http://chesterong.com Gorgonzola Cheese - Covering the web, technology, gaming, toys, and everything in between. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:59:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So I was cooking juicy steaks today and enjoying my day off by remembering what Independence Day is all about: to commemorate the day that Will Smith saved the world from aliens back in '96.  Remember when he punched one in the head?  That was outstanding.  He even saved us ... http://chesterong.com/2008/07/05/happy-4th-of-july/ Chocolate is new Thai movie that came out in Thailand in February. It tells the story of a girl afflicted with Autism, who has somehow learned martial arts from watching Kung Fu movies and needs to get revenge for some reason or other... Ah Phuket (har har), I ... http://chesterong.com/2008/04/05/chocolate-trailer/ The Meat Bun blog has just opened its online store to the public. These video game influenced t-shirts will run you around $29.99 each. I just can't get enough of these designs like the one with the 4 Nintendo Gods Presidents, a Polo parody shirt that turns out ... http://chesterong.com/2008/03/17/meat-bun-t-shirts/ What ever happened to good old fashioned riddles? As a gamer, I see an occasional puzzle or riddle here and there in between killing zombies or saving princesses in my green tunic. What about a game that was so full of riddles, you couldn't walk anywhere or progress ... http://chesterong.com/2008/03/17/professor-layton/ Last Saturday, I attended the Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy concert in Chicago. I was impressed by the turnout since the crowd was made up of all kinds of people young and old. I saw a couple dressed as a Red Mage/White Mage combo, an Advent Children ... http://chesterong.com/2008/03/07/final-fantasy-distant-worlds-chicago-2008/ "Hey, Doctor Jones, no time for love. We've got company!" -Short Round What better way to celebrate Singles Awareness Day than to geek out with the new trailer for the fourth Indiana Jones movie: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull? Is Harrison Ford too old to eat solid ... http://chesterong.com/2008/02/14/indiana-jones-iv-trailer/ Facebook used to be the simple and clean alternative to MySpace, but after Facebook opened up it's platform to third-party developers, it's gotten so bad that I'm spending most of my time on there clicking "ignore" for multiple application requests. Well now there's a solution that makes Facebook bearable ... http://chesterong.com/2008/02/08/facebook-application-hell/ As you wish, my unusually sized rodent friend! We rang in the Chinese New Year by making some noodles, which oddly enough is how we celebrate Thanksgiving too. Noodles are supposed to symbolize a long life on Chinese New Year and on Thanksgiving it means that your parents don't know ... http://chesterong.com/2008/02/07/happy-chinese-new-year/ If you've ever seen some commercials that feature people jumping off rooftops and stairs in urban areas or watched the opening scene of Casino Royale, you've probably seen Parkour or Free Running before. Usually these terms can be used interchangeably, but purists differentiate the two with the distinction of Parkour going ... http://chesterong.com/2008/02/06/parkour-soccer/ The Apple store was down this morning and came back up with new doubled capacity iPhones and iPods Touch (passersby? tacos surpreme? Why not iPods Touch) at 16 gigs and 32 gigs respectively (via Apple). This is what most people wanting an iPod Touch were waiting for since ... http://chesterong.com/2008/02/05/16-gb-iphone-and-32-gb-ipod-touch-available-now/