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The Force is Unleashed!

Sep 17. 2008

You know that a guy must be really into you if he takes off earlier than usual from work to surprise his boo with a copy of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. (image via Joystiq) And you know he must love you if he lets you play it first! The Force Unleashed was released today! Sure, the XBox demo had been out for a couple of weeks (breaking the XBLM download record) and we had tinkered around with it. However, I restrained myself for the real deal. The Wii version. The one where you can use the wiimote and nunchucks to wield your lightsaber and, obviously, unleash the force! It also didn't hurt that the Wii version has extra scenes that were specifically...

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Blogging, Personal

Martha’s Bloggers

Sep 16. 2008

I will be waking up tomorrow at the crack-ass of dawn to attend a filming of The Martha Stewart Show! (images courtesy of the lovely Miriam at LimoncelloSTYLE) As previously mentioned, tomorrow's show will be a special on and for bloggers. I can't wait to see my blogging friends again, some of them for the first time in real life! The producers have asked the studio audience (which will be filled with bloggers) to bring our laptops so that we can live-blog the event. As you can tell, I'm super-duper excited! Stay tuned tomorrow morning for the live blog of events! ...

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Geek, Personal, Reviews

My Short-Lived Stint as a ChaCha Guide

Sep 16. 2008

Have you heard of ChaCha? It is a mobile answering service. Want to make reservations at a restaurant but you don't have their number? Need to find movie times? Have a curiously nagging yet random question you want answered right away? Just call 800-2ChaCha or text your question to 242242 and receive a text response (from a live person) in just a few minutes! (image via HackCollege) The best part is, ChaCha is free (aside from texting fees from your mobile carrier) - at the time, the company relies on ads for their income. When I heard that ChaCha is hiring guides, aka the human counterparts, for their service, I immediately perked up. Guides are paid $0.10 per completed answer. It's not a...

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Books, Reviews

Book Review: Twilight

Sep 15. 2008

I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm a Harry Potter fan. I love fantasy books as well as thrillers and mysteries. And I still hold a soft place in my heart for the young adult genre, which kept me company during those lonely nights as an awkward and socially inept teenager. So when Breaking Dawn, the fourth book in the Twilight Saga, was released last month to much acclaim and publicity, I knew that I had to check out the series. And so I picked up a copy of Twilight, the book that started it all. As a bona fide bookworm, I consider myself well-read. And although preferences can definitely come into play when reviewing a book, I like to think that...

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Finance, NYC, Personal

Another Gloomy Day in Manhattan

Sep 15. 2008

The beautiful weather today does little to quell the current situation in Wall Street. My morning commute was a somber one. Thumbs flew across BlackBerries with more flurry than usual. Newspaper headlines flashed: "Anxious Morning on Wall Street as Lehman Makes Chapter 11 Filing, Merrill Is Sold, AIG Seeks Cash" (Wall Street Journal) "Stocks Slide as 2 Wall St. Banks Falter" (New York Times) "Bank Shot: Wall Street Catastrophe for Lehman and Merrill" (New York Post) "Wall of Fear: Markets brace for morning after massive bank shakeup" (New York Daily News) The subways and streets were strangely devoid of financiers, as those who still have their jobs intact had already reported to work hours earlier. It's strange to think that New York, once a seemingly-indestructible giant in finance, now only...

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