it's always sunny in philadelphia special preseason episode

four chapters online up on myspace

seven

'Gays Too Precious To Risk In Combat,' Says General

lol

Al Qaeda Also Fed Up With Ground Zero Construction Delays

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a roman legion settled in china?

Roman legion that was "lost" ended settling in China where their descendants still live today.. in a place called Li-Jien (which sounds in Chinese as the word "legion" and is the name by which the Chinese called Rome). Source

Nation To Ken Griffey Jr.: 'We Wish It Were You Hitting 756 Home Runs'

remember how ken griffey jr used to be so cool? i still have his rookie card somewhere....

CINCINNATI—Overcome with a mixture of distaste at the almost certain future and a wistful sense at the way things could and should have been, baseball fans across America took time to address veteran Reds superstar Ken Griffey Jr. yesterday in order to let him know that they sincerely wish that Griffey, and not Barry Bonds, was on the verge of hitting his record-breaking 756th home run.

"Don't take this the wrong way, Mr. Griffey, because the last thing we as a nation want is for you to think you've disappointed us by not breaking this record," the country's message, which was read to a quiet and humble Griffey by retired Seattle, WA–area mechanical engineer and lifelong baseball fan Robert Colgrave, began. "America knows you did everything you could, and we couldn't be more proud of you. In fact, that's the whole point—we think you're a man who is actually worthy of this record."

Are we playing Assault? Cause I'm pretty sure you are the bomb.

Top 10 Halo Pick-Up Lines

pros only

smash bros advanced techniques 1 2 3

lol

retrospectives

final fantasy and metroid. absolutely fantastic work by gametrailers.

i forgot to post this a few weeks ago

UPDATE: i also liked this one below from this week:

zomg

4 player halo campaign coop over xbox live or system link!!

stevie wonder drum solo

for reals.

shame

i haven't been updating as much as i've wanted to really. and i apologize to my readers for that.

i'm going to try my first craigslist experience this week. i'm going to try to sell my ps2 and guitar hero game+controllers up on there. hopefully it'll turn out well and i won't be robbed. weeeee!!!!!

worst ever

super dent dental floss, distributed by darby group companies inc of jerico, ny 11753 is the worst dental floss that i've ever used.

marathon 2 for xbla

hell yes

i think this tops geoff's wedding thriller

japan, are you serious?

This is Rose & Camellia. It's set in the 19th century. You play a woman. You slap other women. That's it.

gameplay video.

UPDATE: and the flash game itself.

call of duty 4 is looking pretty hot

looks like i'll have to pick this one up.

half marathon update

finished an 8 mile run tonight. i'm exhausted. i have 10 weeks to add 5 miles to this and make it faster.

greatest (turkish) action movie of all time

but i was going to send my kids to college with baseball cards

I make this post as one makes a PSA. Because honestly, I think most people have no clue. People think their unopened factory sets of 1986 Topps are going to send their kids to college someday. I'm not exaggerating.

ps3 price drop

to $499. that's getting closer to the sweet spot ($400). still needs some actual games that i would be interested in that i wouldn't be able to get on the 360 though.

rock band premiere

holy shit. this is like 3x guitar hero's awesomeness.

edit: i call bass. eddie's got lead. who's got drums and vocals?

edit2: only for ps3 and xbox360.

well that sucks

they might as well just give him his old job back since they're rewarding "compromising our national security and the secret men and women that protect us while we sleep and then covering it up" today.

President Bush commutes the prison term of Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney. Libby was sentenced to 30 months after his March conviction on federal charges of perjury, obstruction of justice and lying to investigators.

responses from other talking heads. my response:

this is lame. man, fuck all of you guys in dc.

better late than never!

geoff and melissa's wedding thriller

paypass is the best thing ever

i carry my paypass card with me when i go running so i can pick up a sandwich and half gallon of tea from wawa afterwards without any hassles.

reggie bush and david beckham

america has a chance this year

Jaw arthritis for hot-dog champ

Takeru 'Tsunami' said he can only open his mouth to make a gap the size of a fingertip after being diagnosed with jaw arthritis.

In an entry on his blog entitled Occupational Hazard, Kobayashi said: "My jaw refused to fight any more."

The injury occurred only a week after the slender 29-year-old started training to win his sixth straight title at the annual July 4 Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating contest on New York's Coney Island.

shins music video for australia

a spectral bride situation

live streaming webcam today

To kick off the national launch of Accelerade, Dean Karnazes will aim high. On June 21, his goal will be to break the world record for a 24-hour distance run on a treadmill (currently set at 153.76 miles) as well as to raise awareness for Athletes for a Cure, an organization dedicated to finding a cure for prostate cancer. The treadmill will be located on a platform attached to the Reuters building in Times Square.

facebook

i'm working on a facebook application written in java for mobile phones. so far, it's a pain in the ass to write non-web-applications using their facebook session api. i've been able to work around it (generated infinite session keys), but it's still hacky and confusing.

cool pix of comcast tower's iron workers

etch a sketch lebron james

small world: ryan claims to have lived across the street from him.

i'm getting it back

i finally felt good enough to put in some sub-9 and sub-8 min/miles tonight. this is the first time in about a month where i felt like i was actually running.

oh hay guys

A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting.

Pentagon officials on Friday confirmed to CBS 5 that military leaders had considered, and then subsquently rejected, building the so-called "Gay Bomb."

a simcity game that's not by maxis?!

inconceivable! looks kinda lame too.

a goon plays through castlevania 3

a series of 18+ videos at video.google. (link goes to forums thread.) oh boy!

thursday post

i had a mobile phone in 1998. that was back when two-way pagers were new. using my phone in public drew attention because mobile phones were relatively uncommon. my carrier was omnipoint, which later became voicestream, which later become t-mobile. my plan was about $40/month for local 150 minutes per month. extra minutes were 15 cents and roaming outside of my region was about 30 cents (i remember getting absolutely raped for surcharges when i was in san francisco for business). text messaging was extra. my job at the time subsidized most of my phone bill. i had a phone from siemens, which was like the size of a folded original nintendo ds.

wednesday post

i never played final fantasy 7. for real.

tuesday's post

i was once a mac user. i had a mac performa and a powertower pro from power computing, which was a licensed mac clone. a mac clone! i even had a job where i maintained and wrote for a 20,0000 daily reader web site about mac laptops and imacs for a couple of years. i was even part of the local user group scene at one point.

now? my last three home workstations have been windows boxes. my htpc is a windows xp box. and i make fun of the guys at work that own them. what happened? a few things actually. the mac os at the time was horrible for c++ development; no protected memory or preemptive multitasking. imagine learning and working with pointers and pointer-pointers in that environment... one bad pointer and the whole system needed to be rebooted, unlike windows 98se. i don't pc game much anymore but half-life and rainbow six were enough to keep me from booting up the mac box for weeks at a time back then. and i like building my own pc from parts i bought and hand picked from the internet.

will i ever buy a mac again? i doubt it. windows xp is good enough and my next workstation will be a vista box.

the perfect golf swing

The Perfect Golf Swing - Funny bloopers are a click away

for reals

in order to inspire others to post to their blogs, i will write something about myself every day this week that not many people know about. it's on.

edit: some of these "secrets" may be very stupid, obvious, and tangential. they're probably not secrets at all. but they will be posted on the internets.

they tried to make me go to rehab

well, sorta. i've been rehabbing a hamstring injury for the past two or three weeks. i think it bit me during my 24:01 5k and i haven't been able to run a pain-free 2 miles since. hopefully i'll be able to start running a bit more and test it out this week. i have to remember that these things take time to heal but i always end up rushing back too fast and too soon. :(

michael cera is fired from knocked up

Michael Cera gets fired from Knocked Up
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posting to complain about lost

what?

africacraft

buffalo versus lions versus crocodiles

weakest season of 24 yet

i heard that next season will take place outside of los angeles so that might breathe some much needed fresh air into the series. and what was up with that ending?

the office

that season finale was pretty sublime. creed's blog is kinda rad too.

Today in my office where I work as Director of Quality Assurance, we went to the beach for some reason that was never adequately explained. When we were there, our manager told us to eat hot coals. I thought that was a little bit untoward so I ate a fish. Then a woman I have literally never seen before in my entire life started talking very loudly about something involving Halpert. She was agitated, I’d say. From what I could guess, she was definitely on drugs of some kind, perhaps cocaine, or maybe ‘drines. Also, she is a knock-out. She reminds me of a young Daphne Du Maurier. Also, I stupidly ate the fishbones. I told myself “never again” after the last time, but then you turn around, and bam, they’re in my mouth. I also ate 55 hot dogs in 15 minutes, which is a world record.

you can relive the final minutes here and be all :D. and this is from a goon.

superbad is super awesome

not work safe for language

yup, i'm taking september 25th off

We said Fall 2007, but did you expect Halo 3’s release date to be just two days into the Fall? On September 25, 2007 (just two days after the Autumnal Equinox), players will be able to finish the fight they started in Halo: Combat Evolved and continued in Halo 2. Halo 3 will release in Europe on September 26, 2007. Worldwide dates may vary slightly depending on local rules and conditions.

do you remember mario paint?

title link goes to youtube page with much much more!

congratulations!

to geoff-melissa.

side note: joel, are you going to upload the thriller dance to youtube?

jane fonda flusters colbert

rarely happens but when it does, it's hilarious.

fuck your tickets, move on up and get closer

when win said that after "black mirror", entire rows in the back of the theater vacated into the aisles and turned the arcade fire concert into a small block party in front of the stage (glad there wasn't a fire marshal present).

win: "i love philadelphia. only city where you can park in the middle of the street. right in the middle of the fucking street."

fan yelling out: "it's more convenient!"

holy shit, it was a fantastic show. the national opened for them and they were also very good. check them out.

so you want to buy a tv

for geoff.

why hello there

dead center, six or seven rows from the stage.

ovarian cancer race results

46  10/47    24:01  7:44

this race was advertised as flat and fast... totally not true. it was curvy and hilly. i did pretty well until mile 2; i crossed mile 2 at 15:30 but i completely fell apart like a chinese bicycle not too long into it. overall, i still finished at 24 minutes which i'm pretty happy about. i think i could've definitely taken it down to 23:30 if i had more steam going into the last half mile.

<3 herbert kornfeld

not work safe language

i don't like the look of that elevation profile...

title link goes to a map i made of the university city 5k run

4.88k

some drama in the philly runners message board that i didn't really run a 24:21 5k this past weekend:

Using Sheila's assumed course length of 390 feet short, the course was 16014.1944 feet instead of 16404.1944 feet (5280 feet per mile, 5K=3.106855 miles). Therefore, racers ran 97.6225593% of a 5K (short course divided by 5K), a 4.881127965 K.

To extrapolate your time for a 5K, multiply your time by 1.024353395 (5K / short course). First, convert your time into seconds, multiply by above, then convert back.

24:56 would be my extrapolated time.

incoming paradox

Emilio's mother, Catarina Gonzales, on the other hand, is fighting to keep her son on the ventilator, allowing him to die "naturally, the way God intended."

i also found this quite ironic:

The law, signed in 1999 by then-Gov. George W. Bush, gives Texas hospitals the authority to stop treatment if doctors say the treatment is "inappropriate" -- even if the family wants the medical care to continue.

and then we have the bush of today, "The children here today are reminders that every human life is a precious gift of matchless value." delicious.

listening to

menomena's "friend and foe" (title link goes to their myspace)

co-op anti-zombie play

title link goes to zomg

still waiting for the official chip time

but my guntime was a little bit over 25 minutes! mile splits were something like 9-8-8.

UPDATE:

352   1198   24:21  7:52   25:06  56/105  M25-29  278/632  M 

zomg.

waiting for the starting gun

the spring 5k season starts bright and early tomorrow morning at 9am with the clean air run. there will be tons of hippies. i could care less about the clean air, i just want to run. i'm not as hill-climbing strong as i was last year but i'm probably consistently faster over 2-3 miles this year.

i had to dump the broad street run 10 miler for this year. instead i will try my hand at avenging my getting destroyed last year with 31:02. i had targeted the bsr at the end of last year but it didn't come together health-wise for me until two months ago. and it was much safer to focus on the spring 5k season than to push myself and potentially over-train for the bsr. i am still targeting a half-marathon in the fall though.

here's to trying to best my personal 5k record of 26:48 tomorrow!

grindhouse-esque movie posters

title link goes to sa thread. probably not work safe.

arcade fire in a freight elevator and in-audience performance

i love how the crowd explodes at that part of wake up.

#41 - Arcade Fire - Neon Bible & Wake Up
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bulboff covers the decemberists

not voting for fattah

His comments were an oblique response to U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah, who stunned a mayoral forum devoted to urban design last week by saying planning projects would take a backseat to antipoverty programs if he were elected mayor.

Fattah suggested planning was a niche issue of interest mainly to affluent Center City residents, and said he preferred to focus on education and housing for the poor. "I'm interested in rebuilding the lives of people and not just the skyline," Fattah told the forum audience.

...

In yesterday's remarks, Levy observed that it had been easy for politicians to overlook Center City's needs because only 5 percent of the electorate lives there. But he argued that downtown is the beating heart that keeps the rest of the city alive. Despite its small geographic size, Levy said, the business district generates 47 percent of the wages Philadelphians earn.

he forgets that we can also vote with our feet.

making jfk a two way street is a decent idea

Among the cooler ideas:

A light-rail transit line, à la Dublin, Ireland, running down Market Street, connecting 30th Street Station and burgeoning University City with all of Center City. The line would then branch out north and south along the Delaware.

A concerted effort to soften and animate the dead, concrete civic spaces left by another era. Imagine, next to City Hall, a green Dilworth Plaza, home to movie nights in the summer and a skating rink in winter. Imagine the City Hall courtyard as a city crossroads full of things to do. Similarly, visualize a Benjamin Franklin Parkway liberated from the tyranny of the car, some of its grand sweep reclaimed for pedestrians and pastimes, with smoother connections among its cultural treasures.

A saving injection of green and color for the seedy dead zone of West Market Street and JFK Boulevard between the office towers and the Schuylkill: linear green parks, flowered medians, a Brooklyn Heights-style promenade along the Schuylkill from JFK to Chestnut Street.

Development of an academic district on North Broad Street, akin to the cultural district of the Avenue of the Arts, linking the learning institutions lining that raggedy stretch of the city's spine.

An East Market Street with attractive retail, and a streetscape that soothes pedestrians and links them smoothly to Chinatown to the north, and the residential blocks to the south. Some smart public investments might unlock the long rumored, never realized private investments in East Market's underused tracts.

These ideas would cost money, but not fortunes. They mesh well with the separate Delaware riverfront planning process being led by Penn Praxis (which is exploring an ambitious, project-of-a-generation idea - sinking Interstate 95).

Paintball welt

Paintball welt
Originally uploaded by mechakoopa.

at least nobody lost an eye.

mario game from hell

click on the title link

film festival update

Friday, April 06
10:00 PM The Bothersome Man The Bridge: good premise. good, could've been better. thinly veiled jab at consumer culture. 8.3/10

Saturday, April 07
2:45 PM Paprika The Bridge: over-napped, did not see.
7:30 PM Exiled The Bridge: decent and entertaining, full of cliches. gun fights could've been shot better (did you see the pun there?). 7.72/10

Sunday, April 08
4:30 PM Cruel Winter Blues The Bridge: pretty good character-driven story. not your typical revenge movie. 8.74/10
7:15 PM The Boss of It All Ritz Five: hilarious comedy for those that like office space and the office. 9.22/10

Monday, April 09
7:30 PM The King of Kong The Bridge: hilarious. "the rocky of gaming movies." 9.06/10

i love art

stolen from joystiq

this season of 24 has been disappointing

after the awesomeness that was season 5 and the first four episodes of this season, this abrupt drop in awesomeness is baffling. wtf!?

david cross and gavin something goes to china

found in the forums. not work safe for language. also for the squeamish, dog meat is eaten.

Part 1: http://www.vbs.tv/player.php?bctid=626899396

Part 2: http://www.vbs.tv/player.php?bctid=662859626

Part 3: http://www.vbs.tv/player.php?bctid=663334066

"So you push Mao out of the way and the fires of capitalism ignite."

i win the pool!

i called west philadelphia, for the win!

Temple doctors had cut open the chest of George's 21-year-old companion, whom police have not identified, and were massaging his heart when his younger brother began to tell police what happened.

The boy's mother cut him off and loudly warned her son " 'not to say a f-ing word,' " according to an officer who was at the scene.

" 'Don't talk to the f-ing cops,' " the officer quoted the woman as saying. " 'We handle this our own way.' "

"I couldn't believe it," said the officer, who asked not to be identified.

Moments later, four young men ran up to the victim's brother and told him to "say nothing to the cops."

The scene quickly grew even more surreal.

The mother of a third shooting victim arrived and told police: "I know who did it, and he's in this crowd."

As the woman looked around for the gunman, the crowd berated her and told her to keep silent, the officer said. "People were telling her to be quiet and saying, 'We'll get you, bitch.' "

Police called for reinforcements.

"How are we supposed to end this when we're up against these kinds of societal values?" asked the officer.

"It's discouraging and an absolute disgrace," said Homicide Sgt. Anthony McFadden.

the pool is starting for the neighborhood of #150.

peanut butter analogy disproves modern science

homer evolution

peyton manning throws a deep lol

washington was awesome

geoff, where has zombie friday been?

where else am i supposed to hear about the latest unliving adventures?

it's on now, eddie

they've developed a robot to battle eddie in guitar hero. they even gave it five fingers to better match up against eddie.

your sentences are songs sung in the key of lie

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

i do declare

Friday, April 06
10:00 PM The Bothersome Man The Bridge

Saturday, April 07
2:45 PM Paprika The Bridge
7:30 PM Exiled The Bridge

Sunday, April 08
4:30 PM Cruel Winter Blues The Bridge
7:15 PM The Boss of It All Ritz Five

Monday, April 09
7:30 PM The King of Kong The Bridge

Tuesday, April 10
7:00 PM The Cats of Mirikitani International House

Wednesday, April 11
9:30 PM Triad Election Prince Music Theater

Sunday, April 15
7:00 PM Fracture Ritz East Theater 1

Monday, April 16
7:15 PM Fair Play Prince Music Theater

and people say we aren't related to monkeys?

i just realized my blog is practically a youtube blog now. :(

whistle goes woo wooo

play this video here:

then, go to this ytmnd. solid woo wooo gold baby.

this is quite lols

itsa me

really digging the new mario.

super nintendo, sega genesis...

when i was dead broke, man, i couldn't picture this.

larry west for mayor!!

guys, he's got a mohawk. title link goes to his website.

will arnett cracks me up

lol

v is for virtualization, sucka

i pity the fool who doesn't use hitachi system virtualization!

metroid art

One Girl in All the World by =transfuse on deviantART

others: 1, 2, 3, 4

michael cera is snarky

just when you think the borat fun has ended

click the title link to check out the dvd packaging.

mcdonald's: i'd hit it

it's like a message board for unlisted phone numbers

i don't pick up phone calls from numbers i don't recognize (leave a voicemail!) and i like to google the phone number to see who or what it might've been. i've found this whocalled.us website that apparently does this sorta thing. (p.s. i'm totally onto you, drexel university!)

i own a blackberry now

living the digital lifestyle... or something.