Award-Winning Pringles Banner Ad
Currently being heralded as the best banner ad EVER all over Twitter, this Pringles banner ad makes you keep clicking and clicking. It is quite well-written considering it's a mere banner ad. The ending (yes, I went all the way to the end) is a hilarious surprise. Don't worry, nothing NSFW. Well, enjoy breaking your finger and mouse clicking this ad, 'cause here it is:
Chinese Hackers
I commend the relentlessness of my fellow "brothers" and their technological prowess. However, I wish they'd give it a rest on my site. I'm not THAT important to advertise garbage "medicinal" products (though at the rate the numbers I'm seeing, it might be possible in the future). Nonetheless, there's nothing I can say or do since it's mostly automated and by banning one group of IPs, another takes its place within days.
They certainly kept me on my toes but I turned my back on the computer software path of life long ago when certain individuals failed to instil interest in the field. And along came biology and the wonders of medicine...
I can tell The Time Traveler's Wife is going to be a popular movie cause many people are Googling lyrics for the song used in the trailer and landing on that post that mentions both the song and the movie. I would provide the MP3 but then that'd get me in some trouble.
I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire – The Ink Spots (1941)
- I don’t want to set the world on fire
- I just want to start
- A flame in your heart
- In my heart I have but one desire
- And that one is you
- No other will do
- I’ve lost all ambition for worldly acclaim
- I just want to be the one you love
- And with your admission that you feel the same
- I’ll have reached the goal I’m dreaming of
- Believe me
- I don’t want to set the world on fire
- I just want to start
- A flame in your heart
[Spoken Word]
- I don't wanna set the world on fire, honey
- I love ya too much
- I just wanna start a great big flame
- Down in your heart
- You see, way down inside of me
- Darlin' I have only one desire
- And that one desire is you
- And I know nobody else ain't gonna do
[Sung]
- I’ve lost all ambition for worldly acclaim
- I just want to be the one you love
- And with your admission that you feel the same
- I’ll have reached the goal I’m dreaming of
- Believe me
- I don’t want to set the world on fire
- I just want to start
- A flame in your heart
Effecting Change
It only makes it harder to effect change for the better when family fails to do the same.
But I promised myself that the cycle would be broken, either now or after me.
P.S., Only insensitive morons call the house line at 2:30AM. At least call the cell phone, which would more likely be in the bedroom of the person you're trying to reach. Even then, calling that late is still a dick move. Kids these days... I bet that was a drunk dial.
Michael Bay is Epic
Bad Boys
The Rock
Armageddon
Pearl Harbor
Bad Boys II
The Island
Transformers
What do these have in common? Michael Bay directed them all. I've seen all of these films and in hindsight, there really are a LOT of pointless explosions, car chases, rolling cars, exploding cars, slow-mo, shaky camera movement, needlessly intense dialogue, and a "hint" of product placement ('cept The Island - that was one long subtle commercial if you didn't notice). But a lot of those those are what make a summer movie a summer movie. Mindless entertainment!
I think this video best describes parodies his style:
Although it lacks explosions, if the real Bay wanted to, he could indeed make the act of eating cereal... epic. The cereal could have exploded at the end - but that's hard to pull off for a typical Youtube user. 
Anyway, with the upcoming sequel, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, I hope I can actually see what the heck is going on in the action scenes this time around. Giant robots fighting and close-up shaky camera shots I do not like.
Expedia Space
There will come a time when this is no longer an April Fool's joke. Will it be in my lifetime? I don't know. But why limit my imagination to Earth.
Another Nice One
Sometime in the not too distant future...
The MIT student part of me is inspired. Lightwave, Maya, 3D Studio Max, Photoshop, After Effects, AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Deconstruction reel:
Nothing is real anymore. Haha.
Right Music Wrongs
Note: All opinion. Not facts. So chill.
I don't believe Vanilla Ice has anything to apologize for here. This song is classic and popularized hip-hop. What the people did after is not his fault. There has been much worse music atrocities. DeAndre "Souljah Boy" Ramone Way is a great example. Listen to the rest of his songs. "Donk", "Bird Walk", and whatever - they all sound the same.
Rightmusicwrongs.org is noble but I don't think this generation can ever be rid of the formula, the plastic, and the commercialization. There will always be someone who listens to music that everyone else listens to without deriving their own personal enjoyment from the song.
Yes, "quality over quanitity" but more importantly, "to each their own".
And this song below makes me laugh uncontrollably but if I actually attempted to derive musical enjoyment from this song, my ears would bleed. A song about fast food restaurants. Really!?
I got Twitter. So now I can update what I am doing on Facebook and here at the same time no matter where I am - I can even do it from my cell phone. I don't know how popular this thing will get but a lot of celebrities do use it. It hasn't really caught on in my circle of friends.
Though if Twitter IPO-ed, it does not seem like a bad investment. It might have the same success as Google. Or get bought up by it.
twitter.com/theandrewchow
Yes, "the"andrewchow. 'Cause many variants of andrewchow were taken but more so because I am the Andrew Chow. Kthxbye.
Centenarian
Just wanted to say congratulations to my great-grandmother on achieving 100 years of age. That's an astounding amount of history to experience. Hope some of those longevity traits made its way to me.
