Roy Scheider, the actor best known for his role as a police chief in the blockbuster movie “Jaws,” has died, he was 75. Scheider received two Oscar nominations, for best-supporting actor in 1971’s “The French Connection” in which he played the police partner of Oscar winner Gene Hackman, and for best-actor for 1979’s “All That Jazz,” the autobiographical Bob Fosse film. However, he was best known for his role in Steven Spielberg’s 1975 film, “Jaws,” the enduring classic about a killer shark terrorizing beachgoers and well as millions of moviegoers.
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Canvasing
A funny thing happened during the Super Bowl pre-pre-pre game show, no not the Paula Abdul “performance”, something else, something unexpected. I, your resident former illegal alien tuned legal permanent resident, was rudely interrupted, this was during the pre-pre-pre game show mind, by a knock on the door by the street team of Ron Paul.
Now I’d assume this was a last minute push to drum up voters for Super Tuesday, but the NC primary isnt till early May, May 6th to be precise. And the real kicker is this:
I can’t even vote!
Of course I was quick to let them know this, after all the pre-pre-pre game show was on, but now I wish I had wasted a good portion of their time before dropping that particular bomb.
Election year, my first year in this country was an election year and now it has found my front door. So now I’ve decided that should I ever end up becoming a citizen, or if they want to sway Robyn’s vote, they need to do something for me. None of this health care/tax breaks/whatever is on their manifesto, fix my toilet! Want our vote? Manual labour, and not the street team, I want Hillary or Obama, hell, even Huckabee to go door to door like D.C. mayor Adrian Fenty did in 2006…
Who’s with me?
Anyone?
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Super Bowl Adverts
Super Bowl Adverts. Rejoice, for this years Super Bowl adverts are online already! It was kinda a mixed bag this year, much like years past, nothing really stood out for me except Will Ferrell’s “Bud Light: Suck One” line…
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Giant Upset
Seriously, as much as I wanted New England to win, and thus go 19-0 this year, the Giants defense came up big, and Eli Manning finally became what a number 1 pick should be. It looked like it was Eli of old after the delay of game penalty was followed up by an interception, but Strahan and co kept Tom Brady buried in the turf long enough for that play to David Tyree and suddenly Eli was a Super Bowl MVP.
All in all it was a very entertaining game, not the blow out some expected, nor a repeat of the high scoring regular season finale a few weeks ago. I’m pretty disappointed by the outcome, but those last few minutes were edge of the seat stuff.
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Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion for Yahoo!
In a bold move to counter Google’s online pre-eminence, Microsoft said Friday that it had made an unsolicited offer to buy Yahoo for about $44.6 billion in a mix of cash and stock. This made Yahoo’s stock jump +97.73% to $28 a share.
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Airplane on a Conveyor Belt
Jason Kottke live blogged last night’s, presumably, now infamous episode of Mythbusters when an airplane on a conveyor belt defied conventional logic and took off. It’s a really complicated matter of physics going on here, but the jist is this… An airplane is not like a car, it’s wheels are not where the power from the engines goes. They are free spinning with very little frictional contact to the rest of the plane, the power from the engines pulls/pushes the air around it allowing forward momentum. The conveyor belt could have been going a million times the speed of light in the opposite direction to the plane and as long as the engine was going at “take-off” speed, the plane would take off… Awesome huh?
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Satellite of Death?
A “large” US spy satellite has gone out of control and is expected to crash to Earth some time in late February or March, government sources say. So right now, everyone has a 50/50 chance of meeting this satellite up close and personal. Always look up, and park your car in an underground lot…
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4 Years Removed
AKA: A Day In The Life Of…
It was 4 years ago today I first landed in Atlanta, at that point I had no idea how long I’d be staying, might have been a week, maybe a month… In the end it was 3 months, and after a month back in Scotland tying up loose ends, I went back for, what appears to be, good. Of course, if you met me you’d never know I’ve only been here 1431 days, my accent has all but been eradicated except for when I talk to my family on the phone (much to Robyn’s chagrin) and that for 2½ years I was one of the countries public emeries, an illegal alien… I joke that I floated in to Miami on a basketball but yeah, I’ve only been an official resident since June 2006…
Anyways, for some reason that sounded good way back when, I decided that on January 24th, to mark this auspicious date in my life, I’d document that day in my life, sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s boring, sometimes it’s indifferent, funny fact, this would be the first “day in the life” I’ve done that I’ve actually worked…
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Justified Firing
Nine D.C. government employees are being fired for viewing pornography on their work computers, including three who looked at inappropriate sexual images an average of about 200 times per work day in 2007, city officials said yesterday. Do the maths children, 39,000 visits a year, 200 times a work day, that’s one porn site every 2½ minutes… How can you do work if you’re visiting a porn site every couple of minutes?
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Star Trek Teaser Trailer
Star Trek Teaser Trailer. Hmmm, only shows the Enterprise under construction… Definite tease.
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Heath Ledger 1979 – 2008
Hollywood actor Heath Ledger has been found dead at a residence in downtown Manhattan. “He was found unconscious at the apartment and pronounced dead,” the New York Police Department said, adding that pills were found near the body. Man, that really sucks… Only the good die young
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And the Nominations Are…
The Nominees for the 80th Annual Academy Awards. No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood lead the way with 8 nominations. Atonement and Michael Clayton not far behind with 7. But will there be a ceremony at all?
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iRovr
iRovr, an ultra-mobile community for iPhone and iPod Touch users. Yeah, so the clique can be more cliquey… But it’s actually quite interesting as it’s all handled through the mail.app.
