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."