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Tanah Lot, Bali, Indonesia

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
– Eleanor Roosevelt

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… =[

Sydney, Australia

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.

Anatole France (1844 – 1924)

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.

London, England

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
-Aristotle

Venice, Italy

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005