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Subway - Sandwiches that Satisfy

Posted on March 13th, 2008 by sj-g
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Starcraft II

Man this game looks great. This will be the next strategy game released by blizzard, and the way it’s going it looks like it’s gonna be pretty good. It’s still in the early stages, of development, so not much is known about it. They have released some information on each of the three races (Terrain, Zerg, and Protoss). They mostly just released information on units, and they have a small amount of information on structures. They just released some new info on the Zerg about 2 days ago, and from what I have seen they look pretty ridiculous. Just like in the first Starcraft, they are killer in numbers. The graphics will be many times better than in the original Starcraft, and the gameplay seems like it will be excellent, too. Since Blizzard recently announced the game, not much is known about it. If you want to find additional information about the game, try checking out www.starcraft2.com. This game is going to be sick!

Posted on March 13th, 2008 by sj-g
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Shin Sushi

This is a restaurant that I think is pretty good. It is a Japanese restaurant and sushi bar with great food. They have the fastest service, too, and you can count on getting your food fast. They have a great selection of meals to choose from, and a good variety of some tasty appetizers. They have a clean and very sanitary restaurant, and you will be more than satisfied to eat there. It’s a rather small restaurant, but is very cozy and usually isn’t too noisy. I personally love their teriyaki chicken dinner, it is very flavorful and fills you right up. Their miso soup is very good, too, and every meal comes with rice and salad as well. It’s not too expensive either, and you will be very satisfied to go and eat there. You should go and check it out sometime - it’s located over by Sport’s Authority on Blossom Hill Road near 85, so it’s right nearby. Trust me - this place is one of my favorites!

Posted on March 13th, 2008 by sj-g
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DotA - Better Than Warcraft III?

Defense of the Ancients (DotA) is a mod for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and Warcraft III Expansion: The Frozen Throne. The actual strategy game is fun, but it takes too much micro (micro-management of your units and army) for my liking. I prefer playing DotA, as it is easier to play and typically lasts much longer than a normal game of War3. There are two sides that you can be on in dota: The Scourge and The Sentinel. Each side has 4 taverns to pick one unique hero from, and they are all pretty balanced. The game is very interesting, and unless you have noobs (beginners) or pros (professionals or experts) in the game. Usually these make the games last for a very short amount of time, as the noobs just feed the other side. Oh yeah, you also collect money by killing enemy heroes and enemy creeps. Creeps are just the grunt units that are sent out on 3 routes that go along the top, middle, and bottom of the map. there are also 3 defensive towers on each of the 3 routes for both sides that you have to destroy in order to be able to get into the enemy base and destroy their main tower (for the Sentinel it’s the life tree and for the Scourge it’s the frozen throne). Heroes give you a large sum of money when you kill them, and in turn they lose money when they die. The more heroes you kill without dying, the stronger you become. The gold you collect from creeps and heroes can be used to buy items that give you an edge in battle. Now if you’re really interested in this game, it’s probably good to try it out. If you already have Warcraft III, then all you have to do is download the map from getdota.com, or you could just join a game of dota (if they will let you download) and it will automatically download through Bnet. Trust me - this game is fun

Posted on March 11th, 2008 by sj-g
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Guitar Hero 3

If you really want to rock on, this game is probably going to be your best choice. It has a wide variety of songs that you can unlock and play. They have 5 different difficulties for you to try out your skills on, and you can choose to play with the actual guitar or the system controller. The game is rated T for Teen, and has some mild lyrics that go with the songs you play. From all the songs i’ve played there isn’t any swearing, and it is a very fun game to play. I’d give it a 9 out of 10, and I think once you get the hang of how to play the game, you won’t wanna stop anytime soon. Of course, I would go with getting the xbox 360 version, simply because I prefer the xbox over the play station. You’ll love this one!

Posted on March 11th, 2008 by sj-g
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November 2008 - Could it be any worse?

Oh my lord - do I have to move to the moon now? The candidates for this year’s election are - less than sensational. If things continue to go as they are on their present course, it will be John McCain verses Barack (Hussein - Arabic for ‘Dictator’) Obama. For conservatives, things look bleak, because we’re stuck with McCain, the man feigning conservatism views. We really don’t know where he stands as he has changed his view on immigration, the war, and other policies many times in the past 8 years. He’s not a true conservative, and really does not support some of the core views of the Republican Party. But then we realize, here we are facing Obamby, the inexperienced socialist running for the Democratic nomination. He was rated “100% liberal” and his under his leadership we will be dangerously exposed to the terrorists, have a ruined healthcare system, lose all our money to the government, lose many of our rights, and the list just goes on and on. We need to give McCain all the support he can get, even if he does not believe in many of the conservative viewpoints. The reason why is because if we get a man, no wait - Obama is nothing close to a man - if we get this, this, thing into office, the greatest country in the world turn into a gigantic disaster. We need to make sure that Obama does not win the White House, so we need to do all we can to stop him. McCain may not be the best choice, but right now he is our only choice. That is unless something drastic happens in the next couple months where Romney comes back and we have a true conservative condidate. Just remember, we don’t want Barack Hussein Obama in the White House. We better hope Hillary wins the nomination for the democrats…

Posted on March 4th, 2008 by sj-g
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homestarrunner .net or .com?

Man if you people haven’t already checked this rediculously funny website then you are seriously missing out. They are some of the funniest people on the planet. They have all sorts of stuff to make you laugh, like the strong bad e-mails (which is my favorite part of the site) funny cartoons, knock-offs of the old-school games with horrible graphics, and even a homestarrunner.com store so you can get all the merchandise that you desire.

Now the strong bad e-mails, or sbemails, are my favorite part of the website as I have said before. He answers 1 e-mail that any random person sends him and turns it into a hilarious response. Most of the sbemails are absolutely hilarious and you will crack up laughing when you see them.

The first thing that you need to do when you when to the site is click on the ‘first time here?’ button on any of the homepages (they have 25 different and randomly selected homepages that you can click on that have funny animations when you move your mouse onto the links). They show a pretty funny animated introduction that tells you a little bit about the site.

There are a hundred other additions to the site, but you should check out the site for yourself and I promise you that you will die laughing when you see it. Go now to www.homestarrunner.com and laugh the day away!

Posted on March 4th, 2008 by sj-g
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Al Gore and “Global Warming”

Al Gore is a very unusual man in his fight to “save the planet.” He chooses to use famous singers in big concerts to get people to try and reduce global warming. Then when you think about it, neither he nor the singers do anything that they tell you to do. The concerts take up so much energy to power the light shows and the giant mega-speakers. His methods are very hypocritical, just like himself. He has many houses and uses 20 times as much electricity as the average american. He has his own little private jet to take wherever he wants, and doesn’t set an example by using commercial airlines to reduce his pollution. He is a hypocrite. Even Democrats think he is a hypocrite. Why anybody follows him is beyond me.

Gore is not an intelligent man either. While he was broadcasting his theories in Great Britain, he encouraged everyone in the country to all turn off their lights at the same time and then turn them back on as a sign of their unity. Anybody who has basic knowledge in electrical disdribution knew that this was a very bad idea. You may wonder why that is a bad idea, but if thousands of people turned off their lights at the same time and turned them back on at the same time, the sudden increase in power would fry the transformers and cause power outages and other electrical problems for weeks until the everything was operational again. Al Gore is not a smart person which makes me wonder why so many people agree with his theories.

In his documentary (which I was forced to see in my physics class) he blames global warming on humans and says that CO2 is the cause of the problem. In reality, CO2 accounts for 6% of all greenhouse gasses and of that humans are said be responsible for 2% of that Carbon Dioxide (according to an interview on fox news of an experienced climatologist) Al Gore’s statements are false, and he is lying to your face. Why? It beats me. Al Gore has been trying his theories for years and is recently getting more support by the less intelligent community. His documentary blames heat waves on Global Warming and says they are unnatural. You may partially agree with him because it does seem to be hotter than usual, but in reality it is not. Heat waves occur, and anyone that says they are unnatural and are caused by humans is a liar. When have you ever seen a ‘normal’ year? The season temperatures change at different times of every year. Snow comes at different times. Heat comes at different times. Storms come at different times and Al Gore blames unusal weather on global warming, when it is not unusual weather at all. The earth never has one year that is the same as another. Anyone that tells you different is on drugs. I’m not saying you should go out an pollute the earth, but I am saying global warming is false.

Posted on July 13th, 2007 by sj-g
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Ocean’s 13

I thought this movie was ok. It certainly was pretty boring in some parts of the movie, and could have used a bit of tweaking. Overall, it was pretty good though. I found it difficult to follow in some parts, and in other parts I felt like going to sleep. There were a few funny lines to the movie, and the whole idea was clever but they failed to make it flow properly to capture the audience’s attention during the whole movie and it really left me bored for a big chunk of the movie. At least they made the ending pretty good. I would give it 2 stars, because it was pretty good but boring for big chunks of the movie.

Posted on June 13th, 2007 by sj-g
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Spiderman 3

Wow. Thats pretty much all I can think of right now. It really sucked. I can’t think of anything they could have done to make it worse. The movie started out pretty good, but after spiderman turned into an emo I was sickened by how they ruined a perfectly good story. What I really hated was that Venom was a complete fruitball freak, and they only had him in the movie for about 20 minutes.

Could they have made this movie any worse? They also killed Harry and Venom at the end! I really couldn’t believe it that they could ruin the movie like this! So lets see: they turned spiderman emo, put venom in for the last 20 minutes of the movie and turned him into a fruitball, killed Harry, and just turned the movie into a disaster. I really hope the next one (if there’s going to be one) is WAY better than Spiderman 3, otherwise everyone in that business is a complete idiot.

Posted on June 13th, 2007 by sj-g
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