Man, I can't even fucking remember anymore what number this is. Twenty-eight? Twenty-nine?

Me: What is this casting on shit in knitting and why is it needlessly complicated?
Peguero: It's how you get the yarn on the needle. It's not that complicated, you build muscle memory.
Me:
  Fuck you.
Peguero: Wow, yeah it does look complicated. But it really is muscle memory! Youtube might be helpful, it's how I learned.
Me: I think you're just showing off by this point.
Peguero: Dude, you have actually made impressive things with your magical, magical hands. If I can learn, you can not only learn but also defeat me in knitting combat.
Me: Listen, until these hands can grope eight people simultaneously, they are but useless stubs of flesh.
Peguero: FALSE. I have seen your grand works of art.
Me: But without being able to achieve my dreams, what use are these appendages?
Peguero: Your appendages will help you achieve your dreams! You just have to have faith!
Me: How can I grope eight people at once???
Peguero: I don't know, but by god if anyone can figure it out, it's you.

Thanks for coming to the party everyone! How did the addition of a BBQ work out? Do you think I can approve it?

PSA: My mom set the pick up time for the fried chicken at 12:00, which is when the party starts. I deeply apologize if I'm not there.

Me:
Pokken Tournament.
Alex: What's next, sexy maid Pikachu?
Me: Wouldn't work. No tits.
Alex: You of all people should know that wouldn't stop anyone.

Surprise: People are still seeding anime subs from the early 2000s. Good work, guys.

For years I've been reading about the benefits of globalization. And they have materialized: clothing is cheaper, different varieties of food are available... On the other hand, it has destroyed our home industry. Factories went overseas. We moved to a service-based economy. It's hard to find a job with only a high school degree. So what happens to the people who depended on those jobs? Usually the idea is thrown about to retrain them, but in all seriousness who the hell would hire a fifty-something who has no previous experience in the field?

I mentioned before how the lack of solution to this problem helped lead to Trump. At some point there is going to be a boiling point if a group of people are kept down long enough with no recourse. It doesn't have to happen in only a democracy. That's why the French Revolution and Russian Revolution were so violent.

I wonder sometimes if economists take that into consideration. Yeah, globalization may have helped us overall, but it left behind a group of people. That's the nature of things: there are haves and have nots. But if there are too many have nots or there isn't enough to help alleviate their situation, a society can get wrecked. Surely someone must've studied this. If you drop enough factory jobs in the US, when is places like Alabama, West Virginia, Ohio, or South Dakota going to raise bloody hell? Did no one write a paper called, "How to retain the benefits of globalization by shipping our jobs to Bangladesh whilst assuring that the US does not suffer a possible communist revolution?"

Inflation strikes again: Book Off's $1 section is now $2 or $2.50. Times have changed. War has changed.

This is all the hair that came out of my head when I brushed it this morning. It's not an unusual amount. I've read humans lose about 100 strands a day, which seems to me mathematically impossible. Even as I stare at this clump in my hand, I can't believe this happens. If I had short hair like men usually have, OK. I can see that. But my hair reaches my lower back. How am I losing 100 strands every day and still maintain my length? It takes about a month to grow a centimeter. This shouldn't be happening.

Long day, so have fun reading this.

My mind words in weird ways: It's easier for me to remember pronunciation of a word if I look at the kanji than if I'm reading the hiragana itself.

I've read over the years several complaints from women about the rules on their business attire, saying it's discrimination on a woman's body. Complaining about how short the skirt is or not letting the shoulders show. I guess, but then again I wouldn't let a guy wear something like that either. Casual attire, OK, fine. But if we're in a business setting and I'm a boss, if a guy came in with a suit and for some reason the pants aren't at the ankles and were cropped on the thighs, I would send that guy home. Or if he came in with a tank top. That shit just is not acceptable. So why would it be for a woman? By allowing a woman to show more skin, is that in itself somewhat sexist?

My continuing problems with Apple and iTunes: iTunes like any music program allows the user to upload album covers for the mp3s. This is particularly useful for the smaller iPods because you can easily see the cover in a wave of small text. However recently Apple thought it'd be a good idea to connect your mp3s to Apple Music, their streaming program. So let's say I had a few mp3s of Brittney Spears. Instead of the cover for Hit Me Baby One More Time, I'd get whatever profile pic she chose for Apple Music, along with options to listen to her other songs. I guess that would be kinda useful, but it would be particularly aggravating if I really just wanted to see the album cover I already had uploaded. But that's a small gripe in the grand scheme of things. The real question is what if I had music by someone else called Brittney Spears? I'm fucked then, aren't I? I'm stuck with a picture from this bitch from the 90's.

That's how I got into this situation:

Who the fuck is this bearded douchebag and why is he stealing the name of a beloved cartoon that's probably older than he is? Get the fuck out of my phone!

The other day I was leafing through an origami book and the author wrote something along the lines of, "Go to this youtube video here to learn about the first steps and then when you're done you can start attaching them as described below." I'm always taken aback whenever I see a link in a book. Not just that it feels weird to see a reference to a digital medium when I'm holding a physical book, but because of the ramifications. I rambled about physically owning something so you can retain it for decades, but at the end of the day no one's expecting Sony to go bankrupt anytime soon and all our PSN shit will be for naught. Link decay however is an issue. I paid for this book. And part of it will be useless the moment that address changes. Which could've been avoided if, you know, the author just wrote the fucking diagram, which is what I bought the book for.

And now that Olympics season has begun, my phone won't stop buzzing every hour as a new gold medal is awarded. Because of recent events, I fly to my phone to hear about the latest economic meltdown, terrorist attack, police shooting, coup, and instead I find out someone won men's fencing.

Half the time when I look at glitch videos, I wonder what the hell the player was doing to achieve this. How did you figure this shit out? It's not even something I would remotely think of while playing, like "Hey, if I open this menu forty times as I stand two pixels away from this, I beat the game." How does this happen? How long do you spend standing up against walls, pressing buttons, equipping random shit at random points, hoping you'll get something?

The Zeta and Wing Gundams can transform into planes, which is fine but why are they doing this in space? Does it serve any purpose? The wings don't change anything because it's not like they need air to fly. It's not like turning to a plane will cut down on wind resistance. The only reason why NASA's shuttles are in that shape is because they wanted them to survive entering the atmosphere instead of having to replace a burnt-up capsule each time. It didn't help with space exploration. So why do they keep doing that?

Nothing is fucking worse than a mosquito bite on the bottom of your foot. You can't leave it alone because each step you take irritates the shit out of it and I just wanna scratch the night away.

Busy, so here's a silly vine:

I wrote in the last post I'm an independent simply because I don't want nagging for donations, and that's probably a bigger fuck up on my part. The Sanders campaign touted "$27," his average donation amount, meaning ordinary people funded him instead of the rich. That's nice and all, but besides Sanders who else can claim that?

We all agree money is a problem in politics, but what have we done to remedy that? Again, it's great that people are contributing to the Sanders campaign, but the president isn't in charge of the money. Isn't in charge of making the laws. Isn't the one being lobbied. It's congress. How many of us contribute money to our congressman or senators? I've given $0 to Rangel, Schumer, or Gillibrand, and I can guarantee most of us claim the same. So without any cash from the citizens, legislators turn to big donors and then they have greater sway in the Capitol Building. I did some poking around, and it turns out on average for senators about 14% of their campaign funds come from the small donations, congressmen about 10%. So really, how can we whine about money and politics when none of us are trying to solve it?

This is the first year I've seen where no one is happy with either presidential candidate, and The New York Times made a graphic showing how we got to this situation: Only 9% of the population voted for either Clinton or Trump. Less than 10% of the population got us into this situation.

I'm probably part of the problem. I opted out of being out of either political party just solely because I didn't want them bugging me for donations, but honestly I don't really think I would've helped in this situation; New York went mostly for Clinton and the other Republican candidates had dropped out by then. Still, I wonder why people complain about politicians if they don't try to resolve the situation. Yeah, OK, New York will always go Democrat (unless there's a major switch in the parties), but you can affect congress, which honestly at this point I think would make a greater impact than the presidential election. Why the hell aren't we participating?