I recently watched some news about an Acorn O'Keefe hidden camera incident where they taped the reaction to them passing out "A good wife knows her place" old inequality ideology where the man is the superior in the house and blah blah blah. More details in the link:

http://mediamatters.org/research/200909170053

My point is that to some extent, I agree that what is allowed and what is not allowed is not consistent (although its impossible to be consistent in everything and never be hypocritical). If passing out fliers on one belief of how wives SHOULD behave is 'inappropriate' but religious people passing out fliers on what you SHOULD believe is, why? Personally I am always against soliciting a belief. I constantly preach that I don't care how other people live their lives or what they choose to believe, as long as they don't insist what they belief onto me.

One guess might be that it is ok to pass out religious material usually because some of the audience tends to be religious too, and because religious solicitation tends to be simply 'annoying' but not causing outrage, wheras people (particularly women) may be extra sensitive to 'a man is superior and women are unimportant' type of view.

So, at the risk of getting flamed (particularly by the womenz), I tend to agree with SOME of what this guys says. I'm not saying this guy is cool or right for doing this, especially if he lied to be allowed to hand these out, but somewhere along the line, this whole incident made me think.

 Yesterday night one of my friends posted a note on facebook about how past moments are lost forever and how photographs capture certain moments but all the fun times are only memories now. It was all this deep shit and after I finished reading it, the best thing I had to say was "I didn't understand at least 3 words you used, my vocabulary sucks!".

Today my other friend posted a picture of a wine bottle clearly showing the label with the caption "to help me keep track of the ones I've had" and all I had to say was "you should post pictures of girls". He then goes on to post pictures of his new wine glasses because he broke his old ones and I commented "You're so winey now".

Kinda reminds me of one time me and said wine guy were at a big meetup BBQ so the leader had us gather to introduce ourselves to the whole group. One guy says "Hi, I'm Young" and I just had to shout out "yea, we know, but whats you name!?". It got laughs and a "hi, I'm old!".

Today I was at work and I had some free time so I went around browsing tech websites like I sometimes do. I don't do it as much as I used to, and my interest has switched from overclocking desktops, to quiet desktops, to macs and particularly thin and sexy laptops.

Honestly I've owned a lot of mac laptops. In fact, so many that I've lost count. A quick memory count I come up with 6. All of them were macs because I like the design of macs the best, and design is extremely important to me in my buying decisions. For the past few years, non mac laptops simply did not interest me, with the exception of 2 models (namely, the Sony VAIO X505 and the Fujitsu Q2010) and both happen to be ultra light, ultra compact notebooks, which I felt and still feel is something Apple has not conquered for me. These 2 laptops were are among the best in class for lightweight laptops with great design (the Sony being 1.8lbs with a 10 inch screen, and the Fujitsu being 2.2lbs with a 12 inch screen). Apple has released their take on the ultra light notebook computer with the Macbook Air, which has a 13 inch screen and weighs 3.0lbs, which I consider vastly inferior in weight vs size of screen ratio. Sure, a 13 inch screen and full size keyboard are much nicer to work on, but when you can sacrifice just 1 inch from the screen and drop the weight down from 3.0lbs to 2.2lbs, and have more than just one USB port, I would borderline accuse the Macbook Air of being full of fail. Now I have to be fair, when OSX, battery life, and aesthetics all get added to the equation, the Macbook Air is very appealing and competitive.

"The sexiest laptop in the world"

I think Sony has come up with a masterpiece here if it proves to be a good product. Details are slim, but Sony has stated 3 VERY exciting specifications:

11.1 inch screen
.55 inch thin!!
1.5lbs!!

And for what its worth, Sony has also mentioned "all day battery life". Now, with the exception of a revolutionary new battery technology, the only way Sony could possibly come through on the battery claim is to use a extremely low power drawing system, meaning a slower laptop likely powered by an Intel Atom processor. This is not really a problem for me, and I hope they decide to use the Atom processor because I'd much rather have battery life than top of the line speed! With a laptop this small and light its much more likely to be useful for taking notes, surfing the web, and such rather than playing games or doing pro class creative work on photoshop or premiere.

I have never wanted a laptop as badly as I want this one.

If you were confused over multiple potential romantic partners and you had a pretty good hunch that some of them were interested, but you couldn't decide, for whatever complex reasons there might be, what would you do? Lets assume all of them are extremely desirable people that could easily find an alternative. I think the RIGHT thing to do would be to tell all of them suggestively that you were in this predicament, so at least you are being fair in clarifying the situation, but actually doing that is harder than it sounds because instead of leading them all on and keeping them all handy for when you do finally (if ever) come to a decision, you are releasing them all back onto the playing field. Its selfish but commonly done. If you 'do the right thing' and tell all of them you are having a problem choosing, that is like temporarily rejecting all of them, and people of this caliber may or may not want to wait for uncertain shot at you.

Of course in these situations the one you want the most  always seems to be the hardest to get. Pretty obvious right? Because if the one you wanted the most was so easily available you would not be in this situation at all.

 So some of you may know I am on Youtube a lot. I meet people on youtube. It is fair to say I know some people there, although I have never met anyone from Youtube (and only one EVER from the internet that I can recall).

One of these people I met on youtube a couple of years back I've recently not talked to at all. Something about her changed after she moved to Hong Kong from her home in England. Maybe I noticed a little before, or a little after this move, it might be my imagination but her blogs definitely lacked something shed always had. It was almost like a different person was writing her blogs.

I visited her blog again today for the first time in 2 months. The first entry was in Japanese and was more like a regurgitation of a really short poem. The second was a cooking recipe. The third was a poem in english. But the fourth was a blog, like a real blog like you are reading now sharing current events, thoughts, feelings, ideas. And it WAS her. I could almost clearly see a point in her entries when she suddenly changed her style. Sure, she started cursing more in her entries, and that made it obvious, but cursing alone is not the difference. She is expressing herself.

I believe in personal slumps. In fact, I may have been in one for the past 10 years for all I know.

Seeing her recent entries cheered me up :)

This is something she might write recently. I only say that because I'm not 100% sure she wrote this herself:

I understand that Scissors can beat Paper, 
and I get how Rock can beat Scissors, 
but there's no fucking way Paper can beat Rock. 

Paper is supposed to magically wrap around Rock leaving it nailed down? 
Why the hell can't paper do this to scissors? 
Screw scissors! Then why can't paper do this to people? 
Why aren't sheets of college ruled notebook paper constantly suffocating student as they attempt to take notes in class? 
I'll tell you why, because paper can't beat anything! 
A rock would rip that shit up in 2 seconds. 

When I play rock, paper, scissors, I always choose rock. 
Then when somebody claims to have beaten me with their paper I can punch them in the face with my already clenched fist and say, 

"oh shit, I'm sorry, I thought paper would protect you," you asshole.

These days everything I need to say fits within 140 or so characters, so I just post on twitter. User: gxcad

When I have something longer to say I'll still post it here...

Here, take a look at this green diarrhea in a cup I had the other day:



It was cool. No I mean literally.

Lots of coolness recently in the world of tech for me anyway!

For starters, every major OS will receive a major update within the next 75 days. And by that I mean Mac, Windows, and Ubuntu (Linux). I've heard good things about the Mac and Windows updates in particular (yes, I'm even excited about Windows 7). I usually get 2 free copies of every new Windows release :) (I have like 5 legal copies of XP - and 4 copies of Vista Business hehehe).

15 inch Macbook Pro now has anti-glare matte screen option! Not a big deal for most, but a great update for me! I have a glossy one right now that I'm pretty unhappy with (and is hence for sale).

New iPods likely within 45 days - just like every year. Nothing directly interesting here, but I always like to see what the latest cosmetic designs are from Apple. They make beautiful hardware :)

Currently in the process of 'buying' new Final Cut Studio content, which should 'arrive' within a couple weeks. Basically, fancy new premade special effects to put in videos.

Also have some interest in Microsoft's new music player competitor to iPod Touch - Zune HD. There is video demos all over youtube and it looks very responsive and pretty.

Still excited about: New HD Camcorder!

As for my 2nd car:

There is something nice about owning your own car (that can reliably get you from A to B). I just spent an hour today vacuuming the inside. Its still old as hell and doesn't look great, but at least all the small stuff got sucked out of the carpets and seats so it still looks a lot nicer than it did earlier. Less dust, and finally got rid of that bug corpse that looks like a giant ant in the back window of the car.

I don't know why, but I'm really neat when it comes to my car or my desk at work. But my room at home HOLYSHIT something exploded in here. I mean, its not so bad I can't see the floor or anything like that, but I wish it was neater. A lot neater. Maybe I'll make another attempt to clean up a bit tonight after I post this? (UPDATE: Maybe NOT)

Just remembered I forgot to install the new wipers I bought :(. My old wipers just sorta smeared the water all over the windshield and worked a little in heavy rain but was useless in mist/fog and light rain. (UPDATE: Just installed them!)

ADDENDUM: Just rushed off to Kragen and bought 5 quarts of Mobil 1 for $25! Thats cheap! Plus I found a $10 mail in rebate printout online. Since I wanted to buy oil anyway, this is pretty cool. Basically I'm cleaning up the car a lil bit since its still kinda new to me although I've had it at least a month now. Fixing or improving just the small things and checking the usual stuff. Might swap spark plugs for iridiums too.

The good thing about the car is its so far reliable and everything works and it was dirt cheap because it has cosmetic damages and huge gashes. Its a old Camry LE so it has some good features and the radio works decent, and its reasonably comfortable even for 3 or 4 people. The bad is that it gets about 25mpg according to my fill up from yesterday, and its a little bit bigger than the cars I'm used to and just that much harder to find parking for. The turning radius is shit, high speed turning feel is shit, and its a slow mother f***er. Its also automatic. No I did not buy it, it was given to me. I will never in my life buy a fully automatic car.

I also noticed the air is leaving one of the tires in my MR2. Today I went at it with a bicycle foot pump. Big mistake, its virtually useless. I think I pumped a thousand times and maybe MAYBE noticed it fill up a little bit. Needs a powered air pump. I should go fix my MR2, I miss driving it but it has this weird problem of shutting off randomly and won't turn back on for about 15 minutes.

First of all, I got myself a brand new HD camcorder. I've had a few video projects I've been wanting to do and I didn't really want to do it with the 'video mode' of my point and shoot digital camera, so I'm really happy about getting a device specifically designed to shoot good video. The quality of footage on the new HD camcorder is significantly better than the old camera even with similar lighting conditions and file sizes probably in part due to a superior lens.

Secondly, I'm excited that Apple released a new version of Final Cut Studio! Final Cut Studio is basically considered to be a very powerful and high end video editing suite, kind of like how Adobe Photoshop is for image editing. I mostly use Final Cut Studio for editing video, so a new version that hopefully makes things faster, easier, or produce better results is exciting news!

Hope to finish a few video projects before school starts! That is all for now!

What do you suppose this is?

"Palmrest Ass"

French bread. French toast. French kissing a French girl while eating French toast made with French bread and watching French TV...

IMHO, Breathing Underwater is totally awesome.

Isn't it funny when you find out that one person whom you obviously favor has the same opinion as you about MTV and you rave to yourself and maybe your peers about how great that makes that person.

And then when you find out a person you don't favor "loves coke", you think to yourself or exclaim to your peers how you think coke tastes like shit!

When you clearly would not praise example B for thinking MTV is retarded but still fun to watch, and you would not think less of example A if they drank coke, which can be delicious served chilled in a glass cup with ice and with a black straw.

No, I still can't drink coke and I still think MTV's "reality" shows are retarded, but I don't mind if people who are not me drink coke or watch MTV and genuinely enjoy it so long as they are an awesome person (in my opinion).

The point I'm trying to make with this entry is beyond me

Terrible memory recall: Something I like about myself, because it allows me to remember important things forever by easily forgetting unimportant things.

My sister: Is so pretty!

Burritos: My love, my lifeblood, the cure to everything.

Seven Jeans: My favorite jean company.

Sex: Sex is awesome with the right person...

Bwahaha: A somewhat joking way to do a evil laugh. Reminds me of Carlos for some reason, who is the only asian guy I know with a hispanic sounding name.

These are just some things in society that you wish you didn't have to adhere to, but you do. For example, I hate being 'fake' but in corporate culture, it is an important skill to suck up to the right people. In China, bribery is part of the corporate culture and is commonly accepted (although not appreciated or honored). You don't like to do it, but the society you live in forces you to adhere to increase your chances of survival. Ultimately, survival ranks high on anybody's priorities, and it makes them do things they might not necessarily agree with. I personally would prefer to be ignorant about dressing well, or working out, but it is commonly understood that you will be better accepted if you dress what is considered to be 'nice' and if you are reasonably physically fit. Appearance is something we like to preach as something you should not rely on when judging people, but we all do it. Even the best of us do it.

I personally believe society is conditioned enough that in general less attractive people regardless of gender will be less successful at finding a partner. For example, being fat is considered unattractive in our society. While it is true there are cultures that actually find fatter people to be healthier and desirable, that is not the case in ours. If you want to express concern for someone by telling them something is not a good thing, think about if they have any control over it or not first. If they don't, there is clearly no point in telling them because in that case it is pretty much "you suck" instead of "you suck, why don't you try this?"

I believe that I have good intentions at the core of anything I do. If I tell a person they have a problem, I believe they have the power to do something about it (I won't tell someone they are short and they should do something about it, because they clearly CAN'T). In the same way that you thank each person for each thing they do, sometimes you just have to appreciate a repetitive and annoying concern, as long as it has the right intentions (worry, wishing they could help, etc.) Note I did say sometimes. Furthermore, I actually believe that being less accepted socially as a result of less than ideal appearance can lead to emotional distress and worse is mistreated by those around you. I do not fucking enjoy nice people being discriminated against just for being 'ugly' in the eyes of the society they live in. In the way that parents can be annoying for being concerned about you, I guess friends being concerned about you can be annoying too?

Come to think about it, my best friend used to be borderline obese and I don't recall saying anything about it unless it was out of concern for his health. He used to be my height and double my weight. He has since lost at least 50lbs (probably more).

ADDENDUM: This was an old entry I typed out a month or two ago and considered it to be incomplete, but of course now I can't remember why I thought it was incomplete so I decided to share it.

So we all have this happen sooner or later. I have had girls (and even guys, LOL) hint or ask me out directly in the past. One time the girl asked me out in front of other ppl so for her sake I cryptically declined (I forget exactly how maybe it was like "I'm busy and blah blah so maybe") and she has continued to show interest. Other girls never reveal directly, but give enough hints that chances are high they are interested. I'm wondering at what point do I have an obligation to tell them I'm not interested? Because I believe in telling them sooner rather than later, but for anyone that has not asked me directly, ...you know what I mean right? You can't just go "well, I have a hunch that you like me and I just wanted to tell you sooner rather than later that I'm not interested" because no matter how you word it, they can (true or not) say that wasn't the case at all and suddenly you look like a pompous douchebag. But what can you do? I just consistently make sure I show NO interest so that I don't give them a false hope, but I'm still nice to them - I mean, isn't being mean going a bit far? I don't know, I'm not a hot girl that gets hit on a lot so I don't have as much experience or need to go to that extreme. I know that a lot will depend on the situation, but I am interested in hearing your opinions.

And another question on a somewhat similar topic:

Suppose you like a girl or guy, but you have lost the ability to see them in person. You have only an IM screenname or maybe a phone number, or maybe you can see them in person, but not for a couple weeks, months or years. You really want to ask them out, but at least for me, I prefer to do so in person. But if you can't, do you do it with IM? Phone? Or if its an option, will you wait a certain amount of time to ask them in person (perhaps drop suttle hints along the wait to try to 'reserve' them). What would you do? Maybe people don't really mind being asked out in any method? Do you have a preference? Am I being too insistent on asking in person?


How do people PREFER to be asked out? IM? Phone? In person? In person in front of a big audience? How about being proposed to?


Note: I learned the official meanings of and how to spell 'pompous' and 'righteous' today.

I haven't posted in a while

So, based on what I know, here is my predictions for the new iPhone:

16gb model for $199 with 2 year contract
32gb model for $299 with 2 year contract

Both models available in black and white. The design will remain almost identical to the current iPhone 3G, but the back of the case will be less glossy and less slippery.

All iPhones will feature a new 3.2mp camera with auto focus function. There will be video recording at up to around 720 640x480 at 30fps. There will still be no flash. The camera will still look the same from the outside. There will still be no front facing camera. The phones will support a faster version of 3G commonly referred to as 3.5G. The iPhones will also have a digital compass inside capable of telling directions. Of course, all new iPhones will come with iPhone OS 3.0 preloaded.

The new iPhones will be available on June 17th early July, probably a friday evening starting at 6pm 9am sharp at Apple retail stores, and 8am at AT&T retail stores, as well as at normal times at partners Best Buy and Walmart.

Plans will include an unlimited 3G plan for $69 as before. Texts will not be included in these prices.

It will be called iPhone 3GS

We'll find out in a few hours how I did!

UPDATE: crossed out or in red with updated facts. Still don't know the plan prices.

Recently, a lady friend of mine was told she was fat and needed to lose some weight.

You just can't say those kinds of things to a lady (even if you want to and its totally true!). Or can you? What do you guys think?

I wonder though, if these social taboos can get in the way of telling a lady (or any person) something she really needs to know? You know, much in the way only family and close friends will tell you a booger is hanging out, maybe sometimes women need to be told "that outfit really doesn't work on you, I'm sorry but you needed to know" - kind of things.

On the flip side, I know a girl that recently wore this not so nice outfit - but she is so attractive that she STILL looked good in it. I didn't bother telling her the outfit was bad. Maybe she knew. Maybe she knew AND she also knew she could pull it off.

I want to point out that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and its REALLY true. I can't remember where, but learned that there are areas of Africa where the culture is that men have these holes in their necks and the action of drooling from those holes is incredibly sexy to women of the same culture. To an extent, attractive features and actions are conditioned into us from society. Most of the modern western society is conditioned to think skinny women with big boobs and curves is sexy. Even facial structure is trends or cultural in preference. For example, back in the old days, Marilyn Monroe was considered to be one of the prettiest women alive, however I look at her and I see nothing attractive about her. In fact, in general I don't find Caucasian women attractive to me at all. I've found out over the years there are exceptions to the non attractive Caucasians rule, particularly with french women.

I've actually FELT myself getting conditioned to like the same things in women as most of the population. In my younger years, I liked girls purely for how pretty their face looked to me. I didn't look at a girls body at all...AT ALL.

At the same time, there are certain features that are desirable as an instinct, and usually apply regardless of your culture or expectations. For example, women like men that are tall regardless of time period or area of the world, or at least prefer men that are taller than them. I also think men instinctively like women with larger breasts, or shinier hair. Apparently shiny hair is a sign of health which is always attractive, I think it was fertility for the breasts. Of course now women are taking advantage of that and getting surgically larger breasts to attract men. The thing about breasts is that since it is a sign of fertility, it makes men want to bang women more than anything else. My point being, bigger boobs makes women more attractive SEXUALLY and that is about it (in theory).

There is an interesting study that was published back in October that found one more thing women can do very easily that can have a similar effect of making Men more sexually interested in women and it has nothing to do with exposure of skin. Do you know what it is?

Most girls will do it without realizing it has that effect once in a while...

2 songs:

First one is Soulja Boy Kiss me through the Phone. I had a bad quality mp3 of this song and I just got a 320kbps version - its like NIGHT AND DAY, KIA AND FERRARI, CHOCOLATE AND SHIT... you get the point.

Second song

You know how once in a while you'll find a song that you like so much you'll play it over and over and over without switching songs? I have one of those now. I'll include a sample below but the quality is "kinda" garbage not the best.

I'm browsing the internet today and we all know the internet is full of stupid people. The world is full of stupid people, but on the internet, they roam freely.

Maybe this person was not so stupid, but nonetheless here is one comment posting I found while browsing my usual choice of topics:

"Looks like the new MacBooks/MacBook Pros just keep having new issues. When will people learn to not buy Revision A Apple products? Wait a couple of months until all the issues are ironed, let some other sucker be Apple's guinea pig."

Does anyone else see how unproductive this statement is? Sure, I'm nit picking and it will actually be considered by most people to be a reasonable statement. But see it from my perspective - I see that this person first says "When will people learn!?" And then proceeds to say "let some other sucker be Apple's guinea pig".

After I wrote the above paragraph, I noticed a reply to this statement saying "But if everyone listened to you, who would be that first sucker? Don't crap on the American way, man. :P "

Look like I wasn't the only one that noticed this! I rest my case. For those curious, you can view the page yourselves HERE
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Yesterday I was walking around in my neighborhood taking care of some errands when I notice some Fat guy in his BMW double parked outside an apartment and honk. He would keep honking until he got the attention of his friend or something in the apartment. SO ANNOYING!! He needs to get his lazy ass out of his elitist car and go RING THE FUCKING DOORBELL!! Or even easier, simply LIFT his ass slightly so he can get at his cell phone to call the damn person. It is SO INCONSIDERATE and pathetic to just sit outside somebodies apartment and honk at them.