I swear, I'll never eat another animal...

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...that can do an amusing trick.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6283677.stm

So, I donated blood today...

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Current mood:accomplished

...And it's all thanks to Penn Jillette and Penn Radio. Saving lives is a nice bonus, I suppose, but I really wanted to say that I donated blood for the three reasons Penn Jillette listed:

1. You get to brag about it. (Heck, that's why I logged in!)

2. You get the moral high ground in any argument.

3. If you walk into bar or any place where there are women and they see your arm bandaged from giving blood, they'll totally want to have sex with you (since you can only give blood if you're "clean").

Of course, like Penn Jillette (and partially because of Penn Jillette), I don't drink or smoke and never will. Tattoos are also a no-no if you ever want to be a blood donor.

So what was the actual experience like? I thought it would take ten minutes, but it ended up taking an hour and a half, so I missed my chance to watch something for class. I did get all the chips and juice that I could carry.

I'm not afraid of needles, and I can view blood without fainting, but actually seeing the blood go through the tube freaked me out a bit. Once it was going, I felt better, but I couldn't quite get my mind off the fact that my life force was literally being sucked out of me.

It was probably more painful than it had to be since I was freezing, which I believe just made the whole ordeal longer. But I got a shirt and some piece of paper (which I might end up framing or put in a binder), so it was all good.

If I could get bone marrow typed at school, I'd probably show up for that too!

I just knew THIS would happen...

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Current mood:annoyed

That's right, folks... the class I initially didn't want to take, didn't need to take, then took out of obligation (saving the class from cancellation due to low enrollment), ends up being the one class that lowers my GPA.

Usually I find whining about grades extremely annoying, but goddamn.

Egogoogle: December

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Current mood:bouncy

Google: Still on top via my GameFAQs Contributor Recognition page. I think I'd prefer that to my actual homepage...

Yahoo: Still on top via my old Castlevania: SotN manual transcription. I swear it's on a different site each time I see it (damn me and my lack of proper permissions!). Who still needs to read that anyway?

MSN: Still on top via my J.S. Minnow homepage. Can't complain!


I was a few days late, but with finals and my M3 Lite (which I love as much as the DS Lite itself), I both didn't have time to do it earlier and didn't want to do it earlier.

I think I'll change the titles of my future Egogoogle blog posts. Namely, split "Egogoogle" into two words and add the year after the month.

What a week...

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No, this isn't a complaint - it's more about how amazing the week was (and how amazing Iwas)!


2006.11.27 (Monday)

I checked out books at the school library for a paper... for the first time... ever! And here I was photocopying pages like an idiot.

I also downloaded The God Who Wasn't There off Google Video. Good movie, greatsoundtrack.


2006.11.28 (Tuesday)

I helped set the AUN performance at my school with Chris, the former Japan Club president. I tried to hold back my Japanese because I felt that if I said something wrong, I'd offend them somehow. Luckily, they were extremely cool.

These guys are awesome. I think it's fair to say that I always loved taiko, but these took it to the next level with a modern sound... and they're twins, so watching them was especiallyexciting. The violinist made perfection even better. Seeing other non-AUN taiko performances might just be less exciting now...

I bought their CD and they autographed it, but that just made me want to get a DVD of one of their concerts! As luck would have it, it's sold out at CDJapan, and that's the only place that sells their music. (MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/aunwp )

As for non-AUN-related events... I turned in a paper that day, and I got my M3 Lite (which is worthy of its own blog post)...


2006.11.29 (Wednesday)

Roleplay in Yokota's JAPN 400A class. I'm surprised I was able to memorize it so well...


2006.11.30 (Thursday)

The DVD I needed for my JAPN 150 class ended up not working. Well actually, there just wasn't a DVD drive in the class! Luckily, the actual presentation didn't count for much; it was the paper that counted more, and Yokota said my paper was good, so I'm happy.

In ML 400, after getting DS Organize to work on my Nintendo DS Lite, Rosa showed me herPDA (which was also a phone) and I must say I'm impressed. I now know a lot more about what PDAs should have, and why that "Blackberry" PDA isn't all that hot. I then ate a lot of good food in class, making up for how I skipped lunch.

In JAPN 380, I pulled off another roleplay surprisingly well.

All I have left is the 10-page paper for ML 400...


Look for my M3 Lite review in my next Egogoogle sometime later!

Museum fun

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Today I was at the Japanese American National Museum with the beauteous Rosa for extra credit for ML 400. It was pretty much how I remembered it from a year ago when I went with Chris and Mayumi... minus the Taiko drums, which I looked forward to seeing again.

There were students from Japan as well, and those girls were something else...

Note to self: ALWAYS bring the DS Lite whenever I go out! Sure, the battery light was showing red (during WiFi Tetris DS battles, anyway), but I could have used it as a makeshift PDA (or at least a notepad) by going into Pictochat and just chatting with myself. For about $150 I could get the ultimate accessory for my DS Lite and download an actual homebrew PDA program (DSOrganize), but I don't see why Nintendo doesn't just release actual PDA software for the DS. I don't really care for those Touch Generation "games," but at the end of the day, the DS's touch screen really does make the DS better than the PSP (widescreen LCD screen be damned).

Egogoogle: November

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I'm late again here, but between another disappointing birthday, school, and time-wasting YouTube projects, it slipped my mind.

Google and Yahoo say I'm on top via my Castlevania: SOTN manual, while MSN puts my J.S. Minnow site on top. How messed up does the world have to be for MSN to be the most preferred search engine?

Also, my cousin finally got a MySpace account. Well actually it looks like he got it quite a while ago, but he only started posting his blogs a few days ago. (And I thought I was the only cynical bastard around these parts!)