The REAL Josh Anderson

A co-worker of mine and I placed a small wager last night on what Samuel L. Jackson (A.K.A. Jules) calls the "What?" kid in Pulp Fiction when he correctly answers the Quarter Pounder question. According to IMDB.com (see below), the kid's name is Brett, but I (having watched the movie waaaay too many times, just ask my wife), and everyone else who actually listened to the soundbite (again, see below) hear Brad.

From IMDB.com:
Jules: Do you know what they call a Quarter Pounder with cheese in France?
Brett: No.
Jules: Tell him, Vincent.
Vincent: Royale with cheese.
Jules: Royale with cheese. Do you know why they call it a Royale with cheese?
Brett: Because of the metric system?
Jules: Check out the big brain on Brett. You one smart motherfucker.

Actual soundbite from movie: click here

OK, so IMDB.com is pretty well respected and that seems like enough to win the bet, right? I say no. Take a listen to the actual clip from the movie. Having refused to pay off the bet based on the "script" as opposed to what I hear, I will give in if most people out there think I am wrong.

Labels: movies

I stumbled upon the Chumby a few weeks ago, and I keep an eye on the progress over there. The possibilities truly are endless with this little device (see their explanation of what it is here). In fact, I even requested a beta version to implement an idea I had for it.

Sadly (or maybe not), I think the popularity of this little project has the company a bit over-run with these requests, so I have pretty much given up hope on a freebie for development purposes. Oh well. I will just keep my eye out for it's official launch. Until then, this little gadget rates right up there with the Wii...

Some how, some way, I will have the Wii (insert gay joke here). With classic NES, SNES, N64, Genesis, and Turbo-Grafix games for less than $10, I am screwed. Yeah, I will always buy the new Mario or Zelda games, but probably not much more than that. Add in the recently discovered "infinite pause" feature, and I believe we finally found video game Nirvana...

Labels: video games, wii

Is it perfect? No.
Is it complete? No.
Is it live? Yes.

After much re-thinking and many re-writes, I finally kicked PokerRadar.com out the door.

All of my ideas for what this site would be have changed over the past 6 months or so. I turned it into a poker news/forum site, just to get some momentum built up with the site. I plan on integrating the local game search and some other cool ideas someday, but if I didn't at least put it out there, nothing would ever come of it.

So, check it out, sign up, and let me know what is wrong with it!

Thanks.

Labels: PokerRadar.com

I can't tell you how many comments I have read on websites, such as digg.com and slashdot , quoting Ben Franklin with regards to our country's current political upheaval. In a comment thread debating Bush's Martial Law, I stumbled upon another brilliant quote in a discussion of Bush's tactic of selling safety, in place of freedom:

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin

Damn, that is cool. To me, heroes require ideals and associated convictions stronger than most people can possibly imagine (can you spot the cheesy Star Wars reference?). Anyways, this dude is damn inspiring.

My childhood, hell, my whole life, has often revolved around heroes of some type. Not always the good guy (i.e. Darth Vader), but always a hero of sorts in my eyes with larger than life ideals. Batman, George Washington, Robin Hood, Thomas Jefferson, James Bond, Zorro, The Lone Ranger, Dirk Pitt, Chuck Norris (I couldn't resist that one. :) ). These are the heroes that shaped me into the oddity that exists these days. I think I missed one, big time, in Mr. Franklin. Ben may be the ultimate American Hero. Maybe I should read that book of his sitting on my shelf...

Labels: heroes, politics

You are supposed to bench the QB, not the CB. Just put the bastard on the bench. It isn't this guy's fault Ben threw two interceptions in the redzone, again. We aren't any worse off with Charlie Batch in the game.

I have that eerie feeling of the Kordell Stewart era where everyone except Bill Cowher thought the QB was the problem. I hope Bill snaps out of it sometime soon. If not, it is going to be a long decade as a Steelers fan whilst I wait for them to rebound.

Labels: football, steelers

Don't blame Ben?!?! Come on Bill. Don't do this to us again. This can't turn into another Kordell Stewart situation where everyone has given up on the QB except for the HBC (head ball coach). Those were some of my darkest days as a Steeler fan. Every game we just waited for Slash to hand the game over to our opponent. If only Slash could have remained Slash and not tried to be the next great QB.

I can understand, and appreciate, the HBC taking full responsibility for the loses, but let's be realistic here. The guy is stinking it up, big time.

I guess it could be worse. I could be a hopeless, helpless, terminally doomed Browns fan.

Labels: steelers

Nerdio: The act of using some silly (A.K.A. super-sweet) setup to satisfy the nerdy need to not just sit there while doing cardio.

This is the second site I found on the web that offers hope to me and my A.D.D. lard-ass. Cardio is the key to my weight loss. I can stop eating certain foods, but that will only get me so far.

True nerds, like myself, just can't bear to sit on a staionary bike for an hour when playing games would be time better spent. Now I just have to convince the wife to let me do something like this in front of my big screen...

Labels: health

Stupidberger continues to show his true colors. What a piece of shit. With this debacle, he has officially eclipsed Neil O'Donnell as the worst QB in Steelers history.

Oh well. What do you expect from a bastard Redhawk?

Labels: steelers

I finally replaced my Castanza-esque wallet with a super-slim version from http://bigskinny.net. I did a fair amout of research and ended up choosing this one as it seemed to be the best option. Apparently the creator is from M.I.T. and won some big award for designing it. I don't see how the a wallet warrants any award, but, hey, I like it...

Labels: health

I am slowly rebuilding the webserver that I destroyed, so whiled I get that back up and running, I figured I would at least get this dude up and running again. Now, I just need to get a redirection from www.therealjoshanderson.com to here.

Here are some more excuses for my lack of blogging.