12 player online mario kart on the wii?

hell yes.

well if it wasn't weird, then i would be concerned

neon bible interactive music video.

another crazy halo grenade stick

ignore the awful music.

touring here and soon

• Architecture in Helsinki - Oct 10 2007 8:00PM Starlight Ballroom
  
• Of Montreal - Oct 11 2007 7:00PM Trocadero
  
• The Stars - Wednesday October 24th, 2007 Philadelphia, PA - Starlight Ballroom
  
• Menomena - Nov 7 2007 8:00PM First Unitarian Chruch (with Illinois)
  

the phils are so un-clutch

top to bottom.

now, this is what you call a stick!

halo ds

4 reals

these mile splits can't be right

finished in 25:56 according to my watch. my second and third mile split can't be correct though...

1. 9:05
2. 10:09
3. 6:41

halo 3?

never heard of it.

oh you're talking about this medal around my neck

yes i did run and finish the philadelphia distance run this past weekend. thirteen point one glorious miles in 1:57:23 (go here and search for bib 10150). three months of training and about three hundred total training miles. here are my mile splits that i kept on my stopwatch:

1. 9:52
2. 9:20
3. 9:22
4. 9:08
5. 9:07
6. 8:55
7. 8:35
8. 8:35
9. 9:02
10. 8:45
11. 8:35
12. 8:24
13. 8:31
14. 1:12 (0.1 mile, also this is probably off because i forgot to immediately stop my watch after finishing)

i'll post more about it later. i need to get to bed now that this phils game finally wrapped up in the 14th inning.

a review of my blog!

"Clean and simple. Its so understated that it screams in your face," raves Anthony of Anthony Heisler.

UPDATE: "willvuong.com... too much manliness for my wireless router to handle!" proclaims Anthony Heisler.

god, the eagles suck

so much.

so i heard that there is a game called halo

summaries of the story so far: halo 1: part 1 and 2; halo 2: part 1 and 2.

giant interactive halo3 diarama

Activision Reports Sluggish Sales For Sousaphone Hero

Activision Reports Sluggish Sales For Sousaphone Hero

SANTA MONICA, CA— "I played in career mode for hours and kept feeling like I was playing the same annoying circus tune over and over," complained a disappointed gamer.

god, the phillies suck

so much.

halo 3, a slurpee, and a big bite

yeah, i reserved my copy at the 7-eleven down the block this morning. surreal.

his face got totally pranked

click and watch the video

the best part is when the arm extends for the goal line

ban hammer

Taking advantage of an exploit that allowed an unidentified friend to deliver to him the Halo 3 "Epsilon" test version, former Xbox Live user "Scar" found himself on the receiving end of the Live banhammer. After six hours of Halo 3 heaven, his brief flirtation with the unreleased game came to an end. He was hit so hard, his account won't wake up until the year 10,000 AD, at which point, he'll have fallen so far behind in his achievement grabbing that he'll... well, he'll probably be dead.

liebot

chaos theory

the office summer vacation

wii beer pong

The object of ping cup is to use the Wii remote to throw a ping-pong ball at a pyramid of cups.

so that's how they got danny devito for season 3...

not work safe video

cool

tracing over a video clip to generate 3d models

first guitar hero, now jam sessions on the ds

don't say cocaine ideas near this kid!

oldie but a goodie

play the video. it gets crazy awesome in the second half.

comments on the internet

first

bioshock

• Game Informer (100/100): "Even if you play games strictly for the difficulty that they bring, BioShock is a title that needs to be played, simply because you will never look at an FPS the same way again. Of the 15 to 20 hours of gameplay that it delivers, there isn't a second wasted. Once you finish the game, there's little chance that you'll take it out before playing it again to see the second ending."
• IGN (97/100): "To call this game simply a first-person shooter, a game that successfully fuses gameplay and narrative, is really doing it a disservice. This game is a beacon. It's one of those monumental experiences you'll never forget, and the benchmark against which games for years to come will, and indeed must, be measured."
• 1UP (100/100): "The sounds of the vending machines, the demented rants of a housewife who has long lost her sanity, the ability to craft your own ammunition, the level design based on some beloved touchstones of horror (medical experimentation, a garden of evil, the performing arts), the optional photography research, the color palette, the scratchy rendition of "Beyond the Sea," the fire and lighting and water effects...everything is in its right place."

i wasn't planning on picking this one up but damn...

it's always sunny in philadelphia special preseason episode

four chapters online up on myspace

seven

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

lol

Al Qaeda Also Fed Up With Ground Zero Construction Delays

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a roman legion settled in china?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Top 10 Halo Pick-Up Lines

pros only

smash bros advanced techniques 1 2 3

lol

retrospectives

final fantasy and metroid. absolutely fantastic work by gametrailers.

i forgot to post this a few weeks ago

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

zomg

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

stevie wonder drum solo

for reals.

shame

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

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

worst ever

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

marathon 2 for xbla

hell yes

i think this tops geoff's wedding thriller

japan, are you serious?

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

gameplay video.

UPDATE: and the flash game itself.

call of duty 4 is looking pretty hot

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

half marathon update

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

greatest (turkish) action movie of all time

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

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

ps3 price drop

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

rock band premiere

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

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

edit2: only for ps3 and xbox360.

well that sucks

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

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

responses from other talking heads. my response:

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

better late than never!

geoff and melissa's wedding thriller

paypass is the best thing ever

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

reggie bush and david beckham

america has a chance this year

Jaw arthritis for hot-dog champ

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

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

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

shins music video for australia

a spectral bride situation

live streaming webcam today

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

facebook

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

cool pix of comcast tower's iron workers

etch a sketch lebron james

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

i'm getting it back

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

oh hay guys

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

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

a simcity game that's not by maxis?!

inconceivable! looks kinda lame too.

a goon plays through castlevania 3

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

thursday post

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

wednesday post

i never played final fantasy 7. for real.

tuesday's post

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

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

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

the perfect golf swing

The Perfect Golf Swing - Funny bloopers are a click away

for reals

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

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

they tried to make me go to rehab

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

michael cera is fired from knocked up

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

what?

africacraft

buffalo versus lions versus crocodiles

weakest season of 24 yet

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

the office

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

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

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

superbad is super awesome

not work safe for language

yup, i'm taking september 25th off

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

do you remember mario paint?

title link goes to youtube page with much much more!

congratulations!

to geoff-melissa.

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

jane fonda flusters colbert

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

fuck your tickets, move on up and get closer

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

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

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

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

so you want to buy a tv

for geoff.

why hello there

dead center, six or seven rows from the stage.

ovarian cancer race results

46  10/47    24:01  7:44

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

<3 herbert kornfeld

not work safe language

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

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

4.88k

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

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

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

24:56 would be my extrapolated time.

incoming paradox

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

i also found this quite ironic:

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

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

listening to

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

co-op anti-zombie play

title link goes to zomg

still waiting for the official chip time

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

UPDATE:

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

zomg.

waiting for the starting gun

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

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

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

grindhouse-esque movie posters

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

arcade fire in a freight elevator and in-audience performance

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

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bulboff covers the decemberists