The great debate: glitch or shortcut?

My saying when playing Mario Kart 64 has always been "go big or go home". Usually after I go huge i go home, thus living up to my self proclaimed name. While indeed i dangle on all 16 courses I will say that I have yet to master all the shortcuts. SHORTCUTS - not the glitches because that shit sucks. Shortcuts are high risk, high reward. Glitches are high bitch, big asshole.

You see the difference between a shortcut and glitch is this: if you can cut out half the map because you R-button over the side of the wall, or you jump into the water and the cloud dude drops you off in 1st  than that shits a glitch (i.e wario stadium, toads turnpike, lugi's raceway).

If any sort of skill level is required to cut out a portion of the map well than thats a shortcut (i.e. rainbow road, the beach). Listed below are all 16 courses (and no i didn't need to google the order cuz i see these tracks in my sleep) next to the course I have listed if its a glitch or a shortcut. There is no arguing this, only acceptance, but i am always down for a good debate.

Maybe my new saying should be: 

IF YOU GLITCH, YOUZ A BITCH. 

Ya, I like that. Use it.

Luigi's Raceway - GLITCH

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Moo Moo Farm - N/A

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Koopa Troopa Beach - SHORTCUT

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The Train - GLITCH

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Toad's Turnpike - GLITCH

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Frappe Snowland - GLITCH

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Choco Mountain - GLITCH

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Mario Raceway- SHORTCUT/GLITCH

In this video, the dude clearly glitches - but had he not gone all the way to the right over that jump and landed on the track on the other side than that'd be a respectable shortcut.

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Wario Stadium - HUGE GLITCH

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The ice one - N/A

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Royal Raceway - GLITCH

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Bowser's Castle - N/A

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DK's Jungle Joint - SHORTCUT

cut the turn really sharp going over the jump to the left and if you land on the course your the man.

This kid in the video below is a fucking mess

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Yoshi's Mindfuck - SHORTCUT S

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Banshee Boardwalk - SHORTCUT

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Rainbow Road - SHORTCUT

Can you check train times for me bro?

ya dude. here: http://mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/rail/lines/?route=NBRYROCK

Fans of Deez. Stand the fuck up

WOULD YOU BUY THIS SHIRT

FOR $9 ???

There's been enough good shit on this blog since March '10 so i figured why not do what every other awesome blog does and sell some t-shirts. The top picture is obviously the front, bottom the back. Not sure why they are showing up in black and white but the picture on the back would be the legendary forecast for stoopfestbro '10.

If enough people want one i'll make them up - i found a good site online that will do 34 t-shirts at 7.70 a piece. Tack on a couple bucks for shipping and fondeling and you guys will have an awesome shirt with a word on the front that is neither a word nor not a word and the awesome graph of time vs. consumption that truely lived up to its prediction both weather wise and drinkin wise.

Let's show some team spirit!

Raj just blew Lowell's mind

The other night when i was snoopin around Raj's room looking for a clean sock to fire one off into I saw that on Raj's computer this music video. It was blowin my mind. Naturally everyone in the other room was listening to the song with no idea how cool the music video looked - IDIOTS.

So because I'm a nice guy and work is really slow today I've managed to crank out my 3rd, YES 3rd - blog post of the day. 

Can somebody tell me how this only has 3 views?!

Be the Nintendo all-star team Shawty Lo. David Justice. Relax

New page lookin sexy

What's the only thing sexier than a hot chick floating in space?

Colby doing work

Caution: you might learn shit

http://lowellspinners.wordpress.com/2010/07/16/advanced-statistics-offense/

Caution: mad funny

Unofficial wild thing

U-S-A !

Hey, Apple's got somethin to say

 

Letter from Apple Regarding iPhone 4

Dear iPhone 4 Users,

The iPhone 4 has been the most successful product launch in Apple’s history. It has been judged by reviewers around the world to be the best smartphone ever, and users have told us that they love it. So we were surprised when we read reports of reception problems, and we immediately began investigating them. Here is what we have learned.

To start with, gripping almost any mobile phone in certain ways will reduce its reception by 1 or more bars. This is true of iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, as well as many Droid, Nokia and RIM phones. But some users have reported that iPhone 4 can drop 4 or 5 bars when tightly held in a way which covers the black strip in the lower left corner of the metal band. This is a far bigger drop than normal, and as a result some have accused the iPhone 4 of having a faulty antenna design.

At the same time, we continue to read articles and receive hundreds of emails from users saying that iPhone 4 reception is better than the iPhone 3GS. They are delighted. This matches our own experience and testing. What can explain all of this?
 
We have discovered the cause of this dramatic drop in bars, and it is both simple and surprising.
Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally wrong. Our formula, in many instances, mistakenly displays 2 more bars than it should for a given signal strength. For example, we sometimes display 4 bars when we should be displaying as few as 2 bars. Users observing a drop of several bars when they grip their iPhone in a certain way are most likely in an area with very weak signal strength, but they don’t know it because we are erroneously displaying 4 or 5 bars. Their big drop in bars is because their high bars were never real in the first place.

To fix this, we are adopting AT&T’s recently recommended formula for calculating how many bars to display for a given signal strength. The real signal strength remains the same, but the iPhone’s bars will report it far more accurately, providing users a much better indication of the reception they will get in a given area. We are also making bars 1, 2 and 3 a bit taller so they will be easier to see.
We will issue a free software update within a few weeks that incorporates the corrected formula. Since this mistake has been present since the original iPhone, this software update will also be available for the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G.

We have gone back to our labs and retested everything, and the results are the same— the iPhone 4’s wireless performance is the best we have ever shipped. For the vast majority of users who have not been troubled by this issue, this software update will only make your bars more accurate. For those who have had concerns, we apologize for any anxiety we may have caused.

As a reminder, if you are not fully satisfied, you can return your undamaged iPhone to any Apple Retail Store or the online Apple Store within 30 days of purchase for a full refund.
We hope you love the iPhone 4 as much as we do.

Thank you for your patience and support.
Apple 

Okay you know what. If a company can invent a phone that deaf people can use give them a fucking break if you drop the call hmmmkay. This phone can do just about everything besides S yo D. Plus i have apple stock so go buy another one ok.....

Nintendo All-Star Team

Down goes Frazier!

the web - The web has erupted with a wave of rumors about a new social networking service created by web giant Google. Bloggers are saying the service (which is tentatively called "Google Me") will be in direct competition with Facebook.

The rumor went viral after Digg founder Kevin Rose (@kevinrose) reportedly tweeted, "Ok, umm, huge rumor: Google to launch facebook competitor very soon "Google Me," very credible source" on June 28.

Rose has since deleted the message but others closely involved with Google have stepped in to add fuel to the rumor fire. According to TechCrunch, Former Facebook CTO Adam D'Angelo has confirmed the rumor. D'Angelo shared his thoughts on question-and-answer site Quora (a company which D'Angelo founded) saying, "Here is what I've pieced together from some reliable sources: This is not a rumor. This is a real project. There are a large number of people working on it. I am completely confident about this."

"They realized that Buzz wasn't enough and that they need to build out a full, first-class social network. They are modeling it off of Facebook."

"Unlike previous attempts (before Buzz at least), this is a high-priority project within Google.
They had assumed that Facebook's growth would slow as it grew, and that Facebook wouldn't be able to have too much leverage over them, but then it just didn't stop, and now they are really scared."

"This obviously has the potential to be huge, and Facebook needs a strong competitor. But even if Google has an amazing site in the pipeline, creating the next Facebook is going to be easier said than done," said TechCrunch's Jason Kincaid on the Google vs Facebook social networking battle.

 Search Engine Land's Greg Sterling pondered, "Will 'Google Me' Be A Worthy Facebook Challenger Or Will It Be DOA?" A valid question after Google's previous social networking endeavors, Google Buzz and Orkut garnered lack-luster responses and low consumer retention - especially when compared to Facebook's 400 million active user base.

Inside Facebook, readers seemed happy about the news. One user commented, "great news ..i hope google kill facebook and make the largest social media in the world." Another posted, "I hope they succeed up to a point where they provide balance. It would be unhealthy for the market for one player to be dominant and in fact that becomes like Microsoft and now Apple, but balance is good."

Search Engine Land's readers were not so optimistic about the service, "Let's face it, this will probably go the same way as Google Wave and Buzz," read one comment on the site, "Facebook is far too ingrained into everyday life that I doubt very much we will see any social networking site challenge it for some time, if ever."

When asked for comment on "Google Me" a spokesperson from Google told Relaxnews, "We do not comment on rumor or speculation."

I hope this shit is real cuz truth be told I'm getting bored with Facebook. I mean seriously, you can only creep so hard on facebook - why, with google's power and search ability shit could get outta hand. I could end up spending my whole day on the computer.....

Your kidding me, right?

You have to be fucking with me. No way this show actually has an ending. Usually to have an ending you need to have a beginning and a middle - you can't just skip right to the end. This show has been dragged out for however long - since atleast my sophomore year of high school waaaayyyy back in 2005. The Hill's is a show that reminds me of infomercials - they are always on and your just kind of bored if your watching it.

Don't get me wrong, i watched the shit outta this show and Laguna beach. I just figured it would end after its 3rd season. I also always pictured the show ending with LC getting wicked knocked up by me ofcourse, instead she goes off and does Kohl's commercials and sleeps around with that guy that was on Laguna and became a host on TRL (i could find his name in a second but its summer time, fuck research). Instead LC left the show a couple seasons ago and recently appeared in a "Got Milk?" ad. 

Maybe the whole cutting of the strings in the promo is a metaphor. Like a secret, cuz that's what a metaphor is - a secret !

Snickel Fritz

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Turn it up, bro !!

If you were to have 128 songs, over 8.4 hours, and 467.2 MB worth of music stored on your computer you think it would be a good band, right?

As i sit on this strangers computer and snoop through his iTunes for some dec music i came across an absolute treasure chest of tunes. Beatles? Nope. Stones? Nope. fackin Kid Rock? Naw.

Backstreet Boys. YUP.

Black & Blue, Backstreet Boys, Backstreet's Back (Germany), The Hits - Chapter One, Millennium, Never Gone, Unbreakable, and one last single called "backstreet boys are gay" which is probably this guys hate anthem.

Should all the CD's and DVD's in the world be put next to a giant magnet tomorrow and all data destroyed rest easy knowing that this computer would become the holy grail to all BSB fans (if there are any left who aren't 16 year old broads). I can't wait till this guy gets his computer back and goes onto itunes and clicks his Recently played playlist cuz he'd see straight up these songs in this exact order:

1. I want it that way
2. I want it that way
3. I want it that way (Germany)
4. Everybody (Backstreet's Back)
5. the sound of me kissing every boy in my general area.

Harry, hurry hurry hurry hurryhurry

I knew this would become a big deal - like a 1.5 million barrels a day type big deal. Like a Oval office address type big deal. Like people are out of the job big deal.

To quote Jay Leno, "you know its bad when water on fire is a good thing".

I know one day this will eventually end - it has too.. BP is a British owned company and if theres one thing i know about the brits' its that if you throw shit into the sea it really pisses them off....... ?

Only in Connecticut

The parents of a 1-year-old and a 10-year-old from Dedham and Milton were arraigned today on child-endangerment charges after police say they left the children alone in a car in a Foxwoods Resort Casino parking garage while they were inside gambling. Edwine Louissaint, 33, of Presidents Way in Dedham, and David Augustin, 34, of Brook Road in Milton, are charged with risk of injury to a child, leaving a child unsupervised in a motor vehicle, and second-degree reckless endangerment in the Thursday incident, said Lieutenant Paul Vance, chief spokesman for the Connecticut State Police.

Augustin, who was arraigned in New London Superior Court today, is being held on $40,000 bond. Louissaint, also arraigned, was released after being held on $25,000 bond as long as she promised to reappear, court officials said.

The case was continued until June 22, according to a court clerk. Neither defendant entered a plea, the clerk said.The couple's children were turned over to the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families, police said. There was no explanation for why the parents have separate addresses. Vance said video surveillance and gambling records showed Augustin and Louissaint were in the resort casino for well over an hour. State Police from Troop E in Montville were summoned to the Grand Pequot VIP garage after receiving a report that the children had been left in there, officials said. "We have a very strict law relative to this sort of thing,'' Vance said. "People think they can leave their kids in hotel rooms or otherwise unattended. But that is a big no-no in Connecticut."

 
The state that never ceases to amazing me but is always pissing me off.

A glimpse from the other side

Oh hey Sam, what have you been doing lately.....

Nothing personal.....

I'm sorry for the severe lack of posts - but i doubt you gave a shit anyway. It should be noted that Deez accomplished what i had orginally dreamed of: being given a leadership over a blog that gets crazy hits. That is why it is with great pleasure that i announce my newest job.....

thanks for reading.....I'll be back. And don't act like theres not a wikipedia amount of good shit on this site right now anyway....bitches.

-Deez/Dez