Governor Watts

So I had a friend in high school named Daniel W. He was a Nin­tendo freak. Every time he walked by a piano, he would play the orig­i­nal Mario theme. He intro­duced me to Don­key Kongo before it existed in Amer­ica. (He had imported the Japan­ese ver­sion, which I think is far superior.)

Any­way, this guy went on to UCSD, where he was very active on cam­pus. He even ran for Gov­er­nor of Cal­i­for­nia in the spe­cial elec­tion way back in 2003, using his Wheel of For­tune win­nings as his cam­paign fund. He wasn’t try­ing to win as much as raise aware­ness for his single-​plank plat­form, which was lower tuition for col­lege stu­dents. Some­thing I could def­i­nitely get behind, so I voted for him. Unfor­tu­nately, not many oth­ers did, so Dan had to find some­thing else to do.

Enter the JET pro­gram. Dan is over in Japan teach­ing mid­dle school­ers Eng­lish at the moment. And he does stuff like this on his time off:

This vid is now get­ting passed around all the video game sites I read and even got to the front page of Digg! Dan is by far the most famous guy I know. Won­der what he’ll be doing next.

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