Sounds ridiculous, I know, but it's actually quite fun, and also a little bit disturbing. Not as fun as the real "game", but entertaining nonetheless. Best score: 311,935.
Great. Just imagine the google searches I'm going to be found under after this post.
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Em and I finally saw this week's episodes of American Idol. Kelly Clarkson has been consistently good throughout the competition. I was totally blown away by her rendition of "Stuff Like That There", originally by Bette Midler from "For The Boys" a couple of weeks ago. And then came this week's second performance, "Without You", originally by Harry Nilsson and re-done by Mariah Carey. Due to an extended Giants game, TiVo did not catch the last 15 minutes of Tuesday's show where Kelly sang her second song. Fortunately, we caught the second performance on Wednesday night. We were floored. She was absolutely amazing. We watched it a second time and I was still getting chills up and down my spine.I've seen some comments on the Yahoo! boards saying that she is fat and shouldn't be wearing the outfits she does. She's not gaunt by any means, but she's certainly not fat. Em pointed out a while back that your weight and body shape have nothing to do with how well you sing and how talented you are. Case in point, Jill Scott. Anyhow, who cares, the girl can sing, she really seems genuinely humble and almost not fully aware of her talent. Listen to Kelly sing "Without You". This girl is the shit.
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At least a Korean guy was responsible for The Best Rock Video, Linkin Park's "In The End". Respresent, Joe Hahn!
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And while we're on the subject of Asians on TV, Ernie is going to be on a syndicated daytime episode of The Weakest Link. Too bad it's not Anne Robinson hosting it. I would so record that.
Anne: Some town needs their village idiot back.Hell, I'll record it anyway.
Ernie: Oh.Hell.No! OHNOYOUDIN'T!
/Ernie is escorted off the stage/
Ernie: I'm SO going to blog about this! ... Say, you ever heard of SurvivorBlog? Or Puppetmaster? BigBlogger? No? So I'm making this new online reality game and I think you'd be interested ...
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001. I learned to type using the Dvorak layout so I type very oddly but still at 65 wpm.
002. I'm an only child.
003. I was born in the town of Wakefield, Nebraska (pop. 400).
004. I used to have an affinity for Tweety and Pochacco.
005. I've been told that I'm a great kisser.
006. I lost a 4th grade spelling bee on the word syzygy.
007. I'm a fantasy sports addict.
008. I enjoy singing, especially a capella.
009. I know more German that my native Korean.
010. Clavicles are the first thing I look at on a woman.
011. I am fiercely independent, yet loneliness terrifies me.
012. My feet are size 12.
013. I sing lullabyes to the people I love.
014. I've moved 17 times in 28 years.
015. I change colognes every 2 years (currently Issey Miyake).
016. My friends tell me I have no short-term memory.
017. My ultimate career goal is to be a high school chemistry teacher.
018. I admit it. I slept outside for 2 nights to watch The Phantom Menace.
019. I can sing just about every 80s sitcom, cartoon and jingle theme from memory.
020. I tend to embellish when telling and re-telling stories.
021. Some of my best friendships originated over the internet.
022. I enjoy cooking dishes I see on 30-Minute Meals with Rachael Ray.
023. I was in a coma for 6 days when I was 6 years old.
024. Many girls say I have more shoes than they.
025. Some people get annoyed when I correct their grammar and/or spelling.
026. I have seen every episode of Cheers, Seinfeld, Friends and Frasier.
027. TiVo has both ruined and enriched my life (see 26).
028. I've read the book Microserfs over 40 times.
029. I dislike the taste of beer.
030. I played the trombone for 13 years.
031. Conan O'Brien still amuses me, although I do miss Andy Richter.
032. I lost my virginity when I was 17.
033. I'm getting tired of keeping up with the Joneses.
034. People who first meet me are usually unnerved by how quickly I speak.
035. The perfect breast size is 34C/36B.
036. I've worn two rings on my left hand for the past 8 years.
037. Mark McGwire's younger brother JJ once beat me up in high school.
038. Ever seen how pork rinds are made? That used to be my job before college.
039. I face constant persecution over my insistence that boughten is a word.
040. I am nocturnal, but was diurnal in high school.
041. I think Delta Airlines female flight attendants are hot.
042. I feel so sorry for the employees of Hot Dog On a Stick. Those uniforms are so wrong.
043. My first job was as a paperboy for 3 days. I stopped after I got mugged.
044. I think that science is humankind's attempt to make sense of what God created.
045. I can't dance for shit, but sometimes I don't care.
046. Approximately $1.70 in coins passed through my digestive system on my 7th birthday.
047. I am still bitter about my parents divorce.
048. My dad tried to set me up with an 18-year-old girl last Xmas. I kissed her. That's it.
049. I dislike wearing watches.
050. I've had a webpage since 1993.
051. Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam once threw up on me during a concert at Golden Gate Park.
052. Someone from 3rd grade once found me through my website.
053. My high school 10-year reunion is coming up in a month. I have no desire to attend.
054. Late at night, I sometimes wonder how real The Matrix could be.
055. Boxers, not briefs.
056. I've used ectasy three times.
057. I've never fallen out of love with my first love, and I never will.
058. Try a Little Tenderness is one of my favorite songs.
059. I like almost every vegetable except eggplant.
060. I never had children's cereal until I was 18.
061. I could probably go without beef, but I would die without chicken.
062. I love holding hands in public.
063. My hair is naturally wavy.
064. I am intrigued by the game of craps.
065. I've only asked for one girl's phone number in my entire life.
066. We eventually dated for 3 months, then she joined an Asian sorority.
067. I get extremely sarcastic when I'm angry.
068. I have a peptic ulcer.
069. I took the SATs 7 times. My highest score was a 1560.
070. Scient has ruined all other jobs for me for the rest of my life.
071. My first two girlfriends we Caucasian. My parents didn't know about either of them.
072. I only like Spam in a few Korean dishes.
073. I was cited/photographed in Berkeley's daily paper 11 times while I was there.
074. One of those times was after I was mugged.
075. I used to gossip incessantly, but I'm working on it.
076. Blogs built with any of the default Blogger templates are a big turn-off.
077. I usually drink 6 quarts of medium pulp orange juice every week.
078. I've attempted suicide twice. I won't ever again.
079. I am computer virus-phobic.
080. Tahoma is my favorite everyday font.
081. I have been obsessed with Korean Pop music for the past 14 months.
082. I 5p34k l337.
083. I love quiche.
084. I once played Final Fantasy VII for 34 hours straight, minus pee breaks.
085. I wish I knew how to drive stick.
086. Those Fukengruven bumper stickers annoy me.
087. To my memory, my mother has never hugged me.
088. I wanted to be abducted by aliens when I was 9.
089. I was born in the year of the Tiger, and I am indeed a stubborn Taurus.
090. I still have a somewhat operable Powerbook 100, Apple's first laptop.
091. I tend to put work ahead of spending time at night with my girlfriend.
092. There are about 15 built Lego sets strewn around my apartment.
093. I have spent way too much of my life wondering why comic characters don't age.
094. Legend of Zelda is my favorite console game ever.
095. I love my girlfriend.
096. My favorite-sounding words are 'oligopoly' and 'indefatigable'.
097. I used to be terribly ashamed that my father was a pastor.
098. Foreign films are starting to grow on me.
099. I enjoy sticking my hand in rice and kneading it while I wash it.
100. I love hearing children laugh.
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I've been to a handful of stadiums but I really love Pac Bell Park. Besides, it has a fabulous view of the bay and Bay Bridge.
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Not convinced? Need some help? Have some questions or concerns about the product? Ready to order? Just click on Pucker, the starfish.
I wish I was kidding.
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oah-ee-tuh ruh-boo
Something like that.
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On a side note, remember Jim Verraros? Cmon, you know. He's the one who didn't believe he made the cut of the final 10. The first of the backstreetboy wannabes to get voted out. The one with the choker band and the really bad wardrobe. The one with the deaf parents. The one with the Livejournal webpage. Sorry it's only a one-page cache of one entry; the journal itself has been deleted.
A little message to Ernie, have a little faith. Tamyra and Kelly will get fat lucrative contracts while the winner will get 15 minutes of fame and most likely notoriety. How do I know this? MTV tried this a few years ago, and America picked Jesse Camp. He's long gone from MTV now and the second place guy--Dave Holmes--is enjoying a career as an MTV veejay.
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Boa - Valenti
Boa's latest single, a very upbeat dance song with a Latin sound to it. 8 out of 10.
Papaya - Violet
Papay's first dance song as far as I can remember, catchy but lacks some continuity. 7 out of 10.
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Em and I are taking off for a 2-day trip to Santa Cruz and Monterey. See you all Tuesday!
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Anyhow, Shania Twain for $300K, Tool or Creed for $200K, even Carrot Top is going for $30K. You KNOW Wyclef has got to be upset that he only garners as much as Carrot Top. I mean c'mon, it's freaking Carrot Top. For one Carrot Top, you can get Ice T and Ice Cube! And what about this little local alternative band going for a measly $500? For that price, I'll just buy big big speakers and turn MTV up really loud.
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The lead singer is named Jini, but her real name is Theresa Kauffman and she attends Oklahoma State University. Want to see her right here in the US? She's a finalist in the Last Fans Standing Contest to be a presenter at the MTV Video Music Awards 2002. Sorry about the grainy picture; this is the one off of the MTV site. Go vote for her!.
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The Xbox's flagship game is Halo. I have never played this game, but apparently it's brilliant. Anyhow, this guy created something called the Warthog Jump Video. I can't really explain what it is, so I'll quote the creator in an interview.
Well, it started on halo.bungie.org. I was reading the forums and checking out the tips and tricks. Someone claimed they were able to get to the top of level 4, the silent cartographer... it's a nice little island with mountains. Anyway, I said, "Hell, I can do you one better." So I managed to get a jeep (warthog) up there. I made a short instructional video of how I did it, called, "When pigs fly." It involved grenades under a jeep, and a rocket launcher. I then had another idea for a larger explosion. I knew I had to make something better for this new trick. So after a few test runs, finding the right spot, etc., I simply hit record on my VCR and blew things up for a couple of hours :-). A trick like that deserved a music video. I picked out a few songs that "captured the mood," and then got to work editing it all together. I had _no_idea_ it would become as popular as it did.

Even if you're not a gamer, and even if you've never played Halo, this is quite entertaining. He used really appropriate music clips and sound bites and it totally adds to the experience. Keep in mind how much time this man spent getting actual gameplay to use for this video. Quicktime 5 or higher is required. Available in low res (10 MB) or high res (24 MB). Enjoy!
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So now we've got Survivor Thailand, and all I have to say is that there had better be at least one Asian in the game since they're doing it in Asia. Everyone say hi to Shii Ann. She hails from Berkeley and was my year and you know, her face looks vaguely familiar. But then again, I saw about 2,000 Asian faces a day, so I'm probably wrong.
Since we're on the topic of Berkeley alum in reality shows, me, Em and her friends from Brown went to Le Cheval tonight for dinner and we see Malik from Real World 10 at a table near us. Trust me, it was him. That fro gives it away, aight?
Now I'm all inspired. I'm going to the Weakest Link auditions with Ernie next time. I think I can kick some Anne Robinson bootay.
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I'm off to watch the perseid meteor shower. Nothing like feeling small and insignificant while gazing at the infinite universe. Sometimes I think science is humankind's attempt to make sense of what God created.
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Three Indian computer scientists said Friday that they have solved a mathematical problem that has eluded researchers for 2,200 years. They have devised a method that will make no mistake in quickly determining a prime number. Prime numbers hold the key to solving many mathematical problems and play an important a role in cryptography. Scientists have long worked on ways to improve methods to identify a prime number. Greek mathematician Eratosthenes was the first to raise this problem around 200 B.C., when he offered one way of determining whether a number is prime.
If you're really really curious to read the paper on their findings, be my guest. But after about 3 pages I found myself with a splitting headache. Personally, who needs all of this mathematical mumbo jumbo? All you need is The Prime Number Shitting Bear, if you ask me. It's educational, accurate enough and fun for the whole family!
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That's $7.15 billion, and that's all we know about. I can't even fathom how you lose that much money. Man I'm sweating over a $20K student loan and I can't hide ANYWHERE if I'm more than a week late paying that; they stash away the Gross National Product of Tunisia for 3 years.
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1) I love using the keyboard to navigate on Windows from time to time. It saves a lot of time especially when switching from window to window. Hold down Alt and press Tab and a list of all open windows will be displayed. While holding down Alt, press Tab to move through the windows and let go of the keys to view the selected window. To scroll through the windows in reverse order, hold down Alt and Shift and still use Tab.
2) Instead of using the Show Desktop icon to minimize all windows, it's sometimes easier to do this. Open the Start menu by either using the Windows key or pressing Ctrl and Esc. Then hold down Alt and then press the letter 'M' to minimize all windows.
3) By holding down the Ctrl key and scrolling the mouse wheel up and down, you can change the font size of the webpage you are currently viewing. This doesn't work all of the time, I think it may have something to do with the span or div tags in the webpage.
4) By clicking and dragging on a link on a webpage, you can add it to your Favorites directly or to the Links toolbar on IE. This saves a lot of time over using Add to Favorites and then categorizing the link later on.
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In 1956, M.C. Escher created the drawing Print Gallery. In this drawing he omitted the center, where he signed and dated the drawing.

This man spent two years determining the correct mathematical structure of the drawing, extrapolating the contents of the missing space and making some animations showing the drawing and its Droste effect, an effect where the image contains itself on a smaller scale. Using many different variations of the drawing as well as the Escher grid seen here, he was able to "complete" the drawing. Check out the very cool animations of the drawing. You can't really see the Droste effect in action unless you views the animations. And get the 10MB ones, they're definitely worth it.
Oh yeah, I didn't post the "completed" drawing to save some bandwidth. Click here to see the finished product.
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After nearly a year, Ank finally got that damn earplug out of his ear, and it only cost him $1! Leave it to the Chinese. Who needs an ENT doctor when you've got the marvel that is Chinese medicine in your corner?
In response to Stan's question, What's in your Netflix queue?:
Amelie, Serendipity, Black Hawk Down, Kikujiro, The Queens of Comedy, Shallow Hal, Three Kings, The Commitments, Glory, Shower, Bowfinger, Evil Dead 2, 13 Ghosts, Planet of the Apes, A Bronx Tale, American Graffiti, Magnolia, American History X, A Streetcar Names Desire, Thirteen Days, West Side Story, The Last Emperor, Saving Grace, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Khartoum, The Negotiator, The Guns of Navarone, Nick of Time, Monster's Ball, I Am Sam, Zoolander, Escaflowne: The Movie, Analyze This, Oz: The Complete First Season, The Nutty Professor II, Boyz Don't Cry, The Wood, The Outsiders, Love & Basketball, The Prince of Egypt, Brokedown Palace, The Others, Dark City, Vanilla Sky, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Gosford park, Orange County, The City of Lost Children, Novocaine, The Beach, Pi: Faith In Chaos, Chocolat.
I picked up US News & World Report's Graduate School listings and opened it up to Engineering School rankings. Stanford topped the list.
I put the book down and wept oh so bitterly.
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I can find no greater pleasure in saying that you two embody the meaning of love. Congratulations and godspeed, now and forever, Mr. and Mrs. Evance Mok.
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This weekend starting today is going to be incredibly hectic. Rehearsal, rehearsal dinner and "other stuff" tonight. Pictures, tea ceremony, wedding ceremony, reception, dinner and dancing tomorrow. So many old friends will be there, it will be good to catch up with them, but as a groomsman I don't know how much time I'll have. But this is going to be a truly special weekend I'll look back on the rest of my life with fond memories. Best of luck to the bride and groom.
On a final note, congratulations to Angela & Bryan and Irene & Jarvis on their recent engagements!
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Directed and produced by the same man who made The Sixth Sense, this movie promised to be scary and creepy while still making you think. Although not quite as good as The Sixth Sense, Signs was pretty downright scary, but it posed some very thought-provoking and controversial questions which I am still thinking about. M. Night Shyamalan has a way of prying into your inner fear. The fear you don't talk about but is always there. There are many different kinds of fear, or rather, different reasons for you to be afraid, and he does a good job at touching upon many of them. Signs also has a facet not really existing in The Sixth Sense: humor. Not slapstick or pee-your-pants funny, but there were definitely some light-hearted moments. But when I think about it, maybe that was just a tool to have your sense of confidence and security fall that much further during the dark moments of the movie. It had a sort of old movie quality to it. There was really nothing fancy about the movie. Nothing CG, just some good disguises and good use of everyday objects as props.
I recommend this movie. It's worth the full price of admission.
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Wooden 3-in-1 Toybox, $19.99
Harley-Davidson Barbie #4, $55.99
Senco FP25XP 5/8" to 2-1/8" Brad Nailer, $140.79
Antique Roadshow Board Game, $7.98
HTML 4 for Dummies (with CD-ROM), $9.99
Amazon Gold Box can go suck a big one.
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