9.8.2001

11:14 PM | •
This rechargable, cordless lamp is so cool. It's a little sphere that you charge up, then unplug and take it anywhere. It's probably useless, but it's just cool to have. Christ, it's $70 though.

The VarioPac CD cases are neat too, though you have to buy 50 at a time.

4:48 PM | •
My roommate's cooking fish right now with the doors and windows closed. My apartment smells like Chinatown.

9.7.2001

11:19 AM | •
This is just wrong: The Ultimate Gay & Lesbian Cars. Unsurprisingly, lots of trucks and SUVs are lesbian cars, although the gay car choices seem a little random.

9.6.2001

5:43 PM | •
Hmmm...my boss went home before me again. He didn't even say "bye" this time. I'm hurt.

5:35 PM | •
The Sharp Mebius PC-MT1 laptop looks so cool. It's only 3/4 of an inch thick and weighs 2.9 pounds. Hard to believe there's a Pentium III 500 in there.
[ From GeekNews ]

11:54 AM | •
German Church Hosts Cage Concert

A performance of an organ piece by American composer John Cage that is meant to last 639 years began in an eastern German church with 16 months of silence.
It's weird when you realize that people who hear the beginning will ever hear the ending, and the people who do hear the ending never heard the beginning. Well, unless they release a compressed version on CD or something. Only John Cage would write something like this. He's the guy who wrote the infamous 4'33", which consists of 4 minutes and 33 seconds of complete silence.

11:49 AM | •
Damn, summer ended fast. All of a sudden it's cloudy and cold, and this morning it was even drizzling. I miss summer already.

9.5.2001

5:40 PM | •
Uh oh. My old UCI email address, evanl@uci.edu, was cancelled without warning. I thought I might be able to use it for another month or so, but I guess not. So, from now on email me at evan@evanlim.org

9.4.2001

7:42 PM | •
Killer Dies in Rocket-Launcher Duel

A drug-dealer armed with a rocket launcher was shot dead by French police after he challenged them to a duel at the end of an all-night gunfight.
That guy's my hero.

2:58 PM | •
Man Injects Testicles With Salty Water

A Romanian man is recovering in hospital after injecting his testicles with salty water.

Mihai Stefanescu thought they were too big.

Uh...don't most guys want big berries?

2:32 AM | •
I saw Ghost World after all on Friday. I wasn't gonna let my stupid car keep me down, so I walked across campus to the University Center theater. I probably should've walked anyway cause it's so close, but I'm lazy. Anyway, I loved it. The characters in the movie are so cool, especially Enid, the main character. She's ultra-cynical and wears cool glasses, just the kind of girlfriend I want. And there's all these goofy minor characters in the movie too, like the guy at the convenience store and the clerk at the video store. I probably make no sense right now, but just watch the movie and you'll know what I mean.

1:50 AM | •
ManMachine Interface is the newest anime by Masamune Shirow, the guy who created Ghost in the Shell. Somebody scanned the comic and you can read it online. Well, if you can read Japanese that is. The pictures are nice to look at anyway.

9.3.2001

11:05 PM | •
So, my car is fixed. It turns out the battery was cracked! Yup, two big cracks right on the top, plus those caps had popped off and there was battery acid or whatever on the bottom of the hood. I don't know how the hell it happened, cause my car was working fine just an hour before. My parents came down Saturday and we went to a Pep Boys and got a brand new battery. And then I went home for the weekend.