Looking for a pick me up, so I decided to make a cup of Earl Grey.
Found six boxes of Earl Grey tea in the cupboard. All of them bought by me. I don't remember buying all of them, or why I would think I'd need that much.
Must be my inner Picard telling guiding me in my choice of caffeine source.
(Hehehe... Having fun with Tumblr's tags: Trekkans should be able to spot what I'm talking about. :P)
HOLY CRAP STREET FIGHTER 4 ON THE WII?!
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG
(Update: Other tumbleblogs are saying it's for the 3DS. But, hey, WTF, if they're putting it onto the new DS, they ought to put it onto the Wii! STREET FIGHTER 4 FTW!)
By DNC, I mean Do Not Call. I'm sick and tired of having to interrupt a coding session to answer the phone only to have an obviously inept telemarketer look for my grandfather who's been dead for more than 20 years.
This is why I probably won't have a landline in the house in Cavite.
Not that cellphones are immune. I've had at least six different, previously-unknown phone numbers try to call and/or SMS me loan offers. And I can't fucking figure out how they got my phone number. :(
Reading E3 posts from GamesRadar, as well as a few other places.
I find it extremely funny that the makers of the "real consoles" are scrambling to get a piece of the motion control pie (with the requisite "my waggles are better than your waggles" bickering thrown in, of course), while Nintendo's showing it has moved on to "real" games.
FUCKING GOLDENEYE REMAKE! Woo!
Now that their overlords have jumped onto the waggle train, I'll bet the fanboys won't be so quick to disparage motion controls. In fact, I'll bet the uber fanboys are going to figure out a way to praise motion control while still putting down the Wii.
Except Wii owners won't even notice, since all of us aren't "real" gamers, anyway.
(Oh, hey, 360 owners: Good luck with the tigger-petting thing Kinetic's offering early adopters. Also, the Michael Jackson dance game)
Frank Klepacki is my hero.
Wolverine: ... you look like one of those emo kiddies they've got all over the Internet, jibbering on about how hard their life is, when they've never even know true pain.
Spider-Man: Oh my ghod... You have a My Face page, don't you?! Dork!
Wolverine: I do NOT!
Spider-Man: Haha! You totally do!
Wolverine: Shut up, kid!
Spider-Man: Will you add me as a friend? I'll poke you, you poke me back!
Quite a few people have commented on the domain this tumblelog is hosted in. See, in Filipino (and Spanish, among other related languages), 'diosa' translates to 'goddess'.
I own that domain, not because I'm a raging homosexual (raging, yes; homosexual, no), but because it's my wife's name.
It's true, dammit!
If we decide that 'politician' means 'political tactician'.
How could he be anything else? More than two decades as mayor of Makati (did you honestly think he let his wife govern by herself?), winning each and every time regardless of the mandate of the people?
Anyway, before the recently-concluded elections, there were rumors of his running for president. I'm willing to bet anything it was nothing more than a smokescreen: Binay's much too good the politician to do something that stupid.
The vice-presidency is the highest he ever set his eyes on, this early in the game. Why? Because it's much, much harder to rig the presidency, compared to the vice-presidency. Plus, there are benefits to being the vice-president first.
For one thing, being VP makes it a lot easier to rig a presidential election. Secondly, being VP first will lend credibility to the idea of his winning a presidential election. And third, he might even legitimately win—all he has to do is keep his head down.
In the Philippines, unlike in some countries, vice presidents are hardly ever heard from. Voters judge a VP's performance not on what they've done during their term, but on the number of scandals they've managed to get themselves in. (Sure, you get brownie points for doing good stuff—it's just not as important as you'd think.)
It might be hard to believe, and I've got no hard evidence to show, but if you're a Filipino, it's highly likely that you're nodding your head when you read that last paragraph and maybe even muttering "Yeah, that's true."
So, to become the next president, Binay knows he only has to shut the hell up for the next 5 years or so.
I've got until then to prepare for immigration. To EnZed, maybe—I hear there's a booming Filipino community there. Or to Nova Scotia, where I've always said I wanted to go.