«Academy Awards Reflections»

Penelope Cruz was looking quite unique and over-the-top glamourous in her 79th Academy Awards dress. I thought it looked interesting, but the feathers were a bit much. At least it wasn't as bad as Jennifer Hudson.



All in all, I was a little bored because of the Academy Awards this year. The people I wanted to win didn't win. It was annoying. The most suprising win was Alan Arkin from Little Miss Sunshine. Totally unexpected. Everyone thought Eddie Murphy would win. Oh well, I had my vote in for him (one of the few I actually wanted to win that won).

I was disappointed that Pan's Labyrinth didn't win more.

When you work at a movie theater, movies just become part of your daily life and it isn't unusal to hear constant chit-chat about the newest flicks.

There were a good number of lesbians featured this year at the Academy Awards. That's good. I think it's a big step to total acceptance. Ellen was a great host.

«Blogs»

I feel like doing something creative, so I'm posting in this blog.

Singingfish is dead. It's like the saddest thing that has ever happened to me.

I've been tring http://elbo.ws, but it's really slow and laggy and all jammy. AND it's hard to find the song you are looking for. A much better replacement to Singingfish is http://webjay.org/. It's powered by Yahoo, I think it is pretty decent. You just have to make sure the file you are getting is full length.

I really feel like listening to the Medic Droid, but he looks like Michael Jackson and is a really bad Jeffree Star spin-off, so that might not be good. Ohhh, fuck it. The Medic Droid. (I think he sounds better than Jeffree Star)

[If the link does work, copy and paste this (http://us.share.geocities.com/coasterdsn/FerSure.mp3) into the address bar.]

Update: http://webjay.org/ link added.

I'm the Decider: Google Video Bests

Don't get Bush pissed:



(I like his small giggle in the middle of the argument. Nice response!)

(I wonder if on top of the front page, he reads my blog?
Hopefully not, because here, I am The Decider!)

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Chinese Singer



Notice everyone trying to cheer her on, but laughing in the process.

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Best of Trigger Happy
Why isn't this show on anymore?

Pi Recite

I found a cool article on Yahoo.com's news:

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"SALEM, Va. - A high school student Tuesday recited 8,784 digits of Pi — the non-repeating and non-terminating decimal — likely placing him among the top Pi-reciters in the world.


Gaurav Rajav, 15, had hoped to recite 10,790 digits and set a new record in the United States and North America. But he remembered enough to potentially place third in national and North American Pi recitation and 12th in the world.

His ranking should be verified by the Pi World Ranking List within two months.

"I'm kind of disappointed, but I guess I did OK," said Gaurav, a junior at Salem High School.

But his mathematical feat won the praise of others, including the math and computer science teacher who got Gaurav interested in it.

"I'm still stunned," said Linda Gooding, one of three contest judges. She then joked, "That's a couple more than I can do."

Gaurav began memorizing Pi while a student in Gooding's class. Gooding holds the competition every year, and said she expected students to learn about 40 digits. Gaurav recited nearly 2,990 the first time.

Gaurav's parents promised him an
Xbox 360 video game console if he had reached his goal. His father, Jogesh Rajav, jokingly offered to get him "an Xbox, but no game."

But Gaurav ultimately turned town his mother Seema's offer to buy him the game system anyway because of their deal.

He will try for the record again in May."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060316/ap_on_sc/pi_prodigy

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I'm jealous. Maybe I should try to enter this contest, too!

Review it, dumb Crit!

I wish I could be a critic. That would rock. You could sit around all day and tell people what was wrong with their work. "Yes, the piece is good. All except for that horrendous nose!"

Oh yeah.

On other news, I have been drawing a lot of my comic. My style has finally been refined to look rather nice. Unfortunately, there is the issue with the text. Text. It sucks. I wish that I had better handwritting or something, because I am afraid that the general reader won't be able to figure out what I am trying to say. So, to try to approach this issue, I went to the local Borders and read a book on comic book creating. Right when I opened the book, I went to the section on the text. They recommend:

1. Try to do hand-written, it gives it some personality.
2. If the hand-writting is bad, create a personal font.
3. Use default computer text... Sans.

So, I am trying out number one on the list, first. When this doesn't work out, if so, I will create a font. If I just can't get those fonts working. I suppose I can settle for a little comic sans.

I am kinda liking this hand-written idea. It makes the editing part so much easier. All I have to do is scan, crop, save, and post. No text editing whatsoever.

Alright. If you have been recently to check out the Beach Aliens site, you probably noticed the lack of updates. Nonono, this doesn't mean that I have stopped creating it at all. I am just trying to get my hands on my own personal scanner to use (instead of my brother's). So, I am forced to save up my own cash to get my own. Hopefully, I will have it soon. This way, I can post the 5.5 unscanned pages I have sitting on my desk.

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Since this post is entitled 'Review it, dumb Crit!,' I will (without further adue) now explain. I plan on trying out new things (like Google Pages post) and talking about them here. If you didn't notice, that was kinda the idea behind the past two posts. I find I get way more page hits when I do this. Hehe. I mean, who really wants to read about what I did during my day?

No, don't get me wrong, I will still do some filler-sort posts about me, but the main focus is changing to the idea of criticism. Oh yes, wonderful criticism. Nope, I couldn't find too much interesting, fresh, and new stuff to write about today, but, maybe tomorrow.

When, which is probably soon, I get sick of being a critic, I will just stop writing those crit-ish articles, and come back to my good ol' style of talking mainly about me.

Hope to see you around.

Oprah, don't lie!

You know what I think about this whole "A Million Little Pieces" story and the guy lying to Oprah?

I think it is complete bullshit.

I think this is all a big sceme to sell the book better. I mean, isn't obvious? Nobody knew about his book until the guy's "secrets" were reveled. Sounds a bit tabloidish to me.

I believe that Oprah and James Frey, the author, are working in conjunction with each other. They are probably both lying. It promoted the book didn't it. A perfect case of reverse psychology! Oprah says, 'Don't buy the book.' and since I have Oprah so much, I think I just might have to buy it!

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Other news:
My webcomic's site was launched yesterday! Yipee. This comic is a really good one. Just wait until you actually see the comic. It is rather funny. It maybe a little tiny bit cutesy, buy still, very funny.

Here's the comic's site: |3each /\liens

Enjoy the alien's that are visiting planet Beach!

MSNBC is Dirty.

Yeah, so I was working on my homework assignment and I was looking up a good news topic to write about and here are some of the weird headlines I came acrossed on MSNBC.com:

> Live dogs as shark bait? No, it’s not a hoax ---Sounds yummy, huh?

> Smurfs bombed in new UNICEF ad ---How could they? Smurfs smurfin' rock!

> McConaughey is money, but does he have 'It'? ---Are they questioning him being male?

> Vikings allegedly had sex party on boats ---No comment

> Drink Me, I'm 'Fun' ---Heh heh, it is definately an innuendo.

> More bones of hobbit-sized humans discovered ---Yay! Go Hobbits!

> Gator-guzzling python comes to messy end ---You can never trust those snakes, even if you are a gator.

> Naked came the burglary suspect ---They tried to make the title sound all 'children bookish.' Haha, that won't work.

> What would a bird flu quarantine look like? ---Large and scary.

Well, now we know MSNBC is creative are you?

I assure you, I didn't read any of the articles I featured here. The real meanings of the news titles are unknown to me. These are in fact real headlines.

Yahoo, Lying?

Here is a follow-up article on the claim that Yahoo search is now more comprehensive. It is from Boing Boing:

" Thursday, August 11, 2005
Battelle on Yahoo search claims, Google reply
Yahoo issued an announcement earlier this week in which they claimed to have indexed over 20 billion items. Over on Searchblog, Boing Boing "band manager" John Battelle posts:

[This] ruffled more than a few feathers across the web, and nowhere more distinctly than at Google. I spent an hour or so on the phone with a group of Google folks, and they shared a lot of information about how they measure index size, how they deal with issues of duplicate URLs and documents, and why they are baffled by Yahoo's claim. I am still reporting this story, so a longer post is forthcoming, but an update at the end of the day is worth penning.

First of all, I agreed to review some of the Google information on background, agreeing not to disclose it save with permission. (I agreed to this only if I could tell you all that I did in fact agree to it). I am still digesting what Google had to say, and the information they sent me, but it did leave a distinct set of questions percolating in my mind, questions that I plan to speak to Yahoo about (Yahoo has agreed to talk as well, we just haven't had time yet).

In any case, the lead really is this: I asked Google to go on the record with their concerns about Yahoo's index and whether they believed the news was in fact accurate, and Google agreed. The quote, which I can only attribute at this point to a "Google spokesperson," is as follows:

"Our scientists are not seeing the increase claimed in the Yahoo! index. The data we have doesn't support the 19.2 (billion page) claim and we're confused by that."

Details here. A response from Yahoo, and analysis on how their numbers were calculated, is said to be forthcoming in another post. But as JBat says, the larger point seems to be:

This calls for a benchmark/standard for measurement that might makes all of this moot.

In related news, and also on JBat's blog, the widely discussed Google/Meetro buyout rumor is thought to be false: Link.

posted by Xeni Jardin at 05:02:08 PM permalink | blogs' comments "


Very interesting. Could Yahoo be lying? That could mean certain doom...
...hey, it's possible.

Yahoo In The News

On Monday, Yahoo released information about their new expanded database. They are now covering more websites and images than Google making them the most comprehensive search engine in the world, but not necessarily the best. Here is a quote from AOL business news:

"Yahoo said its index, boosted by a recent upgrade, covers 20.8 billion online "objects," comprised of about 19.2 billion documents and 1.6 billion images.

By comparison, Google said it tracks 11.3 billion objects. That figure consists of the nearly 8.2 billion Web pages that Google proudly touts on its home page and 2.1 billion images, with the remainder of material coming from its group discussions."
-AOL News

That's just a clippit of little information that may be interesting to you. It was to me! Read the full article here.

AOL NEWS

Here is a quote from AOL NEWS in an article about the space shuttle's landing getting delayed:

"Collins planned to tweak Discovery's orbit slightly so that if the shuttle had to land in California, it would not fly over Los Angeles. Since the Columbia accident, which showered debris over Texas and Louisiana when the ship broke apart, NASA decided to avoid flying over heavily populated areas."

-AOL NEWS

Uhhh, real reassuring, huh?