unpimp my ride

These videos are freaking hilarious. VW got that guy who played the crazy cosmonaut in Armageddon to play a german engineer who takes people's pimped out rides and destroys them.

http://www.leftlanenews.com/2006/02/22/vw-strikes-again-un-pimp-my-ride-videos/

Expecially funny is him delivering lines like "Oh, SNAP" after catapaulting someone's tricked out rice rocket 40 feet into the sky.

xmas shots

I threw up some pictures from Christmas. Yes, I'm really slow at doing pics. Oh well.

Christmas Gallery

Here's a Christmas family photo that we took, but my mom wouldn't let us put it on the annual Christmas card. She's such a spoilsport.





And here's a sunset I saw on my drive back from Tucson to San Fran that blew my mind. Not sure if the pic does it justice.

hypocrites

I was talking about this with Bates a while back, and it keeps bugging me.

I can't believe our congress had the balls to call the tech companies to hearings about cooperating with China. I mean, here's the thing, I think that what Google and Yahoo did was terrible and stupid and sets back the whole idea of a free online community about 10 years. But let's look at who is accusing them.

Congress? Really?

China is our most favored trading partner. So our government does exactly what these companies did, we said "Boy, it's a damn shame the way they treat their citizens, but look at all that SHINY MONEY! SO SHINY!" They don't have a freaking leg to stand on. If I had been the representative of any of those companies, I would have called asked them what their plans were to restrict our trading with China until the human rights they objected to were corrected. But of course, I wouldn't get sent to one of these things, given my history of saying shit like that.

But it's so much easier to have a hearing and yell at other people instead of taking dangerous moves yourself that would endanger the revenue of your state. The tech companies were a nice big target, I just don't understand why none of the news coverage I saw mentioned that our government is doing just about nothing to fix the problems they complain so loudly about.

absence

See what an Xbox does to you? I haven't even blogged for like three weeks. The damn thing is sucking my soul away. But in such a delicious way. Hey, at least I have something to show for it. Check it out:



2400 gamer points and counting baby. It doesn't help that I've been in a bloodbath of a game point competition with a buddy of mine from work, Yuzo.

In other news though, I might be going back to Japan in June. Rusty is getting stationed there for a few weeks for the Air Force, and I think I might just head over for a week and hang out, and we can do the Gaijin Stomp on the weekend when he gets off.

Also, I've actually been taking some Japanese classes at Mission College. It's a surprisingly fun and easy language, I've only been doing it two weeks, and I can already say most of the phrases that are important. "I'm going to drink beer at the bar" being at the top.

finally

I got my xbox 360 today, finally. My buddy Yuzo hooked me up, and found a costco that had a few left. We raced over there, and they would only let him put one on his Costco card, so I assaulted a random stranger and convinced them to let me use their card to buy mine. The guy was an older british guy who thought the whole thing was hilarious, which was really cool. Anyway, I've got it. I had to get one of those crappy package deals, but most of what was in it was stuff I wanted anyway.

Here's my gamertag, Tobin00:

http://live.xbox.com/en-US/profile/profile.aspx?pp=0&GamerTag=tobin00

Now, I know a few of you guys are hardcore gamers, or have contacts into the gaming world *ahem*, and already have yours. So hook me up with your gamertags! I want to add them to my friend list and what not when I get home and set this bad boy up.

The hard part now is actually working through the rest of the day, instead of going home to play with my toy. So SEXY.

oh lord almighty

Wow.

Just wow.

Now I can't help imagining some crazy white trash woman putting half a gallon of hairspray in and putting on her "nice" denim jacket on a Sunday afternoon after church, and meeting the ladies at Walmart.