Category: Personal

Did you ever watch Futurama? Even like it, perhaps? If so, you’ll be pleased to know new Futurama episodes will be on Comedy Central beginning in 2007.

My coworkers love to kid around about this, but it turns out (unsurprisingly, really) that such websites really do exist.

Yeah, check it out. Kick! Punch! It’s all in the mind.

Speaking of which, some bizarrely creative soul created a live action version of one of the challenges.

In the end, it came down to a couple flags. And the “hippies” edged out the “frat boys” to take the $1 million.

Regardless of who I wanted to win, I nearly wet my pants over the last two countries they raced through. I had a blast just remembering my own trip to Thailand, and my couple trips to Japan. I’ve been to the intersection in Shibuya many times already, and the scene of people swarming is etched in to my head forever. On at least three occasions over the past five years I’ve met Kien underneath those ginormous displays where the two story Starbucks is located. Seeing all the inanity that is Bangkok, and the thrill of interacting in those foreign cultures, leaves me wanting more.

Yeah, I can’t wait to go back…

One of the more prolific Flyertalk posters, and an all around friendly, good-natured guy, Vincent (aka vincom) died at the age of 21 last week. I had the good fortune to meet up with him at the Continental events down in Houston over the past two years, where he was often one of the youngest yet most outgoing among the attendees. From all the posts on Flyertalk by those who have met and interacted with him over the past few years, it’s clear he’ll be missed by his family, friends, and those goof-ball Flyertalkers.

This web movie made me cry at work today.

Can they really be making a sequel to the Titanic?

So I picked up a copy of Duck Tales, and without a doubt this show was created during the height of the “Greed is Good” era. C’mon, what other show has such awesome moral lessons in it as “contracts are sacred” and “it’s ok to cheat someone in a deal, so long as the other party thought it was a good deal at the time”?

I came across this waste of time yesterday from a Wired magazine blog. Three hours and thousands of mouse clicks later, I was stuck with the idea of how the game was just like real life. You chase women who want nothing to do with you, then sink thousands of dollars in to wooing them. All while trying to remember what things they like and don’t like in the hope of “getting some”.

And, yes, it’s Final Fantasy themed.

I would like someone to explain to me why this is true.

To quote the article,

Pogue writes: Late tonight — specifically, 123 seconds after 1:00 a.m. — the time and date, for the first time in all of humanity, will be 01:02:03 04/05/06.

Wouldn’t this have been true in 1906, 1806, 1706, etc., as well as come again in 2106, 2206, 2306?

Am I missing something?