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Friday, April 29, 2005
Thursday, April 28, 2005
I didn't do boxing club tonight. I needed a break. I was ridiculously tired this morning and I decided, for once, to accept my age and take a break. And, believe it or not, I was ok with it. I got four hours in, though. The first two were earlier in the day with DATU_B, FMA in true Filipino fashion, as depicted...
...because I know how much you all hate spam. More random things from friends and family.This Blog's Official T-ShirtI Thought Intervention Was BadWhen Surgical Tools Get Left BehindRelive horrifying first-hand accounts of surgeries gone awry when surgical tools like scissors and gauze are left inside a patient....
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Somehow, I made it though another four-hour workout night. Once again, I sympathize with good old Detective Murtaugh from Lethal Weapon: I'm too old for this sh!+. But, I kept up -- well, with the boxing, anyway. I'm not going to make myself look like a slacker in front of Coach Jones. I was going to shirk Fight Club, until DATU_B said the magic words: "We're doing knife." One drill in particular...
Ha ha, fcukers! I got it and didn't pay a penny, all for the live tracks from their concert last year with Earth, Wind & Fire. They did Chicago's "If You Leave Me Now", in the original key, with Philip Bailey singing and EWF's "After the Love is Gone", co-written and, this time, sung by Bill Champlin....
Saturday, April 23, 2005
Say it with me: Balur is great! They're still tender, but there are no bumps. The redness looks like something I got from rubbing my wrists from OCD rather than Cimande djurus. I didn't bother taking pictures of my radii, because the bruises that appeared yesterday morning were gone by last night.Coconuts,...
No, no cute title like "Doing the Hustle," or anything like that.I've finally decided that Stephen Chow is a bonafide genius of a filmmaker. Ok, I haven't seen his previous five, but between this and Shaolin Soccer, I'm just speechless. Kung Fu Hustle is a bit darker than Shaolin Soccer, but that's because some of the themes are a bit more deep. Plus, how many filmmakers do you know that can seamlessly...
Friday, April 22, 2005
As it turns out, I will not be fighting in the local toughman competition. That's because it's no longer a toughman competition. Only students signed up to participate in the training program being run in lieu of the school's boxing club may participate. Apparently, someone from the state of Ohio caught wind...
Thursday, April 21, 2005
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
My legs are only now recovering from all the langkahs I did last Sunday. Tonight, I've got a training session with my Bando friend (note to self: dig out black t-shirt). And, to make matters worse, I've done my first (three-day late) set for the Texas Kali Challenge. Just me, my sticks, my patio, and a pair...
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
With all that's going on in the world, this topic hardly seems to be of any importance to the world at large. People are starving and suffering and dying in ways we, that is most people lucky enough to have this thing we call "internet access," couldn't imagine (or want to). But, plight is plight. And, this is about more than a single man's plight, but the implications about the state of some of...
Sunday, April 17, 2005
Anyway, it's official from the BBC. Tennant to take over the TardisActor David Tennant, star of BBC period drama Casanova, has been officially named the new Doctor Who.Tennant, 33, will become the 10th Time Lord when filming starts on the new series in Cardiff this summer.He is taking over from Christopher Eccleston, who announced he was quitting last month after only one series as the Doctor.Two...
This is what I did for part of the day yesterday. Ah, the joys of Torrents. Call me a b@$tard, but it's not my fault that I can't watch Doctor Who just because I'm on the wrong continent. Anyway, I saw episode 3, "The Unquiet Dead." Episodes 2 and 4 are on the way. It's too funny just how much writing...
So, picture this. It's my day off from the Diamond Mines, so I sleep in rather late, but finally decide to get out of bed around 11:40 AM. My feet haven't even touched the floor when I heard my phone ring. It's DATU_B who asked me if I was going to the silat/FMA seminar that the Fight Club hosted over the weekend. I forgot about it since I couldn't attend yesterday (the first day), but went along...
Saturday, April 16, 2005
Last night, I came across some video clips (do your own hunting ;)) featuring Masters Ybañez, Sanchez (both Lightning Scientific people) and GM Tatang. Tatang was in his mid-to-late 80s at the time, and apparently suffered a stroke a few days before the video was shot. You wouldn't know it by the way he moved, not when he was using and fending off live blades. Their demonstrations of the Cinco...
Friday, April 15, 2005
Oh, what Mark Wiley wouldn't have given for this technology about a decade or so ago. Did I mention that the new camera also takes video? I can't help it, I'm a slow learner, my mental "information chunking" has always been sort of low, and I like to practice outside of workouts without being frustrated...
Thursday, April 14, 2005
Not Even Cold It's been barely a week, and already we have this? I expect this out of blogs, but Life? I suppose if anyone rates glossies devoted to your life written, published, and distributed mere days after your death, it's JPII. Still, I don't know whether or not to be appalled. What exactly are these...
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
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Sunday, April 10, 2005
Saturday, April 09, 2005
Ha! I just kill me. Anyway, E and I watched Frank Miller's Sin City last night. I wonder just what I was thinking bringing my pacifist, Buddhist wife to watch it with me. Hers isn't a world that can accept even characterizations of brutal and depraved male anti-heroes. Or of brutal and depraved women whose only escape from exploitation and brutality is to harness their exploitation and become...
I caved in and set up a LiveJournal blog - instant gratification lite just so that I'd have an account to read anyone's "friends only" blogs, provided of course I'm listed. I'm a voyeur. Must've been brought on by the camera. Click if you must, but there's nothing there.Screw RSSReader -- I get the same stuff, no muss, no fuss with my Yahoo! account. Speaking of which, for those into such things,...
Friday, April 08, 2005
New pictures on the Flickr. Aside from the post below, nothing too special :).Submitted three rather twisted fairy tales for McSweeney's consideration. We'll see what happens.Got an unexpected two days off from the Diamond Mines. Not sure what I'm going to do with them yet.Going to see Sin City in about 45 minutes. I'll let all of you know how it go...
Thursday, April 07, 2005
I wish I could say it's married life that's kept me from blogging, but alas, it isn't so. Although I will say that I've noticed a propensity to not be gone for 12 uninterrupted hours between work and keeping up with things online, especially with my wife currently down for the count with flu-like symptoms.That didn't prevent me, however, from spending time with DATU_B and his wife at the $2.00 marguarita/open...
It's been an open secret forever, but no reader of f-ed up bizarre stories can be fulfilled without a look at an unedited-for-children Brothers Grimm tale.The Three Apprentices by the Brothers GrimmThere were once three apprentices, who had agreed to keep always together while traveling, and always to work in the same town. At one time, however, their masters had no more work to give them, so that...
More ignorant comments on marriage from various people."Well, how's the wife abusing you today?" (Asked, coincidentally, while out running an errand for the wife.)"How's married life? Need any help?"I bit. "Need any help? I've only been married two weeks.""That's why I asked.""So -- made any contributions to the hope ches...
Take the quiz at dicepool.comYou are a good old-fashioned six-sided cube, otherwise known as a d6. Others know you to be plain, predictable, conservative, average, ordinary, and downright boring. You prefer to describe yourself as dependable, honest, practical and trustworthy. People usually know what to expect...
Monday, April 04, 2005
You think that there are still some havens against the rising tide of Conservatism's influence? Do you doubt that the same zeitgeist that allowed Dubya to be re-elected lacks the power to reach across time and space, literally and figuratively? Well, doubt no more. From SciFiDaily...If you're a SciFiDaily reader who does not live in the United States, count yourself lucky. Unless, of course, you...
Sunday, April 03, 2005
For the past couple of nights, I've had some really vivid and interesting dreams. The ones from two nights ago are all but forgotten now except for the recollection that in each of those disparate dreams, I received something pleasant, a gift or what not.Last night's dream took place in a space behind a shopping center in the middle of the night where I and a few others with me were watching with...
I need to shoot for submitting another McSweeney's piece. Here's one that got rejected a few months back. I look at this as my "sophomore effort gone bad," the way most of your Top 40 pop stars' CDs often go.Alternate Parkay Margarine Commercial Tag LinesIt's not nice to bamboozle The Green Man.It’s bad karma to hoodwink the Buddha.Liars are a disease. Vishnu is the cure.Screw with Zeus, and die.Don't...
Saturday, April 02, 2005
I've cropped, uploaded, rearranged and layed out the first completed page of what will be our wedding blog.http://2geeksinapod.blogspot.comBrowse it, leave any comments you may like, and enjoy! My only request is that there are no linkbacks from that blog back to this blog (ditto for Elena's personal blog). We want to make that blog available to the widest audience possible, but we don't necessarily...
Friday, April 01, 2005
For about a month before the wedding, folks (i.e. men) at the Diamond Mines always had something to say (usually negative) about marriage. They were all sorts -- married, single, divorced. But, generally negative.These comments haven't stopped since I've become a newlywed. So, like Spock in the episode City on the Edge of Forever who was disgusted with himself that he didn't immediately realize...
Because as Martin Mull once said, "I have trouble with moving water."Well, as with most other people whose blogs I frequent, it seems that for one (positive or negative) reason or another, the past two or three weeks have been bad for blogging. Real life often gets in the way, and that's generally a good thing....
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