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wa-hee-wa, not wa-HI-wa
Posted by on July 12, 2003

*Update*: All right, someone called me on it apparently. I suppose if you want it's wa-hee-a-wa, but you barely pronounce the a. wa-hee-wa is how all my relatives say it, even though the a is there, so I figured I'd use the pronounciation I grew up with. But fine, there's an "a" if you want. Either way, it's not wa-HI-wa.

Quick note: Before I get into it, if you don�t care about my time in Hawaii, you should just skip down to the summary, the links are worth it. Also, my apologies for the unecessarily large images.

I almost wish I were still in Wahiawa. Regardless of the heat wave relatives warned us about, the weather in Hawaii was fantastic. It never got uncomfortably hot. It got close on the last day when we were at Sunset Beach, but then, we were at the beach, which has a built in solution to heat.

One weird thing that I�d never noticed before (or never figured out, rather) is that the extra humidity messes with paper. I use regular 8.5�x11� printer paper, so I don�t know how much this affects thick artsy paper or whatever, but the extra humidity makes all the paper absorb a little more water. If you�ve ever tried writing on wet paper, it�s a similar trial. It�s like the lead is coated with a thin film that you can�t get through, so you either press ridiculously hard and dig grooves in your paper or make do with lines you have to hold the paper at a slant to see. It was frustrating at first, but I got used to it after a couple days and eventually filled all the time between beaches, eating, and shopping with drawing at my little fold up table and lamp. I scribbled a lot of pics that I�m unusually proud of and will eventually show up in the gallery, which will eventually show up itself. They still have to suffer through the inking of course, but I try my hardest not to butcher the lines on non-comic stuff (not to say that I don�t care about the strips, but there�s a balance between speed and quality I�m trying to figure out).

Aside from the beaches, my favorite thing about Hawaii is the food. Lots of good food everywhere. There�s a local chain called Zippy�s that I�ve gone to since I can�t remember, and I�d kill for a branch in the California bay area. It�s not fancy food, it�s just good. Also, there�s Seoul Inn (I�m pretty sure it�s "inn"), which is a little Korean BBQ shop about five minutes from our relative�s house that serves simple barbequed beef and chicken over rice, which tastes like the Korean version of soul food Of course, the beef and chicken are probably very Americanized, but I�ve never been anxious to try out some of the more authentic dishes, like Intestine Yun-Chee or whatever it was.

Another odd thing I�ve noticed is that I spend more time than usual reading in Hawaii. I devoured The Stainless Steel Trio and Ender�s Game rather quickly, the latter of which people have been telling me to read for years. I should have listened. Afterwards I got sort stuck on A Fire in the Deep, as it�s one of those sci-fi books where the author doesn�t immediately tell you crucial elements about the universe he�s writing in, so you end up having to wade through the first few chapters until you get to some sort of exposition where pieces are explained, and parts begin to make sense.

Summary: fun, relaxing trip.

In other news, these guys are awesome. Video game music always smacks me with a healthy bit of nostalgia. S.S.H. does live metal versions of the music I grew up listening to, and some more modern games like Guilty Gear X. Woo. If you�re like me and find yourself hopelessly lost among the foreign characters, plug the url into box here and make sure you�ve clicked the second radio button. It�s not exactly high musical genius, but I�ve been listening to this nonstop since Dan told me about it. Don't worry, I'd assume they want you to download their music, unless they don't know that they have an mp3 page on their site.

I don�t know who�s responsible (I�d assume some Washington computer science students), but this pseudo-movie is crazy. Watch it yourself to see what I mean.

Finally, this bit about glass came out of nowhere. Check it out in action.

I�d like to take credit for being having found these the moment they came out, but in reality I�m just passing along the message from Dan.

I think that�s enough for now.

Rant of Drew(Phoneish)
Posted by on July 13th, 2001

Ah, text messaging? Who else here would die without it? I mean, how else could we egg on our friends without their dates knowing? How else could we insult people in class behind the teacher's back? What better way to send a quick insult/praise/note.
But I'm going off on a tangent here. Anyways. Must rant.
Gotta love apartments, especially when you live with people you love, but can't stand to live with them. I love them all, I really do, I just can't stand living with them. More on this later, and a brief unfortunate hiatus if I have to move(I'll try to stack rants)
If you haven't realized yet, I tend to not rant a lot, but sometime soon, I'll lay down a good 3 pages of crap. I'm just like that. Deal :P

184. Video: Edith and I are up late ~~studying for midterms~~ watching crazy German music videos from the 90s. I'll miss college.

183. Video: Edith, the darling lass pictured above, will be performing this later this semester. I'm not sure what the protocol is when you find out your girlfriend is a zombie, but I guess I'm glad to have advanced warning that she'll be eating my brains at some point.

182. Video: Women in Western Art. Pretty niftay.

181. Comic: Copper is updating again! Glee!

180. Japanese Insanity Guitar Bear Pink Japan: WHAT?WHAT?WHAT?WHAT?WHAT?WHAT?WHAT?WHAT?WHAT?WHAT?WHAT?WHAT?WHAT?

179. Video: Pac Man invasion. Old, I guess, but still required viewing.

178. Comic: Piled Higher and Deeper: So awesome! Also makes me not want to go to gradschool. Though, it worked out for my dad anyway, so who knows.

177. Artist: JF Bruckner: Oh yeah, jfb is awesome too! Right, right, more artists and comics, I forget so easily...

176. Comic: Copper: Copper is my favorite webcomic. Every strip is inspiringly beautiful and bursting with imagination, but beyond that, they consistently resonate with profundity without screaming "Look at ME, aren't I profound!?" I tried to write a lot more corny praise, but just go read all of them instead, you won't be sorry. I was hoping to wait for Kazu Kibuishi to get back to it so I could scream about its return, but it's been quite a while already, so I'll just link it again once that happens.

175. Artist: Mitsui. Life must be hard when you're this awesome. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

174. Comic: The Unfeasible Adventures of Beaver and Steve. I don't actually read this often, but the toaster knob makes me want to. That sentence will make no sense as soon as they update.

173. Humor: Kyle linked me to this, but I can't imagine why. P.S. Kyle sucks.

172. Comic: Socks. Okay, Socks is also amazing. I need to read through both these soon. Yargh.

171. Comic: Minus. Leo just linked me to minus, and it is aggggghjustgoreaditIcan'tthinkofwhattowriteitisamazing.

170. Flash Game: Fancy Pants. Fancy Pants!!! Made me want to drop everything and make an awesome speedy platformer with simple but incredibly smooth smooth animation with my roommates. Who knows what they'd do, but Kyle already agreed to it. Right Kyle? Study for your midterms to signify "yes."

169. Random: Revenge of Zoom Quilt.

168. Comic: Sinfest. How could you not know about Sinfest already? :|

167. Apps: doPdf. People keep asking how to write out pdfs. If you don't own Acrobat Pro, apparently this works.

166. Humor: Then Japan puts Berkeley to shame in the flash mob arena. But c'mon, it's Japan, it's probably weird when stuff like that doesn't happen.

165. Humor: Berkeley ninja flash mob battle royale round 1 fight.

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