The Perfect Score
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If you like Scarlett Johansson or atypical high school movies you should check it out. The storyline has a major flaw and the dialog isn't too great (except from Leonardo Nam), but it's mildly entertaining.
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
The last two installments of the Grand Theft Auto series are two of my favorite games of all time, but for some reason I never finished either one of them. I was a little late to the game with GTA III, but with Vice City I got it the day it came out but still my ADD ass managed to find something else to do before I finished it.
Grand Theft Auto is getting awesome reviews, but I just picked up Burnout 3. I'll probably hold off on it a little while till it's cheaper and I'm not playing anything else. Either way, I'm definitely playing this game soon.
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XM Radio
I almost got Christina to get XM Radio for me last Christmas, and now I'm kinda wanting it again. The addition of Major League Baseball is a big plus and something that gives XM a few more points. Plus Delphi has released the new SkyFi 2 receiver that looks really sweet and can even pause and rewind live radio, pretty cool.
I really like the general concept and almost everything about it, except for the after-market implementation. You end up with wires and crap all over your car and it just looks like crap. Maybe I'll hold off till my next car and get it factory installed.
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I've got Gmail invites
And apparently so does everyone else.
I've still got six to give out, want one either contact me (make sure you use a valid email) or comment on this post.
Update: I'm all out. I gave two out through here and the rest through Orangebloods.
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Not the World Series
Talk about a let down. After watching almost every inning of the two great League Championship Series, I haven't seen more than three total innings of the WS. There was so much national interest in the Sox and Yankees series and I had so much interest in the Astros versus Cardinals series that I guess I just don't give a damn which team wins now.
I can't decide what's going to happen if Boston wins the whole thing, is it going to make the media talk more or less about them?
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The Day After Tomorrow
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A surprisingly entertaining movie. The first previews I saw for it had me really wanting to see it, but as I saw more and more previews the less I wanted to see.
Turns out it was actually pretty decent. There's a couple moronic things in it and I can tell why it got poor reviews. The worst part of it is that there are several storylines that they just completely forget about in the end. They spend time building relationships between characters, and then when the real action starts they seem to have forgotten what the hell they were doing.
If you like seeing crap blow up and other stereotypical action motifs, then The Day After Tomorrow is worth checking out.
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Jewfros are cool
One of the random members of Linkin Park has a nice little jewfro going, he needs to grow it out more though before I give a damn about him. Damn the RMA's suck, they got like the two worst members of the group.
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Burnout 3: Takedown
I sold NCAA 2005 last week on eBay and turned right around and used that money to buy this game.
Great so far. I haven't played it a ton, but I really enjoy it.
The game is flat-out fun. Graphics do a great job of making you feel the speed and the collisions. Fun stuff.
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Miracle
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Eh, the movie was pretty good but I really would have preferred just to see a well researched and produced documentary on the team than an actual movie about it. I guess the fact that I do already know the story so well from multiple documentaries meant the movie showed me nothing really new.
Another well done sports movie though, I'm no hockey expert (thank God) but it seemed to be pretty accurate with all the on-ice action. There weren't really any times when I was disgusted by a lack of realism or anything.
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The UPS guy
The UPS guy that comes by work every day is a dead ringer for The Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin.
He's about 5'7" and wears that stupid brown uniform and goes with the shorts over the pants. Nice choice. The uniform looks like a browner version of a safari outfit.
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WTF is stumping?
"Kerry stumps in Ohio"
and "Cowboys officials stump in preparation for stadium vote,"
since when is stumping a political term? According to Dictionary.com:
To go about making political speeches.
I've seen or heard the word stumps used like this 100 times in the last week, but I had never heard it before that. Is it suddenly clever to use it?
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The Yankees choke
I refuse to give the Red Sox much credit, the Yankees blew this series. I couldn't be much happier, unless it had ended with an easy ground ball going off overrated Derek Jeter's overrated glove and through his overrated legs to allow the winning run to score.
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Lost
Great drama, easily this season's best new show. It's actually original too. When I first saw the previews and then the pilot, I thought it was going to be a mini-series. There was a ton of action and drama and story development starting from the very first episode. It seems every character on the show has some sort of hidden story, and we're slowly finding them out.
It's even available in HD, not like I can take advantage of that or anything. (Grande sucks!)
Evangeline Lilly is freaking hot by the way. Mmmmmm... Canadian chicks.
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Why can't I win an island?
I know Texas kicks the rest of the loser states' asses, but why does that mean I can't win my own damn island?
Capital One has included a scratch-off card inside junk mail that I probably wouldn't open anyways, that could allow you to win your own private island or one of a bunch of tropical vacations. But if you watch the fine print closely in the commercial, you'll see this bull crap:
Game open only to legal residents of the U.S., its territories and possessions (excluding residents of TX and Puerto Rico), 21 years of age or older at time of entry.
I mean come on, PR is already an island (albeit a pretty crappy one) so I can see them not getting a chance. Hell, even Hawaii residents get a shot. Texas really should secede.
I hate you Capital One, and your damn contest!
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Chance Mock racked
Now this is freaking hilarious. I guess ABC didn't even notice or they would've cut away. Damn funny.
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A-Rod cheating
Wow! If the umps don't get this right and the Red sox go on to lose, the city of Boston may go berserk. Alex Rodriguez intentionally reached out and knocked the ball loose. Wow.
They got the call right. Whew! They called A-Rod out and put Jeter back at first, that's the correct call. Easy one.
Now the Yankees fans are showing their true colors. Throwing stuff on the field. Sports-radio here in Dallas is going to have a field day with this tomorrow.
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Texas vs Mizzou
We may be in real trouble at quarterback. Vince Young and Chance Mock combined for 58 yards passing and two interceptions. Young was actually our leading receiver and Ramonce Taylor (a true freshman running back) was the leading passer.
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Friday Night Lights
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Pretty good movie, much better than most sports movie and certainly better than any that are about high school sports. Anybody that ever played high school football (especially in Texas) should definitely see it. Entertaining and well done, but still disappointing.
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ESPN the Magazine
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"The Magazine" is actually really good, especially considering I get it for free with my ESPN Insider subscription. I think ESPN went the right route when they decided to focus on the future instead of writing on what had already happened. For a sports magazine it's really the only thing you can do and stay useful. I get my sports news the instant it happens via TV or the Internet, I don't need a magazine telling me the story again a week after it happened. Good articles and photography (although the SI photos were always spectacular, and not just in the swimsuit issue.)
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NLCS
Damn the Astros bullpen stinks, sure wish Phil Garner realized that. He keeps pulling his starting pitcher everytime he gets in the least bit of trouble, only to trot out Chad Qualls and Dan Micelli to relieve him. I've seen Micelli pitch like a dozen times this year, and everytime he's come in and given up bombs.
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Pat Green - Lucky Ones
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I downloaded it off of BitTorrent the day before yesterday. Don't worry, I had already preordered from PatGreen.com too.
Definitely a must have album for any Pat Green fan and by far his best one since signing a Nashville record deal. The album comes out officially on October 19th.
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Nintendo DS
Okay, so I don't really want one at all. In fact it seems kind of lame to me, and the Gameboy Advance SP seems to make a lot more sense.
I've pre-ordered two already.
Why? Hopefully to make a little profit off the deal. Many people (including Nintendo) are expecting shortages of the DS during the Christmas season. So I pre-ordered one each from EBGames.com and Gamestop.com and hopefully I'll either get both in time to sell at an inflated price, or I can always return them if there's no shortage, or sell them at actual price. We'll see.
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Audiovox SMT 5600
Here's another Pocket PC phone, this one's much smaller than the other options. Pretty good looking and is getting good reviews despite my reservations about the Audiovox brand. It is after all just rebranded with that name here in the US.
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Paper Mario 2
I loved Super Mario RPG a hundred years ago when I played it, but had long moved on from the N64 when the original Paper Mario was released.
I haven't played my GameCube in probably a year, hell I haven't even seen it. I lent it to my brother and haven't asked for it back. This game may be something I talk him into buying so I can eventually play it.
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door looks pretty damn cool, here's the IGN and GameSpot reviews.
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Treo 650
I change which phone/PDA I'm oogling pretty much on a weekly basis, mainly because new cool shit comes out on a weekly basis. The Treo 650 has been the object of my affection for a while now, a great looking phone running the Palm OS. Plus it's the second in the line so they should have most of the kinks worked out by now.
I'm still lusting after the Motorola MPx, I'll have to wait to see/use them in person to decide which (if either) I might get.
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Medusa PVR
Yeah I've got TiVo and a ATI All-in-Wonder in my PC, but what fun is that when you can build a monster PVR with SIX tuners? Snapstream has released it's new software, BeyondTV 3.5, and to coincide built a relatively cheap PC with six TV tuners. Pretty cool. (via PVRBlog)
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Astros vs. Braves - Game 2
Freaking TiVo screwed up my recording. Damn you TiVo!! How dare you betray me? I thought you and I had something special together.
I got home from work and had to watch the game live (*shudders*), it was already the fifth inning.
Braves are down 2 - 1 in the 7th. Furcal just screwed up and got thrown out at home. Damnit!
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The Prince and Me
Ehhhhhh... At least it didn't kill me.
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Christina wanted to watch Mean Girls but the office doesn't have it in their collection yet. This one was sitting on the front desk and it looked girly, so I thought it would be a perfectly craptacular replacement.
The movie was okay, lame and emasculating, but not horrible. I don't like Julia Stiles, I don't find her attractive at all. And the dude was a bit of a weiner. Story had it's moments and although the ending was predictable, not all of the story twists were.
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Astros vs. Braves - Game 1
I really don't know who I'm rooting for in this one. I've loved the Braves since I was a little kid, but Lance Berkman plays for Astros. The Braves would definitely be considered a dynasty if they win another World Series, but Houston has never won a postseason series in franchise series. Tough call.
I'd rather have them both win a series before having to play each other, but at least this way one of them has to win. As long as Lance plays well I'll probably be able to be happy for either team.
Oh, and I TiVo'd it so don't tell me who won damnit!
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Texas 27 - OU 10
Is it really too much to ask for?
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TivoToGo
TiVoToGo allows you to take recordings off your TiVo and put them onto your PC. From there you can watch the show or even burn it to DVD.
This has become less of an issue since I reinstalled my ATI All-In-Wonder card in my PC, but I just really would love to at least have the option. And yes I know there's about a bazillion ways to do this already out there, but for some reason I have no urge to modify my TiVo box.
Of course TiVo is the FCC's bitch so it took forever to get approval and now the service will require special software as well as that fugly USB dongle thing pictured in this post.
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Runaway Jury
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Pretty good movie. Man, I really like John Cusack and almost every movie he's been in. His old stuff (like Say Anything) and his new stuff (Serendipity) are both great, with the crap in between not so much.
Good movie for those who like court room dramas or Cusack or Gene Hackman. Interesting story that hasn't been covered a thousand times, and an actually unexpected plot twist near the end.
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SXSW interactive
I've been wanting to go to SXSWi pretty much since I first heard about it from Dave Shea. After seeing the long list of speakers, I plunked down the cash and signed up last month. Should be fun!
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