Archive for September, 2010

Sep 22, 2010

Living up to Stereotype: Eating Balut/Khai Luk (fetal duck egg)

I want to start a regular entry called “Living up to the Stereotype”. It’s main focus is, for me as an Asian-American, to live up to the American stereotypes of Asians (what is unfortunately an amalgamation of a diversity of Asian cultures). For example, Americans would believe that any Chinese person was notorious for eating dog meat. That isn’t always the case. (more…)

Sep 16, 2010

Sep 12, 2010

Fun with Resident Evil 2′s Leon Kennedy Modeled in Anim8or

I found a Resident Evil 2 texture of Leon Kennedy online and challenged myself to modeling a mesh for it. Took about 5 hours.

Leon Kennedy modeled in Anim8or

Leon Kennedy modeled in Anim8or

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Sep 11, 2010

My favorite Google Chrome themes

To date, I’ve witnessed the speed of Google Chrome and it surpasses the other two titans, Firefox and IE, just enough. However, I still won’t be as comfortable using Chrome for security issue like I would with IE, but once Google gets Chrome as secure, then I might convert. Google’s got a bunch of gimmicks, one being themes for the browser. Here are some of my favorites:

Google Chrome Theme - "Super Monkey Ball"

Google Chrome Theme - Super Monkey Ball

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