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Chad

I am here for Dating, Serious Relationships, Friends and Networking

About Me

A dork of the Game Stop and the HCC video production team. I go to the University of Hawaii at Manoa full time. I owned a ninja grappling hook, but ownership has been transferred, and said ninja grappling hook is now broken. I will miss it dearly, and will somehow find the strength to move on. By the way, I edited my profile with

My Interests

I like things like video games, comics, and most other forms of geekery. I also like people, because people are nice to hang out with.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who's up for anything or down for whatever. IF YOU'RE A BAND AND WANT ME TO CHECK YOU OUT, PLEASE HAVE THE DECENCY TO SEND A MESSAGE BEFORE SENDING A FRIEND REQUEST, OTHERWISE YOU NOW HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE BAND BLOCKER. And if you want to bother me elsewhere online, I'm chfuji on Yahoo, or chf386 on AIM, or chfuji on MSN. Like most ninja though, I'm often there but not seen...

Music:

Tenacious D, Ben Kweller, Ben Folds, Rufus Wainright, Junior Senior, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Weezer, The Decemberists, The Impossibles, The Stereo, Soviet Space, Phantom Planet, Jet, PuffyAmiYumi, Judy and Mary, L'arc En Ciel, The Pillows, The Strokes, Tool, The Unicorns, Franz Ferdinand, Journey, Phoenix, Supergrass, Electric Light Orchestra, Styx, New Pornographers, The Weakerthans, Somato Form, Thrill House, The Zutons, Architecture in Helsinki, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Fall Out Boy, Michael Buble, We Are Scientists, Panic! At the Disco, The Beatles, The UglySticks, The Bloodhound Gang, Boy Least Likely To, Cake, Coheed & Cambria, The Darkness, David Bowie, Mae, Matthew Sweet, The Refused, They Might Be Giants, TV on the Radio, Foo Fighters, The Format, Spoon, The Shins, Phoenix, Fountains of Wayne, Hot Hot Heat, Louis XIV, The Postal Service, The Redwalls, Queen, The Zombies, The Stereo, Kalapana, Arctic Monkeys, more stuff, usually what's on Los Angeles' Indie Radio 101.3, along with whatever Ross Jackson's Daydream Nation plays on KTUH 90.3 Honolulu on Wednesday afternoons from 12P-3PM

Movies:

Kill Bill, Fight Club, Versus, Shark-Skin Man and Peach-Hip Girl, School of Rock, Battle Royale, Chinese Super Ninjas, Hero, Storm Riders, Volcano High, Akira, Macross Plus, Defending Your Life, Ichi the Killer, The Story of Ricky, The Point, Musa the Warrior, Soldier's Girl, The Last Dragon, Big Trouble in Little China, Hellboy, The Big Lebowski, Ong-Bak, Dead Leaves, Napoleon Dynamite, Rushmore, Funky Forest

Television:

Animal Face-Off, Adult Swim, Iron Chef, Full Metal Panic, Abenobashi Magical Shopping Arcade, Great Teacher Onizuka, Invader Zim, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Chapelle's Show, Berzerk, Air Master, Bleach, Ghost In The Shell: Standalone Complex, Mr. Show with Bob & David, Speed Grapher,

Books:

Fight Club, Harry Potter, Ella Minnow Pea, Great Teacher Onizuka (GTO), Battle Royale, Berzerk, Y: the Last Man, Hellboy, Real Ultimate Power, Naruto, Bleach, Tough, anything by Kurt Vonnegut, Catch-22, Magic: The Gathering novels,

Heroes:

my mom, and my grandmother

My Blog

More on the movement of blue skies

There are some folks who don't appreciate the grimy, gritty, and often criminal spin a lot of games have taken. To those people, the first offense of many in modern games is: no more blue skies. Welc...
Posted by Chad on Tue, 06 May 2008 04:48:00 PST

Blue skies and stealing the American dream

With bated breath doesn't begin to describe how some fans have been waiting for the Roman numeral four to follow Grand Theft Auto. As of this Tuesday Xbox 360 owners and PS3 owners alike will be able...
Posted by Chad on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:33:00 PST

A 3D Perspective

The majority of the human population is equipped with two working eyes.  Those two eyes allow what is called stereoscopic vision.  Each eye sees a particular image and the brain blends the t...
Posted by Chad on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:43:00 PST

A Fighting Chance

There was a time when you could spit in an arcade and hit at least four or five fighting games before you got kicked out for spitting in an arcade. Apparently this isn't the case anymore. From the her...
Posted by Chad on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:52:00 PST

Hopefully fun and occassionally touching

The day got me thinking about the curious device that Nintendo wrought upon this world previous to the most recent curious device.  In short, the Nintendo DS. I’ll be the first to admit tha...
Posted by Chad on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:03:00 PST

Kongregational

Each week I make a point to listen to a bunch podcasts about video games, and other assorted things of personal interest. The other week on the 1UP Network podcast "1UP Yours" former regular guest cum...
Posted by Chad on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:49:00 PST

Random bit of "religious" thought

For a while I’ve been curious about what religion, if I had to choose one, I would decide on.At first I thought that I’d want to be Jewish just because I love the Yiddish language and some...
Posted by Chad on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:14:00 PST

More or less disregarding the time in between

It's been a fairly long time since the last time that I've posted a meaningful blog entry (if such a beast exists in nature). I'm probably not going to bother with attempting such feat right now and ...
Posted by Chad on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:56:00 PST

Drunk in deed

1. When I am drunk, I tend to... Look out for everyone else. 2. Shots or beers?Yes. 3. Do you have drinking buddies?Sort of, after 21 drinking loses some of its appeal4. Do you get angry?Nope. 5. Do y...
Posted by Chad on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:37:00 PST

Back to school

It sort of feels good to have school back in my daily routine.  I'm running 15 credits over four classes over at UH Manoa.  Journalism 302 which is a lot more diverse than 301 and features m...
Posted by Chad on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:49:00 PST