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Total: 1048 out of 310 votes > Average is: 3.381

Samsung’s new ad campaign carries the slogan “Face your friends” with their picture caller ID “technology” on their new mobile phones. And frankly, I’m flabbergasted. Anyone who knows me a little, knows I value functionality more than my naggin’ grandma. So help me figure out this one.
First of all, caller ID does have a function, it saves the 2 seconds you need to identify the caller. A picture does not add much to that. Second, you can’t see the picture any longer than that anyway, the very second you flip the phone open, and you hold it against your ear, it’s the bystanders seeing the picture, not you.
So here are a few theories of my own:
– They’re trying to sell more in-ear headsets, so you can keep looking at the picture of your horrible mother-in-law, while talking.
– They’re counting on lots of users who just buy it to show off, very along the lines of those stupid blinking LED’s which the user doesn’t see anyway, because it’s inside his/her pocket/bag the whole time. Its only function is to bother other people EVEN MORE, like using it in the movie theatre or somewhere else where you’re not supposed to be using it in the first place.
– I’m all wrong and it _does_ add something. It’s not a picture, but a movie of this “friend” talking, you just have to record it yourself first. Or you can take a picture, and using some advanced licensed software from Samsung you got free with the purchase of the phone, you can make the mouth wiggle and move a bit, simulating cartoon style talking motions.

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So, I got a reply form to fill in from the food conglom IgloMora. On how it was handled. Well, it wasn’t handled at all, hence, I gave the five relating questions the lowest mark possible. That should teach them.

Usually, with a Stephen King concept, things get really weird. Somehow, boundaries were placed (don’t know if screenplay writer David Koepp or Stephen King himself put them there), and with that, extrapolating the maximum weirdness, the outcome is highly guessable. Even if you’re not that bright, the hints are dead giveaways. Halfway through the movie it was already clear, leaving no more room for any more thrills. With a tiny bit of humor, it’s still really half a movie you’re going to see.6.

As a pre-dinner snack, I finished a whole bag (200 grams) of Lays Cheese Onion in one go. After that, I went searching for the well established nutrition table, and to my shock, it wasn’t there. Half of the back was used by stupid children advertisement to collect those weird plastic things they put inside the bag. Doesn’t it just break your heart not knowing how much vitamins you just ingested ?

As a sophomore album, after a considerably successful debut two years ago, the main clear thing is the heavy guitars that made an entrance, and they’ll keep buzzing in your head long after you’ve turned off your stereo set. That said, the variety of the more poppy Let Go album is also gone. With the first single already sounds like an old song from the previous album, the rest is similar as well, with the same guitar and chorus motif. Lyrics wise, it’s mostly the guy bashing kind, again. So after the 45 minute long playlist, you’ll feel like you’ve only heard two or three songs. After long term usage though, 3 or 4 songs definitely stand out, while the others will fade in the background forever.7-.

Time for a bit of self indulgence, as I’m probably the most egocentric person I know. Did you know my biggest fear is not for death itself, but the fact that I’m not there anymore to worry about myself ? While there isn’t a more interesting quiz to be found online anywhere, just to be sure, to keep you motivated enough to finish the quiz, I’m gonna award the winner (most correct answers) with a *hug* from ME ! Here goes:

1. My chin is:
a. shaved
b. beautiful
c. full of rash

2. Eeeeeeeeeehoahoa is:
a. copyrighted
b. copyrighted, trademarked and registered
c. an insult, but nobody knows it yet.

3. My fav linux distro is:
a. Debian Woody 3.0r2
b. Mandrake Linux Community 10
c. Red Hat Linux 9

4. I’m a … person:
a. very tidy
b. very incredibly smart
c. both

5. I should do these quizes :
a. more often
b. quite often
c. variably surpringly often

Either she changed too much, or I did (actually, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t me). Over the years, less and less of her songs landed on my permanent playlist, all the way down to only one or two from Under Rug Swept. With the chances of me liking a song so low, she also only put 10 songs on her new album. As you could have heard, her new single Everything wasn’t that much too ogle about. The other song all seem to sound alike to0, with the talkative-like verses, and a few choruses that are indistinguishable from each other. Ofcourse, I could have seen this coming, but somehow, it still feels like a disappointment.5.

Did you know VHS is still having the upperhand in the battle ? Recent numbers show it’s almost even, and it won’t be long before the DVD will take over the VHS. So someone decided that fitness videos are the first to make the switch permanent: next year, no more VHS.
As I’m sure every single one of you has a Billy Blank’s Tae Bo title on the shelf somewhere, my question is, and be honest now, is that VHS or DVD ?

Van Helsing kicks ass in the box office, at number 1 with $54.2 million, which is lower than Stephen Sommer’s The Mummy Returns ($68.1 million), but higher than The Mummy ($43 million). Number 2 is for Lindsay Lohan starrer Mean Girls. Number 3 is for Denzel’s Man of Fire. New York Minute, starring the Olsen twins, opens lowly at numer 4, with only $6.2 million. Number 5 is for 13 Going 30, with 5.5 million.

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My favorite establishment, McDonald’s, just had a major make-over. The ol’ trusty red/yellow brandname theme is out, and in comes a summery fresh white/green design. Not only that, the menu grown bigger than any veggie/health freak can muster. Under the new trademark Salads Plus, comes Crispy Chicken Bacon Ranch Salad, Grilled Chicken Bacon Ranch Salad, Crispy Chicken Caesar Salad, Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad. There’s also a new Side Salad, and an alternative Balsamico dressing. A new burger, the Grilled Chicken Caprese also fall under this new theme. For the fruity people, there’s the Fruit & Yoghurt, and Fruit Bag.
That leaves me with one sentence, which will probably offend a huge amount of stupid people: Eat your heart out Burger King ! MWhahahahhahHAHA !

Another reminder that big budgets don’t make good movies. Having director Stephen Sommers touch 3 Mummy movies showed that already, and this continues throughout his career (anybody still having nightmares from Deep Rising ? Or did you block it from your memory ?) With only 2 more movies beating the budget (excluding advertisement, Spiderman 2 and Troy) on this current summer movie slate, one can only hope the worst is over. The movie is piece by piece designed for budget eating scenes and surroundings. Stitched together with chillingly cold dialogues and the occasional stiff punchline, the story is hard to find, as is the acting. All the over-acting villains sport a bad accent, and to make the tediousness complete, so does Kate Beckinsale. The score and special effects are overwhelmingly chaotic, but even then, even the insomniacs will doze off if they don’t pay attention (or the occasional self-pinch will help too).6.

What does the title “Boy With the Pipe” and the number 104168000 have in common ?
The answer would be, insanity. That’s the (record breaking) price someone paid for a Picasso painting with that that title. And it isn’t even that aesthetically pleasing (hahah, am I a master of understatements or what ?), look for yourself here.

Reuters reports:

The German magazine “Men’s Car” found in a survey of 2,253 motorists aged 20 to 50 published in its inaugural May issue that male BMW drivers say they have sex on average 2.2 times each week while Porsche drivers have sex 1.4 times per week.

My biggest customer (in this case, ironically named Cock – he survived a vacation in Australia without an alias), has both. As I probably will pop the question later on today, I still need an opinion based reference to calculate the probability he’ll be lying. The question will be, in this case, should I average the number, or add them up ?