If you're lucky enough to be near a theater that's showing Ponyo, go see it!

Disney has been treating Ghibli films with the utmost care and respect so go support them and enjoy. It's a star-studded dub that keeps the original Japanese names with correct pronunciation and even honorifics (not changing "sensei" to "teacher" was thoughtful but sorta odd).

It's a gorgeous and charming masterpiece from one of the greatest directors alive today. Miyazaki never fails to amaze me so you won't be disappointed.

Give this a shot and post your score. Lower scores are better, with a 0 being perfect.

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I got an 8.

Apparently, men are supposed to have more trouble with this than women.

Since I started cooking, I gained a new appreciation for the art of cooking. I've always appreciated good food but making it yourself makes you appreciate it even more. Like how trying to draw makes me appreciate the labors or artists even more.

So I've been on this big breakfast kick for the last couple of months. It's a daily thing now when for 20+ years I couldn't eat anything before noon without feeling sick. I get some biscuits here and there from the fast food places that are good nothing stand-outish.

You may remember my rave revues for the Chick-fil-A chicken breakfast burrito earlier this month. Now, I'm in love with the Dunkin' Donuts waffle breakfast sandwich. Two mini waffles, egg, cheese, and bacon. All of high quality ingredients. Crisp bacon, fluffy eggs, and even thought he waffles were slightly burnt, they tasted fantastic. Grade-A!
Coffee, despite having the big campaign about beating Starbucks in a national taste taste, is nothing fantastic. It's good enough that I'll drink it (not a big coffee fan without some chocolate or french vanilla flavor) but not the best. All I've had from Starbucks are a few frappacinos, so I can't make that particular comparison.

I've almost forgotten about the 10-day work furlough (10 days off without pay) coming up. :/

OK, I can only use DA at work these days since all the Flash is incompatible with my Dreamcast web browser at home. No biggie, when I have down time I can just browse at work, of course, even with 2gigs of RAM on this machine, it still runs slow and even crashes my brower when certain flash ad banners pop up. To make things worse, IMVU has been running some skankier than usual ads recently. I mean, they had some slutty avatars on that side banner ad before, but it's getting kinda ridiculous. Sure, I look at some...not clean pics at work, but at least I can thumb through them kinda quickly then read comments and such without much trouble. That is, when the banner ad does JUMP TO THE MIDDLE OF MY 1/4 SCREEN WIDE WINDOW. Now, I've got some trashsy 3D avatar stuck in the middle of my screen even when I'm doing something innocent on top of the fact that it blocks what I'm reading/ogling AND I can't delete read messages/deviations since it blocks the button.

Fuck you DA, you hypocritical flash whore. Way to delete good art that isn't even that dirty but you let trailer trash whores appear in your banner ads.

If there is a Chick-fil-A near you, do yourself a favor and go there for breakfast. Their chicken breakfast burrito is A) enourmous for two bucks and change and B) the most delicious thing you will ever put in your mouth. The packet of optional salsa it comes with spanks the what you'll find in most real Mexican restaurants. Their coffee is also more than decent as you can add french vanilla or hazelnut creamer.