Avatar and Trash Baby

Ok. Sorry I haven't posted in a while, but I really liked having Adventure Time up there. Ha. Anyways, I want to give a shoutout to Jim K, for being the first person to e-mail me for Air Alert 3, or really anything for that matter. Yeah, don't hesitate to e-mail me if you want Air Alert, or if you have any questions or comments about posts. I'll try to get back to you within 1-2 business days.

Anyways, for those of you that haven't yet seen every episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender, the fuck are you waiting for. Avatar is a cartoon on Nickelodeon that has a ridiculously strong following among college students and adults. The reason for this is pretty clear because the writing is fantastic, it's definitely the funniest politically correct show I've ever seen, possibly the funniest period. The humor is very silly and the characters are really well drawn. The plot centers around a Asian-themed world with four nations based on the four elements: fire, earth, water, and air. The fire nation is trying to take over the world, and the only person who can stop them is the Avatar, who can master all four elements. Sounds kinda stupid. It isn't. It's awesome. Torrent it here.

Also, if Avatar is a little too racy for you, try watching the latest installment of Trash Baby for some good, clean fun.

Air Alert

Air Alert is like eating a high fiber diet, it's good for you, but no one's really gonna notice or care if you don't. Also if you do it too much you'll shit your pants.

Okay. I feel I owe you an explanation. Air Alert is a 15-week jumping routine designed to increase your vertical jump by about 5 or 6 inches. It involves a series of jumping exercises that escalate to mind blowing intensity by Week 15. If you play a sport regularly or are in good shape, you can probably start on Week 3, but I didn't want to take any chances, so I started on Week 1. Odd numbered weeks go Monday Wednesday Friday, even numbers go Tuesday Wednesday Thursday.

Phew. I just finished my Air Alert for the day. I'm only on Week 5, but it's still a pain in the ass. Don't be like me and procrastinate your Air Alert until you end up doing it at 3 in the morning. I'm an idiot. But I'm kind of glad it's there, otherwise I'd get completely out of shape. Well, I hope I'll see some improvement when frisbee practice starts up in the winter. If anyone reading this is going to either the Trouble in Vegas or Mardi Gras frisbee tournaments, watch out for the kid on GOP that's gonna jump over you. Haha.

Anyways, all the time I've been writing this I've been trying to find a suitable download of Air Alert on the internet. I'm testing one right now...and it's only half-downloaded. But that can be found here. That's Air Alert 2, complete with videos and workout chart. There's also the Air Alert 3 document that I'd be happy to e-mail to anyone (there's probably legal consequences if I post it online myself), just comment on this post or e-mail me at ongakun@gmail.com.

Also, here's some wisdom I picked up from some guys on my frisbee team. The way Air Alert works is you crescendo up to week 12, then you rest week 13 and take it easy on week 14, all of this to prepare you for a ridiculous week 15. Your vertical jump is supposed to be at its highest after week 15, but Week 15 makes it much more likely that you will a) injure your legs and b) never want to do Air Alert again. My friend Yui has done Air Alert before but he injured himself on Week 10. His advice is to not do the squat hops (only in Air Alert 3) and replace them with a couple more sets of leap-ups. He also recommends only going up to Week 12 and then doing Week 8 for maintenance.

Oh, and that download just finished. It's legit. Here it is again.

And. Tonight I was having fourth-meal with one of my buddy's, and he was telling me how his architecture mentor at school is really talented and a bangin' hottie. So. I suggested these two architecture-related pickup lines:

1. When does your new project start, because I could get used to working under you.

2. You can erect something right here if you'd like.

Good luck.

Back to America: A Crazy Ride Home

Alright. First. Some business concerning previous posts. It has been brought to my attention by one andrewh that the download link I provided for the Magic the Gathering Computer Game was not free, and since no one likes things that aren't free, I invite you to try this link instead. I haven't used it myself, but don't blame me for any spyware or viruses. Freedom has a price.

Also, I discovered that the kanji game I have is not 250 Mannin no Kanken but rather Minna no DS seminar. It's pretty hard to understand and there really is no easy setting, so I'd recommend this game only for advanced students. I'm currently looking into getting some simpler games. Also, I found a good website for buying these games in America. Yeah.

Oh. So. On my flight home. I first flew from Central Japan Airport in Nagoya to San Francisco. There were these two babies on my flight who decided the time had finally come to see who could cry loudest, longest, and with most evident distress. I enjoyed the competitive spirit, but not the 90 minutes of sleep. There were also so many movies I wanted to see. I ended up watching The Darjeeling Limited, and Once. The Darjeeling Limited was funny and had a lot of great shots, but for some reason the sound came through so quietly even on full volume that I ended up missing some key lines of dialogue that explained the thrust of the movie. I still recommend even though there were gaps in the plot I couldn't hear.

Once, well, I really liked Once a lot. I've never really liked musicals, but I really like music, so I feel that there is a quality of overacting and insincerity in most musicals that are completely absent in this one. It's just people singing a bunch of good songs all the time. Man, I really dig Irish music, and there's this one scene when they're recording an album when they're singing and playing a song, and then they just start yelling in harmony and it's just so loud and so perfect. I cried a little during this movie. It is good.

Anyways, so I got to San Francisco and after picking up some See's candies for my Dad, I got on my flight to Chicago. I was planning on sleeping the whole flight, but fate had something else in mind. Have you ever seen that episode of House where he's on the airplane? It was like that, well, almost. There was a guy sitting three rows in front of me who was apparently having some sort of heart trouble. Luckily for him, the people sitting next to, behind, and across from him were all doctors. So these doctors would take a medical history and try to figure out what was wrong with him and the flight attendants were rushing back and forth bringing first aid kids and blankets and other passengers were standing up trying to see what was going on. Then they set up an IV and brought out the defibrillator, which they thankfully never had to use. It was all really intense and interesting, so there was no way I was gonna sleep. We called in to Air Traffic control and we got to enter immediately, and when we got there paramedics came on and took the lucky guy away in a stretcher. The diagnosis was some kind of arrhythmia (sp?). I wonder what would've happened if there weren't all those doctors right there.

Anyways, when it was all done, two of the doctors, who happened to be married to each other, commended there two small children on being quiet and letting Mommy and Daddy help someone. Then the first thing the little boy says is, "I hated that." Kids.

So that's why I got 90 minutes of sleep in the past 24 hours. I guess I'm gonna go to bed.

Magic the Gathering: The Computer Game

One might be wondering why I'm typing this at 4:40 in the morning. Well, the short reason is because of Magic the Gatherings single player computer game. If you enjoy the real life card game, or card games in general, this computer game is very faithful to the cards as well as highly addictive. The single player mode, Shandalar, puts you into the game as a wizard, playing with whatever color you choose to start, and then　evolving into all sorts of crazy deck ideas. You fight all sorts of monsters enemies (in card games with your deck) and you can take cards from them if you win. You can also explore dungeons and do quests, and travel to different merchants to buy a certain card. The ultimate goal is to defeat the five wizards (one for each color) and then the main bad guy, who's name I forgot, so we'll call him Deathmaster. Deathmaster is extremely difficult, so you need to have built a very strong deck to beat him.





This game shows so much more creativity and imaginative gameplay than the string of Yu-Gi-Oh games that dominated the video card game genre years after this Windows 95 wonder's release. I'd really like to see some kind of game like it, but as this kind of game does nothing to show off graphics, but rather it's poor homeless cousin "art", it probably won't be made. Well, actually, they could make a sweet fantasy world with great CG and stuff and then the card games could use good art. I hope someone in a game developing studio reads this. Bring back Shandalar. It worked.

If you want to download the game, click here. Don't be afraid if you don't already know how to play. The game is pretty simple to pick up, and there are rules available online and in the program. That being said, it is now time to go sleep on my fresh futon. It's fresh because the dog peed on my old one. Ha ha, goddammit.