Nikolaus Bautista On: Birthdays, Hoverboard World Records, and Disney's "Tomorrowland",

Preface Note: There are ALMOST no spoilers.

For my Birthday weekend, I had a bit of fun, by going to my favorite train shop (The Electric Train Shop in "beautiful downtown Burien, Washington" as the proprietor, Scott says.), then out for dinner at Red Robbin, all with my Mom on Saturday (it's the usual day to get her out of the house, due to her back issues, and Burien is the farthest she's driven in a long time). Then Sunday night, Mom, Pops and I, all went to see Disney's "Tomorrowland," which contrary to the half negative press, is really a good movie. The flow of the film, and the story itself, speaks to a larger point, "how can we change the future- for the better?" Also, who wouldn't want to ride a rocket, built by Jules Vern, Gustave Eiffel, Thomas Edison, and Nikola Tesla, to another dimension... THAT LAUNCHES OUT OF THE EIFFEL TOWER?!

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Today though (my actual birthday), I slept in (we saw the last showing, and got home really late), and have been enjoying my day off. I understand today is also "Memorial Day," but a few more birthday wishes would have been most welcomed. Birthdays aren't about cakes, parties, and making a big deal, they're a marking of the passage of time, and believe me, time passes faster and faster with each passing year. The realization of how old you are, makes you wonder how you have spent your life, and where your life is going. On the other hand, it also makes you wonder who your friends are, and who really aren't. I know most everybody is busy with Memorial day, but you know what I mean...

So, considering it's 2015, and this is the year Marty McFly went to in "Back to the Future: Part II," and we don't have the jet-packs so prominently featured in "Tomorrowland," (but we have the Solowheels, which are made by a company in Washington State, which also were there!), here's some good news:

Yes, that is a hoverboard, and yes it is certified by the Guiness Book of World Records as "the longest flight on a hoverboard." And finally, we have a use for "drone technology" that's actually good!

In closing, my Birthday was good, Tomorrowland was GREAT (go see it if you haven't yet), and happy Memorial Day (Thought I forgot about the vets didn't you? No, no I did not!).

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Funny Mystery Shows... I can't get enough of them! (Thought of the Day)

If there is anything I have learned from being a television viewer, it's this: I can't get enough of light-hearted detective shows. I guess it started with "Monk," then progressed to reruns of "Murder, She Wrote," then 2008 Writer's Strike victim "Pushing Daises," then I fell hard for 2009's mid-season replacement "Castle." (Sorry Trya Banks, but you couldn't bank against Nathan and Stana!)

Now, I have been hooked on other mystery shows too, like "Eureka," "Warehouse 13," and if you want to count it, "Matlock." Even the Brits got me hooked with "Death in Paradise"! The Brits!!! I honestly think I have a problem, especially with "Forever," just getting canned, but then again, do I really want help... Nah!

That's my "Thought of the Day," thanks for reading. Bye!

My Faith and Soul on My Sleeve.

I can safely say, that I am no more morally superior than any other soul. I can safely say, that my mistakes are my own responsibility. I am myself, and I am a follower of the Christian lifestyle. I am not perfect, I don't claim that I am. I speak softly my words from experience, and say nothing when I carry out my actions of faith. I speak the words of Christ- The King of Kings, The Messiah, The Son of God, without uttering a single word most times. Ye who are pious fools, proclaiming God's glory, but are angered by a new child of God, taking your usual seat in the pews, you're a worse sinner than Judas. At least his sin served a purpose. Your stink-eye only serves Satin to keep people from the love that is God. If "true" Christianity is a dead religion, than it died to become a lifestyle. Eating a ham sandwich on a Tuesday night can be a religion; re- repetitive; legion- pledging loyalty. Lifestyle- practicing what you believe and preach. All I can say in closing from my Soapbox, is that I know what I am, what I believe, what I follow, and if the lifestyle I believe in dies, then come what may, I shall become, I shall be its fossil, its relic, its living ghost... In Jesus' name, amen.

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"Autism: It's Not All I Am." or "Autism: It's like a C____lac V8-6-4."

People are surprised to learn I am on the Autism Spectrum. I don't look it. I don't act it. Frankly, I see my Autism as nothing special, just something I have to learn to live with. I have learned to live with my Autism pretty well. However, I can't say that's the case for many young adults today. There are way too many philosophies on how to go about it. I can't stand it. I know who I am, and what I'm capable of. Everything functions, just on the brain front, a tad differently than most.

There's arguments that it's a disease, a disability, that people with mental disabilities should be "taken out into the woods." There's even arguments for such as that it's a great mystery. Call me crazy, but how about this idea: "Just a different way the brain is wired, and it's up to the individual to have the desire to patch up the wiring, to make it work period." That's how I did it, and I'm still patching up wiring. The "software" is there, it's just the "hardware" that needs the bugs sorted out.

Take for example the Cadillac V8-6-4 ( http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2013/05/02/cars-of-futures-past-1981-cadillac-v-8-6-4/ ). "Variable Displacement" is an idea where you "shut off" cylinders in certain situations to make better fuel economy. Now in wide-spread use, it was Cadillac who brought it to the masses (this idea wasn't their's though, the Enger V-12 had a crude version of this in the Nineteen-Teens: http://www.hemmings.com/hcc/stories/2009/04/01/hmn_feature5.html ).

                                         
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Cadillac's computer system for it wasn't the greatest. What do you expect from 1980's computers in cars. The system couldn't keep up with all the various driving conditions. Today, the variable displacement systems can keep up, but none were as sophisticated. For once Caddy did something genius, rather than be a dumb lump of iron. Sure it didn't work, but what inventions and innovations do the FIRST time they're tried en mass.

So where does a failed car engine play in to being like Autism? The far past (the Enger V-12), was like the early days. The Caddy blunder, can be akin to the first mass research and understandings from the 1980's through the mid 2000's (huge shortcomings there!), and the wide range use, the better yet somewhat hazy understanding of Autism we have.

For me, my Autism isn't who I am, it is part of what makes me me. I don't let it rule my life, it's just there, the wiring of my brain, part of the operating system. Patches both in Software and Hardware have to be made, but at the end of the day, Autism isn't me entirely, just a part. Comparing myself to neuro-typical society, I pass like anybody else really. Comparing myself to other Autistic people, I'm not too sever as other cases I've seen (and I've seen my share, believe me.). If you were to compare me to cars, think a Packard from 1955 or 1956 (even count show cars if you'd like). Way more advanced than the contemporary Lincolns and Cadillacs. Compare me to a computer, think somewhere in the Windows department, adapted to a 1960's style Super Computer, when most are Apples or such.

At the end of the day, we're all human though. We eat the same (in through the mouth), put our shorts/trunks/panties on the same (one leg at a time), our blood is the same color (last time I checked, it was red), and we all share the same world (which some are trying to destroy to be "green"; see my last two blog posts before this one!), which was not Men for Mars, or Women for Venus, but good o'l Planet Earth, Third Planet, Sol System, the Milky Way Galaxy! I've got class soon, so here, to anybody that thinks Autistic, or any other type of person are not so great, here's some food for thought:

And for those who doubt my take on all of this... I'll just head the other way, and this is all you'll see:

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That's the end of my Soap Box today. Thanks for Reading! :)