Boston seems like just a city – but there’s so much more if you get out into the surrounding areas. One example is Prospect Hill Park (which isn’t even that far out). It’s a nice park with a hilly path that is simply gorgeous right now with the falling leaves. Once you climb to the top (or in my case, bike to the top), you get a great view of Boston and its surrounding areas.
Here’s a picture of the view [Source: Jake's Album on Picasa Web]:
WHERE IS MY ELEPHANT?
I just watched Tom Yum Goong last night, which featured Tony Jaa the Muy Thai master, in a similar style martial arts flick as the original Ong Bak. The movie’s plot quickly degenerates after the first few minutes and becomes a sort of ridiculous Hong-Kong martial arts style movie.
The protagnoist, played by Tony Jaa, grows up in a Thai village with elephants. When the elephants that he grew up with are kidnapped, he journeys to Sydney, Australia to try to capture them.
The best parts of the movie are when Jaa runs into the scene yelling, “WHERE IS MY ELEPHANT!?!” It can be anything – a business meeting, a press conference, a brothel – that is his opening line.
Smashed with Elephant Bones
The second best part is when not one, but FOUR WWE wrestler come into fight Jaa. Jaa smashes and slashes them to bits with…elephant bones.
This seems to be perfectly in line with my post from yesterday about the WWE, but I watched the movie AFTER I wrote the post. Which made it that much funnier – to me.
In case you were wondering what Tom Yung Goong means, it’s the name of the restaurant. It refers to a Thai soup made with prawns.
Where is my lobster? (img source: rasamalaysia.com)
I’m going to be covering the election from my blog! Okay, that would be slightly pointless, given all that all the news channels and web sites are covering it with much better technology and reporting.
A few things that I do wish for:
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OMG, Texas is blue! Okay, <1% precincts reporting, but what a strange map. New York Times would have done better just to keep the state grey until more results came in.
Blue Texas
New York Times still has only a few states reported, but NBC already has a bunch! I’m undecided between whether it’s better to be conservative or aggressive in forecasts. Or you could be like Fox News and try to get best of both worlds: leave the electoral map basically blank, but have flashing news headlines calling states every which way.
Aggressive Election Forecasting
I have a lot of tabs open: NYT, Yahoo! (AP), WSJ, ABC, NBC, CNN, FOX, and some other ones. Someone, somewhere, is getting paid to do this. If you happened to be depending on my blog for the latest, best, unbiased, accurate, and comprehensive election news: When we wake up tomorrow morning, the president will be…
George Bush!
Guess I was wrong about NBC being the most aggressive. The award for the earliest forecaster goes to: The Harvard Crimson!
Harvard Crimson
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WHE = World Harvard Entertainment
I use Pandora frequently as a source of music. Pandora always has ads on the side (otherwise how else would they make money?). But I saw a strange one today.
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Harvard Business School on Pandora
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Look closer:
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Harvard Business School Chair
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Now it’s fine that Harvard Business School is advertising on Pandora. After all, aspiring businessfolk spend most of their hanging out on Pandora listening to music. But why the line, “Where can this seat take you?” Do Harvard Business School students sit on steel chairs in class? Red ones are stylish, but that can’t explain everything.
Well, I do have an answer. Some geniuses at Harvard Business School are using subliminal messaging to promote their new business venture, World Harvard Entertainment.
Where is this idea drawn from? The WWE, of course.
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Note the RED knee bands. Harvard Business School students are very clever indeed.
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Note the RED ropes. Very Very Clever (VVC)!
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RED gloves - You see the trend now? By using the red steel chair as an advertisement, Harvard Business School connects strongly to the chair-smashing red-colored attitude of the WWE. But luckily you have me here to help you see through it all!
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In conclusion, Harvard Business School = WRESTLEMANIA!!!!!
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Yes, I know, there are no red chairs in the video. But Harvard can’t copy WWE exactly. This is just a new style, based off of WWE’s use of chairs and red gloves, rope, knee bands, etc. 3…2…1…woot!