Saturday, August 31, 2002
So the Prostate Cancer Charity has a website where they have this Shockwave game where you play as the character Sammy Sperm in Journey to Planet Prostate. Along the way you get to travel to the Arousal Nebula, Twin Planet Testes, Vas Deferens Worm Tunnels and Planet Seminal Vesicle. Sammy's mission is to avoid hazards such as television, beer and warm testicles while getting licked and tickled, wake up a bunch of his friends, and lead them all to a successful ejaculation.

Sounds ridiculous, I know, but it's actually quite fun, and also a little bit disturbing. Not as fun as the real "game", but entertaining nonetheless. Best score: 311,935.

Great. Just imagine the google searches I'm going to be found under after this post.
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Friday, August 30, 2002



OK, I have to say that Jini (aka Theresa Kauffman) just came off as lame in her short 15-second stint at the MTV VMAs. She looked so odd, her cheek and jawbones looked masculine and you could barely understand her incoherent screaming about Ohio Buckeyes. When she said her name, it actually sounded fobby. So Suchin Pak and Theresa are the representative Koreans on MTV. Sigh.

At least a Korean guy was responsible for The Best Rock Video, Linkin Park's "In The End". Respresent, Joe Hahn!
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Wednesday, August 28, 2002
All the voting for Jini from KISS for the MTV Last Fans Standing Contest paid off! Although, that top picture of her looks downright horrendous. Sorry, that picture of him looks downlight horrendous.

And while we're on the subject of Asians on TV, Ernie is going to be on a syndicated daytime episode of The Weakest Link. Too bad it's not Anne Robinson hosting it. I would so record that.

Anne: Some town needs their village idiot back.
Ernie: Oh.Hell.No! OHNOYOUDIN'T!
/Ernie is escorted off the stage/
Ernie: I'm SO going to blog about this! ... Say, you ever heard of SurvivorBlog? Or Puppetmaster? BigBlogger? No? So I'm making this new online reality game and I think you'd be interested ...
Hell, I'll record it anyway.
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Tuesday, August 27, 2002
Yankee Doodle has started a "100 Things from 100 Bloggers in 100 Days" project. So here we go.

001. I learned to type using the Dvorak layout so I type very oddly but still at 65 wpm.
002. I'm an only child.
003. I was born in the town of Wakefield, Nebraska (pop. 400).
004. I used to have an affinity for Tweety and Pochacco.
005. I've been told that I'm a great kisser.
006. I lost a 4th grade spelling bee on the word syzygy.
007. I'm a fantasy sports addict.
008. I enjoy singing, especially a capella.
009. I know more German that my native Korean.
010. Clavicles are the first thing I look at on a woman.
011. I am fiercely independent, yet loneliness terrifies me.
012. My feet are size 12.
013. I sing lullabyes to the people I love.
014. I've moved 17 times in 28 years.
015. I change colognes every 2 years (currently Issey Miyake).
016. My friends tell me I have no short-term memory.
017. My ultimate career goal is to be a high school chemistry teacher.
018. I admit it. I slept outside for 2 nights to watch The Phantom Menace.
019. I can sing just about every 80s sitcom, cartoon and jingle theme from memory.
020. I tend to embellish when telling and re-telling stories.
021. Some of my best friendships originated over the internet.
022. I enjoy cooking dishes I see on 30-Minute Meals with Rachael Ray.
023. I was in a coma for 6 days when I was 6 years old.
024. Many girls say I have more shoes than they.
025. Some people get annoyed when I correct their grammar and/or spelling.
026. I have seen every episode of Cheers, Seinfeld, Friends and Frasier.
027. TiVo has both ruined and enriched my life (see 26).
028. I've read the book Microserfs over 40 times.
029. I dislike the taste of beer.
030. I played the trombone for 13 years.
031. Conan O'Brien still amuses me, although I do miss Andy Richter.
032. I lost my virginity when I was 17.
033. I'm getting tired of keeping up with the Joneses.
034. People who first meet me are usually unnerved by how quickly I speak.
035. The perfect breast size is 34C/36B.
036. I've worn two rings on my left hand for the past 8 years.
037. Mark McGwire's younger brother JJ once beat me up in high school.
038. Ever seen how pork rinds are made? That used to be my job before college.
039. I face constant persecution over my insistence that boughten is a word.
040. I am nocturnal, but was diurnal in high school.
041. I think Delta Airlines female flight attendants are hot.
042. I feel so sorry for the employees of Hot Dog On a Stick. Those uniforms are so wrong.
043. My first job was as a paperboy for 3 days. I stopped after I got mugged.
044. I think that science is humankind's attempt to make sense of what God created.
045. I can't dance for shit, but sometimes I don't care.
046. Approximately $1.70 in coins passed through my digestive system on my 7th birthday.
047. I am still bitter about my parents divorce.
048. My dad tried to set me up with an 18-year-old girl last Xmas. I kissed her. That's it.
049. I dislike wearing watches.
050. I've had a webpage since 1993.
051. Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam once threw up on me during a concert at Golden Gate Park.
052. Someone from 3rd grade once found me through my website.
053. My high school 10-year reunion is coming up in a month. I have no desire to attend.
054. Late at night, I sometimes wonder how real The Matrix could be.
055. Boxers, not briefs.
056. I've used ectasy three times.
057. I've never fallen out of love with my first love, and I never will.
058. Try a Little Tenderness is one of my favorite songs.
059. I like almost every vegetable except eggplant.
060. I never had children's cereal until I was 18.
061. I could probably go without beef, but I would die without chicken.
062. I love holding hands in public.
063. My hair is naturally wavy.
064. I am intrigued by the game of craps.
065. I've only asked for one girl's phone number in my entire life.
066. We eventually dated for 3 months, then she joined an Asian sorority.
067. I get extremely sarcastic when I'm angry.
068. I have a peptic ulcer.
069. I took the SATs 7 times. My highest score was a 1560.
070. Scient has ruined all other jobs for me for the rest of my life.
071. My first two girlfriends we Caucasian. My parents didn't know about either of them.
072. I only like Spam in a few Korean dishes.
073. I was cited/photographed in Berkeley's daily paper 11 times while I was there.
074. One of those times was after I was mugged.
075. I used to gossip incessantly, but I'm working on it.
076. Blogs built with any of the default Blogger templates are a big turn-off.
077. I usually drink 6 quarts of medium pulp orange juice every week.
078. I've attempted suicide twice. I won't ever again.
079. I am computer virus-phobic.
080. Tahoma is my favorite everyday font.
081. I have been obsessed with Korean Pop music for the past 14 months.
082. I 5p34k l337.
083. I love quiche.
084. I once played Final Fantasy VII for 34 hours straight, minus pee breaks.
085. I wish I knew how to drive stick.
086. Those Fukengruven bumper stickers annoy me.
087. To my memory, my mother has never hugged me.
088. I wanted to be abducted by aliens when I was 9.
089. I was born in the year of the Tiger, and I am indeed a stubborn Taurus.
090. I still have a somewhat operable Powerbook 100, Apple's first laptop.
091. I tend to put work ahead of spending time at night with my girlfriend.
092. There are about 15 built Lego sets strewn around my apartment.
093. I have spent way too much of my life wondering why comic characters don't age.
094. Legend of Zelda is my favorite console game ever.
095. I love my girlfriend.
096. My favorite-sounding words are 'oligopoly' and 'indefatigable'.
097. I used to be terribly ashamed that my father was a pastor.
098. Foreign films are starting to grow on me.
099. I enjoy sticking my hand in rice and kneading it while I wash it.
100. I love hearing children laugh.
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Sunday, August 25, 2002



Friday, August 23, 2002
Yes folks, it's the brand new Sphincterine, because you never know when you're going to wish your ass was minty fresh. One of their claims is that it "stimulates and tingles like an astringent, but it's an Ass-tringent." Ah well thank you for making that clear to us dirty-butted folk.

Not convinced? Need some help? Have some questions or concerns about the product? Ready to order? Just click on Pucker, the starfish.

I wish I was kidding.
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I enjoy a cold glass of milk as much as the next person. I especially love chocolate milk. Apparently Koreans in Korea love milk too, or at least they're trying to campaign for it. But there's just gotta be something intrinsically wrong with calling it White Love. Can Koreans even say 'white love'?

oah-ee-tuh ruh-boo

Something like that.
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Thursday, August 22, 2002
Don't even talk to me about what happened on American Idol Wednesday night. I don't care if Nikki sang the best she's sung thusfar, it still isn't as good as Tamyra or Kelly. I'm already pissed that Christina not only lost, but got voted out before pretty boy backstreet boy RJ. You mean to tell me that even though Tamyra didn't sing her best in her second song, she deserved to be booted more than Justin with that pathetic karaoke version of P.Y.T.? The only hope is Kelly and believe me, if she doesn't win it all, there really is no hope left for this country.

On a side note, remember Jim Verraros? Cmon, you know. He's the one who didn't believe he made the cut of the final 10. The first of the backstreetboy wannabes to get voted out. The one with the choker band and the really bad wardrobe. The one with the deaf parents. The one with the Livejournal webpage. Sorry it's only a one-page cache of one entry; the journal itself has been deleted.

A little message to Ernie, have a little faith. Tamyra and Kelly will get fat lucrative contracts while the winner will get 15 minutes of fame and most likely notoriety. How do I know this? MTV tried this a few years ago, and America picked Jesse Camp. He's long gone from MTV now and the second place guy--Dave Holmes--is enjoying a career as an MTV veejay.
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Wednesday, August 21, 2002
I'm getting bored with my layout again. Should I redo it? I really should be doing my company site first, but ...
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Got back from the short trip to Monterey and Santa Cruz last night, but spent most of today recuperating from the goings on the past 3 weeks. I'll write more on that later, but for now, enjoy two new KPop songs.

Boa - Valenti
Boa's latest single, a very upbeat dance song with a Latin sound to it. 8 out of 10.

Papaya - Violet
Papay's first dance song as far as I can remember, catchy but lacks some continuity. 7 out of 10.
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Sunday, August 18, 2002
"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost." ~G.K. Chesterton

Em and I are taking off for a 2-day trip to Santa Cruz and Monterey. See you all Tuesday!
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Saturday, August 17, 2002
Not that I'm in college anymore, but Clear Channel College Entertainment lists available artists, availability and cost for an appearance. A comment on MeFi said "$200K for Tracy Chapman? What's she going to do, play Fast Car for two hours? Are we on Bizarro World?". Em didn't understand this joke, as she likes Tracy Chapman, especially the song The Promise, which I happen to agree with, but I still thought it was funny.

Anyhow, Shania Twain for $300K, Tool or Creed for $200K, even Carrot Top is going for $30K. You KNOW Wyclef has got to be upset that he only garners as much as Carrot Top. I mean c'mon, it's freaking Carrot Top. For one Carrot Top, you can get Ice T and Ice Cube! And what about this little local alternative band going for a measly $500? For that price, I'll just buy big big speakers and turn MTV up really loud.
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If you're a fan of KPop, you must have heard the song Because I'm A Girl by KISS.

The lead singer is named Jini, but her real name is Theresa Kauffman and she attends Oklahoma State University. Want to see her right here in the US? She's a finalist in the Last Fans Standing Contest to be a presenter at the MTV Video Music Awards 2002. Sorry about the grainy picture; this is the one off of the MTV site. Go vote for her!.

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Friday, August 16, 2002
This is about 6 months old, but I've never seen or heard of this until last night.

The Xbox's flagship game is Halo. I have never played this game, but apparently it's brilliant. Anyhow, this guy created something called the Warthog Jump Video. I can't really explain what it is, so I'll quote the creator in an interview.

Well, it started on halo.bungie.org. I was reading the forums and checking out the tips and tricks. Someone claimed they were able to get to the top of level 4, the silent cartographer... it's a nice little island with mountains. Anyway, I said, "Hell, I can do you one better." So I managed to get a jeep (warthog) up there. I made a short instructional video of how I did it, called, "When pigs fly." It involved grenades under a jeep, and a rocket launcher. I then had another idea for a larger explosion. I knew I had to make something better for this new trick. So after a few test runs, finding the right spot, etc., I simply hit record on my VCR and blew things up for a couple of hours :-). A trick like that deserved a music video. I picked out a few songs that "captured the mood," and then got to work editing it all together. I had _no_idea_ it would become as popular as it did.

Even if you're not a gamer, and even if you've never played Halo, this is quite entertaining. He used really appropriate music clips and sound bites and it totally adds to the experience. Keep in mind how much time this man spent getting actual gameplay to use for this video. Quicktime 5 or higher is required. Available in low res (10 MB) or high res (24 MB). Enjoy!
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Thursday, August 15, 2002
It's time for the obligatory reality show blog. Although I was surprised, I was pleased to see an Asian representin' in winning The Mole. Although she was a tad annoying, Dorothy showed her brains, deceit and cunning by winning over $600,000.

So now we've got Survivor Thailand, and all I have to say is that there had better be at least one Asian in the game since they're doing it in Asia. Everyone say hi to Shii Ann. She hails from Berkeley and was my year and you know, her face looks vaguely familiar. But then again, I saw about 2,000 Asian faces a day, so I'm probably wrong.

Since we're on the topic of Berkeley alum in reality shows, me, Em and her friends from Brown went to Le Cheval tonight for dinner and we see Malik from Real World 10 at a table near us. Trust me, it was him. That fro gives it away, aight?

Now I'm all inspired. I'm going to the Weakest Link auditions with Ernie next time. I think I can kick some Anne Robinson bootay.
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Tuesday, August 13, 2002
Anybody got an idea what this sign is supposed to mean?


You're on your own on this one.

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Who'd have ever thought that Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris would be good bedtime reading? Apparently my reading voice puts Em to sleep. I really hope that's a good thing. Haha.

I'm off to watch the perseid meteor shower. Nothing like feeling small and insignificant while gazing at the infinite universe. Sometimes I think science is humankind's attempt to make sense of what God created.
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Sunday, August 11, 2002
A college friend of Em's is an aspiring comic artist and is looking to get his work published. As evidenced from his webpage, he's got talent and should be hired now! If you have the hookup, send him a holler. Otherwise, just enjoy Ted's World.
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We all had so much joy from the geek out blog about Escher, let's continue the fun, shall we?

Three Indian computer scientists said Friday that they have solved a mathematical problem that has eluded researchers for 2,200 years. They have devised a method that will make no mistake in quickly determining a prime number. Prime numbers hold the key to solving many mathematical problems and play an important a role in cryptography. Scientists have long worked on ways to improve methods to identify a prime number. Greek mathematician Eratosthenes was the first to raise this problem around 200 B.C., when he offered one way of determining whether a number is prime.

If you're really really curious to read the paper on their findings, be my guest. But after about 3 pages I found myself with a splitting headache. Personally, who needs all of this mathematical mumbo jumbo? All you need is The Prime Number Shitting Bear, if you ask me. It's educational, accurate enough and fun for the whole family!
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Friday, August 09, 2002
As if it couldn't get any worse, WorldCom--who in June was revealed to have a $3.85 billion fraud--has uncovered another $3.3 billion bogus accounting cover while reviewing their books for 1999 and 2000.

That's $7.15 billion, and that's all we know about. I can't even fathom how you lose that much money. Man I'm sweating over a $20K student loan and I can't hide ANYWHERE if I'm more than a week late paying that; they stash away the Gross National Product of Tunisia for 3 years.
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Thursday, August 08, 2002



It's time for a little geekout, wouldn't you say?

In 1956, M.C. Escher created the drawing Print Gallery. In this drawing he omitted the center, where he signed and dated the drawing.


This man spent two years determining the correct mathematical structure of the drawing, extrapolating the contents of the missing space and making some animations showing the drawing and its Droste effect, an effect where the image contains itself on a smaller scale. Using many different variations of the drawing as well as the Escher grid seen here, he was able to "complete" the drawing. Check out the very cool animations of the drawing. You can't really see the Droste effect in action unless you views the animations. And get the 10MB ones, they're definitely worth it.

Oh yeah, I didn't post the "completed" drawing to save some bandwidth. Click here to see the finished product.
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Tuesday, August 06, 2002
Em is back from NJ and we spent the whole day together. :) We made lots of great food. For lunch, braised scallops and mushroom alfredo sauce over herb fettucine. For dinner, shrimp, green peppers and onions sauteed in hot sauce over rice and for an appetizer, steamed asparagus drizzled with olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper wrapped in prosciutto. Urp.

After nearly a year, Ank finally got that damn earplug out of his ear, and it only cost him $1! Leave it to the Chinese. Who needs an ENT doctor when you've got the marvel that is Chinese medicine in your corner?

In response to Stan's question, What's in your Netflix queue?:
Amelie, Serendipity, Black Hawk Down, Kikujiro, The Queens of Comedy, Shallow Hal, Three Kings, The Commitments, Glory, Shower, Bowfinger, Evil Dead 2, 13 Ghosts, Planet of the Apes, A Bronx Tale, American Graffiti, Magnolia, American History X, A Streetcar Names Desire, Thirteen Days, West Side Story, The Last Emperor, Saving Grace, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Khartoum, The Negotiator, The Guns of Navarone, Nick of Time, Monster's Ball, I Am Sam, Zoolander, Escaflowne: The Movie, Analyze This, Oz: The Complete First Season, The Nutty Professor II, Boyz Don't Cry, The Wood, The Outsiders, Love & Basketball, The Prince of Egypt, Brokedown Palace, The Others, Dark City, Vanilla Sky, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Gosford park, Orange County, The City of Lost Children, Novocaine, The Beach, Pi: Faith In Chaos, Chocolat.

I picked up US News & World Report's Graduate School listings and opened it up to Engineering School rankings. Stanford topped the list.

  • 2001 Average GMAT score: 718
  • 2001 Undergrad GPA: 3.58
  • 2001 Acceptance rate: 8.8%

    I put the book down and wept oh so bitterly.
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  • Sunday, August 04, 2002



    Friday, August 02, 2002
    I've rarely mentioned it on my webpage, but two very good friends of mine are going to be married tomorrow. It's almost unbelievable, the last 16 months of engagement have gone by just like that. When I first helped them make a webpage, I included this little javascript countdown that still had about 400 days on it. Now as I'm looking at it, there's only 1 day and 3+ hrs to go. What the hell happened to the last 16 months? Now that I'm thinking about it, what happened to the last 7 years I've known Evance and 6 years I've known Angela? It feels so grown-up, even though it's not my own wedding, being close to people that are getting married. Working with Ev the last 6 weeks has afforded me a chance to see what goes in the everyday hectic life just weeks before the wedding, and I've got to tell you it's harrowing. I'm also grateful that it has afforded me time to get closer to them, just by spending time with them.

    This weekend starting today is going to be incredibly hectic. Rehearsal, rehearsal dinner and "other stuff" tonight. Pictures, tea ceremony, wedding ceremony, reception, dinner and dancing tomorrow. So many old friends will be there, it will be good to catch up with them, but as a groomsman I don't know how much time I'll have. But this is going to be a truly special weekend I'll look back on the rest of my life with fond memories. Best of luck to the bride and groom.

    On a final note, congratulations to Angela & Bryan and Irene & Jarvis on their recent engagements!
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    Thanks to the graciousness of Wyman, I was able to see a free preview screening of Signs last night at the Metreon. A lot of old APO people were there, as well as some people I'll be seeing this weekend. Ki from II Stix and his wife were also there. Many thanks to Wyman for organizing this and hooking us all up.

    Directed and produced by the same man who made The Sixth Sense, this movie promised to be scary and creepy while still making you think. Although not quite as good as The Sixth Sense, Signs was pretty downright scary, but it posed some very thought-provoking and controversial questions which I am still thinking about. M. Night Shyamalan has a way of prying into your inner fear. The fear you don't talk about but is always there. There are many different kinds of fear, or rather, different reasons for you to be afraid, and he does a good job at touching upon many of them. Signs also has a facet not really existing in The Sixth Sense: humor. Not slapstick or pee-your-pants funny, but there were definitely some light-hearted moments. But when I think about it, maybe that was just a tool to have your sense of confidence and security fall that much further during the dark moments of the movie. It had a sort of old movie quality to it. There was really nothing fancy about the movie. Nothing CG, just some good disguises and good use of everyday objects as props.

    I recommend this movie. It's worth the full price of admission.
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    Thursday, August 01, 2002
    August 1, 2002. 4:36am.

    Wooden 3-in-1 Toybox, $19.99
    Harley-Davidson Barbie #4, $55.99
    Senco FP25XP 5/8" to 2-1/8" Brad Nailer, $140.79
    Antique Roadshow Board Game, $7.98
    HTML 4 for Dummies (with CD-ROM), $9.99

    Amazon Gold Box can go suck a big one.
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