earth.

good luck.

it used to be cool to be bitter and angry. now it just feels bad.

question of day: do cows make milk all the time or after they are pregnant?

answer (of the question of the day) of the day: cows make milk for a while after they give birth. (gestation 9 months). they make good milk for 2-3 months. and farmers just milk milk milk. and udders don't know if the milk is going to baby cow or in a can, so keep producing milk. after 2-3 months, milk production decreases. sometimes dries off. sometimes will just have low production for 2-3 years. (but such low amounts of milk, it is economically useless). so they just make them pregz again. life is hard for cows.

there's also some pro cows that can have virgin lactation.

i like steak.

it's earth hour, damnit.

i'm not really depressed, but more discouraged. work hard, did well. but it wasn't good enough. now i am unmotivated, because it is too late to catch up. it doesn't matter. so i do worse. and then that makes me more discouraged, because i'm doing worse. and then i get more discouraged. and it is a feedback loop. like when pituitary hormones feed back upon the hypothalamus to inhibit hypothalamic hormone secretion. don't really know if it is long-loop or short-loop feedback, but it doesn't really matter. spiral down and down. i guess this one is a positive feedback loop. because doing worse leads to discouraged unmotivation and that makes worse. so everything is positive! what a positive life i live.

saw a middle school friend in my dream. he always appears. i dont know why. i saw him at las vegas, where i was taking a class. i don't know why.

note: remember to type -lasthope when you are about to die. in white td. on warcraft 3. level 49 out of 50. and we lose by 1. could have survived if we used that. never forget.

nhrnhrnrnrhnr how do you do?

self positive reinforcement

i'm such a loser. i subscribed to myself. my excuse is i'm testing the atom/rss feed.

so i finally decided to add a feed to this blog. i never got around to it because it became popular a few years ago, and i already had this blog years longer before. i didn't think it would be useful because people don't read this anwyas. so it would be too much work to change the template and whatever to add feed. anyways, it turns out, just turn on the feed option in blogger, and it will publish in atom. not rss, but whatever. both are equally used or something. i dont know. whatever. so you can subscribe or whatever. if you want.

eh. apparently rss also.
but too lazy to add that also. maybe in a few years.

many many many years ago, i drew a beautiful picture. i was very proud of it, so i glued it to the wall. when my mom came home from work, i happily showed it to her. and that was the last day i smiled.

the end.

finished bebop yesterday. it was great. great like before. watched the movie of bebop on friday. it was okay. not as great. bebops should be short episodes. not long movies. watched howl's moving castle yesterday. it was below okay. everyone is like zomg its so great. but i didn't get it. maybe i'm stupid. i didn't get the plot, i didn't get anything. it was too confusing. i'm slow. please make it more straightforward for stupid people. listening to all of bebop's music. amazing. like it very much. installed warcraft 3 for "lan party" yesterday. it was a bad decision. now i wasted today playing it. almost beat that stupid white td map. had other stuff to write. but wrote other stuff. and now i have to pee.

i watched cowboy bebop the last year in high school. around this time. and now, rewatching it in my last year of undergrad. two points aren't enough for a correlation though.

instead of feeling alone in a group, it's better to feel alone in your solitude.

wtf!? theres going to be a live action cowboy bebop movie!? with KEANU REEVES!? can't wait for 2011!!! sigh.

a story of sashimi, blue whales, and taiwan.

today, i was with a friend. (how amazing!) and we were hungry, so we decided to suffer and look at the amazing "taiwan food is the best" group on facebook. there seemd to be a lot of japanese food images, and my friend also noted this trend. why was there was so much raw fish in taiwan? it must be because there is a good harvest of whale or something this year. and i am brought through a journey deep in my taiwanese blood.

first of all, when the japanese people say that the fish is salmon or halibut or tuna or whatever. don't believe them. they don't know anything. raw fish is obviously chinese. chinese people eat everything, they probably ate a raw fish before the invention of fire. and can you really believe japanese people? japanese people copied chinese characters and changed the meanings of most of them. in the translation, much of the original fish names have also been changed to what you think it is now. i have correctly labelled the sashimi with the corresponding fish below.


Figure 1. Real Sashimi.

now, you will notice, one of the sashimi is really blue whale. how can there be such a large supply of blue whales? aren't blue whales endangered or something? well, few know that taiwan is the world's largest supplier and producer of blue whales. underneath taiwan is where all the blue whales hide from those environmentalists, marine biologists, and people filming "planet earth." underneath taiwan is where blue whales are farmed and raised for supplying the world with the food we enjoy as sashimi.

but how? isn't taiwan an island? there is no water underneath taiwan, right? that is what all the geologists want you to think. taiwan is really a floating island, built from all the plastic that is dumped into the oceans. all the water bottles, old car tires, and lawn chairs. taiwan's best engineers collected all the "waste" and all the chinese kids ran computations in their heads on how to put the pieces together. soil was placed on top and they built a few mountains. and voila. they have taiwan with an outward appearance of being just a simple island. and underneath it are the blue whale farms. taiwan doesn't move around because of tectonic plates. it moves around because it floats.

how do the whales breathe? don't they need to come up for oxygen once in a while? yes, they do. taiwan's blue whale breeders have planned accordingly and surgically insert a large straw into the blue whale's air hole, so they stay underwater. the large straws enter the "sewer system" and gas exchange is made there. all the street drains are really vents for the blue whales to breathe. that is how the whales can breathe without surfacing.

doesn't the air get stagnant in the sewers? how is the air refreshed? the air diffuses well for the most part. however, during the summer it gets stuffy and this is bad for the whales. to refresh the air, the farmers make typhoons. what seems like a big thunderstorm with hurricane winds is really just a quick air change for the whales.

aren't blue whales the size of taiwan? how can they swim underneath taiwan if they are almost as large as the "island?" yes, blue whales are almost the same size as taiwan. there is a very remarkable way that taiwan keeps the whales underneath and hidden from view. this is the great wave machine of taiwan. there is constantly a wave flowing underneath the floating island of taiwan. and this is like a treadmill for the blue whales. or a red queen hypothesis. the whale swims to stay in place, and this allows the whale to have its exercise.

that is a lot of electricity!? how do you power the great wave machine of taiwan? well, the taiwanese have thought of a great tactic and it has worked for the last many years. china. china always has a billion missiles aimed at taiwan. and once they shot a few at taiwan. to the rest of the world, it seems like a conflict between a country and its "other country." but it is really just a way to power the great wave machine of taiwan. china shoots missiles that land in the water. the impact creates giant waves enough to treadmill the blue whales.

and that is the secret i have been keeping from you all.

the secret of taiwan.

i am going back to taiwan this summer to help harvest the new blue whale stock for the next five years. i will help them make the specialty cuts such as the prime rib, t-bone steak, and other cuts that will result in your delicious sashimi.

oh, and the great white shark. they are stored in taipei 101. they don't really let you go in floors 10 through 80 and 90 through 101. those are all really large fish tanks where they keep the great white shark stock.

weird dreams. i was back in high school. there was a new standardized exam for the entire school, so there could be better ranking and comparisons and stuff. so all the students have to run around the school. different classrooms have different questions and we have to go through them all in whatever the time limit was. so i was doing it and then i realized, i don't have an answer sheet. i was doing a biology problem (which was proctored by one of my college professors, infection diseases). and i was like omg i can't write this down. so i run back to my math teacher (high school, algebra 2) and ask if there is an answer sheet. she secretly slips me an answer sheet, so i go and answer 2 more questions. then i see a classmate (from high school) and he's done with them all. wrote them all on binder paper, question number, multiple choice letter, and answer. i had none, since i forgot that first question i answered. and i was trying to fly in this mess. to get to the rooms faster. breast stroke. but it's hard to fly with a pencil and paper in hand. i accidentally dropped my pencil. so i had to stop and get it. then i realized the magic of pockets.

been having problems with sleep. go to sleep and do not want to wake up. i guess that is normal huh. except i'm getting 8+ hours of sleep. sigh. so lazy! i am. losing hours of the day. 6 days until pokemon platinum is released. too bad i don't have a nintendo ds. i don't like emulators. because they crash! i was doing so well in pokemon pearl! i was going to get a gyrados before the second gym leader! and then it died. and i was sad.

please wake me. please give me.

it doesn't matter.

bad dreams. but i do not remember. dreams are for sleeping. no more dreams. be awake. wake up.

colonnade is a weird word. apparently its some architectural thing with columns and stuff. but all it does is remind me of lemonade. from the colon.

i separated my male and female guppies through a tank divider. i have the suspicion that the males have been harassing females so much that they are driving the females to death. yea. anyways, the males did not like my blockage, so they found tiny leaks between the tank glass and the divider and slid through. now there are like 3 males in the female population having the times of their lives. i guess i should let them go on. because they are obviously the smarter guppies. and that would be a beneficial trait to pass on.

i watched elfen lied. the anime. it was okay i guess. it was cool because it had a german title. but i don't know who are the elves. maybe those crazy people with crazy arms. and it didn't really end very well. maybe because theres another movie that continues it. but beginning is bad. ending is bad. middle is great. kind of. but i hate that stupid girl that likes her cousin. wtf incest is not good.

oh yea. today is squareroot day. 3/3/09. next time is 4/4/16. see you then.

even my umbrella hates me.

this is reality. wake up.

my right ear is thicker than my left ear. it bends less easily. how annoying. i'm so unbalanced.