Jacob Ratcliffe, 16, attending The King's School, Grantham. This blog is an insight to what I think, think about, and enjoy.
Monday, 28 February 2011
Moar Oatie goodness
Hahaha, anything on http://theoatmeal.com is hilarious!
For anyone with a cat: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/cat_vs_internet
For anyone with a cat: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/cat_vs_internet
Luckily this didn't have to happen on the Austria trip
http://169533.likecase.com/
1st : go to google translater .
2nd : paste this 'dududududuudduduudududududududududuudududeabefsjfghaweduuuuuuuuuuuuuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiguguguguguhuhujuju'
3rd : Translate from Czech to Czech
Hahaha, the uuuuuuuuuuiiiiiiiiiii bit sounds a bit like the Eastern Jam intro
2nd : paste this 'dududududuudduduudududududududududuudududeabefsjfghaweduuuuuuuuuuuuuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiguguguguguhuhujuju'
3rd : Translate from Czech to Czech
Hahaha, the uuuuuuuuuuiiiiiiiiiii bit sounds a bit like the Eastern Jam intro
Sunday, 27 February 2011
Between The Gutter and The Stars
Love this, and the rest of the album. If it hasn't or doesn't make it into Grimshaw's 1000 Albums, something's gone wrong.
New digicam test
Got a new digicam for christmas, an Olympus X-940, and took the oppurtunity of Coco being sat on a windowsill to test it out.
Also used it to document the destruction of my room following my frantic search for my Russell Howard tickets to see him at the Trent FM Arena. Mum found them in the end of course, and it was so damn worth it, he's even funnier live than he is on TV!
Also used it to document the destruction of my room following my frantic search for my Russell Howard tickets to see him at the Trent FM Arena. Mum found them in the end of course, and it was so damn worth it, he's even funnier live than he is on TV!
Saturday, 26 February 2011
Photography’s Longest Exposure
Six months. That’s right. This dream-like picture shows each phase of the sun over Bristol’s Clifton Suspension Bridge taken during half a year. The image was captured on a pin-hole camera made from an empty soda can with a 0.25mm aperture and a single sheet of photographic paper. Photographer Justin Quinnell strapped the camera to a telephone pole overlooking the Gorge, where it was left between December 19, 2007 and June 21, 2008—the Winter and Summer solstices. (That’s a 15,552,000 second exposure.) ‘Solargraph’ shows six months of the sun’s luminescent trails and its subtle change of course caused by the earth’s movement in orbit. The lowest arc being the first day of exposure on the Winter solstice, while the top curves were captured mid-Summer. (Dotted lines of light are the result of overcast days when the sun struggled to penetrate the cloud.) Quinnell, a renowned pin-hole camera artist, says the photograph took on a personal resonance after his father passed away on April 13—halfway through the exposure. He says the picture allows him to pinpoint the exact location of the sun in the sky at the moment of his father passing.
(via http://ethevans.tumblr.com)
Next all-over-the-net rapper
Saturday, 19 February 2011
Friday, 18 February 2011
Music to kill people to
Dark as fuck.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C-ITwI_8lU&feature=player_embedded
and mental as fuck.
and mental as fuck.
Tyler the Creator (just signed to XL, also home to Radiohead and The XX) is part of the OddFuture crew, and they're all over the internet at the moment. With good reason, as you can see.
Thursday, 17 February 2011
Wednesday, 16 February 2011
Faith
An Atheist Professor of Philosophy was speaking to his Class on the problem Science has with God. He asked one of his new Christian students to stand.
- Professor: You are a Christian, aren’t you, son?
- Student: Yes, sir.
- Professor: So, you believe in God?
- Student: Absolutely, sir.
- Professor: Is God good?
- Student: Sure.
- Professor: My brother died of cancer, even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn’t. How is God good, then? Hmm?
- (Student was silent)
- Professor: You can’t answer, can you? Let’s start again, young fella. Is God good?
- Student: Yes.
- Professor: Is Satan good?
- Student: No.
- Professor: Where does Satan come from?
- Student: From.. God.
- Professor: That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
- Student: Yes.
- Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it? And God did make everything. Correct?
- Student: Yes.
- Professor: So who created evil?
- (Student didn’t answer)
- Professor: Is there sickness? Immortality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don’t they?
- Student: Yes, sir.
- Professor: So, who created them?
- (Student had no answer)
- Professor: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son.. have you ever seen God?
- Student: No, sir.
- Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your God.
- Student: No, sir.
- Professor: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God, for that matter?
- Student: No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.
- Professor: Yet you still believe in Him?
- Student: Yes.
- Professor: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, Science says your God doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?
- Student: Nothing. I only have my Faith.
- Professor: Yes, Faith. And that is the problem Science has.
- Student: Professor, is there such a thing as Heat?
- Professor: Yes.
- Student: And is there such a thing as Cold?
- Professor: Yes.
- Student: No, sir, there isn’t.
- (The Lecture Theatre became very quiet with this turn of events)
- Student: Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don’t have anything called cold. We can hit 458 Degrees below Zero which is no heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of Heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.
- (There was a pon-drop silence in the Lecture Theatre)
- Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
- Professor: Yes. What is night if there isn’t darkness?
- Student: You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have Low Light, Normal Light, Bright Light, Flashing Light… But if you have No Light constantly, you have nothing and it’s called Darkness, isn’t it? In reality, darkness isn’t. If it is, You would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?
- Professor: So what is the point you are making, young man?
- Student: Sir, my point is, your Philosophical Premise is flawed.
- Professor: Flawed? Can you explain how?
- Student: Sir, you are working on the Premise of Duality. You argue there is Life and then there is Death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can’t even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life, just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
- Professor: If you are referring to the Natural Evolutionary Process, yes of course, I do.
- Student: Have you ever observed Evolution with your own eyes, sir?
- (The professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was going)
- Student: Since no one has ever observed the Process of Evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a Scientist but a Preacher?
- (The class was in uproar)
- Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?
- (The class broke out into laughter)
- Student: Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? .. No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established Rules of Empirical, Stable and Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures?
- (The room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face unfathomable)
- Professor: I guess you’ll have to take them on Faith, son.
- Student: That is it, sir.. exactly! The link between man and God is Faith. That is all that keeps things alive and moving!
- ----------------------------------------------------
- That student was Albert Einstein.
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Dr Terry Moore (64) is pictured at his home with his two female Snow Leopards at the Cat Survival Trust in Welwyn, England. The Cat Survival Trust is home to 32 endangered cats, including puma, lynx, bobcats, ocelots, Scottish wildcats. Dr Terry Moore and his wife Judith run the rescue centre on the grounds of their home in Welwyn, Hertfordshire.
A newborn male royal antelope stretches its legs at the San Diego Zoo (which, incidentally, was the first zoo in the Western Hemisphere to have a royal antelope birth).
An Abyssinian Colobus baby yawns at the Nogeyama Zoological Gardens in Yokohama, Japan
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Ernest Shackleton's 137th birthday
as celebrated on Google today:
10 things to know about the famous explorer and a good old englishman:
1) The second of ten children, Shackleton was born 15 February 1874 in Kilkea, County Kildare, Ireland.
2) Restlessness at school meant Shackleton was to allowed to leave at 16 and go to sea, taking an apprenticeship "before the mast" on a sailing vessel.
3) In 1898, he was certifed as a Master Marine, qualifying him to command a British ship anywhere in the world.
4) On 17 February 1901, Shackleton was appointed thired officer to the National Antarctic Expedition's ship Discovery, having impressed the main financial backer Llewellyn Longstaff and expedition overlord Sir Clements Markham with his keenness.
5) Shackleton was chosen by Robert Falcon Scott to accompany Edward Wilson and himself on a march south to achieve the highest possible latitude in the direction of the South Pole. They set out on 2 November 1902 and reached a record Farthest South latitude of 82 degress 17'.
6) On the return journey, having suffered from snow blindness, frostbite and scurvy, Shackleton had by his own admission "broken down" and, after reaching the ship on 4 February 1903, Scott sent Shackleton home on a relief ship.
7) Venturing into politics, Shackleton stood for the Liberal Unionists in Dundee in the 1906 General Election. He was unsuccessful.
8) The Nimrod expedition, otherwise known as the Great Southern Journey began on 19 october 1908 and by January, Shackleton and companions had reached a new Farthest South latitude of 88 degrees 23'S, only 112 miles from the South Pole.
9) Disaster struck Shackleton's most ambitious expedition - the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 191417 - when its ship, Endurance, was trapped in pack ice and slowly crushed, before the shore parties could be landed.
10) Shackleton died on 5 January 1922 from a fatal heart attack.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/02/15/ernest-shackleton-google-doodle-ten-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-polar-explorer-115875-22925386/
10 things to know about the famous explorer and a good old englishman:
1) The second of ten children, Shackleton was born 15 February 1874 in Kilkea, County Kildare, Ireland.
2) Restlessness at school meant Shackleton was to allowed to leave at 16 and go to sea, taking an apprenticeship "before the mast" on a sailing vessel.
3) In 1898, he was certifed as a Master Marine, qualifying him to command a British ship anywhere in the world.
4) On 17 February 1901, Shackleton was appointed thired officer to the National Antarctic Expedition's ship Discovery, having impressed the main financial backer Llewellyn Longstaff and expedition overlord Sir Clements Markham with his keenness.
5) Shackleton was chosen by Robert Falcon Scott to accompany Edward Wilson and himself on a march south to achieve the highest possible latitude in the direction of the South Pole. They set out on 2 November 1902 and reached a record Farthest South latitude of 82 degress 17'.
6) On the return journey, having suffered from snow blindness, frostbite and scurvy, Shackleton had by his own admission "broken down" and, after reaching the ship on 4 February 1903, Scott sent Shackleton home on a relief ship.
7) Venturing into politics, Shackleton stood for the Liberal Unionists in Dundee in the 1906 General Election. He was unsuccessful.
8) The Nimrod expedition, otherwise known as the Great Southern Journey began on 19 october 1908 and by January, Shackleton and companions had reached a new Farthest South latitude of 88 degrees 23'S, only 112 miles from the South Pole.
9) Disaster struck Shackleton's most ambitious expedition - the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 191417 - when its ship, Endurance, was trapped in pack ice and slowly crushed, before the shore parties could be landed.
10) Shackleton died on 5 January 1922 from a fatal heart attack.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/02/15/ernest-shackleton-google-doodle-ten-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-polar-explorer-115875-22925386/
Monday, 14 February 2011
Dance like a butterfly, sting like a bee
Muhammad Ali V.S. Cleveland Williams (1966)
Houston Astrodome (80ft above the ring)Photo: Neil LeiferThis is often regarded as one of the greatest sports photographs of the 20th century and is Leifer’s favourite photograph of his 40 year career.
Mike Relm makes stuff cool
I normally moan at people for watching kids' TV shows, but this short animation has music by Mike Relm, so it's completely acceptable!
A favourite track of mine by Mike can be found here. Anything with Del is rad, enjoy!
Sunday, 13 February 2011
Old Roots Manuva is the best Roots Manuva
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