A Soldier’s letter to his family

I was googling random quotes and found this letter that I particularly loved reading. I got it from this website.

Rhode Islanders led the Union Army into the first major battle of the Civil War, and one of the most famous war letters ever written was penned by a Rhode Island soldier.

Major Sullivan Ballou sat in his tent in Washington amid 2,000 other Rhode Island volunteers. He began a letter to his wife:

For anime fans and Harry Potter fans…

I don't completely get it since I haven't read or watched anything from this franchise but I'm pretty sure you guys would love this.

Click it to enlarge. Found it from this here website.

New Old Spice Guy Fabio Challenges Old Spice Guy!

AS PROMOTED ON TWITTER!

Fabio challenges our man of men to a duel tomorrow at 9 AM!

Watch it here

Amy Winehouse dead at 27 due to drug overdose

It was so fast. One minute I was tweeting, the next time I pressed F5, it was trending, #amywinehouse. And it told me she’s DEAD.

Just as she was trying to get back to full health too

After 4 months, Patchi went to her sister’s new home

In conjunction with last night’s blog, my other beloved dog, Patchi, went to her sister’s paradise. I don’t really know what got to her but I’m happy God granted my sincerest prayer: To take her to a far place where pain is nonexistent.

It all happened so fast. My brother woke me up, screaming, telling me how Patchi seemed to be shaking while on the ground, staring into nothing. I jumped up from my bed and went to her immediately. I saw her and she was just there; doing nothing, breathing pretty hard. I checked her eyes and they almost seemed like they didn’t see me. This exact same scenario happened to Potchi except her pain was prolonged since she had a different disease. Patchi seemed to know how to take the pain for she wasn’t yelping at all. Or maybe she lost the ability to yelp, together with the ability to bark. I don’t know.

Potchi’s little sister is very ill

It’s been almost exactly 4 months since my beloved Potchi went to her paradise. Patchi experienced loneliness after 1 month but went back to her normal self afterwards. I’m not sure what initiated her illness but it happened a few days before the house got finished being upgraded.

Since June 6, we’ve had 5-6 house builders working our home for improvements up until July 19 2011. Between starting and ending the project, Patchi would be in and out of the house and often inhale dust due to construction work. You see, she never really gets out too much. So when she does have a chance to run around, she freaking runs around like mad.

Google closes LABS; NASA’s Atlantis ends 30-year “Shuttle Era”

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Sad news for anyone who has enjoyed a giddy thrill or two of playing with a freshly released app from Google Labs: Google has announced it’s closing down the labs and killing off many of the experimental products created therein, all in the name of increasing its focus on developing products that have obvious benefits to the company’s bottom line.

Google announced the news on its official blog, stating, “We’re prioritizing our product efforts. As part of that process, we’ve decided to wind down Google Labs. While we’ve learned a huge amount by launching very early prototypes in Labs, we believe that greater focus is crucial if we’re to make the most of the extraordinary opportunities ahead.”

😦 I can’t do my random moments of fun anymore. It’s all about money, I tell you.

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Ferguson eased Atlantis onto the runway at 5:57 a.m. EDT (0957 GMT), ending a 5.2 million-mile (8.4 million-km) journey and closing a key chapter in human space flight history.

“Mission complete, Houston,” Ferguson radioed to Mission Control.

Astronaut Barry Wilmore from Mission Control answered back, “We’ll take this opportunity to congratulate you Atlantis, as well as the thousands of passionate individuals across this great space-faring nation who truly empowered this incredible spacecraft, which for three decades has inspired millions around the globe.”

Atlantis’ return from the 135th shuttle mission capped a 30-year program that made spaceflight appear routine, despite two fatal accidents that killed 14 astronauts and destroyed two of NASA’s five spaceships.

I’ll miss watching shuttles being launched into space. There’s nothing like watching something so big go very high with all the boosting and smoke and shit. I think this’ll be revived someday. Who knows? Maybe an underground group or some crazy billionaires-only club would want to see what the Earth looks like from the Moon.