The Necessities of Life

The site has been extremely dull recently and I must apologize for that. The mods have just finished college applications, and now we are waiting to hear back from our respective choices. Even though it is not the spring semester yet, when I won’t do any school work, my friends and I have decided to do a quick update on the situation.

We now have another site, currently under construction, called Super Tight Stuff. We are hoping to post pictures, videos and pretty much anything entertaining on the site. If you have any ideas or questions, feel free to contact me or one of the other admins. The site is currently under construction, although we are meeting daily to discuss formatting and content of the site to get it up and running as quickly as possible.

Again, sorry for the lack of updates, and I’ll try to keep writing on the blog as more time becomes available to me.

Miles

I am scared of the proposition that Governor Sarah Palin could soon be the Vice-President (or even the President) of the U.S.  After watching several interviews of Palin, I have come to the conclusion that she is undoubtedly not a worthy candidate for the Vice-Presidency.  While she certainly has die-hard supporters out there, I would like to invite these people to look up the recent prank call made to Palin.  The Masked Avengers recently prank called Palin and throughout the entire call, it was clearly evident that Palin is not only shallow but also just down right ignorant. 

What happened was that a Canadian comedian pretended to be the French President Nicolas Sarkozy.  Throughout the interview, there were plenty of hints that the imposter Sarkozy really wasn’t Sarkozy.  For instance, the fake Sarkozy asks Palin if she knows that he’s been “following their [Palin's and McCain's] campaign closely with his special American advisor Johnny Hallyday.”  In case you, like Palin, didn’t know, Johnny Hallyday is a French singer and actor…NOT Sarkozy’s American advisor.  I’ll give Palin the benefit of the doubt on this one though.  Many Americans probably don’t know who Johnny Hallyday is so it’s completely reasonable that Palin would play along for this trick.  The next tip off that Palin was being prank called was when the imposter Sarkozy referred to Palin as “my dear.”  Now I this doesn’t seem to outrageous, but when was the last time you heard a politician call another politician “my dear?”  Unless there is a relationship going on between two individuals in politics, I highly doubt that such a high-ranking government official like Sarkozy would be calling Palin “my dear.”  However, Palin continues to tag along for the ride, much to my delight.  Next, the fake Sarkozy explains that he enjoys hunting and that “on pourrait tuer des bébés phoques aussi.”  Palin’s response?  “Well I think we could have a lot of fun together as we’re getting work done, we can kill two birds with one stone that way.”  In case you don’t speak French, the fake Sarkozy said “We could also kill some baby seals.”  So essentially, Palin agreed to go hunting for some baby seals which, last time I checked, was illegal in Alaska (which just so happens to be the state that Palin is governor of…).  Now I’d say that’s pretty funny but perhaps Palin didn’t know that bébés phoques meant baby seals.  I’ll give Palin the benefit of the doubt on this one too.  However, when “Sarkozy” says ,”I just love killing those animals. Mm, mm. Take away a life, that is so fun!,” Palin should have definitely have known that something was not right.  Would it be appropriate for a politician to say something like, “I just love killing those animals.”?  I don’t think so.  To make matters worse, Palin’s response to this was some laughing…  Next, the fake Sarkozy tells Palin about how he is great friends with “the Prime Minister of Canada, Stef Carse.”  First off, the Prime Minister of Canada is Stephen Harper, not Stef Carse.  Secondly, Stef Carse is a famous Canadian singer.  Now I find it hard to believe that the governor of Alaska, a state bordering Canada, did not (and probably still does not) know who the Prime Minister of Canada is.  Palin’s response was something along the lines of, “Well, he’s doing fine too…”  Pretty funny stuff.  I also believe that I heard Sarah Palin say somewhere that she had a good working relationship with Harper…maybe she just didn’t know his name…  Anyways, the biggest give that Palin was being prank called was when the fake Sarkozy said, “You know my wife is a popular singer and a former top model and she’s so hot in bed…”  Do you think somebody like Sarkozy would call Palin up and say that his wife was so hot in bed?  I don’t think so.  Furthermore, Palin’s response was something along the lines of “Oh my goodness!  I didn’t know that.”

Well, I’m done hating on Sarah Palin.  Go watch the video on YouTube, it’s hilarious (and somewhat scary):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nGlFxpgaw4.  I don’t think she’s fit to be in such a high position of power, and if you disagree, that’s perfectly fine and I invite you to comment below.  Thanks for reading!

The $300 Million dollar advertising campaign returns for its second installment, New Family. And, if my review of the first ad was anything to go by, you won’t be surprised that I loved it. I imagine there will be folks out there that don’t, but I thought it was comedic genius and exactly the right thing for Microsoft. Make up your own opinion, and let us know in the comments. Watch it HERE

Being good friends with the other admins on this site means dealing with constant verbal, physical, and mental abuse.  They do this in various ways whether it is extensively tickling me (I am ridiculously ticklish) or doing various things with my iPhone that they know will get under my skin.  Considering the fact that most of you out there on the internet probably aren’t concerned at all with the fact that I am ticklish, I’ll be talking about ways (I’ll actually only be talking about one way…) to annoy people with iPhones assuming they let you use it.  To effectively use somebody elses iPhone is to first get pass the passcode.  If the person doesn’t have a passcode, then you just slide the bar and you have access to everything.  If the person does use a passcode (such as myself), you can fairly simply slide the bar, click emergency call, and then double click the home button.  This will bring you to the person’s favorites page.  Assuming the person has contacts on the favorites page, you can simply click the little arrow on the right of the contact which will bring you to a profile type page.  Under this page you have the option of also text messaging this contact which will bring you to the person’s text messages.  So basically if you double click the home button on the emergency call screen, you have access to the person’s favorites page and all their text messages which is quite an annoyance.  To make matters worse, if somebody has sent the person a text message with a link to a website in the message, you can then simply click the link and then have access to the internet and whatever pages the person was browsing on their iPhone (potentially their email…or some other naughty website they wouldn’t want other people to know they were looking at).  I’m sure there are more ways to get even further on a passcode locked iPhone but this trick is quite annoying because my friends have sent various text messages to certain people that I did not want them to send text messages to so it frustrates me…a lot.  The point of this article is to show people that the passcode lock is somewhat useless because people can still access the phone, text messaging, and internet features of the iPhone.  If you’re totally cool with people looking into your text messages then I guess it’s not all that bad.

Excuse me, before reading the post about Shoe Circus let me take this opportunity introduce myself. My name is Mark and I’m a 17 year old, also from Seattle, and unsurprisingly quite good friends with the other Admins of this site. I am hugely into cars, in fact I am thinking about writing a review of the 997 Turbo I took to the racetrack earlier this summer. I am also midway through the restoration of a 1963 Triumph Spitfire and will give updates about the project as it continues. In my free time I run cross country, play soccer, and work at enjoying my last year in high school. Firmly in the Math and Science disciplines of school, I, like Peter, have the noble goal of using those skills to procure huge quanities of cash so I can finance my ungodly expensive hobbies. Like collecting cars. And feeding myself. Hello to everyone on teh interwebz, it’s my pleasure to meet all of you.