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(just wish i thought of it!!!)]]>Dec 22nd 2005 5:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/Dec 22nd 2005 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/Dec 22nd 2005 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/Dec 22nd 2005 5:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/


Georgia said she wanted a RAZR V3 the most, but you gave her the LG VX8100. And then Neo, the volunteer firefighter, stated that he needed a new Verizon phone, and that no other carrier worked in his area- but you awarded him with a Razr V3?!?! Where's the logic in that?]]>Dec 22nd 2005 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/Dec 22nd 2005 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/Dec 22nd 2005 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/Dec 22nd 2005 6:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/
Best, Ryan]]>Dec 22nd 2005 6:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/Dec 22nd 2005 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/Dec 22nd 2005 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/


for people on mac having trouble viewing this just use vlc or get the flip4mac plugin for quicktime.]]>Dec 22nd 2005 6:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/


http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story?section=bios&id=3298205]]>Dec 22nd 2005 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/Dec 22nd 2005 6:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/
Great vid.

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http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story?section=bios&id=3298205



Posted at 6:24PM on Dec 22nd 2005 by Ryan Everson"





Actually not that creative now that I know he does the news for a living.

Kind of lame actually.]]>Dec 22nd 2005 6:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/


Can we have a secondary prize for those people who didn't have the backing of a professional camera and editing crew?]]>Dec 22nd 2005 6:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/Dec 22nd 2005 7:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/Dec 22nd 2005 7:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/Dec 22nd 2005 7:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/
18. hey i used to work in the local news and the effort that was put into that is awesome...thing hard thing was probably getting his news director to let him do all that with the company equipment.....and the squirrel is classic



Posted at 7:06PM on Dec 22nd 2005 by tgrove





Ok, the fact that he had to CONVINCE someone to let him do it is not a big deal. Who cares? He still has a tv crew, editors, effects, pro cameras, etc at his disposal. Whaere is the creative force there? HE DOES THIS FOR A LIVING...not that hard to pull off.

Would you say a stipper would be CREATIVE for doing a strip tease to win? Or would a recording artist be creative for singing a song to win? NO! Because it is what they do!

I think there was no creativity other than the writing of the script, and even that was not that great. So, whatever. He won, we didn't...even if it was lame and non creative, who cares? It won't make a difference anyway.



Oh, and to Tony...the #17 post...thanks. It is nice to see someone understands my point.



P.S. Watch out...the guys from Engadget are going to post something on the Engadget site! OOOO!!! We have hit a new level of creativity!

And I hear Bill Gates is thinking of getting into computers! WHAT!!?? Talk about a creative genius!

Jeez!]]>Dec 22nd 2005 7:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/Dec 22nd 2005 7:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/


http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story?section=bios&id=3298205"



You beat me to it. I recognized his name and then realized that's the reporter guy from abc12. Then I saw that they reffered to him as "fake" anchorman/reporter hahahaha. whatever. I wonder why they (engadget) concluded that he was a "fake" reporter. hmmmmmm. Did Yuhnke lie to you guys? If so then I think you should give that HTC Universal to me....just to teach Yuhnke a lesson.]]>Dec 22nd 2005 7:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/


http://www.beyondthetech.com/downloads/videos/K-JAMandMadMonkeyBoy-ABC12.wmv]]>Dec 22nd 2005 8:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/Dec 22nd 2005 8:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/


Just kidding. It was a good submission. Not *amazing*, but pretty good.



I submitted. Mine was pretty lame. http://www.mlik.org/videos/hook_a_brother_up.mov]]>Dec 22nd 2005 8:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/


http://www.therainiervalley.com/queen_anne_news.html]]>Dec 22nd 2005 8:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/


He did it on the set of abc 12 and taped it outside of the studio. And Mr. McGlashen the visual guy did all the video editing. Wasn't a home done job, used his whole crew to do it.]]>Dec 22nd 2005 8:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/Dec 22nd 2005 8:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/


http://www.beyondthetech.com/images2/fun/odetotheuniversal_beyondthetech.jpg]]>Dec 22nd 2005 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/
Look, he is a professional in the video/television field. The entire idea is just unfair to those who actually HAD TO TRY and make something cool. This guy had all the stuff laid out for him already. Not cool.



And to your little statement:

"I bet someone that did a movie probably used some advanced editing software, on an expensive machine, but do you get mad at them if they win?"

No, I would not be mad...IF they did it themselves. This guy obviously did not. That is the unfair advantage.

Creativity was the key.

CREATIVITY!

Using a tv crew when you are a tv professional is not creative, it is cheap.



And as for your little picture....I am not bitching, or whining about not winning. I have an HTC Universal, you dumbass. I am upset because this guy is on tv every night...he can afford to buy one himself. There some creative people out there who got screwed, plain and simple.



And to Engadget...please stop kissing Kevin Pereira's a*s. He is not THAT cool.]]>Dec 22nd 2005 8:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/
Sorry Engadget bloggers, you know I love your site, but you seriously screwed up giving away the HTC Universal to Kirk-the-newsman. Either you weren't really searching for originallity or somebody didn't do their homework. Didn't you at least bother to GOOGLE (http://www.google.com/search?q=kirk+yuhnke&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official) the man?

So, yeah, I AM PISSED!

It would have been really cool had the guy been an amateur and had made the film himself, using his own equipment and doing the editing, publishing, etc on his computer. But its not.

I regret having to rant, but this is really inexcusable!

Regards,

Adrian.]]>Dec 22nd 2005 8:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/Dec 22nd 2005 8:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/
Finally, someone with a brain!

Thank you!



]]>Dec 22nd 2005 8:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/
A professional in the tv field should not have won this. It shows no creativity at all.

Engadget screwed this one up. You guys basically let him cheat. Why are so many peopl ekissing his ass, too? Do they think he will send them the HTC if they suck up enough?

It was not fair. Period.

]]>Dec 22nd 2005 8:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/
Well

Sorry, Engadget.

And to all the Engadget worshippers who refuse to believe that Engadget can mess up, I apologize as well.



But you guys messed this one up bad.



You let a professional media personality with a full crew and sudio at his idposal win this thing with THAT submission, which clearly was done by professional(s)?



Not cool not fair, not right.]]>Dec 22nd 2005 8:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/
Sucks.

Engadget ripped off the people who played fair.]]>Dec 22nd 2005 9:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/Dec 22nd 2005 9:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/Dec 22nd 2005 9:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/


Wonder why it looked professional??? Could it be because he had a professional set, crew, training, equipment, etc? Totally unfair to ever average joe who entered the contest with a good home made entry not some professionally done one.]]>Dec 22nd 2005 9:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/Dec 22nd 2005 9:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/


http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story?section=bios&id=3298205]]>Dec 22nd 2005 9:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/


wwhhhaaaaaaaaaaa *sniffle* whaaaaaaaaaaa



/whine but MY entry was MORE creative



Shaddup whiners. The guy used the resources he had available. It was funny, get over it. Never ceases to amaze the amount of whining some people will will do for free stuff.]]>Dec 22nd 2005 9:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/
Look, no one is whining about their submission being more creative. NOT ONE person has said that.

So you obviously cannot read, cannot comprehend, or are too busy molesting a platypus to stop and think before yo type some dumb ass comment like you did.



Everyone is simply ststing that it was unfair...period.



Now shut up.

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Oh, and congrats to the Kent Brockman clone, well done. Say, is "stone-hair" covered by newscaster health-plans? ;)]]>Dec 22nd 2005 10:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/the-winners-of-engadgets-five-days-of-holiday-giveaways/Dec 22nd 2005 10:33PM