| What the Dean? |
[14 Jul 2008|03:51am] |
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"Surprise Symphony" |
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Wow ... got a letter telling me I made the Dean's list for Spring term 2008.
Finally, straight A's.
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| I've got a loverly bunch of coconuts . . . |
[28 Jun 2008|08:29am] |
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"Ashley's Theme" - Smash Bros. Brawl |
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So on the way back from work last night, I caught a quick sight of a raccoon running past. But that's not what I'm here to talk about.
I got home and decided to have myself a nice, refreshing can of coconut juice. They sell it at Wal*Mart. Now, Wal*Mart being a nice family store, I'd thought I would be safe from any untoward influences on my food. Imagine my shock when, after drinking a goodly portion of the can and seeing this:
Perhaps this doesn't quite strike you as frightening, but I urge you to look closer:
Yes, you saw that right.
PORN.
COCONUT.
Honestly, I didn't realize our society had sunk to such depths of depravity. Now, if you'll all excuse me, I have a sudden urge to eat a macaroon.
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| How could this be? |
[19 Jun 2008|03:47pm] |
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"Phantom of the Polka" |
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Another entry on my bloggity thing?!
Onoes!
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| My first retcon! |
[16 Jun 2008|03:54pm] |
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"FunFun & Shout" - Hare Nochi Guu Deluxe |
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Or at least my first retcon on the Pokemorph MUSH. When you have to spend a half-hour explaining to a character all the reasons why he can't have an NPC walk past an armed, telekinetically-powered police officer, grab the person she's interrogating, throw him against a rock so hard that it shatters, and then Hyper Beam him at point-blank range without a chance for anyone to react . . . yeah.
Probably picture to follow.
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| Floored. |
[14 Jun 2008|04:02pm] |
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"Peter and the Wolf" - Prokofiev |
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I just spent all of last night, plus this morning, helping my sister re-floor the ground floor of her house. But hey, it's done (save for the caulking). And it looks really, really good, which is always a plus. She also likes how the acoustics make the piano sound a lot better, too.
Her husband's gonna be so surprised when he gets home.
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[11 Jun 2008|03:54pm] |
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"Feliz Cumpleanos" - Children's Songbook of the LDS Church |
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Happy birthday, ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) tibek.
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| Running the gamut. |
[08 Jun 2008|01:13am] |
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"Onett" - Smash Bros. Brawl |
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So at the intersection of 700 north and 900 east, I got to see something of the spectrum of automotive behavior.
Starting at the northwest corner, where I crossed ninth east. A car was pulling along, turned the corner, and someone inside launched a water balloon at me. It missed my feet by about six inches. I didn't catch their license plate, which is probably a good thing, because I wouldn't have had the guts or know-how to do anything about it anyway.
I then crossed seventh north to get to the southeast corner. When I was about halfway across, a car pulled off of ninth to stop in front of me. The guy rolled down the window and offered me a ride home. I was only two and a half blocks from the apartment, so I declined.
Still ... makes you think.
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| Lesson learned the hard way. |
[06 Jun 2008|07:15am] |
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"Friend like me" - Aladdin |
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So, uh ... if you decide to buy a phone from Verizon, something you should know:
The price they give in large font is not the price you should pay attention to. Look to the right of said price, where in small print they give the "Full Retail Price." It will generally be about twice what the big, or "fake," price is, and tell you what you'll actually pay.
I just trashed my checking account replacing a useless Samsung phone.
(That's the other thing ... so the old phone I had kept randomly erasing the alarm clock settings and refusing to set new ones. I went to the store and asked them to do something about it; they put in a software upgrade that caused the phone to do the same thing as before. So I went back a few weeks later when it started deleting alarms again, and they replaced my phone--out of warranty--for $50. The new phone, the same model as the old one, started doing the same thing. I got charged fifty bucks to replace a piece of defective equipment with an equally defective piece of equipment. Likewise, my parents are having trouble with their Samsung phones. Don't buy from Samsung; they suck.)
Basically, I misunderstood the sales people, messed other things up, and spent too much on the new phone. But it's pretty much my fault for not asking more questions, as opposed to giving up and recycling the old phone. Or, as Mom would probably put it, shutting the doors on myself again. I need to work on being less stupid in the future.
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| Meet the Batcrap-McGuffins |
[04 Jun 2008|12:24pm] |
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"Love Tropicana Deluxe" - Sister Mayo |
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So yeah, roomies and I watched "Meet the Robertsons" the other day. ( Yikes and a half. )
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| Going political for a few moments. |
[01 Jun 2008|07:20pm] |
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"Still Alive" - Portal |
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So about a week ago, former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan put out a book about how much George W. Bush sucks, blows, or possibly screws the pooch. And the AP is still running headlines about him.
Ever notice that they only seem to get up in a flutter about books that bash the current administration? You'd think they'd do more literary headlines about, say, Toni Morrison or Cormac "i dont care about grammar" McCarthy once in a while.
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| Hyoomuns bad. Dinosaurs good. |
[25 May 2008|09:30pm] |
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"Ichigo Complete" - Ichigo Mashimaro |
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So, yeah ... roommate was watching "Dinotopia" just now. And wow. What the hamfist. I sat for a while and pointed out which character was going to get his comeuppance, which one wasn't going to learn a blessed thing because heaven knows he's already in perfect harmony with the hippysaurs ... give more, take less ... weapons hurt everyone, even their owners ... I was ready for someone to slip up and quote Brave New World, but I suppose that's to wait for the sequel.
Granted, this roommate was the one who started playing "The Last Mimzy" the other night - that being the movie where we got to see the little girl squinch up her face in horror at the thought that some animal had to die for her meatburger. "Can't we just eat food where nothing has to die to make it?" Of course, given that PETA's currently sponsoring a contest for the best vat-grown meat, that day might come. I wonder if she knows where salad comes from ... then again, "The Last Mimzy" was practically "The Latest Adventures of Captain Planet and His Diversitastic Minions" anyway.
I need to use the word "diversitastic" more often.
And I think I lost about fifty boyfriend points for not offering to escort the girlfriend to my roommate's wedding reception. Speaking of which, there are now three people in this six-person apartment. We're all enjoying the private rooms; I just need to work as hard as I can on not sprawling too much.
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[22 May 2008|11:38am] |
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That "Butterfly" DDR song. |
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First day of the internship: uh-oh.
I've been assigned to edit a culture guide about Brazil. Problem is, the guide in question doesn't seem to exist in electronic form. The printed version from the original student comes with a data CD, which presumably has the media on it, but all the CD contains is a 750-KB garbled .doc file.
It's also rainy for the second day in a row, and I'm feeling gloomier than usual. Maybe I should refill that prescription, except I'm nearly out of funds, and that tends to put a damper on such frivolous activities.
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| Gawrshk. |
[20 May 2008|04:15pm] |
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"Prince Ali" (why?) |
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So, uh, I moved my computer over to the empty desk in my room so that Maintenance can fix the desk I've been using since I moved in (the keyboard tray doesn't actually stay attached, most of the time). And apparently being moved away from the doorway and up off the floor has displeased my computer, so that it refuses to boot, unless I'm really lucky and I can get it into safe mode, which does nothing.
This makes me grumpy. Maybe not as grumpy as the fact of Napoleon Dynamite's existence makes me, but darn close.
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| A repeat rant. |
[17 May 2008|04:42pm] |
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Whine, whine, whine. |
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"Mach Rider" |
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Okay, I know I've complained about Macs on here before, but ... grr. Apple, you guys really need to work on getting your mouse to be responsive. For the massive screen that you guys have on your computers, the mouse acts like it's still confined to a 640x480 256-color monitor. When I have to drag the mouse all the way down the lab bench to get the cursor across the screen, something's wrong.
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[12 May 2008|04:08pm] |
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"I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts" |
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Didn't get the internship. Ah, well. There's still the other one, but I was rather excited about the prospect of getting paid. But no dice.
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| Here comes the (inter)View ... doot doodley-doo ... |
[09 May 2008|01:27am] |
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"Ocarina" - A Link to the Past |
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So I went for an interview for an internship today. Showed up wearing a collared shirt with a tie and the best khakis I could find (which still, tragically, had cargo pockets). Took a while to find the place (first time riding the UTA 862 route), and then the man who was going to interview me was outside interviewing someone else. It turns out the place where he works when he's not running his place is somewhat more casual than most places. They have a ping-pong table set up in the upstairs atrium.
And we ended up having the interview on a bridge. That was new. But then, if it all goes well, I'll be a freelance intern, so maybe the whole of it's pretty much new. So ... crossing my fingers and saying my prayers.
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| Strangers have the best candy. |
[02 May 2008|02:36am] |
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"Hungry Like the Wolf" |
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So I totally got to meet Colby Purcell today. (Ignore the last 15 comics; she had me as a guest comicker while she was on vacation.) She was an accompanist for a violinist and a singer for the BYU Women's Conference afternoon session, and she figured if I'd be on campus, I could say hello. With no classes on Thursday, how could I resist?
So I gave her some vague directions about which part of the Mariott Center I'd be on and what I'd be wearing, and then I trekked up to campus, figuring it wouldn't be that hard. I'd just look for the blonde Mormon woman who played the piano ... oh wait.
That's why she ended up finding me, as I was the rare guy standing around in a hobo jacket and drawing.
We talked. And she is, as her comic suggests, made of equal parts awesome, win, and humility. It was seriously amazing to meet her, and ... wow. She gave me her old tablet, because it had been gathering dust and I didn't have one previously. So it's set up on my computer now, and I'll probably send my mouse home so Mom doesn't have to worry about a ball mouse anymore.
So yeah ... I probably acted like a total fanboy around her the whole time, so everyone who's reading this, READ HER COMIC. It's totally awesome, and so is she.
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| Grf. |
[23 Apr 2008|01:09am] |
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It's not that I don't appreciate being talked to, really I do.
But when one person is using me for an agony aunt, another person is explaining things to me that I didn't want to know, and the people I want to talk to are getting their windows out-blinked ...
... I just want to know where they all were, months ago when it was 4 am and I was so lonely because no one was around to talk.
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| Continuing the countdown |
[22 Apr 2008|09:22pm] |
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"The Final Countdown" |
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Just finished and submitted my ELANG 410 final. Two to go.
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| The Finals Countdown, Winter Semester 2008 |
[21 Apr 2008|08:40am] |
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"Waka Laka" |
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Okay, just got done taking my ELANG 322 final. I think I did okay on it. At the least, I got a 94 on the semester project, and the test itself didn't feel too hard. What's left?
ENGL 418 - Visual Rhetoric and Document Design
ELANG 350 - Editing Basics
ELANG 410R - Genre and Substantive Editing
I'm not counting the music class because the "final" technically was playing for FiddleFest a few weeks ago.
Oh, yeah, and Corpus Christi went really well. Thanks to my roommate and my buddy Mariner for attending. Those of you who couldn't make it missed me playing a very Anglo-Saxon Jesus, not to mention some really cool effects with a red dress with long, flowing sleeves.
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