March 11, 2005
The People at Lego are geniuses!
by Jap at 10:06 AM
March 8, 2005
Now This is Science.
by Jap at 09:12 AM
The Museum of Science and Industry Chicago has a new exhibit on videogames. Called Game On it chronicles the history of videogames starting with 1962’s Space War going all the way to the future. What kind of museum exhibit would it be if it didn’t take a stab at the future? Each level –the exhibit is divided into levels- features different videogames to play. The platforms that are available to play are staggering. It even has an area, er, sorry level devoted to Japan. One of the games featured in the Japan level is Densha De Go! Shinkansen: A game about driving the bullet train. I definitely need to plan a trip to go during the day to avoid all the kids.
February 25, 2005
Snow Sculptures
by Jap at 08:31 AM
February 23, 2005
You had me at Kung Fu
by Jap at 02:21 PM
Kung Fu Hustle is a new movie by Stephen Chow of Shaolin Soccer fame. The title pretty much sold me on the movie, and the trailer only confirmed what I had already known: This movie is going to be awesome.
I sure am glad I eat meat...
by Jap at 01:55 PM
Because I sure would hate to be stuck eating things like this. Be sure to read the comments as they proably echo every thought you have about this.
February 10, 2005
Originally, I forgot to put a title on this post.
by Jap at 01:00 PM
A lot has been going on in my life. Peaches grandmother died and we made a trip down to Texas that seemed almost entirely comprised of playing Phase 10 (the family’s game of choice) and eating the heap load of food that mourners brought.
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February 5, 2005
Road Trippin'
by Fatbot at 10:36 AM
So yes, I just got finished with a whirlwind roadtrip of 4000 miles in 2 weeks...really not that bad. Mileage count probably would have been a little lower except that I was the navigator most of the trip. I couldn't navigate out of a pizza box, I'd probably just keep walking in circles around the little plastic table. Plus I tend to make vague pointing motions with my hand (based on whimsy) and say "we should be heading that way, yes I'm sure of it." Philip did most of the driving- he just got his license so he was full of unbridled zeal for the open road. And the German neophyte motorist who had never been in the States before fulfilled his task superbly, I must say. Aside from visiting Jap and Peaches in Chicago (a most definite highpoint), some of my other favorite moments from the trip were...me being mocked by a Subway employee in Alabama; choking down $3.50 chicken fried steak platters in Steele, Missouri; spending 2 hours on foot looking for "this Chinese place I swear I saw" in Memphis; when our right wiper blade slowly pirouetted up and over the roof of the car to freedom in west Texas, and we had to cushion the razorlike stump with a handkerchief; when I sprayed perfume in air in our Nashville hotel room and Philip saw me leaping through it, decided to join in the "dance", and got a mouthful of perfume; and taking exactly 4 minutes to purchase an engagement ring in Tuscaloosa (synonymous with quality, is Tuscaloosa). Yep, I'm engaged. And judging by the file photo of me Jap put on here, there's gonna be a lot of broken hearted men who dig really-short-haired girls with mandarin orange fetishes.
I feel compelled, not to defend, but to reiterate my love for aquariums. I *heart* aquariums. It's true that Philip went into that second-enormous-aquarium-in-a-week like a champ, but afterwards there was some negotiating of terms for an ensuing aquarium hiatus. I'm holding out hope that we'll make it to the one on the beach in the Hague this summer. He maintains that his tolerance for fishies will return in early 2006.
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