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Wednesday, April 30, 2003 Everyone who's ever had one will agree that the Coffee Crisp is the best candy bar in the world. I was explaining this to some people and found this page!!!! !!! !!! I'm gonna stop off at grand central on the way home from work tonight. =) They have good commercials, too :) posted by Allan | 4/30/2003 04:04:00 PM | 2 comments I hate ironing. I really do. It takes me like an hour to do 4 shirts. An hour! Though I've never actually sat and ONLY ironed. it's always in front of the tv or something. I guess it'd be different if I wasn't otherwise distracted. But it saves me $1.75 a shirt if I do them myself. Well, not really. washing costs $1.50, and the dryer is .50.. so that's $2. for 5 shirts, and maybe I use 0.10 worth of starch per shirt... 50 cents a shirt. so I save 1.25 a shirt. $1.25 is significant. I still hate ironing, though. posted by Allan | 4/30/2003 11:10:00 AM | 9 comments Tuesday, April 29, 2003 VCR Update... So the sound works now. What the freak!? posted by Allan | 4/29/2003 09:46:00 AM | 1 comment Sunday, April 27, 2003 stupid sens. posted by Allan | 4/27/2003 10:10:00 PM | 1 comment Friday, April 25, 2003 Hahaha. so Tim just put a comment after my vcr story... Allan, have you figured out how to use a fax machine yet? Tim | 04/25/03 03:34pm This deserves an explanation. In '99, Tim was out celebrating his birthday with a few friends at a coffee shop. My job was to come up with a creative way to get him back to his apartment, where there were a ton of kids waiting to 'surprise' him. Tim Kong, who was with him at the time, had a cellphone back then (this was back when not everyone in the world had a cell phone) and I was trying to get ideas from him to get Tim to come back to the apartment. Kong is of course no help and basically goes "Tim, Allan wants to talk to you" and hands him the cell. I'm of course caught off guard. T: "what's up?" A: "uh... what's going on?" T: "we're here at XandO's. Why don't you come out?" A: "Yeah.. uh... I need to use your fax machine. uh... Gemini needs me to fax them some stuff." I had gotten my offer from them a few days earlier. T: "okay go ahead" A: "um... I don't know how" I'm thinking: "this is such a bad excuse" T: "dude, it's not hard..." A: "No man! something's wrong.. I've been trying. I need you to come back." Yes. Don’t ask me why, but I'm actually starting to whine. T: "Allan, I'm here with all these people. Can it wait till later?" A: "No, man, I really need to send it to them NOW." Did I mention that it's like, ten-thirty on a Friday night? T: "uh..... [long pause]... okay. I'll be back in a few" A: "okay thanks" Yeah. let's all go hide. it's not like he knows what's up by now. To make things worse, Tim tells everyone that he has to come back and they're all "oh really? okay. we'll come with!" Please note: don't expect me to come up with good excuses for surprise parties.... posted by Allan | 4/25/2003 03:24:00 PM | 4 comments haha This is a fun. :) posted by Allan | 4/25/2003 11:01:00 AM | 2 comments I used to laugh at people who couldn't figure out how to use their VCRs. You know... you go into a house and bam! blinking 12:00. People fumbling along trying to figure out how to make the timer work. It's a vcr, not rocket science! I recorded a few of those neat PBS specials onto Tivo a while back... something like 14 hrs worth. A friend asked me to record this stuff for her, so I've got to get them to her somehow. A good thing to do would be to put these recorded shows onto DVD, but since I don't have a DVD-R and I own a vcr... you get the picture. Anyhow, last night, Steve's sitting on the couch practicing bass, while I'm mucking around behind the TV trying to set up this stupid thing. You'd think it'd be very straight forward. Sure enough, it takes me about 30 seconds to realize how to plug everything in. cable -> tivo -> vcr -> receiver -> tv. Not bad. Time to test it out... Nothing. The tv's on, but nothing's coming to the screen. Some more fiddling around. Aha! Now there's video, but no sound. What the heck's going on? (15 mins have passed) Fumble around with the remote a bit... (Why are remote controls so important that NO controls are on the face of anything anymore? What happens if you lose the remote?) (20 mins passed)... Time to re-wire and see what's up. cable -> tivo -> receiver -> tv |-> vcr ->tv Now I get video but still no sound. what the heck? (30 mins passed) if I turn on the receiver, I get sound. but if I turn it off, no sound! ajlsdf;jadsfj Finally I come to the conclusion that maybe the sound is broken on the vcr. I mean, it's not rocket science right? If I can't figure it out, the vcr MUST be broken! I try recording some stuff from tivo-> vcr and bring the tape on over to X's room. Records right - video and sound. Phew! (45 mins) Stupid vcr... posted by Allan | 4/25/2003 08:36:00 AM | 9 comments Wednesday, April 23, 2003 and just when you thought reality TV was at its lowest point... posted by Allan | 4/23/2003 03:59:00 PM | 0 comments And some more Strong Bad :) This is one of the better ones... posted by Allan | 4/23/2003 01:46:00 PM | 0 comments Well. I don't know about you guys, but I'm pretty excited about the new Matrix movies coming out. Reloaded in a few weeks, Revolutions in November. But now this? This is cool. posted by Allan | 4/23/2003 01:41:00 PM | 0 comments Tuesday, April 22, 2003 Strongbad kicks. This time, on guitar. posted by Allan | 4/22/2003 10:53:00 AM | 7 comments Monday, April 21, 2003 This morning I heard a bit on NPR whether or not Americans consider themselves rich. VERY interesting bit, considering what we were celebrating yesterday. Also reminded me about our "money" discussion some Wednesday night a month or so ago. I know I'm rich. A thousand times over. posted by Allan | 4/21/2003 09:05:00 AM | 0 comments Sunday, April 20, 2003 Alleluia! Christ is risen! The Lord is risen indeed! Alleluia! posted by Allan | 4/20/2003 08:54:00 AM | 0 comments Wednesday, April 16, 2003 ... what if the hokey pokey IS what it's all about? posted by Allan | 4/16/2003 02:12:00 PM | 1 comment (I've no clue if the introductory paragraph is true, but the riddle is good nonetheless) A Riddle: Who Am I? This riddle was written by a lady in California in 1890 in response to an offer from a gentleman in Philadelphia, that he would pay anyone $1,000 who could write a puzzle he could not solve. He failed to solve it and paid the money. The answer is one word and appears only four times in the Bible. Adam, God made out of dust, But thought it best to make me first, So I was made before now, To answer God's most holy plan, A living being I became, And Adam gave to me my name, I from his presence then withdrew, And more of Adam I never knew. I did my Maker's law obey, Nor never went from it astray, Thousands of miles I go in fear, But seldom on earth appear, For purpose wise which God did see, He put a living soul in me, A soul from me God did claim, And took from me the soul had fled, I was the same as when first made, And without hands or feet or soul, I travel on from pole to pole, I labor hard by day, by night, To fallen man I give great light, Thousands of people, young and old, Will by my death great light behold, No right or wrong can I conceive, The Scripture I cannot believe Although my name therein is found, They are to me an empty sound, No fear of death doth trouble me, Real happiness I'll never see, To Heaven I shall never go, or to Hell below. Now when these lines you slowly read Go search your Bible with all speed, For that my name is written there, I do honestly to you declare, "The answer is one word." posted by Allan | 4/16/2003 11:03:00 AM | 8 comments Tuesday, April 15, 2003 I stole this from X's blog. Check out this honda ad. VERY cool. Nice car. If the above link is slow to load, try this one here. posted by Allan | 4/15/2003 10:05:00 PM | 0 comments Here's a picture of the guys (Warren, me, Steve Wu and Steve Mei) last year: 
And here's us, a year later: 
They all look like they've lost some weight. Me? I look like I've lost more hair. posted by Allan | 4/15/2003 12:51:00 AM | 3 comments Monday, April 14, 2003 Okay so here we go Here are some photos of the retreat, and some pictures of Caleb! he's almost 1 now... "Roger Tu." I love how Tom holds his hands behind his back.. (4.4 mb) A video of Angela manuveuring her SUV to get some gas? priceless. (3.7 mb) Here's a video of Lee who thinks he can take me on in tetherball. hah! I'm in white. (6.3 Mb) "Back to philly" (1.6 mb) posted by Allan | 4/14/2003 08:31:00 PM | 10 comments I went on a retreat with my old church in Philadelphia this past weekend. A lot of fun - great seeing some old friends and meeting new ones. I've got some photos and videos that I'll post later tonight. I was having problems with them earlier. We played a game of family feud. There were some interesting questions... Can you name the 12 disciples? How about the 10 commandments? No cheating now!! (BTW, activity guys: according to the CCC&C website, the english fellowships are Joy, Seed, Living Water, Salt and Light and Parakaleo. Grace is cantonese). Pastor/Dr/Professor Rich Craven was the guest speaker. posted by Allan | 4/14/2003 08:53:00 AM | 3 comments Wednesday, April 09, 2003 here's another brainteaser. After a dubious transaction you have received payment of ten sacks of gold coins (labled 1-10), containing one hundred coins each. Your partner isn't exactly reliable, and somebody warned you that one of the sacks would contain coins of a lower weight than they should be. The coins in this sack weigh 9 grams instead of 10 grams. The transaction takes place at the Central Railway Station in the middle of the night, where luckily there is a weighing-machine that can weigh with a precision of a tenth of a gram. The problem is that you have to sort this out on the spot, and you have only one dime to use on the weighing-machine. how do you identify the lighter bag? (so you only get 1 weighing) posted by Allan | 4/09/2003 09:00:00 AM | 5 comments Monday, April 07, 2003 :) This is one of the funniest commercials I've seen in a long time. big download - 3megs... posted by Allan | 4/07/2003 11:42:00 PM | 1 comment Weird thing about buying a house. You start looking at everything differently. I'm noticing how buildings look from the outside. interior design. how rooms are laid out, etc. It's interesting. And weird. I'm also watching a lot of Trading Spaces and While You Were Out. Can I say how much TLC rocks? Oh, and Tivo. Tivo is excellent. posted by Allan | 4/07/2003 11:01:00 AM | 0 comments boo. So I've been looking forward to the 4th book in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series. The original publication date was supposed to be this month. :( too bad, it's been pushed back. He's kinda a weird lookin dude, no? Is that a tiger? As weird lookin as Steve Brust... an author that Xavier introduced to me. That guy looks as though he plays in the World Series of Poker every year. Have you seen what those top poker players look like? Typically, either emaciated or really, really big. Very plain, very nerdy, or almost pimp like flare. Always eccentric. Kinda like most chess players. And magic players. (hmm.. I play/played all three of those...heheh) posted by Allan | 4/07/2003 10:06:00 AM | 0 comments Friday, April 04, 2003 brainteaser/word problem It's not easy but definitely solvable :) There were 100 monks in a monastery. One night they all had the same dream. In their dream they heard god tell them that told them that he had marked "x" on the foreheads of 1 or more monks. Once a monk realized that he was marked, he had achieved enlightenment and was to kill himself that very night. The monks weren't allowed to talk or use body language (pointing, etc). There were no mirrors in the monastery. They meet each other once a day. They could only observe each other. How many days would it take for all the marked ones to die? posted by Allan | 4/04/2003 05:41:00 PM | 1 comment =) so I've stolen an idea of X's and put my reading list up. Got recommendations? let me know!! posted by Allan | 4/04/2003 12:17:00 PM | 5 comments I know I'm not the only one who's excited for daylight savings. When we were in college, it was like "What!? lose an hr of sleep!? suck!!" now, I'm all "Yeah baby... now when I get out of work there might be a little sun. Daylight's been SAVED!" posted by Allan | 4/04/2003 11:46:00 AM | 0 comments Thursday, April 03, 2003 so I don't know if you guys remember Christian's wedding announcement, back a few months ago. Well, I get an email from him today: ********************************* From: Christian Co To: Allan Date: Thursday, April 03, 2003 01:16PM Subject: Great News! Hey, We just found out that Vera's pregnant :) I guess I'll leave it at that for now and wait for the barrage of emails. Christian ********************************* So great. Chris, I'm coming to London to visit when he/she's born. posted by Allan | 4/03/2003 04:51:00 PM | 0 comments holy jumpins. This is one big squid. very very scary. posted by Allan | 4/03/2003 03:34:00 PM | 4 comments Tuesday, April 01, 2003 So do you avoid c-town just because you're trying to avoid SARS? posted by Allan | 4/01/2003 12:16:00 PM | 3 comments |
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