Scooby-Doo: The menace to sanity!

I don't get why my little sister likes watching the instant play Scooby-Doo movies on Netflix.Scooby-Doo is SOOO annoying! He's even worse than Dora! At least Dora is educational.
Maybe it's just me, But maybe you also think at times "If I hear Scoooby-Dooby-Doo! one more time I will loose it!!!". Mostly the thing that gets me is that weird thing where Scooby says things like: "Reah" instead of "yeah" and "Ruh,Oh". Come on! If you are going to have a talking dog, why can't the dog talk normally! Is there even a name for the way he talks?
And who came up with that name? Scooby-Doo? That sounds like poop with drugs in it!
But enough with Scooby-Doo. I said everything I wanted to say.

Reasons why Japan is awesome.

Why do the best things come from Japan? When you think about it, they really know how to impress someone. I have come up with a list of cool things that Japan has come up with:

1. Ninjas (obviously).

2. Asimo(a robot coming very very close to actual A.I.!)

3. Godzilla, a.k.a the best monster EVER!!!

4. Speed Racer, the original show is kind of dry(that's probably because nobody could afford a translator to make the show proper English thus all the daubers had to add-lib it) but without the original show, how could they have made that awesome movie?

5. Astro Boy, Usually I don't like kid shows, but Astro Boy is oddly appealing(and slightly

addictive).

6. Bonsai Trees (how many cultures think 'Let us trim a tree for hundreds of years to produce an ancient, living and breathing work of art).

7. SMART Technology

8. Any technology (Japan= Tech whiz).

Prove me wrong, I dare you!

World War two references do not count, that was a long time ago and we (Americans) where the ones who nuked them.

My Youtube video

I'm not bragging or anything, but I think it's funny.

I want everyone to see it.

The only problem is you can only see it if you type Tassalat42 in the YouTube search bar. Who's going to search for that?

Adults: nature's greatest mystery

Adults sometimes seem like nothing more than really big children with authority and pubic hair.

Since I live with two pairs of adults (married people with kids) I know a thing or two about their behavior. I shall now make a list of reasons adults are weird.

1. Adults are hypocritical despite looking down on such behavior. A common example: Parents spend the first two years of a their children's life trying to get them to walk and talk, and then spend the next sixteen years getting them to sit down and shut up.

2. When you get down to it, their arguments are no less juvenile than their kid's. Example: I once heard my dad and step-mom argue about how much more time one of them spent on the computer than the other! That is the argumentative equivalent of saying " It's not fair that you get more playdogh than I do!"

3. Adults very rarely hit that magical place between a being "big kid" and a "robot".

4. Despite the fact that adults tell us that "TV will make you a vegetable" or "If you spent as much time working as you spend on the computer, you could accomplish some-thing-or-another" adults are just as addicted (or more) to electronic devices as their kids are!

5. The fact that only a small percentage of the adult world actually admits these things means that they are trying (and failing miserably) to be perfect, or somewhere near that.

Don't try to deny it! You know it's true.

A Word on Spore

Spore is a very cool computer game that basically let's you play God, you start out with a little cell in an ocean of primordial ooze. Your cell eats little plants or other cells to earn DNA ( DNA is used as currency in the cell and creature editors). Eventually your cell crawls onto land, now it's a creature that can earn DNA by making friends or killing other creatures. When your creature is smart enough it evolves into a tribe, after that a civilization ( the tribe stage is the same as creature only you play as the whole tribe). In civilization you can create buildings,vehicles and you can even outfit you creature! Once your civilization has taken over the world,( by War, Converting others to your religion,buying every city or any combination of the three) your creatures discover the secret of space exploration!

For a more through evaluation of Spore, look in Wikipedia.

Spore has spread out from the original game, now there is Spore Hero for Wii, Spore Creatures and Spore Hero Arena for DS, Spore Galactic Adventures, and of course, the spore parts pack Creepy and Cute. Some of these things are cool, some are lame. I will now rate ( on a scale of 1 to 10) how each of these multiple spore games have done.

Spore Creatures- I think that the new set of parts made up for the 2-D graphics, but the plot had some room for improvement. I give this a 5 ( Just O.K.)

Spore Hero- This game is excellent! There where very few differences in the making -a-creature part of the game, the plot was your basic "Good verses Evil". Maybe that's why it's so appealing. I give Spore Hero a 7 ( I could play it over and over again an still like it).

Spore Hero Arena- a.k.a a waste of 20.00$ . The creature editor was a disaster! What am I supposed to do with a tin can shaped blob and color options that where obviously the results of last minute panic? And instead of battling a bad guy with a lot of power at his command like in Spore Hero, you battle a bunch of guys that are brain-washed by evil rocks! It's not the same. I give this one a 1 ( I could play it if my life depended on it but other than that I just don't play it).

Spore Galactic Adventures- This game is like the original Spore only you create adventures for a Captain ( of your own making or someone else's). You could make an adventure where you had to destroy a giant Pizza, or become friends with a Panda, or search a ship for clues to the mysterious plague that creates half dead nightmares( I actually played that last one). In conclusion I give Galactic Adventures a 10 ( Love it Love it Love it!).

Creepy and Cute- is not a game. It's just a bunch of extra parts to stick on your creatures. Still it earns a 6 (very useful for a not-game).

I would love to say more, but I don't want to bore you with my ramblings.

About "To Mock a Hummingbird"

To Mock a Hummingbird is just a blog about random stuff that pops into my mind, So if you are looking for a blog about one thing in particular you came to the wrong place.

As you may have guessed, the title "To Mock a Hummingbird" is a twist on the book title "To Kill a Mockingbird" ( I have not read the book but I tried to a few years ago). Why a hummingbird? I just like hummingbirds, they're cute and unique.

All in all i'm just blogging for my own entertainment. Don't expect these posts to be regular or anything.