palps chelicerae hypostome

I am a dedicated roleplaying gamer... or I'm insane. Why else would I turn down an invitation to go shopping for fetish wear? No thanks beautiful, I'd rather pretend to be an elf. There are times when everybody needs a little help.. I might have just transcended into the realm of.. "geek that's never getting laid again.. ever.."

On the lighter side of things.. China's firework display was nice. Not quite as big and colourful as Italy's but there was more variety in the fireworks... and at one point they combusted several fireworks to look like a poofy heart.. and another set in the shape of a dragon! It was quite impressive.

Vancouver's a dull town without certain people in it. Well.. I find things to do, but it's not nearly as fulfilling.

it's going on

It is time to grow a spine.. let it be ripped out and then consequently stuffed down a garbage disposal!

It's glorious that i'm dreaming again.. but today it's been too long since i've waken to remember it very well. Rest assured it probably involved a hot babe.. and me kickin butt and takin names.

At least I hope it did.

Need books to read.. or new ones at least.. see what happens.

It's saturday... China will be doing fireworks tonight.. I hope it doesn't rain.

an english students nights dream

I love dreaming. So rarely do I remember them, but when I remember TWO in one night! My god... that was sweet.

The first involves an attack on a heavily fortified military base. I'm running about having a great time with a lady... (who's face I can't unblur for the life of me but it is somebody I know) however eventually we run into a base. I see the enemy coming from over the water. Leaving the lady in a safe place I run around activating the automatic pulse blasters... from front to back so they don't automatically fry me as i'm activating them. It turns out I have this jet pack ala I dunno... that old Nintendo game... Pilotwings.... the flames were green and everything. Now this is interesting since every time I dream about flying.. I dream about falling soon after... with this jetpack I had a controlled descent which is amazing. I hear the blasters open fire so I know the enemy's landed.. I fly over to the landing point and begin firing some sort of large laser cannon I conveniently picked up. Then I see her. A curly haired blonde Amazon (not in an attractive way) I fire at her with my weapon... it doesn't seem to phase her in the least! I fire at another enemy to make sure it works, and sure enough he gets blown away... but this woman just stalks towards me through all the blaster fire. I flee... trying to escape through the broken skylight with my jetpack... but I get snagged! This woman has grabbed my foot and keeps me from escaping. With one tug she pulls me back down into the building.. whereupon I wake up... and go DAMN.. i could have taken her!

My second dream takes place in an installation. I am some sort of alien creature I imagine. Thats the only way I can explain my grey/blue skin.. ability to fly.. and hair that is able to elongate to become a whip or tentacles.. I was escaping.. I had somehow gotten loose from my room.. I see a guard on the floor.. I can only guess that I took him down. I run to a large donut shaped room... with a thick circular piller in the centre.. I defeat several guards by whipping them senseless.. then float up to the ceiling to avoid fire through the door... then an aryan looking commander in a grey uniform comes in and traps me.. however I whip my head around.. my hair flying out all tentaclely.. causing him to let go... and I fly swiftly out the front door... which happens to be the back door to my actual house... I'm flying swiftly away.. gaining altitude.. looking back.. the commandant steps out the back door... holds his hand towards me... and then fires it! It streaks towards me with this long cable attached to it. Luckily I was very high and able to dodge this missile weapon flying at me. I fly higher and faster.. till I think.. wait.. won't it be harder for them to spot me if I'm flying closer to the ground, and just faster in one direction? So I do this.. i'm skimming over trees.. over tops of houses.. almost flying into walls.. I'm thinking this is great! I'm home free! As I'm flying along, suddenly I'm struck in the side by a dart! I'm slightly dazed, and am thinking... what the hell?!? then I see it.. it's a xenomorph.. a werewolf is running at an incredible speed, keeping up with me... this is when I curse the idea of flying closer to the ground... I get hit with three more darts and I plummet to the ground... my last thoughts being that I hope I don't get infected with lycanthrope.. then I wake up.

I'm sure I could have told these dreams in a much more interesting way, I just wanted to get what I remembered down as quickly as possible.

Any possible interpretations from anybody?

boom town

A bored Dave... is a dangerous Dave...

Went to Tojo's tonight.. delicious sushi.. saw Danny DeVito... had to convince myself not to lick his feet.

I was just thinking about how animals can be microchipped... if a pet gets lost, all animal services has to do is pass a scanner over it, and immediately they'll know where they live and how to contact the owners... this got me thinking a little bit... how come we don't microchip humans?

I mean, obviously we have the technology. Aside from the obvious uses, such as identifying lost children and corpses (hopefully not one and the same), they could be used for simple identification. We could do away with licenses alltogether. Want to buy alcohol? Just swipe your wrist under a scanner.

Obviously the majority of the people who would object (unless there's something I'm not thinking of) would be the people who have something to hide. Criminals, illegal immigrants, or kids who want to use fake ID's. Which begs the question: do we really care about what these people want anyway? I certainly don't. In fact, I'm all for making it harder for criminals to hide.

Now, I'm not saying we should go as far as being tracked via satellite from space or anything. No cameras in our home or having our emails read. I'm talking strictly about identification, which we all have to carry anyway. But we have to carry lots of it. Our license, our medical insurance cards, our social security card, emergency contact, etc. How many times have you gone out and forgotten your license? It's happened to me a few times.

What if you were in a car accident alone, knocked unconscious and none of your identification carries some important information, like your blood type or medical allergies? What if the EMT could scan your microchip and have that information immediately, along with family members to call and notify?

You could be chipped at a young age, and when you pass your driver's test, they just update the information in the database to reflect that you are legal to drive. And again, when you turn eighteen, or twenty one, the chip will reflect that.

What about if you had to swipe your chip when buying age restricted materials, and your random chip number was attached to the purchase somehow. So when a mother goes and buys her son a bloody, violent M-rated game, and then turns around and starts bitching that the game is violent, we can go to the record and say "Hey moron, YOU bought it for him. Wake up, you stupid shit."

Like I said, unless you're trying to hide something (and there are no legitimate, legal reasons to carry a fake ID), identification is something we all already deal with. So why not make it easier and more efficient?

It's just something I was thinking about.

holistic herbs

Fireworks were nice tonight. Italy did a good showing. The wind could have picked up a little bit as the final five minutes or so of the performance was a little screened by smoke.

Tired... this still counts as Wednesday!

you know when you've been tangoed

slow day so far... it's only 4pm... woke up, got clean... (this takes longer than i'd like to admit)... went to my audition.. left the keys to my dignity at the door. Got to be a protester.. I hope I get a callback. Anyhoo, got home, ate some yoghurt, had the brilliant idea to mix flavours of yoghurt together to create ULTIMATE FLAVOURS PLUS! My stomach curses me. Then I went to class, sitting around in an oddly quiet classroom when I am told my class is cancelled... great.. thats 45 minutes of my life i'm not getting back. Now I sit around awaiting to go watch movie later...

a measurement of meglomania

Sarah Polley is delicious as a redhead. Just finished watching Beowulf and Grendel for the first time. Does this mean i'll watch it more than once? I don't know. Anyways, after lusting after Sarah Polley for a while (I don't know why, I never found her that great as a blonde). I found the performances of Gerard Butler and Stellan Skarsgards performances were well done, though some of the dialogue doesn't seem quite to the period. I enjoyed the film, don't get me wrong, but always the thing that bothers me most, is how incredibly CLEAN people were! Come on! It's a dark and dirty world... your clothes shouldn't look brand new after taking them through the salty crusty ocean... I spend half a day out in the wilderness and look like a bear has shat all over me. How can these people spend days without bathing and look fresh and clean?

But enough of that. Twas a lazy day today. I got back home rather late last night. I was all ready and settled for bed when Mihola calls me at 12:09am and tells me to come downtown to Sanctuary. Considering I didn't have to wake up this morning for any reason, I figured why the heck not? Sitting at a bus stop to go downtown at 12:39am isn't a thing I'd recommend. Rather boring. Blah blah blah, had some drinks etc. I'm not entirely sure why. But sweet things seem to incur the wrath of the stomach gods and they try to convince your stomach that sweet things should not stay down. I haven't thrown up in ages... dry heaving sure.. but actually throwing up? Nah. Coming home at 6:30am when the sun is up.. is bothersome to your sleep schedule. I hope to rest early tonight for tomorrow's audition.

a bird in the strand is worth two in shepards bush

Deep in their underground lair, the members of the Secret Brotherhood of Cliches were hard at work.

What is there to say about Vancouver? It's delightfully warm. I can feel my skin melting as I sit here typing on my computer. Last night I came upon the bright idea to sleep for a few hours in a bathtub filled with cool ater.. it seemed bright till my face slipped under water. Glorious drowning.

Can you imagine the power of having everything you think of come true? Oh the use and abuse of such a power is unfathomable!

in which we give up and break down into component parts

This is not real life, it's just pretend

Triangle man

Mmm hamburgers.. I do so enjoy consuming the charred flesh of dead animals.

Whilst people eat meat around me.. I like to lean in real close and whisper "you're eating that animal's muscles. that's what they used to move around when they were alive.. and now you're eating it!"

It doesn't work on me though.. i'm all.. "I know, animal muscle tastes delicious in my mouth." It actually sounds best when your mouth is full and you let a little bit of steak juice dribble down your chin when you say it! "UURMPTH DELICIOUS MUSCLE TISSUE HURRRMPH"

Ahh.. who just turned vegan out there? :p

hello! blue pants here!

Overspending.. I need to learn how to budget a bit more. Need to save money.

Or work more.. that way I'm not spending money.. but i'm MAKING money.. which is ideal.

If only I were getting auditions... maybe I should get out of the union... but potentially being in the union gives one better paying work.. but that doesn't help if you're not getting any at all.

for future reference - lush is not food

Unfortunately, the sweet fruity smell and firm texture was not in fact a sign of good eats...

Mmm cookies are good... they're yummy and make me soft to hug...

I hope this weekend coming up will be pleasant. Unpleasantness sucks.

I can kill you with my mind.

Oh my god! The stupid people are taking over!

They're... breeding...

You know what we gotta do, guys!

Power of EVOLUTION!

SURVIVAL!

SELECTION!

SCIENCE!

HIERARCHY!

By your powers combined.. I am CHARLES DARWIN

Charles Darwin! The stupid people are breeding and taking over the planet

Tut tut little girl don't worry- i'll take care of them with my..

CHAINSAW OF NATURAL SELECTION

Revenge is a dish best served with a reasonable time limit.

Ugh.. puking... don't mind me

Look at that poor mule on the Ferris wheel. Poor mule. He doesn't know how he got up there, but he's sure as hell gonna bite the first person who tries to get him down.

How do we KNOW nuns wear underpants? Who checks?

The past is a fiction created by our minds and the future is inherently uncertain. There is only the present. Live for the now. Live for the makeouts.

Come, retire with me to the back of a van and we shall explore the innermost secrets of the universe through light petting. Leave your worldly possessions behind, specificially your bra because I am terrible at taking those things off.

and who are 'they', the wizards?

'Drawing a Blank' was far harder than they made it out to be... you start with a line.. and.. DAMNIT! failed again.. why must I always fail?!?

I feel like I'm taking insanity pills. Went to the night market tonight. I'm sure there's some sort of human slave trade there, and I wanted to get in on the business. So I'm in the market.. I meet my contact.. and the answer is the stinky tofu.. OF COURSE! How could I have been so blind? Nobody in their right mind would order any of that.. so I stalk towards the booth with a purpose. You can't realize the peril I'm in... the seething masses of people oozing around me.. their hands.. they're EVERYWHERE! I smell the stand... and order a place of fermented tofu... what was it that my contact told me? in which order should I have put on the sauces... was it.. hoi sin, chili, sweet chili, soy? or was it chili, hoi sin, sweet chili soy... damn it.. I chose the chili, hoi sin, sweet chili, soy route.. and waited.. and waited.. and waited... got a slushy watermelon juice while I waited.. DAMNIT.. I must have chosen the wrong order... next time.. next time I shall find them! They will rue the day they did not include me at once.. RUE!!

hickory smoked is so crazy

have you ever desired to be tragically hip?

more on that later... have you ever wondered about Superman's suit in "Superman Returns"? Spoilers ahead:... If my comic book history serves, Supes' suit is made from kryptoniam material, making it nigh indestructible. In the film, it deflects bullets, survives lava, and doesn't even wrinkle during unprotected re-entry. Yet it can be cut with a crystal, and it takes a doctor only half a second to strip him nekkid. Unless an insanely aroused Lois Lane was working in the emergency room how does that work?

My new beloved quote for the day is.. "Our brain is like a grizzly bear with a midget on the back trying to control it."

It's difficult trying to explain roleplaying games to people who don't play them... you can say.. "roleplaying games are like Dungeons and Dragons... " But that doesn't cover even half of the roleplaying games out there! Try explaining completely different worlds to another person... Dungeons and Dragons is a gameplay system you can play many types of DnD games on different worlds.. ie. Forgotten Realms (Faerun) or Eberron.. etc... DnD is just the posterboy of Roleplaying games... though I've found it a bit clunky with too much ROLL-playing as opposed to ROLE-playing. Other systems which use dice less frequently and rely on more creative playing of your characters are more appealing to me.

an eye for an eye, leaving the whole world blind

As soon as he fixes me up, i'm going to tear that man open and give him a guided tour to his lower intestine... so long as he does me the favour of not eating for 24 hours before his disembowelment, otherwise the intestines are filled with partially digested food and waste matter.. that's an aspect of bowel remove i'd rather not deal with...

I wonder how many disembowelings i'd have to do before it becomes a casual conversation topic..

not that bowels are all that important... you'd be surprised people can live quite a while, flopping around in blinding pain without their bowels..

The talented mr darwin

Though rain may fall, the air clears, the plants drink, and the earth is cooled by rain's gentle touch. It rained today, it was glorious. The drops landing on your skin..

Gyroscopic flights of fancy

I am the smartest man alive. So last week in chemistry lab, I dissolved aluminum foil with 3 molar Potassium Hydroxide... then added 9 molar sulfuric acid... which created aluminum potassium solphate dodecahydrate.... now.. I was supposed to take this home and air dry it...

I checked it out today and it didn't seem too dry... so I figured.. what the heck.. lets put it in the oven for a little bit... and now i've melted my crystals :p I am a putz.

Fortunately I think we're going to have to submit our sample to a flame test tomorrow anyways... maybe I can cover up my mistake a little.. and pull something good out of my butt.

or.. not.. nevermind.. just finished reading the Lab.. we only use a negligable amount of alum... I'm hooped

Wednesdays.. lovely days of the week I'm sure.. trying to fill one's days with excitement is a chore.. rather curl up with a book..

I'm supposed to care... why?

Another beautiful day graces us on the coast. I have little to complain about, few troubles that I have not brought upon myself.

Slight epiphany. I'm not terribly pleased with myself in general. For further information on this, bare your soul a little to me, and I may reciprocate.

terrible.. terrible pain

Your notions, though many
Are not worth a penny.

So I get to write an essay on friendship. Is it a rare commodity or should we care for everybody equally? Should we focus our energies on a few good friends, or be good neighbours to all in need that we encounter? What is the moral difference in how we should treat friends and strangers?

This should be an interesting essay. 1500-2500 words.. 6-10 pages long. Argh. Can I write that much crap?

oh.. MY.. GOD... Bloodrayne has to be one of the biggest loads of crap ever spewed onto movie format. It is loathe for me to ever stop a movie before it is done. But I am sorely SORELY tempted right now.

Watch it.. I COMMAND YOU!

FEEL PAIN LIKE NO OTHER!

Fare thee well

When I'm alone
I dream on the horizon
and words fail;
yes, I know there is no light
in a room where the sun is absent,
if you are not with me.
At the windows
show everyone my heart
which you set alight;
enclose within me
the light you
encountered on the street.

I'll go with you,
to countries I never
saw and shared with you
now, yes, I shall experience them.
I'll go with you
on ships across seas
which, I know
no, no ,exist no longer;
with you I shall experience them.

When you are far away
I dream on the horizon
and words fail,
and, yes, I know
that you are with me;
you, my moon, are here with me,
my sun, you are here with me.

I'll go with you
to countries I never
saw and shared with you,
now, yes, I shall experience them.
I'll go with you
on ships across seas
which, I know,
no, no, exist no longer;
with you I shall experience them again.
I'll go with you
on ships across the seas
which, I know,
no, no, exist no longer;
with you I shall experience them again.
I'll go with you,
I with you.

The sushi that had been left out too long came alive.

Now that it's been established that I cannot write a haiku, maybe something in heroic couplets..

There once was a girl from Nantucket...

just kidding.

The sky is blue, this is wonderful. Natural heat is delicious... like the giggles of babies. Do I dare? Do I dare? Do I fucking dare? I think I do...

Ahhhhhhh...

Haiku

There is rage in me
The pool heater sucks so much
So much hate. So much.

Wednesday, not just another day of the week

I've heard the best news today. Yup.. you know what it is.

On the lighter side of things...

I'm a cheating bastard

Most of my posts are actually written past 12am on the day.. I'm a dirty liar. This one will say I posted it sometime in the afternoon.. This is not the case. So i'm debating giving up drinking. I spent a decent amount of money tonight on booze and I wasn't inebriated in the least. Disappointing. That's not true.. i'll keep drinking socially and not get drunk.. it's my lot in life.

2am, got a chem lab to finish before bed. Yay me.

Jackals on the horizon!

"LET DANGERS GO; THY WAR SHALL BE WITH ME,

BUT SUCH A WAR AS BREAKES NO BOND OF PEACE.

SPEAK THOU FAIR WORDS, I'LL CROSS THEM WITH FAIR WORDS;

SEND THOU SWEET LOOKS, I'LL MEET THEM WITH SWEET LOOKS;

WRITE LOVING LINES, I'LL ANSWER LOVING LINES;

GIVE ME A KISS, I'LL COUNTERCHECK THY KISS:

BE THIS OUR WARRING PEACE, OR PEACEFUL WAR."

Welp, another day another post. I wish the internet hadn't swallowed up and disappeared my last post. It was a thing of beauty. But now you'll never know... now will you.

I'll just give a brief recount of this weekend... lets see... Friday night, Poker at my place.. Nesa kicked arse, she took the big pot home. Headed to Coppertank after around midnight... Dan puked... fairly amusing actually.. we were in Kelvin's car.. Dan was a little quiet.. seemed like he nodded off... then we hear "Oh sh%t. I think I drooled on myself." The pungent aroma that filled the car soonafter told us that it definately was not drool. So we pulled over, luckily he only threw up on himself. The car took a bit of airing out to clear the smell though. That was Friday...

Saturday... the day begins with Dim Sum... Steph, Dan, Scott and I head over to Dai Tong over on Kingsway and Victoria. After a half hour wait we enter the relatively newly renovated establishment. The variety was decent considering we had a full vegetarian in our ranks. Even after eating to an uncomfortably full level, the total cost only came to $45 for the four of us! Formidable! Picked up a cheap BBQ, some food and off to the beach! We started off at Jericho beach, but after a short time, the disappointing amount of eye candy (for both male and female members of our party) motivated us to move to Kits. Humm... short time at the beach.. Whisked ourselves out around 9, all showered, got cleaned up and off to Wild Coyote! There till about 1am, then back home for a good night's sleep.

Sunday.... scrubbed the pool... read in the sun... then met Dan at a baby shower... they're so little.. I have no desire to create any Dave-spawns just as of yet. Grabbed some grub and back to the beach. Good beach... Sophia and Jenn joined us later. Ate some good food... watched the sun set. It was romantic. Wished I was there with somebody to be romantic with. Oh well. Co-worker of Dan's called asking if we had any "hook-ups" for contraband herbal materials. Considering Dan owed her for bailing twice this weekend we went off on the task of obtaining said contraband. Met up with an old co-worker. Had a few drinks... Sat around.. looked at the clock.. Ever have those moments when it's 11pm, but it only 'feels' like 6pm. With a moment of inspiration we spontaneously decided to test our luck/skill at the River Rock Casino. Now.. I've never been to a Casino before... it was quite an interesting experience. We set a firm limit of $50 to ourselves, and we were off. After floundering about like pathetic birds, our pathos called a nice pit boss to help orient us to the wonders of the casino. Dan and I were placed at separate tables and we were off to play some good ol' Texas Hold'em. Blah blah blah.. long tirade about gambling. At around 2:15am Dan walks up.. he's done for the night.. pity... I play one more hand then cash out. Doubled up for the night, that's not too shabby. Now I can afford Kristina's birthday present. Got home 'round 2:30. Saw a girl get dropped off by a taxi at the corner... puke then fall down onto the grass. Well that's no good. Got some water, went over and gave her some assistance.. some kleenex.. made sure she got home ok... then went home.. mighty fine day if I say so myself. Beach, babes, won at poker, acted chivalrously... then to bed.

Today!

Umm.. spent the morning with mom n' dad... did shopping... more stuff..

yup... today wasn't so interesting...

more episodes later.

Argh.. part 2

Well.. the internet ate the longest blog I had ever written...

I'll try to recall what I wrote tomorrow...

Happy Canada Day!

The beach is glorious. Do I need to re-state that? THE BEACH IS GLORIOUS. Could have been warmer. But ahhh... the scenery is just breath taking. The birds reaching for the sky.. then plummeting downwards. Reaching with their beautiful wings.

Symmetry is beautiful. Though, the small imperfections ones have, are the things others adore