After eliminating all other possibilities, the one remaining-no matter how unlikely-must be the truth.
Remember their one-hit wonder back in 1995 – The Bad Touch. If you still don’t remember, here’s part of their famous chorus:
You and me baby ain’t nothin’ but mammals
So let’s do it like they do on the Discovery Channel
Well, looks like Bloodhound Gang‘s back in town with another hit, though not as great as The Bad Touch in my opinion: Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo. The song’s pretty catchy and if you want, you can watch the music video here (NOT WORK SAFE).
First check out my browser with all my pya! tabs. This was a little less than a 3rd of what I browsed through today:
It’s been awhile since I posted pya! stuff, so here’s the pya! FLOOD!
(img) Windows FanClub
(img) ハロウィン – Halloween Pumpkins – a great assortment of different jack-o-laterns.
(img) ボート – Boat in the middle of Beauty – wow! the scenery is so beautiful!
(vid) 武道家たち – Kung Fu Bloopers – a funny compilation of martial arts mishaps.
(vid) 出来る男 – Handsome Young Man – a parody commercial for Microsoft Live Meeting.
(img) パラパラ – Baby Puppies – they’re so cute!
(img) 回りゃいい – Extended Wheel – when you’re too cheap to see a mechanic.
(img) 降りれないnya… – What if I fall? – a cat ponders to jump or not.
(img) 何億？- Line of Ferraris
(img) レーシングゲーム – Racing Game – when modding goes beyond just the computer.
(img) トラップ – Trap – looking at the image, wouldn’t the door open the incorrect way?
(img) バット – Giant Baseball Bat
(img) 隊員 – Female Soldiers – Choose a country. Take your pick.
(vid) 炎上した車が・・・ – Flaming HotWheel – … enters your butt.
(img) トランスフォーマー – Transformer – from a Subaru WRX.
(vid) (=ﾟωﾟ)ﾉぃょぅnya – Cute Kittens
(flash) マイケルブラザーズ – Michael Brothers – a parody flash between the Michael Jackson game and Super Mario Brothers. Do remember to hit ‘B’ at the end.
(img) キックキックキックキック – Kick Kick Kick Kick – real female street fighters.
(img) 「……」 「……」 – Big faces on top of Tall Cliffs
Random Crap:
What Grinds My Gears: (from msticazn) You ever had to remote desktop from a machine with a different screen resolution to your main computer? Welp, notice how your desktop icons get screwed up? On top of that, they also screw up the window sizings, where my aim buddy list would be shrunk to fit on a smaller resolution. I really wish there was a way where window and desktop icon settings would be saved per resolution size. Maybe I should suggest that to the Terminal Services group. Now that sounds like an idea!
Ask Ars: baby monitors vetted by geeks – You know you’re a geek when you read that and think of tiny portable LCDs.
Bargain-Hunting Tips: Shower With the Dog – One, possibly embittered, contestant advised: “Do not give money to your wife. Do not give money to your wife. Do not give money to your wife. Get the hint!” I like how this guy thinks! Women, meanwhile, were advised to spend their husband’s money and save theirs, to confiscate their husband’s credit cards and avoid the misery of marrying a skinflint. See! Women are evil! They take money from men so they don’t have to use their own. On the other hand, the men’s advice was to keep money away from the women, not take money from them.
‘Sick worker’ malady may be early RSI sign – Early nerve damage caused by repetitive motion on the job can cause “sick worker” syndrome, a fatigue or depression that can be mistaken for poor work performance, according to a study published in this month’s Journal of Neuroimmunology. So that’s why programmers so easily get sidetracked! And I thought it was because of the internet.
Waterbed Prank (from deadlock) – hilarious video of people at a furniture store testing out beds and this water bed is REALLY WATER!
How to become l33t (from tera) – How to become a l33t person, a status that will bring you friends, glory, money and most importantly the funding to buy lots and lots of boxen and give you access to what you want whenever you want … l33t means elite, the “best of the best”. For some people, the n00bs, l33t and n00b means nothing. If you do not understand n00b and l33t, you are a n00b. n00bs are not allowed to read this page, go away!
So I didn’t really get a chance to play Fable this weekend. Surprise? Haha. Though I did want to see how it’d look on my new screen. I tested with the following resolutions:
1280×720
1280×768
1280×960
1360×768
1360×1024
There was 1600×1200 and 1920×1080. At 1600×1200, my screen would be all black. Not too sure which was crapping out, either my monitor or my video card. I’m guessing my monitor doesn’t want to support 1600×1200 or maybe the resolution’s a bit too high for my video card to handle for the game. Since my monitor could only support up to 1900×1200, 1920×1080 was beyond the range of support, so it immediately threw an error. The 1360 resolutions were actually set to 1900×1200, but the image wouldn’t stretch to fill the screen but had black borders around it. The 1280 resolutions were the largest resolutions to stretch the entire screen, and the screenshots don’t really do it justice. Try stretching it to 1900×1200 and you’ll see what I see. Though I just realized 1900×1200 is a really odd ratio. 19 to 12 and there’s really no other resolution with that ratio. Also as artemyst noted, my butt’s on fire in both the 1360 resolutions.
So I finally got around to watching Stuck On You. You can watch the trailer here. It’s actually weird to Matt Damon in this type of comedy, but I thought the movie overall had a lot of good lines and funny movies. Fun and light, that’s what I like. If I had to put the movie in 1 sentence, it’s the funny version of Forrest Gump, but Forrest Gump is a conjoined twin.
Spoilers:
The story’s about a conjoined twin played by Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear and how they’ve gone through life together. What they’ve accomplished is amazing, but not quite yet at Forrest Gump level. Then Walt wants to go to Hollywood to pursue his acting career, Bob has his reservations. However till then, they’ve never held each other back, but always supported each others dreams and goals and have always suceeded. So their adventure continues to Hollywood and that’s when Walt sees the reality of it, but Bob on the other hand makes fun of Walt for giving up so fast. So the struggle continues and the story brings in brotherhood, girl friends, career successes and failures, and finally the finale where they… I won’t ruin it for you if you haven’t seen it. If you have, you shouldn’t be reading this.
I’ve been wanting to see Hayao Miyazaki’s newest animation film: Howl’s Moving Castle (ハウルの動く城). You can watch the trailer here. After rewatching the trailer, I just warn you, it does somewhat reveal the ending… There’s also some interesting media you can download from Online Ghibli.
This animation was amazing. It was very light weight and not too dark like his other pieces of work (i.e. Spirited Away). There is a an underlying moral statement, but I’d let you figure it out yourself.
Spoilers:
It was a world full of wizards and witches. A young lady somehow gets involved between the dispute of Howl and Witch of the Waste, and the Witch of the Waste puts a curse on her. The curse turns her into an old lady and forbids her to reveal the curse to anyone. So she enters the land of wizards and witches in seek for someone to help her remove the curse. On her journey, she meets a magical scarecrow which leads her to Howl’s moving castle. There she meets Calcifer, a talking flame. He’s so cute!!! She also meets Mark, a young apprentice of Howl’s and he’s so cute too!!! Everything in this movies is so cute!!! Meanwhile, the country is calling in all wizards and witches to aid them in the war, and Howl was also requested. The story moves on from there. I won’t reveal anything more, besides the fact you get to meet a cute puppy named Heen.
I do have to say, the old lady quite resembles the old lady from Spirited Away.
So two new Initial D Fourth Stage episodes were fansubbed by ProjectD recently.
Episode 19 – God Foot and God Arm
Episode 20 – Transcendant GT-R!
Spoilers:
These 2 episodes didn’t even complete 1 battle, but it had a nice setup. Purple Shadow is the team Project D is competing against this time. One is known as God Foot for his godly acceleration skills. The other is known as God Arm for his godly handling skills. Even though both of them are quite old (mid 30s I’m supposing), they don’t lack any skills to compete against the youngsters. God Foot drives a Nissan GT-R. He started with a 32 and loved it. Then he upgraded to 33 and found it to be lacking and bought a new 32 afterwards. Now he has the 34 and that fixed all the little nuiances he noticed about the 32 and loves it even more. Ryousuke’s advice to Keisuke is to keep a 7 second margin on his uphill battle and try to take over during the downhill battle since he’ll have the advantage then. Another interesting fact revealed about God Foot is that if he concentrates too hard, he’ll race without braking.
Can’t wait to see the next 2 installments, but that’ll be in 2 months. Sigh…
So I ordered an grilled eggplant and bell pepper sandwich for dinner tonight and CDMCC asks me if I liked eggplants. I said they’re usually pretty good when cooked correctly. Elizabeth chimes in and says, “Who doesn’t like eggplants?” CDMCC chuckles and says he doesn’t hate eggplants but dislikes them. I’m going, someone else recently told me he didn’t like eggplants too. So I’m racking through my brain trying to remember who it was. I finally just assumed it was Vandel since he visited here recently and it could’ve been him. Elizabeth says it’s most likely Vandel too since Vandel and CDMCC are so similar in habits, likes and dislikes.
However, on my drive home, I finally remember who it was! It was Tekman, my colleague at work. We were at some chinese restaurant for lunch and another colleauge orders stir fry eggplants or something like that and he looked pretty disgusted. But I don’t blame him. He’s a carnivore, a pure meat eater and hates most veggies, which I would say CDMCC differs quite differently. But as this eggplant thought continued, I was thinking… Why are they called eggplants and why do some people dislike it?
From World Wide Words: The name of eggplant was given it by Europeans in the middle of the eighteenth century because the variety they knew had fruits that were the shape and size of goose eggs. That variety also had fruits that are a whitish or yellowish colour rather than the wine purple that is more familiar to us nowadays. So the sort they knew really did look as though it had fruits like eggs.
Another interesting fact is that eggplants are fruits, but just like tomatos, they are known as a vegetable.
Honestly, if I heard the name eggplant, I’d also have some weird image of what an eggplant would taste like. You’re mixing meat and vegetables here. However, I never knew of the english name till like the middle of elementary school. In my household, I’ve always known it as 茄子 and I have to say my mom makes a pretty good eggplant dish. Then again, eggplants do have a weird soft spongy texture which some may dislike. It’s really hard to think of another food with a similar type of texture.
Went to watch tony takitani (トニー滝谷) with CDMCC and Elizabeth tonight. Movie was beautifully shot and the storyline was pretty interesting. However, the movie moved awfully slow and what was only 75mins seemed like 2 hours. I actually fell asleep for a small chunk of the movie.
Spoilers:
The story starts off with some World War II background info, but it wasn’t really that important. The story really begins when a Japanese couple has a boy and mom dies a few days later. The father decided to name him Tony believing an American name will make it easier for him to survive in the new world after the World War. However, this actually made him an outcast, since many still had a grudge against the Americans for their nuclear bombings. So since early in life, Tony was secluded and alone. He was an amazing drawer and when he grew up, he ended up as a technical drawer, specialized in machines. The story then moves on to his meeting of a woman, who was obsessed with buying clothings. He really liked how the clothes complimented the woman and after a few dates, he proposed. Initally she rejected because she had already been seeing someone else and their age were 15 years apart, but she finally accepted when Tony told her what made her so special. In the beginning, Tony was fearing for life. He was no longer alone, and can’t bear to see him ever returning to that state. The wife was very content and happy with her husband, but her obsession with buying clothes continued. Then there was a accident and the story becomes extremely depressing from that point on.
It’s not a movie I’d recommend if you’re looking for something fun and light. This movie’s pretty heavy and I would suggest that you watch it when you’re not sleepy cause it’s definitely a sleep inducer if you’re even a bit tired.
Blood+ Episode 2 – Magic Words was fansubbed a few days ago.
Spoilers:
In this episode, they revealed a bit more background, though the violin playing guy is still somewhat of a mystery. I have a feeling that he’s her father somehow, but this is all based on a photo you see with him and the girl and another older woman, like a family potrait. You find out these vampire like creatures were actually experiments created by the American government and that this girl is the only tool Japan has to fight them. And I’m guessing the next few episodes will be trying to awaken the monster in Saya. Also, the man at the end making the phone call is quite interesting in that I’m thinking he’s the “other” mouse. The father’s reaction to the phone call is quite suspiciuos…
So Tekman invited me to game night last night. It was really fun. I knew a couple of them from previous poker games, but it was fun meeting new people. We broke off into 2 groups because there were 11 people and most games didn’t sustain that many people, plus if it did, it’d gone rather slowly. Half of the group went to play Puerto Rico, while the rest of us played Zendo. Zendo is quite an interesting game, but because it was moving rather slowly, I think people didn’t enjoy it much. It’s a game involving pyramids of different sizes and colors and the “master” has to think of a rule and the rest of the group has to guess what the rule is by making structures and having the master tell us if it fits his rule or not. You can read more about it at the link I provided above.
Afterwards, we played Oh Hell! It’s a game similar to spades/hearts/euchre, where it’s a card game and you have to take tricks and there’s a trump suit. It’s quite intriguing because of this rule: With 7 players, the hands are: 7 cards, then 6,5,4,3,2,1, then 2,3,4,5,6,7, for a total of 13 hands to the game. A game should take approximately 45 minutes. So at the beginning of each hand, you have to bid on how many tricks you’re going to take and you try to take that amount, no more and no less or else you don’t get the bonus points. I won’t get into the scoring and there’s multiple ways for scoring to work. You can read about it at the link above. Lets say I was suppose to lose, but because of how the bidding works, the suppose to be winner’s wife force her husband to lose by forcing him to bid something he didn’t want to.
Afterwards, poker was decided to be the game played next. It was a very bad day for me. I lost $20, pretty early in the game too! So I ended up being dedicated dealer since I didn’t want to lose any more money. But I’m still up considering I won $87 the 1st time and $3 the 2nd time.
It was a blast and I had a lot of fun last night (excluding the losing money part). One of the funnier moments of the night when was when Tekman was talking about vocabulary words and he’d say, “so I dict it and…” Everyone just stared at each other and then started cracking up. It’s like when people say “I google this, I wiki that.” Dict is short for dictionary and there’s both a command line based program and Firefox supports it too. If you still don’t understand why it’s so funny, try saying “i tried to dict this new word.”