Happy Birthday Ras!  I hope you had a WONDERFUL day.  I wish I could’ve been there with you today.  Miss you…

This is about 1000 won worth of rice cakes. They’re crunchy, airy, slightly sweet, and full of empty calories, but I still love them. These tastes great when spread with a little peanut butter and a drizzle of honey.

He is. You can’t deny it… I’m a couple episodes away from being caught up to this season’s “24.” Ras and I watched Season 5 in the last two weeks. I still haven’t watched Season 3 yet, but will do so in the next couple of months. Even without watching one whole season, I hold steadfast to the following opinions and observations:

1. Jack Bauer is a bad ass. (He can do practically anything. He can kill like a normal person breathes.)
2. Jack Bauer is almost always right. (Everyone questions Jack when he goes off protocol, but 95% of the time, he’s right. Why do they even question him?)
3. “Protocol.” If I ever wanted to work for the US government, I’d need to quickly and effectively be able to use this word at least five time a day at work. (e.g. “Jack, we can’t do that. It’s against protocol.”)
4. I really like the characters - Jack, Tony Almeda, Mike Novick, Aaron Pierce and David Palmer.
5. I really didn’t like - Jack’s (dead) wife Teri and his daughter Kim. (They were so weak and whiny. It pained me to watch the first season because I wanted to slap them every time they were on screen.)
6. As you can see, I like the “strong” characters, ones that can take a beating from terrorists and still come out fighting. Teri and Kim? They shrieked and jumped from the sound of gunfire.
7. I kinda don’t like - Audrey Raines. (Jack is too good for her. Plus, her face is too long and bony.)
8. I have a love/hate relationship with Chloe O’Brian. I like that she’s smart, but then she ruins it with her signature constipated/smirk. (See picture below.)
9. If I were a CTU field agent, I *know* I couldn’t kill someone by biting their neck (season 6), but kill someone with a gun and silencer? No problemo.
10. Oh yeah, did I mention that Jack Bauer is a bad ass? (Tortured by the Chinese for 20 months and not once uttering a single world? Do we really need to discuss it any further?)

None of these are the “real” constipated/smirk. I’ll be watching for it this season though. It’s where she looks down (to make sure no one can see she’s doing something out of protocol for Jack), scrunches her forehead because thinking so hard hurts, and looks left and right quickly.

I LOVE fine paper.  Everything about it - the texture, fibers, weight, the feel of sheets between your fingers, the sound different papers make when you fold or crumple them, how the texture and font of a business card can convey so much, and how my mind runs wild with ideas when I see beautiful paper.  So… I was in heaven last week when I went to Japan to do a visa run and came upon this…

View this in the original size on Flickr.

I was searching online for an answer of how to embed a YouTube video in Wordpress, because my previous post would just show up with a red X where the video would have been. Plugins are still over my head and I had better things to do than figure it out today. Upon browing, I came upon the answer, and found myself staring at Steve Wozniak’s (co-founder of Apple) business card.

For an order of 1000 cards, they’re $2.25 a piece! Even though they’re nice, my ideal card would be a quality letterpressed business card.  They’re at least $1.25 for each card, with $100 or $200 minimum orders.  Still, they’re defintely worth it.  Just look at the details in the examples below.  Is it crazy that I would rather take 50 letterpress cards than a brand new video iPod?

[What is letterpress?]