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36th Chamber of Birthday

PrimeOp — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:05:04 +0000

I turned 36 years old yesterday. I’m shocked and embarrassed by the well-wishing and insanely good presents I got this year. I try to stay low-key about my birthday for various reasons but other people decided to play dirty pool. One of my best friends got me a flat monitor that my eyes are still trying to get used to. Everything is so fresh and so clean-clean. One of my sisters even bought me a best German Chocolate cake, possibly my favorite cake of all cakes. Thanks again to everyone who got me a gift or said Happy Birthday. Damn you for making me smile about my birthday!

I only had two plans for this birthday. One of those plans: Root Beer and Pizza. Once again, even with lower-grade sources of both items, the combination managed to be the sure shot. The other plan was to draw something special. Since it was my 36th birthday and I’m a martial arts fan, there was only one choice: Gordon Liu as San-Te from the classic film “the 36th Chamber of Shaolin” from Shaw Studios. I’m still horrible at likenesses but it was still fun to draw this. It was a quick pic drawn after working the last work day of a week where I barely slept so I’m sure it could have been a lot worse.

Belated Birthday

PrimeOp — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:40:26 +0000

It was my 35th birthday two days ago. I’m not a big fan of my birthday but not for the usual crying about getting a year older. Long story short, messed-up things have happened either days before or right on my birthday. Not just to me or people that I know, but people that I’ve never even heard of until after the stuff went down. I’d like to thank everyone everyone who wished me a Happy Birthday and those who were nice enough to give me gifts. I’m not enough of a jerk to demand or expect gifts, but it’s always nice to get ‘em.

It was a regular workday on the 12th so I have to celebrate tonight. I’m going to watch two films that I’ve never seen before: National Lampoon’s Movie Madness and the Shaw Brothers classic kung-fu film Come Drink With Me. Movie Madness may turn out to be bad, but the Shaw Bros. flick is said to be one of the best in the genre. I’ll probably get some video gaming in, too. There is only one meal worthy of such a night. That’s right: Pizza and Root Beer.

Unnamable

PrimeOp — Sun, 25 May 2008 09:28:34 +0000

I spent my Saturday working on random stuff and coughing up phlegm. I hope that means that my sinus problems are on the way out. I finally got some decent sleep and this is the first time in over a week that I feel fully awake. On the plus side, I had Pizza and Root Beer, one of the most glorious food combinations on this Earth. I think I overdid it with the cheese, but that’s literally just me since I’m the only person eating it. My first attempt in six years to make my own “Blizzard” just made a Reese Cup milkshake because I put in too much milk. The fact that I need to practice the right balance of all this stuff again is just sad beyond belief.

While checking out my weblogs for the first time in dang-near-ever, I found out that the Spriting entry on Wikipedia now has a link to my old Frankenspriting tutorial on ScrollBoss. I can’t who came up with the term Frankenspriting, but it was probably someone on Solid Soul’s late (and still missed) Inner Circle board & site. I remember Mighty Damocles having the technique mastered back when I was just a newbie and I still think she’s probably more qualified to write a tutorial than I am. Plus, looking at that old ScrollBoss page reminds me that I still have a chunk of areas that need some serious updating.

For my own future reference, here’s a link to a page describing one of the best episodes of Reading Rainbow ever: the one with the steel drum band.
Reading Rainbow #415: My Little Island
I used to think I was the only person who loved that episode as a young’un, but someone else always remembers it when I bring it up somewhere. Now that I have the episode number, I can look around and see if it’s on DVD. It’s too bad that Reading Rainbow went out of production now that the kid’s book market is said to be doing better than it has in quite a few years.

Pizza vs. Root Beer

PrimeOp — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:19:32 +0000

It wasn’t until last year that I noticed just how perfect pizza and root beer go together. Well, I think I knew somewhere deep within my soul, but I wasn’t conscious of it. It’s just perfect. Yeah, I know, many people claim that beer and pizza are the perfect mix but that’s probably they’re sad, sad alky cases who say beer goes good with anything. Unlike those boozehounds that tell you that lie so that you’ll buy beer along with the pizza so they can get free beer from you, I care and want you to have the best things in life. I really do. Root Beer goes good with pizza because it’s just sweet and flavorful (?) enough to be tasted without overpowering the taste of the pizza. Fruit-based flavors? They’ll try to bogart your senses out of sheer insecurity. Pepsi? Close, but a bit too sweet. Coca-Cola ? Close, but a bit too obnoxious to peacefully co-exist with most foods. Cherry Coke? Definitely in the top 5. But for sheer tastebud pleasurificationizing, root beer is the Papa Large of pizza drinks. Try it out the next time you have the chance.