I'd like to describe my business as the milk business... or the advanced milk business, with perks of course. I get good quality milk to all you milk lovers, all you people in need of serotonin and all those happy hormones!
Of course some people aren't happy with just any old milk...
That's where milk PLUS comes in
Likes:
+
= Greatness
Dr. Pepper
People, they're funny things..
Dislikes:
aggression
The fact that so many people don't understand how aggression works. Either it is suppressed within the person, causing damage to oneself. Or it is released/vented, causing damage to the society around oneself.
My thoughts are that in understanding this you finally realise the reasons for the actions of many leaders and people in positions of power. To first get to these positions they must have a certain level of aggression, and they either make others suffer or suffer themselves because of this.
A leader who suppresses their aggression is conflicted between making the best choice for those depending on them, and keeping them happy. Conversely an aggressive leader is inwardly collected and 'contented', while those under his influence suffer.
This coincides with one of the core Machiavellian concepts defining a good leader (or 'prince' as he described it); that good can result from evil actions.
...just thought it was an interesting idea I had, I think I thought of it after watching some anime. Might have a connection, dunno... get a punching bag or a lady-friend, which ever is cheapest
cars
Japanese Giant Hornet (vespa mandarinia japonica)
www.cracked.com/articleimages/wong/gianthornet1.jpg" border="0">It's the size of your thumb and it can spray flesh-melting poison. We really wish we were making that up for, you know, dramatic effect because goddamn, what a terrible thing a three-inch acid-shooting hornet would be, you know? Oh, hey, did we mention it shoots it into your eyes? Or that the poison also has a pheromone cocktail in it that'll call every hornet in the hive to come over and sting you until you are no longer alive?
Think you can outrun it? It can fly 50 miles in a day. It'd be nice to say something reassuring at this point, like "Don't worry, they only live on top of really tall mountains where nobody wants to live," but no, they live all over the goddamned place, including outside Tokyo.
Forty people die like that every year, each of them horribly. - (copied from cracked.com)
People, god they're stupid...
Favourite Non-Anime Series/Movies
Carnivale
A Clockwork Orange
Amelie
The Lives of Others
Tsotsi
The Barbarian Invasions
The Edukators
Corporation
Chopper
Bad Boy Bubby
Project A
Legend of the Drunken Master
South Park
Invader Zim
Mullholand Drive
Fargo
The Big Lebowski
Oh Brother Where Art Thou
Deer Hunter
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Raising Arizona
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
and if you're into asian cinema, for a decent (yet cheesy) comedy I recommend 'King of Beggars' or a great thriller 'The Audition'
Pretty decent definition of a good story
"...Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World.
Favourite Game
Favorite Books?
At least those I can remember at the moment...
The Kreutzer Sonata
A Clockwork Orange
The World According to Garp
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Brave New World
Choke
Diary (Chuck Palahniuk)
Lolita
Perfume
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Alice in Wonderland (and through the looking glass)
most things by Robert Jordan
most things by Raymond E. Fiest
most things by Terry Pratchett
all of H. P. Lovecraft's work
most things by D. H. Lawrence (favorite is Sons and Lovers)
Oh, and anime I also really enjoyed...
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
Boogiepop Phantom
Princess Mononoke
Texhnolyze
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Fullmetal Alchemist
Patlabor
"Do you know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?" Pope Julius III