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Finding the One True Way
A recent post about pachinko over at the USS Clueless rubbed me the wrong way. The line that bothered me was: There’s no skill involved and no real way for…
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Yoshida
I was happy to see my brother’s name on Instapundit today, although the post wasn’t in reference to him at all. It’s not the first time this Adam Yoshida was…
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Sushi = Sumo?
While preparing for a post on my moblog, I found a handy list of sushi terminology featuring entries in Japanese kanji/kana and respective romaji readings as well as translations in…
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Duck and Cover!
wuzzat the air raid siren?
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Steady Diet of Work Screeds
Oh yeah, it’s my favorite time of the week, every week: The Friday Work Wind-down Period. This is the period that my employers should take special care not to speak…
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Bargaining Is a Lost Art
As I have explained in the past, I am a terrible gadget junkie. But I’m frugal, in some ways. The main reason I can hardly ever bear to pay top…
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Coding over beers
Just put Haloscan-powered comments on Taro’s blog. I hope he starts using it instead of that ghetto BBS for daily posts. I’m typing this on my baby U3 Vaio while…
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Just call me Max
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Max Payne 2:
THE FALL OF MAX PAYNE. This is totally the shit. The original Max Payne game was groundbreaking with the first bullet-time system, actual plot and storyline, and non-stop action. MP2…
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Behold the Oracle’s wisdom:
Hello, ass-clown. Nice try. Starbucks doesn’t serve “anything tasty” (though if they did you’d probably drink it). Try again, this time input something that Starbucks actually serves.
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Dead and Bloated
Incidentally, Cosmic Buddha’s GF recently shared a scary story about a women’s restroom at the rear of a temple she visited in Thai a couple years ago. Apparently there was…
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Work Request: Bran Muffins
Sometimes working in a factory office with constipated old men really has its downs. I have been waiting to take a crap for a couple of hours now. Its not…