OT: Funny MSU course video
I know this was posted yesterday (or day before? my mgoblog hours run together), but just today a very popular youtube show called source fed put up a video on it. Thought it was kind of funny. Not really a jab, just funny that they are getting national recognition for this ingenious idea.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkiRI1EvYPs
Will let the pros embed. I know what I'm not good at, and that would definitely include embedding. Also, if this is seen as stupid or whatever feel free to delete just thought there may be a couple people out there that might want to see a short little bit on the "course".
Thanks I appreciate it. It's nice having people around that know what to do.
For future reference, to embed:
1. Copy embed code from youtube or whatnot, which is found under "Share". Make sure to use "old embed code" The embed code will look like this: <object width="560" height="315"><param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube.com/v/mkiRI1EvYPs?version=3&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="https://www.youtube.com/v/mkiRI1EvYPs?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object>
2. In mgoblog comment box, switch to plain text editor and paste.
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4.Profit
I have tried these exact steps before, and MGoBlog either gives me an error message or takes damn near forever to preview the post with the embed code. Do you need a certain number of MGoPoints to embed or something?
Thank god I didn't go to MSU.
If this were at Michigan, you would be remarking on how clever this is.
I scoffed at first, despite loving Zombie stuff, but then when I saw it was a class more on disaster preparedness and human psyche in disasters it was a lot more reasonable sounding. The CDC actually does something similar.
That was my thought as well. Zombie class? I thought it was a ridiculous novelty. But reading further into it showed that it was about disaster preparedness and how to deal with large scale societal problems/breakdowns and that doesn't seem so bad.
Disaster Preparedness... you know, for when something aweful happens and everyone is running around crazy mad.
So the MSU course teaches important things like:
- how to identify couches that will burn the hottest and longest;
- how to organize people to get couches from upper floor apartments down narrhow hallways into the streets;
- what lighter fluids and matches go best for igniting different fabrics on couches;
- how to maximize your time loitering around the streets like dumb@$$es watching sofas burn before the cops arrive;
Etc. Important skills for disasters.
Silly frog, this is a Michigan blog.
Big Pig walks out of the fog.
...yes, I have kids too.
Big Pig walks out of the fog.
...yes, I have kids too.
No, no I wouldn't....
Best part of that whole video "See? You guys didn't have to go to Michigan State University."
....even though if I did I'd probably take the class cuz that's just cool.
I've always been disappointed about how narrowly I've built my zombie perspective. But I do it deliberately. Never really understood the zombie-loving culture. I suspect it is in many ways far different from fangy soap opera crap like Twilight, but it's all the same in my eyes. Who knows why? Maybe it's because the genres didn't do much for me at their inauguration and seem to have become more and more stale with each Hollywood iteration of "same concept + new plot." Maybe it's some superficial shit whereby I enjoy self-expressing as ostensibly the only human being in any US crowd who isn't a fan.
Regardless I have neither time nor [obviously] interest for this stuff. And my confirmation bias allows me to look lowly on MSU for building a course around it. I recognize the ill logic of my looking lowly, but these aren't objective truths I'm talking about. They're, like, feelings man. And this board is just another place to share them. So I did. And it felt so good.
If a zombie attack ever occurs I'm tripping you so you get eaten first.
That was exhausting watching the video. Why do the hosts talk like auctioneers?
You can take a class like this as an elective at my son's middle school. He hasn't enrolled in it, so I'm not sure what we're gonna do when the sh*t hits the fan and the zombies start shuffling our way.
In a post apocalyptic world populated almost exclusively by spartan survivors...
I hope the zombies take me first.
This is such an awesome idea for a class. If you've ever read World War Z, you'd understand my kind of over the top fear of something like a zombie apocalypse. But even beyond that, I love the idea of a "disaster prep class". It's one of those out of the box classes I wish I could have taken instead of plodding on the hard science analytical path of sadness.
Notice the blurred name on the sweatshirt looks very similar to a school's name in East Lansing. Times are tough for MSU grads......
http://www.wnem.com/story/17111739/surveillance-photos-released-in-7-eleven-robbery
actually fairly amusing :)