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[Comment] Re: And Now, "A Dip from MIT"

"deliberately made to look like a bomb"

Did you actually look at the pictures the police released of the device? It looks nothing like a bomb. It is some green LEDs arranged in a star on a circuit board with some wires and a 9 volt battery. Despite being an "art project" it isn't pretty, but there is nothing "bomb like" about it.

[BlogEntry] Kid Nation Season Premiere : So Far, So Good

After all the hype, Kid Nation has begun.  The premise, in case you missed it, is a tamed version of Lord of the Flies where they put a bunch of kids (I lost track of how many) in an isolated setting (a ghost town) and let them run it for themselves, with no adults.  Now, of course we know that there are adult cameramen and adult producers swarming around the place.  The point is that if the kids are about to do something stupid like screw up the spaghetti, they can't look at the nearest adult and say, "Help?"

So what did you think?  I found it hard to understand the kids, what with all the "like this and like that" and the general inability to properly pronounce most words.  Not to mention that everything is "awesome."  They fight like you'd expect, and the bigger kids (who are 15) pick on the smaller kids.  Funny moment of the show comes when they get a private camera on the older kid after a fight who says, in all seriousness, "I didn't get upset….you haven't seen me upset yet."  Dude, you're 15, nobody cares what you're like when you're upset.

They're trying to put some structure on it, with four teams divided up into things like running the store, handling the kitchen and so on.  Those tasks are divided up based on a challenge, which also dictates how much money the kids make.  That could be a problem since the losing team gets ten cents a day and the winning team gets a dollar.  That's quite a gap, especially if one team loses several challenges.

In general it wasn't painful to watch.  I'll watch it again, but I bet I won't stick through it to the end.

 

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[Comment] Re: Where can you get those stroller "stand and ride" attachments?

these buggy boards are normal in europe. but i doubt that it will fit with a stroller here. the stroller here doesn't have the attachment which you need to put a buggy board on. try a sit'n stand stroller!

[Comment] Re: Scrubs : My No Good Reason

She is in a coma and is unresponsative.

[BlogEntry] How You Can Tell Someone Only Has One Child

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/digital_memories

Story from Yahoo News about crazy people who try to document every millisecond of their child's life by taking thousands of digital photos, never deleting one, buying new memory cards as needed (apparently that guy doesn't believe in backing up or printing), and generally documenting every time your child cries (put down the camera, pick up the baby), makes a mess (if there's not a website dedicated to baby poop yet, I'd be surprised), and basically missing the point that in your rush to save the memories, you are putting yourself behind the camera and…wait for it….out of the picture.

I guarantee that all of them have one child.  Could somebody please run the followup story in 5-10 years when these people have a second child and they have to eventually have this conversation:

"Daddy, how come there's an entire bookcase of albums of pictures of Billy, but for me all you have is that one you keep in your wallet?"

[Comment] Re: Belichick Single-Handedly Wrecks a Dynasty

Whether the rule is a good one or not is not the question. It's a matter of being able to ever play a team again and say "We played fair" and expect to be believed. They have a definition of what the rule is (whether it is an arbitrary definition or not, that's what it is), something about our cameraman being on the Jets sidelines or something? Clear enough that Bellichick knew it, and broke it.

Once upon a time, when I was down in Baltimore, I crossed paths with someone in a bar and Boston was brought up. "Celtics," he said, "Greatest basketball dynasty of all time."

I was on a plane once, in New York, during a Red Sox / Yankees series. Guy sitting in the same row as me, a New Yorker, told me, "You know, I think there should be a rule that whenever that guy you've got, Pedro Martinez, whenever he's pitching, the other team should just be able to say you know what, you win. We're taking the night off."

As of right now, when people speak of the Patriots, it will be to say "Aren't they the ones that got caught cheating?"

That's what pissed me off. Bellichick is bringing us wins, absolutely, but as of right now he also brought an insane amount of bad press. We're not even getting into the whole sleeping with another man's wife thing, either. I'd prefer to have a football team I'm proud to watch on a Sunday night, and be able to go into work on Monday saying "Good game", rather than justify that "No, I don't think they cheated this time, but I honestly can't say."

[Comment] Re: Belichick Single-Handedly Wrecks a Dynasty

Oh come on. How could they ever consider watching the other team cheating? This has nothing to do with integrity. This was a stupid rule that was unenforceable. Every team is watching the other teams signals and there shouldn't be a rule against it. How can you reliably detect and prevent watching or recording the other team?

[Comment] Re: Free Ringtones : What's the Big Deal?

Oh come on, you guys should at least both mention that you work for Mobicious! 🙂 Astro-turfing is never cool, and you always get caught. Of course you think it's awesome if you work in the marketing department :).

[Comment] Re: Free Ringtones : What's the Big Deal?

I tried it and it is awesome

[Comment] Re: Blades of Glory

AWESOME! if u get th chance, go to the deleted scenes and hit blades of glory song!
(main part of song)
sail across the sky, on the blades of glory, set the fire to the eye, on th blades of glory, todays the first chapter of our, mythic story!… oh yeah n its chazz n jimmy singin. (hot fuzz was awsome 2!)