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  1. Welllllll, it's the week before finals, so things have been crazy. I haven't been able to do as much exercising as I'd like lately, but I plan to play basketball tonight. However I've thankfully been keeping up with my pushup/jumping jack/crunches routine, effectively working out in the mornings before heading off to the library to exercise the body's most important muscle: the penis (sorry, I mean the brain). So yeah, for the past week and a half or so I've regularly been doing around 80 pushups a day, and I'm beginning to notice the difference in my physical appearance. My eating habits have been better too, and while I don't have a calorie breakdown of my daily intake I do know that I've been avoiding fast food and eating more things like cereal in the morning, a healthy sandwich or smoothie for lunch, and sometimes a salad for dinner. Although last night our office had a end-of-the-semester party and catered Korean BBQ, which I went crazy on. Mmmmmmm kalbi and meat jun! Anyway, hopefully after finals are done I can set a more regularly set schedule.

    Good job everybody!

  2. The DVD for "You Are (Not) Alone," the first movie in the Rebuild of Evangelion series, has been released and subbed. Anybody check it out? It's essentially Evangelion Special Edition...it covers the first three Angel encounters, with the majority (if not all) scenes redrawn and enhanced with CG, along with redone music, a few new scenes, and some story changes. Pretty cool overall, and worth checking out if you're a fan (not too big a fan though, or else you'll just complain about it not being the original).

    From a visual standpoint You Are (Not) Alone looks freaking amazing. There are some scenes, particularly if you're an Eva fan, that will blow you away. When the time comes I plan to hijack my friend's 50 inch plasma and watch it on that.

  3. Cool, thanks for the reply. My daily routine for the past 6 months or so has mostly included pushups, crunches, jumping jacks, a few leg exercises (calf raises, vertical leap jumping), and basic stretching to increase flexibility. I'm planning on picking up a bar sometime so I can do pull-ups also, but as always I'm always looking for new things to try. Like Penfold mentioned, a little variety.

  4. Very cool idea, Steben!

    Anyway, I'm actually in pretty decent shape but I certainly would like to drop a few pounds and most importantly improve my diet.

    Goal: To drop a minimum of ten pounds of fat (I'm currently ~188 at about 5'11) while cutting down on fast food.

    The Plan

    Diet: The life and diet of the college student (for some) generally centers around laziness, convenience, and freedom to eat what is tasty and ultimately unhealthy. Thus, I plan to quickly begin eliminating fast food as well as other unhealthy foods from my daily life. Routine trips to Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and wherever else I go will stop, and no more huge half pound burgers on the weekend. From now on I'm going to eat healthier and cook more for myself. Also, I'm going to try to completely stop drinking soda and maybe cut down on beer as well.

    Exercise: I actually get a pretty good amount of exercise, as I do a lot of walking and play basketball several times a week. However, I plan to incorporate some sort of light daily workout that I can do in the mornings or in the afternoon. This light workout would include roughly 60-80 pushups (currently I do around 40 a day), several sets of jumping jacks, crunches, and hopefully a few other exercises (suggestions are welcome!).

    Goodluck everybody!

  5. My friend thinks he's trying to sound like Phil Hartman (old Troy McClure) as Zap. Thoughts?

    Yeah, Hartman was originally supposed to voice Zapp but that changed after he died. According to wikipedia...

    Zapp Brannigan is voiced by Billy West, though he was originally intended to be voiced by Phil Hartman.[3] Hartman insisted on auditioning for the role, and "of course, just nailed it" according to creator Matt Groening. However, due to Hartman's death, West was given the role. On the Futurama DVD commentary, Groening reveals that Zapp's character and mannerisms were established in Billy West's original audition for the character, and any similarity to Phil Hartman or his other well known cartoon characters (Lionel Hutz and Troy McClure), is simply coincidence. On the other hand, in an interview for the web site TV Squad, Billy West states that his Zapp Brannigan is an imitation of Hartman and also "modeled after a couple of big dumb announcers I knew".
  6. Neat, I also live on campus at UHM.

    I've also been looking to lose some weight myself. I'm currently about 185~ at a height of 5'10 3/4, but I'd like to trim down a bit. I'm actually fairly active (I play basketball regularly), but it's really my diet that's destroying me. The college diet can be pretty killer, calorie-wise. Here's to more fresh veggies and fruits and less fast food!

  7. Right now, I'm on page 26 of Michael Crichton's Sphere. Not sure if I'm going to continue it right now, or pick up a Stephen King novel (I started The Shining a couple of months ago and have neglected to go back to it). I'll probably stick to something Crichton though, since I do most of my reading at night, and while reading IT I got incredibly paranoid.

    Only time I ever had nightmares from reading a book. It's creepy as hell reading a book and expecting Tim Curry in a clown's outfit to be looking at you from the end of your bed as you're laying there at 3am.

    Aside from a few of King's short stories It remains the only novel of his that I've ever read. I had a few gripes with it, but overall it was a very engrossing read and for me at least also extremely creepy at times. I know exactly what you mean, Sobou, about how it made you paranoid. From what I've heard it's also best to stay far far away from any filmed version of it as well.

  8. It's important to note that he's mainly disappointed with the hardware aspect, not the gameplay or story aspect. This is especially regarding the "vision" he had for the graphics of the game.

    "Game-wise, it's pretty close to the original vision: you sneak into the battlefield and can choose whether to do a stealth game or interfere with the battle more directly. But the graphic, side things like motion-blending and the size of the map, totally was not accomplished to my original vision - to my satisfaction."
    (follow injin's link to read more)

    Kotaku also points out that Kojima is a "well-known perfectionist", and I can even recall him back in the development of MGS2 making very similar comments regarding his dissatisfaction with his graphical vision of the game near the end of its completion, as well as the initial difficulty in developing with the PS2 hardware. I wouldn't worry too much about it myself, even about his comments dealing with the power of the PS3. But only time will tell, I suppose...

  9. That game is fuckin ridiculous. I got to about level 51 and just couldn't get anywhere from there.

    Yes, that was without cheats.

    No, I won't have your babies.

    I'm the same. I think there's 55 stages total, and my friends and I never got past either 51 or 52. I remember it had the chainsaw guys and it was basically like level 6 except MUCH harder. Fantastic game, though, and I can even remember some of the stage codes. Hey Atma, try "WJQK", it should take you to around level 35. Do it simply because level 37 (if memory serves correctly) is one of the most epic levels in the game.

  10. Unfortunatly, I live in the northern part of Japan (above Sendai, but below Sapporo), and there are very few anime specialty stores around here. I did however find anawesome store with boxed copies of Chrono Trigger, FF4-6, Dragon Quest 5, and a Neo Geo CD.

    OH, so you weren't being sarcastic.

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