My Two Bits
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What is "My Two Bits?"

My Two Bits is the official editorial page for the editor of Techtite.com. Techtite will accept reader submissions, for reviews as well as any editorials deemed well written and pertinent to this web site's audience.

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---The Halloween Editorial (2009)

---Kanye's Krappy Komments

---April 17th 2009

---March 31st: A New Server, a New Site...

Feb 21st: G4TV, What I'm Playing, Lost and Galactica.

Valentine's Day: Galactica, 24, more...

---Feb 6 : Michael Phelps' scandal, 24, Galactica and more!

---January 30th: That annoying Battlestar mutiny story arc!

---January 23rd: Galactica, Lost, etc.

---January 16th, 2009: Galactica and 24

---January 9th, 2009 The New Format...

---Prior to 2009...

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My latest Two Bits (December 2009):

Christmas Past, Present, and Future...

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Happy holidays! There's a lot of articles and fun to be had on this site, which in the spirit of one of my favorite holiday stories, "A Christmas Carol," is a nice mixture of offerings from Christmases of the Past, present, and...future? let's cover this in reverse with this latest editorial...

Starting with what to expect in the near future: I plan on having my latest YouTube video uploaded and online, as early as the time you read this. I wanted to have this video be a best-of collection, a la my popular list from last year, of The Best Holiday Episodes Ever. However many of these great episodes aren't easy to find. Interpret this as you will: it was far easier to find footage for my other holiday list for this year, of the Top Ten Worst Holiday Entertainment Ever. I was even able to use actual footage from the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special...and that only aired once. Yikes!

As for holiday "present": the latest update includes many text reviews ranging from the latest CGI version of A Christmas Carol, the comedy Old Dogs, and for video games, Tekken 6. To be honest I was a bit disappointed with Tekken 6, though to be equally honest I'm too busy having fun playing Uncharted 2 to really care. Too bad the long wait for Tekken 6 led to a game that was, at best...passable. Read the full review here.

Now for Christmas "past." Back around 2003 I found this amusing origami-filled story that had been originally published by a now out of print magazine in their "holiday edition." It was then passed from person to person via various Xeroxed copies and I decided to retype the story in web site form. While it has nothing to do with Santa or Christmas trees, it is an amusing religious-minded story that I felt was an intriguing way to end this holiday editorial...

Okay, so it's the holidays and you want a holiday feature article. Here's a good one; passed from person to person via a Xeroxed article from way back in the 1980's. It may seem a bit too "high school" for some readers, though this makes sense, since I first learned of this story in high school myself...

FYI: I can't take credit for this story, nor do I know who can. Believe it or not: I originally read this story in an old science magazine in the mid 1980’s. I forget which magazine it was, though I still have a copy of the story, as Xeroxed from person to person ever since. Here is the story in its entirety; enjoy...

Before you tell this story, take a sheet of paper (any size will do) and give it the four folds shown below.

Use this paper to tell the following story:

Peter and Paul were both born on Christmas Day. But after they finished school, Peter stayed in their village and became a good Samaritan. Paul turned out to be a rogue and roamed the world plundering its good people. As fate would have it, Black Paul, as he was known, was hanged on Christmas Day, the very day Good Peter died.

When they next saw each other, they were climbing the golden stairs that led to the Gates of Heaven. Black Paul noticed that Peter was carrying a piece of paper (similar to the one you have now). "What is that?" asked Paul.

"It's my pass to heaven. Don't you have one?" asked Peter.

"I had one, but I lost it, " he lied. "Why don't you give me part of yours so that I can get into heaven, too?" Peter obliged. (Cut along dotted line A.)

As they got closer to the pearly gates, Paul began to get nervous. "Look, Peter, you have more of the pass than I do. That's not fair." "Oh, you're right!" said Good Peter, and he gave Paul half of the rest of his pass. 

(Cut along B, and put the pointy part away for the moment.)

When they finally got to Heaven, Paul nudged ahead of Good Peter and presented his pass to the Angel.

"What's this?" the angel asked, raising an eyebrow. "It's all shredded up. Unfold the pieces, fit them together, and they will spell where you are to go." (Do this to "Paul's" pieces of the pass, now).

When Black Paul saw his destination, he howled like the devil. But he wasn't finished yet. "Wait a minute," said Paul. “I got this pass from the guy behind me. If I've got to go, then so does he, because he has part of the same pass."

The angel turned to Good Peter and said, "Let me see your pass. You will have to go where it indicates." (Unfold the last piece of paper, and Peter's destination will be clear.)

...Hope you enjoyed the story! Happy Holidays!

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