proofreed!

+--------------- Bizarre Bulletin Bloopers ----------------+  
  
* From a lyric sheet: "What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and briefs to bear."  

* Support group meeting postponed: "There will be no Moms Who Care this week."  

* "Father, we just want to pray for our unloved saved ones."  

* The Overeater's Anonymous Group will meet at 8:00 in the large room.  

* Diana and Don request your presents at their wedding.  

* We pray that our people will jumble themselves.  

* Hymn: Crown Him With Many Crows  

* "Child Care provided with reservations."  

* Janet Smith has volunteered to strip and refinish the communion table in the sanctuary.  

* Scripture: "I was hungry and you gave me something to eat; I was thirty and you gave me something to drink."  

* The Honeymooners Group is now having Bile Studies each Tuesday evening at 7:30p.m.  

* Pray that a food foundation will be laid in the lives of our teens.  

* We are always happy to let you sue our facility.

i win!

reep and i watched she's the man last night and i really like it! hehe. we went out to the block and played rock paper scissors and i beat him like four times! hehe, anyway. i dunno how much he liked it, but not a whole lot. i had a lot of fun wit it tho. :)

secrets

new postsecret. some really 'good' ones this week. and here's an article about postsecret in case you're just starting to get hooked. and just for kicks, here's a few extra secrets.

get minting!

maybe you're like me and love cosmetics and such but don't always know if you should because you have no idea if they're actually any good? well then themintpages.com if for you. it's a product review site, so it's not just for cosmetics, but basically people write reviews and give ratings for things they've used. it's still a bit new, so they haven't a really extensive list of products yet, but that's where you come in. you can sign up and review things you've used. anything from lipstick to hair gel to perfume to nail polish to brushes to... well, you get the point.

spring break!

it's spring break!! yay!!! hehe, bet you were still a student like me so you could get a week off for no good reason! anyway, i've not done a whole lot. yesterday i was in irvine wit my rents. they met a relative of ours who gave them a painting. then we took her out to dinner. we left at 1.30 and got back at like 9pm! eesh! today we were supposed to go to santa barbara to look at some orchids but that fell thru... think i'll be hanging out wit reepal later? romrow my mom and i are heading back to irvine cause she has an interview so we'll probably go shopping at the south coast afterwards. then tuesday ting and i are planning to go to disney, finally! rest of the week? maybe help ting move in to la? need to convince my mom of that still... oh! and would love to finally go to santa monica to see that 'snow and ashes' exhibit. here's hoping! oh! and, would like to go to the citerdale sometime, i heard it's totally different? and i kno they got a ck outlet too, so i'd like to see that. :)

mice

do you have an apple mighty mouse? if so, lift it up a bit from your mouse pad and check out the led pattern. it looks like a mouse!! so cool! i kind of want this mouse now... lol! and in other mousy news. appt a cat gave birth to a mouse! well, sorta...

oedipal

online dating. why not to do it? you might end up falling in love wit your own mother. yeah, in love, in that way. ew! it's enough to drive you crazy... and now something to make you laugh for real: flying skier.

so pretty!

the first time i saw this garland light in some magazine i immediately wanted it. of course, it's $60, which really isn't expensive. but for one who doesn't have a job and who doesn't need a light... well anyway. then a couple days ago i saw these fairy tale cards and again, i fell in love! i am currently contemplating whether or not to buy them...

johari

be a dear won't you? define me. confine me. just don't decline me. fill out my johari window. i promise i'll do the same for you.

battle of the wits

mood: sarcastic

reepal informs me that tekken is not just a game. well yes, i realize that. it's a lifestyle. a higher calling. a profession. the fulfillment of a dream. divine intervention. a sexual deviation. nectar of the gods. and so on and so forth. ...but seriously. i realize, that to you it's not just a game. that's why i don't get nearly as upset as perhaps i should. but i do ask, seriously, this tekken of yours, whatever you might think it is, is it more important than a girlfriend? hypothetically, of course.

that's racist!

 me&ro has this men's 'silver tiny skull with path of the heart on peruvian opal beads' necklace for $705 ($705!!). supposedly the chinese engraving says 'follow the path of the true heart' but i dunno... it seems like that's just one word (which says 'listen' btw). did they really fit all the rest of that on the back? or is it just another lazy ass pretending to kno chinese? which pisses me off more than anything! i'm so tired of people attributing our beautiful chinese language to the japanese! if you don't kno which is wat, then don't f*cking pretend! do you even kno wat most kanji really is? it's chinese you idiot! there is actually japanese kanji, btw. but it's like simplified chinese. and most kanji is just chinese, plain and simple. the thing about this 'kanji' bit, is that so many people who don't kno jack shit about chinese or japanese, mutilate our languages and lump them all together. people think they're getting tattoos in japanese words? um, no. more likely than not, it's chinese you're getting. chinese characters look 'prettier' because they're more complicated looking than japanese characters. and for god's sake do some damn research before you get your freakin tat. or, if you can't (and why the hell not?!), at the very least use come common sense, huh? for instance (2nd row, 1st of left), 'year of the rat' really? doesn't that look like just one character to you? now how likely does it seem that 'year of the rat', four words, became just one word? pretty unlikely huh? yeah, you kno why? because it didn't. oh, and btw, your tattoo actually means a number of things, including 'son', but nothing even remotely close to 'year of the rat' or 'year' or 'rat' or anything in between. dumbass. oh, and for as for a couple of you on that page? your tat may say the right thing, but uh... it's upside down. idiots! anyway, here's a site of a a lot of mistakes and misuses of chinese words. pretty good site actually.

me$ro

so i like me&ro as much as the next person but holy cow does their stuff really need to be that expensive? this '18k gold 'bone and spirit' bead on cord' bracelet (1st page, #5) is for a baby (so you can imagine how small it is) and it's composed of a single 18k gold bead and some string. and do you kno how much it costs? a crazy $350! holy cow! and also, they have this men's 'silver tiny skull with path of the heart on peruvian opal beads' necklace for $705 ($705!!). supposedly the chinese engraving says 'follow the path of the true heart' but i dunno... it seems like that's just one word (which says 'listen' btw). did they really fit all the rest of that on the back? or is it just another lazy ass pretending to kno chinese?

r.i.p.

tekken vs step:

round 1. fight! ...tekken wins!

round 2. fight! ...perfect! tekken wins!

round 3. fight! ...tekken wins!

and so on and so forth...

tekken. undefeated champion!

last bit

phhere're just some random pictures i like from the la history museum.

       

1. chandelier and dino tails. 2. pottery face thing. 3. posing in the cafe hallway. 4. i likie the way he looks, haha! 5. on the way to the freeway.

anteaters

so as you may (and should!) kno, i go to uci and our mascot is the anteater. yeah... seriously. but anyway.  i never really thought much about it until i saw these pictures. aren't we cute!

blacklava

great t.shirt site: blacklava. because i can't seem to find a mission statement anywhere on the site. imma just write on up myself, so excuse me if it's a bit off. in any case. it's a somewhat political site potesting againt discrimination and stereotypes against asians. it has lots of things besides t.shirts btw. has stickers, books, music, etc, but all to do wit their site message. couple shirts i really liked were the sars one and the terrorist one (maybe buy this for reepal [in reference to that stupid b*tch we met at knotts]? esp because he's not even middle eastern! not that that makes any damn difference. for instance, lookit john walker...)

small things

smallthings. site of really pretty jewelry. i esp like the flora vs. fauna circle necklaces. the itty bitty necklaces. and the small necklaces. :)

that hair!

patrick dempsey. then and thankfully now. lol!

           

wildlife

the animals displays are really awesome at the la natural history museum. i didn't get a whole lot of super great pictures because it was quite dark (so the shutter speed was slower) and i shake quite a bit anyway. but here're some pictures of the animals. i tried to pick them for somewat different climates and such to show the scope of the museum.

    

so like i don't remember wat all the animals are exactly. so forgive me if i'm wrong. but anyway. they were all real. real animals that had died for some reason and got stuffed. 1. sea lions? i dunno. 2. elephants! 3. polar bear. 4. dinosaur (he was real too. and living! and he wasn't in a cage! but he's a friendly guy. wit a great sense of humor. see, so i read the placard in front of him. so i knew he was alive. silly reepal thought he was just some replica of a dino or something equally stupid. so he stood in front of him and asked for a picture. and as i was gonna take it mr dino leaned over and nipped reepal's ear! haha! reep jumped and screamed like a lil kid! twas hilarious! and untrue. oh man are you stupid for thinking dinos are real! evolution? ha!) 5. bears. imma say black bears. because they're black. oh wow, i should be a detective or something. damn, i'm smart.

ingenius

wow. this candle is amazing. it has a matchbox built right in!

re(solve)

old insecurities are asserting themselves again. i don't kno why i do this to myself. i don't kno why it is i turn my mind off to some subjects i don't want to think about and yet when it comes to this... it's a couple different things this time. something old and something new. but i'm still blue. ... i'm on my period too. so i keep getting the urge to cry. i hope this goes away. i somewat doubt it will. i mean... even if the situation goes away i'll still feel the way i feel. and by then, even if i'm not still feeling it. i'll still have felt the way i did. which means that really, nothing is better. because the situation was not resolved. it just... dissolved.

'breathe in for luck' 'breathe in so deep' / 'my heart is yours to fill or burst, to break or bury' 'whichever you prefer' / 'we're doing fine' 'we're doing nothing at all' / 'just lay entwined here, undiscovered' / 'and i knew that you meant it'

stories

MESA, Ariz. - A deputy fire chief in Mesa, Ariz., has been placed on paid leave for allegedly stealing his next door neighbor's lamb and trying to have sex with it. Leroy  Johnson, 52, was booked on suspicion of disorderly conduct, trespassing and public sexual indecency, all misdemeanors, after he was allegedly discovered in a small barn with his pants down holding a young ewe on the ground, the Mesa Arizona Tribune said. The incident began when the neighbor's daughter saw a man enter the corral where the sheep are kept, grab one and drag it into the barn. She told her father who found Johnson with the ewe. When sheriff's deputies arrived and confronted Johnson he admitted trespassing in his neighbor's barn but denied doing anything else, the Tribune report said.

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - A man thought he could strike it rich by planting a dead mouse in a burrito at a Taco Bell restaurant. Ryan Daniel Goff planted the dead rodent and then complained to an employee that his burrito tasted "funny." Court documents said that Goff later called Taco Bell's regional manager, Robert Buckle, saying he wanted "something that would make my ears tingle" to settle the matter. Goff was arraigned Thursday on an attempted extortion count, but laughed and smiled as District Judge Thomas Phillips read the charge. "I don't recall seeing anything like this before," Grand Traverse County prosecutor Alan Schneider told the Traverse City Record-Eagle.

ENID, Okla. - Two men incriminated themselves when they accidentally hit the wrong button on a cell phone and gave 911 dispatchers a detailed account of their plot to set a vehicle on fire. Emergency dispatchers and a shift supervisor listened for four hours while the two Enid natives worked out their plan to steal an acquaintance's car and burn the vehicle up. "They made some pretty dumb statements," said Enid police Capt. Jim Nivison. "One of the males said, 'It's gonna burn, will they be able to get fingerprints?' and 'I've got the lighter, Dude. Let's go.'" The two men, Johnny Ray Miller and Robert A. Patterson, were later jailed on conspiracy complaints.

SAGINAW, Mich. - A Michigan couple were surprised -- and slightly injured -- when a turkey burst through their picture window and ran through their home. Maureen and Gerald Henze were watching television Tuesday afternoon when the crash sent glass flying onto them, causing minor cuts on their legs and feet. The Saginaw News reports Gerald looked up and saw the turkey running down the hallway of their three-bedroom house. Closely tailing it was the Henze's dog Donny. Gerald Henze also gave pursuit, grabbing a handful of tail feathers while trapping the bird in the back bedroom. Deputy Kirt Shields of the Saginaw County (Mich.) Sheriff's Department got a little scratched by the gobbler as he tried to release it outside.

dino!

yesterday reep and i went to the la history museum for a extra credit project of his. he went crazy over the dinosaurs. and i went crazy over the gems! i'd been here before as kid and remembered liking the exhibits but to see them again as a truly appreciative adult... twas quite nice!

     

1st. reepal being eaten by a goofy looking mega mouth shark. 2. reep saying hello to white fang. 3. me terrorizing the wildlife. 4. reepal showing off his armspan to a teredactyl-like non-dinosaur.

warming trend

i loves these scarves. useful yet whimiscal. i esp like the latin ones. and best of all? you can design your own!

biggie

aww! how cute! lookit these kids who're dressed up as celebrities. try to identify them. and then lookit these big celebrities: christina aguilera (reep said this pic is old but i'd never seen it so i'm posting it now!) and then head over to this picture of macy gray and nicole richie. macy gray is huge! her head is like twice the size of nicole's! i do like her dress tho...

steffie

go lookit ting's dog! she's named steffie! i love love love picture 14 where she's smiling. she's soooo cute!

toys

remember that slapping game we used to play in hs? (why do i feel like i should've said elementary school...?) here's the version they play in japan. but it looks like the guy on the right was taking the game a little too seriously... but it's a good thing he doesn't turn into hulk when he gets angry. altho if i were hulk i'd get pretty mad looking at these messed up toys of me. oh, and um just for the hell of it: oprah recommends my dick. ...not that i have one or anything. because i mean, i'm not a she-male or anything. i am, however, pretty good at identifying them. i got 13/16 on this quiz.

quoting sebastian

it is incredibly annoying that people can't do things 'right' even after you've set the perfect example. last year erin (family friend)came over for the summer. but i left for china before she went back to taiwan. so when my mom went back to taiwan earlier this year i burned erin a cd of all the pictures we took last summer. but since there really weren't that many (a standard cd can hold about 1000 photos) i burned her some extra ones of my china trip. i went thru and selected a few very obvious landmarks from each place i went to so that basically she could follow my trip. i even renamed said photos so she knew wat she was looking at. i still had tons of left over space on the cd so i then added some pictures i had taken of school and my appt and some other random but pertinent things. at this point i still had the space but no more photos she would enjoy so i added a bunch of songs that we listened to last summer and a few more that i thought she would enjoy. i then wrote a lil card (after asking after her) and asked her to do the same. my mom came back this monday and told me that erin had indeed burned me a cd of her pictures. i came on the computer tonight to see and saw that less than 58 of the 680 megs were used. (i had already looked at the back of the cd and saw that tons of it was unused) ...i then saw that instead of just burning the pictures she rarred them. ...which is really annoying because i don't even have winrar on my home comp (i do at school however). and seriously, why rar if you can zip? everyone has winzip. not everyone has winrar. but i dunno. maybe winrar is more popular in taiwan? altho i doubt that because the stuff my dad gets from taiwan is always zipped. so were the pictures i got from china. anyway, so then i had to dl it, which was especially annoying because i have dailup at home so it took forever! so after however many minutes of the dl then the installation i extracted the files. guess how many photos there were? 158. that's right. no need to even compress them! further more she didn't even burn all her photos! and how do i kno this? because she didn't burn any from when we went to san fransisco! f*cking a! i mean. okay. so you're not as thoughtful as i am. you didn't include any extras on the cd. and you didn't put them into folders either so now i have to guess where you took the pictures. but oh my f*cking god why didn't you at the very least burn all your pictures? it's not like you didn't have space! and it definitely wasn't because you didn't have the time! you gave my mom this cd weeks before she came back to the states. and even before your new years break (which is like a month long). so why the hell couldn't you at the very least do wat i asked you to do? argh! i said to my rents too that i hoped she did it right. and my rents assured that of course she did it right. she's young and knows computers. well jack f*cking shit. and you kno wat? even if she didn't kno the slightest thing about computers and rarrred them accidentally somehow and didn't kno how make new folders and wat not. why didn't she burn all the photos? ...it pains me when i put in so much effort at something and then see that the person i gave all this effort to didn't even care enough to return the gesture. it really bothers me. it makes me feel like i shouldn't have cared so much for you in the first place. words are just words. but actions count. you may tell me that you're so happy you came and that you're so sad you're leaving and that you love me so damn much but you can't even return the favor that i gave you. ...am i really expecting too much of people? i mean... you should do things because you want to do them. not for wat you can get in return. but when you go that extra step. not just thinking about someone, but actually doing something that you think would make them happy, you do sorta expect them to think of you. at least a little. and then... i mean. why give gifts if you don't put into consideration about who you're giving it to? i think... a total lack of effort can be forgiven. it is an obvious lack of caring your behalf. one should realize this and move on and never do anything for you again. but when you do care enough to return the favor you should actually return the whole favor. otherwise wat's the point?

trouble

CHICAGO - U.S. citizens are far more knowledgeable about the cast of "The Simpsons" television show than they are about their First Amendment Freedoms, a poll shows. The McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum in Chicago found 28 percent of people are able to name more than one of the five fundamental freedoms granted to them by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. But 52 percent were able to name at least two members of the cartoon family. More jarring is that 22 percent of those polled can name all five characters -- Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie -- but just 1-in-1,000 people surveyed -- 0.01 percent -- were able to name all five freedoms.

 

DES MOINES, Iowa - Here's one way to get out of paying traffic charges: fake your own death. It almost worked for Kimberly Du - until she got stopped for speeding after she faked her death in December! Someone claiming to be Du's mother used a pair of forged documents, including a death notice printed on a newspaper Web site and a letter allegedly signed by her mother, to convince court officials that Du had died. However, after she was pulled over, police discovered that Du's supposed obituary had never run, and a funeral was never held. Du was arrested and charged with forging her mother's name on a letter to the court.

 

CHICAGO - A young man from Romania who was deserted by his prospective bride was found living penniless at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. In a striking similarity to the 2004 Tom Hanks movie, "The Terminal," the Chicago Aviation Department told WBBM-AM, Chicago, the man, who is about 25 years old, has been living in the international terminal for as long as four weeks. Karol Sobolewski was one of the baggage handlers who noticed the nervous man and took up a collection to buy him some food from McDonald's. "He was supposed to get married over here, and supposedly something went wrong, and the girl kicked him out or something," Sobolewski said. "So he got left over here... living in the international terminal."

 

WEST MIFFLIN, Pa. - A 75-year-old woman has been put in jail after trying to rob a bank with a gun on Monday morning. Wearing a Steelers ski mask, Marilyn Devine attempted to holdup a National City Bank inside a Shop 'n Save grocery store. She made her getaway in a tan Ford Escort, but was caught after leading police on a five-mile pursuit at speeds of 40 to 45 mph. Devine confessed to the crime, saying she stole her husband's handgun, put on the mask and pointed the gun at tellers. "I'm shocked. It's unreal. You seen the lady here -- she's probably anybody's grandmother. It's unreal," said West Mifflin Police Chief Joe Popovich. Police say that the black handgun she brandished was not loaded.

bday

so i never did update about my bday. it was awesome. :) well laid back but lots of fun anyway. started off the saturday by cleaning the house and wat not then driving over to honey bakery to buy myself a cake. yum! i ordered one of those chinese kinds. the vanilla sort. with fruit. got my name written on it and everything and then they tell me they don't accept credit cards! i drive over to albertson's to buy a 7-up and some chips and to get some cash back from my credit card (i'd forgotten to bring my atm card along as i never use the thing anyway). find out you can't get cash back from a credit card. argh! am ready to drive home to ask my dad for some money (he offered to pay anyway) but tsai calls and tells me she'll go to the bank and we'll meet at honey bakery. i go. and sit in my car. like a naughty teenager waiting for her parents to bail her out of jail. tsai shows up. we buy the cake. yay! ting and chang at already at my house waiting!

get home. chat and start a bag of chips. chile limon actually. interesting. but quite good. then opened gifts! chang got me that luella purse i'd been driving around town for. seriously. i've asked i think every member of the six to look for it for me when they were at target. and chang bought it for me! tsai got me a cold heat soldering tool! wasn't that an utter surprise (my dad was quite confused) but soo thoughtful! i'd been wanting to get into metallurgy for jewelry making but the equipment all costs so much... so tsai got me this! she was even thoughtful enough to get me an extra tip. which fit into the little hole that was in the box that the tool came in! :) very awesome. and ting! ting spent hella mundo time on making me a photo collage in a shadow box. :) i scanned it in. as you can see it looks all strange... it was too high for it to come out properly. but anyway. it's perfect! was saying to tsai too that i hoped ting made me something with a group photo because i didn't have one of all of us. :)

after that we went to color me mine over in long beach. and spent a while there making our own plates. i'll post pictures of those when we get them back. we're picking them up this weekend! after that we went to ting's to get her elf dvd and then to pizza hut to pick up our cheesy bites pizza which was mm mm good.

sometime during the movie reepal called and came over to deliver my gift. :) so i get to his car and he tells me to close his eyes and to hold out my hand. then he drops something on. i open my eyes. ...it's a lotto ticket. for $5.  ...the kind where he didn't even pick his own numbers... yeah... i mean... he had said before that he thought i was difficult to shop for (i disagree!) and so he was gonna give me something i might like. ...okay. then he gives me a cd that he had burnt. he kept saying that he didn't kno if it was gonna work or not. cause he was in such a rush. ...uh, thanks for the effort (i was actually pretty bugged because i got him his bday gift weeks ago. his bday's in may. and i had told him i already got it. and damnit i had spent time picking that out! and then my bday rolls around and i get... lotto. and a cd which appt he was too busy to make sure worked. they say it's the thought that counts. but... i didn't feel that he had given much thought to this at all... esp since i had suggested that he burn me a cd of panic! songs). ...well anyway. it was nice to see him in any case.

so i went back inside to join the girls again and continued with the movie. btw, we paused the movie right before 9pm and checked the lotto. i didn't win. oh well. after elf ended we had cake and watnot then we watched the endings of some movies on tv. girls left around 12.45am or something.. not too late. tsai still had to drive up to la that night.
but all in all it was a great bday. from my friends i got really thoughtful gifts. and i loved them all! thanks homies!

but it doesn't end just there. no. so sat night i went upstairs and decided to read a bit before going to sleep. so i popped in reepal's cd in my cd player. it didn't work. figured it for a data cd. he calls later and i confirm this. later. sunday night. back at school. reepal reminds me about his cd and i put it in my cd-rom. and guess wat? it was panic! songs. but better yet. there were daphne loves derby songs. i love daphne loves derby. they are probably my most favorite band. and he found their songs. i had told him that i wanted their songs. and he checked online and couldn't find anything. cause they're not mainstream. neither is panic! but dld is even less mainstream. and then he found them. a buncha songs. like 15 songs. and he categorized them by album. and burned them onto the cd for me. that was amazing. i mean... watever doubts i had about the effort he had put into my gift. negated. absolutely. it was incredible. he is incredible. and then i realized. ...i had all these songs already. every single one. and not one more. lol! he found them the same place i found them! haha!! but anyway, it was the thought that counted. and that was just awesome. :)

how right you were, marie!

you may not just yet be dreaming of cake. but wait until you go to this website... oh you will be in heaven!

puposeful

+------------- Bizarre Accidental Discoveries -------------+
  
1. LSD  
Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann was trying to come up with a chemical to induce childbirth. Instead he developed lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD. After he tried a bigger dose, he made another discovery: a bad acid trip.  

2. X-ray  
Several 19th-century scientists played around with the penetrating rays emitted when electrons struck a metal target. But the x-ray wasn't discovered until 1895, when Wilhelm Röntgen tried sticking various objects in front of the radiation - and saw the bones of his hand projected on a wall.  

3. Penicillin  
Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming was researching the flu in 1928 when he noticed that a blue-green mold had infected one of his petri dishes - and killed the staphylococcus bacteria growing in it.  

4. Microwave ovens  
The microwave oven came along in the 1940s. Microwave emitters (or magnetrons) were being used to power Allied radar during WWII. It was after a magnetron melted a candy bar in Raytheon engineer Percy Spencer's pocket that the common use for a microwave emitter was realized.  

5. Potato chips  
Chef George Crum concocted the perfect sandwich complement in 1853 when - to spite a customer who complained that his fries were cut too thick - he sliced a potato paper-thin and fried it to a crisp.  

6. Artificial sweeteners  
Speaking of botched lab jobs, three leading pseudo-sugars reached human lips only because scientists forgot to wash their hands. Cyclamate (1937) and aspartame (1965) are byproducts of medical research, and saccharin (1879) appeared during a project on coal tar derivatives.

hot cars & slow women

the new pagani zonda f. very very pretty. and very very bat-mobile like... and a short really quick 8 car exotic lineup for those of you who don't have much time. i think they're all, except for the ford and the ferrair, quite ugly. esp the bugatti. and disapointingly plain is the vantage. :( and for those of you who don't care about cars (you should!) but like seeing women do stupid things, here's a short clip. and even better it's set to music! (and btw, why was that boat in the middle of the ice?!)

excuses

+---------------- Bizarre Accident Reports -----------------+  
  
"I was sure that the old fellow would never make it to the other side of the roadway when I struck him."  

"The gentleman behind me struck me on the backside. He then went to rest in the bush with just his rear end showing."  

"The indirect cause of the accident was a little guy in a small car with a big mouth."  

"I was thrown from my car as it left the road. I was later found in a ditch by some stray cows."  

"The telephone pole was approaching. I was attempting to swerve out of its way when it struck my front end."  

"I looked both ways before pulling out but was then hit by a truck coming from the other direction."  

"I had my right turn signal on, but the other car wouldn't get out of the way. So I bumped his fender a little to get his attention."  

"The other car should not have been parked in my driveway."  

"I stopped, but my trailed wanted to keep going and ended up passing me."  

"I was driving in the wrong lane, but I was there first. The car that ran into me didn't show up until much later."  

"The sign said 'Bride Construction,' not 'Bridge ends and will drop your car in the river.'"  

"The other car collided with mine without giving warning of its intention."

jack's kitty

the name jack bauer strikes fear into the hearts of men. and cats! if you'd like more information about this man please go read his 100 facts. still not convinced of his prowess? check out his kill list then his maime list (list of cute animals in casts).

deadlines

no ucla for me. i gotta finish my last 36 of 45 units at irvine. so instead i might be heading off to taiwan during the summer. wat for? to teach! not volunteer this time however. for money. hopefully anyway. after that i have another year of chinese left and just a couple classes in the fall and i'll be done. so basically i'll finish in spring 2007. god. i'll be 24. can you imagine? then i have about another two years of school after that. getting my credentials and my masters.

reepal said again tonight that he didn't kno how we were gonna work it out, wat wit me travelling all the time... it's starting to come down i guess... jesus this sucks. you kno i've only ever broken once wit a guy i no longer liked? the rest of the times i still liked him. incredible... it seems mighty unfair. to love someone as much as i love reepal (and him to love me) and yet still not be able to work things out. i mean god, wat more does it need to take?! ...i'm pretty upset over this whole thing. but i guess... the 'good' news is that i still don't see anything. at all. so i think imma give this till summer. till before i leave. and then no matter wat i see or don't, i'll make up my mind. it's unfair to reepal for me to keep dragging my feet.

'there are times when i feel improved, improved upon the past' 'and there are times when i can’t seem to understand at all.' / 'if the wind blew me in the right direction', 'will i ever get to where i’m going;' 'if i do, will i know when i’m there?'

fonts

site wit tons of free dlable fonts. categorized into styles for convenience.

(link stolen from angie)

huh

HARRISBURG, Pa. - A woman was sitting on the ledge of a 23rd-floor apartment when she decided she wanted to touch her feet to a window one story below. Little did she know that would be the last decision she would ever make. The woman, 23-year-old Rachel Kozlusky, asked her boyfriend Kevin Eckenrode to help her reach the lower window. "He grabbed (her) under the armpits from behind with his hands and lowered her to the window below," police Detective Donald Heffner wrote in the court papers. "During this time she slipped out of his hands and fell to her death." Not surprisingly, the pair had been drinking before the incident Saturday evening. Eckenrode has been charged with homicide and was being held without bail Tuesday morning.

NEWARK, N.J. - A 70-year-old substitute teacher who was once a man and is now a woman has won her right to keep her job in rural New Jersey. Six years ago, 65-year-old William McBeth began teaching at Eagleswood Township schools for five years, and then underwent the sex change procedure to become Lilly McBeth. She reapplied for her old job back, and the school board voted 4-1 in favor. But there was an outcry from some parents in the town of 1,600 people. At a public meeting Monday night in the school auditorium, McBeth answered questions and said she would never talk to children about sexuality at school, the Newark Star-Ledger reported. "Children are wide open to change. It's the fear in the parents, not in the children," she said. "Am I a threat? Hardly." After the meeting, school board attorney Paul Carr told reporters the board was unmoved by the opposition.  

MCKEESPORT, Pa. - What at first appeared to be a horrifying act of self-mutilation at a Pennsylvania convenience store turned out to have been an attempt to foil a drug test. The incident at a GetGo in McKeesport began when a couple entered the store. The man went into the restroom and emerged soon after with something wrapped in a napkin, which he asked the clerk to heat in the microwave. The object began giving off a foul odor and, as the clerk opened it, she saw something that looked like a penis. The couple grabbed the object and hurried away as she called police. Police now say that the object was a fake used to cheat in urine tests. The man allegedly went into the men's room to fill it with his own urine and then asked to have it heated so it would be body temperature when the urine was given up for analysis.

congrats!

congrats to ting for winning an oscar! wait... wat? i mean... getting her drivers license! yay! homegirl now has the license to kill! haha! er yeah... see? aren't you glad you didn't run away to the circus?

not to be

Death Be Not Proud
by John Donne
 
Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not soe,
For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill mee.
From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee,
Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee doe goe,
Rest of their bones, and soules deliverie.
Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell,
And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,
And better then thy stroake; why swell'st thou then?
One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.

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natalie portman is one nasty bi-atch. (from the lazy sunday team)

simpsons!

the simpsons are real people!

techies

*saw a watch similar to this on some other web site a while ago, but this one is even coolor because you can stick it d*mn near anywhere. (read elsewhere that this is fake tho. oh well.) *phones are getting crazier and crazier, wat wit being able to transform into portiable mini projectors and all. so multiuseful that soon enough they'll be able to dispense snacks too. *video of microsoft project origami. so i kno that it's quite big but i still think it's really awesome. it's write-on-able like a taplet laptop but not as large. i think it's great. *and for the useless tech stuff. portable mario sound players. well, at least they're only $2.90 each.

school

so basically, if i'm lucky, and if i go to ucla this summer, i'll finish school at the end of this year. calender year. yeah. seriously... how the hell am i gonna explain this to my rents?

star sightings

24 might be moving to london, witout jack. (ah... so many puns coming to mind!!)

a-team to reunite! even tho one of the guys died oever 10 years ago...

a scanner darkly. i want / need to see this. it looks incredible. seriously. so i don't understand why it's to be in limited release? anyway, here's a site wit two trailers. you just gotta watch them. seriously. do it. ... do it!

hairart

hairart. very weird stuff. and altho it does look kinda cool i'm pretty sure i wouldn't want my walls covered in it... some of the more detailed peices aren't made of hair tho, which is nice. less disturbing anyway.

shopping

elsewares has some really pretty things. including this custom tag necklace, these soda can bracelets, and this awesome unicorn dinosaur bag. yeah, i really am an accessories type of gal.

fast $

PENSACOLA, Fla. - A middle school gym teacher found a quick way to make a buck: he let children get out of gym class if they paid him a dollar a day. Terence Braxton, 28, collected perhaps thousands of dollars in his scheme, said officials Thursday. Braxton took the payoffs between September and December, but resigned after the principal learned of the bribe from a parent. He's being charged with taking about $230 from six students, but sheriff's spokesman Mike Ward said the teacher's gain was probably much more.

WAUKESHA, Wis. - A burglar decided to take a sample from the Wisconsin Department of Corrections probation and parole office - he or she made off with at least half a dozen urine samples. Nothing else appeared to have been stolen except for the samples from a locked refrigerator. Police Capt. Mike Babe said the burglary happened Monday night or early Tuesday. Police were called when someone noticed a door was broken and the samples were missing. Agents will have to see which samples are missing and order new ones as needed.  

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A homeless man Grady Allen Carnahan was caught trying to steal a sheep from the Little Rock Zoo on Tuesday night. A security guard called police after noticing a man lugging a trash can with a sheep inside. Carnahan tried to tell police he was a doctor and the sheep was sick. He fought with officers when they tried to take him into custody. He was later arrested on numerous charges and the sheep was returned to its home at the zoo. 

(does ting like funny stories too?)