The Guild

I watched 3 seasons of this show The Guild this morning. 5 minute episodes. Do it.

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cinnamon chasers - luv deluxe

amazing video. thanks James.

Very exciting. Like it came out of a what if discussion at a middle school.

i wish i had friends like this as a kid. or maybe not.

I love AP European History

LOL

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MULAN

I was really into this before I moved to America

14 games into the season

Allen Iverson

At the early age of 10 I realized I would never dunk a basketball; consequently Allen Iverson was my favorite non Laker throughout middle school. He made lay ups cool. He went to the finals with Eric Snow and Dikembe Mutombo. He crossed over Jordan. He stepped over Tyronne Lue. He was on the cover of NBA 2K1 and 2k2.

I for one really hope a team picks him up. Just not the Lakers.

people who drink

There are two kinds of people in this bar.

We're not in college anymore (grad school doesn't count) and there's a few birthdays in December so this blog entry is really relevant. Thanks Kim, for showing me this blog.

I need more structure in my life

Could have used this last year.

Except for the glaring omissions of Carl's Jr and Del Taco somewhere between "Do You Live on the West Coast" and "Do you have more than $3", this chart is pretty accurate. Woe is the rest of the country, left only with Wendy's and McDonald's and Burger King. And what the hell is Tim Horton's?

Truth

One of the truest things anybody has ever told me was about toothpaste. In my senior year of high school our economics teacher Mr. Huddle told us that toothpaste companies wanted us to use more toothpaste than was necessary by pointing out that tv ads for toothpaste always showed a full serving of toothpaste as a fatty ass swipe of toothpaste on a brush, such as:

when in reality we only needed a pea sized amount. I think about this almost everyday.

helll no

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NO

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kinda cool. a dslr with hd video did this?

boner party:

I KNOW, RIGHT?

thats why i dont use it no mo’. you wanna come over and cook eggs and watch bill murray movies? shhiiiit. got my gameplan all figured out.

space question

do you ever lie in bed, when its dark, and your ability to judge space and distance disappears for a few moments? like the walls suddently move really far away, and your bed is in the middle of a room the size of a costco? it happened to me again last night, and it puts all sorts of questions about myself in my head that i shouldn't be asking in the first place. this shouldn't even be happening; my bed is next to a wall.

not getting out of bed

1: man, i feel like shit today. i cant get out of bed
2: really? that sucks
1: yeah, at least nothing bad can happen to me here
2: you really feel that way?
1: yeah
2: are you hungry?
1: no, i had tacos last night

pop champagne

gif party

lol clippers

governator'd

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tru wariers

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halloween

Halloween felt like Christmas this year. Thanks everybody!

I am an adult

I really wanna like the show, but lately it's been terrible. Either season 5 sucks worse than previous seasons, or I'm getting too old for this.

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Amazing! It looks like they don't have building codes they have in Tennessee.

AGASSI!!!

Agassi is from the desert after all.

fantasy

Last night was the draft for the Hacienda money league.





I'm so gonna win

I thought this was really cool. I didn't know Braun made anything else besides razors.

I fucking hate zombies on the internet. Along with vampires.

This morning I checked my internet after coming back from work and I find a link on facebook to cnn.com. Headlines seen at 5am: Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, NASA bombed the moon, a gun toting soccer mom and husband shot dead, and a fugitive TV host has surrendered to the Brazilian government. At this point 2 things flashed through my head.

A. I'm already in bed and this is a dream.
B. This is a joke, zombies are gonna jump out of this page and literally scare the crap out of me.

I accept both as truth; I was reading a prank page in my dream. I muted my laptop and went to "bed". I wake up at noon, 6 hours later than I should've (I have to move my car off the street and into an all-day lot at sunrise), to find out that it wasn't a dream, Obama really won a Nobel Prize, NASA really DID bomb the moon, and that parking tickets in Santa Monica are $50.

Thanks to Tania, who got it from Vivian. Thank you Vivian.

1 month to go

Hinrich

Saw this on basketbawful today; too good to pass up.
Click through for all 50.

gypped.

Gran Turismo came out today on the PSP.

Gran Turismo gets me really pumped. I grew up on Gran Turismo. It's the reason I bought a Playstation. I remember spending my 8th grade summer holed up in the sweat locker that was my room playing Gran Turismo 2. My thumbs grew caluses . Gran Turismo 3 made me buy a Playstation 2. My thumbs were leather. Gran Turismo 4 made me a recluse summer 2005. That was roughly 5 years ago, and I've matured tremendously as a person; in all aspects.

WHERE IS GRAN TURISMO 5?!

Monday

Best thing all week. It's Monday, and I'm sure of it.


Watching it reminded me of this sticker. My dad bought it when we moved here. I didn't realize those funny waves spelled something til well into middle school.

FYI, Mickey's telling you it was 95 this afternoon.

Assistant Transportation Engineer Job Market...

So today I got an email about a job I applied for. Or so it seemed.

Hi Donson,

I am checking in on your employment situation. If you are in the Banking/Mortgage job market or if you are seeking career contacts in the Hacienda Heights area, please visit this site...

Victor Davis

xxxxx x. xxxxxx., xxx xxx
Scottsdale, AZ xxxxx
US

This employer-like email was obviously generated by information I submitted to one of the several job search engines by an algorithm someone was too lazy to program to sound more human-like. "this site" links to a linkedin-like job networking registration page.

How are there more job search/professional networking sites than there are jobs? I sign up for a new jobsearchnetworking site every time I apply to a job. I essentially have to submit 2 sets of information for every 1 job. Consequently the movie Brazil is not as far fetched as I thought. This is ridiculous and depressing.

I'm sick of this world we live in.

After declining ratings, Fox eventually decided to cancel the show, with one of their major reasons being to make room for the Family Guy spin-off series The Cleveland Show, which will be King of the Hill's ultimate replacement.

I lifted this embeded version off of Daniel's blog; it's fun.

Inglourious Basterds was really good.

Nosaj Thing Visual Show Compilation Test Shoot from Adam Guzman on Vimeo.

I'm slow on this, but yeah. I am amazed!

Hacienda Heights (norcal edition)

(click through for link)

trailer

Cedric Ceballos!

It's a Youtube binge.

bacon.

Is anyone else sick of this internet-bacon phenomenon? Bacon's good, I get it as part of my grand slam, but come on. I realize internet memes are for the most part pointless fun, but there is nothing entertaining about seeing bacon on the internet. Cats? Fine, I get it, they're photogenic and lend themselves to funny captions. Piano cats? Even funnier. Ironic wolf t shirts? Also fine, they're funny, and best of all you can't get them at Urban Outfitters.

But bacon related objects/products/images? NO. NOT FUNNY. It's also pornographic, culturally insensitive, and leads to heart disease. I know it's delicious, that's why it's on my plate where it should be, not on the internet. I log on to see cool amazing stuff I probably won't see in real life, not breakfast. If you think this internet bacon craze/blogger crutch is funny, please get off the blogs and reassess your life.


life update:

I'm still looking for a job, preferably in transportation and planning, but really in anything that pays better than retail. On the bright side I have been reading, working out, watching movies a lot more than I did in college.

Language

My Cantonese has deteriorated to the point where I can't keep up a conversation longer than a minute and I mumble words I can't remember. In a few years I might have to order everything in English. I imagine this is how senility feels. In my feeble attempt to slow this crippling condition, I have watched Police Story 1 & 2 these past 2 days and will watch part 3 tomorrow. Save me Jackie.




edit: This entry had to go through 2 edits. This bodes badly for my English. I'm really scared.

my dad is

the guy on the right.

Mom commented on how Jomie and I dress way nicer than dad did when he was young. He then produced this picture.

August 2009!

This has been a busy month for me weekend-wise. Here's a summary:











The full month here.

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Every morning I look in my closet and I ask myself, "Does that T shirt still have sleeves?". There are a lot more "Nos" than there should be.

Andrew Zimmern

I don't wanna see the most extreme/bizarre, I just wanna have a good time. That's it; don't give me your shit, Andrew Zimmern. My hate for Andrew Zimmern is so pure that it puts the rest of my TV watching in perspective. I like Anthony Bourdain/Samantha Brown/Dhani because they're good honest clever human beings who possess a healthy amount of dignity and self-awareness. I would not be a friend of Andrew Zimmern. I think that's the first question I subconsciously ask myself whenever watching/hearing/meeting a personality. Would I hang out with him/her?


Just sayin.


People I would not hang out with:

Andrew Zimmern
Howard Stern
Tom Leykis
Bam Margera
Chris Hansen
LeBron James
Ralphie May
Stephon Marbury
Terrell Owens
Kathy Griffin
Rachael Ray


People I would hang out with knowing there will be consequences/awkwardness/startling and unsettling revelations:

Ron Artest
Kobe Bryant
Ice-T
Delonte West
Jet Li (He should'nt be a maybe, but he's just a little weird.)
Tyra Banks

This list is not comprehensive at all, so if there's more, I'll get to it eventually. I'd also probably hang out with anyone not on this list until someone says "even so-and-so???"

1987

I'm shocked.