Brushing your teeth is so 20th century. This Florida scientist has genetically engineered a bacteria that’s the same one in your mouth that turns sugar to the acid that gives you cavities, but removed that acid-making mechanism. So now, by applying a spray once in your life, you’re basically guaranteed to never have a cavity. They’re doing human trials now, and if those are successful, the third world will be radically changed. Outside the US and Canada, people have reaaaaaaaaaly bad health. And since Eugene doesn’t flourinate its water, it’ll be good for the folks here. Damn hippies, heh. The number of cities in the US that don’t flourinate is like five, and of course the US is one of them.Since I’m started about hippies, here’s something that bothers me. Y’know how Americans (and not just Americas; Japanese schoolkids have textbooks that leave out tons of bad stuff from Japan’s expansionist history) usually get textbooks that gloss over the bad parts of our history? You’d think that in IHS we’d get the balanced approach instead. Of course not. The pendulum has swung from too patriotic to too anti-American. For instance, we learn that the US was responsible, through Ambassador Lane Wilson, for assisting the coup that removed Francisco Madero in 1911. We’re not taught that Britain, Spain and Germany, among others, were also calling for Madero to resign. For crimey’s sake, we even learn that perhaps the US and Britain had some culpability for World War II in the Pacific because we blockaded oil to Japan. We did that because we didn’t want Japan using our oil to continue offensive campaigns in Asia that had begun in 1931. It’s like saying that you are responsible for your mother’s murder because you didn’t lock the door of her home. Sheesh.

Damn, Marcus’ website is freakin’ hilarous, even if all the girls think its wicked sexist, hehe. Marcus on Spiderman: “On the super duper asian movie scale I give it….1 and 3/4 chopsticks up.” On Dating: “Yay, I’m hanging out with North Molly on Friday cause its an early release. I just called her. I’m thinking maybe a movie and then an arousing game of sex? Hahaaha, just kidding. We don’t have to go watch the movie….:)” On Genetics: “I’m not really as smart as people think I am. I figured out what makes me get good grades: I have A.I. No, not artificial intelligence, but “Asian Intelligence.” Yep, its in my genes to work hard and to be better than the white man.” On being Asian-American: “Prom was fun. Be back later with more details. Time to go to work and build some railroads…I mean, go cook some rice.” Good stuff.

Mike showed me this wicked tight site about skyscrapers, the best buildings ever. They’re trying to build this massive one in Istanbul right now, which would be sweet. If I had 2 billion clams, I’d build one too. Actually, I’d build a city. Definitely. I’m gonna live in this 18-story beast with 4000 other people starting in August. Sweet!

Y’know how I said IHS is too hard on the US? On the other hand, America can still make mistakes. Quite frankly, I’d appreciate if the US would back up statements such as “Cuba is giving rogue states weapons” before they make them. I mean, the *CIA* told Jimmy Carter before he left that Cuba had no bio weapons and they don’t know what the President is talking about. Ridiculous.

Wow, I have way too many songs.

So my prom was this weekend. Bomb! It was wicked tight. Like, I loved going to South’s prom and all that, but of course I hadda like mine better because it was my own prom after all. A bunch of my crew (me, Catherine, Marcus, Paulina, TJ, Lefty, Adam S and Sam Evans) headed to Willie’s for dinner. I highly recommend it. It was wicked good and really not that expensive at all. I think it was like 32 bucks including tip for two meals and drinks. Ya can’t beat that. I got some Fetticini Alfredo that was top choice - as good as the Olive Garden, hehe. It filled me up, at least. I had to explain to the girls that if one guy finishes his meal, every other guy also has to if they want to retain any respect.

The prom was at the McDonald Theatre, which was sweet. The theme was “Night with the Stars” and they had valet parking and a red carpet, which was tight. As much as I should be sexist and insisting on driving, Catherine’s mom let her drive a white 66 Mustang with red leather seats, so there’s no way you can turn that down. Heh, I had to remember that I’m supposed to hold the door on the driver side. How gentlemanly, hehe. At the door, they had these people with fake New York accents going like “Oh, you look faaaaaaaabulous. Tell me, darling, what is that? Gucci? Versace? Simply stunnnnnnning.” It was funny, heh. Inside, they’d taken out the seats at the bottom, and had the DJ up on stage with tons of lights and fogs so all you could pretty much see was his shadow while he spun. They were projecting the video of the song they were playing or some type of light show (if no video was there or it was a slow song) onto the ceiling, which looked tight. I totally missed a ton of stuff, though. Like, that un-fricken-believable magician from the Valley River Inn was doing tricks and they were passing out chocolate covered strawberries and I missed all of it. Ah well.

Afterwards, we headed out to the bonfire that Alisa and Yoonie were putting on out at Piscah. It’s funny cuz when we got there, I noticed that it was the same place where those freakin’ massive drunkard parties are. The last time I went there, (Will and some people I was with were trying to find the street races, so we went to Piscah cuz we figured drunkards would know) there were 6 kegs rolled by me on my walk up to the site (it’s about a half mile into the woods). This party was clean, though a few people were obviously drunk (heh, Reina was quite funny when she was drunk). I was positive it would turn into a big drunk fest, but no one brought out any bottles or anything, probably cuz no one wants to ruin Alisa’s party. That was cool. They had a fire going, and I made some wicked bomb s’mores. I consider myself a master of the s’more cooking. Always well-toasted and melty, but never burnt. Next time you’re camping with me, I’ll cook you one up.

Why computers don’t have a cent sign on them. The funniest article ever written about the ¢.

Holy Jesus, we have 15 days of school left. I can’t wait for summer, but it’s gonna be sorta sad cuz I know a lot of my “school friends” that I never see during the summer will prob’ly never be seen again. Ah well. There’s gonna be that bomb Churchill IHS sleepover thing and I’ll have a wicked party ‘fore I leave for college.

I was thinking about non-obvious obvious questions the other day. Like, “Why should we vote? No election was ever won with one vote.” Obviously, if everyone followed this, then one vote would matter cuz it’s the only one. I can also think of the analogy of tennis: Hardly any matches ever come down to one shot, but if you don’t try on any shot, you’ll lose. What am I missing here? I can’t think of the logical fallacy in the statement, yet I know it’s wrong. Lots of things like this. I’m gonna take Logic in college and then be able to kill people in arguments, heh.

Here’s another thing that’s been freaking me out. Everytime I see 9-11 somewhere, it makes me pause for a sec. Does that happen to you? Like, if I look at the clock and it says 9:11, or I have to answer questions 9-11 on my test or something like that. Pretty eery, though I don’t think I’d be able to not pause for a sec anytime in the near future if I saw it. Too much neural connection and all that.

So I’m seeing Star Wars Wednesday night at the premiere showing. It’s doing decently among critics, with some saying it’s the best thing since sliced bread and others, mostly the ones who don’t like Star Wars, saying it’s no good. However, Roger “2 and a half stars for Spiderman” Ebert says it’s not too good, so it must be pretty awesome.

“Two Steps” by Jimmy Cozier.
“Every time we take one step forward, we take two steps back.” Reminds me a little bit of Craig David. Very tight. Sarah saw this song on a Gap playlist. They also play that Blue song “All Rise”, so even though their clothes are overpriced, they have good taste in music. Usher’s “If I Want To” is a pretty up-tempo song by Usher, who has a sweet voice and taste in rhythm.Also “Shining Star (Moonrise Vocal Mix)” by CJ Stone.
CJ Stone is one of my favorite trance artists. This is nothing special, just a really solid vocal trance track with a building synth line that will get stuck in your head. “Guitarra G (Warren Clarke Mix)” by Banda Sonora is a nice, relaxing instrumental house track with a spanish guitar. Without the bass claps, it’d been perfect for falling asleep to.