Why it sucks to be Indian…

This week is a great week for news links. Today’s gem comes from India, where we have learned that indeed size DOES matter… Though evidently not to Indian women.

This week’s `Sucks to be you` award goes to Indian Men.

And now for the news…

Apparently nature has at least one species that practices female polygamy. Female Cheetahs apparently developed it as a way to avoid their ’spouses’ eating cubs sired by other males later – sleep around and the male Cheetah won’t kill any cubs because they have no idea which ones are theirs and which were sired by other males. So, Miss Scientist… Basically you’re saying Cheetahs are sluts? But in a good way?

Link of the Night #3

You know, it would take an awfully boring news day (or a VERY paranoid President) for this to become a big deal… But for it to become an urban legend? Carter must really have sucked. Whatever the reasons, this is freaking hilarious – I can’t believe I never ran across it before. I especially like the conclusion: “Lesson for life #1: if it moves, kill it. Lesson for life #2: if you can’t kill it, for God’s sake don’t talk about it to the Associated Press.”

God bless you, Jimmy Carter. And good riddance.

A side note on the blog… As you can tell, it’s still under construction. And I’m too swamped to finish it just yet… I also don’t want to post more pictures until the gallery’s fixed (hence no updates on the Banana Booze – sorry!), and I’m reluctant to screw with anything else until the theme’s complete. Until then, wait patiently and enjoy periodic updates!

Link of the night V2

So – as those of you who actually check this have noticed, the site’s design is finally under construction. This will hopefully be finished tonight. To tide you over until then, though, we have another link of the night provided by the lovely Miss Hannah Schieber.

Without further ado, The Best Book Ever. Thank you.

Link of the night!

In the usual furtherance of my procrastination, I’m posting yet again tonight with the first ever “Link of the Night”. This unprecedented honor goes to Texyt for the marvelous post linked above. Everyone go check it out! Thanks to Orson Christian for pointing it out!

Seriously – this is 3M we’re talking about. Don’t they have people that watch for that kind of thing?

Banana Sour – Days 1 and 2

As promised, here are the pics for the first two days:

Day 1:

There’s a lot of fizzing going on, and the rock sugar dissolved pretty quickly… Hm… I stashed it under my sink after giving it a good, thorough shaking!

Day 2:

Less fizzing, and some of the Bananas have turned kinda greyish. Remaining Rock Sugar has settled on the bottom… Another thorough shaking and back to its cave it goes!

A little of this, a little of that…

So, in my long-awaited return to cooking tonight there were many catastrophies. Mostly rice was undercooked – because I had no measuring equipment and was never very good about cooking rice to begin with. The meat turned out okay.

The BIG triumph was my new endeavor – Banana Alcohol. I say alcohol, mind you, because I’ve no idea what’s going to come out of this. Basically, I walked into Life:

And discovered this sign:

So I thought – “Ahah! Sale on Umeshu – I’ll tell Eric!” Eric loves the stuff (Umeshu is plum wine or plum alcohol – I’m still not sure if there’s an actual distinction between the two). When we both got back there, though, I realized that it was much, much more. I left with Vinegar, Bananas, Rock Sugar, and a large Umeshu jar (designed, I believe, to make the stuff). If anyone’s interested in following along, the instructions are here:

I’ve taken a first picture tonight for the first day, but I’m too lazy to put it up after putting all these other pics up. We’ll just have to put two pictures up tomorrow…. Because I’m planning on posting updates on the process for the whole week it takes! There will even be first reaction pictures to the final product…

My friends are a little skeptical, to say the least. Considering how little the whole thing cost, though, I’m not really worried – the experience will be worth it

Marvel vs. PC?

I was running around Youtube looking for new episodes of my drug of choice and ran across these gems:

They’re not as clever, perhaps, as the original Mac vs. PC commericals, but they make the same use of common complaints in the fan community about the respective companies. I never really thought about it, but I guess I DO see Marvel as the “Mac” of the comic book industry – at least of the big players that’re spitting out movies anyways. At any rate, they make some valid points about the differences between Marvel’s new spate of movies and DC’s attempts to catch up.

I prefered Batman Begins to most of what Marvel’s put out, but I feel like that’s because they took a decidedly “Marvel-esque” spin on the character. That is to say, they focused on his flaws and what makes him human rather than on what makes him a hero. That and they included kick-ass gadgets and some equally hard-core villains. They also made a point of telling the story from the beginning – a new beginning. Superman Returns, however… I think it was a fatal flaw to attempt to tell a story to a new audience starting half-way through, and while I haven’t bothered checking, I’ll bet the profit margin reflects this mistake. As one of these clips also points out, they really did a lousy job of making him relatable as a character. Hopefully they’ll learn their lesson in time for the second movie…

More proof of why Japan is terrible for me…

My friends have been instructed to drag me bodily from any shop where I threaten to, or suggest that I might, buy any toy over 1000 yen. The only exceptions to this are for MS Aquarion (should I buy it…), and Music Label Soundwave, Rumble, and Frenzy.

The current toy haul count stands at (In approximate order of acquisition – and I’ll add links later…):

1. Mugenbine N-Needlestego
2. Mugenbine A-Airleon (To replace the one I have that broke)
3. Kamen Rider Hibiki: Disk Animal 03 Ryokuoozaru (Green Ape)
4. Kamen Rider Todoroki’s Henshin Kigen
5. Wolzard’s Wolphone
6. 4 “Bakugan” toys
7. Masterpiece Megatron
8. Souchaku Henshin Series Kamen Rider Hibiki
9. Busou Shinki Series 3: Knight Xiphos
10. Kamen Rider Hibiki Disk Animal Attache Case
11. Wolkaiser
12. Kamen Rider Ryuki R&M Series EX Kamen Rider Ryuga and DragBlacker
13. Kamen Rider Hibiki Movie Edition Disk Animal Set
14. Souchaku Henshin Series Garo
15. Magishine’s GripPhone
16. Soul of Chogokin GX-34 Gunbuster
17. Transformers: Robotmasters RM-07 Bound Rogue
18. Daigander VSRobo V-4 DeathSpecter
19. Dinozone DZ-9 DinoChasmos
20. Duel Knights No.4 Gold Leon
21. GoGo Gattai Series 03 Go Go Mixer
22. GoGo Gattai Series 04 Go Go Crane
23. GoGo Gattai Series 05 Go Go Jet
24. Souchaku Henshin Series Kamen Rider Armed Hibiki
25. Microman ML2-01 Microlady Marl
26. Microman AL-52 AcroSpiria
27. Kamen Rider Hibiki: Disk Animal 06 Kiakashishi (Orange Lion)
28. Kamen Rider Hibiki: Disk Animal 07 Asagiwashi (Teal Eagle)
29. Kamen Rider Ryuki R&M Series 03 Kamen Rider Zolda and Magnagiga
30. GoGo Gattai DX Daibouken
31. Kamen Rider Ryuki R&M Series 04 Kamen Rider Ouja and Venosnaker, Evildiver, Metalgelas
32. Kamen Rider Ryuki R&M Series 07 Kamen Rider Odin and Gold Phoenix
33. Kamen Rider Ryuki R&M Series 08 Kamen Rider Tiger and Destwilder

I thought about installing a “How nerdy has Emery become?” meter in the navigation bar of the blog, but I realized that it probably just wouldn’t stop getting bigger… That or it would reach the top of the thermometer and just SIT THERE.

Mickey Lasky pointed me towards the video below, and it has made my evening. Quite honestly, I’m not really sure which side I’m supposed to support… Just so we’re all clear – I’ve totally eaten at that Mister Donut. Only in Japan could Cosplayers unanimously burst into organized dance. WTF, Japan. WTF.