Tuesdays with Muerte

What caption would you give this baby picture? Was yours better than...THIS?! The Poolparty Nightmare My friends who lived in Japan say that MOST Japanese kids actually are like this until they enter school... Seriously, could you be mad at this kid? Future NINJA! I had a thing about needing to see myself in reflective surfaces when I grew up, but this is ridiculous.  Can you say Narcissism? Infomercial: "NOW, leave your kids unattended for hours while you are at work... for only $9.95!" Ha-HA! Your Blogger-Style ...is no match...for my Nasal-Bubble-Crying-Technique ! All this lovey-dovey stuff makes me sick! She chose...poorly. (I'm not sure, but I think the Japanese marketed these "Sandwich Babies" to help toddlers learn to walk. Counterproductive, if you ask me.) What has been seen, cannot be unseen? (Check out the kid's face!) Must...return...to Krypton! Which picture/caption is your f...

There is a great website that some of you Mac users may enjoy. It is called Mactips.org . Here are a few tips from this last week: ---------------- Listening to: Especially For Youth 2004 - One Voice

These are Mac dimensions:

If you want to know your Hawaiian name, click HERE . Bryan Tanner = Paliana Kaneli Gordon Wittwer Tanner = Kolukonu Wikeweli Kaneli Jeannie Jones = Ieanie Ioneki Arnold Schwarzenegger = Alanolu Kakawalakenekeli

Chen admittedly does only 6 things in life: Eat Sleep Engineering Talks with his wife Ping Pong Occasionally, badminton You'd think that would make it easy to buy him a birthday present, but it's not. Fortunately, Stef and I were at the mall the other day and we came across a backyard badminton set for only $26. All the roommates chipped in and bought it for him and we are going to set it up for him around the apartment complex here and then make him a traditional Chinese dinner. P.S. Chen and I finally played ping pong yesterday after more than a week of him "needing to concentrate on his engineering equations." (I didn't take him seriously for the first little while, but then I saw that he truly didn't take ANY breaks; not even for a 1/2 hour game of ping pong. We were both a little rusty yesterday, but after a little warmup we looked a lot like the players below. (I'm the German in the back, Chen is the one with the crazy saves in...

I thought I'd put a little twist on this update by sharing with you a selection of dreams from two of my roommates, Dan and Chen: Dan's Dream: So, here is a summary of my dream from last night, courtesy of the Dark Knight. I was the Dark Knight, or at least looking back that's what it amounts to. The Joker was after my family, I had to stop him, and it was intense. I barely got my sister out of her elementary school before he blew it up. The Joker then stabbed my bro bad, but somehow my bro was able to escape barely alive. I went on the hunt, desperate to find him. In a large, deserted warehouse I ran into the Joker's henchmen and gunned them down in a firefight (using the skills I acquired last week while picking off water bottles with my roommate's Airsoft gun). Then I found him. He had my brother in a choke hold, holding a knife to his neck. In a surge of anger I flung myself at the Joker, knocking him away from my brother, landing on top of him, and pumm...

ותאמר רות אל תפגעי בי לעזבך לשוב מאחריך כי אל אשר תלכי אלך ובאשר תליני אלין עמך עמי ואלהיך אלהי׃ Y Rut respondió: No me ruegues que te deje, y que me aparte de ti: porque donde quiera que tú fueres, iré yo; y donde quiera que vivieres, viviré. Tu pueblo será mi pueblo, y tu Dios mi Dios. And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee for whither thou goest, I will go and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. DREAM Last night I dreamt that my roommates Dan and Chen had become "Siamese Twins". They had taken same oath that Ruth made with Naomi in the OT. However, Chen must have misinterpreted the verse because he took it quite literally: Anywhere Dan went, he went. Where Dan sat down, Chen sat on his lap. After observing this for some time myself, I became jealous of their relationship. Since Nolan left for California for his comic book festival, "Comicon", my options wer...