Back in MichiGAN

Which means more youtube surfing. This time I have a dancing storm trooper. Danny Choo, revered otaku figurehead. (Z you might enjoy that site).

South Park Yourself

What do you guys think? Looks similar? Go and try it yourself here.

Feel the beat

Today's post will be a PSA.

If you ever encounter someone who's suffering from heart failure or has just gone unconscious and have the balls to try to perform CPR on them, just remember -

"Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk,
Im a womans man: no time to talk..."

Apparently research shows that Stayin Alive by the Bee Gees is the almost perfect rhythm for doing chest compressions. The ideal rate is 100 beats per min, Stayin Alive clocks at 103 bpm. So you can always help someone by singing "Ah Ah Ah Ah Staying Alive~~!!"

Mktg 101

How to attract people to your game?

Step 1. Use attractive female actress
Step 2. Talk about recruiting people to said actress cause
Step 3. Insert penis joke

End product should look something like this.

How Rhythm Games can Merge with FPS

For a preliminary concept, I'd say not bad. Needs more crit rockets though.

ドンドンモエアガルゼ！！

I went to a chinese buffet for lunch today and this was my fortune.



I will work harder this year!!!

Red Alert 3

Makes for a pretty neat MTV. And so many chixorz...


But then you have to contend with DRM. After the Spore DRM fiasco, I wonder how it will finally turn out for EA.

Hmm...

最近我的朋友请我到他的组屋的人的派对。我认为这应该是好机会较新朋友所以答应了。可是我忽略了一点。一件很大的东西：这派对是印尼人举办的。除了我以外，其他人都会讲印尼话。。。 真是有点尴尬。。。 食物非常好吃，可是95%的对话我听不懂。。。 而且主持人不会讲中文，把我的名念成“姐姐”。。。发誓下次我会自我介绍为“JJ"。。。 幸亏有好心人故意用英文跟我聊天。 可是现在就有点矛盾-下次应该不应该再回去呢？ 我一生中这是第二次发生这种情形。第一次是韩国人。那更惨。那一餐，我只说了两句话。。。

If it were you, what would you do? Any suggestions?

And on a brighter note, I finally have a break through in Fukai Mori by Do As Infinity! The tab is finally clear to me!! Practice practice practice!!

It's the End of the World...

As we know it.
On the 10th of Sept 2008, at 730GMT (130 CST) the Large Hadron Collider will power up. Although I'm no physicist, I think it will definitely help us understand the make-up of the world better. The LHC will basically accelerate particles around in a huge underground chamber at near absolute zero and at near light speeds. What happens when these particles smash into one another is what everyone one is eagerly (or not) to see.

Will it be able to prove dark matter exists? Are there REALLY strings in physics? Will it be able to let laymen like you and me understand what is a Higgs Boson (I have no clue what that page means)?? I will be dying (figuratively I hope) to find out.

And if the world really ends tomorrow, at least I got to celebrate my birthday first! :P

Edit: I just found out that CERN (the organization behind the LHC has actually a very informative rap on Youtube about the LHC. So without further ado, the LHC rap.

Do Barely-Skillful Guitarists Dream of Broken Necks?

So I had a weird, weird dream last night. I can't remember the setting very well, but it was one of those older Chinese street settings you see on 上海滩 and the like. I don't remember what I was doing or where I was going, but I remember walking down the streets with a guitar strapped across my back, like how the 2 dudes from 功夫 were carrying their 古镇(At least, I think it was a 古镇). Why wasn't the guitar carried vertically? I have no idea. Narrative impetus I guess.

Anyways, I was walking into a side alleyway and for some reason, I turned around. And the guitar smashed against the wall. And snapped, into 2 at about the 5th fret. Which really freaked me out. I spun around at the sound and this time hit the OTHER wall. Which made another snap. Right near the body. I remember feeling shocked about the whole thing and thinking "OMG! What shoddy workmanship!". I was also thinking, "Acoustic-Electric here I come!". Then for some unknown reason, I saw that the strings had broken into 3 sections as well and decided to try finger tapping that 5 fret section. And miraculously, it worked! So I tried my hand at tapping awhile before it dawned on me. Why the hell did the string fracture into 3 different pieces? And then I woke up and double checked my guitar to be sure...

Thanks, and a Video

A little while back, I posted something about Animal Abuse. I know have the full song and the cartoon that follows it. I present "Cows With Guns".


Also, thanks to everyone who wished me Happy Birthday. I had an enjoyable time. Not as good as I would have liked it cos of some technical difficulties, but it was still fantastic nevertheless. Thanks again, you guys rock.

Vids

What happens if TF2 experiences the recession that the world is feeling now? It would be something like this I guess.

Watch more TF2 Videos

And THE FRONT FELL OFF.

An Idle Mind...

Is the result of being sick the whole weekend. I left my apartment to do laundry and check the mail. That was about it. So in order to prevent boredom from killing, I recorded two songs and found a couple of Olympics related things.

Here are a couple of China Basketball Team Themed posters. I found them really hilarious. Courtesy of Chinasmack.


I guess the 踢 part of the poster was to keep in theme with TMNT. There's no good term for basketball that starts with a T I think. At least, my Chinese isn't good enough to come up with one. Even "Tak" means to kick, so that rules out Hokkien.

I also came across 2 promos for Raving Rabbits. They always have excellent promo vids and these are no different.

Tonight, I sleep without Blinds

So due to an incident sometime back, my housing complex is changing all the old windows (like mine) for newer, more energy efficient ones. Which is great. I didn't like those old ones anyways.

However, the stupid installation crew came in, installed the windows, moved my stuff around, dirtied my apartment, FAILED TO REPLACE THE BLINDS AND LEFT MY DOOR UNLOCKED WHEN THEY LEFT!! Stupid Americans. 人家说洋人会办事，服务态度好。好个屁。真的很怒。

Hips Don't Lie

But I have no idea what they are trying to say in this case...

Bad Travel Day

So yesterday, I left the job site at 6.30am EST to travel 220 miles back to my office. I reach the office at around 9am and then I get a phone call from my boss, informing me that there was trouble at the job site. Great.

So at 11am CST, I drive the 220 miles BACK to the job site to investigate what happened. Turned out that the troubles occurred at 4am EST. If they had called me BEFORE I LEFT, it would have saved me 6 hours and about 500 miles on my car...

And to top it off, when I was leaving last night (for the last time), I traveled about 35 miles before realising I HAD LEFT MY INVESTIGATION NOTES AT THE JOB SITE. So that added another hour to my travels.

Grand total travel distance yesterday - 3x220 + 2*35 = 730 miles
Total time spent on the road - 8 hours
Total (waking) time spent in a plant/at home/at office ~ 6 hrs.

What a bad travel day...

I'm Your Medic

Remember the uber-cool Soulja Boy TF2 MTV I posted awhile ago? No? Well, here's another cool TF2 themed MTV. This time it's completely original and uberly uber cool.

Without further ado, I'm Your Medic.

To my TF2 pals who read this blog, I expect this kind of medic proficiency from you guys in the future. Practice harder!!

The common folk always pay...

I was reading a couple of articles about the current financial crisis in the US and the over-riding message I'm getting is that if you are in the IB (Investment Banking) world, you get to play dice with other people's money. You rarely rarely lose.

Take big risks and win, you get a fat bonus, take big risks and lose, you lose other people's money AND get bailed out by the government to boot! (which then increases the taxpayers' burden!!)

It's really quite depressing for me. Where is the justice?? Thank god I don't have a family of my own else the burden on me would be even greater. We pay cos the government has to lower rates to encourage spending/borrowing and that leads to my savings giving a measly 2% return and the fixed deposits doing even shittier. I want to invest in the stock market but everything seems to be on the downturn and in-flux. I need to do more research but how I wonder.

To lighten the mood of this rant, I am posting NBA Superstar Dwight Howard's audition for the host of the (ESPN) ESPYs.

See more funny videos at Funny or Die

All graphs and presentations

Should be this cool.



And all half-time shows should be as retro as this.

I like how the cheerleaders choreograph their moves to the song but I like the weird signs they hold up even better.

Murphed Called...

And really messed with my day.

So I'm back in central Nebraska where the cows and goats roam and you can see cornfields until your eyes go green. And I'm here because there is some testing to be done at a facility.

The equipment has been running for about 2-3 months without any major issues. However, since last night (when it rained for about 6 hours non-stop), the equipment has malfunctioned 9 times. We need our equipment to be up and running for about 2 hours to ensure testing conditions are met, but we waited the whole day just to start and stop the thing. For some reason, the burner would keep dying on us and there would be no alarm records, no indication as to what failed. It was a very frustrating Tuesday...

And to make matters worse, the long awaited anniversary party for my company has been canceled. It was slated for early next month but now the next thing to look forward to would be the date the timer on the upper right corner is counting down to. *Hint Hint*. Oh well, enough complaining, let me get back to my work.