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49th annual Grammy nominations (link)

Rosie O'Donnell Makes Fun of Chinese People (video)

Santa Loses It! Michael Richards style (video)

infrared fart (video)

CBC News early '90s report on the internet (video)

Japan mad at youtube (link)

Corgi Puppy and Dwarf Bunny (video)

Leeroy Jenkins in an elevator (video)

Little Kids Play Iron Maiden (video)

top 50 music videos of 2006 (video)

Recently I brought out my Sega Dreamcast out of storage, to "re-add" it to my entertainment center. I've had it since 09/09/1999 and it still works! I remembered how much I loved this console and it will probably be one of my favorites of all time. Several of my favorite games of all time are from the Dreamcast, Chu Chu Rocket, Crazy Taxi, Samba De Amigo, Shenmue, Virtua Tennis, are just some to name a few. I think I even bought the most peripherals to the DC, which includes dance pads, fishing controllers, maracas, and even a keyboard for "the Typing of the Dead." Not only that, but with emulation programs, I'm able to play classic games from the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System. A few Japanese imports were also note worthy to add to my collection, like Ikaruga or Super Puzzle Fighter IIx. Truly, the Dreamcast was an underrated console, but it's good to know that Sega ended their hardware run with a great bang.

On a side note, I realized that Space Channel 5 is one of the games that was unfortunately lost from me as time went by. I decided that I wanted to re-own it again so I decided to go the ebay route. I haven't used ebay for at least five years now, so I was a little rusty in using it this time around. For whatever was going through my head at the time, I mistakenly bidded for TWO auctions of the game. I think I honestly thought that I would have been outbidded for one of them, or it was going to fall under the "winning bid does not meet seller's preferred sale" or something like that. I was wrong, and I won both auctions for the same exact game! One of them only cost me $0.01 with a markup shipping cost and $2.99 with a decent shipping cost, for a combined total of about $18. Oh well, now I know, and knowing is half the battle.

A friend of a friend that I know was hit by a car. You may never guess how it went.

It happened at a popular Asian shopping area, in a city heavily populated by Asians. Parking there was a problem, but that's usually the case. I don't know if it's an "Asian only thing," but sometimes when parking is a problem, you get somebody to stand in an empty parking spot to "save" it. I'm sure you can see where this is going by now. So the friend is standing at the spot, while her friend's car is still on the other aisle trying to get there. Along comes a middle age Asian lady in a Mercedes intent on getting that empty parking spot that the friend was standing on. The lady in the Mercedes drives in that parking spot while the friend was still standing there anyway! Yeah, that's how she got hit by a car, and you should know that she wasn't ran over, it was more like a hard bump. "So sue me," is what the lady in the Mercedes said to the friend. So she sued her, and the case is still going on at this time.

So what's the lesson of this story....?

The Random Fallen

Sugar Daddy For Me (link)

latest Halo 3 teaser (video)

How to draw a car in MS. Paint (video)

horny manatee (link)

Activision corporate ad from the past (video)

Viva Pinata (video)

xbox360 vs PlayStation 3 graphics (link)

cartoon montage (video)

Legend Of Zelda Retrospective (video)

asteroids revenge (game)

-- bionic butt cheeks -- (my youtube)
-- asian rapping busted -- (my youtube)

Fanatics, I'm not a big fan of them, but it can be pretty funny to observe them sometimes. Take Anime (Japanese Animation) fanatics for example. That's a group that can be really passionate about what they love, to the point that if you make a joke about their favorite character or TV show, they will literally want to bite your head off. It doesn't matter if you make fun of something lightheartedly, they will want to rip you a new one.

Now take the anime series "Naruto," which has been really popular among the fans since it's release. The "true" fans are ofcourse suppose to be the ones who watch the original Japanese version with english subtitles, as opposed to the english dubbed version that's made an annoying catchphrase very prominent. That catchphrase; "Believe it," is something the "true" fans would like to strike down with all the wrath of the Gods, because it frankly makes the main star of the show sound really stupid. It's true, but they also shouldn't let it upset them sooo much. Now with those facts, I bring up the G4TV show X-Play that loves to make fun of a lot of things, including Naruto, and then makes a skit that goes something like this....

You can imagine some of the fanatic reactions and comments that came out of that video, and here's some of them...

"this was plain retarded. x-play is retarded. naruto rocks. they cant even pronounce it right. x-play can go to hell."

"This makes me upset! My mom and my dad can say 'Believe it' better! AND
IT'S NOT 'KING' OF THE NINJAS IT'S HOKAGE!Gawd! Whats wrong with X-Play
that used to be my favorite show until this happend! BELIEVE IT!ARRRG!
And Yes I am a angry fan girl and the effing head band is upside down!
GET IT RIGHT X-PLAY!"

"That was totally not funny, the show Naruto doesn't deserve this why are they making a fool out of Naruto"

I find humor in this...... believe it!

You Are Bert

Extremely serious and a little eccentric, people find you loveable - even if you don't love them! You are usually feeling: Logical - you rarely let your emotions rule you You are famous for: Being smart, a total neat freak, and maybe just a little evil How you life your life: With passion, even if your odd passions (like bottle caps and pigeons) are baffling to others

By now everybody are very familiar with the DVD format for movies and TV shows. Only recently with the surge of promotions, an aggressive push for HDTVs, as well as TV programing in high definition, people are starting to notice two extra words; HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. The next-generation format for movies and TV shows are finally available to the public to buy and use concurrently with their new High Definition Television. But from there, two questions should pop up.

1) Why two standards for the new HD disc format?
2) Am I ready to re-start a new collection of movies and TV shows?

Two very valid questions I would think, and those are questions I'm asking myself. I recognize that HD-DVD and Blu-Ray are superior in quality as opposed to DVDs, but I'm annoyed at the fact that some movies / TV shows will only be released on one of the two formats. That means that we have to either buy two next-gen players (not cheap to do), or wait for the inevitable "2 in 1" player combo (that probably still won't be cheap). This next-gen DVD war reeks of the VHS versus Betamax situation a couple of decades ago. Not only that, but since DVDs are still very popular and prevalant to the public, HD-DVD / Blu-Ray might not even get that big a support from the people, which might cause this new format to go the way of the Laserdisc. Some people are even satisfied just upconverting their current library of DVDs for an HDTV, which is incentive not to bother with the new next-gen disc format.

It'll be nice to have a high definition version of a favorite movie or TV show, but is the current situation in this format war worth jumping into? I say no it isn't, with a "wait and see" approach being the most reasonable form of action right now. Heck, maybe the future of high definition movies / TV shows lies in downloadable content.

Twisted Random Logic

fast food freestyle (video)

to catch THE predator (video)

Tony vs Paul (video)

L33T Speak (video)

The Summit of All Fears (video)

whiteboard motion (video)

Spider-Man 3, Venom at trailer's end (video)

Street Fighter, The later years - part 2 NSFW language (video)

Seinfeld: The Lost Episode - NSFW language (video)

Suspect in PlayStation 3 robbery killed (link)

I attended "the Hero Initiative's" charity event featuring Stan Lee, Joe Quesada, and host Kevin Smith, talking about Marvel comics "then and now." It was at the Ackerman Grand Ballroom on the UCLA campus. I heard about this event through The Kevin & Bean show on KROQ Los Angeles, and ofcourse the main person I wanted to see is Kevin Smith.
UCLA btw has a very nice campus.

The event itself is simply a discussion session between Lee, Quesada, and Smith. Kevin Smith ofcourse never shys from his profanity laden humor and he did not disappoint. Stan Lee himself was no slouch in the humor department, and Joe Quesada was able to make with the funny once in a while. Just hearing the three of them have a conversation, poking fun at each other, was very entertaining and justified the whole night.

Kevin Smith used his brand of humor to some of the Marvel characters, and even joked about how Captain America promoted using drugs as a positive thing, because that's how he got his powers. They also poked fun at the competition in DC comics, which produced some good laughs. There were some technical difficulties with microphone feedbacks that were amusing at how distracting it was to us and to them, to the point that they kept shifting back and forth trying to figure out how to remedy it, while at the same time keeping up with what they were discussing.

There was one unbelievable moment when Stan Lee was staring a full minute or so at Kevin Smith, thinking he was talking, when it turned out it was actually Joe Quesada whose voice is coming out from the speakers. As Kevin Smith pointed out, "couldn't you see that my mouth wasn't even moving with the voice?" and it turned out that the spot lights were so bright on them that Stan Lee couldn't tell. He does this at least two more times, to our amusement.

There were a couple of Marvel related surprises that night with the guest appearance of Reginald Hudlin (writer/director of House Party, and writer of the Black Panther), as well as Tom DeSanto (responsible for the X-Men movies) who showed up and auctioned off a signed X-Men poster for charity. The winner of the poster then gave it to Stan Lee as a gift.

The whole event lasted almost three hours, and I'll be happy to be back for the next one, if they consider doing another event like this.

Quick update on my youtube account. It's still up and haven't been closed down yet, nor did I get any more infringement complaints since the Comedy Central clip. Which btw is bullcrap because apparently, Comedy Central only wants to take down full episode clips, and segmented clips (like mine) will be left alone (I'm not going to contest it though). I have up to 88 videos uploaded at this time, and I'll probably be able to reach 100 by the end of the year, or around the beginning of next year. I even already have three videos waiting to be uploaded, so things are going smoothly.

The most hits I seem to be getting is from "asian rapping," which even made it in the top 30 of last month.