After battling a wasp for five minutes with a can of Black Flag™ pesticide this morning, I realized that Superman I was not, nor would I ever be. I lack the fearlessness of the Man of Steel to tackle such dangers that, um, endanger the world. But, on the other hand, I would be fearless too (not unlike Jet Li), if my alien cells had the ability to ( Read more... )

My faux fobby chinglish accent is improving.

One of my pet peeves is that people often don't take the time to actually try to figure something out in their heads, usually when it's painfully obvious what has happened. For example, asking about what the homework is [in elementary/middle/high school] when it is written on the freakin' [black/chalk]board!However, there are certain times when ( Read more... )

There's an interesting trend in manga (Japanese comic books). Whereas American comic books are about beings with super powers saving the world from other super-powered beings, some manga are a lot more unorthodox in their subject matters. Apparently, the Japanese (and a small population of the States) are comfortable reading a serialized story ( Read more... )

I write blog journals all the time in my head when I'm on the bus, in the shower, playing video games, in class, walking around in my house aimlessly, brushing my teeth, in my sleep, while writing a blog entry, but when it comes to actually putting it all down on digital paper, nothing. Zip. Nada. Zilch. Most of the time the news in the entries are ( Read more... )

I should be doing a lot of things. Foremost is this little thing called a school project, the kind that you should have already planned construction time for. But then video games, TV, and YouTube happened and now I'm sitting here, pondering the big mysteries of the world: what I should blog about ( Read more... )

I wouldn't be so hilariously harsh on people maybe if, you know, people would stop being so easy to pick on. Hi, I'm Tom. You may remember me from such blog posts as: "Tom shamelessly reposts old threads for pseudo internet blog awards" and "Tom creates infomercial script for baseball cap that transforms into emergency underpants ( Read more... )

Usually you'd have to send five easy payments of $29.99 to Time for tips like this one, but here I am, giving it away for free. Yes, I know, I am quite the philanthropist.

- Bus drivers aren't happy with you when you jam the coin slot with two dimes, hit the machine twice, then give up and go find yourself a seat. They get mad.

I'm by no means a nazi when it comes to spelling in any way, but it's beginning to irritate me when people can't spell iPod correctly, doubly so when they themselves have an iPod. Look, genius, it's not Ipod, it's i lower case P upper case freaking o-d. Look at the box that you own and copy it. It's that simple. No I.Q. involved. No spellchecking. ( Read more... )

You know you live in Southern California when the advertisement for Channel 9's website starts out with, "Miss the beginning of the latest car chase? Go to KCAL.com and watch the videos from the news archives!"