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Who Do Warcraft Players Want As President? 82

I'm not sure how many electoral votes Azeroth has, but it could be a key battleground state.

Comment Even Dave Chapelle plays World of Warcraft (Score 0) 220

Dave Chappelle loves World of Warcraft Famed and elusive comic praises Blizzard's popular MMORPG at San Francisco nightclub appearance.

After indefinitely abandoning work on his hit Chappelle's Show, comedian Dave Chappelle absconded to South Africa to escape the fallout. Since returning to the US, he has made several unannounced appearances at Los Angeles comedy clubs, and this week played two little-publicized shows at the Punchline in San Francisco.

At his San Francisco gigs, Chappelle revealed he has also been getting away to a place farther off than Johannesburg--Azeroth, no less. Attendees to Chappelle's Tuesday night show said the comedian voiced his love of a certain popular MMORPG from Blizzard Entertainment.

"You know what I've been playing a lot of?" the comedian reportedly asked the crowd. "World of Warcraft!" When a few cheers broke out, he reportedly responded, "I knew I had some geek brothers and sisters up in here!" Chappelle also was said to have expressed his amusement seeing WoW characters with names referring to his most famous sketches, including a rogue with a name inspired by the famous "I'm Rick James, B****" sketch

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Journal Journal: Last day CVPR 2003

So here I am sitting at the Monona Terrace Convention Center here in Madison, WI attending CVPR 2003.

What is CVPR? CVPR is an international conference for Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. It is a gathering of the world's brightest minds for the purpose of computer imaging. Some topics covered at CVPR included face recognition technology, object tracking, pattern recognition, image restoration, as well as slew of other topics.

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