Ostracized Boneheads' Electronic Special Events (OBESE)

Happy Belated Birthday Karl!

2008-11-01T16:10:00.001-05:00

Freaking post-secondary schooling.

2008-10-01T16:20:00.003-05:00

PROTIP: When attempting to advertise your self, do not over-emphasize the amount of money in scholarships person x has won last year. This will just demoralize and depress others.
i.e. "It's thanks to studentawards.com and these forums that I was successful in winning over $200,000 in scholarships, including the TD Canada Trust Scholarship, Millennium National, etc. among others."
Thanks studentawards.com, because EVERYONE is able to get out of university debt free AND have enough for a down payment of a house. Not to mention, everyone gets interviewed by MacLean's for their opinions of the school system. Because it's definitely possible to have a 99 average and be part of 50 demanding extra-curricular activities legitimately.

Sure, I'm just saying this because I underachieve, and blah blah blah but honestly, it's not possible for everyone to do actually do so much without lying or have misleading statements. Also, hasn't anyone actually noticed it's the same few group of people who win every scholarship? I mean, when you've already covered full tuition + living expenses for your four years of undergrad AND have enough to pay for an executive MBA at some ivey league school AND can buy a decent car then something's not right.

The funny thing about this is a large portion of these people will end up working for underachievers.

On a side note, what is with people and big-name schools? I'm one of the few who has spent nearly every single lunchtime listening to a person from a liaison team from an university talk. Today, all of a sudden, Queen's comes and about half of the grade 12s come AND some grade 11s show up. I couldn't even get a booklet because of this mess and people who don't even care about making an informed choice and have probably already chosen their major/university get booklets. Whoopdifreakingdoo. Now I have to order one from them which will take at least a month to mail which is a month of me being depressed about society.

There was more I wanted to type but I forgot what. I might add more on later.

Google Chrome.

2008-09-02T16:16:00.004-05:00

Google's internet browser was released sometime earlier today. It's fast. Really fast.

Explanation of it.

Eh.

2008-08-26T18:27:00.000-05:00

Things are being tested (mostly ads and the sort).

Beijing 2008

2008-08-18T21:17:00.006-05:00

R.I.P. Liu Xiang

Euro 08

2008-06-21T16:31:00.002-05:00

Normally, I don't care much about football, but I had nothing to do this week (well, I could have studied for exams, but screw that), so I caught a couple of games. Anywhos, congratulations to both Croatia and the Netherlands, who managed to choke in magnificent fashion...Suffice to say, they folded faster than Superman on laundry day...

btw, I think this logo is stupid...

"I learned how to drive from GTA:SA." - "I learned how to drive from Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08."

2008-06-18T12:11:00.006-05:00

I changed my display name shit thing because the old shit was far too long.

Anyways, this will be short since I want to cut back on being a procrastinasian. So, as of right now, it's still "download day". Whether marketing ploy or not, it's fucking genius.

Anyways, not that anyone will ever read this, but FF3 is pretty awesome. The new bookmarking thing and stumble combined made yesterday one of my most "productive" stumbling days.

For example,
Scratch and win envelopes

The centre of the internet

If this shit wasn't shopped, I'd be truly amazed

Ultra-condensed movies
Arms and more

I might update sometimes over the summer, but chances are quite slim of that.
Also, need to touch up on html skills again, forgot everything except linking and images.

18-1

2008-02-04T12:52:00.000-05:00

It had to have been the best game I've ever seen. Football or otherwise. I don't want to gloat...oh hell, of I do. I said, from WAAAAAY back, that the Pats won't go undefeated. They had too much karma going against them. The whole spygate thing, I could understand, that was just routine cheating, like they say, if you're not cheating, you're not trying hard enough. I could take that. But the whole running up the score thing early in the season? That was unacceptable. They didn't show any sportsmanship the whole season, and tonight, the biggest football game of the whole season, or last 10 seasons for that matter. They paid for it. There was just no way the universe was going to let them win. NO WAY.

If you saw the last drive by the Giants you'd know what I'm talking about. It was absolutely magical. Manning looked like he was about to be sacked and the Patriots would walk away undefeated, but he somehow manages to get away from what looked like the entire Patriots team to throw that pass, that you knew just HAD to be caught. This is the kind of sporting moment that you'll remember where you were when you saw it. For me, the only other one that I can think of now that comes close was Zidane's headbutt. But honestly, I feel sorry for you if you didn't see it.

And as for the last few New England tries? Those long bombs that would normally be caught with some insane atheletics on Moss's part just fell short, like you knew it would. Because yesterday, the team that deserve to win the superbowl did, and all the bad karma the Pat's collected over the season came and smacked them in the face.

January Post

2008-01-28T15:21:00.000-05:00

The Good: Go giants!

The Bad: Boo Obama! (I'll save myself the trouble of writing a rant and save you the trouble of reading one...)

The Ugly: It's minus 40 in Calgary right now!

Merry Christmas!!!

2007-12-24T16:24:00.000-05:00

Merry Christmas, happy New Years, and have a good whichever holiday you're celebrating at this time of the year!!!

Total Propaganda

2007-11-08T20:08:00.000-05:00

OK, this won't be too too long, since I have a math test tomorrow, but after social studies class today, I just felt that this had to be said.

So we're learning about all the different philosophies in social studies right now, mainly socialism, capitalism, conservatism, and liberalism, with a bit about Marxism. I am just amazed, and somewhat baffled by the hostility towards socialism. Honestly, I'm in the "normal" social studies class, so these people know next to nothing about socialism and Marx and Mao, but when the topic comes up, they act like we're learning about Hitler or something. And the material does nothing to correct this. The books and sheets we get consistently depict(albeit subtly) socialism as this dictatorship and communist leaders as these insane power hungry people. It's so ingrained, "dislike" is probably becoming too indifferent to describe these people's attitudes towards socialism, communism, and by proxy, China.

So let me clear the air right now. Socialism and communism are miles apart from dictatorship, in theory, yes, I agree the applications are a bit too similar for my liking, but the idea was Utopian, and if the fault lies anywhere, it lies with corrupt officials, so stop acting like it's Satan worship or Neo-Nazism or something. Another thing, call me brainwashed, but Mao was not this cruel dictator the western world constantly depicts, yes, he had his faults, but he was a revolutionary first, a politician second, and frankly, there is no doubt that he did more good for Chinese peasants than bad (especially early on). Look up the Chinese civil war on Wikipedia, and you'll see what I mean. And the thing about communist brainwashing in China and stuff, don't even start, cause it happens just as much in capitalist countries.

This leads me to another topic, China, which has been consistently painted in a disgusting way by Western Media. Let me give an example. The west has always been against China's one child policy, but a while back, China released data saying that the policy reduced the population dramatically, greatly benefiting the environment through less release of green house gases. So what's the problem? One of the west's biggest beefs against China is environment policies. In the face of the afore mention fact, the west still condemns the one child policy in China AND the Chinese environmental policy, even though the former has helped the environment. So whatever China does, it'll always be painted as this evil communist state.

Now, I'm not trying to change your political beliefs or anything, partly because since I was born to a middle class, I like liberalism better than socialism anyways, but I do want you to get some adequate information before condemning a certain belief(This applies just as well to religion, re: Islam), especially communism, which is completely misunderstood, because the bias is bordering on discrimination in many parts of Canada right now.

That's all, folks...

Another Sports Post...(or ASP)

2007-11-01T00:08:00.000-05:00

I don't know why, but after weeks of not posting, me and BQ decided to post on the same day, oh well. He's already done the Halloween stuff (headshot is totally ownage!(I almost regrett the self-imposed ban on the p-word and the u-word) shoulda taken a pic!), but I haven't done a sports post for a few months, so here it is.

Yay! The NBA season just started, and to top it off, the Rockets won their first game! Now, I probably shouldn't be posting this, cause I have a tonne of homework waiting for me (yes, it's 10 at night, I know); but what the hell, I'll live as a hobo before I stop following the NBA. So here's a preview, or actually, just some random sports related comments, they should have been up yesterday, but I had debate, so there wasn't much time, and I figure since I already missed the openers, I might as well wait till most of the teams had played, so without further interuptions...the official OBESE beginning of season NBA commentary.

The Houston Rockets were tied for 1st in the Southwest Division, yay! OK, fine, so it was only one day, but it was still a victory, and anyways, if luck stays with the Rockets, they can finnaly make some noise, and not just in the regular season. I feel really good about the new GM, he'd an MIT grad, so he's gotta know what he's doing, and apparently, he was a big force behind the Battier trade, which was obviously a good idea. I am a little alarmed at how he's stacking the back court. I mean, just because stats are important, doesn't mean you can just throw balance out the window. For the life of me I can figure out why they traded Howard for James, when they already had 2 pgs, with a 3rd coming. It's just weird. They did add Luis Scola, but I'm afraid he might be a bit overrated. The Spurs aren't idiots, if he was THAT good, I'm sure they would have found a spot for him. Scola didn't really do anything on opening night, just 3 rebounds and 9 minutes, but I like to wait 2 weeks before calling him a bust.

The Toronto Raptors look good this season (though I am unhappy that they didn't blow Philly out of the water), they're returning basically the same team with the addition of Kapono, which is good. Too bad the Celtics got so good though, still, the Raps should be able to get 2nd and maybe even 1st in the division if Bargnani gets better and Garbajosa returns effectively from injury.

Please, Mike d'Antoni, please limit Steve Nash's minutes this year!!! If the Phoenix Suns' starters are rested come the playoffs, they can win it all. I really think this is the Suns' year. This might be the last chance for d'Antoni's system and Steve Nash, considering his age and injury troubles. They're tougher than people give them credit for and I think they have a decent chance to beat the Spurs. So yeah, I guess the Suns are my pick to win it all, and with style I might add, unlike a certain team that won't be mentioned here...Oh, and Shawn Marion, please stop complaining!!! You have 3 straight 50+ win seasons, enjoy the ride while it lasts!!!

Yi Jianlian, or the Chairman, as ESPN calls him, had a pretty good start to the season, 2 blocks and a steal in 25 minutes. The 6 fouls and the 1 for 4 from the line puts a damper on the celebration though. I just have to ask all the rabid Chinese fans out there not to vote for Yi over KG and Lebron just cause he's Chinese, cause that is NOT cool, I'm as big a fan of Yao or any Chinese player as anyone, but that would just be embarrasing...

Kevin Durant, whose bandwagon I jumped on before he was even in college! is having a solid game through 3. Fine, it's against the Nuggets, who aren't exactly the Spurs, but still, 15pts, 5 rebounds, 3 steals! and only 1 foul. The 6/19 from the floor and 1/6 from downtown are pretty gruesome though. Still, first game and already owning. I'm gonna go out on a limb right here and say he's gonna be better than Lebron or Kobe!

Now for some baseball stuff, the Red Sox just won the world series again, swept the rockies too. They should be so proud of themselves, winning with awesom front office moves and efficient managing...oh yeah, and the 2nd highest payroll after the Yankees, and thats not counting the money spent to convince Dice-K's (I'm just writing this cause I don't know how to spell his real name) real team to talk to him. So yeah, now they're Yankees 2.0.

Battle of Undefeated this week, Colts vs Pats. First of all, let me just say that running up the score is not cool in any sport in any level. It's horrible karma and you're gonna get screwed in the end. So just don't do it. The Pats have been doing it for weeks (I'm embarrased to have Brady on my fantasy team, and yet, I absolutely will not trade him), so even though they're stacked and were my preseason pick, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say they will not win the superbowl this season. Too much bad karma(remember the cheating thing?), so go Colts. Still, they're more than likely to win this weekend. I just want to say though, if you're not a Pats fan, please root for the Colts!

The Sens have been totally dominating. I would love to pick them to win the finals, since they're returning like the same squad with better goaltending, but history tells us the hot regular season teams rarely wins it all, so unless Dany Heatly goes absolutely insane in the post season, I have the Wild as my pre-new year pick for the winner(just to throw you a curve ball). Last year, it was easy to pick the Ducks as the champs (I had them in the pre-season, suckas!!!), but this year, I have no idea, cause I do NOT want to jinx this Sens thing...

Anyways, that's all, folks, happy Halloween(it's still Halloween for another hour in Cowgary), and since I probably won't post for a while, an early happy birthday to BQ. (and here's to 2 more years before he can properly celebrate a b-day by getting loaded!!!)

Hallowe'en

2007-10-31T21:35:00.002-05:00

3 Things today:
1) Hallowe'en
2) Karl's Birthday
3) Most importantly, a week away from my birthday.

So first, HAPPY BIRTHDAY KARL.

Happy Birthday Karl.

How Not to Be an Asshole

2007-10-21T20:35:00.000-05:00

OK, normally, I wouldn't do a blog right now, but I am just too freaking pissed after a crappy day at work. And now, I'm tutoring some kid who's so stupid he's managing to fail Social Studies and English!!! So I'm just going to do a blog to vent; so yeah, there will be explicit language. It's addressed to the assholes of the world and is basically about what not to do when you're at a store.

I don't give a rat's ass about Future Shop
Seriously, I don't give a shit about the prices at Future Shop or Best Buy. This really applies to any store, the cashier isn't the freaking boss. So why are you telling me about the fukcing prices at other stores? I can't change the prices! If it's so cheap at Future Shop or whatever, great, buy whatever the hell you want there, it's a free country. Unless you have the intention of actually buying something or asking a question, FUCK OFF!

Don't lie to me
I'm not stupid, if I'm working at a retailer, that means I know something about what I sell. So don't give me shit about getting a Lexmark cartridge for $15 at Future Shop. It's not true! Just because you say that, doesn't mean I'll give you a discount or something. I'll just think you're an asshole.

Keep the receipts
I'm not giving you a fucking refund without a receipt, it's that simple. Prove you bought it from us, or I'm not giving you a cent. How do I know you haven't just picked up shit from a garbage can and tried to pass it off as our stuff?

Be on time
I do not sleep at the mall, if I'm at the end of my shift, I want to go home. If you came exactly as I close, I won't help you. I'll tell you nicely to fuck off and then leave. Sure my boss'll be pissed, but I don't give a shit! You get the whole day to come and you choose the time when I close? Screw you! This applies especially to fast food places, if you go when the machines are all washed and stuff and ask for a $1.00 sundae or something, you come off as a fucking retard, trust me.

Know the prices
If you don't know what the price of something is, ask before buying it. Other wise you'll just be that whiny retard making my day suck.

Pick up your stuff
This applies for pre-ordered stuff only. If you pre-order something, and we give you a pick up date, pick it up then! Don't be an asshole and wait a gazillion years before coming back, you'll come off as an asshole, and a tardy one at that.

Know what you want
If you come and say: "I need a black cartridge" I won't know what the hell you need. Cause there are just a few hundred models around, so don't be a retard and know your own stuff before coming to buy something. Else you'll be the fucktard who wasted my time.

Twenty is not acceptable
Don't give me a 20 when I charge you $3.26. That's a lot of change, and you come off as pretentious asshole.

That's it for now, folks...

The bad.

2007-09-22T14:11:00.000-05:00

Last week, I absolutely started hating some technological revolutions and questioning whether technology is actually good.

Story on how this was started:

In September my dad bought a new car, it had power everything etc. Our old one had manual everything etc.
Last Saturday I think it was, I was inside the car when my parents were at Farm Boy I think. Anyways, it was a bit stuffy inside so I tried to open up my window, it wouldn't budge. So, I unlock the car without realizing that the security system had already gone on (it goes on 2 minutes after the car is locked), and then BAM! The car's security was beeping at full throttle and I couldn't turn it off (apperently it shuts off 2 minutes later). Later that day, my dad told me that everything requires either the key or the engine to be on.

So, is technology a good thing, I mean there should be a manual override of some sort to turn off the freakin' beeping. Anyways, if a thief is trying to break into your car, what good will two minutes of beeping do? I was standing there outside next to the car but no one was looking. This is why somethings should be re-engineered/designed, I mean I was locked inside my own freakin' car (if I unlocked or opened the door, the car would've started going crazy but I could still get out), I could've suffocated to death.

And the hockey season has started once again:
The Sens are 2-0 already with 2 wins against the Leafs. Gerber's playing in net was decent. By locking Heatley in a 6 year $45 Million contract, they're sure to keep Spezza as well.

The NFL season:
Dallas will win.

T.V.:
This year, Air Farce will go live.
For the first year, I'm actually not looking forward to any specific television show at all. Almost every show will just make the same jokes, have the same endings, no suspenseful parts because it's too obvious what will happen. That new show with the guy that played Frasier seems pretty decent but I haven't watched it yet.

Now some optical illusions:
I agree with this one:

Waterfalls:

Face in here (I can't find it):

There's an arrow in here:

The last two are my personal favourites:
OPTICAL ILLUSION:

Victory vs. Defeat:

Now VIDEOS!:
Preseason Downie on McAmmond:

This video is win:

So is this:

'Nuf said.

Random Back to School Post

2007-08-29T14:21:00.000-05:00

Well, looks like this is the last chance to post something before school starts, at which time I'll probably be too busy to post, and I didn't want to have a zero post month, cause that's just disgraceful. So here's a random slew of thoughts...

I got my TIMETABLE today. It's pretty crappy. Essentially, I have bio and chem 1st term (along with some random pointless classes that doesn't give out homework...), and English, Math, Social Studies, and Physics 2nd term. To make it even worse, bio isn't even Pre-AP, so it's really unbalanced. I'll probably need to get a lot of the classes switched around and add on French. Actually, just from looking at this, it looks like I'll need to change my entire 1st term, which is a relief, because if I don't, 2nd term is going to be hell. Unfortunately (or fortunately, I can't decide), I probably need to give up on English and Social Studies AP and just take normal for those, it kind of sucks, but oh well, I wasn't planning to take those AP in grade 12 anyways so no big loss. Although, I heard the Social AP teacher is cool...So yeah, my first draft timetable is so dumb, it's not even worth being considered as a real version, I'll probably get a better one sometime next week.

Back to school means no more staying up until 11 on Tuesdays to watch HOUSE M.D.. Which sucks. It is a really great show. House is probably the best show on tv nowadays. It's funny when you want it to be but also got enough drama for a prime-timer. Finally Fox comes up with a great show(no offense to the Simpsons, but I gotta say House is the better show, now that the Simpsons have grown a bit repetitive, which only to be expected after so many years, but House is new and fresh), too bad it's on Tuesdays. I gotta recommend that if you can, try to catch it. I know it's hard to imagine anyone who was in Stuart Little to be sarcastic and witty, but Hugh Laurie really pulled it off. Some of his lines are absolute gold that not even the great Horatio from CSI Miami can match: "You want a better anagram for Gregory House: huge ego, sorry."

Stumbled across this ramdom, but damned funny website a while back http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html. It's like the most complete check list for EVIL SUPERVILLAIN hopefuls. I just could not stop laughing when I was reading this. My favourite is probably, "The artifact which is the source of my power will not be kept on the Mountain of Despair beyond the River of Fire guarded by the Dragons of Eternity. It will be in my safe-deposit box. The same applies to the object which is my one weakness", or "I will be neither chivalrous nor sporting; I will use my superweapon of mass destruction as early and as often as possible", or "I will not tell my Legions of Terror 'And he must be taken alive!' The command will be 'And try to take him alive if it is reasonably practical.'" I think honestly every single cliche has been covered. I have to say, the "I will not turn into a snake, it never helps" one is a bit strange to me, I've racked my brains but still can't remember who turned into a snake! Great list though, the full list is now over 200 items long, just great. Ever since I read the list, I can't watch a movie or read a book without going back to it and thinking "uh oh, mistake number 24", or something along that lines.

Wasn't until I got to school today for registration that I realised just how many people had watched HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX. It was really a shock, most people who weren't even fans of the franchise went to see it, and predictably, many people thought it sucked! And I just have one question: WHY?! Why would you go see it, especially after Prisoner of Azkaban and Goblet of Fire? The Philosopher's Stone and the Chamber of Secrets were alright, (even if Harry was a moron in the ending of the 2nd movie "Let's hope Mr.Potter will always be around to save the day." "Don't worry, I will be." WTF is that? And the "There is no Hogwarts without you, Hagrid." line almost made me vomit), but PoA and GoF were crap. PoA stunk less but had the "He was their friend!" laughably feeble attempt at a rant,

Note: I realise it's a parody, but they have the real scene at the beginning and I couldn't find a better video.

so was passable at least until the half-way point. But GoF??? Pure, unfiltered crap! Where do I begin? There's the "You're father's vile and cruel and you're just pathetic" insult. (seriously, THAT's the best he can do? and who the hell would be insulted by that? I mean, even the book had a decent attempt at a yomama joke...) Then there's Dumbledore, who looses out on the academy award for Most Pissed Of to Hermione, who was apparently PMSing or something... That's not to mention the crowd surfing scene, I didn't know whether to laugh or puke at that point. So after the series that gave us such gemss in film making, why would ANYONE who isn't sleeping with a Harry Potter bedsheet and a Harry Potter action figure actually go see the newest movie? From what I've heard and seen in the trailer, it's just another in a long line of extremely quotable films. ("Who are YOU, and what have you DONE with Hermione Granger"? that's the crappiest version of the line I have ever heard, regardless of the context)

Anyways, eventough I promised no more NBA posts until October, I never imagined that there would be so much news in the association in the off season. Talk about the BOSTON CELTICS. How good are they going to be? I can't really say yet, but right now, they probably have one of the league's top trios in KG-Pierce-Allen, the only trios I can think of who can match this would be Phoenix's Nash-Matrix-Amare and MAYBE SA's Duncan-TP-Ginobli. I won't go so far to say that they'll go to the finals yet, but they definitely have a chance. I just wish I was still on the east coast so I can see more of Boston, they figure to be one of if not THE most interesting teams in the league. One quick note about the Toronto Raptors: I hope they trade T.J. Ford soon. He arguably was at his peak value last seaon, and Toronto should cash in quick as he has an injury history. Also, even after last season's success, I still feel that Jose Calderon is the better point guard for the Raptors; he just really seems to me like a Steve Nash clone(ok ok, that's a HUGE exageration) and plays better defense than Ford while costing the Raptors less. Sooner or later I think Toronto is going to need a bona fide primary point man who plays more than 30 minutes, I just rather that point be Calderon and not Ford, though I conceed I might be in the minority...

Anyways, that's it for now folks...

Harry Potter Mania

2007-07-23T15:18:00.001-05:00

OK, from a self-professed Harry-Hater: yeah, I got caught up by the whole hype and insanity of it all, and yeah, I liked the books even though I really really disliked the main character, and yeah, I got tired of getting the ending ruined before I got a chance to see for myself. So I bought the book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, first thing on Saturday morning. I'm not proud of it, and it cost me 25 bucks, but I'm pretty sure it was worth it, unless of course, Rowling decides that it would be a good idea to write a 7 book prequel to the series.

Honestly speaking, it was pretty short. I mean, it was still around 600 pages, but after Order of the Phoenix and Half Blood Prince, I was expecting an 800 page knockout, or something like that. Since by now, there are probably a trillion spoiler's out on the internet, I won't hesitate to tell you some myself. So first things first: was the ending what you would expect? Yes and no, I mean, there's really no big shocker here, but it's not that obvious either. I couldn't guess the ending until it was told, but, still, it was nothing like the whole "Snape kills Dumbledore" thing in Half Blood Prince. I don't really know what the biggest surprise was. If you were like me, and went in with the mentality that every single character could die with the exceptions of Ron and Hermione, the biggest surprise would be: if Luna Lovegood gets caught doing illegal stuff, why is she sent to Malfoy's dungeon, and not Azkaban? By this time in the story, pretty much everything that needs to be told is already told, except for two chapters at the very end of the book, giving away some Dumbledore and Snape's secrets. Honestly, I thought it was too convenient, how everything unfolds exactly at the end. And how Harry got to look at Snape's memories and talk to Dumbledore, and don't worry, Dumbledore is really dead, to tie up loose ends. It just felt unnatural how everything went. A lot of people probably thought that the fact that Snape is good after all, is a huge surprise, hate to break it to you, but it's not. Think about it, the old man isn't exactly an idiot, and he was pretty calm about dieing when he drank the potion at the end of Half Blood Prince, why would he suddenly be begging for his life? Some of the background characters died, probably the most important would be Lupin and Dobby,a bunch of others died too, but there wasn't any overly dramatic "avenge me!!!" scene. At the end of the day, the book is everything Rowling promised: some characters died, someone became a teacher at Hogwarts, and the final piece of the puzzle was put into place. I would still hesitate to call the last book a masterpiece, or even the best in the series. It seems that it was a lot less believable than some of the other books in the series. Maybe it was just the fact that it wasn't set in Hogwarts, but it lacked the order that the other books had. Most importantly, was it a satisfying ending the to series? Yeah, you have to admit that, there wasn't any glaring holes that you could point to and there was even an epilogue set 17 years into the future. Unless of course, you're like me, in which case, you were pissed off by the reason that Harry Potter managed to get out alive, again. All I could say was damn, the luck of this guy! I'll be totally honest: I wanted Harry Potter to die, that would make sense, right? He gets to be the tragic hero, and I get the satisfaction of knowing the idiot's luck had finally run out. But no, he gets to live forever, damn it all. Well, if you read this, I gave some important stuff away already, but not that much, so yeah, I would recommend you read this book. Whether from the library or the bookstore, it's your own choice, but I would still say the book and the series are one of the better ones available.

That's all for now, folks...

University Sigh

2007-07-15T12:04:00.000-05:00

Anyways, I'm posting this partly as a response to n0n4m3's new post and partly because I just finished my future decisions unit for my online career/life manage course. I'm not worried about anything else yet, but university is really worrying me. For one, which one am I going to go to? That depends on my grades, but the thought of being stuff in Alberta for any longer than I have to really sucks. Then there is the problem of how I'm going to pay for it. If I stay in Calgary, I can probably get out of university debt free, a HUGE luxury. But if I go anywhere else, it'll probably take around $50,000 over 4 years. That is a LOT of money. Where in hell am I going to come up with that much money? I figured if I keep going at this job and do the RESP thing. I can have around $8,000 by the start of university. But seriously, where am I going to come with $40,000?! This is really a huge problem. In my education plan that I had to do for the course, I said that I wanted to go to university of Calgary so I can be debt free, and that's probably what will really happen. Cause I really don't have enough money to do anything else. Of course, I could just borrow money from the bank and then eventually declare bankruptcy, but needless to say, that's horrible. So anyways, anyone got a get rich quick and easy idea, tell me quick!!!

Oh, and another thing, BQ, we should get pic or banner or something, for the blog. Any ideas??? Oh, and it seems that our title is too long, since we only refer to it as OBESE, how bout we just go the KFC route???

That's it for now folks, sorry there's no videos. But you know, you could just youtube it up yourself, it's really easy...ya lazy bums...

Hurray It's Summer! [/sarcasm]

2007-07-13T13:19:00.001-05:00

Woohoo it's Friday the 13th...
Anyways, yesterday I watched Portugal vs. Chile, it was hilarious. First, Chile scores a fluke. I mean the goalie was trying to get something called, he didn't even move. But no one cares about the scoring, it was one of the most bizzare endings I've seen in my life in football.

Look at the ref's face!
Edit: Forgot to mention
Vidal, the goalscorer, gets a second yellow in stoppage time for time wasting meaning a one game suspension

And then a few weeks back, I saw "So You Think You Can Dance"...
There was this guy on called Jesus (Pronounced "Hey-Zeus")

Something that may be very disturbing:
I don't know if he got through into the Top 20 but he made it into the Top 35.
How is this a talent?!

Look at David Hasselhoff.. lolz If he wins..

How is this less talented than Boy Shakira?:

So sport thoughts:
Baseball: R. Sox are doing great, NYY won't catch up.. I hate baseball
Football: No freakin' way Chile or US will win.. my $ on spain
Hockey:Without Priessing, Sens will do a lot crappier
I wanna see Hamilton get a team
Crappy trades going on
Basketball: Too Lazy
F1: L. Hamilton is overrated.. Massa/Kubiken = Raw Talent

And now...

It's the summer...

2007-07-04T14:59:00.000-05:00

Summer is finally here, and what a busy summer it is. I have a lot of stuff going on right now, which is really usual for me. So far, I haven't had a chance to do what I usually do in the summer to relax after 10 months worth of school work: sleep in until 10 and watch 8 hours of tv a day.

The first thing I did when I finished my exams was to go out and find a job. This being Calgary, it wasn't too difficult and I had my pick of jobs. After 2 days of job searches, there were two jobs that really intrigued me, one was working at Wendy's downtown, and the other was working at an Inkjet cartridge refill booth at a mall near my house. The Wendy's job was great because all the shifts were during the day, and it paid pretty well, $9.5/hour, high even by Calgary standards. But, there were downsides, for one, I would have to work in the kitchens occasionally, which I wasn't too keen on. Also, the job was only a summer one because the downtown Wendy's was only open Mon-Fri, 7:00-5:00. And I didn't really want to have to take a train to go to a summer job. So in the end I decided to take the Inkjet job. It paid $8/hour, which is pretty low by Calgary standards. It's pretty boring because you sit there for hours on end with only a few customers, and when they come, they tend to come in droves. But still, it was close to my house, and really liked the fact that I could go hours without any real work, even if I have to deal with annoying customers often.

Over the Canada Day long weekend, my parents took me to Edmonton. We didn't really do much, considering how gigantic the West Edmonton mall was. I have to say, I was pretty impressed. There were 3 parks inside the mall, and a skating rink. There were also 2 different food courts and plenty of attractions. It was pretty cool. It was a shame that the two roller coasters in the galaxy amusement were shut down for repairs though. But I did see a cool seal show, albeit without any traditional ball tricks. Then other major place I went to was Fort Edmonton Historic Park. The fares were pretty cheap considering how much activities they offered inside. And I loved the buildings they reconstructed, they looked really authentic, many of which actually had working water pumps and real wood burning stoves and stuff. There was also a historic Free Mason lodge that is still being used. We wanted to go to some activities downtown, but it was rained out, but it was still a pretty good weekend all around.On a related note, I was really impressed by the gas mileage on our Toyota, after driving to Edmonton from Calgary, the gas tank was still at least 60% full.

Started my online career/life management course today. Already fininished have of unit 1. Considering there are only 4 units I should be done pretty quickly. I kinda think it's a big waste of time because there are a lot of apparently useless stuff there, but I think I'll just be glad to finish the course when it's all said and done.

Started my driving lessons. First I wanted to take a few test drives with my dad in some empty parking lots before signing up for driving school so I don't look like a total idiot. Still got a lot to work on though, but my parking is coming along, even if I can't do anything else. One thing that was annoying me was the mirrors, I didn't really know where they were suppose to point to, so my blind spot was huge, but I'm sure they'll help me with that in driving school. And another thing that amazed me was how hard it was to line a car up exactly where you want it too. Hopefully, I'll be able to get my full license before next year.

Just a few more sports thoughts, the last until October:

-What's up with the New York Rangers? A lot of spending this offseason, kinda reminds you of a certain other New York team, doesn't it?
-A lot of draft day sliding for the NHL...
-There's a conspiracy going on to get Crosby the greatest team in the history of sports...
-I didn't like the fact that Phoenix got rid of both James Jones and their first pick for cash, come on, I'm sure you don't need money THAT bad.
-Zach Randolph to New York, Ray Allen to Boston, and Rashard Lewis to Orlando, looks like the North West are Oden-Durant territory now.
-Ray Allen and Allan Ray on the same team, cool!!!
-What's with the Houston Rockets getting so many guards when Yao Ming obviously needs help up front?
-Yi Jianlian will not be as good as Yao, mark it down. He's a good player, but no where near deserves the hype he's been getting.
-Kobe needs to stop complaining and remember who wanted Shaq out of town the most
-Shaq's show is awesome!!!
-Raptors are too good, even if MoPete leaves

That's it for now folks, enjoy your summer...

Sports Wrap Up

2007-06-18T14:23:00.001-05:00

Editor's Note: Here're are some sports stuff, nba and nhl wrap up that we didn't get to because of how hectic the last few weeks of school were...

So the sens lost in the finals, I'm pretty disappointed, but not really surprised. I picked the ducks over the sens when the playoffs began anyways. The sens were outplayed pretty badly and there weren't any controversies, so I can't really complain. But I hope that the sens decide to keep most of the team together except for Martin Gerber. He should be traded for some cap space or new players, but I think that the team is great as it is, and the salary situation is good. I really like their chances next season to return to the finals, if not winning it. And that's really my final thoughts on the NHL season.

I have a bit more NBA thoughts though, since the final rounds were so unpredictable. The west, and consequently, the nba championship, were pretty much spoon fed to san antonio after the phoenix situation, so there's really nothing to say there except I hope the suns' owner realize that this is a special team and open his wallet to get phoenix another big man so they have a better chance next year, remember, nash won't play like this forever. The east though, had some surprises for us. Don't really know what happened to the pistons, they managed to loose to the cavaliers, which is a big surprise to me. I couldn't believe it. LeBron's 48 point game was pretty cool, but in the finals, he really bombed, so I would think that it's more like vince carters 50 point game than jordan 63 point game as of now. The finals were pretty boring as a whole, actually, I had watched as many games as I could up to that point, but I got tired of the horrible offenses and blowouts. This is pretty much the worst finals I can remember.

People everywhere on the web are saying that the spurs have a dynasty, which is weird, considering I always thought that threepeats, or at the very least repeats, were prerequisites for a dynasty. Considering that winning back to back is much harder than every other year and that the spurs have won, but not dominated. I'd really hesitate about saying they're a dynasty. Now, I get why most people agree that they're better than larry bird's celtics, but keep in mind that bird had to get past magic, kareem, and worthy, while duncan had to get past...leBron, zydrunas ilgauskus(I can NOT spell his name), and larry hughes? And keep in mind that the spurs previous victories came against and 8th seed knicks without patrick ewing, a horrible new jersey team, and a piston team that manged to win the year before only because shaq wanted to kill kobe.

The nba draft is coming up. I used espn to make my own mock draft. I really didn't like how the three worst teams all slipped three spots, but I guess they got karmatized for tanking. Kevin Durant seems to be pretty good, but I think that even in this day and age, you don't pass up a big man. Unless atlanta trades, I don't see how they pass on an elite point guard, AGAIN. But outside of the top three, I don't know about the rest.

So it's been an OK winter sports season, nothing too memorable though. But I'm already excited about next october.

Summer vacation

2007-06-18T13:58:00.000-05:00

Just had my final test, I only had 2, so I managed to finish pretty quickly. Anyways, so summer vacation is here, so why am I not excited?

Don't get me wrong, not having to go to school is great, but it just seems to be that summer vacation has lost a lot of it's...flair, I guess, compared to just a few years ago. As usual, the vacation started horribly: I learned that I loat some psychology book and will now have to pony up to cover my own ass, and then I went to the bank to cash a check, and somehow, in the three minutes that I was there, the computer managed to CRASH! First they told me that it was all good and that the transaction had been saved so that I would still get my money, but when I checked again a few hours later, they basically told me "What check?" Now I don't know what I should do. It was $35 for a tie rufund from my band teacher, so I guess it's not a lot, but for me, it's a huge blow considering I'm already owing money to the school. So yeah, that sums up my horrible day. Before, when things like this happens, I could usually count on the summer to be great and refresh me and get me ready for school. But now, I'm just annoyed that I'll have so many things to do this summer: get a job, get my driver's license, study for the SAT, take my online course.

The online course is apparently really easy, so I'm not too worried about it. But still, it's a month of school that I would really rather not have to do.

As for the SAT, I know I don't really have to take it, but I would like to see how much I can score and maybe go to the States for university. Again, it's a LOT of studying that I would really rather not have to do.

Now, I realize a lot of you probably think: "you're retarded, a driver's license is a great thing, just imagine the freedom!!!" And you're probably right, except I doubt my parents would actually let me drive the car when I'm alone, and if they're there, it seems pointless for me to drive. Sure, I suppose I could try to save up for my own car, but that would cost a LOT, more than I can realistically earn anytime soon. So, you'll have to forgive me that I'm not excited about trying to get a driver's license that I won't even use for a few years.

I'm not sure it's the job search or the job itself that annoys me. I just don't want to get a job. I've sent out a resume to the library since they're my primary option. Their pay is horrible for Calgary though, $8, considering every fastfood restaurant out there is offering wages in the $9-$10 range. But they probably won't hire me since they are pretty full anyways, so I won't have to worry about that. Then I was thinking something along the lines of McDonald, you know, your average fastfood place, but I'm not really excited, for obvious reasons. Then there's the fact that I don't really have that much use for money right now anyways.

Now, you're probably saying: "you are an idiot! if you don't want to do this stuff, then just don't do it!!!" A valid point, but I really need to take the online course to free up some time in my grade 12 year for ap courses. And I don't hate the SAT, just the studying that preceeds it. The driver's license I'll have to get eventually, so why not now? But the job is completely my parents' doing...

So yeah, that's my summer plan, not excactly the greatest vacation idea. But I guess summer is suppose to be a fun time, so what are you doing reading this depressing post? Go outside, hang out with your friends, play a ball game to stay active, or just go take a walk to soak in the summer sun...cause before you know it, school will be just around the corner

What a disgrace...

2007-05-19T10:27:00.000-05:00

The Suns-Spurs series ended last night, and frankly, I'm disgusted by the fact that Spurs won in six. For sure, a lot had to do with coaching decisions, contrast in styles, etc. but the deciding factor was the fact that Robert Horry decided it would be fun to perform a perfect hockey-styled hip check to Steve Nash. OK, so Stoudemire and Diaw left the bench, big whoop, so did Duncan and Bowen in the second quarter. But they didn't get suspended, why? Cause apparently, James Jones wasn't trying to hurt Francisco Elson, so it wasn't an altercation, and so Duncan and Bowen don't need to be suspended. OooooKkkkkk, let me get this straight: Spurs were rewarded for sending in a scrub to take out Nash in order to prevoke a few of the Suns players, and Stoudemire and Diaw were punished for being good teammates and trying to check up on Nash eventhough they did nothing to escalate the confrontation. I get it now, thanks for teach the teams some valuable lessons, commissioners. Next time when Elson hits the floor, Jones should turn around and talk some trash to make it a confrontation and get Bowen and Duncan suspended. Next time when you stray on to the court during a confrontation, might as well escalate it, hell, you're already going to be suspended anyways, so you might as well try to tempt a few players on the other side off their bench. And perhaps most importantly, next time get a benchwarmer to deck Tim Duncan, maybe Tony Parker and Manu Ginobli will get suspended then. Great, with these weapons at their disposal, I don't see how the Suns can loose next time the two teams meet.

I know there are many people who thought the Spurs would have won regardless of the suspensions, but I only present two arguments, a: these are probably the same people said that the Warriors were too disorganized (I'm a bit guilty of this) to beat the Mavs and predicted a sweep, b: there is such a thing as momentum. Phoenix just battled back to win game four despite being down 10 in the fourth, going back to their home, the Suns confidence could have been sky high. But instead we get a tainted 6 game series in which the Spurs were rewarded for being dirty, specifically Bruce Bowen, he who kicked Amare's heel as he went up for a rebound, kneed Nash in the groin, and slapped Nash's arms everything Nash went in the paint for a drive. At this point, Bowen apparently has immunity from the league office and is free to do whatever he wants.

There are a lot of rumours out there that say the Suns are going to reload around Nash or just take apart the team, trade everyone except Nash and Amare to get Kevin Durant. Of the first one, I just have to say that I really doubt a guy like Kevin Garnett is going to be a better fit in Phoenix than Marion or Stoudemire. Stoudemire is an inside presence while Garnett likes mid-range shots, not to mention Stoudemire is 6 years younger. Marion in the Suns best defender (yes, better than Raja Bell), and Garnett isn't exactly known for his defensive presence. As for rebuilding, I hate to say it, but why not just trade Nash? His value has never been as high, maybe you can get some real talent for him. By trading both him and Marion, you have a new core of Barbosa, Stoudemire, and Diaw: 24, 24, and 23 respectively, and Nash and Marion should bring in some real good players, like Durant and someone like Brendan Wright, and then with your probable fourth pick you can get a Noah or a Julian Wright. Imagine a core of Barbosa, Stoudemire, Diaw, Durant, Wright, and Noah, I think they can dominate the NBA for years to come, plus, the team will be WAY under the luxury tax limit.

Houston finally fired Van Gundy as the head coach. I didn't really like the decision, cause it looks like Rick Adelman might be taking over, and he's purely an offensive coach who like his players fast and athletic, of which Yao is not. What a shame, I was hoping Houston would consider Larry Brown. (yes, everyone hates him, but if he comes back, I'd say he's one of the top 5 coaches in the league)

That's it for now, folks

First Post of May, Woot

2007-05-09T22:14:00.000-05:00

Wow, about a third of the way into the month and still not a single post, if this keeps up, it’ll be our lowest posting month since last November…but never fear, karlkarlson is here…

So let’s start off with a bit of entertainment news, which I don’t normally do. But this is so juicy that I just had to post it: Paris Hilton is going to jail for 45 days! Let me be the millionth person to say, “hahahahaha”. This is just too funny. And Reuters reported that there are petitions arguing for her to serve the sentence regardless of appeal. Of course, my first reaction to this news was: “Where do I sign?!” Unfortunately, I was too lazy to find it, but if anyone does find it, let me know.

OK, we just finished off Romeo and Juliet, and some of the class actually think that a)Romeo’s love for Juliet is real, and b)Romeo has changed during the play. That is just wrong for so many reasons. First of all, how is Romeo’s love real? The only real things he says about her is how hot she is, talk about judging a book by its cover. I’m telling you, anyone who falls in love in life 2 hours cannot be experiencing true love. Second of all, how the hell has he changed, sure he takes the poison as a sacrifice, but he probably read it in a book and thought it’d be cool to be together in the afterlife. And what is the difference between the love for Rosaline and Juliet? The only reason he got over Rosaline is cause she didn’t like him back, it’s like he’s on the rebound. Another fact that is not mentioned enough is the fact that Romeo suicides by taking a poison that kills him quickly and painlessly, but Juliet has to stab herself with a dagger! You tell which one hurts the most. By the way, my friends and I were discussing how Romeo is pretty much a criminal, here are the illegal things he does: trespassing(capulet party), stalking(how did he know where Juliet’s room was?), spying, trespassing again(capulet garden), murder(tybalt), statutory rape(Juliet is 13), illegal drug dealing(poison was illegal to sell or buy), violating terms of sentence by coming back to Verona, trespasses AGAIN(capulet tomb), tomb raidng, murder AGAIN, and finally suicides…not such a hero after all, eh.

Now onto my regular sports garbage, before I go on, for the eastern conference finals, I have Ottawa in 6 games, anyways, the western conference final is finally upon us. Since I picked the Ducks to go all the way, I have to pick them against Detroit. Ok, I was a bit shocked that the wings won the last round to be honest. But whatever, I still say they don’t have enough to beat the ducks, especially since Giggy is on a roll now (he has something like a .952 save percentage!!!). Pronger and Niedermeyer are just too good for them, and Mathieu Schneider hurt too. I really don’t think Detroit can win. I’m not 100% sure the Ducks can win game 7 in mo-town, so I guess I say Ducks in 6 too.

Rockets lost, so that sucked balls. (Yeah, I do watch them cause of Yao Ming, but there’s no shame in that, and I want all of you Chinese Yao haters to know that you’re just being a banana by haterizing on him.) I could see this series wasn’t going to go well judging by the fact that the Rockets could only win by a close margin in Houston by loose by so much on the road. So now, someone has to go. Let’s face it, with everyone healthy, this is as good as the Rockets are gonna get with these players. So either t-mac or yao has to be traded to make the team more balanced, or team owner les Alexander will have to open the piggy bank.

Contrary to popular belief, Phoenix CAN beat Spurs in a 7 game series, or at least that’s what I think. The spurs basically have 3 offensive weapons to hurt you and other wise grind it out, but the suns can counter that almost perfectly: kurt Thomas on tim Duncan, raja bell on manu ginobli, shawn marion on tony parker. If all three spurs are taken out, san Antonio has no chance.

I don’t get why the nba doesn't do like the nhl and reseed ppl, now they have the four best teams left meet in the conferences semis: Detroit-chicago, phoenix-san Antonio. I think it’s pretty save to say that the winners of this match will roll over the winners of cavs-nets and utah-gstate. But you look at the nhl, I think it’s pretty safe to say that sens, sabers, wings, and ducks are at least 4 of the top six teams in the league.

Finally, I’ll have my nba predictions: cavs in 5, pistons in 6, gstate in 6, and phoenix in 7.

Well, that's it for now.

LONNNNNNNNNNNNNG And Crazy Rant About How Horrible The Weekend Was

2007-04-30T16:21:00.000-05:00

Editor's Note: Wow, I just realized that we're the #1 hit on Google for the entry "teemu salami injuries", I think that deserves a pat on the back...

Wow, where to start, there were just so many things to complain about. I'll just start with my job:

K, I tutor this 7th grader right? So his mom called a few days ago and told me that I needed to work on his English from now on instead of math. So great, I'm game. On Friday, I thought he was coming, so I had to cancel going to registration for my online learning thing. Guess what? He didn't show up, apparently, his mom was busy and told his dad to take him, but he managed to talk his dad into going to the gym or something...seriously, and you wonder why he's grades need improvement. So his mom called me Saturday to reschedule; fine, I guess I have nothing better to do on weekends. Whatever, I'm getting paid. So the kid comes over. Here is the exchange:

Me: Hey
Him: Hey
Me: Where's your English book?
Him: Didn't bring it.
Me: I see, but your mom told me to work on English with you.
Him: *shrugs*

*Sigh* Fine, I guessed that I'll have to do something else. So I had him do a haiku and a limerick to see where he's at. Anyways, the poems weren't great, but he said that they were just starting the unit, so I let it go. Then, I asked him to do a paragraph. After 10 minutes of coaxing, he finally agreed. The paragraph was only 5 sentences, yet it still took him like half an hour. During which time, I was looking up a lesson plan thingy. Anyways, he finishes the paragraph, with horrible hand writing I might add. I let him read over the lesson plan and let him see what is wrong with his paragraph. Of course, being done, he refused to correct it and insisted that it was good. By the way, I was already a little pissed at the attitude. But whatever, I told him to do another paragraph, this time it was a bit harder, he argued for half an hour and still refused to do a paragraph. Fed up with the crappy attitude, I explain to him why he had to do it, but the guy just threw it back into my face. Fine, I'm done, I asked him what he wanted to do if not a paragraph, and he told me he wanted to do an online activity. Great, right? But you have to understand, there was no freaking way I was going to let him go on the computer when he's just going to get off-track and go on hotmail. So for the next half hour, we argued about his attitude problem, we're not even done and the mother tells me to let him out. I asked whether it'd be a good idea to let him go even though his not finished, but the mom just told me to continue next time. Great, the guy gets that stupid smirk on his face to remind me that he got saved by mommy...again...Whatever, I'm done, if he doesn't want to work on English, he can explain it to his mom, from now on it's just math.

***

Another thing I had to do this weekend was work on melodic scales and a few songs...so needless to say, that sucked. Don't get me wrong, I get the whole thing about doing scale helps playing, especially the runs, but I don't really see the point of memorizing all 12 melodic ones. Some of them are just so little used. The songs I was working on weren't too hard, Blue and the Gray, a piece called Viva Espania, and a passage from a piece called Sleeping Place of the Stars. So the actual songs weren't so bad, but what pissed me off was that I would have to go play 2 concerts next month, all on PD days. It just sucks. We're playing for the Graduation, and the year end concert is the night after. Seriously, that's just horrible. I can't even do anything that weekend now.

***

K, so I missed out on summer school last year cause I had to move right. Well, no way it happens again to me. So I registered last week. But what caught my eye was the online course that runs through July for CALM(career/life management=career/civics). So I got a form from the counselor and everything. Then I found out that the online course has to be registered in person in some really far away place. And guess what, the registration office hours are Monday to Friday 9 to 4. Really, that is just a bit much for me. Who works like 6 hour days? Not only do you go to work at 9 and get to sleep in, but you have to get off at 4? You must have some union. Glad to see tax dollars getting paid to hard working citizens.

***

So then I still have a slimmer of hope for a good weekend, sports! But that too was dashed. Rockets, Raptors, Mavericks, Ducks, Sens, they ALL lost over the weekend, the Raptors and the Mavericks TWICE! But there were basically 2 loses that really pissed me off, Mavericks on Friday, and Rockets on Saturday. The other ones were bad too, but the Sens and Ducks lost very close games, and let's face it, the Raptors are just so inexperienced, especially without Garbajosa. But the Rockets and Mavericks were just disgraceful.

So the Mavericks got totally blown out of the water on Friday. The game wasn't even as close as the final score indicated. They were just totally lost. They lost their composure. And Dirk Nowizki was just bad, not even close to MVP form. No wonder they lost. The Warriors were just way too fast for them, just swarming the Mavs. And the thing is, Dirk's +/- rating is so low right now, I don't get why Avery Johnson just doesn't take him out. I know he's suppose to be the man and everything, but can't you see that he's just not a good match up for this team? Geez, I say either go small and beat the Warriors at their own game or go San Antonio's way and impose your will, if you can. But don't go to a small line-up, but still leave Nowizki on.

The Rockets got destroyed too. It was just so bad. They have nobody on the team capable of doing anything but Yao and Tmac. One play said it all: there was a break away in the 3rd, I think, and two guys, probably Alston and Head or something are against Fisher, but neither wanted to take the bucket, after like 5 passes, Fisher stole the ball! What the hell!!! Fisher is tiny and very old, why wouldn't you just take it to the hole!!! It's like the entire Rockets team are just waiting for either Yao or Tmac to score, it's disgraceful. And there was no urgency either, the team just seemed so relaxed and didn't care about heading back to Houston 2-2. The coach wasn't great either. I think JVG is a great coach, but I really thought it would have been a good idea to bench Yao to start the 4th, for similar reasons as the Dirk argument. If the Rockets miss the 2nd round again, I'll be so pissed. And if it happens, someone needs to be traded, either Tmac or Yao, cause let's face it, this is about as good as this group is going to get what with everyone healthy and all. So here's hoping.

K, I'm finally done...p.s. I guess it wasn't all bad, I got to see Brady Quinn's freefall...

Conference Semis

2007-04-24T18:04:00.000-05:00

Updated/Edited Apr. 28

Alrighty, the first round is over and we're left with Detroit-San Jose and Anaheim-Vancouver. Not too unpredictable, as all the top-seeds advanced except for the Preds. So here are my half-assed analysis.

Wings-Sharks: Sharks are very physical, and the Cheechoo issue turned into a none-issue. While Detroit proved that they can play physical too. However, I didn't like the way the Wings couldn't sweep Calgary after dominating the first 2 games and had to go to 6. Sure, Calgary is like the best home team in the league, but good teams don't loose on the road like that when the opponent is out matched so badly. Hassek has been good in net for Detroit, but then again, he hasn't had to face many shots from Calgary. The Sharks, on the other hand, destroyed a very good Nashville team in the first round. I really like their front line and goalie situation. I think that the Sharks can win the series in a hurry...San Jose in six.

OB!/LB edit: SJ in 5

Anaheim-Vancouver: This is an easy one. I don't care how good Luongo is, they've played 7 games with a few overtime ones too, they have no offense, and the Ducks' D is just too good. Anaheim in 6 just cause Luongo can steal 2, but I wouldn't be surprised if the Ducks got out the brooms.

OB!/LB edit: Anaheim in 7

That's it for now, I'll go in more depth for the Conference Finals.

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Eastern:

Buffalo Sabres (1) vs. New York Rangers (6)
After getting owned in G1 and 2, it means that the Rangers have to win the next 4/5 games. Only 3 of them being in MSG. Buffalo's team has played a crapload better than vs NYI. The Rangers might have one of the best players but their team overall doesn't compare to the Sabres. Although sweeping the Thrashers, the Rangers don't really have a chance against Buffalo, who is clearly the superior team.

Verdict: Buffalo in 5

New Jersey Devils (2) vs. Ottawa Senators (4)
After a tight game 1, the Devils will want to bounce back and tie it up at home. However, the Sens will want to beat the Devils in the Meadowlands and hopefully sweep them at home. Brodeur's somewhat shoddy play in G1 P1 made the Devils lose. The lack of D from the Sens in G1 P2 meant that they can be beaten. This is going to be a tight series and either teams could win.

Verdict: Ottawa in 7

Another sports blog/Ducks are through!!!

2007-04-20T09:14:00.000-05:00

Editor's Note: I'd write about the Virginia Tech Massacre, but I feel enough people has already chipped in their two cents.

After more than a week of playoffs, let's check up on the western match-ups:

Wings-Flames: So fine, Calgary managed to win 2 games at home, whatever. They're a totally different team away from home, I've never seen anything like this, in the two games in Detroit, they were DESTROYED, but in Calgary, they were just awesome. So I guess it's too bad that they didn't win enough in the regular season to get home-court advantage. Otherwise, I'd pick them to win the Stanley Cup instead of being eliminated in the first round.

Ducks-Wild: Some pregame drama in game five: there was a scuffle and Teemu "Salami" got hit in the face by a puck. Nothing big, Ducks, my eventual champions, gets through first round with no problem.

Canucks-Stars: Another overtime game, but this time Stars won. It looks like Vacouver's going to win, but I'm still sticking with my upset pick and go with Dallas.

Preds-Sharks: Nothing much here, Shark in command of the series and Preds regretting mortgaging the future for Forsberg.

That's it for the western series. In other news: THE CROSBY SHOW HAS BEEN CANCELED, the Pens get shut-out in game five.

Now onto some NBA playoffs analysis:

-Detroit gets through the first round for obvious reasons.

-Cleveland gets through because Washington has the big 1 out of the big 3.

-Nuggets, Warriors, and Lakers all have good players to make the series watchable, but the Dallas-Phoenix-San Antonio big 3 in the west will win, no question.

-Houston and Utah are nowhere nearly as close as the standings indicate. Utah has been sliding near the end of the season and will continue to slide out of the playoffs. Utah has no athleticism, no superstars(compared to 2 for Houston), and no chance (unless Yao or MacGrady gets injured).

Now onto the more interesting match-ups:

-Miami and Chicago play in the first round in what is possibly the most evenly matched series. Chicago's defense and depth is good enough to win. Miami, though, has 4 almost guaranteed Hall of Famers(coach Riley, Shaquille O'Neal, Gary Payton, and Alonzo Mourning) and a young superstar, and I think they'll win because of their experience.

-Toronto will probably beat New Jersey due to the revenge factor. And the Nets don't have anyone to deal with Chris Bosh. The series could go 7 games though just because of Vince Carter and Jason Kidd.

That's it for now...

Silence can say more than a thousand words

2007-04-17T20:53:00.000-05:00

In honour of those killed/wounded in the Virginia Tech massacre. My condolences to those affected. Especially the professor who survived the Holocaust and blocked the doorway so he could sacrifice himself and give the students more time to escape.

Playoff Special Ed.: Eastern Conference

2007-04-14T13:07:00.000-05:00

Eastern Conference:

Update: Changed the Sens vs. Pens verdict because it was obvious that the Penguins lacked skill in G3

Buffalo Sabres (1) vs New York Islanders (8):
The Islanders have proven themselves to be a playoff-worthy team when they won their last two games under pressure. However, the Sabres have proven themselves to be consistently a good team overall. Their goaltender has not been the best but despite that, their overall team is very good and have a chance of getting into the Stanley Cup finals however slim the chances.

Verdict: Buffalo in 6

New Jersey Devils (2) vs Tampa Bay Lightning (7):
Tampa Bay and New Jersey both have Cup winning teams. TB in '04 and Devils in '03. However, their teams have changed a lot since then. The teams are very evenly matched although TB started to struggle a lot after March. The Devils have Brodeur, therefore I am going to side with NJ.

Verdict: New Jersey in 6

Atlanta Thrashers (3) vs New York Rangers (6):
The only reason Atlanta was ahead of Ottawa and Pittsburgh in the standings was because they were division winners, therefore bumping them up to 3rd place. These two teams are very evenly matched and although Atlanta is higher in the standings, NY is a better team overall, no question. The only way Atlanta is going to win is if their top players start dominating, otherwise, NY's team abilities will win the series.

Verdict: New York in 7

Ottawa Senators (4) vs Pittsburgh Penguins (5):
A very even series. Pittsburgh has about three players who have had previous playoff experience and that was the factor going into Wednesday's game. If Fleury doesn't step up in Game 2, the Senators will dominate the series. Pittsburgh's lack of experience really seeped through in Game 1 and that cost them the game.

Verdict: G2 to Ottawa: Ottawa in 5; G2 to Pittsburgh: Ottawa in 7

If somehow I get all the teams wrong for all of them, that will piss me off..

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Playoffs!!!

2007-04-14T11:33:00.000-05:00

Editor's Note: We've recently had a template change, but I'm pissed cause the stuff are all switched around, so we might change it to something else later. And also, I think we'll be taking off some of the long list of subtitles of the blog, so just a heads-up.

Sweet, hockey playoffs finally rolls around. Alright, throughout the playoffs, BQ and I will try to update you with everything that's happening and give our opinions about games and series. He'll be doing the East and I'll do the Western Conference, so without further ado, let's get started...

...but before I go on, here are some "analysis":

OK, that was hilarious, but now on to more serious stuff:

Awesome quadruple overtime win by the Canucks on Wednesday, Roberto Luongo got 72 saves in the game...but the Canucks were shut out in game two. Can they possibly be burnt out after one game? I would say yes,judging from the shut out. I picked the Canucks to win before, but after seeing they're offense, which consists of the Sedin twins, I'll have to go out on a limb here and pick the Stars over the Canucks even though Luongo is the second best goalie in the game.

Nashville and San Jose is probably the best match-up in the west, they met in last years playoffs as well with San Jose winning. I thought that San Jose had the upper hand (yes, even with Forsberg), but the injuries, especially Cheechoo's knee, is enough to make me second guess myself.

Detroit and the Flames (woot!!!) is a foregone conclusion: there is no way that Flames can beat Detroit, unless, and I don't think it will happen, Dominik Hassek gets injured. Other wise, the Flames will be lucky to push the series to 5. However, as a resident of the Calgary area, it is my civil duty to root for the Flames (it is totally bad karma to root against the home team), so YEAH, GO FLAMES GO.

Ducks and Wild is not a very interesting match-up, the Ducks are already 2-0 and like Detroit, I honestly don't see this series going to 6 games. The Ducks were my pre-season pick to win it all, and I don't really see anyone in the west that is significantly better than the Ducks. There is the possibility that the hockey gods will karmafy Chris Pronger for leaving Edmonton, but I doubt it.

Ok, that's all the hockey for now. Check back later for updates.

Onto a bit of basketball.

-How hot has Toronto been lately? In October, I predicted that they were going to squeak into the playoffs as an 8 or 7 seed. I'd never have thought that they would win the division title and battle for the 2 seed.

-Speaking of the second seed, guess who's at 7? Yep, it's Vinsanity and the Nets. How sweet would the match-up be if Toronto got the chance to eliminate Vince Carter from the playoffs.

-Still, I think it would be better for the Raps to play the Wizards in the 1st round.

-In the west, Warriors, Clippers, Lakers, and Hornets are battling for 2 spots. Lakers are probably get in and the Hornets are probably out. But the battle between the Warriors and Clippers is interesting. It's a toss up at this points, with Clips holding the tie breaker.

-That being said, I'd rather watch the Warriors just cause they're more entertaining, and especially since they've got Dallas' number.

-If Dallas goes through the first round, which they probably will, they'll probably play Houston, I honestly think that series could go 7 games and I wouldn't be surprised if the Rockets pull an upsets.

-However, Dallas is still the favorite to get to the finals just because the Spurs and Suns are set to meet in the second round in a match-up that's going to tire both teams out.

Alright, that's it for now...

Hockey/Football

2007-04-08T13:55:00.000-05:00

Playoff time!!! Well almost..
What's been killing me: Islanders or Leafs? Only a few more hours 'til the truth.
The only game that actually matters today is the Islanders' game. No other game has any effect on the standing whatsoever... That's why a lot of the playoff teams have their best people sidelined.

Well, now it's football time... not American
Champions League:
-Liverpool almost for sure will advance to semifinals, unless PSV wins 4-0.. then I would be really really pissed
-All other games could go either way

UEFA Cup:
-Benfica battles back from 3-0 deficit to lose 3-2. If they win 2-0 next game, they'll advance into semifinals
-Osasuna almost for sure advancing to the semifinals
-Don't really care about the other teams...

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OSU..

2007-04-03T18:07:00.000-05:00

Wow.. Ohio State's play was so horrible I almost pissed my pants..

My nerd score:

So bored...

The Amazing Race:

Intense episode that I missed on Sunday and had to download yesterday
So, the beauty queens got screwed over by their taxi driver and had to wait four hours...
There was a lot of missed flights and the usual bickering
Charla and Mirna were being so retarded.. as usual.. can't believe they're still in the race.. gawd they're so annoying
Uchenna and Joyce were first, yay!!

Damned OSU...

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D: 10kbps U: 50kbps

2007-04-02T16:37:00.000-05:00

Wow, random name... yea.. those are like the avg speeds i'm getting on bt... so sad...
damn u leachers... can't believe my upload speed is like higher than my download speeds... my max upload speed i can get with our connection is like 50kbps which is totally sad but i dont upload so it's ok.. but wtf the highest dl speeds i got so far today on bt was 52kbps... wow... the file is 700mbs.. they shud make it so ppl dont leach.. gawd...

yea now some random but funny videos

ps this is my first post without like rl punct and grmmr and otha good/bad stuff
pps in order to plz karl, if ohio st doesnt win im gonna b pissed
ppps leachers piss me off

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Random Rumblings

2007-03-29T17:58:00.000-05:00

Oh well. Yeah, my fantasy hockey season is over. Well, not technically, cause I'm still "fighting" for the third spot, but my championship hopes are officially dashed. Guess I'll have to wait until next year to win a championship in every one of the "big four" leagues. (I would count the real football, but if I start doing EPL, I'll have to also do La Liga and Serie A and a whole bunch of other stuff that'll make my life really difficult to manage, so I'll just stick with North American leagues, for now anyways.) It sucks though, cause I was so close; the final score was 3-5-2, but what makes me so angry is that just 3 more assists (not coincidentally, what Chris Pronger brings to the team), or 2 more power play points, and I would have walked away the winner. Oh well, I'll be better next season.

Spring break next week, it's good and all, but it could be better. In fact, you know what? It's probably gonna suck because a: Good Friday is inside of it, so I don't get another day off(yes, I'm greedy like that), b: I'll be stuck inside all week doing my gargantuan science project on gunpowder and firearms, and c: I'll have to memorize melodic minors over the break, which I hate.

Just had a poetry presentation today, it totally sucked. We had to "act", and we basically ran out of time and the teacher was so pissed. We had to hurry up in the end and didn't even present a whole bunch of stuff, and since the presentation was worth 100% of the mark: my group is basically screwed. Oh well, my report card this term won't show anything, so I'll have the whole next term to make up for it.

Literacy Test...

2007-03-28T21:04:00.000-05:00

Yay, tomorrow is the literacy test, if you're reading this Karl, shut up...
But seriously, what a waste of time, I mean, "Which button do you press to navigate through the site?" "A. Site Map B. Francais C. Documents D. About Us"..
So at least it's a shortened day.. YAY

If I fail the Literacy Test, I'm gonna be so pissed...

On a side note, the Sens lost to the Bruins yesterday...

PS Sympatico blows, 3 months and they still don't know what the problem is... so we switched to Rogers, the like most expensive internet company EVER!
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...

2007-03-26T17:13:00.000-05:00

Wow, I'm actually so pissed... First, I forget to bring my TIPS assignment to school. Then, when I get home, I can't find my TIPS assignment. The TIPS took me like 3-4 hours to do. So I have to totally redo it... Not cool at all, I don't even have the assignment sheet...

So, NC lost to Georgetown, with like 2 minutes left, they were ahead by like 6 points and they still lost... That is not cool. At least Kansas lost, even though Karl said they were gonna win. So Ohio State FTW...

But um.. no real topic for this post...
Also, my math mark dropped from 97 to 92.9 in 2 quizzes.. WTF...
So, um.. yea that's it.

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Politics...Yet Again...

2007-03-20T16:58:00.000-05:00

What I saw yesterday on the news: Elizabeth May (leader of the Green Party) is going to choose Central Nova as her Riding in which she will be running in for the next election. Seems fine right? Well, there's only one problem with that choice, Peter MacKay was running in that riding in the last election.. Peter Freaking MacKay.. Foreign Affaris Minister.. The King of Central Nova.. WTF is she thinking? Last election:
Conservatives: 40%
Green Party: 1.4%
Yea, they're pretty much even.. only 38.6% difference.. wow, how stupid can you be to be running against the King of Central Nova in Central Nova.. that's like fighting a battle uphill, it doesn't work that way..

Now, some sports:
Carleton won its 5th Canadian Championship in a row
Ottawa loses to Pittsburgh in a shootout.. again...
Kimi Räikkönen takes over the Ferrari #1 position from Schumacher and wins the Australian Grand Prix in F1

My picks for the NCAA March Madness:
Elite 8:
Midwest:
Florida -- Oregon --> Florida
West:
Kansas -- UCLA --> Kansas
East:
North Carolina -- Georgetown --> North Carolina
South:
Ohio State -- Texas A&M --> Ohio State

Final 4:
Florida -- Kansas --> Florida
North Carolina -- Ohio State --> Ohio State

Championship:
Florida -- Ohio State --> Ohio State
I'm pretty much picking 1st seeds but it's gonna be close...

p.s. karl lemme in on your fantasy baseball, so i can own u... altho i hate baseball..
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Break [Dancing] Time!!!

2007-03-12T15:11:00.000-05:00

So yea the dancing part of the title has no meaning.....
Anyways, I've sorta been playing Gunbound to relieve of my anger at the Air Canada people, I mean they tell me my plane is "overbooked" two days before it... So yea, I'm gonna be stuck in Ottawa for like March Break... Anyways these 2 weeks are "no post weeks" because well I've been tired and posting takes time so time to quit for a while...
Interesting Gunbound Stuff:
-Today, I (NonameGOGO) had a Double Kill, which is like something that takes skill
-Today, I also did 1000+ dmg on someone in 1 turn!
That's about it!

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The Wheels are Falling Off!!!

2007-03-08T21:01:00.001-05:00

Ahhhhh, I cannot believe this: Ok, I'm in the final week of regular season for my fantasy hockey team, TehNoid. Currently, I'm in 5th place with 230 points, the 4th place team also has 230 points (he's in front of me because his record is 105-95-20, and mine is 103-93-24, and the tiebreaker is # of wins), the 6th place team(final playoff spot) has 221(96-95-29), and the 7th place team, ice it(who has the tiebreaker between us), has 216(99-103-18). This week, my final regular season game, I play the 7th place team. By all accounts, I should be able to come out alive and ready to face the 4th place team in my first hockey post season, in order for him to beat me, ice it would have to get either 8-0-2, 9-1-0, 9-0-1, or 10-0-0 to get past me for the playoffs. But here is the problem: he's beating me 8-0-2!!! And I haven't had a single game worse than 2-7-1 the entire season!!! And to add salt to the wound, Chris Pronger, my 2nd best player, got hurt, again!!!(the hockey gods are punishing him for his betrayal!!!) So I had to pick up Thachuk to stop the bleeding. Please, if you can here this, Danny Heatly and Ray Emery, I need a 3point outing and a shut out reeeaaalll badly.

Random Posts That I Need To Catch Up On

2007-03-04T10:40:00.000-05:00

Wow, I officially give up on LMOM foruming against Karl, I actually have stuff to do now so the "competition" with Karl for post total is OVER at least for me...

So no real topic for this post, except random stuff

Stuff that happened, the really gay storm that prevented me from sleeping, and then I had to shovel out the driveway and then other gay stuff happened

Note: The sentence above was NOT meant to offend gay people

So random videos from Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

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Random Rumblings

2007-03-03T21:59:00.000-05:00

All right, if you want to know why Boyang has posted the last 10 posts in a row, it's becaus a: I was lazy, b: I was at lmom forums. I'm in a battle with Boyang for first place(I don't know how he finds the time for this stuff). So here's my latest Random Rumblings.

I hate television, no, I'm serious, I really, really, REALLY hate television. Why? Because it's just so damn addicting. It's like some kind of feaky mind drug. For instance, this weekend, I had an English paper Monday, a science assignment due Monday, a band festival thing on Tuesday, a psychology journal entry due Wednesday, and a HUGE English assignment due Wednesday. I figured I would have to work my ass off just to finish. And what'd I do? I planted my ass(which was suppose to be working) square in front of the TV, I must have spent at least half the weekend watching TV. But in my defense, the stuff were good...ok, fine, not good so much as not horrifically bad: I was watching Jurassic Park III on Friday, I'd watched it for just about a million times, but I couldn't resist the thought of bloody severed bodies...then the kid that I tutor came over, so I had no time to work (by the way, he got an 87% on his last math final, but now he's just tuning me out)...then, on Saturday, I was watching Chronicles of Riddick(ok, I admit it, that was horrifically bad, but I still couldn't take my eyes off it), Underworld, and Matrix Reloaded(it gets worse every time)...and on Sunday, the last day I had to work I was watching Bulls-Pistons, Cavs-Heat, Van Helsing, and Tomb Raider. So I was pretty much screwed this entire week; but luckily, the full effects of my screw-up won't be entirely felt until next week.

So the other day I was on the train right? And standing next to me(it's WAY too crowded) was this girl from like grade 5 or 6, 7 tops, anyways, she pulls out a CELLPHONE(and it wasn't a crappy one either) from her HANDBAG and starts TEXT MESSAGING, after she was done, she plugged in her IPOD VIDEO!!! I know I was on the bus, but I think I still murmured to my self "what the hell?" I mean, c'mon, how does a 12 year old need a handbag, or ipod, or cellphone?!?!?!?!? This is getting ridiculous. What is she carrying in that handbag?!?! PENCIL CRAYONS!?!?! And who in the world is she gonna call with that cellphone?!?!?! Her mom?!?! I'm afraid that mainstream television has corrupted us all, and I just realize it now.

*Editor's note: The ensuing paragraph is in noway intended to sound racist, if you take it that way, I'm sorry to inform you that your are easily offended

What is up with multiculturalism?!?! The government just keep shoving it down our throats. And don't get me wrong, I think multiculturalism is great...like communism is great, it's paradise if everyone actually are cooperated, instead it's just a sham, a politically correct sham. Have they actually seen the cities in Canada? Every one just groups around their own little town, the Italians have little Italy, the Chinese have China Town, the French got the whole province of Quebec, and the Natives? Well, they got the territories and a few reserves scattered here and there. Is that really multiculturalism?!?

Now on to my usual sports stuff: Apparently, all top 50 players in Pick-One fantasy basketball hates me. Kobe got 22 points(cumulated points+rebounds+assists) when he averages around 40; Agent Zero got me 30 points when he gets 41 usually(OK, so those weren't too bad, but you have to understand, I'm only picking them against the leagues worst teams, so they should do better than average, not worse); and here's the worst news: Memhet Okur, Caron Butler, and Mike Miller COMBINED gave me less than Cutino Mobley, soI guess you could conclude that Mobley must be a hell of a player, right? Wrong!!! He got me 21 points!!! I'm still in the 91% though, mostly because most people quit midway through the season.

Hockey playoffs start the week after the next. Not the real one of course, the fantasy one. I'm in 4th place, but it doesn't matter, I've basically clinched spot anyways. Unfortunately, Christ Drury and Brian Gionta chose this time to get injured, and my goalies are still too inconsistent. But if I get extremely lucky and Ray Emery catches fire for the final 3 weeks of regular season, I can win!

I'm also playing in fantasy braketology for March Madness, here's hoping Kevin Durant pulls a D-Wade/'Melo.

I've joined a baseball league, yes, I hate baseball, but I had nothing better to do, ok I do, but I wanted to win a fantasy championship in each of the big four leagues in the same season. My best player is David Ortiz, and I don't really know the rest of the players.

That is all, from here on out, I'll try to make a lot of shorter posts instead of one gigantic post every month.

Goals in Life...

2007-02-28T17:52:00.000-05:00

YES!!111one11!!111 I have finished one of my goals in life....

#10 Watch the Oscars in whole (LIVE)

So my goals in life/what I want to do before i die (Listed in order of importance):
#1. Get accepted into at least 3 DIFFERENT Universities
#2. Make $100,000 before taxes in my entire lifetime
#3. Watch every episode of the Simpsons
#4. Sell 3 of my unreleased CDs (Coming out September 2007)
#5. Travel to EVERY continent
#6. Touch a Ferrari
#7. Sleep in a 5*+ hotel
#8. Buy a hybrid/electric/hydrogen car
#9. Take over EVERY online social network (probably not gonna happen)
#10. Watch the Oscars in whole (LIVE)
#11. Sell/Buy something expensive from eBay
#12. Travel to the US

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Video DUMP!

2007-02-26T20:39:00.000-05:00

The Most Amazing Acrobatics You Have Seen In Your Life:

Learn To Stand Up For Yourself:

Some Crazy Interpretive Dance That I Don't Really Understand:

Carling Cup Final: Arsenal vs. Chelsea: The "Brawl":

iPhone Commercial:

Condoleeza Rice "Rap", She doesn't even look like Rice:

Quick Change:

The Buffalo vs. Ottawa Rematch was WEAK!

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Brawl Time!!!

2007-02-23T16:02:00.000-05:00

Brian Murray's 1200th game:
Best hockey brawl of the year!

How it started:
Chris Neil gets a clean hit on Drury and Lindy Ruff sends all his big guys out onto the ice to well...fight
Right from the faceoff, Spezza gets raped
Now, everyone starts fighting, even the coaches: they start exchanging words and gestures and Rob Ray(Buffalo TV Guy) is in the middle of this, WOW!
Emery's first day back from his 3-game suspension, he gets into a fight, he gets Biron in 3 Seconds, and Peters gets in on the action and starts punching Ray Emery, who is smiling, and well this is how it went:

You can hear the coaches' exchange:

WOW, REMATCH ON SATURDAY, I WANT TICKETS

Ping-Pong

2007-02-22T20:27:00.000-05:00

Wow, I actually have so much work: Chinese essay that I can't hand in typed so I have to copy like 1200 character...
Science test tomorrow
French Dictee tomorrow
and other stuff..........

Since I've been getting owned by my dad at ping-pong these last few days, might as well have a ping-pong video dump:
Never Ending Game

Human Ping-Pong

Matrix Ping-Pong

These are too pro:

Myspaces

2007-02-16T18:00:00.000-05:00

I actually hate all internet social networks, especially Myspace
None of these myspace spaces are mine: They're just interesting
Tom
Einstein
White and Nerdy
Napoleon Dynamite
Bill Gates
Mr. Peabody
Frodo
Charles Darwin
Bill Nye
String Theory
Official Napoleon Dynamite
Pedro
Jolly Green Giant

Wow when did myspace get so scientifical.......

Double Post Day

2007-02-16T17:22:00.000-05:00

I totally need to catch up on posts, I'm like 1 short last week and 2 short this week so DPD.
No Ways!!!!!:

MJ is making a comeback

Al Gore with concerts to help save the environment

Karl got a job

iBelt

David Copperfield:

AND GERBER GOT A SHUTOUT!! WOAH

2007-02-15T15:54:00.000-05:00

Woohoo!!! Five day weekend (more on that below). I haven't posted for a while, so this'll be a long one.

This has got to be the most stuff-filled week ever: first Valentines Day (which is complete bs perpetuated by Corporate America to make men buy extravagant gifts for their wives/girlfriends in exchange for sexual intercourse: think of it as Christmas for females between the age of 16-80. And yes, I did write that because the closest thing I had to a date was my alarm clock, thank you for asking), then the anniversary of Decimal Day (school is off today and tomorrow, some say it's because of the Teachers Convention happening in Calgary, I like to think Deciaml Day had something to do with it; and yes, I do like to write comments for every one of my comments), then NBA All-Star Weekend which coincides with Chinese New Years, and on Monday, I get the day off again for Family Day, some scam made by the government of Alberta to let government employees off for a day in Febuary.

On a serious note, our school started grade 11 course selections this week. To paraphrase a certain prince of Denmark: To AP or not AP, that is the question,/whether tis noble in the mind to suffer countless hours of boring, boring, BORING AP crap that could potentially be completely useless AND draged down my grade. Anyways, for the mean time, I'm choosing to take the pre-AP courses in 11 because my parents want me to finish university faster (assuming I don't bomb 11 & 12 and have to be a hobo, in which case, if anyone needs a secretary/manny/cook/ janitor, you know where to find me). But the problem is that I've talked to my cousellor and she told me that Canadian univeristies are not that big on AP, unlike American universities which cost lot more than Canadian ones. Right now, I'm thinking of doing normal English and Social Studies(yes, it is a mandatory course in 12 over here) and AP for math and the 3 sciences (annoyingly enough, AP in 12 take the whole year so I'll have no choice but to go to summer school). I know a lot of you are gifted and on course for AP, I'd love to hear what you're doing for the next 2 years, so please leave a comment.

Alright, call me a hyprocrite, but I got a job. I still think it's extremely right winged and wrong, but I'll have to get a job this summer anyways, so might as well start now. Besides, as Marlon Brando might say, they made me an offer I couldn't refuse: I get paid $160 a month to tutor some 7th grader on English and math for 2 hours each week. Apparently the mom (some Chinese realtor who helped us get our house) thinks I have a "good work ethic"....right, well, I guess some people just have too much money to spend. My first session is this Friday, I hope it goes well, but not holding my breath here (the only thing that annoys me more than a little know-it-all is a stupid little know-it-all).

Great time for a break, I just caught the season finalle of Beauty and the Geek. No real surprise here, the strongest team got only 2 votes from their former competitors, not that the winners deserved the money. I think it's pretty clear that most of them got nothing out of the experience, which is just about right. But man does it make for a great show.

The All-Star break couldn't have come at a better time than the Phoenix Suns, they've just been slumping since Nash went out. Loosing by double digits to both the Bulls and the Sonics when they didn't have double digit loss the entire season prior. Bulls I get, but Sonics? Come on, I know Diaw was out too, but the Sonics? Which goes to prove that Steve Nash should win a third straight MVP, without him, I'd be surprised if the Suns can make the playoffs.
By the way, here are your All-Stars:

East: Agent Zero, D-Wade, LBJ, Bosh, Shaq, Billups, Caron Butler, Vinsanity, Richard Hamilton, Dwight Howard, Joe Johnson, and Jermaine O'Neal

West: T-Mac, Kobe, KG, Duncan, Ray Allen, 'Melo, Josh Howard, AI, the Matrix, Dirk, Okur, Tony Parker, and Amare

Which brings me to another point, these arguments about players from winning teams deserving to go to the All-Star game and taking out fan voting is ridiculous. The fans want to see exciting players, not ok players from good teams (last 4 piston went, there was no SG better than Richard Hamilton?). Who cares if a team is bad, a player shouldn't suffer because management sucks, and neither should the fans have to watch Mehmet Okur instead of Elton Brand or CP3 (nothing against Okur, he helped me win my first fantasy championship last seaon, but is he really better than Brand or Paul?).

How bout them raps? 16-6 in '07. Yesterday they just beat division rival nets. During the game, when fans started the MVP chant for Bosh, apparently, Carter caught mouthing the words: "C'mon. MVP?" Now, I have to make it clear that I agree with him, an OK team does not make a player MVP, but Carter has to regret forcing that trade to NJ now.

I noticed something really funny on ESPN, when first John Amaechi came out with his book "Man in the Middle", everyone praised him for being the first to come out and called him the Jackie Robinson of the gay community. So far so good. Then after a few days, people got tired of him and started saying how he's using his sexuality to make money...very strange

One last thing, Emery was suspended for 3 games by the NHL, Gerber started in his place and got a SO. First of all, who knew Emery had a mean streak? and second, Gerber got a shut out? I mean, sure it was against the Florida Panthers, but still, a shutout is a shutout. Who knew he had it in him.

Well, that's all for today. Happy Decimal Day, Chinese New Years, Family Day, and whatever other holidays there are this weekend from OBESE.

Grammy

2007-02-12T21:30:00.000-05:00

Yea, I need to post more, damn you Rex Grossman, anyways, I've been spending too much time at the local rink playing foot hockey with my neighbour. I totally killed her at foot hockey even though she plays hockey.

Grammy:
The Dixie Chicks won big with 3 of the biggest awards: Best Record, Best Album, and Best Song (Bush-hating bands are winning so much)
Why didn't Weird Al win best comedy album, I'm so disappointed
Ludacris wins best rap album and a whole other stuff happened

Check more winners out at Yahoo Music

And now JT:

Superbowl ADS

2007-02-07T21:48:00.000-05:00

Wow, at 2.5 MILLION for a 30 second spot, you would think that these ads would be great, well some of them are, some of them aren't
A Lot of the Homosexual Community Went Crazy(Negative Way) For This One:

Rock, Paper, Scissors to a whole new level

OMG, the Blockbuster Animals

WTF is Sierra Mist?

SalesGenie It's Craptacular

Why Would I Defend a Sierra Mist if I don't Know What it is

Languages With Carlos Mencia

Superbowl Recap

2007-02-05T16:04:00.001-05:00

3 letter word for Superbowl XLI? I'll give you a hint, it starts with "b" and ends with "ad".
The most exciting play was the first one. 92 Yard Kick Return!!!
Anyways the rest sucked and Grossman got intercepted so many times, it was stupid (1 for a TD and 1 for 50 yard gain). How many fumbles were there in the first quarter? It was like everytime someone touched the ball, it fell.
Anyways, the Bears lost pretty bad: 29-17. They could've gotten a TD in the dying seconds but Grossman ran the ball, so they lost the opportunity to lose in style.

What lead to the Bears downfall?
1. Crappy Offense
2. Lousy Defense
3. Awesome Colts Defense
4. Adam Vinatieri
5. Bad luck (the challenges were close)

And now, some Superbowl ads:
KFed

The GODaddy Commercial That Didn't Get Banned

Parrots can drink Budwieser?

Mary J. Blige is Gonna Buy Me A Chevy?

Awesome, maps can spit fire (listen to the lyrics)

Politics and Other Stuff

2007-01-31T16:13:00.000-05:00

Windows Vista came out yesterday, it looks pretty good but the price is a bit too much ($180 for Home Premium upgrade from XP). Anyways, a cool way to make your desktop look like Vista while maintaining the XP OS is to download the Vista Transformation Pack. Meanwhile, school begins tomorrow again.. I have four exams =(

Damn you spyware, I had to recover my laptop (in other words, make it so that i have to reinstall everything). Because of spywares and viruses, Google didn't work, which meant no Gmail and so I couldn't log into blogger which meant that I couldn't post.

So to the main topic, POLITICS!

Stephen Harper and his crew have started a new lineup of attack ads, they are so pointless. I love it how much of their party budget they're wasting on these ads, especially because they're run during primetime television. I'm guessing that elections are coming soon.

Is There a Reason Why They Use The Same Clips?

Untitled

2007-01-28T18:44:00.000-05:00

WOW! 1 WEEK BEFORE SUPERBOWL, OMG I AM SO EXCITED, OMG, OMG, OMG. Actually, no
So no more exams............until next semester

Anyways, the new color scheme isn't looking too great, the blueness is hurting my eyes.

So this is pretty exciting although the $500 PS3s on ebay might have something to do with this:(NOT Photoshopped)

And so Windows Vista is coming out on Tuesday, so that's pretty exciting although it's a huge waste of money.
The Cheapskate's Way to Vista

And I wish I could do this, but is it real, that is the question

AllUC: Movies and TV Shows and Other good stuff

COLTS WILL WIN THE SUPERBOWL!!!

2007-01-23T15:48:00.000-05:00

Now, since I'm done my exams, I have nothing better to do. So here's my rant on why the colts will win the super bowl, but first, I have to show this video:

Yep, it's the PFL: the pillow fighting league, they're the newest sensation in America. And now on to my rant:

First of all, the colts are 7 point favorites to win the game at Vegas. And we all know that book makers don't get rich being wrong. Now, I get the fact that the Bears absolutely DESTORYED the Saints' top rated offense: forcing 4 turnovers. But you can't tell me that home court advantage didn't have something to do with it. Soldier field is a horrible place for the Saints to play, they're a dome team in Louisiana and here they have to go and play the Bears in the open air, while it is snowing no less. No gonna happen in Miami; sure it's still outside, but without the cold air, the Bears loose the HUGE advantage they had in the NFC championshiops.
Everyone already knows about the Bears' D, and the Colts' O, so I'm not gonna get into it here. But the Bears' O compared to the Colts' D? Come on! For a team supposedly with no rushing D, the Colts held the Patriots to just 93 yards with 1 touchdown. If you watched the AFC championship, you can see that with the exception of the 29 yard kick return average, the Colts were solid on the D, as they have been all playoffs. Granted, the Bears did put up 39 on the Saints, but does anyone actually think that Rex Grossman will have a 0 int, 0 sack game against this Colts' D? Peyton Manning got his team from 18 down to win the AFC while playing against his arch nemesis and ditched the choker mantle. Who actually thinks he'll finally make the superbowl just to loose to the Bears?! Colts will win a close game! No doubt about it.(but the real question is: who's going to disney world afterwords???)

Crosswords and OTHER STUFF!!!

2007-01-22T19:34:00.000-05:00

Geez, I wrote this like a long time ago but blogger was being frustrating so I didn't post this which is my awesome excuse for not posting. At least I don't post bi-yearly.
Studying, who needs studying, studying is for overachievers and for people who want a good mark and get into post secondary school and possibly succeed in life.

Now, unlike those people, I have planned out my career/life:
1. Become an entrepreneur
2. If failed, become an accountant
3. If failed, become a panhandler
4. If failed, get in jail (free food, shelter, etc.) for life somehow
5. If all fails, get death sentence or commit suicide

Anyways, onto some business, Superbowl XLI:
Despite what Karl believes, CHICAGO BEARS ARE GONNA OWN, well not own, but at least win, because remember Superbowl XXXVII, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were like the biggest defensive team ever, managed to get like 5? touchdowns and owned the Raiders.

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WOW! Such a creative name. Anyways, this post is going to be about crosswords.
Other names:
XWords (like XMas), The Frustrater, Goddamn I Need a Dictionary, and Word Sudoku
(There was a news article on it somewhere)

A few weeks back, I watched a movie called WordPlay, a documentary about crosswords and surprisingly, I found it quite interesting, maybe it's because Mike Mussina and John Stewart are in it.

So, this documentary inspired me to take up crosswords, so far, I haven't been able to finish one single freaking one. I mean like the clues are like "Money (6 Letters)".

Now some clever* wordplay:
*Cleverness can't be guaranteed
All-American Rejects --> AA Rejects
Fallout Boy --> FOB
Bowling For Soup --> BF Soup

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Anyways, the two best songs ever!

**May Offend Canadians (yet again)**

GO BEARS!!!

Exam Over!!!

2007-01-22T17:47:00.000-05:00

Stupid lazy boyang...you do realized that you've went from daily post to bi-weekly post to weekly post to bi-monthly post in a span of less than 3 months, right? And don't say you're studying for exams, cause I know you're not.

Anyways, I'm already done my exams, so I have a whole week of nothing coming up. I had a social study exam last Friday, and a math exam today. They were both pretty easy, except for these 2 questions.

Social: In Canada, what is the main difference between rights and freedoms?

a.rights can be restricted by the government
b.freedoms can be restricted by the government
c.rights are entrenched in the constitution
d.freedoms are entrenched in the constitution

and

Math: If x and y are the 2 acute angles of a right angle triangle, write y as a function of x. (and I don't remember the choices for this one)

So, overall, the tests here in Calgary are much easier than the ones in Ottawa. (They count for more though: 30% of the final) And I only have 4 exams this whole year. (there is no French exams)

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Hillary Clinton annouce that she's going to run for president...so that was the worst kept secret of the century, it was kind of obvious since she became a senator.

Her only real comp in the Democratic camp is Barack Obama. They both got a lot of star power, but I'd say Clinton's support from the female and minority demographic gives her the edge. Here's hoping that the next american president is a leftist...

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It was championship weekend for the NFL, didn't bother watching the Saints-Bears game, but I couldn't stay away from the Colts-Pats game. After the first quarter, it looked like we were gonna see this again,

but after a wild third, it look like the colts were finally gonna win. Now, I have to admit, I had my doubts, such as when Reggie Wayne tripped over himself...twice. But the Colts finally made it.(can't find any video recap, so go find your own...) So trust me on this guys, the Colts are going to win the superbowl!!! They prove the haters wrong, and their offense is just too good for the Bears' d outside of chicago. And I don't care how many people say great defense wins championships(I'll save my Phoenix suns rant for the NBA playoffs), the Colts and Manning are just too confident after beating the Pats to loose to the Bears. Granted, their special team is horrid and the punt return coverage just sucks, but when you have guys like
Dallas Clark effective and Manning throwing them the ball, you can't loose.

Note: I couldn't find any good videos, but chances are, you didn't finish that post to read this...

Jehovah and Segway

2007-01-17T18:55:00.000-05:00

Ok, I know everyone have exams coming up soon (I have social studies on Friday and math on Monday, but I'm so incredibly confident that I'm going to pass, I'm not going to study) but this was just one of those days.

Anyways, I was waiting for my bus this morning. It was late, again, like every other day, so this guy comes up to me. At first I thought he was going to get me to buy something, so I started my sorry, no money line. But instead he ask me if I wanted something to read on the bus. Ooooo Kkkkk, I, curious, nodded politely. And then he starts to give me a lecture on the end of the world and Jesus Christ. After a 2 minute talk, he gave me a pamphlet and moved on to another person waiting at the station. You see Jehovah's witnesses on tv all the time, but this is actually the first time I've talked to one. You know, I was quite disappointed that they're not as nutty as the Simpsons portrayed.

So, that experience was fun...but then a guy with a segway rolls past. Everyone at the station was looking at him and thinking the same thing. But man, he was fast. Now I want one...in fact, I'm going to start saving money for one this summer, after I get a job.

So that was my most eventful bus waiting ever, narrowly edging my number two: the time a hobo gave me and Ssy a lecture on graffiti, punks, and capital punishment.

Ok, that was pretty boring, so to make up for it, here's HappyTreeFriends meets the Matrix and a long HTF video with an inspirational message...

Random Ramblings

2007-01-12T18:09:00.000-05:00

I just love alliterations...
Anyways, as the title suggest, I don't really have a topic for today. But It's been a week, so we should have a new blog.

There's a new thing to the side. It's the total cost of the war in iraq for americans so far. Now, some may use this as a weapon to criticize President Bush. But they're just being pessimestic. You have to think like this: if america can waste so much money, that must mean that the economy is booming, and that must mean George Bush is the best president ever!!!

I was at this site called new7wonders.com (it's in the places box) You get to vote for you favorite 7...constructs I guess...to be named the 7 wonders of the world. Don't know why anyone would waste their time on this, but I did.

I heard yesterday that David Beckham is leaving Real Madrid for the LA Galaxy next season...he's getting around 250 million pounds over the course of 5 years. Hmmm, I wonder why he decided to leave. Anyways, the weird thing is, MLS is only paying 400, 000 a year. Most of the salary is being paid by Addidas and AEG(anshurtz entertainment group or something.)

Oh, and Toronto got its own Mls team a few weeks ago, so thats EXCITING...

You've sat through that, I guess you deserve some videos.

First we have the talented Donald Rumsfeld.

Next up is this lame Lord of the Rings parody.

And I'll finish it off with a clip of play-doh Happy Tree Friends. But seriously, I wouldn't watch this if I were you.

Stuff, stuff, and more stuff

2007-01-05T14:37:00.000-05:00

Wow, um... I realized that I am going to fail the Chinese school exam, even though it was 3 weeks ago, and I didn't go because I was sick, seriously. What's ironic about our class is that I am one of the worst in our class at Chinese and I have one of the highest marks.

I feel bad for Karl, he had 3 weeks without internet, I have 3 months. Wow, good thing I have rich neighbours that are too dumb to encrypt their wireless connections.

If anybody has an iPod, please watch this, it's very important, and think about it:
Wow, the little people in the iPods drink Budweiser
**Contains profanity**

This morning I watched a whole movie on youtube:
Stewie Griffin: An Untold Story
**Contains Profanity**

What I thought to be the funniest episode of "That '70s Show":
**May Offend Canadians**

And last note: Be careful with your iPod, don't get high off the click wheel of death ROFLMFAO

Empty Net!!!

2007-01-05T10:28:00.000-05:00

Ok, I know I just posted yesterday, but this is the most amazingly embarrassing thing I have ever seen. It was last night's game between the Stars and the Oilers. By the middle of the second, it was 4-1 Oilers. But then, the Stars came back to score 4 consecutive goals to lead 5-4 in the third. Less than 20 seconds left on the clock, empty oiler net with dallas puck litterally a foot away, game over, right? Wrong! Some how Patrik Stefan blows it while trying to slide the puck in gently. Then he realizes it, panics, and falls down! Oilers come back and Hemsky scores the tying goal with 2 on the clock. Check it out.

Stars eventually won in a shootout, but Edmonton gets away with a point. One of the most bizzare games ever.

Happy Belated New Year

2007-01-04T13:30:00.000-05:00

I would have posted sooner, but I didn't have internet for 3 weeks! (so this is what drug users go through...) But hey, at least I got some material for our readers this time. (a.k.a. Yuxuan, boyang, adam, and I)

Alright, so I only got my internet today, last night I was watching TV from 3 to 11. Caught two great shows back to back. After the Raps-Suns game (more on that later.), I was flipping through channels, and found Beauty and the Geek 3 (funniest realitity show on tv right now). It was hilarious. Not as nerdy as the first season, but still hilarious. Here's two clips.

Funny, but this guy was not nerdy enough. Glad to see him kicked out first (wasn't his fault, I have to admit, his partner was a moron: she was asked what NYSE stood for on wall street and still couldn't get it).

This next one is weird...

So after that, I switched to ABC (I can't decide if they're better or Fox) to catch the Knights of Prosperity (off topic, but is anyone else excited for the premier of Little Mosque on the Prairie?...even if it's on CBC). And it lived up to the hype. Just half an hour of hilarity straight from the begining. This video pretty much sums up the plot. Though I don't know if it mentions that the knights are robbing Mike Jagger.

For some reason, Rockefeller reminds me of Mr. T.

Alright, vid dump is over. You can stop reading now unless you're boyang or Adam.

First things first, Adam, who would you take between the two: Jovanoski or Commodore (penalty is a positive stat in my league)

Now we can head on to my random comments...

How about that 2 shutout week from Emery,and is Gerber even on the team anymore?

Sweet jumper from Barbosa to win the game in Chicago, then last night, Nash comes in and drops a fade away to win in the ACC. Can you say 3-peat?

4 point night from Heatly, hat trick in the 2nd alone: 1 shorthanded goal, 1 even strenth, and 1 pp.

TSN just sucks, it keeps replaying the World Junior Chamionships over and over again. The commentator was an idiot. He was saying stuff like how the EPL and La Liga needs shoot outs in the regular season. Doesn't he know that pks robbed france in the World Cup. (ok, fine, the headbutt and horrifically bad luck might have had something to do about it. Viera and Henry both going down in the final game of the tournament? What are the chances of that. And during ot, you could tell italy just wanted to waste 30 minutes and go to pks. That was the worst world cup ever. The whole thing was based on whether Buffon or Barthez was the better goalkeep. How is that a good way to decide the best team in the world?)

Saw the chelsea game last weekend. They looked horrible. It was a home game versus Fullham, and they drew 2-2. What was Essien thinking? A header? And Ballack, that was the crappiest clear I ever saw. And don't even get me started on shevchenko. (it seems they are turning into the yankees, how strange...)

Last but not least, here are my bandwagon jumps the past year, and my future jumps.
Most proud of my Tennesse Titan jump the second they got vince young, and I'm not getting off yet...
Anaheim ducks worked really well, and I was on before the season started. But they dropped the mighty from their name, so I'll have to reevaluate my position. The Canucks have looked great the past few games, but I think Ottawa's going to be good when they're at full force now that Emery's the starter.
Roger clemens let me down, but I'm jumping on the dmat bandwagon right now.
Last year I was on the Phoenix-can-win-with-no-defence-and-no-amare bandwagon, but this year, I'm going for the adam morrison-for-roy and Bargnani-is-the-next-Nowizki-and-Raptors-are-making-the-playoffs bandwagon. (I'm still confident that the Kevin Durant bandwagon will pay off, just need to have patience)
And despite what boyang says, get on the Tim Cahill bandwagon now!!

And that's it for now, folks. (by which I mean Yuxuan, boyang, and adam)

OBESE Awards

2006-12-31T15:27:00.001-05:00

So, 2006 went by pretty fast. A lot of memories.

2006
Category: Film
Action/Adventure: Mission: Impossible III
It was pretty good despite a crazy man being the protagonist.

Animation: Madagascar
Hilarious, Ice Age 2 was almost as good but I loved Madagascar.

Comedy: Borat
No contest.

Horror: Didn't really watch any except for Hostel, which was disgusting.

Thriller/Suspense: Didn't really watch any unless The Davinci Code counts, but it sucked.

Actor: Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat)
That guy is hilarious, he is a great actor, I don't know how he can keep a straight face when being Borat.

Actress: Meryl Streep (The Devil Wears Prada)
I think The Devil Wears Prada is the only movie I saw this year with a female actress that acted well.

Best Motion Picture: Borat
Nothing compares to this movie.

Category: Sports
Best Moment: Zidane headbutting Materazzi in World Cup 06
What a way to end a career

Best Tournament: FIFA World Cup 06

Category: TV
Best Comedy: Corner Gas

Best Reality Show: The Amazing Race 9

Best Drama: Lost (It got confusing though)

Category: Technology
Best Video Game Console: Wii

Best Entertainment Device: Archos AV700
This can record directly from the TV and plays mp3s, video, and has a huge screen as well as a long battery life and some intense features (I wish I had one)

Category: News
Story of the Year: Saddam Hussein executed by the form of hanging

2007
Things to look forward to:
Harry Potter and the Pyramids of Furmat
The Simpsons Movie
Turning 16 and being able to get a driver's license (Stupid kk and his low driver's license age in Alberta)
Possibly getting a Wii

And now courtesy New Years courtesy of Family Guy (supposed to be for 2000):

From the people at OBESE: HAPPY 2007

Funny/Christmas/Old Skool Commercials

2006-12-22T16:27:00.000-05:00

Update: I am now having smaller videos so that the page takes less time to load
Wow, such a hard choice: PS3 vs. Wii Apple Style
"I am large and in charge!"

A McDonalds Christmas commercial from 1980's:

Some random funny Christmas Commercial from some Vancouver TRAVEL AGENCY (too bad I don't have a dog!)

In the News

2006-12-19T20:39:00.000-05:00

Politics:
Stephane Dion makes Michael Ignatieff deputy leader of the Liberal party.

Mayor O'Brien promised tax freezes are dead, gone right out the window. (I told you so!)

Sports:
Basketball:
It doesn't pay to fight:
Carmelo Anthony and a whole lot of other people got into a brawl and are now suspended up to 15 days and the clubs are facing $500,000 fines.

Football:
World Cup + Player of the Year:

Italian captain, winner of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, part of the Real Madrid lineup of superstars... and now FIFA Player of the Year.This person if Fabio Cannavaro. Runner ups in second and third were Zidane and Ronaldinho.

Movie:
Rocky VI

Sylvester Stallone, the guy who taught people about Roman Numerals who is now in his 60's is making a comeback, holy crap, this guy is strong, he literally got KO'd filming the movie. This movie is just titled Rocky Balboa (No Roman Numerals), opens tomorrow, seems like a good movie (Rocky V sucked)

Christmas...

2006-12-18T17:23:00.000-05:00

No....Why does it have to be so dark? I was having fun shooting hoops although it's 4 days from officially being winter!
So, it's exactly the week before Christmas, for Christians this is the time to celebrate when Jesus was born (I'm not too good at religion stuff). What I don't get is why people exchange gifts on some else's birthday. I guess that's something for me to find out over the holidays.

Now...Family Guy Christmas (22 Minutes Full Episode)
Ignore the first minute (ish)

Also, have you ever wanted to download a video off Youtube or any other site?
Well... Now you can, all you need is Firefox! Yes, I transfered from IE7 to FF.

First go here and download

Then, go here and install

Now, just go to any video site and use this. Icon on bottom right.
**OBESE does not support the downloading of copyrighted material**

Idiots! (My opinion)

2006-12-15T20:47:00.000-05:00

Yes, I have a huge range of emotions...
*No offence to Your Worship Mayor O'Brian (That's his actual title) or to the Ottawa City Councillors, please do not sue*
*Mature content/language, reader discretion is advised*
The mayor of Ottawa and the city councillors are fucking idiots. I mean why the fuck would you amend the fucking light rail plan so that the projected ridership goes down and you only save 70/700+ million? One of the fucking most important parts of the whole project was the downtown connection. Now that both the provincial and federal governments pulled out of the fucking project, he decides to have a vote on cancelling it. Why the fuck would you do that? You waste the fucking taxpayers money on cancelling the project and you risk getting sued by Siemens for not meeting the fucking contract (the lawsuit is at least 200 million). SO, BOTTOM LINE, MAYOR O'BRIEN PROMISED TAX FREEZES, NOT GOING TO FUCKING HAPPEN!

One of the biggest reasons why I'm so pissed is because my family pays municipal taxes (ie Property tax), but we can't fucking vote so we didn't even get a choice in the election. So, this multimillionare turned politician is wasting our fucking money on something we didn't even get a say on. There is something wrong with that. I think he should pay the lawsuit by selling his fucking company, and slowly paying it back using his own money. I actually think my family can sue him, at least that's what their lawyer friend says.

Woohoo

2006-12-14T19:16:00.001-05:00

Woohoo, first blog. Anyways, I'm the new member and I've already made some changes to this site (look at the title), oh and also, I tried to insert a widget on the site, but that wasn't working too well....hmm, it appears that I've run out of material already, strange...so here's video, I don't normally post videos on my blog, but this is OB/LB's site, so without further adeiu(sp?)

I'm new at this stuff, so tell me if the thing doesn't work.

All right, in the last few minutes I've thought up some stuff. I'm moving this Saturday, if those damned carpet guys can finish the job. The new place is called Dalton Square, pretty lame, but there was a murder in the house beside ours 20 years ago, so that's cool. Can't think of anything else, so I'll leave you with this video.

Warning, may contain educational material, viwer discretion advised.

CHEO is sick (ha ha ha)

2006-12-14T18:36:00.000-05:00

Ok, so I skipped business and computers today so that I could go to my yearly follow-up appointment at CHEO, so not really skipping. Anyways, as I was playing on the XBOX360 in the waiting room on the 6th Floor West (Cancer wing), this kid about nine years old asks me if he could play against me, I say sure. I felt bad for this kid, I know how he felt, for you see I also experienced the effects of chemotherapy on the body. He was bald and he looked quite pale, seemed very nauseous. We were playing some basketball game, something which I could have definitely owned him at, but I chose to lose on purpose, bring a smile to his face. This not only made me happy seeing an unhappy child smile but also it made him quite happy.

Funniness of the Day:
The doctor said that because of the extreme chemotherapy treatments, I might be infertile but she told me to use condoms and have safe sex (right in front of my mom)

I learned a lot today, putting a smile on a kid's face puts a smile on your face

I WIN!

2006-12-13T19:51:00.000-05:00

OMG, I won LMOM Contest!!! *Jumps like a giddy schoolgirl NO!* But someone refuses to give me my Wii.
Now, two things.

University of Western Ontario Finance Jeopardy:
Go to the second one.
Click Savings and Budgeting for 500
Type in True...Look at the bottom, what do you get?
Click The Stock Market for 400
Type in Dividends...Look at the bottom, what do you get?
But if you had typed in Dividend, it would have been correct...WTF?

American Dad vs. Family Guy
May take a few moments to load.
Damn, this game is fun.
STEWIE PWNS!

Bored...............

2006-12-12T18:31:00.000-05:00

Ok, I was so bored I actually did some research and entered the LMOM Contest . Anyways, I finished the English Summative, don't feel like handing it in through Myfiles(Access school account at home) and don't know what to do. Maybe I should try out our jacuzzi. I'll put up some pictures of our new house soon.
**Warning some mature language follows**
This post is not meant to offend Jerry Bruckheimer, Bertram van Munster, or Elise Doganieri
I was watching the season finale of the Amazing Race Season 10. What did I think about it? It was fucking shit. Why? Well, usually, the season finales have a lot of suspense and tension, but this one didn't. Usually, they are 2 hours long, this one was 1. Usually, they have to do a memory task, this one didn't. Usually, there is a long run to the finish line, this one didn't have one. The season was pretty awesome with the new twists and tasks. However, the season finale fucking sucked. Up to now, there have been 9 seasons (8 doesn't count because it was Family edition and there was no travelling around the world which fucking sucked ass because that's the whole fucking point of this fucking race other than the 1 million dollars). Season 7 was great and it was also the most watched because it was so amazing. They have Asian Amazing Race up on Youtube, I am going to go watch it soon. I certainly hope that Season 11(All-Star Edition) will be good, if it ends similar to 10, I will be so pissed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MOVING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2006-12-04T20:20:00.000-05:00

Ok, it's now December 4th, 2006, which can only mean one thing. I'm moving in 8 days. My new address will be 261 Parkin Cicle(lolz funny name), which is near South Keys. Please do not stalk me! Damnit, I get all my summatives this week and I have to help my mom pack. For those who want my trash:

===***=== Update ===***===
I actually counted my Hallowe'en Candy today, sorta
-I am willing to sell all my Hallowe'en candy that I have left for a mere $2 (coffee crispsX2, kitkatX1, ohenryX2, snickersX3ish, aero*4, wonderbar*1, hershey kisses*2, throw in there a few sesame snaps, plus an allbran bar, whatever else i find).

-I will sell 2 Tulip Festival Pencils(Shaped like tulips)+Stickynotes(Shaped like tulips) for $0.75 each or 2 for $1

-I will sell my PS3 for $600 Includes 5 games Joking, I don't actually have one

-I will sell my parents' old credit card for $5 NO!!!

-I will sell 2X24 Cinnamon Listerine Pocketpaks for $1

-Plus other great stuff

===***=== SOLD (Yes, I actually sold stuff) ===***===
-I will sell my magic cards(that terence gave me) for $1(includes deck box+plastics).

Random link dump:

Smash my _______. Insano guy!

Uncyclopedia, change it how you please...

That's IT!

Word of the Week:lolz/TV/900 MILLION!!!

2006-11-28T16:22:00.001-05:00

My word of the week is lolz. I am attempting to use it at least 10 times everyday.

Anyways, for all you OC/Degrassi/Corner Gas/Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip/Whistler/MTV fans:

You can watch legal high-resolution episodes of these shows here! I think they're still expanding. Why won't they add The Amazing Race? :'(

According to Jim: Chicago family with 3 kids. Man=Jim, Wife=Cheryl, Wife's Bro=Andy, Wife's Sis=Dana. It's funny, but I can't find any good clips. If you find any, please comment.

Don't Try This At Home Kids...

Andy's Real Intention

Dad Can Do Anything

And finally, 900 MILLION!!! Yes I would like that much money (don't care about currency). This video, I'm sure almost all of you have watched it, is the most watched video(on the internet) of all time 900 MILLION EFFING TIMES. For those who haven't watched it, here it is. Also, it's important to note that he made the tape but forgot about it, it was found by some kids at school, they shared it Peer to Peer on Kazaa because they thought it was funny. The original video name was: "Jackass_starwars_funny.wmv". In "White and Nerdy"(See Below), there is a parody of the Star Wars Kid.

**Please comment if you don't like Youtube's embedded players**

MOOSAK!

2006-11-25T17:40:00.000-05:00

(aka Music)Some people may not enjoy the music, not my fault.

Bowling For Soup-1985
**Contains scene of OBESE(not part of this blog) man in a wading pool**
**May contain humour that some people may not share, Viewer Discretion is Advised**
Funny song, if you pay enough attention to the lirics.

Weird Al-White & Nerdy
Parody of Ridin' Dirty, not a very good song but notheless it's hilarious.
**May contain humour that some people may not share, Viewer Discretion is Advised**

Weird Al-Gump
Song about "Forrest Gump", Parody of "Lump"
**May contain humour that some people may not share, Viewer Discretion is Advised**

Gorillaz-Feel Good Inc.

Month Before Christmas!!!

2006-11-25T17:13:00.000-05:00

YAY, OMG, It's a exactly a month before Christmas!!! I hope santa is gonna give me something that starts with a W or P or X.
The following are some Christmas clips from Family Guy.
***Warning some people may find "Family Guy" offensive and may not share the humour PLEASE DON'T SUE!***
I have some time to kill so I'll have more than 1 post.

A Peter Griffin's Christmas

Peter's Random Christmas Story

Peter's Christmas Present

P-Unit

2006-11-24T19:43:00.001-05:00

Some people may have already seen this! This is a Smirnoff ad mocking G-Unit, it's not that bad a song and it is hilarious!

Yay, this blog is 1 day old!

2006-11-24T19:12:00.000-05:00

Yay, it's friday! TGIF! Also it's that day of the year where stores in the US have extreme sale prices (aka Black Friday). Best Buys opened at 5AM, is that insane-o or what?
Example: Xbox 360 - $299.99 US

Sweet, this video shows you how to decode/crack locks open without using chainsaws, which is the easy way. Instead, it uses math, yay?

How To Crack A Combination Lock - video powered by Metacafe

Very easy magic trick, if I can do it very crappily, anyone can

Cool And Easy Coin Trick Revealed - video powered by Metacafe

That's it for today!

Does this thing work?

2006-11-23T19:31:00.000-05:00

This is just to see if OBESE works or not!
I'll get embeded videos soon!

This is actually hilarious!

Apparently, this person also did this for the Wii and Xbox 360! (Must be rich or insane)
Reminds me of that guy who yelled "Dumbledore dies!" in front of people lining up to buy the book.

I want a Wii. :'( Support GBW (get boyster a wii) It's a nonprofit organization!

Ostracized Boneheads' Electronic Special Events (OBESE)

Happy Belated Birthday Karl!

Freaking post-secondary schooling.

Google Chrome.

Eh.

Beijing 2008

Euro 08

"I learned how to drive from GTA:SA." - "I learned how to drive from Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08."

18-1

January Post

Merry Christmas!!!

Total Propaganda

Another Sports Post...(or ASP)

Hallowe'en

How Not to Be an Asshole

The bad.

Random Back to School Post

Harry Potter Mania

University *Sigh*

Hurray It's Summer! [/sarcasm]

It's the summer...

Sports Wrap Up

Summer vacation

What a disgrace...

First Post of May, Woot

LONNNNNNNNNNNNNG And Crazy Rant About How Horrible The Weekend Was

Conference Semis

Another sports blog/Ducks are through!!!

Silence can say more than a thousand words

Playoff Special Ed.: Eastern Conference

Playoffs!!!

Hockey/Football

OSU..

D: 10kbps U: 50kbps

Random Rumblings

Literacy Test...

...

Politics...Yet Again...

Break [Dancing] Time!!!

The Wheels are Falling Off!!!

Random Posts That I Need To Catch Up On

Random Rumblings

Goals in Life...

Video DUMP!

Brawl Time!!!

Ping-Pong

Myspaces

Double Post Day

Grammy

Superbowl ADS

Superbowl Recap

Politics and Other Stuff

Untitled

COLTS WILL WIN THE SUPERBOWL!!!

Crosswords and OTHER STUFF!!!

Exam Over!!!

Jehovah and Segway

Random Ramblings

Stuff, stuff, and more stuff

Empty Net!!!

Happy Belated New Year

OBESE Awards

Funny/Christmas/Old Skool Commercials

In the News

Christmas...

Idiots! (My opinion)

Woohoo

CHEO is sick (ha ha ha)

I WIN!

Bored...............

MOVING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Word of the Week:lolz/TV/900 MILLION!!!

MOOSAK!

Month Before Christmas!!!

P-Unit

Yay, this blog is 1 day old!

Does this thing work?

University Sigh