Cone-ing / Coning / Whatever that is!

This post was inspired because of licking an ice-cream, seriously! In actuality, i saw this viral vid from Newser and CNN windows desktop app. If you've got a glimpse of planking viral videos before, and if uh!, you found it eye-popping, just out of curiosity's sake, then Cone-ing is definitely a must-see, or a must-experience thing to do.

Cone-ing, as the verb implies (sounds like sleazy thought), has something to do about cones, and speaking of cones, you'd imagine the twirls and soft coldly smoothie ice-creams from macDonalds or Jollibee. This in mind, cone-ing is eating the coned ice-cream starting from the bottom of the cone, instead of the old-fashion way -- licking the twirly creams on top. Or, so they say, in a manner where  you eat upside down.

Below's the vid from the originator of this viral trending craze which has started in Australia.

It would be a messy thing to do, rest assured no matter how many tissue papers you've got, cuz the ice cream is sticky and would only worsen when you wipe it with tissue, not to mention, super softy tissues.

For more videos of certified coners, hit the link below.

http://cone-ing.com/

The Script - Talk You Down

If you're tired of Gaga, Black Eyed Peas and Bieberific music, get a hands-on to The Script. The two songs below are some of the most played tunes on my playlist, may it be on the iPod or iTunes Player. Yet, i still couldn't compare it to Coldplay or New Radicals.

It dawned on me at this age that music is like a wine, it's a like a bottled poetry that you can't get enough of once it's opened.

Talk You Down is by far my most admired and listened to song of The Script. It's bringing me the youthful years of adoration for music and alternative addiction back to the memory lane. One thing is for sure. It's like a medicine, a distraction to the ordinary, and a quencher for thirst.

MAC

Google Guitar Homepage & Website

If you were one of the unlucky few who hadn't experienced strumming, flicking, jerking, & ruffing the interactive Google Guitar which went on live as big G's doodle logo last June 9th, then you're in for a treat cuz El Goog has decided to sanctify an html page just so, fans could still play and record their ingenuity in playing the virtual guitar.

Honestly, i didn't care whom Google is trying to commemorate on that day when i saw and accidentally flicked the unreadable Google logo, only to find out later that a sound came out from my laptop after flicking the strings. It was a guitar! (aha my brain got frozen for a delayed response). Sending me back to nostalgia about the interactive PACMAN Google logo.

To get amazement and profoundness enliven, i checked these Youtube uploads from those who painstakingly recorded their tunes. And just so below are my favorites.

Reports show that Google's pageviews and page impressions that day were spiking high in an unusual stagnancy, beating the day when pacman interactive went live from the Google homepage.

I'm thankful for Twitter because i was able to find out the permanent homepage for the Google Guitar. You could check it out here if you're still itching to create one of your tunes out from the famous virtual instrument. Tell me Google, what's your next interactive Doodle? I've subscribed to your RSS already. Yeehaw.

MAC

The Diminishing Skill of Handwriting

Graphology^ - the study of handwriting, especially as an indicator of the writer's character or disposition. Ain't it wondrous to know then that you could actually  tell partially   the character of a person based on his handwriting? It may seem potent and palpable to judge from that point but sad to say, almost everyone of us, adults primarily do not hone our handwriting skills anymore.

We are glued to our computer terminals all day long dribbling our fingers on the keyboard, nonetheless, tapping onto our smartphone's touchscreens or using the QWERTYs on our Blackberry devices. Seldom do we pick up a pen and write at least multiple sentences or even paragraphs, we may at times use the ballpoint on those occasions where we just need to sign a document and scribble our signatures. It was all true! Our handwriting skills are deteriorating... at these times of digital age.

They said, your handwriting is an important part of your personality. But how far are we going up in enhancing this skill? We may have drilled it a lot during our elementary days where the teacher would assign a five-page handwritten letter of an essay,  yet those were the days.

Call me a romantic but i still find that magical feeling whenever i'm using a pen & paper for my love letters. There's something distinct between the two that tries to convey the warmth or coldness, or whatever theme you may want to communicate in a letter.

Maybe i'm just being so indulging about writing that i still carry my hardbound notepad/planner/diary all-in-one, it dawned on me now that it was actually a double purpose in honing my writing skills, both mentally and physically - that is, practicing my cursive handwriting. Despite the tablets and smartphones  (OneNote app) lying around my palm, i feel empty-handed whenever i don't bring with me my blackbook (planner all in one) and my pen. It serves as my armor and bullets ready for a war and at times of meditative learning.

The most significant question that's in my mind right now while writing this post is, "Is it really important to practice handwriting at these times of the digital age?".  I'd say yes, but everyone is not required to do it. My theory is, as long as you are not neglecting this kind of skill as an art of expression, then you will never lose it, for it has been instilled and acquired in our minds, all you have to do is revive it from time to time. Don't let it rust and don't let the sharpness become blunt.





MAC
^defnition from wordweb

Favicon for Blogger Users now available in Blogger Draft

Hats off to the software engineering team from El Goog's blogger platform. The big G has finally granted one of the many blogger's wishes -  to easily customize the faviCon on the blogspot. It's that one tiny icon that appears on your browser's tab that links and symbolizes your blog page or website. This has been my impending project for months but i just couldn't crack out the hell of the html code. Silly though may it seem, i discovered just now that Photoshop couldn't save a .ico file, as i was trying to create one. Good thing, there are online tools like www.favicon.cc to supplement my immediate need of creating that minute icon.


I tried mine and voila!, it reflected immediately.

faviCon

on the side note, if you're a blogger user, make sure you're logged in to draft.blogger.com so that this feature is visible. Only then you could activate your own faviCon.






MAC