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Christopher McCandless AKA "Alexander Supertramp"

I finished reading the book and decided to watch the movie last night. Reading the book was really interesting. This book just takes Jack London’s Call of the Wild and throws it against the wall and screams ” PWNED!” Hahaha! That’s how I would describe it. It’s a really awesome story about a troubled guy who hates all of the problems his parents have and have given him. He leaves everything behind, donates all of his savings to Oxfam and goes on an Adventure to Alaska….from West Virginia. He changes his name to Alexander Supertramp and burn all of his documentation and money. He meets people and goes to places that changes the way he sees life and the world. The movie really brought the book to life, it was a bit different at times, but almost 100% accurate to the book. A must read book and a must see film.

Here is more info:

Wikipedia Article on Into The Wild

Wikipedia Article about Christopher McCandless

IMDB Article

Have you ever wanted to inline skate? Have you ever wanted to go on a roller coaster alone? Well you can do both, together. If you ask Dirk Auer to let you use his equipment, you can. Dirk Auer hooked his inline skates to his own personally built equipment and skated on roller coaster rails. Crazy guy, but awesome to watch. He’s also the guy who who has the inline speed record, by holding onto the back of a Porsche at 190 MPH! That’s amazing! Check out the video below, it’s in German though… =[

Toyota has put up free WIFI and laptop charging stations in Boston’s Prudential Plaza, as a campaign to advertise it’s new 3rd Generation Prius. The charging stations were shaped like Giant Sunflowers and is “Partially Solar Powered” Its a pretty sweet concept. They took it out of Boston and the next town’s will be New York, followed by Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

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Pineapple Express was a pretty good movie. I was not expecting this movie to have a plot. I expected a funny but stupid movie, like Napoleon Dynamite. It was pretty good, James Franco played a drug dealer and Seth Rogan played a pot smoking server. Basically Dale Denton ( Seth Rogan) witnesses a murder and goes to his drug dealer for help and they are running from the cops and the murderer who tracks him down by the blunt Dale left on the road, which happens to be the same kind of Marijuana that the murderer sells. This movie is so funny, you have to see it if you enjoy these kind of movies. By the way the best quote of the movie:

“Thug Life!” – Red (Drug Dealer)

Once again Google comes out with another planet/planetary body on their Google Earth Program. They released Google Moon last night.  You can explore the Moon through the Google Earth interface and look around. You can even see all of the lunar rovers and landers on the surface. For more info check out the video and Google’s Official Blog.

So I don’t follow the Tour de France, but I was watching ESPN last night and they were talking about it and I got a little interested. I do study French and I have always loved the sweet nation of France. Le France est un pais belle! Well anyways, today is the 13th stage, I think. If I can manage to stand it and if I am not busy, I think I’m going to watch it, it looks a bit interesting. If any one actually knows about like which people are the favorites and who is good, etc. Comment the post and talk to me! Here’s a schedule of the Tour de France.

Do you think your a pro gamer? Well Switchblade PRO wants to seriously sponsor 5 gamers to go to expos and play for them. They sponsor a variety of different games for you to play, so don’t worry if you suck at WOW, but are amazing at Halo. As my girlfriend tells her grandmother and I: “There is a place for you!” Haha! If you are a really good gamer and are serious about getting sponsored and having to travel to expos to play, then visit their blog page: Switchblade PRO.  Fill out the form at the bottom to send them your “application” and they will select who to sponsor and call whoever they see that is good. Good Luck participating gamers

There was a contest held in London to remodel the London Bridge to give it the purpose it once held in Ye Old Time: a marketplace and social meeting place. The winner of the contest, Laurie Chetwood, proposed a huge bridge with two focused spires: one that acts as a vertical hydroponic farm, while another serves as a commercial center for products, produce, eats and residential space. It will be solar and wind powered and have some natural cooling methods implemented in the spires. This looks like a very well thought out design and I would give it a 9.8 and nice big approved stamp on the report, Haha!

In light of the recent news of the new Google Chrome OS, Microsoft gave us the nice news about releasing a Microsft Office 2010. Guess how much it will cost? Free. With the Chrome OS being free and the “Threat of the Cloud” being on the way, they had to release something for free. Hopefully they will release a basic OS like a cheap XP for free. That would be awesome. but I will definitely we going for Chrome. Office 2010 comes with Word, Powerpoint, Excel and OneNote; sounds goood to me!

I was just browsing the web at work, looking for a good story and I realized that we haven’t been hearing much about the H1N1 “Swine Flu”. I looked into it, there have been 92,512 cases around the world and 429 Deaths. This is still global pandemic, why aren’t we hearing more about this? I personally would like to know about what the symptoms are and what we should do at home to prevent getting it. The media is always telling you about people who died and where, but not how to NOT die! Well, just letting you guys know, that just because the media isn’t talking about it, doesn’t mean its gone. Its still a global pandemic and its out there, getting many people sick and taking many people’s lives.

The Pampalona Bull Run is currently happening. One of the bull runners was gored in the neck and was killed on July 7th and so far 9 other people have been injured, three of them were gored. For more infor visit: Mekesha’s Message

Apparently Obama has been checking out the Brazilian Junior G8 Summit member Mayara Tavares. I think the angle of how it was filmed made it look like that, but I don’t think so. What if he is? Does it really matter we all have eyes and everyone check other pople out, regardless of their maritial status. Heck, my girlfriend flat out told me that she though that Hugh Jackman was sexy. Hah, I didn’t mind. For more info on Obama’s photo visit: Tim Lara’s Blog