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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Philip on April 19th, 2009

Not mine, but this video is so good I have to post it.

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I was watching Charmed today and Surprise! the three sisters just wish they were “normal”. Why did they have to be born with this burden of being witches? The superpowers just get in the way. They just want normal lives. They are so alone, nobody can understand them, their lives are so hard. Boo-hoo. New [...]

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Philip on January 25th, 2009

Although I didn’t take it, this is one of my favorite photographs.

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