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One of my favorite sword fighting scenes

Sex Chip...

Scientists are developing an electronic "sex chip" that can be implanted into the brain to stimulate pleasure.

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Snooze, snooze, snooze, snooze!

Did you ever wonder why the snooze button on alarm clocks is set for 9 minutes instead of 10 or some other arbitrary number?

Maybe its a way to help prevent OCD. You know how you gotta wake up on a specific division of time, like on the hour, on the half hour, or 45 minutes. I never set my alarm to some random ass time like 9:43, then again maybe it's just me. Maybe if the snooze was set to 10 minute intervals and you had you alarm set on the hour, you would have to snooze three times so that you don't wake up on a random time like 10 or 20 minutes into the hour, but by then you might already be late. I'm not really serious about this theory.

Another idea is maybe 10 minutes into the snooze you'd fall into a deeper sleep that is harder to wake up from. Very doubtful though, since sleep cycles don't go in 10 minute intervals, but rather 90 minute intervals.

Here's the officially boring answer:

By setting the snooze time to 9 minutes, modern digital alarm clocks only needs to watch the last digit of the time. So, if you hit snooze at 6:45, the alarm goes off again when the last digit hits 4 - at 7:54. They couldn't make the snooze period 10 minutes, or the alarm would go off right away - or the clock would take more circuitry.

Historically speaking, there's another element to the answer. Clock experts say when snooze alarms were invented, the gears in alarm clocks were standardized. The snooze gear was introduced into the existing mix and its teeth had to mesh with the other gears' teeth. The engineers had to choose between a gear that made the snooze period nine-plus minutes or 10-plus minutes. Because of the gear configuration, 10 minutes on the nose was not an option.

According to these clock historians, engineers chose the shorter snooze, figuring "less than 10 minutes" seemed more punctual and marketable than sending people back to dreamland for "more than 10 minutes." The public became accustomed to this, and clock makers have generally stuck with it.

Kaiji

Kaiji is such an awesome anime. It has so much emotion and I love the psychological stuff. Here are some of the my favorite and most intense moments. Of course to enjoy them full you should see the whole series or at least the whole story arc.

Note (12/7/2010): Wow I wrote this a long time ago and forgot to finish it. Anyway here is part of the most intense scene. It's not the whole thing, but I'm do lazy to edit the video myself so I used someone else's youtube upload.

Ain't It Pretty

Ain't it pretty when she walk.

Ain't it pretty when she walk.

Ain't it pretty when she talk.

Ain't it pretty when she talk.

Ain't it sexy when she move.

She's so sexy when she move.

It's so lovely when she do.

When she do them things she do.

-Will.i.am

I lost my living thing!

I just saw a sign for a "lost cat". Doesn't that sound funny? It gives me the sense the cat or dog is lost like any other object that people lose. It's like saying, "I lost my keys". How about, "I can't seem to recollect where I last put little johnny" -- "Well, try to remember where you last saw him, retrace your steps"

Outrunning a cop

Is there really any point in outrunning a cop? Cops have video cameras mounted on the dashes, taping everything constantly. Even if you manage to outrun the copper, wouldn't you still get in trouble because he has a picture of your license plate? The only situation I can think of where it would make sense to outrun a cop is if you drive past him really fast and he doesn't get a chance to see your license plate. Alternatively, if you have some kinda of mechanism to hide your license plate from the camera; either a cover or a flippable one that give a fake plate.

Here are two videos of bikers outrunning cops:





And on a bicycle as well!:



Can I trust you as a friend/girlfriend/wife?Imagine this hypothetical situation. I get into my brand new bmw m3 and get on the highway and speed past a cop at 100 mph. What ensues is a 2-hour long car chase with 3 state troopers and a helicopter. In the end, I manage to get away and ditch the car. The cops know that the car belongs to me though because of the license plate. After I ditch the car, I run to your place and I say, "Will you be my alibi? I was just in a car chase and I am wanted by the police. However, they have no way of proving that I was the one driving the car and I am going to say it was stolen. You had picked me from my place and drove me here before my bmw was stolen. I need you to lie to the police and say that I have been with you this whole time." Can I trust you to stand by me and lie to the police until I am cleared of all charges? Or will you get scared of getting in trouble and rat me out? Can I trust you?

Car, haircut, awesome costume

My car is so small and "cute" <--no homo
My new haircut
removed a picture of myself because i figured no one should know what i look like
This Cloud costume is sick as hell

Food

This is a very good description of an adventure and most of it describes my personal experiences accurately, excluding the shit about having anxiety(I can empathize with what he is saying, more specifically to when I smoke though): click here

Note: this is all hypothetically fictional

Akagi Awesome Moments

I love this evil laugh


Pure Insanity


The way Nobuyuki Fukumoto depicts Washizu's insansity is so brilliant and well done. I do not think I've ever seen a better display of insanity than this in any anime and maybe even in any movie, maybe Jack Nicholson comes close in one of his movies.

Blackberry Storm, Akagi

God I want this phone!


Akagi makes me want to learn Mahjong!!

My poem, my cat, and some more of my life

Interesting happenings in my life. A few days ago my more hit my car in our driveway. Now the passenger side of my car is scratched up and has a dent in the right where the door handle is. The dent actually makes the door difficult to lock and unlock. Isn't life nice? That same night my computer got the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) 5 times consecutively. Lucky I was able to back everything up before reinstalling the operating system. Now everything is pretty baller. My computer is a lot faster than it was before and started fresh spurred me to do some research in order to make the settings like I want them. I now use foobar2000 as my music player. It is a lot less resource intensive that winamp, which I had used before. The reason I did not use foobar previously is that it didn't have a media library. Apparently, in the time since I last checked, they developed a library for it. It's just totally awesome now. Additionally, I now use pidgin instead of trillian as my main instant messaging client. This is the first time I have switched clients since I started using trillian my sophomore year in high school. Isn't that crazy? I had always chosen trillian because it had awesome functionality and I used to have icq, msn, aim, and yahoo ids that I chatted on. However, for the last few years, I've only been chatting on aim, if at all. I figured, why use trillian anymore. Switching to pidgin was awesome. It has the same functionality that I needed from trillian yet it uses way less resources (even less than aim). I'm actually surprised at myself for switching. The first time I came into contact with pidgin is when I met Diana, because that is what she used. I always thought it was a silly instant messaging program. I guess I finally saw the light after I had to reinstall the programs on my formatted computer. It's interesting the turns life can take and the things that come out of the bad shit that happens.

Here is a poem that I wrote last year. I'm not a very good poet and I've never really written any poety on my own accord ever before in my life (and since then I've only written one other poem for V-Day, but I don't think it's as creative). It's an amusing story about how I got inspired to write a poem. So since freshman year at my friends dorm, Ruffin, there was a poem on the wall of one of the stall. I really liked it. I'm going to try to remember it:

Does her make up in her room

Douses herself in cheap perfume

Eyeholes through a paper bag

Greatest lay I ever had

Then all of the sudden at some point last year, there appeared a second poem, right underneath that first one. I definitely cannot remember it now though. I did, however, notice a problem with that poem and that was that the syllables were inconsistent in one line, which threw off the whole flow of the poem. So that spurred a thought loop in my mind and I kept trying to think of ways to correct that syllable issue. This whole process turned into me creating a completely new poem, that I personally like a lot:

Juicy lips parted so wide,
Making sure it's all inside,
Feels so good when it goes deep,
Then roll over, fall asleep.

My cat can be really cute sometimes:

I bought some hair wax called Gatsby Moving Rubber on ebay. It is was shipped from Hong Kong, made in Japan. It is really fucking awesome, but when I tried it I realized that my haircut and hair style is completely not right for it. So I'm going to a hair salon for the first time in my life soon; my mom has cut my hair all my life. I wanna get asian style haircut and I wanna straighten my hair. Gonna see what I can do. This is one hairstyle that I like:

Packages from Honk Kong look cool:

Customs declaration:

The actual hair wax:

The situation with my great grandma is not getting any better. She is being moved to an assisted living facility. It sounds better than a nursing home because I like the idea of her being judged to be able to mostly take of herself on her own, but I'm worried if that is the right thing because she is only gonna get older, and I don't want her to have to change her life drastically again by moving to a nursing home in the future. 

I wanted to take a picture of this, but I just haven't had a chance so I'm going to write about it. We are cleaning out my great grandma's apartment, and we find some interesting things of course. Here is the back story: my mom always gives my great grandma nice soap from bath and body works for every present giving holiday. I knew all along that she didn't use all of it because I would see some lying around in her drawer. However, the extent to whic she didn't use soap for its intended purpose I could not even imagine. When cleaning out her drawers, we found at least 50+ bars of soap that were not opened. A lot of that 50 were soaps that she got as presents, however, the rest was just random soap that she bought that was not even high quality soap. It is really a funny sight to see that much unused soap piled up in front of you knowing that it was used in every single drawer in the house to make the drawers smell good. 

Nothing Specific

Did you ever wonder if blind people have dreams just like the rest of us?

Apparently, if you become blind early in life, your dreams are strictly auditory, which means that your dreams are like a normal person's, except without the images. If you become blind later in life, your dreams are limited visual to what you have experienced up until you became blind and with time even those things that you have experienced fade away. Here is a quotation from an actual blind person:

" Yes, blind people do dream. What they see in their dreams depends on how much they could ever see. If someone has been totally blind since birth, they only have auditory dreams. If someone such as I, has had a measure of sight, then that person dreams with that measure of sight. I still dream as though I can see, colors included. For people I’ve met since, their faces are just blurs or how I imagine they look. To me, someone like my mother looks forever 30."

Gym Class Heroes Concert

The concert was awesome. Way better than I expected. I love the way they interact with the audience. I touched the lead singer!

Cupid's Chokehold

Clothes Off

Cookie Jar

I never talked about my experience at The Faint concert at the Cadle's Cradle earlier this year. It was one of the most amazing concert experiences, probably due the combination of apples and The Faint being great performers and having awesome dance music. I eventually made it up to front and center of the concert. The first time I had a mosh pit experience. It was amazing feeling all the energy around me. There was no thinking, strictly feeling. This is a video I took on my phone at the front:

Right now is kind of a rough time in my life with relation to family. My great-grandmother is a pretty bad point in her life. She is 93 and was recently moved from the hospital, to rehab, and is soon being transfered to a nursing home. It's really painful and sad watching old age take its toll on a person. Literally to three months ago, my great-grandmother was doing fine, living life the same as I have seen her the past 16 years. Then all of the sudden on the way back from grocery shopping she fell. I was scared as shit when that happened. I never before had to call an ambulance for someone. After that, her condition went downhill. It is really painful watching your family members suffer and I wish I could just magically make her healthy and happy, at least happy.

On a lighter note, when cleaning out my great-grandma's apartment, we found some pretty cool things. One was a watch that belongs to at least my great-grandma's grandma. That's pretty freakin old! Here's some pictures:

The Original Me So Horny!!! AHAHA!!!!

Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni - Espisode 18

**First a litte note. I was told by a friend that had she not known me beforehand that she would think I was an asshole based on my previous blog entry on the ladder theory. I just wanted to give my response to that. Of course it is not surprising that that kind of response came from a female. All the ladies claim that they have "friends" that are guys. REALLY?! So ladies, let us do a little test. Are you relatively attractive? If the answer is no, read my previous post in more detail. If the answer is yes, then we can move on to our test. Imagine this situation, or actually do it in practice. Invite a guy that you believe you are "friends" with over to your place. Chill for a while and do whatever you do as friends. Then excuse yourself to the bathroom. Come out of the bathroom completely naked and tell your "guy friend," "Lets have sex right now, i'm really horny." Now, think to yourself if you are imagining this situation, how will the guy respond?

1. "I'm sorry "insert your name," I really enjoy being your "friend" and do not want to ruin our beautiful "frienship"; therefore, I am not going to have sex with you.
2. The guys jumps your bones before you even say "i'm really horny".

Sorry to any of you ladies that got a little surprise from your guy friend. Anyway, that's life. I don't think there is anything wrong with it either. This is the way humans were made biologically. There really is no way to fight our human nature, so lets not be too upset that guys and girls cannot be friends and lets just work with that. It will make it a lot easier for us guys, if girls realize this and in a perfect world the "friend ladder" will disappear.

As for me sounding like an asshole when explaining the ladder theory, sorry. I'm just explaining in the most blunt terms the interactions between men and women. Of course I don't believe that the ladder theory explains male/female interactions completely, but it does give a pretty good overarching framework.

On to the actual point of this post. I just found out that the style of anime that I like actually has a name. It's called Seinen anime. There are two types of anime in general, Shounen and Seinen. Shounen anime is that is targeted specifically for teenagers. Some example of Shounen anime include, Bleach, Naruto, One Piece, etc. Seinen anime, on the other hand, is intended for a more mature audience with its psychological, sexual, philosophical, satirical, or violent themes. Basically, Seinen anime requires a deeper analysis and a more intellectual and curios mind to appreciate. I'm not going to give an examples of this type of anime, since this is what I watch and I'm sure I will blog about various such animes, starting with this post (If I ever get to it, because apparently writing in a blog is a bunch of fun and I can't stop babbling hehehe).

HIGURASHI NO NAKU KORO NI - EPISODE 18

Woohoo! I actually started watching this show once before because I read good things about it being very dark. When I first started it, it seemed a little childish to me because whenever the characters were angry or excited, they would flash to look like little children and make weird faces. That turned me away very quickly.

This is an example of how the characters look normally.

These two pictures are examples of when the characters turn to childish looking and really quintessentially anime-looking.

You see how that might be a turn off for someone who is interested in viewing more mature anime. After giving up on this one, I watched several other animes and came to a loss of what to watch next. I kept reading around, finding that almost everyone interested in Seinen anime was praising Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni. I thought I would give it another try. After suffering through the initial childish moments, the anime finally breaks through into what I like. The childish moments came less infrequently and the really interesting story took over my interest.

Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni, from what I can see at this point, is a series of stories, surrounding the same situation, where the situation is changed a little and therefore the results play out differently. Each time to a tragic end. It's very interesting for me to see how one character's position in the story changes and how the events play out completely differently than before. In one story one character is the killer, while in another story a different character is the killer. Same story, different motivating factors for each story, similar results. Very Cool. 

I'm all talked out, even though this post was about Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni, but it mostly was about other stuff. I don't wanna make myself write though, so I'm gonna end this while I'm still enjoying this. I wanted to leave with an funny scene from this anime.

This may appear as a intimate scene between two beautiful green haired girls; however, the Shion (cowgirl position) was strangling Mion (on bottom) merely 15 seconds before. They are twins for clarification.

The Ladder Theory

Throughout my life, my views on male/female interactions have been constantly evolving, starting from the naive and inexperienced view as a very young kid: that girl have cooties (is that how you spell it? I don't even remember). To in middle school when I finally realized my family jewels feel good to be played with, and would probably feel even better if they were played with by some girl. At that point, I was not too concerned with the societlal implications of the gender interactions. Then in high school, my view changed again, when I actually had my firsts of everything: girlfriend, kiss, "first love", sex. The measure of self worth became not only dependant on my grades, friends, material possessions and all that bullshit, but also on the most important thing to a man: how many bitches he fucks. Which brings me to my newly discovered awesome quotation:

"A woman's test is material. A man's test is a woman...if a man could fuck in a cardboard box, he wouldn't buy a house." - Rabbi Dave Chappelle.

So yeah, I now I'm thinking back and wondering "why do dudes care so much about sex, apart from the obvious physical pleasures?" Is it because society treats men that have had a lot of sex better? Is it because you are more liked when you have a lot of sex? Do you have better friends? Or is it because the increased risk of getting an std or a baby makes life more thrilling? You get the point. 

It was not until several years into college, when I started becoming a real human being, when I started realizing certain fundamental truths, at least as fundamental as it gets, about male/female interactions. Most significantly, guys and girls cannot ever be friends, except for a very few exceptions that I'll discuss later. Then one day I was reading some guy's blog and I came across the magnificent ladder theory. Which coincided with my beliefs pretty accurately and even developed them further.

Here is my little summary of what the ladder theory is about. If you wanna read about it in more depth click the link the previous paragraph.

Lets start off with a few definitions:

1) Intellectual Whore (IW): A man that a woman keeps around strictly for intellectual or entertainment purposes, completely uninterested in him sexually: he is a friend. He probably wants to bone her, so he pretends to be her friend in hopes of maybe one day getting ass.

2) Intellectual Pimp (IP): A woman who keeps several IWs around. Basically 99.9% of all women. 

3) Ninja Bitch (NB): A very mean girl, but specifically, an IP who realizes she's in the IP position and abuses the priviledges.

4) Cuddle Bitch (CB): A guy who gets the priviledge of cuddling or spooning with a girl he's interested in, but nothing more. A case of settling for less and a common cause for blue balls, since typically guys in this situation actually want to have sex with the woman and aren't being assertive of this desire.

5) "Kiss Of Death" (KoD): A statement or action from a woman to a man telling him that she is in no way interested in sex or a relationship with him. 

Now the fundamentals of Ladder Theory:

When you meet someone, whether you are a male of female, you make a quick mental rating of that person. This is the break down for the decision:

And here is how each sex's ladder is constructed:

Of course these ladders require a bit of an explanation. Well, the men's ladder is pretty much self-explanatory. I guess the saying about men "fucking anything that moves" is not too far off base. Just one clarification for men: the abyss is for women who men would never fuck. To clarify this point, these "abyss women" are so ugly or revolting that you would rather shoot yourself in the leg than to have sex with them, or they have "AIDS" written on their forehead (but then again, what are condoms for).

For the women, it is imporant to note that there are two ladders, the "friend ladder" and the "good ladder". The good ladder is of course the ladder of men that the woman wants to have sex with. There are many rules for the woman's ladder and I am going to list out of few of the most important ones in my opinion.

1. A woman never lets a man know what ladder he is on.
2. Attempting to jump from the friend ladder to the good ladder results in failure, the deep fall into the abyss, 99% of the time. 
3. The higher up the friend ladder you are the longer and more painful the fall is. Pretty much the highest point on the friend ladder are the guys who are the "Cuddle Bitches". Be aware!
4. If you hear these phrase you are surely on the friend ladder. I'm sorry my friend.

• "You're like a brother to me"
• "You're like a big teddy bear"
• "I feel like I can talk to you about anything"
• "You're so nice"
• "Can you help me with my homework"

Judging by this, it seems like a lot of problems can be avoided by "declaring as soon as possible to a girl that you will not be friends under any circumstances. You can explain that she is too attractive or you can be blunt and say you don't want to bend your "friends" over a table and fuck them, but would rather play poker and go to the races with them, thus disqualifying her from friendship."

I would also like to discuss some of the hidden variables of the Ladder Theory:

• Drunkeness: Of course when drunk we do things we wouldn't do otherwise. Usually when sobriety sets in, there is a return to the tenets of the ladder theory. In most cases, it should be noted, repressed Americans use being drunk as an excuse to do what they wanted to do anyway, so one should be very careful in applying this variable.
• Loyalty: Friends of significant others are not special cases. They are not friends, but rather "virtual friends". Guys rate these girls according to the ladder along with every other girl in the world. Just a special note for you guys, "if your friends girl offers you a piece you should hit that shit, because he shouldn't be laying up with no ho. Ideally you should tape it also, because most guys will believe the person they're fucking."
• Desperation: What desperation does is shift downward the line of quality that one would consider for fucking. There is a line on the ladder that is the quality of the last person you were fucking. Since one of the purposes of life, if not the purpose, is to move up the ladder, you want someone above this line. Sometimes you can't find someone above this line. This leads to a virtual shift in the line downward as one gets more and more in need of a fuck.

The whole "friends" thing:

There are only three cases where a guy and a girl can be friends.

1. The guy is gay
2. The guy doesn't find the girl attractive
3. The guy already has a girl that is higher on the ladder than the girl in question

Some special cases:

• Cuddle Bitches: It fucking sucks to be a cuddle bitch. Why you ask? Well, being a intellectual whore is bad enough, but imagine having blue balls at the end of the night on top of that.
• Friends with Benefits: First of all, "Friends with Benefits" is a misnomer. If a girl is fucking you, hooray!!! for you because you are on the good ladder, therefore you are NOT a friend.
• Female footstools:  These are girls that guys use to get to other girls that higher on the ladder. 
• Exes: OK, the patter here is that you break up, you attempt to be friends (god knows why? unless you continue to fuck after breaking up), then you realize that you cannot, and slowly grow more and more distant with each other

Well, this is my first attempt at blogging. I thoroughly enjoyed spending over an hour writing this. I hope that with time the speed with which I write and the quality will improve. If anybody got offended by the Ladder Theory, get fucked. It's obviously true and I haven't heard a better theory.