This Week in Review

To whomever it may concern:

I know I haven’t been posting often but I’m hoping to bring back regular posts - hoping to do about 4-7 posts a day. I’ve got many many articles to talk about. I just haven’t found the time or felt the urge to post. I’m not gonna post like I used to, trying to make each post unique and exciting instead of just copy-paste and links.

This week I’ve been studying more than I used to and I’ve been going around campus - to the library and HUB - to try out new environments. Not much happening in the papers, which is a let down. But I started working at the dining commons next to my hall. It’s quite an experience, lemme tell you. I forget all about school when I’m working. It’s immersed in learning new things and trying to keep myself busy. I don’t really like standing around because it gives a bad impression to the people above me. And yesterday I made around 100+ cheese steaks - working the grill on my second day of work. It was a lot of responsibility, but it beats standing around picking at my fingernails. Really, I love to work. I get paid, stay occupied, socialize and help people. I can’t complain, except chopping at meat patties to make them into cheese steaks takes some arm strength. I guess it’s good because I don’t go to the gym.

This tourney is fun. I’ve been catching games here and there and competing with friends (over “bracketology”) is always fun. Wtf, Firefox. Bracketology is a word, goddammit. oops. It’s Easter, isn’t it? Happy Easter!

So anyway, to get to my point, I’m looking for people to write with me, either as guest bloggers or co-bloggers. I need some inspiration! I’ve got great articles, just need help writing about them. My Fun drive is not working at full capacity? what am I saying?

It’s been fun being back to PSU. One thing I missed about PSU all spring break. the showers. beautiful water pressure. nice and hard. and fast… ;-)

like rugby.

So thanks for listening and thanks for all the people for being nice. and fuck you, roomie.

Sincerely,

Alex Kozdra

Extreme Sports Get You Extreme Killed.

Not only can you get more extremely hurt (which is sick! Youtube that shit, yo!) but you can also look totally awesome-ly Asian. holla!

From the product webpage:
Poweriser is the latest in extreme sports! Powerisers
enable their users to run and jump with super human
speed and strength!
How’s that possible?
Powerisers possess a unique fiberglass spring which
is loaded with your gravitational potential and kinetic
energy! Simply push upon the spring using your weight
and the spring pushes back! Poweriser running and
jumping stilts will enable you to jump to heights of 5-7 feet
and run at speeds of 17-21 mph! A perfect leg training activity!

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Believe it or not, this sentence is grammatically correct and has meaning: “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.” First devised by professor William J. Rapaport in 1972, the sentence uses various meanings and parts of speech for the term “buffalo” (and its related proper noun “Buffalo”) to make an extremely hard-to-parse sentence. Although most people know “buffalo” as both a singular and plural term for bison, and “Buffalo” as a city in New York, “buffalo” is also a verb meaning “to bully, confuse, deceive, or intimidate.”…

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Curious About Beijing Rock?

Oftentimes I get frustrated with hearing cookie-cutter bands on the radio, tv and even among friends - but I just want something different. like the same formula in chinese. oh wait. what’s that you say? there are other bands in other countries! check the link at the bottom for an article about the Beijing rock scene.

A list of Beijing Rock Bands:
New Pants
Milk and Coffee
Too Koo
Carsick Cars
Torturing Nurse

Here’s a link to an article about the Beijing Rock Scene:
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Just When I Thought I Couldn’t Waste More Money on Water…

After long workouts at the buffet, I need a way to rehydrate myself. but with these piles of money stacking up, I just can’t cut it with normal, everyday bottled water. I was going to drink gas, but that shit is cheaper. ugh! so thanks to Evian, I now I have a better, more refined way of drinking down my precious money. Mineral Water Spray. 10 bucks for 5 ounces sounds like a little, but just think of all those starving children in Africa or Antarctica. or whatever. 5 ounces is more than half a can of soda, so you’re really saving the environment with the spray and you’re helping the economy. woot woot!

also, don’t buy this please. 

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Imagination is the Only Escape: not LOLocaust

At first when I heard that Luc Bernard, 21, was developing a Holocaust-themed game, I was unamused. but when I looked into it, it was a good idea gone wrong. he means it to be educational. but like “diversity training” in the U of Delaware, it has gone wrong. This isn’t a LOLocaust moment (and that term just baffles me, LOLocaust, haha Holocaust. not funny). Here’s a brief overview about the game “Imagination Is the Only Escape”:

Last month, when a 21-year-old British video game developer named Luc Bernard posted a description on his blog of a Holocaust-themed game he is writing that describes how the Nazis tortured children, the reaction was swift and visceral.
The game, called Imagination Is the Only Escape, apparently will not be distributed within the United States. It casts players in the role of a young boy in eastern France during the German occupation who seeks escape from real-life horror through a fantasy world.
Darkly illustrated and full of gruesome historical facts, it is a far cry from the normal fare written for the Nintendo DS, which tends toward games featuring cute ponies and the like.
The game is being produced by Alten8, a small, private British game company that is licensed to develop games for Nintendo U.K. The company is in the process of putting out another title by Mr. Bernard for Nintendo called Eternity’s Child that deals with a fantasy world destroyed by global warming.
In a telephone interview from France, where he lives, Mr. Bernard said, “There will be no on-screen violence in this product. I don’t see war as a game. I don’t find that amusing.” He said that his mother was Jewish and his maternal grandmother looked after orphaned Jewish children after World War II.

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