The Aa-Pahoehoe Blog

Made my first purchase on Jellyfish today in the live smack show. Snagged a sweet "300 Poker Chip Set with Aluminum Case" for only $26.50, shipping and tax included (more than 57% off).

Madden 08 really really sucks. Gonna get Tiger Woods 08 this week. That's gotta be better.

I return to LiveJournal at 3:30 AM early on a Saturday morning and see many changes to this site which look cool.

A few notes:

Madden 08 sucks. I hate it.

I need to buy my big HDTV soon.

Jellyfish is an awesome website.

My "new" laptop (Alpine) is finally back up and working again.

It's time for bed... in my new house that I moved into a month ago.

I'm watching Wednesday's Deal or No Deal, and Leyla is not holding case 13 and Alike is not holding case 18! All is not right with the world! This better not be a permanent change. Grrrrr...

Mormons on average weigh 4.6 pounds more than other Utahns, a study by a Brigham Young University professor concluded. The study also found that members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were 14 percent more likely than nonmembers to be obese. That was 18 percent for men, and 9 percent for women.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060214/ap_on_he_me/mormons_heavier

Oh my heck... At least my favorite mormon from Utah is lucky to not follow this trend - Neleh!

Yes, it's February first. So first off, happy birthday to Nate. Also, this is my first new post on my redesigned blog. Like it?

Now on to my reason for posting. I just discovered a new map site. Well, I didn't discover it like I was the first to ever find it, but I don't think it's quite as well known as others. My proof lies in the lyrics of "Lazy Sunday" [aka "The Chronic(what?)cles of Narnia"]:

Well let's hit up Yahoo Maps to find the dopest route.
I prefer Mapquest. That's a good one too!
Google maps is the best. True dat, double true!

So what wasn't mentioned? Windows Live Local. It's currently only in beta and I found it to be quite the memory hog, but I some of the aerial images looked quite nice. Also, in certain areas, it gives you the option to view a very nice, clear bird's eye view photo of the area. For example, here's my high school! And here's my college! Anyway, I just thought this was a pretty cool feature. Yay Microsoft! LOL

Here's the best link Andres has sent me in a long time:
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/01/25/parappa-the-rapper-live-performance/
Although, it might not be funny if you've never played the game.

Check out this spam e-mail I got today from someone named Escobar Ernie:

A say sleep
Be travel open
do not listen send
them understand fill
we sit study
search break drive
On ask hear
That bring shut
but hear work
home run fill
He send finish

If you can make any sense of that, please fill me in on it.

Ok, so fifth-seeded Mary Pierce just lost in her second round match at the Australian Open. Or as I like to call her, Mary frickin' Pierce. Normally this would make me happy, except this time I picked her to make it all the way to the finals, beating an injured Clijsters along the way in a relatively weak bottom half of the draw. So, this time I'm actually pissed at her for losing lol. This leaves a wide open draw for comeback girl Martina Hingis to make it through to the quarterfinals. Should be interesting.

Tonight, it's getting warmer the later into the night it gets. A couple hours ago it was 56 degrees, and now at almost 5 am, it's 62!!! However, there's a lot of wind and some rain coming. But still, 62 degrees in the middle of the night in January in Pennsylvania... insane.

www.theriensucks.com
I think it's pretty funny that this site exists, but I do feel bad for the guy. He's played for the Flyers for so long now that he's recently moved up to 5th on the Flyers' all time games played list. But he's just not good enough anymore. The defensemen brought up from the Phantoms, Freddy Meyer and Randy Jones, are easily playing better than he is. I think they should take a page from the Eagles' book and release Therien and make him a "Flyers ambassador" much like the Eagles did making Hugh Douglas an "Eagles ambassador."

So my mom was in Bloomingdale's today in King of Prussia and who did she happen to see? Stephenie from Survivor! My second favorite Survivor ever. She talked with her for a few seconds and Steph had a big smile on her face when my mom recognized her, but Steph was very busy buying a dress for her niece it looked like so she didn't get to talk with her long.
It's also funny because just last night I had been watching the local news coverage of Stephenie on the night of the Guatemala finale while I was recording it to DVD.
The other coincidence is that I had just gotten in the mail the item I won from the Survivor auctions after the Guatemala season ended. I bought a canteen for $26 that the survivors used in Palau. Now I need to set up a little Survivor shrine with my few other pieces of memorabilia that I have ;)

NBC has a cool online version of its gameshow Deal or No Deal that you can play for fun. I've probably played around 25 times or so now, and just a few minutes ago I won the million dollar grand prize for the first time! Don't believe me? Check this out. And no, I didn't edit that image. No joke. And in case you were wondering, I had picked case number 21 to be my case in honor of Peter Forsberg :)

American Cities That Best Fit You:

80% Las Vegas

75% Atlanta

70% Austin

60% Denver

60% Honolulu

This is kind of funny because most people would probably think that Las Vegas is not my type of city, with all the gambling and other sorts of things that go on. But I've actually wanted to visit there for some time now. I'd like to do a Las Vegas, Grand Canyon, and Four Corners combo vacation. Hopefully some day...

So I started to make a list of my top ten favorite Survivor contestants through the first 10 seasons, but I quickly realized I would have to leave off too many of my favorites, so I decided to go with a top 20. This was still pretty hard to narrow down, and the particular ordering of each person was tough. But here's what I came up with, for now:

1. Rob C. (Amazon, All-Stars)
2. Stephenie (Palau, Guatemala)
3. Rupert (Pearl Islands, All-Stars)
4. Colleen (Borneo)
5. Colby (Australia, All-Stars)
6. Elisabeth (Australia)
7. Ethan (Africa, All-Stars)
8. Kathy (Marquesas, All-Stars)
9. Kim P. (Africa)
10. Ian (Palau)
11. Bobby Jon (Palau, Guatemala)
12. Tina (Australia, All-Stars)
13. Rob M. (Marquesas, All-Stars)
14. Gervase (Borneo)
15. Sandra (Pearl Islands)
16. Rodger (Australia)
17. Big Tom (Africa, All-Stars)
18. Sean R. (Marquesas)
19. Jenna L. (Borneo, All-Stars)
20. Rudy (Borneo, All-Stars)

Honorable mention would have to go to (in no particular order):
Teresa, Vecepia, Neleh, Paschal, Jenna M., Christa, Tom W.

Eagles special teams suck: Bad kick coverage. Bad punt coverage. Bad kickoff returns. Bad punt returns. Hurt kicker. A bad snap on an extra point. At least the punter is doing ok. At least it's only through 5 games.
Flyers special teams suck: Pathetic power play, 1 for 19. Pathetic penalty killing, 14 for 19. At least it's only through 3 games.
On that note, I'm going to the Flyers-Penguins game on Friday!

As seen on Late Night With Conan O'Brien:

Trump impersonator: Melamarosa [Melania] is actually carrying octuplets.
Conan: Really? Octuplets?
Trump: That's right.
Conan: Yeah, wow.
Trump: The octuplets will be split into two teams and faceoff in a series of prenatal challenges.
Conan: What?
Trump: One by one the losers will be kicked out of the womb and put up for adoption. Only one fetus will become, The Baby. Coming next summer only on NBC.
Conan: Right, good luck with that.
Trump: It's gonna be huge.

No, I wasn't the only one to have the reaction that I did to the Black family last night. Check out this video of what Jimmy Kimmel said tonight on his show.

So, The Amazing Race 8: Family Edition premiered earlier tonight, and I was worried it would be really dumbed down due to the number of little kids on the show this time. I was pleasantly surprised at how good it was, though, especially since they were in Philadelphia and other parts of Pennsylvania. It looks like they might remain in the US the whole race, but I hope they at least go to Canada or something. But now to the point of my post, the last place team on this first leg of the race was the Black family, an African-American couple and their 2 kids. Not that I'm a racist or anything, but I found it slightly amusing that the Black family were actually black, because, for example, other teams could say something like, "We gotta beat the Black family!", which would sound really racist, but would not be since that's actually their last name. I know it sounds kind of bad, but my brother and I found this amusing. But I'm sad that they are out of the race now because they seemed like really nice people and the kids were cute. Plus, I couldn't stand that obnoxious Paolo family and was hoping they would lose. Favorite team so far: the Linz family because they crack me up.

You know those rare days when you hear some unusual thing mentioned on two different occasions? Something you may have never even heard before in your life. And then all of a sudden you hear it twice in the same day. I seem to have one of those days every month or so, and it just happened. What was it this time? Loretta Swit. I was watching the most recent episode of “Battle of the Network Reality Stars” on Bravo (as Beau would say, “Love it!”), and she came on as a sort of guest host for an event since she had taken part in the original Battle of the Network Stars in the 70s. Well, I was just heading to bed but felt like watching a quick episode of NewsRadio first since I was in the mood for a good laugh. Low and behold, Dave Foley’s character (which by the way brings this full circle since he hosts another reality show on Bravo that I love, Celebrity Poker Showdown) mentions Loretta Swit. I couldn’t believe it and he said it so fast that I almost missed it. In this NewsRadio episode, Loretta Swit was one of the women on Jimmy James’ wife candidates list. I’m sure I had never heard of Loretta Swit before except from this NewsRadio episode, but not knowing who she was, it went right over my head. But today, I learned of this former actress and then amazingly heard her name referenced once again just hours later. Pretty funny how these things happen.

I hate Federer, I hate Federer, I hate Federer, yes I do.

(But on a happy note, Lisa Raymond won the women's doubles title this afternoon!)