i'll make this quick, because i gotta go sleep;

my mom said she was interviewed by the channel 26 news(chinese newscast) about saratoga library, since she works there, and the news was that they said it would close for a while, so they wanted to get opinions on it... she didn't think she'd make it onto the 10 o clock news, because they interviewed a LOT of people. then guess who we saw on the 10:00 news? i started cracking up so hard... now i can say my mom was on tv. :D

mcdonald's needs to change their commercial promoting their chicken selects... the more i watch it with the guy acting like he's hecka cool spouting these idiotic sayings about not touching his chicken selects("put down the chicken, and step away from the deliciousness" "don't touch my chicken *makes a fist*), the more i DON'T wanna go to mickeydee's. i get so annoyed watching the commercial, and the guy's face, that i wanna meet this guy in person just to smack the hell outta him. YOU'RE EATING AT FRIGGIN MICKEYDEE'S! NOT A 5 STAR HOTEL! HOW MUCH CAN THOSE DAMN THINGS COST THAT YOU DON'T WANT TO SHARE A PIECE OR SOMETHING? quite frankly, i'm NOT loving it.
*reader's note: the writer's huge angry rant against mickeydee's may be related to his tendency to get angry fairly quickly, his huge dislike of mcdonald's fast food in general, and his like of burger king. in fact, he thinks the angus diet commercial is funny, especially when the guy has a burger on one of those buddhist gardens :D*

in the grand context of things, humans have a HUGE reason to blame for why this world is so effed up. why we all pointing fingers at everybody else but ourselves? why does the majority of people act like everybody else are worse off? who knows how many problems we helped unleash upon ourselves?

i'll have to say, "guitar and drum trainer 2" has to be one of THE most useful freeware programs i've ever stumbled across on the internet. some others of note:
dBpowerAMP music converter
functional ear trainer
guitar alchemist free
-i've of course ranted a long time about hammerhead, so i won't go there, or audio phonics' guitar tuner, but guitar and drum trainer 2's really great... suits all those who try to learn guitar by playing 12 stones, creed, altar bridge quite well. btw, altar bridge cd is only 12 dollars @fry's this weekend...

here's a treat for you:
http://homepage.mac.com/thevisualedge/FileSharing4.html (of course, i'm talking about the 1st vid on the page; be prepared for a HUGE dl though)
the difference between an audience member in a rock show and a CHRISTIAN rock show is that the 1st jumps up and down with eyes open in a facial expression of rage with the horns up, and the 2nd jumps up and down w/eyes closed, facial expression in awe, and hands always in the air :)
and if you wanna learn it by ear, go dl "guitar and drum trainer 2" and "dBpowerAMP music converter;" helps some.

i think i just saw the biggest dog yet in person...

maybe 3.5 ft high on all 4s, about 5 ft in length, and was one hell of a meaty grey dog too... happily panting... riding that puny of excuse of a horse in mongolia seems wrong... like sitting upon your dog... and yet, i almost felt like you could throw a saddle upon this guy and get up on him and he'd be fine. cause he's a damn beast.

i almost yelled out "DAYAAMN!" while walking by it... it would be like owning jeremy as a pet. on a leash. without the disturbing dancing to outkast. and fobbiness. and the need to go to jusco's everytime he comes up to davis. yea...

summer session 2 is now officially ova...

bring on the pigskin... and the xvsf...

http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2004/20040903l.jpg

cracked me the hell up... yeah... acclaim sucks so much now. and to think i wasted about 3 yrs or more trying to learn the mortal kombat series... it's not even taken seriously now! only idiots who don't play a fighting game competitively would think it's so great! actually, they just suck all around period.

rogue/storm has potential; i see it. rogue requires no meter, and rushes down hard. if they try to attack rogue, they will have to eat counter-attack from storm into infinite. then just runaway for the rest of the match and chip the opponent. too bad nobody plays XvSF competitively anywhere but online anymore. but it's still fun.

i'll be back either thursday night or friday afternoon; i still don't know whether i'm lazy enough to do the 2nd or the 1st.

more sf comeback goodness; this one's a bit more older, but it's xecutioner vs justin wong in marvel vs capcom 2. watch justin comeback with a 1 pixel cable vs 2 fully healthy chars and 1 weak sentinel :D i laughed when i heard the crowd yelling "run! runaway!"

http://www.zachd.com/mvc2/comebacks/ (it's the 2nd vid)

tree63 - king, is an awesome worship song.

the evolution of your writing instrument; ever noticed this? let's just ignore the fact that we can now use typewriters or cpus; i'm talking about a writing stick. i started out using the typical no 2 ol skool pencil; i remember that taken as far back as i could go, that was my primary writing instrument; oh sure, sometimes i used a pen(for those STUUPID final drafts of elementary school papers which you needed to write in pen), but never really got into it. and i usually had alongside it a huge green eraser, because quite frankly, the pink erasers sucked ass.

then, i got older. and i got into fads more. so when i saw ppl starting to write with mechanical pencils, envy struck. i got a few. i started out with a bic 0.7(what did i know? at least they were cheap enough that my dad would actually buy them), and had the green eraser again. didn't use the black eraser, because, once you did, you quite frankly could never refill the pencil ever again(this is a BAD thing bic should get around to correcting). my next one was a pentec sharp 0.5; that was good, looked cool, and i depended upon it a lot in jr high, but i think once i abused the end tip, and so it could never function the same again. move on to high school; my main one that i used was this bic 0.5 pencil. this was pretty good; it was plastic, but at least they had a lot more additions to it that made it a bit more worthwhile; side advance, rubber grip, and had a cap. mostly i was seen writing with a black or blue version of the pencil, but occasionally, i could be seen writing with a pink one(heh heh... if i had associated pink w/pimp a LOT more earlier, i might have tried it more). oh yeah; whenever i was home, during high school, i used another pentec mech pencil; 0.5, green, had a rubber grip. pretty good quite frankly. keep in mind all during this time i either used a green eraser or had a white one; the green one sucked, but i liked green, so... the white one was prob the best though; erased cleanly, didn't end up ripping the paper as much.

but now we get to college, and what am i using? main writing utensil of choice: bic classic or round, black ink. i like the round w/the rubber grip the best, but it seems that those aren't on sale as much. well, to be honest, i kinda strike a balance between the bic, and any good black gel ink pen(avery's eglide rollerball's pretty good) with fine point. the reason for the sudden change? let's just say it's mainly used for taking notes right? well, now, it's easier on the eyes(black ink is usually a LOT more bolder than 0.5 lead), i don't have to keep refilling the instrument with more stuff in the midst of class, and in general, bic is usually very reliable when it comes to their simpler pens. even if i make a mistake, i find it easier and faster to just cross stuff out, in the midst of class, instead of whipping out the eraser and taking my time to rub while the prof drones on. the reason i listed gel pens though, it because when you like doodling and stuff, gel pens are a LOT more useful than regular ballpt pens; press harder, and you get a harder line; take it off, and you get a lighter line; more control with less effort essentially. the downside is that most gel pens will bleed through the paper, or take a while to dry, so you have to find good ones which dont do that stuff. and so, when i just want to take notes, a bic will be fine, but i love the way gel pens are. the good ones.

now of course, sometimes i have to use a no 2 pencil on tests, so what do i use? i have these 2 all natural wood pencils(natural wood is easier on the hand IMO than the yellow paint) for those occasions, the tips are dulled, so that multiple choice stuff is faster to fill in with. i have the white eraser backing me up on these.

and did i forget to mention? now i always write with a clipboard; i remember getting one of these because it was required for my chem lab in sophomore year in high school; never parted ways w/it. simply too useful. whenever i take notes in college, i don't even sit on the way left side of the class(for the left-handed desks), except for maybe tests; i just come into class w/a clipboard and a bic sandwiched in the hinge, and some binder paper. then i can sit anywhere.

and i am thinking of making the move from binder to portfolio pretty soon.