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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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20 January 2006 - 9:36 am
My hatred for Survivor's Rupert ("America's Favorite Survivor") after reading about his current business endeavors. This probably won't shock most of you -- he was on a reality TV show -- but Rupert's teddy bear persona was fake. He quite literally became violent when people voted to oust him on Survivor. And he often used his work as a "troubled teens mentor" to justify his actions with respect to the other reality show contestants. (I was never entirely sure who should be more insulted when he compared his fellow competitors to the troubled teens. I would certainly never want to be compared unfavorably to a reality show contestant, so I leaned in favor of the troubled teens.) But Rupert seems to have given up on his life of helping others as soon as it became more profitable to help himself -- or so it appears in the article linked above, which makes no reference to his work as a troubled teens mentor. I can't criticize him for that -- I might do the same -- but you can't take a holier-than-thou attitude because of your work with these kids and then abandon them as soon as you're able.
In short, the only thing I want people to know about Rupert is that he had and still has a big ego. He is a reality show failure (he was voted out fairly early on both of his Survivor appearances) who succeeded by projecting an image of himself that doesn't match reality.
Oh, and the the 4 million votes out of the 38 million that weren't cast for Rupert in the "America's Tribal Council" game that ended up winning Rupert $1,000,000? At least two of them were mine.
Posted by on 20 January 2006 at 9:24 AM
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