Technology is sometimes a complex concept, such that it can lead to some embarrassing moments.Whether it's an infamous presentation that went awry, a product that shipped long before it should, or just a goofy marketing gaffe, these low points in tech serve as a good reminder: make sure your stuff works.
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Thursday, December 25, 2008
Monday, December 22, 2008
The English Paper That got me an A+ (unedited)
Bova, Tenaya
English 99 8 am
Boling
12/11/08
To My Darling David,
I still have a clear picture of our first real date. You know what I mean my real, the chat rooms didn't count. I still see my self standing in front of my bathroom mirror shaking so bad I couldn't even put my make up on right. Dating was never an easy thing for me and going out to dinner with some guy I meet online was just crazy talk, but I did my best. It took me almost two hours to find something to wear that night not to mention how many different times I did and redid my hair. I was just a walking nightmare and not the cool you get to wake up when it is over nightmare, more like the Freddie is going to kill you in your sleep kind. But I did press on and I managed to only be ten minutes late.
You were not any better that night. You could hear you hand shaking as you rang the bell on my front door. I can still see the light reflecting off your forehead as we walked back to your car. I really did think as you closed the door to your car you were going to drop it on my leg.
The silence in the car was worse then death. It was almost like we had so much to say but really nothing at all. If you listened hard enough you could hear both of out hearts beating like a drum line at a college football game. Ever once in awhile I would catch you trying to look at me from the corner of your eyes, but you would not look long enough for me to look back into yours. The traffic was so bad that night all I can remember thinking was get the hell out of our way so I can get to the restaurant, once we get there it will be all better. Boy was I ever right.
We pulled into the parking lot and you barely let me get out of the car before closing the door on me. We walked inside and every sight every smell was like new to me. I had eaten here a million times before and never did a place seem so foreign to me. Almost every table was full so we had to wait a bit and all I could do was look around the room for anything familiar and all I could see was you.
As we were seated you began to speak, surprisingly enough in complete sentences. The restaurant was so very crowed I could barely hear you speak but I did all that I could to get by. After a few moments the room began to fade away from around me and all I could see was you. Your voice became louder then any of the others around me and it was a good thing, because all I wanted to hear was you telling me all about everything the world had in it.
The conversation was different then any other we had shared before. There was something about you being right in front of me that made anything you said way more personal. We had still had almost all of our food on our plates after an hour sitting at that table. There was nothing anyone could have done to stop us, until the waitress can and went a million times and we finally got the hint.
You finally got the door thing right as we left the restaurant. I was so proud of you in that moment. We spent so much time driving that night. Just getting lost in conversation and not really wanting to stop. We finally parked the car and really began to listen to each other.
As we faced each other in the car the silence began again. I will never forget you totally bombing the attempt of our first kiss. The sound of both our laughter filled the car before I stopped it with my lips against yours. There was nothing around us but the stars and the view of town in front of us not that it mattered, all I wanted was that kiss to go on forever.
We had three years of amazing first after that David. Each one of the better then the one before it for different reasons, whether they went the way we planned or not they were still each perfectly ours. For the time that we were together all that matter was each and every second we were together and in the end I took every last one of those for granted. You were it my one and only true love and I realized it one moment too late.
As you read the rest of this letter I need you to understand that this is not a plea for you back, this is a confession of all my faults to you and an apology for all that I have done to hurt you. I can not take the steps forward until I know that I have done all that I can to understand the past. I love you David and always will and I know now that we had a chance to be great and I took that chance from us both. There were some things I could never say then with the fear that I may lose you but now since all is said and done I can give you those things and hope you understand why I am doing this now.
I was always so selfish and cruel to you. I did all that I could to make you feel guilty for ever leaving my side and I am sorry for that. No matter who or what kept you from me I hated it. Whether I was work, family, or friends you were only to be mine and no one else to have you and that was wrong. I couldn't stand the idea of losing you and it was exactly what pulled us apart.
You always had this strength about you that you never believed that you had and I was jealous I didn't have. You could get yourself though just about anything that life could throw at you. If it was me, or work or even bad traffic on the freeway you just walked right through it like it was nothing. I hated you for that. You always kept your grace about you and there was no way I could keep up with that. I just spent so much time wishing I had half the strength you did but what I should have see was that you were my strength.
I am not as confident as you think I am. The way I see it is if I am the loudest person in the room people will remember me as that and will never see who I really am. I am afraid of life and all that comes with it and with you it was you love that I feared the most. How or why could anyone love me like you did? There was never anything that I did in my life to really deserve a love like yours, so how did I get it? There were moments where I would watch you go though your daily routine and ask myself these questions over and over again until I drove myself so crazy I would pick a fight just because I needed to be mad at something. You were just too good, too sweet and too perfect to really be mine. Now all I want is for you to see that I am becoming that confident person you need me to be.
There is no memories in my head more clear then ours David, and they live and replay every where I go. From that first night to our very last one together and I know that one day I will move on like you have, but until then you will always be my one true love.
Forever Yours,
Rene
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Legend of Zelda "We are the Champions" Music Video Tribute
Link channels the singing power of Freddie Mercury and Queen into an animated tribute to 20+ years of Zelda set to "We are the Champions".
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Monday, November 3, 2008
35 Beautiful Examples of High-Speed Photography (PICS)
Below we present over 35 beautiful examples of high-speed photography, which are supposed to provide you with some inspiration of what can be done with high-speed photography. We also showcase some truly stunning slow-motion videos. All the examples are linked to their sources.
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10 SciFi Alternatives To Obama/McCain 08
You can't decide whether to go for McCain or Obama, and you're thinking of just skipping this whole "election" thing altogether. But wait - have you thought about all of the other candidates for President of the United States? We've got a guide to ten(ish - You'll see) science fictional candidates that you should consider.
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31 Absolutely Amazing Video Game Costumes [PICS]
Have a great holiday, and for gosh sakes, play some video games before you submit to your yearly sugar-induced comas!
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008
The 40 Greatest Uses Of The Super Mario Theme
Kōji Kondō was born in 1960 in Nagoya, Japan. When he was 17, he decided to pursue music as a full time gig. When Kondō was 23, NIntendo hired him to write music for video games. Kondō was only allowed to use four instruments for the music. This included two monophonic pulse channels, a monophonic triangle, and a noise channel.
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Saturday, October 4, 2008
Top 10 Best Controllers of All Time
A websites review of what they think the top 10 best video game controllers of all time are.
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Sarah Palin Disney Trailer
An Alaskan hockey mom becomes Vice President in the wackiest family comedy of the year! Sound familiar?See more at CollegeHumor.com/CHTV.Free CHTV video podcast on iTunes:http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=268957390CH Facebook Fan Page:http://www.facebook.com/pages/CollegeHumor/6363207806Watch th...
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Monday, September 29, 2008
Monday, September 8, 2008
I Google Myself
This is a must see. This guy created a rap with all his failed On-line attempts trying to hook up with girls. In the end you have a few min. of your life you will never get back but you will laugh and that is always nice....
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Sunday, September 7, 2008
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Soderbergh In The Park To Stage Production 'Ocean's Twelve'
In what has become a summer ritual for thousands of New York City theatergoers, the Independent Soderbergh Company will return to Central Park's Delacorte Theater this month to stage another free production of one of the Great Bergh's famed works. Coming off the success of last summer's open-air performance of the crowd-friendly Erin Brockovich.
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King penguin receives Norwegian knighthood
http://www.frontpageviews.com/?p=163 LONDON - Nils Olav already has medals for good conduct and long service. He made honorary colonel-in-chief of the elite Norwegian King's Guard in 2005. And on Friday he was knighted.Not bad for a 3-foot tall penguin — actually, three of them.A resident of Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland, the original Nils...
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Friday, August 15, 2008
Monday, August 11, 2008
Monday, August 4, 2008
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
71-year-old chases down mugger
A young female mugger probably thought that a 71-year-old man and his wheelchair-bound friend would make easy targets. Not so much, it turns out.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Man drowns during river baptism (why i dont go to curch)
Rescuers have called off the search for a 22-year-old man feared drowned during a baptism in the San Joaquin Delta. The man disappeared under the water late Sunday afternoon near the Brannan Island State Recreation Area, northeast of the San Francisco Bay, according to Coast Guard officials.
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MTV readies 'Rocky Horror' redux
MTV is doing the time warp on a remake of 1975 cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."
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Man deposits millions, one tattered bill at a time
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The businessman arrived at the Treasury Department carrying a suitcase stuffed with about $5.2 million in petrified, nearly unrecognizable bills. He asked to swap it for a cashier's check.
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Monday, July 28, 2008
Babies Think Like Adults
The finding shows short term memory in babies works similarly to that in adults, who routinely break information into chunks to remember more of it. The discovery indicates that this memory-boosting trick does not seem to be learned, but may be an innate human ability.
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This Tree Shrew is Sober Despite Drinking Alcohol All Day
The Malaysian pen-tailed tree shrew could drink the most annoying drunken fratboys under the table. A new study found that the tiny animal subsists on a diet roughly equivalent to 100 percent beer, drinking up the fermented nectar of the flower buds of the bertam palm plant.
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Sunday, July 27, 2008
5 Painful Facts You Need to Know
First off, let's set the record straight: Pain is normal. About 75 million U.S. residents endure chronic or recurrent pain. Migraines plague 25 million of us. One in six suffer arthritis.
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How High Fructose Corn Syrup Makes You Gain Weight
The researchers found that lipogenesis, the process by which sugars are turned into body fat, increased significantly when as little as half the glucose was replaced with fructose. Fructose given at breakfast also changed the way the body handled the food eaten at lunch.
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Saturday, July 26, 2008
Terminator 4 Sneak & Cell Phones Cause Cancer?!
Bored? Waste Time @ http://blogtv.com/people/sxephilStalk Me:http://myspace.com/youtubephilhttp://twitter.com/phillydhttp://phillyd.tvMake sure to check out the full episode of Retarded PoliceMan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP_wJZGCTNEStories:iPhone GPS: http://tinyurl.com/5rh5yjBikers Fired: http://tinyurl.com/5ccshw...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Monday, July 14, 2008
Salmonella fears take zing out of pepper biz
Read this!! A few weeks back I actually ate the tainted tomatoes and this is NO fun!!! Please read!!
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UK Teachers Win Right to Frisk Pupils for Drink, Drugs, Cigs
Teachers will be able to frisk pupils for drugs, alcohol, cigarettes and stolen goods in a crackdown on bad behaviour.Staff will win the legal right to conduct forcible searches of those suspected of smuggling in 'inappropriate items' in a drive to stop a growing culture of drug-taking and under-age drinking spilling into schools
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Thursday, July 10, 2008
Woman kills husband with folding couch
A Russian woman in St Petersburg killed her drunk husband with a folding couch, Russian media reported on Wednesday. St Petersburg's Channel Five said the man's wife, upset with her husband for being drunk and refusing to get up, kicked a handle after an argument, activating a mechanism that folds the couch up against a wall.
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Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Top Video Games of 2008 So Far
E3, the video-game industry's big trade show, is next week, and you'll be hearing a lot about all the new software coming between now and Christmas. But there's a bit of a lull until Aug. 12, when "Madden NFL 09" unofficially marks the beginning of the fall game season.
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Apple just gave out my Apple ID password because someone ask
I tried to log in to Apple Developer Connection this morning to find out that my password had been changed and the email associated with my account was now a yahoo.com address that wasn't mine. Based on the emails that have appeared in my .Mac mailbox, this was accomplished by sending a one-liner e-mail to Apple.
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10 TV Shows That Were Ripped Off By Other Shows
We probably don't even realize how many shows are "introduced" every year and ultimately fall by the wayside, never to be heard from again. But sometimes a show comes along that influences American culture and other TV shows as well. Here are 10 shows that influenced some serious copy-cats.
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Poem by anonymous
If I tell you that I love you,
Its probably a lie,
If I tell you that we're friends,
you a dime a dozen
If I give you a complement,
Dont listen,
If i tell you I am grateful,
I cant tell you I mean it,
But,
If i give you my heart,
I am yours forever,
If i tell you my secrets,
Your more then a friend,
If i say that you beautiful,
It comes from my soul,
If i tell you a promise,
I will go to the death to keep it
What I say and what I feel,
You may never understand,
And for that I will warn you,
I am impossible to keep,
Harder to contain,
Have no love for one over another,
My words will never rhyme,
And my voice will never sing
If you want my heart,
Try all you want,
but in the end you see,
you will only get hurt.
Its probably a lie,
If I tell you that we're friends,
you a dime a dozen
If I give you a complement,
Dont listen,
If i tell you I am grateful,
I cant tell you I mean it,
But,
If i give you my heart,
I am yours forever,
If i tell you my secrets,
Your more then a friend,
If i say that you beautiful,
It comes from my soul,
If i tell you a promise,
I will go to the death to keep it
What I say and what I feel,
You may never understand,
And for that I will warn you,
I am impossible to keep,
Harder to contain,
Have no love for one over another,
My words will never rhyme,
And my voice will never sing
If you want my heart,
Try all you want,
but in the end you see,
you will only get hurt.
Monday, July 7, 2008
Man Disappointed With the Price on His Life
A British immigrant to Australia auctioned his home and its contents to the highest bidder, after a painful break-up with his wife. His auction didn't turn out as well as he hoped for.
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Sunday, July 6, 2008
Italians are fun
Angry neighbour shot undies
An angry Italian was arrested for taking pot shots at his neighbour's undies with a rifle.
Massimo Lazzaretti, 69, allegedly let fly with a legally owned hunting rifle he had at his home in Carnago after the 56-year-old woman had hung out her washing.
A police spokesman said: "The two neighbours had fallen out some time ago and he said he thought by leaving bullet holes in her underwear he would frighten her enough to stay away from him.
"He succeeded in frightening her but only to the extent that she called us immediately."
Lazzaretti has been charged with endangering public safety.
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Hostage released for pizza
Hostage released for pizza
An Australian prison guard held hostage for two days was released after a ransom demand for pizzas was met.
Up to 20 inmates at the Risdon Prison in Hobart, Tasmania, seized the guard in a protest over conditions in the maximum security jail.
Initially they made 24 demands to authorities, but eventually gave up their hostage after agreeing to 15 pizzas, Coke and garlic bread instead.
"At midnight, the final sticking point with the inmates was that they were requiring pizzas to be delivered. Our staff member was negotiated out with the delivery of 15 pizzas," Graeme Barber, Tasmania's director of prisons, told The Advocate newspaper.
The guard is recovering from his ordeal at home.
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