here we go; another text dump:

I used to wonder why people kept saying that if you overslept, your life span would decrease. But people do say that if you tend to sleep a lot when you are a kid, you tend to grow a bit more (in height; I do remember struggling to get up early, wanting to go to bed early, etc). If sleep helped you to grow faster when you were young, why wouldn’t it do the same if you’re older? Yea exactly.

Why is it that people choose to brush their teeth, THEN eat breakfast in the morning, and when going to the restroom, take a piss/dump, and THEN wash their hands? Both of these events seem like it would make more sense to be done the other way.

Open Office – Draw is really useful for doing slash recall patterns for notetaking.

I wonder why Lincoln Brewster couldn’t just say “Today is the day [the Lord has] made” in his new song; are those lyrics copyrighted?

One of my favorite things to do when driving a stick shift is not shifting up when accelerating (or holding gears as long as possible for that matter); that’s fun, but basic. Neither is starting from a standstill. It’s braking while going into a turn, and then downshifting a notch or two before flooring it as you're coming out of the turn; making the techometer jerk up while the car jerks slightly from downshifting is fun, and makes you feel like you’re on top. If you want to know why I still like driving a stick shift (other than the false sense of security that doing so somehow makes me more of a man than the guy who only knows how to roll with an automatic), that might be it right there.

I am getting tired of everybody at Kaiser who is Chinese asking if I speak Chinese. I understand that being that I look Chinese, I have a pretty high chance of speaking Mandarin. It's still annoying.