The Fate of Tyrlon and other Dubious Things

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Entries Tagged as 'Current Events'

The new Dream Team?

August 18th, 2008 · No Comments

If you’ve been following anything about the Beijing Olympics (other than Michael Phelps successful 8 gold medla wins), you have probably heard about the U.S. Men’s 2008 Olympics Basketball team that has been cleaning house over in China.
After winning decisively in the first game versus China by a score of 101-70, they went on to [...]

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Tags: Current Events · Random Musings

China’s Olympic Opening Ceremony - Fact or Fiction?

August 12th, 2008 · No Comments

The Chinese Olympics opening ceremony was from all accounts a stunning example of how billions of dollars can be spent to put on a huge production.  In the days since the ceremony it is becoming more and more apparent that portions of the ceremony were “doctored” to put a better face or look to China.
The [...]

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Tags: Current Events · Rant

Where has the Summer Gone?

July 31st, 2008 · No Comments

This summer has seemed to just fly by so quickly!  It seems like just last week that it was early May and the college students were leaving to go home and things were quieting down, and now it is the end of July!
The students will be back in a couple of short weeks so now [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Current Events · Friends

Resveratrol - Cancer Knockout?

July 29th, 2008 · No Comments

I was browsing around the internet (typical of me, eh?) and found this forum that focuses on the usage of Resveratrol which is often used as a nutritional supplement and thought to have cancer fighting properties.
If you check out the resveratrol forum you will see many cases where people are reporting great success with usage [...]

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Tags: Current Events · Health

City of Heroes, DeedCAD, Batman

July 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment

An unlikely combination unless you count City of Heroes and Batman together of course.  City of Heroes is running a double XP weekend starting tomorrow morning and it should be a fun time.  My friends and I have been pretty busy lately so we haven’t had the time to play in the last few weeks [...]

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Tags: Current Events · Friends · Movies · Software Development

360 curb stomps PS3

July 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment

If you are at all familiar with the Xbox 360 game then you are probably familiar with the Gears of War curb stomp.  That is what Sony fanboys world-wide felt like today when Final Fantasy finally jumped to the Xbox 360 as well, instead of being a Sony exclusive game (as it always has been [...]

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Tags: Current Events · Games · General News