Bladen Force

It’s been a while since we’ve actually done one, but I’ve been fervently working towards the semester from hell, and I’m burned out and horribly fatigued from just trying to survive it. Exams are coming up and everyone is stressed out, so it’s the perfect time for a BladenCast.

I haven’t planned on exactly when we’re going to do it, but it’ll be coming up soon. If you want to ask questions and have them answered in the cast, shoot an e-mail to

http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-9917113-57.html

I laughed out loud in real life when I read that Gore was trying to update the speech he gave in “An Inconvinent Truth”. (More like An Incontinent Truth am I right?)

Anyway, this was more or less the exact same as his speech in the movie, except now his predictions have become even more dire in an attempt to spook the average person into believing the lie. As I talked about previously, Gore has dumped a lot of money into a campaign to fight against the scientific truth, because it’s inconvinent for him. Evidence suggests that the sun is largely to blame for increasing global temperatures, and when the global average dropped this year due to the incredibly cold winter, the global warming cultists changed their mantra to “climate change”, encompassing both the theories of global warming and cooling into an amalgamation of pure stupidity.

Of course, Gore has been very vocal about critics of “global climate change”. He likens them to Holocaust deniers, the nutballs that think the Moon landing was staged, and people that believed the Earth was flat. The irony here is that the science is not on his side. Where does he get his scientific evidence from? A few niche scientists whose government grants rely on the theory of global warming to be true. The truth is that the vast majority of scientists believe global warming to be a huge farce, but their speech is ridiculed, they are belittled as corporate shills, and are claimed to be a crazy minority. Similar to the Pluto fiasco, you have a few scientists determining the science of the many. “Science is thusly because we say so.”

The part I found the most hilarious however, was that Gore was using an age-old tactic employed by liberals in speeches when they want to make themselves look like the defenders of the truth. They throw a few people designated as nay-sayers or deniers and make them say crazy, completely off-the-wall things in order to make it look like everyone who disagrees is crazy, then the speaker valiantly continues his or her speech, unperturbed by the raucous dissidents that seek to silence them. This is the scenario that they hope to conjure in the minds of the listeners.

While Gore’s off talking about how the world is going to be combusting, I’m finally enjoying the brief amount of warmth we’re actually getting, before we are plunged right back into the 50’s and 40’s again until summer proper.

So I tried to submit my file right? But I was a fraction of a second late and got bounced out of it, that’s when I freaked out, went into panic mode, had a bajillion panic attacks and it took my dad a good solid two hours to talk me out of it.

Now for the hard part: tomorrow I have to convince my professor to still accept my assignment based on the fact that I thought it was due at 11:59:59pm and not at 11:59:00pm, and still managed to submit it right on the cusp of said time.

I’m just not used to epic fail. I can’t deal with failure due to being such a perfectionist. I’m going to try to get some sleep now.

UPDATE: Solved the problem. I told him I submitted it a fraction of a second late, and he said it was alright.

I am now fully convinced that I will never ever have a meaningful relationship ever again and that any attempts to even get into a relationship (even a bad one with a girl I don’t like) will result in a friend of mine immediately feeling the burning desire to get with (by which I mean fuck the brains out of) the girl I am interested in.

Some friends I have. No Gene, this isn’t about you. I’m cool with that.

Hey guys, have a question or comment for us? Listen to this guide on how to submit them:

This made my day. If you do not understand why, then you’re obviously not very far in Computer Science or in Computer Science at all.

Inserting item 0×21718 with priority 500
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Done inserting:
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Basically, I passed a pointer to a function and asked another function to read me back that pointer. Instead of a segmentation fault, I got whatever bits of memory were still in that pointer. I lol’d. APRIL FOOLS APPARENTLY.

If you guys are reading this, then you figured out the secret hidden on the page.

Maybe “DREAMCAST” was a little too obvious, but it was all in good fun.

Yes, I realize that none of the links work correctly. just use “http://www.bladenforce.com/wordpress/” instead of just the http://www.bladenforce.com/ when writing URLs. Full functionality will be restored when the prank runs out.

I’ve got a permanent link to the April Fools Day page,

http://www.bladenforce.com/april/08/