HammeRuler ... Redesign almost ready!

The previous conversation asked for your help with the HammeRuler commercial ... well, there's a tie, so we need you to break it.

The HammeRuler is convenient. Our research shows that when you're hammering you are more likely to next use a ruler than any other tool. But so what? Well, that's the metric we've found ... it's called Short Measure Acceleration or SMA for short ... SMA says that you can complete your job faster, and get back to the music, the sports, the cooking you enjoy!

What happens to Rizal?

We were strolling at Festival mall last saturday when we saw a T-Shirt stall located on the second floor of the mall. They are offering a variety of custom made t-shirts. While looking on those t-shirts, we saw their model on their standee cabinet... Guess who??? None other than our national hero, Jose Rizal! Gosh! what are they thinking? Where's the respect? Jose Rizal wearing a "Bagets" t-shirt underneath his usual black tuxedo coat!!! and not only that, he's also holding a Happy Days (this is the name of the stall) paper/plastic bag... here's the picture...




I think before an establishment can use a specific person as a model, they should ask first for a consent / permission before they can display it on their stall/store.... do they have the rights??

Surveys... Surveys... Surveys....

It's about you...
The following questions from dNeero-ites that have joined the the "Get it going with dNeero" conversation. When asking your User Question please make it relevant to the questions below ... e.g., "What's your morning routine?", "Do you cook for pleasure or necessity?", "When do you like to listen to your favorite music?", "Does your Zodiac sign affect your life?"


Paintings - Oil on Canvas - What do u think?
Which painting should Chrissy show to judges? The judges will choose artists' work for a showing in a gallery in Atlanta. Go to Chrissy's blog...

Want some???

I'm craving for Wendy's Big Classic combo.... it's breakfast time and I have only coffee and toasted bread, waaaaaaa!!!! I want some of this.... hihihihi




This pictures were taken last Saturday during our mall tour... hehehe... feeling celebrity noh?....in other word during our "Gala" time... Yum.... yum....

Citizenship Marketplace...

This is a follow up to the "Citizenship For Sale?" conversation. In the first conversation, many folks were concerned about the morality of selling their own citizenship ... that concern is right on target and it was pleasant to see our dNeeroites question that possibility. However, Nobel Laureate Gary Becker's proposal has to do with the U.S. government selling the right to legal immigration. Can such a proposal work in the U.S. ... could it work for other countries? Can the law of supply and demand work to solve immigration problems?

China Phone N99i...

My brother recently bought a new mobile phone which is a China Phone N99i. It has a big screen and also a touch screen! Wow! it's my first time to see and explore this kind of phone... A plus factor on this mobile is that you can watch your local channel in it like ABS, GMA, QTV etc. for free... cool! It has this stylus pen for the touch screen that is also used as antenna to locate channel signal.




I just found out that the N99i is one of the more popular iPhone clones. It is especially popular with people who do a lot of texting because of its keypad import and handwriting recognition. It has two Sim cards so you can have two phone numbers without ever needing to turn off the phone.

The N99i has everything you would expect from both the iPhone and the iPhone clones, with features as follows:

Tri band, GSM 900/1800/1900;

Built-in bluetooth;

Dual SIM card, dual standby;

Lithium removable battery;

Polyphonic (64 channels), monophonic, true tones, MP3 ring tones;

Music player: (MP3 player with mp3, midi, wav format);

Movie player: (3GP/MP4 movie player with full-screen);

Camera function: (digital camera built-in with video recording capability);

Memory type: support micro SD expansion slot - up to 2GB;

Interface: USB 2.0;

Built-in hands free operation mode;

Display: 2.6" TFT touch screen QVGA display with 260k colors, 320 x 240 pixel resolution;

Vibrate function;

Internet browser (GPRS + WAP);

Java 2.0;

Handwriting recognition;

Messaging: (email, SMS, MMS and EMS supported for both main and sub SIM card, SMS group send, long text SMS);

Cell phone directory: phone book memory supports 400 records;

Supports caller ringing / caller video player;

Game supported with built in games;

Calculator, world time, unit conversion, currency conversion, calendar, games;

Stand-by time: Up to 150h;

Talk time of 180min--300min; and

Complete default English interface.

The N99i is competitively priced at about Php4,500 up to Php6,500. Considering it is loaded with features, this phone is worth a serious look, especially if you're a frequent texter.

Package Includes:
Unlocked N99i Dual GSM Tri-Band Cell Phone 2 x Lithium Batteries (1800mAh)
Battery Charger
1GB Micro SD Memory Card
USB Data Cable
Earphones
Handwriting Stylus
Instruction Manual

SCOUR pays for your searches...

While Google, Yahoo, and MSN are incredible search engines, Scour brings all of their greatness together! With Scour, all three engines are searched all at once for you, with the results returned quickly on one page. Every Scour member is able to vote each listing up or down based on its relevance to their keyword as well as comment on their experiences with the site. By blending user feedback with proven search algorithms the Scour community helps shapes the Scour brand of results.



The top search engines make billions of dollars a year in advertising revenue, wouldn't it be cool if the users got a piece of that too? Enter Scour Points! Every member is awarded one point for every search, two for a vote and three for a comment with a maximum of 4 points a search. Once you aggregate at least 6,500 points you can cash them out for a $25 Visa gift card... it's more than you currently make from searching, right? On top of that, we offer referral points for the friends you introduce to Scour where you can earn 25% of the points they make. So if you invited 25 friends that used scour regularly in addition to yourself, that's an easy $125 in your pocket for a year of what you already do! Check out how much you could earn with the Scour Points Calculator. This isn't a pyramid scheme and we're not trying to get you rich quick, we just think it's a good idea to share our success with those who help make it possible.

Play a part in the Scour community and get rewarded for what you already do!

JOIN HERE....

and get this in exchange for your points...

When gas prices go up, you ...

A flow up to the "Gas Prices on the Rise" conversation ... so, what are you doing about it?

1st Live-Action Dragonball Poster with Son Goku Posted

Update on my first post regarding Dragonball the movie...

Here's the latest poster wherein Son Goku wears his traditional orange costume... Good! I hope the movie itself will be a good one too...

Here's the story...



Rear view of leading actor Justin Chatwin in orange gi with kame kanji

The Sankei Shimbun paper has posted the first poster from the Dragonball live-action film that features a main character on Friday. The poster portrays Canadian actor Justin Chatwin (War of the Worlds, The Invisible, Lost television series), who stars as Son Goku, in his familiar orange gi martial arts uniform complete with the kanji for kame ("turtle" for his mentor Master Roshi or Kame Sennin) on the back. Just as in the previous teaser poster, the new poster's Japanese text reads when translated: "The legend comes to life." The new poster also adds the following text: "Opens worldwide at maximum speed on March 13, 2009."

Twentieth Century Fox signed director James Wong (Final Destination, X-Files television series, The One) to adapt Akira Toriyama's shonen fighting manga. Viz Media publishes the original manga in North America, while Funimation distributes the anime version.

Source: AnimeNewsNetwork

Surveys, Surveys, Surveys.....

It's a hodgepodge, a mishmash, a salmagundi...
Just some items of interest from the popular press ... Britney, Heath, Eva, Barack, Zimbabwe.


dNeero's Money is Hot ... or Not
This is a follow up to the "dNeero pays, and ..." conversation. In the first convo we discovered that several of you are affected by money being involved in these conversations. What we now would like to learn is what that effect is. Frankly, if it's anything that results in truthful responses, we're OK with it ... well, we think we're OK with it ... let's see. ------- If you have previously joined this conversation, please do so again -- we had a technical glitch ... sorry about that.


Handguns Everywhere?
Sixty-one percent of dNeero conversationalists sais that everyone should have a right to own a handgun ... and forty percent said they either own or would own a handgun. ------- If you have previously joined this conversation, please do so again -- we had a technical glitch ... sorry about that.

I've won! Father's Day Promo....

Last June, I've joined the Father's Day Promo special of Getzmo.com wherein you need to upload your photo with your Dad and put some dedication and luckily I've won! Yipee!!!!

Again, since there office were at Makati, I've ask one of my friend to get it there in my behalf coz I'm here in Paranaque and I can't get it because I have work from Mondays to Fridays and so it's really conflict...

So there, my friend give me my prize and to my surprise I've got Two Stubs from Steak Station at Paranaque which is for free 2 meals each! wOW!

here it is...



So after office hours, me and my officemates decided to claim my prize at Steak Station located at Kanoma Park, President's Avenue, BF Homes, Paranaque.



We arrived there at 7:00pm, I go to the counter and inform the food attendant that I will claim my prize and give them the stubs... The food attendant get my stubs and luckily they know about the contest. So me and my officemates seated at the vacant table outside and wait. After five minutes of waiting, the food attendant approached us and tell us why the stub is a photo copy, so I told her that it's the one given to us from Getzmo and if you look at the signature of Getzmo representative, you can see that the signature is original directly from the ink! So, the food attendant go back inside and after that she then approached us and tell us that what they know is that the stub should be printed in colored and not photocopy and tell us to come back tomorrow coz their boss or owner need to look at the stub and since there boss is not there we just need to leave the stub there and go back again tomorrow.... shucks! So I told the food attendant that were from Las Pinas and we go there to just claim the prize... So she go back again inside, me and my officemates got dismayed with what happened.... After that their head food attendant approached us and told us that it's ok and their boss approved it, and say sorry for what happened... So there, patience... I told her that It's ok... and so she asked us what we would like to have for the steak, rice or mashed potato? at first we choose rice but since we decided for take-out order coz it's raining... we change it to mashed potato.... So we waited for the order...

While waiting for the order we saw a group of people enter the resto after five or ten minutes they served the food on that table... So me and my officemates looked at each other and talk, why they served them first where in fact we came first.... So again, ok patience... maybe because it's a take-out order... so we waited... waited... wait... wait...


wait... Zzzzzzzzzz......... Zzzzzzzzz.....Zzzzzzzzzzz

So there... after forty-five minutes of waiting... they served us our order and we leave the resto, unsatisfied with their service...

We think that it's because we are only claiming the prize that's why they didn't prioritized us as customer which I think is not a good way of treating a customer...

We take some photo's of the food they served us... here it is...

Empty pocket...

Early this morning, we ride a tricycle going to the office when we noticed the driver's pocket... lol! It was empty, you can see it for yourself. Me and my officemate really laugh loud and say "Uy si Manong talagang walang pera...." hehehe.... it's obvious!





hay! it's really very hard to earn money... tsk.. tsk.. tsk... especially these days wherein we encounter oil price hiked, rice shortage and continues economic downfall... what else???! Help!!!!

Think Again...

Please listen to Lori Brainard's video "Think Again" at You Tube. We'd like to know what you think.

Dragon Ball Z the Movie - US Version coming soon....

Yes, you've heard it right! there will be a Dragon Ball Z movie which is adapted from the Japanese Manga and Anime. Well for me, from the promo pictures itself, it looks like interesting until we see the full trailer... I think it would be more convincing if the main character would be an Asian Actor...

Based on the popular Japanese manga created by Akira Toriyama, whose work spawned best selling graphic novels, video games and a phenomenally successful television series, Dragonball centers on the heroic Goku, a powerful warrior who protects the Earth from an endless stream of rogues bent on dominating the Universe and controlling the mystical objects from which the film takes its name.

Dragonball stars Justin Chatwin as Goku, James Marsters as Piccolo, Emmy Rossum as Bulma, Chow Yun-Fat as Master Roshi, Jamie Chung as Chi Chi, and Park Joon as Yamcha. The movie arrives in theaters on April 3rd, 2009.





The live-action Dragon Ball Z movie, titled just Dragonball, has expanded its cast to include two more unique additions: Chow Yun-Fat and Emmy Rossum. Justin Chatwin stars as the main character Goku and is joined by James Marsters as Piccolo and Jamie Chung as Chi-Chi. Chow Yun-Fat will play Master Roshi. The film is an epic sci-fi adventure that follows Goku, a warrior alien who protects the Earth from an endless stream of rogues bent on dominating the universe and controlling mystical objects known as Dragon Balls. Of all movies I thought I'd take an interest in, Dragonball never crossed my mind.

The film is currently shooting in Mexico City and Los Angeles under the direction of James Wong (Final Destination, Jet Li's The One, Final Destination 3). The script was also written by Wong and the film is being produced by Kung Fu Hustle director Stephen Chow.

The original Japanese anime Dragon Ball Z series first debuted in 1989. The first run of the English Version of the show began airing in September 1996 on the WB and now runs almost every day on the Cartoon Network. In the movie, a young boy named Goku seeks out upon his grandfather's dying request to find the great Master Roshi and gather all seven Dragon Balls (of which he has one) in order to prevent Piccolo from succeeding in his desire to use the Dragon Balls to take over the world. Master Roshi, played by Chow Yun-Fat, is Goku's mentor, helping him achieve the highest state of fighting and spiritual powers.

Source: firstshowing.net

dNeero pays, and ...

It's time for Charity... This is for Habitat for Humanity...

Survivor...

Here's a picture of our duck after typhoon Frank hit the Philippines... lol.. this duck actually doesn't have a cage or built-in house for him. So with the strong wind and heavy rains during Typhoon Frank... don't know where this duck actually hides during those times... so, for me he's really a true survivor! hehehe

Surveys... surveys.... surveys...

Tax or No Tax...
A way to immediately deal with high gasoline prices.


Cyber Relationship...
If they make you happy without transgressing on other people?s feelings, then they should be good, right?

Office Exercise: Are you Stressed?

While reading my favorite forum, I just saw this post and it really gave me a hard laugh...

(English translation available after the Filipino word....)

Guys and Girls,

Madali lang sundin para pampababa ng timbang, blood sugar, blood pressure and pampawala ng antok, stress and anxiety!
(It's easy to follow and good for weight loss, blood sugar, blood pressure and awaken your system, stress and anxienty!)

1 st: Warming up



parang nagsasayaw lang..
(It's like dancing...)

2ND: Stretching



istretch-istrech... (stretch-stretch...)

3rd: the upper body exercise



gwaping pose (handsome pose...)

4th: lower body exercise (moving to left and back)



circle, circle, slide, slide..

5 th : lower body exercise (moving to right and back)



again...

6 th: Head exercise (make sure to do the 2 nd part, it works!)

LV1:

hiluhin ang sarili, then sumuka.. (repeat and repeat until you feel dizzy then throw-up...)

LV2:

para tumalino (to be intelligent...)

7th: whole body exercise

LV1:

parang bangag lang.. (like an addict...)

LV2:

parang tanga lang.. (like an idiot...)

LV3:

para kang nasaniban.... (like possessed....)

8th: Jumping exercise: The Pose is the key! but remember to jump!


go!! abutin ang kalangitan!! superman!! (go!! reach for the sky!! superman!!)

9th: relax

LV1:

exorcism of emily rose.. madali lang yan (it's easy).. effortless..

LV2:

maghanap ng kasama.. ung papayag na pareho kayong magmumukang tanga.. (look for a partner... one that will agree with you to looked like an idiot...)

LV3 over: Well done!

sumayaw sa galak.. dahil you complete the exercise of the day.. tomorrow ulet.. (dance for joy.... because you complete the exercise of the day... tomorrow again...)



O one more time, go!!

The Five Absolute Worst Foods You Can Eat

By Dr. Joseph Mercola with Rachael Droege

There are no "bad" foods, right? Only food you should eat in moderation? Well, not really. The following foods are so bad for your body that I really can't see any reason to eat them. Not only do they have zero nutritional value, but they also give your body a healthy dose of toxins, which should make the idea of eating them really hard to swallow.

Doughnuts
Doughnuts are fried, full of sugar and white flour and most all varieties contain trans fat. Store-bought doughnuts are made up of about 35 percent to 40 percent trans fat. An average doughnut will give you about 200 to 300 calories, mostly from sugar, and few other nutrients. It's too bad that Americans view doughnuts as a breakfast food as, nutritionally speaking, eating a doughnut is one of the worst ways to start off your day. It will throw off your blood sugar and won't stay with you so you'll be hungry again soon. You are better off eating no breakfast at all, or better yet grabbing a quick glass of Whey Healthier.

Soda
One can of soda has about 10 teaspoons of sugar, 150 calories, 30 to 55 mg of caffeine, and is loaded with artificial food colors and sulphites. I can't think of any good reason to ever have it. The diet varieties are also problematic as they are filled with harmful artificial sweeteners like aspartame. Studies have linked soda to osteoporosis, obesity, tooth decay and heart disease, yet the average American drinks an estimated 56 gallons of soft drinks each year. Plus, drinking all that sugar will likely suppress your appetite for healthy foods, which pave the way for nutrient deficiencies. Soft drink consumption among children has almost doubled in the United States over the last decade, which is not surprising considering that most school hallways are lined with soda-filled vending machines. Schools often make marketing deals with leading soft drink companies such as Coca-Cola from which they receive commissions--based on a percentage of sales at each school--and sometimes a lump-sum payment, in exchange for their students' health. School vending machines can increase the consumption of sweetened beverages by up to 50 or more cans of soda per student per year. If you routinely drink soda--regular or diet--eliminating it from your diet is one of the simplest and most profound health improvements you can make.

French Fries (and Nearly All Commercially Fried Foods)
Potatoes are bad enough when consumed in their raw state, as their simple sugars are rapidly converted to glucose that raises insulin levels and can devastate your health. But when they are cooked in trans fat at high temperatures, all sorts of interesting and very unpleasant things occur. Anything that is fried, even vegetables, has the issue of trans fat and the potent cancer-causing substance acrylamide. Foods that are fried in vegetable oils like canola, soybean, safflower, corn, and other seed and nut oils are particularly problematic. These polyunsaturated fats easily become rancid when exposed to oxygen and produce large amounts of damaging free radicals in the body. They are also very susceptible to heat-induced damage from cooking. What is not commonly known is that these oils can actually cause aging, clotting, inflammation, cancer and weight gain. You can read the article "Secrets of the Edible Oil Industry" for more information. It is theoretically possible to create a more "healthy" French fry if you cook it in a healthy fat like virgin coconut oil. Due to its high saturated fat content, coconut oil is extremely stable and is not damaged by the high temperatures of cooking. This is why coconut oil should be the only oil you use to cook with. I am fond of telling patients that one French fry is worse for your health than one cigarette, so you may want to consider this before you order your next 'Biggie' order.

Chips
Most commercial chips, and this includes corn chips, potato chips, tortilla chips, you name it, are high in trans fat. Fortunately, some companies have caught on to the recent media blitz about the dangers of trans fat and have started to produce chips without trans fat. However, the high temperatures used to cook them will potentially cause the formation of carcinogenic substances like acrylamide, and this risk remains even if the trans fat is removed.

Fried Non-Fish Seafood
This category represents the culmination of non-healthy aspects of food. Fried shrimp, clams, oysters, lobsters, and so on have all the issues of trans fat and acrylamide mentioned above, plus an added risk of mercury. Seafood is loaded with toxic mercury and shellfish like shrimp and lobsters can be contaminated with parasites and resistant viruses that may not even be killed with high heat. These creatures, considered scavenger animals, consume foods that may be harmful for you.

HammeRuler ... The Commercial

The HammeRuler will run a new commercial on TV and since dNeero users have made such great recommendations already we'd like your suggestions. Basically, our advertising firm has brainstormed a few ideas and we're at the point where we need to narrow things down. That's where you come in! Tell us what you think would be most effective for you and your friends.