Where is the world headed?  How has the human species progressed?  How has technology evolved?

I got sent this YouTube video while at work and it has been something else to me.  It's pretty amazing...it's kinda scary...but what it really does do is put things in perspective.

(Sorry if the video kinda messes up my web layout for you on your computer)

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So I was at the USC vs Stanford basketball game yesterday (which we won, btw...woohoo!).  It was very exciting.  But what made it the most fun were the kids who was sitting behind me ( Read more... )

Earlier this month, Congressional Representative Joe Baca along with co-sponsor Frank R. Wolf proposed legislation that all video games rated Teen or higher be sold with a label which states:
WARNING: Excessive exposure to violent video games and other violent media has been linked to aggressive behavior.

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Money has never been important to my family.  My family and my parents have always gotten me anything that I needed...that I've really asked for.  My brother and I have never really taken advantage of this too much and learned to become fairly independent financially.  My sister, on the other hand, has become somewhat spoiled.  Because money was ( Read more... )

We wait in line anxiously...the minutes ticking down.  We could hear it in the distance...conquest was happening.  The line snakes around and we're still 15 minutes away...12 minutes...10 minutes...we're under the stands now ( Read more... )

My life is in a spot where I am looking to my future a lot lately.  In the past, I would look a lot at my past.  Look at what I've done...look at what made me happy.  Other times, I'd look at just the present.  What games I was playing to make me happy...what I was doing at that moment.  This past year I have been looking towards the future much ( Read more... )

So this past weekend, I was in Las Vegas.  I went with Christine and we stayed with my cousin Dan and his roommate Fausto.  The purpose of the trip was to see Christine's High School's Basketball team play in a tournament in Vegas.  More on that in another post.

So one of the things we decided on doing was to see the Cirque du Soleil show: KÀ.


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My favorite episode of The Office is the one where Ryan started the fire.  The episode starts with the temp, Ryan, not wanting to be a ____ Guy in the office.  He didn't want to be known as something specific, because he just wanted to be a temp.  In the end, he becomes the "Fire Guy."

But me...I think I've established myself as the USC guy around ( Read more... )

So I bought a brand new computer yesterday at Circuit City.

Lenovo IdeaPad Y530

Intel Pentium Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz
Integrated Intel Graphics 4500 MHD
4 GB DDR2 Memory
320 GB Hard Drive
Windows Vista Premium


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These are a few of my truly life long memories...things that have happened at least 3 years ago...yet I still remember and continue to bring a lot of emotions to this day.  Things I'll probably never forget...and would never want to.
I was 19.  It was the saddest moment of my life.  My Po-po had passed away and we were at her funeral.  They played ( Read more... )