/ponder

Customer manages to change the weight of a 2litre bottle of pop.

Customer: hands me a few reusable bags ‘cause it’s good for the environment or whatever..

Me: Scans the first item which is a 2Litre bottle of Coca-Cola.

Customer: Did you put the pop in standing up or laying down?

Me: Standing up, I can lay it down if you like.

Customer: Yes please.

Me: No problem. (Lays down bottle of pop.)

Customer: Yeah, the bottle is just heavier to carry when it is standing up. It’s lighter when it’s laying down.

Me: /facepalm LOL. 

Yes deary, the bottle changes its mass when moved to a different position in your bag. >.< DERP
really though.. what did I expect working at Wal-Mart?
/ponder 

WARNING: THIS POST IS A LITTLE RANTY BUT COULD BE EDUCATIONAL FOR SOME..

I encountered a situation today I knew I would never want to be in.. nor do I ever want to be in again. (edit: I decided to remove a very vague personal detail in order to keep this post very general ^_^ )

Most people out there by now understand that the internet is a public place.. and that once something gets posted on the internet.. it is there FOREVER. Most people also have the common sense to understand that the internet is not a place for what is intended to be a private conversation. 

So I encountered a situation where this common sense did not come into play and some people need to seriously reconsider their understanding of the internet and social media. Putting something up on a social media website or any website in general is making your post, picture or details public. They are now public to everyone you have on your friends list, maybe even more people (if you have no privacy settings) to see and leave their comments on. 
I pity no one who posts in a public forum like facebook or twitter and then complains when someone gets offended or comments on what they post because it is supposed to be ‘private’. If you want privacy, use a telephone, or better yet talk to the person face to face.

Now discretion is key when it comes to posting things in a public forum.. So if you choose to post something that may get taken the wrong way or offend someone then you made that choice and if you do end up offending someone.. then that’s on you.

It drives me fracking insane when people don’t use common sense when it comes to the internet. Like seriously.. let’s all act like mature adults and be smart when posting on the internet.

The internet.. is super serious buisness bro.  
Here is a helpful picture for those who still don’t get it.

So in recent MMO news.. Blizzard posted about their transmogrification. BTW I think they made that word up.. but I haven’t actually checked and I am probably wrong lol.
So this transmogrification is a neat idea and I am totally on board blizzard! Will I be participating in it? Umm well.. unless I can get my priest hands on tier 6 eventually then no. Currently my priest is retired and very happy, so chances are I won’t be participating. My main right now is a hunter and I haven’t done too much research. 
It will be very very interesting to see if in the future Blizzard will allow players to Transmogrifizzle Legendary weapons.. /ponder >.>

Being a player who did not play WoW in Vanilla or TBC I don’t have a certain connection to a whole lot of Legacy gear. My prime was in Wrath, and as much as that seems silly.. it’s really not. Raid leading and bringing 10 very strong players together to kill the Lich King was my prime and I am sooo proud :)

I finally got to 85 on my hunter.. and by finally.. I mean it really only took Alopex and I a few months cause Recruit a Friend is king. Now for the dailies and dungeon grind..

and lots and lots and lots of Glee re-runs.. :)

 

So there are a couple things I want to talk about one being HILARIOUS the other one is about video games.. which is cool :)

So I am excited about DoTA2 I have played League of Legends and I enjoyed it. I am half tempted to jump into the original DoTA but I don’t really have the time right now. Here is a trailer for those who haven’t seen it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cSFPIwMEq4&feature=player_embedded

So I work in retail on cash and I see too many customers a day. At my workplace we just got the new “Chip” technology that has been taking over all of my card method of payments for the past year or so. This current phase of technology payment has brought something rather hilarious to light. Let me paint you a mental picture.
Let’s just for situational sake say the customer is male.. (it’s way funnier that way)

Customer comes up to the cash to pay for whatever he is buying.. 
Customer chooses to pay with Debit and his card has the new Chip Technology..
I say.. “Alright, Chip in the bottom.” (because the slot where you put your card is in the bottom of the machine.) Insert mental picture number one.
A male inserting his chip in the bottom.. ew.
Customer inserts his chip in the bottom and then adjusts his stance..

Okay let me interject real quick.. Like I said before I see A LOT of customers a day.. and almost every single one females included adjust their stance after inserting their card in the machine.

After adjusting his stance to a more comfortable position he then proceeds to use his finger on the machine. (insert awful mental picture here.)
Now after pushing all the buttons he needs to.. a lot of people prematurely remove their chip…(ugh this is horrible, like seriously.)

So this is where I would need to tell them no you need to put your chip back in, they apologize and the process starts over. 
So if they don’t finish the process prematurely, the machine makes a noise notifying the customer to take out their Chip. (ugh ugh ugh ugh.. this is how awful my job is seriously..)
The customer then relaxes gathers his belongings (his purchases) and leaves the store.. 

Does this not sound like a one night stand to other people? Am I just WAY too bored and work and my mind has wondered to such extremes as analysing people paying for groceries? 

/ponder and /facepalm


<3 

 I am dead serious about the adjusting stance thing.. Watch yourself next time you go to insert your chip card into a machine.. You will do it too.. just you wait.
(insert evil laugh / Big Brother is watching you! emote here.) 

I have been wanting my Industrial done and finally.. I feel complete
who knows what I will get next.. (not for a while though.) 

I am sure everyone has experienced this at some point. >.<
seriously /approve 

I made a book of things like this for my finace.. he loved it :)

(Source: imkeepingyoubecause)

Seems like forever since I have even thought about my tumblr account but look where we are now. I have some time to kill so why not start posting again about what I love the most.. Video gaaammmmmeeessss!

/approve.

By: Anonymous.. It’s best he remains nameless… for his dignity and all.

Precisely nothing but a Thinking Thing: Are we? Or Are we not?

            Imagine yourself in a world where one day you wake up and realize that everything in your life is or at least has the chance of being false. A creation by an evil deceiver who’s sole purpose is to trick you in believing things that are not necessarily true. Now you have to sit down and think what you really are. This is where I come in. I will be going over both views on the matter which are: We are more than a thinking thing, or we are precisely nothing but a thinking thing. To show we are more than a thinking thing I will argue that: If we are being deceived about our body and everything around us then we must have some physical self. Secondly if we have a mind it would not be able to survive outside the body and lastly, what about when we are not thinking when our brain activity is low. To show that we are only a thinking thing I will argue that with the potential of having a deceiver we can only be 100% certain that we are thinking and only somewhat certain of everything else in our world. Thus, this essay intends to come to the conclusion that we are nothing but a thinking thing.

            Firstly, if we are being deceived about our body and everything around us, then we must have some sort of physical self. Why would the deceiver deceive us of things going on around our body if we did not even have one? “But there is some deceiver or other who is supremely powerful and supremely sly and who is always deliberately deceiving me” (Descartes, 1993, P.18). If the deceiver is supremely sly would they not know that we would figure them out? Instead of making up a fictional world why did the deceiver not mess with how we think? This shows that maybe the deceiver is not sly. That in fact, we are smarter than the deceiver for at least figuring out that we at least can think. So what else can we figure out? If the deceiver made up this world then most certainly he did not just come up with the idea out of nowhere. There must be a world where one has a body or how else can one think to deceive someone’s body. This shows that there is some sort of body out there even if it is not the one that we necessarily know. Thus, we have some sort of physical self and are not merely just a thinking thing.

            Furthermore, if we are certain that we think and we have a mind that does that for us, then how would it survive if it is not in some form of a body? The mind is going to have to be nurtured and that would not be possible without using your body to give it something, whether it be food, or whether it be something that the deceiver has falsified to make us believe that we are eating food. For example, we think we are eating pizza but really it is cardboard. We also need something to protect our mind from outside harm. So our body gives us the defence mechanisms like hands, feet, and teeth to guard from possible attacks. Or else someone or something could possibly come along and destroy our mind. Therefore, by having to nurture and fend off outsiders we must be more than a thinking thing.

            While having a body and mind that defends and thinks, what about when we are not thinking? It is common knowledge that when we go to sleep our brain activity is very low and thus we are not thinking things anymore. If we are not thinking things at that point, what are we? Certainly we cannot just be gone while we are not thinking only to exist as a thinking thing when we are awake. Our mind has to be somewhere in the world. Even if that means it is not in our bed like we envisioned. By us not thinking at certain points in time, it thus shows that we have to be something other than thinking things for that time period.

These conclusions show that we must be more than a thinking thing, but with how much certainty can we believe that? “Yet I am a true thing and am truly existing but what kind of thing? I have said it already a thinking thing.” (Descartes, 1993, P.19). He is one hundred percent sure about this after going through a little thought process about what he really is. We know that we must at the very least think.

Having a physical self though? How can we know that with one hundred percent certainty?   The problem is we cannot. Our body is always changing, just like the wax that Descartes mentions is his second meditation. The wax can change from a solid that we can hit and make a sound on, to a liquid form than we can only see and make no sound with. What is our physical self then if we are always changing? We cannot even be sure that it is something physical that we can touch because once we change we could go in to a state of gas for all we know.   It is this possible process that allows us to doubt that we have a physical presence at all. Thus, it is shown here that it is a good possibility that we are thinking things and nothing else.
            While we can say that maybe we do not exist with a physical self we can also conclude that when we are sleeping we are not thinking. Just because we are thinking things at one point does not mean we are something else at another point. The deceiver could merely be making us think that we are sleeping when in fact we are not. It may be making our brain activity go low or maybe just making us think that it is low so that we believe we are not thinking anymore. This still proves that we are thinking and nothing else.

 If we are being deceived we can say that I have a body and am eighty percent sure of it, but that other twenty percent of us does not know if that is true because of the deceiver playing with our mind. If I can be tricked by definition I cannot be certain. If I cannot be certain than I cannot say that I am anything but a thinking thing since it is the only thing that I can fully prove. If it is the only thing that I can fully prove with one hundred percent certainty, then in conclusion, we are precisely nothing but a thinking thing.

But what if you had to faction change? #besttattooever