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Name: Edmund (Iggy)
Country: United States
State: California
Metro: San Francisco
Gender: Male
Interests: conversational running, winning at poker, spending time with kids at UniCamp and Mentorship, gallivanting, doodling, playing basketball with other people who aren't good, Tetris and Tetris Attack, looking at squirrels on campus, great music, riveting movies, girls that remind me of summer, doing a whole lotta nothing.
Expertise: fighting crime while the city sleeps, undercover lover
Occupation: Technical Writer
Industry: Document Imaging
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AIM:  mr running man01
Member Since:
4/12/2003
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| This blog is dead. But you can read more of my stuff over at Neat Change. I must warn you though, it's not written with the general audience in mind. Pretty much the only person who would find everything in it interesting is me.
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| Me: Hi. Do you have the coupon for this (contact lens solution)? It says on the shelf there's a $3 coupon.
Cashier who clearly hates his job: [flips through the Rite Aid ads on the counter next to him, finds the coupon and tears it out] You know, you're the first person who has asked about that. Everyone else has just been buying it for full price, thinking they were going to get a rebate, I guess. What losers.
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| I can't believe I'm even wasting a blog entry on this, but this is unoriginal boy band pop with desperate modern R&B envy. It seriously makes me cringe to hear Wonder Bread over here saying things like "G5", "shawty", "walk it out", "to the left" and misquoting the phrase "make it rain". This is all in one song backed by some inane Yankee Doodle beat or some shit. Arrghhh, I need some new CDs badly... this radio garbage is not going to cut it anymore.
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| I felt like shooting some hoops at midnight. I went to 24 Hour Fitness and it was closed. Well, I'll be damned...
There have always been Chipmunk remixes of songs on YouTube. But a Chipmunk version of The Dream's "Falsetto"? Well played, sir.
That UNC-Kansas game was INSANE. Kansas' white hot shooting coupled with UNC clanging shots off the rim gives the Jayhawks a 40-12 lead during the first half, all but sealing UNC's fate. UNC chips away some of the lead when Kansas starts getting a little too comfortable. Then, in the second half, UNC goes hot while Kansas goes cold. The Tar Heels make it a four point game with plenty of time, setting the stage for the greatest comeback in college basketball history. Alas, that lead change never happened as Kansas kept UNC at bay and then went off on another run of their own.
I thought of my own Chuck Norris joke today:
Chuck Norris would poke the baby in the womb.
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| In 2005, we had "March of the Penguins". In 2006, "Happy Feet" was released. 2007's "Surf's Up" was about surfing penguins. Seeing where I'm going with this, some people will argue that work for the later two movies started before the release of "March of the Penguins". The close release dates of these movies about penguins could be a coincidence, a case of different people getting the same idea (The world of science has many examples of multiple independent discoveries), or perhaps some kind of collective consciousness at play. Other examples off the top of my head seem to also come from the animated genre: "Finding Nemo" (2004) and "Shark's Tale" (2004), "Antz" (1998) and "A Bug's Life" (1998). At least in the world of entertainment, I don't buy the multiple independent discovery explanation. People in the movie business know about these movies long before the trailer hits theaters. Scripts get shopped around, actors try out for parts, and hundreds of people work on a movie without having to sign airtight confidentiality agreements. Now, coupled with the lack of originality stemming from Hollywood nowadays, as evidenced by the sharp rise in sequels and franchise-based movies, it wouldn't be too outlandish to imagine someone saying, "I heard they're making a penguin movie. I think I will too." Of course, we can't assume that, say, "A Bug's Life" was the biter just because it was released a month or two after "Antz" (it could have taken less time to make).
I have just started to notice the same alarming trend seep into music. Ugh, as if the beats already don't sound all alike... We're not talking remixes or covers, but songs being passed off as entirely original. Behold the following recent exhibits:
"Lovestoned" - Justin Timberlake ("Those flashing lights come from everywhere...")
"Flashing Lights" - Kanye West
"Rehab" - Amy Winehouse
"Rehab" - Rihanna
"Hypnotize" - Plies ft. Akon
"Hypnotized" - Gemini
"Suffocate" - J. Holiday
"No Air" - Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown
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