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The service is free but includes an ad at the end of the text message.

http://theponderingprimate.blogspot.com/2007/07/dial-dir-ect-ions-347-328-4667-for.html

Thanks Jae, this is a really good find. I was actually thinking about purchasing a GPS device bc I always gets lost. I can now use this instead. I bought a compass at Little Tokyo today, to really make sure I don't get lost when going places.

so i ended up ordering the premium movie channels today. wtf, it's so cheap. maybe it's because i was flat broke before and even $23/mo seemed like a million $ a month to me. hbo/showtime $13, cinemax/encore $10. the cable box had a hard time initializing itself so called in charter and they fixed that up quick. first show that i ended up watching, still watching right now, is "rize". it's a movie about ghetto black dancers krump'n. i actually think asians are better dancers than black people bc their moves are quicker, crisper, and elegant. but, it may actually come down to personal taste. black people exude this raw and uninhibited sexual energy and power that's pretty impressive to look at. to each his own. there was a time tho, when i would watched this type of movie and really think the performers were the shit. but now, i realize... the ghetto is the last place u wanna come from. last place u wanna be at. seriously... it's all about trying to get out of the ghetto and getting as close as you can to a refined upper class lifestyle. but da soul within me did take over and break-loose for a few minutes and i found myself krump'n in my room with as much fervor as any of these nigguh's on this tv show. i think i dislocated one of my hips on one of the moves. but, it's ok, it was worth it. krump'n is aiight, for a few minutes, but don't plan on making it a lifestyle.

oh yea, i think having movie channels is much smarter than having a dvd collection. i spent over $30 on a few movies the last couple of days. (glad i got, catch me if you can tho) w/ the same money, i can watch literally hundreds of movies in a span of a month. the premium movie package comes w/ 34 channels! and, i think i can dvr these movies too onto my harddrive.

i'd like to become funny. not a clown, but semi-funny, funny as necessary or needed.  the only times i make people laugh is when i put myself in physical danger and use the shock factor. maybe i'm too old for that type of humor now. i need to learn. i got curious what makes a person funny after reading a guy's blog and every comment left was lol'n. i was pretty amazed and jealous at the same time. props to him.

i searched a little on the net and found this site.

http://www.rinkworks.com/funny/

4 types of humor

1. pain.

2. the unexpected

3. lies and other untruths

4. wordplay

Delivery

1. be eccentric

2. look funny

3. get a prop

Instrinsic Humor

1. funny words

2. funny objects

----offtopics, pleasant distraction----
my puppy just gently rubbed her nose on my leg under my PC chair.she is seriously one of the cutest dogs in the los angeles area.  i think i figured out how to make my puppy love me. it's to give her big chunks of meat when she is begging. i used to just give her small chunks so she usually doesn't give me much attention like she does my mom and dad. but now i know their secret. big pieces of meat, u get what u give.

u know being funny seems like a lot of brain power. maybe i'll just stick to being the one that laughs, that's less work.

2 little mice fell into a bucket of cream, the first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. but the second mouse, he struggled so hard that he eventually churned that cream into butter and he walked out. -Frank Abagnale Jr.

so i worked out my chest (decline, incline, flat) & triceps (dips, skullcrusher,closegrip flatbench) today. after an year of working out, i seemed to have hit a plateau for the size of my chest bc i don't intend to increase weights any further. so, leaving size as it is, i will turn my focus on variation. i tried to think of ways to attack my muscles. and, created a new method of mixing up the set routine. instead of doing the same thing 3 x 10 times, which gets hella boring, this is what i did.. first set heaviest weight 5 reps. second set medium weight 10 reps. third, light weight, close grip, as many reps as possible. this way, i'm hitting up some mass, definition and keeping my bored muscles, alert by mixing up the weight & rep patttern. i came up w/ this idea bc the last chest work out, i tried only light weights and high reps, it left my chest looking defined but kinda lacking in size. this work out today seems to have fixed that problem. looks better. also, another thing i'm doing to overcome the plateau is to learning about new machines and new techniques on the internet. it's amazing how much data is on the internet. i wanted to improve my upper triceps, entered that into google, then, boom! skullcrusher, dips w/ back straight, closegrip flatbench, etc.. etc..

at the gym today, i found a new hero. he was walking up the stairs w/ full-on confidence. i thought, nice, this guy really has his shit together, he's acting like he owns the place. then, i looked down, and saw that he had 2 prosthetic legs. he was an asian guy, shaved head like me. some days, i don't feel as confident as that guy, and i have 2 healthy legs on me. i really respect how that guy is able to come out to the gym and walk around w/ dignity. nothing can hold a man back from accomplishing, if he has the will. motivates me to keep myself improving.

oh yeh, i bought my dvd's today at the fry's at burbank. why so far? bc they were the only shop that carries "catch me if u can" w/ dicaprio. i really like the main character, he is able to adapt so well to each situation in such an ingenious way. i'd like to be like him. not a con-artist, but able to adapt quickly. i also picked up, hoffa, gathering storm(movie about winston churchill) and the heist, featuring pierce brosnan before he became famous via 007. u know buying movies really adds up $$$-wise. i think i might just order hbo/cinemax. it's a good way to sample movies and really find the good ones. i think most of the movies i bought today are movies i grew to like watching hbo when i used to subscribe to it, a few years back.

why is the 5 north always so jammed up, is there a time when it isn't jammed up?

i just checked... holycrap! my site has 40 visitors today. i think the world's smallest humanoid robot article helped.

http://japantechnologyblog.blogspot.com/

also, the blog now has 4 rss readers. yay! happy about that. but, 2 of them are me. i subscribed to my own site. lol

it would be so cool, if i had like 100 readers. damn, that would really make posting these articles worth it.

yea, i'll make this a new goal. to have 50 rss reader subsciptions at my japan tech blog, and have atleast 100 visitors a day.

switching to opera 9 from firefox. this is gonna take a while. opera 9 has the search keyword function that firefox has. that was the only thing holding me back from using opera.

wow opera 9 rocks, i got mouse gestures once again and the speed dial page is very cool.

there's just too much functionality & ease of use from long-use-familarity w. firefox. i'm gonna use opera as my porn browser.

i restarted my japan technology blog. i tried to make some pocket change from it in the past but only amassed a whopping $6.00 earnings after hundreds of posts. i use google adsense and the linkshare affiliates program. they pay me whenevever someone clicks on an advertisement or buys a products from the advertisement. i basically just copy and paste people's articles i find on the net and haven't gotten in trouble yet. prolly because i give credit to the source sites by leaving a link to the original article. they enjoy the traffic too. it's a fun way for me to keep up on japanese technology. i found a couple of new ways to increase traffic and found much easier ways to cut and paste the articles, so i'm gonna retry a second time. i use blogger.com.  the format and look is a bit simple, but everything is already set up so it's zero work on my part.

here's my blog... http://japantechnologyblog.blogspot.com/

hope u like it.

oh yea, i made 4c yesterday after getting about 20 people to visit the blog. lol

from treehugger.com

A Dubai-based company called Fleethorse has designed several horse-powered
vehicles, including the NaturBus above. The range is powered by horses
running on a treadmill, supplemented with electric motors, and they
claim that it's the greenest transportation possible. I really hope
that this is a hoax.

The conveyor belt apparently starts to move, which encourages the
horses to start walking. That walking movement is then harnessed to
power the vehicle. The electric motors would be used when going up hill
in order to avoid any undue strain on the animals. The waste product is
of course, excrement,
which is collected at the back of the belt as it drops off. Have a look
after the link for the weirdest marketing video you are ever likely to
see.

employee skipped off to vegas and i had to fill in for her for the whole week. and, today was the final day. whew.
my abs are hurting like crazy after doing the hanging leg raises. i thought they weren't effective because after the work out only my hands and forearms felt burning. but, all day today my abs were killing me. it's a good thing. i haven't felt an effective abs workout in a while. once your body gets used to a specific type of training, i think it's a good idea to find new ways to attack the fat. hanging leg raises really did the job!

bvlgari pour homme, i like this one. at first it smelled feminine, but as the day went along, i noticed the scent more and more and built an affinity for it. good scents have a nice effect on my emotions. i think this one is a keeper. swiss army and lolita lempicka, didn't like too much. they smelled really nice on my puppy tho. haha 3 down, 27 to go. tomorrow i'm gonna try dolce & gabbana.

"sup homie" or "ehy, holmes" i always wondered where "homie" came from. i thought maybe it had to do with a house. but that didn't make sense because why would u call someone a house. or maybe it came from sherlock holmes, but why would mexican gangstas want to associated themselves w/ a detective. today, i thought maybe it comes from the french word, "homme" meaning, man. "sup homme" "ehy hommes" it's like, "what's up man" "hey man" this makes more sense. i realized this when i saw all the cologne vials plastered w/ the word "homme" if you pronounce the word "homme", w/o the french accent, it sounds like homie. they are pronouncing the word wrong, but oh well. i should double check on the internet. i think i found the derivation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homie

Homie (less frequently, homey), is a contraction of the American slang word "homeboy"
which became prevalent among some of the youth in the African American
and Mexican American communities starting in the late 1960's and
continuing up to the present, particularly in the hip hop subculture.

Another common contraction of the word homeboy is homes (sometimes "holmes")

lol it came from the word homeboy. but where did the home in home boy come from. my guess might still be right.

laters, homies.

i only have issey miyake and it's getting redundant.  so, i wanted to find out which colognes smelled the pimpest.i tried walking into perfume shops and trying them out, but after a while i felt like a freeloader, never buying, only trying. so i found a nice strategy to aid me in my quest to find the ultimate cologne. i ordered about 30+ vials of different colognes online. the vials only cost .50 to $1.50, total cost was about $25, after promotional code. for $25, i can smell different each day of the month for prolly 6months to an year. by then, i'll have figured out which colognes smell good. most of the brands are name brand but some, i never even heard of, but bought them anyways cuz they're only 50cents. bellagio hotel has a cologne. lol i think some of the lower end ones, i'll use just to keep my room and car scented nicely. i know certain races or cliques have their cologne preferences. i'm not sure what asian or japanese men wear. i guess it doesn't matter as long as i like the scent and the people around me feel the same. oh yea, one thing i learned earlier.. there's different scents for different occassions. there are colognes for casual wear, daytime, evening and romantic. i guess i'll stick to the casual ones for now. and, colognes seem to be categorized by age too. i guess i would fall under the mature category. if any of y'all have recommendations on what cologne smells good, please let me know.

omg is it's so hot today. wtf is this!

holy, the mega million jackpot is 330million. get a ticket! if u win, give me 1M!

one of the vials is called fcuk him. LOL wth! that is hilarious.