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Author Archives: cesperson
March 26, 2008
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P.S. I’m just practicing calling I-5 the five to get used to that sort of talk. I’ll blend in like a chameleon. Naire.
March 26, 2008
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We’re in Oregon now. The plan is to take the 5 today to northern california. Tomorrow we’ll take the 101 to San Francisco.
March 26, 2008
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Live blog. Testing, testing. Seattle to California, 160 characters at a time. Uncensored and unedited until I get to a wireless spot
March 24, 2008
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“He outscored Georgetown 25-22 in the final 14:24.” Stephen Curry is assassinating brackets everywhere. The tournament was a lot more fun to watch when UW was in it—I guess I took it for granted. Especially the whole notion of having … Continue reading
March 21, 2008
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First look at Snake Eyes. Everyone’s favorite E-7, played by Darth Maul.
March 20, 2008
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Philippines Three
I kind of dropped the ball back when I said I’d post 100 pictures from the Philippines trip, ten at a time. I’m going to try and finish that off within the next week.
March 20, 2008
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The Bank Job
A little tradition for the past few years has been to do dinner and a movie on Fridays when possible. You might jump to conclusions and think that “when possible” means “when I can get a date“, but it actually … Continue reading
March 14, 2008
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Shaq dives into the front row. Some guy recorded it on his digital camera like one row behind the action. You could say it’s pretty good Shaq Fu-tage (Wocka wocka wocka!).
March 14, 2008
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Food court musical. Fast forward to 2:15 if you don’t feel like watching the whole thing. I’m not the hugest fan of Improv Everywhere, but this one was good, real good.
March 12, 2008
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City of Men
Reviews have a lot to do with expectations, and mine were high since City of God is probably my favorite foreign movie. City of Men doesn’t live up to those expectations. It’s sort of unfair to make the comparison because … Continue reading
March 10, 2008
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Starcraft II Zerg unit sheet. Some highlights: “Overseers lose the slime and creep abilities of the Overlord, but gain a larger sight radius and give the player the ability to see cloaked and burrowed enemies.” I assume this means the … Continue reading
March 8, 2008
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10,000 B.C.
12,000 years in the making. For whatever reason, I had pretty high hopes. Just about everything else is just too ridiculous to overlook. They mixed the story from Apocalypto with the bad guy from Stargate (and it also had a … Continue reading
March 7, 2008
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Photograph from Tropic Thunder, Ben Stiller’s new movie. Robert Downey Jr. is in it (look closely, that’s him in the middle). At first I thought “backlash”, but in the movie he plays an Oscar-winning actor that wins a part in … Continue reading
March 6, 2008
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Kobe Bryant montage. It’s a little old, so there’s nothing from this season. After getting so used to YouTube, you can sort of forget that video can look good on the computer. It’s always good when these fan-made sports videos … Continue reading
March 4, 2008
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Article about a guy that ran 50 marathons in 50 days, each in a different state.
March 4, 2008
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Saw this on the news this morning. Here’s a video of Knut the polar bear. There are tons of tribute videos to the guy. Here’s a wikipedia entry, and a German Vanity Fair cover (Which reads, “I am Knut; an … Continue reading
March 4, 2008
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Birdman is back! He is best known for his performance in the NBA’s dunk contest in 2005 when he needed eight tries to finish his first dunk. Here’s Bill Simmons recap of that All-Star Weekend: Looking back, I think the … Continue reading
March 3, 2008
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Top 10 reasons Raptors fans hate Vince Carter.
I’m guessing these aren’t in those dream comprehension books
My iPod Nano broke this week. Kind of bummed out, but it had a good run. It seemed out of nowhere, I didn’t handle it any differently. I took it out to change a song and I was greeted with … Continue reading
March 3, 2008
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America’s Best Dance Crew is kind of hot right now, but it’s best viewed in clips. Why watch people on roller skates if you can just skip them? West coast folks, MTV puts the clips of the current week’s episode … Continue reading
March 1, 2008
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There Will Be Blood
I was planning on saying something like, “I can definitely see why Daniel Day-Lewis won best actor, it’s easily the best performance of the last five years.” The problem is that I looked it up and it’s been four years … Continue reading
February 29, 2008
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New Iron Man trailer. Goes to Myspace Trailer Park, which has links to high-quality versions. I’ve read comments about how this will be the best comic-book movie of 2008. To me, it seems unlikely that anything will be better than … Continue reading
February 26, 2008
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Zach Randolph in one of the worst possessions you’ll see in your lifetime. Here’s a snippet from a good description from Basketbawful: 3. He totally loses the rock like somebody abusing the freestyle control on NBA Live and has to … Continue reading
February 25, 2008
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Jimmy Kimmel’s response to that other video by Sarah Silverman and Matt Damon. From his post-Oscar show. Ridiculous amount of random stars.
February 24, 2008
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Be Kind Rewind
About what I was expecting. All the parts where they are remaking movies are clever and really entertaining, the rest of the movie is alright. Mos Def is good—If you liked him in Hitchhiker’s Guide, you’ll like him in Be … Continue reading
February 24, 2008
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80th Academy Awards. Those are your winners. No Country for Old Men won Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. Javier Bardem got his Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. Juno probably had no real shot at Best Picture, but … Continue reading
February 24, 2008
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Christmas Eve Party
Slightly late, but it’s been on my list of things to do and I needed to cross something off.
I need more descriptive headings
Just thought I’d use Dark Room and write for a while. I went back through my archives and this site has been sort of stagnant for a while. I feel like it was better around two years ago; the site … Continue reading
February 23, 2008
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RoboCop II
There are two reasons that RoboCop is remembered as a good acction movie rather than a good action trilogy. Reason number one is RoboCop II. Public opinion of this movie is that they somehow forget the entire end of the … Continue reading
February 21, 2008
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Robocop
RoboCop is one of those movies where I thought I saw it as a kid, but I either a) actually didn’t, or b) didn’t understand it at all. I’m going with ‘actually didn’t’ in this case. I knew it was … Continue reading
February 21, 2008
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“She spilled my coffee”. Looks like an SNL skit. Actually a public service announcement.
February 20, 2008
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Watch Tracy McGrady try to hold his laughter in. Some guy proposes to his girlfriend at a Rockets game during halftime at half court. From what I’ve read, it’s probably fake. Looked good to me, so I might be gullible.
February 19, 2008
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Baguio at night: One
Excluding anything from the actual anniversary ceremony (which are simply too important), these are my favorite pictures from the Philippines trip. For this week, I’m posting one per day. At the time, I was still jet lagged, so I fell asleep in the afternoon and woke up in the middle of the night. It was one of those moments where I knew I better take pictures or I’d regret it later. Here’s my post about that day, where I use the word cacophony and recall a ridiculous dream.
Also, I had no tripod. I used a t-shirt to keep the camera steady and placed it on the balcony ledge. That’s a Shoe Mart in the background on top of the hill on the left side.
February 18, 2008
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Jumper
The best movie featuring Hayden Christensen and Samuel L. Jackson since Episode II. There’s a sequence filmed in the Colosseum that’s pretty cool and served as a reminder that I couldn’t think of many movies actually filmed inside the gates. … Continue reading
February 17, 2008
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Trying to be models
I don’t think I’ve posted these yet. We took these in the summer at Kerry Park. I don’t think I was supposed to smile. As far as I remember, I set my camera up on a tripod, I used a flashlight from my car to shine on the person to help with the auto-focus, then I switched it to manual focus and opened the shutter for 30 seconds. While it was open, I used Paul’s camera to set off flashes from different angles. My guess is that’s the exact process professionals use.
February 16, 2008
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February 13, 2008
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2001 NCAA game – Duke vs. Maryland. Duke rallies from a 10 point deficit with one minute remaining to force overtime.
February 13, 2008
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Dwight Howard preparing for the dunk contest. The dunk at the end is pretty nuts. He also gives a demonstration of how ridiculous he looks hanging off the rim.
February 13, 2008
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Do schools today kill creativity? It’s a 20-minute talking head video, just a bit of a disclaimer. Ken Robinson’s talk from the 2006 TED convention. We watched this in lecture today, and Robinson provides his ideas about today’s education systems … Continue reading
February 12, 2008
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No link, just something I want to mention. Is it really necessary for SportsCenter to replay Richard Zednik getting his throat slashed? I understand yesterday, but today they’ve been replaying it, slowing it down, and highlighting the neck area as … Continue reading
February 11, 2008
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Because Joe Buck is about as exciting as me, here’s Marv Albert’s Westwood One call over the Fox telecast of the helmet catch. Since Dan didn’t watch SportsCenter for a few days after the Super Bowl, I told him America … Continue reading
February 11, 2008
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After that Boomer blow up from last week, a few more came out. He’s still mad at the teleprompter. More potty mouth footage. And his method of smuggling pills down from Canada.
February 7, 2008
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We Need Girlfriends. Haven’t watched any yet, supposed to be pretty good. And here’s a New York Times article about it.
February 7, 2008
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The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
The King of Kong is a documentary presenting the history of Billy Mitchell and following Steve Wiebe, a guy from Washington, in his attempt to beat Billy’s Donkey Kong world record. It’s better than I just made it sound right … Continue reading