[Toshi]

a small gallery, too

what do y'all think of the new black and white layout at the www.toshiclark.com frontpage? i'm making a different template of matching austerity, and will (in theory) pull together a few themed galleries (rather than by event) of the better pics in my collection. somehow i thought that monochrome would be more "pro" eh

 

[Toshi]

i skied at mt. baker today. was on the slopes from 9:30 until 4:30 (lifts close at 4 and our last run was long). wait, that's not right: i snowboarded.

in any case the snow was awesome given 6" of fresh in the last 24 hours, snowboarding wasn't overly painful, and the skies were blue and fine indeed.

 

[Toshi]

i posted a new thread about summers' comments now that the transcript has been released:

http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=110770

 

[Toshi]

i finished shadow divers at about 3 am last night. it's due on tuesday (test day) and i wanted to get it out of the way before starting studying. it was worth reading if you're interested in u-boat history at all.

doing a little math shows that i've been reading somewhere on the order of 50-60 pages per day since jan 1. compare this with gwb's claim that he reads "on a good night, maybe 20 to 30 pages" and you see that i, uh, have lots more spare time than the president.

 

[Toshi]

http://www.sunbelt-software.com/stu/video/dodge_durango.wmv

"you should come by later, i'll be waxing it"

 

[Toshi]

not riding pics, as i haven't been on the bike except to commute in months now, but pics nonetheless:

bonfire

 

[Toshi]

a) finished up "an anthropologist on mars" today, oliver sacks. was very well done and interesting subject matter (7 case studies by a literate neurologist basically, including savant-like, tourettic and autistic people among them).

b) going to baker for the weekend

c) going to whistler next weekend

if only we had more snow...

 

[Toshi]

ugh. the snow at mt. baker was AWFUL. positively east coast, only topped in its slurpee-like disgusting nature by the mountain where i learned to ski, mohawk mtn in ct. we had a cabin for fri and sat nights but most of the group just took off for home this morning rather than cough up $39 for another day on the hill.

 

[Toshi]

"List of the top 110 banned books (of all time). Bold the ones you've read. Italicize the ones you've read part of. Underline the ones you specifically want to read (at least some of). Read more. Convince others to read some."

my comment: i've actually read about 20 (exactly 20 by this inaccurate count) of the 110 below, and see the movies of quite a few others ;-) . this list is good in making one realize how much literature there is out there, and how superficial our education really is.

#1 The Bible
#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
#4 The Koran
#5 Arabian Nights
#6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
#7 Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
#8 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
#9 Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
#10 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
#11 The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
#12 Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
#13 Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
#14 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
#15 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
#16 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
#17 Dracula by Bram Stoker
#18 Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
#19 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
#20 Essays by Michel de Montaigne
#21 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
#22 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
#23 Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
#24 Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (or Richard Dawkins' "The Ancestor's Tale" in its stead in my case)
#25 Ulysses by James Joyce
#26 Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
#27 Animal Farm by George Orwell
#28 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
#29 Candide by Voltaire
#30 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
#31 Analects by Confucius
#32 Dubliners by James Joyce
#33 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
#34 Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
#35 Red and the Black by Stendhal
#36 Das Capital by Karl Marx
#37 Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
#38 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
#39 Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
#40 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
#41 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
#42 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
#43 Jungle by Upton Sinclair
#44 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
#45 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
#46 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
#47 Diary by Samuel Pepys
#48 Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
#49 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
#50 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
#51 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
#52 Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
#53 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
#54 Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
#55 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
#56 Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
#57 Color Purple by Alice Walker
#59 Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
#60 Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
#61 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
#62 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#63 East of Eden by John Steinbeck
#64 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
#65 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
#66 Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#67 Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
#68 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
#69 The Talmud
#70 Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#71 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
#72 Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence (didn't like it at all)
#73 American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
#74 Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
#75 Separate Peace by John Knowles
#76 Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
#77 Red Pony by John Steinbeck
#78 Popol Vuh
#79 Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
#80 Satyricon by Petronius
#81 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
#82 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
#83 Black Boy by Richard Wright
#84 Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
#85 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
#86 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
#87 Metaphysics by Aristotle
#88 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
#89 Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin
#90 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
#91 Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
#92 Sanctuary by William Faulkner
#93 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
#94 Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
#95 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
#96 Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#97 General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
#98 Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
#99 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
#100 Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
#101 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
#102 Emile Jean by Jacques Rousseau
#103 Nana by Emile Zola
#104 Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
#105 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
#106 Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#107 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
#108 Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
#109 Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
#110 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

 

[prophet6]

Hmmm. An interesting exercise.

I can't paste mine in with styles, but I'm at 28 read, with a bunch more in italics.

It's funny how many really good books are on a banned list.




p6

 

[Toshi]

i am famous

http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=111782

 

[ALEXIS_DH]

why is fahrenheit 451 considered a banned book? and by who??

i read it a long time ago (in spanish, i dunno how better or obscure could the english version be), and it was so-so...

hardly a milestone in the history of thought as das capital, or critique of the reason or controversial as lolita....

 

[Toshi]

a book about burning books by definition might be worthy of extra attention by those who would burn books...

my athletics related story from today:

i had a pair of new balance basketball shoes. nice shoes, bought from a snazzy new balance store in a snazzier mall (alderwood mall north of seattle for the curious). they developed a rip in the seam after about 8 uses, while the rest of the shoe remained pristine.

so i called new balance, got a rma, sent the shoes in for replacement, and the replacements arrived today.

and, wonder of wonders, my 9.5 shoes upon replacement suddenly turned into size 15 sneakers. the packing slip specifies size "095". how this gets translated into size 15 by the packer in ontario is beyond me.

moral of the story? blame canada.

 

[narlus]

maybe it's just the exchange rate.

 

[narlus]

#1 The Bible
#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
#5 Arabian Nights
#6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
#8 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
#11 The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
#14 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
#27 Animal Farm by George Orwell
#28 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
#38 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
#40 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
#44 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
#46 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
#53 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
#55 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
#56 Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
#81 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
#85 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
#100 Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
#105 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
#110 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

21 read, partial or otherwise. not so hot. and most of those were in high school. damn.

 

[Toshi]

high school was the time to read those, hmm.

pics from whistler are up here: whistler - march 2005

there was no snow on the lower half (biking half!) of the mountain, but up top it wasn't too bad.

 

[Toshi]

http://www.jvos.com/Things/quattro.wmv



addition: http://www.para-net.org/paramag/archives/directlive/direct193/images/soul2.mov

x 2

addition 2: http://homepage.mac.com/rbaruah/.cv/rbaruah/Movies/Drop It Like a FOB.mov-link.mov

"anoop dogg"

 

[Toshi]

www.faceanalyzer.com

so apparently i am chinese:

 

[Barbaton]

So I've put lots of facebook friends in it and it appears to have a definite bias towards thinking people are chinese, or asian in general...

 

[Toshi]

So I've put lots of facebook friends in it and it appears to have a definite bias towards thinking people are chinese, or asian in general...

maybe it is just going on the numbers, and tries to tag 20% of all people as chinese

 

[ALEXIS_DH]

lol
it recognizes me as CHINESE and KOREAN, plus it says am FEMALE.

i dont think i have femenine traits, other than my lack of facial hair...

 

[Toshi]

lol
it recognizes me as CHINESE and KOREAN, plus it says am FEMALE.

i dont think i have femenine traits, other than my lack of facial hair...

ooh, busted

 

[Toshi]

this is a really cool puzzle. props to those who are stubborn enough to figure it out (how to get the two torches lit by getting the stickmen into the two doors, alive)

http://www.deviantart.com/view/14864502/

 

[TimeBomb]

That game was so hard at first. Now it seems simple now that I figured it out.

 

[Toshi]

happy pi day, everyone!

3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862
089986280348253421170679821480865132823066470938446095505822317253594081284811

 

[Barbaton]

That game was so hard at first. Now it seems simple now that I figured it out.

Hmm. still stumping me.

 

[Toshi]

Hmm. still stumping me.

you can do multiple actions at once. don't sit back and watch the stuff you fire out of the cannon fly through the air

 

[Barbaton]

you can do multiple actions at once. don't sit back and watch the stuff you fire out of the cannon fly through the air

Grr. got the first guy in, now having trouble squishing the little rat guy.

 

[Toshi]

Grr. got the first guy in, now having trouble squishing the little rat guy.

cool, you're pretty much done then. it's all a matter of timing with that window (or if you're super snazzy, having the window open and timing the two guys themselves)

 

[Toshi]

watch the vids linked in this thread! http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=113027



wowow

 

[Barbaton]

cool, you're pretty much done then. it's all a matter of timing with that window (or if you're super snazzy, having the window open and timing the two guys themselves)

Yay, i got it. k back to work.

 

[Toshi]

help me out with the retail alphabet game!

http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1488113#post1488113

 

[Toshi]

i actually went riding yesterday. imagine that. Tiger Mountain opened up early so Snacks, evilbob, Vno, me, and a friend from class suited up in the afternoon. my friend, Amaya, was on the most ghetto of ghetto bikes. rigid, 18 speeds, index thumb shifters, 1 pc cranks, cantilevers, the works. despite that, and that this was her first real time off road, she kept up pretty well!

the ride itself starts out with a 3+ mile cilmb up a fireroad. that wasn't fun, but surprisingly it wasn't painful at all either. i guess skiing/snowboarding has kept me in decent shape. then onto the singletrack, which was in great shape considering the time of year. usually tiger doesn't open until april 15, but the powers that be granted special dispensation to us riders on account of the warm, dry winter.

the light ran out quickly on us, and Snacks and Amaya didn't have lights. this made the last spin on the NW Timber Trail quite interesting. my stadium light is bright, but it's hard to shine a light through the person ahead of you such that they can see and you don't run off the trail yourself...

after the ride i was really antisocial and threw my bike up on the rack while the other people were talking. no reason really, just felt like it. add in a dinner at IHOP with Amaya, who amazingly enough wasn't deterred by the whole 3.5 hr-on-the-trail experience, a martini and an Irish Car Bomb later in the night, and ultimately unrewarding phonetag with the girl i'm going after, and you have my night.

 

[Toshi]

http://tinyurl.com/5h8x9 . read "Our Customers' Advice" and "Spotlight Reviews"

 

[Barbaton]

The Enterprise has been completed. The cavvy has been sufficiently Thulefied. (pause to apologize to the just axe-kicked cat) After a few months of piecemeal part gathering via Ebay, I can now take 4 pairs of skis and a bike as far as the poor car feels like going.


however, all thoughts of riding will have to be postponed due to orgo exam thurs (blech) followed by Week at Snowbird (yeah!).

 

[narlus]

http://tinyurl.com/5h8x9 . read "Our Customers' Advice" and "Spotlight Reviews"

that was great!

 

[Toshi]

found on my windshield, on a pink post-it note:

Here to make friends! If you want to! 2 girls from Cali (707) 954-84XX

 

[Barbaton]

found on my windshield, on a pink post-it note:

so did you call them?

 

[Toshi]

so did you call them?

they'd probably be horribly disappointed that i don't match my car. i do wear hiking boots 90% of the time tho, does that make me a redneck?

 

[ALEXIS_DH]

they'd probably be horribly disappointed that i don't match my car. i do wear hiking boots 90% of the time tho, does that make me a redneck?

naaa, that would make you a typical american tourist.