The Range Idiot Song (Don’t Shoot)

2011-11-16 / hsoi / 2 Comments

(h/t ENDO)

This day goes to 11

2011-11-11 / hsoi

It’s 11-11-11.

Heh

2011-11-10 / hsoi

Hey… I’ve seen that truck somewhere before.

Our modern world

2011-11-05 / hsoi / 2 Comments

Need to shop for clothing. Mall has the stores, so off we go.

Enter on first floor. Need to go to second. There’s the up escalator. It’s not running.

In front of us a lady says to her child, “oh we can go up; it’s broken.”

Uh… no it’s not. They’re called “stairs”.

*sigh*

Hollywood Movie Clichés

2011-10-13 / hsoi / 1 Comment

They’re all good, but I’m partial to the gun ones.

You will want to click on the graphic to see it full-sized.

from EatLiver

This John Daub would have handled things differently

2011-10-042011-10-02 / hsoi / 5 Comments

My name is John Daub.

If you search for “John Daub” online, you’re most likely to encounter me or John Daub, President of Weblish, a Japanese company that started as an online school but has become a media company. John and I don’t know each other, but we’ve crossed paths before for obvious reasons. 🙂 One thing that I also find amusing is we’re both of similar ethnic background, being part Asian then this rather “white German” name.

I follow John on Twitter and the other day he tweeted about this video: Jason gets mugged!

Go watch.

Now note, this is a lesson on causative verbs, like “make”, “have”, “let”, and “get”. So don’t put much stock into what I’m about to say. I found the video fun and silly, and certainly a good storyline for such a language lesson.

But as I watched, I couldn’t help but think about the mugging scenario. How it unfolded, how Jason handled the mugging, especially when it came to the defense of Olga. How would THIS John Daub — living in Texas, not Japan — would have handled things much differently.

Can you guess what I would have done differently in this video?

I wouldn’t have worn panty hose on my head. 🙂