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		<title>Cause a Catfight</title>
		<link>https://anvilparachute.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/cause-a-catfight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve stopped a quite few fights between guys but never fights between girls, not that I would anyway since those fights tend to be vicious yet potentially entertaining. From what I&#8217;ve seen, the fights between females were usually about some guy. I&#8217;ve only heard that there are currently more females than males in the world, [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve stopped a quite few fights between guys but never fights between girls, not that I would anyway since those fights tend to be vicious yet potentially entertaining.</p>
<p>From what I&#8217;ve seen, the fights between females were usually about some guy. I&#8217;ve only heard that there are currently more females than males in the world, but I haven&#8217;t actually seen the data on that. But if it is true, then I suspect that we will be seeing more and more women intensely competing for the attention of even the barely adequate of males.</p>
<p>I found this video of the Bunny Boiler from a British television show called Balls of Steel:</p>
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<p>And here&#8217;s another one:</p>
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<p>Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day!</p>
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		<title>Make Lots of Friends</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was never really a comic book guy, and the only exposure I had to superheroes was on television, specifically Super Friends. My favorite among them was the Green Lantern, which in retrospect was an odd choice considering his power came from jewelry and he&#8217;s powerless against the color yellow. I&#8217;m surprised the supervillains never [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was never really a comic book guy, and the only exposure I had to superheroes was on television, specifically <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Friends" title="Super Friends" target="_blank">Super Friends</a>. My favorite among them was the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Lantern" title="Green Lantern" target="_blank">Green Lantern</a>, which in retrospect was an odd choice considering his power came from jewelry and he&#8217;s powerless against the color yellow. I&#8217;m surprised the supervillains never thought of just running him down with a school bus or making him slip on a banana peal.</p>
<p>Anyway, I found this video mash up between <a href="http://www.tv.com/superfriends/show/13644/summary.html" title="Super Friends" target="_blank">Super Friends</a> and one of my favorite scenes from <a href="http://www.tv.com/friends/show/71/summary.html" title="Friends" target="_blank">Friends</a>:</p>
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		<title>Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[With Halloween right around the corner, it&#8217;s once again time to go shopping for candy. It&#8217;s the only time of year that my wife and I buy candy so we try to buy ones that we would eat in case of leftovers. This means none of the following: Tootsie Rolls It&#8217;s the candy that adults [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With Halloween right around the corner, it&#8217;s once again time to go shopping for candy.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s the only time of year that my wife and I buy candy so we try to buy ones that we would eat in case of leftovers. This means none of the following:</p>
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<p><img src="https://anvilparachute.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/candy-tootsie-roll.jpg?w=468" alt="Tootsie Roll" /><br />
It&#8217;s the candy that adults give to trick kids into thinking they&#8217;re getting a chocolate treat.<br />
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<legend><strong>Dubble Bubble Gum</strong></legend>
<p><img src="https://anvilparachute.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/candy-dubble-bubble-gum.jpg?w=108&#038;h=105" alt="Dubble Bubble Gum" style="width:107px;height:95px;" height="105" width="108" /><br />
It&#8217;s a good thing that the flavor of this gum only lasts 2 seconds.<br />
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<legend><strong>Circus Peanuts</strong></legend>
<p><img src="https://anvilparachute.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/candy-circus-peanut.jpg?w=468" alt="Circus Peanuts" /><br />
Why does this candy taste like bananas? Somewhere out there is a banana-shaped candy that tastes like peanuts.<br />
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<legend><strong>Root Beer Barrels</strong></legend>
<p><img src="https://anvilparachute.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/candy-rootbeer-barrel.jpg?w=468" alt="Root Beer Barrels" /><br />
Is this candy supposed to taste more like an actual root beer barrel instead of root beer?<br />
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<legend><strong>Goetze Caramel Creams</strong></legend>
<p><img src="https://anvilparachute.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/candy-caramel-cream.jpg?w=468" alt="Caramel Cream" /><br />
The name of the candy company sounds like a variation of the name of an infamous Internet shock site. And if you look closely at the candy, it looks just like what that website is known for.<br />
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<legend><strong>Strawberry Delights</strong></legend>
<p><img src="https://anvilparachute.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/candy-strawberry-delights.jpg?w=145&#038;h=129" alt="Strawberry Delights" style="width:144px;height:111px;" height="129" width="145" /><br />
I love artificial strawberry flavors so I can drink any generic strawberry soda out there. But this candy totally defeats me. Yuck!</fieldset>
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<legend><strong>Atomic Fireballs</strong></legend>
<p><img src="https://anvilparachute.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/candy-atomic-fireball.jpg?w=468" alt="Atomic Fireballs" /><br />
One way to stop your kids from realizing the joys of eating candy is by scarring them for life with these.<br />
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<legend><strong>Candy Corn</strong></legend>
<p><img src="https://anvilparachute.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/candy-corn1.jpg?w=468" alt="Candy Corn" /><br />
I&#8217;ve always been a fan of candy corn, but we&#8217;ve avoided handing them out since a lot of people absolutely despise them, including my wife. The weird thing is that if I eat any more than three pieces of candy corn, I get a really bad headache, kind of like getting brain freeze when I drink a 7-11 Slurpee quickly. It&#8217;s probably my body&#8217;s way of telling me to stop eating such crappy candy.<br />
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<p>While on the topic of candy, here&#8217;s a video I found of a Pop Rocks commercial, showing other uses for their candy:</p>
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		<title>Eat Your Heart Out</title>
		<link>https://anvilparachute.wordpress.com/2007/10/06/eat-your-heart-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 00:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After college, I was on a very tight budget due to student loans, a car loan, and credit card debt. In order to make ends meet, I had to figure out how to minimize my daily food expenses. I limited my diet to only cheap food that I knew how to make. However, I had [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After college, I was on a very tight budget due to student loans, a car loan, and credit card debt. In order to make ends meet, I had to figure out how to minimize my daily food expenses.</p>
<p>I limited my diet to only cheap food that I knew how to make. However, I had been spoiled by the meals at the college cafeteria and never bothered to learn how to make anything on my own. I didn&#8217;t own a cookbook, and I didn&#8217;t have access to recipes on the Internet, which was pretty sparse at the time anyway.</p>
<p>So for those of you, particularly guys,  who are in need of a reason to watch a cooking show, you should check out <a href="http://www.giadadelaurentiis.com/" title="Giada De Laurentiis website" target="_blank">Giada De Laurentiis</a> on the <a href="http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/show_ei" title="Everyday Italian on Food Network" target="_blank">Food Network</a>:</p>
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		<title>Break Stereotypes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I had such a bad self-image growing up. I think it was partly because there were very few male Asian role models in the media at the time. They were either martial artists like Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, the nerdy types like Long Duk Dong (Sixteen Candles) and Toshiro Takachi (Revenge of the Nerds), [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I had such a bad self-image growing up. I think it was partly because there were very few male Asian role models in the media at the time.</p>
<p>They were either martial artists like Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, the nerdy types like Long Duk Dong (<a href="http://imdb.com/title/tt0088128/" target="_blank" title="Sixteen Candles movie info">Sixteen Candles</a>) and Toshiro Takachi (<a href="http://imdb.com/title/tt0088000/" target="_blank" title="Revenge of the Nerds movie info">Revenge of the Nerds</a>), or the wise old man like Mr. Miyagi (<a href="http://imdb.com/title/tt0087538/" target="_blank" title="The Karate Kid movie info">The Karate Kid</a>). I was neither a martial artist, a nerd (I think), nor a wise, old man.</p>
<p>So I thought these videos of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0496899/" target="_blank" title="Bobby Lee IMDB info">Bobby Lee</a> from <a href="http://www.madtv.com/" target="_blank" title="MADtv">MADtv</a> were totally hillarious:</p>
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<p>I have to admit though that it was great that no one ever tried to pick a fight with me in school because they all thought I knew karate or kung fu. Suckers.</p>
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		<title>Watch Less Television</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently come to the realization that I watch too much television. Not so much that I find myself watching yet another installment of Real World, but just to the point that I watched an entire season of Big Brother 8. You know something is wrong when catch yourself watching other people live their lives [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve recently come to the realization that I watch too much television. Not so much that I find myself watching yet another installment of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/realworld-season19/series.jhtml" title="MTV's Real World">Real World</a>, but just to the point that I watched an entire season of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.cbs.com/primetime/bigbrother8/" title="CBS's Big Brother 8">Big Brother 8</a>. You know something is wrong when catch yourself watching other people live their lives who are secluded in a house. That should never be more interesting than your own life.</p>
<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s a video of Brian and Stewie from <a target="_blank" href="http://www.familyguy.com/" title="Family Guy">Family Guy</a> at the 2007 Emmys paying homage to all of the garbage on the tube:</p>
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		<title>Take Some Heat</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I recently went to a spa for the first time. My wife and I were celebrating our wedding anniversary and decided to treat ourselves to a relaxing activity. So we booked an appointment at the Bonneville Hot Springs Resort &#38; Spa in North Bonneville, Washington, which is about an hour away from Portland, Oregon. I [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recently went to a spa for the first time. My wife and I were celebrating our wedding anniversary and decided to treat ourselves to a relaxing activity. So we booked an appointment at the Bonneville Hot Springs Resort &amp; Spa in North Bonneville, Washington, which is about an hour away from Portland, Oregon.</p>
<p>I was greeted by an attendant, who described the bath treatment options I could take. I chose the alternating hot and cold bath. It consisted of alternating between sitting in a tub of hot water and a tub of cold water every few minutes, which according to google, stimulates the body to promote physical and emotional well-being and is called the Kneipp System. There was even a pitcher of water to drink and a bunch of grapes on a table beside the tubs. It doesn&#8217;t sound too bad, does it?</p>
<p>The hot water in the tub was supposed to be around 115 °F. How I handled it was pretty similar to how this guy did: (Note that the video is in Japanese but you won&#8217;t need a translator to figure out what&#8217;s going on)</p>
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<p>The only difference was that there was no jiggling girl to motivate me to stay in the hot water. Most of the time, I sat at the edge of the tub with only my feet and ankles in the water, eating grapes and laughing quietly at how ridiculously hot it was.</p>
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		<title>Be Superbad</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[All I&#8217;ve been thinking about in the last few days has been the movie Superbad. The previews and all of the promos for that movie have convinced me that I need to see it. In case you haven&#8217;t seen any of the trailers, here&#8217;s one: It doesn&#8217;t really make sense since I&#8217;m probably not even [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All I&#8217;ve been thinking about in the last few days has been the movie <a href="http://areyousuperbad.com" target="_blank" title="Official Superbad Movie Website">Superbad</a>. The previews and all of the promos for that movie have convinced me that I need to see it.</p>
<p>In case you haven&#8217;t seen any of the trailers, here&#8217;s one:</p>
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<p>It doesn&#8217;t really make sense since I&#8217;m probably not even the target demographic for this movie. I&#8217;ve become a 30-something all hyped up to see a movie about high school. It could turn out to be a terrible movie, but at this point, it doesn&#8217;t matter.</p>
<p>I can still remember doing these two awkward and embarrassing things when I was in high school:</p>
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		<title>Make a Commitment</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I once stopped dating a girl after a mildly heated discussion about &#8220;Forget Paris&#8221;, a movie starring Billy Crystal and Debra Winger. The debate centered around whether or not a relationship is supposed to be hard work, as portayed in the movie. I somehow held the opinion that relationships were supposed to be tough.  I don&#8217;t actually [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I once stopped dating a girl after a mildly heated discussion about &#8220;Forget Paris&#8221;, a movie starring Billy Crystal and Debra Winger. The debate centered around whether or not a relationship is supposed to be hard work, as portayed in the movie.</p>
<p>I somehow held the opinion that relationships were supposed to be tough.  I don&#8217;t actually remember why I thought this since at the time, I was only in my early 20&#8217;s and have only achieved several two-week-long relationships. In no way was I an expert on the subject. But I was naive and stubborn, which was a terrible combination for a healthy debate.</p>
<p>Coincidentally, the discussion occurred at the end of the second week of dating the girl. So was it really the movie that made me stop calling her?</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a video of Jason Biggs looking for an answer to the question most guys dread: </p>
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		<title>Get Some Culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a long while since I&#8217;ve attended anything remotely cultural. So my wife and I went to the Obon Festival in Portland last Saturday. Honestly, I didn&#8217;t know what to expect. It turned out to be quite a good time. The main attraction was the bon odori dances (folk dances) that people could optionally participate in. [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s been a long while since I&#8217;ve attended anything remotely cultural. So my wife and I went to the <a target="_blank" href="http://aroundthesunblog.com/?p=215" title="Around the Sun Blog - Obon Fest">Obon Festival</a> in Portland last Saturday. Honestly, I didn&#8217;t know what to expect.</p>
<p>It turned out to be quite a good time. The main attraction was the bon odori dances (folk dances) that people could optionally participate in. Emphasis on optional.</p>
<p>Next year, I&#8217;d like them to add the <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm_march" title="Algorithm March">Algorithm March</a> dance to their list. The first half of the video demonstrates each step of the dance, including an English translation of the movements. The second half of the video displays how the dance all comes together when performed with a group.</p>
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<p>If they decide to add this dance next year, I just might join in on the fun. I&#8217;ll be the one wearing the ninja outfit.</p>
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