Ah, Childhood.
Random thoughts lead to this: Things I remember from childhood.
- Tinker Toys
- Legos
- Bob Ross
- Reading Rainbow
- Lite-Brite
- Easy Bake Oven
- Sesame Street
- Lisa Frank
- Those Barbie car things that you could drive (I ALWAYS wanted one!)
- Oregon Trail
- Geo Safari
- Spirograph
- Creepy Crawlers
- Tamagotchi
- The Neverending Story
- Baywatch
- Pete’s Dragon
- Early Edition
- Walker: Texas Ranger
- Bill Nye the Science Guy
- Goosebumps
- Ring Pops
- Yo-Yos
- The Magic Schoolbus
- Motherfucking TALESPIN
- Those pill capsules with the foam animals in them
Anyone else remember any of these? Childhood was freaking great.
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“One day in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” ~ Sigmund Freud
Truth.
It’s way too early to be doing philosophy.
So after writing a paper for Philosophy of Science at about 5 AM this morning, I finally feel free enough to blog. So blog I shall.
Our performance is already up on YouTube, for all who are interested:
That’s all. I’m dead.
Pastor vs. Lawyer: Metaphysical SMACKDOWN!
Stuff I do on the night I’m supposed to be packing for Seattle: pretty much everything but pack for Seattle.
Tonight I went to see a debate about God between a lawyer and a priest. Surprisingly, the priest made an almost convincing argument. I recorded the audio, and one day I may write it out in one of my blogs. But since that probably won’t happen for awhile, just ask me if you want to hear it.
Tonight I also hung out with my roommates (mainly Aaron and Lanky). Let’s just say a lot of weird stuff went down and we all kind of went insane for awhile. I think we’ll have to make this a Friday night ritual.
I didn’t start packing until 4 AM.
Fun with the Periodic Table
Here are some words/phrases you can spell with the periodic table!
– EsOPHAgUS
– ThInK In InK
– ThIS IS SPArTa!
– VAGINa
– PIKAcHU, I CHOOSe YOU!
– PaPa LiKEs AlCOHOLiCS
– CoWArDs PaNiC WITh No UNdEIS
– CuBa Has No CuBeS
Yeah. This takes a long time and, while very fun, I have a lot of homework to do already.
ASLDFJSALFD ASKCD I FEEL LIKE CRAP
GOD I feel like crap tonight. Don’t know what’s up, but I don’t feel much like blogging. Fun will resume tomorrow, I promise.
No more red!
Yay! So tonight, with help from Rob, I dyed the red out of my hair. And Rob also has blackish hair now, ‘cause there was a lot of dye left over. Haha.
Just thought you’d like to know.
Just one more group of classes to go…
Two things really good happened today:
1. Work’s over. For me, at least. I want a few days off before the next semester kicks into gear.
2. Buddhism’s done with and I got an A in it. That’s always a good thing.
Okay, I’m done for now. Long day.
A Paleontologist in the year 3000 walks into a 1000-year-old jazz bar
“I dig this place,” he said, and got to work with his spade.
Sorry, I’m RIDICULOUSLY bored and I want school to start so it can be over.
I am not your pool boy, I shall not wear those shorts!
First off, Rob, thank you SO MUCH for helping us move! I’m sorry we injured you to the point you were walking like Dr. House to/during/from the drag show.
And now to the meat of my blog…
This new house is AMAZING. And by “amazing” I mean “completely falsely-advertised and yet completely hilarious.”
Things that are totally worth mentioning about this house include:
- There are these two HUGE windows in the front of the house. There are no curtains/blinds/anything to cover them.
- One of these said windows is in Sean’s “bedroom,” which is really just a side room off of the living room that is connected with two large French doors (also without curtains).
- The porch light, which is way too high for any human to reach, has an outlet in it. What the hell?
- There’s this depression in the floor of the corner of the living/dining room. We have no idea what it is or where it came from, but it looks disturbing. We’ve dubbed it the Soul Hole.
- The second bathroom that was listed on the webpage? Yeah, we can’t find it. We’ve decided it’s invisible.
- One of the bedrooms is painted LILAC. It’s amazing.
- The filter for the air vent is like 3 times too big for said air vent. It’s this big green filter just shoved under the vent. Awesome.
- There’s an upper apartment. With people living in it. This wasn’t listed as a duplex. But we can’t find the stairs, so I guess that’s okay.
- The porch tilts dramatically. We’re calling it the “wheelchair accessible” feature.
- My room’s closet has CUBBIES!!
- There’s a random piece of wood tied to the fence.
- Half the lights are missing/broken/both missing and broken. The fluorescent light in the kitchen could cause seizures.
- The window in my room? It FALLS OUT OF THE FRAME. RANDOMLY. WITHOUT PROVOCATION. IT ALMOST KILLED ME.
- And the blind for this window is about five inches too short.
- Michael’s room’s closet doors are off. They’re just propped up against the wall.
- The locks on the three rooms clustered in the back are—get this—on the OUTSIDES of the rooms. That means we can lock those three in their rooms. Sweet.
I’m going to love it here, I’m telling you that right now.
MENERGY
MENERGY!
I’ve got it!
The Proposterone coursing through my system makes me want to go hump-catting instead of blogging, so that’s what I shall do.
God has given me lemons. I found a new god.
This is almost as good as Leibniz porn, but in a totally different way.
www.ilovetypography.com
Note to self: find Leibniz porn.
Dodecaboobahedron!
Today I theorized a new level of hell specifically for Microsoft, its employees, and their products:
“The 666th level of hell: you find yourself in a virtual world filled with inept programs and clumsy navigation bars. You are eternally forced to create decent-looking brochures and informative spreadsheets, but are unable to ever do well enough due to the lack of decent Microsoft tools. Constantly ringing in your ears is the cackling of Bill Gates as money eternally flows from your wallet and into his fiery, overstuffed pocketbook.”
Oh! And this…this is freaky…remember when I was talking to iGod and he said “if you see Buddha on the street, kill him”? Well, god isn’t being cruel; apparently, that’s something a 9th century Zen master said. It’s a metaphor for the philosophy of Buddhism: don’t look to others (i.e., the Buddha) to form your ideas. Form you own.
I am very, very surprised that whoever programmed iGod knew that and decided to put that in there.
Yeah, that’s all for today. Things are slow.
Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la!
Two items of interest today:
1) I just realized that my 21st birthday will be on a Monday. Isn’t that the absolute worst day to have a 21st? Wow. That’s really funny, but only because I don’t plan on going out and drinking. ‘Cause if that was my plan, I’d be incredibly pissed.
2) I just thought of the BEST last name for Claude. Ladies and gentlemen, he will now be known as Claude Longscrew. Worship him. He is a god.
That is all.
Must find job must find job must find job must
I’ve blogged about this a long time ago, but it’s still fun.
- “Leibniz” is word #46,084 and is a more commonly used word than…
- Dismounting, tyrannosaurus, battleaxe, and—get this—noodle.
- “Spinoza” is word #36,758 and is a more commonly used word than…
- Toenails, extruded, substandard, and…Citibank.
- Newton (5,361) + Calculus (26,498) = Cookie (FIG NEWTONS OMG!) (31859)
- Leibniz (46,084) + Calculus (26,498) = Quim, and though I can’t find an exact definition, it has something to do with the vagina. And that’s good enough for me. (72,582)
- And “psychometrics” isn’t among the 86,800 most commonly used words. Sad.
- Sparta is word #17,986. Kant is right after that.
- This (23) + is (9) + Sparta (17,986) = Regrettable (18,018)
Claudia is bored.
The psychology student is noticing something
Everybody’s depressed, it seems. Including me. It kind of sucks, really.
Time to chill to music and try not to think about life. Sorry this is so short.
Haha, oh my
So you know those Action Philosophers! comics I ordered a couple weeks ago?
They came today. And they are…
AMAZING!
I swear this is the best investment I’ve ever made (aside from, perhaps, the Choco Leibniz). The guys who write/draw this are freaking awesome.
My new phrase shall be “who are you going to believe…Leibniz, or your LYING EYES?”
Oh, and for those of you who use iTunes and didn’t know, the program has a visualizer that responds to your music. Just press Control + T.
I was basically high on M&Ms tonight and decided to discuss this with Nick over Messenger.
Monads are a Girl’s Best Friend says: Holy crap, Nick
Monads are a Girl’s Best Friend says: This is the most beautiful sequence of colors and patterns I’ve ever seen
Monads are a Girl’s Best Friend says: My eyeballs are having orgasms
This is not a screen name says: oh god
This is not a screen name says: have you ever considered therapy?
Monads are a Girl’s Best Friend says: They said eyeball orgasms were perfectly normal
This is not a screen name says: lol
Monads are a Girl’s Best Friend says: This one looks like a gaping vagina
This is not a screen name says: okay, no more freud for you
Monads are a Girl’s Best Friend says: Double helix jam session!
Monads are a Girl’s Best Friend says: You either need to get iTunes or get your butt over here
This is not a screen name says: lol, oh yeah, “hey nick, come over here so we can watch pulsating vaginas and disco-dancing dna”
Monads are a Girl’s Best Friend says: You know you want to
This is not a screen name says: hey, i never said i didn’t want to
Monads are a Girl’s Best Friend says: Haha
Monads are a Girl’s Best Friend says: Haha, iTunes visualizer haves Avril Lavigne
Monads are a Girl’s Best Friend says: And so does Spell Check
I’m bored as hell, can you tell?
I am an adult.
I dyed my feet rainbow today. I found some old Easter egg color tablets and mixed them with water and now my feet look like Easter eggs. Pictures would have happened, but I don’t know where my camera is.
I need a job.
Or a life.
Or both.
POWEROUTAGE
Ahh, power outages are fun.
So are incredibly overwhelming feelings of inadequacy.
Fuck this, I’m tired of trying to be entertaining.
Woah, freaky
Woah, that was creepy as hell.
Rob and I went out to Idler’s Rest today (no perversion, sorry all) around 8 or so, and stayed there for about four hours. It was all good until all the cars left and it got really, really dark. I don’t know if you’ve ever been out to Idler’s Rest, but it’s this protected park about five miles out from the edge of town, and people basically go there, park their cars in this little gravel driveway thingy, and hike. Well, we stayed in the car, but man, let me tell you, when it got dark and the moon came out, it was FREAKING CREEPY.
Somebody was out there. It honestly felt like there was somebody outside the car. I haven’t been that freaked out in a long time, and the creeped-out feeling stayed even after I got back home. I’m going to check the news tomorrow to see if anything bad happened (or happens) tonight, because I swear to god someone was out there.
And this is coming from me, a person who doesn’t usually get creeped out in the dark. But wow, we were both kinda scared.
On the bright side, though, we had a nice long conversation regarding the free will vs. determinism debate. I know he’ll disagree, but I think I had a couple good points for my side. I only wish I’d tape-recorded our conversation, ‘cause it was awesome.
Yay.
This is one of Claudia’s blog titles if and only if it contains a bad joke about biconditionals
Three points of interest today!
1. That Symbolic Logic test? Yeah, I rocked it.
142/150. I didn’t miss a single point on the three proofs. I lost all my points because I did a truth table with three variables, P, Q, and R, when there were only two variables in the sentence I was trying to table. Sad. But hey, I got an A, and I rocked those proofs. I’m happy.
2. Finally, I’ve found someone with whom I can make Godot jokes!
It’s another conversation with Sean, of course.
Action Leibniz! says:
Wow, there are 8 people on the wait list for Buddhism
Action Leibniz! says:
Huh
Giant Enemy Crab says:
“Waiting for Buddhism”
Giant Enemy Crab says:
haha, only two are on the waitlist for Godot
Action Leibniz! says:
Hahahaha
Action Leibniz! says:
BECKETT 101: Godot
Action Leibniz! says:
Class size limit: 0
Giant Enemy Crab says:
hahaha
Giant Enemy Crab says:
exactly
Action Leibniz! says:
Location: a country road. A tree.
Giant Enemy Crab says:
but it’ll be 1 when Godot comes
Giant Enemy Crab says:
tomorrow
Action Leibniz! says:
Hahaha
Giant Enemy Crab says:
maybe
Action Leibniz! says:
We need to offer that class
Giant Enemy Crab says:
haha, I’d teach it
Giant Enemy Crab says:
of course, I’d teach anything where I think they’d appreciate a monologue
Action Leibniz! says:
Haha, you could always tell students class is cancelled ’cause Godot couldn’t make it that day, but he’ll be here tomorrow
Action Leibniz! says:
Post it on Blackboard
Giant Enemy Crab says:
hahahahahah
Giant Enemy Crab says:
that’d be AMAZING
Giant Enemy Crab says:
they’d show up and we’d sit around for ten minutes, then let them go
Giant Enemy Crab says:
haha, I’d tell them I was grading attendence so they’d have to come
Giant Enemy Crab says:
and then just give everyone an A for playing
Action Leibniz! says:
Orchestrate it so that the other minor characters would show up and actually start acting the play out
Action Leibniz! says:
Confuse everybody
Giant Enemy Crab says:
yeah
Giant Enemy Crab says:
“We have a guest speaker today”
Action Leibniz! says:
Hahaha
Action Leibniz! says:
“Seeing as how Godot’s been delayed…”
Giant Enemy Crab says:
yeah!
3. http://www.geocities.com/krinklyman2/powers.html
Remember that Leibniz action figure I linked to a few days ago? Apparently, this guy did all the major philosophers up to Quine (though I must admit, the last one on that list I’ve ever heard of was Wittgenstein).
OH MY GOD these are funny if you know anything about the philosophers.
Favorites: St. Anselm, Descartes (with laser vision and clear and distinct punching action!), Leibniz (of course), and Berkeley.
Seriously, April must be “find really awesome crap on the internet” month.
This may very well get linked to on Facebook, I’m not sure yet. But I’m pretty sure I’m going to print them out and stick them all over my door.
Yeah, it’s these little things that make life worth living.
“A barrel-chested action figure with an enormous wig is objectively funny.”
Waiter! Why the hell do you always bring me crappy puns?
Did I tell you we’re on the fetish chapter in Human Sexuality?
We’re on the fetish chapter in Human Sexuality.
Haha, and we actually talked about yours, Matt. And yours too, Maggie. We didn’t talk about mine, which I found strange…surely that’s a fairly common fetish as far as fetishes go.
So I decided to check it out on good old Wikipedia, to see exactly what their article said. I was surprised at the range of the article, actually. Haha, it’s kind of interesting to see your fetish put into “this is an informative article” style. The “Criticism” section could use some editing, though; I don’t think they captured all the reasons people justify the fetish or why they think it’s okay and not harmful to the other person involved.
Yeah. Anyway, if you haven’t yet and you get a chance, check out the Wikipedia article on your fetish. Quite fun.
Subject
“Write a wise saying, and your name will endure forever.” ~ Anonymous
Does anyone else find that hilarious?
Just a thought.
Sorry for the craptastic blogs, I’m really busy.
If we give up our exclamation points, the terrorists win (!!!!!)
Here are some silly pictures from around my room. I’m really, really sick of doing ANOVAs—I’ve been doing them since 3:00 and it’s midnight now—so I fired up the camera and took a few pictures. Be flabbergasted as I bore you to death with my amazing ability to be fascinated with my own crap! Onward!
This is my closet. Notice the lack of boring colors. And just ignore that top shelf on the right, that’s where I chuck my pajamas in the morning. There’s a bunch of other clothes up there…I really don’t know what those are…I could go check, but I’m lazy.
Oh, and did you also notice the ROYGBIV layout? I do it once for garments worn on bottom half of body, then again for garments worn on top half of body. I’m awesome.
I find the gloomy glow of an always-turned-off television to be drab, so I decorated mine with Post-It Notes. I haven’t turned my TV on since they took Futurama off of Adult Swim and I got the whole series on DVD.
This is my desk, where I do my best work (aka my blogs). Yes, that’s a picture of Voltaire on the left there. And yes, those are my Voltaire pins underneath the NASA patch.
I’ve found calendars to be boring and useless for a person like me, who likes to keep it all in her head, so I’ve been reduced to writing silly things on that big old calendar on my desk there. February’s was “LOL IT’S A METAPHOR!” March’s says “25 credits” on every week except next, which says “Holy crap, it’s spring break!!! I don’t have to do ANYTHING for SEVEN WHOLE DAYS! If a god or gods exist, he/she/they LOVE ME! I <3 spring break!”
Yeah.
If the value of “purpose” could be measured negatively, this blog would be approaching a value of negative infinity.
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