April 2006
31 posts
Such Great Sights (or heights if you are named...
-This is my 120th post. That’s a lot of posts. I remember when I started doing this bloggy thing, I was in New Zealand and needed something to do during Linguistics class. I actually didn’t think I would continue writing in it at all when I got home, but alas, here we are. I think when I get up to New York this summer I’ll still write, but maybe a little less frequently. So...
I'm a House Cat
-I haven’t read a good fiction book in a long time. Lately I’ve just been reading “fact” books. These are OK, but I think it’s time I pick up a novel for a change. I do kind of like reading 4 or 5 books at the same time, recently I’ve found that to be pretty awesome. I like it because, although it’s slow as anything, you never get tired of any one in...
College? naaaah
WOW. OK, I tend to get very nostalgic from time to time…and listening to the Gin Blossoms just now really brought me way back. They, were awesome. Listen to “Hey Jealousy” right now and see if you aren’t all of a sudden 14 years old. Other key tracks: “Follow you Down”, “Found out about you” and “Till I here it from you.” 14. Do...
Don't sit under an umbrella waiting for it to rain
I don’t like umbrellas. Perhaps it’s because they normally reside exactly at my eye level, but I think I’d despise them even if they weren’t making a pass at my forehead every three seconds. First of all, people do realize that we are waterproof right? Our skin is much more effective at shedding water than an enormous parasol. Second, I think my hair looks awesome when...
I have the facts and I'm voting maybe
Interesting Facts about me: -I invented the country of Denmark -I can see the infrared spectrum of light, it’s very distracting. -I am allergic to seeds. -Most textbooks don’t even mention my name If you are confused by the above then you are most likely a college student. It’s the last day of class, I don’t have to write a normal post ha! Don’t believe what?
Slow Fade into the Ocean's Arms
Oh man, my allergies are acting up and down and up again. I tried to sunbathe today on the grass…that was a bad idea. Putting my head 3 inches from a pollen collection depot (aka the ground) is not usually regarded as good anti-allegy practice. I have since locked myself in my room and am staring suspiciously out my window to the outside world… In less than 24 hours I will be done...
Tennis? But it's midnight...
-So I have some bad news. Doing laundry, although it feels very productive, is actually pretty useless. I mean, obviously it’s not useless because you need to clean your clothes, but it doesn’t really change anything besides the cleanliness of your clothes. Most people tend to feel like it does more than that, or at least makes them feel like they have accomplished more than that. ...
Ducky Lumber Heaven
-Why on earth alarm clocks don’t have a button that allows you to turn back the minutes is beyond me. (a button that allows you to change your alarm from like 10:30 to 10:20 without having you to press the button 50 times to get it all the way around again.) Does that make sense? I feel I’m being confusing, but I think if you know what I’m talking about then you understand. I...
Captain Make it Happen
So I bought some of those Nike ID shoes where you basically design them yourself. (actually turned out very cool if I do say so) Except, the messed up one thing. On the back, you get to write whatever you want.. words, whatever. So i decide to have one show (the left) say “Aztro” and the right shoe say “Thought”. So it would be like a play on the word AstroNaut, and...
0 to 60 in four days
Well it’s the weekend and I’m psyched about that. There are also only 3 days of class left, a few assignments etc as well. Nothing to crazy really. OK, well I’m off to band practice, just thought I’d check in and say what the what. So it’s not completely pointless… a picture for you!
Thunder Hammer of a Band
-Muse is an amazing band. Let’s just put that out there. Now, you might be wondering how someone like me, that simultaneously would profess the greatness of other…softer acts can love such a thunder hammer of a rock band. Well, because they are flippin (I don’t curse in public) fantastic that’s how. Download “Thoughts of a Dying Atheist” or...
Thursday
Today was a very weird day.
In the Box
-It’s amazing how time almost always passes at a rate exactly the opposite of what you want. That is, good times go by fast, boring time etc goes by slooow. Crazy -I really like the expression “go big or go home.” -I wish we could make a trade between healthy and unhealthy food. So Lucky Charms cereal would be really good for me and legumes would be really bad. Just that...
Sometimes the posts are shorter than long
It baffles me sometimes how I can LOVE a band so much, and love most of their songs, but somehow there is always one song that just doesn’t hit me at all. I guess it’s surprising to me how infrequent it is that two people’s tastes line up completely. It makes sense I suppose, but weird it remains. I think there are a lot of things that people talk about, and think they know...
Two Jumps in a Week
I have a really hard time going to bed. I always feel like I might be missing something. OK, I’m going to revisit a previous post idea. The idea is this: I think it would be great (hilarious) if stores were required to carry at least one “out of place” item. So for example, a Pet Store could choose to fill their quota by carrying large boulders. So anyway, here are some...
Complementing the Condiment
I think it was Edward Norton in Fight Club that had a refrigerator filled with condiments. Yeah, that will never be me, I am not a huge fan of any of them. Here are my thoughts, feel free to share them on Kazaa: -Ketchup: Despite suffering from mispronunciation for most of its life, Ketchup is probably the ‘king’ of kondiments. I’ll eat this one, but only if the waiter forgot...
Flying in the Dark
-I don’t mind doing homework at all. But I hate having to do work that I don’t know how to do. That is completely frustrating to me. I really don’t like flying in the dark. -I do however love driving on a warm night with the windows down. One of my favorite things to do ever. Some pictures from me driving (sounds boring, but they look cool)… And one really cool one...
A word is worth at least one word
Pictures not words today. Although… this next picture is a pictures of words, so yeah… From Queenstown, NZ. and another one from the Misty Mountains (taken about 3 seconds before a huge avalanche cannon went off and knocked me over)
What the what
Today we had three concerts. Or I guess two, still one the go. I was going to pretend to write in the past tense, but I can’t someone as smart as you! Anyway, it was hot out there today. My guitar is sunburned that’s how crazy it was. I actually can still feel the warmth coming off of it, kept me warm just now when I was cold from the A/C. Extensive testing has been done, it...
Wake up Mr West
-Blogger was broken last night, keeping me from writing the best post of all time. Now, it’s been forgotten, but just know it was crazy awesome. -I was thinking earlier that a sign of development for some technologies is if they run silently. Some pretty obvious examples are computers, phones, or airplanes. But, as I was almost run over in the parking lot at Wal-Mart, I realized that if...
No Six (or seven) in the Chapagne Room
Things that made Wednesday a resounding success: -1 hour of consecutive laughter, somewhere between 8 and 9pm -DIscover Magazine. Because it is bad ass. Even though you feel pretty much the opposite of a bad ass reading it. (though you are in fact, a bad ass) -Berries Go-Mega Odwalla bars Things that attacked Wednesday’s awesome progress: -Broken Mice (the computer kind) -Remembering what...
The Sympathy Symphony
-First, the band Massive Attack is pretty awesome. Download “Live with me” immediately. -Third, most people know the difference between the words “empathy” and “sympathy,” but most people don’t ever use both. -Second, I want to say, that the phrase “it’s worth a try” is extremely fantastic. I was just thinking about this earlier, there...
The Axis of Taste
Some mid-laundry thoughts: -Is it really strange to anyone else that we haven’t really tried to dig to the center of the earth? I mean, we fling all sorts of stuff out past Pluto, you would think we would at least TRY to send a little robot down into the center. I mean, OK i know it’s a little warm down there, but I would think our curiosity would have overwhelmed that wee little...
Free Super Powers for Sale
OK, some thoughts I had as I was walking (or trekking) back from the parking lot: -Cars that have windshield wipers on their headlights look stupid. There is no way they do anything useful. It’s only slightly better than having a windshield wiper on your hubcap. -Only in college would coming across parking gates stuck in trees seem completely normal. -When cats are outside they either...
Is this where we are supposed to be?
I think I am the worst procrastinator of all time. I even procrastinate procrastinating. The word “procrastinator” does not sound like something a person is capable of being, it’s much more reminiscent of a kitchen appliance or something like that. I did an experiment earlier, the findings of which were: eggs and apples, if left on top of your car, will not survive a trip...
Running Lights
Remember those Choose Your Own Adventure books? OK well this post works sort of like that. Actually it doesn’t at all. But anyway, today! saturday! Battle of the Bands is in Page! 6pm-9pm please be there! My band, Running Lights, plays between 6:20-7pm approx.
Gonna Be Startin Something
-I think someone should make a public service announcement that it’s not Friday today. Maybe Thursday and Friday should switch places. -So anyone that attempted to break my code, I’m sorry to tell you that it was nonsense. Then again, I’m sure you figured that out. -There is no better food than Chicken teriyaki, at least not to me at this very moment. -Ack enough writing,...
Codebreaker Cafe
What would you do if that was all you could really even try to find on the other side of the nonexistent way to be really fun and maybe even a new way to look at the way you are going about the often confusing procedure of getting into a new set of different angles of saying the very same thing that you tried to say last night but couldn’t because it was too confusing. Again, repeat, stop,...
Debriefing
-Movie trailers are very important. I think it’s funny how sometimes they make really awful movies look great, and sometimes make really amazing movies look terrible. Sometimes it’s just better to have a good verbal, word-of-mouth buzz rather than a trailer that tries to hard. -I have a hard time thinking that becoming a professor would ever lead to becoming an unsympathetic...
Darth Vader Collects Turtles
-It’s been about 5 years since I had a soda. And about 3 minutes since I had some zucchini bread -If you need to call someone stupid, use the word “daft” instead. Or “glib” -It would be fun if people had little fold up seats that they could carry with them everywhere. They would ideally be small enough to fit into your pocket, but still be able to fold out and seat...
Suppose I Said
-I hate it when things go out of order inexplicably. Vending machines are frequently the culprit of such rudeness. I mean, what causes a vending machine to stop working? It seems to happen with such frequency that you would think the manufacturers would counteract it somehow. The operation doesn’t seem to be too complicated, and unless the parts are made of marshmallows or something...