A random smattering of travel stories and photographs from many places I've visited. Thoughts on recent happenings, mostly.

2011: Japan (cont.)
2010: Caribbean, Japan
2009 Vietnam (cont.)
2008: Israel, Vietnam
2007: China, Japan
2006: Venezuela, Japan

Also, I am a member of The Watercooler and founder of B.A.M.F.

and The Graveyard of Discourse

Days 5, 6, 7

Day one: a song
Day two: a picture
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six: a quote
Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy

Youtube clip:

Quote: The one I've been using in my sig is one of my favorite existential quotes:
At the end of the game, the pawn and the king go back in the same box.

Whatever tickles your fancy:
When Marvel and Disney Meet

Vogon Poem Generator

I google'd "vogon poem generator", and, lo and behold... one exists. This is what mine became.

Vogon Poem Generator

See, see the persistent sky
Marvel at its big muave depths.
Tell me, T.C. do you
Wonder why the naked mole rat ignores you?
Why its foobly stare
makes you feel groggy.
I can tell you, it is
Worried by your garblefragen facial growth
That looks like
Onions.
What's more, it knows
Your oxymoron potting shed
Smells of mould.
Everything under the big persistent sky
Asks why, why do you even bother?
You only charm durian fruits.

Day four: a site

Day one: a song
Day two: a picture
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six: a quote
Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy

GapMinder

I apologize in advance for putting some edumacacuis in your internets, but gapMinder is a fully comprehensive graph system for explaining trends around us, namely the way people in different countries live. It's an excellent tool for those in political science of IR fields for charting progress (or lack thereof) through time, between US states or world countries, or regions.

Evil Plan

taken from Evil Plan, an evil plan themed madlib site.

Congratulations on being the creator of a new Evil Plan (tm)!

Your objective is simple: Soul Accumulation.
Your motive is a little bit more complex: Love (Yes, it works)
Stage One

To begin your plan, you must first clone a diplomat. This will cause the world to slaughter a sacred calf to appease the gods, baffled by your arrival. Who is this spammer? Where did they come from? And why do they look so good as a dark gunslinger?

Stage Two

Next, you must seize control of the moon (ooh, tides!). This will all be done from a obsidian citadel, a mysterious place of unrivaled dark glory. Upon seeing this, the world will wet their pants, as countless hordes of mean english teachers hasten to do your every bidding.

Stage Three

Finally, you must demonstrate your time machine, bringing about something that's really metal. Your name shall become synonymous with fuzzy bunnies, and no man will ever again dare interrupt your sentences. Everyone will bow before your dashing good looks, and the world will have no choice but to pray to you for enlightenment.

Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic

Day one: a song
Day two: a picture
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six: a quote
Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy

Quite possibly the BEST piece of fanfiction in history. Ever. Period. Etc.

He Who Searches for Himself

It might be called a FMA fanfic, but it's easier to call it historical fiction. I cannot begin to describe it.

I do have three warnings, though:

1. It's long. Like, novel-length. Like over 300 pages.
2. It's unfinished, and unlikely to be completed.
3. It's rated M, mostly for violence and really gruesome stuff.