touch me!

jezebel's commentary on men's health article titled "30 hottest things to say to a naked woman."

"2. 'Squeeze my hand when it feels really amazing.' If someone ever said this to me, I would burst out laughing. I would then continue laughing as I stood up, got dressed, and grabbed my things. Right before I walked out the door, I'd squeeze the guy's hand, and then get the hell out of there."

ha!

gifting

this has been a pretty good year for xmas gifts. giving and getting that is. i think i did pretty well for the6 secret santa (spent around $50 for over $90 worth of stuff), for reep (not fabulous, but useful and unexpected and kind of cool), and for me boss (passes [for 8 people total!] to the magic castle). and i received some pretty damn awesome stuff as well. yay! the most notable was from reep. :) he got me grey's anatomy season 4 (the one i'm missing) and a co bigalow bath set. which is freaking awesome because i've been wanting the damn body scrub forever! he is the cutest thing! i guess a couple times we've been to the mall i've gone into the bath and body shop to see if the body scrub was on sale. and i guess he remembered. isn't he the cutest thing ever?! aw... ::beam::

stick me

voodoo doll toothpick holder. ha!

re-write

leon trotsky - "Of Christ's twelve apostles, Judas alone proved to be a traitor. But if he had acquired power, he would have represented the other eleven apostles as traitors, and also all the lesser Apostles whom Luke numbers as seventy."

curvacious

i am more and more becoming a fan of alexander mcqueen. i mean, how can you not love this dress? sculptural, graphic, edgy, flattering, simple, and just brilliant. oh, and wouldn't you know, it's on sale. ...santa baby?

volunteer

have been thinking about volunteering on sundays with habitat for humanity. finally did some research today (the fires really got me thinking) and turns out that they are not a secular organization. which bothers me. a lot. ... but i'd be helping to build houses, not churches. but, because they're not secular, appt you can't volunteer for sundays! wtf?! still, i do plan to go to the info meeting, just in case i read the webiste wrong. but it looks like i'll be needing to find another organization that lets me do sunday work... any suggestions?

oscar!

oh dear... this has got to be the cutest clutch ever! oscar sure knows how to kick off the spring season.

butterfly

viktor & rolf for shu uemera fake eylashes. i love the winged ones. sooo beautiful!

zombies!

the zombie survival quiz. let me kno how you score!

i got physical rating C, mental rating C, experience rating F, emotional rating F. total survival rank A.

btw, you can actually get a "z+" score, which is better than an "a" for survival rank. but the quiz doesn't tell you how they got the scores or wat each thing really means.

underground

an underground city! how amazing is that? ...altho, whenever i think of this, i think of that movie, silent hill. which was just scary. =\

see the sea

amazing photos of the ocean.

results

honestly, it doesn't seem right. it doesn't make any sense. how can air hollow out caverns and water create caves if love amounts to... nothing? it moves you in a way that your heart aches, your head hurts, and your throat closes. yet...  maybe because your love for another is only outward. your heart tries to reach out of you. it wants to give itself away. you are nothing in the equation. so you try to get it back. you try to be in control. "do the right thing." even though you couldn't possibly know what the right thing is.

so long so cow?

whoa, been a long time since i last updated. altho i'm not sure all that much has changed? well. i guess the most recent change is that socow db season is over. and actually, this was the best season i've had in a while. the last few years so cow has been getting worse and worse (i don't mean performance wise. i actually have no idea how we do from year to year). we've had political problems and personal problems. bah. the last couple years were so bad i was seriously considering quitting altogether. but it's a damn good thing i stayed! after wat happened in the years previous, i sort of decided to make this year the make it or break it year for me. i remembered wat i didn't like about last year, and decided to do it all differently. and i think the changes this year were for the better.

somewhat importantly: we had fewer leaders. we were more organized and there was more agreement about wat we wanted and how we were gonna do it. and i think we had equal involvement and dedication from each of the leaders as well. altho i'm also a part of space dragons, and altho i have some more responsibility wit the overall dragon boat club this year, i tried to always make socow my priority. and honestly, i think it showed (example below?).

for me, the best part of the weekend was on saturday when the team went out for lunch. socow had only one race on saturday, at around 12.30pm. i had one before and one afterwards wit space women's, so i got to the beach early and had to leave late. so after the socow race the team was deciding where to get lunch. originally we were gonna get bjs in long beach, but people decided they didn't want anything quite so heavy. so they decided on thai food back in cypress (cause we kno the area better). but since i didn't drive, i decided not to go to lunch wit the team, cause that would mean someone would have to drive me back to long beach after lunch. and of course i didn't insist that the team eat in long beach. but as they were leaving, they noticed that i wasn't packing up. i explained the situation and immediately people were like, 'then let's eat out here.' tom looked up a round table on his iphone and the whole team ended up eating out in long beach. it was awesome. :)

sunday evening we went out to korean bbq. nearly everyone made it, only two were missing. but it was really fun. reep and i sat wit a group we didn't really get to kno at competition, and it was just great. :) i can't stop saying that, that it was great. because it was.

everything this year was great. tourny was well run, we had tents provided, lots of trash cans. and our team was great too. no drama, no real cliques, everyone got along. and we did really well! our fastest time was 2:33: something. which is freaking awesome considering we only had 7 beach practices, and not one practice had everyone at it! i'm so proud of our team this year. i can honestly say that. and i think it might be the first time in a long time i've said that. :) everything was great.

anyway. this season was seriously great. i'll update about space later. :)

bears

scary: bears hunting scientists.

funny: bears, as defined by stephen colbert.

noisy!

earth is a crybaby. :)

photobombers

lol, you gotta check this out. i haven't encountered very many photobombers in my lifetime but now i'm starting to wish i had!

pig in boots

this little piggie was afraid of the mud.

(thanks to chang for the link)

drivin'

+------------------ Bizarre Motorists -------------------+  
  
Former traffic policeman William Alexander set out to drive the 15 miles from Hereford to Ross-on-Wye in 1996. He and his wife were found confused 36 hours later, after a 1,000 mile drive, going the wrong way down the MI near Barnsley.  

In 1994, a nun who said she was rushing an injured dog to the vet was fined for reckless driving after refusing to stop for armed police in New York State.  

Leroy Linen, a scrap-metal dealer from the Bronx, was banned from driving 633 times between 1990 and 1994.  

Assuming she had failed after hitting the curb during her 1995 test at Lowestoft, Tcheeka Johnson punched the examiner on the leg, screeched to a halt and pushed her out of the passenger door.  

Trying to test his oil level manually, a Wakefield motorcyclist got his finger stuck in the oil tank and had to summon the fire brigade to release him.

draggin' boat

oh man oh man is this gonna be a crazy saturday. last weekend i only made 3 of my 5 db practices (altho there were two more optional ones that i'm not including in my 5). tonight i did a pool practice for harry (at thy's house). romrow night i got a pool practice for ryan. friday night i got bbq shopping wit thy. saturday morning i got space dragons practice at the beach from 7:30 to about 9.45am. then i got pool practice for socow from 10-12pm (and yes i will be showing up to that. if only because hopefully that'll convince my newbs to show up as well). then we got a socow bbq (yay!). long beach tourney's captains' meeting is at 6.30pm that night (altho i'm showing up at 6 to help out). and afterwards i got a space dragons party to attend. on sunday i got back to back to back practices wit dragonauts, socow and space from 6:30-11:15am. and then i'm done. lol. crazy this is. if i do actually miss anything, it'll be sunday's dragonauts and space practice. but that doesn't clear up my saturday at all.

it's seriously crazy tho. this summer season is gonna be nuts for me. i'm leading / rowing a team (and stroking too, so i gotta do good). just rowing for another (i'm moving up in the team [a boat! {as opposed to b boat}] but am missing half the practices and not rowing in their biggest tourney, so again, i gotta do good). and substitute coaching yet another. on top of that. i've been put in charge of the steering certification stuffs. (which is ironic cause i don't kno how to steer) that's supposedly a pretty big job. i really don't kno wat it entails yet tho, so hopefully it won't be super crazy. most likely i'll just have to send out a prelim email and a few followups.

this is good tho. i like helping out wit stuff and i kno the dragon boat people have been swamped wit stuff. socow will only be until the end of july and then that's over till next summer. the substitute coaching will also only involve a limited number of practices. maybe only 3 more? and i'm not doing anything for space except rowing. so as long as i show up to practices i should be moving up. it really shouldn't take too much extra time / effort. the steering thing... i don't kno about that. but it should be just fine. anyway. here's to hoping that i haven't taken on too much.

cheekin!

TEMECULA, Calif. - Employees of a Temecula, Calif., McDonald's said they have captured a chicken that had terrorized the restaurant's drive-through lane for nearly four months. The employees said the brave fowl would anger customers by blocking the drive-through lanes and bother  employees by shedding feathers around the premises, the Riverside (Calif.) Press-Enterprise reported. Restaurant manager Chona Cauley said the chicken evaded numerous capture attempts, but was finally ensnared after it fell asleep atop a drive-through window. "Normally, the chicken sleeps in the bushes," Cauley said. Esmeralda Ruiz, an employee who helped capture the chicken, said she has adopted the animal as a pet. "She's one of our family members now," Ruiz said.

updates 2

bah. it's been another two weeks since my last post. so another quick update.  1. got my computer up and running thanks to rip and some new hardware.  2. started working full time.  3. made women's national dragon boat team. but then both national teams (women's and men's) got canceled. not too happy about that because my other national's team also got canceled. maybe i'm a hex.  4. so cow is up and running. first beach practice this sunday.  5. dragon boat is really starting to kick up. i got five practices (for three teams) lined up for this weekend. i'll most likely only be doing three.

toss it

camera tossing! how awesome is this? altho, yeah, i also worry about my catching abilities... not so good wit the hand eye coordination. :(

extra-human

+----------------- Bizarre Humans ------------------+  

Juan Baptista dos Santos - He possessed two functioning penes and three scrota, the outer two of which each contained a single testis.  

Josephine Myrtle Corbin - Known as the The Four Legged Lady, he extra legs were part of a twin that did not split correctly. Each of her smaller inner legs was paired with one of her outer legs.  

Gabrielle Fuller - Born in Basle, Switzerland, in 1884, the Half Lady had a perfectly formed upper body which ended smoothly just below the waist.  

The Human Unicorn - In 1930, a Chinese farmer from Manchukuo was discovered by an expat Russian banker. The Russian was able to take a picture of the man who apparently had a 14-inch spire-like horn growing from the back of his head.

for more

updates

man it's been a long time since i've updated. actually, quite a bit has happened since i did last... 1. hard drive died, and i nearly killed myself and my dad over it. 2. had "baby" long beach race. got two medals. my neighbors went and they had fun. 3. got a new job. start working full time at the end of the month. 4. tried out for women's national dragon boat team. pretty sure i didn't make it. 5. jose came back from iraq. ...okay, actually i think that's it. not such huge changes then.

capybara

the cutest things ever!!

(btw, capybara? haha! sounds kind of like crappy-bear-a)

Tags: capybara

911 emergencies?

+-------------- Bizarre 911 Emergency Calls  --------------+  

A thirty-year-old Maryland man called 911 and reported, "You gotta put out the fire, man. My marijuana plants are burning." When the fire-fighters team arrived they found the man sitting in his kitchen, in the dark, strumming his guitar.  

A man in La Vergne, Tennessee, called emergency 911 to report that he and his wife had had a fight and he needed police to come to his house and stop her from pouring out all his beer.  

Velma Ann Wantlin of Houma, Louisiana was issued a citation for improper use of the 911 emergency line.  Wantlin called 911 to report her husband for preventing her from watching the season finale of Knots Landing.  

[Dispatcher]  911. What's your emergency? [Caller] I'm scared. [Dispatcher]  What's the problem?  [Caller]  I just got a Ouija board for my birthday and now there's writing on my wall and I can't get it off....This thing is going back to Kmart first thing in the morning!  

[Dispatcher]  911.  What's your emergency? [Caller]  Could you send the police to my house? [Dispatcher]  What's wrong there? [Caller]  I called and someone answered the phone, but I'm not there.

angry bear

hehe. angry bear diy. angie did it!

for stupids

+---------- More Bizarre Product Warning Labels -----------+  

Batman Costume - Warning: Cape does not enable user to fly.  

European Camera - This camera will only work when film is inside.  

Liquid Plummer - Warning: Do not reuse the bottle to store beverages.  

Toilet Plunger - Caution: Do not use near power lines.  

Little Ones Baby Lotion - Keep away from children  

Hair Coloring - Do not use as an ice cream topping.  

Boot's Children's Cough Medicine - Do not drive a car or run machinery.

warriors

hm... not much going on lately. been playing a lot of mahjong at annie's lately. and didn't go roller skating last week as planned. too many people are bitches and didn't want to go. :( but did find this space dragons video from tempe pretty funny. :)

ooh, actually. i brought my neighbors to the space dragons friends and family event. and they're planning to keep coming bakc! :) they brought their 5yo daughter along and she got to sit at the front of the boat. towards the end of practice we rowed to a place where they got jellyfish and afterwards we had a mock race (3 space dragon boats against each other). it was all pretty cool :)

one more thing. romrow (april 23) is denim day in la. "In 1998, an Italian Supreme Court decision overturned a rape conviction because the victim wore jeans [they said that she couldn't have been raped because everyone knows you can't take off someone's jeans for them; they have to take them off personally. therefore, it must have been consentual sex] People all over the world were outraged. Wearing jeans became an international symbol of protest against erroneous and destructive attitudes about sexual assault." participate people!!

crash!

+-------------- Bizarre Driving Test Answers --------------+  

Driving School: Real answers received on exams given by the California Department of Transportation's driving school:  

Q: Do you yield when a blind pedestrian is crossing the road?  
A: What for? He can't see my license plate.  

Q: Who has the right of way when four cars approach a four-way stop at the same time?  
A: The pick up truck with the gun rack and the bumper sticker saying, "Guns don't kill people. I do."  

Q: When driving through fog, what should you use?  
A: Your car.  

Q: What changes would occur in your lifestyle if you could no longer drive lawfully?  
A: I would be forced to drive unlawfully.  

Q: What are some points to remember when passing or being passed?  
A: Make eye contact and wave "hello" if he/she is cute.  

Q: What is the difference between a flashing red traffic light and a flashing yellow traffic light?  
A: The color.  

Q: How do you deal with heavy traffic?  
A: Heavy psychedelics.  

black day

reep and i are doing well, so don't read into this or anything. but we should start celebrating this holiday. next year anyone? i don't kno wat black foods we could eat tho... i don't like korean ja jian mien and the chinese version isn't black. bah.

daring do

vogue may 2008 daring do editorial.

and a close-up of the opener. amazing. i also love the last shot of her against the yellow.

spam

+-------------------- Bizarre Foods ----------------------+  
  
Perhaps one of life's most mysterious foods is SPAM. Here are some interesting facts that you may not have known about the "other" other white meat.  

Spam stands for Shoulder, Pork and hAM.  

It was launched by the Geo. A. Hormel Company of Austin, Minnesota, in 1937 and became a great favorite of military cooks during WWII because it contained protein, was easy to digest and convenient.  

A six-year-old Dorset boy became addicted to Spam and ate his way through six tins of the stuff every week for three years. He had to be sent to a child psychiatrist to get him back on a normal diet.  

Over four billion cans of Spam have been sold worldwide.  

The Hormel Plant at Austin contains an oven that cooks 450 cans of Spam a minute.  

Spam came to Britain as part of the Lend Lease Act whereby food given to the U.K. would be paid for when the war was over. Often the only meat available, it became indispensable until rationing ended in 1954.

just try it!

have done some fun stuff lately: karaoke and a lot of bowling (no pictures. most were crap). next week we plan on going roller skating! and after that, ice skating! who knows about even after that!! lol. a lot of people are game for nearly anything. 'you wanna go out?' 'sure!' others... not so much. they wanna kno who's going, and wat we're doing, and blahblahblah... others don't wanna do stuff because they're bad at it. ...but is that the right attitude to have? of course not! because then you'd never do anything. so wat if you're no good at roller skating. you think the rest of us are pros? ...has anyone even gone roller skating since, like, elementary school? and seriously, just cause you're bad at it doesn't mean you can't get better. and most likely, if you just go, you will get better. it's your own stupid attitude that's holding you back. and honestly, it holds everyone else back too. see, annie doesn't like roller skating. but she's still going, if possibly only because me and mike are so excited about it. (he wants to get shanked or something. i wanna live out the 80's or something.) but imagine if she made a big deal about it. then we wouldn't go (obviously). but we'd resent her. cause she's stupid. lol. (i've had too much sugar tonight). but you kno wat? annie's a good sport. she's gonna go and strap on some damn skates. and she's gonna skate the f*ck along wit us. because she's awesome.   so stop complaining about how bad you are at watever it is. cause you kno wat? it's not about how good you are. it's only about how good your damn attitude is.

real life

homer simpson in real life. (thanks to reep for the link)

batman and superman in real life. (thanks to ting for the link)

greys = b&w only

i was looking thru abc.com the other day for new episodes when i saw this picture:

notice anything strange? in case you didn't, sandra oh (aka christina yang) is missing. and i'm pretty sure she still on the show. she's supposed to be the main character's best friend, actually. and yet, the one asain person on the show is mysteriously missing from their promo picture. wtf?!

and is it my imagination or is this show getting less and less diverse? lookit all the white people they added recently (one white surgeon, one white intern, and one white scrub nurse). course, callie is hispanic (thank god), but her character is portrayed as kind of crazy. and btw, now everyone who's in a relationship, is in one wit a person of their same race. callie and george broke up because he slept wit another woman (who's white). christina and burke broke up, burke got fired, and now christina is appt is no longer on the show. oh, and the two other black doctors are having major marraige issues. one got divorced and the other will probably be getting one too. now, i'm not saying that all the white people are happy on this show. but they, at least, seem to be getting some (...altho the show really does portray white people as slutty. but you kno wat? i'd rather be slutty and on the show than fired).

Tags: grey's anatomy, tv, racism, racist

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elderly

watched a bit of show on pbs tonight about people taking care of their elderly parents. besides the usual, it esp made me sad because i was thinking that when my parents are that old, their english will probably be really really bad (even if they don't get some disease that causes dementia, i'm sure some of their language skills will deteriorate). and who knows how bad my chinese will be by then? i'm lucky that we're here in so cal where so many mandarin speaking people live. if it came down to it, i should be able to find a pretty nice senior citizen home that has chinese speaking staff. but that's not good enough. i still won't be able to talk to my rents. :(

death cab for cutie - what sarah said
'in a place where we only say goodbye' / '‘cause there’s no comfort in the waiting room' / 'as each descending peak on the lcd took you a little farther away from me' / 'but i’m thinking of what sarah said: that love is watching someone die'

workout

aol's best spring workouts. ...let me kno if they work. lol!

Tags: workout, exercise

tempe

tempe was great. everything about it. nothing negative at all. well, no. scratch that. my mom was annoying me a lot. amazing, i kno. i can be states or even continents away and she still manages to make my life difficult (altho some would say that since she gave me life, she can also make it suck). anyway. everything else was great: weather, people, team spirit, races, hotel, music, the city... :) i'm really glad i went. i met a lot of people and learned a lot (and hopefully i can take some of this knowledge back to so cow!).

highlights: 1) woman's race and singing. 2) breast cancer props.   if you wanna kno about it, ask me. cause it's too long to write.

hand job

hand job: a catalog of type. an awesome book on hand-drawn typography.

(root)beer

KRONENWETTER, Wis. - A root beer keg party hosted by a Kronenwetter, Wis., high school student attracted police who suspected underage drinking at the shindig. Dustin Zebro, 18, said the idea for the root beer party was cooked up to mock school administrators who suspended some of his friends from sports after they were caught drinking, the Wausau (Wis.) Daily Herald reported Monday. The party displayed enough similarities to parties with the root beer keg's alcoholic counterparts that police showed up to administer breath tests to the rowdy high school-age party-goers. However, every reveler tested was found to be free of alcohol. "We didn't know it would work well enough to make the cops show up," Zebro said. The student said he and his friends believe that underage drinking off school grounds is a matter to be handled by police, not school officials. However, Principal Tom Johansen defended the school's actions. "I think we have an obligation as an educational institution" to investigate underage drinking and mete out penalties, he said.  

(un)likeness

i dunno wat it is, but i feel a little starved for romance (real love -- ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other love!). and bah to this weekend wit me leaving. ...not that that would matter much? i think i've beaten it out of reep. =\ altho, i did get the last bit of my bday gift on sunday. ram! yay!! and it was a whole gig! double wat i was hoping for! yay! thanks!!!

 

 

quotes from Sena Jeter Naslund's novella The Disobedience of Water.

 

"But there is only one thing about people: they are either with you or not with you, and it has only a little to do with physical presence." (193)

 

"'People never change.'"

"'No,' I said, 'they never change when they should. They always change when they shouldn't.'" (194)

bad news!

borders may be putting itself on sale!

quiz

corporate logo quiz. i got 17 right. :)

you there?

it's weird just how little you may actually kno your 'friends'. a friend of mine disappeared a while back. i haven't had any real contact with him in about 6 months. he's always been sort of a flake tho, and we had a little bit of drama so i didn't really think anything of it. but recently he contacted me and appt he had a rather serious drug problem. i knew that he was using but i didn't really think too much of it. he always seemed to have that under control. it seemed like it was the other stuff that was messing him up. i haven't been close to him in a couple years, but even so it was a bit of a shock.

the last few years, wat wit people moving home, moving away, and just plain living their lives, have brought about many reconnections and perhaps even more disconnects. maybe because i've always been here, sorta sedentary, people feel that they can trust me wit their stuff. and while i feel in some ways privileged to deserve such trust, it does come at a price. you very clearly see people and how they became the people they are. yet sometimes sadly, there's nothing you can do to help them, and all you can do is listen.

danger!

world's most evil gadgets. a lot of these are actually pretty funny wit their unintended effects.

eshop

it may be crazy, but i love the shape of these shoes. now if the actual thing looked better...

and i've always wanted one of these. a branch jewelry stand. course, wat i would like better is if it were an actual branch. or made of coral :)

Tags: urban outfitters, shoes, jewelry stand

monkies & penguins

in most species, faithfulness is a fantasy. a must read. very funny! (thanks to annie for the link)

and relatedly, penguin prostitution.

predator!

death is not usually ever funny. but this one kind of is... stingray flies into and kills woman.

mind over matter

i've decided to go to tempe race at the end of this month wit space dragons. i was sorta wondering if i should go... i don't kno anyone on the team, i'm not in shape, it's gonna cost, etc. so i asked reep if he wanted to go away for the weekend instead. but he didn't really say that he wanted to. and he's planning to buy a car soon, and everyone knows you should buy at the end of the month, so... i'm going to tempe. i was kind of thinking, why am i really not going to tempe? because i wanna spend a weekend wit reep? i can spend any weekend wit him tho! i think this is better. altho last night (or the other night) he said he said that he was disappointed because he was hoping we could spend a weekend together. ...why didn't you say so in the first place?!

on sunday i was debating whether or not to visit reep at lunch during his lunch break. i asked him if he wanted me to go. he said that it was up to me. well i already knew that, but i'm asking if you want me to come or not. he wouldn't give me a straight answer. i ended up going anyway, but not telling him about it in advance. he ordered a larger lunch so we could share and even got me a drink. later he said that if i hadn't gone he would've been kind of sad. ...why didn't you say so in the first place?!

somewat unrelatedly, altho it does correspond. why do people get mad at other people when they can't read the first person's mind?! i'm guilty of the same, so it's not like i'm just outwardly pointing fingers here, but you gotta admit, it's pretty damn stupid.

and for those of you whom i haven't talked to in a while, but have talked to recently. reep and i talked about and settled the bday present ish. he got me ram. :) i don't kno how much yet, but appt it was expensive because i have the old kind. bah. but either way, it'll be more than my current miserable half gig.

..and for those of you still wanting to get me a present, how about an mp3 player? my current one is itty bitty. i think it's only 128 megs, eesh! i don't want anything big. no more than 4gigs for sure but more than 1. maybe only 2 gigs? very basic, very small; no big screens, no ipods. maybe something like this? lol, i dunno. i have to research. i wish i could get one before the tempe tourney but i'll be spending unspecified amounts of money there so i won't be able to afford an mp3 player before then. bah.

Tags: db, dragon boat, competition, tempe, bday, reep, mindreading, present, ram, mp3 player

dog coat

how far would you go for your pet? have you always wanted to make a fur coat out of lassie? well, now you can!

square balls

An elderly woman walked into the Bank of Canada one morning with a purse full of money. She wanted to open a savings account and insisted on talking to the president of the Bank because, she said, she had a lot of money.

After many lengthy discussions (after all, the client is always right) an employee took the elderly woman to the president's office.

The president of the Bank asked her how much she wanted to deposit. She placed her purse on his desk and replied, '$165,000'. The president was curious and asked her how she had been able to save so much money. The elderly woman replied that she made bets.

The president was surprised and asked, 'What kind of bets?'

The elderly woman replied, 'Well, I bet you $25,000 that your testicles are square.'

The president started to laugh and told the woman that it was impossible to win a bet like that.

The woman never batted an eye. She just looked at the president and said, 'Would you like to take my bet?'

'Certainly', replied the president. 'I bet you $25,000 that my testicles are not square.'

'Done', the elderly woman answered. 'But given the amount of money involved, if you don't mind I would like to come back at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning with my lawyer as a witness.'

'No problem', said the president of the Bank confidently.

That night, the president became very nervous about the bet and spent a long time in front of the mirror examining his testicles, turning them this way and that, checking them over again and again until he was positive that no one could consider his testicles as square and reassuring himself that there was no way he could lose the bet.

The next morning at exactly 10 o'clock the elderly woman arrived at the president's office with her lawyer and acknowledged the $25,000 bet made the day before that the president's testicles were square.

The president confirmed that the bet was the same as the one made the day before. Then the elderly woman asked him to drop his pants etc. so that she and her lawyer could see clearly.

The president was happy to oblige.

The elderly woman came closer so she could see better and asked the president if she could touch them.

'Of course', said the president. 'Given the amount of money involved, you should be 100% sure.'

The elderly woman did so with a little smile. Suddenly the president noticed that the lawyer was banging his head against the wall. He asked the elderly woman why he was doing that and she replied, 'Oh, it's probably because I bet him $100,000 that around 10 o'clock in the morning I would be holding the balls of the President of the Bank of Canada!'

(thanks to elite for the joke)

busy busy

busy saturday:

7.30-9.30am space dragons db practice (not including driving times)
shower
11am facial
bank meeting before 1pm
2-4pm felix
5.30 leave for dinner at cuidad in la
? come back and if really tired go to sleep. if not, hang out wit ting and annie and molly?

white fever

stuff white people like. :)

miss molly

i've been to a couple animals shelters lately because annie wants to adopt a dog. and i gotta say. it's fucking miserable. seal beach is really nice. they have a very limited number of dogs tho (we saw less than 20 dogs), so the kennels are large and they get a lot of personal attention. the oc animal care shelter is another story. it's a lot larger and has many many more animals. they kennels are much smaller and they don't have blankets or get a whole lot of attention. a lot of people walk around and touch the dogs tho, so that's real good. but damn it's sad. i actually started tearing up a couple times... the dogs at seal beach are real friendly; they usually trot over. the oc dogs... some were really friendly, but many were reserved. just sitting at the back of their kennel looking sad. :(

anyway, if you're looking for a companion, go to a shelter and adopt one! there are all kinds of dogs, all sizes and colors. you'll be sure to find someone you like. you can even take one home the day of!

arnold the pig and annie's new molly. :)

crazy chinese wives

A woman in Beijing, China has been charged with accidentally killing her husband with a sword after he refused to make her dinner, the Shanghai Daily reported.

Police said Tang Xiaowan, 25, who has been practicing swordsmanship since she was young, had often forced her husband of three years at sword point to carry out her demands.

Her husband, Li Weidong, refused to cook dinner because he was late for work. Police said Tang picked up her sword and put it on Li's chest when she apparently slipped, stabbing Li by mistake. Li died in the hospital from loss of blood.

fish n dicks

KIRUNA, Sweden - Tanks of fish are to be blasted into space from northern Sweden so that scientists can study motion sickness. The tiny cichlids will be carried by a 25-foot-long rocket more than 160 miles above the Earth's surface, The Local reported. Liftoff is scheduled for next week from the Esrange Space Center in Kiruna, Sweden, an iron-mining town above the Arctic Circle. The fish will spend about 6 minutes weightless during the trip. "Quite simply, they are going to be seasick until they have managed to acclimatize," said Johanna Bergstrom-Roos, a spokeswoman for the space center. Once the fish are backon Earth, German researchers will examine their otoliths, structures in the ear that sense changes in acceleration. The scientists are testing a thesis that otolith structure may determine how sensitive a human -- or a fish -- is to motion sickness.

 

 

MANSFIELD, N.Y. - An Oscar Mayer Wienermobile had to be fished out of the median of a New York highway after spinning out in a weekend snowstorm. The vehicle's two occupants, Emily Volpini, 22, of Lexington, Ky., and Caylen Goudie, 22, of Hinsdale, Ill., were unhurt in the accident on Route 15 about 2 miles from Mansfield, state Trooper Rex Johnson said Sunday. The duo were just coming out of the worst of the storm when they lost control, the Elmira (N.Y.) Star-Gazette reported. Police contacted Dave Kurzejewski of Costy's Truck and Auto Mart, who brought along a heavy four-wheel-drive vehicle and some chains to haul the frozen wiener back onto the highway. Kurzejewski, who has performed hundreds of tows over the years, said Sunday's experience was a new one. "I've pulled out a lot of vehicles," he said. "But that's the first wiener I've ever pulled out." 

reepdate

congrats to reep for passing his citizenship test today! he's not been officially granted his citizenship yet, however. there's still the final approval process and also the swearing in. but still, it's pretty awesome no?

in other news, reep's looking to buy a new car. last week he test drove a few and today he test drove the toyota prius again (altho it was the first time for me). i was originally for the accord, then after reading the car issue of consumer reports, switched to the prius. but after being in the car today, i think i might be back at the accord. lol. hopefully on sunday we'll have some time together and we can go test that one together as well.

Tags: citizenship, car, test drive, accord, prius

cr-z

honda's cr-z concept unveiled as the "obvious successor" to the crx.

i think it looks weird as hell. like they tried too hard to make it futuristic looking (the inside anyway). the side view mirrors are totally whack; i don't understand how you'll be able to see anything in them at all. and maybe it's just because it's a concept, but did you notice, there are no outside door handles!

(thanks to rip for the link)

Tags: car, concept, honda, cr-z, crx

cr-z

honda's cr-z concept unveiled as the "obvious successor" to the crx.

i think it looks weird as hell. like they tried too hard to make it futuristic looking (the inside anyway). the side view mirrors are totally whack; i don't understand how you'll be able to see anything in them at all. and maybe it's just because it's a concept, but did you notice, there are no outside door handles!

Tags: car, concept, honda, cr-z, crx

insults

+--------------- Bizarre Political Insults ----------------+  

"He makes George Bush seem like a personality" - Jackie Mason on John Major.  

"He is a sheep in sheep's clothing" - Winston Churchill on Clement Attlee.  

"Winston, if I were your wife, I would put poison in your coffee." "Nancy, if I were your husband, I would drink it." - A conversation between Nancy Astor and Winston Churchill.  

"He could not see a belt without hitting below it." - Margot Asquith on David Lloyd George.  

"Richard Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Gerald Ford as his revenge." - U.S. politician Bella Abzug on Tricky Dickie.  

"Nixon's motto was, 'If two wrongs don't make a right, try three." - U.S. writer Norman Cousins.  

"Gerry Ford is so dumb that he can't fart and chew gum at the same time." - former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.  

"I wouldn't say she is open-minded on the Middle East, so much as empty-headed. She probably thinks Sinai is the plural of sinus." - Jonathan Aitken on Margaret Hatcher.  

"Harry Truman proves that old adage that any man can become President of the United States." - U.S. politician Norman Thomas.  

"A shiver looking for a spine to run up." - Harold Wilson on Edward Heath.

Tags: bizarre, political insults, quotation

rebel

“The logic of the rebel is to want to serve justice so as not to add to the injustice of the human condition, to insist on plain language so as not to increase the universal falsehood, and to wager, in spite of human misery, for happiness.”

Albert Camus  - The Rebel

Tags: quote, quotation, albert camus, the rebel

25!

my bday was this week. so wat did i do? i celebrated all last weekend. :) the whole thing was pretty chill so there isn't anything really exciting worth mentioning so... friday night we picked up angel at lax. saturday morning everyone came over. we went to long beach for brunch at the potholder. then we went to acres of books, vintage shopped on 4th street, had pinkberry, and picked up my bday cake. we then came home and got ready for the night where we had dinner at flemings and afterwards went to proof bar. we left there early and came back home where we basically went to sleep.

sunday morning we went to ihop for breakfast and dropped off angel at the airport. tsai, chang and i came back to my place and chilled for a while (looking up tattoo designs online), went to target, and came back for some really bad stale cake. bah honey bakery. tsai left, so we went to outer limits to check things out for annie, then went to irvine for lunch at a & j. then we came home and that was about it. i had dinner at home wit my rents.

tuesday (my actual bday) was not very interesting at all so i won't cover most of it. but chang did suprise me wit mini cakesfrom micasa. which was awesome cause my actual bday cake was stale as hell. at night reep and i went to cpk at the mall for dinner and he got me a gift card to target, which is awesome cause i need to get some contact solution and face lotion. and that was about it. lol. not the most exciting bday ever. but nice overall.

btw. tsai told me on tuesday that appt (cause i didn't go online at all) everyone (ting, annie, annie, angeline, and robert) had their gchat message as something to the effect of "happy bday step!" isn't that sweet? and tom tsai messaged me bday well wishes as well. and appt omar, the night before, told reep that even he remembered that it was my bday the next day. weird eh?

muses

women behind the songs. i would love to be someone's muse. ...in a good way. nice songs, beautiful paintings, lovely sculptures. nothing creepy, or scary, or murderous. ... =\

Tags: music, women behind the songs, muse

baby don't!

in case you were ever planning on having a baby, here are some simple dos and don'ts. :)

(thanks to ting for the link)

Tags: baby, babies, dos and don'ts

big picture

dan neil in his article "the look of love" - "Women mate with less-than-classically beautiful men as a way to strengthen and diversify the gene pool--ugly men being somehow healthier and hardier, like roaches."

bizarre coincidences

+------------------ Bizarre Coincidences ------------------+  

1. In the 1930s in New York, a commuter train dove off an open drawbridge into Newark Bay killing 30 passengers. The newspaper published photographs of the incident and the number 932 could be seen clearly on the side of one of the coaches. A large number of people selected that number for the Manhattan numbers game and the number came up! Thousands of people won.  

2. On the 26th November, 1911, three men were hanged at Greenberry Hill in London after being convicted of the murder of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey. The killers names were Robert Green, Henry Berry and Lawrence Hill.  

3. In 1899 a man was killed by a bolt of lightning as he stood in his backyard in Taranto, Italy. Thirty years later, his son was killed in the very same spot by another bolt of lightning. On October 8, 1949, Rolla Primarda, the second victim's son (and grandson of the first victim) was also killed in the same spot by yet another bolt of lightning.  

4. In 1979, Das Besteran, a German Magazine, held a writing competition. Readers had to send in unusual stories based on real life occurrences. Walter Kellner from Munich won with his story about flying a Cessna 41 between Sardinia and Sicily. In his story he had engine trouble, landed in the water, and was later rescued. An Austrian man, also named Waltner Kellner, wrote to the paper and told them that the winner of the prize had plagiarized the story because virtually the same thing had happened to him. The magazine checked out both stories and found that they were both true, despite being nearly identical.

Tags: bizarre, coincidences, trivia

db 08?

dragon boating. i don't remember how much i've actually posted on this site. but you probably kno that last summer i was rather hesitant to get into it again. after the summer, i was damn near ready to quit. right now, lol, i'm not sure. if you've talked to me, you kno my main reason for quitting is political, not for other reasons. but it seems like this summer, those problems my be working themselves out. huh, interesting...

in few weeks, the team leader(s) will be sending out an email people from last year's team and asking if they still wanna form a team this year. i'm not exactly sure wat i want tho. but if said problem does work itself out, and if we do have a reasonable amount of people, i think i might go ahead wit it. we'll probably have to combine wit song's team (if he's okay wit it) (cause a lot of our people left for lard, and i don't think they'll be back), and of couse we'll have to recruit for new people (but i've already couple who are interested), but i think it might be doable.

we'll see?

btw, if you or anyone else you kno might be interested in dragon boating this summer (two months only! [june, july], can commit to about 1.5 hours a week [weekend, don't kno which day yet], all weekend july 26-27, and is relatively free from serious injury, let me kno!!)

multitasking

can't cook? then you can't read! a food company's annual report that has to be cooked before the ink will show up! amazing!!

(thanks to ting for the link)

Tags: art, book, cooking

america when?

i actually watched most of the oscars the other night (my mom likes them but gets distracted, so i watch for her) and saw a few different jc penny's american living commercials. and you kno wat i realized? there are no asians in any of them! and very few, if any, people of obvious latino heritage. wat exactly is jc penny's trying to say? that this is america living? or that this should be american living. because, really, i find a lot of things wrong wit either of those interpretations. america is wat it is because of the countless contributions from every damn race, not just the black and white ones.   now, i don't shop at jc pennys (there's none within like 10 miles of my home) but if did, i'd definitely boycott.

Tags: jc pennys, american living, racist, asians, latinos

i'm wit stupid

+------------ Bizarre Answers from Family Feud ------------+  
  
[Here are some actual answers from contestants who have appeared on the game show "Family Feud."]  

Q: Name something a blind person might use:  
A: A sword.  

Q: Name a song with moon in the title:  
A: Blue Suede Moon.  

Q: Name a bird with a long neck:  
A: A penguin.  

Q: Name an occupation where you need a torch:  
A: A burglar.  

Q: Name something you wear on the beach:  
A: A deck chair.  

Q: Name something red:  
A: My cardigan.  

Q: Name an item of clothing worn by the Three Musketeers:  
A: A horse.  

Q: Name a number you have to memorize:  
A: Seven.  

Q: Name something you put on walls:  
A: Roofs.  

Q: Name something that doesn't have an engine:  
A: Dishes.  

Q: Name something you might be allergic to:  
A: Skiing.  

Q: Name a non-living object with legs:  
A: A plant.  

Q: Name a part of the body beginning with "n":  
A: Knee.

Tags: bizarre, family feud

floral

make your own flower or garden! ...is acutally more interesting than it sounds, i promise. :)

Tags: diy, flower, garden

flowers

i think a lot of guys don't kno how to buy women flowers so they stick to roses, which are safe and generally well received. but i think a lot of women don't really like roses as much as society leads one to believe. well, the more traditional sort might. but i think a lot of ladies, esp the mid 20s - 30s set, might appreciated something more personalized (because let's face it, less generic tends to be perceived as more thoughtful!).

my personal favorite bouquet flowers are gerbera daises. they come in tons of colors and are really cheap. i like lots of petals on my flowers, so i also like zinnias, mums and lisianthuses. and i kno carnations don't have the best reputation (they're cheap and kind of tacky) but i kind of like them. if you're gonna get someone carnations, don't get plain ones! how about fancy ones like this one or this one.

a very sophisticated set (not bouquet!) of flowers might be some orchids or calla lilies. the both last a long time and don't require a lot of filler flowers. a more fiery lady might like some birds of paradise and some more exotic greenery.

if you insist on getting roses, why not go for something a bit unexpected? how about some antique roses? or if you don't really kno wat those are, how about getting roses that aren't just a single color? you can mix and match a bouquet, or you can get the types of roses that look sorta tie-dyeish, like these ones.

basically, don't be afraid to get creative [some really great arrangements on this site]! don't think that a dozen roses is best. a few will do you! or really try and think outside the box, instead of a bunch of flowers, how about a bunch of greenery and just a couple of blooms, this is a great example of such. sogood luck and happy gifting!

Tags: unique, special, thoughtful, flowers, bouquet, gerberas, daises, zinnias, mums, chrysthanemums, lisianthuses, carnations, roses, orchids, calla lilies, birs of paradise, antique roses

superads

i probably should've posted this up weeks ago, but here it finally is! 2008 superbowl ads.  

found it!

have you ever lost a camera? or maybe you've found someone else's camera before. well, if you ever had either, now maybe you can get your memories back (or give someone theirs!) at ifoundyourcamera.net. pretty cool :)

from above

saw this on postsecret. love the photograph. altho the message...

Tags: photography, photo, art, postsecret

make up

the day after the day after vday: much better. couple people asked me how our date went. but i wouldn't so much call it a date. i sorta think a date is where you do something out of the ordinary. you don't have to dress up or go to a fancy dinner or anything like that. but it's something special, you kno? instead of doing wat you normally do (watching a movie), you go to the beach. or if you normally go to the beach, for a date, maybe you go to watch a movie. but you wanna classify "date" as the traditional dinner and a movie, reep and i went on TWO dates saturday night. that's right! we saw TWO movies and went to TWO restraunts. first we went to mcdonalds and then saw jumper. we then followed that up wit the eye and afterwards we went to taco bell. :) and yes, we both ate both times. haha, fatties.

Tags: date, vday, valentine's day, dinner, movie, jumper, the eye

tidbits

The largest item on any menu in the world is probably the roast camel, sometimes served at Bedouin wedding feasts. The camel is stuffed with a sheep's carcass, which is stuffed with chickens, which are stuffed with fish, which are stuffed with eggs.

A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. 

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. 

Termites eat through wood two times faster when listening to rock music.

The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful plough man strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

"We have a long running hate relationship on the golf course. And it's always me against him. And it's always down to who makes the last putt wins the tournament." - Rocker Alice Cooper on his golf nemesis, jazz saxophonist Kenny G.  

Tags: bizarre, trivia, facts

bizarre patents

+-------------------- Bizarre Patents ---------------------+  

A fart collecting device: It comprises a gas-tight collecting tube for insertion into the rectum of the subject. The tube is connected to a gas-tight collecting bag. The end of the tube inserted into the subject is apertured and covered with a gauze filter and a gas permeable bladder.  

A glove for courting couples who wish to maintain palm-to-palm contact while holding hands. It has a common palm section, but two separate sets of fingers.  

A chair for coition: Provides support for two people, one astride the other. In one preferred form, the seat vibrates.  

An ashtray which warns you to quit smoking. When you pick up the box of matches from the holder, light passes through a hole to a photocell. This activates an audible warning device.  

A ladder to enable spiders to climb out of a bath. It comprises a thin flexible latex rubber strip which follows the inner contours of the bath. A suction pad is attached to the top edge of the bath.  

A car registration plate which indicates the sex of the driver. The inventor says that since the plate makes the driver's sex immediately apparent, other road users will change the way they behave. They will become more polite, and predict better the behavior of other drivers.

Tags: bizarre, patents, inventions

vday

vday and the day after. overall? disappointing. some in my head. some in my heart. oh well... i think i'm ovulating or something. my emotions are a little out of whack.

multitasking

can't cook? then you can't read! a food company's annual report that has to be cooked before the ink will show up! amazing!!

(thanks to ting for the link)

Tags: art, book, cooking,

postsecret

postsecret. the valentine's day edition. (heavy traffic, btw, so don't worry if you can't get in)

feed

test your vocab and help the world at the same time: free rice.  

(thanks to ting for the link)

i'm smrt

curvy is better.

scary lovers

a little halloween horror. (no honestly, he can't really look like that, right? it's gotta be the camera angle or something...)

+---------------------- Bizarre Love Stories ---------------------+  

Peter the Great had his wife's lover executed and his head put into a jar of alcohol. She had to keep it in her bedroom.  

After having a two year affair with Catherine the Great, Gregory Aleksandrovich Potemkin remained a valued advisor to Catherine. He even helped her pick out future lovers.  

Cleopatra married two of her brothers and was the mistress of both Caesar and Mark Antony.  

Fernade Olivier lived with Picasso for seven years. They wanted to marry but Olivier couldn't find her estranged husband to divorce him. In the 1940's she found out he had died right after she met Picasso - 40 years earlier.  

Tags: bizarre, love, stories, romance, amy winehouse, undead

bad taste

you rarely see asians in the media spotlight, but in splendora's wat not to wear 2008 there seem to be four asians out of a 19 unfortunately dressed women. wat are they trying to say?! (btw, i say seem to be because montana tucker looks half asian but i'm not sure)

freeze!

frozen in ny's grand central station.

(thanks to reep for the link)

Tags: art, installation, prank, improve everywhere

elsewhere

new content up at my flickr and youtube (incl crab video from the beach).

genius

i thought the lanvin 08 fall/winter ad campaign was incredible. but this photo is absolutely breathtaking. i think i need this as a poster.

Tags: art, fashion, lanvin, photography

why god?

a good overview on why some theories on why religion started and how it evolved.

Tags: religion

time travel

lately i've been going thru the archives of this site and saving my past posts to my computer. i guess i've not done it for a while cause i had to go all the way back to february 2006. in going thru them i realized that 1) i used to post a lot of more often 2) my friends used to comment a LOT more 3) i talked a lot more about wat i was doing and not just wat i was going thru 4) i used to post pictures [tho, now i post at my flickr] and 5) i'd forgotten, but i often used to post song lyrics at the bottom of posts. these days i pick the 'music i'm listening to' by the title only. i like the lyrics thing tho. i might go back to doing that. i remember that it took quite a bit of time tho. so we'll see.

it was weird tho. reading my old posts. christ we were all so much younger back then. even if you it was only two years ago. but if you have a site, go back and read about wat you were doing two years ago. i bet it will shock you at how different things are now. ...or how different things will be in two years from now.

Tags: archives, past, memories, times they are a-changin'

color!

loves it! from the sartorialist.

(ps. i have a matching bright yellow umbrella and rain boots. and i've always wanted a bright red coat!)

Tags: fashion, color, sartorialist

open mouths

Fred R. Shapiro, the editor of the Yale Book of Quotations, has compiled a list of the top ten most memorable quotes of 2007.

10. "I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history." -Former President Jimmy Carter in an interview in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette newspaper.  

9. "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man." -Biden describing rival Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.  

8. "(I have) a wide stance when going to the bathroom." -Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig's explanation of why his foot touched that of an undercover policeman in a men's room.  

7. "I'm not going to get into a name-calling match with somebody (Vice President Dick Cheney) who has a 9 percent approval rating." -Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat.  

6. "There's only three things he (Republican presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani) mentions in a sentence: a noun and a verb and 9/11." -Sen. Joseph Biden, speaking at a Democratic presidential debate.  

5. "I don't recall." -Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' repeated response to questioning at a congressional hearing about the firing of U.S. attorneys.  

4. "That's some nappy-headed hos there." -Shock jock Don Imus commenting about the Rutgers University women's basketball team.  

3. "In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country." -Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a speech at Columbia University.  

2. "I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps and I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and Iraq and everywhere like such as and I believe that they should our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S. or should help South Africa and should help Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future for us." -Lauren Upton, the South Carolina contestant in the Miss Teen America contest when asked why one-fifth of Americans are unable to locate the United States on a map.  


And the number one quote of 2007.....  

1. "Don't Tase Me, Bro!" -University of Florida student Andrew Meyer just before being tased by campus police at a speech by Sen. John Kerry.

Tags: bizarre, quotations, quotes, memorable

onward

best friends forever.

and speaking of death. two rather sad passings lately: sir edmund hillary and bobby fischer.  both incredibly important in his own field, for his country, and to a whole era of people.

Tags: death, sir edmund hillary, everest, mountaineering, bobby fischer, chess, cold war

desktop

my current desktop. :)

Tags: desktop, computer, wallpaper

super tuesday!

super tuesday's coming soon! if you need a little help deciding who to vote for, here's a short poll thing: match-o-matic. it's actually a little hard if you don't kno a whole lot about the current state of politics. but if you care enough to take the quiz, you should kno enough too.

for the record, i got1. dennis kucinich 2. mike gravel and 3. chris dodd. you?

Tags: politics, voting, quiz, match-o-matic, super tuesday, primaries

prying noses

was watching the news the other night and heard the calabasas is banning smoking cigarettes inside your own apartment. as usual, i did some research before updating my site and saw that i got a few things wrong. they're only banning smoking in 80% of apartments (why 80%? the article doesn't say, but i read elsewhere that these days only about 20% of americans are smokers). but it doesn't matter cause appt the city of belmont has already passed legislature outlawing smoking in multi-unit housing legislature (aka, attached apartments and condos), and since there are no %s named, i guess this means that there's no smoking in any belmont apartment (multi-unit ones anyway).

i have mixed feelings about this. on one hand, i'm thinking this is great. i kind of feel like we should outlaw all smoking anyway, so this is in line wit that. but i think it's really weird how you can regulate otherwise legal activity in someone's own home. i understand that you don't own an apartment and that your second-hand smoke might get into someone else's space but... why can't we just regulate the second hand smoke factor? as in, if your neighbors file several complaints against your smoke getting into their apartment, you're gonna have to make sure it doesn't get in their way. i do feel like my right to cancer free air trumps your right to kill slowly yourself by smoking, but... this might be going a little too far.

Tags: morality, ethics, smoking, clean air, apartments, condos, law, violation, privacy