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Machines Are Out to Get Us
2007-08-02 06:25:00
While surfing the web I came across this article from PC World. I hate to make light of this find, but I can't really help it. It just makes me think of the Futurama episode where all the robots rebel on Mother's Day.Fry: Yeah, uh, I'd like a cup of coffee, please.Coffee Mach ine [pleasant voice]: Would you like cream?Fry: Yes, please.Coffee Machine [crazy voice]: OUT OF CREAM!Fry: Oh, uh... okay.Coffee Machine [pleasant voice]: Would you like sugar in your coffee?Fry: Yes, uh, eight spoons.Coffee Machine [crazy voice]: OUT OF COFFEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!Fry: Uh, Lila... I think there might be something wrong with the coffee machine.The coffee machine then begins to spray Fry with coffee, yelling "how do you like me nooooooooow?! Hahahahaha!"So great. Oh... and I guess maybe this printer particle thing might be serious or something like that. I'm just glad I have an inkjet...
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Utopia
2007-07-30 23:01:00
While watching Star Trek, I was always led to believe that The Federation was some sort of utopia. Their ships seem to be built for science and exploration just as much as they are for battle, and there is economic cooperation between the member worlds. Half the time they are off to stop some epidemic or to solve some dispute, or getting caught in some sort of alternate time period, but there really isn't that much warfare (honestly to my annoyance). Humans have stopped fighting one another, disease has been pretty much eradicated, starvation solved, and Earth seems to be a peaceful and as Q put it, "boring" place. I always questioned what the government was, and the economic system and about the freedoms of the place, but they seem to make it a pretty damn nice place to live.That all changed when I watched the Deep Space Nine episode "If Wishes Were Horses". How the hell am I supposed to believe this utopia if humans have stopped playing baseball? That's just ludicrous.
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Michigan and Trumbell
2007-07-28 02:46:00
I have no idea when the first time I saw Tiger Stadium was, or what transpired at any games that I attended there, but what I do remember I feel is far more important. I?m not sure if I would have turned out any differently had I never visited the stadium, but I cannot imagine a childhood without lazy summer days spent in a ballpark. I remember those long low tunnels and the great expanses of green everywhere. I remember the sea gulls and the hot dog vendors and watching batting practice. I can still remember sitting in those plastic chairs eating peanuts with my dad and even if I wasn?t paying complete attention to the game, I was learning to love it, I was soaking in the atmosphere. I?m not even sure what more I can express about baseball or childhood or the Detroit Tigers that I have yet to in this space. It meant everything to a kid from Dearborn, to a Detroiter at heart whose blood was full of motor oil, to sit in that stadium and be part of something that stretched b...
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Wii Impressions
2007-07-25 21:11:00
BSD has been slow lately for a variety of reasons? my internet being sketchy, reading of the seventh Harry Potter, my getting used to my glasses and not having as much time to write lately. With two of those problems solved, I?ll try to get writing on a semi-regular basis, though I have no word on Caleb. Thanks to Paul, I?ve had a Nintendo Wii for the past couple of days and a whole bunch of games. While I haven?t played any of them long enough to actually ?review? them, I just wanted to give my impressions on some of them and the console as a whole. I?ll probably do this again with some more games once I?ve played more. Oh, and I?m going to try to make it through this whole post without a penis joke, but I?m not guaranteeing anything. Wii SportsIt brings me back to the good old days when my Genesis came with Sonic the Hedgehog. While really more of a tech demo than anything I guess, it really is a fun collection of mini games. There are a few different modes for pla...
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Telemarketers and Resumption
2007-07-24 20:10:00
If Heather from "Accounts Services" is reading this, I know there is currently no problem with my credit card account seeing as I have no credit card account. Stop calling me!In other news, I'll be back tomorrow with a longer post.
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Maid Marian
2007-07-19 05:16:00
I've been getting some suggestions lately, which is good... I'm glad to have ideas on what to write about, but normally it just doesn't work that way. To write anything that I consider good, I need to be in the mood to write on the subject... so instead of writing a season preview for Michigan football, or posting funny youtube videos, I'm just going to ramble for a while about a subject that I know nothing about.I guess it doesn't help that the first lesson of love I remember came from a Disney movie. As a child I watched Robin Hood daily, and a hen always told me that, "absence makes the heart grow fonder". I'm not sure if that's true, but maybe if something is meant to be it is. Maybe crocodiles do truly come back if they are yours... or butterflies, if you'd rather. Sometimes, I think that maybe absences just make it easier for the girl to forget about me, to convince herself that it is best to stay apart. I don't know. I never find that that's true for me thoug...
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Super Mario World
2007-07-17 00:06:00
Victory! Glorious, glorious triumph? After twelve long years, I have finally done it. I can finally die happy? I have saved The Princess? I have defeated Bowser? I have beaten Super Mari o World . Is it just me, or does the Princess kind of look like she has a beard? Now, I know what you?re thinking? ?Matt, that game is a million years old? and ?Who the hell cares?? and ?You?re a friggin? moron?. I know I?ll get the same response I got when I finally saw the episode where Mulder and Scully kissed. No one cares because it happened so long ago, but hear me out? Super Mario World is an amazing game! It?s definitely in my top five favorite games of all time along with Ocarina of Time, Civilization II, and a few others. The controls are so fluid and responsive, the levels so innovative, the gameplay so fun. Isn?t it every kids dream to beat SMW? Freeing Yoshi from the eggs and all the secret exits and that crazy koopa in Castle number whatever? The unde...

Ein Aquarium Explodieren
2007-07-13 01:05:00
While I know most of you won?t understand the song, I think it?s a good song and should be enjoyable even without speaking German, and it?s pretty easy to understand what?s going on from the video. Besides, the destruction of the apartment is pretty damn awesome.
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And as I am Peering down Springs Blouse...
2007-07-10 00:21:00
Why will I continue to search for meaning in a seemingly meaningless universe? Why must I reject those beautiful bouts of chaos? They hit me like pleasant strokes, bubbles in the brain-at the park last summer they floated through that cramped air and sun streaked sky. Sitting in the tub I am four and my mother?s blowing bubbles over my head and they stick to the white tile walls and the water is getting cold and the bath is full of mountains of white that keep popping and a hair floats by and I get scared. When the water is too chilly for me to take and the heater in the basement is already dead from exhaustion mother fills a pot on the stove. Pouring it over my toes I know she loves me. But then it was summer again and for some odd reason music sounded better then it ever had before. Something in the air had changed and what more than that, Spring had crept out from 45 degrees of rain into a stuffy car and suddenly its 63? at the city airport. And that damn it all to hell Apr...
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Lions
2007-07-07 21:26:00
I?m not quite sure what the point of this article is, because every football fan already knows what I am about to say, and no one else cares, and its not even football season, but here it goes anyhow? I?m beyond hurt, I?m beyond caring? I?m just sick to my stomach. The Detroit Lions were never great, but when I was a kid they had greatness. There was Barry Sanders to watch, the greatest running back ever to play the game. Watching him run was like watching a gazelle evading a cheetah, it was pure motion, pure elation. He was a little blue streak doing things that were not humanly possible. It was simple greatness. The Lions might not have won any games that actually mattered, they might have disappointed, but at least they won. At least they had players who you felt cared, who you knew were good and at least you figured that the people in charge knew what the hell they were doing. Not anymore. I?m not even going to name names. It?s just gone all downhill from there. ...

Independence Day
2007-07-04 17:28:00
Happy Independence Day, everyone. I'd just like to take this time to thank some of those responsible for my living in a federal republic and having the freedoms that all men should have.So, I'd like to thank:The ancient Greeks for their democracy,The British for curtailing the power of the King and producing such documents as The Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights,John Locke for his political philosophy,George Washington for his leadership and commitment to his ideals,Thomas Jefferson for the Declaration of Independence,Benjamin Franklin for convincing France to join the Revolutionary War,John Adams for his unwavering belief in independence,James Madison for federalism and the Constitution,The Anti-Federalists for the Bill of Rights,And all the statesmen, soldiers and ordinary people who were integral in achieving Independence from Great Britain and founding The United States of America.
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Speechless
2007-07-03 06:07:00
George W. Bush is the Matt Millen of Presidents...I have nothing else to say.
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Starship Captain
2007-07-02 19:11:00
Sometimes I think I should?ve been born in a different era. People always say that, people always crave change. For some reason, they want something new, something different. The grass is always greener on the other side, and probably dozens of other old sayings that don?t come to mind right at the moment. Sometimes, though, it does seem that it really is greener over there, or maybe it is just greener in fiction. Yeah? Maybe I would?ve been better off being born in a different reality, something that wasn?t so concrete, something more superfluous, somewhere more magical. I started re-reading Dune about a week ago. I?m not sure quite what gave me the urge to do it, but I picked it up and started reading it. I think it was some sort of yearning to read an epic space opera... I can't really believe I just used that phrase, but I'm just going to go with it. I would read for a while and then start to feel guilty about doing it and begin to talk myself into reading so...
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A Couple of Blog Links and Rambling
2007-07-01 20:56:00
Due to several startling accusations that this blog is beginning to resemble a "livejournal", I feel I need to respond. Firstly, the whole point of this endeavor was for Caleb and I to write about whatever the hell we wanted to, and I'm sticking to that point. Secondly, I don't ramble on about my problems or whine about anything. Anything that I write is going to have shades of my personal experiences in it, because, well... I wrote it. But, if I did want to complain about my love troubles or how I sunk a really sweet jump shot in basketball the other day, I will. Lastly, don't take offense to any of this... I enjoyed the comments and know they were not meant with any ill will. You know, to be safe, just don't be offended by anything I ever say.I have a couple of blog links today of a literary nature. Both sites are really hilarious (at least if you find bad grammar amusing). The first is Left Behind at the Fishbowl. Paul found this somewhere and I came across the link o...
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A Duo of Sci-Fi Shows Resurrected
2007-06-30 18:09:00
Rejoice!Futurama and The X-Files are both getting new movies... hopefully, and I couldn't be more excited. They're two of the greatest TV shows of all-time, and at least Futurama was ended way too soon. I'll debate with you whether The X-Files was or not...Here's an interview with Matt Groening on some magazine/website I've never heard of, but it seems legit enough... and I remember reading Groening saying basically the same thing from another source. The basic gist is that they are releasing four straight to DVD movies, then chopping up the movies to play as episodes on Comedy Central. Sounds good to me.The X-Files news is a little less certain I suppose, given that I can't find any information on it from what resembles an actual news source, but whatever, I don't care. I'm going to just dive wildly into the hope and if my heart gets crushed, so what.Here's a link of some news and a supposed interview with David Duchovny. They call themselves "the movie reporter"... ...
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Star Wars Robot Chicken
2007-06-29 20:39:00
There was a Star Wars special on Cartoon Network that aired a couple weeks ago. I meant to post about it then, but I forgot and then things happened... so, I'm just going to mention it now. Here's a link to the page about it: Star Wars Robot Chicken . It's really funny, especially if you've seen Star Wars, but maybe if you haven't. I found a few parts a little stupid and unfunny, but for the most part it was great.I'm not sure when it will air again, but I'm sure it will at some point. Here's a clip from it.

A Goodbye
2007-06-24 08:14:00
There are so many things that I wish I could express, but I can't. It is simply torture to feel a presence in a room and to look around, only to find nothing, and know that my one constant is gone forever.All I can say is that I could never have asked for a better friend.
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State of the Blog
2007-06-21 22:03:00
My fellow? Er? nevermind? Well, it?s been almost three months since Caleb and I started the blog, and I just wanted to state a few things without having to be humorous or interesting? yes, this will just be boring. I hope you all have enjoyed our rambling on about Star Wars, super heroes and old Sci-Fi movies, though I'm not quite sure why you would. I sure have enjoyed writing this thing, though. But, today we surpassed 1,000 visits on the site, and we have around 1,500 pageviews, so I just want to thank everyone who has visited the site and read what we?ve had to say. Caleb and I both really appreciate it. In these past months we?ve had visitors from every continent (except for Antarctica, but I?m working on building some penguins a computer so we can change that? dammit, I said no jokes and that wasn?t even a good one). I would also like to thank the entire countries of? Canada, Costa Rica, Chile, Brazil, Britain, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Spain, Portugal, Se...
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Now that's the Life
2007-06-19 04:11:00
Yes... that is what you think it is.
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Scully
2007-06-16 18:37:00
It?s funny how everything can change so quickly. People come and go like waves washing over a beach, slowly eroding the sand castle that you spent so much time building, slowly breaching those walls you put up. Feelings appear and vanish, transform and regress, sometimes without even your realization. It?s impossible to pinpoint any of it, especially when those sharp feelings recede into vague recollections. At least the lessons learned remain, even if you don't always follow them, and those memories that once brought pain and uncertainty are nostalgia-drenched to happiness. Sometimes I feel that is how I wish to view everything, through the lens of five years in the future where everything is shaded like a sepia picture. It would be so much nicer then, so surreal, like the plot of some Hollywood movie. It?s funny how one little moment can change everything, how an event can make you see things so differently, how you can be so certain of a thing one week and be lost the n...

A Potato
2007-06-14 05:03:00
Ugh...That really sums it up. Just, ugh.Like the great Charlie Brown once said... ugh.When you have no tears left and you can't stand to think about it anymore, that's really all there is in the end. Shit fucking sucks.More to come eventually... but it's not the time right now.
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No-Hitter
2007-06-13 03:42:00
No-hitter!Verlander just threw a friggin' no-hitter!It was the first by a Tiger since 1984 when Jack Morris pitched one....and I missed it. Hopefully FSN will have the recap on tonight and I can watch the game. I've never actually seen one.For those of you who don't know a no-hitter is when a pitcher... well, doesn't allow any hits. How 'bout that?The Tigers beats the Breweres 4-0.Some links from various news organizations follow:Yahoo SportsESPN.comThe Detroit Free PressThe Detroit News

Vulcan Found in Canada
2007-06-10 07:16:00
According to an article at CBC.ca, a Vulcan was discovered in Vancouver, British Columbia. The man (alien?) was discovered to have green blood while being prepped for surgery.Dr. McCoy was not available for comment.The above link is courtesy of Kudron.
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755
2007-06-09 19:40:00
You know... I'll probably write more about this when Bonds actually (hopefully he won't by some miracle) breaks the home run record, but I just wanted to share a link from The Onion and a few thoughts.The funniest thing about the article is that... it's not funny. It's really not funny at all.It's just sad. Sure, I chuckled a few times, but overwhelmingly it just left me with a hollow feeling in my gut.Let me make a few things perfectly clear, this isn't about one man and it's not about race... at least not to me.It's about purity and history and the feeling I get when spring comes and baseballs are hit again. It's hearing my dad tell me stories about Al Kaline and Johnny Bench, and my grandfather telling me stories from even further back. It's about my father telling me about how my great-grandpa used to love the Yankees, and hearing about all those names that bring chills to your spine. It's about Ruth, and Hank Aaron's struggle against everything to bring the bi...

Gangsta Wood Spidahs.
2007-06-07 20:03:00
Really makes you wonder what Charlotte would've written had she been on that shit.
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Wolverines Upset Commodores
2007-06-05 04:31:00
Victory!The Michigan Wolverine s baseball team advanced to the super regionals of the NCAA Tournament tonight by defeating the #1 ranked Vanderbilt Comm odores.Pinch hitter Alan Oaks hit a home run in the top of the tenth to give the Wolverines a 4-3 victory.Michigan was 2-1 against Vanderbilt this weekend, a stunning upset in a sport that is traditionally dominated by southern schools. Michigan got little respect upon entering the tournament, but pulled off a huge victory.Here are some links:Some pictures from the Michigan Daily.Short article on MGoBlog.Hail to the Victors!
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Me, a Swimmer, and The Creature From the Black Lagoon: An Unnatural Love Af
2007-06-03 16:37:00
What?s wrong with the Creature From the Black Lagoon is everything that is wrong with science and religion. Love .I can still remember when I first saw this movie. It was a long time ago. Throughout six and seventh grade I spent many Friday nights with my best friends Joshua and Nathaniel. We?d stay up ?late? at Josh?s, sitting on his floor watching old movies his father had rented for us. We?d watch the classics: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy, Abbott and Costello Battle Racism and Oppression in White Hollywood. And we?d watch the creature features, like The Creature From the Black Lagoon . Remember when you were little, and you were never sure weather something was going to be really scary, or just exciting and funny instead? Watching The Creature From the Black Lagoon is very much like that. When you?re young so many things that shouldn?t...
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Tales from the Internets, volume 2
2007-05-31 04:43:00
Well, it's that time again... a time to post crazy links, that is. Once again, I got a lot of these from various sources, and I'll try to give credit where credit is due, but I forget a lot of the time where this stuff came from.One side comment... I understand that it's some sort of marketing ploy to repeat the name of the company/product ad nauseam during a commercial, but it's annoying as fuck. Do I need to hear the word [company name removed to prevent advertising] ten times in three sentences? No, no I don't. I think I need to up my dose or television or something. I'm actually starting to get un-brainwashed by commercialism.Anyway, on to the links. From the people at Progressive Boink, a hilarious database of Hanna-Barbara cartoon characters. Definitely worth it if you ever watched any of them as a kid (or an adult, I guess). Speaking of which, why the hell did I watch all my parents' cartoons as a kid? Was I the only one?While still on the subject of cartoons,...
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Spidy Sense
2007-05-27 09:35:00
In the immortal words of Stan Lee: "'nuf said."
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Vader's Head
2007-05-24 18:09:00
"Banded together from remote galaxies are thirteen of the most sinister villains of all time: The Legion of Doom. Dedicated to a single objective, the conquest of the universe. Only one group dares to challenge this intergalactic threat: The Super Friends!" I never read comics much when I was a kid. Sure, I flipped through some of my Uncle?s old ones from the sixties, but I was never really into them. I have no clue why, but I always preferred reading books to comic books. So, it was through a different medium that I learned about super heroes and their villainous counterparts; it was through television, the way every child of the nineties learned about anything. I loved watching X-Men, Spider-man and The Super Friends on Saturday mornings, but it wasn?t until I decided to watch The Super Friends again about a year ago that I realized something? The Legion of Doom lives in a giant Darth Vader head.The archenemies of The Super Friends live in a giant Vader mask! I...
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