Archive for September, 2006

Robert Downey Jr. is Iron Man

Ain’t It Cool News reports that Robert Downey Jr. has been cast to play Iron Man for director Jon Favreau at Marvel Studios! The movie will be distributed by Paramount Pictures on May 2, 2008.

Based upon Marvel’s iconic Super Hero, the film will follow billionaire weapons-manufacturer, Tony Stark (Downey Jr.), who confronts the sins of his past after he is injured by one of his own weapons. Equipped with a high-tech suit of armor, he becomes Iron Man to combat evil on a global scale.

Art Marcum & Matt Holloway and Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby wrote the film’s screenplay. Filming will start in February.

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A Little Monkey for My Sister

I have a post today for my little sister who is going to college far away in Dallas, Texas. When Kimi was little, around four years old, she wanted a Capuchin monkey (which she called a ”cappuccino” monkey). We often talked about getting one someday.

Anyway, we still haven’t got the monkey and the only fuzzy squirt in our family is still Kimi herself. So for my little sister who is very far away, here is a video of Mercutio, a baby Capuchin monkey falling asleep.

Sleepy Baby Monkey named Mercutio from MercutioMonkey.com

Hall & Oates - Somebody Like You

My best friend Scott Hoffman and I grew up listening to Hall and Oates and I found a newer version of this classic Daryl Hall tune. It is great!

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As always, my policy is that if anyone would like a download link for this song, just make a Comment below and ask - I’ll hook you up with a link in a comment-reply of my own (check back with this article). Download links are automatically embedded in my RSS feeds.

My Big Fancy RV Idea

Just dropping in to give another update. Spent the last two weeks trying to research new products for eBay. I picked up a couple of new e-books, and I was looking into selling Lance’s courses through my eBay store. But it looks like I’m going to have to go in a different direction. I can’t seem to resolve how I would offer his books by download or place the orders by proxy through his affiliate program.

Powerseller_logo.jpgHowever, I did find out about something that was pretty cool. In one of the e-books I read, the author mentioned one of his friends contacting an RV dealership. He asked the dealer to select one vehicle on his lot that he was having a hard time selling. The entrepreneur offered to sell the vehicle online on behalf of the dealer - at no cost to him. His subsequent auction on eBay netted him $12,000! So I’m thinking of giving that one a go.

Anyway, I’ve been working with the tutorials for Cipher, the software I am using for doing trend analysis in online Blackjack. It is very cool, and I’m beginning to win on test money. I really want to get back into Blackjack again, full-time; and I’m really excited about playing slots for fun. I never thought I would enjoy gambling this much, but I do!

I look forward to hearing from everyone, so keep on leaving those comments.

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Weird Al - White ‘n Nerdy

Yes! Weird Al Yankovic is back after a very long hiatus. His latest stroke of genius is a parody of the rap hit “Ridin” by Chamillionaire. It’s good to see the man is still funny and relevant after 20+ years. And Al hardly looks like he’s aged a bit. Crank it up and get ridin’ nerdy!

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CIPHER Blackjack Download

Here is the program offered by B. J. Holway at Cipherblackjack.com and via his forums at thegamblingedge.com

topbanner.gif Cipher is a “stand alone” and “non-invasive” real-time tracking mechanism designed to assist a player in making decisions relative to the game of blackjack that are based on “hard data” rather than on a hunch.

Cipher provides a graphic display of hands won and lost and real-time statistical analysis of all cards played and money wagered. CIPHER’S main function is to track and record in “real-time” every card played and every nickel wagered during a session of Internet Blackjack.

In addition, Cipher has a built-in strategy designed into the program that will in fact suggest every move that a player should make relative to a “hit,” “stand,” “double-down,” and/or “split” decision. Those suggested moves are based upon data derived from better than 7 million hands of blackjack being played on the Internet.

from cipherblackjack.com:

What if you were to play 20 hands of Blackjack and KNOW that you would win one of them? What value does that hold for you? Now, what if you were to play 20 hands of Blackjack and KNOW you would win one of them, AND you could narrow the win down to 1 of 3 hands? What value does that hold for you? Such is the premise subscribed to by those who utilize the near art-form known as Trend Analysis, as taught through the use of the CIPHER Blackjack computer program.

For the conspiracy theorists, look at it this way—even though the games are fixed, they are fixed in such a way that they develop specific patterns. The CIPHER program is the tool that displays those patterns so that the user of the CIPHER program can interpret those patterns in real time as those patterns develop throughout a session of play.

12196717.jpgBlackjack on the Internet is very different than what you might be accustomed to in playing Blackjack at a land-based casino.

First off, a player’s ability to “count cards” on the Internet is severely restricted by the fact that the player has no idea where the “cut card” might be (if there is a cut card) in the virtual deck that he or she is playing from. Hence, the player has no idea where to start the “count,” much less, finish the “count.”

Secondly, after better than 7 years and more than 7 million hands of Internet Blackjack being played, I can tell you that each and every casino on the Internet has engineered subtle but very unique “differences” within the algorithms of their Random Number Generators.

Third, the only way that I’ve been able to distinguish between these subtle “differences” is by being able to actually “see” a session as it is being played. After all, it’s not rocket science to know that a player cannot interpret what a player cannot see. I’m not talking about a single “hand” of Blackjack; I’m talking about an entire session of Blackjack.

Lastly, one cannot expect to even come close to winning as many hands as the “house” will win over the long haul. Therefore, it is the player’s responsibility to maximize the wagers on the hands that the player does win. That’s what the Cipher program is all about.”

Right-Click Here to Download CIPHER Now

Liam Lynch - My United States Of Whatever

What a cool punk track! I heard this on YouTube last week (yep, you guessed it, another funny girl lip-syncing). I’d never heard this song before and thought I’d share it with you all. Liam Lynch does parody songs and other ingenious stuff.

If you’re cool like me, you’ll probably think it’s hilarious. If you’re not cool, best to keep that to yourself, champ.

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As always, my policy is that if anyone would like a download link for this song, just make a Comment below - I’ll hook you up with a link in a comment-reply of my own. Download links are automatically embedded in my RSS feeds.

Def Leppard reissues “Hysteria” with bonus disc

The Greatest Rock Album of All Time is being rereleased with an additional disc of content. The b-sides listed in the article are already on Retroactive, but the live stuff and the extended remixes sound cool.

NEW YORK (Billboard) - To celebrate the 20th anniversary of its best-selling album, British pop-metal band Def Leppard will reissue “Hysteria” as a two-CD package October 24.

Beyond a remastered edition of the original album, the new Universal Music edition includes a bonus disc. Contents on the latter include the b-sides “Tear It Down,” “Ride Into the Sun,” “I Wanna Be Your Hero” and “Ring of Fire,” live versions of “Elected,” “Love And Affection” and “Billy’s Got a Gun” recorded in the Netherlands in July 1987 and extended mixes of five tracks.

“Hysteria” has sold more than 18 million copies worldwide, according to the label, and spawned six top 20 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including the top 10s “Love Bites,” “Pour Some Sugar on Me,” “Armageddon It,” and “Hysteria.”

Def Leppard is on the road with Journey through mid-November in support of its recent covers album, “Yeah!,” which debuted at No. 16 on The Billboard 200.

Reuters/Billboard

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Unfinished J.R.R. Tolkien Tale to be Published

The Associated Press reports that “The Children of Hurin,” an unfinished tale by J.R.R. Tolkien, has been edited by his son into a completed work and will be released next spring.

Christopher Tolkien has spent the past 30 years working on the book, an epic tale his father began in 1918 and later abandoned. Excerpts of “The Children of Hurin,” which includes the elves and dwarves of Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” and other works, have been published before.

“It has seemed to me for a long time that there was a good case for presenting my father’s long version of the legend of the ‘Children of Hurin’ as an independent work, between its own covers,” Christopher Tolkien said.

The new book will be published by Houghton Mifflin in the United States and HarperCollins in England.

Thanks to: comingsoon.net

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All Saints - Never Ever

This song has been around for awhile. It wasn’t as big a hit in the US when it came out, but this British all-girl band was huge overseas. It played somewhere the other day and now the thing is stuck in my head. So beware(!) and click below:

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As always, my policy is that if anyone would like a download link for this song, just make a Comment below - I’ll hook you up with a link in a comment-reply of my own. Download links are automatically embedded in my RSS feeds.