Apr 26
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Last year, I started a list of 75 things I wanted to do before I died. Unfortunately, I havent had time to really work on those, but I anticipate having a lot more free time to devote to more blogging. I still plan on continuing my “beat every mario in order” idea, but I think I need to start over again. Instead of going over everything i’ll be doing, I am going to just briefly update the blog as I do it. Once I get caught up, I will go into further details on my quests through the mushroom kingdom. Expect a lot more activity in the coming weeks on this blog. I have a lot I want to talk about!!
Mar 04
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On wednesday March 4th, the Dallas Cowboys tumultuous relationship with the infamous wide receiver Terrell Owens Came to an end. This ends three seasons of drama and entertainment in Dallas. Terrell Owens lead the league in touchdown passes during his three year stint with the cowboys. Apparently the off the field drama and locker room mayhem lead to the wide receivers release.
We will have more updates as they develop.
Source: ESPN
Jan 27
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I’ve been at a crossroads with this blog. I haven’t had a firm vision of where I want it to go. Through the last couple of years, I’ve dabbled in everything from Sports, Religion, Politics, and Relationships. As of late, I have been in a much more reflective mood. I’m trying to figure out where I am going as a professional and in my personal life. Add in the constant drama of being a 20-something in Dallas, and I think that this could be a good starting point for a “psedo-relaunch” of thispointofview.
Expect some Juice soon.
Jan 04
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“Our Lives are defined by Opportunities. Even the ones we miss” – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Jan 01
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Haven’t been on here much lately. After the new year I’ll definitely get back into posting the latest. but since its a new year, I decided i’m going to post my resolutions.
New Years Resolutions
lose 15 pounds
get better control of my emotions
not wear my heart on a sleeve
find a hobby
fall in love
go somewhere I have never been
launch gixxy
be happy
get into grad school
Oct 29
adminUncategorized Entourage, Episode 7, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Jerry Ferrara, Season 5, Turtle
First off, I need to start off by saying that Jerry Ferrara (Turtle) is actually dating Jamie-Lynn Sigler (Of Sapranos Fame) Oddly enough, they met on the set while filming this episode and hit it off.
I had heard Rumors of this, but it has recently been confirmed by Sports Illustrated. I’m proud of my boy representing and pulling some tail!
Honestly after an amazing 7th episode, I would have expected HBO to give Entourage a short Hiatus. It seemed like the right time.. sort of a mid-season break. I am really glad they didn’t. This season has been absolutely amazing.
Now for the summary:
The episode begins with the crew making their plans to head back to the mainland after their little stint in Hawaii. Unfortunately, Turtle must buy one first-class seat and three coach seats in order for all of the boys to get back on the same plane. Turtle wins a small bet and lands the seat in the front. Through a twist of fate, he ends up to a recently single Jamie-Lynn Sigler. She is distraught after a recent brake up, and Turtle does his best to cheer her up during the flight.
After they all land, Turtle’s friends are surprised to see Turtle and Jamie-Lynn still talking. Once she leaves, Eric and Drama begin harrassing Turtle about the entire situation. He finally gives in and claims that she gave him a “tug” on the plane. For the rest of the episode, Drama tells everyone he meets that Turtle is making these wild accusations.
During all of this, Ari is still contemplating the offer he received as Studio Head at Warners. Dana Gordon is still trying to convince Ari that she should be his number 2. While Ari is MIA, the entourage receives a call from none other than Josh Weinstein. The group agrees to meet with Josh but quickly finds out that he is just trying to sandbag them into accepting a television role for Vince.
Ultimately, the episode ends with Ari setting Dana up with the Studio head position. In turn, she agrees that she will take care of Vince and put him in “Smokejumpers.” Everyone heads out that night to celebrate the successes of the day and Jamie-Lynn shows up. She then confronts Turtle about running around town telling everyone about what happened on the plane. Drama tries to explain that it was him, but Jamie doesn’t listen. Turns out that he did tell the truth about what happened – and she would have slept with him.
Once again, I need to give it up to Turtle for being able to pull that amazing girl!
HBO airs Entourage every sunday night.
Oct 08
adminUncategorized Debate, Hubble, Nasa, Rockets, Russia, Space Station, United States
My friends and I like to debate on our egroup. In honor of some of these debates, I will begin posting interesting arguments I have found right here under a debate tag. Give you opinions -
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/science/space/06gap.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&pagewanted=1&adxnnlx=1223316072-01opCd8VkSjMXo9YX6Sc+g
“The gap is coming: from 2010, when the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration shuts down the space shuttle program, to 2015, when the next generation of American spacecraft is scheduled to arrive, NASA expects to have no human flight capacity and will depend on Russia to get to the $100 billion station…”
Seriously? We couldn’t have added a couple of billion for NASA in the welfare bill?
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Challenger + Columbia = no budget for the shuttle program
time to move back to the more reliable way to send people into space… in a little capsule on a big ass rocket.
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Nothing wrong with changing vehicles, we just shouldn’t have to suck the Russian’s dick to get back to a station that we spent billions on. We can send a Wall Street welfare bill wrapped in bacon worth 840 billion dollars, but we can’t throw NASA a couple billion to keep us going in space? Talk about BS… Everyone should brush up on their Mandarin, because China is about to leap-frog us — using our own money, no doubt.
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once the space station is finished and Hubble has been worked on we won’t need the shuttle anymore. its a waste of resources to launch a shuttle just to carry people back and forth to the space station.
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what is China gonna do that we didn’t do 40 years ago?
I’m sure Obama is just chomping at the bit to waste billions of dollars sending up the shuttle when we can hitch a ride with the Russians and save billions of dollars, which ohh btw we get to spend on things like…. building a new vehicle for going back to the moon and to Mars.
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Check out SpaceX. They’re a commercial company founded by Elon Musk (paypal) and partially funded by NASA. They’re developing 3 rockets and a manned space craft. They’ve been around for about 6 years. They’ve already successfully launched the first rocket with less than 550 employees. Their goal is to reduce the cost of sending cargo to space by 10x. Their first rocket, Falcon 1, currently costs about $8 million a launch vs $30 million for the current most cheapest rocket.
Oct 01
chrisElectronics, Uncategorized
Any nerd like me who owns an iPhone has heard the rumors that Adobe is building a flash player for the iPhone. However I agree more with this article on why it will never happen.
Oct 01
chrisSports, Uncategorized
Right now you’re asking yourself who the f*ck is Kevin O’Connell? Well he is the little known third string quarterback for the New England Patriots who obviously likes to remind himself of his tiny member during practice? Apparently, the Boston Globe editors missed this little piece of gold before publishing the picture to the left in the Sunday edition of the paper. Good job guys!
Oct 01
adminUncategorized episode 4, Heroes, NBC, Season 3
“One of Us, One of Them“
For an episode that started so strong, it ended very weak. I don’t know what to think about this weeks episode. According to IO9, Heroes is suffering from budget short falls. The epic scenes that should have included Claire, Hiro, and Peter, were all cut back due to budget constraints. Read more about the budget cut backs here.
The first draft of the script, from a production standpoint, was very big. It had the bank robbery more-or- less as it currently exists. It also had a Claire/Meredith scene, which currently occurs in a cargo container. This scene originally took place in a deserted warehouse where Claire was surrounded by fire. The Hiro/Ando/Daphne scene, which currently occurs in a German movie theatre, originally took place on a train traveling through India, complete with Hiro and Ando on the roof of the train and Ando nearly falling out the side of a baggage car.
Personally, I loved the first draft of this script. It was a great, incredibly exciting read. I loved the way the bank robbery was written, and the idea that Sylar was to become HRG’s new partner blew my mind. The entire component parts were great – but, collectively, it was also, obviously, too big to be affordable. Beyond that though, the choices we producer’s faced of how to get the budget down became very subjective. The bank robbery was the obvious thing that had to stay because it drove the central story and the key recurring stories for the series– For me, the scripted moment where time freezes and future Peter appears was a key event (it sent a chill down my spine when I first read it.) So the Claire story and the Hiro story were what had to be attacked.” – Beeman
The episode just really fell off from the first two chapters of this season. Bennet got his new partner, who turns out to be none other than Sylar. (yeah wtf?) Granted, I really like Sylar’s character, so it’s cool to see a flipflop. Can he be trusted? of course not. Anyway, Bennet and Sylar are sent after the four villains that escaped from level 5. let me remind you, these villains are suppose to be hardcore. They shouldn’t be easily stopped and I thought that they would be major pieces of the plot this season. I was wrong. Apparently, these villains are just push overs when it comes to the brute strength of Sylar.
(Future) Peter is still trying to fix all the damage he caused, so he goes to the bank heist and releases (present) Peter and tells him about everything that is going on. The special effects were pretty cool, but nothing special really happened here.
Claire skips school with her real mom and goes to some abandoned Semi truck so she can learn how to fight. Claire’s mom just uses her ability to remove all the oxygen from the room so Claire can realize she’s still scared of Sylar.
Hiro and Ando travel to Germany to confront the speedster and they run into the Haitian.
Boom. that’s it.
Very disappointing episode. I hope they were just closing the initial chapter so they can introduce some actual polt elements next week or this will be a short and boring season for heroes.
NBC airs Heroes every monday.
You can watch episode for free at NBC.com
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