Thursday, May 01, 2008

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

news article on tayshaun playing the 1 / being more aggressive on offense

-and didn't joe dumars step out of the shadow of the other bad boys to win finals mvp when they won their 1st title?
-to elaborate, i think tayshaun needs to step out of the shadow of the other dudes and demand the ball more; dude's a walking mismatch, and could probably get a shot in the paint almost anytime he wants. i just hope he's not iffy when he does it.

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i was KINDA right on the spurs-suns. suns didn't represent the west. but i still stand by the fact that spurs' key to victory was their backcourt. guess that marion for shaq trade didn't work at all.

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dwight getting almost a 20-20 every night the magic win is ridiculous; even the sole loss numberswise he was still pretty good. admirably ridiculous; don't even forget about the 3-6 blocks he gets on the side. i think the east conference matchups look good 2nd round in anyway that it's cut, really.

in fact, 1st round's been kinda good i guess too. nobody expected the hawks(al's apparently VERY good and has a very high IQ) and the sixers to give the other two teams that much trouble, everybody loves dwight and the washington-cleveland series has been full of drama, if you're into that.

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maybe being more right-brain dominant leads to more visual learning strength? i wonder about that one. but if it's true that information zips between the 2 hemispheres via the corpus callosum a lot, then is it the brain leading to the person being lefty or the dominant use of the left hand and feet leading to the right-brainedness?

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lol at lucky star anime finally being decided to be released in the us by bandai visual; i really thought they would never do it, y'kno, with all the ridiculous anime references and etc.

sometimes i wonder why i watch anime nobody else is watching. ie, why am i NOT watching initial d, bleach, prince of tennis, naruto, inuyasha, dragon ball z, etc. well, ok, the last 2 are kinda weird. does devil may cry count?

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1 midterm down this week, 2 more + 1 project's hw to go... i think i did alright, but i'll have to wait and see.

i wonder why today's felt like a thursday the entire day to me. maybe i'm just subconsciously wishing the week would end tomorrow.

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guess i have to STILL wait another week until i actually do stuff at kaiser...

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

blessings in disguise today i guess...

b/c of the power outage, i get one extra day to study for the midterm, which is good, because i felt i wasn't ready.

and the group presentation gets moved to tuesday.

although i feel like crap today because i feel so tired.

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sixers = warriors of the east? although no jacking of 3s(which i like better). still want pistons to advance, but the way recaps are, they seem to be like a high offense team with scrappy defense. pistons would be so much more worse than they are right now if mcdyess was not playing HORD and tayshaun was not locking up iguodala.

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go sharks i guess; i should really pay more attention to nhl boxscores.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

if the fellow students in my world history class are all going to be that idiotic when discussing topics, i might end up getting some type of cancer very, very, soon; my blood's boiling too much; the professor allows us to discuss stuff, but people are just too moronic:

-everybody interrupting everybody when talking, trying to get their point in(leading to a lot of times of absolute unintelligibility).
-people talking for the sake of just talking, as opposed to trying to say something RIGHT(one guy in particular). (this one probably irks me the most)
-doesn't help that i get the vibe that in the class, most people seem very anti-christian, including the professor(if you know me, know what i've done during college during my spare time for about a year or two, you'd understand)

this feels worse than all the discussion classes in various philosophy classes i had to attend at davis.

but, i have to take this class in order to go to pharmacy school. so i might as well try my hardest to just endure this, and deal with this class this quarter.

at this rate, i'd probably have to enter deep prayer every time before i attend this class on monday to keep my sanity. and then throw up a couple of short prayers during the class every now and then.

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Thursday, April 17, 2008

aw man, i wanted to meet metallica...

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the phoenix suns are actually my pick to represent the west(and this isn't like the east, where i would like detroit to represent, but boston is somewhat of an equal for them; i think phoenix is right now the clear cut best team in the west). it's not what shaq does, it's how much pressure he's taken off of amare (kinda like how cwebb on the pistons last season wasn't so much about him, but how dice suddenly rediscovered how to play). scoop jackson said it best; you double shaq, and amare is going to get 40 and 18; there's not many teams that have the frontcourt balance to contain both shaq and amare. and normally i wouldn't buy into shaq being a team player, a role player, but if he's doing really well this way, i can't argue against that.

lakers, if they were at full strength, would probably be the best team in the west, but they aren't(i think?). the best team counter to the suns in the west imo would be the spurs, because they have more than 1 great backcourt creator. now that phoenix does not have shawn marion, ginobili and parker have to step up even further and expose that backcourt "weakness", because duncan's gonna have his hands full guarding and being guarded by shaq. although they do have thomas though, so maybe that'll take pressure off of duncan guarding amare or shaq.

to be honest though, western conference doesn't really excite me though(even though it's gonna be hecka competitive from the 1st round in), but i do like the hornets. that's just because i grew up liking more eastern conference teams than western conference. i'm just waiting for the results of pistons vs celtics. celtics and cavs are gonna be good too; lebron has stated he dislikes the celtics.

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spielburg is going to be directing a 3D "Ghost in the Shell" movie; are jews gonna be in it?

at least it won't be as cheesy as the new street fighter movie including kristen kreuk from smallville playing as chun-li; wth writes a street fighter movie with chun-li as the main character? i'll still watch it though; it just better be sloppily hilarious, like the 1st one.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

i can just hear how much whining western conference fans are gonna make about how eastern conference seeding isn't fair.

that being said, every team sport(baseball, football, basketball, hockey? soccer?) has never done it by the top teams directly. it's usually the top teams in each of the two conferences, whatever the conferences may be.

not that i'm not disappointed, but still...

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the drum loop software i have on my laptop can't do 3/4 timing. which sucks.

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i have the best idea about what i want to do for phil's upcoming bday, seeing how i love pulling semi-gags on him whenever i send him gifts. this might be my BEST IDEER EVAR.

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

i can't believe i had to attend a world history class on monday night instead of watching one of the best final four games in recent history. hey, the jayhawks won, and did so in stunning come-from-behind fashion. when i watched the jayhawks a few weeks back playing against the longhorns i believe, i was really impressed with their atheleticism on help d and their balance. mario chalmers was probably their best defender, and i was impressed by how many times he came from behind and got a free swipe at the ball. ditto when i watched them play and beat unc. so i wanted them to win this year.

Monday, April 07, 2008

i are a student again...

today's engrish.com(april 7) made me laugh too hard. definite keeper.

for the really sparse times i play nba 2k8, i think i know how to play a lot more now. lol, when playing w/the celtics or pistons, just select rondo/billups, dribble close to rip/ray, and playcall for them to get open. playing against the suns is tough though, at least defensively; cpu always goes to shaq down low, guarding amare is always a handful, and i still can't completely figure out how to use the shot stick on defense; the actions always change relative to where you are. i was able to blow out the lakers playing as the warriors, but kept losing to the suns when i was using the celtics by 10 or more, until i got tired of playing and decided to see what else bill, eon and brian were doing inside micro center.

here's hoping kansas wins it all tonight. i won't be able to watch the game because of night class. i loved the saturday game. hooking up white guys on alley-oops? their freshman big man getting his block on? sweet.

dis warriors playoff run is absolutely MADDENing. DIS ISH MADNESS! (awaits THAT comeback remark)

i've been listening to rush(live) - stages a lot in the car now. that was essentially phil's favorite musical group growing up, so while i can't say they're my favorites, obviously there's a lotta tunes that i recognize and kinda like because he'd always be playing those songs on tape/cd and trying to play them on the fender stratocaster.

Thursday, March 27, 2008

lolol...

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

life is one huge timespan of repeatedly looking at glasses of water, guaging whether they are half-empty or half-full. in other words, humans are ridiculously selfish, and only interpret things based upon how they affect themselves. sports are a perfect example(and it is for this reason though i love sports, i hate sports fans; to the selfish bastards, everything is only relative to themselves); one sports fan's "good play" is another fan's "bad play," but nobody cares. one sports fan doesn't care at all if his team sucks on defense, laments how boring it is, until the team he follows get a great defensive player; then all he can do is talk about defense(exhibit a: sacramento kings' announcers after it became official the maloof brothers would sign ron artest). etc, etc, etc.

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something to think about, but that i've come to realize; the gained knowledge that adam and eve received from the fruit of the knowledge of the tree of good and evil wasn't bad by itself. but the fact that the knowledge gained was finite, and that man has lusts, which God does not have, was what caused their downfall. (this is why many humans sin despite knowing in their mind what they need to do. or why they sin because they don't have a full picture, ie complete knowledge.) that, on top of the obvious "they just disobeyed God." that's just the bare bones of it; i've spent a lot more time writing on it at home, but all my notes are locked away on my external hard drive.

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though it's been a while since i've checked some animated film/tv series out from the library which wasn't japanese anime in some form(afro samurai doesn't count), i HAD to check out superman: doomsday when i realized it was sitting on the shelf. ie, "the death and return of superman."

speaking of which, i watched afro samurai a few weeks back, and i think that mightve been the most bloodiest cartoon or anime i've ever seen. it's like samurai champloo with some kill bill mixed in, and a lotta blackness. oh, and samuel l. jackson is the voice actor of Afro in it.

Monday, March 24, 2008

imagine that... my favorite player in the nba could've been a pacer(but then i wouldn't have ended up liking him, because he wouldn't have been teamed up with ben and co). according to an ny sports article linked off of need4sheed.com, donnie walsh orignally wanted to select tayshaun prince during the 2002 draft, but instead decided it wouldve been better to allow then ex-coach isaiah thomas to make the decision. and isaiah chose... fred jones. it probably hurts even more to pacer fans, when they consider that of all the things tayshaun did(1 chip, a couple of all-defense spots, etc), had to be THAT BLOCK on reggie miller. while fred jones won... a slam dunk comp because jrich didn't try a sure-fire dunk to win it. yippie.

(here's another thing to think of)... although i wouldn't have liked tay that much if he weren't a piston, if he ended up on the pacers due to the draft, it's quite possibly he could've ended up playing for the warriors last season, carrying onto this season, if you get my drift. after all, the warriors broke the drought by trading for a couple of pacers. then again, it was for a pair of veterans and that cheerleader.

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i wonder if every easter sunday i'm going to contemplate why i still firmly believe jesus died on wednesday morning and arose on saturday night, but never told many people, aside from bob a while back?

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my drumming was awful this sunday. missed beats all over the place(wonderful; it was easter sunday too; wondered how many newcomers were turned off?). when i relistened to my performance, it was a bit harder to hear all the mistakes, but i knew i made them. the splash cymbal just seems in a place that i'm not used to at the moment(between the tom-toms), so many times i either missed hitting it completely, or hit it too softly. plus, it still has a different sound(less shimmery, but a brighter sound), so i'm still getting used to when to use it.

worship's never about the accuracy of the music(and as long as people feel moved by the Spirit, i'm cool w/it, though it's a bit hard for me to guage that every sunday save by asking everybody), but i still wished i could've played better. just too over-excited, and it probably carried onto how i played.

and the cowbell still sounds a bit weird; i will mos def bring DAT cowbell more often, but i couldn't help but think ppl might be giggling when i played it. cowbell IMO can sorta be treated like a ride cymbal, except used during verses; has the same type of tone closely enough, but doesn't shimmer.

Monday, March 17, 2008

my, oh my...

damn... it would take me 59 min to get to oakland... w/o traffic... 53 min to get to alameda... w/o traffic.

Friday, March 14, 2008

“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

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

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...

Thursday, March 06, 2008

Wednesday, March 05, 2008

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

Tuesday, March 04, 2008

"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."

Friday, February 29, 2008

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.

Thursday, February 28, 2008

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.

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

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]