Sanity… is for the Weak

And I most assuredly do

Thanks to Huiyi for the package! We love it!

So, with a little over a month to go, we waddled off to the shops armed with a shopping list and advice as long as my arm….. only to be bewildered by the range of baby products available.

Standard neck, wide neck, teat size (stop sniggering!), vented, non-vented, plastic bottles, glass bottles, BPA-free etc the list just goes on, and that’s only for the bottles!

In my confusion, one lable leapt out at me: Starter Pack, or rather the Avent Newborn Starter Pack to be precise.

I wonder why the salesgirl gave me a funny look when I asked if there were Booster Packs available?

We were going through some of the wifey’s old photographs and found this little gem.

Which immediately brought to mind this:

Is it any wonder I love her so?

Oh, and if the baby comes out a girl…… heh.

Note to self:

The next time the boss asks if there are any questions, the correct answer should, in fact, be:

“How the hell do I get out of this shitty outfit?”

Hmm. Got tagged again on Facebook

Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you! (or so this pre-scripted message reads)

1. I’m a Scorpio with all that it implies.

2. I’m a dreamer, with an imagination that runs riot even in my waking hours.

3. Despite #2, I seldom remember the dreams I have when I’m asleep.

4. I love to eat. Never refuse food may as well be my life’s motto.

5. I don’t exercise enough.

6. I enjoy cooking, but not washing up afterwards.

7. I think I have a pretty high tolerance for physical pain, which probably explains why I swing swords.

8. I’m aggressively non-confrontational. I don’t like arguing and heated tempers. Nothing constructive gets done when passions run high and people lose perspective when heated up. (Head shots with a sniper rifle at 1km is another story….)

9. Probably because of #8 some people think I’m a coward.

10. I have a mean streak. And it’s probably pretty wide.

11. I’m bad at remembering faces and even worse at remembering names. But that doesn’t mean I don’t like you if I don’t remember you. I just need reminding sometimes.

12. I love to read. Give me a book and a place to snuggle up and I’ll be content.

13. I prefer the company of my own mind. But that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy socialising as well.

14. I love the sea!

15. My favourite place is probably Plymouth, England where i spent the best three months of my life.

16. I don’t watch my spending, and so I have never built uip savings until I met my wife.

17. Faced with a squat or sit toilet, I’d choose the squat.

18. I’m a folder, not a crusher.

19. Ever since I’ve discovered the Zombie Squad organisation, I’ve taken to carrying a multi-tool, torch, and compass with me where ever I go.

20. One day, I hope to buy a 25′-30′ pocket cruiser to sail to Tioman/Phuket for dive trips.

21. I love bags. I probably have too many for a guy.

22. Many of my friends are not straight. However I am very much so.

23. I probably have too much anime; some stuff which I’ll never get around to watch.

24. I probably play too much video games as well.

25. My wife calls me a grubby boy. Probably for good reason.

Remember the little gems like The Machine Girl and Oneechanbara?

Well, here comes yet another “Quality” production from the same guys who brought you The Machine Girl and Tokyo Gore Police - Robo Geisha!

Geisha Missile! Geisha Dance! Geisha Army! Geisha Chainsaw! Geisha Transform! And of course, Fried Shrimp!

Seriously, WTF Japan, WTF?

:Links:
+Website
+IMDB Listing

So, there we were in Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on a Friday afternoon, having missed our connecting SQ flight because of a delay on the GA flight from Yogyakarta.

No problem, right? Just hop onto the next flight home; it’s only a couple of hours’ wait right?

Eh? It’s full up? And the next one and the last plane out too?

So, now what? Waiting list? Okay, so when will we know?

Whaddya mean we gotta wait till our names are called?

*Breathe*

Ooookaaaay. No biggie. We’ll just stay an additional night and go back first thing tomorrow.

Eh? You’re fully booked tomorrow until Sunday night?!?

*Panic*

Okay, okay. How about we pay the difference and go onto Business class?

It’s fully booked too?!? WTF?!?

Seriously folks. If the airlines are crying about poor performance, I just don’t see it on the ground.

What freaking recession?!?

This is what happens if one does not take care to properly form a closed kinetic chain with both hands when executing the Fourth Remedy against dagger.

A severly wrenched thumb. Ouch.

Lessons to be learnt:

1) The strength of a single thumb is insignificant when compared to a whole arm wielding a dagger coming forward in a strike. Make sure to reinforce it by taking the blow with the base of your palm, preferably together with the other hand as well, thus forming the afore mentioned closed kinetic chain.

2) Wear gloves!

From the treatise itself:

“I am the fourth Master who plays with this presa. With similar to this my scholars will offend many. And if I turn to the right side and I do not release your arm, I will take your dagger and I will make trouble for you with it.”

Poor Josh. Oh well. A day in the life of a crash test dummy?

Today marks the last day of training in Singapore by Ken, who leaves our sunny shores for Finland this Tuesday. After two years of trading sword strokes and other assorted bullshit, I’ve come to appreciate his wit, his humor, his encyclopedic knowledge, his dedication to our art, and most importantly, his friendship.

And so, we wish him the best in his journeys, and may his life be long and prosperous.

Good bye, and Kiitos - I’ll see you again when the Brown Horde once again invades the Frozen Wastes of the North.

It’s been crazy at work ever since I moved to my new position. In some ways it is a promotion of of sorts; in responsibilities if not in rank or pay. And to top it off, my predecessor has left me pretty big shoes to fill. Not to cast aspersions on the guy, but I’m discovering rather painfully that his and my working styles are very much polar opposites to one another. His is a dynamic, seat-of-the-pants, fight-fire-now style that looks hghly pro-active, but with the rushing about, record- and book-keeping tends to fall by the wayside and on many occasions results in duplicated and/or wasted effort. I’d like to think that I’m more of a laid-back, slow and steady, with minimum wasted effort kind of guy. All this running and shouting, it gives me a terrible headache….

Motivator/De-motivator
I find myself feeling more and more unmotivated towards work as the years go by. The passion that drove me to this profession was, and remains the Sea, and to be told that I’ll be driving a desk for the rest ofmy career is enough to drive a man to despair. It’s not all doom and gloom though; looking back, I realise that I’ve been given opportunities and have been able to make a difference in the world; and the recognition for a job well done was well worth the effort. However, highlights like these tend to be few and far in between.

A Swordsman in Finland once said: “only prostitutes work for money”. And these days, I cannot but help see a glimmer of truth in that statement. Coming home from work these past few weeks, I sometimes feel as if I have been well and truely screwed-over. Perhaps one day I will follow in the footsteps of so many friends and colleagues to tender my papers and leave for greener pastures, but nothing so far has tickled my fancy and ignited my dreams.

For now, I’ll continue, if not for King and Country, then to pay the bills and to use my munificent pay-cheque to indulge in my hobbies of travel, gaming and swordsmanship.

As quoted from wikipedia:

The Bayeux Tapestry (French: Tapisserie de Bayeux) is a 50 cm by 70 m (20 in by 230 ft) long embroidered cloth—not an actual tapestry—which explains the events leading up to the 1066 Norman invasion of England as well as the events of the invasion itself. The Tapestry is annotated in Latin.

In itself interesting reading, especially for those of us in PHEMAS, but I found something else that makes use of the imagery found in the tapestry: The Historic Tale Construction Kit

Bwahahahaha!!

Humor aside though, the write-up on medieval swordsmanship in last sunday’s newspaper has certainly sparked a lot of interest in the society, and I do believe we will have a large influx of new faces at training this weekend. Hopefully, we will find new blood among these who will be passionate about the art and is willing to spend the sweat and the pain to take up swordsmanship as a life-long commitment.

Laughed myself silly when I saw this:

Seriously. It happens.

ｶﾞ━━Σ(ﾟДﾟ|||)━━ﾝ!!

And when I woke up this morning, I suddenly realised that I’m 36. Didn’t really feel like getting out of bed….

Oh well.

“Growing Old is Inevitable, Growing Up is Optional”

Down with a bad flu

Head is fuzzy and can’t breathe

Damn, this really sucks

Audio/Visual Update

Audio:Slave
In the B&O:
+The Sex, the City, the Music: Shanghai
+Monkey Majik: 空はまるで
+Queen: Greatest Hits
+The Rolling Stones: Rolled Gold
+Metal Gear Solid 20th Anniversary
+Best of Creedence Clearwater Revival
+Wipeout Pure Original Soundtrack

Visual:Slave
In the DVD:
+Heroes Season 2
+My Neighbor Totoro
+Appleseed: Ex Machina
+Band of Brothers
+The Machine Girl
+You Don’t Mess With The Zohan Missed this

Animania:
+Freedom
+Hayate no Gotoku dropped
+Clannad
+Rental Magica dropped
+Bamboo Blade
+Toshokan Sensou (図書館戦争)
+Birdy the Mighty: Decode
+Macross Frontier
+イヴの時間
+乃木坂春香の秘密
+Mahō Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto: Natsu no Sora (魔法遣いに大切なこと)
+ToraDora (とらドラ)
+To Aru Majutsu no Index (とある魔術の禁書目録)
+Nodame Cantabile (のだめカンタービレ 巴里編)
+Kemeko Deluxe! (ケメコデラックス!)

Movies to Catch - ‘08:
+Sweeney Todd
+The Spiderwick Chronicles
+Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone
+Iron Man
+The Dark Knight
+Cloverfield Missed this
+Jumper
+Hancock missed this
+Get Smart missed this
+Charlie Wilson’s War
+Bangkok Dangerous
+Speed Racer
+The Love Guru missed this
+Wanted missed this
+Indiana Jones and The Temple of the Crystal Skull
+Forbidden Kingdom
+Doomsday
+27 Dresses
+Juno
+The Bucket List
+Hellboy II: The Golden Army
+Kung Fu Panda missed this Kris World!
+The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor
+Wall-E
+Star Wars: The Clone Wars missed this
+007: Quantum of Solace
+Tropic Thunder
+The Spirit
+Death Race missed this
+Punisher: War Zone
+Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
+Full Battle Rattle

Movies soooo bad, it’s gotta be gooood
+Oneechanbara
+Zombie Strippers
+Jack Brooks - Monster Slayer

Current Reads
RAWs
+謎の彼女Ｘ - Chapter 28
+魔法 先生 ネギま! - Chapter 231
+死がふたりを分かつまで Chapter 15 dropped
+おばあちゃんはアイドル

Dead Tree
+Freakonomics
+Conquistador
+Why We Want You To Be Rich
+Party of One: The loner’s Manifesto
+Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition
+Traveller: Core Rulebook
+Homework for Grown-ups: Everything you learnt at school… and promptly forgot

Online
+Questionable Content
+Real Life
+The Order of the Stick
+Turn Signals on a Land Raider

Avenue Q
We caught Avenue Q on friday, and found it highly entertaining. Despite the initial distraction of having to watch both the muppets and their players at the same time, it sort of faded into the background as the show went on. A fun-filled, raunchy and very politically-incorrect romp, it is definitely not something you can bring young kids to, if nothing else but the… err… “You Can Be as Loud as the Hell You Want (When You’re Makin’ Love)” scene.

And just like the Sesame Street that it was inspired by, I got to learn something new: Schadenfreude - Joy at the misfortune of others.

Probably explains my mean streak, and why I laugh when I see little kids fall flat on their faces when playing at escalators.

Loudly.

While pointing at them.

Why the guys here use it to play Beer Pong, I have no idea. All I feel even after drinking six bottles is just a need to go to the toilet.

Seriously, you’d probably get a better rush drinking Coke.

One thing about coming so far away from home for a tour of duty, is getting your sense of perspective twisted around and seeing things we take for granted back home in a new light.

Little things which we tend to over look or simply brush aside suddenly become big problems or show stoppers when more than one country is involved, and cultural and sometimes language differences factor.

Still, I feel like I am making a difference here. Critical information is being fed to the right people, early steps are being made to save lives, and important decisions are made correctly for the future of the people.

At the end of the day, I can feel like I have done my bit to ensure that petrol is still being sold at less that $2 a litre (Just joking!) the resolution is carried out to it’s desired end.

Traveller Core Rulebook and a Heineken.

Bliss.

Funny thing about music, is that it changes your mood as you listen to it. It can inspire when you are down, it can bring cheer when you are sad, and it can pump you up when the going gets tough. Don’t believe me? Just pop in a heavy metal CD the next time you’re stuck in a traffic jam and take a note of your mood. Then change the disc to something easy-listening, and you’ll see what I mean.

Case in point: I went jogging around the neighborhood just last week; after working up a good sweat, I was ready to call it a day and head back, but then the shuffled playlist started playing the “Fever!” song from Patapon…. and so I thought “What the heck” and went for another round.

Music is a powerful thing, and that’s why I’ve always had a fully loaded MP3 player with hours of songs with me at all times, and before that, a walkman, a portable CD-player and a MD-player.

Remember me raving about this little movie, which could be so bad, that it’s got to be good?

I got the DVD.

*mwahahaha!!!*

And as expected, it was a terrible, terrible movie. It was bad to the point of downright appalling. But it was entertaining ~ I don’t recall laughing so much or so hard at a movie for a long while now. And we had a field day deconstructing the movie and trying to rationalize a social commentary from it’s (non-existent!) plot and “action” scenes, as well as the over-the-top Japanese culture and it’s reflection on the world at large.

:Links:
+IMDB Listing
+Wikipedia Entry
+Official Website

“The Internet Is For Porn“

What I’m talking about, is of course the most widely recognised song from the hit musical Avenue Q, slated to start playing here in Singapore from 30 Oct onwards. What were you thinking? Get your dirty mind out of the gutter!

Inspired largely by the children’s television series “Sesame Street“, Avenue Q is a more adult look at puppets with the characters in their twenties and thirties, with the associated problems of that age group and how they deal with those problems. Focused around a search for a “Purpose”, it is something that reflects real life and is probably something that all of us can empathize with.

As I mentioned, the song “The Internet Is For Porn” is probably the most easily recognised out of the repertoire, and has spawned an internet meme by way of a machanima from the highly successful massively multiplayer online game, the World of Warcraft:

Som of our friends in Finland may recognise the song that the brown horde were singing while we were there

I should be back from by overseas trip by the time this starts showing ~ anybody else wants to go?

:Links:
+Avenue Q Official Website
+Avenue Q Wikipedia entry
+SISTIC Ticketing

Introducing Kung Fu Jimmy Chow; a production that that simultaneously spoofs and salutes the anime genre.

Words cannot describe the random madness and anime homage paid….

Only thing I can say is… “What the?!?”

21% huh? That can’t be bad, right?

What is this 4chan that I speak of? If you have ask, then trust me, you don’t wanna know.

Oh god. Back to Shadow Moses.

And a serious lol moment in this cut-scene.

If you don’t get the reference, this is the same place when you had to change discs for the first Metal Gear Solid game way back on the PS1.

I *heart* my PS3

First of all, a big Hello! to the lovely Auri, whom I’ve finally gotten to meet.

Today marks the halfway point of the “Five Days of Fiore” Seminar, and I think I can see the exhaustion and mental overload starting to set in. So far, the seminars that we’ve had has always been over weekends, and stretching one out to five days is a first, not just for PHEMAS back home, but apparently for SESH here as well.

In a bid to keep interest high, Guy injected some humor in today’s session by having us recreate the illustrations in the manuscript ~ it was quite a sight, especially in the Play of Dagger against Swords, we even had Ilkka wear the crown of the Master:

Even I got into the act with the introduction to the play of Zhogo Largo:

In any case the last three days have been both a revision in the source of our Art, and an exploration of how the process of translating the manuscript into actual physical movements is done. In doing so, I believe that many of us have come to a greater understanding and appreciation of how the entire system is interconnected, with the foundation built up form the unarmed sections and evolving through the dagger and sword plays. Tomorrow, we will continue with swords, before going on to polearms.

Now I bid everyone goodnight, and I shall retire to rub my sore and aching muscles before drifting off to restful slumber.

Hyvää yötä!

This was too funny (for students of history, at least) not to share.

Mildly offensive (to some) language contained herein:

*Hitler[AoE] has joined the game.*
*Eisenhower has joined the game.*
*paTTon has joined the game.*
*MacRthr has joined the game. *
*Churchill has joined the game.*
*benny-tow has joined the game.*
*T0J0 has joined the game.*
*Roosevelt has joined the game.*
*Stalin has joined the game.*
*deGaulle has joined the game.*

Roosevelt: hey sup
T0J0: y0
Stalin: hi
Churchill: hi
Hitler[AoE]: cool, i start with panzer tanks!
paTTon: lol more like panzy tanks
T0JO: lol
Roosevelt: o this sux i got a depression!
benny-tow: haha america sux
Stalin: hey hitler you dont fight me i dont fight u, cool?
Hitler[AoE]; sure whatever
Stalin: cool
deGaulle: sacre, Hitler rushed some1 help
Hitler[AoE]: lol byebye frenchy
Roosevelt: i dont got sh!t to help, congress not activated yt, sry
Churchill: wtf the luftwaffle is attacking me
Roosevelt: get antiair guns
Churchill: i cant afford them, swap me some destroyers?
Roosevelt: ok i get bases in carib ok?
Churchill: right, whatever
benny-tow: haha deals in open chat, u n00bs know what team talk is?
paTTon: stfu
Roosevelt: o yah hit the navajo button guys
deGaulle: eisenhower ur worthless come help me quick
Eisenhower: i cant do sh!t til rosevelt gives me an army
paTTon: yah hurry the f#ck up
Churchill: d00d im gettin pounded
Roosevelt: No army till congress act, only navy
Stalin: dont take democracy next time, its lame
deGaulle: this is so weak u guys suck
*deGaulle has left the game.*
Stalin: forgot, u lame too lol
T0J0: lol o no america im comin 4 u
Roosevelt: wtf! thats bullsh!t u fags im gunna kick ur asses
T0JO: not without ur harbors u wont! lol
Roosevelt: u little bitch ill get u
T0J0: mac i’m totally kicking ur ass
MacRthr: BRB AFK
Churchill: got army up now fdr?
Roosevelt: totaly, im gonna attack the axis too, k?
benny-tow: with what? ur wheelchair?
benny-tow: lol did u mess up ur legs AND ur head?
Hitler[AoE]: ROFLMAO i attack first hahaha!

Hitler[AoE]: wtf
Hitler[AoE]: america hax, u had depression and now u got congress up & a huge f#ckin army
Hitler[AoE]: thats bullsh!t u hacker
Roosevelt: thats democrocy, not so lame
Churchill: lol no more france for u hitler
Hitler[AoE]: tojo help me!
T0J0: wtf u want me to do, im on the other side of the world retard
Hitler[AoE]: fine ill clear you a path
Stalin: WTF u as***le! WE HAD A F#CKIN TRUCE
Hitler[AoE]: i changed my mind lol
benny-tow: haha
benny-tow: hey ur losing ur guys in africa im gonna need help in italy
soon sum1
T0J0: sayonara i cant help u i got my hands full
Hitler[AoE]: im 2 busy 2 help
Roosevelt: yah thats right bitch im comin for ya
Stalin: church help me
Churchill: like u helped me before?, sure ill just sit here.u ask fdr
Churchill: & why u give oil to Hitler[AoE]? no wonder i got jumped early
Stalin: dont be an ass
Churchill: dont be a commie. oops too late
Eisenhower: LOL
benny-tow: hahahh oh shit help
Hitler: o man ur f#cked
paTTon: oh what now bitch
Roosevelt: whos the cripple now lol
*benny-tow has been eliminated.*
benny-tow: lame
Roosevelt: u pwnd him totaly patton
paTTon: thnx

Hitler[AoE]: WTF eisenhower hax hes killing all my sh!t
Hitler[AoE]: quit u hacker so u dont ruin my record
Hitler[AoE]: ok fine I throw all my reserves in ardenne, now give up bitch
Eisenhower: Nuts!
benny~tow: wtf that mean?
Eisenhower: meant to say nutsack lol finger slipped
paTTon: coming to get u hitler u hun paper hanging sob
Stalin: rofl
T0J0: HAHAHHAA
Hitler[AoE]: u guys are f#ckin gay
Hitler[AoE]: ur never getting in my city
*Hitler[AoE] has been eliminated.*
benny~tow: OMG u noob you killed yourself
Eisenhower: ROFLOLOLOL
Stalin: OMG LMAO!
Hitler[AoE]: WTF i didnt click there omg this game blows
*Hitler[AoE] has left the game*
paTTon: hahahhah
T0J0: WTF my teammates are n00bs
benny~tow: shut up noob
T0J0: u shut up, u dead
Roosevelt: haha wut a moron
paTTon: wtf am i gunna do now?
Eisenhower: yah me too
T0J0: why dont u attack me o thats right u dont got no ships lololol
Eisenhower: f#ck u
paTTon: lemme go thru ur base commie at least attack TJ and help at least!
Stalin: go to hell lol
paTTon: f#ck this sh!t im goin afk
Eisenhower: yah this is gay
MacRthr: k back! lots of ships to pound TJ base
*Roosevelt has left the game.*

paTTon: wtf?
Eisenhower: sh!t now we need some1 to join
*tru_m4n has joined the game.*

tru_m4n: hi all im fillin in for fdr
T0J0: hey
Stalin: sup
Churchill: hi
tru_m4n: OMG OMG OMG i got all his stuff!
tru_m4n: NUKES! HOLY SHIT I GOT NUKES
Stalin: d00d gimmie some plz
tru_m4n: no way i only got like a couple
Stalin: omg dont be gay gimmie nuculer secrets
T0J0: wtf is nukes?
T0J0: holy sh!tholysh!thoylsh!t!
*T0J0 has been eliminated.*
*The Allied team has won the game!*
Eisenhower: awesome!
Churchill: gg noobs no re
T0J0: thats bs u f#ckin suck
*T0J0 has left the game.*
*Eisenhower has left the game.*
Stalin: next game im not going to be on ur team, u guys didnt help me for sh!t
tru_m4n: and u not even ataack tojo, what a whiner
Churchill: wutever, we didnt need ur help neway dumbass
tru_m4n: l8r all
Churchill: l8r
Stalin: f#ck u all my spies steal ur nukes next game
MacRthr: f#ck u commie!!!
MacRthr: ur next bitch!
tru_m4n: shut up commie lol
*tru_m4n has left the game.*
benny~tow: lololol u commie
Churchill: ROFL
Churchill: bye commie
*Churchill has left the game.*
benny~tow: bye, I got to hang out somewhere else
*benny~tow has left the game.*
*MacRthr has left the game.*
Stalin: i hate u all fags
*Stalin has left the game.*
paTTon: lol no1 is left
paTTon: weeeee i got a limousine
*paTTon has been eliminated.*
paTTon: o sh!t! all glory is fleetin
*paTTon has left the game.*

LoL!!!!1!!

One more day to Helsinki!

Heading up to School of European Swordsmanship, Helsinki (SESH) in two days for a couple of weeks. Will be living, breathing and eating the art of “putting sharp metal things into other people” while there.

Heh.

I *NEED* the break, damnit.

Mwahahaha!!!

Prepare to lose your sanity!

And additionally, a little something for our Finnish friends:

Be seeing you next month when we head up to Helsinki!

I was doing a little research on Vocaloid, and came across this little gem on YouTube.

It’s something that can only be described as… Disturbingly Cute.

So, remember kids:

Sanity… is for the Weak!

スミレ１６歳！！ , or Sumire 16 sai!! is a rather… quirky manga to come out of Japan recently.

In a nutshell, it’s about the daily life of Sumire, a sixteen year old high school girl… except that she’s actually a life-size puppet, controlled by a guy in black clothes.

What’s even weirder is that they even made a live-action TV drama out of it.

Like, WTF man?!?

The first chapter may be read online here.

:Links:
Wikipedia Entry
Shonen Magazine
TV Drama

We caught We Will Rock You at the Esplanade on Friday night, and enjoyed it immensely. On the surface, it was an unabashed cheesy recycling of Queen’s hits into a jukebox musical, yet it was disturbingly entertaining at the same time. The energy of the cast really makes the difference, leading the audience clapping and singing along.

We appreciated the fact that the producers took time to add local flavour to the musical with references to Dick Lee and Puah Chu Kang, and the inside jokes that flew fast and furious (”You can’t even make it into INXS!” and “You are my Guitar Hero!”)

But the highlight of the evening came during the intermission and after the show ~ never have we been so entertained by the looks of utter embarrasment on the faces of kids and teenagers, trying desperately to disappear into the upholstery… all because their parents were there clapping, singing, dancing along and generally having a rockin’ time. So, the lesson is: If you want your kids to behave and get serious jobs when they grow up, go hide a few of your Def Leppard or other Heavy Metal tee-shirts with your old punk rock costume photos somewhere where they will find it, and the shock of it will probably drive them in the opposite direction