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January 18, 2009
Lost
Just a few more days until the fifth season of Lost. I miss the days when the others were mysterious whisper people. Not Ben people. I also miss Vincent. He was the coolest character for awhile.
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January 12, 2009
Cryptic Clue
Using Karl Pilkington's method of creating cryptic clues, I created a riddle to tell you where the E-E-AH-A-A spider is from. Here is the cryptic riddle.
There are some cities that nobody has heard of.
But this city is made of legends.
Follow the clues to the Phoenix,
And you will find a mountain of superstition.
Posted by will at 09:31 PM | Comments (0)
Random Discovery
While peroozing the inter-webs for a new random fact, I found this: "Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do." Oh yeah? Then are righties so bad at dueling left handed people? It would seem lefties have the advantage. I have also compiled a list of famous left handed people. Jim Lovell, Henry Ford, Albert Einstein, Rip Torn, Don Rickles, Harpo Marx, Bart Simpson, Howie Mandel, Jerry Seinfeld, Spike Lee, Jim Henson, David Letterman, and Buzz Aldrin. (Second comes right after first!)
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Random Fact #2
Sleeping Beauty's Castle was built four years before the film was released.
(BTW, I didn't add the E-E-AH! in this picture. Isn't that also pretty random?)
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January 10, 2009
iTunes Plus
In the immortal words of Michael Scott, "If the devil were to explode and evil were gone forever, what sort of party would you have?" I think it's a fair question. I always knew that Apple would do the right thing and and get rid of DRM. And they did! Eventually. You can now transfer all of your songs to any number of devices. But Apple also gave record companies the option to charge $1.29 for songs. Oh well. I'll just go back to downloading music videos off of YouTube.
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January 04, 2009
Random Fact #1
Sometimes I have nothing to blog about. From now on, whenever that happens I will blog about a random fact I think that all people should know.
Here is the first random fact of my blog.
Here is the complete list of all of the actors who appeared in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, as an Ewok.
Margo Apostocos,
Ray Armstrong,
Eileen Baker,
Michael H. Balham,
Bobbie Bell,
Patty Bell,
Alan Bennett,
Sarah Bennett,
Pamela Betts,
Dan Blackner,
Linda Bowley,
Peter Burroughs,
Debbie Carrington,
Maureen Charlton,
William Coppen,
Sadie Corrie,
Tony Cox,
John Cumming,
Jean D'agostino,
Luis De Jesus,
Debbie Dixon,
Margarita Fernandez,
Phil Fondacaro,
Sal Fondacaro,
Tony Friel ,
Dan Frishman,
John Gavam,
Michael Gilden,
Paul Grant,
Lydia Green,
Lars Green,
Pam Grizz,
Andrew Herd,
J.J. Jackson,
Richard Jones,
Trevor Jones,
Glynn Jones,
Karen Lay,
John Lummiss,
Nancy Maclean,
Peter Mandell,
Carole Morris,
Stacy Nichols,
Chris Nunn,
Barbara O'laughlin,
Brian Orenstein,
Harrell Parker Jr.,
John Pedrick,
April Perkins,
Ronnie Phillips,
Katie Purvis,
Carol Read,
Nicholas Read,
Diana Reynolds,
Daniel Rodgers,
Chris Romano,
Dean Shackenford,
Kiran Shah,
Felix Silla,
Linda Spriggs,
Gerald Staddon,
Josephine Staddon,
Kevin Thompson,
Kendra Wall,
Brian Wheeler,
Butch Wilhelm.
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January 03, 2009
Lunacy
Today was the kickoff event of the 2009 First Robotics Competition. I had to get to my school at 6:30 in the morning to see the live broadcast of the new game description. That sucks since it was 9:30 in Manchester N.H. which is where the event took place. After the founder of First, Dean Kamen (who is pictured above), gave a speech the all new 2009 game was unveiled.
"Lunacy" is played on a low-friction surface that makes robot control much more difficult. This is supposed to simulate the driving conditions on the moon. To further add to the madness, the robots must used special wheels that help you're robot lose control. For a more complete description of this year's game, visit NASA's website. Our team has just six weeks to build a fully operational robot. Go Team 696!
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