火曜日, 11月 30, 2004

This town needs an enima.

This post was written on the Bay Area Rapid Transit system*. If you would like to know more, please visit Bart.gov.

Ah the train...As I write this, I am underneath the San Francisco bay. Surrounded by people, which is a little odd, considering it's 8:45 in the evening, but it's not like it's crowded.

I get down to the station to find that I've got 11 minutes of standing to do with my computer hung around my back. Well forget that. I'm not ruining my back like that. So, I come up with a brilliant idea. Why not get on the train going the opposite direction and head two stops the other way. This will cut your wait for the train in half! True, I didn't reduce the time of the total trip, but I did make the wait to begin the trip shorter. In other words, I got to sit down sooner.

Those of you from the San Francisco Bay Area are most likely aware of BART, if not a regular user of it, but those of you from elsewhere in the world might not know what I'm talking about. The BART is a rapid transit system, sort of a hybrid of the London underground and the Chicago elevated train. You may have seen the BART in such films as THX 1138, which used the then not yet completed BART system extensively.


No not that Bart!

Aparently, BART is the number one transit system in America. How about that?

I've noticed that all subway systems have similarly designed maps, that is they've all got thick coloured lines that don't match the terrain very well. BART's done a good job in recent years of trying to make the map look as much like the actual map as possible, but it's still not perfect and I can remember a time when it wasn't even close.



But, you may ask why I'm on the train at almost 9 in the evening? Well I'll tell you, but I have to transfer at the next stop, so it will have to wait.

*packs computer away and gets off of the Pitsburg/Bay Point train*

Ahh I've transfered. I am now on the Richmond train which is leaving 12th St. Oakland station. I'm one of those people who don't like to tell people they can't sit next to me, yet usually no one wants to anyway. I don't know, maybe it's because I'm bulky? Maybe I smell bad? Maybe I just give off a creepy look (especially today since I haven't shaved, and didn't get to wash my hair this morning so it may be kind of greasy and oily). So it works out, I usually don't have to worry about people sitting next to me on return trips. During Rush Hour maybe, but not at almost 9:00 in the evening.

So, why am I on the train at this hour? I had a night class of course. Human Biology. We actually had a midterm in that class today, which I totally forgot about...had to borrow a scantron from the guy sitting next to me...But I think I did good. Hell, I know I did good, damnit!

However, it is nearing the end of the semester and there are several things that need to be done. I'd like to create a list, put it here, and remove things from the list as they get done. Hang on a minute, I have to make a call for a ride, since I am about 10 minutes from home and i will be in an underground tunnel for almost all of those 10 minutes...

Alright that's done with. Lets get with the list!

Things to do this week:
  • Write the damn meterology paper on ball lightning.
  • Write the damn film analysis paper of which movie? No idea.
  • Observe dad and his media use for the BECA paper.
  • Write the damn BECA paper.
  • Go to Blackboard and find the biology assignment due on the day of the final.
  • Write the damn biology assignment due on the day of the final.
  • Go to The Class Schedule and figure out schedule for next semester.
I think that's a good list for one week. Who's willing to help me remember to do all of these things?

It is now 9:05, just passed the Downtown Berkeley station, on the way to the "Narph" (as Mister Perrero would say) Berkeley station, with my stop, the El Cerrito Plaza station, being the next stop after that.

I hope no one out there can use this information to stalk me and like...I don't know, rape me...(DAMN YOU TELEVISION NEWS! You have me, a 6' tall husky guy worried about getting raped...sad world.) Or jacking my laptop...But in a couple weeks, it's not going to make much of a difference cause the times will be different and my schedule will be totally different. You'd have to like, hang out all day at the Plaza station waiting for me, and most of you barely know what I look like!

So, time for me to get off, It's been a lovely post.



*(Images were found once I got home, post posted when I got home.)

Okay, why does a search for THX and BART gives me this? (Celey, you might not want to click that.) Not one thing to do with BART or THX. But that's a huge cock isn't it?

You've never played porno password before?

DUDE! The RIAA! They suck! Read this.

During the summer a study by Harvard Business School associate professor Felix Oberholzer and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill associate professor Koleman Strumpf said it take at least 5,000 downloads to displace sales of one CD. Even high levels of file-swapping affected album sales to a degree that was "statistically indistinguishable from zero," they wrote.

DUDE! Those bastards sued all those people...and why? FOR LESS THAN ONCE CENT's DAMMAGE!

And!

Also last week, the US Senate dropped from an intellectual property bill several controversial measures that would have made the actions of millions of US internet users who copy music and movies for free over networks such as Kazaa criminal offences.

Among the sanctions under consideration were jail sentences of up to three years for American music lovers found to have illegally downloaded more than 1,000 copyrighted works.


What what what??! That's f'n bullshit! Thank god the senate is smart enough not to pass such a bill...

Moving on.

I'm in the SFSU library at the moment. Whoo to that. Should probably be doing school work of some kind but...whatcha gonna do...


Yay onion.


So, what was I talking about?
*half an hour goes by*

Oh yeah. Umm. Hmm. I can't remember. Was I even talking about anything? Hmm. Well. I guess this post is done then. Someone, anyone, help me figure out how to put a "now playing, watching, eating, what have you" thing at the start of my blog posts...so that it's all cool and stuff.

月曜日, 11月 29, 2004

Merry Christmas Movie House!!!

Okay I've never even seen this movie all the way through.

Brb to do laundry.

Boy aren't blogs great? I can be BRB and you wouldn't even notice.

いらっしゃいませ!

Speaking of blogs, Sgt. Mongoose has brought to my attention people can come to my blog from that thing on the top of the blog...what's it called? The blogger bar? Eh. It would explain how people I don't know and don't appear anyone else I know knows finding there way here. If you're coming to this blog at random, welcome! Click those google ads if you are the kind of person who gives change to homeless people. しないと大変だよ!殴るよ!


I tried clicking the thing a few times, and I found this blog, which has a nice picture of Lain on the right, don't know much more about it than that, didn't bother to read it, check it out though if you're keen.

http://magical-jewel.blogspot.com/


The next part of this blog most of you probably don't wanna read. But it's my blog and I'll write about whatever I damn well want to write about. Don't say I didn't warn you.


I hope I don't have colon cancer. The summer before last I had these problems of quite a bit of blood in my stools. We went to the proctologist and they stuck the camera in my ass and removed a couple pollups...Aparently they weren't serious, and they weren't the cause of the blood in the stools, it was hemeroids. But the fact that there were pollups worries me...The reason I bring it up is because there was a fair ammount of blood in my last BM just a few minutes ago...

Did you know that spider-veins and hemeroids are the same thing only in a different part of the body?

Make the bastard chase you; he will follow.




Gosh, isn't that fun? hee.

Hmm...I suppose that's all for now. Click some of those google links people...not much money has been coming in lately...Please? I'll wish you a merry christmas!

日曜日, 11月 28, 2004

Alright this white devil thing has gone far enough!

Okay first things first! I just figured out a new peice of the format for this blog!

If I can't think of a better title, the title and link for each blog post will be a movie quote and a link to the movie's profile on IMDB. Yay! Goooo mE!



Woah. What the hell is that??? And why am I subjecting the readers of this blog to a woman wearing almost no clothes? Well, because Isabel pointed me to this. GloThong. Good god. I don't know man...


Okay, I'm not mad or anything, but I want to know who's reading my blog in singapore. If you're reading this garbage, let me know! I'd like to hear some comments. I could be wrong, but I think you can comment without signing up for blogger. And hey, even if you must sign up, you can do it. Use Dogeit e-mail if you don't want to give up your e-mail address. LEAVE A COMMENT! I like getting comments. They're fun. It proves I'm not just wasting my time here...

Wasting my time...
<.< >.>

Yeah speaking of wasting time, I spent the whole weekend playing GTA: San Andreas and not really much else. Watched two Zatoichi movies, but beyond that...not much.

I kind of smell, just a little.

Hey look!

That's a cool um...star. Isn't it? You know, as sad as I'd be later on if it happened, I'd so love to be looking up at the sky at night when Betelgeuse blows up. At least, so long as it doesn't like, ruin my eyes. I wouldn't know. I've never seen a supernova before. I hope it happens in my life time. I hope I get to see it. The only bad thing is, we might go for a week without any real night time...and we would no longer have orion's right shoulder. (That's his right, not our right...)

That whole super nova thing was kind of a tangent, wasn't it?

Finally got out of Los Santos in San Andreas. I'm glad...but I was just Starting to get the hang of that area...oh well...

Though I must say, it's kind of weird seeing a place you grew up near on the TV in polygon form. I wonder what british people thought of The Getaway.



I mean, look at this though...





Never in my life did I think that that building was phallic. Until now. Than's GTA.

Now, this post is an hour late, and I have to go to work early tomorow...or at least, early for me. So I'd better put a stop to it right here. Goodnight all. Celey, I hope you can stay online!

Night everyone.

UPDATE: We still have no fucking clue where this guy is. AKA Photoblog #3

This post has been brought to you late thanks to the expert engineers at blogger.com!



Dad is watching Ernest Saves Christmas. It was really funny to hear Jan Wahl say "and now back to Ernest Saves Christmas."



And now time for an update. Remember I made my last post from a place that wasn't my home or my school? But from Fremont? Well I've got pictures of the place...plus a bonus towards the end!


That's right. It's an american idol drum set.
Isn't american idol a show about singing? Ahhh ! Gosh I'm glad I don't have kids who would want an american idol drumset. I'd rather buy the kid a real drumset.


There's the kid who I'd imagine the drumset was bought for. I guess it makes sense, look at that chick, doesn't she look like she wants to be on american idol? Well, this is a new reason to hate FOX.


Look! I can play the piano ! kind of...


If you look in the corner of the room there, you can see that there's a karaoke machine...


Look! A Fish!


Aparently this girl manufactures her own brand of cereal. Why would she want to be a star if she already has a profitable cereal buisness?


And then they drank a shot. I was reminded of the episode of star trek where Scotty (or Data, if you're a TNG fan) pulls out a bottle of something and they get asked "what is this" and they say "it is...it is...It is blue." Don't you love how on Star Trek they can reuse the same jokes over and over and over again?


And that's where I set up camp...Dialup sucks.


OH MY GOD IT'S ELASTIGIRL!


Not just Elastigirl...BUT ELASTIGIRLZ!


Not just Elastigirlz...BUT AN ELASTIGIRLZ CATFIGHT! WITH MEOW SKYWALKER AS REF!

*brain explodes*

And Finally...


Dad has rabies.

*bows*
Thank you very much. Now go to bed! 'Adis!


Doesn't she look like the girl from the house? Woah! Maybe she is that girl!

UPDATE: MONGOOSE GOT ME STARTED! DAMN YOU iTunes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

土曜日, 11月 27, 2004

I do not look like a hobbit!

Okay I do not look like a Hobbit.



Okay, maybe I look similar to the actor who played Samwise, but I don't think the resemblence is striking.


See? He's got kind of straight hair...and he looks a lot more...um...clean shaven.

And even if I do look like a freakishly tall hobbit, who's to say Hobbits are sexy? I don't think they are very sexy...

But then my cousin named her pet frodo because ...

Ahh it's too confusing. I surely don't look like Elijah Wood.



No idea, don't you dare ask.

My parents and their friends are over there...they're karaokeing. Jeez. I said if they all did it, I would give it a shot. Maybe I'll use one of the music videos off of my new DVD set which has some hilarious karaoke videos on it. Made it all worth the purchase...but maybe not the 15 dollar shipping I paid for it.

Currently playing:
Love's Theme 1974
Love unlimited orchestra
Didn't it blow your mind this time?

I love it. I need to buy that song or something.

Yes, by the way I'm not at home. We're at my mom's friends' brother's house in Fremont. They promised me chicken, but I didn't get anything out of it. I should have stayed home. I wouldn't have to be subjected to my dad singing too loudly into the karaoke box. Horrible. Not too bad though. They don't know the words...

Moving on.

Today was Sgt. Mongoose's Birthday! Happy 20th dude! I'll figure out something for you by the time me and Isabel come to visit you sometime next year.
Celey made this for him, and I hosted it...


(right click to see full size)

So yeah, Happy birthday Mongoose.

Well if it isn't Heather using Angie's screen name. Angie was the one responsible Back by popular demand. And, well. That's over for a reason. You would be reading this there if she didn't do what she did. I'm not mad anymore, and I kind of understand it was probably worse for her than for me, but still you know. I can't go back and say "hey, I can post in here 'cause I'm forgiving in nature." Also, the popular demand has died, and I've created a different, almost more 'serious', blog because I wanted to, not because the public demanded it. And, well, stupid conversations. I think I was friends with Angie mostly because of the way things we said bounced off of each other. She was just good to talk to. It was very very rare for me to not be able to have a good conversation. No real awkward silences, you know? It was just fun to talk to her. That's what I missed the most. When she did what she did, and moved to New Mexico or wherever, and stopped using the computer...well...it was just hard for me. I had nothing to do anymore. It was horrible! Was quite depressing. I'm sure some of you remember when it happened.

Moving on.

Only dad and john attempted to karaoke, so, I don't have to do it! Yay!

Pictures of this place later on, maybe tomorow.

me when I visited Angie and Heather at least a year ago, maybe two

金曜日, 11月 26, 2004

"You turkey"

Ahh another thanksgiving has gone by.

Aren't you glad?

I know I am.

Hey look, a turkey fire!

Yeah, you must be careful with those things you know. They aren't exactly...safe.

I wouldn't actually know, I've never seen one of these devices, and I probably never will.


So, yesterday was thanksgiving.





It was fun, sure. Why not. Saw Saved


I'm reminded of my uncle rick who would always say "you turkey" all the time.

Hmm.

Hey, you wanna know what he looks like? Here you go.


Yeah, behind him there, in focus, is my cousin Tera. Tara? Teara? Gosh darn it. How do you spell that? I don't know, I don't really need to know. She goes to UC Davis. She was there yesterday. That picture is at least 3 years old now, though.

I might have to figure out a way to do an audio blog, just so I can do my uncle rick "you turkey" impersonation... Maybe not though. I'm quite afraid of the telephone. Why? Long story. Maybe I'll tell you some day.

Hey look what my dad did.



Isn't that awesome? It's Bacon-fried-Plantine-grape-man! !!!

••••And of course, I have to give you another DS screenshot.



Gotta love those writers at Nintendo.

Bout a half an hour ago, my dad threw a Kiwi-Gummi at me. I caught him in the act.



Damn, look at that gut of his...

And finally...



Yes, it's me. What are you gonna do about it? Damn, don't I look serious?

That's all for now. If I can think of anything else to tell you, I'll make another post.

木曜日, 11月 25, 2004

The end of the world.

Okay maybe not.


So thanksgiving was today. Yay, I suppose. Small meal. Crappy drink. I'll live.



Yeah. Go vote. You want to, I know it. Support Dan!

Short post due to bordome. BORE DOME! WHOO!

Don't forget people! Tomorow is buy nothing day!


火曜日, 11月 23, 2004

Money Ain't A Thang

Well, it's not!

Well I'm at school. Yay. What's up you may ask?

Well I've got 'bout two hours before my next class (human biology) and I just finished my Cinema class about two hours ago.

Sitting in the lull period.

Yeah.

It's fun.

Right.

In class today, we watched Mulholland Drive.

What a weird movie. Can't say I liked it, but who knows. Lynch ain't my kinda guy.

OF COURSE THEY'RE GOING TO MAKE ME WRITE A PAPER ON HIM!

Grr.

Choose one of the following topics. Do you agree or disagree?
  1. Contemporary cinema offers many examples of unusual screen narratives. While movies like The Usual Suspects (with its flashback structure and twist ending, Run Lola Run (with its multiple options for its characters) and The Circle (with its series of protagonists) can be easily followed, David Lynch films like Lost Highway and Mullholland Drive are too confusing to enjoy.
  2. Many Contemporary movies and TV shows (The Player, Apt Pupil, The Sopranos) position us to identify with protagonists who in the past would have considered "evil." This is a good thing, as it allows us to see that "good" and "evil" are concepts of no practical value. These films show us how their protagonists successfully outmaneuver their opponents to survive in a hostile environment, and as such are good guides to the real world.
  3. "David Lynch treats the subject of evil better than just about anybody else making movies today" (Wallace, p. 203). Lynch's "movies aren't anti-moral, but they are definitely anti-formulaic.... Lynch is not interested in the devolution of responsibility... he's interested in the psychic spaces in which people are capable of evil" (Wallace, p. 204). Do you agree with Wallace, or is the "Lynchian moral scheme... of evil contained within good" (Wallace, p. 205) simplistic?
UGH! To hell with this class man. Another paper that's worth 40 percent of my grade. I suppose I'll get it done but what the hell, man? I thought his movies were too long, and that's about all I have to say about 'em. They weren't even that long, but they were made in a way so that things just drag on and on and on. It's just stupid...oh well.

I want to stop talking about this for now. Is that okay with you?

I feel bad now, because I feel ugly, and people are trying to tell me I'm not...and I'm kind of being rude if not mean to them...

You don't go your whole life thinking your ugly and then let some person who's never even met you convince you you're not. It just doesn't happen.

Let's break down the discussion.

Edcool1 wrote:
someone saying I look cute is a lot different from

Misty Rydia wrote:
Miroku is HOT!

*giggles*

*runs away*

And for anyone to say that about me, i'd need liposuction, plastic surgery, nice clothes and a lot of makeup.

But miroku, all he has to do is sit there.

It just pisses me off how no one ever even wants to talk to me. I know we'd all like to believe that looks don't matter and that this is all fuss over nothing...but that's not the world we live in.

I feel bad 'cause I don't want to make Celey feel bad...as I tend to do when this topic gets brought up...

Also, I feel kind of like this whole feeling bad about how I look thing, it's just like an attempt by me to get other people to prove me wrong. Not tell me I'm wrong but prove to me that I'm wrong. I worry that even if I am wrong, proving it may be impossible. An even bigger worry is that I'm right...and I'm just making myself feel worse about it rather than actually trying to, I don't know, get better? So I'm ugly. Why can't I get over it?

I don't know. Well...that's all for now.



月曜日, 11月 22, 2004

I talk about one jewish holiday and this is what happens...

I talk about one holiday and then my google ads are all about Jewish online super stores...

This is actually kind of cool though.



A KOSHER LAMP! That's cool looking, isn't it?



My dad should do stuff like this. He can, that's for sure, but he doesn't. Must be lazy. Oh well, can't say as I blame him.

In other news, I've aparently really really pissed off Sarah by posting that conversation there. Well, I'm sorry. It's not like we were talking about anything confidential or anything. Jeez.

's what I get for trying to be enthusiastic.

日曜日, 11月 21, 2004

photo post #2!

Today was Shauna's surprise birthday party.

Man, no one's ever thrown a surprise party for me.

Oh well.

Let's get started!


Dad, reading a menu.

Maybe i'm starting too late in the evening...Let's go back! wayyy back.

All the way to the year 2000.

Okay maybe that's too far.


Before we went to the dinner, we went to TRAIN TOWN! and road the train. Next few pictures will be there.


No school like the old school.


Aww but throwing rocks is fun!


Dad in cool light.


One of those things I like to do is take pictures of random people. Its funny.


All Aboard!


I got nothing to add.


Is he eating it or throwing it up?


OMG it was like I was looking into the past...A little ed...


(IM me if you'd want this as a wallpaper)


Are they real? I'M NOT TELLING!


Fav. Constilation


Bet he thought he was the pimp.


Fly me too the moon baby.


Quack Quack bitch!


Ahh there's the birthday girl. The flake. She blew me off yesterday. She's SUPPOSED to go to see the incredibles with me on wednesday. We'll see if that happens...


Her cake.


Don't ask...


"sexy" dad.


On the way to shauna's house. Why was i going to her house? I have no clue. I shouldn't have got in the car...


I must have went to see this...bad dogs. You see, this is why I don't want a dog. DOGS BAD!


Shauna with her new pug...hmm...

And Finally...


Tree fell down across the street from high winds yesterday.

I'll have some more pictures of it in a week or so...