“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle

i found this news funny

something's ridiculously wrong with my laptop; it can still work if i use really basic stuff(word, etc), but now if i plug stuff into the card bus(to use wireless), i get the blue screen of death pretty frequently now. usb seems alright though. and i'm not even using the wireless at home to steal; i try to use it at the library. reformatting doesn't seem to do anything; gonna try again today. i should really look into getting a new laptop soon. but t3h guitar comes first.

luv how joe d's on the list of espn.com's top 10 2's of all time. jerry west is real good too.

this week's gonna be fairly busy.

wonder what anime i should try going through now, now that i've more or less finished full metal panic, seasons 1 and 2? the library doesn't have beck.

been mulling over how to pray...

this might be good for peeps who don't have cable.

list of what white people like

front page

list is pretty funny [and accurate!] overall(i just finished the soccer and threatening to move to canada entries and can't stop laughing, the assists one is pretty funny too), but let's look at one in particular:

#53: dogs

i think you know where i'm going w/this; you know why michael vick got so much hate. and that recent thing with the us armed forces youtubing themselves throwing a DEAD dog over a cliff. a lizard wouldn't get this much publicity. stupid white people.

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courtesy of hamlin's advice, started looking into this comic:

piled higher and deeper comics

"I kind of tried to grab him, and unfortunately grabbed him around the neck. Things went so fast, I didn't mean to grab the neck, but I just tried to hold him so he doesn't score. I happened to grab his neck and it was a bad fall."

lol... "is dirk nowitzki gonna have to choke a b****?!?!?!?" mightve been literally the 1st thought that came outta my mind when i read that quote.

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i keep underestimating isaiah thomas as a point guard; yes, magic johnson, john stockton, oscar robertson are all up there. but after that, you need to put isaiah thomas there; i just keep forgetting how good he was as a player. when i was rewatching one of the ECF games during 1988-89 last night(game 4, when rodman had 18 boards), i needed to remind myself how good 1-on-1 he was, and how he delivered come playoff time; could drive into the teeth of the defense, pull up at midrange, or go for the 3. he nearly had a triple-double in this game(about 2-3 assists short), had 2-3 really good steals too from what i remembered, and scored the most points out of all the pistons(this, with jordan being the primary defender on him).

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magneto in real life!

lol... "playtime... has ended!!!"

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boobies save a life

LOLOLOLOLOL.... or as a srk.com member put it, "if the tits don't fit, you must acquit."

newgrounds: flash videos:

x-men
x-men 2
x-men 3

lol at psylocke. and wolvie's accent.

guess you get some payoff for having a bday on 02/29th.

street fighter online: mouse generation

english article about the game

youtube video of demo play

not exactly sf4. but might be fun to get once it comes out. seems a lot like the marvel, vs games that capcom made. using joy2key and a joystick might be totally key.

japan be doing t3h lolis wrong?

sexy no jutsu not performed correctly?

maybe that coke machine no jutsu could've come in handy for the schoolgirls...

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nba top 10: february 24, sunday

really good top 10... number two and one are just disgusting... lebron james with the pump-fake reverse layup into dunk and dwight howard powering up over 4 kings players surrounding him[listen carefully; they play the superman theme after he dunks on them]

*sigh* i just don't get why i get so hungry so quickly.

i'll elaborate on the topics below later in the week; just so busy with studying for the gres, for the verbal section; with math, you kinda know the limit you need to study. but with verbal, it's always "best way to increase the score is to improve your vocab," so it's basically limitless. ugh.

there was an interesting debate thread a while back on srk.com about football vs soccer, and one of the points brought up was how kids could get into soccer because of the low risk of being singled out (more on this to come)

i really like the intro bgm for the full metal panic series. i think it's "mikuni shimokawa - tomorrow" it's on imeem.com. i've listened God knows how many times trying to glean the exact drum fill the drummer was using at the beginning; it was long; like 2-3 full measures right before the verse, but kinda cool.

speaking of which, i don't hear notes and beats when i listen to music intently; i actually see a musician playing the said instrument during the song. i know, i know, i like metal/alternative/rock/pop so much, so why? it's not because i'm a dumbed down version of beethoven; it's cause i'm a visual learner at heart. it's like a music video going off in my head during the song. (elaboration to come?)

lol at eric h. not catching the slowest pop mistakenly aimed at him by yours truly.

tekken 6 is looking more and more like competitive fighting game trash the more i look into it. so disappointing. they might as well just re-release x-men vs street fighter in the arcades; it's essentially the same thing.

i remember a calvin and hobbes strip where calvin asks his dad what's the difference between being a kid and an adult. dad responds nothing much, except you become more attached to your toys. he's polishing and fixing up a bike as he's saying this.

some not-so-expensive-as-the-electric-guitar-i've-been-coveting but-would-be-cool-to-get toys i've been thinking of:

1. reaction ball. basically a ball that bounces in unpredictable directions. it's very useful for honing many different applications in ball sports. most descriptions suggest you can use it for fielding practice and baseball, but i would imagine it works great on practicing rebounding in basketball if you have a wall and just toss it at it at an upwards angle.

2. behringer ma400 headphone amp gonna have to wait a bit before i order; most sites have it backordered. and will probably need to get a 1/4" to female xlr and 1/4" to male xlr adapters. but basically, will enable you to use it as a private monitor if you have headphones, but still send the signal out. and it's a lot easier than lugging an amp around. yet it's only 20 dollars; most others i've seen are around 50+. probably not the highest quality tool for the job, but it's dirt cheap compared to everything else(i got tired of not being to hear myself when i did lead guitar for worship during high school, but didn't know how to solve it without turning up my volume or bringing an amp; now i know)

gonna have to wait til full metal panic arrives at the library; watching futurama volume 4/4 as this is going down. finished the fullmetal alchemist series though.

songs i remembered this week that are cool:
sammy hagar - mas tequila
ozzy osbourne - mama i'm coming home
(anybody who's listened to classic rock knows that ozzy osbourne actually sounds pretty darn coherent when he's doing a rock song)

somewhere, byron and chris are dancing a jig for 2 belated xmas presents. bob too i guess for 1. well, ok; maria too.

marion for shaq? i really have nothing against shaq; gotten to the point where i don't like or hate him; used to be all hate. but this one makes no sense; i'll have to wait and see. the suns wanted to get good post-defensively, so they bring in shaq?

don't also forget that you gave up shawn marion, who was primarily responsible for guarding tony parker while raja was trying to swarm over manu during the postseason, so even if that takes care of tim duncan, that still leaves one of the other spurs' penetrators free to do damage; i'd imagine barbosa stepping up as a decent replacement, but still. shawn marion is like tayshaun prince, but on the suns; his value is everywhere, and you really don't know how badly he helps your team until he's gone.

and somewhere i'm imagining jerm has now made the suns his team to hate. he already somewhat disliked raja bell for clotheslining kobe(who knows why).

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guess that means golden state is now the only fun-loving team in the nba. (but please cut more)

wow, what a good super bowl game. i can't remember the last time i actually watched a really good super bowl game AND KNEW WHAT I WAS SEEING. (of course, seeing the giants win by eli manning's clutch plays and their defensive linemen sweetened the pot)

of course: this will make it into highlight reels for years to come . i mustve gone nuts after that play went down.

concerning the possibility of c-webb returning to the warriors, i'm not quite sold on it, for a couple of reasons:

1)offensive styles don't really mesh: c-webb's biggest contribution to any basketball team is that he is one of the best passing big men in the nba. rather than contribute by backing down and low-posting up, he chooses to remain on the outside on the high post, and chooses to fire passes to cutting perimeter guys to give them easy layups. and well, golden state NEVER cuts to the basket or utilizes off-the-ball movement. ever. LOL. DEY LUV DAT 3 BIZ-ZALL.

2)slow feet: though golden state already plays a lot of zone/double-teaming w/rotations, which helps to hinder any one player's defensive woes, webber's slow feet hurts them both by the fact that it'll be hard for webber to constantly rotate on defense, forcing him to remain near the paint(which hurts even more since he's not considered that great of a post defender to begin with), and that golden state loves to run, which would leave him constantly behind.

i think c-webb contributes best to a team that likes to grind it out on offense, and utilizes a zone defense. incidently enough, that makes him a good fit for the pistons, but also the mavs, and possibly spurs, along with a few other teams. but pistons recently thought they didn't really need webber(his slow feet mightve hurt them more in the postseason in the cleveland series than i originally thought), and they are having the best regular season under flip saunders so far(without relying too hard on their 5 starters), after ditching the mentality of trying the last 2 seasons to tweak their offense, instead just going in this year and trying to shut ppl down(their improved bench helps too).

of course, i could be completely wrong about webber. i just don't think all 4 warriors on the floor are gonna suddenly cut to the basket with c-webb on their team, if they never cut to the basket to begin with.

i actually like that weird hybrid of weather when it's raining semi-lightly, but you see the sun out shining hard; sorta like today around 1:50. it's kinda cool not feeling cold, yet feeling rain droplets on your face and seeing it around you. sorta like a casual water gun fight in the middle of spring heading into summer.

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sweet, go eli manning and the giants.

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albums listened to recently:
candlebox - candlebox
joe satriani - surfing with the alien
led zeppelin - the early and later days(best of)

wow...

giants and chargers doin the impossible...

wished i watched on sunday.

new footage of sf4 courtesy of famitsu:

http://www.famitsu.com/fwtv/?51212893

sick.

LOL...

in the words of one srk'er:

"LOL@ Force Push.

ROUND ONE! FIGHT!
RING OUT!
ROUND TWO! FIGHT!
RING OUT!

Vader: "*heavy breathing*""

and oh yea; how are ppl going to be able to hit yoda? that sounds too broken.

does this mean bob will try to buy and learn how to play soul calibur soon enough? i sense namco is getting desperate with their gimmicks in their soul calibur series.

(i'm still assuming masters of teras kasi was a terrible competitive fighting game, since i can find virtually no advice on playing the game online)

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this will be the theme song ala street fighter 3: 3rd strike style

i have to watch this vid later, since there's no sound at the library