The Maunder

Monday, August 25, 2008

This is a designated "no cussing" zone

There is a no cussing club. It has a video:

Bonus:

Friday, August 22, 2008

Chinese=Cheaters?

Right before the 2008 Olympic Qualifying round in gymnastics the U.S. team challenged that the Chinese girls were under the age of 16. If you are not familiar with the rules it is as fallows. You must be 16 or be turning 16 years of age the same year that the Olympics takes place. The Chinese reportedly showed the passports of all the girls and the FIG Board let them compete.

As I was watching the Olympics I too was wondering how old the girls on the Chinese team were. Some of the girls looked at least 13 years old. Well, today on the Celebrity Gossip Column Perez Hilton, there was a blog about how a hacker has found proof that one of the girls competing was only 14 years old. This is the same Chinese girl who was given the gold medal in the Individual Competition on bars when she tied with Nastia Liukin, and personally I thought they both deserved gold instead of giving Nastia the Silver medal.

Perez Hilton just reported that the Board is going to investigate the hackers evidence. Should the Chinese be stripped of their medals if they did cheat? I think they should and I also think that Nastia Liukin should be given the Gold on Bars! Clearly, looking at the scoring compared to the Chinese it seemed like the judges were giving the U.S. girls lower scores than they deserved. And, if the Chinese are guilty we will get what we deserve, more medals on the individual events and the Gold as a team.

Here is the Link to the blog:

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Twilight News!

The Twilight premiere has been moved to 11/21/08 instead of the original date 12/12/08!

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Free Jenna Now

To promote his new movie, The Rocker, Rainn Wilson (Dwight on NBC's The Office) has "kidnapped" co-star Jenna Fischer (Pam). Read all about it at Free Jenna Now!
Here's the first ransom video:

I'm going to be honest, I hadn't planned on seeing this movie originally, but with all the effort he put into this I just can't resist.

Friday, August 8, 2008

The Summer OLYMPICS Are Here!!!!

Today the opening Olympic ceremony is going to be held in Beijing, China. Although there has been a lot of controversy surrounding the location of the Olympics (due to both political and environmental problems) it is finally here!!!!! Personally I'm excited about a couple of sports including gymnastics and swimming but it looks like there is a sport for everyone.

List of Summer Olympic Sports:

Modern Pentathlon
Archery
Athletics
Badminton
Baseball
Basketball
Boxing
BMX Racing
Canoing
Cycling
Diving
Equestrian
Diving
Fencing
Football
Gymnastics
Handball
Field Hockey
Judo
Rowing
Sailing
Shooting
Softball
Swimming
Synchronized Swimming
Table Tennis
Taekwondo
Tennis
Triathlon
Volleyball
Water Polo
Weightlifting
Wrestling

I know it is a long list!!! You should be able to catch most of the Olympics on television channels like ABC and NBC. I will post results as soon as possible for some of the popular sports.

GO TEAM USA!

Saturday, August 2, 2008

Breaking Dawn Release!

At Midnight last night Breaking Dawn was released. Breaking Dawn is the 4th installment to the Twilight Saga! Personally, I'm very, very excited about this book coming out. The third book (Eclipse) left so many questions unanswered. So much is supposed to happen it is insane. If you haven't picked up the first three books you should! Just for some back information (I know Mel has covered a lot of this already), these books mostly surround Bella, who is an awkward speak when spoken to teenager, Edward Cullen a pale, gorgeous vampire and in later books Jacob Black, Bella's best friend. It's entertaining, wild, and the plots for each of the books are amazing. When you get done with one book you want to jump into the next one just to see what happens. SO!, go to the store and pick up the series, it is an easy read and a good way to kill some time!

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Name that Film!

Fun summer game! In this post are screen captures from 25 randomly selected 5 star rated movies on Netflix. It is your job(privilege) to see if you can name the movie they are from! Some are easy and common, some not so much. For this first round, try not to use imdb. It's more fun that way.

1.-Holes