David Machiavello

I still don't understand the point of these random messages on IM i receive from complete strangers. This must be SPAM, but what are they trying to sell? I read this and i'm in the mood for Fritos or something....this must be a campaign from Lays!

Not too bad....i'm surprisingly well rested.

Update: I promptly crashed after this picture was taken. i don't even remember getting into bed.

This was my project to keep me awake so that I would go to sleep early Friday morning so that I can sleep and be ready for the long evening drive ahead of me.

I've recently have been reliving a very fond childhood memory of mine,playing Super Mario All-Stars. For those who don't know, this is a Super Nintendo (SNES) game that came out in '93 which basically wrapped up all the previous mario games into a single title, with upgraded graphics and even an extra game, called Lost Levels (which in Japan was actually known as Super Mario Bros 2).
 
I have such fond memories of playing this game because i really enjoyed playing the old mario games with the updated graphics. When I downloaded the original Super Mario for my Wii console, it was neat to play the original, but I was hoping for the All-Stars version to be available as well. I was dissappointed to find out that All-Stars wasn't available for download at the Wii Shop Channel.

So what to do? I decided to go and get an SNES emulator and I had the chance to play my old games (including the original Super Mario Kart). It's very satisfying seeing these old games come to life. I still hope that Wii sells this game online because it does get a bit cumbersome playing a game with a keyboard.
 
But still, ah, fun times. :)

it's been down for over 30 minutes....this is perhaps the longest I can remember twitter being completely down for. I'm curious as to what major issue caused them to hose up. As a side note, i can just sense all the panicked people out there trying to tweet "twitter's down?!?! OMG!!11!". haha

(via status.twitter.com)

Update: according to their latest update, Twitter is undergoing a DOS attack.

For those interested in how I made the sushi rice, i followed this video (except without the konbu seaweed).

Also I didn't pour the entire rice vinegar syrup into the rice; i did it by tasted. i only used maybe half of the syrup.

For me, this came out really great, I highly recommend everyone to try this method.

Ron & Lena came over for dinner on Sunday night. It was really great to
have them over.

 What really made the night was how much fun I had with my best man
making sushi for ourselves. Great food and great fun. We'll definitely
have to do this again. (next time i'll make sure to start off with two
batches of sushi rice).

how would i look like if my yearbook picture was taken in 1962? Like this:

I almost look like my dad!

(via Yearbook Yourself)