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Boom! Bang! Zowie?

September 20th, 2005

Holy crap, thunderstorms! The girls in the classroom next to my office all screamed that annoying stereotypical girlish scream with the first thunderclap. It was bright and clear early today, then the clouds just rolled on in and thundered about. The sky is a strange place sometimes.

Helena Bonham Carter is made of clay

September 29th, 2005

Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride was thoroughly awesome. I will give mad props to the first person who throws together a convincing Emily costume, complete with skeletal limbs. And don’t cheat by wearing some kind of full-body costume, I’m talking blue paint and fake holes in your skin all over the place!

So who wants some mad props? I’m waaaaaaaaitiiiiiiiiing…

"He's very gay with his new way of wooing"

October 20th, 2005

I ordered the new iPod (in black, for those who care about such things (like me!)). It got shipped out from Shanghai yesterday afternoon. Now I just have to sit around monitoring the Package Tracker until it gets here! Fun.

OBSERVE ALL-CAPS DAY AT THE CHURCH OF YOUR CHOICE

November 9th, 2005

IT’S THE SECOND WEDNESDAY OF NOVEMBER. YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS: WHENEVER YOU HAVE THE OCCASION TO WRITE OR TYPE SOMETHING, DO IT IN ALL-CAPS!

OKAY, A LOT OF PEOPLE PROBABLY DIDN’T KNOW THAT AT ALL, SINCE ALL-CAPS DAY WAS ONLY STARTED LAST YEAR BY STEF AND I, FOR KICKS, AMIDST OUR FORUM FRIENDS. BUT STILL… ALL-CAPS! START YOUR LIVEJOURNALS!

Steve Jobs on Saturday Night Live

November 20th, 2005

…or at least an impersonator, but whatever. Good times.

Cylinders Make The World Go 'Round!

November 20th, 2005

Whether you’re a fan of cylinders, or just casually acquainted with the notion, check out the UCSB‘s Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project. They’ve got over 5,000 recordings ranging from the 1890’s to 1920’s transferred from Edison cylinders, all available for download in MP3 (cleaned up) and WAV (uncompressed, but also not touched up, so they’re pretty staticy) format. Pretty hot stuff, considering it’s all free to download (from what I understand, Edison cylinder recordings are all in the public domain). Get going!

Happy Trunks-Jiving!

November 25th, 2005

Hope you all had a wonderful turkey feast! The song displayed in my “currently playing” dealie is the best Thanksgiving song I know of, so listen to it a million times, even though it’s a day after the fact. ENJOY A WEEK STRAIGHT OF TURKEY SANDWICHES! I know I will.

"Well, it's my birthday too, yeah"

December 1st, 2005

Tomorrow is my 23rd birthday! Now for some SCIENCE!

Let’s see here… if the circumference of the Earth’s orbit is about 2Ï€r, and the radius is 1 Astronomical Unit, and 1 AU = 149,597,870.691 kilometers (it’s a little screwy to assume that the Earth’s orbit is a perfect circle, but since the difference between perehelion and aphelion is only about 3%, I think it will work for my purposes), multiplied by 23 revolutions, then by tomorrow I’ll have traveled approximately 21,618,876,291.554 km around the Sun.

I also heard that I share a birthday with Britney Spears. Happy 24th Britney (I’m not too sore that she’s got 939,951,143.111 km on me)! If I cared about celebrities, I would probably make some comment about relationships or pregnancies or scandals or something, but I honestly hardly know anything about Britney Spears. Is that Mouseketeer bit still working out okay for her?

Apparently there’s a war on Christmas?

December 20th, 2007

Roland S. Martin from CNN just posted this little commentary about how there’s a “push to remove Christ from the Christmas season”. I’m sorry, but is that actually true? I’ve never once been chastised for saying “Merry Christmas” instead of “Happy Holidays”. I’ve never heard anyone refer to a Christmas tree as a “holiday tree”. And which Christ-mentioning songs have been “axed”, and in what capacity? He’s not backing up any of his statements, he’s simply putting assertions out there and assumes that the reader buys into them.

Well I don’t!

The only situation where I could agree with him would be in the realm of marketing, but there’s a damn good reason for it. When a company is selling a product in the month of December, they’re potentially selling to people who observe other holidays as well as Christmas celebrators. Though he claims to be respectful of other religions, he’s basically saying that this time of year is about Christmas and Christmas alone (screw Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and the Solstice). Do you think that maybe a gift being sold on Amazon or eBay that doesn’t contain some element of a Santa hat could be sold to someone that intends to give it to someone else on a day other than December 25th?

Because December contains so many prominent holidays, there’s nothing wrong with wishing someone “Happy Holidays”, because you very well might not know what the recipient of the well-wishing celebrates. That said, I’ll say “Merry Christmas” to anyone regardless, and I fully welcome them to return a “Happy Hanukkah”, “Habari Gani?” or whatever else they deem appropriate to the occasion. “Right back atcha!” or “Aaay!” would probably be okay too. But I’ve never felt any semblance of societal pressure to withhold my personal religious beliefs, so I’m really having a lot of trouble seeing where Mr. Martin is coming from on this one.

Also, what’s wrong with giving gifts? It’s not like I’m just hemorrhaging my hard-earned money for people I don’t even like. ‘m just hemorrhaging my hard-earned money for people I do like, because I think they’re awesome people that deserve it. I haven’t lost sight of what the holiday means to me, and I don’t feel any pressure to open my wallet any more than I’m comfortable doing; if I were broke, I’m sure my family and friends would understand receiving tacos on Christmas morning. I mean, tacos are delicious, after all.

You want something to complain about regarding Christmas? TBS has announced that they’ll once again be playing A Christmas Story for 24 hours straight, just a few days from now. That right there is an affront to the sanctity of the holiday. I love that film, but how many times in the same day can you watch Flick stretching his tongue in a vain attempt to excise it from the frozen pole? Apparently the answer is 12 times.

But I’m genuinely curious: anyone here bear witness to a war on Christmas lately?

"How come you almost never see a smart person's belly?"

December 21st, 2007

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD

What do you do when you have a secret that you really want to blog about, but feel like you probably shouldn’t divulge too much out of turn? I guess in my case I drop hints. Please visit the following website in about 5 minutes:

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Yeah, that should keep you guessing for the time being. Seriously, this is glorious stuff impending.

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