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Monday, November 17th, 2008
Top 5 Beach Locations in the World
I’m trying something new here with making lists of some the top things in the world, as I see them–so perhaps the title of the post would be more accurate if it were, “Top 5 Beaches in the World, that I’ve been to.”
I also was going to post pictures of each location, but laziness plays […]
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
What’s on people’s minds?
Google finally implemented a feature that’s been available elsewhere where it autocompletes phrases based on what others have searched for in the past. Here’s some of what they’ve searched for:
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
The Prop 8 Silver Lining
Obviously there was a setback last night in the move toward ensuring equality for all, but there should be no reason to take it as a sign that we should give up on humanity or the fight itself–instead it should be viewed as a way to keep fighting stronger than ever.
If the civil rights movements […]
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
My magic cure for an throat/ear infection
So for the last couple days I diagnosed myself with an ear infection–symptoms included an awful fever, fatigue, sore throat, and major pains in my ear that made me suicidal.
I ended up just resting a lot, taking a Vitamin C pill everyday, and took aspirin which was supposed to reduce the fever. After 3 days […]
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Saturday, October 11th, 2008
My Imposters
Over the past year or so I’ve been battling with the other Tien Nguyens of the world to get this very blog to be the #1 search result when my name has been inputted–I’ve gotten as high as #4, but generally range around #8-10..Here’s a peak into some of the imposters in the top 10..
1) […]
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Saturday, September 20th, 2008
No Country for Old Men review
I’d been pretty excited to see this for a while now, and finally got a chance to get into the mindset to do so today–and in the end I was left somewhat satisfied but mostly disappointed.
I’ll start with the obvious good points…the characters were all interesting in their own ways, the dialogue was pretty unique, […]
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Why We Love Sports: Here’s your answer
I couldn’t help but laugh at the comical performance of what was allegedly an NFL team donning some silver and black uniforms out there tonight; in part because it was just so silly to watch a bunch of grown men acting like clowns out there, but mostly the laughter was there in order to subside […]
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Poverty Spurns Greatness
It’s natural and easy to react with shock and appallment when hearing stories of these Chinese womens children’s gymnasts being taken from their families by the nat’l government at the age of 3, and from there beginning a strict, strict regiment of training for the Olympics.
One girl specifically (the captain) was only allowed to contact […]
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
Scapegoats of Society, Why it Sucks to be #1
We’re a simple people, and while the 60s are long gone, we’ll always have a burning internal desire to create meaning and worth in our lives by fighting against “the man”.
We take bold stances by joining others fighting the same cause by placing the blame squarely on certain things for everything that’s wrong in the […]
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Simple and Easy to Please…
I logged into Yelp today and noticed an interesting new feature–they have a distribution chart on the left side that measures how many times you’ve given a place a certain star rating.
Not surprisingly mine looks like this:
Essentially, 92/118 of the places I’ve chosen to review I’ve left extremely satisfied (or higher)–and most of my really […]
