be quiet and drive sleep.

I liked the original title of the link when I first saw it in a forum, so...

Bitchslap!

::crosses fingers::

"So that means your father's the novelist, Hiraku Makimura?"
"He's not such a bad person. No talent, though."

poke poke poke

murakami snickers at himself

"Talking Heads. Not bad, for a band name. Like something out of Kerouac." - Haruki Murakami - Dance Dance Dance

Who's in a bunker?
Who's in a bunker?

Bunker: debunk bunk beds?

What?
-
coffee time.

"Here's a bottle."

Slim & Slam just ended.

I managed to get brownie batter on my mouse.

I don't remember what a split infinitive is.


That is all.

Oh yeah. I'm doing laundry, too.

I am:
Making brownies
Listening to Slim & Slam
Planning on cleaning my room
Contemplating trying to learn Like Spinning Plates on my keyboard
Contemplating videogames
Contemplating reading Dansu Dansu Dansu
The above three will be done. The question is: in what order?

It's Media Day!

All go Korea!

and i know they were just dreams but soon they won't be

So, I'm a dork. A HUGE dork. And I just spent a large part of today modifying a Nerf gun. So, here is my modded Airtech 2000. It can put thumbtacks into walls from about 10 feet.

Too much free time.

Those little gray things below the gun are home made darts known as Stefans (no, I'm not making that up. They're named after the guy who invented the method). They are weighted at one end, and sealed with hot glue.

I repeat. I am a dork.

But I'm an armed dork.

Want to make your own? Here.

nine months but years years years

The Matrix has a low ping(-pong)

Knowing your enjoyment of people and blogs, I think you might like this one.

Also, having fun with translations in A Wild Sheep Chase

Farmer in Japan:
"You kidding? I got two helpers. Them and me and the dog. The dog does most of the work, though. The sheep trust the dog. He ain't no sheepdog if the sheep don't trust him."

Got two helpers? Ain't? Japanese colloqualisms tranlated? Or are we now treading through the translator's words, having him press his ideas of how a farmer should sound to readers of english.

I will probably never know.

And that annoys me slightly.

I went into the cd store on campus. This means I have a new cd.

Also, had someone a few years younger and a foot taller than me tell me"god bless you" when I paid for his lemonade refill at Steak Escape.

Now to begin writing about squirrels.

They're squirrely, you know.

Small things I saw/learned today:
a large insect collided with the side of my nose
popsicle sticks littered the side of a sidewalk outside of the student union
jimmy was first out in a 4 man melee with no kills, playing as peach
a wild sheep chase gets very mysterious on page 79
my coffee is cold
I lucked out on an interview about scantrons
the animal control people are very nice
so is the head of environmental health and resources
the directions for cooking fries on the side of the bag are wrong
you now only get one level for doing the ancients in d2:lod

that is all

28.20513% - Total Geek

How about you?

"In the aquarium of my memory, it's always late autumn. The glass of the tanks is cold. I'm wearing a heavy sweater. Through the large picture window of the exhibition room, the sea is dark as lead, the countles whitecaps reminiscent of lace collars on girls' dresses."

"How many times did I dream of catching a train at night? Always the same dream. A nightliner stuffy with cigarette smoke and toilet stink. So crowded there was hardly standing room. The seats all caked with vomit. It was all I could do to get up and leave the train at the station. But it was not a station at all. Only an open field, with not a house light anywhere. No stationmaster, no clock, no timetable, no nothing - so went the dream."

Haruki Murakami - A Wild Sheep Chase

Ye've not seen the last of Captain Jack Sparrow!

U.S. General Says Iraq Has Become a Guerrilla War

In other news, water is wet.

Mountains are tall.

East, however, is still not right.

you're probably going to have to fight me to get your bandana back

Recording Industry Forces University to Identify Students Suspected of Music Piracy
By ANDREA L. FOSTER

The Recording Industry Association of America last week forced Loyola University Chicago to hand over the names of students whom the association suspected of offering music over the university network in violation of copyright law. The association obtained the data through a subpoena, indicating that the group is fulfilling its pledge to clamp down on peer-to-peer music piracy by threatening to sue thousands of people.

An officer for the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia delivered the subpoena to the university last Monday, according to Jack Corliss, a technology administrator at Loyola. The document, part of which was obtained by The Chronicle, cites the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and directs Loyola administrators to provide the names, addresses, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses of people assigned to a specific Internet address.

Mr. Corliss says the university complied with the subpoena after notifying two students assigned to the Internet address on Wednesday that the recording-industry group had sought their identities and contact information. The students, who are enrolled in the university's summer session, have not discussed the subpoena with university administrators, says Mr. Corliss.

Loyola is not the only college to receive such a subpoena since the recording-industry association announced last month that it would start amassing evidence to prepare lawsuits against people who upload large amounts of music, said Jonathan Lamy, a spokesman for the group. But he declined to reveal how many colleges have received similar subpoenas.

"This should not come as a surprise to anyone that a subpoena may have been served on a college," said Mr. Lamy, adding that other Internet service providers, besides colleges, have received subpoenas.

The subpoena to Loyola suggests growing confidence by the recording industry in demanding that Internet service providers identify individuals who are sharing music online. When the recording industry issued a subpoena to Verizon Communications asking that it reveal subscribers' names, the company fought the demand. But it relented last month after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia denied the company's request to place the subpoena on hold while Verizon challenged a provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Tracy B. Mitrano, director of the program in computer policy and law at Cornell University, said she has studied the question of whether colleges could refuse to comply with recording industry subpoenas, citing academic freedom or the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, and determined that they can not.

"I don't see how we have much of a choice," she said.

from The Chronicle of Higher Education

What a waste of $3,500.

Or WAS it?

I'll never download files again! I swear!

Who wouldn't listen to a big blue chicken...bird...thing...

These Weapons of Mass Destruction cannot be displayed

Argh argh argh. Hate lying to ed., but don't want to explain reason for procrastinating. Called in sick for the weekend.

I have a ranking of importance.

And I know that a weekend is worth more than $7.50 (now more than ever).

Will finish stories this week by Friday.

Weekend is ours.

comments now work, yes?

Hmmm...

Now I'm thinking about swearing off women until I'm in my mid-30s...

Wait!

Does this mean all women are ultimately to blame for all great crimes, and also that all women are ultimately responsible for a man's greatest work?

Further proof that women really do control everything. We men just put up a good front.

Ok, so. Rebuilding on a Conservative Kornerstone (ROCK) is a heavily republican group on our campus. They want $10,000 from SGA to put a flag in every classroom. President Hitt has said OK to the plan and offered UCF staff to put up the flags, once they have been purchased. The Future ran an article on it, as did the Orlando Sentinal a few days later. The Sentinal's article is much better...oh, the quotes to be found.

Here are the fun bits.

"'It's the least we can do,' said Heather Smith, the 21-year old president of ROCK. 'We're just trying to bring a symbol of freedom into the classroom.'"
Symbol? Freedom has no symbol. Are we fascist now? The symbol of freedom is the collection of people IN the classroom all freely speaking. We need no symbol. Do you need a picture of yourself to know who you are?

"'Anyone who says they don't want the flag in the classroom runs the risk of being anti-American,' said UCF ROCK member Jered Beaird, 21, a junior nursing student from Vero Beach. 'You don't want to be seen as antipatriotic.'"
Yep! You'd better like that symbol! Otherwise, you're an athiest commie!

"Craig Friend,an associate professor of history at UCF, said he thinks the flag idea is good, although it likely will chill criticism of American policy by foreign students."
Will someone please explain to me how a COLLEGE PROFESSOR with TENURE thinks that a flag is a good idea even when he believes it is going to limit free speech?

I don't know. Maybe I'm just annoyed with this because I know there are many more ways to spend $10,000 on the student population of UCF that would serve the students and faculty better. not all classrooms have overhead displays. The computers in the Nicholson School of Communication labs are old and falling apart.

When a flag can display a presentation to the class or assist me in writing a paper, maybe then I'll care.

Until then, I don't need a symbol reminding me of where I am.

unclench these fingers and this jaw with your eyes so I can breathe

Here we go. I hadn't done this before.

brandon is way off
brandon is lame
brandon is gone
brandon is the crow
brandon is different
brandon is god
brandon is not your god
brandon is dead
brandon is a great destination for your business and family
brandon is unique with two village greens
brandon is way off in reply to
brandon is it possible to get
brandon is a must for playoff success july 23
brandon is me
brandon is being silly
brandon is great
brandon is on
brandon is gummmmy
brandon is happy
brandon is not the smartest person on earth
brandon is done
brandon is so sexy
brandon is three
brandon is god
brandon is gone
brandon is so hott
brandon is the man
brandon is a dork
brandon is so sexy
brandon is a great destination for your business and family
brandon is a great place
brandon is on top again
brandon is special to us
brandon is a jokester
brandon is an agent for hire
brandon is a retired stud dog
brandon is a popular convention choice
brandon is something special as an institution
brandon is in the process of putting up his very own website
brandon is the most happy fun loving child
brandon is an accomplished crawler now
brandon is rock solid
brandon is vermonts sleeping beauty
brandon is banished
brandon is shocked
brandon is basically the band's babysitter
brandon is not the smartest person on earth
brandon is the babies' lead singer and guitar player
brandon is a sweet guy and michael is a major league butthole
brandon is the only female african american syndicated cartoonist
brandon is a ass whore that does his dog in the ass day and night
brandon is most well known for–the annual brandon balloon classic
brandon is situated very close to the geographical centre of north america
brandon is not potty trained and after 6 1/2 years i have had enough of changing diapers
brandon is a former wiccan and came to know christ in november 1999 through adult christian forum
brandon is in prison and does not have access to a computer or the internet and has never seen this site

Video games enhance college social life?

Another strange article from USA Today. And sorry, while that link will give you the full text of the article, it won't give you the cool little bar graphs and pie charts on the side. You need the print edition for that!

the recently updated blogs can be scary.
do you still need something to make you cry? I think this is worse than those random LJs.

the recently updated newspaper can be scary too.
From USA Today (the ultimate news source for those at an 8th grade reading level. mmmm....bar graphs and pie charts....)
Arnold meets the real terminators
Arnold Schwarzenegger joined U.S. troops in Baghdad on Friday for a screening of his latest movie, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. "I play Terminator, but you guys are the true terminators," he told them.

Naptime now.

Thought I would be doing a fair amount of drinking tonight, but I did 2 shots then a cider then done. No more. Coffee right now. Weary tired should sleep but no not now. Soon.

Mildly regretting two words wasted on vapid drunk girl by the pool. Oh well. I can think of a much better response now (Austin Powers: "Who throws a shoe?"). But I think I handled the situation fairly well. As well as could be expected, given the situation itself and lack of sleep and presence of alcohol and mental stress.

i don't think it has fully sunk in yet and i don't know if it will until you are gone

i drove home looking through water that my windshield wipers could not clear

how did i get garth brooks's "low places" in my head?

chair. then
down (at campus) for an hour or so.
no(more of this)

u
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start&sit

stop&stand

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bed. now.
up in an hour or so.
yes.