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It's a little late I know, but last weekend we all went to the Santee McDonald's to get the famous ''McRib'' sandwich. It felt a bit pathetic to bring the amount of people we did just for a fast food specialty, but the preceding excitement in the air and saliva in our mouths told us that is must be shared with loved ones. This would actually be my first time. Anyway...

Before getting in to the McRib experience, here's a side story. During Oktoberfest in El Cajon, I decided to try the veal sandwich, which I've never had before. It didn't look all too appetizing and it smelled like someone made meatloaf out of bologna, so I decided to load it up with two condiments only: bbq sauce and onions. This was BEFORE my first McRib. And that thing tasted exactly like a real one, which is why...

I'm not really a fan, but I like the price. About $5 for a meal, which I think is pretty cheap for McDonald's. I even got a sweet tea to complement the tangy bbq sauce and complete the southern meal. Everything was as it should be, I just thought it tasted too much like what I had during Oktoberfest so I was put off. Also, I saw one of the employees pull one out of their oven drawer thingy, pre-sauce soak, and it looked like it dripped from the nose of someone with swine flu. Would I eat it again? Yes. 

And here is Eli graciously, and gracefully, hand-modeling the food he's about to eat:

We finally hunkered down and scripted episode 1 of the podcast, ''American History''. We'll keep you updated when it's available, but until then start spreading the word.

''This is a 12-year-old Pino Grigio''
''Bro, this tastes like water...''
''Ugh, there's floaties in this''
''That was human hair!''
''Oh fuck, there are leeches in the bottle''
''WHAT THE HELL IS THAT SHIT!?''
''We are going to die : (''

That may have been the procedure of reactions to what was literally something out of a horror movie last night. Our friend Lucas has been getting all kinds of free stuff from his aunt's house, and ''scored'' a big bottle of some white wine (or what used to be wine). It hadn't been opened in 12 years, so we all thought we were enjoying some fine aged spirit. Instead, we ingested 12 years worth of microbial growth. Our first though was that it was some strange, exotic drink that our pallets weren't accustomed to. It tasted slightly of olive oil. We even considered the fact that it may BE some kind of oil, but unfortunately that was not the case. It was truly wine that had gone horribly bad, and after a slight lack of appetite for it, everything went to hell when we poured the bottle out down the drain. Some kind of brown, snotty pulp had filled the bottom and it came out resembling a leech or period blood. 

Everyone instantly became nauseated, glasses fell and shattered on the ground as some needed to exit to go vomit in hopes of evicting the unwanted guests. No one was convinced that that would do the trick, so plan B was extermination by means of Smirnoff and Jim Beam. After that, no one really felt that great about anything. Some were convinced they had been severely contaminated, so we'll have to check in at a later stage for an update.

I'm fairly certain that air had just gotten into the bottle, which was really only half sealed. The other end of the cork was at the bottom of the bottle mixed with the muck. I hypothesize that every bit of organic matter in that bottle (grapes or whatever else it's fermented from) had become rancid and heavy and sank to the bottom. It would explain why what we drank kind of just tasted like water, because that was all that had remained. 12 years of putrefaction (decay) will do that.

Me, I think it's all in our heads.

And the night WAS salvaged by fresh baked cookies and pigs in a blanket. MMMMmmm.

To my pleasant surprise, the PS3 laser showed up at work last Friday. I popped it into the system (a very painless procedure I might add) and it's working like new again. It seems there's a decent list of good games out right now that I haven't played yet, so I'm hoping to buy some new ones soon. Best Buy and Toys 'R' Us are running the same special for PS3, 360, and Wii games; buy 2, get the 3rd free. I think I'm most excited about the new Katamari.

It's been way too long since my PS3 broke and I've finally gathered enough research to determine a confident COA. Here's the scoop:

After feeling some pressure to get my portion of the project done and meet with my group at 7 last night while still holding a ticket for the game, I ended up deciding in favor of Petco. Which was the right call because it was the best game I've been to all year.

Tough Charger loss on Sunday. It's hard to see the offensive line give no protection to the quarterback, have him still throw for 400+ yards and end up losing. Actually the problems lie in both lines; the defensive line can't stop runs or tackle short passes to save their life. Other than that, the defensive ends looked pretty good and you're at least not watching the long bombs come down for catches too often. I think we kinda saw it coming because they played the same way against Oakland last week and everyone knew Baltimore is no AFC West chump.

Even on UStream, there didn't seem to be any pirate live streams of today's Apple Event in San Francisco so I was forced to stay updated with liveblogs on Engadget. I think the coolest thing is the new iPod Nano, which now has a built in video camera, FM radio, pedometer and voice recorder. I would consider it over the iPod Touch if I was ever to get a new one.

As a refreshing change, I decided to hang out with my brothers for the majority of the weekend. Actually, it just worked out that the most fun things I did were with them, and my cousin tagged along to join the fun as well.

Ahhh, finally the Fall semester is upon us. Although this has been the hottest, most miserable week this summer it still feels like the season is going to turnover soon.

Since we started talking about the differences between the G1 and the MyTouch (what we call the G2), I decided to look it up and pin down the specs on both once and for all. Here's the best article I found:

Since I got my G1, which has been satisfactory but expensive for the most part, the one thing it lacked for me was e-mail. I've always used hotmail, but using all the Google apps and services required that I create a Gmail account when I bought the phone. It has its own Gmail app, as well as an E-mail app for retrieving mail from other servers. The problem is that my particular Hotmail account does not support the POP (Post Office Protocol) application-layer standard, which is needed to ''pull'' data across the TCP/IP connection from Hotmail to Gmail(a lot of technical jargon from networking, I know)...that is, unless you PAY for a plus account. Yeah right.

Per our Green Day conversation Monday night at Second Wind...

Finally, after my boss was gone for a month in France, I can think about planning my vacation. I had mentioned taking one in the middle of July, but he happened to just ''disappear'' without notice and leave me feeling obligated to stick around. It always surprises me how little I even consider taking one in the course of a year, and the last time I did was more than a year ago when I went to New York with my Dad. Anyway, I want to save one week off for finals and take one week off before school starts again and go somewhere cool! I don't really know where or with whom yet, but it will happen.