Thursday, September 22, 2005
jason's crazy story.
There's this guy, who goes to the donut shop to buy six spring rolls, "But you do know you can't buy spring rolls at the donut shop?". So he asks the lady, "Can I please have six spring rolls?" and she goes, "Sure!". So she, one by one, starts putting in the spring rolls. As she is, one of them rolls down the counter and into the deep-fryer. "Here you go", says the lady as she hands the man the spring rolls. The man pauses, and says, "there is only five spring rolls in this bag... I think the other one rolled into the deep-fryer." "Oh really? Let me go get it", then the lady walks to the deep-fryer, pulls her hair up with her hands, and dips her face into the oil. After some serious bobbing, she pulled her head out, "and her face is like so messed up, the eyes are missing and she has the spring roll tightly held in her mouth", then she says "Heeare youvu go", and drops the spring roll in the his bag. "Thanks", says the man, and then he walks off.
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
that commercial
Oh but the worst one has to be when me and my dad were watching late night TV and he was switching channels slowly, and went across Showcase, and the remote sorta just temporarily broke down, and the Red Shoe Diaries was on, and my dad's like, "Oh it's that man! You know, from the Aliens", and I couldn't say "Hm, no it's not X-Files change the channel" because then he would know that I know what this show is, so I'm just like "er yeah!". Bad, bad call.
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
old books
I got these old books, some were published in 1964, and when I smell them it reminds me of when I was a little kid. Odd. But yeah, old books are great you know? They aren't story books or anything, they are Time-Life books, mostly on random topics I picked out, like Solar System, The Cell, and Oceans. Basically, like an encyclopedia.
Did you know it was more then three centuries ago when Robert Hooke, of London, while observing slices of cork, saw that they were made up with some sort of honeycomb pattern type structures, that he first coined the name "cell"? Huh?? Did YOU?!Yeah I found that intersting. Geeez all this info in this book, I'd probably have to find like a dozen sites to get this much information. Okay maybe. Man, I seriosuly wonder how life was without computers. No interent, no msn, and worst of all, no no no pooornnnn. But I guess it also had its ups. NO spam, no Microsoft, no Internet Explorer, and most of all, no no no gay pooornnnn.
Anyway, all I really wanted to do was post two pictures I scanned from a book. I liked the pictures, did I mention these books have great pictures? Actually, practically all books have great pictures. I bet it feels pretty nice for a photographer who gets asked premission to publish his/her work. Without further ado.
"Sheets of monosoonborne rain drench villagers on Borneo. The seasonal monsoons deposit some 120 inches of rain on the island each year, sustaining one of the world's great rain forests."
"A meteor shower graces the night flight of a manned balloon over France in November 1867. Rising above pollution and clouds, balloons provided excellent vantage points for astronomers."
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Sunday, September 11, 2005
everything is cool in Japan, even politics.
Just goes to prove how Japan is all-round coool, well maybe cept for those crazy sex fanatics.Of the 37 "rebels" — the former LDP polticians who were expelled from the party after voting against Mr Koizumi’s postal privatisation Bills — only around 15 were expected to win their seats against the “assassins” — celebrity candidates dispatched by the Prime Minister as official LDP candidates to crush the dissenters.
Among the successful assassins were Yuriko Koike, the female Environment Minister who defeated the rebel MP Koki Kobayashi in his central Tokyo constituency. Also victorious were Satsuki Katayama, a former beauty queen and finance official, and Makiko Fujino, a television chef known as the “charismatic housewife”.
However, Takafumi Horie, a young internet entrepreneur noted for resemblance to a cartoon cat, was defeated in Hiroshima prefecture by the arch-rebel, Shizuka Kamei.
Despite a long term decline in interest in elections, turn out was 67 per cent — 7 per cent higher than at the last poll. In a measure of the swing towards the LDP, one in five of Democratic Party supporters polled in the constituency admitted that they had voted for Ms Koike. “Unfortunately, the public believes postal reform is equal to progress in reforming Japan,” the defeated Mr Kobayashi said. “Such a trend makes it difficult for voters to cast their ballots for candidates who think otherwise.”
Mr Koizumi’s genius was to fight the election as a referendum on a single issue — postal reform — and to ask voters whether they were for him or against him. He succeeded in portraying himself as a valiant reformer doing battle against a nefarious enemy: not the official Opposition, but the ex-LDP rebels.
Man... I really need to watch some Japanese baseball.
Thursday, September 08, 2005
a message to Edmund.
P.S.
I hope you see this. Sure I can email...fuck