This is by far one of the coolest dish driers that I have ever seen. Great design even though it resembles a spinal column..
Archive for November, 2007
Takes me back to middle school and high school when I would change the locks of the kids I hated. I think I found out how to do this in an old episode of phrack or 2600 from the bbs days.. Once you do this a few times, you can shimmy it open in about 5 seconds..
In addition to the normal judo and aikido routine, I have added in some cultural training in the form of dance. (un)Fortunately, japanese dance is not interesting to perform (one could also say to watch also..) The movements are all so precise and repetitive and do not vary much. This may reflect the tendency towards anal retentiveness that the japanese have perfected.
Ballroom is dance is alright, but it more of a competition thing here.
Salsa, it extremely fun and energizing, but it is really popular here which equates to it being really expensive…
So the jist of it, I was invited to go to an african dance class. More so, sabar wolof from Senegal.
Going into it, my mind was abound with images of just what the hell is sabar wolof.. Images of jamacian style dancing with the influence of more tribal drums (instead of the pot and kettle drums that I am familiar with) a long with voodoo influenced movements that I remember from previous experiences.
Anyways, it was energizing! I have always been a big fan of the so called “tribal drums.” The rich resonant bass and the amazing tempo that the drummers can sustain.. It is impressive, and it makes you hate hippies even more for bastardizing something that sounds so wonderful when used by a person that is skilled with more then the ability to hold a lighter to a bong and say “groovy.”
The movements are nothing like western dance of any form, with perhaps the exception of conceptual dance and the footwork resembles the ginga of capoeira (makes sense a bit considering the history of capoeira..) I lack the proper vocabulary to describe it even further, if one even can. You can check youtube and google for plenty of videos and examples:
Senegal Music and Youtube.
I also went to Enoshima this weekend with Momoko, a french friend, his son and his soon to be girlfriend (perhaps..) It is wonderful being around people that are not so enamored with what they have and have to buy to feel good about themselves. You don’t need that tiffany’s necklace and ear ring set, nor the LV purse, nor the new ipod and coach wallet. As much as you pretend and try to mask it with the bling, it won’t hide what low self-esteem you have. In fact, it’s just another bullet point to the list of the endless stupidity.
日本一番。。*sigh* You are just so cute. *sigh*
Interesting reading about current botnets and storming..
Coincidentally, I have been playing with some passive honeypots, just to see what kind of attacks I am seeing on the fibre connect I have at my apartment. Not much to my surprise, most attacks are originating from chinese and russian ip addresses. I am still trying to fingerprint the probes and see what the trojan being used is or if it is in fact a trojan versus someone just probing for holes. Fun times.
SOCOM for the PSP is fun. 2 kyu study is not.
and it wouldn’t be complete without Cobra!
But you know who is a real Hero? Hiro from Heroes.. he’s a real hero!
First HD Video flyby of the moon.
How to unlock the unrated version on the mh2 pspiso …
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How to unlock the unrated version on the mh2 pspiso …
Fall is in full effect! Things are slow at work, studying for the nouryoku has kicked into overdrive, leisure reading is down, and it’s starting to get cold in Japan. In addition, I have been invited to go to India(Mumbia) for Christmas with a guy I work with, so I am contemplating that or perhaps something more tropical. Maybe tropical is better and I don’t yet, considering I am coming back in feb or march, where oh where.
Been using shelfari for a while, just figured out how to import csvs.. luckily I have been keeping track of books I have read over the past 5 years off and on. So this beats adding them all manually. Another great use of gmail and labels.
The album has been released! I am still on the edge about this album, I like it and at times I do not feel it has the potential that these two are capable of. Either way, download it. There are two copies, a 192kbit mp3 for free, or a 5$ 320kbit mp3 or FLAC for the audiofiles who want to support the artists that give the middle finger to the record companies.