First of all I wanted to thank everyone that has been reading my blog. It amazes me that people would actually take the time to read what I pummel out on my keyboard.

Thanks again.

I am going to take a break from blogger for the time being because it is summer break at my school and I don't have access to the school computer these days. I will probably start to update this blog again in the fall, but for the time being I'm going to focus on my iWeb website with Apple.

I find that it is very easy to use and very intuitive. So I'm starting the transition now. In my iWeb homepage I'm going to focus more on my writing and podcasting. I feel that a change is necessary to get my creative juices going.

Well, I hope you check out my new site. The address is http://web.mac.com/happylunatic


Thanks again and I hope will check out my new site.

Dan
dnlgray@gmail.com

I was surfing the web and I came across this picture.  It's really kinda freaky.  You might have to look at for a for a bit, but I'm sure you'll notice it.  It's kinda eerie^^

More on the ipod thread.

WorldWide wrote:

**I will not sell it to americans.

Racist.
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I don't agree with what he is saying but American is not a race and thus he is not a racist.
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건강 하게 지내세요.

I wish you good health in the future.

There is this idiot on Dave's ESL that is selling an iPod and he says that he won't sell to Americans so I posted a nice little message to him.  Since my message there has been a backlash of messages.

Here's the thread:

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I have an older iPod (4th gen). It's 60gb, in good shape, battery life is still high. Asking 225,000 won.





**I will not sell it to americans.
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pics/accesories/scratches?

ipod photo or no color?



ColoUr yes, photo no.

No pics, but it looks like any iPod. Just the basic headphones, cable and iTunes CD. No scratches. It has been cared for, but isn't brand new.
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http://www.ipodmods.com/identifying_different_ipod_model.htm#ipodphoto

According to these guys there is only 60GB ipod with photo capabilities.
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Elric, didn't I see you in Shenzen, China the other day snatching up all of those immitation iPods?!
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yeesh, why the anti-americanism?
anyway, where are you located? I'm interested in this. I'm in Wonju and I'm Canadian.
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Elric, didn't I see you in Shenzen, China the other day snatching up all of those immitation iPods?!

If it says iPod on the box. Its an iPod.
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This is my post
Yeah what's up with the anti-americanism?

Is there a special test you're going to give to the buyer like sing the Canadian anthem or give them a list of words they have to pronounce like coffee, chocolate, fish and chips, Guinness, and so on.

Now what about half-Americans like those who were adopted by Americans. Technically they were forced to be Americans. And what about those that have renounced their Americanism and are in Korea in protest?

Well good luck with campaign against Americans. Maybe you should gather them all up and tell them they are going to a "jimjilbang" when in actuality they're going to a really, really hot room that'll leave their skin an ashen hue.
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man i'd pay 300,000 for that, thats a good price

but im american...
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I am so tempted to offer you 225,000 meet you for the I-pod and then @#$%@! you up.
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**I will not sell it to americans.

Damn straight - America sucks. Thanks for having the balls to put the yankee filth in their place.
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I am so tempted to offer you 225,000 meet you for the I-pod and then @#$%@! you up.



I bet you have a tiny dong! Loudmouth bullies are always overcompensating for their lack of manliness.
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Derrek?
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Glad to learn that there are closed minded idiots travelling the world. How can you hate on millions of people just because they're from the same country? You stereotyping, racist bastards make me sick.
p.s. I am Canadian!
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Live for the moment

NEW YORK -- A 160-pound wonder from Japan set a record by devouring a sickening 53¾ frankfurters in 12 minutes to win the annual Independence Day hot dog eating competition on Coney Island.

Dog gone: Kobayashi's winning marks since 2001
2006	53¾
2005	49
2004	53½
2003	44½
2002	50½
2001	50

The feat earned Takeru Kobayashi, 27, his sixth straight title in the event, held at the original Nathan's Famous hot dog stand on Brooklyn's seashore. His prize: the coveted Yellow Mustard Belt.

Kobayashi broke his record of 53½ hot dogs, set at the same competition two years ago.

Thousands of raucous spectators jammed the streets in front of the hot dog stand, a block from the famed Coney Island boardwalk, to watch the competition and Kobayashi -- a top-ranked eater who once ate 17.7 pounds of pan-seared cow brains to win $25,000.

His strongest competition was Joey Chestnut, a 220-pound civil engineering student from San Jose, Calif., who set a U.S. record by eating 50 hot dogs during a qualifying tournament in Las Vegas.

Chestnut jumped to an early lead in the competition, sometimes jamming franks into his mouth with two hands as the crowd roared.

But Chestnut struggled, red-faced, with veins bulging in his forehead, as the Japanese star methodically chomped dog after dog, often dipping them in a soft drink before cramming them into his mouth. Kobayashi passed Chestnut with about three minutes left in the contest.

When the clock expired, Chestnut had swallowed 52 Nathan's franks -- not quite enough.

"I hit a wall. I just felt tired," he told ESPN, which broadcast the competition live.

Kobayashi, his hair dyed yellow like a Nathan's billboard, vowed through an interpreter to return next year to conquer even more hot dogs than he did this time.

Among the competitors were another favorite, 100-pound Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas, of Alexandria, Va., who once ate 65 hard boiled eggs in a little more than 6½ minutes, and a local favorite, Eric "Badlands" Booker, a 425-pound subway conductor from Long Island who holds speed-eating records for pies and matzo balls.

First-time competitor Erik "The Red" Denmark, 28, of Seattle, who downed 22 hot dogs, said he was happy just to be there.

"It's like making it to the World Cup," said Denmark, who can boast of having eating 98 jalapenos in 15 minutes.

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Daniel Lee Gray
Yeoksam, Seoul, South Korea
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e-mail: dnlgray@gmail.com
homepage: www.homepage.mac.com/happylunatic

Read my blogs at www.happylunatic.blogspot.com

Sometimes you've just gotta put it all on the line and go for broke in this poker game we call life.

Hmmm...My experience.

I guess I blend in very well with my surroundings so I don't get stares or comments.  Also having minimal knowledge of Korean makes me oblivious to most things.  It's not really an issue.  When I mention that I'm adopted the first thing Koreans ask me is, "are you looking for your parents?"  I tell them no and that my parents are in America.  They don't seem to understand that I would consider my adoptive parents my parents.  Most times they ask me again, but to many Koreans this idea- the idea that people that are not of my own blood would be the ones I could identify as my parents.  Sometimes I get this feeling that they pity me and then they often ask me if I've seen the Sunday Night Show.   This was a very popular show that showed dramatic reunions of Korean Adoptees and of their birth parents.

I went to an adoption conference this weekend and it's opened up a can of worms that I might have possibly been trying to hold down.

The conference was enlightening because I now understand why Koreans ask me that question.  It's the way they picture adoptees.  TV shows, songs and movies show adoptees searching for their roots and their birth parents because DEEP DOWN, they are really Korean- even though they often can't speak the language and have not been raised in the culture. 

Adoptees are symbolic for Koreans.  They represent the reunion of the North and South and of solidarity in this war torn nation that has been invaded by the Japanese, Chinese, Mongolians, and you could even say the USA.

I went to a forum at the Adoption conference that was about the media representation of Korean Adoptees.  They only depict Koreans wanting to come to Korea to find their birth parents and with very dramatic reunions. 

I asked if there were any representations of Adoptees that came to Korea that were not in search of their parents and ultimately didn't care about the reunion and identified themselves as American, Canadian, or wherever nation they were adopted too.  They said no.  None. 

I found that fascinating.

Dan

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are coming to Seoul!  Really?  I really like their album Show  Your Bones.  Dudley is a great song and so is Turn into.  I really dig their acoustic stuff.  However, I disagree with you.  I think the Sounds sound more like a blend of 80's pop and punk.  I think they're more like Joan Jett and the Ramones' (all of them) love child that was abandoned in Nebraska and raised by Blondie.

Or I guess if Abba went on a diet of cocaine milkshakes.

I have a confession.  I love Shakira.

I know her music isn't mind expanding, but the way she shakes her baby maker and her non mountainous northern hemisphere makes me feel like I'm in highschool in love with April Childress all over again.  But I might have said too much.

Do you find with your ipod and so much access to music that you're attention span has been drastically minimized? 

I have.  I find so much great music, but I quickly listen to it and then I have to get more.  It's like an addiction.  I have a 60 gig iPod and a 4gig nano so I've been using the 4 gig for new music and the 60 gig at home so i can listen to the classics.  Not classics classics, but classics that are like 4 months old.  My definition of what is old has been reduced to months instead of decades.  Sigh.  But there is one album that I'll listen to over and over- it's the music from Scrubs.

It's all good though.  I've got a fix of new tunes to last me another few weeks.