Sunday, December 30, 2007

YouTube Partnership

WOW! :D
SO yesterday I became a YouTube Partner, which means I'll start making money for my original content on YouTube!
I've been wanting it for a while and finally they asked me to become a Partner!
I get all sorts of special customization options like cool banners and info boxes and I don't know, it all just looks really cool. ;]

In other cool looking news, my website is like 50% finished!
The coding is a bitch and I need to organize the folder with all the files in it, but it's coming out exactly how I pictured it so thats good.
Check it out at the following link!
eric-striffler.com

Have a great day, everyone! :D

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Christmas

Okay so yesterday was Christmas and it was great. :D
I got ALMOST everything I asked for but I'm gonna buy the last thing today when I go out to get my camera.
They didn't have the camera I wanted to so we're going out this morning to a different store to get it.
So yeah all in all Christmas was great!

Hopefully Kathleen is coming over laterrrrrrrr :]]

Oh and I'm getting pumped for 2008 when I'm going to manage my time better, I swear ;D

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Perez Hilton is back!

He featured my video on his channel!
I'm hoping lots of people will see it because all it's good for is getting more views.
As much as I love how it came out and I laugh everytime I watch it, it's just a dumb video.
It should get me some extra views and subscribers though! :D

Where is Perez Hilton?!

Perez Hilton has had his YouTube account SUSPENDED! :O
I immediately knew I wanted to make a video about it before the fiasco got popular (which I would assume that it will). Check it out right here! ;]

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

The Eric and Kat Show!

So today I stayed after with Kat and then we went back to her house and it was funnnnnnnn :]]]
We made these retarded video blogs lmao, I love them XD
Watch them below!

I'm going to get ice cream now, then I'm going to sleep early!

Laterrrr!


The Eric and Kat Show!

Episode 1


Episode 2


Episode 3

Monday, December 17, 2007

Do you believe in Global Warming?

Well I'm laughing at you from my computer! :]
I've finally found the big articles from Time Magazine from 1974 when the big thing was, get this, GLOBAL COOLING.
I'm not kidding.
GLOBAL COOLING was as popular as Global Warming is now back in the 70's and 80's!
Don't believe me?
I'm not surprised, being that you all try to defend your precious Global Warming theory to the point that you can't tell fact from fiction!
Here's something to help you see how silly it all is.
This is one of the big articles that was all the rage back in the 1974!

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Monday, Jun. 24, 1974
Another Ice Age?

In Africa, drought continues for the sixth consecutive year, adding terribly to the toll of famine victims. During 1972 record rains in parts of the U.S., Pakistan and Japan caused some of the worst flooding in centuries. In Canada's wheat belt, a particularly chilly and rainy spring has delayed planting and may well bring a disappointingly small harvest. Rainy Britain, on the other hand, has suffered from uncharacteristic dry spells the past few springs. A series of unusually cold winters has gripped the American Far West, while New England and northern Europe have recently experienced the mildest winters within anyone's recollection.

As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval. However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age.

Telltale signs are everywhere —from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland to the southward migration of a warmth-loving creature like the armadillo from the Midwest.Since the 1940s the mean global temperature has dropped about 2.7° F. Although that figure is at best an estimate, it is supported by other convincing data. When Climatologist George J. Kukla of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory and his wife Helena analyzed satellite weather data for the Northern Hemisphere, they found that the area of the ice and snow cover had suddenly increased by 12% in 1971 and the increase has persisted ever since. Areas of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic, for example, were once totally free of any snow in summer; now they are covered year round.

Scientists have found other indications of global cooling. For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds —the so-called circumpolar vortex—that sweep from west to east around the top and bottom of the world. Indeed it is the widening of this cap of cold air that is the immediate cause of Africa's drought. By blocking moisture-bearing equatorial winds and preventing them from bringing rainfall to the parched sub-Sahara region, as well as other drought-ridden areas stretching all the way from Central America to the Middle East and India, the polar winds have in effect caused the Sahara and other deserts to reach farther to the south. Paradoxically, the same vortex has created quite different weather quirks in the U.S. and other temperate zones. As the winds swirl around the globe, their southerly portions undulate like the bottom of a skirt. Cold air is pulled down across the Western U.S. and warm air is swept up to the Northeast. The collision of air masses of widely differing temperatures and humidity can create violent storms—the Midwest's recent rash of disastrous tornadoes, for example.

Sunspot Cycle. The changing weather is apparently connected with differences in the amount of energy that the earth's surface receives from the sun. Changes in the earth's tilt and distance from the sun could, for instance, significantly increase or decrease the amount of solar radiation falling on either hemisphere—thereby altering the earth's climate. Some observers have tried to connect the eleven-year sunspot cycle with climate patterns, but have so far been unable to provide a satisfactory explanation of how the cycle might be involved.

Man, too, may be somewhat responsible for the cooling trend. The University of Wisconsin's Reid A. Bryson and other climatologists suggest that dust and other particles released into the atmosphere as a result of farming and fuel burning may be blocking more and more sunlight from reaching and heating the surface of the earth.

Climatic Balance. Some scientists like Donald Oilman, chief of the National Weather Service's long-range-prediction group, think that the cooling trend may be only temporary. But all agree that vastly more information is needed about the major influences on the earth's climate. Indeed, it is to gain such knowledge that 38 ships and 13 aircraft, carrying scientists from almost 70 nations, are now assembling in the Atlantic and elsewhere for a massive 100-day study of the effects of the tropical seas and atmosphere on worldwide weather. The study itself is only part of an international scientific effort known acronymically as GARP (for Global Atmospheric Research Program).

Whatever the cause of the cooling trend, its effects could be extremely serious, if not catastrophic. Scientists figure that only a 1% decrease in the amount of sunlight hitting the earth's surface could tip the climatic balance, and cool the planet enough to send it sliding down the road to another ice age within only a few hundred years.

The earth's current climate is something of an anomaly; in the past 700,000 years, there have been at least seven major episodes of glaciers spreading over much of the planet. Temperatures have been as high as they are now only about 5% of the time. But there is a peril more immediate than the prospect of another ice age. Even if temperature and rainfall patterns change only slightly in the near future in one or more of the three major grain-exporting countries—the U.S., Canada and Australia —global food stores would be sharply reduced. University of Toronto Climatologist Kenneth Hare, a former president of the Royal Meteorological Society, believes that the continuing drought and the recent failure of the Russian harvest gave the world a grim premonition of what might happen. Warns Hare: "I don't believe that the world's present population is sustainable if there are more than three years like 1972 in a row."

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Still don't believe me?
Then ask the scientists what they think.
They sat Al Gore down last month and told him to his face that he is wrong.
Then Al Gore proceeded to shout NO NO NO and he flew away into the sky!
Lmao well that's not true of course, but they DID tell him he's wrong.
Whether he accepted the truth or not, I'm not aware (but I doubt it).

Also the most obvious thing is that 2/3's of the country is covered in snow right now and kids have full weeks off from school because of it. I find it funny that people don't realize that. x]

To those of you who STILL believe Global Warming is real, have fun with your little theories and charts and silliness while the rest of the smart people enjoy an extremely cold winter! :D

Sunday, December 16, 2007

It's a very boring Sunday.

I hate days like today.
They're unbelievably boring and nothing gets done!
Well actually I'll probably clean my room and maybe work on music,
but other than that I just want to fall asleep for the rest of the day haha.

On Friday Kathleen came over and then we went to see I Am Legend. The theater was PACKED and the movie was AMAAAAAAZING! :DDDD It was one of the best movies of the year and possibly one of my favorites ever. I love love LOVED it! :D Kat loved it too! Everyone loved it! XP

Then last night was Alexa's Christmas party! That was fun and we took so many hilarious pictures and videos that I can't wait to see at some point today. XD

I'm gonna go look for some food and then I'm gonna clean my room.
So long!

Saturday, December 8, 2007

Push Play!

Last night was the Push Play show at Pat/Med and it was alottttt of fun! :D
I couldn't dance or move around or anything but it was still great!
And I'm checking out one of the bands that played, Lights Resolve, because they sounded awesome.
I wanna try to go see them at the Crazy Donkey next Wednesday.
We'll see what happens. x]

Now I'm pumped to go see Angels And Airwaves in February in the city! :DDD
But that's still a few months away.
Then it's Bamboozle in May and Warped Tour in August!
It's going to be great next year. :P

Right I'm trying to find the Dual-Monitor Adapter I want and I'm waiting for the results of the What The Buck contest! :O

That's about it for now.
Laterrrrrr!