I am so tired. Tired of work, tired of life, tired of the repetition, the pointlessness, the boring and mundane................ I am tired of writing this blog.
I got rid of my 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee (I-6, 4.0L, 190hp) for a spankin' new drift machine- in the making. I got a 03 Mitsubishi Lancer ES SOHC I-4, 2.0L, 165hp. I plan on upgrading the suspension, wheels, intake, exhaust, stereo, brakes, ECU, turbocharger, and anything else that can be done.
I hope to end with a 400hp FWD drifter. I'll keep you posted.
Well I must apologize for my lack of posts. I have been working in Maryland without my Internet access (shrieks of horror and the sounds of gnashing teeth is audible). So in the next week I will try to get back into it. Please bear with me, and keep posting.
Well I was reminiscing about Japan and I broke out the Pocky and Green Tea Set. First, Pocky, it is a cookie type thing dipped in a coating, I really like the chocolate, but it comes in strawberry. Well I have 5 types of Pocky, regular US choc., regular Korean choc., regular Japanese choc., Special edition Japan choc., Special Edition Japan vanilla, GIANT Pocky, and some chocolate mushrooms from Japan. (I eat Pocky with milk, its great!!) The tea set was given to me by the doctor and his wife, whom I stayed with in Nagasaki. It came in a nice case with a bowl, whisk, powdered tea holder, water bowl, and cloth. And I got a lesson from a young lady in traditional tea ceremony, very embarassing. But fun none the less.
So I ate my Pocky, watched my international Japan news, and had a pleasant evening, alone, if I didn't already mention that.
I was in Ginza and I had seen tv shows going to the Sony building in Ginza, and I thought it was gonna be hard to find in their, or something. But, getting off the bus under an overpass, I saw a 'Mos Burger' (some saw Moe's, I say Moss, anyway), and had quite possibly the best, freshest, best tasting burger/ atmosphere for a fast food restaurant ever. It was great!. Back to the point, the Sony building is a 12 story, plain black and glass edifice (standing out against the billboards and avertisements littering Ginza). Inside it goes up by half levels, there are 20 half levels and 2 stories of restaurant and free PS2 arcade at the top. Inside, they had the newest stuff, the new (in the US) Sony Picturebook and Clie. I was like a kid in a candy store, snapping pictures when the security people weren't watching. I saw tiny, miniscule laptops and new media centers and huge touchscreen Viaio desktops. And mp3 players and the new Aibo (dog thing).
And the thing is, this was 10 months ago, and most of it is yet to get to the US.
I love those reward cards, the one where you get 25% when you get 2 or more games. Well, I used mine to get Sega GT 2002, JetSetRadio Future, and Genma Onimousha for the XBox(of Course).
That and I'm thinking about building my own pc. It will have a Athlon 64 XP2600 ($350), a nice case ($50), Motherboard ($35), ATI Radeon of Some sort ($150), Western Digital Caviar 200gig ($120), CD-RW x2($60), DVD-RAM ($30), USB 2 Card ($15), 400w Power Supply ($30), Creative Soundlabs Audio Card ($30), Cracked XP Pro (Free), Debian Linux (Free), and Cracked Win Longhron 4054 (Free).
I don't know about the reading audience (both of you), but I play a lot of video games. Some atheletes practice football for hours, I practice Unreal Tournament for hours (I even spice it up with some Counter-Strike). Atheletes are in peak physical condition, I am not, but I warm up my thumbs before playing any first person shooter, and execrcise my index finger before playing any RTS or Black & White.
That and to crave my itchy trigger finger, and satisfy my occasionlly short attention span mind, I picked up Timesplitters 2 for my beloved X-Box/ Apache Server/ Knoppix PC (Go Linux). Its from the same guys who made Goldeneye for the N64, but a little more cartoony. A little limited on the weapons, but fun overall, over a bit too quick, but has a great multiplayer and mapmaker.
I really hate those people who don't know what is going on. You know, the VW Golf driving, Mac using, Starbucks drinking, rich twenty somenthings who don't even know why their car goes or what RAM is. (So don't think I hate Macs or anyting) But, these are the people who go merrily along and give a damn about the how and why. The stupid end users, as it were.
That and I got The Last Samurai on Widescreen, its SO sweet.
Well I was googling for the sweet Ford GT after reading a review in Pop. Mechanics and found some intersesting things. First, the GT (which stands for Gran Turismo, Grand Touring in Italian) is a 10 second street-production car, beating the Enzo Ferrari in 0-60 and 70-0. It has a V-10 with 500hp and 500lb/feet of torque... STOCK of the showroom floor. And is a bargain at $120,000. That and I've been playing Gran Turismo II on my PS 1. I've got a Racing Mod, 1997 300 ZX with stage 3 turbo, port & polish and just about everything else imaginable, and a 1995 Toyota Celica with stage 2 turbo and new transmission and some other tweaks like tires and muffler. Post and tell me about your Gran Turismo car.
Well, since somebody (cough.. blondebondgirl..cough) wants me to write, I will. Please excuse my absence as of late, I've been kinda busy: prom, school, websites, computers, you know.
Well in Nagasaki, I was taken to the atomic bomb epicenter. Which I find out is a haven for scholl kids of all ages. And despite their lack of care about the epicenter, etc.; When I went to the atomic bomb museum in Nagasaki, there was only things about the big, bad US dropping the A-bomb on innocent little Japan. Like hell, there was no mention, not even a little blurb in some Government sponsored film about Pearl Harbor or the fact that Nagasaki and Hirshima were bombed because they were and are major shipping and military areas.
Well, I'm finally getting bored of writing left/ ocassionaly right wing, Neo-Japanese, Random quote blog entries. I'm ready for a sligth change. I want you, the few people who read this to let me know what you like and what you want. Just leave a comment here, thanks for your patronage and support.
The Golden Sperm Building and Stroies of New Edo (Tokyo)
Well, as form the title, you can tell there is a large building with a golden sperm on it involved. Well, in Asakusa, a distrcit of Tokyo, there is from my view in my hotl a 20 story building with a titanic gold gilded object that looks like a sperm, I dont attempt to understand most of this, I just tell it like it is.
"Stay in Japan a week and you think you know nothing about Japanese culture, stay a month and you think you know everything. Stay a year or longer, you realize you don't really know anything about Japanese culture."
That and from my window in the aptly named Asakusa View Hotel, one can see 2 interesting distinctly Japanese institiutions. The Pachinko Palace and The Capsule Hotel. Pachinko is the cantankerous love child of slots and marbles. MILLIONS of ball bearings bouncing aroud in smoke latent, crowded rows of pachinko. And the Capsule Hotel, houses 500 or so coffin like 'rooms' in a 10 story building. There is enough room for you and a small tv and a pillow, thats IT. It is used by businessmen when its too late or too far to go home. And in the lobby the sells new shirts and ties to replace the crumpled one from yesterday. *Note- capsule hotels are for men only, it would be more fun co-ed, I think*
I don't hate children as much as their parents. Last night I went to Outback and their were 20 adults sitting at a table and their kids were at different tables. The boys I wouldn't have known were there had I not seen them, but the girls table was wild. Loud, obnoxiuos, inconsiderate, pains-in-asses (and that was the parents, too) It was awful. I have two words for those types of people baby-sitter.
In response I have made the Miranda Rights of Eating...
Your children have the right to remain [b][u]silent[/u][/b] anything they say can and will be used against you in a court of your fellow patrons. You have the right to a baby-sitter, if you cannot afford one, get your ass to Chuckee-Cheese or the restaurant will appoint one to you.
*Note: all children and parents are guilty unitl proven morons in a court of law*
I had a thought this last week on vacation, fishing. If you were a fish and seeing as how they can change sex from female to male. If you were a female, laid your eggs, then changed to a male and feritlized your own eggs, you would really be screwing yourself.
I noticed something quite odd in Japan, every city and town I went to, all the restaurants ( I only went to McDonalds twice, I tried not to) there was never, ever any normal ketchup for french fries. At buffets at hotels I stayed in, they had ketchup in huge glass bowls with laddles, but they put ketchup on eggs, EGGS, amd most everrything else, BUT french fries or hash browns or the like. It did however take me a while to notice, because in the house where I stayed, I never needed ketchup, but one day at the breakfast table, I actually got some home fries or french fry type food, and a saucer of ketchup. Odd thing was, I kept on getting 5 of these french fries and a saucer of ketchup with my microwaved pancakes for at least a week.
I went to the Ren. Fair this weekend. It was ok, but not as big as last year. The thing I really hate is when the people who work there come up to me and speak in old english. Yeah i know its the Ren Fair, but come on, i really dont wanna talk to you. well, i got a nice rapier, with a steel wrapped handle and gleaming basket hilt, but the thing is as hevay as any longsword, its REALLY heavy. Well, ta ta for now.
before going to japan, people told me i would never get by, knowing only rudementary japanese, but i found that every single person in japan speaks english. pretty good enlgish too. but it makes you look soooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooo cool to stroll into a place, know what the deal is and go abotu your way with a commonplace domo and bow.
case-in-point, bakeries, japan loves france and have a lot of bakeries, i frequented one called "hearth brown" or something like it. you get a tray and tongs and get your own bread. they have good bread, my favorite was a mini loaf of bread with cheese and bacon in it, mmmm. but the japanese people looked funny when i, a six footish teen walked in got my bread, paid (in yen) and left, speaking pretty good japanese.
I bought a copy of the new longhorn of my friend for 5 bucks, havent installed it on my laptop yet, but it looked great on his crappy dell. i even got the date crack plus a partition thing to keep my xp pro.
Hacking is fun
The hacker word of the day is pre-beta, a word meaning to leak code and try to break a new MS OS :twisted: . j/k microsoft, if you are reading this.... bill.................
Wow, does AP English suck or what, I've got a C or D, and my mom said "you'd better get it up" I just cant do it anymore this class sucks. The tests are impossible, if it were compostition alone, im good, but the damn tests are soooooooooooooooo hard. That and two other things: i dont study much and Im halfway thourgh the main quest of Morrowind.
You are the silver moonlight. You have a deep soul. Many people call you mysterious but they just don't know you. You are often alone but shine hope on every one else. People look up to you and call to you for advice. You have been betrayed but you have forgaven them. Your faith in life has made you an inspiration to us all. You are intelligent, quiet, beautiful, and kind. You will become very sucessful. Your dream career could maybe deal with the joy of music. Keep up the spirit and let your mind drift to the shining hope of the silver moon.
Some quiz blondebondgirl had, i dont think its right at all... anyway....
You belong on a lazy-day beach or anywhere where you can set up a relaxing bench or chair and watch the world go by. You don't want to make any changes, watching is enough to make you content. The blue of the sky and the light of day beat into your soul and you drift into the world and around without harming anything or making any ripples in the fabric of humanity. Enjoy your peace, few have it, though few would want it at the cost.
I plan to go back to Japan next summer, but i was watching the travel channel's special on Tokyo, and I pined for the capsule hotels, pachinko parlors, gaudy nightlife, and the city bustle that is Tokyo.
[i][u]I WANNA GO NOW!![/u][/i]
(That and I want 5 tbucks to buy a cool banner :) )
