After eliminating all other possibilities, the one remaining-no matter how unlikely-must be the truth.
I finished watching The Wire – Season 2 (thanks to CDMCC for lending the DVDS to me). I would have to say the 2nd season was indeed better than the 1st. Season 3 is already out on DVD and it appears Season 4 is currently airing (but almost done).
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Then there was all the sex scenes in Season 2, which I didn’t recall much about in Season 1.
So I started using my oven recently. Got my cookie trays from Costco. Bought a box of Otis Spunkmeyer cookies from Costco and when using my oven, I noticed a latch. I thought it was to lock the oven from accidentally opening, but apparently, the moment I latch the door, the “auto self clean” light turned on. Of course I undid the latch, but it got me wondering how an oven can clean itself, or what exactly does the auto self clean do. Is a water source connected to it and would come out and swirl around like a dish washer? Turns out it was not quite what I had expected.
From Yahoo! Answers:
How does the auto clean feature on an oven work?
Self cleaning ovens work very well. The oven is heated up to 950 degrees F. and that burns off the dirt and turns it to a gray ash that you wipe off with a damp cloth.
You should remove the racks before cleaning or they will turn an ugly blueish color and eventually an ugly grayish color unless they are porcelain coated as some of the newer ones are. You should not let the dirty broiler pan in the oven or it could start on fire. You should also wipe(not scrub) the interior with a wet soapy cloth to remove the excess spillage, grease and spatter.
The self clean cycle is usually a four hour process that slowly heats the oven taking almost an hour for it to get up to cleaning temperatures and the door latch locks so you cannot open the door once it reaches 550 degrees F. and it will remain locked until it cools to below that temperature at the end of the cycle or you abort the clean cycle for any reason. It can take a while for the latch to unlock so if you attempt to unlatch the door and the lever will not move do not force it just wait longer. Many newer ranges do not have door latch handles and latch and unlatch on their own.
You can self clean an oven up to three times for the price of a can of oven cleaner so it is more economical as well.
Source(s):
40 years major appliance repair.
So at 950°F, I guess everything just burns to ashes. Interesting way to “clean” an oven. Good thing I didn’t leave that “auto self clean” thing on or my cookies may have actually caught on fire.
So I was making dinner yesterday and while I was waiting for the pasta to cook, I thought I’d fry an egg since I had nothing better to do. Usually my eggs come out to a weird ovally shape, but this time I got a weird alien form:
First the right hand was form, followed by the left claw. I did nothing to instigate this form. I think the culprit was the oil. Reminded me of a crab like alien which then reminded me of mutant spider crabs from Teknoman. Unfortunately this alien spider egg was no match for my ever hungry mouth.
What else I did this weekend included replenishing my food supply, getting squeegees for my bath tub and my car, finishing the human campaign of WarCraft III, and watching a couple episodes of The Wire – Season 2.
Saw this movie awhile back. The movie was fun and you know how I like detective stories (points to logo above) and puzzles. You probably know it was originally a book written by Dan Brown. Since I never read the book, I had nothing to compare it with, so I thought the movie was enjoyable, but I’ve heard from those who have read the book, the book was a lot better. But just like the Harry Potter series, I find the movie enjoyable, and that’s why I don’t read the books. Interestingly enough, the soundtrack was don by Hans Zimmer.
Official Site
IMDb: 6.5/10 (40,436 votes)
Yahoo! Movies: The Critics: C+ / Yahoo! Users: B-
Rotten Tomatoes: Rating: 24% / Average Rating: 4.8/10
Apple Trailer
Amazon.com DVD
Amazon.com Soundtrack
Amazon.com Book
MY RATING: 7/10
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This movie should’ve deserved a 7/10 from me, but they screwed up the ending and broke the main rule of time distortion. There’s something about time distortion movies that always gets screwed up. The only one I can think of that worked pretty well was Terminator and Terminator 2. The main rule that time distortion movies need to follow is that if the past has changed, the future can not have occured. I never analyzed the 3rd Terminator movie, but the 1st 2 kept stuff in check where the means may have changed, but the end results remained the same. There was an alternative ending to Terminator 2 which would have broken this rule, but like I said, it was an alternative ending.
The Buttefly Effect didn’t break this rule, but they did cheat by magically adding different ways to change the past at the end and added a memory that was not shown before in order to make it a “somewhat” happy ending. Speaking of which, it appears The Butterfly Effect 2 is out.
The story was originally a Korean film called: il Mare and have been adapted by the directory as an American story.
Official Site
IMDb: 6.9/10 (7,552 votes)
Yahoo! Movies: The Critics: C+ / Yahoo! Users: B
Rotten Tomatoes: Rating: 36% / Average Rating: 5.1/10
Apple Trailer
Amazon.com DVD
Amazon.com Soundtrack
MY RATING: 6/10
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Saw this movie a few days ago and it was fun. The animals are so cute, especially for the little spiked ones. What are those called? Porcupine! Apparently the movie is based on a comic strip by Michael Fry and T Lewis. In this comic, Verne, the turtle, even has a girlfriend named Velma. (For some reason, throughout the movie, I thought his name was Bern).
Official Site
IMDb: 7.2/10 (7,221 votes)
Yahoo! Movies: The Critics: B / Yahoo! Users: B
Rotten Tomatoes: Rating: 74% / Average Rating: 6.8/10
Apple Trailer
Amazon.com DVD
Amazon.com Soundtrack
MY RATING: 7/10
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Ever have the munchies for a game? Last week when I’ve been migrating part of my old blog over, I hit the days when I got WarCraft III when it was first released.
Well, I went searching for the game and couldn’t find it. It wasn’t on my bookshelf and I search in every single box I thought it could be in. Finally I shoot a email to Liam and turns out its at his house in Berkeley. Oh well, I thought and hoped my munchy would go away. But it didn’t unfortunately. Would it be unethical to download a game that you already own? Well, that’s what I ended up *whiste*.
I never completed the series and never got around to finish it. Plus back then, my computer was barely good enough to run it at 1024×768. Now I can run at 1280×960 (the highest wide screen setting they allow) and I’ve set all the quality settings to high and it still runs really smooth.
Well, yah… that’s what I’ve been doing instead of blogging this past week.
Random Crap:
Official in S.C.: Sterilize bad parents – A City Council member, reacting to a video store holdup believed to have been carried out by children, says parents who can’t properly care for their kids should be sterilized. Haha!
Man wears cardboard box at Pa. hearing – A man accused of theft arrived for a preliminary hearing Thursday wearing a cardboard box on his head in an effort to conceal his identity. … “I’m trying to think outside of the box, so to speak,” Leonard said. Isn’t that the opposite? I’d think he’s thinking “inside” the box.
Are burglars these days just getting dumber?
Seven-metre fingernails win place in book of records – Lee Redmond soaks hers in olive oil. Aaron Studham lathers his in hairspray. They both say it’s worth it. Redmond, 65, earned an entry in the latest edition of Guinness World Records with the world’s longest fingernails that have now reached a resplendent 24 feet 7 inches (7.51 metres). Studham, 17, joined the ranks of the weird, wacky and wonderful with the tallest hair on the planet.
Dry cleaner finds note about ‘murder’ – Dry cleaners find all kinds of things hiding in the clothes of their customers — but probably nothing quite like what some employees stumbled across recently. A note found in a customer’s clothing read, “You have committed a murder, but no one believes it. All I can do is kill myself, then everyone will see what you have done.” It was signed: “Your wife, Alice.”
Robot Chicken: Inspector Gadget (from RayAlome) – A hilarouis video parody of Inspector Gadget mix with Terminator.
Beijing’s penis emporium – An interesting read on Chinese delicacies made with “animal penises”. Did you know that snakes have two penises each?
PARK(ing) (from /.) – PARK(ing) is an investigation into reprogramming a typical unit of private vehicular space by leasing a metered parking spot for public recreational activity. An very interesting project. Do check out the photos and video.
Art teacher’s naked lecture denounced – The naked lecture made many of the 30 or so students feel “uneasy”, the paper said. “Some kept their eyes trained on the ceiling, some awkwardly bowed their heads and stared at the ground“. Why is that? If this was in America, everyone would be staring. As kids, my parents told us to look away whenever there was a sexual scene in the movie. I guess we were just “trained” to do so.
Files.to – a similar site to RapidShare and MEGAUPLOAD, but so far, this new site beats both hands down. I’ve gotten consistent 500KB/s download with only ~10second wait. I can have 2 simultaneous transfers at the same time too.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (from Cari) – a rather funny comic strip on how to cure AIDS.
Ten Most Used BitTorrent Sites Compared (from /.):
When I first began to use BitTorrent in 2004 there was little question as to which indexing site to use. Today, Suprnova is long gone and we are left with an array of diverse options. This is a comparison of today’s ten most used BitTorrent sites according to Alexa.com.
Ten Most Used BitTorrent Sites:
- BTJunkie – Editors Choice
- BitTorrent.com
- Bushtorrent & Torrentreactor (Mirror Indexes)
- isoHunt
- Meganova
- Mininova
- The Pirate Bay
- Torrent Portal
- TorrentSpy
- Torrentz
Man with faulty implant may not get cash – The implant has caused Lennon to have an erection for 10 years.
Man who pawned rifle as boy gets it back – It was a ricochet nearly 50 years in the making. At age 8, Terry Jackson gave up his prized .22-caliber Winchester short-barrel rifle to get his grandmother a washer. Recently, the 57-year-old got the gun back through a series of chance encounters and conversations. One of the few articles that I actually read all the way through. Story is quite touching.
So Smooth (from RayAlome) – a hilarious video of some guy arguing who’s better by making “I’m so… you’re so…” punch lines with a hint of geekiness. RayAlome tells me there’s more at: Barats & Bereta Productions. They were also the ones that did that auto insurance video I posted the other day.
GrandCentral (from B$) – A pretty neat service which provides a local phone number and then forwards your calls to your home phone, work phone, mobile phone, etc based on time and the caller. The free service gives upto 100 minutes of voice time a month and afterwards forwards your calls to an voice mailbox. You get to try the premium service free during this beta period. It even allows you to choose your own ringtones which you can upload your own mp3s.
Mega Man Powered Up (from Tera) – They’ve completely redone the original Mega Man game and gave it a new skin. The characters are so cute and adorable now! Do check out the videos. I’d recommend the Official Trailer Extended.
The Genius of George Bush (from RayAlome) – The Genius of George Bush, funny montage of priceless Bush in action.
Guy gets a rocket to the crotch (from DeadLock) – title explains it all.
The Package (from MS newsgroup) – a pretty interesting game. Requires a bit of computer/programming knowledge. Only took me 3 minutes to solve this puzzle.
Gentlemen, stop your engines (from /.) – EEStor’s device is not technically a battery because no chemicals are involved. In fact, it contains no hazardous materials whatsoever. Yet it acts like a battery in that it stores electricity. If it works as it’s supposed to, it will charge up in five minutes and provide enough energy to drive 500 miles on about $9 worth of electricity. At today’s gas prices, covering that distance can cost $60 or more; the EEStor device would power a car for the equivalent of about 45 cents a gallon.
