Your results:
You are Qui-Gon Jinn
Qui-Gon Jinn
81%
Obi-Wan Kenobi
74%
Chewbacca
72%
Lando Calrissian
68%
R2-D2
66%
Han Solo
64%
Yoda
61%
Mace Windu
60%
An Ewok
56%
Darth Maul
55%

Overall, you're a pretty well balanced person.
But maybe you focus a little too
much on the here and now.
Think about the future before its too late.


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Stopped to get gas in the capital city yesterday. One guy put in the hose and wiped the windows down. Another, seeing that I was most likely an English speaker, struck up a conversation. Fairly normal, where are you from, what's your job, do you watch sports, you look strong, etc. Then he asked if I was an S, as in satis... sadi ( Read more... )

What a brilliant idea hand fans are. I don't know why they're so underused in the west. I know wandering around in 90 degree heat on a humid day in Boston would have been much more tolerable had I a sensu (folding fan) or uchiwa in my hand. In many places, companies advertise by putting their logo or whatever on fans and handing them out on the ( Read more... )

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Japan is a very strange and beautiful place. But the more I think about it, the more I am aware that I just need to look around me to find many similar things wherever I am. I am so grateful that there are oceans just next to mountains here, just as I was in Hawaii. But those things also exist in New Hampshire (even if it's not quite in the same ( Read more... )

Today both yokozuna lost their matches. Damn there are a lot of gaijin in the sumo circuit these days. Estonia, Bulgaria, Russia, and the two yokozuna are Mongolian.

It's funny seeing how race relations work in a country populated by 99% of the same race. I really like it here...

my microwave is a Toshiba Jazzberry and my TV (broken) is a Toshiba Bazooka.

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Courtesy of the link through my gmail spam folder. Enjoy ( Read more... )

The Today's Debate feature bother anyone else? Do people even read the Metro in the morning? Frankly, I don't know how Boston Now has survived even the few months they've been around. Anyway, I got pissed off at the stupid Today's Debate feature (where they ask a question, usually a stupid one, to 3 different people, print their one-sentence ( Read more... )