17 Again

So this movie is about Mike O'Donnell wanting to turn back time to change things in the past. He gets a girl pregnant and throws away his college career to take care of her and the baby. He is going through a divorce so he wants to escape it all and go back to when he was 17 (hence the movie title). So a janitor who has the ability to turn back time for an individual gives Mike a chance to go back to the past and relive his high school life all over again. When he is there, he thinks that in order to turn time forward, he needs to help his kids succeed in high school (preventing his daughter from getting pregnant, and making sure that his son gets on the basketball team). His ultimate goal is to get his wife to love him again.

So, I remember Zac Efron from high school musical. The sweet little boy who was starting his career singing to a musical. Sure all the girls loved him, but he was out of sight, out of mind for me. Then I saw this movie and I said, "I'm not going to watch that movie" but sure enough I did. I wish I had a body like him. The little kid I knew from high school musical is no more. He is this ripped out man (not boy, haha). What does it take to get that kind of body. Gym 3 times a week? Every other day? 3 times a day?

Also, Matthew Perry (The adult of Mike O'Donnell) was in this movie to. He aged (I'm sad). He's older now, but I hope he is doing better. (Picture order is Older / Younger)

Charter Communications / Bobby Pin

Charter Communications went down today for several hours. I'm unsure on what time they came back online. Charter subscribers had limited or no internet connection due to an outage. The toll free number took over one hour for a representative, and all of the local charter communication division disconnected their phone lines or did not answer their calls because people (like me) decided to call local numbers instead of the toll free number.

Trying to find out about this, I ran across this article (Link). Charter is apparently filing for bankruptcy and got it extended. They are trying to reduce a 21 billion (not million) dollar debt to a 13 billion dollar debt. Yikes. Companies have so much money, or lack of...haha

On another note, I was in class and saw a classmate with a bobby pin in her hair. She had two going across the center of her head. It was placed on top side to side and it looked like she had antennae. A human ant. Anyways, you can try to picture that in your head.

Farmville

So, I've been playing farmville on facebook and was using the scythe to harvest my farm. And the scythe, usually associated with the grim reaper, made me have a "light bulb" moment. The grim reaper is the farmer and we humans are the crops. When we are ripe and old, we get harvested. And like plants, we spawn little ones and the whole thing starts over again. I wonder if there is a farmer for the grim reaper, or a farmer for that grim reaper. Where does it end?

Discover Card Holders

Discover is being sued by Shakib, et al. This is a class action lawsuit against Discover for improperly disclosing customer information to a third party.

Now, discover is settling this case, without admitting faulty, by providing the following:
1. "120 days of identity fraud insurance for californian card holders from 1999-2005"
2. "90 days of identity fraud insurance for californian card holders from 2006-June 15 2009"
3. "$400,000 donations to certain charities and non-profit organizations"
4. "$5,000 payment to settlement representatives"
5. "$3,150,000 payment for court costs (court fees, attorney fees, etc.)

Link for more information or call 1-800-347-3028

Man, that is a lot of money. I wish I had that kind of money to give out to admit no fault if allegedly I did some wrong doing.

Heroes of Newerth information and Beta Key information updated. Look at Heroes of Newerth Blog.

Heroes of Newerth

Heroes of Newerth (sounds like New Earth) is a new game based off of the popular game in Warcraft III -- DotA.
The creators of DotA created this game separate from Warcraft III and is currently in beta testing. They gave out free beta keys on facebook for everyone who fan'd them. They are currently out of beta keys, but HON released some beta keys to certain sites like http://www.alienwarearena.com/event/hon-beta-giveaway/
Here is the link to their intro video to the game via facebook. Hope you enjoy.
http://honwiki.net/ for more info.

Edit: 8/17/09 @ 8:38 AM "Heores of Newerth:

Sometime in the next 10 days, we won't say when, we will send out a fan update with 75,000 keys to the beta. The keys will only be available for 12-24 hours and you'll have to regularly check your Heroes of Newerth fan updates. Also, the ...2nd tutorial video in our tutorial series is coming shortly."

Edit: 8/24/09 @ 6:42 PM "Heroes of Newerth

We just added 2 new heroes to the game, Wretched Hag & Succubis. Everyone should soon get a chance to play them as well as almost 50 total heroes very soon. We're getting really close to sending out those 75,000 invites, so make sure you b...ecome a fan and get the update the moment we send it."

Facebook's Restaurant City

I will be talking about the game I am currently addicted to...Restaurant City on Facebook.

This game is fun. It has different aspects to it. It is almost like the sims. You don't directly control individual people, but you control how you design it.

This is a picture of my restaurant. I made an outdoor theme where the floor is made out of grass and dirt. You can do many more designs patterns. You can go 70-80s style with red couches and red floor patterns to modern and futuristic with glass floors and automatic opening doors.

You get 2 coins for every food you sell and you get to buy things for your restaurant, or buy more recipes to improve your dishes.

Your restaurant becomes popular with every sale, but will go down in popularity every time a customer is not satisfied (doesn't get the food in time, too much waiting, etc.).

A funny thing happened to my Restaurant City just a few minutes ago. Here's the video.

Kind of weird right. Usually doesn't happen like that.

EDIT 08/30/09 @ 10:17 AM:  RC has come out with a new feature!

Set Up

I finally got around to creating a blog. Yay. I am trying to switch over from xanga.com/spi2its.

I will be taking 21 units next quarter. I am doing this (instead of the normal 12 units that I usually take) because I am trying to get into UCR Grad School of Education. They require that I take 3 out of 4 education classes before I apply. And guess what...those 2 of the classes I need to take are only offered next quarter. I hope I get in. If I don't, I have to wait a whole year to get into grad school.