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Classical Story

2008-10-11T16:48:00.001-07:00

(From LARadio.com)

Andrew Vactor of Urban, Ohio, was facing a $150 fine for playing rap music too loudly on his car stereo. But a judge offered to reduce that to $35 if Vactor spent 20 hours listening to Classical music by the likes of Bach, Beethoven and Chopin.

Vactor, 24, lasted only about 15 minutes, a probation officer said.

It wasn't the music, Vactor said, he just needed to be at practice with the rest of the Urbana University basketball team. "I didn't have the time to deal with that," he said. "I just decided to pay the fine."

Champaign County Municipal Court Judge Susan Fornof-Lippencott says the idea was to force Vactor to listen to something he might not prefer, just as other people had no choice but to listen to his loud rap music. "I think a lot of people don't like to be forced to listen to music," she said. (Thanks to Irene Hause for the story)

Dallas 30th Reunion

2008-10-11T15:56:00.000-07:00

J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) and the Southfork Ranch - an American institution.

Funnie

2006-05-24T15:46:00.000-07:00

(from laradio.com)

It was the first day of school and a new student named Pedro Martinez, the son of a Mexican restaurateur, entered the fourth grade.

The teacher said, "Let's begin by reviewing some American history. "Who said 'Give me Liberty, or give me Death?' "She saw a sea of blank faces, except for Pedro, who had his hand up. "Patrick Henry, 1775."

"Very good!" said the teacher. "Now, who said, "Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth?"

Again, no response except from Pedro: "Abraham Lincoln, 1863."

The teacher snapped at the class, "Class, you should be ashamed! Pedro, who is new to our country, knows more about its history than you do!"

She heard a loud whisper: "Screw the Mexicans!"

"Who said that?" she demanded.

Pedro put his hand up. "Jim Bowie, 1836."

At that point, a student in the back said, "I'm gonna puke." The teacher glared and asked, "All right! Now, who said that?"

Again, Pedro answered, "George Bush to the Japanese Prime Minister, 1991."

Now furious, another student yelled, "Oh yeah? Suck this!"

Pedro jumped out of his chair waving his hand and shouting to the teacher, "Bill Clinton to Monica Lewinsky, 1997!"

Now, with almost a mob hysteria, someone said, "You little shit. If you say anything else, I'll kill you!"

Pedro frantically yelled at the top of his voice, "Gary Condit to Chandra Levy, 2001."

The teacher fainted, and as the class gathered around her on the floor, someone said, "Oh shit, we're in BIG trouble now!"

Pedro whispered, "Saddam Hussein, 2003."

Finally someone throws a eraser at Pedro, someone shouted "Duck"! The teacher, just waking, asked "Who said that?

Pedro called out, "Dick Cheney 2006!"

2006-05-04T13:36:00.000-07:00

"What do you call a black guy in a bank with a gun? A security gaurd, ya racist!"

Nosepicking for Pleasure

2006-05-03T08:48:00.000-07:00

More so than masturbation, I can now pick my nose without feeling guilty.

Day Without Immigrants

2006-05-01T13:04:00.000-07:00

We are the people who come here to work, often without benefits, at substandard wages, and are probably discriminated one way or another.

The Bill has it all wrong.

The criminals are the ones who do not work but collect welfare and benefits, the company CEOs who leave their jobs with billion dollar pension plans, and are probably the ones who discriminate.

God bless America.

2006-04-26T09:00:00.000-07:00

(from laradio.com)

Live Action Simpsons Opening

2006-03-30T14:06:00.000-08:00

This is way too cool...

Tagged, Again

2006-01-10T16:00:00.000-08:00

Two Parts of Your Heritage
1. Chinese - the beefier northern breed.
2. Someone had mentoned that there may be some Mongolian blood in the family. Cool!

Two Things That Scare You
1. Something bad happen to my wife or my two children.
2. Bad drivers, and there are way too many of them.

Two fears you overcame
1. Public speaking. Twelve years of teaching aerobics did the trick.
2. Dating and Relatonship - for the longest time I couldn't.

Two of Your Everyday Essentials
1. Internet - how did we ever live without it??
2. Diet Coke (with Lime)

Two things you are Wearing Right Now
1. Short sleeve button down shirt. No tie.
2. Dark green cargo pants.

Two things you wore too much this year
1. My black FILA workout shoes
2. The same pair of black leather shoes that I wear in the office every day.

This year's Favorite Bands or Musical Artists
1. Kelly Clarkson. (Never would have thought...)
2. Rolling Stones, who put out their best album in years.

Two Things You Want in a Relationship
1. Caring.
2. Companionship

Two of your favorite Movies of the Year
1. Mr & Mrs Smith. I wish all of us married couples could fight like that once in awhile. Divorce rate would drop.
2. Star Wars Revenge of the Sith - the light saber dual between Anakin and Obi-wan made up for the stupid dialog in the movie.

Best movies of all time
1. The Sting - everything I like in a movie, this one has.
2. My Cousin Vinny (What's a yout?)

Two things You hate
1. Traffic in L.A.
2. Deadlines.

Two of Your Favorite Hobbies
1. Program my own radio station and webcast it.
2. Road trippin- even though I haven't done that for awhile.

Two things you learned this year
1. Two kids = four times the work.
2. My wife is a superwoman.

Two Accomplishments You are Proud of
1. Being a daddy.
2. Worked for the county for 15 years. My first and only job.

Two Things You Want Really Badly
1. A promotion.
2. Free time.

Two places you went this year.
1. Delivery room where my daughter was born.
2. My mom's house - and stayed there for 2 1/2 months while waiting for the new house to complete.

Two Places You Want to go on Vacation
1. San Francisco
2. Hong Kong

Two Things You Want to Do Before You Die
1. Walk my 9-mo daughter down the aisle in her wedding someday.
2. Walk the Great Wall with my wife.

Two Ways that you are a Stereotypical Example of your Gender
1. I'm a gadget freak
2. My ideal fall Saturday afternoon is eating chips and salsa while watching college football.

Two things that make you stand out.
1. Good with numbers.
2. Never get lost.

Two Things You Normally Wouldn't Admit
1. I spent way too much time goofing off at work.
2. Sometimes I miss the freedom of being single.

Two Goals for the New Year
1. Be on time more often.
2. No speeding tickets.

Resolutions

2006-01-03T16:16:00.000-08:00

I've never been the kind of person who makes new year resolutions, but 2005 has been such a trying year, especially the second half of the year, that I'm trying to make this year different from the last one.

How different? You just read it.

2005-12-13T14:04:00.000-08:00

You're an Passionate Kisser

For you, kissing is about all about following your urges
If someone's hot, you'll go in for the kiss - end of story
You can keep any relationship hot with your steamy kisses
A total spark plug - your kisses are bound to get you in trouble

What Kind of Kisser Are You?

2005-10-19T07:07:00.000-07:00

You Are Somewhat Machiavellian

You're not going to mow over everyone to get ahead...
But you're also powerful enough to make things happen for yourself.
You understand how the world works, even when it's an ugly place.
You just don't get ugly yourself - unless you have to!

How Machiavellian Are You?

2005-10-06T10:25:00.000-07:00

Tom Cruise and Katie Holme's kid, as predicted by Conan O'Brien.

2005-10-06T09:24:00.000-07:00

This might work better than those $20 flimsy headphone/earphone things that break all the time.

2005-10-06T09:20:00.000-07:00

My question is: how did that thing stay in one piece??

2005-09-06T15:34:00.000-07:00

Your IQ Is 135

Your Logical Intelligence is Genius
Your Verbal Intelligence is Genius
Your Mathematical Intelligence is Genius
Your General Knowledge is Exceptional

A Quick and Dirty IQ Test

Tagged

2005-08-23T11:57:00.000-07:00

For someone like me who is such an infrequent blogger I thought I'd be exempt from being tagged, and could instead have fun lurking and reading other bloggers' strange personal traits or obsessions such as Alex's.

No such luck. Alex is asking me to write my own. So here it goes:

I collect music: records (3,000), 45's (1,350), CDs (1,500), cassettes (750), mp3 (7,500). I started collecting in college, and through DJing and working at the radio station, the collection grew. Instead of putting them in an iPod, I play them in my own radio station.
I have been to all 50 states in U.S., but I have never been to Europe. My first solo road trip covered 32 states, from California to as far as Maine (and back). The last of the 50 states I visited was North Dakota, in 2002. A majority of them I visited by car.
I have an obsession about buses, especially the double deckers that roam the narrow streets of Hong Kong. In the early 90's I went through bus driver's training with Southern Calif Rapid Transit District, fulfilling a childhood dream.
I believe in neither UFOs nor ghosts, but I'm a big fan of "The X-Files". Yes, I have all 9 seasons plus the movie on DVD, commentaries in book form, fan club, magazines, etc. I even went to the Expo they had out here one year.
I love numbers. Have books about numbers. Majored in Math and Statistics in college. Can recite squares, primes, value of pi, etc. Can mentally calculate day of the week. Can and will spend hours on a single math problem. Math geek, yes I am.

So there you have it, Alex. I do have to warn you though, since I have fewer vistors in my blog than elected officials in Hong Kong, the people I tag may or may not keep the chain going, and I think I should be allowed to tag a few extra bloggers, just in case.

To the most-esteemed and much-respected bloggers below - upon reading this, please post your five unique, almost-obsessive personal traits in your blog and pass it on to five of your blogger friends.

EmGee "The Dating Game" , and
WSK "Tales of a Witty Sex Kitten"(publication ceased) - You two are the sisters I wish I have.
OEN "Overeducated Nympho" - good luck on your new job.
Birdie "birdsovafeather" - you have become such a great storyteller lately.
Lushy "Such a Pretty Face" - I know you have done too many of these already, but gosh darn it, you are so good at it.
Committed "Committed: Confessions of a Former Cereal Dater" - all the best with you and Coach.
Alison "Enter at your Own Risk!" - good luck with school.
Tiffany "Breakfast with Tiffany" - wish you and Ryan much happiness. The house is beautiful.

...and here's the real long shot:

Elyse "Elyse Sewell" - my wife and I both looooved watching you on ANTM. Glad you like Hong Kong, my homeland.

Peter Jennings

2005-08-09T10:29:00.000-07:00

(from left: Jennings, Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather)
I am not a regular viewer of ABC World News Tonight, but I was sad to hear Jennings lost his battle with lung cancer and died Monday. Network news anchors are a dying breed - the ones on TV these days do not compare with the big three on the left. I think Brian Williams is a capable sucessor to Brokaw on NBC, Lester Holt on MSNBC is another one that I like.

Hong Kong Disneyland

2005-08-08T07:36:00.000-07:00

The Hong Kong Disneyland is schedule to open on September 12, 2005. How cool is that!?

(Pictures from screamscape.com)

VH1 Classic

2005-08-08T07:23:00.000-07:00

Now that MTV and VH1 pretty much stopped playing music videos altogether (unless you are up at 2 a.m.), we have VH1 Classic. I have to pay for a 180-channel satellite package to get that. The payoff is that I get to catch up on 20 years worth of music videos I never got to watch back when I was in college because, of course, my parents had no cable. They play everything - besides all the Prince and Cyndi Lauper videos I also caught Alexander O'Neill (how's that for obscurity) and one of my 80's favorites - "The Politics of Dancing" by Re-Flex.

Hidden Talent and Deadly Sins

2005-07-26T09:47:00.000-07:00

Your Hidden Talent

You have the natural talent of rocking the boat, thwarting the system.
And while this may not seem big, it can be.
It's people like you who serve as the catalysts to major cultural changes.
You're just a bit behind the scenes, so no one really notices.

What's Your Hidden Talent?

Your Deadly Sins

Envy: 60%

Greed: 40%

Lust: 40%

Sloth: 40%

Pride: 20%

Wrath: 20%

Gluttony: 0%

Chance You'll Go to Hell: 31%

You will die a boring death. While dying, you will be jealous of those who die dramatic deaths.

How Sinful Are You?

Louis J. Ratliff

2005-07-18T08:39:00.000-07:00

Louis J. Ratliff

Just talked to a regular from my aerobics class and we found out that we had the same math professor, 10 years apart. He is hands down my favorite professor of all the years of my college career, ever.

Sex in the Library

2005-07-15T06:31:00.000-07:00

Hell yeah.
You scored 70 bookishness and 69 kinkiness!

You love books, you're down with the kink...you'd almost definitely have sex in the library. Find a partner, find a good spot...and go for it.

My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 42% on bookishness

You scored higher than 34% on kinkiness

Link: The Sex In The Library Test written by missthang8 on Ok Cupid

Random Thoughts and Observations

2005-06-29T07:36:00.000-07:00

Friday is the start of a new fiscal year. I think they should make that a holiday. Happy New Fiscal Year!
Three songs/artists I haven't heard on JACK/fm yet: "Hawaii Five-O" by The Ventures, "Classical Gas" by Mason Williams, and anything by Boz Scaggs. Get on it, Jack!
Albertson's rotisserie chicken is damn good, even after a week.
It's ten degrees warmer in Anchorage, Alaska than San Francisco today.
My new house is only three hours from Las Vegas.
Only one phone call so far since I got to work at 5 this morning.
They are raising the tolls (again!) on the 91 Express Lanes. Now it will cost me an extra 10 cents to cruise 10 miles down the 91 next to people who prefer sitting in traffic. Oh, and check out this map!