News

There are a lot of worthless "news" out there. Buried in stupid articles about Halo 3 and iPhones, were these two stories that made me sad. It's difficult have faith in a world filled with so many evil and heartless people.

More Deaths in Myanmar, and Defiance (NY Times - 9/28/2007)
There is a picture of a Japanese journalist down on the ground; photo taken immediately after he was shot through the heart by a soldier. It was originally reported as an accidental shooting but there was a video that proved otherwise. He was quite a famous journalist in Japan.

Mistake costs dishwasher $59,000 (CNN.com - 9/28/2007)
An illegal immigrant from Guatemala worked for 11 years as a dishwasher in the US only to have his life savings taken at a way at the airport because he didn't know that he had to declare the cash to customs...

I'm sure people have opinions about these two stories. But guess what, I don't care to hear them so I'm turning off the comment option for this post! My only point is that the frickin' articles made me sad. You can't argue with that.

PBR Nutritional Facts

Quite a few number of people seem to stumble across my blog by doing a Google search for "PBR nutritional facts". So, I feel like I should post the information here.

PBR has 5.0% alcohol, 153 calories, and 12.01 grams of carbs.

There you have it.

Amazon - Book Recommendation

I wonder what I've purchased in the past to get this recommendation!

Now available: "Modern Canonical Quantum General Relativity (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics)" by Thomas Thiemann on Amazon.com

$140. Pretty hardcore!

My Own Heartbeat

So this is a bit depressing, but oh well. I'll make fun of myself later.

I feel most forlorn in the morning and at night, when I hear my own heartbeat. I hear my neighbors, I hear birds, I hear squirrels, I hear cars. But the sound of my own heartbeat reminds me that I'm all alone.

My Strengths?

I read this book (well, only the required 3 chapters...) titled "Now, Discover Your Strengths" because my boss decided we should read it and talk about it. Basically, it tells you that everyone's got "talent" and you're better off working your "talent" into "strength" rather than improving your weaknesses. It's an interesting idea, and it gave me new ways to look at certain things but I can't say that I bought into the sales pitch.

You take this test called StrengthsFinder after reading the first 3 chapters. They give you a series of paired statements and you have 20 seconds to pick the statement that describe you more accurately. (They want your initial reaction or whatever and don't want to give you time to think.) I had to choose between the two statements, indicating that one or the other ''strongly'' or ''moderately'' describes me. Or I could choose a ''neutral''.

Some sample statements:

• ''Starting conversations is an effort for me'' or ''I get a rush from striking up a conversation with a stranger''
• ''I prefer intellectual discussions'' or ''I prefer to talk about sports''
• "I am a very private person'' or ''My life is an open book''
• ''I push others to succeed'' or ''I make other people happy''

I felt like there were more bizzaro ones in there but I can't remember.

After you go through ass load of these, they spit up my top 5 "themes of talent". (There are 34 of them, BTW). Here are my top five:

1. Analytical (People strong in the Analytical theme search for reasons and causes. They have the ability to think about all the factors that might affect a situation.)
2. Arranger (People strong in the Arranger theme can organize, but they also have a flexibility that complements this ability. They like to figure out how all of the pieces and resources can be arranged for maximum productivity.)
3. Achiever (People strong in the Achiever theme have a great deal of stamina and work hard. They take great satisfaction from being busy and productive)
4. Learner (People strong in the Learner theme have a great desire to learn and want to continuously improve. In particular, the process of learning, rather than the outcome, excites them.)
5. Developer (People strong in the Developer theme recognize and cultivate the potential in others. They spot the signs of each small improvement and derive satisfaction from these improvements.)

Basically, I am a cold hearted bitch. And I tend to over think things. And a workaholic.

I still think I would make a great prostitute with these traits.

Egg Donation

I've decided to give up on having any sort of meaningful relationship with anyone. I figured NSA fling here and there is probably the best thing for me. Then I was thinking to myself shit, that means I won't have kids. But I want to do something about not letting trash take over the world...
Then I thought to myself, I should donate my egg. Brilliant. Couple of G's in cash won't hurt either.

But dang, apparently I am too old for that already.

So much for that idea. Back to thinking how else I can contribute to this world...

My Friends are Funny

2 Friends.
2 Funny conversations.
1 Night.

-> Dead cell phone battery
-> 2 more lines on my cell phone bill (same 2 numbers on the rest of the bill...)
-> Little closer to hearing loss (thanks NK for the article)
-> 1 blog post

I'll briefly bitch about the first one and I'll write about the fourth item in a bit. Please be patient, or skip the next paragraph if you don't want to hear me whine (again).

My cell phone only gives me like a 5 second (no joke) warning before the battery dies. I was lazily lying around on my futon when I heard the beep (really quietly too) and by the time I ran (without bruising myself along the way) to the charger in the bedroom, the call had dropped and the stupid phone was dead. I live in an 800 sqft apartment. The distance is pretty short. But as I whine about this minor incident, I'm thinking to myself, DUDE, maybe I should look to see if there is a setting for this? Hmm. I should look. But my phone is in the bedroom and I'm in the living room. I'll forget by the time I get there. Oooh. I just got a text. It'll have to wait.

OK, so this is what I wanted to write about! Because I think they're funny.

Quote from friend 1:
As he was trying to remember what experiment he was going to conduct (on himself):

"Man, it was going to be such a cool experiment too! I was even going to test something."

I've always thought words "experiment" and "test" are synonyms and they kindda mean the same thing in this context... Like don't you test something in any experiment? Why did he think it was so cool that this "experiment" came with a test? Or am I the stupid one here? Anyone? Something = hypothesis???

And my friend 2 told me that he sometimes cries when he watches cheesy STOOPID romantic comedy movies but he wouldn't cry if I died of cancer. But maybe if I was murdered. I was going to ask what if it was suicide but I figured he would just tell me that he'd be pissed so I didn't ask. So what if it was an accident? Like if I get hit by a car or something?

Note to self: Next time, hit "PUBLISH POST" when you're done writing...

New High/Low

I discovered something cool today. Thanks to someone who searched for certain terms on blogsearch, and my awesome post from yesterday.

Search Engine		blogsearch.google.com
Search Words		blogspot masturbation or masturbate -mental -intellec

=> My Hello Kitty post from yesterday!!!

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I discovered just TODAY that my blog name's misspelled the entire time! Turdette is back.

My fingers hurt from too much typing (I think).

The world is a FUCKED UP place so many unknowns.

Dear Hello Kitty Lovers

If you are not comfortable with words like MASTURBATION, (or if you're related to me...) please stop reading, mao.

Best thing ever. If you like Hello Kitty. And if you like to masturbate and/or those of you who are fortunate enough to be having sex if you enjoy bringing toys into the bedroom. Or wherever you decide to do it. (Side note: only use REAL waterproof ones in the shower).

Go read this from GIZMODO. You have to read the link to the fleshbot site too. Can I just say that I can be that "friend from Japan"???

My people come up with awesome things sometimes.

My New Obsession

Goodbye, craigslist missed connections, hello PostSecret!




I'm so going to submit something...