hello! yoshi > Randomness

Ok so lately, for some odd reason or another, I’ve been considering buying a Zune. Anyone have any experiences with this? What makes it better than an iPod? I’d love to hear what people have to say about it.

First of all, send Suki some love, her grandfather is in the ICU in critical condition after an accident.

So this week, we went to go see Smokin’ Aces. We wanted to go see a movie, but wasn’t sure which one, so we saw the trailer, and remembered, “oh that had a lot of stars in it and looked good” so we went to see that. It was pretty damn good. The ending wasn’t too surprising, but it was still a good movie. I don’t want to spoil anything for anyone, so that’ll be all about the movie itself. If you like action films, this is a movie to watch.

Now, before the movie started, let’s talk about the people in the theatre. Normally, when we go to see a movie, depending on what type of movie it is, there’s always one person (or group) that is annoying. This time? Not really. I was kind of amazed. There was the guy behind that made a remark before the movie started “So what’s up with this movie, Smokin’ Asses?” that warranted a couple snickers. But that’s about it.

But that’s the problem with leaving your home, you lose control of your environment. Which is not an entirely bad thing, I suppose. But still, I’m just saying.

[tags]random, Smokin’ Aces, movies[/tags]

Did you ever play stupid games with yourself when you were a kid? I used to do a lot of weird things like that when I was a kid. Not sure if it’s quite normal, but you know, when you move around a lot and don’t have too many friends, you tend to make up stuff that you can do yourself.

I had many small mini games in my head, including counting. I remember being an obsessive counter. This is probably the pre-cursor of my obsessive compulsive-ness later on in life. I’d count how many trees were in my yard, then the general area, and have to come up with rules on the fly. Because you can’t count everything in certain areas. Nope. Maybe that’s why I was so good with math, because numbers made more sense to me than words.

It has nothing to do with the fact that I’m asian. I know you were thinking it, don’t deny it.

On another note, the other day I was thinking… “I’ll be 40 next year.” Now I’m not being all depressed or anything, and honestly after 30, I really didn’t (still don’t) care what age I was. But it’s not being 40 that was on my mind as much as I was entertained by the fact that I keep thinking I’m 21 still. I mean really. I still act like a stupid kid, except… older. I just thought, this can’t be a good thing, can it? Would it make me much more prone to hurt myself? In my case, most likely. But, I guess while the body gets older, there’s nothing wrong with the mind getting younger.

Not too young though. I mean I don’t wanna go through puberty again. Hehe.

And because I can: Visit Hella Art and check out her art. Very neat, pop culture stuff. Actually she describes it as “pop-surreal”. I’ll agree. Very good stuff. You can contact Hella if you’re interested in buying her art. I’ve been eying a few things myself. Don’t hesitate, visit the site now!

[tags]games, childhood, weird, link pimpage[/tags]

So what happens when you can’t sleep? You jump on the computer and do something. Anything. I guess you blog.

While perusing around the net, I decided to (finally) check out Skype. Yeah, I know, I’m still slow. I was under the impression that it was no longer free, which it kinda is. But actually Skype to Skype calls are still free. Although one thing I did notice was that voicemail is not free, which kinda intrigued me. But honestly, if you’re online, you can easily see if the user is away, but I’d still love to have the option of leaving a voicemail to that person. That would be kinda cool.

So in the odd event that you would like to talk instead of type, let me know, we’ll chat. :)

Why the sudden interest in Skype? Well, to be honest, while I was thinking of the podcast idea, and how I would really love to have someone else to “throw the conversation around with”, I realized Skype is the way to go. Mugglecast uses Skype for all their podcasting needs. I should be able to do that too. :)

Anyone interested?

[tags]insomnia, Skype, Mugglecast, podcast[/tags]

Just a really quick blurb: I’ve been “acronymed” as “EE guru/dork” on It’s all Greek To Me. If you’d like to see it in action, check it out on this page. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, then well, it’s a nerd/geek thing, and it might be best that you don’t understand. But if you mouse over my name in that post you’ll notice that it comes up with an explanation of me.

That is all, move along.

Today, I thought of the song Hurt by Nine In Nails. But oddly enough, I wasn’t thinking of that version, but instead of the version by Johnny Cash. For some crazy reason I like that version better. I’m not quite sure what it is, since essentially they are the same song, they are just delivered by a different artist. Perhaps because before I heard Johnny Cash sing that song, I never really knew that much about him. I mean really, I did know he was the Man in Black, and sang some great songs. But I never knew about his life. I never knew that the song Hurt when he sang it had a deeper meaning to him than just a cover song. I’ve watched Walk the Line, and while both Jaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon did great jobs, there is so much more to Johnny Cash that’s not told.

Perhaps in the end, that’s what we all want. We want the whole story told. They say when you die, you see your life pass before your eyes. Is that a way for us to remember at the last moment the whole story? The whole story of our lives? When I’m gone, who will be there to tell my story? Will I be remembered as a dork, or as a great person, or maybe just a good person. Or a bad person? Morbid thoughts.

Randomness often takes me into the crazy part of my brain, the part that seriously thinks of things that I shouldn’t be thinking.

What’s really crazy of course is that during times like this, it’s quite amazing how silly cliches often make sense, or how situations seem to turn to certain topics. All the music you listen to on the radio is sad. it’s depressing, it hurts. But you know, we move on, even if we don’t want to. It’s just craziness!

“I hurt myself today.

to see if I still feel…”

- Hurt

Thanks to those of you who have already decided to sponsor me! If you want me to pimp your site, your name, or whatever you want on this website (or any other that I run), then please let me know!

Here’s some more details about the blogathon you might have questions about:

The blogathon is starting on July 29th, 6AM Pacific Time. For details on when what time that is worldwide, consult this page. The deadline to sponsor me is July 21st.

Sponsor me!

Read the rest of this entry »

I knew this monday was too good to be true. We’re supposed to get a high of 100 degrees. Does anyone know that this is western washington? 100 degrees? What are we in, Phoenix? I need to go somewhere is super air conditioning!

Read the rest of this entry »