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Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 03:50:48 GMT

not me so its funny

note teh dolla scale

no more poker grpahs i promise, this is just for wenbo!

Sunday, October 22, 2006

Sun, 22 Oct 2006 09:31:15 GMT

hehe, thats me since the online poker legislation passed the senate

And you thought there was nothing in Xinjiang...

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:19:43 GMT

Go to Google Maps.

Click on "Satellite" instead of "Map."

Type in the following location in the search bar: 42 39 19 N, 94 10 02 E

Zoom in a few times.

hihi

Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:03:26 GMT

i can't imagine any reason why anybody might still read this xanga. it hasn't been updated in months, and even before that updates were sporadic at best. there hasn't really been any point to it either (ever) so why anybody would visit goreism more than once is, frankly, quite beyond my comprehension. you know how that old saying in tennessee - i know it's in texas, probably in tennessee - goes! anyhow, time for a rousing tribute to our patron saint. please save your adulation until the end of the performance:

A man walks down the street
He says why am I soft in the middle now
Why am I soft in the middle
The rest of my life is so hard
I need a photo-opportunity
I want a shot at redemption
Don't want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard
Bonedigger Bonedigger
Dogs in the moonlight
Far away my well-lit door
Mr. Beerbelly Beerbelly
Get these mutts away from me
You know I don't find this stuff amusing anymore
If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al!

If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al!
CALL ME AL!

if you read this far, say "yo!"

now go, go hang your head in shame.

Saturday, March 25, 2006

Sat, 25 Mar 2006 02:13:56 GMT

A fun meme. His answers made more sense than mine, so I just picked the ones that actually kind of work:

Instructions: Go to your music player of choice and put it on shuffle. Say the following questions aloud, and press play. Use the song title as the answer to the question. NO CHEATING.

How does the world see you? Hey (Pixies)
Will I have a happy life? The Darkest One (The Tragically Hip)
What do my friends really think of me? God (John Lennon)
What do people secretly think of me? Sulk (Radiohead)
What should I do with life? 'Cross The Breeze (Sonic Youth)
How can I be happy? Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon (The Flaming Lips)
How will I be remembered? From a Buick 6 (Bob Dylan)
What song will play at my funeral? Bittersweet me (R.E.M.)
What does everyone else think my current theme song is? A Conjunction of Drones Simulating the Way in Which Sufjan Stevens Has an Existential Crisis in the Great Godfrey Maze (Sufjan Stevens)
What is my day going to be like? Tombstone Blues (Bob Dylan)
What should I do with my life? Rudie Can't Fail (The Clash)

In news totally unrelated to the concert I saw in Tuesday, which I'm pretty sure most people who read this aren't interested in, I love melodicas.

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:35:44 GMT

I'm pleased to report that over the weekend I've learned the subtle art of bridge shuffling. Why yes, I was deprived of cards as a child, thanks for asking. The only decks we have around our house are the crappy Singapore Airlines ones (made more crappy in these latter days by making Chinese flashcards out of them).

I think everybody has a secret elementary school playground shame. Victor can't whistle or snap his fingers, and Jon can't swing. So to all my readers: what's yours?

P.S. I'm practicing a card trick. It's not very good yet, but ask me, and I'll show you.

Monday, December 26, 2005

Mon, 26 Dec 2005 07:37:27 GMT

Just posted up the India and Singapore pictures. Most of them aren't that good, since when it comes right down to it, I don't know the first thing about photography. But you can find them here if you have a facebook account. If not, here are three photos:

Communists!

A fruit stand I happened to pass on a side street. I think this is about where I got tired of trying to come up with clever captions.

Taken in a tiny rural village in inland Karnataka. Chances are, this girl will never have the opportunity to go elsewhere.

Sunday, December 04, 2005

Sun, 04 Dec 2005 20:33:44 GMT

Oh, I nearly forgot! I got a letter to the editor published in the Aggie. 200 words published in a student newspaper: I could just die right now, Clem.

Here's the full chain of everything I was responding to:

Jessica Brunsvik's Nov. 17 article > Brandon Heat's Nov. 22 letter > Adam Katz's Nov. 29 letter > My Dec. 1 letter.

Unfortunately, the editor kinda bowlderized it. There was a dash ...

Oh crap, it looks like all the links are broken because the bloody Aggie just redesigned their website. Anyway, here's the letter that I sent:

With respect to Adam Katzâ€™s Nov. 29th letter, Iâ€™m reminded of Jack Nicholsonâ€™s
speech in A Few Good Men. Katzâ€™s argument is as flawed as Nicholsonâ€™s, as the ending of the film makes clear: everyone has the duty to question the manner in which the government provides freedomâ€”or fails to.

As for Jessica Brunsvikâ€™s impassioned plea for supporting equality of access to public school campuses by military recruiters or private companies ("Donâ€™t be all you donâ€™t want to be", Nov. 17), Iâ€™d like to take this opportunity to say that Iâ€™m all for equality. We can start talking about equality when the military (like other prospective employers) can't obtain secondary school studentsâ€™ names and personal information upon request, or when the military (like other prospective employers) allows openly gay and lesbian people to join its ranks. Itâ€™s a similarly odd notion of â€œequalityâ€ that allows Brunsvik and Katz not to see injustice when the economically disadvantaged are pressured into joining the military for lack of other options. â€œThe law, in its majestic equality,â€ as Anatole France noted, â€œforbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.â€

Raghav Krishnapriyan
junior, chemistry

The stupid editor removed my awesome Anatole France quote from the end. It's like Lee Judge said, bring an editor the Ten Commandments and they'll take one out.

Sunday, December 04, 2005

Sun, 04 Dec 2005 08:29:39 GMT

Friday, December 02, 2005

Fri, 02 Dec 2005 17:19:15 GMT

Beastly weather we've been having. I've always wanted to say that; it sounds very New-Englandy-wannabe-British. But really, temperatures like this are indecent. If there was a rating board for weather, this would be rated NC-17.

I've been watching movies. Here are some good movies:

Serenity: Set about six months after the end of Joss Whedon's incredible series, Firefly, Serenity really is a good contender for "best science fiction movie ever." (Orson Scott Card seems to think so, too.) The scriptwriting is gold: engaging, and sometimes even witty. And then there's the subtle ridicule of science fiction clichÃƒÂ©s, and the abandonment of the stupider archetypes of the genre. Check it out!

I â™¥ Huckabees: Existentialist comedy. Fun. Nice soundtrack. Just don't take it too seriously.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: I haven't seen any of the Harry Potter movies since the first one (I gave up in disgust.) But this one is actually pretty good. Of course, they cut out a lot of scenes, especially from the beginning, so that the movie wouldn't be about 16 hours long. But it's not like it's going to suck if you haven't read the books.

Pride and Prejudice: Unfortunately, it's been injuriously BrontÃƒÂ«fied.

And a week from today, the new Narnia movie, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe comes out, starring New Zealand and a computer. While I never particularly liked the books, and the producers have apparently attempted to tone down the Christian themes (which I wonder how they managed), this looks to be a decent "after finals" movie.