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| Tuesday, August 29th, 2006 | | 9:40 am |
In Philadelphia
So I moved to Philly for the next 3 years for law school. To make it more tolerable, I got NetFlix. So please feel free to post suggestions for movies for me to rent so I don't get too bored down here doing homework. | | Sunday, March 5th, 2006 | | 11:18 pm |
quit spamming me!!
Four jobs I've had in my life: *Office intern at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau *Photocopying specialist at the Lahey Clinic *Corporate welfare at my dad's office *pwning nubs Four movies I can watch over and over: *Gladiator *Airplane/Naked Gun *Ghostbusters *Shawshank Redemption Four place I have lived: *Woburn, MA *Cambridge, MA * * Four TV shows I love to watch: *Family Guy *The Office (brits) *Arrested Development *Law and Order: SVU Four places I have been on vacation: *London *Grand Canyon *San Francisco *Lake Ossippee, NH - heaven on earth Four of my favorite dishes: *bbq chicken pizza *outback cheeseburgers *chocolate cake *beer Four websites I visit daily: * email sites: hotmail, gmail, webmail * Get Fuzzy/Calvin and Hobbes * espn and si.com * fantasy sports teams Four places I would rather be right now: *next weekend cutting nomad's hair *stanford *asleep *playing hockey People im tagging: kel, tyler, beth, jeannie (and duffy, you're still tagged... like walsh's sisters. hi-YO!) Current Music: rocketman | | Wednesday, August 17th, 2005 | | 3:36 pm |
tragedy strikes
pierce brosnan won't be starring in any more bond movies... truly a sad day. also, its a shame that babies' heads don't stay in the same proportion when they grow up. i think the world would be alot funnier if they did. there are few things nicer than being in the 'final week of work' countdown. at least for me, i dont know about you guys, but work has been, for the most part, about not getting fired (i know, i know, Office Space). but i really hope that i find an engaging job, so that work will become more than wasting time without getting caught wasting time. also, disturbing fact: myspace is ranked like 10th in the entire internet in terms of traffic! which, is mind-blowing, since it contains absolutely nothing. like, the facebook is entertaining, but it is kids you know and see around. and even that gets repetitive. from what ive seen of myspace, its similar, except its random people you never see, their pictures, and maybe some comments. how is that top 10? in the entire internet? i guess im just a chronic under-estimator of indie-hipster kids. or at least their online access. risk tonight. | | Thursday, June 30th, 2005 | | 8:40 am |
a day that will live in infamy
as i report from work, an era has ended today (well not technically today, but i have now just noticed it) since coming home, i have begun eating the cereals always at my house, but not available at school, captain crunch, cocoa rice crispies, and, until today, Alpha-bits. last week, i tried alpha-bits, but they tasted horribly wrong, so i assumed that, since it was the end of a box, they were just stale or something. oh to have been right. alas, this morning, i opened a fresh box of alpha-bits, and poured myself a delightful bowl of the cereal i have enjoyed all through my childhood. sadly, this enjoyment can never be re-created, as the bastard makers of the cereal have decided that alpha-bits should no longer be frosted. now, they just taste like imitation cheerios in letter shapes. its terrible. i would definitely put alpha-bits in my pantheon of top 3 cereals of all time in the history of the world. now, i feel like i should give them to my grandparents. this sucks. i can only pray that Frosted Flakes don't betray me either. i feel like the terrorists have won... Current Mood: :( | | Tuesday, June 14th, 2005 | | 9:21 am |
summer finally
well, after my first (and hopefully last) 90+ hour week, im finally back home for summer. so over the next 2 weeks, if anyone wants to hang out and sip beers pool-side, you know where to find me. Current Music: led zep | | Thursday, April 14th, 2005 | | 11:43 pm |
| | Sunday, April 10th, 2005 | | 5:55 pm |
reasons why spring is the best
1) the smell of mulch 2) jelly beans (except black ones, of course) those are the main reasons... im sure there's other stuff, too | | Sunday, April 3rd, 2005 | | 3:43 pm |
things i learned in europe
1) faux-hawks are very popular. and look terrible. 2) faux-mullets are also rising in popularity. and may rival the faux-hawk in crappiness. 3) in no city across the globe are you safe from running into someone you know. especially not in venice. 4) no one in europe knows how to properly cook beef. 5) french rudeness? believe the hype. 6) airports 30 miles outside of major cities? terrible idea. 7) the american economy? not doin' too well. good thing no one pressed W's poor economic policies last election. 8) london's subway is very nice. 9) old marble buildings? the best. 10) seeing kel = the perfect vacation awww :). also, whenever i go to europe, or on general vacations where im out of the information loop, something tragic occurs on the international scale, and i have to play news catch-up for a week. | | Thursday, November 18th, 2004 | | 10:16 pm |
| | Tuesday, November 9th, 2004 | | 7:19 pm |
| | Monday, November 8th, 2004 | | 4:39 pm |
| | Sunday, November 7th, 2004 | | 12:21 pm |
did anyone watch Animaniacs as a kid?
good idea: teaching Creationism in CCD class or parochial schools bad idea: teaching Creationism in public schools http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/11/06/evolution.schools.ap/index.htmlevery time school administrators bow to the demands of religiously inspired parents, scientists, educational specialists, and so many other people who know so much more about science say that this is a terrible idea. new rule: stop listening to the Parents/Teachers Association of some no-name backwater town for what a proper education consists of, and instead listen to people who have real world jobs in the area... im pretty sure this country started out as the seperation between church and state... lets keep it that way, okay? | | Thursday, November 4th, 2004 | | 12:46 am |
a glimmer
in what otherwise would be arguably the worst semester ever of college... and probably high school too, since I liked high school... http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/Thaaaaa Yankees Lose... its so delicious... if anyone else out there has had to listen to obnoxious yankee announcers before, they will understand my appreciation for this comic strip in other news, yesterday/today reminded me why i try to avoid politics... most shocking stat: a quarter million jobs lost in Ohio over the last 4 years (actually, in a much shorter timeframe, but im too lazy to look up the exact time), and they still voted for Bush. now, regardless of how I feel, or you feel, or anyone outside of Ohio feels, but, do you really think that fiscal/social issues were the major concern of voters? also, another stat - ive seen this on a few websites, this is the least graphic intensive... you can denounce it all you want, say its not valid, cant average IQs, blah blah blah... http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~gcharter/iq.txtbut its true, logically and factually... and i think that it indicates alot about what our elections have become. and thats what makes me feel this way. i hope for the next 4 years the religious right never, ever, evvvver says they are persecuted in america, given their sway in this election. and if they do, well, i dont want to go into it, not now, not w. this much work to do... man, i dont know why, but i am really disappointed right now. well, i know why. but i dont know why its to this extent... Current Music: postal service - against all odds (just incredible pace...) | | Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004 | | 8:46 am |
some thoughts on the election, before i get too bored
watching the election is painful. it reminds me alot of watching the news right after some huge disaster, like a flood or a big fire. no one on the news stations knows anything, and they keep repeating themselves for 20 minutes of speculation, then a tiny piece of information trickles in, and the cycle begins anew... sometimes news in the information age is not such a good idea... electronic polls... i know they might be less secure... but less secure than both parties cheating like crazy to keep people away from the polls? i mean, if you can file your taxes, order your groceries, and attend college online, instances where hackers could conceivably rob billions of dollars from people, and yet people are afraid of an election?? i feel like the computing community cares little about these things, as evidence by the fact that all the major viruses were aimed at companies (Microsoft, etc.) and not the government... just a thought... how hard is it to count votes? not very... how hard is it to check people's names off? i think they should do something where like, a week before, you go to your poll and make sure that you are registered, or something. because lets face it, if you show up, and theres a problem w. your registration, youre fucked. its like if you show up to a dance, and you thought you had someone meeting you there, but if they arent, theres not enough time to do anything for you to not look like a big jerk... if people can take 1 day to fufill their civic duties, i dont see why 2 is out of the question... also, why not make the day a holiday? and move it back to monday, the 1st. so that way kids can stay out all night for halloween, knowing there is no school the next day, and then sleep when their parents spend 5 hours standing in line because, i dont know about you, but think about the pool of people they are taking voter help from... when they do exams here, they have old retired teachers proctor them, for fairness, or whatever, and so the prof isnt there. who has no job and can spend all day at a voting center? retired old people, or the unemployed. now, old people cant even drive, or properly work radios. and yet, they are going to quickly and efficiently get our voting systems to function? please my roommate brodie asked me: if you knew that this was the only time youd see the Red Sox win the World Series, and you could trade it for a kerry win... nope, im stickin w. the Red Sox. I think (pray) that Bush wont actually be that much worse, because he has no reason. he can sit at home, have his iraq war as a legacy, pretend to be from texas, and be the dumbass he is. I think that having Kerry as president puts a different face on America (a face that I'd prefer, but I'm not sure how much I like it), but hopefully not much will happen this term... Im a registered Republic, but I voted a straight Democratic ticket. 1st, in MA, no republicans running made a remote effort to put their views out, on the Web or elsewhere. and since I hate, hate, haaaaaate partisan politics, I voted for people who I knew where they stood. And there was no way I was voting for Bush. sorry buddy, but you suck. When will the Democrats help create a strong religious right party that has the same effect on the Republican base of power as the Green party and nader have on the Democrats? Watching the election, i could not fathom how so many people in the poorer states down south voted for Bush. But then I realized that the Bible Belt, and surrounding states could never vote for a pro-abortion president, no matter how much he would help them on every other issue. Just more proof that I really dislike "one issue" voters. but at any rate, if there was a real non-two party system, it would hurt the republicans, alot, i feel. so if the Dems were savvy (Theyre not) they would find a way to do that. I mean, if Bush lovers can fund Nader, cant the team Heinz fund like the Pope to run on Southern tickets? A problem: somehow last night, my roommate Nate laughed about how someone took an Indy documentary (outfoxed) more seriously than Fox news, because Indy documentaries dont have any accountability. but then, i thought, neither does Fox, or most other news sources. They lie alot, and then, if they make retractions, its days later, when soundbites are embedded in peoples' minds. I really applaud John Stewart on Crossfire. The day there is actually a good/ non-partisan news source is the day I actually start watching TV news, and not read the newspaper... And lastly, in the Onion today: it said Inside This Issue "Candidates Start 2008 Campaign." Sadly, that is not far off enough from the truth. Bush had like a -5% approval rating, but since the world had 2 years of listening to candidates rip each other apart, it just brings everyone's faults out, and makes them no better than the President. I say, announce the candidate in mid-October, and let him ride the wave of excitement to an easy win of crazy campaign plans. If people are really unhappy, they choose this new guy, if not, he wasnt destined to win. wait, not done: if one more person mentions Kerry as a flip-flopper, ill punch them in the face. seriously, so he changed his mind. i think that should be applauded in politics. its alot better than stubborn people like bush, who said there were WMDs, then there werent, and hes all like, well, it doesnt matter, we still should be here. let me check the dictionary, but thats LYING! id rather take someone who is open-minded that someone who LIES. seriously, do whatever you want in the government. but dont lie to me... electoral college: i used to defend it... now, i mean, i can imagine a popular election, and candidates spending their lives in Cali and Texas (shudder), but, I also would rather see, above both of those, an election system of not just picking one person, but in fact, ranking the candidates. it would be much better. theres an article about a year back in popular science or something is else about it. ill look for a link... ok, im done, time to go continue to be disappointed in American democracy. now i know why so many people dont vote... | | Thursday, October 28th, 2004 | | 2:06 am |
| | Wednesday, October 20th, 2004 | | 9:41 am |
God i hate harvard, and love the Red Sox
background info: every year, publication groups make t-shirts for the annual harvard vs. yale football game the weekend before november. naturally, the shirts are funny and offensive so, this humor/satire magazine i write for, called Satire V, made a great one this year. it just says on it "Yale Sucks, Jeter Swallows." and the natural reaction at harvard was not to buy it (well, lots of people did), or laugh at it. no, people instead complained that it wasnt PC... http://www.thecrimson.com/today/article503945.htmlMan, i hate people here... (crossing my fingers for tonight...) | | Monday, October 18th, 2004 | | 3:44 pm |
jon stewart is so awesome http://mediamatters.org/items/200410160003seriously, any news show like crossfire, or bill oreilly, or anything that has a stock-ticker running underneath it, i hate, or probably hate. and if you are wearing a bow-tie and dont have gray hair, and you arent doing it for humor's sake (a la steven colbert), then i hate you | | Tuesday, October 12th, 2004 | | 11:00 am |
shocking
so i just got my absentee ballot, and i was very surprised at how little information regarding the candidates was available on the internet. and the Rep. guy who did have a bio (Ken Chase) listed as one of his accomplishments being selected for "Who's Who Among American High School Students" (shakes head) well good thing about 75% of the offices were being ran for unopposed. which makes sense. because you probably would need to pay me alot more than is offered to be in some school board, and remind stupid parents that teachers, not them, have degrees in education... well, talk about an anti-climatic first vote... if non-incumbants want me to vote for them, then they should do a better job giving me information as to why i should. i feel like otherwise, you have very little reason to vote for them, other than just partisanship, which i hate. | | Friday, September 10th, 2004 | | 3:46 pm |
the silver lining
so while its been sad packing up and buying stuff i need for school, today at CVS when i went to buy soap, there was candy corn for sale i will miss summer, but at least companies know enough to appease my sadness with the most delicious food known to man ok, back to packing. and by packing i mean, playing enough playstation2 so that ill have something to remember for the next few ps2-less months Current Mood: mmm candy cornCurrent Music: night ranger - sister christian | | Thursday, September 9th, 2004 | | 11:52 am |
at the suggestion of kelly
ive started using SoulSeek for my music downloads however, its tough to find files and get downloads, so if anyone has any hints or ways to use it better, such information would be great off to do back to school shopping boo Current Mood:  awakeCurrent Music: the killers - somebody told me |
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