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[1/24/2003]
Supposedly, BikerBoyz is going to really, really suck. Here's a review of the movie
Instead here's a motorcycle movie I'd watch. Synopsis and original story written by me! (In case someone wants to buy my idea....) Act 1: the motivation Two kids grow up as friends but somehow enter into two different motorcycle gangs. Sportbikes of course. During the course of their desire to ride with the "best", they learn pre-requsite squid tricks like one-handed stoppies, mile-long wheelies, etc, etc. (Hey, you must admit that at one time or another, the thought of wheelie-ing off into the sunset on command would be kinda neat.) Act 2: the love interest In comes Hottie McBody. As you're aware, there are hardly any decent chicks hanging around sportbike hooligans, because pretty girls prefer to stay home and knit. So arrives Ms. Perfect, new in town, and of course, both our protagonists sporting morning woodys from dreaming about her every sleeping hour. They decide to "fight" over her. Act 3: The duel So they both trackday-prep their street bikes, and go at it on the local trackdays. Realizing they were the slowest in the group of hot-shoes; getting into other people's lines and being constantly elbowed and harrassed because of their sparky knee-pucks - they drop off to the beginner's class, and actually do well. (Hey, it's a Hollywood film, you gotta get the public excited!) Act 4: The duel part two Now our racer boys are decent. No lawnmowing and only missing their breaking markers every other time. They decide to hang it all out for one final race in a real AMA sanctioned Practice day. They take their F.A.S.T. racing course, and obtain their racing license, yada yada. Act 5: The Race With their respective gangs as pit crew, which miraculously are all grease-monkeys, they go out and "race". Unfortunately, after like the 10th lap in, it slowly dawns on them that they are just not talented enough to obtain club racer status. No matter how hard they try, they're constantly being lapped by some kid on a 250; while they're trying to go balls out on near-litre bikes down straight-aways, but then become bus stops at turns. Act 6: The Ending.... Cut to the chase, they now know that real motorcycle riding is dang hard, made harder because everyone else seem to be so much better. And now, because of their stupid rivalry, they've lost the girl (who ended up dating the kid on the 250). Seeing this, they once again become best friends, sell their bikes, and buy a Harley. Roll Credits. - The End - ....On the DVD version, the alternate ending would be selling bikes and buying riced-out civics.
[1/23/2003]
Gosh, what is wrong with me today? In the span of 24 hours, I've forgotten how to send email.
Twice now (and counting) I've sent emails to the wrong person. One person even called me up and said, "I don't understand why you're telling me you're going to Costco." Sucks, I feel so stoopid. Yes, even more than normal, so don't bother asking. Costco is like Disneyland for impulse shoppers. I could seriously blow all my hard-earned pennies at that place. Thank goodness I've got adult friends asking me, "Buddy, you have an electric shaver already, do you really need $37 worth of razor blades?" Thanks CherryByng for being my mature conscience, and of course, for your Costco card. I am still undecided whether I am excited about my HK trip yet. On the one hand, I was just back there in April, so it doesn't seem like a big deal, yet, it's always wonderful to spend vacation time with family. Especially when you get to see them like hardly ever. It's only two short weeks afterall, but it will still be fun, I hope. However, just by writing about it, I'm already beginning to break into a little grin. Like a kid who stole cookie crumbs and gotten away with it. Yes, folks, I think ol' losir is starting to show his pearlies... Yes, there they are! Okay, I know this is a stupid little post with random thoughts, so let me leave you with more random thoughts these I've had these past few days. A peek into the inner sanctum of losir's mind. - how can you be so clean, wiping the floor with paper towels after you've spilt a spot of water, when you smell like poop in a rotting shoe after working out?? - gawd, if I have to hear you shuffle your feet and tap to the music one more freakin' time, I'm going to yank your hair out of your arse. - man, I'm glad I farted at home, because that would really be embarassing. Oh gross. The smell! - I will not ride like a hooligan this year. I will not ride like a hooligan this year. I will not ride like a hooligan this year, but I probably will. ....I'm really missing my little motorcycle.
[1/22/2003]
Well, the new years pix are up. Not many pictures this year, which is a shame. Oh well, what can I do, right? Lion-Queen didn't send me her digital pix yet. These were scanned in.
There's also an explanation for the lack of pictures. Go view it HERE ....that's it for now.
[1/21/2003]
Got a friendly email from a friendly friend today, and here's what s/he wrote: (not verbatim)
I just thought your URL was funny.....I thought it was another spelling for loser. Lovely, and you know what, s/he's right. I do feel like one. (A loser, I mean.) So here I was, smug in my knowledge that for over a year, I got my camera $400 cheaper than if I had bought it locally. This morning, I find out the repair bill for my camera will be a nice figure of 365 smacks. Oddly enough, that's how many days there are in a year. Which is just nice, because each day I've had the camera, I've been adding a dollar to the final cost of my purchase. Who else has great luck like mine?? I'm no longer mad. I just want the dang camera back, though throwing my camera at the repairing man came across my mind. Great reason to buy something lese. If it's any consolation, when Fuji USA attempted to fix my camera, they forgot to remove their battery. What does that mean? They just gave me an extra battery to play with. Woohoo. ....I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen.
[1/20/2003]
Try to keep this brief and relevant.
Recently, a cousin dropped my camera and broke the lens retracting mechanism. Luckily, he was also the one who bought it for me from the States, as I live in Canada. So he brought it back down to get it repaired. FOUR MONTHS LATER, I get it in the mail last night. (Not the best way to send something fragile, I know!) Anyway, first thing I noticed, extremely poor focus in low light. I know low light shots isn't the camera's strong point, but this was terrible. EVerything was extremely blurry. I don't remember it being THAT bad. Second thing I noticed, the horrible grinding noise that occured with the motor when it was retracting/opening, is still present. Not as loud, but definitely louder than the normal motor whine/hum. Third thing, when it initially broke, the lens would point off-centered (right) when opened. Now, in wide-angle the lens points off-centered to the left. When zooming in from this position, it is obvious the camera stutters before zooming. Lastly, the retractable lens cover now has a 2-3 millimeter gap when it is shut. Should it not be flush? It's really bad, and lets all the dust in. I will be honest when I say I've never checked if there was a gap or not, but now, it's so apparant, it's appalling. Fuji didn't do a good job fixing my camera, and it took them FOUR MONTHS to ship it back to my cousin. FOUR MONTHS FOR SHODDY WORKMANSHIP, NOT EVEN UNDER WARRANTY (granted, it was user error, but if I pay for it to be fixed.....) Anyway, I'm pretty pissed. I will be taking my camera to Fuji Canada tomorrow for inspection. I am really hoping they will have it fixed in two weeks, as I'll be on vacation, and will sorely miss taking digital photographs. I hope I won't have to send any angry letters to Fuji. Keep you all informed. ....I only need a digital camera because my memory is so poor.
It's really sad when I work out like mad (5 days a week.... with mad weights, protein shakes, protein bars) and my buddies tell me: "Man, you need to bulk up."
I was goig to list out what I can bench press, curl, etc. But then I realize just how egotistical it all sounds. It's not a competition, it's about loving my own body. I thought I did, but when I see people who I know I can out bench tell me I need more mass, well it puts a crater into my already deflated ego. Just this weekend, people were saying that I look like I lost weight too. This skinny business is starting to wear me, um, thin. It's time I stepped up my food intake and really get serious in the gym. No more girlie40lb concentrated curls for me. No more wimpy 130lbflies. I'm really going to hit it hard this week! Pain bebanished. ....grrrrrrrr!
[1/19/2003]
I just want to point out something I've noticed, in regards to illegal copying of music (so called "music piracy" by the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA)
If freely traded .mp3s are so evil, how come music videos have no problem showing kids listening to their portable cassette players with an obviously copied tape in the deck? Watch the video, 2Pac feat. Nas - Thugz Mansion (accostic remix). Note the end where they show the cassette tape in the player. It doesn't look store bought to me. Which is really the point. Since the mass introduction of cassette tapes, us kids have been recording and trading music with each other, and in times of desperation, even recorded off the radio. And while certainly it is arguable that the fidelity of an .mp3 is much closer to an actual store-bought CD than a crummy analog tape, we can't deny the fact most artists only have one or two decent songs on a whole album. I don't mind paying for good music, but when was the last time you bought a pack of hamburger meat, knowing full well at best there were only three or four good patties in the box? Worse, what if you bought the box hoping every patty was good, then realized only one was edible? Wouldn't that really piss you off?? And that's music in a box. The old paradigm of music distribution is dead. People are willing to pay for the music, as long as it's something they want. I think there will always be freeloaders in this world, and that can't be erradicated, but on the whole, we want to support the artists. We just don't want to be conned in the process. Besides, if we were charged one or two dollars for a song, then people who still insist of illegally copying music will look that much more the cheapskate that they are. The RIAA's cries for cracking down music piracy might actually mean something then. ....Sleepy now. Must sleep.
Well, I got a hold of some pre-Christmas party pictures, and scanned them in. Ofoto seems to work.
Here's the linkypoo ....picked the best pix. |