“It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can’t get anyone to notice. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another to a reception that, when not bored, is hostile.”
John Hinderaker, PowerLine Blog, July 28, 2005
When I was a wee lass living on Cedarhurst Drive, I had a birthday party in which I received a model kit of the USS New Jersey. It was an easy thing to assemble, and I loved to look at it and play with it with my army men.
One day my older brother got the HMS Hood as a model kit. I have no idea why. So we tried to put it together, but failed miserably. We didn’t understand the concept of glue. The hull never stayed together properly as we tried to assemble it. Then we hit on a brilliant plan. (I would like to say he did, but I have to include myself as a source of blame in this dunce affair.) We decided to melt the plastic together. For this, we used matches.
“Hold the hull together,” he said, “while I hold the match underneath it and melt the two sides.” Brilliant last words.
As you can tell, it turned into a disaster. The flame burned through the plastic putting a big hole in the hull. My brother became so mad at the outcome that he snatched the model from my hands and snapped it in two.
There went our model ship building craze as we knew that we didn’t have the patience to build one.
Yet, thirty years later, I feel like building model ships. Here’s a link to one that would be cool. I guess I have to learn what modeling is all about.
http://www.hlj.com/product/FUJ42145
Historical footnote: the HMS Hood was sunk in naval combat with the German battleship, Bismark, on May 24, 1941.
IPhone looks to be a winner in Japan. All those naysayers seemed to be wrong as there are lines as long as there are here in the states.
(Read before DaringFireball linked it)
It’s killing me. Way overpowering.
Things I’ve learned buying a new car.
Purchasing options a la carte makes it fun. It can also be expensive.
Taxes suck and makes your car more pricier than you imagined it to be. They also reduce the number of options you can choose as you want to keep the car on budget and affordable.
Owning a car has many hidden costs. The tires. The maintenance. Not to mention gas and insurance. Owning two cars, the costs aren’t so hidden. Twice the gas. Twice the insurance. Half as fun to own.
Watch for extensive hard sell at the close for extended warranty. Or life time tires. Or extra road side assistance. You feel that your pressing your luck when ignoring those options. Especially, that damn lifetime of tires!
Watching really does make the pot not boil. I can’t believe how slow the last few weeks went. Really slow. Down payment on May 31. The days crawled by. On board a ship on June 18. The days inch forward. In the States on June 28. In the dealership on July 4. In my hands on the 11th. Those days in between were interminably long.
Am I going to be Senor Detailer again?
Why won’t that new car smell go away!?
Chickity china the chinese chicken
You have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin
Watchin x-files with no lights on, were dans la maison
I hope the smoking mans in this one
“One Week,” Bare Naked Ladies
IPhone 2.0 and the new AppStore. Woohoo! Now if only I knew which applications are cool to use.
Itsuki-chan
Originally uploaded by browsermetrics.
I hit a beat and swing a note as if my name was David Ruffin
Quick to toast an MC just like an english muffin
Grand Puba, “One For All”
Aya Hirano was the voice of Haruhi Suzumiya. She’s big in Japan. And, seemingly, like all idols, she’s got a blog. It’s in Japanese, but each of her posts is accompanied by a picture. I like to look at them, because it is either her cuteness or something she’s eating at the time. (Sometimes its also of stuff in Japan.)
Finally. After a couple of very weak chapters, School Rumble comes back to the main reason to read it: Eri v. Yakumo. The previous chapters had Eri and Harima finally making a couple, at least a pretend one. It seemed that Yakumo was out of the picture. She’s back in. Onigiri is on!
I’m conflicted because it seemed to be that Yakumo gave up, so I was somewhat happy that Eri won. Yet, damn I can’t give up on Yakumo. Go quiet girl! Go!
Also, the scans were cleaned up better and it looks better too.
