Books.

You know, books are a great metaphor for friendship. You usually find them by coming across them at a shop, or another friend recommends them. Then you start out, carefully treading around each other trying to get each others boundries. You slowly move in with curiosity to see who they really are, and if you actually like them. And most of the time you do. So you two head off together gaining trust and experience. You're consoled by your friend, and by a book. They give you strength when your heart is feeble, they give you love when your heart is broken. They bolster your spirits when your feel weak, and they give you advice when your mind's gone blank. Sure, now and then you may argue. Disagreeing on how things should be done; leaving both parities exhausted. So you put your book to the side for a bit and play some TF2 to blow off some steam. And like a good friend, you'll always pick up a good book again.
The plot rises up, and you're soon engulfed in a massive adventure, the big one. You reach the height of the book and explode. Laughter and sadness and joy and anger all flow into one moment when everything comes together and you and your friend are at the best time of your lives. But then things slow down. And your lives grow on, and away from each other. And then you look at the pages and see the number of pages left shrink. So you talk. Talk about what's going to happen and if everything is going to be alright. And it is. Just you're not going to be with that person anymore. Finally, you break out into tears when you hug your friend and read the last paragraph of your book, before they board the train to forever. They won't come back, they shouldn't come back. Sequels are unnecessary for something as good as that friendship, the most you can do is see each other over coffee and talk about memories. Then you read the last sentence as the train pulls away and watch as it travels into the distance as your eyes move over the final words: The end.

Then you must pick up a new book. And trust me. They're plenty more books left to read, even if they're not THAT book, they're still good ones. Ones with their own plot and flavor of friendship. And they'll end too. But you'll always have the storys you read, they can never take the memories from you. Unless you're apart of some loony government conspiracy or suffer head trauma. In which case you should consult a doctor or perhaps a physiologist.

You have to burn the rope

Nothing much to talk about except that I'm busy playing TF2 after the update. Gotta earn all those new hats right?

So I've decided to talk about my travels around the internet. This week: The greatest game in the world.

I discovered this game during my travels in the land of Youtube. The locals nearly worshiped it, each one with a shrine to it on their channel. I had to do many trials before they posted a link to it. I had to survive horrible walkthroughs, watch terrifying vlogs, and even participate in a "guest appearance" in a "The idiots of gmod" rip-off. I still wonder how I survived.
After passing the many, MANY trials the natives put me through, they finally let me into on of the game's many resting places; Newgrounds.com. I passed through the veil of a loading screen to a button that said "Click to start."
When my character spawned I awed at the amazing graphics. The complex controls were almost too hard to master, but eventually I got the hang of them. The weapons would have been WAY too powerful, had the enemies not been so tough.
I played for hours on end, crawling my way up to the final level. I quickly solved the maze, which lead to the final boss's resting place. Then I... well, I rather not spoil it for you. But it was the most EPIC fight in the history of video game fights, it took all my skill to defeat him. And I nearly died in the process.

So here's a link to "You have to burn the rope", A.K.A the greatest game in the world. Just be glad I didn't put you through the trials like I was.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/432872

I'm glad that you read this.
But how are you going to spend the rest of this day?
Maybe watch a video.
Maybe press refresh and read again.

Yes it's over now.
I didn't want to write a longer blog.
This is it I swear it's true. Oooo Ooo Ooo Oo.

Busy Playing TF2. May I put you on hold?

Okay, so I'm back in school. And most of you are too. So whenever you're faced with a project, always... well, this image should explain it.

Any way... I'm busy playing TF2. Go back into it after I saw "unfriendly fire" on youtube. I think I'm getting better as The Pyro.

Before I go off and disapper until next week. I'd just like to mention this "comic" thing that gave me inspiration for that chart up thar. http://thisisindexed.com/

BTW: Who the hell knew that the Pyro is a girl?

Sup Angel Dawg (Blag Entry #74)

Hello Peoples!

I've been putting this off for a while now. Since about 3 weeks ago I got the idea to upload a bunch of pictures of my dog, and tell you a little story about his day.



My dog's name is Angel. He's around eight years old. Combined with his neutering, he's calm most of the day. We usually can find him in this position:



Angel loves his walks, especially with my father. I, on the other hand, walk him down the center of the street and barely let him do anything. Here's us getting ready to go out:



I bet you doubted me on the road thing:



After our walk, Angel will take a nap until dinner time:



Oh, before I end this entry, I just wanna say one thing, you see that tree over here?



Fuck that tree.



I hoped you enjoyed meeting Angel, because he doesn't even know you exist! In fact, if you were to come to my house he'll bit your face off. Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

God Damn it.

So I was looking up the correct spelling of Molotov Cocktail when I stumbled across the Columbine School Massacre.

I just want to say, if you ever feel like the whole world is against you, like socity, school, and everyone else is not worthy to survive. Just break down to somebody. Don't keep everything in. Cry, sob, bitch, let all the anger flow out. Somebody will listen. Somebody always does.

And all you people out there who think video-games are real, they're not. That's why they're called games. So don't buy illegal guns and go out killing people just because it's "fun" in a video game. Same with movies.

I just felt that this shouldn't have to happen again. I promise a happier entry next week.

America On-line

God. I remember when I was five, all we had was AOL. There was probably more but AOL is what we used. Aol and Dial-up. Damn, we even used their shitty browser too. I had to have a kid account, which wouldn't let me watch Youtube videos when I was 10. My email address was something unrecognizable by anyone. I didn't even bother to remember it. God damn those days sucked. I rather go home and watch Reba then look up anything on the internet.

Then, one summer, when I wanted to look up this one video that all the kids in school where talking about, and after hours of AOL frustration, I asked my mother "Mom, what is this Internet Explorer thing?"
"Oh, just the same thing as AOl but worse."

As I clicked that shortcut I was freed. I no longer was restricted by my kid aol account. After a year of browsing Anonymously, I got my Yahoo account and began trollin' up flickr. I soon spread to Youtube and the Turboj forums, and then on rockraidersunited. I soon became a blogger, and am now know on the internet as "TheEPICtrainrider" or just "TheTrainRider" in places where I rather not get trolled and the people aren't so nice.


I still remember the days when my reach was locked in by a block and a @aol.com. But now I look back and wonder if I could have gotten onto the internet sooner, and would it have made a difference. Would I have met the same people? I don't know, or care. All I care is that I can now run fire-fox with ad-block and have an actual internet and that you peoples who read my blog read my blog. So I ask you, what was your first browser/email?

And think of all the Aol free-trail disks sitting in land-fills all over the world. Those babies are gonna laaassssssstttttt.

The Internet

Imagine.
Just a few decades ago, people were saying "Hey, I heard about this thing called the Internet!" "Now we can communicate by e-mail! No more letters!"
Now look. The internet is now more then a super highway of information. It has evolved into much more. The internet is a host to a infinite about of sub-cultures, each one adding to the grand scheme of "World Wide Web". If we needed to contact someone in Europe, we used to write letters and send them over the coarse of a few weeks. Now we can just send them a E-mail or an Instant Message.
Imagine how stupid the people who said "This 'Internet' will never be anything big" are feeling right now. Everyone uses the internet. You need to know something, you Google it. Imagine that pulses of energy connect the world together.

Ima on a... Raft.

So Friday, me and my father decided to take a short vacation. We first went down to Scranton penn. and then up to Port Jervis to go canoeing with my Uncle and other people we go canoeing with.
Scranton seamed to be getting nicer, even though though a bunch of the shops had shut down. I guess the combination of the Mall and the economic downturn killed them off. We went to a small hobby shop, which was nice, but a little small. And, of course, we went to steamtown.
For those who don't know what the hell I'm talking about. Steamtown is a Historic site that operates and maintains steam locomotives. Actually, that's the only reason we actually go to Scranton.
When we got there, we paid the $18 dollars for the both of us ($6 dollars entrance fee, $3 for the "Scranton Limited" trip, and times 2 for the two of us) and we set out upon the park. The only trips they were running was 4 "Scranton limited" trips. The Scranton Limited takes you up to the Lackawanna station and back. We tried to get the first trip, but the lady didn't elaborate on the boarding location. Little did we know that the train leaves at the roundhouse and not the platform. Don't worry, we caught the next one. It was a great way to spend 30 minutes. For dinner we went up to a restaurant "The Marvelous Mugs" which is one of the better ones in the area. Or out of it. What ever.
The next day, we went rafting down the Delaware river with my Uncle, my Fathers Friend, his son, My Uncle's Friend, His wife, their daughter, and her friend. My Uncle's Friend and his Wife would go in a canoe, while the rest of us went down the raft. We had some fun. Jumping around. Taking pictures. Me jumping into the water. Pudding pops. Ninja Stars. Getting stuck on rocks. Lunch. Fish jumping out of the water. Dead fish. Bugs. Snakes. Eagles. Nick-Naming. Me jumping off the raft and banging up my leg. Using a sock to stop the bleeding. Me jumping off a cliff with a bleeding leg twice. More blood. Sunburn. Quite honestly the best part of the summer! Now, if you don't mind. I've been away for my computer for to long and I need to start updating all the things that have built up.

For those of you who are curious. And by that I mean nobody. http://www.nps.gov/stea/index.htm

My Pal James

Well, I have a friend at school. His name is James. He should be reading this right.... now. HEY JAMES. WHAT DO WE HAVE FOR MATH HOMEWORK?

James will one day be a billionaire Movie writer. So one day, I'll point to him on the Television screen and say to my kids "I knew that guy in High School. I was his friend. He was the guy who gave me loads of cash so I could pay my bail. He used to give out bagels at lunch. Real nice guy too. Me, him, and other peoples would do all sorts of cool things."

Okay, enough with the dramatization. I'm not even sure we're friends. He's just some guy I talk to, but he's real nice. I've never seen him pissed off in my life. Now I hope after reading this he doesn't become mad or do something horrible like give me the cold shoulder.

Well, another reason I made this post is because I'm messing with the blog design again. So don't adjust your computer screen, everything is alright. And thank you James, for not getting made\ at this post.

Opera Review

So yes, I decided to try out the Opera Web browser. So I thought "Why not make a review on my blog? I'm under qualified, have no life, and have only 4-5 followers with one reader! I'm a perfect for reviewing stuff!" So here you go.

At first it reminded me of Google Chrome, the one time I used it. So, while looking at the fancy-pansy new page I noticed two things. One, it has REALLY smooth scrolling. Two, there was a little hints thing at the top of Opera site telling me that I can search using the navigation bar, so I searched "Dick in a box." The Youtube video loaded (what seamed) faster on Opera, but that might have been because I'm not used to it. But something strange happened. The video, text, and links loaded and worked, but everything else came 10 seconds later. This only happened once though. Later I tried portal Flash, which loaded a bit faster, but played the same.

After that, I decided to check out http://questionablecontent.net/ and ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS. At least ad_block had a ready made list of things to block, but this only blocks certain ones, the rest you have to 'Add'. A nice feature though, is the little blue thing that appears in your navigation bar every time you load a page. It tells you how much of the page is loaded. There are also TONS of other cool things. But I don't like how it's set up. I like Navigation/Address, bookmarks, and tabs. Opera is Bookmarks, tabs, and navigation.

Still, it is better then Aol, and can have a decent fight against Internet Explorer (if you have a mod to block all viruses). There are WAAAAYYY to many fan-boys for Google Chrome, Safari, and Firefox that it is impossible to find a non-bias test. Even I'm not sure which is better I would recommend it to anyone. Now, I feel like I'm cheating on Firefox. I'm going to go look up youtube videos on kittens with Firefox 3.#'s . You can get it here if you want this browser.

http://www.opera.com/

Image (c) Opera Software. I do not own it.

Ugh... To much to do...

Hello there people-who-read-my-blag. Today I want to give you a list I have in my head of all the crap I wish to do over the next few weeks.

1.Short Animation similar to Turbojuk's Mouse Attack.
2.Finish up my fan fic about LRR.
3.Better blog post then this
4. Add to my *book*
5. Stuff for school that we're doing instead of review.
6. Make a Solar-Jar (this one is more likely*
7. Make a video of my lip-syncing to "Still Alive" or "Never gonna give you up"
8. Burn stuff.
9. Finish My modification for Lego Rock Raiders
10. Piss of a guy at this forum by using horrible grammar and spelling
11. Consider switching blog sites
12. Walk my dawg
13. Moar Modifications of Lego Rock Raiders
14. Declare war on France (ha ha, Just Kidding...)
15. Clean my room

About #11, do you think I should switch to wordpress? Or should I stay here on blogspot? Welp. See you later when I suddenly think of something to say.

Libraries & Museums

First topic we will cover is Libraries & Museums. More or less, places where we store knowledge.
I always liked Libraries & Museums. They always had a mystery about them, like they were places where smart people go to drop their daily knowledge off after a hard day's learning and figuring stuff out. I never knew why people don't go to libraries more. That's where we locally store most public human knowledge. I guess it got beaten by the advent of the internet; which is better overall. But Libraries will never die, oh no no no. There's just something about holding a book in your hands, rather then hurting my eyes trying to read the incredibly bright text, that can't be replaced.
Now Museums are the best. They take the knowledge of the Library, and make it first hand, Or really First Hand*. But I always liked Museums, regardless of how they enforce their no-touch-because-you'll-damage-the-billion-dollar-rock. Though, almost anything over 150 years old bores the crap outta me. No really. We went to a museum about Revolutionary War and the toilets were all clogged after we left.
Books are amazing. I love them. My mother reads them, I read them. They can take my mind anywhere, 20,000 leagues under the sea or to a castle in England to learn Witchcraft and Wizardry. The only thing I hate is when they make a movie from a good book.
Harry Potter 3+ all sucked. They were gloomy, dark, and depressing really. I bet you the darkest moment in Harry Potter 1 is still brighter then the happiest moment in Harry Potter 3.

And Fuck you makers-of-the-Eragon-movie. I lost my faith in the movie world for 3 years after that. Fuck you. FUCK. YOU.

*Touch the glass and I'll blow your fucking head off.

Revolution (and Free Portal Link)

http://store.steampowered.com/freeportal/ (Good until May 24th)

But other then Valve being Epic, I have a Xkcd comic for you to check out over there. This Comic will be what we will follow from this point on.
I want to build a relation ship with you guys. No really. NO! Really.
But before I can build a relationship, I need a better community that I can have a relationship with. And the key to that is having content people will want to read. The issue is, all the content people want to read is bull crap to me, so we need to create something better... something that will make links be posted from the Blogosphere to the deep, cluttered servers of private websites. We need people to be chatting about us (in a good way) on 4chan. We want Links in the description on Youtube, profiles mentioning us, we want groupies, facekbookers, tweeters, myspacers, bloggers, cartoonists, black, white, Asian, from Americans to Canadians, Europeans to Indians EVERYONE. We want the gamers to say "Hey man, check this epic blog" while recording their walkthroughs. We want the tangled jungles of the forums to have topics about us! We can, nay... WILL be the better blog of tomorrow. Today!
Today yes Today! This is the beginning, of a revolution. Today is the day, where we being the fight to make asuperepicblog the best damn blog on the internet. We were once a blog with me talking about a power-outage in my neighborhood, but we will become a blog that thousands, millions, even BILLIONS of people will look at. The entire internet will be reading the words that flow from my keyboard. There is only one problem... What to write about?
Everyone has different tastes, but what is one thing that everyone will like to read? This, my loyal followers, is the only thing in our way. So post a comment, and change the blogs of tomorrow.