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Mmm, it’s got that end-of-the-year survey smell!
1. What did you do in 2011 that you’d never done before?
Skydived (skydove? What the hell is the past tense of that?).
2. Where did you begin 2011?
In my apartment in Vancouver. Nothing special.
3. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I kept a few of them. I was a massive failure at pretty much everything this year.
4. What was your status by Valentine’s Day?
Do you have to ask that, really?
5. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No.
6. Did anyone close to you die?
My grandpa on my dad’s side.
7. Were you in school?
For most of the year, yes.
8. What countries did you visit?
Well, I LIVED in both Canada and the US.
9. What would you like to have in 2012 that you lacked in 2011?
Sanity.
10. What moments from 2011 will remain etched upon your memory?
Skydiving, hospital visits 1 and 2, the MA defense, seeing Mount Rushmore.
11. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Getting my Master’s.
12. What was your biggest failure?
Everything else.
13. Did you have to go to the hospital?
Twice.
14. What was the best thing you bought?
I’m not really sure, actually. I’ve had very little money this year.
15. Where did most of your money go?
We’re not going to discuss that.
16. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Statistics, as usual. Grad school at UWO.
17. What song will always remind you of 2011?
Coldplay’s Paradise. Or OneRepublic’s Good Life. Ironically, neither of those song titles describes 2011 for me in the slightest.
18. What concerts/shows did you go to?
None. SAD DAY.
19. Compared to this time last year, are you:
I. happier or sadder? Happier, I suppose.
II. thinner or fatter? A bit thinner.
III. richer or poorer? HA, poorer.
20. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Worked (haha, I hate not having a job).
21. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Spazzed.
22. What trips did you go on?
I guess you can count our one-day excursion to Mount Rushmore a trip on our way to London, ON.
23. What was your favorite TV program?
I’m still digging Metalocalypse.
24. What was the best book you read?
Lolita was absolutely fantastic. READ IT.
25. What were your greatest musical discoveries?
Guns N’ Roses, OneRepublic…everything else is pretty much by individual song.
26. What did you want and get?
Please refer to question 11.
27. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
Haha, I don’t remember what I did on my birthday. I was 23.
28. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Not losing my mind.
29. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2011?
“Colorful.”
30. What kept you sane?
What is this “sane?”
31. Who did you miss?
All my Moscow crazies. My mother.
32. Who was the best new person you met?
George up in London! He’s awesome.
33. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2011:
Sometimes it’s just not worth it.
34. Did you move anywhere?
I moved a total of five times. Vancouver to Moscow, Moscow to London, London to Moscow, Moscow to Marana, Marana to Tucson.
35. What’s something you thought you would never do but did in 2011?
Voluntarily ran a 10K.
36. What was your best month?
Such a thing did not exist this year.
37. Any regrets?
None that were necessarily new to this year, no.
38. Overall, how would you rate this year?
On a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being horrible and 10 being outstanding, 2011 ranks in at about a -463.
39. What did you like most about 2011?
That it’s ENDING.
40. Other than home, where did you spend most of your time?
My office in Van.
41. Change your hairstyle?
Sawed a lot of it off in January.
42. Get a new job?
I got a new TA position at UBC and one (however briefly) at UWO. Still looking for a job currently, though.
43. Do anything embarrassing?
Probably.
44. Get married or divorced?
PFFT relationships.
45. Did you get sick this year?
Depends on how you define “sick.”
46. Start a new hobby?
Does having panic attacks count?
47. Are you happy to see 2011 go?
OH GOD YES.
48. What are you wishing for in 2012?
Better times.
High Resolution
So I suppose it’s that time of the year for reviewing old New Year’s Resolutions and defining new ones.
So let’s get to it!
OUT WITH THE OLD:
- FAILED: Contribute substantially to a Wikipedia article. I actually have quite a bit I can say to add to Wiki’s already existing page on the CFI, but I’ve never actually added anything to a Wiki page (just corrected typos/grammatical errors), so the prospect of doing anything more makes me nervous.
- ACCOMPLISHED: Blog daily. Haha, we all knew this one’d keep.
- FAILED: Come up with a new recipe weekly. Haha. Yeah.
- ACCOMPLISHED: Go skydiving. This was AWEOSME and I totally want to do it again.
- ACCOMPLISHED: Get my MA degree. YAY.
- FAILED: Learn conversational German. Haha, yeah right.
- SORT OF ACCOMPLISHED: Complete the 5,000 question survey. I’m getting there. It’s not like I haven’t been inundating you all with the 100-question segments all year.
- FAILED: Answer the “50 questions that will free your mind” survey question thingy. Totally forgot to do this.
- ACCOMPLISHED: Malls are both fascinating and scary; therefore I shall see Vancouver via walking by walking to a new mall every weekend. Search “Canadian Mall” and ye shall find what I’ve reviewed.
- FAILED: Go a week without electricity. Couldn’t do it in Van ‘cause it was thesis crunch time, didn’t do it in London ‘cause I was busy spazzing, and by the time I got back to Moscow it was getting dark too early in the day and Claudia + candles = imminent disaster.
- FAILED: Go a week without consuming any dairy products. I kept wanting to do this, but then kept automatically adding feta to my pasta/dairy product-containing dressing to my salad.
- SORT OF ACCOMPLISHED: Do something with Prime. In progress.
- ACCOMPLISHED: Go back to St. Mary’s once. Saw the new band room. It kicks ass.
- FAILED: Read Newton’s Principia (and hope Leibniz’ ghost doesn’t kill me in my sleep). I suck.
- FAILED: Actually pay attention to how much money I spend. HAHA.
- ACCOMPLISHED: Win NaNoWriMo 2011. Though I’m not proud of this year’s story.
- ACCOMPLISHED: Get better with R. You don’t have 100+ plots in your thesis and NOT get better with R.
Conclusion: I suck.
IN WITH THE NEW:
- Fix the “issues.”
- Get a job.
- Return to acquiring knowledge in a formal setting.
- Start and maintain a stats blog.
- Improve with R.
- Go without dairy for a week.
- Go without electricity for a week.
Walk 1,200 milesPfft, screw that mediocrity. Walk 2,500 miles.- Continue my 365 Days of Music project.
- Blog daily.
- Win NaNoWriMo 2012.
- Continue “doing something” with Prime.
- Complete the 5,000 question survey.
- Probably other stuff I’m forgetting at the moment.
Wee!
Sometimes I like to pretend I matter
Have I mentioned I’m sick of moving?
I’m sick of moving.
This marks the FIFTH TIME THIS YEAR I’ve packed up my stuff and hauled it to some other place in North America.
Random side note:
If Soylent Green is people, why is it green? I wasn’t aware that people are projected to develop chlorophyll by 2022 (no, I haven’t seen the movie, I’ve just read a few brief summaries).
I guess “Soylent Fleshtone” was too on point. And disgusting-sounding.
Random side note version 2:
GOD I LOVE R. If I could write a program for it to make me have its babies, I would.
If I could write a program for it to make me have Leibniz’ babies, I would.
I can’t remember what else I was going to say today.
Best. Present. Ever.
Today was a fairly crappy Christmas for both my mom and myself (due to the wonderful, wonderful circumstances this year has brought both of us).
But my mom is an awesome human being (have I mentioned this yet? I need to mention it more) and surprised me with the book I was raving about a few months ago.
Observe this bad boy:
1,800 glorious pages of statistical tests, examples, and explanations. 43 individual statistical tests.
What am I going to do with this glorious wealth of knowledge?
LOVE IT, OF COURSE!
I also think I’m going to use this as the basis for a new blog starting January 1st. I think I’m going to call it StatsWeekly, and in it I’m going to, once a week, go over one of the tests in the Big Bad Stats Book of Awesomeness. I’ll find an appropriate data set, analyze it using the weekly featured tests, and discuss the interpretation and its implications.
How’s that sound? I’ll try to keep it away from this blog, ‘cause I know you’re all probably sick of my gushing over stats.
Yay! And Merry Christmas, ladies and gents!
Are disruptive anti-religious protestors weapons of mass destruction?
Holy crapatoli it doesn’t seem like Christmas Eve. My mom and I bought a tiny fake plastic tree and stuck our presents under it, but that’s about all we’ve done as far as decorating.
Thank the stars 2011 is almost over. The last few days of the year are always “let’s review stuff that happened during the year” days, so I’d better get moving on that. ALSO, we’re moving next week, so that’ll be exciting. And annoying. I am SO. SICK. OF. MOVING.
Crap on tap (ha, that rhymes) for the rest of the year:
- the big ol’ music review
- starting a stats blog (more to come on this tomorrow)
- allocation of new data for said stats blog
- figuring out what the heck a “pre major” is and whether I can even get accepted into the U of A as a transfer student
- figuring out why my magically increasing cash stash in my Canadian bank account is magically increasing
- figuring out the job situation
- BDSM! Haha, only kidding. Just making sure you’re paying attention.
- moving to Tucson proper
- review of how I totally failed at my New Year’s Resolutions this year
- statistics on my walking mileage
Plus bunches more, I just can’t think of them right now.
Oh, and this. It was fun and the results are super colorful. This shows my results (right) and the average for females from the United States who are 19+ years of age. Click for enlargement (teehee).
Vroom.
All Quiet on the Western Font
Sigh.
You know what’s a big deal to me? Fonts.
Has anyone reading this ever seen the old Disney Silly Symphony cartoon called Music Land?
If you don’t have 9 minutes to watch: the story’s about two warring lands in the world of music: the Isle of Jazz, populated by anthropomorphic jazz instruments such as saxophones, trumpets, and guitars, and the Land of Symphony, populated by anthropomorphic—you guessed it—symphonic instruments such as violins, violas, cellos, etc. The princess of Symphony, a young violin, falls in love with the prince of Jazz, a little saxophone. They’re caught canoodling in Symphony, the prince is thrown into jail, and the two lands go to war over the whole thing. The prince escapes and the two lovers row out into the Sea of Discord (haha) separating the two lands and almost drown, causing the parents (Queen of Symphony and King of Jazz) to row out to rescue them. In the end, the queen and king fall in love and the two lands reconcile, creating a Bridge of Harmony across the Sea of Discord (d’awwwww). Seriously, watch the cartoon if you’ve got time, it’s pretty awesome.
Wow, tangent.
Anyway, to bring that back around, that’s kind of the relationship I see when I think of fonts. There’s like a Serif Land and a Sans Serif Land, with Times New Roman and Arial the two respective leaders. They absolutely hate each other and the serif fonts stay well out of the way of the sans serifs. And there’s like this half-breed group of wild semi-serifs that roam outside the boundaries of either land and eat the fonts that stray out of the protection of their respective areas.*
I’ll say it again: fonts are a big deal to me.
Anyway. The main reason I keep redoing my heading for this blog is because I have yet to identify a font as my particular signature font. Times New Roman is certainly my favorite font (serifs > sans serifs, I don’t care what anyone else says), but it’s not MY font. At least not for this blog. I keep jumping around with a few fonts (right now I’m using Metro, which is pretty great but isn’t just right), but every time I check for more to download I either download like 90 different ones and thus consequently have to delete yet another program from Vaio (hard drive = 99.9% full or something like that) while still not getting the right font or I get distracted reading about typography on Wiki.
So yeah, I know it doesn’t matter to anyone else and it’s probably just more annoying than anything else, but just to explain why that little header above keeps changing like every month/week/hour: I am searching for the right font. I know someday it will come.
The end.
Oh, also this, which I’ve posted before but am posting again because it’s hilarious and relevant.
*Do you see what goes on in my head? DO YOU? This is why I can’t take myself seriously.
In the beginning, Al Gore created http://
As everyone who knows even the slightest bit about me is aware, I am obsessive about school and would like to return ASAP. The magical thing about Tucson is that it’s home to the University of Arizona. The magical thing about the University of Arizona is that it’s not the U of I it’s got a lot of really cool majors and appears to be a very good school overall.
One particularly interesting-sounding major I came across this evening arises from the engineering department: systems engineering. On the U of A engineering department’s website, systems engineering is defined as a field “…concerned with the design, modeling, and analysis of technological systems that employ people and machines, software and hardware, material and energy for such diverse purposes as communication, health care, transportation or manufacturing…if complex systems are to do what is intended, without unwanted side effects, they must be designed not only with imagination and technical skill, but with rigorous attention to the design process itself and to the interactions among the system components and with other systems and society.”
And, “…the curriculum provides students with design viewpoints and methodologies that emphasize system integration, and with subject matter and tools for modeling and analysis especially appropriate for large complex systems, e.g., probability and statistics, system theory, decision analysis, and simulation.”
So…it’s basically like statistics with an engineering bend, or so that’s what I gather.
HOW COOL?
Also, they explicitly list Raytheon as one of the major employers of system engineers, and Raytheon has a special polar exploration sector that I’d totally love to worm my way into someday. Antarctica, I’m coming for you soon, I swear.
I must conduct further research on this field…
In This Blog: Claudia vs. Dog
OW.
So this afternoon I went walking, as I am wont to do. I walked until I hit the dead end of the main drag around here (it certainly screams “Middle of Nowhere” when the main drag dead ends, haha), then went down a different road for about five miles before turning around to get back home. On the way back, walking on the opposite side of the road, I came across a two-foot-long skinny metal rod thingy that had a hooked end. Me being me, I picked it up and started playing with it and decided to take it home with me.
On my way back I turned back onto the main drag near its dead end. A lot of people (like 90% of them) keep dogs around here, and the vast majority of them spaz out and bark at passers-by from within their fenced yards. So imagine my surprise when I catch a loose dog out of the corner of my eye as it jaunts up to me, curious as to why I was walking down the street.
It seemed friendly enough and was wagging its tail, so I said “hello, doggie!” as I continued walking by. It then proceeded to flip out. All of a sudden it started growling and barking and getting real aggressive. It didn’t do anything to me at first, so I kept walking (albeit a bit more cautiously), hoping that it would return to its yard. Then it grabbed my ankle, shaking and pulling, trying to take me down. Which it would have done had I been any smaller or the dog any bigger.
Seriously, it was ready to critically injure me.
So I yank my ankle free and turn around, holding the metal rod out (finally remembering I had it) as menacingly as possible, trying to just get the dog to back down. As slowly as I was backing up to get out of its territory (wherever he deemed that to be; he had followed me already past the property to which I thought he belonged), the dog was still flipping out, lurching at me, growling, barking, ready to bite me again. The only thing that was staving him off was my swinging of the metal rod. I don’t know what would have happened had I not picked that up and carried it with me.
And of course there was no traffic on the road and no one was out in their yards, so there would be no witnesses had that dog decided to take me down. As it was, we had a good 10 minutes of me trying to scare it off with the rod and it aggressively pursuing me as best it could with a metal rod swinging in front of its face.
Not a fun time.
Luckily there were no bite marks or anything; he tore the bottom of my pants up pretty good, but that’s about it. It hurts to walk right now, but I don’t think it’ll hurt much tomorrow.
Exciting times in Arizona, am I right?
A Random $1,900 Appears!
As I said on Facebook, random large sums of money appearing in one’s checking account are awesome, except when one does not know the origin of said random large sums.
Yeah, I decided to randomly check my RBC account up in Canada (I’d left exactly $2.90 in there just to keep the account open until tax time) and discovered that that amount had been supplemented an additional $1,900 or so. The record says the money came from UWO, but that’s all the more info I can get.
It was deposited at the end of November; I think I’ll wait until the first of the year to see if another deposit is made at the end of this month and if so, I guess I’ll email somebody there and ask what’s going on. It might all be an error, who knows.
But that would be pretty freaking sweet if it weren’t.
There are some good paying jobs down here that I qualify for, but until I’m hired somewhere, money = nonexistent.
And I want that DNA test thingy; it was supposed to be my present to myself for finishing my Master’s but I never ordered it ‘cause shipping to Canada was like $50 extra.
So we’ll see!
Tweet and the world tweets with you. Blog and you blog alone.
Alternate title: Kilmer, please don’t haunt me
I think that I shall never glance
a tweet of any relevance
to life, to love, to truth, to function,
but serving only as an unction
to soothe the egos of the masses.
No inkling more than phatic passes
‘twixed the mind and lighted page:
the musings of the pithy sage.
No crux beneath these thoughts exist,
but is this lack of vigor missed?
Nay, but rarely do we an intelligent glitter
expect from a twit that tweets on Twitter!
Die in a fire, Twitter.
Oh my. Guns N’ Roses.
Question: why did it take me 23 years to check out Guns N’ Roses?
Answer: who cares, they’re AWESOME!
I give you full permission to berate the hell out of me for never paying attention to these guys before. I don’t know what’s wrong with me—I honestly never sought out one of their songs for a listen and while I’m sure I’ve heard at least 3 seconds of one of their songs at least once in my life, I’ve never questioned who’s played it.
Silly, silly Claudia.
Robust and Toasty
HEY WE HAVE AN APARTMENT NOW WOO.
That badass loft bedroom upstairs? All mine, baby.
I need a job
Sometimes the best of all possible worlds really sucks.
This just in:
I am beyond dumb.
Also, I changed my header to something different than one of the four options in my poll, partially because the two top options are tied and partially because I’m weird.
AND DUMB.
Dear Middle of Nowhere:
Go die.
My Global5/SLOAN type is RLOEI.
I am: withdrawn, loner, moody, dislikes crowds, avoidant, not big on fun, socially unskilled, not that interested in others, overwhelmed by unpleasant feelings frequently, depressed, requires lots of time alone to recharge, socially awkward, hard to get to know, feels defective, averse to change, low self confidence, dislikes small talk, dislikes touchy feely types, private, not prone to complimenting others, driven by own personal gain, pessimistic, self absorbed, indifferent to the feelings of others, does not easily forgive, inflexible, skeptical, embarrassed easily, tense, lower energy level, attracted to things associated with sadness, very suspicious of others, does not believe in human goodness, interested in intellectual pursuits, does not put the welfare of others ahead of self, lonely, not known for generosity, unadventurous, doubting, quick to judge others, discontent, hard to understand, wounded at the core, believes in a logical answer for everything, worrying, uncooperative, agnostic/atheist tendencies, has anxiety, not physically affectionate with most people, feels second place is not good enough, frustrated when people don’t live up to expectations.
I should be a: researcher, scientist, research scientist, scholar, academic, librarian, historian, university professor, astronomer, data analyst, book editor, research assistant, library assistant, genetics researcher, novelist, philosopher, analyst, systems analyst, bookseller, computer scientist, archivist, biotechnology, mathematician, statistician, neurologist, policy analyst, author, museum curator, biologist, strategist, philosophy professor, copy editor, biochemist, research psychologist, technical writer, geneticist, environmental scientist, history professor, archeology, aerospace engineer, information technology, political scientist, physicist, editor, art historian, anthropologist, botanist, forensic scientist, medical researcher, publisher, forensic anthropologist, Egyptologist, freelance writer, paleontologist, biomedical engineer, microbiologist, ecologist, geologist, software developer, software engineer, virologist, computer programmer, chemist, engineer
I boldfaced the ones with which I agree.
Test is here!
Sorry, I love similarminds.com and I am currently insanely bored.
Is the nose the scenterpiece of the face?
2901. have you ever written a letter to:
a friend: I’d be surprised if I haven’t, but I can’t remember doing so
a lover: Yes, but I never sent it
a celebrity: Nope
congress/house/reps: Nope
the president/leader of your country: Nope
2902. Why are ciggarette companies allowed to manufacture and sell ciggarettes when they are so unhealthy and dangerous?
Because we’re a relatively hypocritical society that bans certain “bad” substances (marijuana, coke, etc.) while allows others to be sold given their buyers are old enough (nicotine, alcohol). Don’t ask me, man.
2903. Do you chat with people in an elevator?
Not usually.
2904. What’s your favorite Jack Nicholson movie?
Was he in The Shining? I never saw that movie but I’ve seen like 40 parodies of it.
2905. Who should play the part of Superman?
William Shatner.
2906. Do you like when your friends and your mate’s friends hang out?
I don’t have a mate.
2907. Doritos or Cheetos?
Cheetos!
2910. Do you brush your teeth three times a day?
Twice.
2911. Should I stop making question swith multiple parts and just count each actual question as a question?
That would certainly make it easier for you.
2912. What gives your ego a boost?
Not much.
2913. What knocks your ego down?
Me being stupid.
2914. Live and let live or live and let die?
Live and let live.
2915. What do you think of Damien Hirst’s art piece Mother and Child, which is half a cow in formaldedhyde?
That sounds intriguing.
2916. Why is it that 70 percent of americans Do Not want to go to war with Iraq and yet we are going to war with Iraq anyway?
Because the balance of power in this country is screwy.
Is this democracy?
As we apparently define it, yes.
2917. Imagine you have two chices of what life you can live—One: You are provided with meals, medicine, clothes and shelter. You are always with your family. You can lie in the sun and smoke, drink, play, cook, etc.. There will be certain rules you must follow such as no killing, no hurting others, no leaving the commune you were born in, no stealing, no tv, no newspapers and no books. OR Two: You are turned loose in the world with nothing. You start out cold and hungry. You may stay cold and hungry forever but you also have the opportunity to try and make a life for yourself. This will take a lot of hard work and there is no guaruntee you will ever live comfortably.
Which life do you choose?
Two.
WHY?
I want my books, dammit!
2918. Why is there no ‘Mr. America’ pageant?
Good question.
Should there be?
YES!
2919. If something offends you do you feel that it has no right to exist?
No.
2920. Why do advertisers seem to believe that guys will buy any product that a hot girl in a bikini is sitting next too?
Previous proof that this works?
2921. What would you do if your mom had a fight with a male aquantance and you heard an answering machine message he left her cursing at her, calling her names and being very disrespectful?
I’d probably resist the urge to beat the crap out of him until I got the OK to do so from my mom.
2922. What do you represent?
Claudianess.
2923. What message does ___ send when given as a birthday present?
flowers: Love you!
slippers: You have cold feet
candles: Hopefully you won’t burn your house down, but I feel the need to provide you the means for doing so
diamond necklace: I have money! Watch me buy stuff!
gift certificate: I either can’t think of a good gift for you or you explicitly said “get me a gift certificate.”
cash: Buy me something!
books: YAY LITERACY!
2924. Have you ever completed a paint by number?
Probably.
If yes of what?
Haha, no idea.
2925. How long has it been since you colored in a coloring book?
Very long.
2926. What have you been caught doing?
Spazzing.
2927. Does temptation make you do what you love?
Nope, doing what I love makes me do what I love.
2928. Do you have an gadgets in the house that you don’t know how to use? What?
I’m gadget-savvy.
2929. Do you read the instructions to things or skip them?
I usually read the instructions, even if I know what I need to do already.
2930. Will yu ever reach your full potential?
I really, really hope so.
2931. Who is your biggest fan?
Good question.
2932. Who do you take care of?
Anyone I can.
Who takes care of you?
My parents. They’re awesome.
2933. Do you think that lawyers should only argue cases when they feel like the client is in the right?
Hahaha, that would certainly change things.
If you were a lawyer would you argue cases when you felt like your client was completely wrong?
If I were a lawyer I’d jump off a bridge.
2934. Is it sexy in here or is it just me?
Just you.
2935. You are giving out your phone number to a HOTTIE by writing it on a napkin. Do you write a little note or draw a picture too? If yes, what?
I’d draw a smiley. Or a flower or something snazzy like that.
2936. Can you fold paper into anything (a hat, a swan, a boat, etc)? What?
I can make a box with a lid. I can make a fortune teller. I can make a piece of paper folded in half.
2937. How can a girl get a guy-she-is-dating’s mom to like her better?
Be genuine, be kind, be polite.
2939. Do you like answering questions about:
your life? Yes.
your taste? Sure.
tv? Why not?
music? Yay! Yes.
art? Yup.
politics? Not particularly.
life? Is this different than my life?
religion? Bah.
issues? Not if they’re political.
sex? Haha.
loved ones? Sure.
favorites? Indeed.
objects? Yeah.
math? Yay math!
philosophy? Yay philosophy!
hypothetical situations? Sometimes.
things that require lots of thought? Yes.
2940. The mortuary science department is having a bake sale. Does this strike you as funny?
Meh.
2941. What would you think of a new reality tv game show where real life criminals on death row competed in life threatening tasks for the prize of a reduced sentance?
Sounds…frightening.
Did you know that they are considering making this a show? Would you watch it?
No and no.
2942. What was the last song you looked up the words to?
Fleet Foxes’ Helplessness Blues. AWESOME song.
2943. What Saturday morning cartoons do you like?
I’m not a big cartoon person anymore. But Ed, Edd, n’ Eddy is still fantastic.
2944. If anything’s possible, then is it possible that nothing’s possible?
Can God create a boulder so heavy He cannot lift it?
2944. What does the T in T-Shirt really mean?
It’s the shape of the shirt, isn’t it?
2945. Would you alter your routine if there was a sniper in your area?
Hahaha, uh, yeah.
If so how?
I wouldn’t go that way?
2946. Is castration a good punishment for extreme or repeat sexual offenders?
Sure.
2947. If you are a girl have you ever experianced penis envy?
Freud would say so, yes. He’d have quite a bit to say about Claude, haha.
2948. Imagine you are teaching a class of sixth graders. A the start of the year you tell them, “If you come away with class and have learned only ONE THING, I hope that you learned….(finish the sentence)
“…that learning can be a fun and engaging activity. And that Leibniz rules.”
2949. If you were being interviewed for a job in a clothing store how would you sell yourself to the prospective employers?
Probably not by dressing the way I usually dress, haha.
2950. How do you stop pop up ads?
STAB THEM
2951. You are alone. You take a bus to the mall. The stop is right in the mall parking lot. You window-shop. You don’t buy anything. You want to get back on the bus to go home when you realize you have lost all your money. You have no cell phone. All the payphones are jammed with gum. You can not get it out. How do you get the $1.50 you need to get on the bus and get home???
“All the Payphones are Jammed with Gum” sounds like a ridiculously good band name to me. I’d just wait until the bus came and explain my situation. Most bus drivers I’ve come across are pretty lenient with that kind of stuff if people seem to be sincere.
2952. How long would it take you to organize your bedroom?
It’s organized, captain!
2953. Make up a nickname for your bedroom:
Lawrence of Arizona.
2954. What comes after: I’ve got a love-a-lee bunch of coconuts (diddly dee)/There they are a-standing in a row.
“Big ones, small ones, some as big as your head…”
2955. Where ARE the wild things?
IN MY PANTS
2956. You get a six cd changer for the car, only problem is that you know that once you put in six cd’s you can NEVER take them out. Which 6 cd’s do you put in?
1. Guggenheim Grotto’s …Waltzing Alone
2. Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells
3. Deep Forest’s Deep Forest
4. Lady Gaga’s The Fame Monster
5. Good Charlotte’s The Young And The Hopeless
6. The Beatles’ 1
2957. Let’s play Jeopardy. (Do-Do-Do-Do-Do-Do-Dooooo-)
I’ll give some answers..you give the questions.
Ready? Begin.
The answer is:
Purple
The primary color of McDonald’s Grimace
Yellow
A chromatically-titled Coldplay song
Pepsi
Coca-Cola’s main competitor
Peace
Lisa
The eldest daughter Simpson
Cotton
A white, fluffy material used for making clothes, among other things.
Flag
France’s is red, white, and blue; Finland’s is white and blue, and Libya’s is green.
42
6 x 7.
2958. Pick a letter.
O!
List some great words starting with that letter:
Ooid, octogon, orange, octogenarian, orbific, orrery.
2959. Is eight days a week enough to show you care?
Only if I’m a non-Beatle.
2960. Have you told your parents you love them today?
Indeed.
2961. What is the difference between a number two pencil and any other kind of pencil?
The numbers on pencils indicate the hardness of the lead, with larger numbers indicating harder leads.
2962. Have you ever cross-dressed?
It rules.
2963. Are we living in a world without end?
Doubtful.
2964. What do you think of that couple that was just on the news who kidnapped a 16 year old girl for a week and forced her to be their sex slave?
This species disappoints me.
2965. Wanna watch a movie about a cheerleading competition?
Sure.
2966. Are you singing in the rain?
It’s a glorious feelin’.
2967. Should the sopranos actors ahve been allowed to march in the St Patrick’s Day parade?
Haha, what?
2968. Is oral sex. anal sex or regular sex more intimate?
I’d say regular, but I’m not the one to ask.
2969. Is it time to switch to Decaf?
The only thing I drink aside from water is tea, and no, you don’t get to take my caffeine out of it.
2970. Why is it that the truth hurts?
Because we’re all more flawed than we care to think.
2971. How do you feel about:
ticketmaster? I used it once. Worked fine.
scalpers? Never had to deal with one.
2972. What are you guilty of?
More than I care to admit here.
2973. Have you ever done any of the following in order to catch a buzz or get high?
sniffed glue: No.
sniffed magic markers: I used to try and smell Sharpies ‘cause everyone said they stunk. I was not a smart child.
ate paste: Nope.
drank Nyquil, rRobitussen or any other Over-the-counter drug: Ew.
‘huffed’ (inhaled or sniffed) any kind of fabric softner, cooking spray or other household product: I blew a spray of Pam up my nose once, but it was totally unintentional. I had the nozzle pointed the wrong way.
whip-its: What is a whip-it?
2974. What gives you inner stregnth?
Inner weight training.
2975. ::eyes you suspiciously::Where have all the COOKIES gone?
Don’t look at me, all I’ve got are M&M’s.
2976. What is a good gift for someone you don’t like so that it SEEMS to be nice but really ‘gets’ them somehow?
I can’t think of anyone I don’t like.
2977. If you don’t like the service at a restraunt would you skip the tip?
No.
Why or why not?
Unless the service was absolutely heinous, I’d still tip knowing that it is the main source of income for the waiter/waitress.
2978. Apples or peaches or pumpkin pie?
Who’s not playin? Holler “aye.”
2979. What Race/nationality was Jesus?
Holy?
2980. What was one evening you’ll never forget?
HAHAHAHA no you don’t get a description of the best evening of my existence, sorry.
2981. Name 13 ways to look at a blackbird:
Isn’t that a poem?
2982. Trick or Treat?
Treat!
2983. If you had money to burn, what ‘toy’ would you spend your money on (think monopoly game with real money, luxory boat, a train layout that takes up a house, etc.)?
I think at this point in time I’d get a car, just ‘cause it’d be nice to finally have one.
2984. Are you having trouble with aol 8.0?
No.
Or if you don’t have aol…have you ever been to a podiatrist?
Hahahaha, awesome replacement question.
2986. When people lose weight, where does it go?
It turns into antimatter! Inform Jenny Craig she is DESTROYING OUR WORLD!
2987. Your mate/partner/wife or husband/longterm boy or girlfriend/etc. has SOMEHOW gotten his or her FAVORITE celebrity’s attention. Your sweetie has always thought this celeb was so sexy and now the celeb kinda fancies your sweety as well(although the celeb is not interested enough to stick around for more than one night). Your sweetie wants to have a one night stand with the celeb. Knowing that this is your sweeties one and only chance to bang (or even hang out with) a celebrity (ESPECIALLY their FAVORITE celebrity) you would say:
Think before you act, but act before you regret.
2988. Have you ever seen an Ed Wood film?
Nope.
If no, aren’t you curious to see a movie by the person known as the worst director of all time?
To Wikipedia I go!
2989. What kind of bread do you like to eat (white, rye, potatoe, grain, whole wheat, etc)?
The only form in which I eat bread now is crouton.
2990. Are you emotionaly articulate?
I’m emotionally spaz-tacular, unfortunately.
2991. Does everything happen for a reason?
Yes. Deterministic universe FTW.
2992. Do you take a piece of those you have loved and carry it around forever?
In a way, yes.
2993. Is it true that the child is worth ten of the parent?
Huh?
2994. Can you think of a door that has closed in your life?
Yes, but we won’t discuss it here ‘cause I don’t feel like being even more depressed about it than I already am.
Can you think of a window that has opened?
I suppose living in a new state can bring about some opened windows.
2995. What does this mean to you: ‘Necessity is the mother of invention’?
Things won’t be created/invented unless they’re needed by someone.
Do you believe that necessity is also the mother of:
courage?
No.
survival skills?
Instinct.
independance?
Yeah.
2996. What helps you to get over a Major heartache?
Time.
2997. Can you depend completely upon yourself?
Eh.
have you ever tried?
Partially.
2998. How can you tell the differance between the end of one part of your life and the beutiful begining of the next part?
HA. Beautiful beginning. Funny.
(I’m a bit bitter at the moment, can you tell?)
2999. Have you ever read an stories by Kate Chopin?
Yes, I read The Awakening.
If not, I suggest that you do.
Already done!
3000. Do you often make the best discoveries when you really weren’t looking for anything (or anyone)?
Indeed.
2011, you need to end
I swear the plane from Seattle to Tucson took a detour to Miami, ‘cause that was the longest flight EVER.
But now I’m here. It’s like 60 degrees. It’s really, really nice to see my mom again.
I’ll take some pics; they’ll be up soon.
Edit: PICS!
Until we meet again, Idaho
Okay, so barring anymore interference from Mother Nature, TODAY is my last day in Moscow.
Sorry for not scheduling a hang-out time with more of you sillies; things have been semi chaotic since I got back from London and I pretty much had to unpack my stuff rapidly and then just as rapidly repack it.
Also my brain has been alsfajfoijgavhaioewr for the past few months and I’ve been having weird and random panic attack thingies. Would rather not subject my awesome friends to that.
ANYWAY.
Moscow and I are pretty much opposite magnetic poles; I will be returning at some point. I’m actually not sure how long I’ll need to be in AZ anyway.
PEACE OUT, I’m going to go watch Boston Legal until I have to drive to Lewiston in a few hours.
TWSB: And This is Why I Couldn’t Fly Out To Seattle Today
Lewiston’s under there, somewhere.
These pictures, taken yesterday around 3 PM, show the result of an inversion, or “a deviation from the normal atmospheric property with altitude” (thanks, Wiki). In the case of Lewiston here, the inversion involved temperature: Lewiston was uncharacteristically colder than the surrounding higher elevations (it was 21 degrees in Lewiston, according to my dad’s car, whereas it was about 32/33 in Moscow).
For those readers (like none of you, but whatever) who aren’t familiar with the surrounding geography of Northern Idaho, it’s like this: Moscow and the majority of the surrounding towns sit at about 2,500 feet above sea level. Lewiston, on the other hand, is situated at the confluence of the Snake and Clearwater rivers and is thus at about 745 feet above sea level. To get to Lewiston from Moscow you have to drive down the Lewiston Grade, a 10-mile winding spiral of highway that wraps in and out of the surrounding hills and drops you a total of 2,000 vertical feet.
It sounds a lot more fun than it actually is.
Anyway, on any given day Lewiston is usually about 9,000 degrees hotter than Moscow, so to experience below freezing temperatures (and snow! Break out the panicked drivers) down there is weird.
There are several causes of inversions so I don’t know if I picked the right one to explain here, but it seems most likely given the conditions and surrounding geography. An inversion can occur when warmer, less dense air moves over a cooler and denser mass of air. This usually occurs around warm fronts (or areas of oceanic upwelling, but that’s not happening in Lewiston, haha). If the lower dense area is sufficiently humid, then a layer of thick fog can often be found at the inversion cap.
Other consequences of thermal inversions I learned about when researching this on Wiki include:
- Still, murky air
- Mirages
- a green flash (no, not the love child of the Green Lantern and The Flash, sorry)
- the total reflection of sound waves off the cap of the inversion, which causes major problems in the case of explosions.
Cool, huh?
But now I can’t fly out until Monday morning, at best.
Oh, also this:
Master’s degree, bitches!
I don’t understand these commercials
I thought the Charmin bears had gone by the wayside during my two-year stint without television, but apparently I thought wrong. And lo and behold, the baby bears have yet to have learned how to wipe without shredding the TP enough to leave little pieces on their behinds.
I don’t understand.
1. This has never happened to me in the whole history of wiping my own butt. Is my technique wrong or something? Is this really a common enough problem for the general population that Charmin would devote a decade-long ad campaign promoting their toilet paper as THE toilet paper with which people can wipe without fear of leaving their butt looking like a freshly crop-dusted field?*
2. Do these bears age? Are the baby bears the same baby bears that were starring in these commercials in like the Stone Age? Maybe learning to properly wipe is a skill learned with age for bears, like how to catch salmon and the ability to advocate the prevention of forest fires. Maybe the bears DO age, and the older bears in the commercials are just thrown into reminiscing about how difficult wiping was for them when they were cubs when they see their kids running around with a contrail of toilet paper residue behind them. That makes them run out and purchase some Charmin.
2 ½. You’d think by this point in the generational timeline, however, that they would’ve realized that starting the cubs out with paper that ISN’T Charmin is completely ineffective and would just stock the stuff in the bathrooms (woods?) automatically.
3. Unless you too are a naked anthropomorphic bear, I still don’t really see the issue with this. If you’ve got TP all up on your butt, it’s really your own issue, not the rest of the world’s. Odds are, your parents/significant other/random other people/ aren’t going to point out the debris on your bottom. I mean, it’s not like you’re going to be grounded from spaceflight due to having paper crumbs in your crack:
And hell, if you’ve gone through the rigorous training necessary for intergalactic space travel, if you’ve got pieces of TP on your butt before a mission, your alien coworkers better just let you have pieces of TP on your butt before a mission. The focus should be on the effects of time dilation on you and your fellow astronauts, not on whether or not your butt is pristine.
So there.
*I have no idea if anyone else knows of this technique, but around Moscow once a crop-duster has dusted a field they drop a string of TP on it to mark it as done.
God I suck
Since my last discussion of OkCupid I have deleted my old profile (stalkers!) and started a new one. I know you’re not supposed to do that ‘cause it confuses the crapspackle out of people, but I’m me and I’m dumb and obnoxious and boring so what’re you gonna do.
I freaking need a COMPANION, my backup love reserves are overflowing with hearts and mush and sentiment.
But mostly mush.
It’s purple.
ANYWAY.
I’ve answered approximately 350 Match Questions (which is about 350 more than I’d answered on my old profile), so I decided tonight to do the map thing to see if things were different due to my question answers.
PICTURE!
So apparently the closer your state is to the beginning of the alphabet, the more compatible we’d be.
God, look how red Washington is. That’s hilarious I’m surprised that when I walk to Pullman I don’t repel everyone within a 3 mile radius. Or maybe I do!
Scary notions.
Somebody turned off my “ability to give a crap” switch
I have nothing of substance to say today.
I guess that’s not really any different than any other day, but today I’m not masking it by a survey/blathering/stupid YouTube videos.
Sorry. Have to have everything cleaned up and packed by Friday afternoon.
I played Fallout all afternoon.
I have three bobbleheads and have successfully killed about seven Deathclaws, but nothing packed.
Peh.
In some parallel universe, I’m already done with this survey
2801. The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind. But what was the question?
To be or not to be.
2802. Suggest three new diary circles that you would find interesting:
Hahaha, I read that first as DAIRY circles and I was like, what is that, crop circles but with cows? How weird/awesome would that be, eh?
2803. Buttons or Knobs?
Why does this sound dirty?
2804. What is a juggalo?
An obnoxious word.
2805. Are you a fan of Crass?
I know no Crass.
2806. If you were going to write a short note to yourself and then put it away and read it in ten years, what would it say?
“BE FREEEEEEEEEE!”
2807. When someone does something that is wrong do you believe that they know in their hearts that they are wrong but they push it down into their subconcious and rationalize away their guilt?
Probably.
When have you done this (if you say never then you are doing it right now)?
Oh, awhile ago involving a relationship with someone. Totally not proud of it.
2808. How can a person have sex with someone they don’t love?
I don’t know, they’ve got their reasons.
Have YOU ever?
Nope.
2809. What are the paradoxes in your head (that is when you believe two conflicting things to be true)?
Pretty much every thought that I have, currently.
2810. What does each set of two words suggest to you?
pale gravity: Pluto
little mornings: early mornings in fall, for whatever reason
spiritual machines: Evangelical jukeboxes
eccentric being: Uranus (sorry, I just read a huge thing on the planets)
pray attention: a narcissistic praying mantis
yellow lectures: Melons
2811. What movie would be AWESOME in 3D?
Flatland. HA!
2812. Why is it important to write and think clearly?
To get your message across, if only to yourself. It helps sort out your own thoughts.
2813. A girl and her boyfriend are hanging out. It is obvious they are together. Another guy schmoozes between them and starts hitting on the girl. The boyfriend tells this guy to back off. The guy just keeps bothering the girl.
Do you think the boyfriend would be justified in hitting this intrusive guy?
No.
A girl and her boyfriend are hanging out. It is obvious they are together. Another GIRL(lesbian) schmoozes between them and starts hitting on the first girl. The boyfriend tells this girl to back off. The girl just keeps bothering the first girl.
Do you think the boyfriend would be justified in hitting this intrusive girl?
No.
If you answered yes to one situation and no to the other one why the double standard?
No double standard here!
2814. What do you think of the name Prue?
Eh. It’s okay.
2815. What would you spend your last dollar on?
Probably a $1 scratch ticket, haha.
2816. Have you ever won an ebay auction?
Yes.
If yes for what?
A bunch of stuff. The most recent, I think, was the GotY edition of Fallout 3.
2817. Would you like it if Blockuster had a drivethrough??
It wouldn’t matter to me.
2819. When was the last time you taught someone somthing and what was it?
I explained (very briefly) my thesis to Sean the other night, which involved explaining (VERY briefly) structural equation modeling.
2820. Why do adults and teens not understand each other?
Because people at different life stages tend to have different priorities.
2821. Are you afraid?
I’m afraid of the rest of my life.
2822. Do you trust large drug corporations?
Not particularly.
Do you trust the Food and Drug administration?
NO.
2823. If a tree falls in the woods does it make a sound?
Only if a horse that was led to a body of water is drinking.
Do you define sound as sound waves or as the reaction between the soundwaves and your ears?
I think it’s defined as the sound waves.
2824. Who is full of shit?
Constipated people.
2825. Four of the five senses are routed through a special area to the brain. One sense goes right to the brain and so is a powerful sense involved with memory and emotion. Which sense do you feel this is?
It’s smell, yo. It’s wired to the most primitive part of the brain.
2826. Are you on a ship of fools or a carousel?
A carousel ON a ship.
2827. What is your bathing suit like?
It’s turquoise. It’s a bikini. I bought it in Hawaii on the band trip.
2828. Whose line is it, anyway?
BEST SHOW EVER COLIN RULES
2829. Are you more likely to answer a signed in note or a nsi note?
Huh?
2830. To be or not to be. That is the question. What is the answer?
Blowin’ in the wind (see what I did there?)
2831. Does beauty exist as a defineable standard or is beauty in the eyes of the beholder?
Eye o’ beholder.
2832. Would a war with Iraq help or harm american economy?
Um…isn’t that kind of happening right now?
2833. What is the first thing you would do if you saw a nuclear explosion in the distance?
Probably flip out. Or take a video, hahaha.
2834. Would you like to be cryogenically frozen?
Only if I get to meet Bender, Leela, and Fry.
2835. Think of the person you love the most.
Would you be willing to murder a stranger in order to save that person’s life? Why or why not?
I don’t think I could just murder somebody.
2836. Imagine no possetions. I wonder if you can?
I can’t, ‘cause I don’t know what a “possetion” is.
2837. How messed up is:
your hair?
It’s not, I just washed it and it’s all shiny and pretty.
your room?
My “room,” if it shall be called that, is a disaster area. Packing time, yo.
your car?
Nonexistent, therefore not messy.
your life?
Total, total mess.
2838. What are you running out of?
Hope.
2839. What do you live for?
STATISTICS!
2840. How did you decide it was worth living for?
It’s my calling.
2842. By what criteria do you judge others?
I try not to judge others.
2843. Do you look at people’s words and actions or the underlying reasons for those words and actions?
Both?
2844. Which would you rather collect:
simpsons action figures?
kiss gear?
anything with a smiley?
horror movies?
Anything with a smiley sounds good.
2845. Do you fight for your rights?
I try when I need to, yes.
2846. Would you rather be a construction worker or a crossing guard?
Construction worker.
2847. What is enough to satisfy you in life?
I want to be successful on my own terms, which involves being kind to others, doing at least something somewhat significant to help people in need, doing as many statistical analyses as humanly possible, and hopefully getting some writing out there into the world.
2848. Do you think you have more, less, or average life experiance for your age?
Probably less. I’m pretty sheltered.
2849. Why go to college?
If you dig learning in a formal setting.
Have you considered joining a cult instead?
Hahahahaha. I was in marching band. Same thing.
2850. What’s the last lie you told?
Haha, don’t remember.
2851. What celebrity has the sexiest voice of females?
Katey Segal. She’s an awesome Leela.
Males?
I like William Shatner’s voice, but that might be because I’ve been watching so much Boston Legal.
2853. Where did you come from?
Sperm, egg, extreme statistical odds.
Where are you now?
Sitting in the basement. Stagnant. Hating it.
Where are you going?
Hopefully someplace better.
2854. What would you imagine the playboy mansion is like?
It’s probably either insanely awesome 24-7 or horrible.
2855. Do you blow your nose loudly in public?
Nope.
2856. Do you help others every day?
If I can, yes.
2857. Bono or Chris Tucker?
Bono!
2858. Is it lonely being alone in your head?
No. My head is fun.
2859. What is the worst poverty you have ever seen?
The people living on the streets in downtown Van. They’re probably passed by literally thousands of people a day and are probably noticed like 5% of the time.
2860. Has anyone ever told you that more than 2 billion people live on less than two dollars a day?
Possibly.
What do you think of that?
This is the kind of stuff I want to work to fix, even if on a very small scale.
2861. Add a sentence to the story:
Once upon a time there was a man named Arthur and he was brushing his teeth when all of a sudden he saw a bright rainbow outside. So he goes out the back door to take a look and he finds an elf who says
“‘It’s double rainbow time, bitch!’ and he unleashes upon Arthur a fury of Crayola-fueled vomit.”
2862. Be honest.. do you generally listen or wait for your turn to talk?
I generally listen.
2863. How many fingers do you type with?
All of them except my left thumb.
2864. What does ‘you think you know but you have no idea’ mean? Where did it come from as a common phrase?
I thought I knew, but I have no idea.
2865. Do you think it’s important to give up liberties in order to protect freedom?
After a point, we’ve given up so many liberties to protect freedom that we don’t have freedom anymore.
2866. Do you think George Bush was elected in a legal way?
There’s not much legal stuff going on at that level anymore, I fear.
2867. Imagine you were dying of a disease…you only had a certain amount of time left with your mate, parents or children. What would you leave behind for them to remember you by?
I’d pull my passwords off Vaio, Big Compy, and all my blogs and let them read/see everything. There’s a lot to me that no one’s ever seen. I think it’d give them a good remaining picture of me.
How would you feel if there were drugs to help you live, only you couldn’t afford them?
I’d just let myself go.
How would you feel if people were trying to sell you the drugs at a lower cost but the drug companies made sure they couldn’t because that would cut their profits?
I’d do what I could in my remaining time to bring attention to this at a federal level so that it won’t continue to happen to others.
This senario is going on Right Now. The country is Africa. The disease is aids. The drug is azp (and others). The people are Africans who are very poor and have aids. The large drug corporations won’t sell the drugs at a price they can afford or allow smaller companies to either. Is this acceptable?
Duh. No.
What are you going to do about it?
I’d like to do something, but I don’t know what I could do.
2868. Would you ever BUY a new ring for your cell phone that plays a couple of notes of your favorite song?
I did that a few years ago, actually. But probably not, phones aren’t that important to me.
2869. What has completely moved you?
Several U-Hauls. HAHA I’m funny.
2870. If for your next birthday you had a novelty kids birthday party what games would you play at it?
That would be AWESOME. Twister. Musical chairs. Probably some rockin’ board game like Pictionary or Monopoly.
2871. How can you keep open toed sandles from rubbing against your toes and making them blistered and raw?
Don’t wear them.
2872. What happens to socks when they disappear in the drier?
They go to Narnia.
2873. What is the quality of humanity all about?
Good question.
2874. True or false – All homophobes are inherently evil.:
False.
2875. Is there anything, besides love, that money can’t buy?
Probably. But I’m flat broke right now and it seems like money can buy pretty much everything else.
2876. How is your soul?
Upset.
2877. What are you committed to?
Learning.
2879. Are you photogenic?
HAHAHAHA NOOOOOOOOOO.
2880. Can you define these words off the top of your head as if you were talking to someone who didn’t know what they were?
rain: that weird clear stuff that falls from the sky sometimes when it’s really cloudy and sticks to your skin, making you shiver.
cold: the feeling you get when you feel your body shaking and see little bumps appearing on your skin. It goes away when you sit by a fire or wrap up in a bunch of blankets.
green: a property grass, avocados, celery, and that velvet they use in pool tables have in common.
sand: itty bitty particulates that are usually found in extreme abundance next to large bodies of water, like the ocean or lakes. When you run through it your feet kind of sink into it.
2881. Why aren’t you naked (or are you)?
Because it’s like Absolute Zero in here.
2882. Do you think anoyone is all good or all evil?
No. Only in Disney movies, haha.
2883. Go outside a sec. how many animals are in your yard?
There is no way in hell I’m leaving this blanket. See question #2881.
2884. What household appliance drags you down?
Like, literally? Like if I had them tied to my ankle and jumped into a lake, which ones would help me unwillingly dive to my death? I guess any electricity-run appliance would do me in in such a case, though, if I let them to stay plugged in.
2885. try this..write a list of six possibilities of things you could do after you are off the computer. Make sure that at lease ONE thing is something you would be unlikely to ever do.
1. Sleep
2. Change the lightbulb that just went out in the hallway
3. Curl up even deeper in a pile of blanket and try to keep my body temperature above 95 degrees
4. Play Gears of War
5. Play WoW
6. Set the Junior High on fire
2886. Which of the following doesn’t belong with the others and why?
a. garden
b. love
c. magazine
d. death
Love. All the others either require or involve at some point the extermination of life.
2887. How old are you?
23
What age do you feel mentally?
BAH.
emotionaly?
EVEN MORE BAH.
spiritualy?
Jesus called. He said “BAH.”
2888. Who do you think is more wise: your mailman or a person who has been living on the streets for 12 years?
No idea.
2889. Do you kiss on the first date?
Hahahaha, dating’s funny.
2890. Would you ever want to be on:
a dating show(which)?
Me being on The Bachelor would be hilarious.
a game show(which)?
I always wanted to be on Fear Factor.
the news(why)?
I’d like to be featured on the news for doing something good, like helping people or writing an awesome book or something cool like that.
2891. How much money would it take to get you to:
strip to nuthing but a bright orange thong (for guys, orange thongs an string bikini top for girls)and wrestle another person of the same sex in a thong in a pool of jello?
Not much, haha. That sounds fun.
participate in a contest where you drink alcohol as fast as you can until you puke?
I don’t like the taste of alcohol and I’m not looking to die by alcohol poisoning, so it’d take a lot.
sit absolutely still for 2 hours, in nothing but a towel, covered in plaster of paris?
I’d d that for free.
Walk around at your school in bondage gear asking people to spank you on the ass with a huge dead octopus tenticle?
I’d do this for free just so I could tell this story.
smash potatoes with your head?
Cooked or raw? More for raw.
2892. Who deserves an apology?
Someone I shall not speak of right now.
2893. What wins the award as stupidst lyric you can think of?
Pretty much all of Crash Test Dummies’ “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm.”
2894. Where do you most like to be massaged?
I don’t like getting massages. They hurt.
2895. Is your face clear?
Yeah, right now it is.
2897. What present would you bring to the birthday party of an acquaintance?
Probably a gift card to some popular store or restaurant. Everybody likes those!
2898. Is your game on?
Damn straight.
2899. What would a song for the deaf be like?
In requirement of a music video with signing.
How about a painting for the blind?
Extreme pointillism!
2900. What is a sure-fire way to get noticed?
Set fires? Hahaha.
What a fantastic dream
Fan. Tastic.
So WoW has an offer going right now where you can sign up and play for free up until level 20. As you know, I was playing WoW back in 2009, but I let my subscription expire due to grad school insanity + not having enough money to re-subscribe.
I’ve been itching to play again recently, so I signed up again and started playing. Yay!
Anyway, last night I must have had the perfect combination of WoW time plus Wikipedia surfing time, ‘cause I had a dream that combined the two in a game called World of Wikipedia.
The best part of this dream is the fact that when I woke up, I remembered all the little details. There were two factions (like WoW): the Wikis, the fun-loving but troublemaking group who work together to cause mayhem, and the Pedias, the serious folk who are all about order and keeping things in check.
- Then there were different races based on the five “pillars” of Wikipedia.
- I think the equivalent of WoW’s classes were based upon Wiki’s three main core content principles.
- The equivalent of WoW zones were the main areas listed on the front page of Wiki (Arts, Biography, History, Science, etc.).
I don’t know. It was a really interesting dream, haha. I may have to create characters to correspond to the pillar races.
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