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Alternate Night Outs: SPIT Therapy

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As you know, this personal blog talks mostly about my geeky adventures between my work in traditional and new media. Today I’d like to concentrate a bit more on the “geeky adventures” part. I’ve been part of an informal, silent, and non-violent movement that helps people discover night life outside Greenbelt. Not that I have anything against it, but sometimes, clubbing and malling can have a high diminishing returns rate.

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If you want something “different” to do on a Tuesday or Thursday night, you could go try SPITting. Yep, SPIT. Silly People’s Improv Theater. The podcast on their site doesn’t do the show justice actually. You should come and leave your inhibitions out the door and enjoy a good time. If you’re a fan of Drew Carey’s Whose Line is it Anyway, then this is a good gauge of what you can expect in every episode of SPIT. For theater and art geeks (and anyone else) who can appreciate a fun laugh!

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The troop is led by Gabe Mercado, who is also one of the guys behind Geek Chorus. Other members include Asia Agcaoili, Missy, Aryn, Bibay, Joel and the rest of the gang!

Schedule:
Tuesdays 9:00 PM at the new mag:net at Bonifacio High Street (behind the Nike Outlet Store)
Thursdays 9:00 PM at mag:net Katipunan

P200.00 gets you in with a free drink. It’s so worth it!

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Post Mothers’ Day Blog Entry

WARNING: Emo post.

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This post is dedicated to my mom (visual cue in picture above) whom without her, I’d never be able to blog or podcast. A lot of people ask how old my mom is and to my knowledge she seems to be in her mid 50’s although she always tells me that she’s 16. Being a good son, I believe her. My mom is often times mistaken by others to be my older sister and that really pisses my dad off for obvious reasons.

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A Guide: How To Use Technology To Survive Sudden Memory Loss

If a Haitian (specifically the one from Heroes) were to suddenly gag me from behind and erase my short term memory in a dramatic display of acting prowess, this is how I would try to spring back to remember the lost memories:

Prior to this occurrence, I would write down my email, social network and blog passwords somewhere where I would eventually chance upon within 24 hours, like the bottom of the lid of my toilet seat or something.

I would log into my Friendster account and view all the testimonials that people wrote. I’d contact them one by one with PMs with a message like “hey you wouldn’t believe this but I’m suffering from memory loss.” (If I accidentally sent it to an ex, she’d prolly slap me online and say “I’d prefer you stay lost!!!”)

I’d look into my LinkedIn profile to see who I’ve worked with in the past. Like that Darren Rowse guy.

I’d log into my Google account page and use the Google Web History tool to see what keywords I’ve typed in and what sites I visited for in the past several months. Have you tried this? It’s freaky. Google History records everything you’ve ever searched for on your browser.

I will check my blog and Technorati trackbacks to see what type of people read my stuff. I will read my blog entries from day 1.

Assuming my phone was dumped, I would buy a new phone and sync it with my Plaxo Online contact list to restore my database of phone contacts.

I would also keep a menagerie of files on my Mozy account. Then I’d restore files I found pertinent to my desktop. Speaking of which, I recently let my .Mac account expire and got myself a Dreamhost hosting account instead. It makes so much more sense in the long run and costs less too if you think about the offerings. So if you have my .Mac email address, it won’t work starting next month.

Lastly, I’d still probably buy a Macintosh 🙂

Well, doing these won’t restore all my memories, but it does give me a big springboard to finding out what happened to me. Technology isn’t very forgiving in these times. It’s actually scary. Anything to add?

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Boracay Photo Caption Contest

2BU correspondent Bianca Consunji has posted a photo captioning contest from our last trip from Boracay. This shot was taken by Luigi Onglao of “Xerxes” at the beach. This is what happens when Labor Day runs really slow.

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Since I’m such a contest junkie, here’s one for you. Come up with the best caption for the photo and win a tub of papaya body scrub from The Body Shop! The winner will be notified by a reply to his/her caption, so just comment away. But even if you’re not into bath and body products, I hope you enjoy coming up with a caption anyway. Have fun!

On a related note, have you ever ran contests in your blog? Running contests are a good way to increase readership, comments and gain link juice. It also helps a lot in real life networking.