Month: May 2004

Nice quick read, a little creepy… it’s interesting how a children’s book would probably make an incredibly creepy movie.  There are some problems, the language is probably a little TOO simple at times, even for a children’s book.  But at least it doesn’t talk down to the audience.  I wish it were a little longer and more developed.  It feels more like a short story than a book, but a very good one nonetheless.  It even starts with a good quote:


Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exists, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.


-G.K. Chesterton

Buyer’s remorse.


So, my roomate wanted to go to the mall to get some Acqua Di Gio (apparently it’s really popular with the ladies, so I might have to steal some).  I didn’t need anything, but I figure I haven’t been to the mall in a while…


…2hr later…



  • Invader Zim DVD 1 (Doom! Doom! Doom!)
  • Shoes
  • Ultrasaurus Zoid
  • Gojulas Giga Zoid
  • SD Gundam RX-78GP03D model

    Accursed Toys-R-Us! Somewhere in my head the phrase “You can buy toys after you study, get a good job, and have money to buy them yourself…” embedded itself and took root a long time ago.  That and something about being able to watch R rated movies when I turn 18.  Funny, but my mom still gives me a hard time about how I spend my money, and when I watch R rated movies.


    Luckily I’m not in debt, but I think I’ve become a certifiable shop-a-holic.  I feel good after I buy stuff.  Every month I drop at least $40 at Half-priced books.  At the current rate I will need 4 lifetimes to finish all the books I will buy.  The problem is book jackets I think.  And the internet.  The internet will give me ideas about something I suddenly want to become an expert in.  Then I go out to buy a book on it, come home, and turn on the TV.  I’m thinking I just need to stop watching TV for a while.  And fast, cause I feel really bloated after doing no exercise for 2 weeks.  And stop playing Warcraft.  Who knows, maybe I’ll actually get something useful done for once.  Well off to my book for the night… (and I’m actually reading the book not the CD… oddly enough, I can’t find it by itself on the Xangazon thingy). 

    …

    Incoherent rambling ends.

    • As a recovering video game addict, this disturbs me.  Greatly.


    http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/040517/whispers/17whisplead_2.htm


    scroll down to “The Google Terrorist”.


    1) We need to send the White House a nice video game console


    (wait, already done: http://www.evilninja.net/buybush.htm.  I guess it didn’t work.  Either that, or the game was instrumental in planning our campaign over there.  Think about it.  In a video game, the war is over when you win, after that you just see the credits and maybe an easter egg.)


    2) One day last April, huh?  Me thinks someone’s April Fool’s joke got way out of hand.

    The Clean Underwear Philosophy of Household Cleaning.


    So I’m cleaning my room one day for a get together at my place and I get to thinking… over cleaning leaves a false impression of who you are.  Not cleaning leave a horrible less that drives people away, and is rather embarrasing.  Being as lazy and short for time as I usually am, I could not be make my apartment spotless, nor would I want to.  I wouldn’t know where anything is.


    Some how the idea of wearing clean underwear before getting on a plane occured to me.  The idea is, if the plane crashes, people will at least know you kept clean underwear. (Now whether it stays clean on the trip down is another story completely.)


    Having noticed that I spent much of my time rearranging piles of books so that the ones I would like for people to think I was actively reading were on top, I dubbed my tidying up process the Clean Underwear Philosophy of Cleaning.  Basically it is the process of arrange one’s apartment in such a way that if someone were to rifle through it unattended, or find it after you had died, it would leave the best impression of you.


    The theory allows one to optimize how much cleaning one needs to suit the impression they want to make.  Keeping with this philosopy at all times allows people to pop in at any time to find your home reflecting the you that you want them to see, hopefuly the you that you want to become.  (For instance I have a subscription to Foreign Affairs to look more knowledgeable about the world and in the hopes that I may one day acutally sit down and read it).


    And now, time to go hide all the pr0n.