The thing about American Idol is....(Part 2)

There's FINALLY a reason to watch!!! BEHOLD

..woooooooooooooooooooooooooow puuuuurrrrrtttttyyyyyy.

Seriously. Her name is Casey Carlson and she made it to Hollywood! Hopefully she makes it to the actual show. Or not, I don't really care.

The Thing About Stormtroopers is....

...one of them's been spotted!!! OH SNAP! Hahah seriously though that is an awesome car, and an awesome picture.

Also check out this cool video of a "Water drop in slow motion falling into extremely fine sand"

Protests breaking out in Oakland...

Protests that started out peacefully turned violent in Oakland and honestly...I can't believe this is happening again. Check out some excerpts from an Article which was published by SF Gate as of 21:13 Pacific Time January 7,2009.

Protesters smashed the storefronts of McDonald's as well as stores called Creative African Braids and Oakland Yoon's Pharmacy. Cars along 14th Street were smashed, and some were set ablaze.

A woman walked out of Creative African Braids holding a baby in her arms.

"This is our business," she shouted. "This is our shop. This is what you call a protest?"

Nia Sykes, 24, of San Francisco, a protester who was with the group, said, "I feel like the night is going great. I feel like Oakland should make some noise. This is how we need to fight back.

"It's for the murder of a black male," said Sykes, who is black. The demonstration "is totally appropriate."

Sykes had little sympathy for the owner of Creative African Braids.

Unbeliavable...seriously..."totally appropriate"??? I agree that what happened was horrible and as a Mexican american citizen I KNOW what this prejudice is all about but if breaking into someone's business and endagering the life of children is "totally appropriate" there's something very horrible with the morals of that woman. But it goes on...

"She should be glad she just lost her business and not her life," Sykes said. She added that she did have one worry for the night: "I just hope nobody gets shot or killed."

WHAT?! First she goes on to say that she should consider herself lucky not to have died then goes on to hypocritically say that she hopes nobody gets shot...right after she just said that death should be expected by anyone which happens to have the misfortune of crossing this "protest"'s path.

Nearby, Godhuli Bose stood near her smashed Toyota Corolla, and a protester walked by, repeatedly calling her a misogynist epithet.

"F- your car. F- your car," he said to Bose. Bose, a high school teacher: "I can't afford this."

This is hurtful to the cause..this is not good for anyone. This is just rage. This is anger...I'm not saying that there should be no anger, however manifestations of it like this are completely asinine and ridiculous. You don't end violence with more violence. Ridiculous.

The assassination of Oscar Grant was horrible and it shows that America still has some racism issues, however to use this as an excuse for a couple of misderected and dysfunctional people to go out to the streets and endager people's lives is almost as bad if not AS bad as what happened to Oscar Grant.

I hope this doesn't escalate...

...and I hope I don't have to post stuff of this nature often.

Source: SFGate

This is gross

If you've ever asked yourself...what's the worst thing I could eat that's sold at a local "Family Dollar" then I have the answer...BEHOLD
PRINGLES EXTREME in Dill Pickle flavor...WHAT. THE. CRAP! Don't ever ever ever try these, I did it out of curiosity and it was the worst idea of my life(next to trying to build a flying toilet car) From the moment it touched my tongue you get this nasty shot of pickle flavor tormenting your tastebuds, I don't know what chemical they used to get these things to taste like that but I'm pretty sure it's anthrax. Trust me don't have them, they will kill you.

Google Chrome(Google is making a web browser!)

As a lover of all things Google(you can probably tell by the fact I'm using Blogger) I'm really psyched that Google is getting into the browser game!! The beta should be launching tomorrow, here's a comic book detailing some stuff about it...

http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/

also here's the Google blog talking about it....I'm psyched and look forward to downloading it tomorrow!

What a douche...

Seriously. I don't care who you are or who the person is, you just don't do that to a woman.

Movie Impressions: The Incredible Hulk

"Ang Lee's Hulk Sad!"

So what's the deal with Ang Lee's HULK? I mean it wasn't that bad......ok maybe It was, but who cares? Now there's a new Hulk and this one's not as bright green nor are his pants purple.

Edward Norton replaces Eric Bana(whom I consider to be much more awesome) as Bruce Banner and Liv Tyler replaces Jennifer Connelly as Betty Ross(Connelly being about 23 times more attractive). These two lead a pretty good cast, and deliver an overall satisfactory performance. Still the star of the movie is the Hulk himself, and truth be told I'm a bit conflicted. I liked Ang Lee's Hulk, or rather Industrial Lights and Magic's Hulk, I thought he was really well animated and his facial expressions in particular were very impressive, who cares about the skin color that resembles Nickelodeon ooze and the purple pants are not realistic, I mean come on, we're talking about a dude that turns green and becomes a giant when he gets angry. But Rhythm and Hue's Hulk(the new one) is really quite good too, he's animated in a very "realistic" way, meaning that he looks like he actually weighs what a giant would and he moves for the most part in a non cartoony way. There's a particular scene that I really liked where you can see Hulk's skin cracked near his shoulder right after you see bullets bounce off his skin that made me the graphics whore inside of me say "COOL!" Overall I'd have to give the nod to Rhythm and Hue's Hulk because unlike the previous movie they decided to show the Hulk for the most part in only dark settings where the sun could not make it look too unreal, and the one scene that was in the daylight was shot with crazy fast camera angles that also hid the "unrealness" of the hulk for the most part.

Now the reason why this film was made was because Ang Lee's lacked action, it was too "cerebral" Is the word most of the internet uses to condescendingly describe the film. In this sene The Incredible Hulk delivers, this film is short on back story and feelings and heavy on action, that's not to say that we don't see how Bruce feels about his situation but the movie doesn't emphazise on that too much. There's even a return of the "HULK SMASH!!!" line which I have to admit occured in a really REALLLY corny way. But the action scenes deliver, we get to see the Hulk take on the army a couple of times in different settings and even take on some sort of cloverfield-monster-only-a-baby-version-lookalike with pretty awesome results. Still at the end of the movie you get the feeling this was just the exposition of the story and there's gonna no doubt be a sequel, a trend I'm starting to really dislike.

Overall, the Incredible Hulk is good. Go see it. But see it in the afternoon when it's not 8 bucks, it's not really worth 8 bucks....Meaning it's not Iron Man Caliber, but then again what is??

Wale - The Mixtape About Nothing

For those of you that don't know Wale is a 23 year old rapper from DC, who just signed with the Mark Ronson backed label Allido(same label as Rhymefest), but more importantly the guy can rap. He's a smart dude, who's not just rapping about guns and crap, I think it's pretty clear that doesn't sell anymore. Anyway, as the name implies this mixtape is indeed inspired by Seinfeld and he even goes on to reference the show in a couple of songs...overall just awesome and even if(especially) if you don't like hip hop you should check it out. Free Download or stream HERE

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Introducing YouTomb

Ever looked for a video on youtube that you'd seen before but realized that it had been taken down due to "copyright infringment"?? Chances are it's on YouTomb, YouTomb is a research project by MIT Free culture which tracks down videos which have been taken down for said reason. Not only that but you can see who it was that requested these videos be taken down. Now you can't see the videos on the site, so what's the point? Well as the creator says "YouTomb was conceived to shed light on YouTube's practices, to educate the general public on the relevant copyright issues, and to provide helpful resources to users who have had their videos wrongfully taken down." So you can see exactly which videos NBC or Viacom or the WWE request be taken down. Pretty cool stuff.

http://youtomb.mit.edu/

Stream of Consciousness #1

I don't know this summer has been weird, after months of feeling trapped or constrained in school and complaining about it nonstop until a week ago when vacations started, I am now dreadfully bored. I think I need the structure. It's sad to say but I feel like not being told or instructed to do something leads to me being completely and utterly useless. I dunno maybe I'm overreacting. I am overreacting. It's no big deal really, I'll get over it...I dunno it kinda reminds me of One Day in the Life Of Ivan Denisovich maybe I've become used to life in the labor camp and anything outside of doing my job just terrifies the crap out of me. I mean what's the big deal anyway? Do I really need to be doing something? Yeah I do. I mean what's Frodo without the quest to destroy the one ring? Some lame little piece of crap Hobbit that's what he is. What's Mario without his constant quests for that floozy Daisy? Just some plumber....and what's Mario without being a plumber? Some Italian guy with incredibly jumping skills. Jumping Skills. That's what defines Mario I guess. You know what's cool? Luigi's jump. How he kicks the air and stay up there for a few extra seconds...it doesn't work in real life, believe me I know. It amazes me how young videogames are, I mean the oldest characters are like around my age, Mega Man was born the same year I was...and half of the middle school kids today have no idea what a Mega Man is. Did I just say Mega Man was born? That's a pretty weird thing to say about a sequence of bits. Dial up sucks, I could do so much more stuff if I had a fast connection, but I don't so see you later.

Way to go Memphis!!....no not really.

So, the championship game finished a while ago and I still can't believe what's happened. Honestly, you had the game in your hands Memphis, but you let it go. Now it's not fair to put the blame squarely on one thing or person, but I will. Ladies and Gentlemen I give you Chris Douglas-Roberts
The 21 year old guard and true leader of the Memphis Tigers with an excerpt of the constitution tattooed on his right arm who could have ended the game in regulation if he had only made those two free throws. Honestly, here's a guy who just two days ago tore it up against UCLA and has been doing so all year but couldn't sink two shots to end the game. Way to choke buddy. You'll never get another shot to win a national championship.

Ok ok ok, so it's not fair to blame it all on him so let's blame it on that Derrick Rose three/two pointer. It was a beautiful shot by Memphis rumplestiltskin which gave the Tigers the lead, but because his left foot was infront of the three point line the stupid officials deemed it as a two pointer. You know what I think? I think it was those two white refs...the black one said it was a three, the other two said it wasn't...honestly, what do white people know about basketball?? Nothing that's what, so shut up Dick Vitale.

Still Derrick Rose didn't do crap until the second half, prior to the game starting they made a big deal about how he had the runs on sunday and wether he would play today or not. Let that be a lesson to everyone about the horrors of the "tex-mex" crap-for-food in San Antonio....it's gonna give you the runs, and you WILL lose the national championship due to the uncomfort and loss of speed which is caused by the quivery colon that comes as a side effect of mixing pineapple and red chiles with ground beef and chives or whatever the crap they serve in those restaurants along the riverwalk. Derrick Rose should have not eaten there and should have done what the rest of us do and just take pictures on the "Selena" bridge.

So in summary, Kansas sucks. Schools can only be good in either football or basketball not both of them. Who do these guys think they are? Florida? On the plus side their football coach IS the world's smartest walrus and Todd Reesing is from Texas so I guess it's not all bad....still what the crap does "Rock Chalk Jay-Hawk" mean??? Leave it to white people to come up with the lamest crap. In all I'm glad basketball season is finally over and we can move on to the truly important sport, Football! Would have been nice if C-USA took home the title though....guess that won't be happening, Ever.

The More You Know...

are NOT black.