Don't call it a comeback

Nugent

2006-04-23T17:27:00.000-07:00

Yeah that's amazing.

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become expert drinker

2006-04-18T18:30:00.000-07:00

So this is how its going to be?

2006-02-20T10:24:00.000-08:00

Since my google ads are busted now, damn them, I think this blog will get even less attention.

I'm not giving up on it, I will still do my photoblogs and stuff here, I think. But I dunno, I find myself using LiveJournal! UGH...

Anyway... Here is something anyway.

Copy and paste this into a new email. Remove the current X's. And put an X
inside the [ ] wherever it is true about you. Leave it as it is if it isn't
true, without the X. And then forward to your friends.

[] I am shorter than 5'4".
[x] I think I'm ugly sometimes.
[x] I have many scars.
[] I tan easily.
[] I wish my hair was a different color.
[] I have friends who have never seen my natural hair color.
[] I have a tattoo.
[x] I am self-conscious about my appearance
[] I have/I've had braces.
[] I wear glasses.
[x] I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and
scar-free.
[] I've been told I'm attractive by a complete stranger.
[] I have more than 2 piercings.
[] I have piercings in places besides my ears.
[x] I have freckles.

Family/Home Life

[] I've sworn at my parents.
[] I've run away from home.
[] I've been kicked out of the house.
[x] My biological parents are together.
[] I have a sibling less than one year old. (Close, 1 1/2 yrs)
[] I want to have kids someday.
[] I've had children.
[] I've lost a child.

School/Work

[x] I'm in school.
[x] I have a job.
[x] I've fallen asleep at work/school.
[] I almost always do my homework.
[] I've missed a week or more of school.
[] I've been on the Honor Roll within the last 2 years.
[] I failed more than 1 class last year.
[] I've stolen something from my job.
[] I've been fired.

Embarrassment

[x] I've slipped out a "lol" in a spoken conversation.
[] Disney movies still make me cry.
[] I've peed from laughing.
[] I've snorted while laughing.
[x] I've laughed so hard I've cried.
[] I've glued my hand to something.
[x] I've had my pants rip in public...

Health

[] I was born with a disease/impairment.
[x] I've gotten stitches/staples.
[x] I've broken a bone.
[] I've had my tonsils removed.
[] I've sat in a doctor's office/emergency room with a friend.
[x] I've had my wisdom teeth removed.
[] I had a serious surgery.
[x] I've had chicken pox.

Traveling

[x] I've driven over 200 miles in one day.
[x] I've been on a plane.
[] I've been to Canada.
[] I've been to Mexico.
[] I've been to Niagara Falls.
[] I've been to Japan.
[] I've celebrated Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
[] I've been to Europe.
[] I've been to Africa.

Experiences

[] I've gotten lost in my city.
[x] I've seen a shooting star.
[x] I've wished on a shooting star.
[x] I've seen a meteor shower.
[] I've gone out in public in my pajamas.
[] I've pushed all the buttons on an elevator.
[] I've kicked a guy where it hurts.
[x] I've been to a casino.
[] I've been skydiving.
[] I've gone skinny dipping.
[] I've played spin the bottle.
[x] I've drank a whole gallon of milk in one hour.
[] I've crashed a car.
[] I've been skiing.
[] I've been in a play.
[] I've met someone in person from myspace.
[] I've caught a snowflake on my tongue.
[] I've seen the Northern lights.
[x] I've sat on a roof top at night.
[] I've played chicken.
[] I've played a prank on someone.
[x] I've ridden in a taxi.
[] I've seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
[] I've eaten sushi.
[] I've been snowboarding.

Relationships

[x] I'm single.
[] I'm in a relationship.
[] I'm engaged.
[] I'm married.
[] I've gone on a blind date.
[] I've been the dumpee more than the dumper.
[] I miss someone right now.
[x] I have a fear of abandonment.
[] I've gotten divorced.
[] I've had feelings for someone who didn't have them back.
[] I've told someone I loved them when I didn't.
[] I've told someone I didn't love them when I did.
[] I've kept something from a past relationship.

Sexuality

[] I've had a crush on someone of the same sex.
[] I've had a crush on a teacher.
[] I am a cuddler.
[] I've been kissed in the rain.
[] I've hugged a stranger.
[] I have kissed a stranger.

Honesty/Crime

[] I've done something I promised someone else I wouldn't
[] I've done something I promised myself I wouldn't.
[] I've snuck out of my house.
[] I have lied to my parents about where I am.
[] I am keeping a secret from the world.
[] I've cheated while playing a game.
[] I've cheated on a test.
[] I've run a red light.
[] I've been suspended from school.
[] I've witnessed a crime.
[] I've been in a fist fight.
[] I've been arrested.

Drugs/Alcohol

[x] I've consumed alcohol.
[] I regularly drink.
[] I've passed out from drinking.
[] I have passed out drunk at least once in the past 6 months.
[] I've smoked weed
[] I've taken painkillers when I didn't need them.
[] I've eaten shrooms.
[] I've popped E.
[] I've inhaled Nitrous.
[] I've done hard drugs.
[] I have cough drops when I'm not sick.
[] I can't swallow pills.
[x] I can swallow about 5 pills at a time no problem.
[] I have been diagnosed with clinical depression.
[] I have been diagnosed with one or more anxiety disorder.
[] I shut others out when I'm depressed.
[] I take anti-depressants.
[] I'm anorexic or bulimic.
[] I've slept an entire day when I didn't need it.
[] I've hurt myself on purpose.
[] I'm addicted to self harm.
[] I've woken up crying.

Death and Suicide
[] I'm afraid of dying.
[] I hate funerals.
[] I've seen someone dying.
[] Someone close to me has attempted suicide.
[] Someone close to me has committed suicide.
[] I've planned my own suicide.
[] I've attempted suicide.
[] I've written a eulogy for myself.

Materialism

[x] I own over 5 rap CDs.
[x] I own an iPod or MP3 player.
[] I have an unhealthy obsession with anime/manga.(It's not unhealthy!)
[] I own multiple designer purses, costing over $100 a piece.
[] I own something from Hot Topic.
[] I own something from Pac Sun.
[] I collect comic books.
[] I own something from The Gap.
[x] I own something I got on e-bay.
[] I own something from Abercrombie.

Random

[] I can sing well. (never really tried)
[] I've stolen a tray from a fast food restaurant.
[] I open up to others easily.
[x] I watch the news.
[x] I don't kill bugs. (Exept ants. Ants must die)
[x] I hate hearing songs that sacrifice meaning for the sake of being able
to rhyme.
[] I curse regularly.
[] I sing in the shower.
[] I am a morning person.
[] I paid for my cell phone ring tone.
[] I'm a snob about grammar.
[] I am a sports fanatic.
[] I twirl my hair.
[] I have "x"s in my screen name.
[] I love being neat.
[] I love Spam.
[] I've copied more than 30 CD's in a day.
[x] I bake well.
[x] My favorite color is either white, yellow, pink, red or blue.
[] I've worn pajamas to school.
[] I like Martha Stewart.
[] I know how to shoot a gun.
[] I am in love with love.
[] I am guilty of tYpInG lIkE tHiS...
[] I laugh at my own jokes.
[x] I eat fast food weekly.
[] I believe in ghosts.
[x] I am online 24/7, even as an away message.
[x] I've not turned anything in and still got an A in a certain class.
[] I can't sleep if there is a spider in the room.
[] I am really ticklish.
[x] I love white chocolate.
[x] I bite my nails.
[x] I play video games.
[x] I'm good at remembering faces.
[] I'm good at remembering names
[] I'm good at remembering dates.
[] I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life.

[x] all of those are answered honestly

--
-ed

Ed wallpaper maker tutorial!

2006-01-17T02:24:00.000-08:00

[02:23] Edcool1: i think im' gonna make a blog post based on that
[02:23] MadStrife: haha
[02:23] MadStrife: yeah
[02:23] MadStrife: you just
[02:23] MadStrife: totally explained everything

So yeah! Here it is.

Yay.

Okay so I have this picture I found on some website.

The Price is Wrong, Chiyo-chan!

Now that is that images full resolution. Not very good looking, right? Certainly not made for a 1680x1050 screen resolution. So what can we do about this?

Step 1:
Make it bigger.

That gives you this...I dunno, perverted jagged ugly version of your image:

That's bad! It's ugly! Jagged! Worse than the graphics on your playstation2! So what can you do?

Step 2:
Gaussian Blur. Or something.

That gives you this blurred out of focus look, observe:

Now the jaggies are gone, but...Wait! Something else is wrong! Look at that! It's totally out of focus! No definition at all! Something must be done!

Step 3:

So what I did next was a combination of a grain filter and some kind of brush filter, croshatch maybe? I forget.

Now what do we have, grain and some edges, but still blury...Wait what else looks like that? I know! An 8mm film frame!

Step 4 (research)
Thanks to Oliver Stone I will forever think of the Zapruder Film when I think of 8mm.

Observe:

Yeah. History. Back and to the left.

So yeah. Do you see the similarites between that image and the one above it? Kinda blury, grainy and stuff? Yeah!

Cause I'm kind of a buff for the Zapruder film, I have at least 5 different copies of it on my computer. I have the original version, a version with the sproket holes in it, a zoomed in version, a stablized version (so you can kind of see how it is a hoax). I got it all. So this innocent picture of Chiyo-chan on the Price is Right reminds me of a man getting his brains blown out. Yes. yes.

Step 5:

So we now have our reference photo! Let's compare it to our desired wallpaper!

Oh crap! Our picture isn't wide enough!

The sproket holes of the 8mm film and the actual 8mm camera itself kind of creat this distorted image over by the sproket holes. I'm not a painter, I can't really fill in what's missing the way it should be done. I can, however, half-ass it.

Stretch it!

Step 6:

Now what's the problem? There's this obvious line from where I stretched it! So I have to now fix that some how, I take the original and overlay it, and then fade it with a gradient mask (taking special care to keep her pigtail unstretched) that looks something like this:

Now the final touches.

Step 7:

Using my reference frame from the Zapruder film as a guide for my sproket holes, I use the magic wand tool and select the white area in those holes and create a color fill from that. I use a fuzzy brush to hide any jaggies from the Zapruder film.

This looks like this:

Step 8:

Now, when you look at the reference, you see that kind of purplish color over on the left side, between the sproket holes? This is most likely from the latent edge code on the 8mm film, but I could be wrong. Could just be more distortions from the camera.

That being said, it's there and I want to re-create it for my wallpaper.

I use the select color command and select the purple. Then I make another color fill for that with the purple color. Check it:

Almost done!

Step 9:

Just put the stretched Chiy0-chan image back underneath the color fills and viola. You got your 8mmized version of Chiyo-chan on the price is right.

Now this begs the question. Why is there an 8mm film of Chiyo-chan on the price is right? My theory is, it was the item they were bidding on--a 8mm film camera. And one of the pretty girls Bob Barker has on his show is shooting film of the contestants. Chiyo is going for the low bid, but feels wrong bidding just 1 dollar. So she bids $22.50. Makes sense to me.

The price is wrong, bitch.

"I think it's a gun pressed up against my dick." 15 minutes later. "I couldn't speak any japanese and his english was terrible. But what can I say?"

2006-01-06T22:02:00.000-08:00

I was looking at my sight stats a little earler and I saw someone made it to this blog searching for this:

how do i say "hello, how are you?" in japanese?

I'm the 3rd result on that there. And I didn't even answer the question. I'm there because I quoted the movie Sphere.

I noticed that and I said...damn that's kind of sad. I can answer that question! Even with my year and a half of no practice. So I'll do that.

So, how do you say "hello, how are you?" in japanese?
It could vary depending on the time of day, but for starters let's say you're talking on the phone.

Japanese in this pinkish color.
English pronounciation of that same phrase in this greenish color.
And the rough translation in this purplish color.

もしもし！お元気ですか？
moshimoshi! ogenki desu ka?
Hello! How are you?

MoshiMoshi is like, the general telephone greeting. Be careful not to say "mushi mushi" 'cause mushi means 'bug' and you'll be saying "bug bug" to the person on the phone. Would be weird! Ogenki is slightly polite way to say feeling. Genki is feeling. You see? Desu is like...uh...in this case it's what they call the polite copula in Japanese. I have no idea what that means, it's just something you gotta know. Google tells me "A copula is a word that combines the subject and its explanation. The verb be is the English copula. The Japanese copula is not a verb." So the word Be. Okay. So far we have Feeling Be. So what is Ka? In Japanese, adding ka to the end of almost any sentence will make it a question. You kind of figure out which question word it is with context. So, now we have Feeling Be Ka, or Feeling Be How? or How (you) be feeling? How are you (feeling). Nice, right?

Now what if you're not on the phone? What if you run into someone on the street? Well, if it's the first time you see a person and it's early in the morning you'd say:

おはようございます!　おげんきですか。
ohayoo gozaimasu! ogenki desu ka?
Good morning! How are you?

Ogenki we covered. Ohayoo gozaimasu is just how you say good morning. I'm not going to get into why. Look it up. Google is your friend.

What if it's the day time, but like, after breakfast?
Well you're screwed!

Hahaha! Just kidding.

こんにちは!　おげんきですか。
konnichiwa! ogenki desu ka?
Hello! How are you?

Konnichi is basically the way you say hello after its morning. You can really say this any time of the day. It could be translated to Good Afternoon.

And what about night time? Well, after the sun has set, you can get away with saying this:

こんばんは!　おげんきですか。
konbanwa! ogenki desu ka?
Good Evening! How are you?

Konbanwa is similar to konnichi way. Nichi means day, ban means night. In general anyway. Google should confirm all this. Check it.

Anyway, that's for you, anonymous websurfer! Enjoy.

You should know have enough information to fill out the first three problems on this homework sheet!

Maybe next week I'll show you how to fill out the rest! Stay tuned!

私がおまえを殺す！

2006-01-02T20:25:00.000-08:00

Woah ya'll! Can you believe it? It's a new year! Already!
2006 here we are.

me:
hey, it's like 2006. In germany...
doug:
it's 2006 here now
me:
Noo give me back my 2005!
doug:
but 2005 sucked the assy ass.
me:
but 2006 could be so much worse!~
doug:
i would prefer that it wasn't
me:
well you can prefer till your ass bleeds but that doesn't mean it wont be the worst year yet.
doug:
you have nothing to back that up with though

for all you know, 2006 could be another 1871, and we all know how great 1871 was
me:
Okay so you got me there.

Wee to that. Hey, guess what! I wrote a script! Isn't that cool? Rather than paste it here and try to make it fit in the margins of this blog, I've posted it (and some earlier drafts) on my photo holder blog. Check it yo!~

It's still in rough draft stages, but its the first time I've made it through all 10 parts of the story. When I started writing it there wasn't supposed to be more than one part...Just kind of worked out that way. It will make a nice little web series, don't you think?

Oh and incase anyone doesn't understand screenplay format, here's an amusing link which describes most grammer and syntax of such a format in the industry standard.

It wasn't supposed to be so long, but it kind of grew to be that long. This will be filmed before the end of this year. This will be my practice movie. And it will be awesome. Just you wait.

I suspect that it will be presented on RumAndCookies and hosted by Google Video. Just you wait!

Rosebud. Yes . Rosebud! Rosebud frozen peas. Full of country goodness and green peaness.

2005-12-31T13:00:00.000-08:00

Your arch-nemesis is:	Orson Welles

Why?	Because they dug up your garden
The winner will be...	You
Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com

Damn that Orsen Wells.

Speaking of that man...We're making a movie! I'm in the process of writing it right now, and as soon as I get a thumbs up from Connie I'll give you a link to it here. Won't that be incredible?

And...

Your arch-nemesis is:	Chewy

Why?	Because you threw a watermelon at them
The winner will be...	You will kill each other in a duel
Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com

Damn that Chewie.

You shame your famiry

2005-12-23T14:06:00.000-08:00

Funny enough, all that freaking out was really for nothing. I forgot that I had signed up for the class credit no credit. So I might have jepordized my entire higher education because of a stupid little class... Ahh I'm not gonna worry about it anymore. Cheerful will be the next post. Hopefully.

I fail at linguistics.

2005-12-13T12:57:00.000-08:00

kana	kanji	meaning
ひつじゅひん	必需品	noun (meishi) ; necessities; necessary article; requisite; essential; common word
ほゆう	保有	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; possession; retention; maintenance
だいすう	台数	noun (meishi) ; number of large objects such as cars, computers, etc
じこ	事故	noun (meishi) ; accident; incident; trouble; circumstances; reasons; common word
うんてんしゃ	運転者	driver (of a vehicle)
ふちゅうい	不注意	adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi) ; noun (meishi) ; carelessness; inattention; thoughtlessness; common word
ぎじゅつ	技術	noun (meishi) ; art; technique; technology; skill; common word
みじゅく	未熟	adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi) ; noun (meishi) ; inexperience; unripeness; raw; unskilled; immature; inexperienced; common word
らんぼう	乱暴	adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi) ; noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; rude; violent; rough; lawless; unreasonable; reckless; common word
せいび	整備	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; adjustment; completion; consolidation; common word
ふかんぜん	不完全	adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi) ; noun (meishi) ; imperfect; incomplete; faulty; defective; common word
むり	無理	adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi) ; noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; unreasonable; impossible; overdoing; common word
おいこし	追越	Oikoshi place-name ;
せいげんそくど	制限速度	speed limit
うせつきんし	右折禁止	No Right Turn!; common word
ていし	停止	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; suspension; interruption; stoppage; ban; standstill; deadlock; stalemate; abeyance; common word
どうろひょうしき	道路標識	road sign; signpost
ほこうしゃ	歩行者	noun (meishi) ; pedestrian; walker; common word
おうだん	横断	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; crossing; common word
さゆう	左右	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; influence; control; domination; left and right; common word
かくにん	確認	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; affirmation; confirmation; common word
ほどうきょう	歩道橋	noun (meishi) ; pedestrian bridge; common word
ひょうご	標語	noun (meishi) ; motto; slogan; catchword; common word
まんようしゅう	万葉集	noun (meishi) ; Manyoushuu (famous 8thC poetry); Japan's oldest anthology of poems; common word
ヨ...	余	too; myself; surplus; other; remainder
シュ...	首	neck
へんしゅう	編集	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; editing; compilation; editorial (e.g. committee); common word
かしゅう	歌集	noun (meishi) ; anthology; book of poetry
かす	貸す	godan verb with `su' ending ; to lend; common word
めいれい	命令	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; order; command; decree; directive; (software) instruction; common word
へいし	兵士	noun (meishi) ; soldier; common word
こい	恋	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; love; tender passion; common word
ろうどう	労働	noun (meishi) ; manual labor; toil; work; common word
かいそう	階層	noun (meishi) ; class; level; stratum; hierarchy; common word
さま	様	noun (meishi) ; suffix ; polite (teineigo) language ; Mr. or Mrs.; manner; kind; appearance; common word
こだい	古代	adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi) ; adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi) ; noun (temporal) (jisoumeishi) ; ancient times; common word
よろこび	喜び	noun (meishi) ; (a) joy; (a) delight; rapture; pleasure; gratification; rejoicing; congratulations; felicitations; common word
かなしい	悲しい	adjective (keiyoushi) ; sad; sorrowful; common word
まんようがな	万葉仮名	noun (meishi) ; early Japanese syllabary composed of Chinese characters used phonetically
こてん	古典	noun (meishi) ; old book; classics; classic; common word
へいけものがたり	平家物語	Tale of the Heike
げんじ	源氏	noun (meishi) ; Genji (the family in the Genji Monogatari); the Minamotos
へいし	平氏	the Tairas
ぶし	武士	noun (meishi) ; warrior; samurai; common word
せいけん	政権	noun (meishi) ; (political) administration; political power; common word
へいけ	平家	noun (meishi) ; the Taira family
きぞく	貴族	noun that may take the genitive case particle "no" ; noun (meishi) ; noble; aristocrat; common word
せめ	攻め	noun (meishi) ; attack; offence
しもせき	下関	Shimoseki place-name ; surname ;
たたかい	戦い	noun (meishi) ; battle; fight; struggle; conflict; common word
やぶれる	敗れる	Ichidan verb ; to be defeated; to be unsuccessful; common word
ぜんめつ	全滅	noun (meishi) ; annihilation; common word
ころす	殺す	godan verb with `su' ending ; to kill; common word
しそん	子孫	noun (meishi) ; descendants; posterity; offspring; common word
たえる	絶える	Ichidan verb ; to die out; to peter out; to become extinct; common word
げんぺい	源平	noun (meishi) ; Genji and Heike clans; two opposing sides
あらそい	争い	noun (meishi) ; dispute; strife; quarrel; dissension; conflict; rivalry; contest; common word
いさましい	勇ましい	adjective (keiyoushi) ; brave; valiant; gallant; courageous; common word
してき	詩的	adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi) ; noun (meishi) ; poetic
しょぎょうむじょう	諸行無常	noun (meishi) ; the impermanence of worldly things; All worldly things are transitory
さかえる	栄える	Ichidan verb ; to prosper; to flourish; common word
ほろびる	滅びる	Ichidan verb ; to be ruined; to go under; to perish; to be destroyed; common word
しそう	思想	noun (meishi) ; thought; idea; common word
しらはた	白旗	noun (meishi) ; white flag
あかはた	赤旗	noun (meishi) ; Red Flag
こうはく	紅白	noun (meishi) ; red and white; colours for festive or auspicious occasions; common word
げんぺい	源平	Genpei surname ; given name, as-yet not classified by sex ;
こくせいちょうさ	国勢調査	noun (meishi) ; (national) census
こくみん	国民	noun (meishi) ; national; people; citizen; common word
じょうたい	状態	noun (meishi) ; condition; situation; circumstances; state; common word
しらべる	調べる	Ichidan verb ; transitive verb ; to investigate; to check up; common word
せいじ	政治	noun (meishi) ; politics; government; common word
しりょう	資料	noun (meishi) ; materials; data; common word
じんこう	人口	noun (meishi) ; population; common talk; common word
せいべつ	性別	noun (meishi) ; distinction by sex; sex; gender; common word
せたい	世帯	noun (meishi) ; household; common word
すうとう	数等	adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi) ; by far
きほんてき	基本的	adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi) ; fundamental; standard; basic
かくてい	確定	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; definition (math); decision; settlement; common word
ちょうさ	調査	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; investigation; examination; inquiry; survey; common word
かかりいん	係員	noun (meishi) ; official (e.g. customs); clerk in charge; common word
こべつ	戸別	noun (meishi) ; each house
ほうもん	訪問	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; call; visit; common word
ようし	用紙	noun (meishi) ; blank form; common word
くばる	配る	godan verb with `ru' ending ; to distribute; to deliver; common word
そうむちょう	総務庁	General Affairs Agency
とうけい	統計	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; statistics; common word
きょく	局	noun (meishi) ; noun, used as a suffix ; channel (i.e. TV or radio); department; affair; situation; common word
はっぴょう	発表	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; announcement; publication; common word
もと	基	Moto given name, as-yet not classified by sex ;
しゅっさん	出産	noun (meishi) ; (child)birth; delivery; production (of goods); common word
しぼう	死亡	noun (meishi) ; death; mortality; common word
かげん	加減	noun (meishi) ; addition and subtraction; allowance for; degree; extent; measure; condition; seasoning; flavor; moderation; adjustment; influence (of the weather); state of health; chance; common word
すいけい	推計	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; estimate; estimation
ぎゃくさん	逆算	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; count; calculate back
ぞうか	増加	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; increase; addition; common word
いご	以後	adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi) ; noun (temporal) (jisoumeishi) ; after this; from now on; hereafter; thereafter; common word
げんしょう	減少	noun (meishi) ; decrease; reduction; decline; common word
ちばけん	千葉県	prefecture next to Tokyo
こくりつ	国立	noun (meishi) ; national; common word
みんぞく	民族	noun (meishi) ; people; race; nation; racial customs; folk customs; common word
はくぶつかん	博物館	noun (meishi) ; museum; common word
こうらくえん	後楽園	Kourakuen place-name ;
やきゅうじょう	野球場	baseball ground
てんじ	展示	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; exhibition; display; common word
ところ	所	noun (meishi) ; place; common word
せつめい	説明	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; explanation; exposition; common word
ろくおん	録音	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; (audio) recording; common word
ろくが	録画	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; videotape; common word
べんり	便利	adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi) ; noun (meishi) ; convenient; handy; useful; common word
てんじぶつ	展示物	display items
そうぞう	想像	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; imagination; guess; common word
きょうみ	興味	noun (meishi) ; interest (in something); common word
ふかい	深い	adjective (keiyoushi) ; noun (meishi) ; deep; profound; thick; close; common word
にっぽんほうそうきょうかい	日本放送協会	NHK; Japan national broadcasting company
りゃくしょう	略称	noun (meishi) ; abbreviation
せいふ	政府	noun (meishi) ; government; administration; common word
ほうそうきょく	放送局	noun (meishi) ; broadcasting office
あさひ	朝日	noun (meishi) ; morning sun; common word
ほうそう	放送	noun (meishi) ; broadcast; broadcasting; common word
こうきょう	公共	noun that may take the genitive case particle "no" ; noun (meishi) ; public; community; public service; society; communal; common word
ほうりつ	法律	noun (meishi) ; law; common word
きせい	規制	noun (meishi) ; regulation; common word
しちょうしゃ	視聴者	noun (meishi) ; viewer; (television) audience
じゅしん	受信	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; reception (e.g. radio); common word
きょか	許可	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; permission; approval; common word
いがい	以外	adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi) ; with the exception of; excepting; common word
しょうぎょう	商業	noun (meishi) ; commerce; trade; business; common word
しょうひん	商品	noun (meishi) ; commodity; article of commerce; goods; stock; merchandise; common word
こうこく	広告	noun (meishi) ; advertisement; common word
せんでん	宣伝	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; propaganda; publicity; common word
きんし	禁止	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; prohibition; ban; common word
こんなん	困難	adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi) ; noun (meishi) ; difficulty; distress; common word
しま	島	noun (meishi) ; island; common word
せつび	設備	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; equipment; device; facilities; installation; common word
ぎむ	義務	noun (meishi) ; duty; obligation; responsibility; common word
ほうどう	報道	noun (meishi) ; information; report; common word
ごがく	語学	noun (meishi) ; language study; common word
こうざ	講座	noun (meishi) ; lectureship; chair; course; common word
ようじ	幼児	noun (meishi) ; infant; baby; child; common word
ばんぐみ	番組	noun (meishi) ; program (e.g. TV); common word
せいさく	製作	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; manufacture; production; common word
じんこうえいせい	人工衛星	man-made satellite
セン...	船	ship; boat
うちゅうひこうし	宇宙飛行士	astronaut; common word
つき	月	noun (temporal) (jisoumeishi) ; moon; month; common word
ちゃくりく	着陸	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; landing; alighting; touch down; common word
きしょう	気象	noun (meishi) ; weather; climate; common word
てんたい	天体	noun (meishi) ; heavenly body; common word
かんそく	観測	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; observation; common word
じょうほう	情報	noun (meishi) ; information; (military) intelligence; common word
かつどう	活動	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; action; activity; common word
たいよう	太陽	noun (meishi) ; sun; solar; common word
はんしゃきょう	反射鏡	noun (meishi) ; reflector
えいせい	衛星	noun (meishi) ; satellite; common word
たいようねつ	太陽熱	noun (meishi) ; solar heat
こくもつ	穀物	noun (meishi) ; grain; cereal; corn; common word
さいがいち	災害地	disaster-stricken area
きゅうじょう	球状	noun (meishi) ; spherical
ずのう	頭脳	noun (meishi) ; head; brains; intellect; common word
すばらしい	素晴らしい	adjective (keiyoushi) ; wonderful; splendid; magnificent; common word
こうくう	航空	noun (meishi) ; aviation; flying; common word
きたい	機体	noun (meishi) ; fuselage; common word
はそん	破損	noun (meishi) ; damage; common word
そうじゅう	操縦	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; management; handling; control; manipulation; common word
ふのう	不能	adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi) ; noun (meishi) ; incompetency; inefficiency; impossibility; weak point; imbecility; common word
ししょうしゃ	死傷者	noun (meishi) ; casualties; killed and wounded; common word
えきたいねんりょう	液体燃料	liquid fuel
ばくはつ	爆発	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; explosion; detonation; eruption; common word
きゅうしゅう	九州	southern-most of four main islands of Japan; common word
なんぽう	南方	noun (meishi) ; south; southern; southward
ようじょう	洋上	noun (meishi) ; on the sea or ocean
たいふう	台風	noun (meishi) ; typhoon; common word
はったつ	発達	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; development; growth; common word
ほくじょう	北上	noun (meishi) ; going north
かいいき	海域	noun (meishi) ; area of ocean
ぎょせん	漁船	noun (meishi) ; fishing boat; common word
げんじゅう	厳重	adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi) ; noun (meishi) ; strict; rigour; severe; firm; strong; secure; common word
ちゅうい	注意	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; caution; being careful; attention (heed); warning; advice; common word
ひつよう	必要	adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi) ; noun (meishi) ; necessary; essential; indispensable; common word
うりょう	雨量	noun (meishi) ; rainfall; common word
さんかんぶ	山間部	mountainous region
ジョ...	除	exclude; division (x; 3); remove; abolish; cancel; except
ていど	程度	adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi) ; noun (meishi) ; noun, used as a suffix ; degree; amount; grade; standard; on the order of (following a number); common word
せっきん	接近	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; getting closer; drawing nearer; approaching; common word
まんちょう	満潮	noun (meishi) ; high tide; high water; full tide; common word
おもい	重い	adjective (keiyoushi) ; heavy; massive; serious; important; severe; oppressed; common word
えんがん	沿岸	noun (meishi) ; coast; shore; common word
ちょうい	潮位	noun (meishi) ; tide level
きしょうちょう	気象庁	Meteorological Agency; common word
けいほう	警報	noun (meishi) ; alarm; warning; common word
とおい	遠い	adjective (keiyoushi) ; far; distant; common word
むかし	昔	noun that may take the genitive case particle "no" ; adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi) ; noun (temporal) (jisoumeishi) ; olden days; former; common word
せいき	世紀	noun (meishi) ; century; era; common word
れきし	歴史	noun (meishi) ; history; common word
にんげん	人間	noun (meishi) ; human being; man; person; common word
りょうど	領土	noun (meishi) ; dominion; territory; possession; common word
しゅうきょう	宗教	noun (meishi) ; religion; common word
じんしゅ	人種	noun (meishi) ; race (of people); common word
よういん	要因	noun (meishi) ; primary factor; main cause; common word
おこす	起こす	godan verb with `su' ending ; to raise; to cause; to wake someone; common word
てき	敵	noun (meishi) ; enemy; rival; common word
みかた	味方	noun (meishi) ; friend; ally; supporter; common word
わかる	分かる	godan verb with `ru' ending ; to be understood; common word
せんそう	戦争	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; war; common word
かくめい	革命	noun (meishi) ; revolution; common word
こくおう	国王	noun (meishi) ; king; common word
ヘイ...	兵	soldier; private; troops; army; warfare; strategy; tactics
しぬ	死ぬ	godan verb with `nu' ending ; to die; common word
ち	血	noun (meishi) ; blood; consanguinity; common word
めつぼう	滅亡	noun (meishi) ; downfall; ruin; collapse; destruction; common word
がんじつ	元日	noun (meishi) ; New Year's Day; common word
いわう	祝う	godan verb with `u' ending ; to congratulate; to celebrate; common word
じんじゃ	神社	noun (meishi) ; Shinto shrine; common word
さんぱい	参拝	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; worship; common word
ねんがじょう	年賀状	noun (meishi) ; New Year's card; common word
はいたつ	配達	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; delivery; distribution; common word
やくしょ	役所	noun (meishi) ; government office; public office; common word
ねんまつ	年末	adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi) ; noun (temporal) (jisoumeishi) ; end of year; common word
ねんし	年始	noun (temporal) (jisoumeishi) ; New Year's call; beginning of the year; New Year's greetings; common word
きゅうぎょう	休業	noun (meishi) ; closed (e.g. store); business suspended; shutdown; holiday; common word
しょうばい	商売	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; trade; business; commerce; transaction; occupation; common word
せいじん	成人	noun (meishi) ; adult; common word
かくし	各市	noun (meishi) ; every city
ちょうそん	町村	noun (meishi) ; towns and villages
まねく	招く	godan verb with `ku' ending ; to invite; common word
せいじんしき	成人式	noun (meishi) ; coming-of-age celebration
けんこくきねんのひ	建国記念の日	noun (meishi) ; Foundation Day (Feb 11)
しゅんぶん	春分	noun (meishi) ; vernal equinox; common word
しゅうぶん	秋分	noun (meishi) ; autumn equinox; common word
ちゅうや	昼夜	adverb (fukushi) ; noun (meishi) ; day and night; common word
いぜん	以前	adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi) ; noun (temporal) (jisoumeishi) ; ago; since; before; previous; common word
ひがん	彼岸	noun (meishi) ; equinoctial week (when Buddhist services are held); common word
ちゅうにち	中日	noun (meishi) ; China and Japan; the middle day; the equinoctial day
そせん	祖先	noun (meishi) ; ancestor; common word
はか	墓	noun (meishi) ; grave; tomb; common word
まいる	参る	godan verb with `ru' ending ; humble (kenjougo) language ; to go; to come; to call; to visit; to visit a shrine; to be defeated; to be nonplussed; to be madly in love; to die; common word
けんぽうきねんび	憲法記念日	Constitution Memorial Day Holiday (May 3)
ジョウ...	条	article; clause; item; stripe; streak
えいきゅう	永久	adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi) ; noun (meishi) ; eternity; perpetuity; immortality; common word
ぶじ	無事	adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi) ; noun (meishi) ; safety; peace; quietness; common word
せいちょう	成長	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; growth; grow to adulthood; common word
けいろう	敬老	noun (meishi) ; respect for the aged; common word
うやまい	敬い	noun (meishi) ; reverence; respect; honor; veneration; esteem
たいせつ	大切	adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi) ; noun (meishi) ; important; common word
うんどうかい	運動会	noun (meishi) ; athletic meet; common word
ぶんか	文化	noun (meishi) ; culture; civilization; common word
てんらんかい	展覧会	noun (meishi) ; exhibition; common word
かくしょ	各所	noun (meishi) ; each place; various places
きんろうかんしゃのひ	勤労感謝の日	noun (meishi) ; Thanksgiving Day; November 23
かみ	神	noun (meishi) ; god; common word
しゅくじつ	祝日	noun (meishi) ; national holiday; common word
でんとうてき	伝統的	adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi) ; traditional; conventional
つくる	作る	godan verb with `ru' ending ; to make; to create; to manufacture; to draw up; to write; to compose; to build; to coin; to cultivate; to organize; to establish; to make up (a face); to trim (a tree); to fabricate; to prepare (food); to commit (sin); to construct; common word
ちきゅう	地球	noun that may take the genitive case particle "no" ; noun (meishi) ; the earth; common word
そとがわ	外側	noun (meishi) ; exterior; outside; extraneous; common word
すうまい	数枚	several sheets (flat objects)
かたい	固い	adjective (keiyoushi) ; stubborn; firm (not viscous or easily moved); certain; solemn; common word
ざか	坂	Zaka place-name ; surname ;
いどう	移動	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; removal; migration; movement; common word
たいへいよう	太平洋	Pacific Ocean; common word
ちゅうおう	中央	noun (meishi) ; centre; central; center; middle; common word
さいきん	最近	noun that may take the genitive case particle "no" ; adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi) ; noun (temporal) (jisoumeishi) ; latest; most recent; nowadays; common word
でんぱぼうえんきょう	電波望遠鏡	radio telescope
はっしん	発信	noun (meishi) ; dispatch; transmission; common word
そくてい	測定	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; measurement; common word
けっか	結果	adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi) ; noun (temporal) (jisoumeishi) ; result; consequence; common word
けんこう	健康	adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi) ; noun (meishi) ; health; sound; wholesome; common word
こがい	戸外	noun that may take the genitive case particle "no" ; noun (meishi) ; open-air; outdoors
くうき	空気	noun (meishi) ; air; atmosphere; common word
むね	胸	noun (meishi) ; breast; chest; common word
すう	吸う	godan verb with `u' ending ; to smoke; to breathe in; to suck; common word
しんこきゅう	深呼吸	noun (meishi) ; deep breath
たいそう	体操	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; gymnastics; physical exercises; calisthenics; common word
にゅうよく	入浴	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; bathe; bathing; common word
せいけつ	清潔	adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi) ; noun (meishi) ; clean; common word
いふく	衣服	noun (meishi) ; clothes; common word
ちゅうしょく	昼食	noun (meishi) ; lunch; midday meal; common word
きんにく	筋肉	noun (meishi) ; muscle; sinew; common word
りょうこう	良好	adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi) ; noun (meishi) ; favorable; satisfactory; common word
しはい	支配	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; rule; control; direction; common word
とくがわ	徳川	Tokugawa place-name ; surname ;
ばくふ	幕府	noun (meishi) ; bakufu; shogunate; common word
しょうぐん	将軍	noun (meishi) ; general; shogun; common word
てんのう	天皇	noun (meishi) ; Emperor of Japan; common word
あらためる	改める	Ichidan verb ; to change; to alter; to reform; to revise; common word
こうきょ	皇居	noun (meishi) ; Imperial Palace; common word
のうにゅう	納入	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; payment; supply; common word
こうたいし	皇太子	noun (meishi) ; crown prince; common word
しょうたい	招待	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; invitation; common word
うもう	羽毛	noun (meishi) ; feathers; plumage; down; common word
ふきょう	布教	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; propagation (e.g. a religion)
ぶりょく	武力	noun (meishi) ; armed might; military power; the sword; force; common word
ぼせき	墓石	noun (meishi) ; tombstone; common word
うらもん	裏門	noun (meishi) ; back gate; common word
さいまつ	歳末	noun (meishi) ; year end; common word
ごさい	後妻	noun (meishi) ; second wife; common word
しゃおんかい	謝恩会	thank-you party
たっとい	貴い	adjective (keiyoushi) ; precious; valuable; priceless; noble; exalted; sacred; common word
ぶじ	無事	Buji given name, as-yet not classified by sex ;
くらい	位	adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi) ; noun (meishi) ; suffix ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; grade; rank; court order; dignity; nobility; situation; throne; crown; occupying a position; about; almost; as; rather; at least; enough to; common word
ねんがん	念願	noun (meishi) ; one's heart's desire; earnest petition; common word
かくしゅ	各種	noun (meishi) ; every kind; all sorts; common word
ゆうらんせん	遊覧船	noun (meishi) ; pleasure cruise; common word
あむ	編む	godan verb with `mu' ending ; to knit; common word
きちょうひん	貴重品	noun (meishi) ; valuables; treasures; common word
けいご	敬語	noun (meishi) ; honorific; term of respect; common word
おうじ	皇子	noun (meishi) ; imperial prince
けいしき	形式	noun (meishi) ; form; formality; format; math expression; common word
せいりつ	成立	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; coming into existence; arrangements; establishment; completion; common word
もうふ	毛布	noun (meishi) ; blanket; common word
あいどくしょ	愛読書	a favourite book
ひんこん	貧困	adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi) ; noun (meishi) ; poverty; lack; common word
こてん	個展	noun (meishi) ; personal exhibition
せる	競る	godan verb with `ru' ending ; to compete; to bid; to sell at auction; common word
たね	種	noun (meishi) ; seed; pip; kind; variety; quality; tone; material; matter; subject; theme; (news) copy; cause; source; trick; secret; inside story; common word
どうよう	同様	adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi) ; noun (meishi) ; identical; equal to; same (kind); like; common word
とどうふけん	都道府県	noun (meishi) ; administrative divisions of Japan: Tokyo-to, Hokkai-do, Osaka-fu, Kyoto-fu and remaining prefectures; common word
ふなたび	船旅	noun (meishi) ; trip by boat; common word
せんきゃく	先客	noun (meishi) ; the preceding visitor
てきち	敵地	noun (meishi) ; enemy territory; hostile place
ほへい	歩兵	noun (meishi) ; infantry; infantryman; foot soldier; common word
ゆるす	許す	godan verb with `su' ending ; to permit; to allow; to approve; to exempt (from fine); to excuse (from); to confide in; to forgive; to pardon; to excuse; to release; to let off; common word
おさない	幼い	adjective (keiyoushi) ; very young; childish; common word
せいりゃくけっこん	政略結婚	political marriage of convenience
ろうどうしゃ	労働者	noun (meishi) ; labourer; worker; workman; common word
はかる	測る	godan verb with `ru' ending ; to measure; to weigh; to survey; to time (sound, gauge, estimate); common word
あきなう	商う	godan verb with `u' ending ; to sell; to handle; to trade in; common word
げんかん	厳寒	noun (meishi) ; intense cold
かがみ	鏡	noun (meishi) ; mirror; common word
だいとうりょう	大統領	noun (meishi) ; president; chief executive; common word
ひきいる	率いる	Ichidan verb ; to lead; to spearhead (a group); to command (troops); common word
かわぎし	川岸	noun (meishi) ; river bank; common word
けびょう	仮病	noun (meishi) ; feigned illness; common word
ささえる	支える	Ichidan verb ; to support; to prop; common word
たいがん	対岸	noun (meishi) ; opposite shore; common word
よかん	予感	noun (meishi) ; presentiment; premonition; common word
はんが	版画	noun (meishi) ; art print; common word
しえき	使役	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; employing; using; setting to work; enslavement; common word
そなえる	備える	Ichidan verb ; to furnish; to provide for; to equip; to install; to have ready; to prepare for; to possess; to have; to be endowed with; to be armed with; common word
こてい	湖底	noun (meishi) ; bottom of a lake
たどうし	他動詞	noun (meishi) ; transitive verb (direct obj); common word
かいかい	開会	noun (meishi) ; opening of a meeting; common word
せんげん	宣言	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; declaration; proclamation; announcement; common word
とうじつ	当日	adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi) ; noun (temporal) (jisoumeishi) ; appointed day; very day; common word
しんや	深夜	adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi) ; noun (temporal) (jisoumeishi) ; late at night; common word
かわ	革	noun (meishi) ; leather; common word
しゅっけつ	出血	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; bleeding; haemorrhage; common word
むずかしい	難しい	adjective (keiyoushi) ; difficult; common word
もうける	設ける	Ichidan verb ; to create; to establish; common word
けいしょう	敬称	noun (meishi) ; title of honour
けいば	競馬	noun (meishi) ; horse racing; common word
きじゅん	規準	noun (meishi) ; standard; basis; criteria; norm; common word
たがく	多額	adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi) ; noun (meishi) ; large amount of money
すこやか	健やか	adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi) ; noun (meishi) ; vigorous; healthy; sound; common word
こてい	固定	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; fixation; common word
のぞむ	望む	godan verb with `mu' ending ; to desire; to wish for; to see; to command (a view of); common word
いる	居る	Ichidan verb ; word usually written using kana alone ; humble (kenjougo) language ; to be (animate); to be; to exist
あまる	余る	godan verb with `ru' ending ; to remain; to be left over; to be in excess; to be too many; common word
じょうもん	城門	noun (meishi) ; castle gate; common word
えいえん	永遠	adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi) ; noun (meishi) ; eternity; perpetuity; immortality; permanence; common word
おんぱ	音波	noun (meishi) ; sound wave
しゅくさいじつ	祝祭日	noun (meishi) ; national holiday
きそう	競う	godan verb with `u' ending ; to emulate; to compete with; common word
しんかい	深海	noun (meishi) ; deep-sea
きりつ	規律	noun (meishi) ; order; rules; law; common word
はつばいきんし	発売禁止	prohibition of sale
ばんのう	万能	noun that may take the genitive case particle "no" ; noun (meishi) ; all-purpose; almighty; omnipotent; common word
そこ	底	noun (meishi) ; bottom; sole; common word
たんめい	短命	adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi) ; noun (meishi) ; short life; common word
りょこう	旅行	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; travel; trip; common word
つげる	告げる	Ichidan verb ; to inform; common word
かたい	難い	adjective (keiyoushi) ; difficult; hard; common word
しせい	市政	noun (meishi) ; municipal government; common word
つぐ	接ぐ	godan verb with `gu' ending ; to join; to piece together; to set (bones); to graft (trees); common word
きょうそう	競争	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; competition; contest; common word
なる	成る	godan verb with `ru' ending ; to become
むごん	無言	noun (meishi) ; silence; common word
いみん	移民	noun (meishi) ; emigration; immigration; emigrant; immigrant; common word
いのち	命	noun (meishi) ; (mortal) life; common word
がんぼう	願望	noun (meishi) ; desire; wish; aspiration; common word
そふ	祖父	noun (meishi) ; grandfather; common word
りくぐん	陸軍	noun (meishi) ; army; common word
すべる	統べる	Ichidan verb ; to control; to supervise; common word
ぼさん	墓参	noun (meishi) ; visit to a grave
うつる	移る	godan verb with `ru' ending ; to move (house); to be infected; to be contagious; to transfer (department); common word
しんぷ	神父	noun (meishi) ; Catholic priest; abbe; common word
きびしい	厳しい	adjective (keiyoushi) ; severe; strict; stern; austere; grave; solemn; majestic; intense (cold); common word
あらそう	争う	godan verb with `u' ending ; to dispute; to argue; to be at variance; to compete; common word
せいし	製紙	noun (meishi) ; paper making or manufacturing
こうじょう	工場	noun (meishi) ; factory; plant; mill; workshop; common word
なんもん	難問	noun (meishi) ; perplexity; difficult question; difficult problem; common word
しょうに	小児	noun (meishi) ; young child; infant
いくじ	育児	noun (meishi) ; childcare; nursing; upbringing; common word
さつじん	殺人	noun (meishi) ; murder; common word
ぼうふ	亡父	noun (meishi) ; my deceased father; my late father; common word
ようちゅう	幼虫	noun (meishi) ; larva; chrysalis; common word
ちょうこうせい	聴講生	noun (meishi) ; auditor; auditing student
でんぱ	電波	noun (meishi) ; electro-magnetic wave; common word
きょうだい	鏡台	noun (meishi) ; dresser; common word
びひん	備品	noun (meishi) ; fixtures; furnishings; equipment
なや	納屋	noun (meishi) ; shed; barn; outhouse; common word
きょしつ	居室	noun (meishi) ; living room
あやまる	謝る	godan verb with `ru' ending ; to apologize; common word
つとめる	務める	Ichidan verb ; to serve; to fill a post; to serve under; to exert oneself; to endeavor; to be diligent; to play (the part of); to work (for); common word
きんむ	勤務	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; service; duty; work; common word
えいせいちゅうりつ	永世中立	permanent neutrality
さち	幸	noun (meishi) ; happiness; wish; fortune; common word
とばり	幕	curtain; bunting; act (in play)
がんせき	岩石	noun (meishi) ; rock; common word
せつぞくし	接続詞	noun (meishi) ; conjunction
せいこう	成功	noun (meishi) ; noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru ; success; hit; common word
えど	江戸	noun (meishi) ; old name of Tokyo; common word
うつり	移り	noun (meishi) ; change; transition; return present
げんざい	現在	adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi) ; noun (temporal) (jisoumeishi) ; present; up to now; nowadays; modern times; current; common word
しろ	城	noun (meishi) ; castle; common word
れっとう	列島	noun (meishi) ; chain of islands; common word
じょうくう	上空	noun (meishi) ; sky; the skies; high-altitude sky; upper air; common word
ていきあつ	低気圧	adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi) ; noun (meishi) ; low (atmospheric) pressure; cyclone; bad temper; tense situation; common word
こうきあつ	高気圧	noun (meishi) ; high atmospheric pressure; common word
かんとう	関東	Kantou (eastern half of Japan, including Tokyo); common word
ちほう	地方	noun (meishi) ; area; locality; district; region; the coast; common word
たに	谷	noun (meishi) ; valley; common word
くも	雲	noun (meishi) ; cloud; common word
かいせい	快晴	noun (meishi) ; good weather; common word
ながつづき	長続き	noun (meishi) ; long-lasting; common word
くだる	下る	godan verb with `ru' ending ; to get down; to descend; common word
ふくざつ	複雑	adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi) ; noun (meishi) ; complexity; complication; common word
てんきず	天気図	noun (meishi) ; weather map
とうぶん	当分	adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi) ; for the present; common word
あやまり	誤り	noun (meishi) ; error; common word
ちょくせつ	直接	adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi) ; adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi) ; direct; immediate; personal; firsthand; common word
おく	億	(num) 100,000,000; hundred million; common word
しょうわ	昭和	Japanese emperor (1926-1989); common word
へいせい	平成	Heisei (reign of Emperor); common word
てんのうたんじょうび	天皇誕生日	Emperor's Birthday Holiday (Dec 23) (Emperor Shouwa's was April 29)
さんが	参賀	noun (meishi) ; congratulatory palace visit
たいいく	体育	noun (meishi) ; physical education; gymnastics; athletics; common word
びょうき	病気	noun (meishi) ; illness; disease; sickness; common word
からだ	体	noun (meishi) ; body; health; common word
かんがえる	考える	Ichidan verb ; to consider; common word

"Are you gonna be my motherfucker?"

2005-11-23T22:21:00.000-08:00

I'm having trouble picking a title for this post. Should it be something like U-Rah-Rah-Rah? Some obscure movie title? Or something random I just discovered? I went with random.

I came close to saying "do the humpty-hump"

Okay it's been a little while folks! Not too long I suppose, but still...

I think something special is deserved, for you, the loyal reader. This month was the 1 year aniversary of my blog! Isn't that frickin' cool?

Not only that, but soon, very soon, maybe even by the time I click publish, this blog will have 3000 hits! It's not that impressive, but it is for me! So something special is in order: Today I am going to chronicle my most recent trip to Wisconsin.

You might ask, "Why go to wisconsin in the middle of October?"

I'll tell you why, cause my family is fucking nuts.

But I love them, really.

This whole thing kinda started last year, which was my grandparent's 60th wedding aniversary. I have only been to Wisconsin 3 times in my life now, and the first time was for their 50th. Now here's how fucked up our family is, their aniversary was last year, and we just got there this year. I don't know the whole story but the way I heard it, my rich republican (but they're good people, really) relatives, for one reason or another, didn't want or couldn't go to Wisconsin last year. So naturally, we didn't go either. And no one else went.

Now, since then, my grandmother has had hip surgery and my grandfather has had like tripple bypass surgery, and the way the republicans figure it, this may be our last chance to see them alive all together. And they decide to go in the middle of october. Why? Cause they're fucking nuts.

But I love them, really.

But they made up their minds to go to wisconsin and then they didn't tell anybody. WTF? They told us it was official like two months ago or something, like too late to get a good deal on a plane ticket. Of course they dont give a shit about that, they can get plane tickets with their frequent flyer miles. So kind of republican of them, no? But I'm not here to slam republicans. Some of them are good people and you can't deny that. But they're just fucking nuts.

But I love them, really.

Now I'm going to back track a little, as you know from an earlier post if you're paying attention to this blog, you know I had to write a film proposal for a series of still photographs to represent a movie I might make. Okay, so I wrote this ghost story, and I like that a bit...I bet I will get around to making that some day, but I figured I could do better documenting this trip I took. So I took a lot of pictures!

Now I have to decide, do I attempt to do the project right here, right now? Or do I continue with a blog post style post that you're all familer with. Thinking about it, I realized the only thing I want to talk about occurs after I ran out of film, so that sounds good. I will now attempt to make a story using the photographs. Try to imagine them as consecutive shots in a movie. I also need to come up with a title, please help me with that (you can leave comments, or post suggestions in the venis board topic I will inevitably start).

You know, this sounds too hard. I've moved on and turned it in already, but that doesn't mean it doesn't belong here. Click this link to see it. It's a little too big to put on here directly. However, if you really like it, you can go ahead and use it as your desktop or wallpaper!
Let's see if I can solicit some extra hits from this. I'm just going to say a couple things to try and get hits! Big booty bitches wallpaper. Hardcore teen wallpaper. Me so horny wallpaper. Lum wallpaper. Urusei Yatsura wallpaper. I think that's enough.

But yeah, the story was printed out on a nice big poster and turned in one week from today, wednesday the 23rd. It can also be seen in slideshow form from our friends at google video!

Long Days Night

But this ends just as our characters (which in actuality were my parents...and I was there too) arrive at their destination! So what happened after that? To be honest I've kind of forgotten...Let's see what I remember.

Oh! This is my chance to share the pictures I couldn't use in the project! Yay.

We flew overnight. On the plane, dad ruined this shot's chances of making it into the project by looking at the camera. I blame myself. I should have known better.

Still a good picture though, if you ask me. Dad's so photogenic.

I always enjoyed flying, but it's not always easy to avoid sleep. At about 3 or 4 in the morning, we were sitting in Chicago O'hare. I was starving...And right by our gate was a McDonnalds!

There it is.

Mmm Hmm...so good. Right. I do love a good hashbrown.

As the sun rised we got on our plane (pictured in the project) and I boarded the smallest plane I'd ever sat on. In fact, I suspect I was too heavy for the plane, and they had to re-adjust some of the passengers to the back of the plane...that's really too bad. Oh well...I wasn't getting up.

On this plane was a flight attendant. He was a nice guy...and he did the saftey lecture with about the same enthusiasm as David Spade did in Tommy Boy. Eventually he asked about my camera, and I told him about my project...and he lit up! He wanted to be in it...Unfortuneatly I couldn't fit him in, but I told him I'd send him his picture...He wrote his email on a peice of news paper and gave it to me. I honestly wanted to send it to him, but I lost the peice of paper...I still feel bad about that over a month later. But eh, karma is karma and a little while ago I saw Al Franken, and got his autograph. I was standing in line with this guy who went to my school, and with his camera he took my picture standing near Mr. Franken. I gave him my email and he said he would send it. Well, karma is karma.

Just incase he figures out who I am somehow, here's his picture.

Anyway...

Once we got there, we spent an awful lot of time in Milwalkee. It wasn't a bad town or anything, but damn! We were only supposed to be there for 4 days so, I was thinking it's time to go! We don't have time to hang out at a fucking deli.

It was a long drive to Madison from Milwalkee. BUT I GOT SHOTGUN CAUSE I'M A PIMP! We then went to a bar. A bar....Jesus. And we spent way too much time there. I did get a nice burger though, it was pretty good. Here's a couple pictures from this bar, Dotty Dumplings.

EVENTUALLY we make it to Vince and Carol's house, as pictured in the project. Here's a picture from their house that didn't make it in the project:

(the rest of the photos made it into the video version of the project, so please watch that.)

It was around this point I ran out of film. We were only there for 1 day and I had already run out of film! How am I going to do my project? Well, I made the project about the flight only...but a lot more happened after that.

The next day I'm woken up and my mom is like "let's go get some shoes!"
What?

Well, we went and got some shoes.

After that, I was taken to a Wisconsin Badger game.

[14:52] Edcool1: oh and you haven't seen a football game till you see a university of wisconsin game
[14:52] koolaidehurts: our homecoming is this weekend
[14:52] Edcool1: yeah
[14:52] Edcool1: i went to the homecoming game
[14:53] Edcool1: it was an experience i'll never forget
[14:53] Edcool1: for like 12 blocks surrounding the stadium
[14:53] Edcool1: everyone was wearing red
[14:53] Edcool1: and it was packed
[14:53] Edcool1: thousands of people
[14:53] koolaidehurts: jesus
[14:53] Edcool1: and most peopleare drinking
[14:54] Edcool1: and also
[14:54] Edcool1: once you get inside the stadium
[14:54] Edcool1: it was allllll red
[14:54] Edcool1: everyone was red
[14:54] Edcool1: there were like 12 people for the other team down by their endzone
[14:55] Edcool1: and they got booed so bad
[14:55] koolaidehurts: lol
[14:55] Edcool1: there's a whole area of the stadium just for the students
[14:55] Edcool1: they don't sit down for the whole game
[14:55] Edcool1: they have their chants down perfect
[14:55] Edcool1: they started a wave
[14:55] Edcool1: and then they did a slow wave
[14:56] Edcool1: and then they did a fast one
[14:56] koolaidehurts: holy crap
[14:56] koolaidehurts: lol
[14:56] Edcool1: then they did it in reverse
[14:56] koolaidehurts: thats how our high school games were
[14:56] Edcool1: lol
[14:56] Edcool1: jeez
[14:56] Edcool1: el cerrito had terrible football games
[14:56] Edcool1: lol
[14:56] Edcool1: i've never seen anything like this
[14:56] Edcool1: also
[14:56] Edcool1: i cant imagine what it'd be like to be a fan of perdu
[14:56] Edcool1: purdue
[14:57] Edcool1: whatever
[14:57] Edcool1: lol
[14:57] koolaidehurts: lol
[14:57] Edcool1: do you know what its like to have literally half the stadium chanting in unison "you suck and we're gonna get you, and you and you and you and you"
[14:57] Edcool1: u rah rah rah
[14:58] Edcool1: and then there was like
[14:58] Edcool1: every time the team got a tucndown
[14:58] Edcool1: touchdown*
[14:58] Edcool1: the marching band played the
[14:58] Edcool1: whatever it was
[14:58] Edcool1: lol
[14:58] Edcool1: by the way
[14:58] Edcool1: my grandpa had a beer bottle opener that played that song
[14:58] Edcool1: lol
[14:58] Edcool1: oh my god
[14:58] Edcool1: i cant even describe it
[14:59] Edcool1: you have no idea how into it they were
[14:59] Edcool1: it was a sight to see
[15:00] Edcool1: and they won too
[15:00] Edcool1: so that's a plus
[15:00] Edcool1: lol
[15:00] Edcool1: oh
[15:00] Edcool1: like in the third quarter
[15:00] Edcool1: they started playing that song
[15:00] Edcool1: where its like
[15:01] Edcool1: "jump around, jump around, jump jump jump"
[15:01] Edcool1: and so on
[15:01] Edcool1: and half the fucking stadium
[15:01] Edcool1: bouncing up and down
[15:01] koolaidehurts: jeez
[15:01] Edcool1: you'd swear there was an earthquake
[15:01] Edcool1: its amazing the place is still standing
[15:01] Edcool1: and then the perdu players on the field started jumping up and down
[15:01] Edcool1: that was funny
[15:01] Edcool1: lol
[15:02] Edcool1: i'm sure they had to appriciate it
[15:02] Edcool1: gosh its hard for me to go back to school after a trip like that
[15:03] Edcool1: i want to go back to wisconsin
[15:03] Edcool1: lol
[15:03] Edcool1: shauna was the only one who wasn't there
[15:03] Edcool1: that bitch
[15:03] Edcool1: lol

I'm glad I didn't have to type all that again. Incase you don't believe me here's some journalistic proof that this stuff actually happened:

http://www.news.wisc.edu/story.php?id=8907 <-- jump around http://www.uwbadgers.com/traditions/notables.aspx <-- traditions Before the game was wacky... We went with my uncle Vince, uncle Dave, dad, their uncle Jack, me and my cousin Tera. All through the game she seemed a little distant? Well, I'll get into that in a little bit. Outside the stadium, they went to this place that has beer and broughtworst. Yum right? It was so crowded...you couldn't move, I swear. I then look to my right and there's this semitrailer...And on it it said ilovefruitcake.com.

It's like wow.

Also around this time, I looked up at the stadium, and in the sky above it was none other than the OUTBACK BLIMP!

This could only mean that Yahoo Serious was involved in some way, and that frightens me. He seems to follow me no matter where I go...First Seattle, then here, now Wisconsin. This man is like an evil empire.

HE EVEN HAS HIS OWN SALUTE! BE AFRAID! BE VERY AFRAID!

After the game, we went to Grandma and Grandpa's. Played Scrabble. Ate entirely too much food. It was fun. Then I pushed forward the idea for us to go bowling!

Last time we were in Wisconsin, we all went bowling and it was fun. So why not again? And it was, even if the damn bowling alley didn't have any worth while balls...I took the opourtunity to practice my curve. When we finished, my cousin Eric (erich?) lit off a fuckin' huge firework! went on for like 5 minutes! IN A DENNY'S PARKING LOT! It went high. I am sure Yahoo Serious could see it from his blimp. TEACH HIM TO FUCK WITH US! BEYATCH!

THEN everyone went to Vince and Carol's house for more partying and drinking and crap like that. Eric brought these huge bottle rockets. We lit a couple off near the house and it was hilarious.

They start to light one, and what is clearly an unmarked police car rolls by as the fuse goes off...FOOOSH! Everybody runs. Trissy and Uncle Rick have already lit another one, as I run in the opposite direction I see a flash of light and my shadow as I run...it was so fun. We hid behind some dude's house, then went back to their house. We shot more off, one went over some dudes house and exploded on the roof...

Anyway, they had killed all 4 of the 24 packs they had bought...No way! So they go get more beer. Can you believe that? Jesus.

My family is fucking nuts.
But I love them, really.

So I was getting tired, being the only one not drinking I had nothing better to do, so I go lay down on their couch. I'm not sleepy, just running from the police had kinda twisted my ankle. So I watch as the rest of my family does whatever it is they do. My dad and uncle jam, dad on the harmonica, vince on the guitar while my cousin Tory busts a flow. He's an underground rapper, did you know? And this continues for a while...And Tera sits down next to Kerwin and starts one of her intoxicatedly intelectual converstations. I remember she did this at our last family reunion in Santa Cruz. She got drunk and started talking to Uncle Vince about his tour in Veitnam. She asked all these questions....but being so god damn drunk and full of herself she wouldn't let my drunken uncle answer any of her questions! WHY EVEN ASK! Anyway, she was doing the same thing here, only with Kerwin about her life. She also seems to have got mad at my mom and me for letting out the secret that she's been in a relationship with one of her cousins at UC Davis for a while now.

SHE HAS SEX WITH HER FUCKING JUICER COUSIN, she doesn't have the right to get mad at us for letting the secret out. Sick bitch. I'm not mad though, and she is part of my family after all. I love 'em all, no matter how fucking nuts they are.

Happy 3000 hits!

Oh, movies!

I saw Jesus Is Magic and it was pretty good.
I saw Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and it was fucking great. Go see it. Go see it again. Amazing.

The end.

My blog is worth $1,693.62.
How much is your blog worth?

My family is fucked up, dude.

2005-11-08T15:01:00.000-08:00

[13:51] Edcool1: Haro?
[13:52] koolaidehurts: hey..
[13:52] Edcool1: uh
[13:52] Edcool1: hey
[13:52] Edcool1: what's up?
[13:52] koolaidehurts: i feel like shit x3
[13:52] Edcool1: x3 is a smiley?
[13:52] Edcool1: or do you mean
[13:52] Edcool1: timex 3?
[13:52] koolaidehurts: i slept until 12:35 and then had to run to class
[13:52] koolaidehurts: its times three
[13:52] Edcool1: I was awake all night
[13:53] koolaidehurts: Ive got pneumonia again
[13:53] Edcool1: i got to watch the sun rise
[13:53] koolaidehurts: i got winded walking up this hill that isnt even steep
[13:53] koolaidehurts: thats good
[13:53] Edcool1: yikes, dude
[13:54] koolaidehurts: and I've got to work tomorrow
[13:54] Edcool1: work eh?
[13:54] koolaidehurts: yeah
[13:54] koolaidehurts: a football game I think
[13:54] Edcool1: my mom used to do that at ECHS
[13:54] Edcool1: or something
[13:54] Edcool1: she used to be a basket ball coach too
[13:55] Edcool1: aparently they always lost
[13:55] Edcool1: bad memories
[13:55] Edcool1: lol
[13:56] Edcool1: woah
[13:56] Edcool1: want to see a picture of my karate teacher?
[13:56] koolaidehurts: sure
[13:56] Edcool1: http://www.gojukai.com.au/gosei_yamaguchi.htm
[13:57] koolaidehurts: his name is yamaguchi?
[13:57] Edcool1: yeah
[13:57] Edcool1: which literally means like, mountain mouth
[13:58] koolaidehurts: I see
[13:58] Edcool1: yama is mountain
[13:58] Edcool1: and kuchi is mouth
[13:58] Edcool1: when you put em together the ku becomes a gu
[13:59] koolaidehurts: cool
[13:59] Edcool1: god danit
[13:59] Edcool1: lol
[13:59] Edcool1: i think i've officially forfited my kanji grade
[13:59] koolaidehurts: how?
[13:59] Edcool1: well
[14:00] Edcool1: i've got less than 50 percent on every test i've taken this semester
[14:00] Edcool1: i've missed the last two tests
[14:00] Edcool1: and since i have another fucking paper to write
[14:00] Edcool1: i'm probably not going to go today either
[14:00] koolaidehurts: ugh
[14:00] koolaidehurts: Im sorry
[14:00] Edcool1: its okay
[14:01] Edcool1: i'll survive
[14:01] Edcool1: my first F in college
[14:01] Edcool1: first F since freshman yearh highschool
[14:01] Edcool1: and i only got that F because I had to change schools
[14:01] Edcool1: i'm not so worried about my other classes
[14:01] Edcool1: i may not get the best grades in them
[14:02] Edcool1: but i'm not worried about failing anymore
[14:02] Edcool1: just this japanese grade will stick out
[14:02] Edcool1: what looks worse on your transcript? A withdraw or an F?
[14:03] koolaidehurts: I dont know
[14:03] Edcool1: hm
[14:03] koolaidehurts: they're both bad
[14:03] Edcool1: ya
[14:06] Edcool1: and my right hand feels raw from typing
[14:06] Edcool1: like the fingertips are litterally red
[14:06] koolaidehurts: jesus christ
[14:06] koolaidehurts: lol
[14:06] Edcool1: i need a vacatio
[14:06] Edcool1: n
[14:06] Edcool1: lol
[14:06] Edcool1: at least
[14:06] Edcool1: a vacation from computers
[14:07] Edcool1: Did you ever read Maus?
[14:07] koolaidehurts: no
[14:08] Edcool1: you know what i'm talking about?
[14:08] koolaidehurts: nope
[14:08] Edcool1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maus_%28comics%29
[14:08] koolaidehurts: sounds interesting
[14:09] Edcool1: I had to read it in 9th grade
[14:09] Edcool1: now i'm reading it again.
[14:09] koolaidehurts: oh
[14:10] Edcool1: well
[14:10] Edcool1: i should have read it again already
[14:10] Edcool1: lol
[14:10] Edcool1: rough draft of a paper is due at 5:10
[14:11] Edcool1: anywa
[14:11] Edcool1: y
[14:11] Edcool1: how are you, apart from the whole being sick thing
[14:12] koolaidehurts: meh
[14:13] Edcool1: meh?
[14:15] Edcool1: sorry to hear that
[14:18] Edcool1: i'm so tired
[14:18] koolaidehurts: Im sorry
[14:18] Edcool1: why are you sorry?
[14:18] Edcool1: lol
[14:20] Edcool1: there there, angie...everybody loves you
[14:20] koolaidehurts: wtf
[14:20] koolaidehurts: lol
[14:21] koolaidehurts: sorry to hear that youre tired
[14:21] Edcool1: lol
[14:21] Edcool1: hey, you said that when adam came over you'd be back
[14:21] koolaidehurts: he ended up staying for fucking forever
[14:21] koolaidehurts: and using the computer to find his classes
[14:21] Edcool1: wtf
[14:21] Edcool1: lol
[14:21] koolaidehurts: and register for next semester
[14:22] Edcool1: jeez
[14:22] koolaidehurts: adam doesnt know when to leave
[14:22] Edcool1: they don't even have the class schedule up yet, here
[14:22] Edcool1: doesn't he have a computer?
[14:22] koolaidehurts: yeah but he's just.... he doesnt know when ti leave!
[14:23] koolaidehurts: lol
[14:23] koolaidehurts: I kept telling him
[14:23] koolaidehurts: Adam, I'm tired, I need to relax a while
[14:23] koolaidehurts: Adam, it's getting late, shouldnt you get going home? it's dark and you have to walk
[14:23] Edcool1: you think maybe he has a crush on you/
[14:23] koolaidehurts: BUT HE WOULDNT FUCKING LEAVE
[14:23] koolaidehurts: no, he's after my roomate
[14:23] koolaidehurts: lol
[14:23] Edcool1: lol
[14:23] koolaidehurts: he wants caitlin
[14:23] Edcool1: that'd do it
[14:24] Edcool1: i wouldn't let that cracker use your computer though
[14:24] Edcool1: that's rude
[14:24] Edcool1: let him use her fuckin' computer
[14:24] koolaidehurts: lol
[14:24] koolaidehurts: hes not a cracker, he's mexican
[14:24] Edcool1: cracker/mexican
[14:24] Edcool1: same thig
[14:25] koolaidehurts: lol
[14:25] Edcool1: reminds me of ghost dog
[14:25] Edcool1: ghostdog?
[14:25] Edcool1: well
[14:25] koolaidehurts: http://us.a1.yahoofs.com/users/42d9fa35z368ceab7/6fb1/__sr_/715d.jpg?phQrScDBfgUhFf7Y
[14:25] koolaidehurts: thats adam
[14:25] Edcool1: there are these 3 old mafia guys
[14:25] Edcool1: and they're like talking
[14:25] Edcool1: and one of em goes
[14:25] Edcool1: "Indians? Niggers? Same thing"
[14:25] koolaidehurts: wtf
[14:25] koolaidehurts: lol
[14:26] Edcool1: i don't care how mexican that guy is, he's a cracker
[14:26] Edcool1: you can quote me on that
[14:26] koolaidehurts: I suppose so
[14:26] Edcool1: lol
[14:26] Edcool1: over there, everyon'es mexican
[14:26] Edcool1: so
[14:26] Edcool1: you kinda have to
[14:26] Edcool1: i dunno
[14:26] Edcool1: split em up
[14:26] Edcool1: lol
[14:27] Edcool1: that foo' is a cracker
[14:28] Edcool1: What I would do
[14:28] Edcool1: is I would grab him by the collar
[14:28] Edcool1: and say
[14:28] Edcool1: "get the fuck outta here!
[14:28] Edcool1: "
[14:28] koolaidehurts: lol
[14:28] koolaidehurts: you wouldnt
[14:28] koolaidehurts: you're too nice
[14:28] Edcool1: lol
[14:28] Edcool1: damn
[14:28] Edcool1: you're right
[14:29] Edcool1: i hope i have enough money on my card to print this shit
[14:29] Edcool1: if i can finish it, that is
[14:30] Edcool1: ooh
[14:30] Edcool1: this paper might be more fun
[14:31] Edcool1: i get to talk about comic books
[14:31] koolaidehurts: thats good
[14:31] Edcool1: lol
[14:31] Edcool1: and the holocaust
[14:39] Edcool1: did you ever see that movie, swing kids?
[14:40] koolaidehurts: yeah
[14:40] koolaidehurts: Not to the end though
[14:41] Edcool1: yeah
[14:41] Edcool1: fucking nazis
[14:41] koolaidehurts: yeah
[14:44] Edcool1: have you heard abaout revisionist history?
[14:44] koolaidehurts: no
[14:44] Edcool1: people who don't believe the holocaust happened
[14:44] koolaidehurts: oh yeah
[14:44] koolaidehurts: I know about that
[14:45] koolaidehurts: somewhat
[14:45] Edcool1: yeah
[14:45] Edcool1: Those who hold this position often further claim that Jews and/or Zionists know that the Holocaust never occurred, yet that they are engaged in a massive conspiracy to maintain the illusion of a Holocaust to further their political agenda.
[14:46] koolaidehurts: yeah
[14:46] koolaidehurts: So the huge memorial cemeteries and stuff
[14:46] Edcool1: i was thinking about writing my paper from that perspective
[14:46] koolaidehurts: those are all fake or lies, right?
[14:46] koolaidehurts: lol
[14:47] Edcool1: just to be different
[14:47] Edcool1: lol
[14:47] Edcool1: but i don't think i have the balls
[14:47] koolaidehurts: my godmother's mother was int he haulocaust and is still alive
[14:47] koolaidehurts: it just takes a lot of research is all
[14:47] koolaidehurts: i have to do a persuasive speech
[14:47] koolaidehurts: I wasnt sure.. I might do that
[14:47] koolaidehurts: but I doubt it
[14:47] Edcool1: lol
[14:48] Edcool1: my grandpa was in WWII like george w bush was in vietnam
[14:48] Edcool1: he didn't have to deal with rationing
[14:48] Edcool1: or any other major inconvienence
[14:48] Edcool1: because he was in the service
[14:49] Edcool1: but he also got to finish college
[14:49] Edcool1: and the war was over before he got the chance to go over there
[14:49] Edcool1: i suppose he did learn to fly a plane though
[14:49] koolaidehurts: yeah
[14:49] Edcool1: i remember when we were in palm springs one time
[14:49] koolaidehurts: thats good I suppose
[14:50] Edcool1: we went to the WWII air museum
[14:50] Edcool1: and he wastalking with some other old guy about this one plane
[14:50] Edcool1: but he's still a fuckin draft dodger
[14:50] Edcool1: lol
[14:50] Edcool1: and to make that worse
[14:50] Edcool1: when veitnam did roll along
[14:50] Edcool1: he was on the draft board
[14:50] Edcool1: and sent his oldest son to veitnam
[14:51] Edcool1: forced my dad onto the draft bus (dad got out of it because he's insane)
[14:51] koolaidehurts: lol
[14:51] Edcool1: and if my uncle dave had been a little older, he probably would have gone too
[14:51] koolaidehurts: is he insane?
[14:52] Edcool1: my dad?
[14:52] Edcool1: lol
[14:52] Edcool1: i wouldn't say he's dangerous
[14:52] Edcool1: but he is pretty out there
[14:52] Edcool1: lol
[14:52] koolaidehurts: I mean your uncle dave.. is he insane too?
[14:52] koolaidehurts: lol
[14:52] Edcool1: oh
[14:52] Edcool1: well he is a republican
[14:53] Edcool1: My uncle dave is a cool guy though
[14:53] koolaidehurts: lol
[14:53] koolaidehurts: fucking republican
[14:53] Edcool1: i wouldn't say he's insane
[14:53] Edcool1: h'es just misguided
[14:53] Edcool1: lol
[14:54] koolaidehurts: lol
[14:54] Edcool1: and he married a woman that's more psycho than ann coulter
[14:55] Edcool1: but at least aunt mimi isn't on tv
[14:58] koolaidehurts: ohh
[14:59] Edcool1: my aunt mimi
[14:59] Edcool1: she can be scary
[14:59] Edcool1: lol
[14:59] Edcool1: you don't want to get her drunk
[14:59] Edcool1: she gets so bipolar
[14:59] koolaidehurts: jeez
[15:00] Edcool1: We tried to play baulderdash
[15:00] Edcool1: balderdash?
[15:00] Edcool1: yeah thats it
[15:01] Edcool1: and they were drinking taquilla while playing
[15:01] Edcool1: it was quite the show
[15:01] Edcool1: lol
[15:01] Edcool1: my family is fucked up, dude.

SO SO GAY

2005-10-28T14:34:00.000-07:00

I am at a GAY CON. GAY!~!

I'll post something reall next time, I swear that this is more of a postholder then anything else.

(and I'm NOT ED SO STOP THINKING THAT YOU PERV.)

My guts have shit for brains.

2005-10-13T00:50:00.000-07:00

Okay so I'm watching High Fidelity on Comedy Central instead of studying my kanji or reading or doing anything productive ... wtf. the satelite just crapped out. Wtf was that. By the way I must highly discourage you from watching this movie on comedy central. It's okay for me cause I've seen it before but jesus they cut so much out...it's sad... Oh there it goes, back. Okay so I'm watching this, and there's this scene where the girl in the movie's dad dies. And the guy, John Cusack, walks out into the rain, doesn't want to be found or anything, but she drives along and finds him. Then makes him get in the car and so on. She then drives to the place she used to go with her dad and asks him TO HAVE SEX WITH HER! WTF? She then takes her panties off and rides the bastard...

Fuckin' Cusack

Of course he does it...but I was thinking about it and this brings me to my point. If I were in that situation...Let's go through the motions eh?

She says what she says--I stare at her. Okay this is kinda like what's in the movie.
She explains why--I stare at her and think to myself "that's really a turn off."
She then takes off her panties or whatever they are and as she does this a look of...I dunno, disgust? Dusgust comes on my face. Woah that didn't sound right. Long story short, this situation would prevent me from even thinking about getting an erection. even her bare...Stuff...riding on me would not be able to get me interested. She tries to kiss me I would avoid it.

Where am I going with this? I dunno. This is probably more personal than most of you would want me to be. I dunno what I'm trying to say. Just haven't made a blog post in a while. Tell you what, I'm just trying to win best actor on the soul train awards.

Okay the movie's over and they went straight to infomercials! Oh shit! It's David Oreck!!! I could use an air purifier.

Also, uh, the other day something got me interested in Indiana Jones. I followed the wiki trail to a place that told you where you could get the indy jacket and whip and fedorah and everything...Even the gloves he wore...

"The gloves were supposedly borrowed from a grip on set, and the two contracts with Paramount were with Midwest and Wells Lamont. No one actually KNOWS where the gloves came from, but apparently someone came across a message stating that a bunch were ordered by Paramount in the early 80's, and it has been assumed that the Midwest glove was the one and only glove. The myth has grown to today's forum's and webpages. I remember when the original posting came up. There is nothing I know of the absolutely states where or what the actual gloves are. Only the story of the borrowed gloves by Ford." Michaelson

One thing that interested me was on that same page they told you where you could get Indiana Jones' BOIC Spectacles. I WANT THEM! I don't want the jacket, or the whip or the fedorah...okay that's not true, the hat kicks ass...But I want some damn glasses.

I do kinda need some glasses...I think pretty soon I'm going to go in to the Cal Berkeley optometry clinic, the place I've been getting my eyes tested for as long as I can remember.

And where was I? I'm totally lost. Tomorow I plan on going to Connie's (nightfeathers) dorm room to watch Indiana Jones! Whoo! Which one? I don't know, we'll figure it out. Aren't you envious? Of course you are, all none of you, whores.

Anyway, I think I'm done. I've resorted to watching Dennis Miller...His last god damned standup special...He stopped being genuinely funny when they took away the tears for fears song from his show. DENNIS, YOU NEED SOME MORE 70S AND 80S ROCK! It will make you funny again. What happened to you man? You used to be beautiful.

words on my kanji midterm

2005-10-05T23:20:00.000-07:00

	kana	kanji	meaning
1	こくぜい	国税	national tax
2	ちょうさ	調査	investigation; examination; inquiry; survey
3	こくみん	国民	national; people; citizen
4	じょうたい	状態	condition; situation; circumstances; state
5	しらべる	調べる	to investigate; to check up
6	せいじ	政治	politics; government
7	しりょう	資料	materials; data
8	にんげん	人間	human being; man; person
9	せいべつ	性別	distinction by sex; sex; gender
10	せたい	世帯	household
11	すうとう	数等	by far
12	きほんてき	基本的	fundamental; standard; basic
13	あやまり	誤り	error
14	かかりいん	係員	official (e.g. customs); clerk in charge
15	こべつ	戸別	each house
16	ほうもん	訪問	call; visit
17	ようし	用紙	blank form
18	くばる	配る	to distribute; to deliver
19	そうむちょう	総務庁	General Affairs Agency
20	とうけい	統計	statistics
21	きょく	局	channel (i.e. TV or radio); department; affair; situation
22	はっぴょう	発表	announcement; publication
23	もとい	基	basis
24	しゅっさん	出産	(child)birth; delivery; production (of goods)
25	しぼう	死亡	death; mortality
26	かげん	加減	addition and subtraction; allowance for; degree; extent; measure; condition; seasoning; flavor; moderation; adjustment; influence (of the weather); state of health; chance
27	すいけい	推計	estimate; estimation
28	ぎゃくさん	逆算	count; calculate back
29	ぞうか	増加	increase; addition
30	いご	以後	after this; from now on; hereafter; thereafter
31	げんしょう	減少	decrease; reduction; decline
32	れっとう	列島	chain of islands
33	じょうくう	上空	sky; the skies; high-altitude sky; upper air
34	ていきあつ	低気圧	low (atmospheric) pressure; cyclone; bad temper; tense situation
35	こうきあつ	高気圧	high atmospheric pressure
36	かんとう	関東	Kantou (eastern half of Japan, including Tokyo)
37	ちほう	地方	area; locality; district; region; the coast
38	きあつ	気圧	atmospheric pressure
39	たに	谷	valley
40	くもり	曇り	cloudiness; cloudy weather; shadow
41	かいせい	快晴	good weather
42	ながつづき	長続き	long-lasting
43	あさ	朝	morning
44	ごじつ	後日	in the future; another day; later
45	くだり	下り	down-train (going away from Tokyo)
46	さか	坂	slope; hill
47	ふくざつ	複雑	complexity; complication
48	てんきず	天気図	weather map
49	とうぶん	当分	for the present
50	にっぽんほうそうきょうかい	日本放送協会	NHK; Japan national broadcasting company
51	りゃくしょう	略称	abbreviation
52	あさひ	朝日	morning sun
53	タ...	他	other; another; the
54	ほうそう	放送	broadcast; broadcasting
55	こうきょう	公共	public; community; public service; society; communal
56	ほうりつ	法律	law
57	きせい	規制	regulation
58	しちょうしゃ	視聴者	viewer; (television) audience
59	じゅしん	受信	reception (e.g. radio)
60	りょう	料	material; charge; rate; fee
61	きょか	許可	permission; approval
62	いがい	以外	with the exception of; excepting
63	しょうぎょう	商業	commerce; trade; business
64	しょうひん	商品	commodity; article of commerce; goods; stock; merchandise
65	こうこく	広告	advertisement
66	せんでん	宣伝	propaganda; publicity
67	きんし	禁止	prohibition; ban
68	こんなん	困難	difficulty; distress
69	しま	島	island
70	せつび	設備	equipment; device; facilities; installation
71	ぎむ	義務	duty; obligation; responsibility
72	ほうどう	報道	information; report
73	ごがく	語学	language study
74	こうざ	講座	lectureship; chair; course
75	ようじ	幼児	infant; baby; child
76	ばんぐみ	番組	program (e.g. TV)
77	せいさく	製作	manufacture; production
78	きゅうしゅう	九州	southern-most of four main islands of Japan
79	なんぽう	南方	south; southern; southward
80	ようじょう	洋上	on the sea or ocean
81	たいふう	台風	typhoon
82	はったつ	発達	development; growth
83	ほくじょう	北上	going north
84	かいいき	海域	area of ocean
85	ぎょせん	漁船	fishing boat
86	げんじゅう	厳重	strict; rigour; severe; firm; strong; secure
87	ちゅうい	注意	caution; being careful; attention (heed); warning; advice
88	ひつよう	必要	necessary; essential; indispensable
89	うりょう	雨量	rainfall
90	さんかんぶ	山間部	mountainous region
91	ジョ...	除	exclude; division (x; 3); remove; abolish; cancel; except
92	ていど	程度	degree; amount; grade; standard; on the order of (following a number)
93	せっきん	接近	getting closer; drawing nearer; approaching
94	まんちょう	満潮	high tide; high water; full tide
95	かさなる	重なる	to be piled up; lie on top of one another; overlap each other
96	えんがん	沿岸	coast; shore
97	ちょうい	潮位	tide level
98	きしょうちょう	気象庁	Meteorological Agency
99	けいほう	警報	alarm; warning
100	とおい	遠い	far; distant
101	むかし	昔	olden days; former
102	せいき	世紀	century; era
103	れきし	歴史	history
104	りょうど	領土	dominion; territory; possession
105	しゅうきょう	宗教	religion
106	じんしゅ	人種	race (of people)
107	よういん	要因	primary factor; main cause
108	あらそい	争い	dispute; strife; quarrel; dissension; conflict; rivalry; contest
109	おこす	起こす	to raise; to cause; to wake someone
110	みかた	味方	friend; ally; supporter
111	わかれる	分かれる	to branch off; to diverge from; to fork; to split; to dispense; to scatter; to divide into
112	せんそう	戦争	war
113	かくめい	革命	revolution
114	こくおう	国王	king
115	ころす	殺す	to kill
116	ヘイ...	兵	soldier; private; troops; army; warfare; strategy; tactics
117	しぬ	死ぬ	to die
118	ち	血	blood; consanguinity
119	めつぼう	滅亡	downfall; ruin; collapse; destruction
120	きょういく	教育	training; education
121	せい	制	system; organization; imperial command; laws; regulation; control; government; suppression; restraint; holding back; establishment
122	しょうがっこう	小学校	primary school; elementary school
123	こうとうがっこう	高等学校	senior high school
124	ぎむきょういく	義務教育	compulsory education
125	ぜんいん	全員	all members (unanimity); all hands; the whole crew
126	しんがくりつ	進学率	university attendance rate
127	にゅうがくしけん	入学試験	entrance examination
128	こくりつ	国立	national
129	こうりつ	公立	public (institution)
130	きぼう	希望	hope; wish; aspiration
131	もの	者	person
132	きょうつう	共通	commonness; community
133	こべつ	個別	particular case
134	うける	受ける	to undertake; to accept; to take (lesson, test, damage); to undergo; to experience; to catch (e.g. a ball); to become popular
135	じゅけん	受験	taking an examination
136	きょうそう	競争	competition; contest
137	かつ	勝つ	to win
138	ごうかく	合格	success; passing (e.g. exam); eligibility
139	よびこう	予備校	prep school (ronin year)
140	よくねん	翌年	following year
141	じゅんび	準備	preparation; arrangements; provision; reserve
142	ろうにん	浪人	ronin; lordless samurai; out of work; waiting for another chance to enter a university
143	いがくぶ	医学部	medical faculty
144	きびしい	厳しい	severe; strict; stern; austere; grave; solemn; majestic; intense (cold)
145	にゅうがく	入学	entry to school or university; matriculation
146	ゴ...	後	behind; back; later
147	こうがく	高額	large sum (money)
148	のうにゅう	納入	payment; supply
149	ふせい	不正	injustice; unfairness; iniquity; impropriety; irregularity; dishonesty; illegality
150	ほうほう	方法	method; manner; way; means; technique
151	うらぐち	裏口	backdoor; rear entrance
152	しゅくじつ	祝日	national holiday
153	がんじつ	元日	New Year's Day
154	いわう	祝う	to congratulate; to celebrate
155	じんじゃ	神社	Shinto shrine
156	さんぱい	参拝	worship
157	ねんがじょう	年賀状	New Year's card
158	はいたつ	配達	delivery; distribution
159	やくしょ	役所	government office; public office
160	ねんまつ	年末	end of year
161	ねんし	年始	New Year's call; beginning of the year; New Year's greetings
162	きゅうぎょう	休業	closed (e.g. store); business suspended; shutdown; holiday
163	しょうばい	商売	trade; business; commerce; transaction; occupation
164	せいじん	成人	adult
165	かくし	各市	every city
166	ちょうそん	町村	towns and villages
167	まねく	招く	to invite
168	せいじんしき	成人式	coming-of-age celebration
169	けんぽうきねんび	憲法記念日	Constitution Memorial Day Holiday (May 3)
170	しんわ	神話	myth; legend
171	でんせつ	伝説	tradition; legend; folklore
172	さいしょ	最初	beginning; outset; first; onset
173	てんのう	天皇	Emperor of Japan
174	リツ...	立	stand
175	しゅんぶん	春分	vernal equinox
176	しゅうぶん	秋分	autumn equinox
177	ちゅうや	昼夜	day and night
178	いぜん	以前	ago; since; before; previous
179	ひがん	彼岸	equinoctial week (when Buddhist services are held)
180	ちゅうにち	中日	China and Japan; the middle day; the equinoctial day
181	そせん	祖先	ancestor
182	はか	墓	grave; tomb
183	まいる	参る	to go; to come; to call; to visit; to visit a shrine; to be defeated; to be nonplussed; to be madly in love; to die
184	しょうわ	昭和	Japanese emperor (1926-1989)
185	へいせい	平成	Heisei (reign of Emperor)
186	てんのうたんじょうび	天皇誕生日	Emperor's Birthday Holiday (Dec 23) (Emperor Shouwa's was April 29)
187	こうきょ	皇居	Imperial Palace
188	さんが	参賀	congratulatory palace visit
189	けんこくきねんび	建国記念日	National Foundation Day
190	ジョウ...	条	article; clause; item; stripe; streak
191	えいきゅう	永久	eternity; perpetuity; immortality
192	ぶじ	無事	safety; peace; quietness
193	せいちょう	成長	growth; grow to adulthood
194	けいろう	敬老	respect for the aged
195	うやまい	敬い	reverence; respect; honor; veneration; esteem
196	たいせつ	大切	important
197	たいいく	体育	physical education; gymnastics; athletics
198	けんこう	健康	health; sound; wholesome
199	うんどうかい	運動会	athletic meet
200	ぶんか	文化	culture; civilization
201	てんらんかい	展覧会	exhibition
202	かくしょ	各所	each place; various places
203	きんろうかんしゃのひ	勤労感謝の日	Thanksgiving Day; November 23
204	かみ	神	god
205	でんとうてき	伝統的	traditional; conventional
206	つくる	作る	to make; to create; to manufacture; to draw up; to write; to compose; to build; to coin; to cultivate; to organize; to establish; to make up (a face); to trim (a tree); to fabricate; to prepare (food); to commit (sin); to construct
207	ちきゅう	地球	the earth
208	そとがわ	外側	exterior; outside; extraneous
209	すうまい	数枚	several sheets (flat objects)
210	かたい	固い	stubborn; firm (not viscous or easily moved); certain; solemn
211	いた	板	board; plank
212	いどう	移動	removal; migration; movement
213	たいへいよう	太平洋	Pacific Ocean
214	ちゅうおう	中央	centre; central; center; middle
215	さいきん	最近	latest; most recent; nowadays
216	でんぱぼうえんきょう	電波望遠鏡	radio telescope
217	そくてい	測定	measurement
218	けっか	結果	result; consequence
219	たね	種	seed; pip; kind; variety; quality; tone; material; matter; subject; theme; (news) copy; cause; source; trick; secret; inside story
220	てきち	敵地	enemy territory; hostile place
221	ほへい	歩兵	infantry; infantryman; foot soldier
222	ほろびる	滅びる	to be ruined; to go under; to perish; to be destroyed
223	ひきいる	率いる	to lead; to spearhead (a group); to command (troops)
224	かわぎし	川岸	river bank
225	ぼせき	墓石	tombstone
226	たいがん	対岸	opposite shore
227	よかん	予感	presentiment; premonition
228	ろうどうしゃ	労働者	labourer; worker; workman
229	かがみ	鏡	mirror
230	だいとうりょう	大統領	president; chief executive
231	はんが	版画	art print
232	はかる	測る	to measure; to weigh; to survey; to time (sound, gauge, estimate)
233	あきなう	商う	to sell; to handle; to trade in
234	げんかん	厳寒	intense cold
235	かわ	革	leather
236	しゅっけつ	出血	bleeding; haemorrhage
237	のぞむ	望む	to desire; to wish for; to see; to command (a view of)
238	いる	居る	to be (animate); to be; to exist
239	えいえん	永遠	eternity; perpetuity; immortality; permanence
240	すこやか	健やか	vigorous; healthy; sound
241	こてい	固定	fixation
242	おんぱ	音波	sound wave
243	けいば	競馬	horse racing
244	たがく	多額	large amount of money
245	たんめい	短命	short life
246	りゅうこう	流行	fashionable; fad; in vogue; prevailing
247	いのち	命	(mortal) life
248	がんぼう	願望	desire; wish; aspiration
249	そふ	祖父	grandfather
250	けいご	警護	bodyguard; escort
251	すべる	統べる	to control; to supervise
252	ぼさん	墓参	visit to a grave
253	つぐ	接ぐ	to join; to piece together; to set (bones); to graft (trees)
254	むごん	無言	silence
255	いみん	移民	emigration; immigration; emigrant; immigrant
256	うつる	移る	to move (house); to be infected; to be contagious; to transfer (department)
257	なる	成る	to become
258	あらそう	争う	to dispute; to argue; to be at variance; to compete
259	さつじん	殺人	murder
260	ぼうふ	亡父	my deceased father; my late father
261	つとめる	務める	to serve; to fill a post; to serve under; to exert oneself; to endeavor; to be diligent; to play (the part of); to work (for)
262	きんむ	勤務	service; duty; work
263	えいせいちゅうりつ	永世中立	permanent neutrality
264	こてん	個展	personal exhibition
265	いちらんひょう	一覧表	list; table; schedule; catalogue
266	がんせき	岩石	rock
267	きょうだい	鏡台	dresser
268	きょしつ	居室	living room
269	あやまる	謝る	to apologize
270	せつぞくし	接続詞	conjunction
271	びひん	備品	fixtures; furnishings; equipment
272	なや	納屋	shed; barn; outhouse
273	きん	金	(1) gold; (2) gold general (shogi)
274	こうたいし	皇太子	crown prince
275	しょうたい	招待	invitation
276	せる	競る	to compete; to bid; to sell at auction
277	おさめる	納める	to obtain; to reap; to pay; to supply; to accept
278	どうよう	同様	identical; equal to; same (kind); like
279	ふなたび	船旅	trip by boat
280	せんきゃく	先客	the preceding visitor
281	ゆるす	許す	to permit; to allow; to approve; to exempt (from fine); to excuse (from); to confide in; to forgive; to pardon; to excuse; to release; to let off
282	おさない	幼い	very young; childish
283	せいりゃくけっこん	政略結婚	political marriage of convenience
284	とどうふけん	都道府県	administrative divisions of Japan: Tokyo-to, Hokkai-do, Osaka-fu, Kyoto-fu and remaining prefectures
285	うらもん	裏門	back gate
286	せつめい	説明	explanation; exposition
287	さいまつ	歳末	year end
288	しえき	使役	employing; using; setting to work; enslavement
289	そなえる	備える	to furnish; to provide for; to equip; to install; to have ready; to prepare for; to possess; to have; to be endowed with; to be armed with
290	こてい	湖底	bottom of a lake
291	とうじつ	当日	appointed day; very day
292	しんや	深夜	late at night
293	むずかしい	難しい	difficult
294	もうける	設ける	to create; to establish
295	たどう	他動	transitive verb
296	チョウ...	調	tune; tone; meter; key (music); writing; prepare; exorcise; investigate
297	けいしょう	敬称	title of honour
298	かいかい	開会	opening of a meeting
299	くらい	位	grade; rank; court order; dignity; nobility; situation; throne; crown; occupying a position; about; almost; as; rather; at least; enough to
300	ねんがん	念願	one's heart's desire; earnest petition
301	かくしゅ	各種	every kind; all sorts
302	しゅくさいじつ	祝祭日	national holiday
303	きそう	競う	to emulate; to compete with
304	しんかい	深海	deep-sea
305	ばんのう	万能	all-purpose; almighty; omnipotent
306	そこ	底	bottom; sole
307	つげる	告げる	to inform
308	かたい	難い	difficult; hard
309	しせい	市政	municipal government
310	きりつ	規律	order; rules; law
311	はつばいきんし	発売禁止	prohibition of sale
312	おうじ	皇子	imperial prince
313	けいしき	形式	form; formality; format; math expression
314	せいりつ	成立	coming into existence; arrangements; establishment; completion
315	しんぷ	神父	Catholic priest; abbe
316	せいし	製紙	paper making or manufacturing
317	こうじょう	工場	factory; plant; mill; workshop
318	しょうに	小児	young child; infant
319	いくじ	育児	childcare; nursing; upbringing
320	ようちゅう	幼虫	larva; chrysalis
321	ちょうこうせい	聴講生	auditor; auditing student
322	でんぽう	電報	telegram
323	なんもん	難問	perplexity; difficult question; difficult problem

Look at that shitty report! I'm never going to graduate...

2005-10-05T23:02:00.000-07:00

PREPARED: 10/05/05 - 22:38
VINCENT,EDWARD THOMAS
PROGRAM CODE: BA 120 UNITS
BULLETIN YEAR:2003
Degree Audit Report: Bachelor of Arts - 120 Units Required

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	GE Segment I - Basic Subjects
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	Physical and Biological Sciences Area (PBS)
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	GE Segment II - Lifelong Development (LLD) and
	American Ethnic and Racial Minorities (AERM)
	GE Segment III - CESD Requirement
	Cultural, Ethnic and Social Diversity
	United States History, United States Government, and
	California State and Local Government Requirements
	Written English Requirements
	Basic Information Competence Requirement
	Upper Division Requirement
	Residence Requirement (except Major)
	Maximum Units In One Discipline
	Credit/No Credit
	Minimum Grade Point Average
	Minimum Units Required for this Degree is 120 units

first draft

2005-10-04T22:31:00.000-07:00

Edward Vincent

Movies are wonderful things; they can transport everyone almost equally to the same place. Many movies are created with similar themes and devices, falling into genres. Movies are not the only things that can fall into these genres, often the medium is less important than the content. Joyce Carol Oates' short story, "Where are you going, where have you been?" is a genre piece as well, and contains all of the elements of a typical horror/thriller/slasher movie. Its similarity to many different genre films solidifies its place in the slasher movie repertoire. (oh my gosh I spelt that correct)

Conventionally, the slasher movie will begin with an optimistic view on the world. The higher off you begin the farther you can fall by the end. Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho starts off with two lovers wanting to get away, Sam Rami’s Evil Dead II starts with a man and his girlfriend going to a house in the woods looking for peace and quiet. In “Where are you going, where have you been?” Connie, the main character, is young and wants to get away, she is looking forward to the future. When she is away from her house she is a completely different and more up beat person, “her mouth, which was pale and smirking most of the time, but bright and pink on these evenings out (p. 744).” These moments of joy for Connie provide the reader with a high point. We are shown how happy Connie can be, the story peaks early and it’s all down hill from there.

Another staple of the horror genre is the bad guy, a person often introduced early in the story and revealed to be evil towards the end. The perfect example of this is any episode of Scooby Doo—old man winters, the owner of the old abandoned amusement park, is the man in the pirate ghost costume that has been terrorizing the area for the majority of the episode. When they are first introduced you aren’t supposed to know they are evil, but once you figure it out it’s clear they’ve been evil from the beginning. Arnold friend, the antagonist in “Where are you going…,” is first seen at the drive-in. Connie is walking along with her boyfriend for the night and glances at “a boy with shaggy black hair, in a convertible jalopy painted gold…He wagged a finger and laughed and said, ‘Gonna get you, baby (p. 744).’” The introduction to Arnold Friend is fairly subtle and is probably forgotten fairly quickly by Connie, but the attention paid to him and his behavior suggests that his role is more important, more sinister. And this time there are no pesky kids to stop him from getting away with it.

The antagonist or antagonists in most slasher/horror movies are presented differently from other characters, and they are usually unsettling for the main character and the audience. Norman Bates speaks nervously and his hobby is taxidermy and we later find out he has preserved his dead mother’s body and has conversations with it. Jason, Michael Myers, and the killer in Scream all wear masks. Arnold Friend acts strangely, his body language suggesting how phony he is, “the way he straightened and recovered from his fit of laughing showed that it had all been fake (p.748).” His entire appearance is a visual lie, “the way he was dressed, which was the way all of them dressed (p. 747)…[on his car] was an expression…kids had used the year before but didn’t use before.” His voice was different, “the voice of a man on the radio (p. 750).” More and more, Arnold Friend is revealed to be fraudulent, his motives less than honest, unsettling both Connie and the reader.

Statistically, the audience for thrillers and horror/slasher movies are younger white men. Psychologically it is more difficult for a man to comfortably watch a woman asserting themselves on screen, similarly it is hard for a white person to comfortably watch a non-white person asserting themselves on screen. This is in general the cause of the stereotype that the black guy dies first, and the reason why the girls who are more promiscuous are the ones who are always found by the killer. If “Where are you going…” were to feature both Connie and her sister, her sister would most certainly be the one to survive. Connie is self conscious about her appearance, thinks less of others, spends time with boys while outright lying to her mother and expresses interest in Arnold Friend before she realizes his evil intentions. Connie’s sister is plain and has her mother’s approval and does nothing to make the male audience members uncomfortable with her, and is probably the reason why she is spared from Arnold Friend.

Short of excluding women from the stories all together, the way horror/slasher movies (and many other genres as well) handle the existence of women is to fetishize or punish them. In a film called Peeping Tom a serial murderer films his victims before he murders them, both fetishizing and then punishing the female form. Similarly, Connie is both fetishized and punished in this story, first by her mother and then by Arnold Friend. Her mother punishes more than fetishizes, always complaining about Connie’s appearance and comparing her to her boring sister. Friend begins to fetishize Connie from the moment he first sees her. When he sees her he says “quote here” and repeatedly talks about “quote here” when he sees her the second time. He then begins to punish her when she doesn’t do what he wants by threatening her family and psychologically violating her, and then the implied physical violation.

“Where are you going…” has many things in common with films of the various contemporary horror genres. The story has structure, themes and characters to your every day fright fest.

Film Proposal

2005-09-27T22:23:00.000-07:00

Edward Vincent
Cine 202
9/2005

A person is driving along at the top of an east bay hill, a little fast. There are no passengers and music is playing. A cop appears and pulls the car over for speeding. Back in the car the driver is thinking, and we flash back to the driver’s memory of a friend that has since died. The friend had warns the driver not to drive fast in the east bay hills, that they were swarming with cops. Back in the present the cop has pulled the driver out to perform a sobriety test. While passing the test, the driver sees his deceased friend in a ghostly manner. This freaks the driver out and causes him to run, forgetting about the cop and their car, but the ghost follows. After running a great distance the driver can’t go any farther, and stops. The ghost and the driver now have a chat, reminiscing. The ghost reminds the driver to think back to that time they talked about driving fast in the east bay hills. We flash back to the same scene from before, but extended to see the solution (act sleepy?). Back to the present, the ghost looks at the driver and smiles. Cut to the driver in the middle of the sobriety test just before he started running, and he yawns. The cop gives him a warning, and our driver drives off into the sunset.

The film will be shot during magic hour on top of an east bay hill. The majority of the project will be shot on color reversal film for the saturation this stock can provide. The flashback will be shot digitally to give it a sharper, less colorful look. There will be a quick editing pace until the second flashback after which things will be edited at a more comfortable pace.

The first act will be similar to a Takeshi Kitano film—long lenses and harsh editing. Once the ghost and the driver are in conversation, it will be similar to the scene in Return of the Jedi where Luke and Ben are talking. The cop would be performed similar to the T-1000 in Terminator 2.

I will personally sell the film to everyone I know who will then tell others about it who will hopefully tell more others about it creating a viral marketing situation. The film will be available for legal download using bit torrent and I will post links to the torrent everywhere I can. I will also consider using something known as Bumvertising™ where you pay a homeless person standing on the street with a sign to be a walking billboard which can be potentially seen by hundreds if not thousands of people. That may be beyond my morals however.
This film will not present many challenges. However, for the purposes of this film, a cop is just a guy in a blue shirt with a toy badge. The particular east bay hill will be in El Cerrito at the top of Mosier Lane. The ghost effect will be a relatively simple effect that I can do myself. When you get pulled over by the police, usually they shine a spotlight on your car. Rather than find an actual spotlight, I will just over expose or push the film to create the look of the car filling with light.

Ghost concept art illustrations by Connie Chin.

Okay this one is for real.

2005-09-19T20:02:00.000-07:00

I'm really getting lazy with my posts here...I'm workin' on it. Give me a break.

Lets get into some random photos! I accidentaly made all of them a little too big...so they may look crappy here. Just click on 'em and you should see em full size. I realize that I should probably be doing homework instead of this...but what fun is that? Enjoy.

Recently, I decided to go for shooting with some slide film, cause I wanted to see how it was different. I also went by my old high school and took some pictures with it. Here's some, how'd they turn out?

@N00! Rubble mountain!

I think this used to be room 512 or so.

There was so much rebar.

It's what's left of the basement in El Cerrito High School. This hall used to contain both the radio and photography classrooms.

Also, sometime last summer I got inspired to take some photos with some high speed black and white film. So, here we are with that:

Mom.

eternal.

What good would a photo blog post be without a picture of me? Well, you can tell why it's small...

I'm rather fond of this picture, for one reason or another...

Dad in front of Fatdog's antiuque vehicle.

Hey! It's sarah!

I did modify this one a little bit...

I have some more pictures of my mom and dad, but I don't feel like posting each one. So now I'm going to finish it off with some photos shot at night with my little digital camera.

A couple sculptures dad made bathed in (only!) moonlight.

With a flashlight you can make a moonlight shot look like daytime! Weird!

Here's the same photo without a flashlight.

The moon makes an interesting flare, eh? house also has some flashlight light on it.

Hey! There's some weed. Like that, don't you. You stoner.

YOU DAMN STONER! Stop looking at this damn marijuana plant lit with a hand held flashlight! No, I don't know where that was taken ;)

Thanks for watchin. Comment on these, eh? Either here or on Flickr. Up to you, of course. I appriciate it though.

parting is such sweet sorrow.

2005-09-18T03:27:00.000-07:00

west-wing
Originally uploaded by edcool1.

Hey ya'll, remember that spot off in the distance? Strangely it was the last part of the school to be demolished.

weed

I'm still figuring out this whole flickr thing, bear with me. The next post is going to be awesome.

Flickr

2005-09-17T01:16:00.000-07:00

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Okay, people. I'm having a delemia...I want to post more pictures here, but...I'm lazy and I don't want to upload them to more than one place. I don't want to make short one picture posts, but it's looking like that's the only way its gonna happen...So, i'm sorry. You'll live. Just think of all the pictures you'll get to see now!

What does it mean???

2005-09-06T00:50:00.000-07:00

[21:12] MightyOishieBaka: Dear Ed,

"Everything is ok in the end, if its not, then its not the end."

Sincerely
[21:12] *** Auto-response sent to MightyOishieBaka: gone to morgan hill for bbq
[21:12] *** Auto-response from MightyOishieBaka: Attempting to go and be somethingological directly (interpret it however to your fancy)

yeah!

2005-08-29T19:34:00.000-07:00

The poems Complaint by James Wright and Early Evening Quarrel by Langston Hughes both deal with the theme of male/female relationships.  Reread each poem several times, paying attention to the rhythm, tone and imagery, and think about the relationships depicted.  Then, in a 1and 1/2 to 2 page essay, explain how the relationships are different, referring to poems' properties -- the word choice, meter, format and even their titles -- to help support your discussion.  What does each poem say about male/female relationships?

Complaint by James Wright

  She's gone. She was my love, my moon or more.
  She chased the chickens out and swept the floor,
  Emptied the bones and nut-shells after feasts,
  And smacked the kids for leaping up like beasts.
  Now morbid boys have grown past awkwardness;
  The girls let stitches out, dress after dress,
  To free some swinging body's riding space
  And form the new child's unimagined face.
  Yet, while vague nephews, spitting on their curls,
  Amble to pester winds and blowsy girls,
  What arm will sweep the room, what hand will hold
  New snow against the milk to keep it cold?
  And who will dump the garbage, feed the hogs,
  And pitch the chickens' heads to hungry dogs?
  Not my lost hag who dumbly bore such pain:
  Childbirth and midnight sassafras and rain.
  New snow against her face and hands she bore,
  And now lies down, who was my moon or more.

Early Evening Quarrel

            Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

Where is that sugar, Hammond,
I sent you this morning to buy?
I say, where is that sugar
I sent you this morning to buy?
Coffee without sugar                                                                           5
Makes a good woman cry.

            I ain't got no sugar, Hattie,
            I gambled your dime away.
            Ain't got no sugar, I
            Done gambled that dime away.                                              10
            If you's a wise woman, Hattie,
            You ain't gonna have nothing to say.

I ain't no wise woman, Hammond.
I am evil and mad.
Ain't no sense in a good woman                                                          15
Bein' treated so bad.

            I don't treat you bad, Hattie,
            Neither does I treat you good.
            But I reckon I could treat you
            Worser if I would.                                                                   20

Lawd, these things we women
Have to stand!
I wonder is there nowhere a
Do-right man?

1.         Comment upon the effect of dialect and dialogue.
2.         Who is the "speaker"? Is one of the characters the poet's mouthpiece?
3.         To whom are the last four lines of this poem addressed?  To Hammond?  To herself?  To
            the world in general?
4.         What is the tone of the poem?  (the poet's attitude toward the subject?)

Sometimes I wish I was a member of the Directors Guild of America.

2005-08-23T19:06:00.000-07:00

It was quite interesting opening up my netflix envalope, finding Full Tilt Boogie, playing it and discovering the problems the production of From Dusk Till Dawn. It wasn't all problems, but that's all I'm going to talk about today.

You see, this was a film shot non-union in hollywood. It had a director that was also serving as a camera operator, editor and I'm sure he also did more than that. Unions don't like films to be made non-union. In the old days, unions were needed to make sure the studios didn't take all the credit and so everyone got the health care and pay they deserved. These days, while some of that is still nessesary, mostly they appear to just be bullying independant films who usually can't afford to pay a unionized crew. They also like to prevent unionized writers/directors from having creative freedom with their movies. A classic example of this is George Lucas being fined by the Directors Guild of America for refusing to have a standard title sequence in his Star Wars films, the reason why he then quit the guild. Recently, Robert Rodríguez resigned from the guild before starting work on Sin City. Rodríguez insisted that Sin City's author, Frank Miller, receive a "co-director" credit with him because he considered the visual style of Miller's comic art to be just as important as his own in the film. However, the Directors' Guild of America would not allow it, citing that only "legitimate teams" could share the director's credit (i.e. the Wachowski Brothers). So in other words, the unions require a bit of strictness and a bit of money. This makes it easy to be anti-union, at least when it comes to film-making.

For the past several weeks I have been making a video for the Eden Computer Clubhouse. None of you will ever see this video. Not because I don't want you to, but because of a privacy issue with Intel and the fact that there are children at this place. And I can understand that, it's probably not a good idea for minor's faces put up all over the internet without their knowing...unless of course Intel decides to do it but anyway. I don't get to keep my work, my peice of art. Its for a legal reason and I can respect that.

However, not only am I not allowed to keep my work, but I can't even put my name on it. Now, I should be able to do that, right? If Intel wanted to pay some artist to paint a painting for the main lobby of their main campus that artist would put his signiture on it, right? So, sometimes I wish I were a member of the Directors Guild of America so they could use their union might to force the boss to put my name on the movie where it belongs.

Maybe I should just get to know Harvey and Bob Weinstein.

There's Robert with the Weinsteins. I was listening to his commentary on Desperado, and even though I don't plan on ever making movies like him...I still think that I will be making movies in his style. In other words, I would want to hold the camera, I would want to edit. I just hope that I could do better than Spy Kids. But I got the distict feeling from the commentary like he wanted as many people as possible to get into the buisness. He said, "I hope to meet you someday." And, I hope to meet you too Robert.

Anyway...Summer is officially over. School's back up which means two things. Even though I slacked off towards the end...towards the begining even...I no longer have to write a whole review for each movie I see. But I will add the little mini reviews. We'll get to those in a minute. The other thing is, I have an english class. This means essays. Tons and tons of essays. And this blog will be the peer review epicenter. So get ready for that. Now on with the (mini)Reviews!

Saw Broken Flowers. Was cool.
And Elevator to the Gallows. Was cool.
Also saw The Aristocrats. Was cool.

Wow, 3 was cools. Go see them if you can. Also, I saw all 3 of those at landmark theaters. Landmark is getting pretty cheap now, they don't even give you tickets. They just print out shit on recipt paper. That's not cool! Anyway, I think I've written enough here. If this post doesn't make sense, it's cause it was written over a span of a week or two. No more than 3 words at a time, really...anyway talk to ya later.

reporting for dir-duty.

2005-08-14T23:34:00.000-07:00

So, I've been promising the Edness a post. I supose you could call it the other half of my birthday present. The matiral one was, well, the fufillment of a promise. An iPod case. It matches his new hat and his sunglasses.

(I can't belive he didn't get one before his birthday though--I told him I might get one in March! Weaaak.)

And he was so kind as to backup my music too, including my techno. Uh, shit, I owe Ed much. Uh, does eveyone else love techno?

Or at least StrongBad techno!

It's amazing how long that crazy wrestler dude has been around in terms of internet time. Ages and ages and ages, amen. His stuff has been around and even sold in Eudimonia, in Berkely. His were the first bags I've ever seen there, but now...now there is a new fish in the pond. The Cthulu plushie bag! Imagine this man as, well, a bag!

It's the most adorable bit of wrong I've ever seen!

Anyway. My battery is dying, your eyes are bleeding, my work is done. See you next time as I show you how to make brains to cure that zombie itch!

I'm the cutting edge! whoopty doo.

2005-08-11T20:41:00.000-07:00

the Cutting Edge
(57% dark, 53% spontaneous, 36% vulgar)

your humor style:
CLEAN | SPONTANEOUS | DARK

Your humor's mostly innocent and off-the-cuff, but somehow there's
something slightly menacing about you. Part of your humor is making
people a little uncomfortable, even if the things you say aren't
themselves confrontational. You probably have a very dry delivery, or
are seriously over-the-top.

Your type is the most likely to appreciate a good insult and/or broken bone and/or very very fat person dancing.

PEOPLE LIKE YOU: David Letterman - John Belushi

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 67% on dark
You scored higher than 77% on spontaneous
You scored higher than 66% on vulgar

Link: The 3 Variable Funny Test written by jason_bateman on Ok Cupid

Highway to the DANGER ZONE!

2005-08-07T00:17:00.000-07:00

Okay, I didn't get all the guest posts I wanted (I still expect them soon, so you should too) but I think it's safe to say it's time I returned to the blogosphere.

It's a bit late in the game for me to attempt any type of movie reviews. How bout a quickie two second review for each of the movies I've seen since I last reviewed? Okay!

Batman Begins
Awesome.

Howl's Moving Castle
Awesome.

War of the Worlds
AWESOME!

Uh...

March of the Penguins
Not bad...

Sky High
Pretty Clever.

Wedding Crashers
Felt 1980s...but not bad. Vince Vaughn needs to do more coke.

Hustle and Flow
I miss when the clubhouse was like that.

Okay moving on...

Other things that have happened since I last blogged frequently...

THE KIDS AT TF GRADUATED! Good for them, whoo. Too long ago to remember anything worth talking about...There are pictures but...hmm...I'm lazy.

FANIME! Was fun, but I tore up my feet and didn't really buy anything...Got hooked on at least two (COUNT 'EM, TWO!) shows. Yakitate! Japan and BECK. I also saw a show with Guu in the title...which I haven't really got hooked on until now. May talk about it later. There are pictures from Fanime, but I'm lazy.

HARRY POTTER! zOMG!~ SPOILERS \/

I went to the Harry Potter book selling thing at midnight with Connie, Isabel and Sarah. It was fun. Though I didn't buy the book because I had already pre-ordered it and it would be on my front door later that day. There was one of those spaghetti band things...or whatever they are, that said I was there...But I was stupid and Sarah kept it...Hopefully someday I'll get that thing. There are pictures but I'm lazy.

I got my wisdom teeth pulled. Two of them anyway. Of course, this is the reason for the guest postage you've been into lately if you're reading my blog. Which you probably aren't. Sigh. Anyway, I was on drugs so, guest posts are fun. I FRICKIN LOURVE VICODIN! Only when I need it though. Strangely enough there aren't any pictures of this. You'd think I'd take a photo of all the blood in the toilet, but I was just too out of it. Oh well, your loss I suppose.

And finally, my birthday. August 6th, 2005. 60 years ago, this was a time of horrific tradgedy. The first time an atomic weapon was ever used against living people. Being born 40 years after such an event...well. I guess I should start to get used to my birthdays sucking for the rest of my life. Just to make things easier. It was still pretty fun, even if things did go terribly wrong. There are pictures, and since it's fresh in my mind, I will share them with you.

Take note the size of my hips compared to the others'...

This was this morning, before we left for Paramount's Great America. Long story short, I was too fat to ride the rides. So I sat and waited while my dad, my cousin and her uh, whatever you want to call him actually rode the rides. I am very glad I made it a family affair. I would not have had fun in this situation if it were my friends riding the rides without me...

But it wasn't all bad. I had fun, still. I could ride the log ride.

Also, since I wasn't doing the rides, I got to enjoy carnie stuff a bit more. Dad started it by winning a football. Then I followed that by winning a basketball (way cooler than a football). Which was followed by Shauna winning a Homer Simpson Doll. Which was then followed by dad winning a fruity stingray. And then finally I won a pimp hat playing the guess your weight game.

Guess your weight game after being kicked off of roller coasters 'cause I was too fat. Isn't it ironic?

I'm usually pretty good at the guess your weight thing. Means I look better than I actually am...Don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing, but hey whatever. However, it was no contest as this girl doing the guessing was a fucking retard. No offence, nice girl and all...but she could not guess a persons age, weight or birthday. Not even close. I thought I had a good chance at winning the guess your birthday game, who would have guessed it was actually my birthday? But it was easiest to win with weight. And I wanted that pimp hat.

Dispite my weight problem, I had a good time at Great America. I just have to remember never to go back until I either lose 150 pounds or shrink a few feet in height. There were people fatter than me getting on the rides, but because they were short they could do it. Kinda sucks, you know? I got a kick out of the sign that said "Unusually proportioned people may not be able to ride this ride" even if it did almost feel like a "whites only" sign. Made me want to sue the bastards...

In the end we didn't complain though. Far too tired. Dad actually rode all the rides. Good for him.

I learned that I want a Japanese stick shift so I can hold the wheel with my right hand. I WANNA DRIVE ON THE LEFT!

-ahem-

When we got home, mom put out a wonderful spread. Good food, and an EXCELENT CAKE! I'm talking perfect. Just look at it!

For some reason, mom has a thing for bunny-shaped cakes. Go figure. I don't care, it was fucking awesome cake.

There were strawberries and ice cream and wonderful frosting...mmmmMMMmmMMMmMMmMmmMMMMM.

I liked it.

-ahem-

And mom actually got 20 candles for me! I don't think I've ever had a birthday cake with candles shaped like numbers on it before. It was nice. I love my mom so much.

Me with my pimp sombrero

Just check out my shwag!

Sorry about the pantslessness.

And that was my birthday. I feel bad for being responsible for so much money being spent...I feel bad that I chose to go to Great America, somehow having the idea that I haven't grown in 5 years...But no more dwelling on Bad News Bears. There were two (COUNT 'EM, TWO!) posters for the new movie at the place. TWO! Jeez. I'm out for now, ya'll.

Angie I still expect a guest post from you. You don't have to make a pulitzer prize winning blog post okay? Just make a damn post already!

Tim! I know you have had some trouble getting online lately, but I'd still like a guest post from you if you can manage it.

Isabel! Need one from you too. Get off your lazy ass, gurl!

And with that, I say goodnight.

Is President Bush a Sith?

2005-07-22T12:14:00.000-07:00

Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

I FRICKIN LURVE VICODIN! WHOOOOsh!

yeh its sarah

2005-07-15T19:47:00.000-07:00

okay so i'm making this guest post for ed, cause i've owed it to him since way back around christmas time. i think when he got his wisdom teeth out, or something.

tonight ed's going on an adventure to visit the new harry potter book. i've yet to read the second book, still. haven't seen any of the movies.... and i'm a little proud of that. but shhh. don't tell ed. he's awfully proud that he's going out to the bookstore at midnight for this, even though he's getting the book sent to him tommorrow. which is cool. i'd go to the bookstore at midnight, too, if i lived in san francisco. and i was invited. *nods*

i'm throwing these seductive looks at my boyfriend, but he's too into his stupid football game (might i add... he's winning. 75 to 0.) to notice. oh well. his loss.

i'm annoyed and kind of tired so i'm off to bed now. g'nite

WAITWAITWAIT*EDITTTTTTTTTTTTTTT*

the favourite girl from ohio is me. AND HER BOYFRIEND is not my boyfriend. not since december. you really should fix that, ed.... *wink*

And here I am!

2005-07-10T19:31:00.000-07:00

I'm doing another guest appearance for Ed! Its me... Celey! The great and powerful! THE CUTEST! The wonderful! *Dances* I've come to say hello and... Umm... Hello! Yeah. So, how about I start this off with... AN INTERVIEW! *Turns into two separate Celeys*

Celey 2: So, Celey... Tell me about yourself.

Me: Well, I'm cute, bouncy, sugary, fun, happy, and I like sugar!

Celey 2: You really like sugar, then?

Me: Like it? I love it! ... I want some more of it... //@.@\\'

Celey 2: Err... okay. So, then... How come I am Celey 2 and you are just 'Me'? I want to be Celey #1!

Me: Too bad. I'm #1!

Celey 2: But I wanna be #1!

Me: *Knocks other self out and puts her in the declonification chamber* Yeah. That's the problem with creating copies of yourself. //^_^\\... Well, see ya everyone! Enjoy Ed's blog! Oh, and enjoy my blog, too! Because its new...

[blogging] is not an exact science. It doesn't deal in time schedules.

2005-06-30T18:05:00.000-07:00

You: The [blog audience] is not a patient [entity], [the entity] demands constant reports and [the entity] expects progress! You led me to believe--
Me: Nothing! I made no promises! I only said it looked very favorable.

Okay, I know, I'm slacking. Deal with it! I'll get to the good stuff eventually. Right?

Of course.

So, what am I writing about this time, instead of what I said I'd be writing about? Well, I'm writing about this wonderful news I have for all none of you who clicked my google ads. My hard work has paid off!

Check this shit out!~ Get it? Check? Haha!

ISN'T THAT AWESOME!?

Yeah! That is!

It's all thanks to me too. My writing has, over the last 8 months, generated enough clicks to earn me $110.15!~

For Germans, that's 125.9234 Euros.
For 日本人, that's 14948.0485円.
And for all the unknowns, it's cheese.

Thanks yous guys. I'll buy you a drink some time.

Oh, and everyone, I'd like to point you to this page at video.google.com/. Notice anything there? I hope so. Hehehehehehehehehehhehehehehehehe.

We've got the shire

2005-06-28T18:11:00.000-07:00

  INT. EDEN CLUBHOUSE - DAY

 A PERSON is sitting at the GREEN TABLE, minding their own
 business when a SECOND PERSON walks in.

                     PERSON #2
               (To Person #1)
           I challenge you to a game of Chess!

                     PERSON #1
           Alright...

 They set up a chess board and begin playing.



 INT. EDEN CLUBHOUSE - MOMENTS LATER

 Person #2 seems tense and wipes their face of sweat.  Person
 #1 appears relaxed.  Person #1 wipes his nose, moves the
 final piece.  He snaps his fingers as he says:

                     PERSON #1
           Checkmate!

                                           FADE TO BLACK.



 THE END

Yahoo Serious Strikes Again!

2005-06-26T13:59:00.000-07:00

Oh my god, you guys. I'm scared.

I know I have better blog posts I should be writing, but I just saw something that brought back a memory of that fateful day on our trip to Seattle.

There is an Outback Steakhouse Airship.

I hope I don't have to remind you that the Outback Steakhouse is secretly controlled by Yahoo Serious.

This bilmp is clearly a plot to search the globe for me and my two companions for stumbling onto the plot of the Yahoo Serious Iced Tea that they provide. They tried to kill us there, serving Tim some dastardly cinimon apples, which could only contain the essense of Yahoo Serious' loins.

But I'm on to them, because I saw their blimp and they're no where near me or Isabel or Tim. They'll never find us.

How did I discover this? Well, I'm at my Uncle Dave's house today, it is also my mother's birthday today. (Happy Birthday, Mom!) But these people here aparently like golf. Don't ask me why, it seems a silly and wasteful sport. But they are watching it. They're watching some kind of female amateur leauge game or something. The girls aren't bad looking. I suspect they wouldn't be on TV if they weren't. But lucky for us, we were given a shot of the Airship in question. This PGA tour is in New York, so they're toally in the wrong place if they want to find us.

I am now going to engage in anti-blimp action.

I cut my hair.

I am going to wear a hat.

No one can recognize me from above now. As it should be.

That ought'a hold em for a while.

So, what is it I have to do now for the future? Ah yes. Fanime, TechFutures Graduation, Howl's Moving Castle and Batman Begins. Also, I suspect in the next few days I'll be seeing War of the Worlds and maybe even Land of the Dead, which I have recently become interested in seeing. We'll see what happens though.

God it feels good not to have too much hair. Ahhhh....

Oh and I just noticed something. For the first time I've ever noticed, we have multi-lingual visitors of this blog!

Check it out!

To you Japanese visitors, Irasshai mase! (I would type it out, but I'm on my uncle's comptuer)
To all you German visitors, Willkommen zu meinem blog!

And to all you unknown languaged peoples out there, Niq flawt Qarnday blanrdro floo!

If you kill him, he wont learn nothin'!

2005-06-17T23:59:00.000-07:00

Okay, what was it I was supposed to do?
5
I said the next post was supposed to be about fanime, but then I remembered that I have some pictures from the line at star wars. Don't ya'll wanna see that and all its geekyness?
0
You might say, "sometimes you don't even remember your name. What could make you remember this?"
5
Well, I was browsing Slashdot and found this article from the New York Times:
5
And that is not the only aspect of "Episode III" that you will see in a different light. If you watch the movie without doing the prep work, General Grievous - who is supposed to be one of the most formidable bad guys in the entire "Star Wars" cycle - will seem like something that just fell out of a Happy Meal.
2
Likewise, many have been underwhelmed by the performance of Hayden Christensen, who plays Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader. Only if you've seen the "Clone Wars" cartoons will you understand that Anakin is a seriously damaged veteran, a poster child for post-traumatic stress disorder. But since none of that background is actually supplied by the Episode III script, Mr. Christensen has been given an impossible acting task. He's trying to swim in air.
4
In sum, very little of the new film makes sense, taken as a freestanding narrative. What's interesting about this is how little it matters. Millions of people are happily spending their money to watch a movie they don't understand. What gives?
9
I'm not sure, exactly. But I love it. I'm pretty sure I'm both vegging out and geeking out though. Speaking of geeking out. Hey, let's look at those pictures.
2

OMG no traffic!

Come on, White Fang, you can take em! Don't be emasculated!

Connie is about to go apeshit on Jack London's cabin...

Bird!

front of the line

Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?

obi-trice and darth vizzader
(右ー左)

What do YOU do in line?

Me and Geoff...and maybe the last time I saw my umbrella...

Connie!

Woov

clash of the ...

duel

Geoff and rave saber spoons

And finally

garbage

Okay. Now I have finished talking about Star Wars. At least for a little while. I hope you (all none of you) have enjoyed it. Now you have to look forward to a fanime report, TechFuture's Class of 2005 Graduation and reviews for Howl's Moving Castle and Batman Begins.