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three youtube videos.
"time is going really, really, really, really slowly."
a hilarious 911 call.
an atheist's nightmare.
it is quite similar to some of the arguments i heard while i was at my dear high school. (jk. for the amount of grief that westminster gets, i honestly don't think the people are that absurd.)
courtesy greg
a breakdancing clip that has made it into the annals of youtube history.
i forget who said this, but: "the ultimate irony about the flags hanging off of people's cars is that the flags just create drag force that give even more money to the middle east."
also, someone tipped me off that facebook will be unleashing a new feature on thursday. what this feature was, he wouldn't say. but ... it's facebook, so by extension, it will be incredible?... i dunno.
starcraft2 is being released!!!. to quote the site, "hell, it's about time." damn. starcraft will have been over 10 years old after the second game is released.
for non-video gamers, this is quite possibly some of the most epic news ever.
if you watch some of the gameplay videos, that is honestly some of the sexiest stuff i've seen in a video game. not to say that i'll necessarily play it, but it looks absolutely freaking incredible.
apparently they've been working on it for about 4 years, and it probably won't be released until another 1-2 years, imo.
a new game team name. so after teams play for awhile, they get names. for example, "the skulls" wrote a game last year. "red tide" is a famous game team. etc etc. i've never entirely been satisfied with a team name until now:
THE INC(RED)IBLES.
how awesome is that. i'm really excited. soo... if you ever play on my game team again, that is what we're going as.
the added bonus being that jim, bristin, and i were once discussing words that had "RED" but didn't have red at the end of the word, ie "DESI(RED)" or "DISCOVE(RED)". and this is an example!!
the water droplets are a really nice touch.
courtesy jamie
The most amazing line in "This Is Why I'm Hot"-and, even at this early a juncture, quite possibly the most amazing line of any song to see release in 2007-is "I'm hot 'cause I'm fly/You ain't 'cause you not." Brutal and unassailable in its simplicity. Consider the reasoning, first, of just "I'm hot 'cause I'm fly":
Mims is hot because he's fly. But it raises the question: Does being hot guarantee one's being fly? "You ain't 'cause you not" would seem to clear that up:
the article continues to do a further formal mathematical treatment of the song. very nice.
VERONICA MARS IS CANCELLED - i'm really pissed. honestly.
although, here's a point. so they did all of their filming, etc, before knowing that they were canceled. so do you think that they just didn't add a cliffhanger? or they had to film two alternate sequences, one that was a cliffhanger and another that provided adequate closure to the storyline?
this is just like national treasure
• 17 tons of colonial-era coins worth $500 million, Odyssey Marine Exploration says
• Salvage project "Black Swan" in Atlantic Ocean cloaked in secrecy
• Court records show coins might be from a 400-year-old ship found off England
• "Unprecedented" find from colonial era, rare coin expert says
although i think it definitely violates the laws of supply and demand in that if you flood the market with $500M worth of "rare" coins, they honestly aren't that rare anymore.
an aim express substitute - courtesy stacey. a very nice site. (meebo)
do you know how i like to talk about how songs have "that moment"? okay. this is a really nice moment:
No one could ever know me.
No one could ever see me.
Seems your the only one who knows what it's like to be me
Someone to face the day with.
Make it through all the rest with.
Someone I'll always laugh with.
Even at my worst, I'm best with....
you - yeah
--the rembrandts, i'll be there for you.
beach trip. last week, jim, stace, molly, and emily and i went out to half moon bay (half moo baa, as they say) as one of those beach day trips that you always hear about but never quite go on. we had a picnic with some subway sandwiches, and then embarked on our singular goal of "
i don't think that i used singular correctly. anyhow, here are the pics. we took at least 20 in the end, btw. it was absurd. it was also sort of absurd that we never quite got a perfect jumping picture. brijigrestaja definitely lucked out.
"are you sorry because you did it or sorry because you got caught." i feel like the answer is always the latter, except in rare occurrences. i'm fairly sure this quote is from a tv show.
lectures. i'm watching lectures online. and i'm just wondering why they make professors give the same lectures year after year after year. granted, they have to make their money somehow, but it seems so backward.
camp kesem. dude. i'm really sad that i can't be a part of it this year.
tiny: "the thing that is most magical about camp kesem is that it brings out something special in people. you can bring frat guys, athletes, pre-business people, and they'll all act in ways that they totally wouldn't otherwise." which is more or less exactly my reason why i love camp kesem.
she was relating to me a story about GORILLA, and how she was initially worried that he wasn't going to be a good counselor, but she saw him interact with kids, and essentially, he got these two really young kids to glom onto him and they were crawling all over him and he was doing friendship bracelets with them and he was being super friendly. CAN"T YOU IMAGINE THAT?!?!? omg. i wish i were a counselor with gorilla. i wish i could have that effect on kids.
but yeah. another thing that i love about camp kesem. how the POINT of camp kesem is to build a community. as in, other camps, the main thing is to have fun. but this, it's about being nice and being there for other people and learning how to grow.
tiny, on the "best" counselors: "the thing is, the counselors that are the best often aren't the ones who are always in the middle of things and making a scene. they're the ones to talk to the campers who don't get enough attention and are friendly behind the scenes. in fact, on the end-of-camp evals, you'd be surprised by the counselors that they talk about."
so... question: are you a "bad" counselor if nobody writes down your name? okay. yes, i sort of do camp kesem for the kids, but i must admit, i don't really go into it you know, wanting to "change their lives" or something. which agreed is not a particularly healthy mission, but on the flipside, i feel like i should have a bit more of that idealism. i still lack a lot of the patience and selflessness that a lot of the counselors there have, and i think it's largely due to my original motivations of becoming a counselor.
getting paid not to enjoy senior year. so in the vein of the jules hypothetical questions, how much would someone have to pay you to LEAVE your senior year. like miss out on all of those activities, bonding, experiences, etc. i think i would say something like.... $150k or something.
but yeah. michael is literally facing this dilemma, as his parents said that they would pay him whatever they didn't pay stanford if he graduated early. that's really tough.
being the one laughing instead of putting myself out there. something about me. which is, i am much more comfortable/find myself laughing (jokingly) at other people rather than being the one laughed at. which i feel like is not fair and something that i should probably think about.
sigma nu. i was talking to someone about initiation. dude. their initiation takes approximately from 10PM to 11AM. seriously. nobody is allowed to sleep. reason #43058 that i hate fraternities: that they foster this environment where people are willing to do absurd things with absurd/irrational levels of dedication and intensity.
hate or jealousy? good question.
"time is going really, really, really, really slowly."
a hilarious 911 call.
an atheist's nightmare.
Click to viewit is quite similar to some of the arguments i heard while i was at my dear high school. (jk. for the amount of grief that westminster gets, i honestly don't think the people are that absurd.)
courtesy greg
a breakdancing clip that has made it into the annals of youtube history.
i forget who said this, but: "the ultimate irony about the flags hanging off of people's cars is that the flags just create drag force that give even more money to the middle east."
also, someone tipped me off that facebook will be unleashing a new feature on thursday. what this feature was, he wouldn't say. but ... it's facebook, so by extension, it will be incredible?... i dunno.
starcraft2 is being released!!!. to quote the site, "hell, it's about time." damn. starcraft will have been over 10 years old after the second game is released.
for non-video gamers, this is quite possibly some of the most epic news ever.
if you watch some of the gameplay videos, that is honestly some of the sexiest stuff i've seen in a video game. not to say that i'll necessarily play it, but it looks absolutely freaking incredible.
apparently they've been working on it for about 4 years, and it probably won't be released until another 1-2 years, imo.
a new game team name. so after teams play for awhile, they get names. for example, "the skulls" wrote a game last year. "red tide" is a famous game team. etc etc. i've never entirely been satisfied with a team name until now:
THE INC(RED)IBLES.
how awesome is that. i'm really excited. soo... if you ever play on my game team again, that is what we're going as.
the added bonus being that jim, bristin, and i were once discussing words that had "RED" but didn't have red at the end of the word, ie "DESI(RED)" or "DISCOVE(RED)". and this is an example!!
the water droplets are a really nice touch.
courtesy jamie
The most amazing line in "This Is Why I'm Hot"-and, even at this early a juncture, quite possibly the most amazing line of any song to see release in 2007-is "I'm hot 'cause I'm fly/You ain't 'cause you not." Brutal and unassailable in its simplicity. Consider the reasoning, first, of just "I'm hot 'cause I'm fly":
Mims is hot because he's fly. But it raises the question: Does being hot guarantee one's being fly? "You ain't 'cause you not" would seem to clear that up:
the article continues to do a further formal mathematical treatment of the song. very nice.
VERONICA MARS IS CANCELLED - i'm really pissed. honestly.
although, here's a point. so they did all of their filming, etc, before knowing that they were canceled. so do you think that they just didn't add a cliffhanger? or they had to film two alternate sequences, one that was a cliffhanger and another that provided adequate closure to the storyline?
this is just like national treasure
• 17 tons of colonial-era coins worth $500 million, Odyssey Marine Exploration says
• Salvage project "Black Swan" in Atlantic Ocean cloaked in secrecy
• Court records show coins might be from a 400-year-old ship found off England
• "Unprecedented" find from colonial era, rare coin expert says
although i think it definitely violates the laws of supply and demand in that if you flood the market with $500M worth of "rare" coins, they honestly aren't that rare anymore.
an aim express substitute - courtesy stacey. a very nice site. (meebo)
do you know how i like to talk about how songs have "that moment"? okay. this is a really nice moment:
No one could ever know me.
No one could ever see me.
Seems your the only one who knows what it's like to be me
Someone to face the day with.
Make it through all the rest with.
Someone I'll always laugh with.
Even at my worst, I'm best with....
you - yeah
--the rembrandts, i'll be there for you.
beach trip. last week, jim, stace, molly, and emily and i went out to half moon bay (half moo baa, as they say) as one of those beach day trips that you always hear about but never quite go on. we had a picnic with some subway sandwiches, and then embarked on our singular goal of "
i don't think that i used singular correctly. anyhow, here are the pics. we took at least 20 in the end, btw. it was absurd. it was also sort of absurd that we never quite got a perfect jumping picture. brijigrestaja definitely lucked out.
"are you sorry because you did it or sorry because you got caught." i feel like the answer is always the latter, except in rare occurrences. i'm fairly sure this quote is from a tv show.
lectures. i'm watching lectures online. and i'm just wondering why they make professors give the same lectures year after year after year. granted, they have to make their money somehow, but it seems so backward.
camp kesem. dude. i'm really sad that i can't be a part of it this year.
tiny: "the thing that is most magical about camp kesem is that it brings out something special in people. you can bring frat guys, athletes, pre-business people, and they'll all act in ways that they totally wouldn't otherwise." which is more or less exactly my reason why i love camp kesem.
she was relating to me a story about GORILLA, and how she was initially worried that he wasn't going to be a good counselor, but she saw him interact with kids, and essentially, he got these two really young kids to glom onto him and they were crawling all over him and he was doing friendship bracelets with them and he was being super friendly. CAN"T YOU IMAGINE THAT?!?!? omg. i wish i were a counselor with gorilla. i wish i could have that effect on kids.
but yeah. another thing that i love about camp kesem. how the POINT of camp kesem is to build a community. as in, other camps, the main thing is to have fun. but this, it's about being nice and being there for other people and learning how to grow.
tiny, on the "best" counselors: "the thing is, the counselors that are the best often aren't the ones who are always in the middle of things and making a scene. they're the ones to talk to the campers who don't get enough attention and are friendly behind the scenes. in fact, on the end-of-camp evals, you'd be surprised by the counselors that they talk about."
so... question: are you a "bad" counselor if nobody writes down your name? okay. yes, i sort of do camp kesem for the kids, but i must admit, i don't really go into it you know, wanting to "change their lives" or something. which agreed is not a particularly healthy mission, but on the flipside, i feel like i should have a bit more of that idealism. i still lack a lot of the patience and selflessness that a lot of the counselors there have, and i think it's largely due to my original motivations of becoming a counselor.
getting paid not to enjoy senior year. so in the vein of the jules hypothetical questions, how much would someone have to pay you to LEAVE your senior year. like miss out on all of those activities, bonding, experiences, etc. i think i would say something like.... $150k or something.
but yeah. michael is literally facing this dilemma, as his parents said that they would pay him whatever they didn't pay stanford if he graduated early. that's really tough.
being the one laughing instead of putting myself out there. something about me. which is, i am much more comfortable/find myself laughing (jokingly) at other people rather than being the one laughed at. which i feel like is not fair and something that i should probably think about.
sigma nu. i was talking to someone about initiation. dude. their initiation takes approximately from 10PM to 11AM. seriously. nobody is allowed to sleep. reason #43058 that i hate fraternities: that they foster this environment where people are willing to do absurd things with absurd/irrational levels of dedication and intensity.
hate or jealousy? good question.