Vape my Mind Away

Recently a new anti-smoking tool has come to the surface. The hand-held vapor e-cigarette. To the unfamiliar eye it would appear to be either a writing utensil or a sex toy, they come in all shapes and strengths and they kick all kinds of ass. Basically they are nicotine vapors mixed with PG and VG.

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Vegetable Glycerin (VG) is a thick, sweet liquid.  VG produces luscious clouds of vapor.  VG also imparts a sweeter taste to your liquid.

Propylene Glycol (PG) is a much thinner tasteless liquid.  PG produces more of a “throat hit” than VG does, which simulates the feel of smoking better.  PG also has a higher rate of sensitivity for some people, meaning that some people just can’t use PG in their vape.

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Basically VG (which I am vaping right now) is for your younger "cloud chasing" demographic as well as someone recovering from hookah or marijuana abuse. It is tastier, easier to use and makes hella huge clouds. On the other end of the spectrum is PG. PG is for the user who wishes to simulate smoking tobacco due to the fact that PG will harsh your throat much like tobacco products do, it also produces smaller clouds which can allow for more discrete vaping, perhaps in public or at work. 

Now in the beginning since it is such a new product there was speculation especially in Baytown TX that the product would be banned and or strictly moderated. Fortunately after Zach Jones and several other members of the Vapor Community made their appeal to the city the heat was off, but the real beauty of the situation is that the FDA recently released their official ruling on the product. After several case studies there seems to be no negative effect of vaping except for the nicotine value, and they do have a line of 0% nic. vapors on the market. So the official ruling is that you must be 18 and it cannot be sold to minors. That is it! The market is now booming with excitement and making money hand over fist due tot these lax regulations. It could be the gold rush of 2014. 

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#ChromeLife

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You know what's pretty cool? Google Chrome. Man, if i had to use any other browser after having Chrome for so long I would probably just give up on the internet. Google has always had a way of taking all the best technology and rolling it into one big, fat, beautiful, and usually free technological doobee. Now on the surface Chrome may just look like a sleek app-like web browser, but upon delving into the life style that is being a "Chromie" then you would realize it is much more than that. From the top down it is truly a work of art. The way the tabs stack and all regularly refreshed is a subtle yet valuable asset to the multi-tabbers like myself. The favorite's bar is thin yet efficient, it allows you to easily accesses your most visited sites but does not interfere with your surfing pleasure. the profile of the window is so thin it almost makes my 23 in monitor fell like a 24 in.

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 when I describe Chrome to people I compare it to the world of automobiles. Internet explorer is much like your grandfathers old pick-up truck. Slow, ugly, and unreliable. unfortunately just like said truck, when your turn comes around to finally start cruising the internet this is where you will have to start. Do not fret though using this program will keep you humble for the browsers of your future. Mozilla Firefox is a big step in the right direction, sleek, playful and very customizable. It is the 06 Mustang, many accessories and body kits are there to make you feel like you have designed your own ride, even though the speed and mechanics never really get any better you can see past this due to the level of personal touch you have added. Chrome is the B-250 stealth bomber. Sleek, capable, and silent. Sure it take a bit more skill and resources to make use of it but man, whenever you master this browser you will truly destroy the competition. 

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The Psychological Breakdown of Winnie the Pooh

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What makes a television show popular? Catchy phrases and easily remembered characters? These factors help, but what I fin time and time again is that the best films are always more than meets the eye.  Winnie the Pooh is the american epitome of childhood entertainment. A lovable bear and his human friend go on various adventures with the other critters of the 100 acre wood. But why are these characters so familiar feeling?

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People are naturally attracted to wounded or incomplete personality. It is human nature to feel comforted by the suffrage of another being as it inspires both a moral sense of comfort as well as it makes you appreciate what you have. The reason that Winnie the Pooh is such a popular program is because every corrector is "Broken." This broken-ness is calming to the viewer because it allows you to sympathies for their suffering, even though they are all obliviously personifying several individual psychological disorders they never complain about it, only the viewer can truly comprehend the whole picture in this grand scheme. This knowledge outside the 4th wall is what attracts the viewer, because as a human witnessing another creature suffer and not deserve it compels you to sympathize for them as well as insure their safety and well being. 

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Piglet -  Generalized Anxiety Disorder. He may have suffered a significant self-esteem injury in the past which is causing him great stress, anxiety and general nervousness. He also suffers from a distinct speech impediment with his stuttering problem which might be related to the irrational anxiety he experiences.

Owl -  Dyslexia. It is quite clear that he is a dyslectic. However, it should be said that he is extremely bright despite his disorder.

Tigger - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. He cannot control his hyperactivity. What is worse, he is prepared to try any substance or matter that comes along his path which could indicate a substance abuse problem. Also, he is extremely impulsive, which in turn could potentially make him a bad role model. Nevertheless, he is a social magnet but those drawn into him run the risk of getting themselves into trouble because of his questionable behaviour.

Kanga Roo - Social Anxiety Disorder. Specifically, overprotective mothering. She is clearly obsessed with controlling her young and will not let them to make decisions, make mistakes, grant them any time on their own etcetera. This is commonly know as suffocation.

Rabbit - Obsessive-compulsive disorder. He over-organizes and is obsessed with order and method. Also, for a male character, he behaves very feminine. Which in most cases would direct your classification of his character towards homosexuality. However, it must be noted of course, that this is merely an observation of his character and not classified as a disorder of any kind.

Eeyore - Depressive Disorder. He has a major general downcast and negative outlook on life which render him incapable of experiencing emotions like joy and excitement. He could be a major depressive.

Christopher Robin - Schizophrenia. The imagination of Robin often manifests itself through auditory hallucinations where all of the above mentioned characters are formed in his mind. It is very likely that these characters represent feelings he experiences in his internal world. Since he is a child, he is still learning how to function socially and interact with the external world. Each character could represent a different reaction or feeling within himself as he learns to cope and deal with that extra world.

Terminology definition as observed from
"The Mental Disorders of Winnie-the-Pooh Characters." Knowledge Guild. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Apr. 2014.

The walking dead and their stylish scarfs.

     On the topic of Zombies I am quiet the aficionado, having been a nerd since the play pen I have grown to love such things. The funny thing is that Zombies are real...

     They may not walk the streets in shambles, limping and smelling of rotted flesh, but then again what is a Zombie? 


                      "The body of a dead person given the semblance of life, but mute and will-less, by a supernatural force, usually for some evil purpose."

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    So basically anyone who is mute and will-less could be considered a Zombie. For the sake of argument let's play make believe. Say you where walking down the street, where you're heading is irrelevant, but you do know that eventually you will arrive at your destination. This is not something that you had to decide, it's just the way of the world. When you leave you are simultaneously going, even if there is no motive. But likewise whenever you leave you are as a by-product moving on to the next place. The same is true about decisions. If I decided tomorrow that i would never right with my left hand again, that that means that I've started my journey into the world of being right-handed. If you never swear again as long as you live, you will most likely find new words to supplement for your retired profanity. So if i one day decided that I no longer wish to conform to the laws of fashion, then in the same step I would be embracing the idea of non-fashion. I would have to think independently about what I ought to look like. Everyday would be a brain-game of stringing together an outfit of brand-less clothing. In retrospect that would be the purest way to dress. I'm not sure what the wold sees as progress when people are walking around in what could be considered free advertising. The true beauty of the clothing market is just that, it wasn't actually free. Any time you pull on your Victoria's Secret yoga pants you become a billboard with legs. Generally speaking a business has to rent their billboards, but in this strange scenario you actually paid them to become their billboard. It's the perfect crime, make people feel like they have no identity, build a level of self-cautiousness that borders on suicidal and then pawn your own image off onto them in their time of weakness. Before today I never really realized the backwardness of this business format but now it sickens me. 

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          So if the fashion industry is actually creating Zombies, then what is their grand scheme here? Surely it's not the money, don't get me wrong I do believe that charging 90 bucks for some flannel is outrageous, but money is everywhere. It has to be something more benevolent that that. What if the whole fashion industry is run by an evil scientist that wants nothing more than to wrap everyone in his poorly crafted clothing and laugh as they argue about who's was more expensive. Yes, I think that may be it. Perhaps he get's some sick satisfaction out of selling a product that's made for pennies and making a mint off of each article. Maybe this is just the beginning. Surely you're familiar with the way Zombies work, every thing is fine until one day someone get's infected. It then spreads like wild fire until the population is more Zombie than not, and the lone survivors are made leathery and strong. Perhaps this is case 0. The first outbreak before the great cleansing actually beings. Evil mastermind or not, one thing is to be said for the fashion moguls of the world, they certainly have succeeded in the mass production of Zombies.. The infection is real. 

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The Fashion of Nightmares

Body modification - the intentional alteration of the human body. 

Body modification has been a staple of human culture since the dawn of time, but with the advanced procedures of the twenty-first century, have humans gone to far? 

In rural China the practice of foot binding was a sign of status. To "bind a foot"  a woman's feet are intentionally broken and left to heal in an unnatural form. It forced the woman to take much smaller steps, which was the custom of aristocratic Chinese women as they where never supposed to be in a rush. But this practice was not unique to China. To this day, In Borneo it is still common to see a native who has a bone through his nose or gauged ears, these both being signs of a strong male native. these examples are a bit archaic, usually done by the participant or a local volunteer, but the body modification of today is a booming market.

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 You may know it as "plastic surgery" or "getting inked" but the ideology is still the same, a desire to be independent from your peers. Sometimes it is a cry for help, and sometimes it is done just for pleasure or to commemorate a memory. The specifics are irrelevant, but what is the resounding factor is that it is still happening, and it's getting out of hand. 

I present to you, Lizard Man. Lizard Man is a known body modifier, or as the detractors say a "body mutilator." He has had countless operations to make his body emulate that of, you guessed it, a lizard. I usually don't resort to profanity, but that is some crazy shit man... From having his tongue surgically forked to having his whole body including his scalp tattooed this man had completely stripped himself of his humanistic identity.  Aside from his birth record the only way he can be identified is as Lizard Man, for obvious reasons, but what makes someone choose this lifestyle? Is it art, or a chemical deficiency in his brain? Is this a factor of intimidation, or a guise of protection that separates these extremists from the pressures of conforming to cookie-cutter society? You decide.   

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"It doesn't matter who we are... what matters is our plan. No one cared who I was until I put on the mask." -Bane 'The Dark Knight Rises'

Crime of the Century

Wi-fi is rapidly becoming a universal component in everyday life, but should it be shared? The internet is a free place, but it's not always free to access. Imagine a ship channel, someone charges you to put your vessel in but once you leave port you're left to your own devices. You pay for your ship and you pay for your port access but no one can own the sea. But just like the stow-always on sailing vessels, stow-always on the internet are just a prevalent if not more so. The only difference is that your port access fee is now your internet provider’s monthly fee.

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A large misconception of the internet world is that “stealing” Wi-Fi is a victimless crime. Much to my despair my neighbor tends to “piggy-back” upon my internet connection, and as an avid online gamer this causes my experience to suffer. Now it could be argued that since I refuse to lock my connection that I am allowing myself to be a victim, but is it to say that breaking into a car is okay just because it was left unlocked? We don’t take someone’s food out of the oven because it was left un-attended nor do we take money from a wallet just because it was left un-snapped. The big illusion is that a purse thief will be recognized in the street, he will have a reputation and people will treat him accordingly but when someone steals your internet access you cannot see them, you cannot hear them, you can’t even locate them. But to say it’s a victimless crime is a misnomer, if anything it has become a criminal-less crime. With no face or fingerprint and only a virtual crime scene most people will let it go unorganized until one day they just switch providers or tire of the dilemma and choose to lock their connection with a security key. 

What type of person would steal “free” Wi-Fi? I assure you that it is a crime of many colors, shapes, and sizes. I would have to group it as an ethics issue. If someone can justify stealing anything it would be internet access. Stealing a car is a big problem, the police get involved, and you may even go to prison. Stealing from the grocery store is a big problem, the police get involved, and you may even go to prison. Stealing “free” internet is a different monster all together. The police most likely

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will not be involved, you most likely will not be going to prison. Does that make it okay? No, but it does happen in spite of the small moral hurdle that lies in your path. Some people can rationalize it as sharing, some call it borrowing, and it has even been playfully denoted as “piggy-backing.” I’m not sure that “piggy-backing” will get you much cred in Cell Block D with murders and thieves, but hey, who’s to say that it’s any less wrong? Is it even actually illegal? Yes. In every state of the United States there is some law surrounding “unpermitted access to a private network.” The idea here being that even if it’s not locked with a password it still may be considered “private.” The charges span from a small ticket to time served, so basically it’s viewed as trespassing, which is completely accurate considering that what you’re doing is basically online trespassing. 

With the spreading virus that is online media slowly strangling the world’s society in to a choke hold that we cannot retreat from it is only a matter of time before the everyday hacker is viewed as an evil villain. As the online world becomes filled with more and more important and secret things specially finances and “private” information the world wide sale of ski masks and 9mm pistols will plummet. In the future a criminal’s mask will be replaced with a user name and his gun will be a smoking mouse and keyboard.

“We're all mad here.”

“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "
and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” -Lewis Carroll



The world is spinning much faster than any of us would like to admit, but 
that is not to say that we are being left behind, in fact everything we do,
everything we buy, everything we represent is being recorded on the 
timeline of the universe. At this very moment you are becoming 
an icon; a vessel for whatever you represent. The procreation
of this "muchness"* is called "Pop culture" and it's growing. 

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I define "Pop culture" as a universally accepted "muchness"*
Everything you know to be "hip" and "fashionable" was born.
Born in a single mind by a single person. But just like fire, a good
Idea spreads.. Rapidly. Our generation suffers from a sensory overload
of culture, due to the fact that our world has been built around cultural diffusion.
The world is full of high-speed routes of free thinking, and they end right at your door step.

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*muchness - The complete concentrated element of your inner self.

“You used to be much more..."muchier."
You've lost your muchness.”
- Lewis Carroll