My support for Google Chrome is henceforth withdrawn. I didn't mind the browser's arrogance, but for the team to take h.264 out of the browser smacks of spite.
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I can almost see the wisdom of O-Sensei now, in how every single technique I practice, by taking ukemi and being the tori, I win and am defeated every time. It is beginning to foster a sense of why it is best to avoid a fight. In almost equal argument with desiring to prove that it works.
It is nice to practice in an environment where the uke is ( Read more... )

"As the memories of the slave period fade way, the mere fetich [sic] of colorphobia will cease to control our society, and marriage may come to be founded, not on the color of skin, but upon the common courtesies of life, and upon genuine sympathies of heart and mind."

Amazing thinking on miscegenation. And if one substituted appropriate words for ( Read more... )

While in the car driving home, my mind was on some different topics. The drive home took 45 minutes despite it being no more than 20 miles in distance because it was rush hour. I have rarely driven north on 880 from Fremont to San Leandro because I've always disliked how the cars pile into the highway at peak times.

I bought the iPad Camera ( Read more... )

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Next Wednesday, I will take the third kyu test. I hope I pass, but it has left me thinking on the past 1.5 year that I've been learning aikido. Was it worth it? Have I learned anything? What did that incident in which my iPhone was stolen on the first Friday of September of 2010, the Labor Day weekend teach me, since I couldn't react fast enough to ( Read more... )

"What the English call 'comfort' is something inexhaustible and illimitable. Others can reveal to you that what you take to be comfort at any stage is discomfort, and these discoveries never come to an end. Hence the need for greater comfort does not exactly arise within you directly; it is suggested to you by those who hope to make a profit from ( Read more... )

Blue Velvet:
Baby wants to fuck. Get ready to fuck. You fucker's fucker. You fucker. Don't you fuckin' look at me! ... Baby wants blue velvet... Don't fuckin' look at me. Don't fuckin' look at me. Don't you look at me. Daddy's coming. Daddy's coming home. Don't you fuckin' look at me. Daddy's coming home... Don't you fuckin' look at me.

I'm not ( Read more... )

It reminds me of one time I tried to IM my cousin and he didn't reply to me. It turned out that his friend was using his screenname and was told not to talk to anybody who he didn't know. I remember being pissed off about that, because it was like talking to a goddamn wall. It also reminds me of Nate, that he didn't like the guy who contacted him, ( Read more... )

I think I avoided commenting and tweeting a response to your post because I'm giddy and overwrought on your imminent residence in the San Francisco Bay Area. Maybe you'll just stay a year or less while you try your best to relocate to Portland or move on to a career at Microsoft, but man, that I find it so potentially fun to have you here made me ( Read more... )