October 2010
Coolest thing I've ever done.
Today I got to one of my classes about 30 min early and there was already a guy sitting in the seat next to the seat I usually sit in. And I know this guy usually sits a row or two back, so I have no idea what the hell he’s doing next to my seat, but I figure that he’ll probably move before class starts so I put my trapper keeper down and leave.
I come back 20 minutes later and the...
September 2010
True Friendship.
Andrew: A car is going to explode in lot 13 if u aren't doing anything. I'm sadly in class and can't see the action go down :(
Me: How do you know this?
Andrew: I saw it when I was parking. Completely in flame.
WatchI am on fire!
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Me: Boy, I sure do love Fayro.
James: How do you get to Fayro?
Me: Well. . . Fayro isn't quite the end of the world, but you sure can see it from there.
James: How big is Fayro?
Me: Oh, not big at all, ever since the Rendering Plant and the Super SmartMart closed people have been leaving Fayro in droves.
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My Life in One Sentence
Right now I’m watching French girls brush their teeth (brossage de dent) on youtube.
Never Sleeping Again
I woke up with a tiny hand print on my chest way smaller than my hand could make.
CNN Money on ebooks →
This is a link to a video about ebooks with an interview with Stephen King that aired 2 days ago, but that’s not the good part. At the 3:10 mark Alina Cho says, “The University of Texas at San Antonio has no physical books, none. Its entire collection of 425,000 volumes and 18,000 journal articles is available only online.”
What the hell are all those paper things I’ve...
I set a new personal best the other day when I not...
This has happened to me twice.
Once when I was working at SeaWorld. I had gone to the bathroom at one stadium and then walked to Shamu stadium and couldn’t understand why all the guests were staring at me.
The second time at the Ottawa Little Theater during the intermission of a production of Lie, Cheat, and Genuflect. I offended an old man that was dressed like he was seeing the finest...
Conversations that never happened
Lady: What is your friend doing?
Me: What we all must do.
I'm very good.
I am very good at pushing.
At pulling and slipping.
At tripping and falling.
At falling and
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falling.
Loving is like breathing but harder.
I'm terrible at taking compliments
But even worse than in the bad way, which I will describe below.
Bad way
One of my pet peeves is when people deflect compliments and are all like “I don’t think I’m awesome.” You are too damned awesome and you better deal with it.
Basically what I hate is humility, which I lack completely.
Even worse way
When people complement me I’m just like “Yes. I...
“I did some terrible things with my graphing calculator when I was in high...”
– My experimental psych instructor.
Mom to me while eating dinner: Obama passed--
Me: *Extremely-sharp-intake-of-breath-hack-cough-sputter-*
Mom: this bill (and so forth)
Me: *swallow* Oh, jeeze! I thought you were going to say "Obama passed away"!
I'm over it.
OK, so that guy that I said I wanted to be friends with talked to me a bunch today, and he’s actually not that great.
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Cake - Let Me Go
When she walks She swings her...
“We’ve also since had several suggestions including some of my favorites: Fast as...”
– “Half the Pressure, Twice the Speed”
WoodChuck from California Cedar on my suggestion for a new Blackwing slogan.
Of Course.
Of course I could never get in between you two, I could only ever want to get in between you two. In between the air and the nose of you, too. The bead of rolling sweat between you two. Between the teeth and the smile of you, too. The look between the eyes of you two. And in between the heart and the head of you, too.
“Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired....”
– Leonard Cohen, Death Of a Ladies’ Man, 1978. (via mer-et-soleil)
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Spin Doctors - Jimmy Olsen’s Blues
Lois...
Me: This is the way I went to prom.
Nick: You're not going to tell me your prom story again are you?
Me: . . . no.
Break a leg.
A friend of mine is stressing out about a test in a class that I took last semester. She’s asking me if it’s possible to pass the tests with just the slides from class, and without the book since she doesn’t have access to it right now.
I told her yeah, I never even bought the book or took notes in class and I got high B’s and low A’s (I know there shouldn’t be...
Billy Idol - Eyes Without a Face
“Here I’d like to add a technical note as there have been several comments...”
– Reviving the Blackwing: Eraser Performance and Design
I could listen to the president of California Cedar pencil company talk about pencils all day.
If you’re into this sort of thing, he has been posting some awesome blog posts on features of the return of the Blackwing.
Fantastic stuff.
Wonder Girl
There’s a girl that sits at the same table at the same time 3 days a week. Sometimes she sits alone, sometimes with friends. I don’t know who she is so I call her Wonder Girl. She has blonde bushy hair, a flowery backpack, and she opens her mouth like a child.
It’s the most wonderful thing in the world.
Not yesterday, not yesterday but long ago, I seem to recall there were these stories where a guy and a girl would be pen-pals for a long time and then finally set up a meeting.
The girl would say that she’d be wearing a rose in her hair.
The guy would show up and there would be a (and there’s no delicate way to say this) fat lady with a rose in her hair. He would approach her and say...
There are only 5 guys in my Exp. Lab class, including me, and two of the 5 are over 30, so really there are only 2 guys my age in that class.
One of the guys just seems so nice and awesome. I want to be his friend so bad, but I don’t have a way in. This is harder than talking to girls.
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Spin Doctors - What Time Is It?
Ayatollah,...
Ss
My new favorite thing to do is respond to the endless “Does anyone know if we’re supposed to do [this or that]?” and “The [this or that] isn’t working for me, is anyone else able to do it?” questions on Blackboard with a hearty “It’s not just you.”
On the other hand though I totally know how it feels to not know what to do (every day) but I...
“Perhaps if enlarged enough one might notice respective comparable differences...”
– Reviving the Blackwing: Graphite Performance
If you guys don't follow me on twitter
You’ll miss out on the behind the scenes of my blog, like this tweet here about the anonymous person who just asked me a question.
I consider my twitter supplemental content for my blog, and I never cross post so it’s kosher. You can think of it like Doctor Who Confidential or whatever, I’ve never even seen it.
Anonymous asked: If you could go back and do it all over again, would you?
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Wang Chung - Even if You Dream
Baby I need you...
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How To Be A Creep: Lesson 3
Because, let’s face it, you only communicate with females online, keep a screenshot of every single interaction you have with the girl of your choice.
Save these pictures, along with any she posts of herself (protip: just search GPOYW on her blog), in a folder on your desktop with her name on it. Don’t even try to hide it, and be sure to also save pics with her and her real boyfriend,...
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Friends Don't Let Their Girlfriends See Me.
Today I saw my friend Paras walking with a girl, as they passed by I shouted “Hey, Paras!” and he answered with the standard...
Spin Doctors - How Could You Want Him (When You...