May 2013
2 posts
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IRON MAN 3...
Before you read any further, know this… THERE WILL BE SPOILERS GALORE HERE. So if you are saving yourself for the theater, then stop reading and go look up more trailers. For those of you still here I continue.
This film has been talked about as a much heavier Tony Stark character piece rather than a straight up Iron Man film as the first two were. This is also not a bad thing, and I think...
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Europa Could...
Mars is a fascinating planet. We have sent probe after probe there to discover more about the origins of the planet and how it may have once inhabited life. We know that water flowed upon Mars at one point and we are digging and drilling into small sections of the surface to search for more answers.
When it comes to the search for extraterrestrial life, however, Mars (though interesting) is...
April 2013
5 posts
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Groovy...
When I was a kid there was one movie that was a must-rent every Saturday afternoon. There was a small family-run video store down the road and every time I entered, I would run right over to the horror section and grab “Army of Darkness”. At that age I had no idea that this was the third in a collection of films that helped shaped the character of Ash. Of course, Army of Darkness starts by...
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Motivation, Design, and Intent...
Take a moment and really inspect the image above. This is a car designed to efficiently end anyone who gets in its way. Notice the reinforced steel paneling below the headlights that allow for maximum front-end collisions with little damage. See how from its hood to windshield there lies a metal chainsaw like contraption meant to deal with anyone who rolls up onto the hood? The tires are large...
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For only $15, you too can learn The Secret...
Did you hear? There’s a secret to being successful, wealthy, healthy and happy! You haven’t heard? We’ll throw me $15 and I’ll show you how to be all of these things and more!
…are you buying my sales pitch?
If I’ve failed to sell you then I want to personally congratulate you and ask that you take that $15 and put it in a savings account. And for those that pulled out their wallets… put...
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Possible, Plausible, Probable, and Evident…
If there is one thing we can all be sure of in this world, it is that shit happens. Not only is shit happening, but also it has happened continuously in the past. In regards to the past we are left with the remnants (architecture, antiques, relics, fossils, etc.) of past things and events happening. Historians study the meaning behind these remnants, as do archeologists, geologist, botanists,...
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Full Circle...
Well it’s been a long time since I’ve had Verizon cellular service and originally we had left because my fiancé and I were looking to slim down expenses. At the time I was with Verizon my bill was in excess of about $170 a month with a shared family plan. I had been grandfathered in with the unlimited data plan (which we all know was actually capped at 5 Gb per month). Verizon has since...
March 2013
2 posts
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Who is Randy Pitchford?...
What kind of personality do you need to have in order to pitch and hype a game to a level of what would look to be unfathomable, when you stop into your office every single day and can plainly see that the true product is nothing like what you just finished telling the fans. Randy Pitchford sits as the CEO of Gearbox software which is known for such games as the Borderlands series, the bringing...
Confirmation Bias...
Confirmation Bias allows for the continuation of fringe ideas that lack any real evidence when operated from within a controlled experiment. We all do it; we have some random event take place that seems too good to be true and thus we begin to form opinions based on that event, while at the same time refusing to acknowledge the multiple times that the event did not transpire positively.
Lets...
January 2013
3 posts
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Alan Grant Wouldn't Approve....
“Paleontologists have a huge incentive to twist the truth, just a little. If they can find a bone with a lump on it, theorize that it was a limb or a feather, give it an impressive name, say it is 73 million years old, and suddenly he has his picture on the cover of National Geographic magazine, has a book deal and lectures for life.”
-Ray Comfort.
Let me just start by making everyone aware...
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Nexus 7 Still Surprises...
I still cling to my Nexus 7 for just about all in home and on the go distractions. I originally ordered one when Google had its I/O conference and aside from the fact that I had one issue regarding a looping reboot (which was fixed by a simple factory reset), it is still the greatest tablet on the market if you are leaning away from Apple. Not only is it still the best feeling tablets, but it is...
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The Theory of Relativity...
The Theory of Relativity is quite possibly the greatest modern scientific discovery of all time and yet I would venture to guess that most of us have no concept of it or at the very least fail to see how everyday life is absorbed in the major concepts of the theory. We all know it:
E=mc2
But what does that equation really say? It’s simply saying that the mass of a body is a measure of its...
December 2012
3 posts
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Why PC Gamers Use Steam...
Let me place you in a scenario that I encountered a few days ago regarding my purchase of FarCry 3, which is an amazing game (by the way). As a PC user, I have a few options as to how I get my games and I will tell you that I generally only use one source, Steam. There are many out there (Origin, Uplay, Amazon, Windows Live, etc. etc.) and while Amazon is a great option because it often beats...
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There's a Pattern Here.....
What happened in Connecticut last week is horrible. Not “was” horrible, but “is” horrible. The reason I refuse to use the word “was” is because it would allow our country to fall back into the familiar habit of quickly returning to our everyday lives, while the only advocating towards making positive changes in our country lands completely in the laps of those most effected. There is a pattern...
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What are the odds?.....
Imagine holding a vigorously shuffled deck of cards. Face down you spread them in your hands and think of a card. Really think about it. Imagine turning that card over. See it in your head. Visualize it. What are the odds of you selecting the exact card you thought of out of that shuffled deck? Magicians will say they can 100% of the time, but we know they have tricks up their sleeves. Real...
November 2012
3 posts
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Dont Be That Person...
It’s about to get messy this week and I don’t mean on your plate this Thursday or on TV when the Redskins take on Dallas for the first time in who knows how long. I’m talking about that sad day after Thanksgiving where thousands if not millions wake up too early and stand in line to kill each other over cheap gifts that are all forgotten about after January.
I literally hate this day of the...
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Hitman Sneaks Up on November 2012.
I have this on-going joke with a good friend of mine where I usually would call her up or stop by her store and tell her that she better have everything ready for release night for the new Hitman game (whichever version was coming out). I would tell her that I heard people are thinking there’s going to be a line around the block at midnight. Then she’d quietly type on her computer and bring up...
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2012 Election....
I sat playing Assassins Creed: Brotherhood last night until about 8pm. It’s been years since I played the first game. It’s really fun honestly outside of the occasional hiccups in climbing and the once in a while camera angles. I picked it up because my birthday was over the weekend, and though I wanted to try Assassins Creed 3, it was more responsible to save some cash by picking up it’s older...
October 2012
3 posts
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Mitt's PBS Math Headache.
Lets do some quick math.
In 2011, the US Defense budget was $712 Billion. That’s $712,000,000,000. There are 8765.812 hours in a single year. If we divide the 712 billion by 8765.812 hours in the year then…We spend about $81,224,648.67 per hour on Defense.
The CPB receives a total of around $450,000,000 of which PBS gets about $26,000,000. What this math shows is that PBS itself...
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The History of Violence...
We spend our days on Earth with enough oxygen to breathe, a sun that keeps us perfectly warm, and a relatively stable rotation that keeps us from having to worry for years to come. We are special within our solar system as far as we can tell so far. Water is abundant and weather is survivable. Our atmosphere keeps us from being killed off by radiation and solar storms. Picture perfect you could...
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REDSKINS @ BUCCANEERS - W (24-22)
It was a nail biting finish, but the Redskins made everything work on their final possession to get the ball in field goal range as Billy Cundiff landed a game-winning (and his only successful) kick of the day.
POSITIVES:
It is amazing what having Pierre Garcon on the field can do for your offense. He’s either open as a guaranteed reception or he draws more attention allowing you to open up...
September 2012
6 posts
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r/ShitRomneySays
Yes there is a subreddit devoted to simply the words that come from Mitt Romney’s own mouth. Id like to spend some time giving you an insight to some of these wonderful gems full of misunderstanding, ignorance, and a straight up lack of being able to connect with the common folk.
Mitt Romney on….
BAIN:
“Bain Capital is an investment partnership which was formed to invest in startup...
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Redskins Vs Bengals - L (38-31)
Well there’s nothing really I can say about this home opener that’s going to make you overly smile. The last two weeks have shown that this is a team that cannot defend against passes beyond 10 yards and also can’t keep a pocket from collapsing. We are not going to be able to survive 13 more games if Kyle Shanahan can’t find a way to balance the read option with conventional styles of QB play....
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LETS GO DEFENSE!
Maybe it’s because of my ability to be over-amped for football season, but I can’t even explain how powerful it feels to know that our credit card debt is near its end. For about four years since graduating college in Philadelphia we have been struggling with a large credit card debt that I had acquired because my pay was too low and it was all I could rely on to really get by, which was ignorant...
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Redskins @ Rams - L (31-28)
Well week two has passed us by and it has taught everyone watching Sunday that if this referee deal doesn’t get signed soon we could be looking at more player injuries and an overall nastier set of games each week. The Redskins traveled to St. Louis to take on the Rams last Sunday at 4pm. Bad calls were made, frustration ensued and players left the field with major injuries that will forever...
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Raiding Is A Lost Art
Leveraged Buy Outs (LBO’s) are a huge part of our financial system and when intentions and good positive practices are followed through, they can not only turn a struggling company into a great one, but also can also fill the pockets of the private equity firm or bank that originally bought out the struggling company. Lets simplify this process…
As a private equity firm, I have set profits...
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Pay Up, Goodell.
I’m a diehard Redskin fan being that I was born in VA and raised near DC my whole life. I’m also an RG3 fan and after the great game we had in New Orleans for week one of the 2012 NFL season, that is now completely solidified and in stone. That being said, the one thing that has got me worried about this season isn’t the ability of my team to succeed in our schedule, but more whether or not the...
August 2012
1 post
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Ahhh... Good Old Prosperity!
“Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity.”
- Paul Ryan (VP Presidential Candidate)
It’s an interesting quote. On the surface it sounds pretty solid, right? Certainly you can’t expect to make it through life only borrowing and spending and expect prosperity and if you take Paul’s quote at that base idea, I suppose you could say he’s right. There is an issue, however, with the...
July 2012
5 posts
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Google's Nexus 7
The tablet market is pretty much defined solely by Apple with the iPad being their most engrossing and original product to date. On top of that it is a product that is completely unchallenged by the competition except for maybe effort by Samsung with their Galaxy line of tablets. For the high price of around $500 you get something that works from Apple and works extremely well. The Android...
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Punishing The Punisher...
The anti-hero is commonly used to describe the common ordinary “every-man” characters who are not living up to an iconic or idealistic sense of moral standards, in the sense that a standard archetypal hero would be. Generally we think of antiheros as those who possess qualities of both the standard hero and villain. They are relatable to us because we aren’t perfect as humans. Frank Castle (The...
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OUYA Gaming Console - Sign Me Up!
I can honestly say that for me, console gaming is all but dead. There isn’t a console out there that can even compete with my PC. I’ve dropped the Xbox live community, the almost dead online PS3 community, and have headed back to my roots on the PC. The one thing that help facilitate this move was the inability to get what I really wanted out of my Xbox or PS3. This is all because of the...
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Lets Stop Playing "What If"...
“What if I sent you back in time to 1939, gave you a gun, lined up the sight, and all you had to do was pull the trigger to end Hitler’s life? Would you do it?”
The premise of this “What If” question purposed by Ray Comfort is meant to get you thinking about the moral idea of whether one life is worth millions…but not really. The catch will be revealed soon enough so don’t answer it yet,...
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My “Spidey” Sense Has Stopped Tingling.
Not since 2004 when Spider-Man unmasked himself to plead to Doctor Octavius to end the madness of finishing his reactor, have I cared at all what happened in the world of film and the web-crawler. I don’t care that Harry Osborne is upset about his father’s death, that Eddie Brock is a whiney, jealous kid who Photoshops his photographs, or that Sandman is a sad character with reasons behind his...
June 2012
2 posts
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The Banana Man Can...
“I have an intellectually stimulating theory. It’s my theory of where the soda-can may have come from. Billions of years ago, there was a big bang in space. Nobody knows what caused the big bang, it just happened. And from this bang issued this huge rock, on top of the rock was found a sweet, brown bubbly substance. And over millions of years, aluminum crept up the side, formed itself...
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"They're coming outta the walls!"
I spent the better part of two hours last night watching a lecture broadcast that brought both the ethologist (the study of animal behavior) and evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins and the astrophysicist and science communicator, Neil deGrasse Tyson together onto one stage. It was an exchange that allowed the two men to construct a conversation and ask questions of each other surrounding any...
May 2012
7 posts
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“A Better Amercia”
Success in our culture seems to be measured by how many zeros lay behind that whole number in your bank account. The larger the number the more it seems to represent your hard work and the importance of your ideas. I saw an email today in my own inbox that invited me to attend a fundraising dinner for $25,000 a plate, just for the chance to sit in a room with the heads of my own political party....
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"Plans are pointless. Staying alive's as good as...
If you consider yourself a gamer that loves the zombie genre, you own a PC that can run PC games at all, and you haven’t started playing the DayZ Mod for Arma 2 then you are failing yourself as a zombie slaying entrepreneur… or maybe you just haven’t heard about it.
I’d like to tell you that I don’t consider myself a fanatic of the zombie Genre for one reason. They all lack a sense of...
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Adam and Steve?
With all of the news surrounding the recent vote in North Carolina and the President and Vice President speaking out about the issue regarding Gay Marriage, I’d like to make it known that I fully support Gay Marriage. By fully I mean that the rights of any marriage under the law of the United States should grant equal protections and benefits to those whom choose to marry, whether its man...
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Sheeple?
I despise this term. Not in the context of someone calling me that, but more because the word holds no weight. It’s another snappy term to describe a mass of people who are just “doing what they are told” and who “refuse to think on their own”. The problem is that the only people really using it that often most likely have user accounts at the website of Alex Jones. The other issue with those...
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There's Nothing Real About It.
There was a time growing up when the television stood as the great communicator connecting people all over the country and the world, allowing them to share in knowledge and understanding the human condition. I was actually alive for the tail end of this type of television where you could come home from work or school and get lost in a wonderfully written sitcom or dramatic show. For me it was a...
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It's Not "Just A Theory."
The definition of the word theory according to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary is as follows:
The analysis of a set of facts in their relation to one another.
Abstract thought: speculation.
The general or abstract principles of a body of fact, a science, or an art.
A: a belief, policy, or procedure proposed or followed as the basis of an action <her method is based on the theory that all...
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PC Gaming has Evolved, I Think.
Well… nothing really, at least within my circle of hardcore gamers. It’s still a very strong fan-base that generally demands to be the forefront of technological advancements and graphical processing. Out of the nine people I keep close contact with, five are solely PC gamers, three are solely console gamers, and one is hoping to move to PC very soon. Now I realize that this could just be...
April 2012
4 posts
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We Sure Do Apologize A Lot...
If there is one thing I find interesting about any election it is the idea that every single word spoken from anyone involved within the whole process is open to intense public interpretation. This intense interpretation causes the public to expect a level of civility within politics. The proof being that every single time a candidate (or even those close to them or reporting on them) says...
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"I can" versus "I should".
Every few months we learn of an event that tends to shock many of us. For me that event recently seemed to be the Trayvon Martin case. The death of a young kid on any street is awful and saddens me, but when put into perspective it is something that happens every day on many streets in America. I’m not trying to downplay the death of Trayvon, just stating fact. During my 5 years in Philadelphia I...
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An Irrational Fear of Mass?
This month I will be returning to Washington, DC to visit the Natural History Museum along with Fords Theater and many other sites, but I wanted to let you all in on a small secret about one of my biggest fears. And I do mean big…
When I was younger (not sure the exact age) I remember that my sister would take me down to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. I loved it. The minute you walk...
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Back Again...
It’s been a while… I know. Work takes its toll on being able to write as consistently as I have in the prior months, but I want you to know that I’m not dropping out yet. I realized that when I started this blog that I had an idea of what the content may include, but I have since found that variety is the key to keeping an interest such as blogging going as well as the key to life.
I’m not...
February 2012
5 posts
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BUILD YOUR OWN PC ALREADY (Part 3)
If you’ve made it this far in this 3 part series of posts, then you are about 1 hour away after following this post from being completely done and set up. What we’re looking to do now is take care of any software and device drivers that NEED to be installed to have your machine working in 100% good form.
First things first, grab that Windows 7 (64 bit) install Disc. Turn on your computer...
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BUILD YOUR OWN PC ALREADY! (PART 2)
Alright so if you have read up on PART 1 of this probably 3 part series then it’s time that you gather those parts and read over this entire post before starting. It’s long but it has some very important tips and safety checks that you should be aware of before just going nuts with screws and wires. This is exactly how I built mine (and my brothers), and therefore you should make your self...
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Valentine’s Day is Expensive
Showering your special someone with gift on Valentine’s Day can cost you an arm and a leg when you’re trying save money and paying down debt. So I’m going to show you a way that you can save money by staying at home, cooking them a nice steak dinner, and showing them that you are able to go the extra mile and make the day even more special.
I’ve learned over the years that my special lady...
BUILD YOUR OWN PC ALREADY (part 2) is on the...
I’m going to be building my brothers computer from scratch this weekend (using the exact same parts I mentioned from PART 1) in which I will be taking many pictures and have already started working on a post about assembling your PC parts into a working super machine. This is going to be a detailed step by step construction of a mid-range gaming PC. My goal is to inspire you to follow my...
