Archive for March, 2006

Go Pat Go!

Anyone need tickets to Friday’s GMU game at MCI Center? (I’m not ready to say Verizon Center yet) I’ve got two –
I’ll give them to you for $8 gozillion bajillion katrillion dollars.
No I don’t have any. But if anyone DOES have a pair, do the world a favor and give them to me. I’ll buy [...]

March 20, 2006 • Posted in: Ramblings • 4 Comments

The Never Ending Awkward Photo Shoot

I have this nifty little window on my startup page that shows me the last six pictures uploaded to photo sharing site, flickr. As there are thousands to hundreds of thousands uploaded a minute, a person is bound to run into a real gem from time to time. (i.e. The Kriegsmann Files, Hasselhoff on a [...]

March 17, 2006 • Posted in: Ramblings • 1 Comment

The Return of the Curse of the Creature’s Ghost Solving the Secret Mystery iTunes Code

So C’s brother got her a most excellent birthday present a few weeks back — a gift that keeps on giving, a prepaid iTunes gift certificate.
Excited to have her iPod functional again, we both sat in front of my freaky laptop (the one that blue screens ONLY when she picks it up) on the iTunes [...]

March 16, 2006 • Posted in: Ramblings • Comments Off

Intel Science Talent Search Hates the Asians

Shannon Babb of Utah was named the top high School scientist in the “Intel Science Talent Search” yesterday winning a $100,000 scholarship.
Her project which took six-months was titled “Troubled Waters: A Six-Month Longitudinal Study of the Spanish Fork River Drainage System” where according to Intel’s press release, she “..concluded that humans have a negative effect [...]

March 15, 2006 • Posted in: Ramblings • 2 Comments

The reviews are in: “The Cassidy Kids” is f*cking fantastic.

“The Cassidy Kids” premiered in Austin this weekend and many lucky fans got to see the premiere.
A sampling of some reviews…
From Ain’t It Cool News:
I sincerely hope that THE CASSIDY KIDS makes it to a theater near you. With an interesting story, great direction, and outstanding performances it really is one of the most [...]

March 15, 2006 • Posted in: Ramblings • Comments Off

Video day! Hooray!

Wasn’t it great in junior high school, when the teacher was out and there was a substitute — and the teacher didn’t have time to make a lesson plan for the day because she had some family emergency to attend to, (she had an emergency trip to ‘Mardi Gras’) so she’s just like, “Throw them [...]

March 14, 2006 • Posted in: Ramblings • 3 Comments

Behold — The Kriegsmann Files

Browsing around flickr, sometimes you’ll land on a real gem …and I discovered one this weekend… “The Kriegsmann Files” from flickr user ’sharpeworld’.
Here’s story behind the amazing collection of photos:
this selection comes from a heap of discarded studio photographs, found in a venice alleyway by my friend, mike lee. i was on vacation in cape [...]

March 13, 2006 • Posted in: Ramblings • Comments Off

Idiotarod of NYC

I don’t know how I missed this, but living outside of NYC one misses out on many fun & weird haps.
The Idiotarod 2006 took place in Brooklyn in late Jan with hundreds of people dressed up in the most creative and insane costumes with the sole purpose of pulling a shopping [...]

March 10, 2006 • Posted in: Ramblings • 1 Comment

Neato! I Gosh Darn Shot that!

The Beastie Boys have a new documentary screening in a couple weeks that premiered at Sundance entitled, “Awesome, I Fucking Shot That!”, where they handed out camcorders to 50 fans at a Madison Square Garden show then collected/edited the footage.
Unfortunately, the full title of the movie probably won’t make it on many marquees… the abbreviated [...]

March 10, 2006 • Posted in: Ramblings • No Comments

The Hoff Be Hasslin’

From CNN:
Less than a month after filing for divorce, the estranged wife of David Hasselhoff has filed for a court order on a claim of domestic violence by the former “Baywatch” star, according to court records.
Full article
So uhh… Michael Knight’s a wife-beater.
He’s a busy man, alright?!? He’s rocking out Germany and Japan, swinging on a [...]

March 9, 2006 • Posted in: Ramblings • No Comments