2007 IS THE YEAR, GUYS!!

I CAN FEEL IT.

Among other predictions for the U.S. in 2007:

One in four, 25 percent, anticipates the second coming of Jesus Christ.

race calendar 2007

March 4 Northeast Roadrunners 10K
April ??? Annual 5K for Clean Air
May 6 Broad Street Run 10 Mile
May 13 Komen Philadelphia Race for the Cure 5K
May 20 Philadelphia Bar Association Charities 5K
September ??? The Parkway Run 5K
September 16 Jefferson Hospital Philadelphia Distance Run (half-marathon)
October 28 Northeast Roadrunners 25K Marathon Tuneup
November 18 Philadelphia Marathon & Rothman 8K (also has a half-marathon)

gotta have goals, right?

no, i probably won't do all of these races. the races that i've emboldened are what i'm really looking forward to. i'm hoping to do a half-marathon next year (or two).

i need some of you people to join me next year. it only takes 10 weeks of training 3x a week for 30 minutes each to build up to a 5k.

it's always sunny in philadelphia

needs more love. just finished watching the first season and it's omgroflmao.

seasons 1+2 aren't on dvd yet but they're up on itunes. :roll:

you can find them through other illegitimate sources though.

wii sports dvd cover

since wii sports doesn't come in a dvd case, you can buy a white wii dvd case from nintendo and print one of these out.

i got five cases from nintendo today. two are unclaimed...

batting .400 these days

Forty percent of city residents over age 15 are out of work and not collecting unemployment, according to U.S. Census data. One-quarter of Philadelphians live in poverty, which can be difficult to escape.

Computers have become central to most city businesses, yet too many kids can barely read at the grade level for their age group, said Elijah Anderson, an urban sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania. Four of 10 public-school students never earn a diploma, according to a recent report on Philadelphia's dropout epidemic.

this is why your chick-fil-a orders are always messed up.

i feel fat and not sassy

Over the next 14 years, Karnazes challenged almost every known endurance running limit. He covered 350 miles without sleeping. (It took more than three days.) He ran the first and only marathon to the South Pole (finishing second), and a few months ago, at age 44, he completed 50 marathons in 50 consecutive days, one in each of the 50 states. (The last one was in New York City. After that, he decided to run home to San Francisco.) Karnazes' transformation from a tequila-sodden party animal into an international symbol of human achievement is as educational as it is inspirational.

source

real time dean map

update:
oh wait, he quit his nyc to sfo run.

get on up :(

happy christmas

because happy > merry.

let's feel insignificant together

south park's mr garrison travels around the world for xmas

not work safe for language

wii in a movie theater

nvidia powers next gen virtual booty

wiicade

for wii owners who've installed the web browser

finished rainbow six vegas

good game... probably 8-10 hours to finish? i'm hoping multiplayer is good. it's got co-op!

there's a trend lately with games to have a single player campaign be about 8-12 hours and you're supposed to justify the rest of your $60 with online/local multiplayer.

:/

zelda was kind of a freak: 54 hours of gameplay. that's pretty unbelievable now on a console.

I Wanna Rock You Hard This X-Mas

by the dan band.

peace on earth, we are the world, freakin cumbaya.

edit: language not safe for work.

good user comments on youtube

don't exist.

obama is a cb

Obama owes me an apology

After about five questions from different television and newspaper reporters, I stood up to ask mine.

Wait a minute son, this is for professional media only, Obama said to me.

What do you mean? I work for the local paper, I said with a crackling nervous voice.

Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you were a college student. You have such a baby face, he said with an unremorseful grin.

At that point everyone in the room turned to look at me and laugh. The 800 people in the lobby laughed as my face was projected on the big screen.

Remembered that girl who I was trying to get with, well she was sitting next to me and guess what she was doing?

Everyone was laughing except me.

The next time I saw that young lady was at another press conference, but this time she was acting as if she never knew me. I think I saw her maybe two more times and each time, it was the cold shoulder.

Thanks to everyone's favorite new senator, I lost big time.

Obama owes me a public apology for making me look like a court jester and for blocking my shot.

obama calls him and apologizes for "ruining his game" and calls her superficial. lol.

300

is going to be awesome

wii makes people crazy

While paying at the register, the man handling the Wii's said very loudly to the line full of people still waiting, "Sorry folks, that's it. There's no more for today." Instantly I started hearing groans and seeing other disappointing gestures. It was then that I realized the position I was in...here I was in line with all these tense guys who didn't get a game system and I did. All at once, I felt their angry, jealous eyes shift focus to me. To them, I was an easy target. But I felt confident that I could deal with angry Christmas shoppers. After all, there were still 2 weeks left of shopping. That's plenty of time to get a Wii.

"Hey, I'll give you triple for what you just paid..."

"There's no way you deserve that game system..."

"You probably don't even know how to play. Here, give it to me. I'll put it to good use..."

Were these people crazy?? Yes, they were. It only went downhill from there. While I was walking toward the exit, unsatisfied customers began to grab at my bag. Just like that! They were acting as if I was just going to give it to them. There was no way anyone was taking this away from me. I was caught off guard in a game of tug-a-war when a security guard intervened and rescued me from the chaos.

He took me outside. And the crowd followed.

The security guard flagged a police car. I thankfully jumped in. And it was a police escort for me and my Wii back to work.

holiday party pictures

well i'm glad i camped out for my wii before the hype

We stopped by the Dedham, MA Best Buy this evening to see what was going on. Although there was no confirmation of any PS3s on premises, they did have a printout with a confirmed count of 24 Wiis. At 1AM there were only 14 people waiting outside, however three of them were willing to sell their spots. Alicia, Morgan and Norman are ready to give up their spot for $75. Alicia says, "As college students you're going to be doing stupid stuff anyway, at least this way we'll be making money off of it."

new arcade fire song

called "Intervention" from their upcoming album.

thanks to geoff for the heads up.

just finished zelda

in about 54 hours.

wow, what a game. the epic final fight was pretty much everything you'd expect for a zelda game. the ending is not very straightforward though...

zelda update

47 hours in. 7 dungeons down. if i decide to forge ahead and skip all the side stuff, i think this is a 50-51 hour game.

also, omg the 7th dungeon boss fight.... wow.

super lions!

Marooned on an island, this group of lions should have died out. Instead, in an evolutionary twist, they've learned to swim and become strong enough to tackle their only prey... giant buffalo

when in danger, they join up and form a large robot.

philly squeeze

bulboff's accordian band

ching chong ching chong!

HEY, all you Chinese-speakers out there in TV land - Rosie O'Donnell thinks you should get a sense of humor! The Asian-American Journalists Association was fuming after O'Donnell went on "The View" Thursday and said that Danny DeVito's drunk turn on the show days earlier was "international news! In China it was like, 'Ching chong, ching-ching-chong, Danny DeVito!' " In a statement yesterday, the AAJA said, "We consider this a mockery of the Chinese language and, in effect, a perpetration of stereotypes of Asian-Americans as foreigners or second-class citizens. The use of the distorted phrases is insulting to the Chinese and Chinese-Americans, and gives the impression that they are a group that is substandard to English-speaking people." But a rep for O'Donnell said, "She's a comedian in addition to being a talk show co-host. I certainly hope that one day they will be able to grasp her humor."

(i like how her rep spins it that the blame is on us for it not being funny.)

i'm not offended as an asian american.

i'm offended as a follower of the comedy arts. i'd expect ching chong ching chong from the trash that rides septa and inhabitants of philadelphia public schools. i wouldn't expect it from a "comedian" or at least somebody who derives their livelihood from trying to be funny.

one, as a joke, it's not funny at all. there's no substance or zing to it.

two, i mean come on, it's even clever or original. as a comedian, you want to be clever and original; that's how you separate yourself from the wannabes. in fact, i'm ching chonging right now.

here's how i would tell that same joke:

"international news! In China it was like the sounds of silverware falling down the stairs and you'd hear Danny DeVito's name every few seconds!"

woooo!

we've topped 2005's record season and we still have 3 weeks left!!!

i have a gamecube for sale

this thing has been sitting in the corner of my living floor for the past 3 weeks. :(

he's going to do what in geometry wars?

this sounds crazy.

we're not unreasonable

click on play the song

All we want to do is eat your brains
We're not unreasonable, I mean, no one's gonna eat your eyes
All we want to do is eat your brains
We're at an impasse here, maybe we should compromise:
If you open up the doors
We'll all come inside and eat your brains

ugh

i haven't done any running since the marathon relay two and a half weeks ago. part of it is to let my right ankle soreness and left foot sprain to heal (both of these feel much better now). another part of it is that walking down stairs gives me pain in my left knee lately. i have no idea what it is but it started after the marathon relay. :/

probably some sort of tendinitis. i wish i knew a sports therapist.

i'm hoping it heals up so i can get back to running a little bit on the treadmill this winter. i have great plans to join the half-marathon tier next year.

p.s. i feel fat.

you don't throw in lito's direction at the end of the game!

when will opposing teams learn?

this is like the second or third time this season that lito sheppard picked off a pass to end a game.

halo 3 commercial

omg. not actual gameplay though.

team pam or team karen

i read somewhere that women choose team pam and men choose team karen.

thoughts?

i'm on team karen because i like drama. and comedy. dramedy.

nature is horrible

just finished ffiv advance

finally.

i think i bought it like last winter but never got around to finishing it until today at my parents' house.

i rolled in there with a level 60+ party and took zeromus down a notch.

i like achewood

getting it is half the fun.

because i know scott wants to know

i have found a certain sword. omg. :D

i have also decided to take a break from my questing to fish a little bit. i remember blowing many many nights fishing in orcarina. fishing on the wii is really really fun. you have to put some muscle into it too. i'm afraid i'll get carpal tunnel or something if i keep fishing.

26 hours in.

birthday pix

why was i making weird faces?

wii retro adapters

i still wish i had my retro controllers...

mario and metroid make a baby

pretty cool concept

it's true

if you're an adult, you need to be really into it to lose control of the remote.

update on zelda

13+ hours in and i'm only past the second dungeon.

so gooood.

second dungeon boss fight was pretty awesome. this is living up to the "as good or better than orcarina" hype so far.

wii zelda

oh god i played wii zelda for 7:16 straight and that was just up to finishing the first real dungeon.

i played with adam's wii

... and it was fun.

free arrested development episodes on msn

small arms is the new halo worms melee

final part of the zelda retrospective

this one tries to create a master timeline of all the zelda games.

marathon relay 2006

(these are adam's pictures.)

i did the marathon relay this sunday and it was a blast. three coworkers and i tackled the 26.2 mile course. i did the final 6.2 mile leg, miles 20 through to the finish line. that's from main street and green lane in manayunk to the art museum.

it was really cold but a glorious day for running. the fan support was tremendous. main street was pretty well lined with well wishers and cheerers. lots of cowbell ringing as if that would make us go faster. the final 1/2 mile to the art museum was like something out of the tour de france where you have 8 feet of "unofficial" running lane with cheering people on both sides. then you hit the fenced in part where it's wider but not by much. it was definitely an amazing experience.

i'm also really proud that our team stayed on pace the whole time. i was going for a 8min/mile pace but i lost that in the second mile where we had to climb two highway onramps. ugh. i ended up in a 9min/pace but i did finish really strong. i found a second wind with about 1/2 a mile to 3/4 mile left left where i was in a full sprint through the home stretch.

overall, i'm satisfied with my performance. i think i could've handled the second mile with onramps a lot better. i think i could've started my sprint a lot farther away than where i did. i could've dressed better too (track pants didn't work out too well). i think i had enough mushroom boosts leftover for at least one sub-8 min mile towards the end.

afterwards, i was really sore and dehydrated. my ankle held up ok and so did my toe injury from earlier in the week. i'm taking the next week or two off to let my feet and ankle heal.

next year, i may try hauling the 10 mile portion.

small arms is the new melee

wii

we went looking sunday afternoon and could not find one in all of south philadelphia.

sigh.

eddie, work your magic

tag: communism

sortof like portishead

but not really.

where are you, portishead?

new rocky trailer

not wanting to watch this movie is unamerican.

halo 3 screens

tv intros from the 80s and 90s

wii component cables at nintendo store

must have if you have a 480p tv. $42 to overnight them. god, i'm horrible.

I'M A MONSTER!!!!!!!

wii campout

stolen from somethingawful:

Pre-order/Camp out FAQ:
Toys R Us: Began taking pre-orders on the 29th of October, but they aren't available now. They should have more stock than just their preorders though.
Gamecrazy: Began taking pre-orders the 20th of October. Don't camp.
Gamestop/EB: Began taking pre-orders sometime in mid-October. Don't camp.
Wal-Mart: Midnight on the 19th. Probably will receive a hefty amount of consoles, so plan to come early.
Best Buy: Usually open at 10 am, may open earlier to commemorate the Wii launch - call to check. A good camp out option.
Target: Will open at 8 am in celebration of the Wii launch - look below for specifics. Check to see how many Wiis your Target will receive. While this looks accurate and realistic I want to remind everyone that it is not officially confirmed that these numbers are correct so trust this site at your own risk.
Sam's Club/Costco/etc.: Lots of people had success with these types of stores at the 360 launch, so it's probably a good idea to check them out if you can. They're good because they require a membership so not everybody can go there, and most people wouldn't think of them as having systems.

wii inventory for philadelphia

attn eddie, derek, geoff

zelda retrospective, part 5

gears of war is nearly everything i thought it would be

like everybody who plays halo with me knows, i'm more of an "assault rifle bullets in the face" guy rather than the chainsaw guy.

it's good so far. i can't wait to try coop.

i bet he's korean

update: omg at full hammer-on/off solo riff at 3:20.

update: geoff, that's not me. maybe eddie.

10 DAYS

I'M SO EXCITED.

last night's lost episode was disappointing

how can abc bill it as the best episode ever and then fall flat on its face? it's like 90% of the show is filler whereas the remaining 10% is the actual good stuff. if i didn't have guitar hero 2 and food, i would've faced a mutiny in my apartment last night.

update: added flickr link.

lost midseason finale and guitar hero 2 party

everybody, let's dance

Sen. Rick Santorum, the No. 3 Senate leader who rode into office 12 years ago on an anti-incumbent swell, succumbed Tuesday to a similar wave of voter discontent, losing his seat to Democrat Bob Casey Jr.

... and there's going to be flutes playing and trombones and flowers and garlands of fresh herbs. And we will dance till the sun rises. And then our children will form a family band. And we will tour the countryside and you won't be invited.

gg nextmap assclown.

rock on

guitar hero 2 is being delivered today

yeeehaaaaa!! fry's/outpost comes through again.

now i'm hoping my gears of war is shipping today. that's getting really good reviews today too.

VOTE OR DIE

zelda retrospective

part one
part two
part three
part four

holy shit wii zelda

(title link goes to official nintendo movies.)

the review embargo just lifted tonight and all of the overwhelmingly positive hype made me wii my pants a little:

1up

Now, two weeks before launch, the fog of mystery is clearing away. No crowded E3 tech demos; no we-play-it-for-you exhibitions. Just us, a Wii, and sheer Hyrulean excellence. We've seen only a tiny bit of the game so far -- 10 hours, to be precise, which is practically nothing given that Nintendo claims its testers needed 70-plus hours to finish the game their first time through. Twilight Princess features nine dungeons in all; after six hours, we were barely past the first.

That is to say, it's a big game. Huge, actually. In fact, the sheer enormity of Twilight Princess doesn't really strike you until after you've completed the first dungeon. Clearly, there's a great deal we've yet to see, but the most pressing (and frequently-asked) questions about Twilight Princess can fortunately be answered based on the time we've spent with it.

hoooooooooly shit. a 70 hour game?!!? are you kidding me? most games today only have a 10-12 hour single player component if you're lucky.

...

If Twilight Princess manages to uphold the level of quality seen in its opening hours for the entire duration of the adventure, it will unquestionably go down as one of the greats. Imagine Ocarina of Time, but polished and expanded and refined and generally perfected: that's what Twilight Princess feels like so far.

whoa whoa whoa... a more perfect orcarina? :O :O :O are you fucking kidding me?!

(finds wallet and credit card)

wii+zelda = fucking sold on the 19th.

sneak king

i'm interested in anything that's $3.99.

wii melee

ooooh. confirmed online play too.

homemade he-man costume

made by melissa but couldn't have happened without the courage of geoff. this is tied with anand's megaman costume in my mind.

space is crazy

awesome hubble pix

i'm nearly sold on the wii now

jeez. there's a lot of glowing hype brewing in the gaming press about the new wii zelda. it's amazing how nearly every successive zelda generation is better than the last. i really can't wait. every new zelda is like a gift of love.

lost until february

well, tonight's episode was pretty awesome. and next week promises more... more... more!!

anyway, next week is the last episode until february. like omg. abc (and the lost writers too) are really trying their hardest to turn their fanbase against the show the way they've been running it the past few seasons.

next week will be an official evite event. fo reals.


eddie/derek/scott: if you need any repeats, i have every episode this season so far recorded on the dvr. just let me know.

i know eddie and derek probably picked up final fantasy 12

so how is it? i hear good things about it. not enough for me to pick it up yet though.

i thought toronto would be too cold for zombies...

a shacker posted a link to some images on flickr.

update for zombie waldo.

omg, megaman

anand's home-made megaman costume is very excellent. (repost from facebook and myspace with permission of anand.)



so far, i think this is tied with geoff's home-made he-man costume for best of 2006.

for geoff and other zombie fans

what's wrong with philadephia?

(link goes to eddie's post. also updated text.)

we're a horrible city filled with horrible people.

and look, there's even an interactive murder map! you can even sort by age and race! (would people would call me a racist if i pointed out that 211 of the 296 murders were black males? too late.)

all of us who have played simcity know that crime is a socio-economical problem and this whole murder pandemic thing will take many many many many years to correct (and full police department funding!). and there's a fuckton of causes and symptoms but no one magic silver bullet. let's see: our public schools are awful and our kids are apparently dumb. our police department is shrinking. we've got unemployment. there's guns everywhere. we have a street culture and mentality that embraces violence and police noncooperation. we have shitty civic pride, civic self esteem issues, and an inferiority complex to new york city. and our sports teams haven't won anything in forever and are downright disappointing all the time. one out of four philadelphians live below the poverty line. i also blame grand theft auto.

would more and better schools help? would more police officers help? would more jobs help? would citywide anger management and therapy help? would citywide internet help? would martial law help? would just one freaking championship help?

there's a magic affluent bubble around center city where none of those really affects those of us who live here. we read about the new daily death count online while sipping our chai teas and shake our heads before clicking on the next link blissfully ignorant of what it really means to us, if anything. meh.

the city is on fire, folks. and i can't wait for guitar hero 2.

eman's halloween party

trogdoooorrr!

burninating the countryside!

geoff and melissa are zombies

this makes me want to wii

awesome gears of war tv commercial

all in-engine too! preordered for november 7th!

i hope you pick this up, scott. 2 vs 2 deathmatch at my apt.

wii plans

people with wii plans on november 19th, comment in here plz.

first four minutes of the borat movie

i lol'ed. i may end up having to see this.

poor mikey

way to sink lower than an invertebrate, rush! quite a feat, i'd say.

p.s. michael j fox was and is a national treasure. sha-na-na-na...

season 6 preview of 24

fuck yeah brah

trogdor!!!

i have received word from the internets that guitar hero 2 will have Strongbad - Trogdor as an unlockable bonus song.

omg.

update: added link to muzak.

oh hell yes, new updated close combat games!

top down 2d world war 2 tactics. i killed hours and hours with this game series.

me and anthony used to play cc1 to death.

david blaine street magic

i lol'ed plenty

update: youtube

fish biscuit

some lost ytmnds

original
remix

rainbow six vegas multiplayer

holy shit this looks great!!

kasabian "shoot the runner"

it's like an ipod video gone too far

snoop dog's dreamland

omg. snoop set to kirby's dreamland.

splinter cell double agent multiplayer

looks like hide and go seek for grownups! i think this would be fun to play on a halo night.

spies
mercs

greatest guitar hero video ever

a piece of pizza playing a custom dual-neck guitar!

more guitar hero 2 expert videos

the human camera

man draws city from memory

play some freebird!!!

freebird on hard in guitar hero 2. starts off relatively easy and then gets crazy awesome around 5:15.

i love my dell 20 inch widescreen

this is such a great deal for quality 20" widescreen lcd that i might want another on my desk this christmas. of course, that would be totally ridiculous... but i can dream, i suppose.

I'VE HAD IT WITH THESE ZOMBIES ON MY PLANE

Plane Dead

we are soo going next year. book it.

and we're back!

server move!

"Misirlou" in guitar hero 2 on expert. only one more month left!

guitar hero 2 final song list

just one month left to go...

for derek and scott

keep reaching for those stars

guitar hero 2: holy moly

click on the link to watch the video.

another quality office episode

the climax of this episode was grand, or as the french would say, grande.

"hug it out, bitch."

edit: the end was like oldboy.

eddie was not completely LOST

iawtp 200%.

looks like we're in for another long torturing season...

about running

well i didn't do the philadelphia distance run half marathon two weeks ago. i was nursing a pretty bad foot sprain at the time that took about 3 weeks to clear up. i definitely trained too hard too fast. then i had a cold that kept me down for a week. it sucked; at my peak condition, i was running 9 miles outside. there's always next year.

i was able to do the parkway run 5k on 9/24 though. i placed #425 with a little over 27 minutes. wasn't my best where i got a slow start with the crowd and i ran out of gas in the final 1/2 mile. it's amazing how quickly i lose my conditioning. that was for the children though.

if you remember from last year's parkway run:

• 1
• 2
• 3

this was the same 5k that took away 4 months of my life last year. and i avenged myself and i felt a burden lifted off my shoulders.

right now i'm getting ready for the marathon relay in november. there's a team at work i volunteered to either do the 4 mile segment or the 6 mile segment, depending on who we can get.

to tune up for the marathon relay, i'll be doing the dash for democracy 5k on november 4th. that should be fun.

foxnews: fair and balanced

wow. shouldn't there be laws against this?

zomg

we've outsourced michael jackson to india.

urban dead

i'm enjoying this a lot. i have a zombie character that joined horde a of zombies ransacking fort creedy in peppardville. fort creedy now belongs to the dead. braaaaiiiinnnnnsss.

make a character today!

i am the new proud owner of this jacket

winter is going to be awesome

you call that a burger?

this is a burger.



ted's montana grill: kitchen sink bison burger

mental note for next weekend

the first paradox of gaming

it's true. as age and ability to buy games increases, the amount of free time to play decreases. it's pretty sad. i'm going through this now. :'(

you can grant yourself retroactive immunity?

wtf. how is that possible?

because we all love zombies

BRAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNS.

halo rts for xbox360

the trailer made me pee myself a little bit.

and it's the age of empires people. if anybody can make a good and solid rts, it's them. my only concern is how to actually play a rts on a console. i don't think any console rts game figured that part out perfectly yet.


update: just watched it again. spartan group omega? oh please fuck yes.

guitar hero 2 for xbox360 makes me hot

wireless controllers and xbox live downloadable content?

hell yes!

unfortunately, it comes out sometime next year so it looks like i'll pick it up for ps2 this november anyway.

update: it's still on, eddie.

guitar hero 2 beta in public competition

it gets good around 8:20.

i couldn't help but yell fuck yeah a few times around the 10:00 mark.

the madden curse strikes again!

madden curse in detail

i'm going to be poor this fall


9/27 Just Cause
10/16 Blitz: The League
10/17 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent
10/23 FIFA 07
10/24 Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
Phantasy Star Universe
10/31 Need for Speed Carbon
11/01 Forza Motorsport 2
11/07 Call of Duty 3
F.E.A.R.
Fuzion Frenzy 2
Gears of War
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas
Star Trek: Legacy
Tony Hawk's Project 8


and the wii on november 19th.

this music video is just way too awesome

metal gear solid 4 trailer

click on tgs 06 trailer

first episode of season 3 of the office

probably one of the best 30 minutes i've ever seen on tv.

5 lols out of 5.

free mmo zombie game

Urban Dead is a free-to-play browser-based multi-player game where you play the survivor or victim of a zombie outbreak in a quarantined city centre, alongside tens of thousands of others.

In death, the city stirs. Its borders still locked down after a sudden government quarantine last year, Malton's trapped civilians make their way through the derelict buildings, surviving the winter to rebuild their fragmented society from the rubble upwards. Military cleanup squads patrol the empty streets, stationed in the city for the long haul, while embedded scientific groups continue the experiments that brought them here.

And the dead rise up and thrive, trailing through the ruined streets of the city, milling between buildings and clawing through makeshift barricades and diversions, reclaiming the city as their own.

this would be like chocolate and peanut butter

Ausiello: What's this I hear about David Cross coming on as his Arrested Development character?
Braff: That's what I'm trying to broker. I'm a huge fan of his and so is Bill, and our idea was that he would play Tobias in an episode. Obviously, we have to get that cleared by a lot of people, like [Arrested creator] Mitch [Hurwitz] and Fox, but that was my pitch. David wants to do it.

Ausiello: Is it your goal to get the entire Arrested Development cast on Scrubs?
Braff: [Laughs] Yeah, one by one. I was such a fan.

hell yes

guitar hero 2, november 7th.

it's so ON, eddie.

update: what a horrible heart-shaped box cover.

mario cake

poor jevon kearse

one of my favorite players too. :'(

i would also like to pimp dinosaur comics

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

one of my new favorite webcomics

http://xkcd.com/

A webcomic of romance,
sarcasm, math, and language.

don't you ever touch a black man's radio, boy!!!

edit: fixed link to youtube

wii and nintendo, best summarized by penny arcade

from a gaming forum...

Well, the PS3 entry model is $500, not $600. 600 for the upgraded HD. But that is beside the point. My point is - look at those Tennis players heads - OMG! They are spheres! Vic20, Apple IIe sprites? Come on...my PS3 Tennis players will have grimmaces, sweat running down their faces, and strands of hair moving to real physics. Why? Because I AM a gamer. Not a pre-teen. I am not after bouncing dwarfs, discs, trading card games. Please do not confuse the two of us under the one term of "Gamer." The Wii is an alternative to the PS3. Yes. There are hundreds of alternatives to Ferarri, too. But given a choice, and within my reach...

:roll: :roll: :roll:

deporting dave to korea party pictures

eddie and derek's.

edit: update to link directly to photo set.

some pictures of anthony, geoff, and i

from a few weeks ago.

company of heroes demo

1.8gigs.

for eddie, derek, and scott.

prepare to blow your mind

way too cool.

update: link to nasa's hubble page.

eddie, your site's rss feed is borked

http://shyturtle.blogspot.com/atom.xml

high def home entertainment media centers

these are awfully tempting.

AVeL LinkPlayer2 for Consumer

Eureka LX350 HD High Definition Wireless Media Center with DVI

i'm still kinda content with my pc media center though. although it's a pain in the ass sometimes, it's still more flexible overall than one of these things.

pictures from zanzibar blue

zanzibar blue during restaurant week.

pictures from tria 2 party

bonus humping.

new itunes

is taking forever to go through my files and figure out which ones are gapless.

i hope they fixed the bug where itunes can't find your music even though it's phsyically still there.


edit: nope, they didn't.

jesus christ!

literally!

this militant christianity freaks me out.

tvu player is the greatest thing ever

watch tv over the internet!

awesome for espn on monday night football.

what's it gonna beeee???

not work safe lol

i'm not even sure i will even categorize this as music.

9/9/99 never forget

Top 10 Reasons to Relaunch IGN Dreamcast

3. The Dreamcast didn't fail, we failed the Dreamcast

this post is about getting eddie or derek to post something on their blog

not brave enough to wear one of these but...

check your lease, man!

what ho! perhaps you should dig a trench!

old but classic conan o'brien clip of him playing 1860's baseball.

an old bed closes and a new bed opens

got my new bed delivered today and got rid of the one that i've been using for decades. decades. it's something that i've been putting off for about a year but finally did this weekend.

i suppose that old bed was a part of me and it's a strange feeling to replace something so familiar that my parents bought a long time ago. it's that same feeling that i had when i bought my own travel luggage earlier this year instead of borrowing my parent's. it's my bed now. that thought is bewildering and exhilerating at the same time.

so the details of this bed is that it's a simmons wilshire of the beautyrest world class mattress family. i consider it a 15-20 year investment. it's got 2 inches of "pillow top" foam or something that makes it plush. it's queen sized so it's omg xbox huge lol. it takes up like a third of my bedroom. and it's so tall i may need a stepladder to get on and off. and god help me if i fall of it, i'll probably need to be treated for wind and atmosphere burns.

battle pope

srsly.

(if it wasn't for geoff, i wouldn't have known about this)

i wish i could do that on treadmill

all i can do is run and hurt myself apparently.

this is almost as bad as the star wars kid

i'm glad me, anthony, or geoff did something this stupid on tape in our youth...

(at least i don't think we did).

expert take me out + lols

nws for language

i want one

arrested development season 3 on dvd...

acquired!

we should do a marathon.

update: see the amazon link for a pretty good jason bateman interview.

since i'm up early today

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
This title will be released on September 12, 2006.

"The Crisis" nearly wiped out humanity. Brooks (son of Mel Brooks and author of The Zombie Survival Guide, 2003) has taken it upon himself to document the "first hand" experiences and testimonies of those lucky to survive 10 years after the fictitious zombie war. Like a horror fan's version of Studs Terkel's The Good War (1984), the "historical account" format gives Brooks room to explore the zombie plague from numerous different views and characters. In a deadpan voice, Brooks exhaustively details zombie incidents from isolated attacks to full-scale military combat: "what if the enemy can't be shocked and awed? Not just won't, but biologically can't!" With the exception of a weak BAT-21 story in the second act, the "interviews" and personal accounts capture the universal fear of the collapse of society--a living nightmare in which anyone can become a mindless, insatiable predator at a moment's notice. Alas, Brad Pitt's production company has purchased the film rights to the book--while it does have a chronological element, it's more similar to a collection of short stories: it would make for an excellent 24-style TV series or an animated serial. Regardless, horror fans won't be disappointed: like George Romero's Dead trilogy, World War Z is another milestone in the zombie mythos. Carlos Orellana

crosslink for zombies and battle pope

hooray for science

some of the more interesting articles:

Ancient jewellery points to early origins of language
The discovery of 100,000-year-old shell beads suggests that human language was already well advanced and must have developed earlier than we thought

Muggings were rife in New Stone Age
The first systematic survey of early Neolithic British skulls reveals that life was more violent than anyone expected

Human brains enjoy ongoing evolution
New variants of two brain-development genes have swept through the human population during the last several thousand years, biologists reveal

Free trade may have finished off Neanderthals
Homo sapiens may have driven the previously successful species to extinction by embracing the new concepts of specialisation and trading

Did early humans socialise to avoid getting eaten?
Simulations provide more evidence that hominids may have adapted cooperative behaviours to avoid being eaten by other animals

i couldn't get that last link posted but it's at the bottom of the main page.

cannot look away

a japanese video called poodle fitness.

i know i'll be having nightmares tonight... *shudder*

if you're into weird guitar

kaki king

price of a perfect child

from wired magazine, june 2005, page 52-53. i would link to the original story but i can't find it anywhere online at their site:

(click on image below to get the huge 1.9meg jpg)

new xbox games

i picked up madden 07 and burnout revenge on the 360. my thoughts:

madden looks phenomenal on the 360. i'm having a hard time adjusting to the 360 controls from the ps2 controls. i keep hitting 'y' which is to jump the snapcount whereas i think that it's coverage audible (coverage audible + right to realign the db's). and i keep hitting 'b' by accident which is sprint on the ps2 and is actually change selected player on the xbox. kicking is kind of weird this year. i need to get more practice in for reading coverages. running the ball is much better this year though.

burnout is really fun. i just started playing it yesterday and i've been enjoying it. it's definitely different from mario kart which is what i'm used to. burnout rewards aggressive and dangerous driving, ie driving into oncoming traffic. i'm still trying to figure out how to drift in this game without losing control. yeah good times.

i hope to get some points.

running update: ouch my foot :(

my foot sprain has been acting up on me the past few days. i think i might be out to the boundary of my physical mileage per week without injuring myself even more. it sucks but i think i'll have to wait to heal this injury after the half marathon.

i took it 'easy' today by putting in 90 hard minutes on the elliptical machine. i got to work on my conditioning without all of the impact of outdoor running.

movie script abstracts

snakes on a plane

wow, that went above my expectations. would've liked more samuel l jackson versus giant snake end-boss fight climax though.

snakes + the neck = the reptilian win.

write it down

9 grueling miles in 89 degree heat. i don't ever remember being this exhausted.

gob!

glad to see him working.

i've made a huge mistake..

marathon: alelph one

a free open source port of the original engine...

and the flame still burns after all of these years with rubicon x.

acoustic hey ya cover

snakes on a plane

samuel l jackson on the daily show

about running

so i had that scare with a stress fracture a while ago that was really a foot sprain that took me out for about two weeks.

since then i've been training for the philadelphia distance run half marathon. i think i'm where i want to be right now as far as conditioning. i've stepped it up to running three times a week with a disciplined program where i run shorter but faster-paced runs twice a week on a treadmill and i do a longer distance run outdoors once a week. so far i've been doing really well on it. this week, i'll be doing treadmill runs of 47 and 57 minutes and i hope to get to 9 miles outdoors on sunday.

one thing that becomes really important at these distances is taking care of your rehydration needs. i was going through tons and tons of gatorade every week until i ordered a few month's worth of gatorade powder online at the gatorade online store. the better you replace your sodium and potassium and lost nutrients, the faster your body recovers. or so their commercials and sports hydration specialists tell me.

also important is proper running apparel. like running socks. and compression shorts. yeah. seriously.

only one month left to go.

xbox, don't leave me like that again

i got my xbox 360 hard drive today in the mail and snapped it on and everything booted up fine and stuff.

selected the profile recovery option to download my profile and stuff. waited a few minutes. profile downloaded and loaded and signed back into xbox live. a fellow goon sent me a message asking me if i wanted to graw.

yeah, it's like that on live. good times.

now i'm just re-downloading all of my games that i bought (hearts, geometry wars, and the graw expansion) and demos (dead rising)...


p.s. my rage against ups burns with the fire of a thousand suns. it actually arrived in philadephia on sunday morning, held it all monday, and finally delivered it today (tuesday). a thousand suns, i say!

i remember doing this in grand theft

well, not so much.

for geoff

may not be work safe

puppet rapist

dr miracles

mufasa in empire strikes back

extra lols

nooooooooooo

goddamnitt.

my xbox360 hard drive died in my arms tonight.

7 minutes later on 1-800-4-MY-XBOX at 10:30pm (!!!!), a very nice lady got all my info and is shipping me a new hard drive in the mail. i'll probably get it on monday.

well at least i'm glad i didn't buy dead rising or i'd be stuck with zombie blue balls all weekend.

pbf comics is now at pbfcomics.com

<3

dead rising weapon guide video

i lol'ed when he pick a bucket on the zombie's head and then hit the zombie with a shovel.

i'm still on the fence with this game a little.

oh yes, i will have this

first dead rising review up

reading...

madden 06 videos from ign

these make me feel much better about preordering like a month ago.

http://media.xbox360.ign.com/media/...804/vids_1.html

http://media.sports.ign.com/article...517/vids_1.html

dead rising demo

i found a katana and then jumped into a crowd of zombies. omg.

things like this make me sick

Sometime between Friday night and Sunday morning, burglars broke into the headquarters of Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation in Ardmore and stole money, wristbands - and bottles of lemonade.

"You can't get more despicable than that," said Haverford Township Detective George Christake.

A security camera captured the dark, grainy image of four juveniles as they climbed onto a van parked at a loading dock behind the building, hopped onto the roof, tore off the window screens, and broke into the office of the organization.

The foundation was named for Alex Scott, the 8-year-old who died of neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer, on Aug. 1, 2004, but launched a national fund-raising campaign for cancer research.

Once the burglars were inside, they pried open locked file cabinets looking for money. What they found was a jar of coins and a small amount of cash that children had dropped off Friday night from a lemonade stand fund-raiser.

When the burglars left, they also took bottles of lemonade and rubber wristbands that read, "One cup at a time."

more like sexbox 360, am i right?

Gears of War launch date revealed!

"Emergance Day" will be Nov. 12, 2006.

standard edition available for $59.99 and a limited collector's edition (with "Destroyed Beauty" art book and a bonus DVD looking at the making of the game in a metal box) available for $69.99

cool

i just found out that one of my old coworkers from my weblinc days is working at this startup that streams foreign television and movies over the internet.

so awesome

another colbert interview

i died of laughter and my ghost is writing this post.

i'm sure derek and bulboff would not approve

Monopoly money will be phased out in a new version of the game in a bid to keep up with the times.

Instead players will use mock Visa debit cards to keep track of how much money they are winning or losing.

An electronic machine is provided, which allows the banker to transfer money from players and record their earnings and payments.

philly to boy scouts: plz gtfo

The Boy Scouts of America will fight to stay in the city-owned building they have occupied since 1928, saying the City of Philadelphia has no right to force them to change their policy barring gay members.

"The scouts intend to stand up for their constitutional rights," said Robert Bork Jr., a spokesman for the national organization, which has a youth membership of about 2.9 million.

"The policy [against gays] is not going anywhere," Bork added.

Late last week, Mayor Street called for the local Cradle of Liberty Council to denounce the national policy, pay fair-market-value rent, or vacate the stately building it occupies at 22d and Winter Streets, near the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

i'm not in the business of subsidizing intolerance and discrimination with my city wage tax dollars so i agree with the stfu+gtfo.

sadly there's poor boy scouts that are unwillingly caught in the losing end of this that won't be able to camp, trail hike, tie knots, or do whatever the hell they do. i guess next year's cub scounts won't know what it would be like to discriminate against other people rent-free on public property. definitely breaks my heart.

28 days slater

i'm not sure what's going on here

cowboys from hell on expert

99%, i think he drops three notes. :O

well billy corgan did over do it a little bit

turtle power!

:O

anthony gets interviewed on npr

that reminds me that i gotta send him a care package soon.

edit: pittsburgh, pa? nah, npr, TORRESDALE AVE.

like sin city and a scanner darkly

really cool movie trailer

stephen colbert, ultranerd

vader sessions

hey scott

geometry wars: 198,405

movie review: a scanner darkly

it came out in limited release this weekend so i saw it last night at the ritz. overall, it's not a great movie nor a bad movie; it kind of settles in that nook of a movie that didn't meet its full potential. at the same time, it's supposed to be super-authentic to the book's word and spirit. it's confusing and disorienting, but that's what it's supposed to be. i think the saddest part of this movie is that there's numerous scenes in the movie that are unbelievable but they don't sum up to an unbelievable movie. keanu reeves, robert downey jr, woody harrelson, wynona rider are so well cast in the movie and fit their parts so perfectly.

ign posted the first 24 minutes of the film, which i think is really cool and hope to see more commonplace.

8.4309/10.0

i have to wonder

who actually reads my filth without knowing me in real life.

i'm just wondering who my audience is.

end of the world, guys

between israel versus the entire middle east, paris hilton swearing off sex for a year, valve announcing team fortress 2, pepsi helping coke out, and asians break dancing... i think the world is coming to an end.

and the sad part is that i probably won't see halo 3.

the internet is great

most of these are ytmnd i think

hawt

i would buy one

metal wolf chaos may be the greatest game ever

RICHARD!

rocky!

i have a feeling this will be good.

prepare to blow your mind

click on imagining the ten dimensions link on the left

maybe my running season is over

i think i might have a stress fracture in my foot.

:(

snakes on a plane theme song

i know i'm ready

my blog went offline

but now it's back.

as you can see.

best daily show clip ever

jon stewart and a pre-colbert-report colbert lose it

david hasselhoff is a sexual tyrannosaur

in the music category

i've seen everything

patrick stewart is awesome

probably not work safe for adult themes

i added my xbox live gamer card

------>

add me to your friends list plz

gob's program

execute it

let me say this

the xbox 360 is the cadillac of gaming. microsoft really nailed the xbox live integration with the 360.

also 360 + vga cable + 20" lcd = the win.

way to show us nothing

i demand more soundwave and starscream

make porn work-safe

for scott and catherine:

totally not work safe. don't look at this at work.

superman was good

slightly slow at times. the ending was also unnecessarily long. but overall satisfying.

everytime i heard the superman theme music when superman was doing something awesome, i was screaming inside "superman, fuck yeah!"

8.3875/10

half marathon

adam convinced me to run the half-marathon this september. why? because i'm an idiot and i like inflicting pain to myself. and adam's a bastard too.

my maximum range right now is about 5.4 miles outdoors. i had been training on the treadmill for 5k speed for the past few months but i guess i have to switch over to endurance training now. i still train on high inclines and will probably keep doing so for the strength.

i'm hoping to increase my range to 10 miles over the next 6 weeks.

no one knows

this song has been known to kick my ass in medium.

expert looks insane.

update: this guy posted a bunch of expert vids

spiderman, part trois

summer party is on hold, folks

looks like they're shutting down the community room because public house is moving into that space. seriously. a fine dining establishment in my building. wtf. hey, if there's a bar down there, i'm game.

the good news is that they're building a new community room in.... the basement. once they get that squared away, we'll be sure to be one of the first parties down there. i'm guessing fall.

the fall party is the new summer party.

omg i'm using a floppy disk

who still puts drivers on floppy disks these days anyway?

remember when we used to back up our computers to floppy disks? lol.

damn you scott

so tempted. so tempted.

must... hold out for... halo3... or splinter cell... or rainbow six vegas...

pix from adam's party

a lot of good shots in there

edit: for some strange reasons, i keep throwing the horns up near the end.

requiem for a dream is one fucked up movie

good movie but it was omg awfully depressing.

oh hell yes futurama is back

June 22, 2006 -- 'FUTURAMA" is officially back from the dead.

The quirky animated show from "Simpsons" creator Matt Groening was canceled by Fox about two years ago, but will return with at least 13 new episodes on Comedy Central by 2008.

marrying snakes

<3 colbert report.

i love how he can pull this stuff off with a straight face.

holy shit this is incredible

bark at the moon at expert.

abso-lol

WASHINGTON, DCA team of leading historians and psychiatrists issued a report Wednesday claiming that the United States was likely the victim of abuse by its founding fathers and motherland when it was a young colony.

they reanimated the brando for superman

freaky cool

wow i don't ever remember doing that in mario 1

guitar hero 2 vids

looks insanely difficult

hamachi is pretty cool

vpn software to create virtual lans over the internet.

i created a virtual network on my desktop in my apartment. on my laptop, i can connect to that virtual network and get to all of my shares and itunes library.

i have returned home

i don't think i'll be walking past 19th and parkway at 3am again anytime soon.

it's like the dmz back there once you get past the whole foods.

lols

click the video

Colbert: What can we get rid of to balance the budget?

Westmoreland: The Dept. of Education.

colbert made a fool out of the guy. i don't know who i feel worse for: the guy or the district that voted the guy in.

edit: wait, this guy makes $130k a year?!

nerd fight

mutants versus jedi knights.

star destroyer versus enterprise.

genie, the feral child

seriously the saddest thing i've read in a long time.

people fucking suck.

i love the zombie survival guide

swords > guns

one of my guiltier pleasures

ooh look a trailer!

slowly moving to flickr

it's pretty weird to have strangers looking at these photos within minutes of them getting uploaded.

illest..

in a cardigan sweater.

maybe not work safe but very lols.

ytmnd is awesome

scientology sends them a cease and desist.

ytmnd replies that it is groundless and updates the front page to have an entire side bar dedicated to top-rated scientology ytmnds.

sup alpha centuri nerds

Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.

gnarls barkley bent my wookie

oh snap this is awesome

hey brother

six seventy five... the hard way

never

on my laptop

oh tobias

what wont he do

edit: probably not work safe

those crazy activist judges

hey eddie and derek

snoop is awesome

i wish my sister would finish watching my dvds

For season one...

Go to the Deleted & Extended Scenes menu on Disc 3. Arrow down to any of the four choices in red and then arrow right to get the circle around Tobias. Then press Enter.
You can also use your remote to choose title 6 from this screen.

i don't feel so good

i think i caught something in the happy hour food tonight.

6/6/6 indeed.

june IS triple paycheck month indeed

300 gb hard drive - check
2 x 512 ram sticks - check

awesome

200 liters of coke, 500 mentos

6/4 never forget

the killdozer lives on in our hearts.

holy shit this is crazy

there was a guy dodging knives!

oh god, i'm reinstalling simcity 4

:(

oh shit yes

thom yorke's (of radiohead) solo album leaked to the intrawebs.

i didn't even know he was doing a solo album. <3 radiohead. will report back later with buy-worthy-rating.

this is handy for you cheap travellers

i hope they come with a trading card

link to geoff.

charlie = still useless

grand, just grand

make your own croutons!

here is what you do. you buy a baguette from the grocery store. make a sandwich or two but leave a little of the baguette leftover. put the remaining baguette in a bag for a day or two until it gets hard and stale.

dice the bread into croutons. put some olive oil in a bowl and add salt, pepper, oregano, garlic, and whatever else spices you like into the bowl and mix. lightly coat each crouton in your olive oil. put on a pan and bake at like 250 for about 20-30 minutes until golden and crispy.

june is triple paycheck month

booyah!

there's a huge influx of arrested development props on ebay

aztec tomb! it is a career maker.

clear your calendar for august 29th

melting pot pix

we went to fondue.

i also updated my san fran 2006 set with pix of me acting goofy that were taken by a coworker.

OMG LOST

WTF IS GOING ON

i had a ton of people at my apartment for the finale and it was pretty fun.

wow

never forget your neighbor

update: escquire also has a great article about mr rogers.

24 season rank'em

will says:

2 > 5 > 1 > 3 > 4

scott says:

2 > 5 > 1 > 4 > 3

a great season of 24

wow, all in all a great season.

i have to wonder how season 6 will start off... i'm sure more will get done in the two hour season premiere than the entire season of prison break... or did i say too much?

can't wait til january. bring on house!

well, i am looking for new glasses

pix

javaone, san fran in 2004

javaone, san fran in 2006

i didn't take too many pix last week. i mean, i've pretty much seen everything in 2004.

also, the current nerd feather in my nerd hat:

wtf

i leave for a week and you guys can't hold the fort down from the british?!

I HAVE RETURNED

so tired.

conference is starting to wind down

all in all, it's been pretty good so far.

i haven't explored much of san fran this week because this is my third time here and i've pretty much seen everything. last time, i took like half a gig of 5mpxl pictures but i haven't really dont much of that this week. san francisco is still very much a great city and i definitely urge everybody to visit.

p.s. mobile java is going to explode in the next year. there's like a billion java-enabled cell phones out there and all that's left is a killer app to ignite it off. and from what i've seen so far, some very cool shit is on the way.

sup

sitting here waiting for my 3:15 session to start. something about web 2.0 communities or something.

i bought a new toy. a j2me phone + dev kit to program on. it should be cool to see what i can come up with.

hello from san francisco

i'm here for the java one nerd conference. this is my second one. RESPECT MY GREEN ALUMNI BADGE.

4 days of mind numbing technical sessions about what's hot in programming and droll shit like that.

also, i'm never flying united again. their philly terminal sucks. my 6:14 flight was delayed until 7:40 because although we had a plane at the gate, we had no crew. and we didn't get off the ground until 8. so that means i didn't crash in san fran until 1:30 something est. i did catch the fastest taxi cab ride from the airport to the hotel though. we were pushing 80 something in one of those taxi vans. a few more mph and we would've activated the flux capacitor.

i only have internet at the conference so that sucks. hotel internet costs $12 a day. so frack that.

this is for my anime nerd friends

to the college grads

and lesser extent, high school grads:

get a job. get married. have kids. make some kodak moments. die. don't worry, by the time you die, your body will have aged and decayed from working for 50 years that you wouldn't notice the depression.

guitar hero... tabs?

still trying to figure out cowboys from hell on medium....

the possibilities make me all sorts of hot

i demand goldeneye.

omg duck hunt

wii smash bros

official site

most awful 5k ever

118.Will Vuona Philadelphia,PA 99 M 31:02 9:59 97/160

the best time was 21:14... most 5k winners are in the 15-16 minute area so that's a pretty good indicator of how tough this one was. the first mile was mostly uphill and i burned myself out too fast there on a quick 8:30 pace. the second mile had a few climbs and i lost a ton of time on a ~12 minute pace. the third mile was mostly downhill and i picked up a lot of time and energy for a final sprint.

my final time was more like 30:30, according to my clock. more training to do!

p.s. fuckers typo'ed my last name and lost my age.

i can't wait to look stupid

and have a ton of fun. check out those trailers.

new radiohead

this is what you get when you mess with us.

don't worry about it, king

there's more fish in the sea.

the thought of halo 3 makes me all hot

new spore video

e3 has started

tons of gaming goodness this week.

and it looks like sony stole the gyros from nintendo's wii. :(

tom doing da cruise

i saw mi3 and it was good. it was like an extended alias episode with a much larger budget.

thomas crown affair

WTF LOST!?!??!!!

OMG, I DID NOT SEE THAT COMING AND FACE WAS :O FOR LIKE FIVE MINUTES.

i'm not going to spoil it for my heathen friends, but :O !!!!!!! season 2 is picking up for the home stretch!!

something for everybody

casino royale

frack

they've begun midnight construction at the comcast tower. :(

battlestar galactica

i saw the miniseries this weekend and i think most of you will like it too. i'm going to begin the tv episodes soon.

this is some pretty cool scifi. reminds me a lot of the robotech anime.

stephen colbert found dead in apartment

are you kidding me?

i should've been stockpiling my childhood and kept the boxes.

lollers

your ex-lover is dead

i heard this song last night and it's still in my head... i ended up listening to it a few times at work today.

this song has a strange hold on me. i suppose there's relevence.

God that was strange to see you again
Introduced by a friend of a friend
Smiled and said 'yes I think we've met before'
In that instant it started to pour,
Captured a taxi despite all the rain
We drove in silence across pont champlain
And all of the time you thought I was sad
I was trying to remember your name...

update: found the eternal-sunshine-esque music video in realvideo

that was a pretty good happy hour

mad4mex. total bill was $225, i think.

cereality.

then bowling.

and a couple broke off for new deck after that.

we got fondue coming up i think soon.

this was actually a pretty good movie

a documentary about crossword puzzles... yeah, seriously.

8.7/10

hot goddamn madden

Given that EA has dedicated a specific group to Revolution development, it stands to reason that the game will take advantage of the console's unique capabilities. While many details will have to wait until E3 kicks off, GameSpot was given an advanced scouting report which said that the gameplay will make extensive use of the Revolution controller's motion-sensing capabilities.

Players will hike the ball by mimicking a quarterback receiving the ball from the center, and then pass it to a receiver by making a throwing gesture with the free-hand controller. The faster the passing motion, the more of a bullet pass it becomes (in previous Madden editions, bullet passes were made by holding the passing button down longer).

Kicking the ball will be accomplished by sweeping the controller up as if it were a kicker's leg striking the ball. A fast, level swing will make for a hard, straight kick.

The Revolution controller will also come into play when running the ball, as jerking the controller left or right will make the ball-carrier juke to either side, while shoving it straight ahead will make him stiff-arm the opposition.

revolution-first-day-buyer

http://islostarepeat.com/

5k training

run twice a week, total distance 6-8 miles.

if i run twice in a week outdoors, everything gets really sore so i usually don't do that. just once a week is fine for me.

outdoors: 2.2 miles up the parkway to fountain drive and then back. i usually just jog this because it's usually so nice and relaxing. i'm aiming to be able to do this in less than 45 minutes though. 4.4 miles.

indoors: 20 minutes running on a high incline treadmill and then a 20 minutes fast run on a moderate incline. i hate treadmills though; it's so boring and i'm afraid i'll fall off if i keep my eyes on the tv too long. this is roughly 3.5 to 4 miles. i've never lasted the whole 20 minute fast run though.

i'm hoping for a better time at the university city 5k. it's got a really interesting route that i've never run before. i think i liked last year's route better where they went from drexel u to roughly city hall and turned back around.

i have no explanation for why i do this to myself.

might as well make use of my flickr pro upgrade

april fools party where i drank way too much

"you have orange? white.... no, let's go orange. i want to be some sort of flashy mongolian sidewalk puma."

"will, do you have a girlfriend yet?"

"yeah, mom, she's a doctor."

:O

"she's black, mom."

:o

"i'm just kidding..."

:)

"she's half-black..."

:|

"but she's a doctor."

:|

"oh, the other half is mexican."

>:|

"i'm just kidding, she doesn't exist. you won't be seeing me buying a house and giving you chinese grandkids anytime soon."

>:(

and my sister is all lollers on the carpet.

up up down down...

weeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

NEW YORK (AP) -- ABC will launch a global interactive game based on the hit TV show "Lost," the network announced Monday.

Details, however, are about as mysterious and convoluted as the plot of the island castaway drama. The "Lost Experience" will be Internet-based and will feature a parallel story line that is not part of the TV show.

It will begin May 2 in the United Kingdom, May 3 in the U.S. and May 6 in Australia. There is no winning prize, but the experience will offer clues that could unlock some of the island's many secrets.

"It's like a giant, worldwide mysterious jigsaw puzzle that will come to life for all the world to solve," Mike Benson, senior vice president of marketing for ABC Entertainment, said in a statement.

What is known about the challenge is that it includes the introduction of new characters and the mysterious Hanso Foundation. The first clue requires finding a toll-free number that will be released during the show or commercial breaks.

Clues will vary by continent, so participants will benefit from coordinating their information. ABC said the game is designed to appeal to both fans and people unfamiliar with "Lost."

god of war 2 trailer

JINKEYS!!

i played a little of this game at eddie and derek's and i was all :O

i'm pretty psyched

click on the game play video on the left.

meaningoflife.tv

run schedule

Saturday, May 6, 2006 at 11:00 AM for the 14th Annual University City 5k Run

May 14, 2006 komen philadelphia race for the cure

Sunday, May 21, 2006 Philadelphia Bar Association 5K Run/5K Walk

start 5k running

it's not that hard to do it. just get a good pair of running shoes from a store that caters to runners.

LOOK WHO FINISHED IN 527TH PLACE

omg omg

that blue note comes out of nowhere

freaking medium difficulty.

i thought i had it until there were blues everywhere.

less than 28 minutes i think

ankle ligaments secure, check

i want to punch the monitor

it's finally over

10 movies, 13 days.

buy guitar hero now

it's really a great game.

i have such a sense of accomplishment after playing a song really well on my virtual guitar.

more like guitar zero, amirite

man, i suck at this game.

it takes a lot of practice to get good at this.

don't talk to me about lost

i haven't seen it yet

half way mark through the film festival

ranked as is so far:

shadowboxer
lady vengeance
lucky number slevin
wristcutters: a love story
a bittersweet life

i'll post more later.

oh hell yes

Bob Ross Inc. announced on Friday that the painting-made-simple guru would soon be immortalized in his very own video game. Sounds like perfect April Fool's fodder, right? Wrong. The untitled Bob Ross video game is being planned for the Nintendo Revolution, DS, and PC. The game has been licensed to developer AGFRAG who is currently searching for a publisher

AGFRAG's Joseph Hatcher promised, "The Bob Ross game will utilize the unique inputs that the Nintendo DS and Nintendo Revolution have that can truly immerse the players while they learn to paint like Bob Ross." He added, "I want the community to share with us ... what they'd like to see in the NDS and Revolution games. We want to keep the brush going." Next-gen killer app, anyone?

no sarcasm here: i'm psyched for some strange reason.

uh oh we better get started

excellent

it's very difficult for me to say this but

this might be the best season of 24 yet. holy shit.

way to go, lost nerds

movie review: wristcutters: a love story

i didn't know shannyn sossamon was going to be in it. i <3 sossamon.

anyway, it was a nice little movie. it was like a very off-kilter road-trip-esque comedy movie. funny but only because i find thick russian accents funny. it had its crazy universe and gimmicks. i liked it but it didn't really blow me away or anything.

also, will arnett, otherwise known as gob, was in the movie for like 5 minutes as the messiah. he was hilarious though. i imagined hearing the final countdown playing when he was in the scene.

7.722980/10

movie review: lucky number slevin

usual suspects-esque movie with an all-star cast. a lot more violent than i thought it would be. good story though with sharp dialogue between all the actors. very funny. i would say bruce willis' line "you didn't think i would know? i'm a world-class assassin, you fuck-head." is my favorite.

8.83/10

movie review: shadowboxer

pretty good movie. i would say that i enjoyed it more than lucky number slevin. there was a lot more man ass than i expected in this movie. and cuba gooding jr does a pretty job in this movie. also, claudia from 24 season 3 is in it (omg bewbs). the first third of the movie is kinda slow but it got sucked in and really enjoyed it.

9.17/10

this is the stupidest thing ever

Liberty Property Trust, which is building the 975-foot-tall Comcast Center, is seeking to change the building code so it can install the water-saving devices and have its skyscraper certified by the U.S. Green Building Council. The 58-story Comcast Center could save 1.6 million gallons of water a year with the no-flush basins, advocates say.

But the influential Plumbers Union Local 690 has blocked the code change because the urinals lack water lines and therefore require less labor to install. City officials have so far deferred to the union, which is led by Edward Keenan, a close friend of Bob Brady, the Philadelphia congressman who also heads the city's Democratic Party.

fuck that. i'm sure the horse carriage union wasn't too happy when the first fords came rolling out either.

now that was a good episode of lost

finally, we're getting somewhere.

for those who saw the episode

transcript!

yeah, that's how i feel too

*sad charlie brown walk*

well it's finally over

"Arrested Development," the critically praised but low-rated Fox show that won an Emmy for outstanding comedy series, as well as Emmys for writing, will not be resurrected on Showtime as rumors circulating for months have suggested.

A source close to the negotiations said that creator Mitch Hurwitz had decided after a lengthy period of debating an offer from Showtime that "Arrested Development reached its end, creatively, as a series."

Reached on his cell phone while filming a movie in Toronto, star Jason Bateman said he had mixed emotions about the news, saying he was sad for the series to end but happy that the beloved series will live on DVD for people to enjoy.

"I'm so proud of it and so like it as a TV fan that I'm happy we're not going to get a chance to screw it up," he said, in the deadpan style of his character, Michael Bluth, about the only sane member of the dysfunctional Bluth clan. "Our luck wouldn't have held. There would have been cast fighting. We would have messed it up."

second source

"Arrested Development" creator Mitch Hurwitz says he will not be continuing with the series, throwing a major -- likely fatal -- monkey wrench into attempts to keep the Emmy-winning laffer alive for a fourth season.

Series producers 20th Century Fox TV and Imagine TelevisionImagine Television had agreed on a deal to move "Arrested," previously on Fox, to Showtime -- assuming Hurwitz was willing to come back. In the end, however, a mix of creative and financial concerns has prompted Hurwitz to move on.

"The fans have been so ardent in their devotion and in return ... I've given everything I can to the show in order to try to live up to their expectations," Hurwitz told Daily Variety on Monday in a telephone interview from GothamGotham. "I finally reached a point where I felt I couldn't continue to deliver that on a weekly basis."

well i'm definitely tuning in now for sure

Based on the ABC e-mail, it appears that victims of hate crimes and violent home invasions and families coping with the loss of a child killed by a drunk driver make for good television. And the show would also absolutely love to feature those battling skin cancer, Lou Gehrig's disease, and muscular dystrophy. Oh, and families with multiple children with Down Syndrome would be ideal, whether the kids are "either adopted or biological," the e-mail notes. And, shooting the moon, the program's "family casting director," Charisse Simonian, would love to locate a kid suffering from Progeria, the rare condition that causes rapid aging in a child (for those unaware of Progeria, the ABC e-mail helpfully describes it as "aka 'little old man disease.'")

pix from downtown chicago

fyi

update: re uploaded to fix some cropping.

i have returned from chicago

more on this later.

p.s. the plane was snake-less rather than snake-ful.

finalized film festival

to accomodate adam and ryan's parties:

Lucky Number Slevin
Sunday, April 02 > 2:30 PM
The Bridge

Shadowboxer
Sunday, April 02 > 5:00 PM
Prince Music Theater

Wristcutters: A Love Story
Sunday, April 02 > 9:30 PM
Prince Music Theater

Lady Vengeance
Tuesday, April 04 > 9:45 PM
Ritz East Theater 1

A Bittersweet Life
Wednesday, April 05 > 9:45 PM
Ritz Five

Fuck
Friday, April 07 > 10:00 PM
The Cinema at Penn

Welcome to Dongmakgol
Saturday, April 08 > 9:30 PM
Ritz Five

Wedding Party, The
Sunday, April 09 > 2:45 PM
Ritz East Theater 1

Two Days
Monday, April 10 > 9:30 PM
Prince Music Theater

worst thing

.. is opening up the washing machine and finding bits of torn tissue on your wet clothes. then you put the clothes into the dryer and the tissue is reconstructed on the lint filter.

i swore i checked all the pockets. >:(

snakes on a plane

oscar shit right here.

On board a flight over the Pacific Ocean, an assassin, bent on killing a passenger who's a witness in protective custody, lets loose a crate full of deadly snakes.

trailer

get active in the philadelphia unit

two new zeldas in one year?

oh god yes please

nike makes glasses now?

8)

the will vuong plan for a healthy lifestyle

1. don't justify eating a slice of cheesecake because you worked out that day or whatever. one step forwards and one step backwards does not get you anywhere.

2. eat and drink in moderation. margaritas and some drinks are known to have like a billion calories. also cut down on the soda, cheese, candy, and bacon.

3. replace 3 meals a week with a salad. grilled chicken salad.

4. do 2-3 30 minute sessions of cardio (running, jogging, etc) a week.

5. add more fresh fruit to your diet. like apples and shit. a small lunch and an apple.

do this and you probably won't die in your early thirties (this means you, derek and scott).

america, fuck yeah

this makes ;_;

sonuva

it's like everywhere outside philadelphia but not in philadelphia proper. :(

oh god just like that they've taken it away again

Guys,
I'm sorry I gave inaccurate info on the cartoon.I was told on one end that the
TV show was a go but DXC enlightened me (with a hammer) that this was
not the case.I think there is a Futurama project as in DVD's but I appearently
had bad info.But I do live to give good Futurama news to people.So I must've
died or something.

All eyes on the skies,

Billy

*charlie brown sad walk*

great news everybody!

Welcome Parker 151,

Thanks for your post! I hope you realize that this is your last--- naw,just
kidding! I'm glad that you got to see that stuff and you laughed.
I've talked extensively about this subject.Here's a little of the story.

All the stuff you see or hear from when I was on-- ended 11 plus years
ago.Some of the audio replays are from 16 years ago.I got out when I was
at the peak of my radio career.You rarely get a second chance to go out
on top like that.I was all done with it in 1995.I started in Boston in
1981.That's 25 years ago.I'm a radically different guy than I was then.But
it's so pissa' to see this ''internet arguement'' continue until people's
fingers fall off.I'm just tending my garden and when a few A-holes attack
me over this stuff,I just give 'em the old ''digitus impunicus.''

I'm thisclose to selling my show--''Billy Bastard--Amateur Human Being,''
And the other good news is that they're doing 26 new episodes of
''Futurama'' for TV and we're hammering out the deal now.The original
plan was to have the DVD's first but that's no longer the case.I'm totaly
jammed dude.

Greetings from the year 3000! It still sucks!

Billy

:dance:

:dance:

:dance:

shouldn't i get some sort of discount?

my tentative schedule:

District 13
Friday, March 31 > 7:30 PM
Ritz East Theater 1

Lucky Number Slevin
Friday, March 31 > 9:45 PM
Ritz East Theater 1

Shadowboxer
Saturday, April 01 > 7:30 PM
Prince Music Theater

A Bittersweet Life
Saturday, April 01 > 9:45 PM
The Bridge

Wristcutters: A Love Story
Sunday, April 02 > 9:30 PM
Prince Music Theater

Lady Vengeance
Tuesday, April 04 > 9:45 PM
Ritz East Theater 1

Fuck
Friday, April 07 > 10:00 PM
The Cinema at Penn

Welcome to Dongmakgol
Saturday, April 08 > 9:30 PM
Ritz Five

Wedding Party, The
Sunday, April 09 > 2:45 PM
Ritz East Theater 1

Two Days
Monday, April 10 > 9:30 PM
Prince Music Theater

it's like season 1 of 24 again

film festival picks

this is what's hot on the streets so far.

lol warcraft nerds

MORE DOTS!

i thought i escaped all of that

so i used to live in this apartment building in west philly that was pretty decent for undergrad and grad students. i know a lot of people who lived there at least once in their lives. it's like some sort of coming of age ritual or commonality that we all share. i still know a few people who live there.

anyway, there is this really weird guy who worked at the reception desk. he talked to himself, had a short temper, and from what i understand did an excellent job of creeping people out if you shared an elevator ride together. he also did an outstanding job of creeping out my exgirlfriend at the time. from what i understand, management gave him room and board if he worked reception. he didn't creep me out so much but i did always make sure my back never faced him when he was near.

so i moved on and i live in my center city building now and things have been kicking rad for like a year and half now. my building is full of young urban professionals and if anybody was creeping anybody out, it was going to be me. so everything's rad until like a month ago.

the first time i saw her, i was exiting the elevator in the early evening on the ground floor to pick up a package at the front desk. our paths were crossing when she entered the elevator and said, "have a great morning" and stopped right next to me as if she was waiting for a response. i was kindof dumbstruck because i was still parsing what she said to me at 6:30pm in the evening and was trying to find its context. so i just said "ok, thanks you too" and kept going. maybe she was just tired and said the wrong thing. i know i do that too sometimes at the end of the day so i just wrote it off as an isolated incident.

before continuing on, she's a late 40ish to 50ish woman. five foot two or three. diminuitive. really short gray hair. she kinds of reminds me the really early simpsons episode where the parents hire that woman criminal to babysit the kids. well obviously, she really stands out in my building.

so like three weeks ago, i saw her again in the gym running really slowly on the treadmill. she was wearing a button-down dress shirt, untucked, and a pair of denim shorts. she looked weird but she was giving it her all out there. a while after that, i saw her again downstairs in the gym on the treadmill; this time in a sports bra and denim shorts. gravity didn't do her right. i didn't appreciate the imagery of this sweaty 50ish woman.

a week ago, i was walking back to the apartment and i saw her jogging down the street in front of me in a dress shirt and denim shorts. the scary part was that she looked like she was ignoring the car traffic in the streets she was crossing. i thought she was going to get hit by a car and a few cars stopped right in the cross section to let her go. at this point, i'm like wtf. she crosses the street to the other side but then back pedals back into the street into traffic without looking. she jumps back on the curb and then back pedals back into the streeet a few more times. at this point, i'm like super wtf. cars had to stop. i was standing on the opposite curb. i'm the kind of person that helps people but shit, i wasn't going to jump into traffic to pull this retarded woman out of the street. she finally gets the cars' honking messages and runs down the sidewalk towards our building again. before getting there, she runs into the indoor parking garage next door, freaks some people out, and then runs out of the garage and finally into my building.

tonight, i was on the treadmill and she comes in and gets on the treadmill next to me. dress shirt and pair of jeans. seriously, wtf. anyway, she starts running and i finish up and get off the treadmill. i say "do you want me to leave the tv on?" and look at her. she didn't even hear me, she had her eyes closed, and she had her face towards the ceiling. i just walked away and left the tv on.

and then she killed me in my sleep and posted on my blog. seriously, wtf is going on here.

solid gold

lollers.

i remember mario teaches typing on the mac performa 550.

can't sleep

hey you shut up

Theaters are trying a number of ways to silence cell phones, from sweeps by ushers to funny fake movie trailers urging viewers to shut off phones.

Fithian said owners were considering other steps if that does not work.

"We will actually petition the Federal Communications (Commission) to remove the block" on jamming cell phones, he said.

this is the reason why i avoid mainstream movie theaters like the plague. also, nextel phones are annoying and i hope the nextel company is thrown into a well to die.

what's going on in this jury of your own peers?

WHAT IF IT were your child who saw ruthless drug lords commit a murder?

Would you want him to testify?

That's what Assistant District Attorney Mark Gilson asked me this week, at the end of a stunning day in court in which one witness after another recanted earlier statements about the schoolyard slaying of Faheem Thomas-Childs.

Gilson said he was frustrated and angry - but not surprised - because it happens in homicide cases every day.

"They have to go back to the neighborhood with a big fat 'S' on their backs," he said of the reluctant witnesses.

They're afraid to be labeled snitches, Gilson said, and parents counsel their children the same way the father of the 18-year-old witness in Faheem's case did this week: Say you don't remember.

Then Gilson posed the question to me:

"What would you do if your son said he saw a murder and knew that the vicious gang in the neighborhood had done it?"

I assume Gilson was expecting the morally correct answer: I'd tell him to testify, of course.

But the truth is: I don't know what I'd do.

The larger truth is I live in a safe neighborhood that makes it unlikely I'll ever have to make that decision.

this sounds more like the premise of an awesome bruce willis movie... called mercury rising.

p.s. way to go, jackasses.

tony, no!!!

:(

24'ed.

p.s. did you guys see desmond from lost on the preview for next week's 24? it looks like he found a way off the island afterall.

two of my favorite things

legos and cool military stuff.

state of the ankle address

i guess it's been while since i updated everybody on my ankle.

i've been back on the treadmill since early february. at first, i had to take it really easy and slow with slow jogs. one mile. one and half miles. 2 and a half miles. i've been slowly climbing back to 5k distance and was able to hit 5k in early march. i still wrap my ankle in sports tape, just in case. right now i've been focused on incline training by running at 3.0 grade on the treadmill. 3.0 grade is incredibly challenging; my lungs are on fire and my legs ache around the midpoint of the run. i hope to conquer this by the end of the month.

i haven't run outside yet. the weather hasn't been warm enough quite yet. my night vision has been sucking lately too. and there might be some anxiety about running on the same surface that damn near killed me. there's still a month left until my first 5k run of the season.

it still doesn't feel quite right but it's getting better. here's to team ram rod!


p.s. i heard there was a friendly pool starting about derek's finishing time.

spore

the coolest game that i suspect will be dumbed down before it ships. :(

awesomeness

the curtain has been pulled back

arrested development season 3 on dvd

More news, Season 3 is hitting DVD on June 13th!

It's up for pre-order at Amazon, just 21 bucks or so. 2-disc set, just read about it over at TVShowsonDVD.com...

my expensive headphones

i've been wearing my etyomotics er6i isolator headphones at work since i got them on monday and i've been really impressed with how much sound they block out. of course it's really weird to push these things partially into your ear canal at first but i've gotten used to it. the hygenics is still kinda gross to me though.

anyway, they do a great job of blocking out noise and helping me concentrate at work. when i have them on with music, i can't even hear my cubicle neighbor when he's on the phone. fyi with these headphones, the noise isolation and music is about perfect at the 1/10 of the max ipod volume or so. the big test is for my flight to chicago in a few weeks and then my cross country flight later in may.

i'm no audiophile but i can definitely pick up on details in the music that i haven't heard before. with outside noise blocked, the music is much clearer and all those little instruments that i've never picked up on really shine through now.

are these worth $100? yes, definitely if you value your peace of mind.

fiery furnaces

new band to me, i've been listening to their new album "bitter tea" (which i don't think is actually released yet...).

my first impression that this is really weird. like white stripes + radiohead + bjork. i can only describe it as electronic-folk-experimental. it's definitely one of those albums where each individual track isn't very strong by itself but the sum is very extraordinary within the context of an album. and i can't imagine most of these tracks being radio-friendly either.

it really grew on me and i've really liked it once i got used to it. i'm going have to grab their earlier stuff. i wish there were samples or something somewhere i could point you to but i guess this older material is good for a flavor.

IT'S A MONSTER!!!

Citing sources familiar with the negotiations, E! Online TV columnist Kristin Veitch reports that show creator and exec producer Mitch Hurwitz is contemplating a deal put forth by Showtime offering to buy two 13-episode seasons with the option available for a third.

24, holy shit

unbelievable.

24 wins this season.

lost, you can go home. there's really nothing more i have to say to you until you get get interesting again.

fyi

After aging out of foster care, 27% of males and 10% of females were incarcerated within 12 to 18 months. 50% were unemployed, 37% had not finished high school, 33% received public assistance, and 19% of females had given birth to children. Before leaving care, 47 percent were receiving some kind of counseling or medication for mental health problems; that number dropped to 21% after leaving care. (Courtney and Piliavin, 1998)

i wish i could quit you

almost everything is better when set to the brokeback mountain soundtrack.

one of my favorites

my new fighting technique is unstoppable. then spins off into my new filing technique is unstoppable. genius.

and get your war on started right around 9/11. what's really interesting is to start on page one of gywo and follow the progression from fuck yeah to what a goddamn mess.

you're breaking my heart, ani

lollers?

omg it wants our flesh

read this article and get the 28mb video.

it's quite freaky.

i hate ups

they held my package in phoenix, arizona for 3 days. it sat there untouched for 3 days. unbelievable.

sooo awesome

for all (remaining) simpsons fans

waaaaalllttt!!!

lollers

i think the writers need...

more time to write themselves out of and into more jj abrams bullshit.


39. 2-15 215 1 Mar 06 Maternity Leave
40. 2-16 216 22 Mar 06 The Whole Truth
41. 2-17 217 12 Apr 06 Lockdown


i still love you though.

portishead myspace

they put up two demos.

needs more beth gibbons.

well i guess the ny post is a reliable source

plz b tru, kthx.

i hate the classic

but i can't delete it off my drive. :(

YOU KNOW IT'S A GOOD HAPPY HOUR

when you get eddie drunk. fyi.

24

they got robocop as the bad guy! MURPHY, NOOOOO!!!!

also, this is the worst president, fake or real, ever. i'm looking at you.

also: oh shi @ next week's 2 hour 24 block. 24 > lost.

nerds

you know you're a nerd when.........

you leave your belt at home on accident, your pants are too big and you use a cat5 cable in place of your belt to hold up your pants.

=\

olympics

i loved the winter games this year. i never watched the games this much (high definition helped) but i have to say that i'm a big fan now. torin, italy did a wonderful job.

there's so much history, comradery, competition, and young unknowns rising to the moment into greatness. it's so wonderful.

p.s. canada's iceman presentation thing sucked.

i have a feeling that this is gonna be gold

trailer

naaaa nanana...

lol psp lol

alright, ups bitches

my package arrived in philadelphia at 8pm tonight with a scheduled delivery date of tuesday.

i swear to god that if i don't get my package TOMORROW OR BEFORE TUESDAY, i will pray for your bankruptcy and takeover by fucking pizza hut.

scrubs

not the show.

you know about wearing dickies and the whole urban-pretending-to-look-like-you-are-a-janitor fad?

i think the next fad will be wearing medical scrubs. srsly.

these things are comfortable.

plz be my netflix friend

get an inside look at all the sleaze on my queue.

and i'll make fun of your queue.

add me plz. double-u v23 at drexel edu.

i'm watching women's figure skating

and i'm sorta enjoying it.

:|

isn't this like the matrix?

looks neat though.

funky fresh

i have no idea what's going on.

50 yuan.

i'm moving my images to flckr

i really don't want to deal with bandwidth or resizing or storage anymore.

i've got to say that it's really neat so far.

also: mechakoopa is neat too.

olympic spirit

though last, it's great that he finished.

TURIN, Italy - The snow, which came down in a blinding swirl, was sticky and slow. The wax was all wrong, attracting moisture to the skis of Drexel professor Prawat Nagvajara in yesterday's 15-kilometer Olympic cross-country event.

And then there was the ski pole that broke with about 5 kilometers left.

It broke when he fell.

It was not his first fall.

"I fell a few times on the downhills," said the lone member of the Thailand Olympic team, who finished last.

"The Belarus team gave me an extra pole," he said.

And he finished, which was all he hoped to do, after not finishing in the 30K at Salt Lake City in 2002. That, and avoid being lapped, which for the most part, he also did.

sup drexel.

lolz

finally, media center

my htpc (home theater pc, or media center) is finally finished for the most part. i like to call it my tv ipod. here's the specs:

amd sempron 3100+
asus k8n motherboard
corsair value 1 gig memory
samsung 250 gb sata 1.0 @ 7200rpm
evga nvidia 6800xt 128mb agp
antec overture 2
dvico fusion5 hdtv gold
lite-on dvd-rw
zalman 7700 alcu cpu heatsink/fan
arctic cooling nv silencer 5 r3
windows xp professional

i think it ends up to be around $900. i'm not too entirely happy with the case and motherboard i picked because it limited my other hardware options by a lot. the case ended up too short and i would've done much better with a pci-e motherboard instead of an agp.

i need to select which dvr/pvr software i want to use (not using windows media center) and whether or not i will install nvidia's purevideo decoder. i'll be connecting to the tv with dvi and the sound system by optical digital toslink. i might install a second hdtv tuner if i feel the need. the zalman and the nv silencer makes the system whisper quiet; i can hardly hear it which is freaking awesome.

so with this setup, i should get all the local stations in unmolested high def. when i say unmolested, i mean the signal is uncompressed and is in its full glory. usually, cable and satellite high def signals are digitally compressed before they are sent to your cable box so you're not getting the original quality. think of it as an original photo versus a gif or jpeg equivalent. so believe it or not, the free over-the-air hd signal is better than the hd signal you pay for.

i can record/skip/play shows like tivo. i get a full program guide. i can play dvds in 480p and 5.1 ac3. i can play divx/xvid/etc that i "download" from "places" on the "internet." and i won't have to pay comcast a dime.

i'll post pix soon.