Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Monday, January 29, 2007

center city nomenclature and division instigation

i want to bring noma (north of market st) and soma (south of market st) to the center city lingo. i haven't figured out how to designate west and east of city hall yet. the barbarians in soma would probably want it that way.

geoff, it's been decided that you live in soso (south of south st).

splinter cell 3 for ps3 to have boobs

Source: (http://kotaku.com/gaming/boobs/splinter-cell-ps3-gets-boob-job-232327.php)

(see title link for pix) i still don't understand their futuristic armor. not that i'm complaining.

DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE WORDS THAT ARE COMING OUT OF MY MOUTH?!

Source: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0SqqpWbNL8)

i tell ya, rush hour movies are a guilty pleasure. chris tucker lives quite the life.

running update

i'm still fighting horrible knee pain and trying to train through it. somehow, i've been getting runner's world magazine for the past few months as some sort of introductory offer. well, they ended up hooking me into a subscription like a dumb fish. i like the magazine though. i've picked up a few exercises in the past few issues to strengthen my lower body so i'm hoping that'll help me with my knees.

believe it or not but i've been training in shorts at least once a week. outdoors. the coldest i've ran in was about 35 degrees wind chill. once you get warmed up after a mile, it's not too bad as long as you have the right layers going. i'll add some extra insulation in the form of running tights this week. unlike the infamous adam legend, i'll be wearing shorts on top.

these aren't normal tights though. the cw-x tights have 40 patents to them. i'm hoping the extra support will help with my knees and lower back. and they make me look like a superhero.

first race is coming up in a little over a month. considering where i am at today, it's going to be a stretch to be ready for 10k.

Sunday, January 28, 2007

there will be no joy in the apartment this year

did my taxes. i owe the feds $12 and the state $1. i made out like a thief in the night last year when i was in a lower tax bracket and could claim higher educational tax credits. le sigh.

24 parody

Source: (http://www.derrickcomedy.com/daughters.htm)

Saturday, January 27, 2007

what's up with those match.com webcam ads?

Source: (http://www.stephenbailey.com/journal/1106/112806-match-cam.html)

i noticed them at ytmnd. it's like you can't not look away.

i don't think ghostface killah is gay

Source: (http://lovegodsway.org/GayBands)

see title link for list of gay bands.

Thursday, January 25, 2007

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

well, i'm not buying another symantec product

my ghost 9.0 backups have been failing for the past week because it claims that the target disk is full. actually, windows says that my 200 gig drive has 113 gigs of free space. i'm backing up to a 150 gig disk. that should work. but apparently, symantec's code monkeys somehow fucked up the calculation of disk space in the lower-right corner (13.9GB!?!!). it's like they dropped a zero or something. so my backup won't go through because it thinks there's not enough disk space (150 gig disk is reading as 49.1GB!).

ok, maybe they have a patch or fix online.

The versions of Norton Ghost listed below have been discontinued. Phone, email and live chat support are no longer available.

fuck that, i'm not paying $49 to upgrade to ghost 10 because they don't know how to divide properly. i hope this post gets indexed by google.

Sunday, January 21, 2007

ratm reuniting for one show

Source: (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-et-coachella22jan22,1,6747076.story?coll=la-headlines-entnews&ctrack=1&cset=true)

Rage Against the Machine, the seminal L.A. band that made heavy music into political manifesto, will reunite after a seven-year lull for one show as the headliners at the 2007 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Sources say Rage, which played the main stage at the first Coachella in 1999, will be joined by other familiar faces for the eighth edition of the festival, which covers three days this year and begins April 27: Red Hot Chili Peppers, which headlined in 2003, are back, as is Björk, who topped the bill in 2002. Organizers were mum this weekend and it was not clear which day Rage or the other acts were slotted to play; that announcement is expected in the next few days. Other acts expected in the eclectic lineup: Arcade Fire, Interpol, Willie Nelson, the Roots, Manu Chao, the Decemberists, Arctic Monkeys, Sonic Youth, Crowded House, Air, Tiësto and Kings of Leon.
that's quite the lineup. i used to like ratm when i was young and full of piss and vinegar. now, the 'machine' signs my paychecks and allows me to buy all sorts of cool stuff and live in a nice apartment in a nice part of town. i guess i am the machine now. :/

what a football game!

wow, the colts overcame a 18 point deficit to win. good for peyton manning. he's been due for a few years now. he played a great half of a game.

p.s. fuck the patriots

ninja restaurant in new york

Source: (http://www.ninjanewyork.com/)

more eight year old playing guitar hero on expert

Source: (http://www.youtube.com/user/beberle2)

title link goes to all of this kid's videos. below is freebird on expert:

Saturday, January 20, 2007

career-summing movie posters

Source: (http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2283112&perpage=40&pagenumber=1)

from sa forums. not work safe.

my blog is becoming a youtube proxy

Source: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arXvDQxfMzs)

colbert quits

Source: (http://youtube.com/watch?v=LWOi_a4m1Ak)

after the democrats took control of congress last november. this is amazing.

Tommorrow you're all going to wake up in a brave new world. A world where the constitution gets trampled by an army of terrorist clones created in a stem cell research lab run by homosexual doctors who sterilize there instruments over burning american flags, where tax and spend democrats, take all your hard earned money and use it to buy electric cars for National Public Radio and teach evolution to illegal immigrants. Oh, and everybody's high.

Friday, January 19, 2007

why does derek have a phone anyway?

if he never picks it up. :<

Thursday, January 18, 2007

those crazy japanese

Source: (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4227117468350246704&q=troop+of+100)

passed along from geoff. tagged under japan.

well japan is the world leader in robotics

Source: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSdhDyPhyiU)

we figured they would overtake us in robotics and automobiles, but nobody suspected we'd lose break-dancing too.

updated: colbert on the bill o'reilly show and vice versa

i lolled. every single bill o'reilly attack on colbert was turned right back around on him like some sort of kung fu grip.

Colbert on The O'Reilly Factor
O'Reilly On The Colbert Report

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Monday, January 15, 2007

eight year old kicks ass in guitar hero on expert

Source: (http://www.gametrailers.com/umwatcher.php?id=34269)

eat your heart out, eddie

last night's 24 upped the awesome

and then topped it five minutes later. :O

Sunday, January 14, 2007

season six of 24 begins

it began without the rock & roll of season five's debut... with a much different jack bauer. this is going to be interesting. if kiefer keeps this up, he'll be up for an emmy.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

graw2

Source: (http://www.gametrailers.com/gamepage.php?id=3483)

i dunno about you but this game is looking hot. i think it's supposed to be out in march.

i can't wait to play team coop elimination with scott.

Tuesday, January 9, 2007

i think i just read a huge spoiler for the beginning of season 6

if this spoiler is true...

oh. my. god.

Monday, January 8, 2007

our country

chevy's "our country" television ads that play every goddamn commercial break are the worst thing to happen to our nation since that anthrax scare a few years ago.

goddamn. at least it's easy to parody (onion, youtube).

Sunday, January 7, 2007

yay eagles

Source: (http://www.philadelphiaeagles.com)

man, they sure let it come down to the wire... probably to build suspense. they're going to get creamed by the saints though. :(

everything has been imported

it took a few attempts but all of the old posts with categories converted into labels have been imported into blogger. i hope google doesn't ban me for totally spamming their api this afternoon.

Wednesday, January 3, 2007

science!

Source: (http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2006/12/stuff-of-dreams.html)

added more sets

dave's 23rd birthday

my 22nd birthday

stupid hat night

the college years

Source: (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wvuong/sets/72157594456006442/)

uploaded a megaton of pictures from 2001-2003ish. the time frame for these pictures are from the first ever super-friends happy hour at mad4mex (september 2001) to graduation (june 2003).

there are pictures of the apartment i shared with dave in west philly. there are a lot of pictures of friends (eddie and derek are in there and so is crazy pete back when he was crazy). i think dave ended up borrowing my camera and taking some of these pictures.

there's a few more albums in this time frame that i'll get around to posting separately later.

Tuesday, January 2, 2007

will the programmer

it's like ye olden days where your name described your function in life.

like cedric the entertainer. who are you?

12 DAYS UNTIL 24 SEASON 6

Monday, January 1, 2007

johnny five not only alive but also fabulous

Source: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBUImjOCg5g)

linked to clip 1. clips 2-8 should be easy to find.

apparently this was a pilot for comedy central that was passed on.

baked chicken

baking chicken has to be the best thing ever. not only is the chicken still tender and moist, cleanup is really quick and easy. just bake it on top of tin foil and throw it out afterwards.

arcade fire's intervention performance

Source: (http://youtube.com/watch?v=WnyUQDcUitE)

why didn't i go looking on youtube earlier?

more videos from that session.

new years eve

Source: (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wvuong/sets/72157594452335749/)

geoff on the slide whistle

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