My japanese name is 小川 Ogawa (small river) 拓海 Takumi (open sea).
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Now, the question is, which is my first name? Were they giving names in traditional japanese format?

From the “in case you hadn’t figured it out already” department. cbc.ca reports “Hollywood movies unrealistic when it comes to sex and pot“. Are they implying that they are realistic when it comes to other drugs?

Hollywood movies unrealistic when it comes to sex and pot

A team of Australian medical researchers published a new study today that said Hollywood movies fail to show the negative consequences of sex and drug use.

The team lead by Dr. Hasantha Gunasekera of the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney studied 87 of Hollywood’s biggest box-office hits since 1983 and found plenty of sex, but only one reference to condoms. The films contained no depictions of unwanted pregnancy or sexually transmitted disease. The report also said that drug-use tended to be portrayed “without negative consequences” among the top-grossing films of the past two decades.[cbc.ca]

Okay, these are too funky. I want a pair of them for myself. I may just have to break down and buy them for myself.

Heelys hidden-wheel skate shoe

A few days ago I saw a little girl skate across the floor of a department store. I saw her head glide by but what she was actually skating on was obscured by racks of clothing. She noticed that I was watching her and when she got to the end of the aisle and I could see her feet, she was walking normally on what appeared to be regular sneakers. I thought I was crazy but a few minutes later I saw her do it again. This time, when she popped out of the aisle, I had caught up with her and saw her gliding and then coming to a sudden complete stop before walking again…

[via Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women]

Yeah, they’re kinda silly, but they look fun.

In the last five days or so I’ve run into at least as many references to Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. Mostly it has been via mentions in various weblogs. It had actually made it onto my list of books to check out. So today I get home to find that my mom just got it from Amazon. I think the universe is telling me I should read this book.

Coming up soon is the six month anniversary of my lung transplant (Oct. 14th). I’m trying to figure out just what I should do for this. Maybe some kind of get-together that weekend or maybe something this weekend. I definitely want to do something. Leaves look like they’ve got another few weeks so I’m putting that on hold. Maybe a fall BBQ? A nocturnal party with some music? Anyone up for actually coming down?

I’ve been feeling really good lately. So I’m up for something fun.

I personally think it should come in a big roll. It isn’t really duct tape if it doesn’t make that noise when you rip a piece off. It also needs to be multipurpose. You should be able to use it to build some bizzare contraption with it, like MacGuyver.

Duct Tape Band Aid

I am a man’s man. Nothing hurts me. I am pretty much invincible, except when my kitty scratches me. The worse thing is going to the construction site (work as I call it) and getting ridiculed by all of the other guys, and even the women for wearing a daffy duck band aid. This is a duct tape band aid for the most hardcore people out there. No longer will people think you are a baby. I mean honestly, nothing says hardcore more than having duct tape wrapped around a boo-boo. Maybe dipping said boo boo in motor oil and wrapping a used diaper around it is harder core, but not by much.

The Duct Tape Band Aid [OhGizmo!]

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I have to check on the status of the leaves changing this year. Anyone up for playing hooky from work someday, or maybe driving up to western MA to see if the leaves have changed next weekend? I think my parents are out of town, so folks could stay over. The only condition is that I’d want to visit my high school campus while up there. They have good places for walking too (or did).

I’ve been real bad about remembering this year, but this morning I remembered!

RABBIT RABBIT

Seen over on LJ originally. The goal is to to do a preset list of 101 things to do in 1001 days. I think the hard part for me with coming up with 101 things. Maybe I should start off with 1 thing in 11 days, where that one thing is coming up with 101 things.

Shining looks like it could rock. Check out the trailer.