Being dandy

The New York Times has an article on the "Dandy Handbook". The spectrum of well-dressedness stretches from… Well... hrm... actually, I don't know really know whom to put at the ends of this spectrum. I have some specific people in mind when I think about the guys in my life and the way they dress. I'm really not that fashionably informed. Bruce Lee's wife hates my personal fashion style. I like things that are brightly colored, a little more casual (like sneakers + suit), and maybe I'm more into iconography (fashion-wise) than BLW. But seeing this book made me interested in how people determine what is fashionable. I tried to look for it on the Kindle but all I got was this .

Got Caught

Dear Captain,  

Recently, a certain FF has written to us concerning some of your recent behavior. We regret to inform you that your MAN-bership to the man race has been revoked. We have recently discovered that you show a large deficiency in sports knowledge. This came as a surprise to us since we have been tracking that you play fantasy football with some regularity. But, through varying channels of information, we found that you played for the expressed purpose of "...able to talk to the guys about stuff..." Your lack of passion for sports itself and your need for some ulterior motivation, such as "...not feeling dumb when guys talk about Artest...", to know more about sports shows that your are no longer fit to be a part of our organization. If you are interested in retaining your MAN-bership please make the following changes. 1. Stop reading web sites related to computer technology. While this is certainly acceptable behavior for a MAN-ber, all of our MAN-bers balance this out by reading an equal amount of sports news and/or play some sort of fantasy sport because they enjoy it. 2. Reduce the time you play your Nintendo DS. Yeah we know you do it. You don't even play sports games on it. Increasing your hero's strength doesn't make it a sports game. 3. Play an actual sport more than once every three months. In your defense, we note that you are highly competitive and have shown some competency in athletics. Unfortunately you lack discipline and are on a downhill slide in your athletic career since you are way past 30 years of age. We have informed your wife of this development. Until you are reinstated we ask that you kindly wear more pink than you have been. The Man

Ee Vant Tu Join Ze Svidish Armï

I'm a sucker for news aggregator sites. It's an easy way to get sucked into the iBlackHole (aka the internet) without doing too much work looking for things that are somewhat interesting. So I got a link to this Swedish Armed Forces Test. It was fun! I want to know what other people get on this test. The whole flash site itself was interesting (and well done). Here are my results:

I scored a little above average on multi-tasking and spatial manipulation. There goes that theory about how guys (namely me) can't multitask. Another interesting thing was the tests on memory. I was able to memorize numbers way above average but on more standard tests of memory involving shapes and colors I absolutely sucked. I don't remember what the last test was. At the end of my test, the instructor informed that I may have what it takes to be a Swedish officer. Except for the accent. Post your results below in the comments section. I suppose you could do it as many times as you want but truest result is probably the first result.

Birthday Bash

I don't get invited to many parties, much a less a six-year old's birthday party. So in honor of that, I made the birthday boy a gift. I wrapped it too.

I know, I know. I'm a big spender. Don't be jealous that you don't have a CerFUNTicket™. When I was younger I remember the time my dad took me to the circus. I was both frightened and awestruck at the same time. I remember riding an elephant and feeling so nervous. I was so relieved to be off of it. There aren't any elephants at the night carnival, though. To ride or to eat.

Favorite memory

Xacto made an awesome gift for his wife; a list of favorite memories from friends. My shared favorite memory was so-so. But my favorite favorite memory was this one:

Mine was totally lame so I didn't respond. The most embarrassing thing that I can remember about Charis is the day I called her Felicity. Weak...

Which reminds me of another favorite memory of mine. Timmber and j810 were having a house-warming party. Timmber's parents, UncleD and AuntieV were coming out of the house. The conversation went something like this:

UncleD: [looks] Oh hi Charis!

AuntieV: [slaps UncleD and points to me] Does that look like Sam to you!?

[UncleD just shrugs, laughs, gets into the car with AuntieV and drives away.]

Awesome. I can't wait till Xacto and his wife get here. I'm SURE there will be better memories than this.

Sony + Nintendo = Not Family Friendly

It's been a while since I last posted. Getting blogger to work here in China is arduous. I only recently found about something called SOCKS. I still don't know how it works. All I know is that I am able to post. :) So our friends R&M came out to see us. Super fun couple. M reminds me of Elaine from Seinfeld. I told her this and she looked at me. "I don't know how to take that." I didn't know how she should have taken that either. So R asks me about things that I miss here and I told him nothing really. I had my Nintendo DS. Our conversation went something like this: R: Oh a DS. What's that? A: It's a handheld videogame system. I just put games into it and play. R: Oh yeah. What was the old called. Um... A 'Playboy' right? A: Um. A Playboy. R: Uh, I mean... A: You mean a Gameboy. R: Yeah that's it. This made me think about a hypothetical joining of Sony and Nintendo and I realized that this will never happen. For the very reason exhibited by R above.