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Thanks to HP and BuzzCorps, Ponzi and I gave away a $5000 Dragon notebook last night! We had a lot of fun, and I’m sure our winner Ralajer is one happy camper in sunny California!


Unfortunately, the video of the drawing itself didn’t turn out so well. I was called away to go home to Iowa. My parents were in a bad car accident last week. They’re doing ok now, though. I don’t have a very strong Internet connection, so the video didn’t work too well. This is the reason we’re telling you about it after the fact in this video!


The requirements for my giveaway were simple:

  • You must be present in the chat room at the time of the giveaway.
  • You need to be subscribed to my YouTube channel.
  • You had to have left a a good comment to a post in my blog between May 22 and May 29.



Earlier, Kat chose a random blog post. My wife Ponzi then scrolled randomly through more than 175 comments on that post to choose a winner. And a winner we found! Big congratulations go out to Ralajer!!!!


Ralajer posted his comment on the post What do you do with your old Computers?. The comment is as follows:

I usually gift them to my siblings and with 6 of them with 11 nieces and nephews so there will always be an outlet for my old hardware not that I go through that many computers. But being the only computer knowledgeable person in the family I am also the adjunct tech support. I try to get them to learn about computers by telling to Google their problems and try to fix it which has worked for some of the more basic problems.


I’ve been playing around with turning the last one into a file server but I really don’t need it at present so I’ve not put much time into doing that. I’ve only recycled one computer after it physically broke it was a pain finding a center so I just waited until a eTrash day in front of Best Buy.

FirstRSS+ThunderIT AWS HMAC ERROR: "http://xml-us.amznxslt.com/onca/xml?AWSAccessKeyId=05G128QTRXN0J06J6PG2&ContentType=text%2Fxml&Keywords=hewlett%2Bpackard&Operation=ItemSearch&ResponseGroup=Large&SearchIndex=Blended&Service=AWSECommerceService&Signature=pNoAbJK3BWKTEbTZyMf5S%2FXJJNBi5Co91%2FgBZAtwAlA%3D&Style=http%3A%2F%2Ftagjag.com%2Fcss%2Famazon.xslt&Timestamp=2009-11-08T19%3A12%3A10Z&Version=2005-07-26" NOT FOUND!

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robertoct

May 30th, 2008
at 12:31pm

congratulations
you the biggest dumb ass on earth

Keja6

May 30th, 2008
at 12:36pm

Ponzi you did a great job the previous time. Don’t worry about it, and Congrats Ralajer!

TDAWizard

May 30th, 2008
at 12:40pm

There was so much glitching going on with the webcast, it froze my computer and logged me out before they could conferm weather i was on (no i’m not saying they picked me, but forced ubove me prevented it from happening.

EasyGeek

May 30th, 2008
at 12:44pm

chris you are cool

JOEMLM

May 30th, 2008
at 12:46pm

anybody know why some people, myself include, get booted off of chat, actually, my internet explorer crashes, so does firefox and i even tried safari and that crashes … whats up? anybody got a clue …PLEASE PM ME!

dxbrbnk

May 30th, 2008
at 12:56pm

I remember, it took 2 trys to get it right lol

computergeek161

May 30th, 2008
at 1:21pm

What town in iowa? I live there

ndfootballch

May 30th, 2008
at 2:24pm

loved the eya later part :)

samuelking32

May 30th, 2008
at 2:45pm

wow his lucky grats on winning man

792247

May 30th, 2008
at 3:17pm

Chris your almost on video 1,337!!! You need to do a special video soon!

jazzmcneil

May 30th, 2008
at 5:07pm

ha you div he is on his 1331st video

dfoggin

May 30th, 2008
at 7:03pm

Since when did Ponzi “E ya later”? Lol.

AZDAPAZHALOMAN

May 30th, 2008
at 7:47pm

I WON OMG AYYAYAYAYAYYA

jking

patio87

May 30th, 2008
at 8:25pm

HA, you’re right.

D3YPPP

May 30th, 2008
at 8:27pm

“Chris your almost on video 1,337!!! You need to do a special video soon! ”
“ha you div he is on his 1331st video ”
Notice the “almost” there, jazzmcneil “you div”?

jazzmcneil

May 30th, 2008
at 8:30pm

notice how stupid that sounds? why didnt you say he’s almost on his 1400th vide or something round not something odd and stupid.

G0blinS0ul

May 30th, 2008
at 9:42pm

Your clearly not in the know. :<

FreakzyGeekzy

May 30th, 2008
at 9:43pm

Can’t you read, it says Chris your ALMOST on video 1,337

ismetteren

May 30th, 2008
at 10:05pm

becuese 1337 is leet!

Tribe3R

May 30th, 2008
at 10:56pm

well done ralajer or how ever you spell it… I would of loved this thing! damn you Kat & Ponzii :P

And stop with the wife comments… you childish little munchkins

moujahed

May 30th, 2008
at 11:30pm

Dude, fuck the computer… your wife is HOT!!! Make some kids instead of these videos dammit!!! She’s prime!!

GETSOME126

May 30th, 2008
at 11:34pm

she loved you long time?

gunsnroses123456789

May 31st, 2008
at 12:13am

we need some baby nerds take a year break and come back with some kids man

g3n0c1d3r

May 31st, 2008
at 12:36am

yeah guys i won one of the others but its not coming till tomorrow though

ipod1234567

May 31st, 2008
at 12:41am

You guys are f***ing pervs do not talk about them like that!!!

blacktreemedia

May 31st, 2008
at 12:48am

good give away. I like your stuff, it is informative and fun.

masterraptor911

May 31st, 2008
at 1:21am

AHHHHHH!!!!! I missed it!!!! And would you look at that, you also get a Pirillo sticker…oh wait, I guess not.
*foxtrot_MGS weeps and kicks his cat, as he was out last night. Although he does congratulate the winner.

inuysha360

May 31st, 2008
at 1:31am

i forgot about that…

younharocks

May 31st, 2008
at 1:42am

i totally agree these people are pervs and they need to grow up

retepvosnul

May 31st, 2008
at 2:13am

It does not spell “Lame” … Why bother ?

retepvosnul

May 31st, 2008
at 2:14am

niza wife.. Where you buy here ? she expensive ? talk much normally ?

D0M1N8R1x

May 31st, 2008
at 2:36am

ima cry.. cant watch no more =,(

Sam Davenport

May 30th, 2008
at 8:01pm

He must be one hell of a happy guy to have won that laptop. Shame the big count down is now over we need something new and big again to giveaway start off another count down there kinda fun.

Hope he has years of fun with it!

hickstan

May 30th, 2008
at 8:56pm

wow that is one lucky person

i have a friend who would kill for a dragon

BADRUNESCAPE13

May 31st, 2008
at 4:41am

I was in a car accident to.

lwouldliketoknow

May 31st, 2008
at 6:31am

PspH3lp3R
Thats the guys wife man, have some respect.

macflyfilm

May 31st, 2008
at 6:51am

She’s not a mother.

roggelmagic

May 31st, 2008
at 6:56am

Why doesnt his face comes with it? That would be a funny gift right?

name239

May 31st, 2008
at 7:31am

hope your perents are ok

Awsads

May 31st, 2008
at 8:02am

lol at ponzi with her eee-ya later salut

ETHIOPIANKINGDOM

May 31st, 2008
at 8:44am

hope your parents are okay ~

ShadowLuigi323

May 31st, 2008
at 9:06am

WoW I reall wanted that im in the website and theres the computer still….. So still have a chance!?!? i’ll stay in stream.

emufan23

May 31st, 2008
at 10:13am

Ponzi looks, with all due respect, LOVELY! I hope you´r parents are doing well, Chris.

Coawie

May 31st, 2008
at 12:20pm

your wife is a fat cow

Jayz447

May 31st, 2008
at 12:46pm

your an idiot! she looks lovely

Tim Linden

May 31st, 2008
at 6:56am

“I didn’t know about it”. But I just started subscribing to your blog yesturday or thursday? And I came in the chat room after the winner was picked and mentioned my own laptop and someone was like did you win!? and I was like uh I have no idea what you are talking about. Then I realized I was tired and left.

jer4703

May 31st, 2008
at 3:01pm

Ponzi has a funny name! :P

joelg88

May 31st, 2008
at 9:12am

Congratz to Ralajer on winning this great system. I was in the Chat room when he won and everyone thought he had passed out because after he gave his youtube link he never spoke again lol. once again congratz to ralajer. I hope he takes advantage of all that power under the hood of that magnificent machine.

Partners in Grime

May 31st, 2008
at 10:48am

Congrats!

ps Glad to hear Chris’s parents are going to be okay after their car accident.

WorkoutGamer

May 31st, 2008
at 5:59pm

just looks like she has to much make up on. thats all

madmandragon

May 31st, 2008
at 8:16pm

shes smokin and no im not trying to be nice hes hot

ShadowHelper

June 1st, 2008
at 2:04am

i can only get to 1:40 in video then it ends

saeedtsm

June 1st, 2008
at 8:21am

such a lovely couple, congratulations to both of you

Krisisb0b

June 1st, 2008
at 8:39am

yo wtf how did u get a wife? nerdy mother fucker

yourfreebieguide

June 1st, 2008
at 9:16am

awesome :) so nice of you

faisalm1991

June 1st, 2008
at 11:10am

i didn’t know about it lol

NicholasSta

June 1st, 2008
at 1:34pm

why you mad, because you can’t get one you little virgin?

Maxxlenoxx

June 1st, 2008
at 10:13pm

Unfortunatly, I can’t spend much time in Chris chatroom so I guess my chances are pretty lame ;o) Congratulations to the winner!!

Maxxlenoxx

June 1st, 2008
at 10:19pm

I hope all those stupid comments won’t affect the decision of showing Ponzi in some videos. It brings something refreshing to see her (non tech comments). Anyway, goodjob Ponzi!!

roalgumo7

June 1st, 2008
at 5:46pm

:( I was 8 posts below the winner, and the worst of all, when ponzi said “ral..” I was like “OH MY GOD!!!!” I tought I was the winner, because I figure roalgumo is kinda hard to pronounce, but then she spelled it and I was “aww man :(”.

Congratz to ralajer anyway.

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June 2nd, 2008
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June 2nd, 2008
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ponzi is a CHINK lolololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololol

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June 8th, 2008
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