I've been following this movie off and on for the past few months.
Let The Game Begin Trailer
Kinda funny how they stick pretty close to the original Mystery Method teachings. I wonder how the guy who bought the movie rights for "The Game" is feeling right now. I would still like to see Johnny Depp play Mystery; that would be bad ass.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Popcorn Hour A-110 & Some updates
I ordered my Popcorn Hour A-110. The reviews say it may be the best media streamer/player on the market. Two to four weeks from now I SHOULD get it. I'll post up a review around then.
On a totally unrelated note, I found a cool gadget (program) that sorts blogs by recent update. So on the right I still have the massive list of links and blogs, but now they're sorted by recent updates--which is why the order looks random.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
The iPhone Kill-Switch
Recently, Apple CEO Steve Jobs disclosed that the new 3G iPhone has a remote kill-switch allowing Apple to remove software from its devices.
I predict that someone will, wait, no, someone HAS ALREADY figured out how to use it.
Here's something I just made:
I predict that someone will, wait, no, someone HAS ALREADY figured out how to use it.
Here's something I just made:
Electoral-vote.com
Electoral-vote.com is the best political election website out there. It tracks all (or most) of the polls and shows how the presidential election cards would fall if dealt today.
As you and Mr. Gore know, getting all votes doesn’t give someone a ticket to the White House—you gotta win most of the electoral votes.
So while most of your snoody friends are off preaching how Obama has 53% of the national votes, you can correct them with a state by state breakdown.
Also, the guy (or girl as it may be) who runs it isn’t making a dime. Why? I think it has something to do with getting young people to vote. Given the vast amount of work he’s putting in--for free--and the valuable information he’s spreading, the least I can do is give him a post.
www.electoral-vote.com
Monday, August 11, 2008
Is It Live? Is it Memorex? Or is it NBC’s 4 Hour Tape Delay?
Eight channels of HD Olympics is fawking awesome.
NBC saying something is “Live” when it happened 4 hours ago is not.
I took this picture at 10:23 p.m. Hawaii time (aka 4:23 a.m. ET):
NBC saying something is “Live” when it happened 4 hours ago is not.
I took this picture at 10:23 p.m. Hawaii time (aka 4:23 a.m. ET):
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Ice Cream
Imagine life without ice cream. Yeah, that would suck. Now imagine if someone gave you a nice bowl of Haagen-Dazs and said, “this is ice cream.”
You’d certainly walk around and say “ice cream is the greatest food evAr!!”
Now imagine your friend has also never eaten ice cream before, but instead of Haagen-Dazs, his first ice cream is Good Humor.
He’d also naturally scream “ice cream is the greatest food evAr!!”
Now imagine you’ve been eating Haagen-Dazs ice cream for 3 years and someone comes along and says “you if want ice cream, you can only eat Good Humor and not Haagen-Dazs.”
That’s pretty much what happened to me. Well, not with ice cream, but with my DVR. I went from TiVo to the Oceanic DVR.
TiVo = Haagen-Dazs. Oceanic’s DVR = Good Humor. I can’t stand the Oceanic DVR, I just can’t. Maybe if I hadn’t grown up with TiVo I wouldn’t be so agitated, but I did.
The only reason I’m using the Oceanic DVR is because TiVo is not compatible with HDTV in Hawaii. Short story: when TiVo gets its SDV dongle on the market, I’m jumping ship.
Please TiVo, get the SDV thingy ma giggy out! You said second quarter 2008, WHERE IS IT???
You’d certainly walk around and say “ice cream is the greatest food evAr!!”Now imagine your friend has also never eaten ice cream before, but instead of Haagen-Dazs, his first ice cream is Good Humor.
He’d also naturally scream “ice cream is the greatest food evAr!!”
Now imagine you’ve been eating Haagen-Dazs ice cream for 3 years and someone comes along and says “you if want ice cream, you can only eat Good Humor and not Haagen-Dazs.”
That’s pretty much what happened to me. Well, not with ice cream, but with my DVR. I went from TiVo to the Oceanic DVR.
TiVo = Haagen-Dazs. Oceanic’s DVR = Good Humor. I can’t stand the Oceanic DVR, I just can’t. Maybe if I hadn’t grown up with TiVo I wouldn’t be so agitated, but I did.
The only reason I’m using the Oceanic DVR is because TiVo is not compatible with HDTV in Hawaii. Short story: when TiVo gets its SDV dongle on the market, I’m jumping ship.
Please TiVo, get the SDV thingy ma giggy out! You said second quarter 2008, WHERE IS IT???
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Improv Rules and Wingman Rules are the Same
I’m trying to learn improve. No I’m not taking classes, yet. I’m just learning the basics.
The more I learn about impov the more I realize how much of it applies to pickup.
So improv, or Improvisational Theatre or Improvisational Comedy is a type of performance where actors get on stage, work with each other, and make up a performance on the fly. Generally, the goal is humor.
In improv there are a few basic rules: Don’t Deny, Don’t Ask Open Ended Questions aka no Pimping, You Don’t Have to Be Funny, Making your partner look good makes you look good. See http://www.fnipgh.com/shortcut4.htm for a more thorough explanation.
As I learned the rules, I realized that many of them are exactly like wingman rules:
Don’t Deny
Don’t deny means that if someone presents a situation, accept it. For example if your partner holds his hands out with an imaginary bowling ball and says, “I’m handing you a bowling ball” don’t say “this is not a bowling ball, that’s a fried turkey.” Instead, accept it. In other words, do not disagree with your wingman; accept all his statements, even when he says “he shoves pickles up girl’s asses then eats them.”
Don’t Ask Open Ended Questions aka no Pimping
Pimping is when an actor forces the other actor to say something awesome. For example, one actor hands another an imaginary piece of paper and says “this piece of paper has the funniest joke in the world written on it, read it!!” That forces the “victim” to come up with a really funny joke on the spot.
Just the same, don’t put all the pressure on a wing. Only ask him questions you know he can answer. Never put your wing on the spot unless you know for sure he can hit it out of the park.
Funny Skillz Not Required
Don’t try to be funny and the humor will just come out. In other words, don’t try hard. Let it flow naturally. Pathetic = someone looking like he is trying too hard.
Making your partner look good makes you look good
Like don’t deny. Making a partner funnier makes the entire stage shine. Making a wingman look good makes both guys sparkle like ten giga-candle spotlight.
To see the difference between really awesome improv/wingman-ness and just decent, check out the Pickup Podcast and compare it to the Seduction Bible podcast. Both are very good, but only one is mind blowingly entertaining.
The more I learn about impov the more I realize how much of it applies to pickup.
So improv, or Improvisational Theatre or Improvisational Comedy is a type of performance where actors get on stage, work with each other, and make up a performance on the fly. Generally, the goal is humor.
In improv there are a few basic rules: Don’t Deny, Don’t Ask Open Ended Questions aka no Pimping, You Don’t Have to Be Funny, Making your partner look good makes you look good. See http://www.fnipgh.com/shortcut4.htm for a more thorough explanation.
As I learned the rules, I realized that many of them are exactly like wingman rules:
Don’t Deny
Don’t deny means that if someone presents a situation, accept it. For example if your partner holds his hands out with an imaginary bowling ball and says, “I’m handing you a bowling ball” don’t say “this is not a bowling ball, that’s a fried turkey.” Instead, accept it. In other words, do not disagree with your wingman; accept all his statements, even when he says “he shoves pickles up girl’s asses then eats them.”
Don’t Ask Open Ended Questions aka no Pimping
Pimping is when an actor forces the other actor to say something awesome. For example, one actor hands another an imaginary piece of paper and says “this piece of paper has the funniest joke in the world written on it, read it!!” That forces the “victim” to come up with a really funny joke on the spot.
Just the same, don’t put all the pressure on a wing. Only ask him questions you know he can answer. Never put your wing on the spot unless you know for sure he can hit it out of the park.
Funny Skillz Not Required
Don’t try to be funny and the humor will just come out. In other words, don’t try hard. Let it flow naturally. Pathetic = someone looking like he is trying too hard.
Making your partner look good makes you look good
Like don’t deny. Making a partner funnier makes the entire stage shine. Making a wingman look good makes both guys sparkle like ten giga-candle spotlight.
To see the difference between really awesome improv/wingman-ness and just decent, check out the Pickup Podcast and compare it to the Seduction Bible podcast. Both are very good, but only one is mind blowingly entertaining.
Monday, July 28, 2008
The Rail Reporting is Pissing Me Off
The Honolulu Advertiser and writer Sean Hao is now on my growing shit list of people and organizations twisting the facts on the rail.
It really pisses me off when the newspaper twists facts in a veiled attempt at unbiased reporting.
For those who don’t live in Honolulu, one of the hot button issues is whether the City should spend $4.2 billion (or more) on a 20-mile mass transportation system, aka “the rail.”
Obviously, grandmas and lobbyists are coming out of the woodwork to push or prevent this biggest public works project in the history of Honolulu.
So, today, the Honolulu Advertiser ran a story with this headline: “Most in Honolulu say they won't use rail regularly, poll shows”
Rather than quote the entire article, here’s the summary:
The poll was conducted on 510 residents
47% were very unlikely to regularly ride the rail
12% were somewhat unlikely to regularly ride the rail
24% were somewhat likely to regularly ride the rail
16% were very likely to regularly ride the rail
Margin or error was . . . I don’t know because it wasn’t published in the article. It was partially published in a linked pdf file, but that margin was broken down by the demographics and I couldn’t determine the margin of error for the entire poll.
Short story of me being pissed off is that no one ever said MOST people would ride the rail. Reading between the lines the poll shows that more people will ride the rail than originally estimated.
The City estimated that the rail would have 95,000 riders a day by 2030—less than 10% of the 2030 population (which is estimated at above 1.1 million). The poll shows 16%.
Today the population of Honolulu County (Oahu) is 905,601 (2007 estimate from the U.S. Census). 16% of that is 144,896 people. If we assumed zero population growth, 16% is still more than estimated. Add in the 24% who said that they are somewhat likely to be regular users, the tourists, people who will ride the rail occasionally, and population grown and maybe 175,000 people a day by 2030 will ride the rail—almost double the 95,000 estimate.
Point being, according to the poll, MORE PEOPLE SAY THEY ARE GOING TO RIDE THE RAIL THAN ORIGINAL EXPECTED.
The headline should have read “Poll: 16% Very Likely To Use the Rail Regularly.”
It really pisses me off when the newspaper twists facts in a veiled attempt at unbiased reporting.
For those who don’t live in Honolulu, one of the hot button issues is whether the City should spend $4.2 billion (or more) on a 20-mile mass transportation system, aka “the rail.”
Obviously, grandmas and lobbyists are coming out of the woodwork to push or prevent this biggest public works project in the history of Honolulu.
So, today, the Honolulu Advertiser ran a story with this headline: “Most in Honolulu say they won't use rail regularly, poll shows”
Rather than quote the entire article, here’s the summary:
The poll was conducted on 510 residents
47% were very unlikely to regularly ride the rail
12% were somewhat unlikely to regularly ride the rail
24% were somewhat likely to regularly ride the rail
16% were very likely to regularly ride the rail
Margin or error was . . . I don’t know because it wasn’t published in the article. It was partially published in a linked pdf file, but that margin was broken down by the demographics and I couldn’t determine the margin of error for the entire poll.
Short story of me being pissed off is that no one ever said MOST people would ride the rail. Reading between the lines the poll shows that more people will ride the rail than originally estimated.
The City estimated that the rail would have 95,000 riders a day by 2030—less than 10% of the 2030 population (which is estimated at above 1.1 million). The poll shows 16%.
Today the population of Honolulu County (Oahu) is 905,601 (2007 estimate from the U.S. Census). 16% of that is 144,896 people. If we assumed zero population growth, 16% is still more than estimated. Add in the 24% who said that they are somewhat likely to be regular users, the tourists, people who will ride the rail occasionally, and population grown and maybe 175,000 people a day by 2030 will ride the rail—almost double the 95,000 estimate.
Point being, according to the poll, MORE PEOPLE SAY THEY ARE GOING TO RIDE THE RAIL THAN ORIGINAL EXPECTED.
The headline should have read “Poll: 16% Very Likely To Use the Rail Regularly.”
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