i don't know. i think it's too advanced for me. i'm old-fashioned.

hardware fashion 2

wee, truly lots of hamsters you can adopt here :)
cute!
http://www.chinako.nu/hamster/

from san-x :)

http://www.san-x.co.jp/calender/bn/2004.html

i found this game again
believe it or not, the monitors at my computer lab used to have a contest playing this game. just to give you an idea how flexible my boss is. playing game at work and even creating a public contest. wtf... i did not participate.. i don't really see the point. but the game is fun.

a game simliar to motas
you are locked in a room, try to get out!
http://www.anodeetcathode.net/office/

we finished playing final fantasy tactics last nite. i was pretty disappointed at the ending. esp. the part after the credits. wtf? eek.. final fantasy series have much better ending.
http://www.fftrealm.com/content

oh yea, FFXII trailor is here, you can also see some movie shots and game shots there. it's tight. NA release date for the game is 02/14/05.

meanwhile don't forget ff7 advent children will be out on dvd sometime this winter. here's an exclusive video

moore said it was ok to release his film online and many people are doing it.
http://www.moviecopy.net/
http://moorewatch.com/index.php/steal_this_movie/

you might need
http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/

oh yea, there are great debates about whether it's truly legal to download here

truly amusing post from sarah

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I probably told this story before, but anyway...

My dad isn't much of a storyteller. While other dads were tucking their children in bed and reading Mother Goose rhymes, my dad was working the night shift at The Washington Post. However, there was one story he told when I was a kid that I will always remember. Walking by a Starbucks or any other coffee shop always triggers that memory.

In Vietnam, coffee is prepared in a unique way. It's brewed a potent black, then the Vietnamese add condensed milk instead of creamer or sugar. It's then served over ice, hence its name cà phê sữa đá (iced café âu laît). The Vietnamese people like to boast that their coffee is the best in the world.

It's not because of the coffee bean itself. Vietnam mainly plants Robusta coffee beans, which, compared to the Arabica, is vastly inferior.

Nope, it's the way the coffee bean is harvested. For you see, in Vietnam there is a creature that loves to eat coffee beans. It eats nothing else. That creature, my friend, is a type of weasel. It eats and breathes coffee. And naturally, it shits coffee. The Vietnamese eagerly harvest its piles of excrement and claim it has a rich, bold taste.

But think about it: Vietnam is currently one of the top producers of coffee. Proctor & Gamble, Kraft, Sara Lee, Nestle, Starbucks and Tchibo purchase most of the world's coffee. Some of it is fair-trade, most of it probably isn't. And thanks to countries like Brazil and Vietnam, the price of coffee per pound is the same today as it was approximately eighty years ago.

The point being, the next time you take a sip of that venti caramel mocchiatta and exclaim, "I can't believe I paid four bucks for this shit!"... well, you have no idea how right you are.

P.S. In Vietnam, there are no Starbucks. Instead, the country is famous for its knock-off brands. You can't get a cappuccino, but you can get cà phê sữa đá at the local Starblacks.

pei mentioned this site stated under many of their "interesting facts" on red panda:
The Chinese name for red panda is hunho or firefox, due to their colour and similar size to a fox.

i'm curious as where they got the fact so i emailed them:
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Hi,

I'm a chinese who is wondering where you got your fact on this page http://www.wellingtonzoo.com/animals/animals/mammals/panda.html stating
The Chinese name for red panda is hunho or firefox, due to their colour and similar size to a fox.

Since i'm a mandarin speaker, I could be missing out on the origin of the dialect the word "hunho" is from. I'm curious to hear where exactly you find that fact. As i'm certain in mandarin there is no word as "hunho". Red panda in chinese is called "xiao xiong mao" or 小熊猫 Read it on a chinese educational site for middle school here

further confirmation is shown in the image search results under 小熊猫 in a popular chinese search engine.

http://www.sparkling-star.com/elegant

aww more cutie stuff
http://project.nyanko.web1000.com/nyanko.html

read this site. it's hilarious!

OMG!

introducing dinga cat, the laziest cat in the world.
full digital 3D character animation by korea.

some wallpapaers, calendars and screen saver
http://www.dinga.jp/play/wp.html

a few more here
http://home.kimo.com.tw/bin82004/dinga_2.htm

wow amazing, new york times featured an article talking about iowa city - the city i've been living for the past ten years.

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President George W. Bush ax leaders of local gangs to "step tha fuck off" during a player's ball at the White House October 3, 2002. Bush sought to ice hatas tryin' ta fade him in the 'hood and said once again that he would throw down with any trippin' bitches if dey step up wit dey punk-asses and di'nt WrReKoNiZe. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)


http://home.earthlink.net/~ben_davis23/bush_down_wit_opp.htm

http://regret-less.org/ ?
wonder how many different versions of "regretless" people are coming up

from here
Many dogs are lactose intolerant and can become very ill when given cow's milk. Many well meaning owners don't realize this and make the mistake of giving their dog a bowl of milk as a special treat. I thought this was one of those types...at first

Me: ____ Animal Hospital, How can I help you?

Caller: I think my dog is sick

Me: OK, What is going on with your dog?

Caller: I gave my dog some milk today, and since then, he has diarrhea and keeps throwing up and acting sick.

Me: Milk can actually be bad for dogs.... (planning to continue)

Caller: (interrupting) Miss...

Me: Yes?

Caller: I have a question.

Me: OK

Caller: Is it because the milk was rotten?

You HAVE to be kidding!!! For the dog's sake, I spent quite a bit of time on the phone with this idiot explaining why dogs shouldn't be fed anything "rotten". I understand that not everyone knows about the lactose intolerance, but GEEZ!!!

Me: Customer Service, can I help you?
Customer: There's something wrong with the computer you sold me!!
M: O.k, what seems to be the problem?
C: Well, every time I go to use the computer, a dog runs by my window.
M: Er.... every time you use the computer, a *dog* runs by your window??
C: (indignant) YES! I'll be sitting there typing, and thinking about what I'm going to write, and a DOG runs by!!
M: So you're using the word processor, and a dog runs by?
C: Yes!! It's really distracting! I'll be sitting there thinking, and this stupid dog runs by!
M: You're sitting there *thinking*, and a dog runs by.
C: YES!! Well, sometimes the dog runs by, but sometimes he's in a train, and sometimes he's in a balloon.
M: (the light begins to dawn) Ma'am, is this dog on your *computer screen*? And does it only run by when you're not actually typing?
(After getting affirmative answers to both questions, I proceeded to explain the concept of a SCREEN SAVER.)

i was searching for britney spears' "everytime" but i ended up with A1- everytime and babyface - everytime i close my eyes and sweetbox - everytime (i don't like this one)
i still haven't found the britney spears' one. do you have a mp3 copy of it?

wow, i can't believe i found the mp3 for one of the songs i love a lot and only caught a part of it on TV. OMG.. i'm sooo excited!!
星星是穷人的钻石

星星是穷人的钻石 - 许茹芸 许美静 齐秦 熊天平

爱是眼泪
爱是真心被呵护的感谢
爱是了解
爱是春去又秋来的体会

爱是防备
爱是午夜在梦回的伤悲
爱是误解
爱是浮云来去多少回

爱是等待埋怨欢喜隐瞒的交会
谁不是付出一切收回一些
还苦苦追随

星星是穷人的钻石
幸福本来就是简单的事

星星是穷人的钻石
一份真诚伴你日日夜夜

星星是穷人的钻石
一颗真心不需任何装饰

星星是穷人的钻石
不去珍惜爱不会一生一世

{insert dialogue before}
me: a french horn lesson teacher?
daynah: heh i wonder what a french horn is
me: an instrument..
daynah: what it looks like I mean
daynah: can't find anything on google
me: http://images.google.com/images?q=french+horn&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search
daynah: oooh that's what it is!?
daynah: heh
me: lol
daynah: i thought those were call trumpets
daynah: well.. a bent up one hehe
me: haha
me: bent up trumpet
me: they all have different names. i know nothing about instrument.. i like your naming idea tho.. all trumpet just different benting LOL

this is my mp3 player - it's silver.
bubo (my puppy) chewed up my necklace earphones ;_;.. now i have to use this annoying black earphones. i only wish they sell necklace earphones separately. can i get one somewhere?

this is old news. i just pulled them up while talking to kozzi tho. i'd like to keep a copy of the story myself. but now they are still online
Possible hate crime investigated
(opinion on the crime) Monkey noise defense is nonsense

Reported hate crime incidents
1998
Iowa City: 0; Iowa: 0
Nationwide: 7,755
1999
Iowa City: 2; Iowa: 31
Nationwide: 7,876
2000
Iowa City: 4*; Iowa: 33
Nationwide: 8,063
2001
Iowa City: 2; Iowa: 32
Nationwide: 9,730
2002
Iowa City: 0; Iowa: 46
Nationwide: 7,462
*Incomplete reporting period

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hi, i accidentally bought an extra copy of Scourge of Worlds - A Dungeons & Dragons Adventure so i'm selling it on ebay now for cheap. starting at $1.5. this is your opportunity to get it for yourself or a gift for someone else

description of the DVD:
If you enjoyed those 'Choose your own adventure books' when you were a kid, or your kids read those now, and you like fantasy, this dvd is for you.

As far as games go, its very simple. You watch a small cinematic and then choose what you want the group or character to do from a given menu of options. That's really it. Don't expect more than that.

Supposedly there are 990+ combinations of stories. I have not, nor will I ever see them all. However, that isn't such a bad thing as I can come back to this DVD time and time again and the story will probably change every time.

Its a nice thing to have for game night as it provides a short break from what ever games your group normally plays.

Three women die together in an accident and go to heaven.

When they get there, St. Peter says, "We only have one rule here in heaven:

don't step on the ducks!"

So they enter heaven, and sure enough, there are ducks all over the place.
It is almost impossible not to step on a duck, and although they try their

best to avoid them, the first woman accidentally steps on one.

Along comes St. Peter with the ugliest man she ever saw.

St. Peter chains them together and says, "Your punishment for stepping on a

duck is to spend eternity chained to this ugly man!"

The next day, the second woman steps accidentally on a duck and along comes

St. Peter, who doesn't miss a thing. With him is another extremely ugly man.

He chains them together with the same admonishment as for the first woman.

The third woman has observed all this and, not wanting to be chained for all

eternity to an ugly man, is very, VERY careful where she steps.

She manages to go months without stepping on any ducks, but one day St.

Peter comes up to her with the most handsome man she has ever laid eyes on .

. very tall, long eyelashes, muscular, and thin.

St. Peter chains them together without saying a word.

The happy woman says, "I wonder what I did to deserve being chained to you

for all of eternity?"

The guy says, "I don't know about you, but I stepped on a duck!"

http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/

wow it's just super gorgeous.. isn't it?

you can also download a firefox wallpaper here if you are interested
http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/downloads/?c=firefox

man, i want a solar visor! j/k!

excuse the vulgarity.. read this from a private journal of a friend. it's not personal so i don't think she cares. it's just pure comedy.

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There's this guy that lives in one of the basement apartments next door. He's one of many, many bachelors that has lived in that bachelor apartment since we've lived here. You might (but I doubt it) remember me talking about the guy that used to live there that was always ringing our doorbell and asking if we had any special k lol. Anyway, he has this incredibly loud crappy little electric blue car with flippy headlights, and he tears up and down the narrow driveway at lightning speeds at all hours of the the day, and mostly, night. So he comes home a couple nights ago at 3am, scraping the brick wall on our house as he went, pulls into one of the parking spots in the back and CRASHES into a bright yellow shopping cart full of empty milk jugs. The shopping cart was then smashed up against the wall of the church daycare center and I thought that the world around me was collapsing it was THAT fucking loud. When he backed up, the cart was stuck to his bumper so he spent about 15 minutes backing up, pulling forward .. backing up, pulling forward, trying to get the cart to fall off. He finally stopped his car, stumbled out and FELL DOWN on the driveway. And the funniest part was, the passenger door opened and he had a GIRL with him lolol this is the first girl I've seen him bring home EVER since he's lived here. He was probably tearing up the driveway all drunk thinking, I'm gonna get some ass, I'm gonna get some ass!! ... and then he crashed his car and passed out drunk. When she couldn't revive him (she screamed at him for quite some time but he didn't budge) she hollered at the top of her lungs "SCREW YOU, I'M GETTING A TAXI!!!" and she stormed off down the driveway. Maybe I should have gone outside to see if he was ok, but I'm a city girl and so while I might spy through the blinds, I never interfere, so I went back to bed. It was 3am, after all.

apparently you can create avatar at yahoo now
http://avatars.yahoo.com

but the japanese yahoo avatar is MUCH MORE fancier :)
here's a translation telling you what to do
http://www.zamtak.com/articles/avatar/

or if you are so lazy that you don't even want to create your own, you can get a premade one here
http://site.voila.fr/candydollz/menu.html

http://lethien.com/showimg.php?file=/Nugget/friedchicken.jpg

thanks lele :)

i got this usb personal key from my dad

i guess now it's called Portable Flash Drive

our school is switching all ZIP DRIVES to pure usb connection. so pretty soon i won't be able to use zip disks any more. i will have to rely on this key. it's EXPENSIVE.. so i'm worried about losing it. and it has this totally retarded design too. it has a hole where you can hook it up to something except it's on the CAP!!

so obviously if i connect it with my key chain, i will always have the cap with me.. not guaranteed to have the key tho.

i made bubo album - i can't believe i didn't make one before.

bubo video of the day! (8.5MB)

never heard of that kind of dog before but this one is SO DARN CUTE!!!!





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