I officially laid my url (tunafishwiches.com) since I did not update that hunk of web junk since 2006 and can no longer justify spending money on it in light of my newly acquired graduate school loans. I also cannot believe blogger has my oldest blog from 2003 still active. Makes me cringe a bit to read that babbling...and entries on this xanga as well.
Overall, I'd have to say skimming over my words have been a good thing. It's easy to forget the real emotional taste of a time without the verbal triggers I leave behind. Although I need to believe I'm always going forward and growing, I see how I might have also lost a good thing or two in the process.
Looks like I caught the bug again. We'll see how long this one lasts for.
Waaah! Two-headed red-eared sliders! So abnormally cute! I miss my Chinatown turtles...
Today I read an article about a Puerto Rican pastor, Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda, who thinks he's God basically. Also has 666 tattooed on his forearm since he believes that that 666 == Antichrist == The New Christ !== Satan's son. From the CNN article:
Although it's a number usually associated with Satan, not the son of
God, de Jesus says that 666 and the Antichrist are, like him,
misunderstood. The Antichrist is not the devil, de Jesus tells his congregation; he's the being who replaces Jesus on Earth.
"Antichrist
is the best person in the world," he says. "Antichrist means don't put
your eyes on Jesus because Jesus of Nazareth wasn't a Christian.
Antichrist means do not put your eyes on Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Put
it on Jesus after the cross."
What's wrong with Jesus being born a Jewish man? Anyway, him and the Moonies should duke it out. So naturally, I wiki the mark of the beast and found this word: hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia. Isn't it such a fabulous word for what it is? So awesome! It means excessive fear of the number 666.
Sorry for the programming equal and not equal signs. CMU is hard to shake off sometimes. Props to Soonjae for the article link.
Edit: Stole this funny pickup line from Grace. During last Thursday's episode of Grey's Anatomy, the story officially jumped the shark. This episode is pretty much the end of a "quality" storyline with overly melodramatic slutty interns. I've actually enjoyed the show for its quirky humor, music, stupid catch phrases, and Isaiah Washington (ok, ok! I know he's a bigot). Also really disliked how the show overlooks nurses and our profession. The medical inaccuracies and farfetched cases were pretty entertaining for me since I got to point them out and laugh. Wish I had more people around me while I watch so I can ruin their experience with Grey's.
Does no one else think that last episode was utterly ridiculous?! And please please please do not base how to perform CPR on how McDreamy and the Chief did it. No wonder that patient died! It's 30 chest compressions and two breaths! And when you do chest compressions, you gotta really go at it--quick hard thrusts. Wow, that sounds...hmm, anyway, you better be sweating after 30 compressions. Ugh, you already know what next episode will be like. The patient is going to learn something "deep" while dead and come back bright and shiny, seriously.
My camera's in the shop so I took these with my old Apple iSight. Quite awesome for a webcam, eh? I only did a little photoshop magic since the color was too yellow from my incandescent bulbs. Thank you, Sang, for the lovely flowers! God was kind enough to bring enough snow to give me a day off from clinicals today. Instead of spending my time wisely doing work, I did a little work, caught up on Bleach manga and ate sang gyub sal (pork). Speaking of which...
Happy LUNAR New Year! Other countries other than China celebrate, too... Stephen Colbert, I love you. Will you be my Valentine?
Winter's finally here. Wow, it sort of looks like I photoshopped this snow on Marin. This was NJ's first sprinkling of snow in January. Check out my grill. I stuffed pipe insulation in there to keep cold air from cooling my engine down too quickly. Brings up my average winter MPG by 2.0 mi/gallon! Marin has a tiny little gas engine that gets too cold too quickly. Also got a new BT stiffening chassis brace for her! Anyone got a 6mm hex wrench?
My MPG took it's first winter hit. I have a lifetime average went down to 45.8 mpg (greenhybrid). Some eye candy:
Prius @ 100,000 km (~62,000mi) was found to be the 2nd most durable car (first went to the Mazda6). More eye candy from 2006:
