ESJ's Blog

Back to school, back to life, back to homework

2005-08-30T14:46:00.000-05:00

WHY? WHY, DEAR GOD, OH WHY???

Anyhoo, school is back in session, and as much as I hate getting up and I despise that villanous product of Lucifer known as homework (especially summer homework...blegh), I have to admit in the first 2 days things are going pretty well. I like all my classes and most of my teachers so overall things are grood.

I'm addicted to Sudoku...

2005-07-10T18:39:00.000-05:00

In case you haven't heard, the newest craze sweeping the globe is an incredibly innovative game appearing in many major papers in the U.S. and elsewhere known as Sudoku. You are given a set of 81 squares, in 9 3x3 sets. The numbers 1-9 must appear in every horizontal row, every vertical column, and every 3x3 box. It's so much fun...I solved today's puzzle in the Washington Post comics. I advise anyone and everyone to try it out. The sense of accomplishment when everything is right is incredible. I can see why the rest of the world is captivated.

spit take You mean I'm back? Yeah, but not for long...

2005-07-09T19:17:00.000-05:00

Maddox says the truest things I've ever heard in my lifetime.

Yeah yeah, haven't post for a long while, blah blah. I probably won't be posting much all summer. So go find something shiny and have a good time. Meanwhile, I'll be busting my ass (pfft, yeah right) working at a summer camp during the day and going to Drivers' Ed at night. Even though I have repeatedly let them, the good times have yet to roll fully out. They kinda come out, then recede once I head off to BCC for my class. I'm hoping Rhode Island will be cool when I go in a week.

So true...

2005-06-28T16:54:00.000-05:00

Just click. Watch. Thank me later.

2005-06-26T20:58:00.000-05:00

Watch this!

Wooooohooooo!!!

2005-06-25T22:26:00.000-05:00

I just got back from the Nats game versus the Toronto Blue Jays. Quite a lot of fun, that. Lessee...

Well, we left my house around 4:48 and drove to my dad's office where we parked and walked to the Metro. After a brief ride behind a huge fat guy's butt (which reminded me of the old chinese proverb, "Crowded Elevator Smell Different to Midget"--I was sitting), we got to the stadium and grabbed our 2nd row seats, right behind the BJ's dugout. Before the game we were "treated" to bad music and mildly suggestive hip thrusts and gyrations courtesy of everyone's favorite fat chicken, Screech. However, this was a perfect prelude to an orgy of pure Blue Jay ass-kicking. The BJs got pounded into the ground so much during this game, I'm surprised the Audoban society didn't protest and impede the progress of baseball at its finest. Truly a memorable experience. But now, as the adrenaline high wears off, I feel less and less like blogging and more and more like falling to slee-Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....................

Summer Camp

2005-06-25T08:07:00.000-05:00

So, I'm working as what's called a "Staff Assistant" at Technology Is Cool, aka TIC, Summer Camp. It's the final year in training before I can become a counselor. You do all sorts of random work around the camp all day long, culminating in a massive orgy of steel and asphalt known as Carpool. See, TIC has this incredibly smart system for parents to pick up their kids. The parents drive into the school, get in line behind other parents, and have orange cards with their kids' names on them prominently placed on the dashboard. The "Writers," other staff assistants, write down these names and make lists for a person with a bullhorn standing at the front of the line with the kids to call out. The writers give the lists to "Runners" to, obviously, run them to the front. Behind all this are the "Goers," "Stoppers," and "Directors," all of whom are esentially human traffic cones. To be one of these, you must help sort the cars in the proper order so that when names are called out at the front, the kid can go directly to the front. It's all a very confusing process to explain without showing, but hey, it works.

We were going to have a cake, but we opted for power pellets instead

2005-06-17T13:43:00.000-05:00

Happy birthday to Pac-Man! The weird little yellow thing turns 25 today. Good for him:

http://www.80smusiclyrics.com/games/pacman/pacman.swf

Yeah. I know. Lame, ain't it?

Anyhoo, I'm enjoying summer quite a bit. I've become addicted to this game, called "Virtual Magic Kingdom" (http://www.vmk.com) where basically you live in Disney World and do stuff there all day long. It's much fun and I advise any of the maybe 2 people reading this to check it out. My vmk sn is SuperMario.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

2005-06-16T15:13:00.000-05:00

Clicky

Click it and watch it to the end. This is easily the greatest piece of advertising I have ever seen.

Stupid people....

2005-06-15T15:28:00.000-05:00

Students' BB gun science project banned - Education - MSNBC.com

This is really dumb, I have to say...

WAAAAHHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

2005-06-14T19:39:00.000-05:00

I'm out of school!!!! w00t!!! But don't expect that to mean this post will have any substance!!!!! Lots of dumbass repeating exclamation points!!!!!! Maybe I should add some ones in here!!!1111!!! Or maybe not!!!!!!1 Whoops, there's one!!!!! Bye!!!!!!!

Note: You got a problem with this post, then sucks for you. I'll be back to normal posting someday! You'll see! You'll all see! Mwahahahahahahahahaha!!!!1

Hahahahahahahahaha

2005-06-12T11:55:00.000-05:00

From this place.:

Postulate 1: Knowledge is Power
Postulate 2: Time is Money

From Physics, we know that:

Power = Work / Time
If Knowledge is Power and Time = Money, then by substitution, we get:

Knowledge = Work / Money
Solving for Money:

Money = Work / Knowledge
Thus Money approaches infinity as Knowledge approaches zero, regardless of the work done. What this means is "The less you know, the more you make."

Freak...

2005-06-11T09:17:00.000-05:00

Amazing! 'Spiderman' scales 62-story building - International News - MSNBC.com

It makes me sad that people like this exist in the world.

Gah!

2005-06-10T10:33:00.000-05:00

Well, seeing as summer is approaching, I took a look at Jay Leno's guest schedule for next week. Among other guests...:

6/13 Hilary Duff
6/15 Kathy & Paris Hilton
6/16 Lindsay Lohan AND The Backstreet Boys

No, no, no, no, and no! No! I refuse to start my summer watching these idiots traipse their way through another publicity tour! Who cares if Lindsay Lohan is hot? Ok...well, a lot of people. But I'm still not watching! Not with that "band" that dares to call themselves boys coming on...blegh...Thank God for "Animals with Jarod Miller" on 6/14...

I'm cool! I'm independent! Right?

2005-06-09T14:08:00.000-05:00

Everyone else is doing it...when we're talking about linking to the Perry Bible Fellowship, that is the one time that argument is feasible.

Perry Bible Fellowship

I do my best blogging while studying for other stuff...

2005-06-08T20:59:00.000-05:00

OK, so this isn't a piece of my best blogging actually, but it's still quite interesting:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8145344/?GT1=6657

Random! w00t!

2005-06-08T16:18:00.000-05:00

The NONVERBAL DICTIONARY of GESTURES, SIGNS & BODY LANGUAGE CUES

Found this while working on English. Pretty cool, check it out.

Is it possible to simultaneously laugh and cry?

2005-06-04T19:09:00.000-05:00

Cause if it's not, I have no idea what the hell I'm thinking right now. I have three reasons for posting this question, all of which come from mindless browsing on iTunes:

1. Sountrack? Whaaat?
As much as I loved the Enron movie, this is going too far. I read online that iTunes had a soundtrack up and initially thought it was a joke, or a lie. But, no, there's a collection of the music underscoring the film.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v623/sataneatscheezwhiz/enron1.png

2. All the songs are album-only!
You'd think an indie documentary only playing in a couple hundred theaters around the country would take money however they could get it. However, these people got greedy, the exact thing their movie lobbies against, and made the iTunes downloads album-only.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v623/sataneatscheezwhiz/enron2.png

3. Ay carumba!
Add on to that the fact that the album costs $11.99. That's $12 for 11 tracks. I know the film isn't about numbers, it's about people (as the story makes very clear), but someone's not thinking about the numbers here. While other albums charge $.99 per song on iTunes (yes, I know others offer it cheaper, but I like Apple, so sue me), this one seems to think people will pay extra! Now I sound like a total idiot, so I'll just hotlink the picture.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v623/sataneatscheezwhiz/enron3.png

[/being a dumb asshole]

Which reminds me...

Note to self: If you ever become CEO of a major corporation, DO NOT call representative from your investors an "asshole" like the Enron guy did...

Go see the Enron movie now. I'll wait.

2005-06-04T17:16:00.000-05:00

I got back from the new indie documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room a coupla hours ago, and I gotta say, it was pretty damn good. One of the best documentaries I've seen in a while by far, though quite a depressing piece. Still, it's nice to see someone is publicizing the whole truth behind everything and the story associated with the scandal is, in effect, a gripping character study. Anybody who walks into the theater will walk out hating the top Enron guys, but that's probably good. I'm still mulling over the depressing statistic said by one electrical worker (or some job that looked like it--hard to tell). At its high point, his 401k was $237,000 and due to Kenneth Lay's greed and corruption, he sold it off for $1200. If there was a pitying smile, it would be here instead of this lame little colon and open parenthetical mark:

:(

But the movie was still great. Go see it now. I saw it at Bethesda Row, and quite enjoyed myself. I had never been to the theater before, and it wasn't too shabby. Much better than UA, erm, excuse me, Regal Bethesda.

A long long time ago, I posted every day...What happened?

2005-06-03T21:40:00.001-05:00

I honestly don't know other than that this week totally sucked. Here's something that made me laugh:

http://www.homestarrunner.com/senorialday.html

Enjoy. Meanwhile, I'll ponder on the aforementioned question and do...stuff.

For lack of anything better (or anything at all)...

2005-05-28T00:40:00.000-05:00

http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/loa/bfcont.htm

YES!

2005-05-25T23:35:00.000-05:00

I have a feeling I may be the last person to find this on the internet, but:

http://www.microsith.com/index.php3

Destroying the Earth? From a science think tank? Coooll...

2005-05-25T18:25:00.000-05:00

Top 10 Ways to Destroy Earth

This is also really groold (my new word for great, good, and cool). Even though I didn't use "groold" before, the word also applies to this, as it did to that memorabilia site. So live with it.

Cool Site

2005-05-25T16:45:00.000-05:00

Souvenirland Main Gate - Disneyland memorabilia

Sorry for the lack of blogness. It's mainly laziness behind it...Here's a really cool site about all this interesting Disneyland stuff. Not a bad site at all.

I is bored

2005-05-24T19:42:00.000-05:00

So I am. You got a problem with that? Good.