Monthly Archives: January 2004

general ramblings

kissing jessica stein

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i saw kissing jessica stein last night. i wasn’t sure if i would be able to get into it because i wasn’t sure if i could relate to the whole lesbian love story. but this movie isn’t a statement about lesbian romance, but more a story of love….it just happens to be about two women. i must say that the whole story was just charming. i really enjoyed this movie quite a bit.

now i know that [url=http://www.track15.com]dardy[/url] had been raving about it for some time, but i didn’t get the opportunity to watch it until netflix finally sent it to me…and i’m very tempted to watch the movie again. i think it was just that good.

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toys

hard drive

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i heard about the [url=http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=309209&pfp=SEARCH]compusa deal[/url] with the seagate 200GB hard drive for $100. i wasn’t sure if i should get in on it or not, but i have been having some hard drive concerns lately, so i decided to drop by the local compusa and pick up a drive. it turns out that i ended up with the last hard drive at the emeryville store. phew! so last night after getting out of poker pretty early, i decided to do the hard drive install. the case that comes with the dell is pretty nice, but the cables provided do not really give you much flexibility in terms of where you can put what. i actually had to shuffle around some things in the case so that my hard drive would fit.

my computer is actually a little bit louder now because of the new spinning hard drive. initially, i was going to retire one of my smaller hard drives, but i decided to leave everything in there. my computer is now happily running off of three hard drives, 120GB, 75GB, and the new 200GB, give me just under half a terabyte of hard drive space. now, the question is, how can i fill it all up? now that i’ve doubled my capacity, i think that i may start looking into downloading old tv episodes of some of my favorite shows.

ahhh, the possibilities are endless.

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thursdays

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at work on thursdays, the company provides snacks for us. in the morning there are donuts and bagels. donuts. i think the company gets about 4 dozen donuts and it would be a shame to let all those donuts go to waste. i sort of feel obligated to make sure that no donut is left to waste.

this, of course, has rather disturbing repercussions. i must gain 5 pounds every thursday as a result of this. i’m not sure what i can do about this. i have to help the donuts fulfill their donut destiny. i’m really their savior. even at the expense of my own health, i will do my best to make sure that no donut is left behind. this is my burden, this is my life.

entertainment

tru calling revisited

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i wonder why i keep coming back to the show. it’s reliably bad. eliza dushku does look good, though. but man, the writing here is just so very bad. subtle dialogue? the writers have never heard of it. so much of the show is so painfully obvious, it’s sort of insulting.

but eliza dushku is a nurse’s outfit. yummy.

i still don’t understand why i’m watching the show, though. even if you accept that tru can relive days, things are so poorly executed that it’s surprising the execs are letting the show continue.

has it really gotten that bad at fox that they can’t show something else?

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general ramblings

woman

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woman. woe-man. whoooa-man.
she was a thief
you got to believe
she stole my heart and my cat.

betty, judy, josie and those hot pussycats
they make me horny
saturday morning
girls of cartoo-ins
will leave me in ruins
i want to be betty’s barney

hey jane, get me off this crazy thing…called love

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woman. woe-man. whoooa-man.
we had love, not just sex
is she mrs. x?
i had to run for my life

jane, get me off of this crazy thing…called love.

rants

utter disbelief

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i was told something today that was shocking. shocking mostly because i was told completely contradictory information from a source that i thought was pretty reliable. now i’m finding out from the source that the information that i was originally told was incorrect.

obviously someone is lying.

if it is penny, the person who gave me the seemingly incorrect information first, who is lying, it definitely paints an unflattering picture about the motivation they had for lying.

if it is kimmy, the person who i am tending to believe, who is lying, it seems like a very big lie to make.

either way, it doesn’t make sense. why would you lie when you can so easily get caught in this lie? how would that make you look? why would you risk your credibility that much?

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toys

lens lust

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hahaha. [url=http://tow.com/photogallery/20040110_elephant_seals/]adam[/url] said, “I felt quite inadequate with my 70-200 with a 1.4x tele-extender.”

hahaha. no, really. please. stop it, you’re killing me. hahahaha.

oh dear. i think you just up it to a whole new level when you go with CRAZY LENSES like the 600mm lens, a 300/2.8, and the 100-400. sure, sure. see, it’s not THAT crazy to spend $1300 on a little lens…no, not crazy at all. never mind that the 600mm lens is on the order of $7200. never mind that the 300/2.8 is considered cheap at $3900. and the 100-400 is dirt cheap at $1400. i mean, yeah, who wouldn’t feel a little inadequate with the 70-200? buck up, adam, i’m sure that you’ll start to feel more secure about yourself in the coming days. =P

and here i was fretting over a lens that’s a few hundred dollars!

i’ve decided that my budget for lenses is obvious in the wrong order of magnitude. add another zero and then we’re talking a REAL budget for lenses.

sheesh!

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entertainment

average joe: hawaii

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larissa, the new girl of average joe 2, is not nearly as open-minded as her predecessor, melana. the show actually makes her look like quite a bitch at the beginning, but she’s beginning to open up at the end of the first episode. it definitely makes you wonder if she can get over her shallow tendecies and just get to know the guys for who they are. i’m not really digging this show as much as the last one, i’m not sure why. maybe it’s because i feel that larissa is just overly shallow and she isn’t really willing to give the guys a real chance. we’ll see, though.

it does however provide a rather interesting commentary about how much importance we place on looks when it comes to people we date. i guess that may just be a fact of life for those who are ridiculously attractive.

it does beg the question though whether or not there is some kind of cosmic balance to life. if someone is really THAT attractive, does it mean that they are lacking in something else THAT much? hmmmm.

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new volleyball league

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last night was the first day of my new league. it’s the West Side JACL volleyball league on sundays. it’s actually quite a bit of fun. i was a little intimidated when i found out that i was playing in the A pool, but i think that i can totally keep up with these guys. my new teammates are pretty cool and friendly so that makes it all the better.

what was really surprising is that this league is predominantly asian. i would say that there is maybe a small handful of non-asian people playing. i wonder why. it was also funny because on my team, i am one of the taller guys on the team. how often does that happen? heh.

i’m definitely looking forward to sunday nights. i think i may have hurt my knee a little bit last night, but i’m hoping the soreness will go away soon.

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entertainment

adam and joan

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it finally happened. through extraordinary circumstances, adam had to go through a soul searching mission to find out about his mother, joan, and himself and finally it finally happened. joan and adam kissed. you could almost see that it was going to happen after adam started to call joan “jane” again.

it was a love affair that was always in the making and i’m glad that through it all, it finally happened. it definitely begs the question, what’s next?

i guess we’ll see, but this episode reaffirms my love for the show, joan of arcadia.

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