All Things Chill

Steak. A vat of Popeye’s dirty rice. Empanadas. Ribs. Pot roast. Lasagna. Linguine with clam sauce. Japanese pastries. Korean BBQ. Arby’s curly fries with cheese. Swedish potato pancakes with lingoberry sauce. Grilled chicken apple sausages. Palabok. California Pizza Kitchen’s Thai chicken pizza. Thick potato salad. Savory crepes with ham and spinach. Eggs Benedict. Onion strips. [...]

I absolutely hate it when I wake up to the alarm and then turn it off but it doesn’t turn off because I’m really dreaming that I turned it off but it didn’t stop because like I said before I was dreaming and it didn’t really happen so I have to actually wake up and [...]

You’re wearing a cute pink sweater with those eyeglasses that you don’t like (that I love). You’re so quiet as you burn yellow highlighted phrases into your mind for tomorrow’s scantron sheet. Cultural materialism and assorted sociology theories are pushed in and out of loose leaf margins accented with tiny footnotes scribbled with [...]

I’ve never put much stock into what family really means. But with all of the Thanksgiving holiday spirit, I’ve been giving it a lot of thought. I couldn’t really express how I felt… and for once, I didn’t have anything to say. By an unusual coincidence, I found them those words in [...]

1280 x 1024 wallpaper here. Bleach Episode 60: Kuchiki Byakuya vs. Kurosaki Ichigo. One follows rules absolutely, the other follows his heart. I was geekin’ out so badly because of all the new dope ass techniques introduced. The writers /animators even had time to inject a few things that’ll [...]

The ArsTechnica 2005 Holiday Shopping Guide is now live and on the front page. Eric Bangeman, Ars’ (insert brown nose comment here) Managing Editor, compiled a HUGE list from all of the writers and made everything gravy. No lumps!!!
Introduction Snippet:
It’s that time of the year again: that annual, holiday-inspired consumer purchasing frenzy wherein [...]

Wake. School Rumble eps 7-10. Shower. I need to see the dentist. Haircut by Ann. “Fade 1-2, tapered and square back, nothing off the top.” She’s so good! I hope she has a good Thanksgiving. Hmmm… Unimart. 1 container pancit, 3lbs. of lumpia (Filipino eggrolls). [...]

I have found another time waster-er to accompany my current obsession with LOST. I visited Jeff @ the local GameStop and traded in Trace Memory (Blech. Grape Fanta Bad) for a brand-spankin’ new copy of Mario Kart DS.
w00p w00p! Getting online with the Mario Kart WFC (Wi-Fi Connection) wizard was really easy [...]

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10:40 pm.. Sunday.
Chilling out at home..on the couch. Browsing the net, sipping tea, playing on the Dogglounge. DJ Channing dropping a live excellent set with nothing but pure deepness.
It just occured to me (again) how much I really really love this music. How the “thump” (regardless of pitch) pretty much has been the soundrack to [...]

Death Cab for Cutie – Marching Bands of Manhattan
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If I Could Open My Arms
And Span The Length Of The Isle Of Manhattan
I’d Bring It To Where You Are
Making A Lake Of The East River And Hudson
If I Could Open My Mouth
Wide Enough For A Marching Band To March Out
They Would Make Your Name Sing
And Bend [...]

It’s that time again. Here are my Opposable Thumbs gadget articles on Arstechnica.com for the first half of November (oldest to newest):
Lanyards are cool now, right?
Swiss Army Bits and Beats**
Skratch Saturday: PC Decks
Damn you Scooba Steve!!!**
Motorola RAZR: Hot pink or Icy blue?
Shake your B-On B-On
The Revolution (controller) will be televised**
Fill the void, with a [...]

Last weekend, I literally spent two hours hunched over and squatting on a stool in the back of a Borders thumbing through one of the coolest cook books by one of the most heralded chefs of all time: Charlie Trotter. He makes it seem so damn easy. Here’s the book’s description:
Workin’ More [...]

I’m currently addicted to Trident’s sugar-free Tropical Twist chewing gum. It has a pungent mouth-watering citrus-y aroma as well as a matching burst of flavor at first bite. MMMMmmmmm… tasty.
Oh hey, didja know…
Trident was introduced as the first sugarless gum on the market in the early 1960s.
Trident uses sugar alcohols with intense sweeteners [...]