Absurd Singularity

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Apparently, John Kerry is my presidential nominee of choice. Coming in at 88%, followed by Kucinich at 81% and Sharpton at 80%. Bush? 6%. No wonder I complain so much. =)

So I've been tuning in to Air America for their first week on the air and it's been quite interesting. I wonder about the effectiveness of these radio talk shows though since it seems to me like it's just more preaching to the choir y'know? I mean I already know how blantantly deceptive the Bush administration is, listening to the specifics just makes me even more annoyed and puts me in a bad mood for the day. And I don't need that kind of aggravation.

So I finally discovered why there was never a DVD release of the Japanese flick, Shall We Dance?. Horror of horrors, Hollywood is remaking it for the US market starring Richard Gere (fresh from his Chicago stint), Susan Sarandon as his more pissed off wife, and J-Lo as the slightly less melancholy dance instructor. I think I want to act like a frog and hurl my stomach out of my mouth. Ugh.

Managed to catch 2 movies for free last night starring 2 cute women, Selma Blair and Liv Tyler. Guess the movies. ;-p

And am looking forward to the new Stiller flick, Dodgeball. It just looks sooooo bad. =)

Just found out we have Friday off. Cool! =) Maybe I'll take tomorrow off as well.

Anyway, a bunch of op-ed pieces that talk about the William Hung phenomenon and voices why I dislike it so much better than I can:

•Mercury News
•SFGate.com
•Village Voice

Great, just what we need, Friendster for your cell phone, aka Dodgeball.social. Go here to see their full vision. I guess it could be nice for really, REALLY social people. I have no life. =p

I've seen this article pop up in a lot of places lately. Hilarious.

Reactions? Should Asians be the only ones allowed to get tattoos of Asian characters?

Not exactly sure where the hell my 4-day weekend went but oh well, hope everyone had a nice Good Friday. Have 90+ episodes of Slam Dunk! to sift through thanks to BitTorrent. Netflix has also started in on the Martian Successor Nadesico section of my queue so it'll be nice to finally finish that series.

Been on a spicy food kick lately for some odd reason so visited Grand Sichuan International - Clinton last week. Not bad. Their dandan noodles were pretty darn spicy and their fresh chicken dishes are pretty good. Going to check out Grand Sichuan International Eastern (same chain) tonight and try out some other stuff. Ah wait, now I remember why I got into this in the first place. Cause we went to the Grand Sichuan restaurant down in Chinatown a few weeks back and I've had a hankering for dandan noodles ever since then. If anyone knows of any other good, relatively authentic Sichuan (aka Szechuan) restaurants in the city that isn't called "Grand Sichuan", let me know. ;-)

This article reminded me of someone.

and how about this one?

Room Scanned For Something To Sell On eBay
ALBANY, CA—Applying tape to the last package in a 12-item round of eBay sales, Brandon Vye scanned his bedroom for anything else he could auction off online. "I sold the Grand Ole Opry floaty pen... the UNO cards... the Santa socks—so now what?" Vye asked as he spun around in his swivel chair. "Maybe I could sell these science textbooks, or my tapes of old SNL episodes? God, I've got to have something I can mail off."After listing a misshapen clay bowl he made in a high-school ceramics class, Vye decided to head out to the yard to search for "eBay-able stuff" there.

... but still shamefully extravagant...

If everyone lived like me, we would need 3.7 planets.

How many planets would you need?

Warm at last! Thank god almighty I'm warm at last!!! Weather this past weekend was pheNOMENAL. Although apparently we might be moving from winter straight into summer cause it hit the mid 80's today. What kinda crap is that??? Anyway, thanks to Andy I ditched movie plans and spent much of Saturday in Central Park with approximately half the population of Manhattan.

Great day to be out and about. Had dinner at Café Un Deux Trois off Times Square which was just ok. Wasn't particularly great for the price. La Bonne Soupe I think is much better and slightly cheaper to boot.

And I think I'm becoming Sichuan'ed out for now. A new Chinese restaurant just opened up near my parent's house and they took us there Sunday evening. Wouldn't ya know it, Sichuan cuisine. I forget the name of the restaurant but I do remember it was something "Chalet." And it replaced what used to be a pancake house. Kinda weird. But anyway, the spicy wonton in hot red oil was ok, dandan noodles was pretty good, and their ma pou tofu was AWESOME. But that's the 4th Sichuan restaurant I've had in a one month span so no more Sichuan for me. Unless you want to invite me to one. But it better be another one besides the one's I've been to already. ;-p

Weird, why is there a picture of Andy Lau on the Salon home page (under Arts & Entertainment, next to the I Like to Watch article) when the article has nothing to do with him. Bizarre.

And after 2 months, Tekserve finally received the replacement screen for my Powerbook and replaced it this evening. Got my $1k deposit back, screen looks great, and I'm a happy camper. =) Now I can sell this thing off to get the new model that was just released today! Just kidding! =) Unfortunately. =p

Hard to believe it's been about a year already but my ownership of the iTuneShare.org domain name is coming to a close. Sometime in early May. Decided not to extend it since it's a rarely used site these days anyway. Had originally created it to help pass away a month of my unemployed time and to take advantage of one of iTunes 4.0 special features. But obviously once Apple figured out that the feature might leave them open to being sued by RIAA, they promptly crippled it in the later versions of iTunes. Which is rather unfortunate since I think I did a pretty darn good job with the site. ;-p Oh well.

• God Hates Shrimp
• God Hates Figs

Kinda reminds me of the hick anti-abortion protester at the March for Women's Lives this past weekend shouting "submit thee back to the kitchen" over the megaphone. Gotta love The Daily Show. Speaking of which, I always thought Stewart does a pretty good job making the show relatively neutral as far as politics are concerned. He welcomes both Dem and Repub guests with equal zeal and mocks actions from both camps that are worthy of mocking. But lately he's been injecting more of his liberal self into his interviews. On being asked what question he would ask Bush/Cheney if he were in the 9/11 Commission, "What the *bleep* is wrong with you people?!" Or maybe that's just cause he was interviewing Bob Kerrey last night.