Good Eats

I recently read two articles (from Yahoo of course) that talked about “The Best….” in the US.  One was for pizza, and the other was for seafood.  I figured I can comment on these a bit, but maybe not in the way you would expect. 

I am by no means a “foodie.” However, I am a big fan of eating “the best” of something.  My definition of “best” does not mean expensive, it could be super cheap and from a total dive of a place and just gets a lot of good feedback. Although, some of them are a little expensive (but obviously it’s not an everyday thing). I guess it’s more like the food you would see on Diners, Drive-ins and Dives with this guy:

Which kinda reminds me of this guy (without the flame shirts, chain necklaces, facial hair (jealous) and bleach blonde hair):

Man, who is that good lookin guy? Whoever he is, that must be the look that he gives the customer service people at Best Buy while saying something super tough like "don't test me" or "when I finish this transaction, I'm gonna finish YOU next" or "is that the direction of the Sandisk SDHC Extreme memory cards? Do you know if the UHS-1 feature is compatible with the Nikon D7000?  Thanks so much, you're great, and I love your face."

Ok, getting off track.  So I thought I’d list out a few of my favorite places, and give you an opportunity to comment on some of your own. Unfortunately, I’m not the most well-traveled person so my favorites are limited to  Chicago and New York (and Vernon Hills).

Best Pizza

Here’s the Yahoo! article – Pizza Pizza

From this list, I’ve eaten at several of these.  Obviously there are tons of pizza places across the US and the debate will be ongoing.  However, before I went out to New York a few years ago, I looked up some top pizza place lists on the internet (great invention by the way, the internet, Dave Internet or Billy Internet or whoever made it was an absolute genius).  At the top of several of them was a place called Di Fara.  There is a lot of info out there on this place, but the high level summary is that there is a guy named Dom who has been cooking pizzas in Brooklyn for years.  He’s in his 70’s now, and since he’s the only one who touches the pizzas, he takes a break for a few hours a day, then he’s back at it.  Honestly the best pizza I’ve ever eaten, and I’m pretty positive I will not have a pizza that good ever again.  It’s kind of off the map and a hassle to get to, there are long lines and you will wait forever, but it’s worth it (at least once).  The other favorite of mine in New York is Joe’s Pizza.  Similar to Di Fara, it’s a small, dive of a place. But the pizza, which is super cheap, is amazing.  You can buy by the slice here, and there are always people there (but no wait really the times I’ve gone).  There is a wall full of celebrities on the wall who have come in.  This is more of a cheap pizza compared to Di Fara, but it’s still amazing.  I’ve eaten there about 12 times, and I’ve only been to New York like 5.   You do the math. Then there is Chicago-style pizza.  I like it, but nowhere near as much as NY-style.  My favorites: Peaquods and Pizanos.  I’ve tried Great Lakes and Spacca Napoli or whatever in Chicago, but to me, meh.  It’s aight. 

Best Seafood

Here’s the Yahoo! article – Seafood

Now this article points out fancy seafood places, but my favorites start with Big and Littles (featured on DDD) and Bob Chin’s Crab House.  Big and Littles has great tacos, burgers (delicious), and I like the truffle fries a lot (although they are sometimes too salty).  Must haves: salmon poke, samurai white fish taco, and a plain ol’ cheeseburger.  Foie gras fries are good too, but expensive, and I haven’t figured out if I like foie gras that much yet.  Bob Chin’s – a friend said it best. “I love the food, but why hasn’t that place been updated since the 80’s? Wooden plates, old silverware, and paper towels for napkins.”  I completely agree.  The food is expensive (but good seafood always is), but everything they have there is soo good.  Their steak is surprisingly good as well, but the best is the free stuff: garlic rolls.  Don’t fill up too much on these, or else you’ll cry that you spent so much on dinner and didn’t eat half of your entrée.  And I have to agree with Yahoo!, GT Fish and Oyster is wonderful.  Oysters are around $2.50 to $3.50 each, but if you go after 10:00 P.M., half off since they have to sell off the fresh stuff.  The clam chowder soup is the best I’ve ever had, they top it off with a little hotsauce and these tiny crouton-esque cracker things that they make themselves.  It’s more of a place where you order multiple smaller dishes (because the entrees aren’t very big), but price is definitely high and you’ll find yourself with a big bill at the end, even without dranks.  Finally, the lobster roll at GT Fish and Oyster is great, but my favorite I’ve had is Luke’s Lobster in NYC.  A little shack where the owner gets fresh lobsters and seafood shipped each morning from his family’s seafood market/distributor in Maine.  Similar to the others, expensive, but they have a nice sampler for 2 people (each person gets a sampler size of the lobster roll, shrimp roll, and I think the third was a fish roll of some sort, chips and a soda).  Now I know some of my readers are from San Jose/San Fran area, and I’m sure they have dope seafood places, but I haven’t been to them. 

Best Italian Beef

Yelp - Al's Beef 

Portillo’s? No. Mr Beef? No.  Al’s Number 1 Italian Beef.  Untouchable.  Get it with hot peppers and dipped (soaked in the beef juice), cheese fries or bleu cheese fries (if you are into that sort of thing), and you will be one happy camper.  Not camper like when you’re playing Call of Duty and you just sit in a little corner hiding and smoke the fools who run by you, but camper like a person who goes camping.  Is that what that phrase means? Happy camper? Do that many people go camping that the phrase is so commonly used? I don’t know.  I’ve only been camping once, excluding any time of camping stuff as a Cub Scout.  Scout’s Honor.  I wonder when Girl Scouts will be selling cookies again…thin mints…mmmmmm.  They had some sort of showdown between Mr. Beef and Al’s, and they said Mr. Beef won.  Not sure what type of criznack the judge(s) was smoking, but Mr. Beef isn’t that good.  Sorry.  The guy was kind of a *ick to me because I walked in near the close time, the hot peppers tasted like small pieces of celery rolled around in clear Tabasco sauce.  Never going there again (or Best Buy North Ave or Target Elston).  I almost saw Kevin James at Al’s Beef once.  I came in, and the people were talking about how Kevin James was just there.  Darn it!  I love Hitch. Allegra Cole…NICE. 

Best Wingys

Yelp - Buffalo Joes 

Buffalo Joe’s (Howard street in Chicago or Northwestern campus in Evanston). Already talked about it before, they don’t let you go to the bathroom without a costume.  But their wings are friggin great and you should go there, like right now.  Hopefully your reading this on your smartphone and already there.  Hopefully not on an iPhone 5 though, because I’m still waiting for one and someone (cough Best Buy North Ave) is gonna get pizunched in the fiznace pretty soon.  Can’t name another place, because Buffalo Joes is that good.

Best Japanese Steakhouse
Yelp - Tsukasa of Tokyo
Not Benihana, not Ron of Japan, it's Tsukasa of Tokyo, located in Vernon Hills location. It's so good, all the Bears players (used to) go there after their games on Sundays.  Sat at a table by Devin Hester once. Regardless, the fried rice is awesome.  If you haven't been there, check it out.

Best Korean Food
Yelp - Cho Sun Ok
Cho Sun Ok, Lincoln Ave in Chicago.  I'm sure there are 50,000 Korean joints in California, but I like this the best in Chicago. Sometimes there is a wait, and as with typical Korean service, they probably will not be super friendly or ask you if you want anything to drink (they will hand you a menu then walk away without saying anything).  Especially if you're white. Just kidding. Or am I?

Best Chinese Food
Yelp - Lao Sze Chuan
Lao Sze Chuan, Chinatown, Chicago.  This place is awesome, Michelin Guide Recommended, not super expensive.  Warning, some of the food is extremely spicy.  Things to get: shrimp in mayonnaise sauce (sounds super gross, but it's seriously awesome), spicy cold noodles.   Even the little free appetizer that comes out, kind of a spicy cabbage, will set your ish on fire.  But it's good. And just like every chinese restaurant, they have like 600 items on the menu. This ain't no fancy schmancy restaurant with 2 tables and a menu with 4 items.  These guys roll deep.  

Worst Restaurant
Best Buy North Avenue, Target Elston / Logan.  Fine, they aren't restaurants.  But screw them. Potential add to the list: Best Buy Glenview on Willow Road (called Best Buy Glenview, but the address is Northbrook...what?).  Had awesome experiences here before, but I called to check on my iPhone 5 preorder status, and the guy said they called me and I never picked up, so they gave it to someone else.  You gots to be kidding me.  After a few angry e-mails and responses, apparently mine hasn't come in yet.  It's only been a month, right? Starting to get really annoyed.  This blog is turning into me *itching about consumer experiences.  But one big victory for hystErical? Klipsch S4i headphones.  Bought them 11 months ago, then one ear went out.  Kinda pissed because they cost $100 and I take pretty good care of them (as I do with all my gear, I still have my 3rd Generation iPod, the one with the wheel).  The victory? E-mailed them, got a response, sent over my receipt (I keep EVERYTHING - my closet is filled with boxes and receipts for stuff that I bought, I NEVER throw away the box), and boom, new pair on the way.  Wish all companies were like Klipsch.  Ok, that's my rant. Sorry for the delay in blog posts.  Eat good (and cheap), hate Best Buy, keep your original packaging and receipts, and koreanvent yourself.  You can do it.

Saveology - You're Out

Scam alert!  I saw a deal for a $15 ExxonMobil gift card for $7.50 from Saveology.com a few weeks back.  Went ahead and bought it.  Got the e-mail that it was ready to be redeemed.  Then I downloaded the voucher, and it is not really a voucher per se, it's a PDF file with a super long code that has to be activated by calling them and giving them the voucher number.  Thought that was a little weird, just send me the darn gift card. Why go through the extra step? I would soon find out....

Anyway, called, short wait time and the lady was friendly.  Gave her my info so she can send me my card.  At the end, she told me I'm getting e-mailed a $100 gift card for $4.95, for use at Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Red Lobster, etc.  Obviously sounds too good to be true, but who doesn't love Red Lobster? Seriously, where did they all go? I LOVE Red Lobster.  Went there a lot as a kid, and wish I still did.  Sorry getting off topic, so she offers me this thing, and it sounds a little odd, so I start asking all sorts of questions like I am super confused.  In actuality? I am confused, but I'm also stalling so I can research this so called "deal" on the internet.  Go to Yahoo!, search engine of choice (sorry Ne-l).  Finally find a "Ripoff Report" that describes exactly what I'm being offered.

Basically, they aren't giving you a $100 gift card, they are giving you a bunch of random coupons.  But the way she was wording it, made it totally sound like a gift card.  Saying they want me to say good things about Saveology to my friends, so they are offering me this sweet deal.  First off, I have no friends.  So this whole "two-way street" thing won't work.  Secondly, even if this was a real deal and I told people about it on this blog, there would only be three people that knew about it, and 2 of them stopped reading when they got to the second paragraph because this sounds like a waste of time.  Okay back to topic:
So I start saying, "Can I bring this voucher into Best Buy, and use it like cash just like I would if I bought a gift card from them?" She was careful in how she answered: "yes, well, it's similar to that...but you would have vouchers with excellent benefits to save, for example, 40% on your purchase, etc etc." So after I asked the "right" questions, I realize the random post on the internet is right.  They are trying to sell you a bunch of useless coupons.  I passed on it, but was still friendly as I still want them to send me my ExxonMobil gift card.

So here are some rules in life, in case you didn't know better:
- "If it sounds too good to be true, then it is too good to be true" People who seem like they are trustworthy, aren't ALWAYS trustworthy. People who are in a position to take advantage of people, most like have done so at some point in their lives.  That's why I treat people as if they are spies.  Haven't you seen Salt before? With Angelina Jolie? Yeah, spies.  Everyone.  Right under your nose.  TRUST NO ONE.
- "Trust no one, even people you think you know" - Because if you haven't seen Mission Impossible, there are machines out there that can make masks of people's faces and you will think it is your friend, but really it's not, but if the people with the machines forgot to get the voice synthesizer machine too, then they won't say anything, they'll just nod their heads, and that should be a dead giveaway that the person who you are talking to, who you think you know, is not really that person, and that person you don't know forgot to buy or use the voice synthesizer.

Sounds kinda crazy to go through life like that, always worrying and not trusting people.  But if I wasn't like that, then I'd be the proud owner of $100 worth of garbage coupons, out $4.95, and this post would be twice as long.  I also would have made one man very happy, a man who stands by the gas station by my apartment and has told me on multiple occasions he's from the suburbs and needs bus money to get back there today, although I see him all the time.  Must be one expensive bus ticket.

- "Give a man a good job, he'll stay on that ish, but when the job get hard, the coward gon quit.  Everybody show you love when they thinkin you rich, but you can see they true colors when the smoke get thick..." - Papoose, Rapper / Philosopher
- There are so many people out there trying to take advantage of others.  That's why I always nod my head and show signs of agreement when people talk to me, but really in my head, I think "I don't believe you..in fact, this conversation might not even be real, I am probably in a dream, a dream about someone lying to my face, I might not even be typing this because it's a dream"
- "If a deal website tries to trick you (cough...Saveology..cough), then trick them back.  Buy one deal then never buy from them again. And then see who's laughing all the way to the gas station as they get their almost 2 free gallons of gas...suckaaaaaaas" - Real talk.

So what is the point of this post? The point is, you probably shouldn't listen to word I say, because you shouldn't trust anyone, including me.  I don't even exist.  If you fall too easily for people's deceptions, you need get your koreanvention on. Now I've been duped before, but lesson learned.  Somehow a company got my credit card info from Chase and was charging me $20 for coupons every month as a recurring charge, then I finally figured it out.  Add that to the list: look through your credit card statements.  I know that if it isn't Subway, discounted electronics, Subway, or some sort of media with the words "Harry" and "Potter" in the description, then I'm going to investigate like Lucy Liu in that new Sherlock Holmes TV show that looks like it will probably not be that good.

Another thing, remember to ask the right questions.  Going back to the guy at the gas station who says he needs money for a bus ticket to the suburbs. If that happens to you? Turn the tables.  Say, "which suburb? Oh, really? I don't have any cash on me, but guess what? I'm from that suburb and I'm headed there soon! I'm going to go pick up my grandmother, our pitbull named LiarBiter, and my DEA brother-in-law named Hank, and I'll be back to pick you up. We are running out of room in the back seat though, so do you mind riding in the trunk? Did someone say "ROADTRIP!" Yayyyy!"

Then see what he says.

Bridezilla!

Funny article on Yahoo! today about a bride's e-mails to her bridesmaids.  I scanned through it, pretty entertaining. But the best, as it usually is on internet articles, were the comments below.  Here's the article:

Bridezilla Emails to Bridesmaids

So scan through that, or don't.  It's basically a soon-to-be bride saying outrageously demanding and ridiculous things to her bridesmaids.  Then, then read this:

This VincentK is quite the character...must be koreanvented.  Shot out to Dr. Acula for being the top comment poster this past week. A pack of O-Negative will be shipped to your place prior to the release of the new Twilight movie.

Same Same Same Same, Arby's Is Different

First thing I usually do when I get to work is pop open Yahoo to see what the main news articles are. Today, there was Mitt Romney's garbage man, retiring at 50 (yeah right), and Arby's new logo.

I've always loved Arby's, there was one in Morton Grove that I went to often as a kid.  Anyway, apparently they have a new logo and are emphasizing their fresh cut meat.  I have been eating Subway almost everyday since I started this new job.  Checked my credit card statement online yesterday, I've eaten at Subway about 40 times in the past 2.5 months. And I get the same thing every time.  Kinda like when I ate Chipotle for dinner for two years.  Food is kind of like music for me, whereas I listen to the same song on repeat for days, then stop listening to it.

Anyway, yeah new logo.  It's kinda cool, I wouldn't have even noticed it unless I read that article.  No other updates today, life is boring, that's why I need to koreanvent myself.  

New Website Idea

I heard some yelling from outside my window tonight. Took a quick peek, it's two girls trying to parallel park their SUV.  They are trying to park into the LARGEST OPEN SPOT that you will ever see in Chicago. Like I could fit a limo in there.

Anyway, I see the girl give it a go, and I can tell immediately that she's gonna hit the curb with her back right tire.  Boom, yep, hit it.

Now this is where it got weird.  Rather than try to do it again, or even straighten out a little bit, she just gives up.  Seriously.  Just turns the car off, gets out with her friend, and they walk away.  Snapshot time.

I'm not about to say I'm good at parallel parking, it's tough.  But I guess I'm different where I'll keep trying until I get it.  If there are a lot of people watching (like outside of a restaurant with a patio), hell, I'll just drive away and find another spot if I don't get it in two tries.  Yeah, that's how I roll (or park I should say).  If you hear them laughing as you drive away, wait a minute, then drive by again with the windows down and just yell "I got sick eating at that restaurant last week, have fun throwing up." But no, this girl just parked, didn't even straighten out her wheels.

That's where the new website kicks in. It will be called "peopletryingtoparallelpark.com"  I'm saving money though, so I'll have to use a free website.  So scratch that last one, it's "peopletryingtoparallelpark.blogspot.com"  Catchy.  I love watching people do it.  I especially like the people who go forward/reverse only after hitting the car directly in front or behind them.

It will have videos of people failing on their parallel parking, photos of poorly parked cars, and maybe some Harry Potter sound clips.  Think about it.  We can create it together, we will be MILLIONAIRES.

Speaking of millionaires, I got a Fortune magazine in the mail with America's most powerful women yesterday, and they are all rich.  That could be me after this website takes off.  Just sayin.

I've been getting Fortune magazine for almost three years, but I've never paid for them.  The guy that used to live here must have bought a 5 year subscription or something because they keep coming and coming, and I just keep tossing them in the garbage and get back to reading my favorite book: no book.  I don't gots time to read.  I only have time to try and pimp out my electronics and write on this blog.  The last book I read was Harry Potter 6, and that's only because the movie hadn't come out yet and I wanted to know what happened next (and let me tell you, it was awesome). Sincerely, the Half-Blood Prince, the koreanvented version.

Go Tuck Yourself...and your wires

Seems like it's DIY week here at the hystERICal household.  Not sure why I use that anonymous pen name when my actual name is in the URL to this website, but let's just pretend you don't know who I am, and I don't know who my three blog readers are.

I've done this project before, but things started getting messy again so I did a re-do.  One thing I hate is having a bunch of wires causing clutter.  So I decided to do some work on hiding wires so they aren't as obtrusive.  When I did this the first time, I went to Home Depot to get some twist ties.  Guess what? Home Depot doesn't sell twist ties. How in the world does a store of that size, that will sell you everything from holiday decorations to 50 styles of toilets, not carry twist ties? Blows my mind.  I was about to go to the produce section of Dominicks and just steal a bunch of twist ties next to those thin plastic bags.  Then I found zip ties.

The great thing about zip ties is that they are really easy to tighten up wiring and are extremely secure. The downside is that once you zip it, you can't undo it.

This process was easier for me because my computer desks have some metal bars and glass that make it easy to attach the wires, so this won't work for everyone.  I start at the top, measuring the amount of cable/wire I need to plug them into the monitor, then tape them down.

From there, keep the wires as tight as possible and zip tie them to the metal bar. 

Then you follow the wire along the metal bars to the end of the table.  From here is where it gets a little harder.  For me, two of my power cords have those large black box thingies (very technical, but that's me, Mr. Technical).  So I ended up just shoving these into a tight space so you can't really see them unless you're under the desk.  Not very professional, but my end game was to not see wires, and this is the easiest way I could do it. 

Then, you measure out how long you need the other ends of the cords/cables to go, as seen below. 

Now, I had the wonderful opportunity of doing all of this, then realizing that my HDMI>Display Port cable to go from my monitor to my work computer was backwards.  Awesome.  This is where the zip tie thing really sucks.  I had to cut all of the zip ties I had just attached with scissors, then basically re-do the entire process.  Ughhhhhhhhh.  That was the reason I did this actually, my monitor can use HDMI, my work laptop has a Display Port input, so I got to replace that bulky VGA cable and get digital (I mean it's 2012, so why wouldn't I).  Ok, so now I've redone the zip ties again, cut the ends of them with scissors so they don't stick out, and voila, finished product:

So that concludes the play-by-play. I'm sure none of you are actually going to do this, but hey, it's one step closer to Koreanventing myself. Knowing how things have happened to me in the past, tomorrow they will invent wireless everything and all of this will have been for nothing.  But until tomorrow, in your face wires.  IN YOUR FACE!

Elevate Your Wireless Router Game, Son

So I saw a deal yesterday for a wireless router.  I already have one, but of course I read the comments about the deal.  Everyone was talking about DD-WRT and Tomato, and not knowing what it was definitely sparked my interest.

Ends up, DD-WRT and Tomato are types of firmware that you replace your factory firmware with for your wireless router.  Been around for years but I just didn't know. The firmware that comes with your router most likely sucks, so some tech wizards decided to create their own.  I was learning all of this after sitting down at Chick-fil-a, which was my dinner after going to a Photoshop workshop at the Lincoln Park Apple Store.  I was trying to score an iPhone 5 (didn't happen), and saw the different workshops they had, so I signed up.  The workshop was interesting, nothing too crazy that I didn't know before, but nice to get a chance to play around with CS6 and learn a few tricks here and there.  The bad: the workshop is done at a table in the main store, so it was super loud and hard to hear the girl talking.

Ok, back to the router thingy.  So I learn about flashing my router with this new firmware, and of course I'm going to waste 2 hours of my life to try it.  I get home, and get started.  I read all the information, and believe me, there are TONS.  The instructions tell you to read pages upon pages, check hardware compatibility, etc.  The reason is that if you screw this up, your router is rendered useless (bricked).  So that did scare me a bit.  Usually when I try stuff like this, I screw it up then spend hours trying to fix it. I proceeded with caution, and installed DD-WRT on my Cisco Linksys WRT310N v2.0.  It's an older router, poor reviews due to the overheating of the unit (although mine's never had an issue, probably because I have it mounted on the wall instead of laying flat on the ground).

End result? I got it installed, but can't really take advantage of the firmware.  Basically, what you're doing by installing this is adding the ability to customize your router settings more than you could with the plain ol' Cisco software.  I could increase the range of my router by increasing the power output.  The danger with that is you can easily overheat your router.  I can't really use this because my place isn't very big and I don't need range outside of my unit.  The other big advantage is overclocking your router, but apparently mine can't do that.  So if you need more range out of your router, then it might be worth trying.  If not, probably not worth the trouble.  I still want to try and tweak the settings to see if I can get some extra performance.

Then this got me thinking, do I need to upgrade my wireless router? The new ones all have simultaneous dual-band, which mine is 2.4Ghz only (and when I say new, I mean anything after like 2010, because my router is old, stop judging).  You would want to if you drop connections all the time (because if you live in an apartment complex, there are so many devices using that frequency that it gets congested).  Me personally, yes I live in a large apartment complex, but I rarely drop connections and my speeds are decent.  So for now, no upgrade.  Then I started thinking about gigabit ethernet ports.  My router has four.  But then I realized that this is only really for people who have a home network that has multiple devices plugged in (not WiFi) that want to transfer files between those devices.  Again, not needed. For now, I'll stick with my setup and keep on keepin on.  Although, I do want to check my network cables to see what Category type they are, I have an urge to rewire my room so I can have my work laptop and my home computer plugged in so I can have higher transfer between the two when moving files.  See photo of my current setup here:
My Home Setup
I spent about a day hiding wires, but I think I can do better.  That will be my next project, which I'll keep you updated on.  Koreanvent your router game.

Word of the Day: Excessive

People are often too excessive with the things that they do.  Spend too much time on the internet/ Facebook, drink too much, etc.  I don't drink much these days, but I waste a lot of time sitting behind a computer, especially considering I am on a computer all day at work then I come home and do it even more.  However, I've been spending a lot of time playing CSR Racing.  I FINALLY beat everything there is to beat in the game, and to be honest, it was a little disappointing. First off, the Achievements section didn't update after I beat everything, which makes me sad.  Plus, there are a bunch of gamer geeks who figured out how to get some ridiculous scores.  So my rankings are relatively poor.  Here, you can see I've wasted over one day of my life playing this game.  Crazy right?

To think that if I spent that time on something meaningful, I could know how to say 15 words in a new language, increased my muscle mass by 10% (I don't work out much, so 10% is probably achievable), cleaned my apartment 12 times, or wrote a few Haiku's (I would first need to learn what a Haiku is, which was already calculated into my 12 Haiku projection).  Regardless, I think I'm done with this game.  I'll let you know what my new obsession becomes. 

Another example of excessive? THIS:

Dude, just move your car.  And to the Parking Monitor person: ease up.  He's not coming back.  My dad gets mad at me when I have a late fine at Blockbuster, imagine what would happen if this was me. 

Finally, license plate mystery. 

Blabber? Blubber? No, then it would be BLBER.  Then I remembered there was a book when I was a kid about this elephant who dresses like a human.  Not sure if he is, but for some reason I remember him being British.  Then I realized that was Babar. Wikipedia check - he's French.  So this one might remain a mystery.   

Oh yeah, and I signed up for Google Adsense.  It puts advertisements on my blog, and the more people that click them, the more we gets paid son.  The examples I was seeing estimated that with 1,000 hits a day, and a small percentage of those visitors clicking on the ads, they would make $5 to $300 a month.  Now, I've had 350 hits in 2 years, so to my calculations, I could be making $0.00 to $0.02 a month.  As Jim Jones would say...BALLIN! I wonder if they send me a check for that $0.02? And if so, how embarrassed would I be to cash it at my bank?  Not at all. That would mean 3,750 months, or 312.5 years, until I have enough to buy my own vanity license plate.  You might say I'll be dead by then.  I'll say that I plan to freeze myself when I turn 75 until the technology is available to keep ourselves alive for hundreds of years.  Think about it. Hopefully someone invents a freezing machine to preserve humans before I reach 75, or else I'm screwed.  Or I can stop playing games on my phone and invent it myself.  What, are you judging me now? You don't think I'm smart enough to build a freezing machine that can preserve my body and mind for 267.5 years?  Yeah, I'm good at math.  That's 312.5 years, minus the 75 years at which time I would freeze myself, but add back the 30 years I've already lived.  I'm kinda pumped to see what kinds of ads Google will put on my blog, because I talk about a lot of random stuff.  Maybe it will be for the Harry Potter movies (which I already own, in Blu-Ray, sucka).  Excited to Koreanvent myself, invent freezing machines, and write some Haiku's.