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That explains the mysterious break ins at the Chinese frat i miss doing laundry with a swipe card, which was also my key and meal pass. Actually, my school's food service company also serves the same thing to prisons, but i had to pay 10k for it freshman year.

I was born this way

This might sound strange, but I was on the bus today and I was looking around aimlessly until I spotted a girl, who I thought was a guy. No I am not attracted to trannies and she was definitely not one just really boyish-manly looking, but from just the side of the face, I was really captivated. Maybe, the strong exposed forearm, the muscular legs, and the face was just too cute in a manly type of way. Her hair was cut in a short bowl cut and it was my favorite shade of maroon. Like any gay guy with a bit of imagination and horniness, plus the rumble of the bus, I got excited. Then, she spoke and turned around to get off, grab her umbrella, and I just became disturbed. From fantasy to nightmare, it only took less than a minute. It's embarrassing, but I do wonder if anyone else has ever made that mistake. I don't think it makes me any less gay, but it does make me question my taste in guys

You're such an old softie Yang Congrats to all the graduates and hope the job market is favorable in your field. I wish I could find a better job with less stress, too, but it is better to work with gripes about your work, than the alternative I guess. Living with parents though is definitely not my favorite thing in the world, which I know a lot of grads are doing, since rent is still so high and few even with good jobs can get a mortgage.

Don't fret Bill, i think most of us didn't expect to win. i am lucky at the moment to be stuck in 3rd place tie even if all i did was guess based on defense and shot averages.

The Episode is titled "Choices", but there are almost no choices in the episode as the final outcome and nature of the characters were already in existence. The writer is probably making a creative shot across the bow about homosexuality, which I appreciate. Since the moment I saw the scraggly beard, murderous eyes, and heard his snarky remarks, I could sense he was gay. I speak of Micheletto, Cesare Borgia's assassin in the the TV series, the Borgias. It was a great revelation and he was so gung ho about his lover getting married to a girl, even if neither of them wants it that way. Back in 15th and 16th century, there's no such thing as gay marriage, no such thing as gay relationships unless you want to get yourself killed. These guys snuck around the graveyards of Forli to just have their chance of expressing love, where only the dead would not judge. That is a powerful revelation to the series and the character's nature that only death can protect him It also shows off a very interesting thing about the character in that moment, he fights and kills people sometimes without any personal purpose, but now I think I can see his personal purpose if it is a bit macabre and twisted. Gay characters are many things, but dynamic and morally challenged with an innate gift. Hope other people will enjoy it as much as I did. PS: Knowing the history of the time and characters, I can't wait until the most famous gay artists, engineer, and scientist arrives on the scene. Micheletto might not be single for long.

Nah most members will just listen to stock brokers and put everything on red... Umm Apple I hope i was witty with my tap water example, ever tried desani water from coke cola company. It is sad that modern finance is so unrealistic and holds so little value except to commission fees on sales.

I just read this and it made me think about finance and investment in general http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/10/news/companies/jp-morgan-losses/index.htm?iid=Lead I don't like the idea of credit swaps, nor derivatives as I can't see any practical or "real" value in them, except as a complex vehicles that simply inflate the prices of what they hold. Maybe, it's strange coming from an accountant, or not if you know the blood feud between the disciplines, but why can't finance be simple securities backed by realizable values? A simple example from just the stock market just for layman reference, if my company is worth $1 billion, I have revenues of $200 million dollars, earnings of $100 million dollars, and 100 million shares of outstanding stock. Under practical projection, I could value my company at a multiple of say 2-3 times earning value. My company minimum basis is $10 per share or equivalent to current value of my company, with a potential high of $12-13 per share based on profitability. Doesn't that sound reasonable? You still make 20-30% profit and buyers know your are worth that value. Today's stock values averages 22 times earnings on the US S&P, these values are not substantiated outside speculation. Yet, it is how the world lives in its own illusion that we are actually making money out of nothing. This isn't about debt, nor about banking in general, but the principle at which finance is operating, money for money sake without any real values involved. It's like I got a dozen water bottles, filled it with tap water through a purifier filter, then sold it to everyone for $5 a bottle, because it is "pure" water. Seriously, just because the tap water has gone through a simple filter, now it is worth 10 times what it was.

Awesome video! Looks like trees might be climbable now, too. Plus, the fast moves of snatching muskets to bayonet your enemies is fantastic.

Japan and Thailand still have constitutional monarchs with power, so the Far east is not completely done with monarchy.

Don't you wish the Habsburgs were still around: Bella gerant alii, tu, felix Austria, nube Philip is funny and prone to international incidents, but I don't know I feel like the royal family is at fault, everything just seems overblown due to media and tabloids about the family from Prince Harry's Island getaway to the continuing "mystery" of Princess Diana's death.

I don't really find the royals interesting, unless it's "the tudors " i mean they are mostly tame and normal.

Wondering how Tim found out about Kyle XY's belly button, mind sinking into the gutter My favorite Movies: Lord of the Rings probably is up there, the Chris Nolan Batman movies, The wedding planner (Yes, I am a sentimentalist too), Titanic (saw it again and still love it), Shawshank Redemption (the first time a movie surpassed a book), and of course the Departed. Favorite TV shows: Hmm... Sci-fi/horror/ fantasy: Star Trek (Next Generation to DS9, not voyager or Enterprise, and only a few episodes of TOS), Babylon 5, Stargate SG1/Atlantis (Sorry, I just never liked Universe), Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Night Visions, Beyond Belief fact or fiction (you might see a pattern, I love short story based horror/scifi series, too), Warehouse 13, Eureka, Heroes (1st season), Battlestar Galactica (New Series, the old one is frakkin too moral), Charmed (Yup, as conservative as I am; I just loved Charmed. Seriously, the show was fun, sad, and kept you guessing. Vanquishing demons, while keeping a fashionable is hard work), Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel (They belong together, no matter what network they are on), and Awake (it's both sci-fi and fantasy) Drama/Action: 24, House (until season 4, when he fired the entire team. It's only gotten worse after he went to jail), One Tree Hill (I am an OTH boy, I converted when the second season of the OC was crap), Psych, Just shoot me, Queer as folk US, Rome, Tudors, The Borgias, and Spartacus (I am a huge fan of historical dramas, Spartacus being my personal favorite right now with The Borgia trailing slightly.).

Hey! Hey! It's the monkees!..... Damn you zombie, you had to remind me of that tv land re-run from the dark ages and their catchy song, now I am thinking of monkees The monkees probably were the first commercially made boy band, created by NBC to grab the Beatles fans in the US for the "next big thing". Here's something I think helps differentiate boy bands from other rock/pop singers and groups, there is no such thing at the moment as a underground boy band as far as I know. Boy bands need a lot of maintenance with dance moves even without singing or musical instrument talents. They can't be formed in the back of a garage one day, then start doing little shows at a local bar or club the next month or so.

Pubic hair Probably due to the nature of how pubic hair is associated with sexual organs and extreme life energy that they possess. Remember eastern vampires aren't afraid of crosses or religious icons, they are afraid of natural energies and strengthened by energy of darkness and death. There's a famous semi historical fiction story in Chinese history called the corpse drive. The story said a daoist necromancer used his magic to reanimate the dead to bring them home for burial after a war. A few of them however broke off from the trail that the necromancer had been following and went to nearby villages. There would be many dead bodies found in these villages with pale faces like life was completely drained. Later, the bodies would all disappear and a fresh series of bodies would be found. Some say that late at night you can still hear the footsteps of these undead spectres and if you are unlucky enough to encounter some, beware your own doom. The actual event is kind of macabre too. In ancient China, supposedly there were vertical wheelbarrows that carry the dead at night on the back roads. Sometimes these bodies were from the western lands after long battles defending the many forts along the silk road. As you can imagine, diseases like malaria, smallpox, and even the bubonic plague were moving from east to west during this time and transporting dead bodies was partially a carrier for these diseases. These villages that the dead bodies passed by probably were hit by the plague, which explains the dead bodies discovered later and even the paleness due to the discoloration of the plague.

I love Gym class heroes, my chemical romance, and have the newest nickleback album too. As for boy bands, I don't know under 30 with boyish look would be a prerequisite. I mean, while I love Blink-182, no one is ever going to mistake them for a boy band even back in the 90's. There's a real difference between rockers, punks, and boy bands. Music might be just as pop based in lyrics, but their range usually is focused unless you are a fan of "Brand New", if you've heard all their albums like I have, you know what I mean

Haha, Yang's afraid of girl bands. I'll give you something nice "for you and your denial" : That's my kind of music, a little pop, but mostly rock, plus there's a violin so I feel like I am a little cultured

What type of vampire please? (I know most of you guys write about western vampires, but just in case Cel is feeling adventurous, I know a little about eastern Vampires as well, but I never dare to write about vampires) I thought that a vampire could detect another vampires bloodline through their heightened senses, i.e. smell, or identify their own bloodline some type of empathy link between them and their line. It depends on the universe that your vampires live in as well. Anne Rice Vampires are different than Twillight Vampires and different than Comicality's vampires As for eastern vampires, blood is the essence of your being. Once bitten, they become a part of the master vampire with his/her blood in them. Elementally Eastern Vampires possess a high degree of Yin Energy that supposedly give them heighten powers of perception and interaction with darkness, i.e. manipulating shadows and even shapeshifting, but this energy isn't boundless like western vampires. Think of them like batteries, the servant vampires can only go out after they have gained enough Yin energy from their master or from 49 nights of darkness (7 is the number of darkness to the power of 2).

Well don't be a stranger, we are sorta your family.

There are so many choices in the world, so why choose choices that you know will end up biting you in the future? Looking at the world today, you see a lot of people trying to take charge. I think part of the bigger problem is that we as human beings have placed ourselves too far ahead of everything in the world around us. We have people making "projections" and guesses for the future, but it's all merely one man's guess versus another, but we base our entire civilization on these guesses. Whether you're leasing a car without getting additional personal insurance, putting your life savings in a house, or even paying your bills on a credit card. It's all based on the guess. It's all based on you, not your family, your friends, your employer, or anyone else. We like to hide behind these factors, hide behind the facts of life, hide behind our misery and pain, but in the end, the choice is still your own. Even in the most extreme cases, where another person forces you to choose life in submission or freedom in death, you still have a choice even if it means there will be no more choices to come afterward. Who "you" are is yourself. We are who we are, we are not who we are not. Both are equal, but not the same. I am a gay man, I am not a straight man. I am a conservative, I am not a liberal. I am blind in one eye, I am not fully sighted. When we make a choice that will come back to haunt us, maybe we just don't think about it as a choice, maybe we see only the present good, or maybe we never see the future consequences to begin with. In philosophy, I think the concept that consequence is not random, but innately based on your life and how it affects the world around you, to be a truth.

I miss girl bands like the Spice Girls, they were fun. Why ain't there a revival of that Generic material for One Direction, but I don't think boy bands are completely dead in America. If they were, Glee would not have an audience ( ). Personally, I am much more pop-punk and punk rock type than I am pure pop. I also have graduated to southern rock a while back. However, it's nice to hear something not sung by Justin Bieber even if it is more generic.

Sweet Big Q's birthday! Hope you had a fun celebration.

I'm just your average Chinese Asian. I like filipino boys, too. I always wondered how many Asian were on GA.

http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_t3#/video/showbiz/2012/05/02/drew-bts-alana-evans-porn-star-mom.cnn Maybe I am slipping, but I found this to be a good news story and something that people of all walks of life could come across. The woman sounds like a decent person, who has faced her own life issues and pushed herself beyond them. She made her choice in life to raise her son alone and did so selling her body just to put food on the table and pay the bills. Hell, to me this is praise worthy, but others are less kind. People who work as porn stars and prostitutes are no different than anyone else. It is true their profession is socially unacceptable and has been that way for thousands of years, but it does not make them any less human. Some might be shunned for their work by certain religions, political groups, and moral leaders, but I feel it is not in anyone's place to pass judgment on them. This isn't a topic about prostitution or pornography in general, but just a reflection that some people who work these areas are not monsters or demons. They raise functional families, help out their communities, and perform their civic duties.

Hmmm...The first book that made an impression, the illustrated history of tanks. Yes, it really was the first book that I read as a 8 year old kid sneaking into the young adult section, I can still remember the vivid picture of guns protruding from the turret. It was also the first time I heard about the King Tiger German Tank, which is still the coolest tank ever made. It was that book that made me interested in history. As for the first non-picture book, it has to be the Science of Star Trek. I didn't know what all the math meant and still do not completely understand it either..It was the first book that made got me into science that fascinated me. As for novels, It was the survival story the Hatchet by Gary Paulson, I love the vivid detail of wilderness survival and the strength of Brian in the story. I bought the entire series for my own reading and probably devoured every detail like a hunter cleaning out a deer. I also tend to agree with Brian's philosophy in my early tween (11-12), it's strange to think of myself in those days now. People and Civilization were more trouble than they were worth in my childhood mindset. It also didn't helped that my parents were going through their own separation at that point, so I found Brian's disassociation with his own internal family issues through the wild something to want. (Personally, books are one thing, my experience camping is run of the mill: tents, fishing bait from cans, and marshmallows.)