writing essay: ~50%
Time spent dealing with Six Flags ridiculousness: ~40%
Time spent worrying/being annoyed about Six Flags ridiculousness: 100%
Time spent eating: ~2%
Time spent formatting my essay so that it fits on few enough pages and has no free-floating headings: ~8%
Portion of my essay that is written in iambic pentameter: ~3%
