Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Nazi View

Nazi View, originally uploaded by acheron0.

This links to a great flickr collection of Mountain photos. Enjoy.

Thursday, August 25, 2005

Oregon Man Wins Top Prize at the National Scrabble Championship

From the HOLY CRAP in bold department:

RENO, Nevada (PRNewswire) – There were 700 of them when it all started, word experts from 6 coun-tries and 45 states. After five days and 28 rounds of Scrabble, it was down to two: David Wiegand, 31, a mortgage underwriter from Portland, Oregon and Panupol Sujjayakorn, 20, a student from Bangkok, Thai-land. They played an astonishing best-of-five final match with Wiegand winning the last game 529-331 after falling behind 0-2. Sujjayakorn is the current World Scrabble Champion, while Weigand's previous best performance was 2nd at the 1994 National Scrabble Championship (NSC). Among Wiegand's plays were “keets” (a guinea fowl) and “aulic” (pertaining to a royal court). The National Scrabble Championship is considered the world's premiere event among 500 official tournaments played internationally each year. This year's NSC boasted a field that included 9 former world and National champions. Sujjayakorn is a particularly brilliant player, as his English is rudimentary at best. To train, he memorized the entire 120,000 word Official Scrabble Player's Dictionary. The play with live commentary was followed online at http://www.scrabbleassociation.com, which received nearly 4 million hits during the event. The final match will be telecast on ESPN later this year.

Waiting... Director has new blog

Rob McKittrick has moved out to the yard to live with the dog, the little bitch. Here's his new blog and it's worth every downloadable byte.

Waiting... Director blog

Friday, August 19, 2005

Pom Poko DVD Review

"The Bottom Line:
Because Pom Poko is bizarre, generally slow, and features a baffling number of raccoon scrotums, I can't recommend it to general audiences or kids. This one is for animation fans only."

Thursday, August 18, 2005

5/19/04, Commencement Address by Bono - Almanac Between Issues

5/19/04, Commencement Address by Bono - Almanac Between Issues: "I didn't expect change to come so slow, so agonizingly slow. I didn't realize that the biggest obstacle to political and social progress wasn't the Free Masons, or the Establishment, or the boot heal of whatever you consider 'the Man' to be, it was something much more subtle. As the Provost just referred to, a combination of our own indifference and the Kafkaesque labyrinth of 'no's you encounter as people vanish down the corridors of bureaucracy. "

Richie Sambora 5/6/2004 Commencement Speech

FlyLittleBird >> Richie Sambora 5/6/2004: "Other - Just Plain Funny
In the meantime, I would appreciate it if you all referred to me as Doctor Sambora for now on (and I'll be asking my wife to do the same, since I've already bought her the nurse's uniform!)
Copyright "

Great software tutorials

http://www.pixel2life.com/tutorials/

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Viking lollystick longboat sails

A replica Viking longboat made out of 15 million ice cream sticks has been launched in Amsterdam harbour.
The ship was painstakingly glued together by former Hollywood stuntman Robert McDonald and two friends - a job that took two years.

The sticks were collected by children all over the world. Mr McDonald is claiming the world record for the biggest boat made that way.

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Quake 4 screenshots at CNET

GEICO DIRECT sues GOOGLE

One could argue that I am only including this link because it includes 2 of the most popular search terms on the planet right now.

Yes, one could argue that using GEICO and GEICO DIRECT would be a transparent attempt to draw traffic to my site for the Google Adsense revenue.

A US district court has ruled against Google in a trade mark action over the sale of the terms “Geico” and “Geico Direct” in AdWords, its keyword advertising service. The judge found that there was infringement where the terms were used in the text of sponsored ads.

Car insurance firm GEICO sued both Google and Yahoo! subsidiary Overture in May 2004 over the sale of its registered trade marks as sponsored search terms in the keyword advertising services of both search engines.

What's so funny?

More Waiting... goodness

EW profiles the blog, not just the movie. Impressive. Anything for buzz.

Futurama lunch box

futurama lunch box, originally uploaded by yojayy.

I may get some of these to use for storage. I seeme to collect little piles of things that don't really fit anywhere but don't need to be discarded.

Office Prank

Reversed, originally uploaded by joegadget.

All the cups are filled with water. This looks slightly cruel.

Best of Craigslist

SWM in dead-end job seeks dumpy neurotic for mutual psychological torture, tepid sex, and co-dependency. I enjoy drinking, smoking, pornography, and self-righteous indignation.

I can't stand movies, and the last album I bought was The Marshall Tucker Band's Greatest Hits. I have middling intelligence but try to appear smarter by affecting a world-weary air, memorizing useless facts, and chuckling at my own mean-spirited, agenda-driven jokes.

I'm 40, but look 50 and feel 60. You are a whiny, bitter shrew with a misplaced sense of entitlement and unrealistic expectations. In time you will become coolly hostile when I don't fulfill every unmet need you've ever had. Bonus points if you just finished screwing every guy in town and but now want to take it slow with me.

My perfect night would include getting hammered in a sleazy bar while you flirt with seedy old drunks, followed by an embarrassing screaming match. I would be open to an unsatisfying fling that leaves me filled with regret and dread but prefer a long-term, soul crushing descent into booze and pills. No friendships. I don't need any goddamn friends.

Age unimportant, but I will condescend to women under 30 and rehash mother issues with women over 40.

Serious replies only, please.

Spotlight on Waiting...

So I have a few lines in an upcoming flick called Waiting... that seems to be gathering some momemtum. Today's spotlight is on a pretty young star I met on set and about whom I blogged earlier.

If you haven't already..meet Vanessa Lengies

Monday, August 15, 2005

M.U.L.E.

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Some games are better left untouched. This is a great game.

Cool M.U.L.E. merchandise

http://atarimule.neotechgaming.com/

Ridiculous eBay auction

Piano

Piano, originally uploaded by yojayy.

I took this photo with a 6 second exposure in the dark in the middle of the night. I think it came out ok.

Sunday, August 14, 2005

Wikipedia Photo archive

A little bit of everything out here. Way more precise than Google to find something high quality and FAST!

Redneck Tribute

Hell, Boingboing can explain it to you.

http://www.bpninc.com/evideo/video_mac_hi.mov

Powerbook Prank

"It all started with an eBay auction for a new G4 Powerbook. My friend Cory wanted me to sell it for him just days after he bought it. Probably because he realized that, aside from looking cool, he had no real use for it. For the sake of an easy sale, I just pretended to sell it as my own, with a starting price of $1700, and the "Buy It Now" option for $2100."

Saturday, August 13, 2005

Movie in my new house

IMG_0606, originally uploaded by yojayy.

It seems my new house makes an ideal movie set, being completely empty with clean hardwood floors. A crew of 20 had more than enough room.

Tips for new parents

Postcards from an ad campaign...

I learned a lot from these.

What's in a surfboard?

Thursday, August 11, 2005

I hate this picture

Denver Broncos cheerleaders

A little random, but it keeps it all interesting:

Steve 'W'

Imposing Take 3--Now we're talking!, originally uploaded by gt4750b.

This is a rather interesting collection of afternoon photos. I really hope the girl trying to 'Make Capitalism History' gets her wish in our lifetime. It's nice to see young people reach for well-grounded goals.

Let's all give up all for which we've worked our entire lives. You go first.

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Chinese message at the bottom of my e-mail

ENGLISH:
“This e-mail message contains confidential information and is intended for the named recipient(s) only. If you are not a named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail from your computer. Thank you.”

CHINESE:
???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

TRANSLATION:
"This mail carries the secret restricted data, only uses for the addressee. If your excellency is not this mail prearranges the addressee, please immediately the destruction and will delete from your excellency system, and will inform the sender. Many thanks cooperation."

Monday, August 08, 2005

Waiting... on set

waiting NO sean vanessa, originally uploaded by yojayy.

Sean Squier & Vanessa Lengies. Vanessa, if you see this, Happy belated birthday. We had some good times on set. I hope all is well.

Waiting... on set

Waiting NO sean jeff, originally uploaded by yojayy.

Estragon (Sean Squier) and Vladimir (Jeff Balis) on set and in costume

Waiting... on set

waiting NO dan sean, originally uploaded by yojayy.

David Koechner (Cooter!), Sean Squier

During a break in a 9 hour/all night shoot.

"I understand the steak was undercooked, ma'am, but did you have to eat the entire thing before complaining about it."
Dan

Waiting.. from the set

waiting NO andy sean jon, originally uploaded by yojayy.

Andy Milonakis, Sean Squier, John Francis Daley

How tall are you?

Transit of Venus 2004 (8/11)

Venus casting a shadow on the sun.
Transit of Venus 2004 (8/11)

Waiting... Production stills

DVD Bootleg Screen Capture

DVD Bootleg Screen Capture, originally uploaded by rich115.

This what happens when you combine MINORITY REPORT subtitles with CATCH ME IF YOU CAN.

I wonder if anyone has told Ben about Jennifer Garner's apparent sexual confusion.

Massive text messaging phone key

Some of the longer words you can create with your text messaging phone:

26663724254928466: commercialization
26672646622536377: companionableness
26683772846625478: conversationalist
34746837378336377: disinterestedness
35328762273464726: electrocardiogram
36847666368254787: environmentalists
39872287742852759: extracurricularly
46784888466254933: institutionalized
46837347247546279: interdisciplinary
46837436372846625: intergenerational
46837468376636825: intergovernmental
46837628466254933: internationalized
62837425478422559: materialistically
64727776774284667: misappropriations
64786337782634647: misunderstandings
66672436843422559: nonscientifically
73647763377466257: semiprofessionals
77924654648478427: psycholinguistics
83532666864228466: telecommunication
85872266737828483: ultraconservative
86237366646876377: unceremoniousness
242722837478422559: characteristically
683764548274928466: overmilitarization
765983246624567433: polytechnochloride
835326668642284667: telecommunications

Peter Jennings was a good anchor

Jennings in Vietnam

1938-2005

Famous Atheist Now Believes in God

NEW YORK Dec 9, 2004 — A British philosophy professor who has been a leading champion of atheism for more than a half-century has changed his mind. He now believes in God more or less based on scientific evidence, and says so on a video released Thursday.
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"I'm thinking of a God very different from the God of the Christian and far and away from the God of Islam, because both are depicted as omnipotent Oriental despots, cosmic Saddam Husseins," he said. "It could be a person in the sense of a being that has intelligence and a purpose, I suppose."