Like tests? Check out emode. I’ve already wasted a good portion of my morning on it. After you do the true-color test, checkout the weblog colorwheel, it’s a neat idea!
I’ve been in love with the Herman Miller Aeron chair for quite a long time, but it’s way too expensive. Today, I found a place that claims to have it for much cheaper. Their price is just 50 bucks less than the Herman Miller store. And for a chair which costs 750 dollars, 50 bucks less is not “much cheaper.” If anyone knows where this chair is sold for a more affordable price, I would worship you forever if you share the info.
A while ago, a friend visiting Turkey told me that five of the seven wonders of the ancient world are in Turkey. Which, of course, isn’t true. Tonight, over dinner, we tried to remember all the wonders but were able to only come up with five. So I found the site and we got them all. Greece has two, as does Egypt and Iraq has one. The other two are in Turkey. One in Bodrum and the other in Efes, close to Izmir.
This is for those of you who always wanted to drive the wienermobile.
Man, Japanese is hard. I have to learn around 100 kanji for the exam in December on top of all the grammar and vocabulary. In fact, the language is so hard that many native speakers cannot read the newspaper. The kids in Japan go to school six days a week. What’s the point of making your language so hard that even the native speakers cannot fully learn it? It just makes so little sense to me. But I do find it fascinating and really fun to learn. I like the way they put meaningful symbols together to form words. For example the two symbols which make up the word telephone (denwa) are the symbol for electricity and the symbol for speaking. The symbols for electricity and car make up the word for train (densha). Neat isn’t it?
We got up at 6:30am and took a cab at 7am to the Hertz rental place in midtown and drove for the next three hours to New London, Connecticut. Then, we grabbed a taxi from the Hertz drop off place to get to the docks. We waited there for about two hours and took a 2 and a half-hour boat. The boat arrived at 2:30pm. A total of 8 hours of traveling just to get from NYC to Martha’s Vineyard. Is it worth it?
During the entire trip, the answer was a decided no, but now that we’re here and I can hear the crickets and the seagulls, I’m having second thoughts. It might be a pain in the ass to get here, but it’s like a little piece of heaven on earth, which must be the reason we’re willing to repeat this ordeal several times a summer.
Oh, btw, another movie following on the theme of “I am woman, hear me roar” is: Woman on Top. 2000 must be the year when women finally become independent. At least as far as Hollywood is concerned…
We just saw Whipped and, as I suspected, it was awful. A great look at how pathetic some men are. The acting was worse than awful but the some of the scenes were sadly realistic. At one point, the guy sitting next to me actually said, “Thank God I’m gay.” I kid you not.
Here, in New York, it’s pouring. What a great way to end a terrible summer. Weather-wise, that is. I sure hope it gets better tomorrow or it’ll be kinda pointless to travel all the way to the Vineyard.
Double Indemnity, on the other hand, was very good. My favorite part is where he says he couldn’t hear his footsteps. I liked that image.
Bond market closed and we all got sent home. Yeay!
I finally got A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius from the library. I haven’t read it yet, but even the blurbs on the back cover are amusing. I’m sure this book won’t disappoint me.
Ash: A Secret History has a full version published in the UK while it will be published in four parts in the US. Hmmm, a marketing ploy you think?
A Clockwork Orange was also published differently between the UK and the US. Actually, the US version didn’t have the last chapter. In the intro of my book, which did have the entire set of chapters, Burgess talks about how his American publisher thought the book ended better if the last chapter were left out. When Kubrick made the movie, he used the American version of the book, therefore, left out the actual ending. Burgess said that, for years after the movie was made, he got letters from his European readers asking why the ending was excluded. He was quite pissed about it.
Btw, that was one strange book.
Gonna go see Whipped tonight. The sad thing is that I already know it sucks. I think that, after a long week, I just want to relax and see a totally stupid movie that doesn’t require any mental capacity. I’m quite sure this one will qualify.
It’s Friday! Love Fridays.
It seems we can’t use the phrase going postal anymore cause it’s upsetting the postal workers and it’s a myth. Hmmm.
What kind of country changes their grammar and spelling rules?
I know there are a lot of flash haters out there, but I must tell you, it’s a thousand times more annoying to go to a page and have a javascript error pop up on your screen. Since I have Visual C++, my explorer always asks me if I wanna debug or not and if I accidentally hit ‘Yes,’ there goes IE. Pain in my ass!
We’re watching Ace Ventura: Pet Detective right now. It’s definitely Jim Carrey‘s most hilarious movie ever. I liked The Mask, too, but it’s nothing like Ace Ventura. My favorite quote is: “If I’m not back in five minutes… just wait longer!” It’s a shame they had to go and ruin it.
Having spent most of the day fixing my damn PetriNet, I’m glad that I finally got the “syntax check successful” message. I don’t even wanna think of all the problems it will give me once I try loading it into the database. I guess the steam ran out of my Thursday. I might be bored or tired. I think I’m ready for the weekend. What about you?
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