November 2008
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How Many Five Year Olds Could You Take In A Fight?
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The Caffeine Click Test →
skysignal:
Caffeine gives you powers. Take in enough of it and your twitching, vibrating body is capable of amazing feats. This highly scientific *cough* test determines your level of caffeine intake by measuring how fast you can click your mouse. The test will last for 30 seconds, during which you must click the button below as many times as possible.
(I clicked 178 times in 30...
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"Terrorists Take Over Mumbai"
I watched CNN at our weekly Pho meeting in Reseda. While eating, we read the captions/headlines of the coverage on the terrorist attacks in Mumbai. Here’s what I saw.
“Terrorists Take Over Mumbai”
“Americans Targeted in Terrorist Attacks”
Here are my reactions, take it with a grain of salt until all the facts come in but I think this is the truth.
There were 4-5...
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Tumblr Post :: Firefox Add-ons →
Great little tool that allows you to click and drag content into a small icon on Firefox that then automatically posts onto your tumblr blog!
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500th.net →
This guy has some great insight into pop photography that I’ve been reading
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“Trying to make money from your photography is a very long shot. The market is so...”
– Why Your Images Are Worthless
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Ricky Gervais "Out of England"
I watched Ricky Gervais on HBO last night “Out of England” (it debuted Saturday and I somehow DVR’d it). I have never laughed that hard for a standup comic. All of it was funny but my favorite was his bit involved fat people. Incidentally I just discovered that this bit was in his 2007 “Fame” routine but I don’t care.
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Backsolving the High
I experienced something incredibly strange yesterday. I was high from the point I woke up around 11:30am to about 3pm. Now let me qualify “high”. I woke up literally singing and dancing. I was happy completely awake and partying from the moment I opened my eyes. Now this isn’t unusual if you’ve been snorting cocaine all morning but I wasn’t (in fact I have never snorted cocaine in my entire life)....
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Book Sorting. FAIL.
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Pwned
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Moving. FAIL.
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Security. FAIL.
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More Pwnage.
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Myers-Briggs Test by Blog
I found this on Greg Brown’s blog and really liked it. It basically nailed my personality per Myers-Briggs typology. Here are my results:
Amazing. The original test took like 90 minutes and was hundreds of questions long. This test took less than 9 seconds to return.
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What happens to your body if you drink a Coke...
gregbrown:
robot-heart: apsies: funtime: 24freedinners: noahkai: jaie: thewayoftheworld:
Have you ever wondered why Coke comes with a smile? It’s because it gets you high. They took the cocaine out almost a hundred years ago. You know why? It was redundant.
In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit...
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Rhodey coming back as Don Cheadle in Iron Man 2!
Looks like Terrence Howard lost his part as “Colonel James Rhodes” to Don Cheadle for Iron Man II. I find this pretty disappointing since he did an excellent job building the “Rhodey” character in the original Iron Man and seemed to have excellent rapport with Robert Downey Jr.’s “Tony Stark”. Hopefully, everyone works out their grievances and Rhodey...
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What does 200 calories look like?
I found this very entertaining. 8 Hershey kisses = 200 calories! Gotta stop eating these… yum…
What does 200 calories look like?
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Stella Awards - Fabricated
Unfortunately all the Stella Awards winners are fabricated… I was actually hoping they were true! Click here to find out more.
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Thundercats - Ho!
It was announced on June 5, 2007, that Warner Brothers is making a CGI-animated feature film of ThunderCats, based on a script written by Paul Sopocy. In October 2007, Variety magazine revealed that Jerry O’Flaherty, veteran video game art director (Gears of War), had signed on to direct. The film is being produced by Spring Creek Productions. It is set for a summer 2010 release. -...
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What did you think was going to happen?
This is a rant to myself. Ever since coming back from the honeymoon, I’ve been less physically active. I’ve been to the gym 15 times in about 10 weeks. Over the last 12 weeks (including the 2 weeks of wedding/honeymoon) I’ve accumulated the following caloric surpluses 918, 2822, -395, 1627, 1316, 899, 1637, 1695, 2133, 992, 1168, 393; a surplus total of 15,135 calories. The damage in my results?...
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i4u.com
It’s another out of the thousands of gadget websites out there. I was just looking for a review of the Logitech Harmony One that I just bought and one of the first google results returns this review on i4u.com. While ordinary in every other respect, i4u.com has combined in a Maxim-like manner two of men’s favorite things; gadgets and good-looking girls. This makes i4u.com commendable...
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Hitman
The Good: Olga Kurylenko, naked. Fight sequences.
The Bad: Timothy Olyphant as 47. The plot was bland.
Conclusion: 2.5/5 stars. At least ½ a star simply for Kurylenko’s hotness. It’s odd but Kurylenko next to Olyphant really shined the light on Olyphant’s inability to pull off the character “47”. Olyphant’s “47” just wasn’t believable. He was too...
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Credit Card Prank Part II
This guy does everything in his power to make the cashier’s check his signature… Read his story here.
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Roy Jones vs. Joe Calzaghe retrospect
In retrospect Joe Calzaghe dominated Roy Jones from Round 1. I had the luxury of rewatching the first two rounds on TV yesterday and here’s what I saw that I missed the first time I watched this fight:
Calzaghe suffered a flash KO in the first round resulting from a partial blow from the wrist/forearm of Roy Jones
Calzaghe was not fazed by the KO. When he gets up after the KO he gets up...
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Strong Bass Line
Last week in the interest of understanding the song-structure for 說好的幸福呢, I reverse engineered the song on piano. Admittedly I missed the D>C/E>F>G sequence, which is a nice one I might add, something that I will likely use in my songs in the future if I haven’t already (I have to check, I don’t think so). Anyway, wanting to see if there existed Jay Chou chords online, I...
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Quantum of Solace
The Good: More character development. More realistic and believable Bond.
The Bad: Bond doesn’t bed his female counterpart (Olga Kurylenko). Couldn’t understand all the dialogue.
Conclusion: 4/5 stars. At least ½ a star simply for Kurylenko’s hotness. I finally know why the movie was called Quantum of Solace. Many references to characters in Casino Royale so make sure watch Casino Royale before...
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Tic the Hamster
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Fat Cat vs. Small Box
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Postage. FAIL.
Interestingly, there’s a story with this letter/envelope that’s as interesting as it is funny. Click here.
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Theoretical Astronomy Ph.D.
I met a girl getting her Ph.D. in Theoretical Astronomy while playing volleyball at Cal Tech yesterday. She might possbily be the smartest person I’ve ever met. From Wikipedia:
Astronomy (from the Greek words astron (ἄστρον), “star”, and nomos (νόμος), “law”) is the scientific study of celestial objects (such as stars, planets, comets, and galaxies) and phenomena...
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Earthquake Drill
We’re having an Earthquake Drill at work today. Woohoo!
Dear Tenants,
Please be reminded that the Great Southern California ShakeOut Drill (www.shakeout.org for more information) is today at 10:00 a.m. we encourage you to participate and use the drill as a tool to develop your internal business disaster plan for your employees.
In order to add to the authenticity factor of the...
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Idiots Posting Crap on the Internet
3 days ago I griped about how some of the guitar tabs for Aslyn’s That’s When I Love You made absolutely no sense. Yesterday I finally found out why. You see, there is no true entry barrier to posting on the Internet. You can be a genius or you can be a complete moron. There’s pretty much no discrimination for what makes its way online.
The C#/D is by definition a C# chord with...
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周杰伦 - 稻香 Lyrics
對這個世界如果你有太多的抱怨 跌倒了就不敢繼續往前走 為什麼人要這麼的脆弱 墮落 請你打開電視看看 多少人為生命在努力勇敢的走下去 我們是不是該知足 珍惜一切 就算沒有擁有 還記得你說家是唯一的城堡 隨著稻香河流繼續奔跑 微微笑 小時候的夢我知道 不要哭讓螢火蟲帶著你逃跑 鄉間的歌謠永遠的依靠 回家吧 回到最初的美好 不要這麼容易就想放棄 就像我說的 追不到的夢想 換個夢不就得了 為自己的人生鮮艷上色 先把愛塗上喜歡的顏色 笑一個吧 功成名就不是目的 讓自己快樂快樂這才叫做意義 童年的紙飛機 現在終於飛回我手裡 所謂的那快樂 赤腳在田裡追蜻蜓追到累了 偷摘水果被蜜蜂給叮到怕了 誰在偷笑呢 我靠著稻草人吹著風唱著歌睡著了 哦 哦 午後吉它在蟲鳴中更清脆 哦 哦 陽光灑在路上就不怕心碎 珍惜一切 就算沒有擁有 還記得你說家是唯一的城堡...
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蒲公英 is a Dandelion?!?
Don’t laugh. No one ever told me.
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4-5-3-6 Jay Chou x 2 (蒲公英的约定 and 說好的幸福呢)
I’ve been listening to Jay Chou’s 說好的幸福呢 and while I was trying to figure out Aslyn’s “That’s When I Love You”, I decided to give it a whirl and figure out the chords in 說好的幸福呢. Turns out it wasn’t that hard. The verses are 6-5-4 and the prechorus/chorus surprisingly use the same chord progression 4-5-3-6. I’ve used 4-5-6 a lot in my songs but I...
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Reverse-Engineering Music
I’ve been asked to reverse-enginner a song (on piano) for a friend who is getting married. She wants to sing Aslyn’s That’s When I Love You at her wedding but can’t find the instrumental version of the song online.
Luckily for me there are already guitar tabs online for this song. On top of that, the song follows the basic 1-5-6-4 chord progression so it’s not hard...
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Fat cat watching TV
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The Complications of HDTV
When I signed up for HD service via Dish Network, I was sold on the TurboHD packages. What I didn’t know was that TurboHD offered ONLY HD channels and no SD (standard definition) channels. When my installer performed my Dish setup he changed my package to include SD channels. However through the switch I lost access to FSN and because Catherine likes the Lakers so much we have to get it back....
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I Hurt My Back
In the first game of tonight’s volleyball session, I took a pass that sent me into the knee of a teammate. His knee hit the middle of back towards the left side. It’s mostly a muscle pain but on deep inhalations and also while bending over I am in a lot of pain. It got worse as the night went on, obviously I did not sit out after he hit me. I feel like there’s some internal pain...
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Why John McCain Lost the Election
People point the finger at his incompetant presidential VP running-mate Sarah Palin.
People point the finger at the fact that he coudln’t show he was any different from George W. Bush.
But the reality is that John McCain couldn’t win the election no matter what he did or who he was. John McCain lost because he ran under the Republican Party and with the current situation under Bush,...
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Time zones. FAIL.
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How to Use My Workout Log
I wrote this for a co-worker. I figured I’d share this with the tumblrs
How to Use the Charles Yeh Workout Log
I know it looks super complicated but let’s break it down.
1. Input everything below (except the column “Slept”). You’ll be using a scale which reads weight, fat% and hyd%. Then input the time you go to bed and the time you get up. The spreadsheet will calculate your hours...
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How Bad Do You Want It?
Here are excerpts from my brother’s response to My Brother is Tony Robbins
i come from a place where i can relate to wanting something but not having the conviction of going out to get it. i wrote songs for 11-12 years and liked to share my creations with my friends. did i want to go into commercial pop music, not particularly, but of course i WANTED to… everyone ‘wants’ to...
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Downtime
Sometimes your only chance to really unwind and just chill out for a sec is when you are out and about but waiting. It doesn’t matter who what when where why or how you are waiting but simply that you are waiting. It’s times like these that I come back to the present and just breathe… take a look around, observe and just be.