2nd OT SUMMER THREAD

is Evan getting Sonya just a cruel twist of produced fate? We already can guess he won’t beat Brandon, so why are they punishing the poor kid?

that first dance outfit made him looks like an Oompa Loompa

Popsicles and ice cream both have their merits. Usually, I’d say ice cream, but I’m craving a popsicle really bad right now, so I’m gonna have to say its a draw.

different parts of the nation have different names for Otter Pops?

By Popsicles do you mean Ice pops?

Vick is a dick.
Ice cream rules – especially vanilla.
Dont’ really watch much tv.
Dont’ mind the sand, but hate the sun.
Vacations – heading to Virginia mid-August. Will do the usual D.C. stuff I always do when there (I head back every other year).

I watch the Mentalist, Royal Pains, the Listener (boo it got canceled), reruns of Bones and Chuck, and random youtube videos of Whose Line.

I don’t care about football (yet), but Vick killed dogs so I hate him and don’t want him to be employed.

Sand is fun if you don’t care about the clothes you’re wearing. Not so much if its your nice pair of jeans.

Usually during the summer I go to San Diego for two weeks (best family reunion ever – 26 people, condo complex right on the beach, and lots of cousins my age), Disneyland, and/or some long road trip around the western US. This year we aren’t because of some family issues, so we’re doing the whole “staycation” thing (Santa Cruz, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Great America, Giants game, etc.).

Reveal your Teal (Oakland vs Toronto, this Sat. & Sun.) is only a couple days away. O’Canadaaaa….

Last I checked, only three confirmed. That’s…almost as sad as a Nomar pinch hit GIDP

We need more teal (I want to be seen on TSN dammit!)
For all you PROcrastinators, you may be able to get $13 bleacher seats the day of, as long as you get there early enough since it’s Rickey Weekend.

Deadliest Catch, The Closer, Burn Notice and Eureka round out my summer TV watching. And the occasional A’s game.

I have a feeling it’s going to take more than Mike Vick to make the Niners not suck this season. Even if it were preprison Vick. At least one of the teams I follow doesn’t depress me for most of the season.

Ice cream, easy.

Sand is good when exposed to extremely high temperatures and pressures. It’s better when it’s one solid mass.

Vacations? There’re reasons I have more than 5 weeks worth banked.

Judging from the reaction of my Ev-heavy Nabokov ‘shop in the Photoshop Expo thread, I assume some of you play Team Fortress 2. I play the PC version myself – anybody else do the same? Maybe we can trade Steam Community names – mine’s NeoChaos.

Definitely Deadliest Catch…plus Rescue Me (Dennis Leary is the best), Bobbie’s watching True Blood and got me doin’ it too. Top Chef Masters has been fun, mostly because I actually know a couple of the guys.

What Ang said about Vick…and I could give a shit about the 49’ers or any other football team, especially South Carolina.

Ice cream, without a doubt

Vacation? My life is a vacation. Just kidding. Made a short trip to Hilton Head. Several trips to Charleston. Mostly hang out here where I can enjoy my tropical backyard and pool. We’re saving for roadtrips to watch the Sharks and Thrashers/Canes.

Sand? Oh, you should come out here. We even have a shopping center called Sand Hills.

Sand is good when exposed to extremely high temperatures and pressures. It’s better when it’s one solid mass

http://www.dieyoung.org/songfight/

Scroll down to #5 June and see if you can guess which songs are mine.

I just got HBO and so I am officially hooked on True Blood and Hung. But I also love trashy VH1 reality shows, so I am really excited for Megan wants a Millionaire.

That new show Warehouse 13 is pretty alright, kinda like a fun non-scary X-Files. Also, Royal Pains is a great show. USA sure does have some great characters.

Who’s this Vick character and what sport does he play? I used to follow football when I was growing up, but these days I’d rather watch prison and jail inmates do stupid things. That way there’s no speculation as to where they’ll end up and whether they’ll get to play again (I deal with prison populations in my work/research).

Not a big fan of ice cream or popsicles, but give me a large bag of M&M’s and I’ll eat until I’ve spoiled my appetite.

I like sand if I’m at the beach in my shorts, not as much when I get home and it’s everywhere.

Ha, vacation. I’m currently on an unpaid vacation of indeterminate length (unemployment). I did go back to California a couple weeks ago to visit some colleges with my younger brother. Went to Disneyland and Magic Mountain, which were both pretty awesome.

So, it was revealed that Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs back in 2003. [link]

Since its only fitting: Red Sox, 2004 World Series Champions*

bah

what do you guys/girls think of the trades made?

I DID NOT see Evan moving on to the finale! I figured Ade was a shoe in, along with Janine, Kayla, and Brandon. I like Evan, but I think Ade is the better dancer. Welcome to the wonderful world of phone voting.

taken from this article on digg

Another demonstration of the brain’s ability to extract meaning from distorted signals is a form of synthesised speech called sine-wave speech. When you first hear a sentence in sine-wave speech it sounds alien and unintelligible, somewhat reminiscent of whistling or birdsong. But if you listen to the same sentence in normal speech and then return to the sine-wave version, it suddenly snaps into auditory focus. Try as you might, you cannot “unhear” the words that you didn’t even realise were words the first time you heard them
( www.lifesci.sussex.ac.uk/home/Chris_Darwin/SWS).

The first time you do this is pretty cool. After that you can start to hear word like patterns in the beeps and bloops, but most of it is unintelligible until you listen to the sentence in normal speech.

to teal out – what are your weekend plans?

oh and btw, presale tickets go on sale today at 10am … yes, my boys are having me take them (altho in all honesty, I was a Star Wars fan long before them – like when it came out)

I hope to be in line by 2pm and the game doesn’t even start till 6pm! Those Rickey jerseys better be pretty spiffy.

AND, because the weather may be warm, I’ll rock the green and gold with my Sharks jersey in my A’s bag to break out once the sun begins to set. Surprisingly, I don’t own any cute Sharks T’s : /

I have a couple jerseys and some old raggedy shirts that are blah. Anyone have any suggestions as to where to buy relatively cheap Sharks swag? Like, $10-14 for a cute teal ladies T.

Got another ball from Rowand last night… Watched Lincecum pwn the Phillies… Ate too many garlic fries and had In n’ Out on the way home… Garlic Fries + Animal Style = Stomach FAIL

I don’t think I want to tell my clients to “eat a cookie with their butt.” That kind of ruins the thought of cookies.

My sister is watching the Rachel Ray show and they’re showing women that could grow more facial hair than me. I’m jealous.

I just thought you guys should know that…

You have to go on Puck Daddy and watch the Russian interview w/my boy Ovie – Hilarious! He’s like the Russian JR. Can you imagine if someone asked Marleau about whether he has sex before a hockey game?

I used to wonder how people ended up in the muni car tunnels. Don’t drive on the tracks, people!

As someone who used to commute a LOT by train, and had to wake up one morning to see her commuter train looking like this, I really wish people would be a tad more carfeully around tracks and trains. I’m still glad that none of the folks I knew who rode the early train were on it that morning.

someone entertain me!

really that funny?

A couple of Mississippi hunters are out in the woods when one of them falls to the ground. He doesn’t seem to be breathing, his eyes are rolled back in his head. The other guy whips out his cell phone and calls the emergency services. He gasps to the operator: “My friend is dead! What can I do?” The operator, in a calm soothing voice says: “Just take it easy. I can help. First, let’s make sure he’s dead.” There is a silence, then a shot is heard. The guy’s voice comes back on the line. He says: “OK, now what?”

about my FB page and random comments from guys I know ala Plank @ the game 5 meetup

top 10 _ of the decade. Who’s gotten a head start on their lists!?

Holla

A South Park quote from tonight’s episode.
“How do I reach des kids?!”

I wanted to say the one about breaking in to a restaurant and eating their cheese, but I figured I made you suffer enough with my two Sedins comment. ;)

Should we make an open thread? Is there enough demand? If not I guess we could chill here…

If you don’t want to know who won SYTYCD, don’t go on Twitter.

I have to remind myself that not everyone loves to workout like I do. However, it was a success. Little shaky in a few parts, but we got through it and they did well.

Just a head’s up … doing a moonlight hike on a work night and getting in close to 1am might not be a bright idea.

Someone remind me of that if I ever think to do this again.

someone is certain making life interesting. I really need to finish studying today, too

Autopsy results revealed that Billy Mays used cocaine.

They’re bringing tie-dye back (again).
If they bring hypercolor back I will rock the shiz out of that.

My in-laws house is a place where even the gods fear to tread. We’re cleaning it. They don’t know this. It’s BBBBBAAAAAAADDDDDDDDDD. We spent most of today cleaning and we could easily spend another week. We need an army to get this place into shape, I swear…15 years of dust in the bedroom upstairs. Guess what? That grey carpet? IT’S BROWN!

so nice to see you again.

I’d tweet that but Twitter is amazingly still borked for me and no one else.

okay … I’m on my way to meet my niece half-way from here to LA … if anything news shattering occurs with the Sharks, someone call me!

sort of sad nothing has happened. Sort of glad at the same time. Knee deep in dust, I may never be able to comment on and wheeling and dealing. At least, not in a timely fashion.

But Patick Kane and his cousin robbing a cabbie makes it that much more interesting.

This hit is brutal though most of the comments think it’s clean. It’s hard to say on such a small video, but if anyone needed another reminder to keep your head up. there it is.

I’m apparently supposed to tell him we call him “CHILIBAHHHH” but I don’t think there’s a way to without frightening the poor guy.

treyarch is porting the 1st modern warfare to the wii, it’s coming november 10, same day the 2nd modern warfare comes out for all the other systems. want a source? here. want a real source? here. if that’s not enough, you can google search “modern warfare wii”

New Team Fortress 2 update!

So far revealed is 18 new hats (I still haven’t unlocked a single one from the previous update yet :() and a new Arena map (does anyone play Arena mode?). Eagerly awaiting for the next few day’s woth of news on this update.

Joe Thorton is at the Giants game right now. They keep showing him, talking about how great he is (one of the “premiere players of his sport”).

And now everything I have touched in the last 10 minutes is covered in charcoal smears and dust, including my face and clothes. Time to seal this sucker…
(the buildings are charcoal, acrylic and carb othello-y goodness. two of those smear, one very very easily)

I just went on FTF on IE and there are so many ads! Also the “Preview” and “Post” buttons are square… weird!