Don’t you hate PeOplE ThaT Typ3 lIKE ThIS?  How about the Facebook poker?  Do you think it’s as useless as I do?

You don’t call people on the phone if you have nothing to say to them. You don’t send your friends e-mails that are completely blank. So why would you poke someone using Facebook? It makes so much more sense to just send a message or, better yet, don’t do anything. If poking was a real-life conversation, this is how it would go:
Some jack-off: Hey, I’m looking at Facebook.
Us: Oh. Cool, I guess.
Some jack-off: Yep.
Us: Did you have anything to tell us, or…
Some jack-off: Nope, just poking you.
Us: Fuck this, we’re going to lurk professional sports cheerleaders that are well above the legal age of consent (let’s see you take issue with that, lawyers) on MySpace. 

Do you fit any of these internet stereotypes?  Then you could be THAT GUY.

It’s finally the weekend again. Even though my first week of classes wasn’t a difficult one, it was very busy. There were class changes, confusion with rooms, moving offices, revamping our English conversation program, and getting to know new hires. The idea of heading to Gangneung for the weekend floated around, but that’s not going to happen now… especially with today’s rainy and overcast skies. Plus, Brad and Philippe are coming over today. Philippe will be here in a few hours because he’s bored. It’s probably because it’s raining and he can’t play baseball today.  Brad will be here tonight and staying for awhile since he’s working in Suwon this week, and not Seoul. (Suwon is four stops south of were I live.)

I got a chance to sleep in and woke up at 8:00, but continued to stay in bed and read for an hour and a half. Have a breakfast of Eggos, bacon, and hot chai, I’m getting caught up on blogs and such.

• I’m so glad Kristen Bell will be on next season’s Heroes! She’s great, I love her.
• Speaking of Heroes, you can start here and watch deleted scenes from the first season.  The promo for Season 2 is here.
• The Flight of the Concords are hard at work writing songs for Season 2.
• The first 17 minutes of Prison Break’s season premiere can be seen here.  I’m glad Season 3 will return to its original roots - Prison.
• I need to print some templates from the Hipster PDA this week.
• My uncle Tee is at Burning Man this week.  More discussion of this year’s BM here.
• I need to back up my Mac, but it always gets pushed to the background, doesn’t it?  If you have a Mac, what program do you use for backups?

Here are some things I found interesting from this interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

TIME: Is Facebook’s popularity connected to its focus on authenticity? On your site, misrepresentation of your real self is a violation of company policy.

Zuckerberg: That’s the critical part of it. Our whole theory is that people have real connections in the world. People communicate most naturally and effectively with their friends and the people around them. What we figured is that if we could model what those connections were, [we could] provide that information to a set of applications through which people want to share information, photos or videos or events. But that only works if those relationships are real.

TIME: With more than 40 billion page views every month, Facebook is the sixth most trafficked site in the U.S., and the top photo-sharing site. What are your international expansion plans?

Zuckerberg: Right now a lot of our growth is happening internationally. We have more than 10% or 15% of the population of Canada on the site. The U.K. has a huge user base.

This month, I’ve been watching a lot of movies.  Two weeks ago, I added the “Flixster” application on Facebook, and am going to list and review all the movies I see from this year on.  So far, all 16 movies listed have been everything I’ve watched since arriving in Oregon for the summer.  The best so far were: Born into Brothels, Transformers, and Hard Candy.  The list of movies to see in the next two days include: Ghost World, Grave of the Fireflies, and The Devil Wears Prada.  At the end of the year, it’ll be interesting to see how many movies I’ve seen from the second half of 2007.  Yesterday, brother rented a Japanese movie that came out this week called, “Yo-Yo Girl Cop.”  Besides the funny title, I can’t decide whether I want to watch it or not.

Looking Abroad For A Few Good Teachers

Baltimore and other school districts–in California, Florida and New York–have begun looking abroad for teachers to do the jobs they can’t get enough locals to take on.

New York City has recruited teachers from such countries as Austria, Canada and Spain for years. Three years ago, it began recruiting in the Philippines. Administrators in the city say only 10% of those recruits have left and 530 Filipino teachers are currently working in the city’s schools.

I’ve only read two of “The 10 Greatest Books of All time“.

Faith Hill unPhotoshopped.  They really removed a lot of the wrinkles around her eyes!  Even her arm is thinner and the back fat is gone.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows leaked to BitTorrent  [WARNING!!!  There's a link at the end of the article that says something like, "If you’re the type of person who likes spoilers, check out this page."  I was too curious.  There was absolutely no lead up to it.  BAM, it hits you, and there's no need to scroll down.  The page lists (in bullets) ALL the people who die in the book!!!  Don't click on the link unless you want to know.  I was actually surprised by who J.K. Rowling killed off.  There were at least six deaths!]