Challenge Accepted – ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

Benj Arriola participates in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
Benj Arriola participates in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

I never really blog as much as I did before. So every once in a while I need to post something?!?!

The Nomination

Mike Lopez nominated me for the ice bucket challenge and I accepted the challenge.

Challenge Accepted

So I accept and here is my ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Performance

I nominated family in the Philippines:
Genoveva Arriola, Helene Grace Espino

Family in the US:
Dawn Camille Garcia, Jamie Garcia, Marcia Arriola

SEO/Social people in the Philippines
Jason Acidre, Kit Cuenta

Remember this is for raising awareness of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). Donate to ALSA at http://www.alsa.org/donate/

UPDATE (08-29-2014): I had to do this all over again, but this time as a group. IMI’s #IceBucketChallege

IMI's Ice Bucket Challenge
IMI’s Ice Bucket Challenge

Blood Moon – Reddish Moon During a Lunar Eclipse

Just my video of the Red Blood Moon lunar eclipse last April 15, 2014 at 12:00 midnight.

Blood Red Moon

This was shot with a hand held Canon Vixia HFR40, with 53X Zoom (32X Optical Zoom). No tripod so it is a bit unstable.

Also taken in the background supposed to be Mars. If you are looking at this just a few minutes after this was uploaded, the video might still be processing on YouTube so it may be a bit blurry.

What actually makes the moon red is the same reason that makes the sky red during sunset and sunrise, it is explained near the end of this blog post. Since the sun’s rays passes by the earths atmosphere, the sunlight cast on the moon now appears reddish.

aiculedssul – I Cracked the Mortal Kombat cheat code.

Mortal Kombat

I used to play this game a lot with friends on a PC, side by side on the same keyboard. I always wondered what some of my opponents were typing as the game was loading. Some cheat code started spreading in magazines and emails that you can increase the power of your player by typing in the code:

aiculedssul

Type this while the game was loading and it worked. I always thought it was just some random characters, and I just recently found out what it meant. 

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