I got an email a while back asking if I wanted to be in a paid optometry study. It was at U.C. Berkeley, and I live right next to the campus, so I thought, "Why not ( Read more... )

I was driving through San Francisco this weekend when I saw a strange old man. He was black, in his sixties, and dressed like an Egyptian pharaoh. By this I mean he had a headdress (complete with snake), black goatee, and even a snake cane ( Read more... )

I have a side job where I provide grammar feedback on tests from South Korea. The students are given a question, and told to write a full page essay on the subject ( Read more... )

There's a smiling hippy woman who plays a banjo outside the coffee shop near my house. She's there almost every day, singing songs of peace and love with a paper cup nearby for people to donate money ( Read more... )

I heard a somewhat disturbing commercial on the radio a few hours ago. I don’t remember exactly how it went, but it was something like this ( Read more... )

There was a samurai in the subway today.

I'm not being metaphorical here. There was an actual samurai, in full battle armor, with a sword and everything. He walked past my seat, gave me a friendly nod, and continued on his noble way (presumably to fight for his feudal lord.)

I'm guessing it was for the Lords of the Samurai exhibition at the Asian ( Read more... )

My new journal is up!

I decided to go with When All Else Fails, Run! as the title. Most of you guys seemed to like it, and it grew on me the more I thought about it ( Read more... )

Well, at least we should be seeing Omni Consumer Products sometime soon.

Shannon and I went out to a Chinese restaurant last Sunday. It wasn't the usual one that we go to, but we were visiting relatives (it was her grandfather's 90th birthday). The food wasn't so good, but we still got our fortune cookies at the end. Here's what mine said:


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You are sitting at your desk. There is a computer in front of you that is open to livejournal. It seems that mrpuzuzu has just updated his blog.

You hear an odd gurgling sound coming from the next room.

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