Something Jared linked me to, it's interesting:
Wired 11.01: The Unreal Estate Boom: "'The minute you hardwire constraints into a virtual world, an economy emerges,' explains Castronova, the Adam Smith of EverQuest. 'One-trillionth of a second later, that economy starts interacting with ours.'"
If you liked that, consider reading PvP.
Monday, July 28
Latest profile, today's post below:
Updated 7/26/2003
Miss a profile? http://lordtorg.blogspot.com
adidasgurl102: haha and tell him i promise not to stab him (i'm not even angry at him! i'm a girl. i have really swift mood swings)
Lord Torgamus: haha
Torg: yeesh
Torg: when WE talk about it, you get all mad at us
About journalism/editing:
SamTheMan1116: but..but...you can't retire
Sam: !
Sam: you're an institution!
angeIstina: i wonder what they would do if they run out of spot books
stina: "spot does the laundry"
stina: "spot faces peer pressure in school"
Lord Torgamus: Spot goes on the Internet
Torg: get with the times
stina: "spot writes a blog"
stina: hahahahha
Latest brilliant quotation: none
Updated 7/26/2003
Miss a profile? http://lordtorg.blogspot.com
adidasgurl102: haha and tell him i promise not to stab him (i'm not even angry at him! i'm a girl. i have really swift mood swings)
Lord Torgamus: haha
Torg: yeesh
Torg: when WE talk about it, you get all mad at us
About journalism/editing:
SamTheMan1116: but..but...you can't retire
Sam: !
Sam: you're an institution!
angeIstina: i wonder what they would do if they run out of spot books
stina: "spot does the laundry"
stina: "spot faces peer pressure in school"
Lord Torgamus: Spot goes on the Internet
Torg: get with the times
stina: "spot writes a blog"
stina: hahahahha
Latest brilliant quotation: none
New School Created For Gay Students (washingtonpost.com): "NEW YORK -- New York City is creating the nation's first public high school for gays, bisexuals and transgender students."
First reaction I got-
"... oh right, segregation is a good thing ..."
"'they like it better having their own schools'"
Wow. There's enough sarcasm there that I could have said it. (It was actually Jeremy Hoffman, though.)
First reaction I got-
"... oh right, segregation is a good thing ..."
"'they like it better having their own schools'"
Wow. There's enough sarcasm there that I could have said it. (It was actually Jeremy Hoffman, though.)
Sunday, July 27
So I'm sitting here listening to the radio. This is, oh, about five minutes ago. The guy's like "so I'm reading this article on how hot it can get in your car (up to 150 degrees) and how that's hot enough to cook eggs and bacon." I thought, "fair enough, that's the danger of leaving kids/pets in the car in the summer, like that Kelly guy a few months ago." Then he says, "and I thought of a great idea. If I bring my lunch tomorrow and leave the car out in full sun, I can have, like, a steak by lunchtime. I'll call it: a CARBECUE!"
And I was like, "DUDE! I THOUGHT OF, AND DID, THAT TWO WEEKS AGO!"
No, seriously. It was pretty good, too. Except people were like "uh, meat can go bad if you leave it out like that..." so I might not do it again.
OK, so, Bethesda. How could I have possibly lived here for my entire life and not gone to Bethesda Row before? The answer, as Meg pointed out, is that the Row only opened like two years ago, but still. It's such a nice place. Outdoor eateries, a theatre and a bookstore. Hey, I'm happy with that. Montgomery County did a smart thing with parking, too; they put a huge garage (that's not ugly by half) in the middle of all the stores where nobody else would want to build anyways. And it's free on weekends. THAT is good urban planning.
Last night specifically, we went for dinner at Cosi. According to Jared, it's just an overpriced Starbucks knockoff with too little food. Alright, it was pricey, but it was good. And, oh man, they have S'MORES. J'aime. Strangely enough, I never heard of Cosi before that, but then today I saw the newly opened Kentlands location. I guess it's true when you see or hear about something you notice it more and more. Anyways, as we were finishing up dinner Francie Wasser happened to walk by. Meg, who is apparently good friends with her, saw her first; I was then like "... aren't you Francie Wasser?" and she was like "... Jeff, right?" It's funny meeting people you only sort of know. I never really expected to see her again after last Saturday, so that filled my "running into random people" quota for a while. Then we realized we were late for the movie, so we ran (for about 50 feet) to the theatre. After commenting on the fact that all the posters on the walls are in French, we brushed by some theatre staffer on the way to theatre 4. And stopped, becuase it was Matt Yalowitz. Too bad he left before the movie ended, I didn't get to talk to him.
Must go, may or may not finish this post later.
And I was like, "DUDE! I THOUGHT OF, AND DID, THAT TWO WEEKS AGO!"
No, seriously. It was pretty good, too. Except people were like "uh, meat can go bad if you leave it out like that..." so I might not do it again.
OK, so, Bethesda. How could I have possibly lived here for my entire life and not gone to Bethesda Row before? The answer, as Meg pointed out, is that the Row only opened like two years ago, but still. It's such a nice place. Outdoor eateries, a theatre and a bookstore. Hey, I'm happy with that. Montgomery County did a smart thing with parking, too; they put a huge garage (that's not ugly by half) in the middle of all the stores where nobody else would want to build anyways. And it's free on weekends. THAT is good urban planning.
Last night specifically, we went for dinner at Cosi. According to Jared, it's just an overpriced Starbucks knockoff with too little food. Alright, it was pricey, but it was good. And, oh man, they have S'MORES. J'aime. Strangely enough, I never heard of Cosi before that, but then today I saw the newly opened Kentlands location. I guess it's true when you see or hear about something you notice it more and more. Anyways, as we were finishing up dinner Francie Wasser happened to walk by. Meg, who is apparently good friends with her, saw her first; I was then like "... aren't you Francie Wasser?" and she was like "... Jeff, right?" It's funny meeting people you only sort of know. I never really expected to see her again after last Saturday, so that filled my "running into random people" quota for a while. Then we realized we were late for the movie, so we ran (for about 50 feet) to the theatre. After commenting on the fact that all the posters on the walls are in French, we brushed by some theatre staffer on the way to theatre 4. And stopped, becuase it was Matt Yalowitz. Too bad he left before the movie ended, I didn't get to talk to him.
Must go, may or may not finish this post later.
Saturday, July 26
Went to Bethesda with Meg today; was incredibly cool. More on that later, though.
I thought of another thing about civilization today. It eliminates, or at least reduces, Darwinian evolution. It doesn't matter if someone is incredibly stupid, society helps keep him alive. There's an entire industry built on taking care of people, and a major part is care of the retarded. In America, we're not even allowed to execute convicted murderers if they're retarded, according to the Supreme Court. Another part of the industry, and a much bigger one at that, is healthcare, something else that came with civilization and continues to improve as civilization improves. Are you sick? Did you break a bone? Maybe lose a limb? Don't worry, a doctor and/or hospital will fix you right up. Not as good as new, to be sure, but definitely well enough to continue being a productive member of society and pass genes on to the next generation.
Also, I recently saw a commercial for a TV show that pointed out a weird thing about women. This guy is in the grocery store with his nephew and a really hot woman walks by. The conversation goes something like
"oh, what a cute little kid!"
"oh thanks, yeah, he's great."
"your wife must be so proud."
"oh, I'm not married."
"oh. [here the woman checks him out] well that's too bad, isn't it."
[to the kid] "wow Ben, you're more useful than a dog!"
Alright, the last line was a joke (I think the show was a new sitcom). The point is that women like guys with kids, though, which doesn't make sense to me. Clearly the woman thinks the kid is the guy's son, and so finds the guy attractive. If he WAS the kid's father, that would provide two quick explanations: one, he got some woman pregnant and then got stuck with the kid, making him less than a great person, or two, he's divorced, which means he isn't good at marriage. Of course, he could have adopted the kid or his wife could have died in an accident or something but that would be less likely. So... why is this attractive?
Part 2 of blog post soon
I thought of another thing about civilization today. It eliminates, or at least reduces, Darwinian evolution. It doesn't matter if someone is incredibly stupid, society helps keep him alive. There's an entire industry built on taking care of people, and a major part is care of the retarded. In America, we're not even allowed to execute convicted murderers if they're retarded, according to the Supreme Court. Another part of the industry, and a much bigger one at that, is healthcare, something else that came with civilization and continues to improve as civilization improves. Are you sick? Did you break a bone? Maybe lose a limb? Don't worry, a doctor and/or hospital will fix you right up. Not as good as new, to be sure, but definitely well enough to continue being a productive member of society and pass genes on to the next generation.
Also, I recently saw a commercial for a TV show that pointed out a weird thing about women. This guy is in the grocery store with his nephew and a really hot woman walks by. The conversation goes something like
"oh, what a cute little kid!"
"oh thanks, yeah, he's great."
"your wife must be so proud."
"oh, I'm not married."
"oh. [here the woman checks him out] well that's too bad, isn't it."
[to the kid] "wow Ben, you're more useful than a dog!"
Alright, the last line was a joke (I think the show was a new sitcom). The point is that women like guys with kids, though, which doesn't make sense to me. Clearly the woman thinks the kid is the guy's son, and so finds the guy attractive. If he WAS the kid's father, that would provide two quick explanations: one, he got some woman pregnant and then got stuck with the kid, making him less than a great person, or two, he's divorced, which means he isn't good at marriage. Of course, he could have adopted the kid or his wife could have died in an accident or something but that would be less likely. So... why is this attractive?
Part 2 of blog post soon
Latest profile:
Updated 7/25/2003
Note that I'm talking to a GUY in this conversation.
MiNiCLouDSTRiFe: man i should be pregnant by now with how much i get fucked by aim
Lord Torgamus: haha
Torg: THERE'S an ugly baby
CLouD: ahahaha
CLouD: it'll be like a cyborg
CLouD: or part ryan and part that yellow running stick figure guy
Torg: I was afraid of that
Albathon: But...things happened.
Lord Torgamus: oh
Torg: those things
Torg: always interfering
Torg: stuff, too
Torg: stuff gets in the way a lot
Albathon: Oy.
Albathon: Yeah.
Lord Torgamus: when I finished she was giving me the oddest look
comradeHowley: i love it when people do that
Torg: and quickly looked away when I turned around
Torg: heh yeah
Howley: it means you're doing somethign right
Torg: I thought that only applied to journalism?
Latest brilliant quotation: none
Updated 7/25/2003
Note that I'm talking to a GUY in this conversation.
MiNiCLouDSTRiFe: man i should be pregnant by now with how much i get fucked by aim
Lord Torgamus: haha
Torg: THERE'S an ugly baby
CLouD: ahahaha
CLouD: it'll be like a cyborg
CLouD: or part ryan and part that yellow running stick figure guy
Torg: I was afraid of that
Albathon: But...things happened.
Lord Torgamus: oh
Torg: those things
Torg: always interfering
Torg: stuff, too
Torg: stuff gets in the way a lot
Albathon: Oy.
Albathon: Yeah.
Lord Torgamus: when I finished she was giving me the oddest look
comradeHowley: i love it when people do that
Torg: and quickly looked away when I turned around
Torg: heh yeah
Howley: it means you're doing somethign right
Torg: I thought that only applied to journalism?
Latest brilliant quotation: none
Friday, July 25
"Bush noted that the commitment of U.S. forces is only to support West African forces and said he expects the United Nations to be responsible for 'relieving the U.S. troops in short order.'"
Um, yes, because WE (US) definitely listened to THEM (UN) about Iraq.
Bush Orders Marines to Be Stationed off Liberian Coast
Um, yes, because WE (US) definitely listened to THEM (UN) about Iraq.
Bush Orders Marines to Be Stationed off Liberian Coast
Went to eye doctor today. Got drops. Pupils still biiiiiiiiiiiiiig. Come back later.
Oh, wait, one thing. Winged Migration looks pretty cool. I mean, if you're into that sort of thing.
Oh, wait, one thing. Winged Migration looks pretty cool. I mean, if you're into that sort of thing.
Updated 7/24/2003
JeremyHoffman03: we're in trouble
Jeremy: when Harry Potter start's out-scoring us
Jeremy: "dating tips from hogwarts"... sad, eh?
From the profile of Jeanne Yang:
"a few days at work with a MAC has reminded me why i love my PC and my RIGHT CLICKY BUTTON ON THE MOUSE!!!!!!!"
This one just cut me off in midsentence (as you can see).
Leg3: oh! i just got it! subway
Lord Torgamus: more special, but not ne [Editor's note: this is not a typo; the need to respond to the previous comment cut me off in midsentence.]
Torg: oh man
Torg: no offense, but... SLOW
Leg: haha...i dont know how to rebutt that
"Kate: as ever, you take my breath away!"
"Always gratifying to be compared with a blow to the solar plexus, Prince."
-Iain M. Banks' The Business
D k 2 O O 4: wow
Lord Torgamus: is that good location or what
D k: wow
D k: that deserved two wows
Latest brilliant quotation: none
JeremyHoffman03: we're in trouble
Jeremy: when Harry Potter start's out-scoring us
Jeremy: "dating tips from hogwarts"... sad, eh?
From the profile of Jeanne Yang:
"a few days at work with a MAC has reminded me why i love my PC and my RIGHT CLICKY BUTTON ON THE MOUSE!!!!!!!"
This one just cut me off in midsentence (as you can see).
Leg3: oh! i just got it! subway
Lord Torgamus: more special, but not ne [Editor's note: this is not a typo; the need to respond to the previous comment cut me off in midsentence.]
Torg: oh man
Torg: no offense, but... SLOW
Leg: haha...i dont know how to rebutt that
"Kate: as ever, you take my breath away!"
"Always gratifying to be compared with a blow to the solar plexus, Prince."
-Iain M. Banks' The Business
D k 2 O O 4: wow
Lord Torgamus: is that good location or what
D k: wow
D k: that deserved two wows
Latest brilliant quotation: none
Thursday, July 24
Latest profile, today's blog post below:
Updated 7/23/2003
Lord Torgamus: what's new
melkraz: not much
mel: i have to pee
Torg: um
Torg: thanks for sharing?
Torg: so
Auto response from melkraz: peeing brbr
The subject was laundry.
QTpieLX85: well they wanted me to hang out outside to dry so it hasta be when its really hot
QT: haha hang it outside i mean
I'm (well, rather, this profile is) famous!
JeremyHoffman03: (get your profile ready, this here's a quotable)
RifleGoddess16: omygosh is that your picture for your icon?
Lord Torgamus: clearly
Goddess: i'm using aim right now so i've never seen it before
Torg: oh, yeah, you and your AOL
Torg: admit it, I'm hot
Goddess: haha o yes
Goddess: sexy
Torg: well said
Latest brilliant quotation: "Silver Chips isn't a newspaper; it's a lifestyle." -Sam Paul
What? It's not a lifestyle, it's life itself.
Updated 7/23/2003
Lord Torgamus: what's new
melkraz: not much
mel: i have to pee
Torg: um
Torg: thanks for sharing?
Torg: so
Auto response from melkraz: peeing brbr
The subject was laundry.
QTpieLX85: well they wanted me to hang out outside to dry so it hasta be when its really hot
QT: haha hang it outside i mean
I'm (well, rather, this profile is) famous!
JeremyHoffman03: (get your profile ready, this here's a quotable)
RifleGoddess16: omygosh is that your picture for your icon?
Lord Torgamus: clearly
Goddess: i'm using aim right now so i've never seen it before
Torg: oh, yeah, you and your AOL
Torg: admit it, I'm hot
Goddess: haha o yes
Goddess: sexy
Torg: well said
Latest brilliant quotation: "Silver Chips isn't a newspaper; it's a lifestyle." -Sam Paul
What? It's not a lifestyle, it's life itself.
What is happening to the youth of today? Just as I was about to start writing this blog post, a rising sophomore asked me if there were one or two spaces after the end of a sentence. Ah, the future is bleak. Here, see for yourself.
[rising sophomore]: and also, do you use one space or two spaces between sentences?
Torg: two!
Torg: Are you kidding me?
Torg: What do they teach you in English?
Torg: "two spaces after a period" was like the first thing I learned after "cat" and "dog"
[rising sophomore]: You use two spaces?
[rising sophomore]: I always used one
Torg: of course!
Torg: you're crazy.
[rising sophomore]: This cannot be happening
[rising sophomore]: Well, anyway, sources confirm that
[rising sophomore]: So I guess I am crazy
Torg: heh
[rising sophomore]: Not that I never suspected that
Torg: as long as you had the inkling
[rising sophomore]: HAHAHA
[rising sophomore]: of course
And, from the same conversation, just because it's funny:
[rising sophomore]: My new favorite word is 'morass'
[rising sophomore]: get it? more ass? AHAHAHA
[rising sophomore]: that was the most pathetic joke ever
[rising sophomore]: anyway, do you know what it means?
Torg: quagmire
Torg: swamp
Torg: difficult situation
Torg: what's between the rock and the hard place
[rising sophomore]: YES YES!!!
[rising sophomore]: get it? it's between the rock and the hard place? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA
If anyone cares, a great grammar resource is http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar (opens in new window).
Moving on. I was driving to work today and stopped at the light at Seven Locks and Montrose. About a dozen short school buses passed going the other direction. That's not too interesting by itself, but they were all DCPS and PGCPS. What are a dozen District and Prince George's buses doing driving through a random bit of central Montgomery County? I don't really expect anyone to know, but if you do, please tell me.
Also during this morning's drive, I was listening to the Z104 morning show (yeah yeah, I know, but it's slightly better than engine noise) and they were talking about how it's nice that families still spend time together and that's what makes America great, etc. etc. I'd agree with that statement by itself. Vehemently, even. But the show didn't stop there. They tooka rack of calls in quick succession, where people said stuff like "oh yeah, our family orders pizza and watches Cartoon Network every Friday night." The hosts of the show were like "aww, see, this is what I'm talking about. People still spend time with family, it's so wonderful."
I'm sorry, but... no. If I wasn't driving, I'd have called and explained that no, getting together once a week for pizza and TV is called relaxing with your friends on a slow night. I'm 18, and I can only think of a few dozen times in my entire lifetime that I have NOT eaten dinner at the table with my entire family. And most of those times are for some legitimate reason, like I went out with friends for dinner. THAT is spending time with family.
Just posting now to make sure I don't lose what I've already written. Post not done.
Actually, no, going to go confirm what I was about to say before I make a fool of myself.
[rising sophomore]: and also, do you use one space or two spaces between sentences?
Torg: two!
Torg: Are you kidding me?
Torg: What do they teach you in English?
Torg: "two spaces after a period" was like the first thing I learned after "cat" and "dog"
[rising sophomore]: You use two spaces?
[rising sophomore]: I always used one
Torg: of course!
Torg: you're crazy.
[rising sophomore]: This cannot be happening
[rising sophomore]: Well, anyway, sources confirm that
[rising sophomore]: So I guess I am crazy
Torg: heh
[rising sophomore]: Not that I never suspected that
Torg: as long as you had the inkling
[rising sophomore]: HAHAHA
[rising sophomore]: of course
And, from the same conversation, just because it's funny:
[rising sophomore]: My new favorite word is 'morass'
[rising sophomore]: get it? more ass? AHAHAHA
[rising sophomore]: that was the most pathetic joke ever
[rising sophomore]: anyway, do you know what it means?
Torg: quagmire
Torg: swamp
Torg: difficult situation
Torg: what's between the rock and the hard place
[rising sophomore]: YES YES!!!
[rising sophomore]: get it? it's between the rock and the hard place? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA
If anyone cares, a great grammar resource is http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar (opens in new window).
Moving on. I was driving to work today and stopped at the light at Seven Locks and Montrose. About a dozen short school buses passed going the other direction. That's not too interesting by itself, but they were all DCPS and PGCPS. What are a dozen District and Prince George's buses doing driving through a random bit of central Montgomery County? I don't really expect anyone to know, but if you do, please tell me.
Also during this morning's drive, I was listening to the Z104 morning show (yeah yeah, I know, but it's slightly better than engine noise) and they were talking about how it's nice that families still spend time together and that's what makes America great, etc. etc. I'd agree with that statement by itself. Vehemently, even. But the show didn't stop there. They tooka rack of calls in quick succession, where people said stuff like "oh yeah, our family orders pizza and watches Cartoon Network every Friday night." The hosts of the show were like "aww, see, this is what I'm talking about. People still spend time with family, it's so wonderful."
I'm sorry, but... no. If I wasn't driving, I'd have called and explained that no, getting together once a week for pizza and TV is called relaxing with your friends on a slow night. I'm 18, and I can only think of a few dozen times in my entire lifetime that I have NOT eaten dinner at the table with my entire family. And most of those times are for some legitimate reason, like I went out with friends for dinner. THAT is spending time with family.
Just posting now to make sure I don't lose what I've already written. Post not done.
Actually, no, going to go confirm what I was about to say before I make a fool of myself.
Wednesday, July 23
Latest profile:
Updated 7/22/2003
Albathon: "International studies is one of Macalester's exciting majors."
Albathon: I can't think of a good way to read that sentence.
Albathon: I just imagine them sorting their majors into "Exciting" "mildly interesting" and "boring."
SamTheMan1116: [name withheld] is never just asking
Sam: she is either spazzing or gathering sufficient information to begin spazzing
Sam: you gotta be careful what you say to her
bkstina: you may never talk to me on my cell phone
tina: i don't ever remember to turn it on
tina: and thne i get lonely when it doesn't ring
Dazi1881: and all the hot marine guys salute me
Lord Torgamus: ha
Torg: finally
Torg: you got to the hot guys
Torg: I knew it'd get there eventually
Latest brilliant quotation: none
Updated 7/22/2003
Albathon: "International studies is one of Macalester's exciting majors."
Albathon: I can't think of a good way to read that sentence.
Albathon: I just imagine them sorting their majors into "Exciting" "mildly interesting" and "boring."
SamTheMan1116: [name withheld] is never just asking
Sam: she is either spazzing or gathering sufficient information to begin spazzing
Sam: you gotta be careful what you say to her
bkstina: you may never talk to me on my cell phone
tina: i don't ever remember to turn it on
tina: and thne i get lonely when it doesn't ring
Dazi1881: and all the hot marine guys salute me
Lord Torgamus: ha
Torg: finally
Torg: you got to the hot guys
Torg: I knew it'd get there eventually
Latest brilliant quotation: none
Tuesday, July 22
I saw Mrs. Fus and Rachel coming out of Bad Boys II over the weekend. It's true, it IS weird to see people from school (other than your friends I mean) in "real" places. And now for something totally unrelated.
READ THIS HEADLINE.
READ THIS HEADLINE.
Latest profile, new blog post below:
Updated 7/21/2003
Beeno2085: if you bunked your beds, would you want the top or bottom?
Lord Torgamus: I don't care
Torg: probably bottom, easier to find when drunk
I'd prefer if someone else said it, but you gotta start somewhere.
Sagoff3: we all know you're a sexy beast Kevin
Sagoff: we just take it for granted
This is never gonna end....
Leg3: yesterday i called kevin fang kevin chang
Leg: i felt bad
Latest brilliant quotation: "Organized religion destroys who we are by inhibiting our actions, by inhibiting our decisions, out of, out of fear of some, some intangible parent figure who, who shakes a finger at us from hundreds of years ago and says, 'Do it, do it and I'll fucking spank you!'" -Loki, Dogma
Updated 7/21/2003
Beeno2085: if you bunked your beds, would you want the top or bottom?
Lord Torgamus: I don't care
Torg: probably bottom, easier to find when drunk
I'd prefer if someone else said it, but you gotta start somewhere.
Sagoff3: we all know you're a sexy beast Kevin
Sagoff: we just take it for granted
This is never gonna end....
Leg3: yesterday i called kevin fang kevin chang
Leg: i felt bad
Latest brilliant quotation: "Organized religion destroys who we are by inhibiting our actions, by inhibiting our decisions, out of, out of fear of some, some intangible parent figure who, who shakes a finger at us from hundreds of years ago and says, 'Do it, do it and I'll fucking spank you!'" -Loki, Dogma
Wow, added three new people to the friends box (at left) in one day. And college hasn't even started yet.
The Interesting Thing I did today was: change a flat tire. If you ever find yourself needing to change a tire, make sure you don't cut your hand on the steel belt from the old tire. This public service announcement brought to you by an idiot who has no self-preservation instinct. Does anyone know if tetanus shots protect you for 10 years, or if you have to get a booster every time you get cut? The tire just had to go in a place where there's a lot of tall grass, so I'm thinking I'll be waking up with a lot of bug bites tomorrow. At least I didn't swallow any gnats.
The other major thing for today is I got housing info. CMU Housing Services saw fit to deny my specific, mutual roommate request, so I won't be living with Ji-Heon. Instead, it'll be Robert Timmerman in Donner Hall, room A004. I was about to put my mailing address here, but on second thought that might not be the smartest move ever. Ask me if you care.
The Interesting Thing I did today was: change a flat tire. If you ever find yourself needing to change a tire, make sure you don't cut your hand on the steel belt from the old tire. This public service announcement brought to you by an idiot who has no self-preservation instinct. Does anyone know if tetanus shots protect you for 10 years, or if you have to get a booster every time you get cut? The tire just had to go in a place where there's a lot of tall grass, so I'm thinking I'll be waking up with a lot of bug bites tomorrow. At least I didn't swallow any gnats.
The other major thing for today is I got housing info. CMU Housing Services saw fit to deny my specific, mutual roommate request, so I won't be living with Ji-Heon. Instead, it'll be Robert Timmerman in Donner Hall, room A004. I was about to put my mailing address here, but on second thought that might not be the smartest move ever. Ask me if you care.
Monday, July 21
Latest profile, new blog posts below:
Updated 7/18/2003
This conversation took a turn....
JeremyHoffman03: kevin, i turn 18 in ninety minutes!!
Jeremy: what do i dooo
Lord Torgamus: Then I'm 90 minutes away from saying congratulations
Torg: hmm
Torg: I faced the same dilemma
Torg: Now is the time to shoplift
Torg: I don't think you have enough minutes to do anything more serious
Torg: go
Torg: now
Torg: hurry
Jeremy: haha
Torg: get some illegal porn or cigs or something
Torg: before it's legal
Torg: and thus boring
Jeremy: lol
Jeremy: boring, never
Torg: haha
Jeremy: just gotta get it before i need Viagra
Torg: haha
Jeremy: wait, lemme check... yea, still got time
Jeremy: :-D
Latest brilliant quotation (OK, not brilliant, but it was in Pearl's blog and it's hilarious): "If you have anal sex, does the baby come out of your butt?" -random person in health class
Updated 7/18/2003
This conversation took a turn....
JeremyHoffman03: kevin, i turn 18 in ninety minutes!!
Jeremy: what do i dooo
Lord Torgamus: Then I'm 90 minutes away from saying congratulations
Torg: hmm
Torg: I faced the same dilemma
Torg: Now is the time to shoplift
Torg: I don't think you have enough minutes to do anything more serious
Torg: go
Torg: now
Torg: hurry
Jeremy: haha
Torg: get some illegal porn or cigs or something
Torg: before it's legal
Torg: and thus boring
Jeremy: lol
Jeremy: boring, never
Torg: haha
Jeremy: just gotta get it before i need Viagra
Torg: haha
Jeremy: wait, lemme check... yea, still got time
Jeremy: :-D
Latest brilliant quotation (OK, not brilliant, but it was in Pearl's blog and it's hilarious): "If you have anal sex, does the baby come out of your butt?" -random person in health class
I have come to a realization. Dave Matthews Band songs are good. But after a certain point, you never want to hear them again. I could live the rest of my life hearing Satellite, The Space Between, Gray Street, etc. once or twice more each. I mean, it's just reached the point where it's sickening to listen any more. It's really true for all songs, but it seems to be especially applicable to DMB.
In health news, pizza prevents cancer. Anyone for some Papa John's, extra sauce?
In health news, pizza prevents cancer. Anyone for some Papa John's, extra sauce?
Update to "yesterday's" post: my CD-RW drive (actually, the burning software) is acting funny, so I didn't get to make those backups. Will continue to try, especially since I erased the old backups to make the new ones (I only have so many CD-RWs).
In new news, I can SSH to andrew! Woo hoo!
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American children are fatter than ever before, but they are far less violent and far less likely to get pregnant than most people think, according to a government report issued on Friday.
[EDIT March 31, 2009 - Deleted an IM quotation because someone's prospective employer Googled her. Seriously, what the balls.]
Hee hee. That was great.
I saw Bad Boys II on Saturday. I never saw the first one, but the movie still made perfect sense, so don't let that stop you from going. The plot is sort of sketchy at the beginning and flat out ridiculously stupid at the end, but it IS Bad Boys II, so I'm not holding that against it. If you're in the mood for a "ooh! An explosion! OOH! AN EVEN BIGGER EXPLOSION!," and who isn't in that mood at least sometimes, check it out.
Movies I still need to see:
Matrix Reloaded (will see it eventually, no question)
Finding Nemo (probably not going to happen, unfortunately)
T3 (also unlikely)
LB2 (ditto)
SWAT (comes out early August, will probably see this in McConomy)
Summer reading update 6:
Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett: completed
Five Hundred Years After, Steven Brust: completed
The Shadow Rising, Robert Jordan: completed
1984, George Orwell: re-completed
The Pratchett books are getting disappointingly boring. Looking forward to Reaper Man, as well as sequels to the Brust and Jordan books. Mmm. Books.
In new news, I can SSH to andrew! Woo hoo!
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American children are fatter than ever before, but they are far less violent and far less likely to get pregnant than most people think, according to a government report issued on Friday.
[EDIT March 31, 2009 - Deleted an IM quotation because someone's prospective employer Googled her. Seriously, what the balls.]
Hee hee. That was great.
I saw Bad Boys II on Saturday. I never saw the first one, but the movie still made perfect sense, so don't let that stop you from going. The plot is sort of sketchy at the beginning and flat out ridiculously stupid at the end, but it IS Bad Boys II, so I'm not holding that against it. If you're in the mood for a "ooh! An explosion! OOH! AN EVEN BIGGER EXPLOSION!," and who isn't in that mood at least sometimes, check it out.
Movies I still need to see:
Matrix Reloaded (will see it eventually, no question)
Finding Nemo (probably not going to happen, unfortunately)
T3 (also unlikely)
LB2 (ditto)
SWAT (comes out early August, will probably see this in McConomy)
Summer reading update 6:
Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett: completed
Five Hundred Years After, Steven Brust: completed
The Shadow Rising, Robert Jordan: completed
1984, George Orwell: re-completed
The Pratchett books are getting disappointingly boring. Looking forward to Reaper Man, as well as sequels to the Brust and Jordan books. Mmm. Books.
Belated blog post for July 20
As some of you have noticed and even theorized upon causes for, my Internet's acting funny. You know, random disconnects from AIM/binx/whatever, that kind of thing. It just cut out completely today; 20+ minutes of being on hold and seven FreeCell victories later, I found out the entire block has lost cable and will be up by tomorrow (which is today by the time I post this). So there. No more strange theories.
There is an upside to this: since I can't do anything else with my computer, I'm making backups.
Animals and driving are, individually, wonderful things. Together, I don't think they like me. A few weeks ago, on the way home from piano, it started raining. It started to get semi-heavy, so I turned on my wipers. Right at that moment when the blades are making their first pass and all that water is cascading down the windshield, a little white dog decides it's time to bolt across the street. The guy going the opposite direction looked surprised (which was OK, he was far enough away that he didn't have to do anything), the people on either side of the road just kind of stared at the dog, and I thanked the nice folks at Buick for installing anti-lock brakes in my car. Fortunately, I did manage to stop in time.
The funny thing is, if I wasn't able to, things would probably have not come out in my defense. The dog could have damaged my car. The dog was not leashes. And the dog's owners could probably have won a lawsuit against me anyways.
No, seriously. If convicted criminals can use taxpayer money to pay for sex-change operations and stupid people can win settlements with McDonalds because they were too unslick to hold the hot coffee upright....
And then last night I'm coming home from the Cold Spring party (which was really fun, but not really worthy of any specific comment), and I smack a deer. To clarify the situation for, ahem, certain people, this was not intentional. It shot out from behind a white truck going the other way to the pavement two feet in front of me. Going at 38 mph, there wasn't a whole lot I could do. I thought it ran off, but I definitely saw it still there on the way to tennis this morning. That really sucked. I mean, I didn't WANT to hit it, you know? And there's absolutely nothing I can do except make sure my car isn't dented. I don't like being helpless.
And of course, I've stopped for a fair number of squirrels and other small things. So, do I have more bad luck than other people, or does this happen to everyone? Slash holla at me for more weird(-boring) complaints about driving, yo.
Remember when I started talking like Tina? Me neither.
As some of you have noticed and even theorized upon causes for, my Internet's acting funny. You know, random disconnects from AIM/binx/whatever, that kind of thing. It just cut out completely today; 20+ minutes of being on hold and seven FreeCell victories later, I found out the entire block has lost cable and will be up by tomorrow (which is today by the time I post this). So there. No more strange theories.
There is an upside to this: since I can't do anything else with my computer, I'm making backups.
Animals and driving are, individually, wonderful things. Together, I don't think they like me. A few weeks ago, on the way home from piano, it started raining. It started to get semi-heavy, so I turned on my wipers. Right at that moment when the blades are making their first pass and all that water is cascading down the windshield, a little white dog decides it's time to bolt across the street. The guy going the opposite direction looked surprised (which was OK, he was far enough away that he didn't have to do anything), the people on either side of the road just kind of stared at the dog, and I thanked the nice folks at Buick for installing anti-lock brakes in my car. Fortunately, I did manage to stop in time.
The funny thing is, if I wasn't able to, things would probably have not come out in my defense. The dog could have damaged my car. The dog was not leashes. And the dog's owners could probably have won a lawsuit against me anyways.
No, seriously. If convicted criminals can use taxpayer money to pay for sex-change operations and stupid people can win settlements with McDonalds because they were too unslick to hold the hot coffee upright....
And then last night I'm coming home from the Cold Spring party (which was really fun, but not really worthy of any specific comment), and I smack a deer. To clarify the situation for, ahem, certain people, this was not intentional. It shot out from behind a white truck going the other way to the pavement two feet in front of me. Going at 38 mph, there wasn't a whole lot I could do. I thought it ran off, but I definitely saw it still there on the way to tennis this morning. That really sucked. I mean, I didn't WANT to hit it, you know? And there's absolutely nothing I can do except make sure my car isn't dented. I don't like being helpless.
And of course, I've stopped for a fair number of squirrels and other small things. So, do I have more bad luck than other people, or does this happen to everyone? Slash holla at me for more weird(-boring) complaints about driving, yo.
Remember when I started talking like Tina? Me neither.
Friday, July 18
Latest profile, today's blog post below
Updated 7/17/2003
I think she may have missed the point.
SumonWay: haha i just came back from my first LAN party ever
Way: interestingly enough i did not touch a computer
Sagoff3: I'm about to become nearly equals with Ms. Hooker
Le Seraph: reggae blows
Seraph: eardrums, to be specific
Beeno2085: i want a huge periodic table
Beeno: like poster size
Lord Torgamus: Dork.
Lord Torgamus: Hello
Auto response from Mtncrossc: crying over harry potter, no, seriously
Torg: did he spurn you?
JeremyHoffman03: my physical frustration is wearing out, i'm becoming lethargic again
Lord Torgamus: haha
Jeremy: like an anti-hulk
Jeremy: "you won't like me when i'm sedentary"
Latest brilliant quotation: none
Updated 7/17/2003
I think she may have missed the point.
SumonWay: haha i just came back from my first LAN party ever
Way: interestingly enough i did not touch a computer
Sagoff3: I'm about to become nearly equals with Ms. Hooker
Le Seraph: reggae blows
Seraph: eardrums, to be specific
Beeno2085: i want a huge periodic table
Beeno: like poster size
Lord Torgamus: Dork.
Lord Torgamus: Hello
Auto response from Mtncrossc: crying over harry potter, no, seriously
Torg: did he spurn you?
JeremyHoffman03: my physical frustration is wearing out, i'm becoming lethargic again
Lord Torgamus: haha
Jeremy: like an anti-hulk
Jeremy: "you won't like me when i'm sedentary"
Latest brilliant quotation: none
The good news is that one of the Important Pieces of Mail I've Been Waiting For (talking about AP scores) came today. The bad news was inside the envelope.
Two pieces of mail from CMU; one advertisement, one bill. No housing info. Boo.
Yes, it was Friday; yes, I went to DC; yes, I looked for G street. I started at C and made it to D, E and F. At F, the road turns sharply and there's a park that ends under a highway bridge. After asking one guy for directions and later checking a map, I found that G UNIT is in a really bad part of town. So, sorry, no picture.
I did go in the Main Reading Room today. It's so impressive in there. Except that they couldn't find my book. I guess there's not much call for novels.
My internet keeps mysteriously and randomly dying. Websites stop working, AOL and binx just shut off, and AIM disconnects with no warning. At least I'm leaving soon. Anyways, if I disappear, that's (probably) why.
Maybe it's just me, but telemarketing is getting worse. Perhaps they're trying to get everyone in before the new Do Not Call list goes into effect. AAA and MBNA advertisers call just about every day, sometimes twice a day. We must have gotten two dozen calls by now. And they've hired new people, too; they aren't smooth on the phone. I know their lines better than they do.
Two pieces of mail from CMU; one advertisement, one bill. No housing info. Boo.
Yes, it was Friday; yes, I went to DC; yes, I looked for G street. I started at C and made it to D, E and F. At F, the road turns sharply and there's a park that ends under a highway bridge. After asking one guy for directions and later checking a map, I found that G UNIT is in a really bad part of town. So, sorry, no picture.
I did go in the Main Reading Room today. It's so impressive in there. Except that they couldn't find my book. I guess there's not much call for novels.
My internet keeps mysteriously and randomly dying. Websites stop working, AOL and binx just shut off, and AIM disconnects with no warning. At least I'm leaving soon. Anyways, if I disappear, that's (probably) why.
Maybe it's just me, but telemarketing is getting worse. Perhaps they're trying to get everyone in before the new Do Not Call list goes into effect. AAA and MBNA advertisers call just about every day, sometimes twice a day. We must have gotten two dozen calls by now. And they've hired new people, too; they aren't smooth on the phone. I know their lines better than they do.
Thursday, July 17
Alright, I just typed five or six long paragraphs worth of blog and they just disappeared.
Let's see if it happens again. Summary of erased post:
Friday: Library of Congress during day (come visit), will almost certainly take pictures, will try to find G UNIT and the Summer House on the Capitol grounds that I missed last week in addition to going to the main reading room. Tell me if you want to do something... I dunno, movie or anything.
Saturday: Parents' friends coming over to congratulate me on Carnegie Mellon and get a lunch out of the deal. Possibly going to see Bad Boys II with Joe. Then at night, going to the CS PARTY! (That's Cold Spring party, not Computer Science party.) All my friends from the fifth grade equivalent of the magnet. That's right, we were geeks even back in the DAY. It's gonna be off da HOOK. Alright, maybe not.
Sunday: Tennis at King Farm, 9 AM. Come! Yeah, YOU. IM or call for info.
Something interesting finally came in the mail today. The official Carnegie Mellon University student handbook, aptly and authoritatively titled: The Word. I dunno, but I think that's a great name for it. Planbook, contact information for everyone of any importance in the school, things to do on campus and in Pittsburgh and more. Looks nice too.
After getting The Word and the family handbook, I decided I was having an above-average package/mail day.
Then the FedEx guy dropped by.
I would just like to say that Lockheed Martin Corporation is cool. Extremely cool. They know how to take care of people. For those who haven't been paying scrupulous attention to the last few months of my life, I was named a National Merit Scholar and got the Lockheed Martin Merit Scholarship. On to the FedEx package, then. The contents included, but were not limited to: an official award certificate (which unfortunately looks very unprofessional), a dark blue logo t-shirt, and ROSEWOOD pen/pencil set with case. Sorry to brag about the writing implements, but I just had to. They're SO cool. Sorry again, moving on now. Possibly the coolest thing of all was the letter that came with all of The Stuff. Paragraph two listed some contact information in case I should be, say, seeking summer or full-time employment. Now that is just awesome.
I'm definitely looking forward to the next few days, they should be much fun indeed. If you want to join in, just let me know.
Let's see if it happens again. Summary of erased post:
Friday: Library of Congress during day (come visit), will almost certainly take pictures, will try to find G UNIT and the Summer House on the Capitol grounds that I missed last week in addition to going to the main reading room. Tell me if you want to do something... I dunno, movie or anything.
Saturday: Parents' friends coming over to congratulate me on Carnegie Mellon and get a lunch out of the deal. Possibly going to see Bad Boys II with Joe. Then at night, going to the CS PARTY! (That's Cold Spring party, not Computer Science party.) All my friends from the fifth grade equivalent of the magnet. That's right, we were geeks even back in the DAY. It's gonna be off da HOOK. Alright, maybe not.
Sunday: Tennis at King Farm, 9 AM. Come! Yeah, YOU. IM or call for info.
Something interesting finally came in the mail today. The official Carnegie Mellon University student handbook, aptly and authoritatively titled: The Word. I dunno, but I think that's a great name for it. Planbook, contact information for everyone of any importance in the school, things to do on campus and in Pittsburgh and more. Looks nice too.
After getting The Word and the family handbook, I decided I was having an above-average package/mail day.
Then the FedEx guy dropped by.
I would just like to say that Lockheed Martin Corporation is cool. Extremely cool. They know how to take care of people. For those who haven't been paying scrupulous attention to the last few months of my life, I was named a National Merit Scholar and got the Lockheed Martin Merit Scholarship. On to the FedEx package, then. The contents included, but were not limited to: an official award certificate (which unfortunately looks very unprofessional), a dark blue logo t-shirt, and ROSEWOOD pen/pencil set with case. Sorry to brag about the writing implements, but I just had to. They're SO cool. Sorry again, moving on now. Possibly the coolest thing of all was the letter that came with all of The Stuff. Paragraph two listed some contact information in case I should be, say, seeking summer or full-time employment. Now that is just awesome.
I'm definitely looking forward to the next few days, they should be much fun indeed. If you want to join in, just let me know.
Latest profile:
Updated 7/16/2003
bkstina: haha i'm doing jiheon right now
QTpieLX85: don't yell at me, boiii
Lord Torgamus: why?
LX: cuz i'm *special* and by special, i mean mentally deficient
Lord Torgamus: heck, she's online, ask her yourself
comradeHowley: lemmings more important than human interaction
Torg: understood
Torg: good night, Mr. Howley
Howley: night night!
Lord Torgamus: if I mention Sweet Home Alabama again I think people will bring torches and pitchforks
Torg: and not to play the game "Torches and Pitchforks"
Latest brilliant quotation: "Sometimes he thought women all belonged to a guild, the way craftsmen in cities did. Put a foot wrong with one, and the next ten you met knew of it, and disapproved." -Robert Jordan, in his book The Shadow Rising
Updated 7/16/2003
bkstina: haha i'm doing jiheon right now
QTpieLX85: don't yell at me, boiii
Lord Torgamus: why?
LX: cuz i'm *special* and by special, i mean mentally deficient
Lord Torgamus: heck, she's online, ask her yourself
comradeHowley: lemmings more important than human interaction
Torg: understood
Torg: good night, Mr. Howley
Howley: night night!
Lord Torgamus: if I mention Sweet Home Alabama again I think people will bring torches and pitchforks
Torg: and not to play the game "Torches and Pitchforks"
Latest brilliant quotation: "Sometimes he thought women all belonged to a guild, the way craftsmen in cities did. Put a foot wrong with one, and the next ten you met knew of it, and disapproved." -Robert Jordan, in his book The Shadow Rising
Wednesday, July 16
Latest profile, new blog post below:
Updated 7/15/2003
Lord Torgamus: did you watch that Test the Nation thing last night?
Beeno2085: no, but i heard about it, did you watch it?
Torg: yeah
Beeno: did you get your iq?
Torg: 130, but I don't trust their test at all
Beeno: cuz according to that you'd be a genius?
Torg: yeah
Torg: but mostly
Torg: because it's FOX
Beeno: hahaha
adidasgurl102: josh hartnett is so hot that it makes non-gay people gay!!!!
Lord Torgamus: also
melkraz: im tellin you
Torg: what the hell is your profile?
mel: find better friends
mel: hahahahahha
mel: thats ren
mel: dont mind him
mel: hes crazy
mel: he wants me to steal my parents' massager
mel: and use it as a dildo
Torg: You're telling ME to find better friends
Latest brilliant quotation: "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." -Oscar Wilde
Updated 7/15/2003
Lord Torgamus: did you watch that Test the Nation thing last night?
Beeno2085: no, but i heard about it, did you watch it?
Torg: yeah
Beeno: did you get your iq?
Torg: 130, but I don't trust their test at all
Beeno: cuz according to that you'd be a genius?
Torg: yeah
Torg: but mostly
Torg: because it's FOX
Beeno: hahaha
adidasgurl102: josh hartnett is so hot that it makes non-gay people gay!!!!
Lord Torgamus: also
melkraz: im tellin you
Torg: what the hell is your profile?
mel: find better friends
mel: hahahahahha
mel: thats ren
mel: dont mind him
mel: hes crazy
mel: he wants me to steal my parents' massager
mel: and use it as a dildo
Torg: You're telling ME to find better friends
Latest brilliant quotation: "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." -Oscar Wilde
Computers are expensive! What happened to the Age of Cheap Electronics? Companies advertise $500 computers and when I go to get a new laptop I see price tags closer to four times that. All I really want is a good-speed processor, a couple hundred megabytes of RAM, a decent-sized hard drive, a wireless networking card, an ethernet card and maybe a CD-RW/DVD drive.
Yeah, that's all for now.
Yeah, that's all for now.
Tuesday, July 15
Latest profile, new blog posts below
Updated 7/14/2003
Beeno2085: NEVER EAT AT BAJA FRESH
Lord Torgamus: why?
Beeno: because it's so many calories
Torg: so?
Beeno: eah okay, it doesn't apply to you
The man has a reputation (though, as established in the last profile, not a Pulitzer)....
adidasgurl102: question
adidas: can i use the world goddamn?
Lord Torgamus: I don't work for the Post
Torg: unfortunately
adidas: ok i'll ask Jared
Torg: he doesn't work for the post either...
adidas: oh Jared will know
Why does nature seem to hate us sometimes?
RifleGoddess16: um...we are hurting it that's why
Latest brilliant quotation: "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." -Oscar Wilde
Updated 7/14/2003
Beeno2085: NEVER EAT AT BAJA FRESH
Lord Torgamus: why?
Beeno: because it's so many calories
Torg: so?
Beeno: eah okay, it doesn't apply to you
The man has a reputation (though, as established in the last profile, not a Pulitzer)....
adidasgurl102: question
adidas: can i use the world goddamn?
Lord Torgamus: I don't work for the Post
Torg: unfortunately
adidas: ok i'll ask Jared
Torg: he doesn't work for the post either...
adidas: oh Jared will know
Why does nature seem to hate us sometimes?
RifleGoddess16: um...we are hurting it that's why
Latest brilliant quotation: "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." -Oscar Wilde
College in a MONTH! WOOOOO HOO!
I went to Blair to get my transcript application in today (missed lunch, was late for work, the whole bit... I hate scheduling) and found that the registrar/financial people are just as crazy and inefficient as ever. You know they haven't even MADE the final transcripts yet? Mine was definitely due July 1. And this scholarship I went to do needs info by Friday. Yargh. That's all for now.
I went to Blair to get my transcript application in today (missed lunch, was late for work, the whole bit... I hate scheduling) and found that the registrar/financial people are just as crazy and inefficient as ever. You know they haven't even MADE the final transcripts yet? Mine was definitely due July 1. And this scholarship I went to do needs info by Friday. Yargh. That's all for now.
Monday, July 14
From The Tartan: http://tartan.web.cmu.edu/97/14/pillbox/2832.asp
Consider this a personal reference guide in case you have to talk to a Harvard undergrad who sits next to Natalie Portman in a seminar or a Yale-ite who happens to have slung espresso for Claire Danes personally. I would rather share an alma mater with Maria from Sesame Street or Agent 99 from Get Smart any day.
Latest profile (another new blog post below):
Updated 7/13/2003
Lord Torgamus: Hello, on a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being "great" and 10 being "insanely awesome" how was your first Gazette day?
Sagoff3: well
Sagoff: since I didn't get a pulitzer
Sagoff: I'm going to have to go with 8
Torg: you're kidding
Sagoff: being "tremendously wonderful"
Torg: You've worked a FULL day and haven't gotten a Pulitzer?
Sagoff: yeah
Torg: Did you at least get NOMINATED?
Sagoff: can you believe it?
Sagoff: no those SOBs passed me over AGAIN
Quite possibly the best response to a greeting EVER:
Lord Torgamus: Good afternoon
SumonWay: my father saves defenseless turtles from being smashed by careless drivers!
Latest brilliant quotation: none
Updated 7/13/2003
Lord Torgamus: Hello, on a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being "great" and 10 being "insanely awesome" how was your first Gazette day?
Sagoff3: well
Sagoff: since I didn't get a pulitzer
Sagoff: I'm going to have to go with 8
Torg: you're kidding
Sagoff: being "tremendously wonderful"
Torg: You've worked a FULL day and haven't gotten a Pulitzer?
Sagoff: yeah
Torg: Did you at least get NOMINATED?
Sagoff: can you believe it?
Sagoff: no those SOBs passed me over AGAIN
Quite possibly the best response to a greeting EVER:
Lord Torgamus: Good afternoon
SumonWay: my father saves defenseless turtles from being smashed by careless drivers!
Latest brilliant quotation: none
Today being Monday, I taught. I had to stay for the afternoon session, watching four students and waiting for someone to have a question. Since it was the afternoon session, nobody really wanted to do work, so they tried to talk instead. Over halfway through the class, Amanda walked in from the other room with a geometry-related precal question (she teaches precal, I teach geometry) that she couldn't solve. Completely randomly, one of my students goes "so how was the prom with Kevin?" You can imagine how that went. No, I'm not saying any more, go imagine.
I am a picky eater, especially when it comes to vegetables. Broccoli and cauliflower are really the only two good ones. After reading this (surprisingly good) feature from today's Washington Post, I have decided that I only like vegetables that are also flowers.
Side note: my dad claims Snapple's wrong, and there's some Chinese vegetable that's also a flower. But, um, whatever.
Side note: my dad claims Snapple's wrong, and there's some Chinese vegetable that's also a flower. But, um, whatever.
Sunday, July 13
CMU meeting today was cool. (Side note: apparently there was a lawsuit a few years ago and Carnegie Mellon is officially NOT allowed to be called CMU. Central Michigan University was quite bitchy about acronym ownership.) Talked to Bernardo and Dan for a while, and Sean too though I thought he wasn't going. That sentence looks awkward any way I write it. Oh well. Lost out on the raffles, but Dan and Sean didn't, so it was good. That aside, lots of good talking. Apparently Wootton is sending eight people this year; and I thought Blair had a lot. One of the guys from Wootton was on the third place Botball team this year; I forsee a bright future for CMU RoboSoccer.
Had a too-long panel discussion with current students/recent alums. Sitting on the ground for two hours straight can be painful. The question I really wanted an answer to was whether I should bring a bike; half the panel said yes, half said no. So I'm still confused, but ah well. Talked about food, RAs, classes, you know, the usual. It seems the $1 McConomy movies are porn every once in a while; CMU people, clear your schedules when the movie lists say "TBA" for longer than usual. One of the Orientation Counselors who went looked a lot like Anna Schoenfelder, except slightly older and hotter. I'm seeing people who look like people I know all over the place, it's almost scary. I was playing tennis with Jared the other day, and this girl came to the next court who looked exactly like Jessica Chang until she was about three feet away from me, at which point I realized she looked absolutely nothing like Jessica Chang. But, uh, yeah. I did get one of the OCs to pass my Andrew ID (CMU equivalent of binx username) on to the editor of The Tartan, which paper has been ignoring me for several months.
Had a too-long panel discussion with current students/recent alums. Sitting on the ground for two hours straight can be painful. The question I really wanted an answer to was whether I should bring a bike; half the panel said yes, half said no. So I'm still confused, but ah well. Talked about food, RAs, classes, you know, the usual. It seems the $1 McConomy movies are porn every once in a while; CMU people, clear your schedules when the movie lists say "TBA" for longer than usual. One of the Orientation Counselors who went looked a lot like Anna Schoenfelder, except slightly older and hotter. I'm seeing people who look like people I know all over the place, it's almost scary. I was playing tennis with Jared the other day, and this girl came to the next court who looked exactly like Jessica Chang until she was about three feet away from me, at which point I realized she looked absolutely nothing like Jessica Chang. But, uh, yeah. I did get one of the OCs to pass my Andrew ID (CMU equivalent of binx username) on to the editor of The Tartan, which paper has been ignoring me for several months.
Latest profile; new blog post below
Updated 7/12/2003
QTpieLX85: what a silly question, now if u clean ur room i'll give u a cookie!
Lord Torgamus: cookie!
LX: oh boy, i know
LX: man, now i wish i had a cookie
Dglass313: cause you're looking all serious in the pic, and your conversation is so incongruous
Lord Torgamus: haha
Torg: wow, incongruous in a real sentence
glass: feel the power
glass: WORD POWER
Torg: I think you're suffering from school withdrawl
Torg: loser.
Again, the last two brilliant quotations:
"If your life is governed by fear, your life is doomed to disappointment and failure." -Bill Clinton
"If you have no fear whatsoever, you're stupid." -Bill Clinton
Updated 7/12/2003
QTpieLX85: what a silly question, now if u clean ur room i'll give u a cookie!
Lord Torgamus: cookie!
LX: oh boy, i know
LX: man, now i wish i had a cookie
Dglass313: cause you're looking all serious in the pic, and your conversation is so incongruous
Lord Torgamus: haha
Torg: wow, incongruous in a real sentence
glass: feel the power
glass: WORD POWER
Torg: I think you're suffering from school withdrawl
Torg: loser.
Again, the last two brilliant quotations:
"If your life is governed by fear, your life is doomed to disappointment and failure." -Bill Clinton
"If you have no fear whatsoever, you're stupid." -Bill Clinton
Wait, wait, I was wrong. There are CMU quizzes. I just searched for "Carnegie" and not "CMU" like an idiot.
Results: 43%, 50%, 50%
In other news, I'm only 64% CMU cute. Whatever that means, it can't be good.
Finally, I got Donner Hall. Uncool. Hopefully they still put me with Ji-Heon. At least I didn't get Hamerschlag (all male) like Dan....
Results: 43%, 50%, 50%
In other news, I'm only 64% CMU cute. Whatever that means, it can't be good.
Finally, I got Donner Hall. Uncool. Hopefully they still put me with Ji-Heon. At least I didn't get Hamerschlag (all male) like Dan....
I was asking people if they were going to the CS reunion thing next week, and in typical magnet fashion, most people responded "what computer science thing?"
Saturday, July 12
Since everyone's taking college quizies, I figured I'd jump in too. I don't know why I do it.... Everyone else got a blog, I got one too. Everyone else got a pbase, I got one too. Etc. But, CMU doesn't have a quizie. So I took other people's colleges, just for the hell of it.
MIT - 64%
UMCP - 40%
Northwestern - 11%, 25%, 34%, 20% (four different NU quizzes)
Duke - 41%, 10%, 30%, 16% (there are more, but even I have limits)
Harvard - 32%
Cornell - 28%. Someone told the admissions office that, I suspect. Stupid wait-wait-waitlist.
Finally, chance I have of going to Harvard: 80%. Yeah, right.
Yeah, I was bored. Someone AIM/call me to do something. Anytime. Seriously.
MIT - 64%
UMCP - 40%
Northwestern - 11%, 25%, 34%, 20% (four different NU quizzes)
Duke - 41%, 10%, 30%, 16% (there are more, but even I have limits)
Harvard - 32%
Cornell - 28%. Someone told the admissions office that, I suspect. Stupid wait-wait-waitlist.
Finally, chance I have of going to Harvard: 80%. Yeah, right.
Yeah, I was bored. Someone AIM/call me to do something. Anytime. Seriously.
Latest profile (new blog post below):
Updated 7/11/2003
Discussing "hard work" with someone still in high school.
adidasgurl102: well...ur a graduate
adidas: haha
Lord Torgamus: hey
Torg: I'm working hard too
Torg: at, um, getting this onion taste out of my mouth
Torg: never eat an onion alone
Torg: always mix it with another vegetable
Torg: lettuce works well
adidas: hahaha
Torg: there's my important life lesson for the day
QTpieLX85: don't let them push u around!
LX: only i can push u around!
Latest brilliant quotation: "If you have no fear whatsoever, you're stupid." -Bill Clinton
Updated 7/11/2003
Discussing "hard work" with someone still in high school.
adidasgurl102: well...ur a graduate
adidas: haha
Lord Torgamus: hey
Torg: I'm working hard too
Torg: at, um, getting this onion taste out of my mouth
Torg: never eat an onion alone
Torg: always mix it with another vegetable
Torg: lettuce works well
adidas: hahaha
Torg: there's my important life lesson for the day
QTpieLX85: don't let them push u around!
LX: only i can push u around!
Latest brilliant quotation: "If you have no fear whatsoever, you're stupid." -Bill Clinton
Finally got my CMU Orientation packet today. The school had to think of a clever class slogan for us, of course. (I remember we got a freshman class slogan at Blair, and I forgot it within a day. But I do seem to remember it was pretty stupid.) After what I presume was a great deal of thought, someone realized that we're not just the class of '07, we're the class of '007. And so, we are:
I dunno about you, but I think it's pretty nifty. Most interesting entry in the Orientation booklet, under the heading "Arts Pass": "All Carnegie Mellon students are provided free access throughout the year to... the Mattress Factory...." I figured there was no way that was really a mattress factory, so I Googled it. Unfortunately for my sense of humor, I was right. It's a museum of contemporary art. If you're bored, check out the Mattress Factory website.
Class of 007
The World is Not Enough.
I dunno about you, but I think it's pretty nifty. Most interesting entry in the Orientation booklet, under the heading "Arts Pass": "All Carnegie Mellon students are provided free access throughout the year to... the Mattress Factory...." I figured there was no way that was really a mattress factory, so I Googled it. Unfortunately for my sense of humor, I was right. It's a museum of contemporary art. If you're bored, check out the Mattress Factory website.
Friday, July 11
Wow, I maxed out my pbase. 1024x480 pictures are BIG. I need a personal website. Anyhow, today's pictures.
Two addendums to today's post:
Entering the Capitol South Metro station, I saw a sign for C street. Block numbers hang underneath street signs in DC, so you'll see things like "C street 100" or "Constitution Ave. 1200." When the numbers are below 100, they use "UNIT" instead of "0." If I follow correctly, that means there's a G UNIT somewhere. I'll have to look into this next time I'm downtown.
Exiting the Crystal City Metro station, I saw a guy playing some Asian stringed instrument with his case open. For once I put some money in. It felt good. I'll have to do that more often.
Entering the Capitol South Metro station, I saw a sign for C street. Block numbers hang underneath street signs in DC, so you'll see things like "C street 100" or "Constitution Ave. 1200." When the numbers are below 100, they use "UNIT" instead of "0." If I follow correctly, that means there's a G UNIT somewhere. I'll have to look into this next time I'm downtown.
Exiting the Crystal City Metro station, I saw a guy playing some Asian stringed instrument with his case open. For once I put some money in. It felt good. I'll have to do that more often.
Latest profile (new blog post below):
Updated 7/10/2003
Anyone else have plans for college yet?
kfang 910: cept i might give into the industries around
fang: and take up smoking
Lord Torgamus: haha
fang: i may get amanda to start drinking too
fang: you know...the usual
Auto response from Lord Torgamus: I'm wasting more of my life in front of a box with a gun that shoots electrons inside of it. Back at 10:30.
angeIstina: that is so magnet that it's gross.
stina: go back to blair
stina: you're not ready for the real world
Let's hear it for planning ahead.
Leg3: i'm going away though
Leg: have a great week...i'm going away till friday or wendesday or saturday or something
Latest brilliant quotation: "If your life is governed by fear, your life is doomed to disappointment and failure." -Bill Clinton
Updated 7/10/2003
Anyone else have plans for college yet?
kfang 910: cept i might give into the industries around
fang: and take up smoking
Lord Torgamus: haha
fang: i may get amanda to start drinking too
fang: you know...the usual
Auto response from Lord Torgamus: I'm wasting more of my life in front of a box with a gun that shoots electrons inside of it. Back at 10:30.
angeIstina: that is so magnet that it's gross.
stina: go back to blair
stina: you're not ready for the real world
Let's hear it for planning ahead.
Leg3: i'm going away though
Leg: have a great week...i'm going away till friday or wendesday or saturday or something
Latest brilliant quotation: "If your life is governed by fear, your life is doomed to disappointment and failure." -Bill Clinton
The Library of Congress is cool! No, really! I swear! If you visit (and you should), buy yourself a frostbite pen on the way out. $3 for a fine, fine writing instrument.
Another exciting and fun-filled morning at the Jefferson Building Main Information Desk today.
We interrupt this blog post for a random thing I just heard on the radio: They're making a movie around the Avril Lavigne song Sk8er Boi. A movie, based on the song. She's not even going to be in it. Look for this motion picture of dubious quality in 2004. We now continue with your regular blog post.
Got a slew of the usual questions: "where's the bathroom?," "where's the exit?," "where's the introductory movie?" etc. More interestingly, a reporter from the Kentucky some-newspaper-or-other showed up to do a report on Lewis and Clark (yes, I did brag about Silver Chips), and a bunch of important Egyptians got lost and were late to their meeting with a bunch of important Africans. I realized during a period of severe boredom that most of the people visiting the Library aren't particularly good looking. I mean, you'd think that's how it'd be, but it actually crossed my conscious mind. There was this one really hot girl though. And of course, her question was the one I didn't know how to answer.Fun Mildly intersting fact: the Library of Congress was built in 10 years and under budget. They actually returned some money to Congress. Those were the days. Also, there was this really old Chinese guy visiting alone and I had to explain everything in really bad zhong wen (Chinese). That actually was pretty fun. Stop laughing.
So it seems like my blog is turning into a catalog of the uninteresting events of my days that nobody could possibly care about or want to read. Well, it's all I've got right now, so deal.
After work I wandered around and took pictures of touristy things. I'll pbase (pbase.com/lordtorg) 'em soon.
Next week: take more pictures, actually use main reading room.
Another exciting and fun-filled morning at the Jefferson Building Main Information Desk today.
We interrupt this blog post for a random thing I just heard on the radio: They're making a movie around the Avril Lavigne song Sk8er Boi. A movie, based on the song. She's not even going to be in it. Look for this motion picture of dubious quality in 2004. We now continue with your regular blog post.
Got a slew of the usual questions: "where's the bathroom?," "where's the exit?," "where's the introductory movie?" etc. More interestingly, a reporter from the Kentucky some-newspaper-or-other showed up to do a report on Lewis and Clark (yes, I did brag about Silver Chips), and a bunch of important Egyptians got lost and were late to their meeting with a bunch of important Africans. I realized during a period of severe boredom that most of the people visiting the Library aren't particularly good looking. I mean, you'd think that's how it'd be, but it actually crossed my conscious mind. There was this one really hot girl though. And of course, her question was the one I didn't know how to answer.
So it seems like my blog is turning into a catalog of the uninteresting events of my days that nobody could possibly care about or want to read. Well, it's all I've got right now, so deal.
After work I wandered around and took pictures of touristy things. I'll pbase (pbase.com/lordtorg) 'em soon.
Next week: take more pictures, actually use main reading room.
Thursday, July 10
My latest ponderable: fairness (and lack thereof)
I was watching a speech on TV the other day. Watching speeches voluntarily is pretty unusual for me, but the TV happened to be on C-SPAN when I turned it on and the speaker, Bill Clinton, was actually being mildly engaging. He was, for some reason, at the John F. Kennedy Library, and he mentioned a lot of things about the state of the union. One of them was whether the US should be unilateralist, semi-cooperative or (fully) cooperative. With a neat bit of reasoning, he proved that we should be fully cooperative. But that's not what the blog post is about.
He mentioned something about how people should act. Since he was at the JFK library, he adapted a Kennedy quote; I tried to remember it but failed. The point, though, was that as a citizen (of the US, but this would pretty much apply anywhere), one has a responsibility to do what's best for the United States and what's best for oneself. In other words, don't be totally selfish, you ungrateful jerks.
That made me think of a lot of things. Getting yearbooks, for one. I was waiting in line, with a few hundred other people, going nowhere because there were crowds of people by the pit who didn't bother with the line. Lisa eventually dragged me up to clear up a problem with Josh's yearbook, so I was hanging around at the back of the glut for a while. While I was there this tall guy runs up and goes "psssht, look at them dumb-[expletive] niggas standin' in line, I ain't stupid like that."
I wanted to punch him in the face.
(Due to that "judgement" thing, I didn't.)
First off, the people in line were clearly better human beings than that guy. Secondly, without the people standing in line, cutting would get him no benefit at all. If everyone stood in line, everything would be orderly and efficient. As it was, he got no benefit anyways because there was such a large group of totally disorganized people by the pit anyways. But even in the best of situations, he'd only get a slight benefit while setting a large number of other people back.
So, to review, cheating only works when most people don't cheat, cheating might bring some small gains to one or a few people at cost to the majority, cheating sucks, and unfortunately, cheating is part of human nature.
Isn't this why we call ourselves civilized? Because we can override natural instincts and behave according to man-made rules? I'm sure I've blogged about this before, though maybe not satisfactorily. See May 20 and today.
Yet cheating was, is, and probably always will be.
And I kept thinking about it, and I made the connection to economics. Not in small part because I've been passively wondering when I'll see my AP Econ scores. The same thing applies to our economy right now. Everyone has to spend to get it moving again, but nobody will spend because he loses out if he's the only one. So everyone tightens his belt and the situation just gets worse. Again, duty as a citizen and all that, but it doesn't happen in reality.
That's probably enough examples. It makes you wonder, though. Does the old axiom "cheaters never prosper" really work out? I was so disappointed in, well, humanity in general when I realized how much of the magnet got where it was because of cheating. In a significant number of countries, corruption is the only reason anything works at all. BBC News recently reported that a man in Indonesia had to wait 40 years to get a phone line installed because everyone else in the country paid bribes to get ahead in the queue. The company did at least give him a free phone, though. Anyways, like I said, it makes you wonder....
I was watching a speech on TV the other day. Watching speeches voluntarily is pretty unusual for me, but the TV happened to be on C-SPAN when I turned it on and the speaker, Bill Clinton, was actually being mildly engaging. He was, for some reason, at the John F. Kennedy Library, and he mentioned a lot of things about the state of the union. One of them was whether the US should be unilateralist, semi-cooperative or (fully) cooperative. With a neat bit of reasoning, he proved that we should be fully cooperative. But that's not what the blog post is about.
He mentioned something about how people should act. Since he was at the JFK library, he adapted a Kennedy quote; I tried to remember it but failed. The point, though, was that as a citizen (of the US, but this would pretty much apply anywhere), one has a responsibility to do what's best for the United States and what's best for oneself. In other words, don't be totally selfish, you ungrateful jerks.
That made me think of a lot of things. Getting yearbooks, for one. I was waiting in line, with a few hundred other people, going nowhere because there were crowds of people by the pit who didn't bother with the line. Lisa eventually dragged me up to clear up a problem with Josh's yearbook, so I was hanging around at the back of the glut for a while. While I was there this tall guy runs up and goes "psssht, look at them dumb-[expletive] niggas standin' in line, I ain't stupid like that."
I wanted to punch him in the face.
(Due to that "judgement" thing, I didn't.)
First off, the people in line were clearly better human beings than that guy. Secondly, without the people standing in line, cutting would get him no benefit at all. If everyone stood in line, everything would be orderly and efficient. As it was, he got no benefit anyways because there was such a large group of totally disorganized people by the pit anyways. But even in the best of situations, he'd only get a slight benefit while setting a large number of other people back.
So, to review, cheating only works when most people don't cheat, cheating might bring some small gains to one or a few people at cost to the majority, cheating sucks, and unfortunately, cheating is part of human nature.
Isn't this why we call ourselves civilized? Because we can override natural instincts and behave according to man-made rules? I'm sure I've blogged about this before, though maybe not satisfactorily. See May 20 and today.
Yet cheating was, is, and probably always will be.
And I kept thinking about it, and I made the connection to economics. Not in small part because I've been passively wondering when I'll see my AP Econ scores. The same thing applies to our economy right now. Everyone has to spend to get it moving again, but nobody will spend because he loses out if he's the only one. So everyone tightens his belt and the situation just gets worse. Again, duty as a citizen and all that, but it doesn't happen in reality.
That's probably enough examples. It makes you wonder, though. Does the old axiom "cheaters never prosper" really work out? I was so disappointed in, well, humanity in general when I realized how much of the magnet got where it was because of cheating. In a significant number of countries, corruption is the only reason anything works at all. BBC News recently reported that a man in Indonesia had to wait 40 years to get a phone line installed because everyone else in the country paid bribes to get ahead in the queue. The company did at least give him a free phone, though. Anyways, like I said, it makes you wonder....
Well now, there's something to be said for civilization. Talking to Tina, the subject of AIDS inevitably comes up. It struck me that going to a lot of trouble to save people with AIDS (in many cases) is highly illogical; for example, the childrens' hospital in Africa that was on the news last night admits most of its patients will never live past the age of two. From a godlike standpoint, then, keeping them alive is a waste of resources. But we do it anyways. And that's what makes us civilized, that's what makes is good. Or, depending on your point of view, stupid.
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Updated 7/8/2003
Allow me to explain why inside jokes are funny. Playing Twister at Tina's party, I ended up on the same mat as Robin and Kevin Fang. Eventually, I got pinned underneath Robin.
Me: Heh, this reminds me of the first time we met.
Robin: hahaha, yeah!
Fang: WHAT?!
Fang was open-mouthed, slack-jawed, the whole bit. It was great.
The next comment was kind of just out of the blue.
adidasgurl102: i have had enough of sluts
Lord Torgamus: um
Torg: what?
Torg: that was random
Torg: also, I'd like names or phone numbers if you've got them
Latest brilliant quotation: "The only good thing about the 2000 election is it gave the Supreme Court an unusual opportunity to stand up for
minority rights." -Bill Clinton
Updated 7/8/2003
Allow me to explain why inside jokes are funny. Playing Twister at Tina's party, I ended up on the same mat as Robin and Kevin Fang. Eventually, I got pinned underneath Robin.
Me: Heh, this reminds me of the first time we met.
Robin: hahaha, yeah!
Fang: WHAT?!
Fang was open-mouthed, slack-jawed, the whole bit. It was great.
The next comment was kind of just out of the blue.
adidasgurl102: i have had enough of sluts
Lord Torgamus: um
Torg: what?
Torg: that was random
Torg: also, I'd like names or phone numbers if you've got them
Latest brilliant quotation: "The only good thing about the 2000 election is it gave the Supreme Court an unusual opportunity to stand up for
minority rights." -Bill Clinton
Tuesday, July 8
Latest profile:
Updated 7/7/2003
I'm getting new things-to-put-in-profile faster than I can handle them, so I'm going to change them every day for a while.
In response to my last profile (see next blog post):
SamTheMan1116: I protest!
Sam: Pearl does not give an accurate picture of the Obsessive-Compulsiveness of the Sophomore class!
Lord Torgamus: Your point?
Sam: She clearly leaves out those of us who are obsessed with other things!
Beeno2085: then we could actually play ping pong
Lord Torgamus: yeah
Torg: I actually thought of you
Torg: and ping pong
Beeno: and sex
Torg: um...
Torg: ok, yeah.
Torg: hehe
Torg: shh.
Beeno: haha yeah okay
Latest brilliant quotation: "Call me a hopeless romantic, but I believe in love at first sight. I even have a special word for it: 'lust.'" -Linda Xu
Updated 7/7/2003
I'm getting new things-to-put-in-profile faster than I can handle them, so I'm going to change them every day for a while.
In response to my last profile (see next blog post):
SamTheMan1116: I protest!
Sam: Pearl does not give an accurate picture of the Obsessive-Compulsiveness of the Sophomore class!
Lord Torgamus: Your point?
Sam: She clearly leaves out those of us who are obsessed with other things!
Beeno2085: then we could actually play ping pong
Lord Torgamus: yeah
Torg: I actually thought of you
Torg: and ping pong
Beeno: and sex
Torg: um...
Torg: ok, yeah.
Torg: hehe
Torg: shh.
Beeno: haha yeah okay
Latest brilliant quotation: "Call me a hopeless romantic, but I believe in love at first sight. I even have a special word for it: 'lust.'" -Linda Xu
Monday, July 7
I'm getting new things-to-put-in-profile faster than I can handle them, so I'm going to change them every day for a while.
Latest profile:
Updated 7/6/2003
adidasgurl102: u know the hardest part about making a PPT presentation?
gurl: CHOOSING THE RIGHT TEMPLATE!!!!!
gurl: I HAVE XP. SOOOO MANY TEMPLATES. SOOOOO BEAUTIFUL. BUT WHICH ONE TO KEEP?!?!?!?!?!
Lord Torgamus: whoa.
Torg: It's alright.
Torg: Only a freshman could be so pressed about PowerPoint....
gurl: HAHAHAHAHAHA
gurl: OOOH. PRETTY COLORS.
gurl: BUT SOOOO MANY!!!
gurl: THEYRE ALL SO BEAUTIFUL!!
Latest brilliant quotation: "Call me a hopeless romantic, but I believe in love at first sight. I even have a special word for it: 'lust.'" -Linda
Xu
Latest profile:
Updated 7/6/2003
adidasgurl102: u know the hardest part about making a PPT presentation?
gurl: CHOOSING THE RIGHT TEMPLATE!!!!!
gurl: I HAVE XP. SOOOO MANY TEMPLATES. SOOOOO BEAUTIFUL. BUT WHICH ONE TO KEEP?!?!?!?!?!
Lord Torgamus: whoa.
Torg: It's alright.
Torg: Only a freshman could be so pressed about PowerPoint....
gurl: HAHAHAHAHAHA
gurl: OOOH. PRETTY COLORS.
gurl: BUT SOOOO MANY!!!
gurl: THEYRE ALL SO BEAUTIFUL!!
Latest brilliant quotation: "Call me a hopeless romantic, but I believe in love at first sight. I even have a special word for it: 'lust.'" -Linda
Xu
Hi there boys and girls, Jeanne says take this quiz, so here goes.
[my name is]: Depends who you ask. The award for most unique (or most unlike me, anyways) goes to Kristin for K. Chizzle
[in the morning i am]: Sleeping, unless I have work or school
[all i need is]: Love... doo dee doo dee doo... (you know, the Beatles, just slightly modified)
[afraid of]: Nothing in particular stands out right now, though I'm afraid of my share of things
[I dream about]: Completely random things I forget five minutes after waking up
H A V E Y O U E V E R . . .
[been in love]: The "I love my parents and other assorted family members" kind? Definitely. The other kind? I... think so....
[cried when someone died]: I have so far in my life been fortunate enough to have not lost anyone close.
[drank alcohol]: Of course.
[lied]: No. Whoops, did it again.
T H I S O R T H A T . . .
[coke or pepsi]: Pepsi, of course.
[flowers or candy]: Candy. I'm not enough of a romantic to answer "flowers." Yet, anyways.
[7up or sprite]: Flip a coin.
[tall or short]: I need context... but I'll randomly say tall.
W I T H T H E O P P O S I T E S E X . . .
[what do u notice first?]: Legs, face (I take, let's call it visual input, in quickly), hair, breasts (I'm a guy, deal with it)
[last person u slow danced with]: Amanda
[worst thing to say]: Whatever I actually choose to say, it seems.
W H O . . .
[makes you smile]: My best friends.
[makes you laugh]: See above.
[gives u a funny feeling when u see them]: Entirely my business. Move on.
[has a crush on u?]: Nobody I know of. Unfortunately.
[easier to talk to: boys or girls?]: Easier? That's tough... you talk differently to different people. Girls, I suppose, because I end up talking to them more.
D O Y O U E V E R . . .
[sit waiting for someone special to I.M. u?]: Um... yeah, alright, every once in a while. I know, I'm a loser, have your laugh and keep reading.
[save aol/aim conversations]: Only if they have a phone number, directions, unfinished business, etc.
H A V E Y O U E V E R . . .
[fallen for ur best friend]: I fell down some stairs once for a project....
[rejected someone]: Are you kidding? I haven't even gotten a chance to.
[used someone]: No. Highly dishonorable.
[been cheated on]: That would involve me being in a relationship, wouldn't it?
[done something u regret]: Everyone has.
W H O W A S T H E L A S T P E R S O N . . .
[u talked to on the phone?]: hm... some random telemarketer.
[u hugged]: It's been a while... I don't deal with hugs well. I actually can't remember. Most likely someone at graduation.
[u instant messaged]: Amanda, then Christina and Jeanne and Noah.
[u laughed with]: Amanda, Linda, Omar and Stephen.
D O Y O U . . .
[color ur hair]: Yeah, you mean you STILL haven't noticed the gray? Oh, wait, you mean intentionally, and with dye? Then no.
[ever get off the damn computer]: Chances are you can IM me right now. Do so.
[habla espanol]: Non, mais je parle un peu de Français. Wo yi len sho zhong wen (though my pin yin sucks).
H A V E Y O U / / D O Y O U / / A R E Y O U
[smoke]: HELL no.
[obsessive]: What? Obsessive? (READ SILVER CHIPS ONLINE) Me? Nah.
[could u live without the computer?]: Only for a short period of time, and then not very happily.
[how many peeps on ur buddylist?]: Exactly 200.
[what's your favorite food?]: Fried rice with eggs and corn. Steak's good too.
[what's ur favorite fruit?]: Oranges tie with grapes on that score.
[drink alcohol?]: Extremely rarely (last time was four years ago), so essentially no.
[like watching sunrises or sunset]: Wouldn't know. I never manage to be outside at the right time.
[what hurts the most? physical pain or emotional pain?]: Obviously physical. You can swallow/deal with emotional pain. Physical pain is... THERE, and much more intense.
[trust others way too easily?]: Yeah. I still believe in good human beings. Give the slightest hint that you intend to screw me, though, and you lose the trust pretty damn fast.
F I N A L Q U E S T I O N S . . .
[i want]: To have a GREAT time at Carnegie.
[i wish]: I was a better person. I really want to write a blog post about this, but I know I won't find the right words.
[i love]: Family and friends... one in particular.... I repeat: "Entirely my business. Move on."
[i miss]: My old best friend. And Danie and Ryan and Alicia sort of, but I can theoretically talk to them whenever because they all have AIM.
[i fear]: That Carnegie will not work out, socially.
[i hear]: Some song that's not really good at all but is on the radio a lot anyways. Don't know title or artist, though that's probably for the best.
[i wonder]: what I’ll make out of myself (Good answer, Amanda)
[how do u know its love?]: Another thing I've wanted to blog about but couldn't find the right words for.
[i am]: Disappointed that I caved and answered all of the questions above and including this one.
[my name is]: Depends who you ask. The award for most unique (or most unlike me, anyways) goes to Kristin for K. Chizzle
[in the morning i am]: Sleeping, unless I have work or school
[all i need is]: Love... doo dee doo dee doo... (you know, the Beatles, just slightly modified)
[afraid of]: Nothing in particular stands out right now, though I'm afraid of my share of things
[I dream about]: Completely random things I forget five minutes after waking up
H A V E Y O U E V E R . . .
[been in love]: The "I love my parents and other assorted family members" kind? Definitely. The other kind? I... think so....
[cried when someone died]: I have so far in my life been fortunate enough to have not lost anyone close.
[drank alcohol]: Of course.
[lied]: No. Whoops, did it again.
T H I S O R T H A T . . .
[coke or pepsi]: Pepsi, of course.
[flowers or candy]: Candy. I'm not enough of a romantic to answer "flowers." Yet, anyways.
[7up or sprite]: Flip a coin.
[tall or short]: I need context... but I'll randomly say tall.
W I T H T H E O P P O S I T E S E X . . .
[what do u notice first?]: Legs, face (I take, let's call it visual input, in quickly), hair, breasts (I'm a guy, deal with it)
[last person u slow danced with]: Amanda
[worst thing to say]: Whatever I actually choose to say, it seems.
W H O . . .
[makes you smile]: My best friends.
[makes you laugh]: See above.
[gives u a funny feeling when u see them]: Entirely my business. Move on.
[has a crush on u?]: Nobody I know of. Unfortunately.
[easier to talk to: boys or girls?]: Easier? That's tough... you talk differently to different people. Girls, I suppose, because I end up talking to them more.
D O Y O U E V E R . . .
[sit waiting for someone special to I.M. u?]: Um... yeah, alright, every once in a while. I know, I'm a loser, have your laugh and keep reading.
[save aol/aim conversations]: Only if they have a phone number, directions, unfinished business, etc.
H A V E Y O U E V E R . . .
[fallen for ur best friend]: I fell down some stairs once for a project....
[rejected someone]: Are you kidding? I haven't even gotten a chance to.
[used someone]: No. Highly dishonorable.
[been cheated on]: That would involve me being in a relationship, wouldn't it?
[done something u regret]: Everyone has.
W H O W A S T H E L A S T P E R S O N . . .
[u talked to on the phone?]: hm... some random telemarketer.
[u hugged]: It's been a while... I don't deal with hugs well. I actually can't remember. Most likely someone at graduation.
[u instant messaged]: Amanda, then Christina and Jeanne and Noah.
[u laughed with]: Amanda, Linda, Omar and Stephen.
D O Y O U . . .
[color ur hair]: Yeah, you mean you STILL haven't noticed the gray? Oh, wait, you mean intentionally, and with dye? Then no.
[ever get off the damn computer]: Chances are you can IM me right now. Do so.
[habla espanol]: Non, mais je parle un peu de Français. Wo yi len sho zhong wen (though my pin yin sucks).
H A V E Y O U / / D O Y O U / / A R E Y O U
[smoke]: HELL no.
[obsessive]: What? Obsessive? (READ SILVER CHIPS ONLINE) Me? Nah.
[could u live without the computer?]: Only for a short period of time, and then not very happily.
[how many peeps on ur buddylist?]: Exactly 200.
[what's your favorite food?]: Fried rice with eggs and corn. Steak's good too.
[what's ur favorite fruit?]: Oranges tie with grapes on that score.
[drink alcohol?]: Extremely rarely (last time was four years ago), so essentially no.
[like watching sunrises or sunset]: Wouldn't know. I never manage to be outside at the right time.
[what hurts the most? physical pain or emotional pain?]: Obviously physical. You can swallow/deal with emotional pain. Physical pain is... THERE, and much more intense.
[trust others way too easily?]: Yeah. I still believe in good human beings. Give the slightest hint that you intend to screw me, though, and you lose the trust pretty damn fast.
F I N A L Q U E S T I O N S . . .
[i want]: To have a GREAT time at Carnegie.
[i wish]: I was a better person. I really want to write a blog post about this, but I know I won't find the right words.
[i love]: Family and friends... one in particular.... I repeat: "Entirely my business. Move on."
[i miss]: My old best friend. And Danie and Ryan and Alicia sort of, but I can theoretically talk to them whenever because they all have AIM.
[i fear]: That Carnegie will not work out, socially.
[i hear]: Some song that's not really good at all but is on the radio a lot anyways. Don't know title or artist, though that's probably for the best.
[i wonder]: what I’ll make out of myself (Good answer, Amanda)
[how do u know its love?]: Another thing I've wanted to blog about but couldn't find the right words for.
[i am]: Disappointed that I caved and answered all of the questions above and including this one.
Sunday, July 6
Summer reading update 5:
The Business, Iain Banks: completed
Sourcery, Terry Pratchett: completed
Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett: in progress
Five Hundred Years After, Steven Brust: in progress
The Shadow Rising, Robert Jordan: in progress
So much to read! All sequels! With only a limited number of hours in the day!
In more depressing news, I was disappointed AGAIN by the movie previews yesterday. Admittedly, Bad Boys II does look good, I don't know why I keep forgetting about it whenever I talk about upcoming movies. LXG looks bad in every way EXCEPT in that one commercial where they say who's in the league (Dr. Jekyll, Dracula's bride, the Invisible Man, Captain Nemo and Dorian Gray). I mean, when you pull togther people from such famous and cultured literary works, there might be something good there. Or, the movie could just destroy five pieces of classic literature for me. And, everything else looks crappy. envy MIGHT be a renter, depending on what people say about it.
There's good stuff coming later, though. The final LotR should be coming soon, along with Star Wars III. And according to Yahoo! Movies, we'll be watching Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in November 2005 and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in June 2007. Alternatively, there are rumors of the movies being produced at the same time and released with each other.
Finally, NBC is officially getting Coupling this fall. I saw a commercial for it, and recognized some of the jokes. It was cool but sort of disappointing; looks like they used some of the same sets, though they might just be really similar, and they got American actors, none of whom look especially good.
The Business, Iain Banks: completed
Sourcery, Terry Pratchett: completed
Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett: in progress
Five Hundred Years After, Steven Brust: in progress
The Shadow Rising, Robert Jordan: in progress
So much to read! All sequels! With only a limited number of hours in the day!
In more depressing news, I was disappointed AGAIN by the movie previews yesterday. Admittedly, Bad Boys II does look good, I don't know why I keep forgetting about it whenever I talk about upcoming movies. LXG looks bad in every way EXCEPT in that one commercial where they say who's in the league (Dr. Jekyll, Dracula's bride, the Invisible Man, Captain Nemo and Dorian Gray). I mean, when you pull togther people from such famous and cultured literary works, there might be something good there. Or, the movie could just destroy five pieces of classic literature for me. And, everything else looks crappy. envy MIGHT be a renter, depending on what people say about it.
There's good stuff coming later, though. The final LotR should be coming soon, along with Star Wars III. And according to Yahoo! Movies, we'll be watching Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in November 2005 and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in June 2007. Alternatively, there are rumors of the movies being produced at the same time and released with each other.
Finally, NBC is officially getting Coupling this fall. I saw a commercial for it, and recognized some of the jokes. It was cool but sort of disappointing; looks like they used some of the same sets, though they might just be really similar, and they got American actors, none of whom look especially good.
Latest profile:
Updated 7/4/2003
Joe and I were having a discussion about, among other things, the BMW Z3 and police-modified Ford Crown Victorias.
Kevin: Well, I'm not really sure about specs for police Crown Vics.
Joe: You know how 0 to 60 is a standard measure? Most good cars can do 0 to 60 in [some number] seconds. A police Crown Vic can do it in [some smaller number]; I think they can go 0 to 120 in [another number].
Kevin: Wow.
Joe's mom: Interesting random bits of trivia you pick up....
Kevin: Things you learn while playing Vice City.
Joe [in mock surprise/horror]: Kevin! That's NOT a nice game!
Joe's mom: Oh man, but it was a great line. It was a GREAT line.
melkraz: actually......... you wont appreciate it
mel: cuz it's like an intellectual poem
Latest brilliant quotation: none
Updated 7/4/2003
Joe and I were having a discussion about, among other things, the BMW Z3 and police-modified Ford Crown Victorias.
Kevin: Well, I'm not really sure about specs for police Crown Vics.
Joe: You know how 0 to 60 is a standard measure? Most good cars can do 0 to 60 in [some number] seconds. A police Crown Vic can do it in [some smaller number]; I think they can go 0 to 120 in [another number].
Kevin: Wow.
Joe's mom: Interesting random bits of trivia you pick up....
Kevin: Things you learn while playing Vice City.
Joe [in mock surprise/horror]: Kevin! That's NOT a nice game!
Joe's mom: Oh man, but it was a great line. It was a GREAT line.
melkraz: actually......... you wont appreciate it
mel: cuz it's like an intellectual poem
Latest brilliant quotation: none
Saturday, July 5
It seems to me that guys everywhere are being snared in yet another catch-22. You know those pants/shorts with brand names, sports positions or whatever else written on the butt? Obviously, since text is there, it's supposed to be read. But then, if anyone (especially the wearer of the pants) happens to glance at you, you're automatically a pervert or something.
Yesterday was the Fourth of July, so of course it was off to watch fireworks at night. Saw a few bats flying around getting dinner during the show, that was pretty cool. A bunch of kids behind me were yelling and laughing about how they were getting shot at, in that innocent-slash-ignorant-slash-immature way only kids can get away with. They made me wonder if veterans ever feel strange while watching fireworks.
Saw Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle today with Pearl and Tina and Joe and Jared. Part of the bloopers and random extra scenes mixed in with the credits were a bunch of random clips with various cast members laughing like they'd been breathing nothing but nitrous for the last few hours. I commented to Joe that they were really gratuitous and stupid, much like the 110 minutes of "movie" that preceded them.
Just before the movie, I stopped off at the library. Took out four books, all sequels to other books I've read recently. Oh, which to read first. As an added bonus from fate for going to the library, the person at the checkout counter (an old black woman; working at libraries seems to be one of the few things senior citizens are still qualified for) noticed my Carnegie Mellon shirt and was like "oh, good for you, my nephew went there!"
Yesterday was the Fourth of July, so of course it was off to watch fireworks at night. Saw a few bats flying around getting dinner during the show, that was pretty cool. A bunch of kids behind me were yelling and laughing about how they were getting shot at, in that innocent-slash-ignorant-slash-immature way only kids can get away with. They made me wonder if veterans ever feel strange while watching fireworks.
Saw Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle today with Pearl and Tina and Joe and Jared. Part of the bloopers and random extra scenes mixed in with the credits were a bunch of random clips with various cast members laughing like they'd been breathing nothing but nitrous for the last few hours. I commented to Joe that they were really gratuitous and stupid, much like the 110 minutes of "movie" that preceded them.
Just before the movie, I stopped off at the library. Took out four books, all sequels to other books I've read recently. Oh, which to read first. As an added bonus from fate for going to the library, the person at the checkout counter (an old black woman; working at libraries seems to be one of the few things senior citizens are still qualified for) noticed my Carnegie Mellon shirt and was like "oh, good for you, my nephew went there!"
Friday, July 4
Happy Fourth, everyone. Read any good books lately? If so, let me have title/author, thanks.
Latest profile:
Updated 7/1/2003
Regarding last profile (see blog):
JeremyHoffman03: who's melkraz? sounds like a wise man
Lord Torgamus: woman
Torg: everything's clear now, I bet
Jeremy: hahaha
Jeremy: indeed
Torg: heh
Torg: TJ junior
Jeremy: far too wise to be a man, i should have known
Sagoff3: what school does she go to?
Sagoff: or did she go to?
Lord Torgamus: Currently Blair frosh
Sagoff: oh
Sagoff: tell me when you get a room
Sagoff: whoa
Sagoff: dude that sounded wrong
Typical Magnet laziness:
Lord Torgamus: Want to do something?
angeIstina: like what?
stina: does it involve my getting out of my chair?
Latest brilliant quotation: none
Latest profile:
Updated 7/1/2003
Regarding last profile (see blog):
JeremyHoffman03: who's melkraz? sounds like a wise man
Lord Torgamus: woman
Torg: everything's clear now, I bet
Jeremy: hahaha
Jeremy: indeed
Torg: heh
Torg: TJ junior
Jeremy: far too wise to be a man, i should have known
Sagoff3: what school does she go to?
Sagoff: or did she go to?
Lord Torgamus: Currently Blair frosh
Sagoff: oh
Sagoff: tell me when you get a room
Sagoff: whoa
Sagoff: dude that sounded wrong
Typical Magnet laziness:
Lord Torgamus: Want to do something?
angeIstina: like what?
stina: does it involve my getting out of my chair?
Latest brilliant quotation: none
Tuesday, July 1
Crap, I totally forgot I had this when it was still timely. Sorry. Now I guess I'll pass it off as a nostalgia thing.
Hey, guys, remember when we graduated?
A poem by Ben Meiselman:
"goodbye blair,
goodbye sleeping in a chair,
goodbye teachers with overhead projectors,
goodbye silverchips, and bnc directors.
goodbye IDs, goodbye SAC,
goodbye freshmen talking smack.
goodbye blazers goodbye jazz band,
goodbye dostoevsky, goodbye ayn rand.
goodbye classmen, lower and upper,
goodbye hurried breakfast, hurried lunch and hurried supper.
goodbye nonsense pep rallies run by the sga,
goodbye attendance secretary and going to class every day.
goodbye blair."
Hey, guys, remember when we graduated?
A poem by Ben Meiselman:
"goodbye blair,
goodbye sleeping in a chair,
goodbye teachers with overhead projectors,
goodbye silverchips, and bnc directors.
goodbye IDs, goodbye SAC,
goodbye freshmen talking smack.
goodbye blazers goodbye jazz band,
goodbye dostoevsky, goodbye ayn rand.
goodbye classmen, lower and upper,
goodbye hurried breakfast, hurried lunch and hurried supper.
goodbye nonsense pep rallies run by the sga,
goodbye attendance secretary and going to class every day.
goodbye blair."
Summer reading update 4:
The Dragon Reborn, Robert Jordan - completed
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling - completed
The Phoenix Guards, Steven Brust - completed
The Business, Iain Banks - in progress
Many thanks to Joe (link opens in THIS window in deference to him) for the author/title suggestions.
Steven Brust rocks! That understatement-heavy writing style suits me PERFECTLY.
I can't wait to go back to LoC with a digicam and go in the Main Reading Room among other things.
I have a complaint about my working conditions. The floors, you see, are carpeted. My chair, you see, is a folding chair. Thus it is clear that a little motion on my part will cause the chair to build up a static charge. Said chair most impolitely releases that static charge to the ground nearly every time I stand up, and, as is electricity's nature, the path it takes comprises my leg among other things.
If you're Eric Schaffer, this little story might seem a bit familiar. While I was looking for a good parking space today I drove by the back of some store with a dingy back exit and assorted trash stacked outside. Among that refuse was a barrel, rusty and collecting a pool of standing water, with the following label: "INEDIBLE."
What else is up with my life... I have to find out the Blair registrar's summer hours and get me a scholarship transcript. Ugh. I don't have time for this. Also I need to get a better ID picture... this is going to last me all four years of college, it's going to look perfect. What's that you say? It's already two weeks late? SHUT UP!
Can you tell nothing interesting's going on in my life right now?
The Dragon Reborn, Robert Jordan - completed
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling - completed
The Phoenix Guards, Steven Brust - completed
The Business, Iain Banks - in progress
Many thanks to Joe (link opens in THIS window in deference to him) for the author/title suggestions.
Steven Brust rocks! That understatement-heavy writing style suits me PERFECTLY.
I can't wait to go back to LoC with a digicam and go in the Main Reading Room among other things.
I have a complaint about my working conditions. The floors, you see, are carpeted. My chair, you see, is a folding chair. Thus it is clear that a little motion on my part will cause the chair to build up a static charge. Said chair most impolitely releases that static charge to the ground nearly every time I stand up, and, as is electricity's nature, the path it takes comprises my leg among other things.
If you're Eric Schaffer, this little story might seem a bit familiar. While I was looking for a good parking space today I drove by the back of some store with a dingy back exit and assorted trash stacked outside. Among that refuse was a barrel, rusty and collecting a pool of standing water, with the following label: "INEDIBLE."
What else is up with my life... I have to find out the Blair registrar's summer hours and get me a scholarship transcript. Ugh. I don't have time for this. Also I need to get a better ID picture... this is going to last me all four years of college, it's going to look perfect. What's that you say? It's already two weeks late? SHUT UP!
Can you tell nothing interesting's going on in my life right now?
Latest update:
Updated 6/29/2003
melkraz: not ahard choice
mel: would you pick like 2 hours of ogling hot girls and getting turned on and not being able to jack off right then and there
mel: (wouldnt you rather pick porn?)
mel: or
mel: cherishing 4 years of memories with the people closER to you
Lord Torgamus: Your logic is flawless.
Out of context? Yes. But, pretty much true.
Lord Torgamus: How are you?
angeIstina: oh HOT! SWEET!
Lord Torgamus: Coming to graduation?
SamTheMan1116: Nope, unfortunately, not
Sam: in fact, us lesser mortals have exams coming up, so i'd best be off for a semi-full night of rest
Sam: so that i can devote tomorrow to studying
Sam: on that pleasant note, goodnight
Latest brilliant quotation: none
Updated 6/29/2003
melkraz: not ahard choice
mel: would you pick like 2 hours of ogling hot girls and getting turned on and not being able to jack off right then and there
mel: (wouldnt you rather pick porn?)
mel: or
mel: cherishing 4 years of memories with the people closER to you
Lord Torgamus: Your logic is flawless.
Out of context? Yes. But, pretty much true.
Lord Torgamus: How are you?
angeIstina: oh HOT! SWEET!
Lord Torgamus: Coming to graduation?
SamTheMan1116: Nope, unfortunately, not
Sam: in fact, us lesser mortals have exams coming up, so i'd best be off for a semi-full night of rest
Sam: so that i can devote tomorrow to studying
Sam: on that pleasant note, goodnight
Latest brilliant quotation: none
Monday, June 30
Font size, decoration, etc. copied directly from SSS website HTML.
Congratulations, Mr. Chang. You are now registered with
Selective Service.
The Selective Service website, like many other websites, displays pictures of happy, smiling people. I'm guessing this is a subtle psychological thing that makes people think of the website (and the company/organization/whatever it is for) in a more favorable light. Funny thing is, I've seen (one of) the guys on the SSS website before. In the Carnegie Mellon Sleeping Bag Weekend brochure.
Tina pointed out that, furthermore, there's always a guy with a cowboy hat.
I hadn't noticed that before, but lo and behold, the next guy I saw on the SSS site was wearing a cowboy hat. Crazy.
Congratulations, Mr. Chang. You are now registered with
Selective Service.
The Selective Service website, like many other websites, displays pictures of happy, smiling people. I'm guessing this is a subtle psychological thing that makes people think of the website (and the company/organization/whatever it is for) in a more favorable light. Funny thing is, I've seen (one of) the guys on the SSS website before. In the Carnegie Mellon Sleeping Bag Weekend brochure.
Tina pointed out that, furthermore, there's always a guy with a cowboy hat.
Lord Torgamus: you know how everyone has to put pictures of smiling happy people on brochures and websites and such
bkstina: and people in cowboy hats
I hadn't noticed that before, but lo and behold, the next guy I saw on the SSS site was wearing a cowboy hat. Crazy.
Sunday, June 29
Will add more about this later, but content yourself with its existence for now.
http://www.nih.gov/news/NIH-Record/02_23_99/story01.htm
Related comment:
SamTheMan1116: i figure if i'm going to give someone free labor for a few years, it should at least be someone who thinks i'm smart
http://www.nih.gov/news/NIH-Record/02_23_99/story01.htm
Related comment:
SamTheMan1116: i figure if i'm going to give someone free labor for a few years, it should at least be someone who thinks i'm smart
Latest profile:
Updated 6/26/2003
bkstina: mostly they just fall over
Lord Torgamus: oh
Torg: why don't they just call them magnets then?
tina: haha
tina: good question
tina: sike
tina: they're a lot cuter
Torg: oh, gotcha
melkraz: you're like
mel: superdork morphed into superpimp
Lord Torgamus: ...?
mel: all of a sudden
mel: you're pimping hot girls in bikini tops and booty shorts
What's scary about this next one is that I'm serious.
QTpieLX85: i used to think u were an uptite guy, i guess i still kind of get that impression but not so much since u seem like u are a pervert as well
Lord Torgamus: haha
Torg: only since I met you
Latest brilliant quotation: "Spirits sagging? Try a faith lift." -sign in front of Fairhaven United Methodist Church
Updated 6/26/2003
bkstina: mostly they just fall over
Lord Torgamus: oh
Torg: why don't they just call them magnets then?
tina: haha
tina: good question
tina: sike
tina: they're a lot cuter
Torg: oh, gotcha
melkraz: you're like
mel: superdork morphed into superpimp
Lord Torgamus: ...?
mel: all of a sudden
mel: you're pimping hot girls in bikini tops and booty shorts
What's scary about this next one is that I'm serious.
QTpieLX85: i used to think u were an uptite guy, i guess i still kind of get that impression but not so much since u seem like u are a pervert as well
Lord Torgamus: haha
Torg: only since I met you
Latest brilliant quotation: "Spirits sagging? Try a faith lift." -sign in front of Fairhaven United Methodist Church
