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Name: Al
Gender: Male
Interests: Lambda Phi Epsilon, doing boatloads of work, and chillin
Occupation: Student
Industry: Engineering
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Member Since:
12/17/2002
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| Birthday WeekendGreat weekend. Here's a summary of what I did.
Thursday - Summit Brewery tour (good beer - nice tour) and Korean food at the U and pool and PR at DK's
Friday - went for a walk at Lake Calhoun before going to Aura and then Stella's for the first time I've had raw oysters and then dancing at Aqua
Saturday - Played some PR and pool then went to drink at Alan and Julie's and play more games
Sunday - Round of golf at Como Golf Course then BBQ w/ lotsa friends
Monday - Fogo de Chau (got uncomfortably full - but such good food), out to the stone arch bridge for a walk to digest and then mango sorbet at uptown, then Mahjong and Big 2 at Jia's
Good times 
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| Patriots offseason acquisitionsOff ESPN Page 2 on the recent Patriots trades hahahahha:
Just for the hell of it, Belichick decided to build this season's
Patriots offense the same way I doctor my "Madden" roster every August
by making as many shady Patriots-related trades as possible. I swear, I
would have ended up making all three of those moves in four months,
even if they hadn't happened.
I wonder if Miami will
be dumb enough to trade me Wes Welker for a second-round pick? (Pause.)
Wait ... the Dolphins agreed to the deal?
I wonder
if Donte' Stallworth's agent will be dumb enough to sign a multi-year
deal in which only the first year is guaranteed. (Pause.) Wait ... he
said yes?
I wonder if the Raiders will accept a
fourth rounder for Moss. Screw it, I'll make the offer. (Pause.) Wait,
I just got Randy Moss?
You have to admit, at the very
least, we have the greatest "Madden" offense in Patriots history:
Brady, Maroney, Watson, Moss, Stallworth, Welker, Caldwell, Gaffney,
Brown. I mean ... are you kidding me? Can I run a seven-receiver
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| So I was reading cinematical.com and came across an interesting article about the Best Movies Based on Comic Books from Moviephone. Of which, most of the list I understand, but I felt some were questionable and only on the list because of their summer blockbuster extravagance.
My 20 in no particular order: Old Boy, Sin City, haven't seen 300 (but I think it's gonna be good/very true to the graphic novel just from the movie trailers), V for Vendetta, Batman Begins and the original Batman done by Tim Burton, Superman 1 and 2 (Returns wasn't that good), A History of Violence, From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Fantastic Four (bad, but fun to watch), Hellboy, Blade 1 and 2, American Splendor, Road to Perdition, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, AND I'll leave the last 2 slots for the X-Men and Spidey series even though I think both series should be at the very end of the list cuz I think they're both pretty bad. My guess is that I'd drop X-Men if I'd seen Ghost World too.
Obviously this list would change if you include anime and other live action movies based off mangas considered foreign films. Then you I would for sure drop TMNT (until the new one comes out), X-Men, and Spidey for sure.
I don't know about other people, but I want my movies based off graphic novels, to be as true to its original form as possible and I just don't think the X-Men and Spiderman series do the comics justice.
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| The OscarsThought this years was extra slow and boring - making Ellen host was a bad idea. She just turned it into her daytime talk show. She made jokes, sang a little and danced a little... 1st off, Best Adapted Screenplay was definitely NOT The Departed, even though it won for that, it should have been for Children of Men. 2nd The Departed was NOT the best movie of the year, for me, it was Pan's Labyrinth, but since that wasn't a choice I would've taken Little Miss Sunshine over The Departed - it's an remake of a Chinese movie (they screwed up at one point and said it was Japanese, maybe I'm wrong, maybe the original story was by someone Japanese, but I'd never heard that before), but then I still haven't seen Letters from Iwo Jima. Well, I think, best movie is usually the screenplay category and at least LMS won there for original screenplay.
I was happy Pan's got Cinematography, Art Direction, and Achievements in Makeup.
I feel like Perfume: The Story of a Murderer should've been in there somewhere, but it wasn't. Did it come out too late? (btw- sick movie, probably 2nd favorite of the year after Pan's)
Still disappointed Departed won so many... I feel like that movie was incomplete because of the shitty ending and didn't deserve so much credit for being a remake. Granted the general ideas behind the plot were pretty well thought out, they just hacked the ending to bits... But then this year's contenders were kinda weak.
I'm glad SOME people think the same thing I do: http://www.cinematical.com/2007/02/26/oscar-evaluation-do-you-agree-that-the-departed-was-the-best-film-of-the-year/
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| SnowThe older I get the more I hate snow. For those of you that don't know, we got about a foot here in Minnesota this weekend. Shoveling and driving in snow just blows, plus I don't ski and snowboard much.
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