Archive for September, 2004
Thursday, September 30th, 2004
School Days
So over the past few weeks, I’ve watched 3 movies about the high school experience, and I thought I’d post my thoughts on them.
First up, the most conventional, Mean Girls, with Lindsay Lohan. It’s got a lazy metaphor about how cliques in high school equate to african animal behavior, but it just didn’t [...]
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Thursday, September 30th, 2004
Natural Disaster Time!
Seems that both my home state and my current city are both gettin’ a bit of a bashing from Mother Nature, between typhoon 21 and a rumbling volcano, things are jumpin’!
Let’s see, while we’re putting up links, one or two of you inquired how to mod your xbox. Cruise onto x-box Scene for all [...]
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Wednesday, September 29th, 2004
Harvest Moon Festival
My sister tells me yesterday was the Harvest Moon Festival, so I celebrated in the usual Chinese way: going out and eating lots of Chinese food =).
I’m sorry I haven’t been posting much, lately. I’ve been fairly busy getting together ciricuulum for the schoolweek, and sending off a birthday package for AMC (October 8). [...]
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Wednesday, September 29th, 2004
Democracy!
My regular readers (all 10 of you) will be happy to know that I’ve continued to participate in the democratic process by getting my absentee ballot all set up. So, come Nov 2, hopefully I can vote in Washington State (which is a swing state?).
Anywho, Farenheit 9/11 came out in Japan, oh, 3 or [...]
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Friday, September 24th, 2004
xbox
Thanks to some generous help from Mike, I’ve got my modified xbox up and running, allowing me to do fancy things like stream video content from my wireless Laptop over to my xbox, and watch it on tv. Now that is really cool.
Of course, now I’m really laggin’ behind in sleep, between properly setting [...]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004
caffeinated
So to celebrate my Costco gatherings, I also had some nice instant Chai Tea with dinner, which was delicious. On the flip side, I’m also wired like crazy right now, which is why I’m updating at 1 in the morning.
I forgot to mention on yesterday’s posts that I taught my first [...]
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Tuesday, September 21st, 2004
Costco Pictures
here’s some costo pictures, along with some narration:
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Have fun!
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Tuesday, September 21st, 2004
Costco Adventures
So about $100 later, I left Costco with these things being shipped to my home:
Yogurt-covered raisins
cran-raspberry juice
Ragu pasta sauce
2 bags of bagels
Tostitos salsa
Tostitos lime tortilla chips
24 pack of Dr. Pepper
Jiffy Peanut Butter
Microwave Popcorn
Chai mix
and probably some other stuff. I also went shopping locally, picked up some things like a water filter for my tap [...]
