CNN.com - Thousands stranded at Reno airport - Nov 27, 2004

CNN.com - Thousands stranded at Reno airport - Nov 27, 2004

18 INCHES?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
stranded for HOURS?!?!?!!?!?!?!
cry me a river

Jay-Z/ 99 Problems

Jay-Z/ 99 Problems

as always, keeping you all informed .....
fantastic!

News | canada.com network

News canada.com network

oh good lord.
on a lighter note, the webcast of X ring is at 2pm (AST) on the third of december.
and Sobey's has stopped selling my thai kitchen pad thai kits.
:(

Jay-Zeezer

Jay-Zeezer
I recomend "99 problems with Buddy Holly" and "Surf Wax Off Your Shoulder". And I mean, honestly, "99 Luft Problems"??
Genius!

CNN.com - 'Virgin Mary' sandwich back on eBay - Nov 16, 2004

CNN.com - 'Virgin Mary' sandwich back on eBay - Nov 16, 2004

What in God's name.....This is no where near as funny as the guy with the wedding dress.
Although...I can kinda see it. The power of suggestion? Does She appear wherever we say She does?
Takes me back to the summer when I made kids find rocks that looked like famous people. Oh, child who found two similar rocks and claimed they were the Olsen twins, you will go far in life my friend. Very far.

I don't care how lame it makes me, William Shatner rocks my world!

May you someday find someone who feels this way about you :

I want you to be you
Don't change cause you think I might like you to be different
I fell in love with you
I don't want you blond
I don't want you not to swear, not to sweat
It's you I fell in love with
Your turn of phrase, your sensitivity, your irrational moods
Well maybe that could go
But everything else, I want you to be you
I want you to dance whenever you feel it
Up by the bandstand
In the parking lot
Up on the table
Well, maybe the table can go
But I want you to be you
I love what you wear cause you're wearing it
That shawl, That clinging dress, The svelte black jacket, Those leopard capris
Well, maybe not the capris
But I want you to be you
I love what you eat
You want yogurt? you got yogurt!
Papaya? it's yours!
Chewing gum? chew away! I just want you to be you... Spit out the gum, it doesn't work...
When you sleep, you're the most beautiful
In the moonlight, your soft skin glows
Your hair scroll on the pillow, a vision
The murmuring breath, the slight snore
The slight snore...
I want you to be you

One more blow for women's lib.....

So I have had this juice in my fridge for a loooong time now. It's in a bottle. I can't get it open.
I think that it is dented and has created a vaccum inside the juice.
Also, while I applaud her as maybe future secretary of state, Condeliza Rice is not photogenic. I feel bad for her. But at least she can keep her eyes open, as opposed to yours truely.

november in nova scotia

So...i don't know how many of you have ever been in an ice storm....its kinda fun sometimes. Spent the weekend in bed, mostly. Fun times.
School is winding down, thankgoodness. Although, that being said, I have a proposal due today at 345 that I havn't started yet. And watching Die Hard for class really isn't that much of a sacrifice.
Have been thinking about next year and, in typical fashion, am starting to rethink my certainty about things. Typical. Oh well, brain hurts.
More later :)

the only day I like my job is pay day

If people would just listen when I ask them to be quiet, I wouldn't need to write them up.
And if people would stop believing their stupid friends and acutally reading the university publications then they would realise that their logic is deeply flawed.
Once again, waiting until the last minute to write a paper bites me in the a**.

not much to report...from the comfort of my bed

Well...my weekend of living in the NH lab appears to have ended. Can't say that I'm sad to see it go. Those chairs are NOT comfortable.
So for those of you who are info geeks the problem was with my ethernet card, thankfully I had an old one hanging around....wow. I'm totally lame.
Hmmmm......what else is going on. Not much really. The soch paper will get done....hopefully.
Busy as a bee tomorrow...class, phys plant, X cure and then fun fun fun sometime after 7.
I think that's it for today.
night night

What can you even say?

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/11/07/ground.zero.suicide.ap/index.html


And, somewhat predictably, Michel Moore emerges once again as the master of class with a capital K

17 Reasons Not to Slit Your Wrists...by Michael Moore
Dear Friends,
Ok, it sucks. Really sucks. But before you go and cash it all in, let's, in the words of Monty Python, “always look on the bright side of life!” There IS some good news from Tuesday's election.
Here are 17 reasons not to slit your wrists:
1. It is against the law for George W. Bush to run for president again.
2. Bush's victory was the NARROWEST win for a sitting president since Woodrow Wilson in 1916.
3. The only age group in which the majority voted for Kerry was young adults (Kerry: 54%, Bush: 44%), proving once again that your parents are always wrong and you should never listen to them.
4. In spite of Bush's win, the majority of Americans still think the country is headed in the wrong direction (56%), think the war wasn't worth fighting (51%), and don’t approve of the job George W. Bush is doing (52%). (Note to foreigners: Don't try to figure this one out. It's an American thing, like Pop Tarts.)
5. The Republicans will not have a filibuster-proof 60-seat majority in the Senate. If the Democrats do their job, Bush won't be able to pack the Supreme Court with right-wing ideologues. Did I say "if the Democrats do their job?" Um, maybe better to scratch this one.
6. Michigan voted for Kerry! So did the entire Northeast, the birthplace of our democracy. So did 6 of the 8 Great Lakes States. And the whole West Coast! Plus Hawaii. Ok, that's a start. We've got most of the fresh water, all of Broadway, and Mt. St. Helens. We can dehydrate them or bury them in lava. And no more show tunes!
7. Once again we are reminded that the buckeye is a nut, and not just any old nut -- a poisonous nut. A great nation was felled by a poisonous nut. May Ohio State pay dearly this Saturday when it faces Michigan State.
8. 88% of Bush's support came from white voters. In 50 years, America will no longer have a white majority. Hey, 50 years isn't such a long time! If you're ten years old and reading this, your golden years will be truly golden and you will be well cared for in your old age.
9. Gays, thanks to the ballot measures passed on Tuesday, cannot get married in 11 new states. Thank God. Just think of all those wedding gifts we won't have to buy now.
10. Five more African Americans were elected as members of Congress, including the return of Cynthia McKinney of Georgia. It's always good to have more blacks in there fighting for us and doing the job our candidates can't.
11. The CEO of Coors was defeated for Senate in Colorado. Drink up!
12. Admit it: We like the Bush twins and we don't want them to go away.
13. At the state legislative level, Democrats picked up a net of at least 3 chambers in Tuesday's elections. Of the 98 partisan-controlled state legislative chambers (house/assembly and senate), Democrats went into the 2004 elections in control of 44 chambers, Republicans controlled 53 chambers, and 1 chamber was tied. After Tuesday, Democrats now control 47 chambers, Republicans control 49 chambers, 1 chamber is tied and 1 chamber (Montana House) is still undecided.
14. Bush is now a lame duck president. He will have no greater moment than the one he's having this week. It's all downhill for him from here on out -- and, more significantly, he's just not going to want to do all the hard work that will be expected of him. It'll be like everyone's last month in 12th grade -- you've already made it, so it's party time! Perhaps he'll treat the next four years like a permanent Friday, spending even more time at the ranch or in Kennebunkport. And why shouldn't he? He's already proved his point, avenged his father and kicked our ass.
15. Should Bush decide to show up to work and take this country down a very dark road, it is also just as likely that either of the following two scenarios will happen: a) Now that he doesn't ever need to pander to the Christian conservatives again to get elected, someone may whisper in his ear that he should spend these last four years building "a legacy" so that history will render a kinder verdict on him and thus he will not push for too aggressive a right-wing agenda; or b) He will become so cocky and arrogant -- and thus, reckless -- that he will commit a blunder of such major proportions that even his own party will have to remove him from office.
16. There are nearly 300 million Americans -- 200 million of them of voting age. We only lost by three and a half million! That's not a landslide -- it means we're almost there. Imagine losing by 20 million. If you had 58 yards to go before you reached the goal line and then you barreled down 55 of those yards, would you stop on the three yard line, pick up the ball and go home crying -- especially when you get to start the next down on the three yard line? Of course not! Buck up! Have hope! More sports analogies are coming!!!
17. Finally and most importantly, over 55 million Americans voted for the candidate dubbed "The #1 Liberal in the Senate." That's more than the total number of voters who voted for either Reagan, Bush I, Clinton or Gore. Again, more people voted for Kerry than Reagan. If the media are looking for a trend it should be this -- that so many Americans were, for the first time since Kennedy, willing to vote for an out-and-out liberal. The country has always been filled with evangelicals -- that is not news. What IS news is that so many people have shifted toward a Massachusetts liberal. In fact, that's BIG news. Which means, don't expect the mainstream media, the ones who brought you the Iraq War, to ever report the real truth about November 2, 2004. In fact, it's better that they don't. We'll need the element of surprise in 2008.

"I'm sorry, it appears that you have been directed to the wrong queue"

Sometimes I think that if I didn't call the Dell support hotline I would have no one to talk to. The part where the cable for the internet connects to my computer, which I refer to as "the portal thingie" (thankyou 4th year info) is messed up. So I'm in a computer lab in Nicholson Hall with some scary looking people and instead of writing about how 15 years of horseback riding have taught me what it means to be a man (friging soch) I have created this blog for my enjoyment.

Oh, and if you like it too, that would be super!