SoulGook

Grilling

SoulGook — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:23:50 +0000

So I picked up the Aroma dual-flip griddle/grill about a week ago and it worked great! The reviews on Amazon kinda confuse me, since I’m not foreseeing any trouble and the size is perfect for me and the few friends I actually cook with. And…long heating time? If I’m grilling, I’m not expecting it to be fast anyway.

Anyhow, looks like Matt and I are going to try another grilling excursion tonight, but until then, this is what happened last week:

The meats included shrimp, chicken, and squid (which I cleaned myself!). I marinated the chicken and shrimp in a basic Vietnamese lemon grass marinade, while I just put a bit of salt and lime on the squid. Then we wrapped everything with rice noodles in rice paper as we ate. So yummy!

I’m gonna try bulgogi-style beef tonight, but sticking with the same basic idea. Wish me luck!

Look what Diddy did

SoulGook — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:17:26 +0000

So, a few days ago, I went to Burger King and I discovered something hilariously awesome. Check out this cup:

Nothing out of the ordinary right? It’s a pretty nice looking cup with some decent colors. Certainly nothing to write a blog post about. Until you turn it around:

Look down there at the bottom. That’s the Sean John signature! Here’s a close-up:

That’s right. Apparently, Puffy’s taken to designing fast food cups. Which is simultaneously hilarious and horrible. I went to Belk the other day and the Sean John Collection was taken down. I couldn’t get my quick Diddy-style fix. And it’s all because he’s too busy designing fast food cups?!

Well, they better not stop making Sean John “Unforgivable” cologne. That’s all I have to say.

Happy Independence Day!

SoulGook — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:44:09 +0000

Take that, England!

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What What?

SoulGook — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:41:11 +0000

South Park apparently did a Samwell send-off at some point. But I don’t watch it anymore, so I wouldn’t know

The Cutest Little Decepticons EVER!

SoulGook — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:08:49 +0000

I don’t know who did this, but he/she is brilliant and deserves undying admiration.

Edit: Both other versions I posted got axed.

What I had for dinner

SoulGook — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:31:03 +0000

I cooked today. It took me about 40 minutes, and I am proud of it:

It’s rice with two dishes: 1) water spinach sauteed with garlic and onions (rau muống xào tỏi) and 2) sweet-and-sour pork (thịt heo xào chua-ngọt).

Nom nom nom.

Okay, prisoners are a protected group, but THIS IS SO AWESOME

SoulGook — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:10:15 +0000

One of the things we’ve discussed in my Fieldwork class is the clinical basis of a lot of the human subjects testing regulations used even in the humanities. Thus, while children are rightfully considered a protected group requiring special handling, other groups you might not think about, such as pregnant women and prisoners, are as well. So when I saw a video of a huge room full of Filipino prisoners dancing, those issues were the first thing I thought about. But honestly, this is better than that, and ultimately, it looks like these guys are having a lot of fun. Without further ado, Soulja Boy’s “Crank Dat” (segues into MC Hammer):

And “Hare Hare Yukai,” the ending theme from the Haruhi anime:

Indian movies: the source of constant entertainment

SoulGook — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:29:51 +0000

So, some of y’all might be familiar with Chiru/Megastar, a mostly Telegu-language actor, who did this interpretation of Thriller:

Although the next clip is old, it’s new to me, and while it doesn’t have the MJ homage factor, it’s pretty awesome:

Funny Vietnamese kid + Monkey King!

SoulGook — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:34:08 +0000

So, some folks may have seen these videos before (particularly the first one):

But I’ve found this kid’s latest greatest creation, and it’s awesome.

Silly Programming Fun

SoulGook — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:41:23 +0000

I guess I should make this a private post, because I don’t really want people to come around and think I’m one of those hoaxers who post up fake screenshots of their programs and act badass for a few weeks before falling off the face of the planet. However, I don’t really care quite that much, so I’ll just leave this post up…

Anyway, something I’d fiddled with since I was a wee programmer in middle school was the idea of emulating one machine with another. That’s led to my current project, trying to emulate the original Nintendo (NES) on the Nintendo DS. I’ve spent the past few days working on a CPU core, and it’s more or less done and runs at nearly 4x the real NES CPU. What that means is that it’s taking up about 25% of the processor power, so I have the rest of the processing time for the PPU (the graphics processor) and the APU (the audio processor). Of course, I plan on putting most of the APU on the DS’s second processor, so I have a little more processor time for the graphics. Also, I figure once I fill out a few other things on the CPU (it doesn’t handle the special writes for I/O ports yet), that’ll take up a little more as well.

I still need to do a lot of reading on the PPU, so there won’t be working demos or screenshots or anything anytime soon. If you come across this post and get all excited about an NES emulator on the DS…just calm down. Use nesDS or nesterDS or something.