Wow, such a long time since I updated. I hate long gaps. It makes it seem like nothing is going on, but that is untrue. It's been a lot of late nights lately, but I'm not complaining. Who needs sleep anyways?

I saw Brian and Christine on Saturday, and they were nice enough to distract me from cleaning take me out to lunch and take me along for car shopping. They shop for cars a lot, and I'm a bit jealous. Haha. Even though I do really like cars, car shopping was always a boring task. It's probably because I never have bought one new. Used is so much easier. "How much?" "Um... that's a bit too high, I'll give you $XXXX." "Ok, it's a deal." Hand over the cash, and you're done. I think that most new cars don't excite me as much as the plethora of used cars out there. I would be so giddy to have a handful of selected beater cars, than a garage full of Mercedes's (Mercedi?).

Ah, poop. I'm out of coffee.

Drupal Camp LA 2008 has been announced for September 13 and 14. I attended Drupal Camp 2007 and I thought it was interesting (at times). Unless you're interested in computers and the internet, this is something I wouldn't drag anyone to.

What is Drupal, you ask? Well, this website is made with its engine and I barely cracked the surface on what it can do. If I only was a smart man....

Here's a short little promo for the 2008 camp with footage from 2007. You can see me in few stills. Enjoy.

The Olympics, Stone's Vertical Epic Ale, and bunch of Chinese marriages happened on 8/8/08. Though today has a "1" in front of one of the numbers, it can still be considered a triple 8 day. The 28th would be, yup, you guessed it, the last one to pop up.

8/18/08

Maybe it's due to the lack of sleep I've been getting lately (this time it isn't my bout with insomnia), but I've been getting tired. Today was a hard day to wake up. I slept on the couch last night because my room is a mess. I took on the Herculean task of cleaning and rearranging my room on Sunday. I think there were many-a-time where I looked around in my room and just wondered where all this crap is going.

I don't remember if I mentioned it, but I tweeked my wrist last wednesday. I've already been poked with needles and it's probably already 85% better. I went to the clinic at my old job and saw a student that I signed up right before I quit. He even worked on me and we shot the breeze. He almost made a big mistake, but he caught it early and I think he'll remember not to do it again.

I only had four needles in my hand, but he pumped electricity in it so it was pulsating for 20 minutes. I almost passed out because I was so interested in what he was doing I forgot to breathe. Fun stuff.

Sometimes there is news that feels like you ran into a brick wall and a second later a huge semi busts through that wall and knocks your ass back 10 years miles back. I don't think I've been too serious on my website lately, mainly because I just wanted a light-hearted vibe.

Pick me up if I'm laying in the middle of the street. There's a wall and a semi I need to talk to.

The other day, I grossed out my sister. I never had a balut egg before, but was curious to try it. There's a place in Temple City/Rosemead area that I knew of that carried them, so I went.

I cracked one open, thinking they were ready to eat from the get-go and a little bit of blood came out. That leakage freaked my sister out. "Oh, pooh," I thought to myself. I have to cook the egg first.

Like cooking a hard-boiled egg, I awaited patiently for it to cook. When it was done, and still pretty damn hot, mind you, I peeled off the shell slowly exposing the egg and miscellaneous stuff inside. There was nothing left to do but take a bite.

Honestly, it was pretty good. A bit meaty. I also enjoy hard-boiled eggs, so that was a plus. I think we saw an eye, and I saw my sister shiver. Haha. It was interesting to see the unformed bones. They were almost translucent.

The US Office television series is a great show. I think it's better than the UK one because of the depth all the other characters have. One of my favorite characters is Daryl, played by Craig Robinson. He was also in "Knocked Up" and you can currently see him in "Pineapple Express" opening tomorrow.

Check out Craig here.

Courtesy of http://gizmodo.com

I thought this was brilliant.

Courtesy of http://gizmodo.com

Mark your calenders; the 8th day in the 8th month on the year 2008 will bring forth a new Vertical Ale from Stone!

Stone describes this batch as:

"The Stone 08.08.08 Vertical Epic Ale is a Strong Golden Belgian style ale highly hopped with American hops (Ahtanum, Amarillo and Simcoe). The beer pours pale golden with a thick and creamy white head of foam. The aroma is full of depth: nuances of pepper, clove, and banana from the Belgian yeast strain, and the resiny citrus notes from the American hops blend together nicely to provide a complex aromatic character. The taste is spicy, hoppy and fruity, with a very dry and a pleasant bitter end. The bitterness lingers nicely, and provides a refreshing finish!"

The banana sounds appealing. *Snicker* Although it sounds like a recipe for banana bread, I'm wondering how it'll hold up in the next four years. Hell, I'm wondering how my other Vertical Ales are holding up.

This past weekend seemed way shorted than most. I wish I can say I got stuff I wanted to do done, but sadly, it wasn't the case. My bike still has a flat I need to attend to. Now that I think about it, I haven't fixed a flat bike tire since I was a kid. It was one of those things I used to do twice a week because I would ride all of the time on an old Sears all-steel hand-me-down. God, that was one heavy damn bike. I remember those tires would be covered in patches because I couldn't get myself to ask my dad for a new tube because I didn't want to bother him.

The one thing I could say I did for myself was watch a few episodes of a Go anime.

I'm sleepy now, and work is hectic today.

I've recently started to play Go. So far, I'm win-less against all of my opponents. I guess you can't master a game in three games, but it would've been cool if I turned out to be the Bobby Fischer of Go.

I decided to take up the game just so my brain doesn't turn into mush, well, more so, that is. It's challenging and easy to learn, so it's right up my alley.

Oh, and I was part of the audience for the first episode of Top Gear USA. I don't think I can disclose much, but the show's content seems to keep in the spirit of the UK version. Adam Corolla definitely makes the show enjoyable. Jay Leno would've sucked as a host. While looking at the backs of the hosts' heads, you might find me standing next to a giant.

Today suddenly got great.

Back in high school I used a good amount of graph paper. Being a public school, it was not supplied to us. We had to purchase it ourselves. If I was smarter and had a printer better than a dot-matrix one, I would've printed out my own. I'm not sure if I would've gone so far to print my own lined paper (because I would've had to punch holes in them), but it might've gotten me through some emergency paper jams (puns!).

I was pretty lazy resourceful back then, anyways. In trig, I just made hand-drawn grid patches. It must've been good enough, I passed, didn't I?

I waited till all three acts of Joss Whedon's online musical, "Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog" to be put online so I can watch them all in one gulp. Now that the third act is up, it's time for you all to watch it before it goes away at midnight, July 20.

The NPH (Neil Patrick Harris) puts up a good performance. Although I'm not a big fan of the Buffy musical Whedon did, the music on Dr. Horrible is pretty entertaining. The co-star, Felicia Day is lovable. I recently saw her on an episode of Geekscape and I'm just reminded that she was in a Cheetos commercial where she puts Cheetos in a laundromat dryer (how fitting. See Dr. Horrible and find out why).