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Wedding Crashers
Wedding Crashers is the /any comedy that follows two
Washington D.C. bachelors. Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn, as
they.. .crash weddings. Their philosophy on the entire concept of the
wedding is that, due to the romantic nature of a wedding, all the
women present become marriage-seeking nymphomaniacs, and a
sort of funny montage proves them right in the beginning of the
movie. After a while. Owen Wilson's character, whom 1 do not
remember the name of. becomes love sick and grows tired of the
countless number of beautiful women he sleeps with every spring.
But his friend Vince Vaughn, whose character name 1 also do not
remember, talks him into crashing one more wedding where he
finds the girl of his dreams, who is played by some pretty girl with
brown hair whose dad in the movie is Christopher Walken.
The rest of the movie is incredibly predictable and full of the
same tiresome character antics that were funny for maybe the first
20 minutes of a nearly two hour long movie. This movie w as hyped
up by a number of my friends as the funniest movie I w ill ever see
they were wrong. The funniest part of the movie was a lace that
Christopher Walken made during a game of pick up football.
The character of the nice clever guy that Owen Wilson portrays in
every movie he's in is getting extremely tiresome (for examples see
Shanghai Noon, Shanghai Knights. Armageddon. Meet the Parents.
Starsky and Hutch...) Although Vince Vaughn's character is also
very similar to other ones I've seen him play. 1 will never get tired
of it because he's just so damn sassy.
This movie was probably most disappointing because of the writ
ing. I thought it was a great concept for a movie, but the general
content became redundant and played out by the end. If it were per
haps a half hour shorter, then 1 think it may have been a much bet
ter movie. For me it just seemed to be three or four funny jokes
wrapped up in a bunch of crap. But the one thing that would have
saved the entire movie would have simply been more Christopher
Walken and I think we can all agree on that.
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The wonders of USB thumb drives
By Jeremy Korwek
stall writer
A Universal Serial Bus (USB) flash drive
sometimes, ok most of the time, is called a
USB thumb dme. or plainly a thumb drive.
Many, if not all. of the students at Bchrcnd
use these wonderful devices. Many use
them to store those all-important or should
be all-important projects for class.
Sometimes the more advanced users use
them to store that drawing for engineering
class that took them three hours to get the
little hide lined up straight.
But on the other side of the table, com
pared to running the thumb drive from the
computer, the thumb drive can actually run
the computer! Many of you arc wondering,
"What the heck is this guy talking about!"
What I am talking about is that there is a
whole world of things you can do with a
thumb drive besides storing that six page
essay for English 015 on it. The thumb
drive that you carry around can boot up
almost any computer you want, opening a
whole new realm of possibility for that little
piece of plastic and wire.
Every time you turn on a computer, an
integrated system called the BIOS (Basic
input/output system) activates and follows
the settings given to it and eventually boots
up your operating system and most likely
that operating system is some version of
Windows. What vou can do as the user is
Unearth to rock Forward
Hall with Metal on Friday
Bv Matt Grohlmund
contributing writer
11' lor some strange reason you find
yourself wandering down Peach
Street Friday around 5:30 p.m. a few
blocks down from Grasshoppers on
a Friday night, you might notice an
unusually high amount of piercings,
long hair, and Pantera T-shirts and
people pushing each other around in
a circle and trying to bum cigarettes
off of you. That is because around
downtown Eric fans of hardcore and
metal music all know that for many
years Peach Street's Forward Hall
has been at the center of the local
live music scene.
However, this Friday. September
16. you are really not going to want
to wear your Grateful Dead tie-dye
T-shirt down there. The Forward
Hall will become the launching point
for Massachusetts-based
set up the BIOS so that the thumb drive sit
ting in your pocket becomes what the BIOS
looks at to start the operating system. This
procedure requires that you have a several
things;
* A large enough USB thumb drive
* A BIOS that can boot from a USB drive
* A USB Drive that has the proper files to
boot up
* A computer you have permission to boot
up with a USB drive (your computer, your
friends' computer. but NOT the
Departments of Defense's main server or the
library computers, just as an example)
* And a user who can configure all of this
without destroying the computer or the USB
Drive
If you don't meet all of these require
ments. especially the last two, DO NOT
attempt to boot up the computer from the
USB drive as you could damage your com
puter or the USB Drive and your college
experience. To start off. you need to have at
least a 256M8 thumb drive. Which is a stan
dard size. Larger thumb drives arc consid
ered a better value. If you're going to boot
up a computer that you think meets all the
requirements, but you are not sure than
check the internet for reputable sites that
have detailed explanations about the
processes needed to accomplish such a task.
Next, you need to know what you want to
hardcore/mctal band Uncarth’s
nationwide club tour.
However, Unearth is not just those
few kids that used to scream indistin
guishable lyrics over sloppy guitar
parts at your youth group meetings.
These guys have a live show that has
probably caused more severe
headaches than the computers on the
main floor of the library.
“We prefer the club atmosphere,”
says Unearth front man Trevor
Phipps, “where there is simply just
more energy and a better show from
all points.”
Uncarth’s fast-as-your-skull-can
takc-it performances have been
dubbed “energetic and heartfelt,”
while their original sound can be
summed up as “charismatic riffs,
thought provoking lyrics and pum
meling breakdowns.”
Their onstage energy speaks for
itself. This is a band that got its name
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do with it. Do you want to carry around
your favorite internet browser? Currently, I
only know of Firefox having a portable sib
ling. You can also download a portable
Microsoft Outlook style email client called
Thunderbird. Thunderbird is made by the
same people who brought you Firefox and
there is a full version available as well.
These can both be found by just “Googling”
“portable Firefox” or “portable
Thunderbird."
Now there arc many other programs that
can be run perfectly fine from a USB thumb
One of the more interesting ones is an
open source program called Abiword. The
name gives it all away. Abiword is a word
processing program that is almost exactly
like Microsoft Word, except for the fact that
it can be carried around on a USB thumb
drive. Why do this? Well it's an easy way to
have a familiar word processing program
that can work on almost every computer you
meet up with.
Even though it seems like there are only a
few programs that you can use on a thumb
drive, there are only a few mentioned in this
article. If you want to find out more about
using USB drives in “unusual” ways, ask
around. Both online and in the real world
there are many people willing to help you
get started.
out there by using the oldest and
purest means possible for under
ground music: they packed up what
they needed and went out on long,
extensive tours aimed at their kind of
audiences.
They let the fans decide if they
were any good and now they’ll be
spreading their brand of music,
along with a plague of migraines, all
across the head banging country.
And it won’t be the first time.
Unearth has found gigs as diverse as
“a cross Canadian tour with Slipknot
and Killswitch Engage, a second
stage spot on the infamous Ozzfest
2004, as well as the Headbangers
Ball tour in the fall of 2004 with
Hatebreed and Damage Plan.”
Opening up for Unearth this week
end are Nora, A Life Once Lost and
Since The Flood.