Robert's Blog
The Plan
I’ve never played Monopoly, although I’ve always wanted to.
Believe it or not, it’s downloading right now.
I’m reading an amazing book I recommend to everyone who fancies financial freedom. I’m gonna be looking for a job soon, I thought, as I finally said goodbye school, vaya con dios.
Wise decision = wise information, so I set about planning my working-class future. What job should I get, hr or project management, maybe stick with graphic design, this was my main dilemma just a few days ago.
Not so today, after I picked up the fore-mentioned amazing book called “The Cash Flow Quadrant”, by Robert Kyiosaki. Today, I have a new-found interest in finances, I plan to learn accounting, how the banking system works, the stock market, how to be a great entrepreneur, and a successful future investor. What changes I want to make around me, and how to build business systems to support them.
At this point, the future looks bright enough to wake up in the morning for.
It’s good to have a plan, the virgo in me would add.
An Inconvenient Truth II: This Time It's Personal
I haven’t specifically been looking for the most hilarious movie review I’ve ever read, but I found it.You’ve most definitely seen it, it’s a Steven Seagal Classic. I hate Steven Seagal movies, and still I’ve seen it about two times.
Found it on Cracked.com. Here goes:
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On Deadly Ground
The Plot
Steven Seagal IS Forrest Taft, an ex-CIA badass who puts out oil-well fires for a living. How does he put them out? He blows them the fuck up, that’s how! But, when his Big Oil employer (Michael Caine) kills Forrest’s best friend so that the company can keep letting faulty equipment start deadly oil fires and so they can rip off the local Eskimos in some complicated way, Forrest becomes slightly curious. So, his boss tries to blow him up too.
One Eskimo spirit journey later (he fights a fucking bear) …
… Forrest is finally ready to kill some fuckers and blow up some shit for the environment.
The Message
Big Oil is Bad. Let’s Kill the Fuckers.
Think of it as An Inconvenient Truth II: This Time It’s Personal. Of course, Seagal is so ahead of his time that he had the idea more than a decade before Al Gore decided that a slideshow about global warming would be a cool thing to put in a movie. Seriously, the movie ends with our hero giving a 3.5-minute speech (we timed it) about the need for alternative-energy sources.
Significant Quote
“How many of you out there have heard of alternative engines? Engines that can run on anything from alcohol to garbage or water. Or carburetors that can get hundreds of miles to the gallon. Or electric or magnetic engines, that can practically run forever. You don’t know about them because if they were to come into use, they’d put the oil companies out of business… Big Business is primarily responsible for destroying the water we drink, the air we breathe and the food we eat. They have no care for the world they destroy, only for the money they make in the process.” -Forrest Taft
Bonus Message
Eskimos rock, even if we can’t tell them apart from the Chinese.
Yeah, But Do They Still Blow Some Shit Up?
Motherfucker, they blow shit up in the first scene. And, the explosions just keep getting bigger from there. For somebody who cares so much about the environment, this Taft guy sure burns a lot of fossil fuels. Add in some solid fight scenes, excellent shoot-outs and enough blood to fill the dolphin tank at Sea World and kill all the fucking dolphins, and you’ve got one hell of a crazy, dumb action flick.
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twistori
Twitter is a kind of one-way messaging service. You get an account, download some kind of application, and everytime you’re doing or thinking about something new that you want the world to know, you write it.
Like “Wahoo! Got to leave work early! I love my life! And most importantly, I love my Jesus!”
You can subscribe to your loved ones, sympathised ones and stalked ones, to be updated on what they’re doing.
I’m writing about it because these guys started a fascinating social experiment that scans all messages from twitter for keywords like ‘love’, ‘hate’, ‘think’ or ‘believe’, and displays them on one page. Random stalking, if you will.
And it looks good too - See it in action.
Mysteries - Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man
God knows how I adore life
When the wind turns on the shores lies another day
I cannot ask for more
When the time bell blows my heart
And I have scored a better day
Well nobody made this war of mine
And the moments that I enjoy
A place of love and mystery
I’ll be there anytime
Visions (edit version) - Hooverphonic
These visions make us desperate
Give us hope
The end is always the start of a
New episode
Feel free to interact with the plot
The choice can really mean a lot
Just try to translate this secret code
Why humans aren't so special after all
A fascinating article about six characteristics we like to think of as being uniquely human, and how they are also found in other life forms.
The 6 traits are: culture, morality, emotions, personality, tool use and intuition.
Sad Song - Hooverphonic
You most certainly know who they are, from songs like ‘Mad About You’ or ‘Eden’.
What you’re probably about to discover, is their less-mainstream, though equally impressive album ‘Sit down and listen to Hooverphonic’.
Recorded live with an orchestra, the album is a compilation of previous songs, together with the new ‘Antarctica’, ‘The Last Thing I Need is You’, and ‘My Autumn’s Done Come’ - originally by Lee Hazlewood. The orchestra’s aid adds to the trip-hop feeling, while making the album perfect for easy listening.
Download, sit down and listen to Hooverphonic here.
The marvels of neuroscience
Whoa! Did you know that it’s impossible to tickle one’s self?
What’s up with that?!
Anyway.
Watch this to see why.