(Figured I'd post this facebook note as a blog which will forward to fb anyway. Share it with my blog readers too)
Using only song names from ONE ARTIST, cleverly answer these questions. Pass it on to 25 people you like and include me (presuming I'm someone you like). You can't use the band I used. Try not to repeat a song title. It's a lot harder than you think! Repost as "my life according to (band name)"
Follow these simple instructions: Go to "notes" under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your title as "My life according to (band name), erase my songs & enter your answers, tag 25 people including me (tagging is done in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.
Pick your Artist: Miley Cyrus
Are you a male or female? "He Could be the One"
Describe yourself: "Fly on the Wall"
How do you feel: "Beautiful"
Describe where you currently live: "These Four Walls"
If you could go anywhere, where would you go? "You'll Always Find Your Way Back Home"
Your favorite form of transportation: "Butterfly Fly Away"
Your best friend? "True Friend"
You and your best friend are: "The Best of Both Worlds"
What is the weather: "Before the Storm"
Favorite time of day: "You and Me Together"
If your life was a TV show what would it be called: "Crazy"
What is life to you: "Fairytale"
Your relationship: "It's All Right Here"
Your fear: "The Bottom of the Ocean"
What is the best advice you have to give: "Send It On"
Facebook note posted as a blog (which forwards to fb) to spread the love to my blog readers. I'm nice like that. Or too lazy to figure out facebook...
You've been tagged. You are supposed to write a note with the 3's of YOU. At the end, choose 20 people to be tagged. You have to tag me so really you just need 19 more people. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you - but not in a creepy stalker kind of way.
(To do this, go to "notes" under tabs on your profile page, copy then paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 3's of Me, tag 20 people - in the right hand corner of the app - then click publish.)
Three names I go by: 1. (naHQun) 2. roneyii 3. Drug Guy
Three Jobs I have had in my life 1. Drug Runner 2. Professional Klingon Translator 3. Box Folderer (guy who folds boxes)
Three Places I have lived 1. San Jose, CA 2. Plano, TX 3. San Diego, CA
Three Favorite drinks 1. Dr Pepper 2. Slurpee 3. Fruit Punch
Three TV Shows that I watch 1. Hannah Montana 2. The Wizards of Waverly Place 3. Star Trek
Three places I have been 1. North/South Continental Divide 2. The Temple 3. Here
People that text me regularly 1. Connie 2. A little bird ;-) 3. Dalyn
Three of my favorite foods 1. Milk 2. Chocolate 3. Peanut Butter Sandwhiches
Three friends I think will respond 1. You 2. Not Connie, she started this 3. I think I summed it up in number 1
Three Things I am looking forward to 1. Finish Moving 2. Translating Time 3. Miley Cyrus concert in November
Three Wishes 1. Less Debt 2. more Unicode support for pIqaD (You can't read that ----> can you?) 3. World Peace (I was really at a loss)
There's an angry mob outside your door. They're trying to break it down. There's no way they'll do it on their own, your door is pretty tough. Regardless of your defences, you're responsible for everyone's safety, and so you stand guard.
You can hear the crys and shouts from the mob. One of the voices begins to stand out. He's able to shout louder and you begin to listen. You start to feel sorry for him, being stuck outside with the mob. His words make sense. You may not see eye-to-eye, but he has good reasons for entering through the door.
You want to let him in. Should you?
Your answer may have been "Of course not! The mob will pour in unstoppable."
Or it may have been "The safety of that one man is worth the risk of everyone inside, let's get him in. Somehow."
At the moment, there are several groups trying to redefine both marriage, and what is sexually acceptable in society.
Don't start screaming at me yet, hear me out. You really don't know what's coming next.
Now regardless of which group you belong to, you have your own set of moral standards. There are things that *you* consider to be "wrong" or "going too far".
Several states here in the US have legalized same-sex marriage. Several have tried and failed. But this is just the beginning.
They're represented by that guy you wanted to let in. But there's still a mob outside your door. They want in too. They also feel that they need to be legally represented and protected. Right or wrong, they want it.
Once you decide that marriage is NOT between "one man and one woman", you have to decide what it is.
So, what is it?
The biggest voice seems to be saying that it's between "two people". But that's rather vauge.
And why just two?
There are people out there that want to leagalize triads.
The term was new to me too. A triad is a loving relationship between THREE partners of ANY gender combination who love each of the other two partners equally.
What do they want? To have legal marriages. If for nothing else, the legal benefits would be nice.
But why bother writing the word "three" into the lawbooks? We'll just have to go back and legalize four in a few years anyway.
So we'll just leave that open.
Marriage is now a loving relationship/commitment between people.
This will more than likley legalize "traditional" plural marriage in the process.
Everyone is happy now, right?
Almost.
You say your uncle wanys to marry his goat? I'm only slightly joking. One of the benefits of marriage is sex. Even without marriage, people have sex. But "marriage" is the term being redefined at the moment, so we'll jump onto that bandwagon.
I hear news stories. Not often as I avoid the news, but they're there; people and animals.
So we now omit the word "people" from our definition.
That is one loose definition, but it should cover everyone.
Oh, but there's that unwritten part. The part covered by other laws and sublaws.
Age.
If that guys uncle can marry his goat, why can't this guy's uncle marry that little girl? Heck, why can't he marry his niece?
And on it goes.
No matter how many people you let in that door, there's always going to be somebody else trying to get in.
Once you unlock it, how do you choose who to let in?
Where do you draw the line?
I didn't call anyone right or wrong, I just said that they want to be called "right". And the more you say "yes", the harder it will be to say "no".
The third Wednesday of every month, is (wejDIch) Wednesday.
On this day all of my updates on Twitter (which are then forwarded to Facebook) are in Klingon.
ALL OF THEM.
So, on this third Wednesday of the month, I'm about to go and start my route for the evening, and I notice that my phone needs charged.
No big deal, I have my charger with me.
Or so I thought.
You see, normally I take my wall charger with me in the car, and via an adapter, I charge my phone through the cigarette lighter.
It just so happens that I forgot it. Again.
Hey! There's a Sprint store between me and my first stop. Two actually. I'll just pop in, buy a charger, and pop out. It'll be easy.
Or at least it should've been.
I show up at what used to be a Tony Romans restaurant, and go inside. The door clearly shows that I'm inside normal business hours.
I find my way to the little sign-in place to wait my turn to be helped.
A Sprint rep pops up at the desk and says "How can I help you?"
"I need a charger" I say while lifting up my phone.
I'm then informed that they're "too busy" to help me. I can't buy a charger.
"But I really need to buy a charger."
"My phone is going to die."
"My phone will NOT last through my shift. I NEED a charger."
Not only is this guy not selling me a charger, but he continues to get rudder and rudder and then flat out refuses to sell me a charger and practically kicks me out of the store.
He says they have too many customers to get to me. That there's a line and they just don't have time for me.
What‽
You're "too busy" and have "too many customers" to help me? You are *refusing* me service?
I was NOT happy. I was SO not happy that I tweeted about it. IN ENGLISH.
Yes, I broke my 24 hour Klingon-only tweeting and yelled at Sprint.
I'm sure this shocked my followers.
The next day, I stopped at the Sprint store where I bought my phone in the first place.
They were 10 minutes away from closing, had 1 rep and 1 customer.
Great.
Before I'm even through the door, I'm greeted by name.
It's made clear that he'll be glad to help me, but he's with someone else.
I let the rep know that I'm there for a *second* charger. That I keep forgetting my charger at home, and need an additional one.
"So you need a charger for your office"
Sure. No point bringing up that my office is my car. I'm cool with a car charger or the Touchstone.
The Touchstone is this really cool charger that charges 40%? faster than the wall charger and it charges via magnetic induction. You just set your phone on the hockey puck looking thing and it charges like magic.
For $75.
I don't have much of a choice as Walmart clearly doesn't carry any other options.
So I buy it and go to work.
Two hours later, I decide to play with my new toy.
I open the box, pull out the disk, and look for the cord. And look for the cord. And wonder where the cord is.
There's no cord.
Huh?
I read the box.
It requires the cord from my wall charger that came with my phone. This is clearly a problem.
This is NOT a *second* charger. It's a charger ACCESSORY.
IT'S AN ACCESSORY TO AN ACCESSORY!!!
It is useless for my needs.
I don't have $75 to just toss around for a cool disk. A cool disk that requires me to continue moving my charger back and forth from house to car and back again.
The next day I have my wife return the charger. I've had enough of this.
Early one morning 17-yearold high school student Jane Doe (names of minors are protected under the law) got dressed for school. It wasn't just *any* day, it was yearbook picture day. She had planned ahead and knew just the skirt to wear. She also planned not to wear anything underneath.
She decided that the best way to avoid her panty line showing was to just go without. Noone would notice. But when it cane time for her club picture, she was placed in the front row. Sitting down.
She did her best to keep her legs together, but when she got ahold of her yearbook, she noticed something: you could tell.
Yes, according to Jane Doe and her mother, you can see Janes private parts in the yearbook. Other students tend to agree.
Jane has stopped going to school out of embarasment.
Jane and Mrs. Doe have asked (demanded?) that the school collect all of the yearbooks, stop giving yearbooks out, and republish sans the offending picture.
Seems reasonable.
The schoolboard has refuesed.
They claim that every picture goes through an approval process before inclusion in the yearbook and that you can not see Jane's privates in the picture.
"It's a shadow."
They seem to be very strongly convinced that they are in the right, and the yearbooks will remain unchanged. They're even trying to tell the local media to drop the story--because there isn't one.
Jane and mom are still upset.
I can see both parties points of view.
Jane knows that she "went commando" to school that day. Therefore she probably looked a little harded at the picture. She feels, and therefore her mother feels, that she has been exposed and embarresed in front of the entire school.
Having naked pictures of yourself floating around is never good.
The school knows that it will be *VERY* expensive to collect and republish the yearbooks all because one girl made a blunder. Of course they don't /want/ to do it.
The shadow? The moment they admit that Jane is right, and that her vagina is showing, they *MUST* remove the pic. If Jane is right, then the school has published indecent pictures of a minor. The school is guilty of selling and distributing child pornography to minors and adults.
I wouldn't want to be on that school board.
It would cost A LOT to ensure that EVERY yearbook was collected and destroyed. Find the negatives and destroy them.
And what happens when someone refuses?
The safest course for the school is to deny that a problem exists. Meanwhile, hundreds of students have access to one very embarasing and highly illeagal picture.
Anyone of them could be charged with posetion. All it takes is one call...
Fans around the world cried out in shock when it was announced that an entire Klingon sub-plot had been removed from the new Trek movie. There were to be NO Klingons in the film.
“We actually had a sequence that ended up getting cut from the movie that took place on Rura Penthe, in a Klingon prison,” co-writer Alex Kurtzman told SCI FI Wire, explaining the deletion. “And there was definitely Klingon spoken in the movie, and it ended up getting cut.”
WHAT?!
Klingons have been in EVERY Star Trek movie! All 10 of them! But sadly, after viewing the movie twice, no actual Klingons show up on the big screen. The most we get is a simulated attack by three Klingon ships during Kirk's Kobiashi Maru. Which happens to be what we got in Star Trek II.
We've been informed that the Klingons will be available as a deleted scene on the DVD.
But did Klingon fans miss out entirely?
We didn't.
It seems the Klingons were cut at the last minute. Therefore, all of the marketing (official and otherwise) assumed the presence of Klingons.
Kellogg's
It started with Kellogg's cereal. Inside select boxes of Kellogg's cereal were "beam up badges". Three Starfleet badges, one Romulan, and our favorite, Klingon. As you can tell, it looks like a Klingon communicator, and it lights up. It looks SO much cooler than the Romulan badge.
Burger King
We shall now move onto my friends over at Burger King. Burger King went all out this year. They filmed their commercials on the actual Star Trek sets and they even revamped their mascot, The King.
Behold, the Kingons! (Get it? King-ons.)
Yes. According to Burger King, "Kingons" may be the product of a 'special moment' between The King and a female Klingon.
Burger King even set up a special site Kingon Defense Academy. On this site you can complete your training to protect your BK glasses from Kingons. After you complete your training, it allows you to print out a diploma and rank badge. It even comes with a Kingon mask for your friend to wear while he attacks you.
Yes, Burger King put A LOT of effort into this.
But that's not all! Besides having Kingons, they also had toys! Yes toys. And if you were lucky, you scored a Kingon Warbird.
Scene It?
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Like all of you, I bought Star Trek Scene It? when it came out a few months ago. And of course all of the tokens (game pieces) were Federation ships. Big deal. But wait! At Best Buy, and Best Buy only, you can get your very own Klingon Bird-of-Prey token! All you have to do is buy Star Trek on a fancy blue disc. Or pay for it.
Yes, now you can challenge your friends to the ultimate test of Star Trek trivia, and show of your Klingon pride!
Ultralingua
Ultralingua has come out with their Regulation Starfleet Klingon Language Suite for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Now you too can learn the warrior's tongue. And on the go! Their Klingon -English dictionary is also available for Windows.
I'm currently downloading the free trial, so I don't know too much about it. But I've heard from people who have the suite that if you don't have an iPhone/iPod, you'll want one now.
Trek Phrase
In competition with the official Ultralinga app, Trek Phrase has released their own Klingon language app for the iPhone. It's not currently available, so I haven't heard any reviews. It's also not "official", unlike the Ultralingua app that's made in cooperation with Simon & Schuster. So we'll see if they even get approved to sell their app. I hope they do.
Sophos Klingon Anti-Virus
And now my personal favorite, a Klingon language anti-virus! Translated by me!!! Okay, I'll admit that I'd rather play with a Warbird than scan my laptop for viruses. But I'm still excited about having this big translation project under my belt. There's not much else to say about this one. It's a Klingon version of thier Anti-Virus scan. That I translated! Download it!
So, with all of the media attention on the Klingons this year, hopefully CBS Paramount will take a hint and include them in the next film.
Honorable Mention
Movie or not, Diamond Select Toys released this Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Worf/Gowron 2-pack. This is another one that I haven't been able to acquire, but it's on my list.
Sadly, there were two not connected to the recent film that also got cut.
Kruge-and Maltz from Star Trek III had their own 2-pack planned. Reports from DST indicate a lack of Internet pre-orders, therefore not warranting production. This had been my one "must have" item of the year. Star Trek III is a GREAT film. It's the reason we have the Klingon language that we have today. It's the reason that the Klingons STILL have the ridges that they have today. And Maltz is the Klingon informant that Marc Okrand gets all of our new Klingon words from.
