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Friday, July 31, 2009Never Gonna Give You Up, Never Gonna Let You Down At first my school was like this:
 I was like "sure!" Then my school was like this:  I clicked the fancy blue text. Then:  :( link : 9:51 PM
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Monday, May 11, 2009Park and (Get Taken for a) Ride I was going to be a good soldier/grad student and not blog about this, but when I examined my parking ticket from last week I saw how ridiculous it was.
Here's what happened. I had to go to the Student Health Center to see my counselor (to get the Zoloft for the depression that being a grad student gave me). I also had to get to Ellis Library so I parked at a parking garage between the two buildings, Virginia Avenue Parking Garage. Sidenote: it's layout is the mirror image of Hitt Street Garage, which totally won't lead to accidents.... Anyway I figured, like Hitt Street Garage, it will have paid parking on the upper floors. So I drive... and drive... and drive to the top floor. And... nothing. No meters. Well I'm now on the top floor of a six-floor parking garage. There are maybe 10 cars parked up there so they weren't hurting for spaces. I have a schedule to keep so I decided to park up there. Obviously this story leads to me seeing the parking guy putting the ticket on my car after returning from the Library to check for just such an occurrence. I laugh it off (not his fault) and drove off to park in the Student Health Center parking. I get home and read the back of my ticket:  Sure, $25. I can stand to lose that. Times are tough. The school needs money. But hold on! There are a lot of offenses that are fined less than $25. Let's see what I could've done instead of parking at the top floor of a barren garage blocks away from the Library, and saved a few dollars:
But no, I parked blocks away, several stories up, not doing any harm, and got fined $25. Sigh. link : 4:13 PM
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008A Giant Facepalm for Mankind part 2 I'm so glad I didn't go to Rancho Bernardo High, what with the recent selling ads on tests incident and the past broomstick-baseball-team incident (which is exactly what it sounds like), the underwear incident, the noose incident, and the hacking incident. PHS FTW!
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Thursday, November 13, 2008Indiana... let it go. My mind is completely blown. How did someone wield a metal knife so accurately on a "highly magnetic object," so magnetic that it affected gunpowder hundreds of yards away? And why was there no payoff with this magnetic object when a gunfight broke out around it? And seriously, a flying butt triggering a timed plot device? No, just no. I stopped watching Kingdom of the Crystal Skull at around the 12 minute mark.
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Friday, October 24, 2008The Price of Action Figure Immortality The week after I got my wonderful grail knight figure, I went back to Target and saw that their Indiana Jones merchandise was on sale!
 I'll let the knight himself tell you what he thinks of my purchase now: Bonus: link : 3:32 PM
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008How to Then Annoy Me Further Have a Adobe Flash* site playing music that I can't link to.
*As opposed to Barry Allen Flash. Labels: whut link : 11:02 AM
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How to Turn Me Off Instantly Pronounce Lex Luthor "Luth-e-r" instead of "Luth-o-r" in a big budget game production.
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Friday, August 1, 2008Always Thinkin' I was doing my usual studying thing, reading Life History of the Ache, when I had a crazy idea.
Ok, the behavior of an organism is affected by its genes and environment. This interaction, through our evolutionary past, has been acted upon by natural selection: gene-environment interactions that result in more successful reproduction than others is propagated through the gene pool until they are commonplace. That's one train of thought. Here is the other: Earth experiences seasons based on its axial tilt and revolution around the sun. Humans do not have a seasonal reproductive period, so babies can be born at any season. A human baby born in a certain season experiences different harmful environmental stimuli, like freezing weather, heat, predators. So, it would be beneficial if human babies had custom behaviors to maximize their own survival depending on the time they were born. Ok, now mash those trains together (don't worry, they're pilotless freight trains). What if... humans have certain personality tendencies depending on the time of year they were born which were the result of genetic-environmental interaction? Or, what if some general aspect of western astrology (a yearly-repeating cycle of personality attributes) had a phylogenetic explanation? A quick perusal of a zodiac book in my old bedroom and some internet sleuthing quickly dashed my inquiry. No study has found that astrological readings correlate with personality traits. But, if someone does explore this further and finds something significant, I wrote it down first lol. Labels: anthropology, whut link : 6:15 PM
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008Anyway You Want It"Here’s a YouTube tale with a happy ending: Filipino singer Arnel Pineda (pronounced “pin-eh-da”) posted footage of himself performing Journey covers with his band the Zoo and was discovered half a world away by Journey guitarist Neal Schon, who was trolling the site for new blood. Schon got in touch with Pineda (and convinced the vocalist he wasn’t pulling a prank on him) and voila: Pineda has been named the band’s latest frontman, replacing Steve Augeri, who left last year." --Rollingstone.com If Hole needs a new singer, look me up! Post topic jacked from JoshNichols.com btw. =) link : 2:54 PM
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 Any one else find it odd that the iMacs at Ellis Library boot into Windows? I mean why spend the money to get Macs when they'll just mimic a PC?
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Thursday, June 12, 2008The AMA Alliance Sounds Stressed, Maybe They Should Smoke A Cig"Shame on 'The Incredible Hulk' for unnecessarily adding smoking to a sequel that would have been just as exciting and believable without it," said Dianne Fenyk, President of the Alliance. "Universal Studios and the other Hollywood studios should be especially embarrassed for using comic book movies, which they market to children and know youth will want to see, to promote tobacco." The above quote pretty much sums up a press release by the American Medical Association Alliance, which is riding the coattails of a big budget movie into the news. Saying that a character promotes cigar smoking by simply having one is as sensible as saying that the Hulk (the protagonist lead) is promoting running from the law by... running from the law. Maybe the cigar in the movie shows something about the character, like how he is old fashioned and inconsiderate of others' well-being. In a related note, I have a theory about why crazy people are often in leadership positions of otherwise sane organizations. Maybe I'll share it sometime. link : 4:36 PM
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008Financial Tip of the Week: Don't Get Caught So... it looks like the person at MU responsible for the weekly financial tips newsletter/blog has resigned after being accused of stealing money from the university. I for one am outraged. Outraged that he got caught before he perfected his technique and gave the students tips on how to do it too.
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Saturday, March 1, 2008Dog Food Flavored Chocolate Bars I thought of it and made me laugh. Who would buy that?!
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