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This looks very cool by the way. I was also recently reading an article about a device that will allow people to fabricate anything at home. This would allow designers, inventors etc, to try things out before actually paying some people to manufacture it and taking half the profits.

This particular video is about a device that allows one to make dishes (plates, bowls etc) on demand. The selling point is that you would not need to wash your dishes. You just melt them back to the acrylric disks, and make more dishes from them when you need. Guys will love this. Plus I can see guys making booby shaped bowls. Or a vagina shaped plate.

What Super Hero am I?

Your results:
You are Green Lantern

Green Lantern 70% Hulk 70% Spider-Man 65% Superman 65% Iron Man 60% Robin 55% The Flash 55% Supergirl 53% Catwoman 45% Batman 35% Wonder Woman 23%

Hot-headed. You have strong will power and a good imagination.

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What Super Villain am I?

Your results:
You are Dr. Doom

Dr. Doom 87% Apocalypse 87% Magneto 85% The Joker 84% Juggernaut 83% Lex Luthor 80% Green Goblin 79% Venom 72% Riddler 70% Kingpin 66% Dark Phoenix 63% Poison Ivy 61% Mr. Freeze 58% Catwoman 57% Mystique 55% Two-Face 47%

Blessed with smarts and power but burdened by vanity.

Probably too much effort went into making this, but it was worth it for me.

This is a live remake of some of the scenes and action from Mike Tyson’s Punch Out video game that was out on the original Ninendo system. Mammaries!

strange combination? Yes. First of, I heard JD from Scrubs say something like “There’ll be banana hammocks everywhere” after he had a day dream about buff male dancers dancing all over his apartment wearing speedos. So naturally I had to got to best source for most reliable knowledge, Urban Dictionary, and look it up. Atleast one person there defines banana hammock as :

A men’s style of undergarment that holds the genitalia in a sling-like hammock apparatus, allowing the meat knot to protrude offensively. Favored by greasy Europeans at the beach, and even greasier weightlifters during competition and posedown sessions.

And now onto the jim carrey part of the post. It’s nothing much. I was just doing a random search for myself online. Which is usually a good thing to do time to time. I came across this article. It’s an article in Entertainment Weekly from April 1996 that talks about all the web sites about Jim Carrey found online. Of course back in 1996 there was like 20 websites. And mine was one of them. And I was/am a huge Jim Carrey fan. So naturally I had a couple of pages dedicated to him. So anyways, Entertainment Weekly decided to talk about how retarded these websites are. And they said the following (the relevant part is in bold) :

If you’re beginning to think Carrey’s omnipresent on the Net, wait, because we haven’t even gotten to some of the sssmokin’ websites. Check out Peter Robinson’s Temple of Jim Carrey (http:// pages.prodigy.com/jcarrey), Randy Brown’s Jim Carrey Web Page (http:// www.halcyon.com/browner), and the page authored by 12-year-old Elijah Petroff (http://www.inforamp.net/~petroff), which includes the production script of Batman Forever and Carrey’s E-mail address. Want to see how deep a major studio can sink in an attempt to pander to the lowest common denominator? Then check out Warner Bros.’ official Ace Ventura site (http://pathfinder.com/@@tuza- 5yifkgeaqmis/wb/ace), which offers a ”butt-talking” contest and an official ”Ace’s Operatives certificate, suitable for framing or wrapping fish.” And wouldn’t you know, the certificate shows up on an unofficial Jim Carrey page (http://www-csif.cs.ucdavis. edu/~malaowal/jim.html), in which one Arash Malaowala boasts that he’s seen the original Ace Ventura ”30 to 40 times.” But the prize for the most IQ-challenged site has to go to the Official Unofficial Jim Carrey Site! (http://deathstar.rutgers. edu/people/green/agreen.html). Thanks to the author’s imperfect knowledge of Web-page construction, most of this slow-loading page’s links refer right back to the site itself — so you can spend hours viewing the same pictures over and over. Talk about dumb and dumber.

Nice eh? Any publicity is good publicity right? And I would have never known about this, but one of my college friends pointed it out. And I was so excited I bought a couple of issues to save. And that’s my 15 minutes of fame. Tada!

Watch as Stephen Colbert busts out the feared double wag of the fingers. And remember I’m flacid with rage.

So yesterday after many frustrating days/weeks/months of poor service from Cingular, I decided to say “fuck you very much” to them and switch to someone else. And in order to hold on to what little youth I have left I decided to be adventurous and try one of the smaller MVNO type companies. These are small specialized (read : more expensive) companies that cater to specific demographics. The one I went with is Helio. Yes, the people who like to say “Don’t call it a phone”.

Helio uses Sprint’s CDMA network, which I had used years ago. I didn’t really have a problem with their network at the time, but it was more the way their services were setup. Voicemail, SMS and MMS were a mess. But things have been cleaned up and fixed since then. And plus they have a nice fast EV-DO data network. Why do I need a fast EV-DOO-DOO network you say? Well I don’t. But it’s nice to have if you like to tinker around on your phone, like I do. I use my phone for address, phone number, movie listings, checking email, checking weather, checking random news etc. BUT, now with Helio, and my new Samsung Drift (Samsung SPH-A503) phone, I can use Google Maps just like I do on the computer. Why? Because the phone has GPS built in. So I can pull up the google maps app, and it can locate my current position and I can get directions to any other address. It’s actually very impressive how fast it is. So now I have my own border-line retarded GPS navigation device.

Plus the phone is slick.

Here are my current gripes with my new service/phone :

1) Up until late last night I was not able to receive text messages (SMS). But that seemed to get resolved “somehow”. So that’s no longer a concern.
2) Picture messages (MMS) don’t seen to be getting to my phone. I seem to be able to send them out, but cannot receive them
3) This is suppose to be a multi-media device that supports music and video play back. But I can’t get the freaking Helio Media Mover software from working. It crashes everytime I connect my phone to the computer. So I’ve been unable to get any music on there. Although some of the ring tones on this phone are better than the gay ones we normally get by default.
4) One part of the phone’s design that sucks is the location of the back button. It’s a small button directly under the down part of the directional buttons. So a lot of times when I try to push down, I end up pushing back. And that fucks shit up. I wouldn’t even consider my fingers fat, so they obviously didn’t think enough about it. Come to think of it, since one of the partner’s in the Helio project is SK Telecom, a south korean telecom company, most of the phone on the network will be from Korean companies. So they are naturally designed for the korean market, where I guess fingers could be smaller and thinner.
5) The phone doesn’t feel too solid when it’s open. Its a slider phone so it doesn’t stay too balanced. This is probably something I’ll get used to and figure out over time.
6) Its a little pricey. $65 for 500 anytime minutes.

Ok, now for the happy portions :

1) The phone is nicely layed out and navigation is easy (except for that back button problem). Samsung is usually good at this. I have look at some motorola phones, and WHOA, what a fucking mess in the navigation menus. It’s as if a bunch of idiots with no clue about User Interfaces threw that shit together. Personally the best navigation experience I ever had on a phone was a Sanyo. Those japanese certainly know what they’re doing. <japanese_accent>Ho, thank you very much.</japanese_accent>
2) I like the PC Link software that works with the phone. Instead of having to painstakingly enter all of my contacts’ names and numbers into the phone, I was able to enter it all into the software on my computer and easily sync it over. Worked flawlessly. <japanese_accent>Ho, thank you very much.</japanese_accent>
3) It has a 2 megapixel camera on it. My first digital camera, a Canon SD330 (I think), was a 2 megapixel camera. Scary. Not sure if need such high resolution on a cellphone, but I have it. And it does videos too. Haven’t figured that part out yet though.
4) Buddy Beacon : It’s an application that allows me to locate on a map where my buddies are. But unfortunately these buddies also need to be Helio users. And thats a big catch. Most of my friends are on Cingular, T-Mobile, Verizon and Sprint. So I might need to make new Helio buddies. Maybe if I hang out at Tilly’s in the mall I might meet some.
5) Google Maps integration as previously mentioned
6) Instant messaging software for Yahoo, AIM, and MSN that actually works.
7) Not sure if this is a selling point for me, but they have some myspace access from the phone. I haven’t tried it yet, but heard it’s cool. Neat gimmick, and great marketing.
8) Unlimited data usage. Since the $65 is an all-in-one plan, I get unlimited sms, mms, browsing, google mapping, buddy beaconing, myspace browsing, news and email reading fun.
9) The initial price was a good deal. The phone I got retails for $225. But at the grand opening of the Helio store on the Santa Monica Promenade, they were having discounts. So I ended up paying $56 including tax for the phone. And it came with a charger, usb data cable, free software for connecting to the phone and a stereo headset. Cool eh?

And here’s the same commercial with some different sounds that someone decided to record in… enjoy … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIgPA8SA6uQ

If you know me at all, you are probably worried about what follows in this post. But fear not. This is not a post about electric anal beads and 10″ double dildos. Why would you even think that? You sick perv. Why it’s not even christmas yet.

But my new toys for this week are as follows :

1 Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM SLR Lens for EOS Digital SLR’s

1 Canon EW83E Lens Hood for the lense above

1 Apple 1 GB Shuffle Metal (smooth attractive hand not included)

Expensive week? Yes.

Worth the price? Not sure yet. Ask me again in a few weeks to see how much I’m using these items.

But for now, I’m a happy happy happy horny happy hungry happy kid.

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Yes, its another one of those lists. If you don’t like it, then please continue reading anyways. Then leave me a nasty comment below. Thank you, come again.

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How to determine if you are an engineer:

I’m getting quite irritated by those new Intel ads. You know, the ones with the young, attractive, and athletic people busting
moves and spawning off clones of themselves who are also busting moves.

Go on, check it out! http://www.intel.com/intel/promotions/ads.htm?iid=about+tv

These ads are for their Core Duo chips. Now mind you, the majority of people don’t just go buy intel chips. They usually just buy a pre-configured and assembled computer (i.e. Dell). And I know lots of computer vendors offer a choice of both intel and amd, and its important for intel to make their brand known. But holy fuck man! Those commercials were ok at first, but they are bugging the shit outta me.

I know the whole multiple people thing is probably meant to show how great their processor is with multi-tasking or dealing with multiple threads.. But they don’t even mention that in the ad. They just say shit like “multiply your intensity”, or “multiply your possibilities”. Are they selling us a cure for erectile dysfunction? I hate random ads like that don’t really get across anything in particular. I know I know, most nike, target, diamond is forever and coca-cola commercials are the same way. But atleast they are more entertaining and they don’t play them out and irritate the viewer.

So I just wanted to get that off my chest. A chest that I wish as as nicely built as that dude in the damn intel commercial. Currently my chest is about a nicely built as one of the chicks from one of those damn intel commericials. So off to the gym I go to try and fix that problem.

ta ta loser