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24: Season 8

[SPOILERS FROM VARIOUS SEASONS INCLUDING SEASON 8.   IF YOU'VE NOT SEEN EVERY EPISODE OF 24 THEN READ AT YOUR OWN RISK]
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24 has been a staple of my adult life.
From watching season 1 on DVD in pretty much a single sitting, to various fights and “plant activites” with Vanlandw, the awe-inspiring fate of Nina Meyers, [...]

Posted on January 19, 2010 at 10:08 am by Vanberge · Permalink · 9 Comments
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XboxLive Gamerscore

This weekend has turned into a massive achievement fest for Vanbergs and myself.
I’m not exactly sure when it happened; but at some point within the last 6-8 months I have become completely OCD about my gamerscore and rep on Xbox Live. I don’t spend countless hours getting every achievement in every game that I [...]

Posted on January 10, 2010 at 2:44 am by Vanberge · Permalink · 4 Comments
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Grand Theft Auto 4 – The Half Million Achievement

When I had first played through Grand Theft Auto 4, I did not take any steps to save my money.  I spent freely on clothes, food, weapons, and ammo…
This REALLY ended up frustrating me because as I defeated the game, I came very far from having enough money to satisfy the “Half Million” achievement.  To [...]

Posted on November 18, 2009 at 1:50 pm by Vanberge · Permalink · Leave a comment
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I’m Quitting Fantasy Football

Fantasy football is a game.  It should be a fun way to get into football and a good way for friends to generally share some laughs together.
This is far from what it is.
It has become a complete and whole disdain of my existence.  It causes me literally enough frustration to throw and break objects in [...]

Posted on October 11, 2009 at 9:20 pm by Vanberge · Permalink · 7 Comments
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The Best Buy $9.99 TV Saga

Today has been inexplicably one of the strangest most random days of all time.
I can think of nothing else to do than to simply run down the course of events in a detailed ordered list fashion as seen below:

I receive a phone call at approximately 5:20 AM, which wakes me up with a “something must [...]

Posted on August 12, 2009 at 11:23 pm by Vanberge · Permalink · 3 Comments
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Summer Vacation 2009

This summer, we took an awesome house-boat trip on Dale Hollow lake with a fun group of people.
In all, 22 people went on 2 boats (10 on ours, 12 on the other) and everybody lived on water for 4 days. It was simply awesome.
We took turns cooking meals, got too much sun, bought over [...]

Posted on June 29, 2009 at 7:45 pm by Vanberge · Permalink · 2 Comments
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The End of an Era

I have made an impulsive decision to migrate my personal blog/website to a new URL today.
PalmerForPresident.com has sort of become stale as a name. Really, it’s almost totally irrelevant considering the reason I initially registered the URL was to support the fictional character “David Palmer” from Fox’s show 24 who was killed off many [...]

Posted on June 12, 2009 at 3:56 pm by Vanberge · Permalink · 6 Comments
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Grand Rapids Sonic

Today I had a brief glimmer of a true miracle… I heard through the grapevine that the Sonic drive-in restaurant was open for business.
My wife had reported that her coworker’s husband had eaten at Sonic and even went into details that he had eaten a chili dog with onion rings. My heart was [...]

Posted on April 17, 2009 at 1:36 pm by Vanberge · Permalink · One Comment
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