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What's on your holiday wishlist?

A lot of stuff is on my holiday wishlist, with the main things being an Orange Box and a Radar Detector. Feel free to give me one if you want. I also wouldn't mind having a cold air or raim air intake for a 2002 Ford Focus SE

What work of art (film, book, record, whatever) changed your life?
Submitted by bodhibound.

This is a bit of a cop out, but the Bible. Besides that, I'm going with Fight Club, it's what got me through my teen years.

Audio: What's your favorite carol or holiday song?

I generally don't like holiday songs, but I have fallen in love with Baby, It's Cold Outside.

Write your own Wikipedia entry for yourself (or share the link if you already have one).

I'm not going to write my own Wikipedia entry, because that's against the Wikipedia rules. I know that most people don't actually follow those, I do. I've contributed to Wikipedia in the past, a few times, where I can, and I try to fix things as I see them go wrong on Wikipedia.

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, it's not your myspace or facebook, where you put everything that you want people to know about you. It should be things that other people see and know about you. If we all wrote our own Wikipedia articles, it would just become the next big social networking craze. And we don't need any more of those.

So, I've been waiting for 5 days for a response from somebody that I talked to about a job. I did a video for them, and that was pretty much my interview. It sucks waiting for this long for him to respond. I wish that I would know whether or not they liked it so that I could stop worrying about it. It would be great if I had gotten just a little feedback that provided some information as to how they felt about it, but I didn't get anything after I sent them the video. It really sucks waitng for other people. Part of it is probably because this job is going to determine if and when I'm going to move. If I can definitely get this job, at least part time, I'm moving to the St. Louis area. I love the people in Marshall, but I really don't like living in a small town where everybody knows everybody else and their business. Sure it has it's perks, but I would much rather be living in a suburb than living in the middle of a corn field. Some people love it here, but it's just not for me. It' sgoing to be hard if I do leave soon, but I think that it's going to be worth it. I would be closer to my girlfriend, I would be doing something that I love, and I would be living somewhere that I like a lot more. Thos eare just a few of my thoughts on where my life is headed. And as you can see, once I get an answer from this job, I might be able to take my next big step in my life...getting an apartment.

Just like any other heterosexual male, I have fallen into the craze of first person shooters. I've been playing FPS's sporadically throughout my life, starting with Blak Stone: Aliens of Gold. I can still remember booting into DOS and typing in the command to startup my favorite FPS. Then I was introduced to Doom, and who doesn't like shooting up pixelated monsters trying to destroy you.

Then came my lost years, when I was introduced to gaming on a platform that was not a PC. I loved Goldeneye 007 and Perfect Dark. I preferred Perfect Dark, but that's just me. Goldeneye was a great game, but I think that it should have never been done on the Nintendo 64. Gaming consoles were never desinged for First Person Shooters, they were designed for platformers, RTS's, the occasional set of minigames, fighting games, RPG's, and a few other genres. But there's nothing quite like a keyboard and a mouse under your hands shooting beings of various shapes and sizes under various guises. When I put it that way, First Person Shooters sound very mysterious.

While I love First Person Shooter's, I have a few gripes about them. The first thing that I don't like about them is the radar. When you're fighting a real war, you don't have a radar to assist your random shot around the next corner. When you're plaing an FPS, you should be praying that you don't get shot or grenaded whenever you make a turn. While things have come a long way since the static, you see everybody at all times, I still don't like the idea of having a radar while playing a FPS. My second gripe is the ranking systems. I used to love Unreal Tournament 2004, but then I tried playing on line where everybody destroyed me at every turn. That's not fun, that's just boring to always kill or be killed
 right when you spawn. My third gripe is probably unbalanced weapons. A game is no longer fun when everybody goes for the rocket launcher or the Spartan Laser, and when somebody gets it, they automatically win. Sure every weapon has it's drawbacks, but I don't think there are enough drawbacks to make the game fun in most games. Some games, such as Team Fortrees 2 have tried to balance it, and they are doing a lot better than some, but they don't quite have it yet. Sure their's drawbacks to every character, but if you have enough snipers, you will guarantee that nobody is getting near your base. My last gripe is strictly towards non-PC platforms, the controls. First Person Shooters were never desgined with the modern control in mind, which is why platform-gamers don't know what it's like to kill somebody until they've used a keyboard and mouse. I could beat anybody that I regularly play Halo 3 with as long as I have a keayboard and mouse, but I don't, and I still suck at Halo 3.

Those are juse a few of my gripes, I'm sure that I have more, but I don't care to type them up right now. I might do some more in the future, though.

Who's the coolest culinary celebrity?

Gordon James Ramsay, he gets away with being a jerk, and probably murder. He's not afraid to say anything on his mind, and I respect him for that. Maybe if more people would say what they feel, we would have fewer wars over oil.

I recently read an article over at lifehack about how to not be enslaved by consumerism. And that got me thinking about how hard it is to not be enslaved by consumerism. Consumerism is all around us, at gas stations, malls, gyms, even churches. It is very difficult to get away from the mindset of give me more. It seems like Americans have been taught to become kind of like the blob, to consume everything in our path, in the hopes of becoming bigger than all of the other blobs running around our job/city/country/planet. But what if we started to think of the things that we're getting as a tool, instead of just an object to show off to our friends. I'm all for nice things, but I like it when my nice things do something useful, and if it doesn't do something useful for me, I'll let somebody else use it.

It still amazes me at how much people can amass and not be happy with their life. We as people think that the more stuff that we have, the more happiness that we'll have. But I think that the less stuff that we have, the happier we'll be. I don't like to be tied down to any one place, so it only makes sense that I have few things. It's not that I don't like things, I just don't like to be tied down to one area, which could be one reason that I don't even have an apartment right now. If I started to accrue so much stuff that I was tied down to this area, I think that I would go insane. I like options, and being tied down to a certain place, especially by things, is not an option. I'm not saying that I don't like having jobs, I do. I just like having a job that allows me to travel.

I think that everybody once in their life, should take 3 months, and be forced to live out of a suitcase. Sure it sucks at first, but it puts everything in perspective as to what is actually needed in life. I spent 2 years living out of a suitcase, and I got frustrated with it, but I realized that I grew a lot because of it. When I didn't have all of my stuff from home around myself to distract me, I was able to grow as a person more than I ever had at home. Maybe it's just me, but stuff will just tie people down and not let them be free to do what they really want.

When we start to look at our toys as things that we can use to make the world a better place, that changes your whole world view. I think that we need to start taking the things and talents that we have and using them for the greater good. Sure we may never achieve the ultimate goal that we're going for, but I do think that the overall satisfaction of our lives will grow exponentially.

I just realized, as I pasted this from my myspace blog, that this will be my second post on vox. I started to think to myself, is this how I want people to remember me. Not exactly, but I think it sums myself up a lot. While, I'm not a ladies man per se, the ladies do seem to take a liking to me.

What I know about girls could fill many many many novels, books or encyclopedias, but I will hopefully be able to sum up everything that I know about girls in the space of exactly one blog, no more and no less. I'm not sure how I could do this in less than one blog, unless I didn't do it at all, in which case, I wouldn't be summing anything up at all.

The first thing that I know about girls, is that they are very mysterious, and they like to play with you, much like cats. There isn't very much that males can know about females for certain except to always agree with them. If you agree with them and mean it, they'll like you for being honest. If you agree with them and don't mean it, they'll like you for making them feel better, I'm not the type of person that will easily sell out who I am, but for a girl, I'll do just about anything.

We now know that girls like to be flattered, but they also like guys that are confident. Girls like a guy that will go up to them, say "you want a ticket to the gun show?", and then proceed to show off their rippling biceps. You may say, "But Jake, I don't have rippling biceps, what should I do?" That's when I tell you, "It doesn't matter if you actually have rippling biceps, it only matters if you think that you have rippling biceps. If a girl isn't impressed by the fact that your confident enough to say that you have rippling biceps, when you obviously don't, she'll be impressed by the fact that your okay with not having rippling biceps. Remember, when in doubt, act you're the size of a football player.

Which leads me to the third thing that I know about girls. They also like guys that are clumsy, I call it the "Helpless Puppy Complex." When a girl sees a guy that is clumsy, she feels sorry for him, much like a girl would feel sorry for a tiny one legged puppy walking down the street, or scooting, or whatever you would call it. She's sees that puppy, and her instincts kick in, she must save it. So when a girl sees a guy that needs some help, her instinct kick in, just like with that poor one legged puppy. So here's my advice that has helped out a lot in the past, drop your stuff, trip, and don't be afraid to spill things on occasion. You should see the stuff on my shirt after I get done eating lasagna, yet the girls still flock to me.

Another thing that I know about girls is that, much like raccoons, they like shiny objects. If you hold up a bracelet, a blinking bluetooth headset, or a set of carkeys, you will have them eating out of the palm of your hands. I'm not sure what it is about shiny things that girls like, but they do, especially the glittery things. So if you really want the ladies, bic your hair down to nothing, use some glittery lotion, and just wait for the ladies. I suggest glittery lotion, because you don't want people hurting themselves on the dry skin on your head after you shave it. So always remember to moisturize, moisturize, moisturize, when you do go out in public. But also, if you do shave your head, let it get a little burnt, so that the girls feel sorry for you, but not so burnt that nobody can touch it without you starting to cry.

Girls like geeks. That's right, they may hide it, but knowing a lot about something and them telling them about it is a great way to attract the ladies. Who wouldn't want a guy that can list off all of the things that they did wrong with the iPhone from a developers perspective. I know that I would...I mean if i couldn't do that myself. So you need to get all knowledged up for the ladies. Humans are all about survival of the fittest, and in this day and age, it's not the strongest man that survives, but the smartest. Who needs to be strong when you spend all day at a computer? I know that I don't. The only time that strong mattered was when dinosaurs were roaming the Earth and you got married by dragging the woman that you love to your cave. I can't even remember the last time that I dragged a woman somewhere, it's not something that is suggested in this day and age. If anything, muscle is threatening to females. When females see muscle, the get scared, because deep down inside of them, they think of the days when women were dragged to some dirty man's cave. That cave was not pretty either, there were beer cans all over the place, dirty laundry, scattered papers, no real utensils. It was like living in a guys college dorm room, which I wouldn't subject any female to.

That's all I'm going to put in this blog, because if I put anymore in, I'll give away the ending to my book, "99 Ways to Attract the Ladies...Without Bursting Into Tears" But remember, if you really need advice on the ladies, my phone is always on and I'm there for you.

O.J. Simpson is back in the news again.  What are your thoughts on the release of "If I Did It" and his recent arrest?

So I don't remember much about the O.J. Simpson case (seeing as i was in fourth grade), except for the chase of the white Bronco and standing in a store with my mom one day, when she asked me what I thought. I responded, "I don't know who else could have done it."

I think it's absurd that he's back in the news, though, because he's just another man that got arrested. The only reason it was such a big deal to begin with, wasn't that he was a black man, it was because he was a football star. It's still silly to me to think that there are so many celebrities in the news, just because they're celebrities. They're just people doing things, like you and me. I don't see the point of getting pictures of Britney getting groceries, when I could see hundreds of people that do that everyday, if I wanted to.

Sure, Orenthal James Simpson release a book about how he should have killed his wife. And I think that was a great move on his part, because people are going to buy the book just because it's O.J. Simpson and people are idiots. If I would have been in the news for being accused of killing my wife, I would write a book, just because I could. If I can make a little bit of money off of something, why shouldn't I? Sure I may be playing on people's gullibility, but if I don't take their money, somebody else with an equally absurd proposition will.

Maybe it was a big deal the O.J. could have killed his wife, but I don't think that it was. If people would stop being so star-struck and start thinking about what things really mean, we wouldn't be having all of these celebrities in the news needlessly.