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Star Spottings

So, I went for a slurpy awhile ago and walked past Kristin Kreuk from Smallville.

She looks a lot hotter on the show. I'm not complaining though :)
If Kristin's reading my blog right now, nothing but love babe! I probably just saw your less attractive sister or something...

Full Disclosure

Remember that movie Disclosure with Michael Douglas?

Well, here's a simliar story.

Norwegian court has sentenced a woman to nine months in jail for raping a man

Isn't it every guy's dream to fall asleep at a party and wake up with a chick in his lap?? ;)

The story needs more details in it, like how ugly the chick have been to to turn from it from "Sweet!" to "That's it, I'm filing charges!"

Da Cabin

OK, here's the Scott update...
Went up to my cabin this weekend cause I figured this kinda weather doesn't come around too often.
So, basically it kicked ass! Hovered around 27-28 degrees all weekend.
Got the boat in the water. Got the downstairs bedroom ready to paint. Cleaned up the shed roof. Pretty damn productive if I do say so!
Wahoo...hello summer!! :)

Wasting Time

If anyone has the need to waste some time, check out ifilm.com. There's also some funny ifilm vids here too...

Playing Multimedia

Alright, I haven't had a geek post in awhile, so here we go...

So, awhile ago Carla asked me if there was a way to play a DVD from one region in a player from another region. (ie: how do I play aussie DVDs in my laptop that's made in Canada).

So, I did a bunch of reasearch, and found 2 options.
1. Find a firmware hack specific to your DVD drive that will remove the region checks it performs.
2. Use a media player that gets around the problem.

Now, originally I didn't think #2 was possible, but I'm here to tell you folks that it is!

Go checkout VideoLAN.

As a geek note, the reason it can play any DVD is because it uses it's own custom DVD decoder, not the one built into the DVD hardware (at least that's how I understood it).

At first I didn't really care much about the player, cause I don't play DVDs much, and when I do, they're from Canada. However, MS Media Player is a hunk of ass. It doesn't play a lot of encoding types, and often screws them up. I tried the player that comes with DivX, and also another one that I can't remember at the moment. Both played a wider range of files, but the interfaces sucked, and I still had problems with some movies.

Finally I decided to give VideoLAN a shot for myself. I gotta say, it's damn cool! It's all I use now. It's got all the functionality I want, and I've never had a problem with ANY video file. It plays anything! Pretty damn cool I gotta say.

The other cool thing about it is that it's also designed act as a media server. You can set it up to broadcast video over your network! I've never had a reason to do this, but it's a cool idea!

So, basically all I gotta say is thanks Carla! ;)

Japan at a Glance

I thought this was an interesting summary of how Japan got to where it is today.

Pick a Pope Name

So, I didn't realize that a new pope could pick his own new name.
Story here

OK people, what's your papal name? I wonder if this post will get me sent to hell...again?

My subjects can now call me:
Pope Pullmi John LXIX

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Duct Tape...

You'll notice the drunken arm giving the thumbs up ;) Well, I guess technically it would be the drunken thumb giving the thumbs up.

That looks a lot like the Vanier basement at UBC...hmm...

Keep the Faith

Damn, Bon Jovi rules!!

I start coding better when I get to the Bon Jovi section of my mp3z...
I'm all like pissed off at my computer cause nothing's working, and then magically I hear some guitar...and then some drums...and then some bass...and then Jon is tellin' me to keep the faith. I'm like "damn straight...I'm the man, and I'm gonna kick this program's ass!!!"
Jon, I'm not sure about your mullets, but damn my boss is gonna be happy with you when I finish this crap!! :P
Oh yeah, and Neil Young keeps telling me to rock in the free world...also very helpful to remember!

PS Jon, you're mullet looks surprising good when you stand next to Neil...
PPS Does Jon acutally have a mullet in that pic? It looks more just like a woman's haircut! Let's just assume it's a mullet, cause I ain't rockin' to a guy with a woman's haircut...

ABC's

Man, I'm lovin this fileflux site. It's got some funny vids on it!!

This one may not be appropriate for work environments...which makes it even better!! ;)

Chinese Food Prank

Man, this is damn funny!!

Oh, and this one is for Rugged

Sahara

Went to see Sarah last night. I'm gonna give it 2 thumbs up, but my review comes with a footnote that I'm going to get out of the way now...so maybe it's a headnote?

Anyway, the movie's based on the book written by Clive Cussler. It's part of a series of books that all have the same main characters who are marine salvage workers. Anyway, I've read every damn one of them, and that's why my review is biased. I may have liked the movie more than others because I like the books. The movie stuck with the book more than most movies, and it was odd cause most of the actors they chose looked like how I imagined them.

Anyway, enough crap! This was a brainless action flick...my kinda stuff! I thought Matthew McConaughey did a good job. Normally I don't really like Penélope Cruz, but I did in this movie. Chicks that kick ass are hot ;) Just ask the MB, she kicks my ass all the time!!

It ain't no Indiana Jones, but if you like that type of movie, I'd give it a shot!

Roger Ebert signing off to get more doughnuts...

OK, here's my real footnote:
As a completely heterosexual observation...McConaughey got crazy buff for this movie! Damn, I wish I was an actor..."Hey pal, how about you go get crazy buff for the next 3 months, then shoot this movie in exotic locals for the next 2 months, and then I'll give you a million bucks. Sound ok?"

Darwinism

Conclusive proof that apes descended from Bush...

Napolean

Napolean Dynamite cracks me up...

Funny Bums

It's 8:31am right now. I was just walking to and stopped at a traffic light on Davie and Richards. This bum shuffles up the corner in his socks screaming "f*cking f*cker's! I hate them!! I saved your ass David Letterman!!! I saved your ass you f*cker!!" and so on and so on. It was damn funny! Made my morning actually!
Just wanted to thank MB for the use of the word f*ck

Not so dumb models

This is awesome!!

Got Gas?

Checkout this article. It's gonna seriously suck when gas is $2/liter. I wonder if a smart car can make it over the coquihalla?

CIBC World Markets suggested Tuesday that over the next five years oil prices will almost double, averaging close to $77 US per barrel and reaching $100 by 2010.

That report followed a similar prediction by U.S. investment firm Goldman Sachs, a major trader in the energy markets, which said oil markets may have entered a "super-spike" that could push prices toward $105 US a barrel.

Darfur for dummies like me

OK, so I'm not big into news and current events, but there are definately some things a person should know about. I've been trying to make an effort to at least know the basics of what's goin' on in this crazy word. There's generally three issues that keep me from being a news junky of, say, MB's caliber.
1. Much of the news I hear depresses me
2. A lot of the news doesn't interest me
3. It takes too damn long to sift through news articles in order to learn the basics

News paper's don't seem to be created for a guy like me. I want a short synopsis that gives me just the facts of the issue (even in point form). At least then I know what's going on at a glance and can do more research if it interests me. The news paper continually hacks at a big news item, every day adding to the story. If you don't follow along from the beginning, you generally don't know what the hell's going on. Then they put out that one issue that's supposed to be for people like me, except it's the size of the whole damn news paper. I don't think there should be any news item that can't be explained at a high level in more than a few paragraphs. Point form is a beautiful thing people!!

Anyway, I'm done bitching now, so I'll get on with the real point of this post. I decided yesterday that I needed to understand what the hell was going on in Darfur. So, I went on a quest to find an article that would explain the situation at a very high level, just enough so that I don't feel like a moron.

Well here's what I've found:
This article gave a pretty decent overview of the situation.
However, good old wikipedia came through again with this article. If you go down to "The present Darfur crisis" section, the first paragraph explains everything I needed to know.

Hmm...maybe I should start a news for dummies site?

Ride Finder

Goddamn, those Google guys are crazy mofos!!
Scope out the new Google Ride Finder
Now, if they do that to the buses in Vancouver, I'll piss myself with commuter joy!!

Hedonistica vs. iCopulate

OK, so I gotta thank the MB for sending me a link to hedonistica. Don't worry, it's work safe. Unfortunately I havn't found any naked pics on the site yet ;)

Anyway, a couple of my faves from the page are:
This "horney" video
Bunny Love

The flash game brought me back to sextris days :)

Also, I've gotta get an iPod, just so I can get cool shit like this:
iCopulate
It's all about iPod groupie lovin'!