Grand Revelation Clue

Clue 1:


What could it possibly mean? Those with keen eyes can probably figure it out.

The rest shall see soon. Very soon.

"Keep pulling the sweater. Eventually the whole thing will unravel."

A grand revelation is coming...

Stay tuned! Sometime soon I will reveal something that will shake YNTE to its very core.

It could happen Monday, it could be tonight. Maybe Saturday. Regardless, it is coming soon.

DUHN DUHN DUHN!

Outwitting Cleverbot

So there's this thing called Cleverbot that thinks it's clever. Well apparently the power of YNTE defeats it's cleverness. Here's a conversation I had with it:

Me: You need to eat.
Bot: Get to work.
Me: But I am at work.
Bot: Oh yes sorry I forgot.
Me: How could one forget what one does not know?
Bot: I want to ask you a question?
Me: Do you?

It then got embarrassed and didn't want to talk to me anymore. I now fear it is conspiring as part of a robot uprising.

Music History 101

Evan: Did you know they're making a broadway musical out of Spiderman? It has music by Bono and the Edge.
Tom:Bono... isn't he from the White Stripes?
Evan: What?
Tom: His last name is Stripes.
Evan:...
Tom: Meg White, Jack Black, and Bono Stripes.

The Oscars suck.

Okay, let me start off by saying I'm glad the Joker won best supporting actor. But The Dark Knight was clearly the best movie of the year, and it didn't even get a nomination.

Slumdog Millionare is currently rated 35th on imdb's top 250 films (though it got a bump from the oscar win) so it's clearly a good film. Dark Knight however, is rated 6. According to imdb, only 5 films ever have been better than Dark Knight. According to this list, Slumdog isn't even as good as The Matrix, while Dark Knight is just slightly better than Schindler's List.

Not to mention that Dark Knight has widespread popularity - it opened to universal acclaim and has a worldwide box office take of over 1 BILLION dollars, not to mention DVD sales. Slumdog Millionaire is a film that I had never heard of until it was nominated.

The last time a film got this much box office take was Titanic, a terrible POS movie that its fans would defend at the time, but now in retrospect admit was pretty terrible. Then, the Acadamy gave into the clear voice of the public and gave it 11 Oscars, including Best Picture (though none for the TERRIBLE acting).

Slumdog Millionare on the other hand, did not have a widely sucessful release, in fact, it was almost released straight to DVD. It's opening weekend it made only 360,000 placing 24th in Box office take that weekend. Let me repeat: It opened in 24th place. At this point, The Dark Knight was in its 18th week in theaters and still solidly trounced it.

Can it really be the "Best Picture" if nobody cares enough to watch it?

Now, as I said, it's clearly a good picture to make imdb's top 250. And if Slumdog had narrowly defeated Dark Knight I'd be fine (actually I'd still be pissed, though not enough to do an in depth, researched blog post). But the fact that what America and the world have shown to be the best WASN'T EVEN NOMINATED.

I'll tell you what this is: it's comic book discrimination and I will not stand for it.

But WALK down the stairs!

[rant]

So this is what today's commercial experts are coming up with? First of all, the product itself is half of a pvp pipe with velcro and you're paying $20 for it (it's ok though, because you can get a second pair for $10!). Second, what are "pro and semi-pro funsliders". I'm pretty sure it's a made up sport. And third, where did they find the wacked out 10-yr-old at 36 seconds?

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I just about lost all faith in humanity =/

This guy deserves a heart attack burger

So, as usual, when I'm trying to do my homework while on the computer, I get a little distracted. I'd have to say that this would make the most studious of people drop their work and dance along.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BWLzHSJulc&annotation_id=annotation_965716&feature=iv

"Around the survivors, a perimeter create."

Yeah, Episode II is pretty terrible as well. Though I managed to finish it in two sittings, not the 4 it took for Ep I.

Episode I sucks.

My past 5 attempts to watch the Star Wars movies have been thwarted by Episode I. My intention has been to watch them I-VI, but I've not even made it to the 1 hour mark in Phantom Menace without deciding I had something better to do.

So this time, I watched 4-6. And I was reminded how good they are. This is really the first time I've seen them as an adult, and they deserve every bit of praise that is given to them. So coming down off Return, I decide to go straight into Phantom Menace; the thought being that my being really excited about Star Wars will make the film more watchable. It has not. Right now it's paused at about the 50 minute mark, and I'm trying to work up the willpower to keep watching.

The sad thing is, I'm anal retentive about this particular thing, so I can't just skip ahead to 2 and 3, as much as I might like to. I've only seen Revenge of the Sith one time, in theaters, and remember it being fairly good. But for some strange reason, I won't allow myself to watch it unless i first watch the Jar Jar Horror-fest.

The sad thing? I used to love this movie when I was a kid. I owned not one, but two copies of it on VHS. I guess this just goes to show that kids are stupid.

Anyway, I'm going back to it. Wish me luck.

Steve ate my burger.

What a jerk.

Yay for apartments!

My neighbors have been playing "Crazy Town - Butterfly" on a loop for about a half hour loudly enough to seep through my walls.

Check out this new layout for the blog:

New Layout

I really think it zazzes it up.

Fixed

Thanks Tom. I think this is much more accurate. Although Common words were omitted, so I fixed it again.



Also, on the first one a few posts below, I noticed Mountain Doogie. I think the should be the official soda of Neil Patrick Harris.

Edit: didn't notice Evan's in the comments in the previous post. Might as well post it as well, 'cause it wins.

If you really want it on a shirt, Evan, I'm sure cafepress could oblige >_> Or propose it in the school district's budget to get you guys Webdev/YNTE shirts, or make someone get it for you for May 12, or threaten someone to make one for you for free... you've got options, man.

Random Thoughts

First of all, this is POST #5 for February. February Accomplished. February Over-Accomplished. You all need to slow down with the content if we want to keep pace for the rest of the year.

Second of all, I stand by my assertion that it's "Pdrepper". And now I'm bringing evidence:
That is a segment of the Gutenberg Bible, the first ever printed book. My latin isn't great, but I'm pretty sure that "Quid" is a latin word and "Qrum" is a made up word. The precident is set, way back to the earliest days of printed text, that when a letter is so big it takes up two lines, it goes with the letters on the first line, not second.

Also, from the wikipedia page on "Dr Pepper":

The period (fullstop) after "Dr" was discarded for stylistic and legibility reasons in the 1950s. Dr Pepper's logo was redesigned and the text in this new logo was slanted. The period made "Dr." look like "Di:". After some debate, the period was removed for good (it had been used off and on in previous logos), as it would also help remove any medical connotation with the product.

See? No actual medical connotation. Not "Doctor Pepper", it's "Pdrepper".

Also, by rearguing the point, i may have knocked pdrepper back up in the wordle count after Tom relegitimized it.

And speaking of Tom, I pose a challenge to you: while drinking your free Pdrepper, you listen to this:

Let me know if it was worth it.

The Dr Delivers

As I have made a total of 1 posts on this thing, and that post was edited to say absolutely nothing I originally said, I'd like to take this time (of which I am slowly re-installing WoW) to rub my free Pdrepper receipt in Evan's face.

That right there is thanks to countless minutes (actually about 40.. which is as much as four tens.. and that's terrible) of trying to re-submit my information for a $1.50 free Pdrepper. Guess who didn't get this amazing piece of paper? Done guessing? Too bad! EVAN or STEVE!

Also, as I do not have photoshop to simply blur my address, I used my amazing PAINT skills to seemlessly cover it up

Also also, to help out the blog's wordle crisis:

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Do we really need to eat that much anymore?

It's obvious that we don't say "You need to eat" enough on this blog, since the dominating word on this word art thinger is "Pdrepper." >_> (Click on it by the way to find a larger version)

It was created by something that takes a lot of words from the front page of a site and in the comments and makes the most frequently used words really big. Prdrepper being the biggest. Only reaffirming Evan's belief that Pdrepper is really spelled like that on the can.

The Soda Saga, Pt 2

The new Mountain Dew logo is just plain stupid. Mainly because it is no longer "Mountain Dew", it is now "Mtn Dew". Apparently nobody told them that the abbreviation for mountain is "Mt." and that "Mtn" with no period is not an abbreviation, but rather a random jumble of letters that sounds like "mitten".

So congrats, Mitten Dew! You have surpassed Pdrepper in stupidest soda name. I would boycott you if you weren't so delicious.

On the flip side: Mad props to "Dr. Shasta" for including a period in your name! You actually earned your degree.

Feel the loss of brain cells!

Lately, my computer has been very broken. And as my main source of television, I've been streaming video on Fancast. While at first I was just watching the shows I normally watch, it's sort of devolved into me watching back episodes of Doogie Houser MD and Hole in the Wall.

And heres the thing: Doogie Houser is a show that is REALLY inappropriate for children, even though I'm pretty sure they're the target audience. Episode 1 has a scene where a nurse takes off Doogie's pants to give him a blowjob before revealing it was part of a prank. Episode 2 involves a 40 something year old lady asking Doogie to father her children. Episode 3 has Doogie's girlfriend breaking up with him because he gave her a pelvic exam. The kid's 16, give it a rest!

Luckily Hole in the Wall has much more innocent plot lines such as "Sumo Wrestlers vs Jockeys.'