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I worship Norio Wakamoto's cock
No, I don't, but he is by and far my favorite Japanese male voice actor. He is God. Angels weep and Devils jerk off when he speaks. I had a discussion about him and some of his work recently and that got me so pumped, I had to add his picture to my home page.

Looks like a pretty swell guy, right? Well, he knows Shaolin Kung Fu, Kempo, and Kendo, and he was a member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Riot Police. I don't know how many riots happen in Tokyo, probably close to zero since Wakamoto was part of the riot police. He also grew up in Osaka, Japan, which gives him a +5 to awesome. Here's another picture of Norio being totally awesome:

To get an idea of how many anime characters were made awesome thanks to this man of men, just peruse his Anime News Network entry. Impressive list, but some of the obvious gems would be:

• Onsokumaru of 2x2 Shinobuden
• Coach Ota from Gunbuster
• Vicious from Cowboy Bebop
• The Narrator from Hayate
• Alexander Anderson from Hellsing Ultimate
• Oscar von Reuenthal from Legend of the Galactic Heroes
• The Emperor from Code Geass
• The Rain Spider from Desert Punk
• Mechazawa from Cromartie High
• Chiyo-chan's Dad (Cat) from Azumanga Daioh
• The Master of Maru Cha Cha from Maison Ikkoku

UPDATE: I've started collecting random sound clips of Wakamoto.

UPDATE: Added this to youtube:

Petr Sykora and the Pittsburgh Penguins
I had to put this image up somewhere. On June 2nd, 2008, after over 100 minutes of play (that's 3 20 minute overtime periods) in Game 5, Pittsburgh vs Detroit in Detroit, of the Stanley Cup, Petr Sykora of the Penguins told the NBC commentator inbetween the team benches that he was going to score the winning goal, and told his teammates that his winning goal was going to be above the gloved shoulder of Detroit's goaltender, Osgood. About 9 minutes into the 3rd OT, during a 4 minute long Penguins power play, Sykora gets a pass from Malkin, and shoots it right above the gloved shoulder of Osgood, scoring the goal in sudden death and winning the game for Pittsburgh. Detroit fans were undoubtably disappointed since a win there would have been their Stanley Cup. Also undoubtably, everyone in Pittsburgh went apeshit. Not only did Talbot, the 6th man in for Pittsburgh after the goalie was pulled, tie the game 34 seconds before it was going to be over, Marc-Andre Fluery was a brick wall during all the overtime periods blocking every shot Detroit had. He blocked a total of 55 shots for the evening, which sounds impressive but really means the Penguins defense seems to be letting a lot of Redwings get shots off. I don't know who created this shop, but I laughed.

Sonatina
Here is a link of me playing Lennox Berkeley's Sonatina, 3rd movement, saved as an mp3. Perhaps more music to come if I get around to getting the stuff I play recorded digitally...

News Archive
For older news entries that are either no longer relevant or just cause clutter, you can go to my Old News page.

Here's a link to my friend Dave's site. He does some cool animation and programming.
Here's a link to my friend Paul Madonna's site. Paul is a VERY talented artist who puts out a weekly online comic, you should check out some of his work.
Get your war on

These are some of the links that I visit often.

Java References Java 1.3 api Java 1.4.1 api Java 1.4.2 api Java 1.5.0 api Java crypto spec javax.servlet api com.oroinc.text.regex api com.oroinc.text.perl api com.oroinc.text api Sun's JAVA FORUMS Gamelan JARS Javasoft Javacats Blackdown Home, this is a JDK for Linux. IBM JDK, this is IBM's jdk and other stuff.	Misc References RFC Hypertext Archive @ SunSITE Denmark WWWebster Dictionary Thesaurus.com OpenGL The Willcam Group - HTML reference RFC Index (complete) Dinkumware C/C++ Reference C Programming Reference The Giant Internet IC Masturbator, great for looking pinouts on random chips. SQL Reference DNS Related site, containing many useful lookup tools Usenet Physics FAQ Dict.org Unskilled and Unaware of it	Linux References InfoSysSec, security documenation, systems documentation, general info s e c u r i t y f o c u s Rootshell Replay Associates Exploit world -- Linux section rpmfind.net LinuxHQ Linux Online - How toDocuments Beowulf Project at CESDIS The CVS manual Linux Kernel Analysis NetSys: Systems, Networks, Administration A good list of Linux Kernel Documentation Rex Swain's Perl Reference An alternate Genoo installation guide The Knoppix bootable linux OS
Tools and Utilities Comet Search, this is the greatest search tool ever. Transparent GIF's - Made Easy!!, an easy to use transparent gif maker. TransWeb Transparent-GIF Service, MIT's transparent gif maker. You give it the url of the image you want to make transparent, click on the color that you want transparent, and there you have it. Online GIF to ASCII translator Weather in Shadyside, Pittsburgh Unit Conversions Free Sun Software SMTP Sender Policy Framework	X stuff X Window Managers X Home XFree86 Home X Servers for Windows Detailed X Glossary Good list of X and Motif sites Jamie Zawinski Hacks, source of xscreensaver. comp.sources.x archive @ sunsite, this is the place (one of them) where all the sources from comp.sources.x are archived. Most likely find X sources here X11 Contribs @ sunsite	Math stuff 1995 Mathematical Subject Classification, This site has very good links to all kinds of mathematics. There are 50+ categories of Mathematics, which with its own list of links to references, journals, web sites and books. Mathematrix, a nice little simple resource site. List of small primes List of prime gaps Principia Cybernetica Godel's proof Zero Knowledge Proofs Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences Foundations of Cryptography Mersenne Prime Search Mathematical Programming Gallery Constructivism
Movie Stuff Jackie Chan movies, this is a pretty good page for movie reviews. Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee Links The Offical Unoffical Jackie Chan Home Page Tai Seng Videos, good source of good old fashioned kung fu. Internet Movie Database Movie Review Query Engine This Week at the Pittsburgh Cinemas	Music stuff Lucas Pickford, really good site for solo transcriptions Patterns and Solo Transcriptions, by Charlues McNeal stuntzner.brent.org's, pages of solo transcriptions JORG HEUSER'S JAZZ TRANSCRIPTIONS, and some Frank Zappa transcriptions, links, and books Massimo Morrone, excellent site for John McLaughlin transcriptions Bossa Nova Guitar Transcriptions All About Jazz, with many interesting columns about artists or jazz in general Song Trellis, Awesome site for chord progressions and practice Miles Ahead: A Miles Davis website, this site has all the miles davis discography. The only 2 radio stations I listen to: WQED WDUQ. Hooray for public radio! Mingus site All Music Guide CDDB Music Database Jazzworld.com Amazon MP3.com music.com Classical Guitar Tablature	Misc fun stuff Peter H. Anderson - Embedded Processor Control Alltech Electronics & Computer Chopper!, cheap cheap computer stuff. Welcome to computershopper.com Comet's Home Page, this is the tesuji home. Comet's FRACTALS page, lots of fractal stuff, programs and movies. Comet's JAVA stuff, lots of java stuff, free java programs. trek guide A page with Starship Dimensions and scale images and comparisons List of minor Star Wars Jedi The Sith, including a listing of Sith Lords 7 Forms of Light Saber Combat
Gaming stuff Allakhazam's EQ pages Maximum EQ, Maximum EQ's Everquest site EQ Maps, Everquest Maps EQ Atlas, Everquest Atlas site, another maps site Everlore, a thorough Everquest page, updated regularly. Game Znet's Everquest pages., not as complete as everlore, but sometimes easier to sift through. EQ skins New EQ interface collections N64 ign Playstation ign Dreamcast ign Game faqs, This is a great place for hints, walkthroughs, and reference. Game Znet, This is mostly PC games. Xblast, this is a nice Xblast page. Gran Turismo: The Real Driving Simulator GTA: The Gran Turismo Authority	Go stuff Go Base, Jan van der Steen's comprehensive go site with a large collection of games, josekis, fusekis, and articles. The Go Teaching Ladder game reviews Joseki Dictionary with commentary at daytongo (interactive, applet driven) Go Problems.com, a fairly extensive database of many different types of problems ranked by difficulty. Life and Death problems USGO page of problems USGO game index	Car stuff Manchester Honda Home Page Gordon Callender's Unofficial Accord Homepage Close outs Performance auto parts Modern Performance Racing Products, this place has a lot of good stuff and good brands. Archer Racing, another good source for more horsepower. Horta list of Honda performace parts., this guy has a really good list for all kinds of stuff for your Honda/Acura. Tamir's DeLorean Site, not a big fan of the car, but this is an amazing website
Smart Cards Sun's Javacard homepage Javacard API javadocs Gem Plus' homepage Some very good Smartcard resources Opencard's homepage Opencard's 1.2 API javadocs JavaCards, the OpenCard Framework and Single Sign On, a nice page concerning smartcard/JavaCard security and its limitations Bo Lavare's Smartcard Security Page, a well organized, up to date page concerning security issues with smartcards. This site,Macchiato, briefly goes over smart cards and programming for them, covering both the card side and the reader side. Here's a link to The Java Commerce Toolkit which includes Java Wallet, a bunch of java applications for online commerce and includes software drivers for several smartcard readers.	PCMCIA Dave Ruske's page: Making Sense of PCMCIA, a really good general overview of PCMCIA PCMCIA.org Linux PCMCIA info page A good PC-card resource page A fairly complete PCCard FAQ David Hinds' document about Raylink and WebGear Wireless LAN Cards PCCard kernel structures PCMCIA socket tester

Anime
For the sake of keeping things short, I've put anime related stuff on its own page.

Everquest
I've stopped playing this game, but I still keep in touch with a lot of the people that I met through the game. Many of them are