GIANT ROBOT CLUB!

Trying not to push Geoff’s post down too far, so click the more link for… well, more…

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Did anybody watch this? at least parts of it? It was on at dinner and Obrist was hilariously awful. He had absolutely no idea how to respond to any question he was asked or how to even answer in complete sentances. Kulongoski had “personal” stuff to deal with so it was just Obrist and Bradburry and it was like a turtle facing off with a steamroller.

Obrist’s response to a question literally was “I don’t know, when I assume office I’ll have to check what resources are available to allocate”. I believe the question was along the lines of “What industry would you like to help in order to rebuild the economy?”

It’s been a week now with work. Not the bullshit getting shit together work but actual work involving the 1.5million labels that need printing. Just to fill everyone in, Micah’s dad’s company bid on a contract to print labels and won, and normally this isn’t work we do so we had to almost literally Macgyver our shit together for this. I am in charge of the swing shift (4:30pm – 1am) which has eight people who check and stack the labels as they come out of the printer.

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WHAT? Gorillaz have a new album!? WHY DIDNT ANY ONE TELL ME, It’s not like my living under a rock is a secret or anything…

So in the throes of desperation after waiting 3 months without hearing back from the federal government…. My mother advised me to ask senator Ron Wyden for help resolving my issue with selective service.

I figured sure, why not. One more piss into the ocean will really help me.

So a few weeks back I wrote to the office of the senator and outlined my problems, my frustration, and the urgency of a resolution. Of course I assumed I would never hear back, and for the first few weeks that seemed to be the case…. Until friday.

Because the guy (or at least the office of the senator) came through.

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I arrive Thursday Dec 3rd at 730AM from Tokyo-Narita on NW Airlines.   It’s also the day of Civil War.  I was incorrect in thinking it was that saturday the 5th.

SO!

First question:  If anyone (Warren? Geoffrey?), is available to get me that would be swell.  If not of course my parents have plans to do so unless told other wise.

Second question: Since the game will be on later in the day I can still make it to Albany if you want to dance battle with me Miles.  Let me warn you though I have been training in the land of Rain for this last year.  Perhaps we could venture a trip to rape and pillage Sean in Eugene and catch the game at some place dark and musty?

18 days OMG I LOVE YOU GUYS!

pfft socks

“For Japan’s media, politics has suddenly become a whole lot more interesting because there has never been a Japanese first lady quite like Miyuki Hatoyama. If there was a premier league for first ladies, she’d be right up beside Michelle Obama and Carla Bruni, the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, except that as far as I know neither of them has ever traveled to Venus.

That was the extraordinary claim Hatoyama made in a recent interview. More precisely, she said her spirit had flown there in a UFO, and that it was a beautiful place, very green.

She went on to describe how she “eats the sun” each morning to gain energy, and how she’d met Tom Cruise in a previous life. She said Cruise, who played a samurai knight in the movie The Last Samurai, was Japanese back in the other life.”

MSNBC Is Not Shitting You Either.

Well actually this has nothing to do with how good or bad or neutral Windows 7 is. It just happens to be that I was installing it when I accidentally formatted the one external back up hard drive that contained 100gb of movies, including my entire series collection of Voltron, Thundercats, Transformers, Briscoe County Jr, and Star Trek Movies, and about 10 other movies that recently came out that I haven’t gotten around to. On top of that was about 20 movies I had seen, but probably wasn’t going to be watching again.

I’m torrenting them now and actually got 10 movies that I didnt watch back already in just a day. and am working on my collections now. I have 18 more days before my kids come back so I should get them back.

BALLS! It also turns out the second external HDD I backed up my pictures from this ENTIRE TRIP fucked my folder and I no longer have any pictures left except what has been uploaded to facebook. Fuck I cant replace these. Also lost all my bookmarks and my most recent notes.

At least the third external HDD with all my music AND my GI Joe collection didnt fuck me over.

So aside from that restoration catastrophe how’s Win 7 Pro? Pretty effin sweet considering I’m running this on a 2005ish IBM Lenovo T-41, 1.6 ghz pentium M, 2gb ram, 160 HDD, 32gb Radeon mobility 9000 going at a beastly 1400×1050 native res, and a patriot XT 4gb usb for readyboost.

It’s running even better then the official factory XP I was running since I got my “new” upgrades in August. This is just the RTM copy I found online so I have no key and havent gotten around to cracking it, but have 120 days with rearms to get myself a key.

I mentioned I have 18 days. My kids and the entire school except me left Thursday for Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia. I saw their plans and they’re gonna have a lot of fun. Unfortunately they will not be able to explain any of it in English, which is the point of the Main Pastor of all this church for making this school. Also Wilson, my buddy that was with me all year who left in Sept, will be in Thailand and it’s a complete surprise that him and the students will meet up. And it’s balls that no one had the foresight to include the ONLY foreign teacher left who also has the only ability for critical thinking(since they dont teach that in Korean education system) and who can show the kids real learnin to go along.
other than that….40 days bitches! Currently I am in my element having taken over the entire staff room, surrounded by 2 laptops, and 2 towers busted open with 4 more lined up to be fixed. I rolling around in my chair from station to station doing 320493284 things at once and LOVING IT. the only thing missing is a stack of burritos, cheeseburgers (did anyone see the 7 stack windows 7 burger from BK?), and cans of mountain dew littering the ground.

I’d post some pictures of what’s been going on….SHIT!

Man.

and for something interesting to Warren.  While I was out handing out flyers with my kids for an upcoming Bible Seminar we went to a small store to buy ice cream and I found these next to little girly things, and toys for those of the Duplo age group.

Also while adding a friend in facebook I was racially reminded that I am in Asia

I am at Dday 49.  This weekend starts the Bible Seminar and finishes in 4 days, then after that my kids go to tour SE Asia for 20 days.  And when they come back I’ll pretty much only have 6 days total of class time with them.  This shits crazy!

Ok so I come home from bowling, and my mom happens to be watching
TBN(the crazy christian station) because of the sheer absurdity of what is on. This guy, Ken Klein, was on talking about the 5,000 year old System of the Beast. I missed the beginning so Ken has already started to talk about seven heads. These seven heads of this system were world dominating empires!

• Egyption Empire
• Assyria
• Babylon
• Mede – Perssia
• Greek Empire
• Roman Empire
• British Empire

Apparently the British Empire was basically destroyed in WWI(maybe finished off in WWII? seriously Ken was so hard to follow…)

According to Ken WWI ended in 1919, and then later ended in 1917. He had so many mistakes.

The Eighth head is already here among us! And it is The United Nations.

Now Apparently the anti-christ is supposed to be some guy who gets hit in the head and comes back and is all deformed and evil(that almost was how he phrased it). Apparently, according to him, JFK was thought to be the first (in recent times) but of course he was shot and didn’t come back. So then people looked at the whole Kennedy family, Bobby for instance. I of course shout out “OMG! it’s gonna be Teddy!”, as he is already dead, now we just need to wait for him to come back. This apparently was to premature as he barely mentioned Ted Kennedy, and was most likely filmed before he died. He Also went off on talking about something that looks like a lamb but talks like a dragon. To sum it up, basically people have been looking the wrong way and it is not a person, but A SYSTEM! So I guess that system is the UN.

There are three things needed in order to control the world. Or Three “signs”. These three things are all technological advances the Devil gave us and that have been created within the last century, except for flying. Speaking of flying, the first technology he brings up, is airplanes, YAY. The Wright brothers apparently created/discovered the basic principles of flight and it wasn’t TEN years later, that we were using airplanes to bomb our enemies! Not to mention later using them to drop the Atomic Bomb.

Ken then asks what it would of been like to be riding on a Harley through the Appian Way and what the Greeks might think if they saw you. *cough* The Appian Way is in Italy, or at the time in the Roman Empire. Not Greece!

The next sign is communication. What is the best form of communication? You guessed it! The Television! He goes off and talks about images. What are images? not idols but icons! What has been used on money for thousands of years? peoples faces. Now these images are not false idols but they’re…false idols? He seriously did not make any sense here but apparently these icons have ‘spiritual life’. Now what does this have to do with the all mighty TV? Well the TV has this spiritual life and it is the Reflection of the Beast. Apparently watching TV puts you into a hypnotic state that bypasses rational thought and goes straight into your spirit! It is not just television screens either, but computer monitors as well. We are being programmed for world citizenry by watching TV.

The Third technology is the all mighty and powerful BARCODE! That is right, the UPC on all products uses the number of the beast, 666. I never really heard that before, but trying to find a good image of a barcode hit many results talking about it. Here is a lovely site going into great depth of how barcodes actually work and how there is no actual 666 in every barcode, for anyone who actually cares. Ken goes on to show how each person can have their own UPC starting with the Country code, area code and Then social security number. Unfortunately barcodes require scanning devices to directly ‘see’ the lines. But thanks to RFID tags they can be scanned up to dozens of meters away, and the UN will be able to track everything you do.

An another Ken-Note the barcode he had up on a big screen read “16000″ and he kept saying “1600″ (Sixteen Hundred).

Ken goes on to talk about horns, there are 10 of them apparently. They all are supposed to be Kings. And since the Bible interprets itself, meaning that there is only one absolute interpret of the Bible, Horns will always be Kings. So When there are 2 horns, that means 2 Kings.

Finally to the actual creation of the UN. It all starts back when the British Empire decided to shut down the East India Company. Secretly it remained active and became a think tank. Some people who were apart of this were Darwin, Carl Marks, Thomas Malthus’ teachings, Existentialism and the philosophy of the new age, Cecile Rhodes and many others(Jews mostly). They created ‘The Round Table’, an inner think tank of the East India Company. This Round Table comes up with the depression in 1907 and somehow affects WWI, and they make a great deal of money during and after. After WWI the League of Nations, which sounds quite epic, was created and as we know eventually fell apart. Woodrow Wilson was coerced by the EIC to help create the League of Nations. It wasn’t until on his death bed that he confessed and repented.

It wasn’t until after WWII that the UN is created. Created by whom? TWO KINGS! THE USA and Britain. That’s right, France, China and the USSR had absolutely nothing to do with the UN creation.

At the very end, he goes off on the Hubble Spacecraft, which myself being a total nerd was somehow not aware of. I know we had a Hubble telescope, but spacecraft? The Hubble was pointed into a tiny part of space and took a photo. This photo revealed thousands and thousands of galaxies, not just stars. Each of those galaxies is made up of about a billion stars. And as we all know, God loves people. And since there are currently 5-6 billion people on the planet, which if you add up all the people that died from the time of Adam to today, and add the the currently living, it will be just over 10 billion. This means that if everyone was sent to heaven we’d all get 5 stars each, but since not everyone will be going to heaven, there will be plenty of space, so we need to start recruiting as many people as we can to join us!

This is all from Ken’s ‘Cracking the Code’ film. Watch the trailer, it is quite epic. This was so absolutely retarded and frightening that I felt I had to share it with everyone.

Had no idea…

Russia’s energy giant Gazprom has signed a $2.5bn (£1.53bn) deal with Nigeria’s state operated NNPC, to invest in a new joint venture.

The new firm, to be called Nigaz, is set to build refineries, pipelines and gas power stations in Nigeria.

…..Say it out loud. Ni-gaz. In Nigeria.

I wonder if all the Nigaz will be African? Those Nigaz be crazy.

Sourced via BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8118721.stm

Why do people say B-Rock O-Bombs is the 43rd President of the United States?  Grover Cleveland wasn’t two people!  Are they counting Jefferson Davis?  If so, that’s racist!  I don’t even count Will.I.Am Harrison as a President!

Look, I’m not saying that I’ve memorized the whole Bible, but I’m pretty sure that’s not what it says in Galatians.

From what I remember, Paul’s letter the the Galatians (aka Gauls, the Celtic peoples of western Europe) was all about how non-Jewish converts to the Christian faith do not need to be circumcised and not about justifying the murder of some guy 2000 years in the future.  Just to be certain, I looked it up and it turns out that Dr. Tiller isn’t even mentioned by name ONCE in all of Paul’s letters!  Of course, like all the hip Hellenistic Jews, Paul used code names for people he didn’t like (like “Cephas” for St. Peter or “ignorant fools” for women), so maybe Tiller was mentioned in code or something.

The actual quote is “Do not be decieved: God is not mocked, for you reap whatever you sow.”  I guess I can see how you can use that to justfy your belief that “sowing” a legal medical practice with a lot of strict guidelines for the benifit or people dealing with personal ethical dilemmas leads to a person getting “reaped” in the face with a bullet, but only if you are the kind of person who reads quotes entirely out of context.

The next line clears Paul’s meaning up for us: “If you sow to your own flesh, you will reap corruption of the flesh; but if you sow to the spirit, you will reap eternal life from the spirit.”  Basically, Paul is saying that it is better to dedicate yourself to the spirit of the law and cultivating moral virtue than to focus on improving your physique or become obsessed with conforming to the superficial aspects of a religion.  I hope that’s what the sermon was about- that or, “he died the same way he lived, helping people find a seat in church”- because the alternative (“he died the same way he lived- getting shot in the head”)  is just plain ridiculous.

Oh, and also: what kind of a name for a church is Spirit One?  It sounds like a casino or a brand of cigarettes.

On a related note: “As a Christian pastor I believe that without a deep-seeded belief in God and firearms that this country would not be here.” Good timing, skipper!

Yakima Council: No More ‘Cleavage Of The Buttocks’

POSTED: 1:09 pm PDT June 4, 2009

YAKIMA, Wash. — The Yakima City Council is cracking down on what an ordinance delicately refers to as “cleavage of the buttocks.”

Responding to a proliferation of coffee stands with baristas wearing see-through clothing, thongs and other scanty apparel, the council this week approved minor changes to the city’s indecent exposure law.

The Yakima Herald-Republic reports that Mayor Dave Elder had wanted the changes under the city’s adult business ordinance. But city legal staff warned that trying to place coffee stands under that law could lead to legal challenges.

The change approved by the council means that anyone in public wearing see-through apparel, a thong or a G-string — regardless of whether they are working at a coffee stand –could be prosecuted for a misdemeanor violation.

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So here is an update from good old South Korea, or hopefully soon, Korea without N.Korea because it’s been bombed to shitier (it’s already shit to start with).

If anyone read my last post, got no comments so I am not sure you fags, I wasn’t sure about going to Culture because I was never part of the workshop.  Well I was pulled in again without any preperation or knowledge.  Just a message saying “oh hey in 3 days you go to Culture”.  Thanks for letting me know considering it’s been in the works for a month now.  I think they enjoy not letting foreigners know what’s going on so that we have to rely on God for help.  It’s cool that way, as long as I’m never left out and get to do all the events.

Culture was win. 4 days and 3 nights of win.  Seoul Land is not so much win, but at least I got to go on all the rides for free.  It’s very much a rip off of Disney Land, including characters, rides, theme lands, and the big Epcot silver dome globe thing.  I’m pretty sure in the world of copyright that it has some sort of relationship with Disney, but I can not find any knowledge of such a relationship.  It’s very gimped and if you remember the Simpsons episode where they goto EuroDisney, it’s very much like that in terms of gimpness.  But it’s old and not one of the newer parks, plus it was AWESOME in any respect because it is an amusement park and that beats sitting in a classroom yelling at brats.  Worlds of Fun was better, even with the fighting.

Culture itself was the best part.  I dressed as a cowboy for the America booth. got to talk to all the short terms who visited America the last few years.  Most of them went to Atlanta, few in new york, hawaii, L.A. too. and last years Tacoma short term.  All of them are really cool.  A few of the volunteers I met were not part of the IYF and hopefully now they will join and go out spreading the Word (not the bird).

I got to be in the World Parade showing off the dances inspiried by the countries that the students went to last year.  It was really fun too.  I visited all the booths from every continent and talked with the ones who spoke English.  Oddly enough the U.K. booth was manned by no one speaking English, I guess the short term there was gone or something, but I found it humourous.

Brazil’s booth had a berimbau.  I asked the guy, who spent last year in Brazil, about his experience with Capoeira and he said he saw a few dances, but never learned or participated.  I asked him what the berimbau was and he said it was an archers bow.  He got his props mixed up because behind was a bow and arrow, and I knew a berimbau when I saw it lol.  I was nice and didnt correct him.

Every lunch was whoppers, but no cheese, so that totally sucked, but at least it was free.  All booths typically had a previous short term who had visited that country as one of it’s speakers.  Wilson and I were put in to the American booth because we speak English and are foreigners.  But I saw that there was an actual Korean booth, which surprised me, it’s also where i got put into the stockades.  I half thought since Wilson and I are short terms to Korea that we would be in the Korea booth.  It’s of course best that we didnt cuz we don’t speak Korean /sigh.

I witnessed to a guy our age from St. Louis interested in the IYF.  He’s half white half korean, and living in Korea with his aunt.  It was hard to communicate with her for the both of us, so after guiding him around and telling him in English, I passed them off to another American in our church who speaks Korean and he took over so that the aunt would know what it was I was telling him.  He’s a cool guy and I’ll probably see him at Korea World Camp in July.

I was off to Culture from May 28th to May 31st.  When I came back to Ulsan, we had a second Lincoln House School staying at our church.  They are from Busan, about an hour away.  They were having a Bible Seminar in Busan, so they got moved to our school so that all the staff and choir could stay in the Busan church.  Then the next day we had 2 classes, soph and seniors, from another Lincoln, living in our church as well because they were invited to the seminar, and it is a 5 hr one way drive.  200 high school students living in our church.  It was crazy.  But it was good, and I had fun hanging out with the other native English speaking teachers.  They all went home on Thursday.  I also got to meet the 2 new short terms from America to Korea.  They are both from Atlanta.  1 is fluent in Korean and sounds like an American, totally jealous of her and she has the same last name as me.  The other is half korean, half white, and if possible, her korean is worse than mine but we share the same birthday.  They’re both pretty cool and it’ll be nice having more Americans around.

Yesterday we took the Lincoln kids to Ulsan Grand Park for the Rose Festival.  I also read that it’s the Rose Parade and festival in Portland too, i wonder if its the rose season or being sister cities, but it reminds me of home.  The park was cool and is pretty big.  I didnt take a picture of the map, but it’s big enough that walking all of it takes about 4-5 hrs.  You can rent a bike or bring in your own.  It would be fun to spend the day there riding around.  there’s also a butterfly dome that you can pay to go walk around in, along with a pool and other buildings.  there are many play grounds for kids, fountains, water fall area and plenty of green.  We had lots of free time, so we visited a McDonald’s, didn’t see squid or kimchi burger on the menu, and walked the streets a bit.  We also took the city bus, a good 1/3 to half the kids we crammed that bus for nearly 40 minutes of hell.  it was awesome.

the rest of this month is fairly tame, we have a play performance next Saturday, some assessment tests the week after, and maybe some things at the end of the month.  July will be crazy, last two weeks at Korea World Camp, and if I’m blessed Austria World Camp first two weeks.

This week is Mr. Tippets last week and he retires, he is/was the longest active teacher at the school, and it’s pretty cool to have known teachers like him.  I seriously lack the credentials for being a teacher, but having had great teachers to reflect upon my short comings don’t mean a thing.

Watched Night at the Museum 2.  It was pretty cool, Darth Vader scene was win.  Of course I love Owen Wilson and Steve Coogan, make them a cowboy and Roman is even better, give them a miniaturized “300-esque” climax and it’s even better.

Gallery squishes pictures – click thumbnails for full picture, I want the Japanese armor and weapon set for my little one.

Just saw this today. It had its moments, but also could of been better.

Who else saw it? What’d you think?

The Good:
New The MAXX and The Tick toys!
Hyper-detailed 12″ X-Wing model set! Alan, you need to see this thing!
I have no idea, but I would want this anyway.
Giant-Hugantic Toy Battleship!

The Bad:
“period COMBAT SET” – now with Bin Laden!
Wolverine LOVES to be inflated!
Just let your kids give up right now and deal with reality.

And finally… This one… JUST NOT RIGHT!!!!!

New Star Trek Wiki page – made by nit-picking nerds!

Song of Ice and Fire to be made into a game! (Geoff will love this, miles will probably like it too.)

White Knight Chronicles for PS3 trailer! (Miles will love this.)

Legend of Kamui (from Kamui anime) live action trailers!

Vitamins after workout cancels workout benefits?

Crazy awesome reverse-dungeon-crawler-game with awesome name!

Russian-designed, Japanese animated movie looks FUCKING AWESOME!

AND FINALLY- MEGA SHARK VS GIANT OCTOPUS!