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Dear God

Got these letters from Fresh99:

  • Dear God. Are you really invisible or is that just a trick – Lucy
  • Dear God, Thank you for the baby brother but what I prayed for was a puppy – Joyce
  • Dear God, Did you mean for giraffe to look like that or was it an accident. – Norma
  • Dear God, Please Send Dennis Clark to a different camp this year. – Peter
  • Dear God, Instead of Letting people die and having to Make new ones Why don’t you just Keep the ones you got now? – Jane
  • Dear God, I went to this wedding and they kissed right in church Is that Ok? – Neil
  • Dear God In bible times did they really talk that fancy? – Jennifer
  • Dear God – Please put another Holidy between Christmas and Easter. There is nothing good in there now. – Ginny
  • Dear God if we come back as something please dont let me be Jennifer Horton because I hate her. – Denise
  • Dear God, If you give me genie lamp like Alladin I will give you anything you want except my money or my chess set. – Raphael
  • Dear God, I Keep waiting for Spring but it never come yet. Don’t forget. – Mark
  • You don’t have to worry about me. I always look both ways – Dean
  • Dear God, I bet it is very hard. for you to love all of everybody in the whole world There are only 4 people in our family and I can never do it. – Nan
  • Dear God, If you watch in Church on Sunday I will show you my new Shoes – Mickey D.
  • Dear God, If you let The dinasor not exstinct we would not have a country. You did the right thing. – Jonathan
  • Dear God, I do not think anybody could be a better God. Well I just want you to know but I am not just saying that because you are God – Charles

You know the last kid is going to be a great cars salesman.

This site also has kama sutra clothing advertisements (NOT WORK SAFE) (from deadlock). Ads for a youth clothing company in the UK. Pretty creative marketing I must admit.

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Interesting Song Meanings

So I went to lunch today with Jeremy. While we were driving there, we heard a Journey song on the radio and we got into a conversation of 80’s music. Well, it was more like him talking and me listening since I really didn’t have much background in 80’s music besides the fact I like listening to them. I hope I got the year right at least and crossing my fingers that they aren’t really 70’s music.

One of the interesting topics that came up was the meaning behind some of these songs. The most famous song that has been confused to be a love song is Police – Every Breath You Take:

Every breath you take
Every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
I’ll be watching you

Every single day
Every word you say
Every game you play
Every night you stay
I’ll be watching you

Oh, can’t you see
You belong to me
How my poor heart aches
With every step you take

Every move you make
Every vow you break
Every smile you fake
Every claim you stake
I’ll be watching you

Since you’ve gone I been lost without a trace
I dream at night I can only see your face
I look around but it’s you I can’t replace
I feel so cold and I long for your embrace
I keep crying baby, baby, please…

Oh, can’t you see
You belong to me
How my poor heart aches
With every breath you take

Every move you make
Every vow you break
Every smile you fake
Every claim you stake
I’ll be watching you

Every move you make
Every step you take
I’ll be watching you

I’ll be watching you
I’ll be watching you
I’ll be watching you
I’ll be watching you…

If you read the lyrics carefully, it’s a stalking song. He just got dumped and now he’s stalking her. And Jeromy brings up the fact it’s funny that many people play this song at their wedding.

Another song that came up during discussion was Billy Joel – Only The Good Die Young:

Come out Virginia, don’t let me wait
You Catholic girls start much too late
Ah but sooner or later it comes down to fate
I might as well, will be the one

Well they showed you a statue and told you to pray
They built you a temple and locked you away
Ah but they never told you the price that you pay
For things that you might have done

Only the good die young
That’s what I said
Only the good die young
Only the good die young

You might have heard I run with a dangerous crowd
We ain’t too pretty, we ain’t too proud
We might be laughing a bit too loud
Ah but that never hurt noone

So come on Virginia show me a sign
Send up a signal I’ll throw you a line
That stained glass curtain you’re hiding behind
Never lets in the sun

Darlin only the good die young
I tell you only the good die young
Only the good die young

You get a nice white dress
And a party on your confirmation
You’ve got a brand new soul
Mm and a cross of gold
But Virginia they didn’t give you
Quite enough information
You didn’t count on me
When you were counting on your rosary
And they say there’s a heaven for those who will wait
Some say it’s better but I say it ain’t

I’d rather laugh with the sinners
Than cry with the saints
The sinners are much more fun

You know that only the good die young
I tell you only the good die young
Only the good die young

You said your mother told you
All I could give you was a reputation
Ah she never cared for me
But did she ever say a prayer for me?

Come out, come out, come out Virginia
Don’t let me wait
You Catholic girls start much too late
Sooner or later it comes down to fate
I might as well, will be the one
You know that only the good die young
Tell you baby
You know that only the good die young

This was just a song about Billy Joel tryign to get into the pants of a Catholic girl. Haha.

For me, I just listen to music for the melody. The lyrics are just icing and if a songs good, I don’t really care for the lyrics.

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Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000

So I went to the Microsoft Company Store today because I had to pick up a copy of Windows XP. I’ve been waiting for the company store to stock more Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 for some time. They were available online, but required extra for shipping, which being a bargain hunter was a sin if you could get it cheaper locally. So I finally waited long enough and it’s finally here. I’ve been using a Natural keyboard at work for sometime. It’s pretty nice on the wrist and it didn’t take too long to get use to. I have this decent Logitech “normal” keyboard at home and I was able to swap between them without much problems. However I HATED the fact that the Logitech island was vertical. Many new keyboards are doing this and I HATE IT!!! By island, I mean the set of keys that consist of Insert, Delete, Home, End, Page Up, and Page Down. Also, the Logitech made the Delete key bigger (2 button size worth) and shited the Insert key to the scroll lock key.

The Natural 4000 is got it right. The island is correct and I actually like the feel of my wrist on it. They have this soft foam like thing where my wrist rests on and I personally thing the bottom of my palms are in a more relaxes position then even with gel wristrests. Then again, it could also be psychological since I paid $25 for this keyboard. Haha.

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Anime DVDs

So I get a call this afternoon from my apartment complex. I was in the middle of work, so I didn’t pick up the call, but the manager left me a message saying I had several packages here, 2 which have been here for quite some time and that I needed to pick it up or else they’ll be shipping it back. What’s funny was I’ve been to the office multiple times already to pick up packages (usually UPS or FedEx leaves me a note), and they’ve never mentioned that I had extra packages. I called back and ask if it would be okay for me to drop by around 3-4 to pick up theses mysterious packages. I really had no idea what they were.

Turns out that I’ve forgotten all about these orders.
1. PQI 512MB SD Card (got this for my uncle who only has a 16MB card for his canon SD300. i think it was like $20 shipped or something @ outpost.com)
2. Philips MMS430 2.1 Speakers (I don’t even remember ordering these. haha!)
3. ADV Films Anime DVDs

I had actually believed my ADV Films order was returned because FedEx told me the package was damaged and they returned it to the sender and I was to contact ADV Films to resolve this. What ended up happening was my emails never got returned and I ended up disputing the charges and either they refunded the money or the dispute went through. I never heard from them again, so I assumed they didn’t bother reshipping the DVDs to me.

So I was surprised to actually see this package today. However, now with the tracking # and reference #, which ADV Films never bother telling me, I see that one of the package was delivered on 10/5/2005 and the other was returned to sender on 10/6/2005. The 2nd package I believe were wall scrolls, which I couldn’t find in this box. Do note, this was ordered way back on Labor Day weekend and with no response from ADV Films, I had no choice but to dispute the charges. Anyway, let’s see what’ll happen.

Anyway, now with the goodies:

noir
Noir DVD 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 + Box + T-Shirt – Noir is a very dark anime about an underground society which runs the world called Soldats. An analogous group would be the Free Masonry with all this Da Vinci Code hype recently. Among this group, they have 2 elite assassins called Noir. Both have somewhat of a hazy memory of their past, but they excel at what they do: killing. Story line was great, but what made this series even better was the soundtrack. It had one amazing soundtrack which I just can’t describe in words about how great it is. If you want to check out one of my favorite songs from Noir, check out Canta Per Me. If you like it, you might want to check out the rest of the 1st soundtrack of Noir.

full metal panic
Full Metal Panic DVD 1, 6 + Box – Full Metal Panic is a really short but fast pace and fun anime. It mixes up robots with high school girls, a plus for most anime geeks. It’s about a boy, who knows nothing besides fighting and war because he was a soldier since a very young age. Now he tries to adapt to a regular society to protect someone as a mission and as you can imagine, he’s having a hell of a problem trying to cope with regular life. If you enjoy Full Metal Panic, you MUST check out Full Metal Panic Fumoffu (a bunch of short stories which are hilarious) and Full Metal Panic – The Second Raid (the 2nd season of FMP).

neon genesis evangelion
Neon Genesis Evangelion DVD 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, Resurrection, Genesis Reborn – NGE has always been one of those controversial animes. It had a great beginning. Aliens were attacking earth and the only way to stop them were these robots. However, these robots requires special pilots that could somehow link/connect with it spiritually. However, as the series went out, it got really weird and the ending was just disastrous with you staring at the screen asking yourself… what happend?

azumanga diaoh
Azumanga Diaoh DVD 1,3 + Box – I’ve just started watching Azumanga Diaoh, though I’ve been recommended to watch it a billion times. Some of my friends are shocked I haven’t watched it yet. I’m shocked myself after watching the 1st few episodes on how I was able to let this slip by for so long. Azumanga Diaoh is about a bunch of high school girls and their daily lifes. However, it’s so funny and so cute at the same time. There’s this girl that’s obsessed with kittens (not sure why) and stuff animals (all her stuff animals are SOOOOO cute). I’d admit the kittens drawn on this anime are super cute. Then there’s another girl who’s like a super genius, entering high school at the age of something like 10. She has these bouncy pony tails and some are trying to figure out why they keep bouncing. Then there’s another girl who transferred from Osaka. Not exactly sure why she transferred but she’s a dud. She tries to concentrate but the only thing she can do is concentrate on trying to concentrate. It’s a hilarious series and I’m trying to watch it along with the new stuff that’s coming out. Sorta like Detective Conan, it’s all going to be watched some day.

samurai x
Rurouni Kenshin DVD Trust, Betrayal, Reflection – If you know me, I’m a big Kenshin nut. That’s where my (^_^x) smiely comes from. I actually own the Trust and Betrayal DVD already, but the Reflection DVD by itself was like $7 and for $8 more, I could get 2 more DVDs + the box, so I thought it was a better deal. For those that own the Kenshin OVAs, did you know if you don’t like the Samurai X DVD covers, you can take them out and invert them and it’ll become the Japanese cover showing Rurouni Kenshin (るろうに剣心). Kenshin is still my favorite anime of all time. I still remember waiting in IRC channels waiting for the next episode to be released. This was so far back, they only had VHS rips and the quality was pretty bad and was encoded in .rm format. Each file was about 50megs and I had to d/l them on 36.6kbps and later on 56k. It was like crack. I was totally addicted to it. It’s pretty hard to find an anime series that has that effect on me nowadays. Not even Naruto.

gawl and noir lunch box
So they were giving away free gifts during the labor day sale and apparently I got a Gawl DVD and Noir lunch box. Pretty neat, but I’ve never heard of Gawl. The Noir lunch box is pretty nice though.

What Grinds My Gears: DVD Pakaging. I’ve always liked opening new packages, but when opening a new package becomes work, that’s past the line. I like the fresh new smell of DVD, but besides the outside plastic layer, they have an additional 3 tapes on each side of the case which I have to rip off before I can get to the DVD itself. And these tapes aren’t just some wimpy tape, these are some strong security tape. Takes me like 3 minutes before I can actually rip them all off. Plus they don’t always rip off nicely. Sometimes they leave the sticky gooey stuff on the cover. grrrrrrrrrrrrr.

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Bloodhound Gang – Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo

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

Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo

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).

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pya! FLOOD

First check out my browser with all my pya! tabs. This was a little less than a 3rd of what I browsed through today:

pya! tabs

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!

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Fable on my new 24″ LCD

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
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1280×768
fable

1280×960
fable

1360×768
fable

1360×1024
fable

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.

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Stuck On You

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.

Stuck On You

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.

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Howl’s Moving Castle

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.

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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.

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Initial D Fourth Stage Episodes 19 and 20

So two new Initial D Fourth Stage episodes were fansubbed by ProjectD recently.

Episode 19 – God Foot and God Arm

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Episode 20 – Transcendant GT-R!

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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…