Latest profile:
Updated Sep 1
Lord Torgamus: my earbuds are magnets.
G aN kLe 0 3: ?
aN kLe: aren't they all magnets?
aN kLe: i took one apart earlier this summer
aN kLe: and then found out my tweezers stuck to the insides....
aN kLe: whee
aN kLe: yes, i AM a dork, i know
Torg: I never had earbuds before, I didn't know
aN kLe: but it was BROKEN, and it was a GOOD chance
aN kLe: to take things apart
aN kLe: fun fun fun
Torg: I knew you had some magnet in you
aN kLe: i LOVE to take things apart
aN kLe: bit by bit
aN kLe: haha
aN kLe: some magnet in me, eh? i should hope so

Branden's a wuss.
Lord Torgamus: come to CMU!
EmpSg59: haha... no
Emp: I don't need another blair

Latest brilliant quotation: "Everyone likes a little ass, but nobody likes a smartass." -Daniel Goldman

My Decision Processes in American Political Institutions professor is cool. He posts his lecture notes online, on the CMU version of BEN. It's so nice to not have to worry about taking notes. I think it's a lot easier to get stuff when you can just put your head down and listen instead of hurriedly scribbling down whatever the lecturer is saying, although admittedly the second is sort of good journalism training. Maybe I'm alone at that, people are always like "haha Kevin, you just slept through that entire class," but it works for me. Especially in history, that got me through Ms. Zeh's class a few times.

Newsflash from the Washington Post: sophomore is Greek for "wise fool." Hee hee.

Latest profile:
Updated Aug 31
Lord Torgamus: "remember the time christina said, "entertina me!" and i was unduly touched?" -Tina's profile
Torg: how could you...
angeIstina: *gasp*
stina: oh no....
stina: i can explain
Torg: I should hope so
Torg: this is, like, cheating on me with Tina
Torg: you... you... inside joke cheater!
stina: ....
stina: OH MAN! I CANT EXPLAIN! IT JUST SLIPPED OUT! HONEST!
stina: i didn't mean it to happen......
Torg: I'm going to go sit in a corner and cry now.

I told you these would keep on rolling in....
SamTheMan1116: oh man, i can almost feel it
Sam: i can feel the newsprint running through my veins, baby
Sam: if sex is anything like this...WAHOO.

Latest brilliant quotation: none

Ad Whore: "Technology: a convenient way to avoid social interaction."

Quote of the day. Heck, I might even make it my motto.

Latest profile, new blog post below:
Updated Aug 30
bkstina: what are five things you find beautiful
Lord Torgamus: you, you, pastries, flattery and you

Lord Torgamus: I'm going college shopping
Torg: what should I get
beenster14: a shower caddy
beenster: hangers
beenster: underwear
beenster: socks
beenster: bras!
beenster: just to freak out your roomie :-)

Lord Torgamus: My mind, as I told Amanda, is quite boggled
Torg: I see boxes
Torg: I see my stuff
Torg: I can't get the stuff in the boxes
Torg: you wouldn't think it'd be so hard
JeremyHoffman03: ironic that the game Boggle involves putting cubes into box spaces

Latest brilliant quotation: none

I learned racquetball! Huzzah! It's actually a really cool sport, it's too bad there aren't many places to play it. Perhaps some day I'll graduate to squash.

On a less pleasant note, I keep having to kill bugs. I don't know whose window is missing a bug screen, but said screen needs to be replaced.

I joined The Tartan! Already working on my first story. I mentioned in passing the thing about them (that is, Adam Atkinson) plagiarizing off of Silver Chips last year and they agreed with me. I hope Adam doesn't get in too much trouble, that wasn't why I said it.... Anyways I've got a SciTech story about some professors getting a grant to research drinking water quality. How I'll make this interesting, I don't know....

Ah, fraternities. The hot rooms, dirty floors and questionably legal-smelling air. I... forgot what I was going to say, because it's so late. Uh, check back later.

Frustrated Principal Smashes Windows (washingtonpost.com): "NASHVILLE -- An elementary school principal frustrated with the aging condition of 49 windows at her school smashed them herself in hopes of getting replacements."

The Plot Thickens: "'I hope I don't get so old that clouds stop being cool,' he said."

That's the quote of the day. Well, yesterday, because it's 3:42 AM and I've been up.

So we were playing pool yesterday and I broke. I promptly scratched, leaving the triangle much pretty intact. Rob then proceeds to shoot, the cue ball about two inches from the almost-unbroken triangle, and JUMPS IT OVER THE ENTIRE TRIANGLE. However, that's only his second-most impressive shot of the night; earlier, he managed to jump the ball entirely off the table so that it nailed me in the crotch. He's either really talented or a pool idiot savant.

I'm totally addicted to Rocket Mania. Play at popcap.com. Will probably have time for a nice long blog post tomorrow.

Latest profile:
Updated Aug 29
Lord Torgamus: Opportunity, n.:
Auto response from comradeHowley: it turns out i have to go hang out with my friends who
are about to leave for college. they say i'm going to have to get naked. the female:male
ration is currently 3:1. I think we're going to go make it 5:1. good grief.

Sumonway: you stalker you
Lord Torgamus: don't worry, we're traveling four hours each on Tuesday and in different
directions
way: :-(
Torga: oh, make up your mind
Torg: "good friend" or "stalker"
Torg: label me with one and stick with it
Torg: hehe
way: match385: he's not crazy enough to be a stalker
way: welll
way: i was leaning towards the other end
way: but now its settled
way: good friend!
way: haha
Torg: I'm so relieved.

Latest brilliant quotation: none

Latest profile:
Updated Aug 28
So busy!

Abhiville: aww
Abhi i dunno man
Abhi: if there's one thing i'll remember you by after you move on, it's your famous IM profiles
Lord Torgamus: that's
Torg: nearly
Torg: profile-worthy
Abhi: ...that, and your stunning good looks of course
Abhi: damn dude, ya know, i don't think i've ever been on your profile
Torg: no?
Torg: let's see
Abhi: i don't got what it takes, try as hard as i do
[normally I don't cut anything, but this was just way too long]
Torg [after checking archives]: you're probably right.
Abhi: hmm
Abhi: well god willing some day i'll get in your profile
Abhi: it's on my list of Twenty Things to Do before I Turn Twenty
Torg: Alright, alright, I'm taking pity already.

Latest brilliant quotation: "Some fellows pay a compliment like they expected a receipt." -Kin Hubbard

CNN.com - Parrot screams fool authorities - Aug. 29, 2003: "'The parrot's screams sounded identical to those of a distressed adult female,' Officer Andrew Davies said in his report. "

Latest profile:
Updated Aug 27
Now back to regular profiles.

Abhiville: japanese doesnt have a word for privacy, what's the deal?
Lord Torgamus: They're not familiar with the concept
Torg: HOW many million people on HOW little surface area?
Abhi: that is a question best answered by wiser heads than yours or mine
Abhi: but i get your drift. domo arigato

SamTheMan1116: i suppose it would alienate readers, but i still like the big-word/nice flow style
Torg: I love its flow and style as well
Torg: but it's not proper for a NEWSPAPER is the point
Sam: you're right, i s'pose
Torg: vocab words are fine occasionally
Torg: however, that sentence is like taking the Food Guide Pyramid and putting Fats/Sugars on the bottom
Sam: wow
Sam: that's a good analogy
Sam: damn

Latest brilliant quotation: "No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical." -Niels Bohr

Finally, I have come across an e-mail address that tops (or at least rivals) the sheer coolness of "away@mbhs.edu." It is: awright@cmu.edu.

Here's a funny thing that happened at college bowl practice yesterday.
Reader: "The category is Sesame Street lyrics. Given the lyric, give me the song title. Here goes. Don't worry if you spill your milk. Your mommy and daddy still love you. They probably spilled their milk when they were your age too."
Assorted team members: "uh... any of you guys know?"
Reader: "I need an answer."
Team member #2: "er... 'Everyone Fucks Up'?"

Latest profile, new blog post underneath:
Updated Aug 26
Sumonway: anyway, have ou heard of anyone having a prophetic dream recently?
Lord Torgamus: no...
Sumonway: yea... people don't reall do they
Sumonway: i dont think it's possible to have them
Lord Torgamus: Not possible? I did dream about getting laid the other day, and that came... I mean, uh, nothing
Sumonway: !!!!!
Lord Torgamus: hahaha
Sumonway: just sent that to jenny
Sumonway: that would so be in my profile except my dad has an sn and i dont want him to read that

Latest brilliant quotation: none

Man... missed out on the strippers. Was going to go with the floor, then the floor backed out for an assortment of reasons, later met Jieren and Ji-Heon and was going to go with them, then they left before me and lost me. And you can't go alone, that's asking for psychological problems. Did sign up for the majority of the jobs the Tartan was offering and did go to a college bowl info session. That was cool, in its own way. More soon.

Silver Chips Online is so off the ball... they're ruining my preciousssssssssss... please let it get better with time.

The nice thing about this hall, if I haven't mentioned it already, is that you can walk down it and hear nearly every possible kind of music. Except Russian techno, heh heh. I've got Top 40 radio, classical or musical mp3s on, my roommate has organ music, jazz and more classical, people down a few rooms have various types of rock, nearly everyone plays the guitar and we have a violinist too.

I'm going to regret saying this when it comes true, but I really need some homework. I can't just sit around here doing nothing all day.

Here's my final schedule. Read it, weep, mutter in envy and then refrain from coming over here to beat me within an inch of my life.

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/kychang/Schedule_sem1.htm

My main website is indeed http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/kychang/, but there's nothing really there yet.

Alright, at the risk of sounding egotistical and selfish, I have gotten screwed in one very unimportant aspect of schooling: fame. Blair was a kickass school (yes, I do mean the non-magnet parts too) that prepared me well for college, and anything I didn't get from it is my own fault. The non-academic parts were great too. Clubs were unrivaled, just insert a generic Chips-rules speech here, and so were the people. I mean both in terms of attractiveness (see below) and in terms of how they were good human beings. Now, I'm at CMU, another fine institution of learning. Near the top of the US in engineering, in arts, in science, in nearly everything. The administration is helpful, the students have tons of say in everything and the clubs are again simply great.

Neither school, though, has big name recognition. All of us Blair people are always at least moderately like "Go Blair! Beat TJ! Magnet rocks!" TJ people, on the other hand, either don't care or have never heard of Blair. And sure as heck most people have never heard of CMU. I mean, I know it shouldn't matter, and I don't spend my free time getting pissed at it, but sometimes I wish people could know about my schools and how good they are. My god that sounded selfish. But, you know what I mean? Yeah.

Here we have three short things I kept meaning to post about but also kept forgetting about.

Ah, last night we had the first nice college discussion. Donner lounge (one of the few air conditioned parts of the building) and a conversation about American political influence on the rest of the world as well as assorted issues of religion. That's what I'm here for, baby.

I keep getting really tired in class and finding it hard to pay attention. Galen does too. This never used to happen... maybe I just have to get used to my schedule?

Coming back from the Giant Eagle (local supermarket) yesterday I saw a guy with a Kappa Kappa Gamma shirt on. Which was weird, because he was like 40. I asked him about it and he was just like "heh, honorary member. You've got to eat a lot of hot dogs to become an honorary member." Which was weird also because on the way back to campus I noticed Kappa Kappa Gamma is a sorority.

Latest profile:
Updated Aug 25
Abhiville: so how soon till you depart for Chicago dude?
Lord Torgamus: a few years, if ever
Torg: I'm going to Pittsburgh next week though
Torg: I can't believe you thought I was Jared
Abhi: oh shnap
Abhi: yeah
Abhi: god damn
Abhi: wow i get you two mixed up so easy
Abhi: you must look alike or something
Abhi: or talk alike
Abhi: :-D
Abhi: just kidding kevin, i love you!
Abhi: ahh!
Abhi: SORRY!
Abhi: SORRY!
Abhi: SORRY!

EmpSg59: I blame society
Lord Torgamus: haha
Emp: it always works

Latest brilliant quotation: "The great thing about dignity is, once you've lost it, you've got nothing to lose." -Robert Timmerman (roommate)

Sagoff3 (11:15:15 PM): hey
Lord Torgamus (11:15:17 PM): Hello
Sagoff3 (11:15:18 PM): how were classes?
Lord Torgamus (11:15:45 PM): I slept through one and the other one was canceled.
Lord Torgamus (11:15:48 PM): Well I didn't sleep THROUGH it
Lord Torgamus (11:15:53 PM): but I missed a good 10, 20 minutes
Sagoff3 (11:16:00 PM): wow
Sagoff3 (11:16:04 PM): you slept through your first class?
Sagoff3 (11:16:07 PM): MAD PROPS TO KEVIN CHANG
Sagoff3 (11:18:28 PM): was it that boring?
Lord Torgamus (11:18:44 PM): The lecture hall was surprisingly hot and I was surprisingly tired
Sagoff3 (11:19:07 PM): hahahaha
Sagoff3 (11:19:10 PM): that's really incredible kevin
Sagoff3 (11:19:13 PM): what a precedent!
Lord Torgamus (11:22:00 PM): You should HATE ME
Lord Torgamus (11:22:07 PM): I AM A BAD INFLUENCE
Sagoff3 (11:22:13 PM): haha
Sagoff3 (11:22:28 PM): kevin, let me tell you something
Sagoff3 (11:22:42 PM): the bookmakers in Vegas would have given me 500-1 odds against you sleeping in your first class
Lord Torgamus (11:23:11 PM): haha
Lord Torgamus (11:23:15 PM): but it was SO inviting
Lord Torgamus (11:23:21 PM): I am a HORRIBLE HORRIBLE PERSON
Sagoff3 (11:23:40 PM): haha stop berating yourself
Sagoff3 (11:23:50 PM): first the frat, now sleeping in class, where does it end?
Lord Torgamus (11:23:57 PM): well I think I may go back to the frats
Lord Torgamus (11:24:01 PM): after some pondering
Sagoff3 (11:24:03 PM): in a beer-soaked orgy in the basement of one of the dorms?
Lord Torgamus (11:24:06 PM): Rush begins Wednesday
Sagoff3 (11:24:11 PM): you've got to be kidding
Lord Torgamus (11:24:11 PM): strippers and free lapdances
Sagoff3 (11:24:15 PM): you've got to be kidding?
Lord Torgamus (11:24:16 PM): at Kappa Sig
Lord Torgamus (11:24:20 PM): no, come on down
Sagoff3 (11:24:21 PM): tell me that's the cs frat
Lord Torgamus (11:24:25 PM): no idea
Sagoff3 (11:24:27 PM): tell me that's what it stands for
Lord Torgamus (11:24:35 PM): I'm not joining, I just want lapdances and food
Sagoff3 (11:24:38 PM): oh my goodness kevin what have they done to you?
Sagoff3 (11:24:46 PM): the steel fumes must have gotten into your head
Lord Torgamus (11:25:23 PM): bah, I'm...
Lord Torgamus (11:25:25 PM): ooh SHINY
Sagoff3 (11:25:55 PM): hahaha!
Sagoff3 (11:26:18 PM): let me just inform you that you are the first recipient of the "Props of the day" award I will give in my profile
Lord Torgamus (11:26:21 PM): I dunno about orgy, but no beer
Lord Torgamus (11:26:26 PM): I'm totally dry, thank you

[see prev/next timestamps]

Lord Torgamus (12:44:09 AM): argh, sorry for the long pause
Lord Torgamus (12:44:32 AM): yeah I'll give rush another chance, if nothing else I'll pick up some free food and be more used to being around various kinds of people
Sagoff3 (12:44:57 AM): wow
Sagoff3 (12:45:00 AM): that was quite the pause
Sagoff3 (12:45:05 AM): and you're crazy
Sagoff3 (12:45:09 AM): and they have you rush THIS EARLY?
Sagoff3 (12:45:13 AM): don't they defer rush?
Lord Torgamus (12:45:13 AM): hellz yeah
Lord Torgamus (12:45:14 AM): Wednesday
Lord Torgamus (12:45:18 AM): frats anyways
Lord Torgamus (12:45:26 AM): sororities you have to do this formal application crap
Lord Torgamus (12:46:49 AM): what other ways has this school corrupted me, let's see
Lord Torgamus (12:48:42 AM): I dunno, you got anything?
Sagoff3 (12:49:35 AM): um
Sagoff3 (12:49:38 AM): well it's been only a week
Sagoff3 (12:49:41 AM): not even
Lord Torgamus (12:50:39 AM): One week, now
Lord Torgamus (12:50:42 AM): night doesn't count
Lord Torgamus (12:50:51 AM): one more week and I can get tha mack on
Sagoff3 (12:51:01 AM): kevin, you are seriously scaring me

Latest profile:
Updated Aug 24
College is busy... and classes start tomorrow. Profile regularity will fluctuate. All y'all UMCP better come visit.

RifleGoddess16: haha just tell me before you come down and i'll give you my number
Lord Torgamus: see, that's the kind of thing I want to hear more often.

bkstina: goodnight, colonoscopy man

adidasgurl102: I am the enlightened one!
gurl: back off! back off! back off!
gurl: (shoves Kevin aside)
gurl: I AM THE ENLIGHTENED ONE!!
gurl: Do you see my halo yet?
gurl: I AM GLOWING!
gurl: I AM ENLIGHTENED!!
Lord Torgamus: haha
gurl: SEE? SEE? -->O:-)

Latest brilliant quotation: "There's a time and a place for everything. It's called 'college.'" -Robert Timmerman (roommate)

So we were going to dinner yesterday as a floor. As we walked by our house, we saw this girl with lots of boxes looking slightly forlorn. Not that it's important, but she was C-cute. (Cute by CMU standards.) So we all volunteered to help her move stuff in. We were all carrying random things in and I realized (and said), "man, only freshman guys are stupid enough to do this." Then I realized my mistake, turned to Galen, and said, "actually, only freshman guys are single enough to do this." We both thought that was quite clever at the time. As it turned out, she was a sorority girl. But, whatever.

The minifridge now contains, among other things, 47 cans of soda. It was 48, but I just had a Schweppes.

Alright, now for an example of the kind of intelligent thinking I expect from CMU students. (If you didn't know, we're #4 in engineering! Props to Rose Hulman, Harvey Mudd and Cooper Union.) For those who haven't been paying attention, I live in Donner Dungeon. Donner House is a co-ed dorm, but the Dungeon (the basement) is all male. Girls do not often come down here, and when they do, they don't really talk. So, other guys have been getting the girls. Sagar, who lives down the hall, has thus formulated the grand plan. This is the part about intelligent thinking that I brought up like a half hour ago. Cook a nice dinner, buy roses and sparking cider, and invite a floor of girls over. Oh my god is that guy smart.

In semi-related news, Kappa Alpha rush is coming up. Strippers and free lap dances. Maybe I should give this frat thing another try. If nothing else I can jack some good food, right?

At breakfast, we were making jokes about how I wouldn't back Justin up on stories or joking with Andy. So, on the way out...
Justin: I'm glad that if you're going to be inadequate, you're consistently inadequate.
Me: I don't want to ever hear anyone say that to me again.

Then, after getting our nice embroidered t-shirts from the engineering department,
Me: These are nice shirts.
Andy: Yeah.
Me: I wish I had one of the ECE (Electrical and Computer Engineering) ones though. Those are HOT.
Andy: haha, do they get you the girls?
Me: Yeah, once they find out what an engineer's salary is.

Wow, I just learned that Bombay = Mumbai. No, that's all.

Something's wrong with me. I like bananas. I (often) have bananas readily available at essentailly no cost to me. Yet I never eat bananas. It's the strangest thing.

In other strange news, the campus bookstore beats half.com, amazon.com and bn.com pricewise, in some cases by 50%. Weeeeeeeeeeird.

Oh my god. I just now realized how incredibly lucky I was to be in the 03 magnet. Blair distorts your view of things. Specifically, you think all girls are hot, and that women in general are just good looking. Now that I'm at CMU, I clearly see that this is not in fact the case. How did I end up with so many hot girls in high school and not even know it??? That brings up a related thing, though. Hotness is defined relatively. The first day here, I was like "Wow. People." The second day, it was "where are all the hot girls?" Now I'll be walking around and think "hey, she's pretty good looking. Well, by Carnegie standards anyways."

Latest profile:
Updated Aug 22
Sorry for delay, college is busy... even before classes.

Wow. You think you know a person....
Lord Torgamus: so what'd you do today
shippouchan: well, the usual
shippo: go out
shippo: hook up with some hot guys
shippo: bring them home

SamTheMan1116: i tried to serenade her once
Sam: to get her to tell me if i got onto Chips

DontEatDeodorant: what OS u got on it
Dont: dont say xp home, dont say xp home
Dont: ::crosses fingers::
Lord Torgamus: XP
Torg: Pro
Dont: nice work
Dont: i would demote u from magnet status if u had home
Dont: just on principle
Dont: that you should know better

Latest brilliant quotation: "It is the enemy you underestimate who kills you." -Bair, from Robert Jordan's A Crown of Swords

I had a funny conversation with the woman in the bookstore today.
Her: Ah, course packets.
Me: Yep.
H: Would you like a bag for that?
M: Ah, yeah, please. In college now, I'm sure I'll need bags at some point.
H: haha. Yeah I'm the same way. So now I have a bag full of bags in my room. Maybe sometime I'll need massive amounts of bags.
M: haha.
H: It's, like, a huge army of bags.
M: Only at this school would something like that be truly scary.

Went out and explored some of Pittsburgh with Justin and Matt today. We took the 61C bus down to Forbes and Murray and were looking around for Beeler, but couldn't find it so we came back. Then we realized the stop after the one we got on at was Forbes and Beeler. The stop in the OPPOSITE DIRECTION. D'oh. It was a good time though.

Argh, I had like another two lessons from college today, and I forgot them AGAIN. One of these days (sooner, not later), I'm going to take pictures of places all around the city and pbase them on the orientation page.

Oh man, I haven't mentioned Leo yet. He's the RA for first floor west; the guy is so like Yin. Looks similar and is equally energetic and odd. No offense Yin, I meant that in a good way.

Met a guy from Whitman today. Yeah, that Whitman. Had a long debate over which is better, Blair or Whitman. Was doing well until some random guy from his hall decided to back him up with no knowledge of the situation. That's it, I guess.

Yeah, Les Misérables! I don't care what anyone says, it's great music and a great musical. Although I will admit it's probably really boring to be in the pit orchestra for that. Easy to learn your part, though.

Yargh, House Wars. New House totally changed the balance of campus. We'll be back. Donner Domination, dawg.

It is SO hot. I drink so much more than usual (WATER, you idiot) and never have to go to the bathroom. I didn't know humans COULD sweat so much.

I got two lessons from college today, but I can't remember either. So, you're out of luck.

I wish I had anything at all from the first few days, but you take what you get.

pbase.com/007orientation

Thanks for calling, Amanda!!! You rock! But we all knew that anyways.

Looks like I need to get everyone's address and phone. Eh, I'll work on it in the morning.

Oh, I forgot to put down tonight's Lesson from College. Not everything is open all the time.

Oh, I forgot yesterday's too. If you want to have a good time at a dance, just go up to random girls and grind on their asses. No, really, I was seriously told that. And no, I did not in fact try it out.

We had a required diversity/motivational activity the other day, and they gave us this poem. I thought it was cheesy at first, but now I really like it. So, here it is.

Anyway
author unknown

People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered
Love them anyway

If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies
Succeed anyway

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow
Do good anyway

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable
Be honest and frank anyway

People favor underdogs but fight for top dogs
Fight for some underdogs anyway

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight
Build anyway

People really need help but may attack you if you help them
Help people anyway

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth
Give the world the best you've got anyway

At home, I used the tissues in my room mostly to mop stuff up. Here, I'm using them to mop myself up. Why is it so hot and humid? It's freaking PITTSBURGH!

The crew team is hilarious. They've got sidewalk ads everywhere. Like,
Look better naked. Join crew.
Do it... with eight other people. Join crew.
Handle 13 feet of wood. Join crew.
Stroke it hard. Join crew.
I'm not even going to start on the cox jokes. Who knows, maybe I'll actually look into crew.

Alright, time for more stuff. Laser tag in 15 minutes in a huge inflatable, uh, thing, with CORRIDORS!

Latest profile:
Updated Aug 15
Someone want to tell this girl what "before" means?
adidasgurl102: I DON'T
gurl: I LIKE YOU AS A FRIEND
gurl: AND I WANT YOU TO PLAY TENNIS!
gurl: SO PLAY TENNIS!
gurl: BEFORE I SCREAM AT YOU!

It's "Make up your own interpretation" time!
Abhiville: i'm just too much of a Plain jane for the FreakDancer/MarianneEpsteinMacker

SamTheMan1116: man, you know you're with (or have been with) silver chips when you can make a joke about editing papers

adidasgurl102: I am furious right now
Lord Torgamus: ...
Torg: the ONE time
Torg: you're NOT writing in all caps

Stay tuned, folks, these are gonna keep rolling in for years.
SamTheMan1116: "the only girl i'll marry is my co-eic. period."

Latest brilliant quotation: none

Today's lesson: real men learn ballroom dancing. I'm not kidding, yo.

Alright, so, Orientation. Lots of free stuff (Why did I bring detergent? What can I do with my pretty new Nalgene bottle? Why does my dorm visor look like a Duke visor?), decently edible food and STUFF TO DO.

First of all was room-setting-up, of course; I'll take pictures soon (of anything and everything) if anyone wants. Registered for Orientation, got my room key/ID card/meal plan/bus pass/piece of plastic that everything at this place is based on, blah blah blah. I'm still minus one ethernet cable though, grr. Also there've been a bunch of speeches and lectures (random fact from lecture: apparently, this year they accepted a lot of valedictorians and straight-A students and 1600-SATers, but rejected many more) by university officials and other students. The big event on Tuesday was Playfair, the ridiculously huge icebreaker. They had us doing all kinds of crazy things running around the field. First, I skinned my knee being an unskilled loser; we were running through a huge tunnel of people and slapping hands with everyone we passed, the guys in front of me stopped, and I fell face first onto the specially developed CMU football turf. This was exactly in the middle of the field. I mean center of the 50 yard line. But, no big deal, it was only in front of, like, 700 people. The other interesting thing about Playfair was the last thing; we stood in big circles and sat down at the same time, on each other. Most of you are thinking "Yeah, so? We did that freshman year of high school." But wait! There's more! We started marching around the field, WHILE SITTING IN THE CIRCLE. That was hilarious, if not long-lived.

Today, more lectures and boring stuff. Interesting things were ballroom dancing (see below), Mark Eddie of Comedy Central fame and my short-lived frat experience. On that last, I went with some of the guys in my hall to a frat, ended up being the only guy without a 40 and left after 20 minutes. Everyone was cool about it, but it's just weird being there not drinking something. That does bring me, though, to people. They rock. Straight up. All the orientation counselors are so spirited, it's crazy. One of the guys in my building (Donner Hall!) lived here freshman year and has RAed every year since. Same hallway. He OWNS this place. Everyone else is just... great, that's all. I've met Ruby and some of the other Wootton people, haven't really gotten to know anyone yet though.

That's all for now, it's plenty long already. Talk to me! I'm always on AIM! Even away, leave a message, I'm serious.

Listen, listen, listen, listen! Hear the distant thunder roll! Lightning flashing, thunder crashing! From tha east side, to tha west side, we are Donner blue! Fun fact: Donner means thunder in German. My throat is so messed up from screaming that all the time.

Oh man. Carnegie ROCKS. I don't even know how to start.

So I just went to one of the optional orientation activities, ballroom dance lessons. I thought it was a good idea, because it's a skill that is in demand, yet not learned by most guys. I saw, with my amazing CMU-quality intellect, that it would be advantageous for me to procure said skill for myself. Or, in other (Ruby's) words, "it is a first rate macking device."

And just today, I saw TWO people wearing that "10 kinds of people understand binary" shirt. 10 people! (Think for a second on that one, you'll get it.)

Yeah, uh, more later.

First, the boring thing: I'm not bringing my current cell to school, so the three or four of you who actually know my number can forget it. I'll get a new phone in a few weeks and let you know.

Well, it's my last day here. To all my friends, and the vast majority of you reading this are, I really love you guys. I'd tell you individually, but it'd be too easy to lose track of who I've told and most of you would be pretty freaked out. Everyone have a great time at school, don't do anything TOO stupid, and I'll see you around Thanksgiving.

Saw S.W.A.T. today, at Kentlands. The big stores/theatre area is called Market Square; I realized today it's like Bethesda, but much less classy. When you're walking around Bethesda, you don't hear stuff like "yeah, sometimes I see really hot guys but they're short, so I'm like 'man, that's too bad.'"

I could steal two thirds of Joe's blog again, or I could just link you.

About the Author: "I'm the sort of resignedly single guy with female friends who tell me how much they'd like to date me if they weren't already relationshipped. I think that's funny."

Today was the last day of work! It went decently well, I guess, but that was probably the last I'll see of Amanda and Omar for months. Sad....

I really wish I was more like Omar. We were just hanging out in the big room after work today, and completely randomly he picks Amanda up and carries her across the room. All while she's on the phone, no less. There is no way I could get away with that. Assuming I was slick enough to not drop her, I'd be lucky to get off with a smacking. But that seems perfectly normal for Omar. It's weird.

According to Omar and Amanda, I talk like my life is miserable and everyone hates me. That is not in fact the case. My life is fine, and I didn't realize I was coming across otherwise. So... now you know.

Also today I learned that even when I think I'm smiling I look like I'm frowning. Gotta work on that, I suppose.

More blog after some thought organizing happens.

Latest profile, today's links below:
Updated Aug 12
OK, my profile material queue is back to a more normal length, so no more daily updates.

Lord Torgamus: deeeeeeeeeesultory
FTLofmoses: hahhha i remember that word!
FTL: not with so many es though
Torg: I improved upon it
Torg: the e's are important
FTL: ah
FTL: i seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Torg: hack.
FTL: yeah.
FTL: haha...hack wilson. season record in RBIs with 191
Torg: baseball idiot savant.
FTL: haha. :-)

Le Seraph: i agree
Lord Torgamus: what with
Seraph: i dunno
Seraph: i'm just an agreeable sort of guy

Latest brilliant quotation: none

Whoops, wanted to post this two weeks ago but accidentally put it in the wrong blog.

Metrobuses Face Rock Attacks On Streets of Southeast D.C. (washingtonpost.com): "Metrobuses on a half-dozen routes east of the Anacostia River are routinely assaulted by children and teenagers throwing everything from stones to a bowling ball."

What the [a large assortment of colorful expletives goes here]??? I'm not even going to get started on this one.

More stolen-from-Joe's-blog stuff: "This microbe is so freaking badass ... this microbe > everything."

From BBC NEWS: "

An invasion

of giant killer wasps

has triggered an unusual security concern in the US State Department.

"

http://www.megaone.com/wutangsam - Sam & Co. mp3s.

Read this and tell me the first thing you think ISN'T "Jared Sagoff." Go on, try.

I need to get a messenger service to replace AIM. I have no requirements except the buddy list has to handle over 200 names. Help appreciated. Danke.

He Sells Shiso by the Seashore (washingtonpost.com): "'I borrowed from my sister to go to the famous Zen-Nippon Chick Sexing School'"

Hey, I'd borrow a lot of money for a school like that too. Seriously though, read the article, it's an interesting feature.

The phone just rang.

"Hello?"
"Hi, may I speak to Mr. or Mrs. Chang?"
"May I see who's calling?"
"Celeste, from Windows By Design."
"Um... you JUST called. They're not here."
"Oh. Right. OK."

So there we were, Omar and Amanda and me, sitting and talking about nothing much this morning. Then Mrs. Choi and Maria walk in and ask Amanda if she can stay tomorrow afternoon, because Maria wants to go get her learner's permit and so Dr. Choi has to drive her instead of teach. Amanda, after some pondering, said that was ok, but she couldn't stay the whole afternoon. Neither Maria nor Mrs. Choi seemed to think that was the optimal solution. Omar then volunteered to drive Maria to the DMV, which met with frowns and sideways glances. Finally I mentioned that I could stay; I hadn't originally wanted to say that, because I have an eye doctor appointment, but oh well.

Some rapid-fire Korean words were exchanged and they walked off. Later they asked Omar if he was still available as a shuttle. That was not how that was supposed to turn out.

Next time I say that clearly Amanda is doing something right as a teacher and I am doing something wrong, nobody better argue. And people don't understand when I say that nobody listens and I get ignored all the time. That's sort of a QED, now that I think about it.

Story of my life, man. Story of my life.

In the continuing-to-develope story of someone else's life, the Ted Williams story has taken another shameful turn.

Latest profile:
Updated Aug 11
Please do this. http://blunttruth.jaazsoftware.com/takesurvey.cfm?uid=834744&sn=%n

JeremyHoffman03: hmm, i still got an hour to call stanford
Lord Torgamus: Blair registrars, what can you do
Torg: haha
Jeremy: i love PST
Torg [about one second later]: you and your "I can call late 'cuz they're on the west coast"
Torg: haha exactly

Lord Torgamus: three hours of doing nothing
shippouchan: hahaha
shippo: fun fun
Torg: it would be good Gemstone prep, except I'm not going to UMCP

Latest brilliant quotation: none

I just realized something. The first person I met in the magnet (beginning of high school) whom I didn't know already from Cold Spring was Winston. Freshman year, we entered a competition where we used pasta to build a tower. Now (end of high school), I ran into him before eating the same kind of pasta at Bertucci's. That must be, like, a sign, or something.

In good news today, I got a letter from The Tartan (Tartan Online / opens in new window) asking me to join the staff. In bad news today, I think it was a form letter all freshmen get. Which especially sucks because I've actively sought them out like three times. Oh, well.

Latest profile; today's short blog post below
Updated Aug 10
Ladies and gentlemen, I have just been reliably informed that the current issue of Seventeen features Silver Chips. So, go buy. Yeah, even guys. You know you want it.

Lord Torgamus: see you have to explain these things
Torg: I'm stupid
adidasgurl102: I am too
gurl: We're both stupid!
gurl: High five!
gurl: :-):-)

Jared is ALWAYS good for a laugh.
Sagoff3: was it just the two of you?
Sagoff: a romantic dinner and movie spot?
Lord Torgamus: minus the romantic
Sagoff: well, that's still very nice
Sagoff: where'd you go?
Torg: you're beginning to act like a dirty old man now, I can't imagine what you'll be like at 70
Sagoff: let me live vicariously through Kevin "Big Mac" Chang

Latest brilliant quotation: none

Um, OK, I'll have to check again but I think I may have just gotten screwed. Three bucks and a bit of embarassment for 200 pages of magazine (Seventeen) that contain a 1"x2" picture in a back corner? They could have at least given us a quarter page of article or something.

In other news, the last week of work is 1/5 over and I don't have to stay any more afternoons!

Today was a decent day; lots of mosquitoes, good times with Joe and Meg, wireless card problems, Internet sharing capability discovered, heard about Seventeen (below). Nothing incredibly interesting.

OHHHHHHhhhhh BABY, Silver Chips featured in Seventeen magazine! More national honor and publicity! Even if it is only among middle school-aged girls. Go get it. Yeah, you. Even guys.

Please do this, though. Seriously. I'll consider it a personal favor. What do you really think of me?

Course  Sect  Course Title         Units Day     Begin   End  Bldg Room Instruct

15121   A1    ADVANCED PROGRAMMING  5.00 TR    12:00PM 01:20PM WEH  5403 ADAMCHIK

18100   Lec1  INTRO ELEC COMP ENGR  0.00 TR    03:00PM 04:20PM DH   2315 STANCIL

        E     INTRO ELEC COMP ENGR 12.00 M     03:30PM 04:20PM OSC  200  INSTRUCTOR TBA

                                         R     06:30PM 09:20PM HH   A104 INSTRUCTOR TBA

21122   Lec2  INTGR DIFF EQUA APPX  0.00 MWF   09:30AM 10:20AM WEH  7500 INSTRUCTOR TBA

        D     INTGR DIFF EQUA APPX 10.00 TR    08:30AM 09:20AM HBH  1004 INSTRUCTOR TBA

88104   A     DEC PROC AMER POL IN  9.00 TR    10:30AM 11:50AM DH   2210 KEECH

99102   R2    COMPUTNG SKLLS WKSHP  3.00 TR    04:30PM 05:20PM BH   140E ALEXANDER

Latest profile:
Updated Aug 9
shippouchan: what else would "my love" be referring to, if not ps?
shippo: geez
shippo: this is JEANNE you're talking to, after all
Lord Torgamus: oh
Torg: so it is
shippo: and this IS photoshop you're talking about
shippo: right?
Torg: I thought you were.... umm... alright, no excuse, not thinking.
Torg: This is KEVIN you're talking to, after all
shippo: unless, i'm greatly mistaken, there is only ONE love to be spoken about with ps and jeanne in the same sentence
shippo: hahaha
shippo: trueee dat

SamTheMan1116: you're a magnet to the core, kevin
Sam: tried and true
Lord Torgamus: well, yes
Torg: except for the grades
Torg: guess I don't cheat quite enough
Sam: you do'nt cheat?!
Sam: psh, you're no magnet

Latest brilliant quotation: none

Old profile:
Updated 8/4/2003
adidasgurl102: I think you have a female computer
Lord Torgamus: I'm interested. Keep going.
gurl [quoting me]: "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."
gurl: That is definitely PMS
gurl: well, for a computer
gurl: I wonder what happens when female computers have kids
gurl: do they produce tiny computers?
gurl: Ah, each of their kids a a tiny electronic signal
gurl: Maybe I should stop thinking about this
gurl: Idle speculation is often a clear sign of the mentally ill - thus, I am ill.

Latest brilliant quotation: none

"Man Choir Lite I"

Now THIS is a cappella. Go listen if you know what's good for you.

First, a link: "Damn inflation!"

Second, an addendum to yesterday's post. There were so many insanely awesome people from Blair, it sucks that I only knew some of them barely who I could have been really good friends with and I can only hope that college and life will be equally good. Also we ran into Mrs. Wood and Mrs. Wiseman there. That was... odd.

Now that I've gotten that aside, wow, what a good day. Right about now is what life SHOULD be like. For those who are just tuning in, I was supposed to have a vacation this summer. It was to be a full month in China, doing both touristy places and seeing extended family/friends/parents' hometowns.

Then SARS came along.

Vacation was scrapped just a few weeks before the end of school, and I'd have been totally screwed if Maria hadn't sent out a late e-mail asking if anyone wanted a job teaching. A few weeks and many geometry lessons later, my parents decided we should do SOMEthing. So we went to Luray Caverns today. (By the way, if I told you I was going to Andrew's party, sorry, I thought this trip was next week....)

The caverns were cool, of course. 54 degrees cool, according to the brochure. We'll soon see how well my digital camera's night mode works. Some day I'm going to have to explore a cave that's not lighted and full of tourists on brick pathways. Eh, I'm sure I'll meet someone in college who can hook me up. Random funny thing: about a hundred feet underground there was a supply chest behind the handrail, and this little kid was like "is that buried treasure?" Anyways, if you've never been, go. It's really really beautiful down there. My main complaint is that the exit leads into the gift shop, which is packed full of interesting and not-ridiculously-overpriced stuff that has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH THE CAVERN. But, yay for capitalism, the world could be much much worse. Slightly less annoying was the fact that they've got this huge maze you can walk through too, which I would have walked through except it was rainy and super-humid today.

We talked a lot in the car about random stuff, which was both an unusual thing and unusually fun. We discussed such important world questions as: "Who named Tschiffley Square Road?" and "Why did they name it something that every other person who ever has to spell it will get it wrong?" We took Skyline Drive home. Not one of the best decisions ever, since the road is famous for its view, and fog limited visibility to about five feet at times. Stupid deceptive nice weather at either end of the road.

On the way home my parents were like "hey let's go to that Italian restaurant at White Flint." I was like "dude, I've been working about a hundred yards from White Flint for two months and I had no idea there was an Italian restaurant there." Since I was hungry and I like Italian food, we went. And who should be behind the counter but... Winston Lin. (Hey everyone, go to Bertucci's.) We talked for a while about college and stuff, it turns out MIT people leave even earlier than CMU and Duke people. Oh, how little time we have remaining. Dinner was good, and then on the way out, who should be in front of the counter talking to Winston but... David Kim and half a dozen other 04 types. It's too bad my parents and I were so full, or we'd have gone to Heather's bakery for tiramisu.

And that's it, that's what life should be like. Hanging out with people (friends AND family) all the time and having fun. My mom commented on how great it is that we're all going to the country's top universities next year, but we're still working this summer. That's part of it too. Behind me is high school, which was an overall wonderful mixture of the very good, very bad and everything in between. Coming altogether too soon is college, which I'm incredibly pumped for and which should be awesome beyond words. But, right now? Ohhhhhhh baby. This is where it's at.

Latest profile:
Updated Aug 8
Tina got hired by the Woodmoor pastry shop!
bkstina: and buy a lot
tina: and give me exact change
tina: i dont know ho wto subtract
tina: and subsequently embarrassed myself several times today
Lord Torgamus: Preaching to the choir
Torg: you ever wonder why I teach geometry?
Torg: That's right, it's all shapes, no real math involved
tina: hahah
tina: oh good i'm glad

SamTheMan1116: i don' tlike that
Sam: i don't like that one bit
Torg: You don't like that one bit
Torg: You don't like that in a pit
Torg: You don't like that in a box
Torg: You don't like that with a fox!
Torg: You think I have gone too far
Torg: You don't like it, Sam you are

Latest brilliant quotation: none

Latest profile, today's blog post (a good one, I think) below:
Updated Aug 7
Sumonway: oh sleep
way: i forgot about that

Lord Torgamus: what about
Torg: this "hanging out" dealy
Leg3: yes
Leg: there is a potential problem
Leg: because i might have ot work at my uncle's law firm this saturday but he can't tell me till thursday
Torg: Unacceptable
Torg: ditch your family for me
Torg: you know you want to be with me
Leg: but i'll let you know as soon as he calls me, and if there is a problem then we'll reschedule
Leg: haha
Leg: well that is true

Latest brilliant quotation: "When a young woman's cheeks redden for no apparent reason, there is usually a man involved." -Robert Jordan, in his book Lord of Chaos

Cellophane, Mr. Cellophane, that should be my name...

I just saw Jessica Stamler's production of Chicago with Meg! Oh man, you know in the Silver Chips senior issue, where it was like "Why am I so cool?"? That should have been Meg's picture. She's officially on the list of "people to be more like." Well, she was already on it, so she moved up it. As for the show, it wasn't bad at all. Not stunningly amazing, but definitely good. For one, wow. Jessica Stamler. Is there anything she DOESN'T do? The crew and pit were really really good, too. Acting was decent, but whenever there were more than three people on stage, the choreography got kind of uncoordinated. But hey, it's not like I could do better. Good show, I advise you to see it if it's still on.

Coincidentally, I had my senior shirt on today, so all the Blair people were like "oh hi!" It was a nice surprise to be able to say bye to Jessica, too. Managed to write Meg's yearbook entry and exchange senior pics too, 'cuz we're slick like that.

Also today, I went to Heather's bakery. Free cookie! Uh, that is, I mean, because I wanted to see Heather. Yeah. (OK, seriously, don't get the wrong idea, I did go for Heather.) So the debate arose: which is better, Heather's bakery or Tina's? A quandary, I say, a quandary. I fear there won't be enough time to settle it before college. Oh well.

Oh man. Was yesterday a list of "poor car-related decisions" or what. And that's all for tonight.

... and all that jazz!

Yaaay, Robin's back!

That's all, tired now, good night.

Went to Bethesda Row today and met up with Jeremy. Apparently, there are TWO theatres at the Row, and just so you know, if you're going to meet someone, you want to figure out which one is which beforehand. Johnny English was, surprisingly, worth the cost of admission.

Didn't get to bring my laptop because my mom was afraid of theft (and she wasn't entirely unjustified), but perhaps next time.

I guess that's the last I'll see of Jeremy, for a few months if not years if not forever. It's sad. I don't like goodbyes.

Latest profile:
Updated Aug 6
I'm back.

bkstina: i am no FOB
tina: i swam over here
tina: fresh out of the damn water yo

Things people say after reading my blog...
comradeHowley: wow, pizza reduces risk of cancer
Howley: so i can masturbate and eat pizza all day
Howley: and not worry about cancer
Howley: truly the world is a wonderful place
Lord Torgamus: The money has to come in from somewhere though
Torg: I guess if you started work at a phone sex line
Howley: haha

adidasgurl102: but during class and at home, it's like WORK WORK WORK MWAHAHAHAHA HEHEHEEHE WORK WORK WORK WHEEEEEEEEE i'm high

Latest brilliant quotation: "Dance with her, and she will forgive much; dance well, and she will forgive anything." -Robert Jordan, in his book
Lord of Chaos

Rule Definitely Not 'Cool' (washingtonpost.com): "But then there's the clause proposing that a parent or guardian be required to tag along during a day of classes with any Anne Arundel student who has been caught disrupting class, skipping school or violating certain other rules."

Thinking outside of the box. It's a really good idea, except some parents would be there every day and/or be disruptive, and that wouldn't exactly work out.

Israel Imposes 'Racist' Marriage Law: "Israel's Parliament has passed a law preventing Palestinians who marry Israelis from living in Israel. The move was denounced by human rights organizations as racist, undemocratic and discriminatory."

Seriously, WHY can we not simply all get along?

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Schwarzenegger to run for governor: "And 22-year-old porn actress Mary Carey is also running, with a campaign that includes taxing breast implants and swapping guns for X-rated films to reduce violence."

No extra commentary. Come on, this one doesn't need any.

Hey, I want to go to the fair. Who's interested?

I was still puttering away on my new laptop last night when I decided to check my CMU schedule to see if anything new had been posted. Lo and behold, it had. (Is there no limit to the magic of this computer?) All was well and good until I realized they gave me a bunch of low classes, stuff AP credit should definitly get me out of. I was about to e-mail them with a "uh... what's going on?" but I figured that since it was almost 2 AM, I'd be incoherent. So I just checked again now, and they sent an e-mail to all new people with a "not all your AP credit is loaded, and your schedule isn't complete yet!" message.

The moral of the story is that occasionally, good things DO come to those who wait. Or maybe "It's good to be lazy and procrastinate!" I dunno.

I saw a Barwood taxi on the way home today. In the little advertisement thing that all taxis seem to have on their roofs, there was a poster for AFI Silver. I just thought that was cool.

This is an important blog post. It's important because it's the FIRST ONE FROM MY NEW LAPTOP!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO LAPTOP!!!

Just a few hours on and already it feels like home. Oh yeah.

I would just like to say thank god for Universal Serial Bus. I was sitting here being bored and frustrated with this fine new piece of machinery because it couldn't get on the network or the Internet. So I played a rack of disappointing games of Spider Solitaire, and was just about to go when I realized that my cable modem CONNECTS WITH USB. And that's the story of how I wasted my entire afternoon and night with this computer.

I've figured out almost all of the things that were bugging me (mostly AIM-related) before, but I still can't get the Quick Launch toolbar to expand past three icons. If anyone knows how to do that (Windows XP Professional SP1) please help.

In other news, no paintball for me on Saturday, but have fun if you're going!

Paintball Saturday. Still deciding whether to go myself, but now you know if you didn't before. Ask me for details, or better yet ask Omar, it's his trip.

I want to hang out with everyone. Slash, I'm envious of Tina and her night of getting crabs with Omar & Co.

For those among us who like pretty pictures: washingtonpost.com/buyphotos

her! [girl vs pig]: "I'm back! "

PRINCESS FENG! MORE ENTERTAINMENT! She's back! Er, her's back! Dammit Chris Bishop, make grammar all confusing....

While I was talking to Tina today, a pose-worthy question came up.

When a person is convicted of attempted [insert some crime here], he gets jailed for a while. Three years, 30 years, some prison sentence. When a person is convicted of succeeding at the same crime, he gets jailed for longer, or in the case of murder, possibly executed. Why is that? The two people are equally evil, right? They're both the same amount terrible at being human beings. Yet people who are evil but suck at robbing or killing are set free earlier than those who are just as bad but successful at the crime. But the people who suck get to use their experience at failing and try again much earlier.

Now, it can be argued that a 20 year prison sentence is actually worse than outright execution or a sentence that amounts to life in jail, but that's another point entirely. The stance of the US legal system is that more time equals worse crime, so by their position, my previous paragraph is valid.

Latest profile:
Updated 8/3/2003
Le Seraph: wow!
Lord Torgamus: Wow!
Seraph: i'm quoted in your profile!
Seraph: that's like being interviewed by CNN!
Torg: Not quite
Seraph: ok true
Torg: I'm more reputable
Seraph: mebe the Savannah Inquirer
Torg: say... BBC.
Seraph: HAHAHAHAHA
Torg: or that, I guess.

FTLofmoses: what in the world is a LAN party?
Lord Torgamus: You are no longer qualified to call yourself a magnet

Latest brilliant quotation: "If you want a good introduction, have a friend do it." -Hillary Clinton

State Dept. Changes Seen if Bush Reelected (washingtonpost.com): "Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and his deputy, Richard L. Armitage, have signaled to the White House that they intend to step down even if President Bush is reelected."

That is so... oh man, I don't even know what to say.

The Chess & Go Club at Lakeforest Mall: "The Chess & Go Club
at Lakeforest Mall"

...strikes me as an extremely good excuse to find myself at Lakeforest Mall one of these days. Too bad the Starbucks there doesn't have Wi-Fi access. Actually, Wi-Fi access was the original reason I was on the net; I get my laptop "no later than 4:30 PM" on Wednesday, and I really want to test the card. So, for those who care:

• Bethesda Row
• MD SoccerPlex (Boyds)
• Java Junction (Gaithersburg)
• lots of Starbucks

have access.

Latest profile, new blog post below:
Updated 8/2/2003
Miss a profile? Go to blog. Seen all my profiles? Go to blog anyways.

Lord Torgamus: still creating and destroying entire civilizations worth of bacteria?
G aN kLe 0 3: haha, OHH yes
aN kLe: too bad they weren't bigger
aN kLe: then it would be SO much more satisfying
aN kLe: i might actually be able to imagine that some of the colonies were my mentor or my coworker sometimes
Torg: ... maybe we should find you a new job...
aN kLe: hahaha, who, me?
Torg: something where you don't have to interact with living things
aN kLe: naaah

adidasgurl102: You're my hero, Kevin!
Lord Torgamus: Yeah, I know. I get that all the time.

Latest brilliant quotation: "Get busy living or get busy dying...." -unknown, but courtesy of Christina's profile

Today is Sunday, and that means tennis. I learned three things about tennis today. One, I suck even more than I thought before. Two, the opposite applies to Max Gibiansky. Three, how to serve. This... "pronation" thing could work out. Yes.

I got my new glasses today. Picking them up, I realized that optical is a good field for stores to screw you in. You can look at frames on a rack. You can try frames on. But you can't look at frames while trying them on, since you don't have the right lenses. In this case, I didn't realize the lenses were angled downwards so much. But, oh well.

A cool thing for today is that the Washington Post published its annual laptop buying guide. An uncool thing for today is that I ordered my laptop last week. But it's almost here! C'mon, FedEx!

Yeah, blog post about friendship, I still remember. But I'm not doing it now.