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Friday, February 28, 2003 So the question has been posed: What of Canada's plan of giving a hard March 28th deadline with explicit military consequences? What's wrong with it? I see the validity of the answer, but I'm not sure I agree, 100%. The typical answer is "It's getting hotter. soon the weather will make it so it's more dangerous for our soldiers." I'm all for less danger for the soldiers. I'm also all for (if possible!) a peaceful resolution... posted by Allan | 2/28/2003 02:57:00 PM | 5 comments we've given Xavier the URL: http://xxx.yelloshuga.com sounds like some asian pr0n site. :) he hasn't done anything with it just yet. posted by Allan | 2/28/2003 01:53:00 AM | 1 comment So I GET IT. then i mess up an easy part!!!! but it's late and im starting to mess up randomly... time for bed. 
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So I'm officially addicted to flash flash revolution. I *KNOW* I can string like 400 together. I just need to keep at it... :) I'm messing up around 207, 208 moves in, then i string the next 190 or so. Max Combo: 198 posted by Allan | 2/28/2003 01:10:00 AM | 0 comments Thursday, February 27, 2003 So.. earlier this month a man in atlanta ran away from the narcotics police. He climbed over the interstate railing, fell 35 ft and got decapitated by a wrought-iron fence. I received an email forward today with pictures of the incident. Quite disturbing... posted by Allan | 2/27/2003 04:47:00 PM | 1 comment allan is every girl?s dream guy. posted by Allan | 2/27/2003 02:06:00 PM | 2 comments The flash flash revolution gauntlet has been thrown. I challenge you to beat my score of 330785 on Euphoria. (Category Dance2, #1) Streak 194 baby!! posted by Allan | 2/27/2003 12:12:00 AM | 0 comments Wednesday, February 26, 2003 Anyone want to buy a giant cheeto for 25 bucks plus shipping? Buy-it-now is only $500! what a steal! posted by Allan | 2/26/2003 08:36:00 PM | 0 comments Oh my. now when you're bored at work, you can play dance dance revolution! posted by Allan | 2/26/2003 01:31:00 AM | 4 comments Tuesday, February 25, 2003 So I got an email from Betty extolling the virtues of eating junkfood for breakfast. Granted, I guess it is kinda random to be able to eat junkfood during the day and at night, but not in the mornings. I guess I'm just a bit random... neat blog, betty :) posted by Allan | 2/25/2003 03:44:00 PM | 0 comments Speechless. posted by Allan | 2/25/2003 01:55:00 PM | 0 comments I have a real craving for poutine today. posted by Allan | 2/25/2003 12:19:00 PM | 1 comment So this morning, I got on the crowded (as always) F train, and pulled out my morning read (No Great Mischief, Alistair MacLeod), and immediately lost hold of it. I ended up dropping the book on this young woman who was sleeping in her seat. "I'm so sorry!!" She didn't seem too pleased. posted by Allan | 2/25/2003 09:25:00 AM | 0 comments how about yelloshuga.com? :) posted by Allan | 2/25/2003 12:19:00 AM | 4 comments Monday, February 24, 2003 Domain names. Help me pick one. My friend, Nel, was thinking of registering "dahizzouse.com" but we figured no one would know how to spell it. I asked Xavier and he said " d a i z h a u s " and he also tried " h i s h o u s e" ideas for me? alchu.com is taken :( posted by Allan | 2/24/2003 11:59:00 PM | 1 comment Serval. posted by Allan | 2/24/2003 04:59:00 PM | 0 comments Tivo. I'd been thinking about buying one since they first came out. They were always too expensive for my taste. I reconsidered getting one about a half year ago, and then again 3 months ago. Then on v-day, Alvin found a really great deal, and let me know. Impulse buy. I bought it about an hour later. So I'd been thinking about whether or not to sell the thing. Good deals don't justify purchasing something that I obviously do not need. I don't even watch all that much TV. Played with it a while, and recorded my first show, Alias. Can I say: wow. It makes the TV experience so much better. I'm really impressed. I can see why the people who own one say they love it. I really really like mine a lot. I kept it. posted by Allan | 2/24/2003 02:36:00 PM | 5 comments haha this morning I was listening to npr (I listen to npr every morning) and there was a bit on mafia A quote: "It kind of vents feelings that are pent up in ordinary life, and that get buried under a level of civility. It feels like something's happened, when you've finished. And maybe that's part of the pleasure of it: you don't normally get to face that moment, when everything that you've tried to persuade the world of, just kind of crumbles.. and you're revealed as a cheat" There's a sermon in there somewhere. posted by Allan | 2/24/2003 09:55:00 AM | 0 comments Wow. So Norah Jones did quite well for herself last night at the Grammys Five! and the album itself produced seven: Record of the Year (1) Album of the Year (2) Best New Artist (3) Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (4) Best Pop Vocal Album (5) Song of the Year (6) (Jessie Harris) Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical (7) (Arif Mardin) posted by Allan | 2/24/2003 09:43:00 AM | 2 comments Friday, February 21, 2003 sweet :) Got my federal return today. yay! posted by Allan | 2/21/2003 03:05:00 PM | 0 comments Oh my. This is almost laughable... posted by Allan | 2/21/2003 02:42:00 PM | 0 comments So we all know about Michael Jackson and the recent documentaries on him. I stayed away from watching either of them; MJ, to me, is a troubled man who thinks he's still a child. But what a great performer. Songs, dancing. amazing. Anyhow there was, on a forum I participate in, a discussion about him and how people thought he was a pedophile and needed to be restricted from being with kids. Then utah posted this: ******************************************************************* I watched the Maury Povich/Fox special as well. One of the big reasons I tuned in was because I thought that Ba$hir had certainly set Jackson up in the first documentary broadcast. It was easy to see, that Ba$hir....completely changed his tone in the last of the series of interviews with Jackson...once he had enough footage to put his money making endeaver together. He sucked up to Jackson....and then, when he was confident that he had enough film....his style changed and he became much more agressive. The Maury Povich/Fox piece clearly shows this. It also shows how Ba$hir sensationalized his documentary....by editing it to make the Jackson statements that much worse, than they were....as others have pointed out. But....the most disturbing aspect of all this is the fact that Ba$hir clearly infers that Jackson should not be trusted around children...and that he may well be a pedophile. Now...in the Ba$hir documentary, he interviews Jackson...with the young boy who was dying of cancer before Jackson befriended him. And....now the kid's cancer has gone into remission. The kid and his parents, totally credit Jackson as having a direct link to the kids remission. This little guys dying wish, was to meet Jackson. And, so the kids dad called Neverland to enquire. The next thing....MJ was calling the kid, and inviting him to Neverland. That seemed to be a turning point for this child...and he began to recover. Now....why is this upsetting to me. Well....in Ba$hir's piece, the kid is clearly identified. And...since the documentary, the mom and kid have had to go into hiding, they have been pestered and hounded by reporters, other media....and general taunts from people, who accuse the kid of being a sex toy for MJ. Here's the other side. In the MJ videos shown tonight, there was plenty of footage of this little guy when he was sick. Hair all falling out. Sickly looking. Clearly on deaths door. And....it is not hard to see that, for whatever reasons....his time spent with MJ somehow helped his health, and his fight with cancer, because in the Ba$hir documentary, the kid looks healthy and happy. Now...Ba$hir could have left this little guy out of the documentary. Or....he could have disguised his identity somehow, maybe by blurring his face. But...he did neither, and clearly made a conection between MJ's pedophile charges...and this kid. And Ba$hir exploited this kid competely. To make his point....he has done plenty of damage to this young boy. So tell me. Who hurt the kid more? Ba$hir....or Michael Jackson. Who should not be trusted around children. Jackson...or a guy who will ruin the reputation of a boy, and that boys family....simply to make a few more bucks on his documentary. And...then have the nerve to suggest that HE is concerned about kids. Now....Jackson certainly may be excentric. And...maybe a pedophile. Or...maybe not. I am not a huge Jackson fan. But, I don't believe that he is anywhere near the wack job that Ba$hir tried to paint him as. But....I would suggest to all posting on this. Watch the original documentary by Ba$hir. And, then watch this other piece with Povich on Fox....which films Ba$hir...filming Jackson. I would suggest, you will clearly see that Ba$hir, is a coniving, and mean spirited journalist, who knew that a sensational documentary on MJ, would bring him some fame and fortune....at other peoples expense. He is a snake, pure and simple. Ba$hir sickens me. Jackson, who is used to all this stuff, will survive another controversy. I hope that Ba$hir's suffers a backlash from this. I believe he is NOT a credible journalist. ******************************************************************* Sigh. posted by Allan | 2/21/2003 11:27:00 AM | 1 comment uh oh. posted by Allan | 2/21/2003 10:55:00 AM | 0 comments WHAT THE HECK. Ken posted this on his blog and I just had to steal it for mine. Who lives like this? This is the same sort of person who has ice cream and soda for breakfast. posted by Allan | 2/21/2003 12:59:00 AM | 0 comments Thursday, February 20, 2003 I've started something. Matt's got a blog now. posted by Allan | 2/20/2003 01:13:00 PM | 0 comments So the question for the day is: "Is the UN Irrelevant?" or, if you don't like that question, "Is the UN irrelevant when it comes to international law and sanctions?" Perhaps, perhaps not. But I think that there are two factors making the UN less effective. which you believe contributes more is up to you: a) The UN is not effective because of its unwillingness to 'step up to the plate' or 'put its military where its mouth is' by enforcing its own resolutions. b) The UN is not effective because of the tendency of certain members to act unilaterally (read: United States) in total disregard of the multilateral ideals on which the UN is founded. Here's the thing: a) says: the reason why most of those who are supportive of the war is that resolution 1441 has clearly been broken, and the UN should do something about it. Why isn't the security council doing anything? Because vetos from France, Germany, China, Russia et al. So the UN is irrelevant because it is unwilling to enforce the resolutions it passes. The argument against it is that several resolutions have been broken by Israel and nothing is ever done because of vetos from the USA. Why does 1441 make a difference whether or not the UN is irrelevant? Is it only relevant when it suits US purposes? b) says: the only reason it is irrelevant is when people stop discussing and start acting unilaterally. If the US totally disregards the UN and moves on Iraq unilaterally, we know who's to blame here. Argument against this is that the only reason why the US would act unilaterally is because of the inherent irrelevancy of the UN in the first place. Chicken and the egg problem? posted by Allan | 2/20/2003 10:46:00 AM | 87 comments It works! Everyone say 'thanks' to Nelson for being so nice :) posted by Allan | 2/20/2003 01:38:00 AM | 9 comments They've been requested, so I'm trying to add a place where you can put comments... posted by Allan | 2/20/2003 01:10:00 AM | 3 comments Tuesday, February 18, 2003 Why does everyone (both Christians and non-Christians alike) assume that if you believe in the bible you must believe in Modern Creation Science? This is not the case! posted by Allan | 2/18/2003 05:10:00 PM | 0 comments Here's a great argument for it's: I think it's supposed to be "it's," Allan. If you try the phrase with a different point of view, ala "milking me for all I'm worth" (not "my") or "milking him for all he's worth" (not "his"), then "it's" seems to be the logical conclusion. __________________ Li posted by Allan | 2/18/2003 03:13:00 PM | 0 comments interesting grammatical problem here. is it "milking it for all it's worth" or "milking it for all its worth?" possessive its? it is? I'm really not sure. I think I'll leave it "its" for now... correct me if I'm wrong :) posted by Allan | 2/18/2003 12:20:00 PM | 3 comments as for reality tv: We were talking to John Lin last night and he made a great point: Fox hit a home run with this Joe Millionaire show. What'd it cost them? a castle in france for a month - 50 grand? 250 grand?, a few pieces of jewelry - another 50? rent-a-jet, rent-a-bentley. a butler. a million bucks as a prize. Compare that to Friends, which costs some 6 million per episode for the cast alone! not a bad deal, and they're milking it for all it's worth. edited for grammar ;) posted by Allan | 2/18/2003 12:16:00 PM | 0 comments Yet my morning's problems don't even come close to the shock of reading about this. :( Pray for their families. posted by Allan | 2/18/2003 10:11:00 AM | 0 comments Ugh. So waiting for the bus that never came was an obvious waste of time. Did the trek through the snow. I should have brought a change of socks. shoes would have been even better. posted by Allan | 2/18/2003 10:02:00 AM | 0 comments Monday, February 17, 2003 So Evan picks Zora. I can't believe I'm watching so much reality tv. something's very wrong with this picture... posted by Allan | 2/17/2003 10:04:00 PM | 0 comments last time the NYSE closed their doors for snow was 1969. snow day tomorrow??? :) posted by Allan | 2/17/2003 06:49:00 PM | 0 comments Lots of snow. it hasn't snowed in the northeast like this since '96 when I was at Penn. And we were supposed to go skiing today. :( And if we didn't go skiing, we were supposed to go to central park to have a snowball fight. None of which we could do, because we're all stuck in the house. booo. posted by Allan | 2/17/2003 05:31:00 PM | 0 comments Friday, February 14, 2003 Okay here's a great article. EVEN THOUGH you may not be Canadian, I think this is a good read. Canada In The Age of Terror - Multilateralism Meets A Moment Of Truth (PDF) posted by Allan | 2/14/2003 12:48:00 PM | 0 comments It's a scary time in the city these days. This morning, I was looking at the cops outside the NYSE with their submachine guns when a construction worker started up his jackhammer. I jumped. Wilson sent me something which might help one be a bit more prepared for whatever may occur... posted by Allan | 2/14/2003 11:37:00 AM | 0 comments Any opinion on junk food in the mornings? This morning, on my commute, a very nice looking older man took a seat next to me. He proceeded to pull out his breakfast - a bag of fritos (remember this is around 8:45 in the morning). After a few mouthfuls of corn chips, the can of coke comes out. He opens it, reaches into the inside breast pocket of his longcoat, and pulls out a straw(!). It wasn't individually wrapped, either. I kinda thought that was amusing. One summer in Junior high, at band camp, the kids would eat ice cream and drink sodas for breakfast. I kinda thought that was gross.... posted by Allan | 2/14/2003 11:30:00 AM | 0 comments Alvin suggested Opera, which, after downloading, has the potential to be an awesome, awesome browser. It uses tabs in its interface for different websites, rather than opening different instances of the browser. So you can browse cnn, espn, cheer for Ruben on American Idol, and read my blog, all in one window! you just switch between them all through the tabs. This helps work-surfing for those of you who need to minimize when the boss walks by. :) The problem with Opera is that it doesn't seem to be rendering pages as well as I'd like. For instance, I can't update this blog using opera. the blogger interface doesn't come out correctly. Mozilla is fairly good, but It's messing up some action buttons on blogger's update page too. So, to quote Alvin: "[sigh] Evil empire, I return to thee willingly but resentfully..." posted by Allan | 2/14/2003 11:07:00 AM | 0 comments Thursday, February 13, 2003 just for fun, I checked this page out using Netscape 4.79. It looks horrible! but I'm not jumping through hoops for you! get IE. Better yet, get Mozilla. Upgrade!! posted by Allan | 2/13/2003 04:54:00 PM | 0 comments more geekspeak rants. So the more I think about it, the more it isn't Netscape's fault. What's the problem? The problem is that I'm jumping through hoops to support Netscape 4.7, a non-standard browser that is like 10 years old. Why are people still using this browser? Because they're too lazy to upgrade, and because it is stable and it works. But here's my thought: the only reason why people haven't upgraded is because the development community has been doing exactly what I've been doing - jumping through hoops to make sure it works for them. I say no more! This must stop - if we stop supporting legacy, non-standard, nasty browsers like NN 4.x, users will have no choice but to upgrade. c'mon the latest version of netscape is 7!. Ridiculous! And now I'm off to jump through more hoops. posted by Allan | 2/13/2003 04:39:00 PM | 0 comments [geek rant] Can I just say... I _hate_ coding for multiple browsers. Why can't msft and netscape just get together and standardize how they do things? I hate that my code at work is working properly and sexily in IE but blows up on Navigator. Why oh why couldn't you implement innerHTML in your DOM, Netscape? Don't tell me Netscape 6 - my users run netscape 4.7! Why oh why is cross browser DHTML such a hassle to implement!? booo. [/geek rant] posted by Allan | 2/13/2003 02:35:00 PM | 0 comments Wednesday, February 12, 2003 what the.... posted by Allan | 2/12/2003 11:22:00 AM | 0 comments This is just great. -> Yaowear.com The kids that run this show are Penn alum. i'm so proud... posted by Allan | 2/12/2003 01:43:00 AM | 0 comments Tuesday, February 11, 2003 return sent. :) posted by Allan | 2/11/2003 09:29:00 AM | 0 comments Monday, February 10, 2003 Man so I'm trying to finish my taxes, and stupid turbo-tax is giving me fits. (I'm doing the online version). It gave me a hint of my federal return before it blew up on me, so I'm REAL excited to actually get my return sent in. but it's not letting me log in! "close your browser and wait 20 minutes." yeah right. I want my return!!! Turbo Tax is pretty great, though. I guess it's worth the $30 bucks or whatever I paid -> I've been doing my taxes by hand for the past 3 years. This is much, much easier. posted by Allan | 2/10/2003 11:29:00 PM | 0 comments >From: "Robert D. Krzyspiak" >To: "Allan Chu" >Subject: Re: Yo >Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 15:31:12 -0500 > >you punk i'm not 29! get that crap off there! > :) okay, okay... he's twenty seven. posted by Allan | 2/10/2003 03:35:00 PM | 0 comments Props to big daddy rob on his birthday. Email him and wish him a good one :) Hint: he's 29. posted by Allan | 2/10/2003 03:18:00 PM | 0 comments Saturday, February 08, 2003 oohhhh boy. is any car worth 500k? posted by Allan | 2/08/2003 05:28:00 PM | 0 comments in case I wasn't clear... :) sad on Jackson's part. MattJ made a this comment to me this morning: If the lions offered interviews to black coaches and they refused, they can't make them come. Mariucci was the best coach out there. Period. no one else had that kind of record in the nfl - He has the track record, he was the best. They tried to interview a black coach and jackson said that it wasn't good enough: "Would you interview for a job you already know is going to someone else?" Jackson said. "Would you allow yourself to be used by the Lions so they could get around the NFL policy? These men are not fools and shouldn't be treated that way." In this case, no matter what the lions did short of hiring a black coach, jackson would have said they were wrong. posted by Allan | 2/08/2003 10:48:00 AM | 0 comments Friday, February 07, 2003 So the Lions hired Steve Mariucci. He was fired by the 49ers, and the Lions thought he'd be the best person for the job, so they gunned for him. They offered interviews to minority coaches, who, knowing that their main candidate was Mariucci, declined. Is this racist? Jessie Jackson thinks so. I'm not sold, but either way I guess it's a sad state of affairs. on someone's part... posted by Allan | 2/07/2003 04:05:00 PM | 0 comments Okay, it's not to say that there isn't SOME aspect about this that is oil based. of course there is. The idea that it has nothing to do with Saddam being a threat to the world and all to do about economy and oil is what doesn't fly with me. $0.93 less a barrel isn't something to fight a war over. posted by Allan | 2/07/2003 11:26:00 AM | 0 comments Thursday, February 06, 2003 Check out this post. There's just nothing more for me to say. posted by Allan | 2/06/2003 04:46:00 PM | 0 comments Colin Powell addressed the UN yesterday. Taped phone calls, satellite surveillance. descriptions of mobile biological and chemical weapons plants. Insanity. The aftermath: world still divided. Xavier told me a few days ago that "The world doesn't really believe that Saddam isn't hiding anything. Of course he is. The world doesn't believe that Saddam DOESN'T have weapons of mass destruction. Of course he does, or he's developing them. The world just doesn't know if the cost of human life in a war with Iraq is worth the benefits." That, I get. That is where I have my reservations. A lot of lives will be lost. Perhaps giving the inspectors more time, and Iraq a few more ultimatums will turn the tide. I pray that it'd be so. What doesn't fly with me are the ideas that: "This war is a ploy to get Bush re-elected" - Are you kidding? Bush may not be the most brilliant guy on the block, but he's not DUMB. His advisors certainly aren't. The Gulf war in '91, while termed successful, didn't do much for Bush Sr's re-election, did it? "This war is all about oil" - The answer to that complaint is surely no. The economics do not support this theory: here's a good article. if the war is about oil to anyone, it's about oil to Russia, France, and China. posted by Allan | 2/06/2003 10:44:00 AM | 0 comments Wednesday, February 05, 2003 I broke a nail the other day. First, some background: I'm learning classical and jazz guitar from this great friend of MattyB's - Jared. I bought a nylon classical guitar and have been growing the nails of my right hand since October. If we graphed all of the nail maintenance I've performed over my 25 years of existance, You'd see this HUGE jump in 'Oct 2002. It's ridiculous - I'm filing every single day. I had to buy this special japanese 600, 800, and 1000 grit sand paper for it, because normal emory boards leave the nail too rough. Ridiculous. Anyhow, so I was preparing to go do laundry, getting the clothes in the laundry bag, etc. I put the bag down, and noticed that my index on my right hand was feeling a little weird. Xavier in the next room hears a "Nooooo!!!!" Now, thinking about it, never in my life did I ever think it'd be possible that: a) I'd have nails long enough to break. (typically, if you see any white, it's too long.) b) I could get so upset at breaking a nail. It's a very weird experience. Now I need to wait for the nail to grow back. argh. posted by Allan | 2/05/2003 10:46:00 AM | 0 comments Tuesday, February 04, 2003 Can you tell your butts from your elbows? Take this quiz! (PG-13). I got a 13. hmmm. posted by Allan | 2/04/2003 11:23:00 AM | 0 comments Monday, February 03, 2003 I love engrish, and this is an awesome example of it... posted by Allan | 2/03/2003 05:21:00 PM | 0 comments Have you noticed weird signs with random quotation marks? "these guys" have... posted by Allan | 2/03/2003 03:57:00 PM | 0 comments Oh, I forgot to mention that I had my very first celebrity sighting on Saturday. Jack Black - at the Virgin Megastore in Union Square. Lisa suddely turns to me and goes "Hey, isn't that that Shallow Hal guy... Jack Black?" I got a side profile, and it looked like him. So I grabbed Gary and started chasing the guy around the store. (hey, in 4 years in the city, I've NEVER randomly seen a celebrity)We found him looking at the Xbox games. He didn't seem all too impressed that Gary and I were staring at him weirdly. Gary goes "uh.. you Jack Black?" "yeeeeaaap" so we shook his hand and bade him good night. haha. posted by Allan | 2/03/2003 02:53:00 PM | 0 comments Sunday, February 02, 2003 I had lunch with Christian today. He calls me in the morning, while I'm still half-asleep: Chris:"Chu, just wanted to tell you that I'm leaving NYC on the 14th, for good." Allan:"huh?" Chris:"Actually, I'm leaving on the 14th, getting married on the 23rd in Singapore, and moving to London." Allan:"what?" Chris:"We'll talk about it over lunch." So he's getting married a year earlier (original plan was April '04, in NYC), and moving to London. Some quotes I'd never thought I'd ever hear: "Chu, Vera and I have decided to have kids early" They've even picked out names This is from a guy that said stuff like: Chris:"kids? hate kids. never want them." Allan:"what about vera?" Chris:"she doesn't want em either" sure posted by Allan | 2/02/2003 03:26:00 PM | 0 comments Saturday, February 01, 2003 Happy chinese new year! Though today is a sad day - shuttle columbia broke up on re-entry... :( posted by Allan | 2/01/2003 11:01:00 AM | 0 comments Switching to blogger necessitates saving what I had before. it looks prettier, though. Randomly I ran into steffy's page... which is how I found out about blogger. posted by Allan | 2/01/2003 02:33:00 AM | 0 comments some silly, quick shots at our Turbo Dinner #1. Plannin our Utah trip. yeah baby. Trip to philly. Photos :) Visited my friend, Anthony, yesterday. Here are some photos of his 8 month old son. posted by Allan | 2/01/2003 02:04:00 AM | 0 comments Okay so here's the infamous video of the new year's eve party. Gene and Jeannie... hehe. Thanks for a great laugh :) If you have a dial-up connection, please download the "small" file. it's not necessarily THAT much smaller, but it'll help, a bit. Small (1.15mb): Click here Large (2.10mb): Click here posted by Allan | 2/01/2003 01:46:00 AM | 0 comments Thanks to Nel for providing space on this webserver... posted by Allan | 2/01/2003 01:37:00 AM | 2 comments |
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