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HookerBot surprises all by topping a difficult battle, with the "It Came From Planet Earth!" Human in second. One of my personal favourites... Also, in the second of our double bill, Dr. Perceptron came a vast second, as we gave the glorious HYPNOTOAD over 100 votes more than 2nd place.
We're getting perilously close to the end of Round 1, with only 5 more battles to go. Two of which are today. I'm having trouble uploading the images today. Think it's the broadband, but I'll get them online asap. Luckily I think you'll all know every character today. There are some heavyweights here!
First up is Zapp Brannigan's number 2, Kif. He competes against Mr. Panucci of Pizza Parlour fame, Dean Vernon of Robot House hatred and the Planet Express Ship, probably meant to be taken in the form of the Sigourney Weaver voiced psychopathic ship personality. Or just the ship if you prefer.
In the second fight, we have TV stars Elzar and Calculon, awful movie director from awful episode "That's Lobstertainment!" Harold Zoid, and a regular favourite amongst everyone, the Cigarette Machine Robot. Nixon was indeed NOT bringing the smokes.
I'm meeting you halfway you stupid voters (hippies)!
Poll #1429677 28 & 29
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As the Scripture says, "Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame." For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!"
- Romans 10:11-15
For those of you who are unaware, Jesus Christ was God's son, his presence on earth was the fulfillment of prophecies and God's overall plan for the redemption of humankind, whom he created and loves, his death acted as the absolution of every wrong in our lives and in the world, and his resurrection from death proved that all that is evil and unholy has been defeated, allowing spiritual redemption for those who believe in this truth and live lives that prove it.
That's it in a nutshell, but if you want to talk about it more then I'm happy to :)
I just wish that it still sounded like "good news" to today's jaded, postmodern people. I also wish it didn't sound so much like an epic fantasy. Oh, wait! Aslan is a Christ figure. So is Gandalf. And Harry Potter. And Neo. And Spock. And Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino, though that one's not a fantasy.
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[12 Jul 2009|09:35pm] |
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I gave all my Pokémon cards away! Okay I'm only going to go through the trouble to get that accented "e" once.
I used to be an over-the-top Pokemon fan. Mostly over the Gameboy games and the anime. My brothers got an emulator when Red and Blue first came out, and we played it on the computer because our parents wouldn't buy us a Gameboy. I continued using various emulators for Yellow and Gold/Silver/Crystal. Josh's parents got him a Gameboy Color when Silver came out, and I was jealous, to say the least. But he let me borrow it, and I'd play at night under the covers until the batteries ran dry. My mom frequently told me angrily that I'd ruin my eyes that way. When Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald came out, I was in high school and had "grown out" of Pokemon, but I still got the dl-ed the emulator for old time's sake and beat RSE whenever I didn't want to study. The familiar TV show, with Ash, Pikachu, Misty, Brock, etc., started when I was in fourth grade, and I watched it religiously every day after school. I'd heat up my bowl of Chunky Beef soup and grab some crackers and plop in front of the TV for Pokemon and Scooby-Doo, and sometimes Yu-Gi-Oh or Digimon, though I wasn't as invested into those two. And the movies... lol, I begged my mom to take us. Or my dad, I'm not sure. But the first couple of movies were released in the states with Promo Pokemon cards! I got a Dragonite for the first movie and a holographic Entei for the third.
Pokemon cards, haha. I never really played the game because I didn't know how, but I collected the cards and always wanted the shiny ones. I was very proud of my shiny Kabutops and an Articuno. In fifth grade, my class took a field trip to Sacramento to visit the train museum there. During our free time I wandered off and bought a pack of Pokemon cards with the money my parents gave me for food. When they found out that I used the money (what, $5?) they got very angry and lectured me on priorities. I think the offending deck may have been the Fossil deck that had my shiny Kabutops. Not sure.
Anyway... today I still know more about Pokemon than I should, but I decided last week that I'd do away with those Pokemon cards. Including the Kabutops. Jerome's kids were running around church last Sunday showing off their Pokemon cards, and I realized that my cards, stuffed into a Pokedex-themed three-ring binder sitting in my room, were of nearly no value to me now. Besides sentiment, which really isn't so important. I'm cleaning, remember? And it's not like the cards are worth all that much; I couldn't sell them. Some of them are counterfeit, anyway :P The kind you could find in every Taiwanese night market in 1999. So I told little Noah that I'd give him all my old Pokemon cards, and apparently he was so excited he spent the entire week talking about it. Haha...
I brought them all to church today, and during the second service, Josh and Irene and I were outside the sanctuary, bored, and we battled with the cards. We didn't have dice, counters, or anything, kind of making up the rules as we went along. It was actually really fun! xD
When Sunday school was over, Noah barreled down the hallway looking for me. I gave him my stack of cards maybe four inches high, all the "rare" cards (Electabuzz, Victreebel, Vaporeon, Wigglytuff, Raichu, Kangaskhan, Hitmonlee, Dark Arbok, Kabutops, Articuno... and a few more), and the binder. He and his little brother Judah were very excited and their parents told them to say thank you to me multiple times.
I'm going to be "the boy who gave me all his old first generation Pokemon cards!" to Noah forever.
Actually, I kept a holographic Entei. I had two; my dad got one for watching the third movie with me. :)
So... a sizable portion of my childhood is now gone. Woohoo!
I bet I can find the first season of the anime somewhere online. Hm...
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[12 Jul 2009|04:26pm] |
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What do you suggest? A daring daylight robbery of Fort Knox on elephant back? That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
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I haven't thought about anyone from Swarthmore pretty much at all this summer. Okay, I know that a few of the people who read this fall into that category. But I'm talking very broadly; all generalizations are untrue, okay? ;P Yesterday I got a letter from school talking about some changes to some policies and information regarding next school year. It reminded me just how far away I was from school, and then just how isolated I really was from all my friends and peers. It's not like all the kids from LA or New York City, who can all take the metro to meet up somewhere and consequently don't really have to worry about losing touch. But it's probably much worse for international students who go home for the summer, to France or Kenya or the Phillippines, which makes 3000 miles of America seem like the distance between two subway stops.
Still... since I've come home I've only seen three people from Swat, one unintentionally, one for two seconds as she tried to find a parking spot and then left due to unforeseen circumstances, and one on a fun date to the de Young museum (previous post). And Facebook isn't much help because it's difficult for me to initiate wall-to-wall conversations without sounding totally fake. I don't write letters. I don't call (sorry Wes) because I keep forgetting about the time zone difference. ... Okay so it's mostly my fault that I'm not communicating with anybody. Go figure, lol.
This is kind of personal, but I actually worry that next year I'll really fall out of touch with everybody I grew semi-close to freshman year. A bunch of my friends had planned to block together for dorms, but that didn't work out (just our bad luck) and we got split all over campus. My roommate and I in particular got a nice triple, but it's off-campus. Everyone else is going to be together again, at least in the sense that it doesn't take ten minutes to walk from Willets to Mertz. And to top it all off, haha, I never was really close with them. Not close enough to bridge the physical distance with casual hanging out. In their eyes, I don't think I'd be worth the time. Proximity is. Such a huge thing. And if it can dictate who becomes and stays friends with whom at such a small school, it must be so much worse for average joes like me at big universities.
A couple of people I know will be in Roberts, though, and it'll be fun meeting new people. It's always a good thing to meet new people. Including freshmen. CA leader and Freshman Small Group leader? I'm going to end up knowing more freshmen than sophomores -_-;
But I predict that I'm going to become closest with people from SCF and invest a lot more of my time into it than I had planned. Okay, I don't want to create any self-fulfilling prophecies here. But... if that happens I won't be surprised.
By the way, I've become addicted to Dorm Life. You can watch it on hulu. It's very much like The Office (half-scripted, half-improvised mockumentary full of awkward and drama) for a college dorm, and it's easy to breeze through its two seasons in an afternoon or two. Kind of bland at first but once you get to know the characters it becomes insanely funny :)
Also, I think I should make a plug for this: Link Global is an organization that aids North Korean refugees. They seriously need a lot of help and prayer. I wish that when people/the media talked about North Korea it wasn't always "Oh they're communist and so they're our enemy and they're testing nuclear missiles because they want to blow us up". Yes, missiles are dangerous and bad, but there are worse things going on in North Korea. Like half their population starving to death.
[edit] P.S. I spent all of today in my pajama bottoms in a plain white tee shirt. I watched three movies (The Incredibles, Gran Torino, and E.T.), cleaned the house, helped my brother Dan unpack when he got home, and did not hike up Mission Peak.
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| [Music: Cpop] Ariel Lin – First Album “Blissful Encounter” (Limited Edition) |
[12 Jul 2009|12:52pm] |
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RELEASE DATE 2009-07-17 LANGUAGE Mandarin PUBLISHER Pop / Dance INCLUSIVE: CD+photobook BUY IT: Yesasia Ariel Lin First Album (Limited Edition) 01. Lei Guan Yu /淚光雨
02. Ying Huo Chong /螢火蟲
03. Come To Me
04. Yi Kao /依靠
05. Ni De Wei Dao /你的味道
06. Jie Jing Wu Xian De Lan /接近無限的藍
07. Er Zuo Ju /惡作劇
08. Tian Mi Hua Yuan /甜蜜花園
09. Mian Bao De Zi Wei /麵包的滋味
10. Love /愛 MVs: Taiwan's popular actress Ariel Lin is best known for her hit dramas, such as Tokyo Juliet, True Love, Secret Garden, It Started with a Kiss, and They Kiss Again (for which she won a Golden Bell Best Actress Award). She sang the end theme "The Lonely Northern Hemisphere" for the 2004 idol drama Love Contract to great reception, and has sung several TV drama, movie, and online game theme songs since. In 2009, Ariel is finally making her formal debut as a singer with her first album "Blissful Encounter". She even penned the lyrics to the first plug "Sweet Garden", which is designated the commercial theme song for a Taiwan soft drink brand.The Limited Edition comes with a 36-page Ariel photobook.
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[11 Jul 2009|03:14am] |
i really dislike a lot of people in my life right now. how problematic.
and the 'seven deadly sins' are srsly the most useless emotions ever.
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laziness is an incurable disease. aughhhhhh
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