Oscars

So, we don't know if the Oscars will be on or not but it's a special time of year when they roll around. I'm trying to see as many films as possible so I can determine my choices but unless Michael Clayton blows me out of the water, There Will Be Blood is my choice for best picture. I'll explain that choice later, I suppose.

Have you seen any Oscar flicks? What are your choices?

Something Pretty

The Riddle of the Dopple

What has four legs in the morning, no legs in the afternoon, and no body at night?

There are at least two answers.

Jersey...

More Jersey Embarrassment.

CeCe's Netflix

I just joined Netflix, which my bank account is a little nervous about but not too much so.

I decided to do so after rewatching The Office today and hearing Kelly's yapping, "So then the next movie moves to the top of the queue. So number five becomes number four. Number six becomes number five. Number three becomes number two. Etcetera, etcetera. And let’s just say that I just sent back Love Actually, which was awesome. And they sent me Uptown Girls, which is also awesome. But guess what? Now I want to see Love Actually again. But it’s at the bottom of the queue! Oh no, what’ll I do? What I do is this. I go online, I go “click, click, click,” and I change the order of the queue so that I can see Love Actually as soon as I want to. It’s so easy, Ryan. Do you really not know how Netflix works?"

And I remembered that I wanted to see Amelie but did not want to go out in the rain or watch it illegally.

I've added my queue to the sidebar so you can browse through it and make any kind of comments in the comment section as to what you think I should be watching.

Yay, Netflix!

News You Should Know About Google

This week your life may change forever and you might not even know it yet.
Check out the dealio on the 700-MHz spectrum auction!

Blackberries

I'm a huge fan of blackberries. Also, I'm not cross-eyed as it would appear in this picture.

We humans have eaten blackberries for thousands of years, probably thinking they were berries the entire time. We were wrong, so wrong.

Blackberries are not berries at all. As an avocado is a fruit, a blackberry is an aggregate fruit. You see how each one has a droplet? That makes it an aggregate fruit. Just like raspberries.

Blackberries grow all over the place from New Zealand to Chile. They are enjoyed all over the world, from blackberry juice in Ecuador to blackberry crumpets in England. I really don't know if they make blackberry crumpets but it is sure fun to assume they do. We grow them here in the US, of course, and my grandparents used to have them growing on their property in Folsom, Louisiana. My grandparents no longer live on that property, as one has died and the other has moved to Mandeville. The USDA tells you the story of berry processing. So, there's a career for you young whippersnappers.

A superstition about blackberries... In the good ol' UK, they say that you should not eat blackberries after a certain time in September because the devil has claimed them by taking a whiz on them. This superstition may hold some weight because mold may start to grow on blackberries after this time.

September 29th is Poisoned Blackberry Day, probably from the above story. Celebrate with someone you don't really like.

According to health24.com, "Blackberries are a good low fat source of vitamin E and it helps to fight infection. It also contains salcylate, which is thought to lower the chance of heart risk. It also contains vitamin C, phenolic acids and folate."

So, as my chemistry teacher in high school would say, "Vitamin E, children, for Alzheimer's disease!" He believed Vitamine E fought off Alzheimer's disease. I believe "they" haven't quite figured that one out yet.

I checked out Homestead Farm, a farm in Maryland that welcomes visitors and also grows blackberries. They have gathered a whole list of recipes on blackberries. I think I would just fall in love with someone who baked me a blackberry pie. Yummy.

West Virginia has an annual Blackberry Festival and its own Blackberry City. So, if you're bored as July turns into August, head to West Virginia.

Blackberry can also be spelled BlackBerry and it magically becomes a PDA.

These are just a few tidbits about blackberries. You can always do what I did to learn more - type in blackberry into your favorite search engine (ours is Google) and find out whatever you would like to know!

Information from this entry that was not cited was probably from Wikipedia, which of course cites other places. Do NOT consider this to be an academic article of any sorts but rather the excitement of someone who just loves blackberries.

January 31

Lost returns.

I'll be watching it with my friend Marcus and his gay friends. I asked him if he was insulted that Lost is known for diversity and yet, does not have a gay character on it. He said that Tom was gay. And Marcus is right. Because Tom said that Kate wasn't his type. And seriously, Kate is every guy's type.

I'm going to watch There Will Be Blood with Marcus tonight. While I'm gone, think about which loved one you're going to share Lost with. Yeah, it's legal to end sentences with prepositions now.

Lost

If Lost is ever televised again, I found a cool site that has a bunch of nerdy maps for the diehard fans who need to watch the show with a compass in hand.

Nerdy Lost Maps

A Comic

I made this comic a while ago using the "Comic Life" which is pre-installed on Macs (all of them?). This is what I consider to be more of a biography rather than a comic about a friend of mine named Kyle Chorpening... "Chorps."

I'm Artsy

So I'm trying to do some cool shit with computers and art and photos and silly things. This is something I did. Love it.

Tiger Phone Card

I was listening to 103.1 here in Los Angeles one Sunday as I was driving home from Orange County to visit relatives and heard this song that would NOT get out of my head for about a week.

It was about two people who lived far away from each other and were very happy to see each other when they finally saw one another again. It was poppy and fun and cheerful and I loved it.

Here comes the bad part - I could not find it anywhere with a lyrics search. It prattled in my head for a week until I found the matching song from the DJ's songlist.

SO, check out Dengue Fever on their MySpace page and listen to "Tiger Phone Card" on their Tune Widget. It is the happiness.

Boooooooring

Alternate definition according to, uh, my BRAIN:

DOPPLEGANGER:

1) That which is righteously bitching.
2) Something that is utterly boss turbo hipster, but not tubular.
3) The danknuts.
4) A word you don't know, dumbass.
5) TWIN GHOSTS - like Casper and Slimer.


Hope this helps the confusion.

Doppelgänger Definition

American Heritage Dictionary calls a doppelgänger

a ghostly double of a living person, especially one that haunts its fleshly counterpart.

So, we're here to creep one another out. Although, who is the fleshly one and who is the ghostly one? I think it's a war to see who is palest in actuality.

However, we're probably going with good ol' Webster:

alter ego

So, either way, we're here to creep you out a bit. We're your double goers in English and your doppelgängers in German.

Thank you, dictionary.com.

Post Whatever We Want?

Well then, here's a link to the site I support for making money online by playing games:

Moola.com

Now we just need people to contribute/read/post comments.