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Everyone check out my first professional blog post, written over at TorrentFreak! 6 Reasons Why Filesharing Will Go Down in History as the Greatest Thing Ever to Happen to Music

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Philip on April 14th, 2011

My friends and I went to see The Colbert Report on Monday, April 11. It was really fun! Stephen Colbert looks pretty good in person and he was genuinely witty even when unscripted during the Q&A at the beginning. Although, he did put a few babies on spikes #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement. If you look at the pictures [...]

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Philip on November 14th, 2010

This is an analysis of my game versus International Master Dean Ippolito during his 16-game simultaneous exhibition at the Marshall Chess Club in New York City. Please don’t laugh at how badly I got beaten! 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. d4 d5 3. c4 c6 4. Nc3 Bf5 5. cxd5 cxd5 6. Qb3 b6 7. Bf4 [...]

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Philip on October 10th, 2009

We’ve got some nice sibling rivalry today, and I figured I would gloat. I dominated my older brother Chris in the game below. 1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. g3 g6 4. Bg2 Bf5 5. O-O Nc6 6. c3 Qd6 7. Bf4 Qd7 8. Be5 Nxe5 9. dxe5 Ne4 10. Qd4 O-O-O 11. e6 [...]

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Philip on July 5th, 2009

Every other developed nation in the world has a national healthcare system that works better and costs less than ours. If we switched to one of their systems it would SAVE us money, not COST us money. We wouldn’t even have to spend time and energy coming up with our own plan, we could just [...]

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Philip on June 28th, 2009

I discovered that iPhoto can export photo albums as cool slideshows, so here are some new videos of old photos and drawings of mine. Pencil Portraits This is a slideshow of all the pencil portraits I’ve done over the years of my friends and some celebrities. Making-Of Arianna’s Pencil Portrait Here is a step-by-step slideshow [...]

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Philip on June 28th, 2009

Yes, Michael Jackson is dead, but I don’t need to hear about it 24/7 for the next week. A casual mention in passing will suffice, thank you. Also, please stop saying that his death is a “mystery”. He died from a heart attack, there is nothing less mysterious than that. So he was addicted to [...]

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I was reading in the New York Times today about President Obama’s plan to allow terrorists to be detained without a trial. Setting aside the fact that this is simply more of the same stuff that we had under Bush, I simply don’t understand it. What could possibly be the downside of allowing people to [...]

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Philip on May 11th, 2009

This is going to be a short post because it’s a simple question: do men enjoy sex more than women? I eat ice cream about once a month. There are people out there who eat ice cream every day. It’s reasonable to assume these people enjoy ice cream more than I do, yes? So, if [...]

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Philip on May 10th, 2009

And I said, “What about Breakfast at Tiffany’s?” She said, “I think I remember the film, And as I recall, I think, we both kinda liked it.” And I said, “Well, that’s the one thing we’ve got.” I can’t believe it: one of the greatest choruses in the history of music and it doesn’t even [...]

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