Two Down... Two to go!
WE BUMPED AGAIN TODAY!!! To answer your questions, Bumps is the most unfair game ever... the starting order is dictated by the previous day's results, and that in turn by the one before. The beginning order in any given year is the same as it was at the end of last year's Bumps, so it does take a long time (like years or decades) to reach the top. My college.. Corpus, has only had the headship once in it's 651 year history, and we're not likely to change that. What we do want is 'Blades' which is the honour and right to purchase your own oar decorated with our names and the boats we bumped, and place it in the college bar forever -- would be kind of cool to come back years later and see your name in the bar, so we're really gunning for it. To get this honour, you need to bump for all four days of rowing -- so, we bumped yesterday, and today, so we're half way there. Wish us luck tomorrow, because it's really going to be hard then. As for Jon-esque farting, yes, that certainly comes into it -- fortunately it's the guy in front of me who does the most, so therefore I don't have to smell it! Ok, that's my extended story. Good to hear from you guys, and I'll keep you posted!
M
Thursday, June 12, 2003
PHD, pimpin ho chi min degree
one of my cousins is also getting a PHD. He's pretty academically gifted. I don't know, I wish I had the academic fortitude to get a PHD, but Nay that is not my forte. Mine, is that of being your friends.
So Land of the Mike! glad to hear from ya! can you bump more than 1 boat a day? that's cool... like pole position on atari. because if you can only bump 1 boat a day, it might take a while to get to first place.
So during the row, you should place some of jons bowel movements in the back so the people behind can't avoid smelling the fresh warm pickled breeze that blows their way. They have to stay in the line right? Well there you go.
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so who's in for a MOHAA lan party this weekend???!!!
jael
one of my cousins is also getting a PHD. He's pretty academically gifted. I don't know, I wish I had the academic fortitude to get a PHD, but Nay that is not my forte. Mine, is that of being your friends.
So Land of the Mike! glad to hear from ya! can you bump more than 1 boat a day? that's cool... like pole position on atari. because if you can only bump 1 boat a day, it might take a while to get to first place.
So during the row, you should place some of jons bowel movements in the back so the people behind can't avoid smelling the fresh warm pickled breeze that blows their way. They have to stay in the line right? Well there you go.
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so who's in for a MOHAA lan party this weekend???!!!
jael
Kewl Party
There's so much excitement here, that I've hardly time to stop moving long enough to blog! Forget shit stories, here we're rowing in college 'Bumps' which is this insane system where 20 boats line up at 1.5 lengths apart and then try to hit the boat in front whilst avoiding the one behind. Man, is it scarey, stressful and hectic. And what is better, it goes on for 4 days in a row. Yesterday we bumped the boat in front, which means they are now behind us in the line, and will be out for blood -- yikes! I'm so nervous my hands are shaking... ok, that was my story.
M
P.S. Invite...hmm? The conspiracy continues...sad Michael!
There's so much excitement here, that I've hardly time to stop moving long enough to blog! Forget shit stories, here we're rowing in college 'Bumps' which is this insane system where 20 boats line up at 1.5 lengths apart and then try to hit the boat in front whilst avoiding the one behind. Man, is it scarey, stressful and hectic. And what is better, it goes on for 4 days in a row. Yesterday we bumped the boat in front, which means they are now behind us in the line, and will be out for blood -- yikes! I'm so nervous my hands are shaking... ok, that was my story.
M
P.S. Invite...hmm? The conspiracy continues...sad Michael!
Wednesday, June 11, 2003
hax net
Haven't played nethack in a long time, but I ran into it again, and d/l'd it, and its color now- hmm. seems cool- pretty much the same, but with graphics sorta (i think u can still run the b&w version too.) nethack.org
Ya, I was going for the cool skull look with that shirt- just for fun- instead of bones its the turntable amrs though (tonearms.) Sweet.
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Haven't played nethack in a long time, but I ran into it again, and d/l'd it, and its color now- hmm. seems cool- pretty much the same, but with graphics sorta (i think u can still run the b&w version too.) nethack.org
Ya, I was going for the cool skull look with that shirt- just for fun- instead of bones its the turntable amrs though (tonearms.) Sweet.
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Death Metal or Cafebeats?
The shirt is pretty kewl, however, it seems more hardcore than the music dictates. I like skulls and death and destruction, who doesn't?, but I'm not sure it grooves with the mellow grooves you turn out. Then again, what do I know. Nothing, that's what I know. But it's a kewl shirt, I just might have to pick one of those up too!
Work sux0rz.
Looks like tonight the 4Runner will be sold, and I am sad. I wanted to sell the Jetta and let Leslie have the 4Runner, and she did too, she just neglected to tell me that... she told all her friends that, but she told me she just wanted the money.... I am the Evil Boss, need the info... either way, I am sad. It is the best car EVAR. Nevar a problem with it, just sunk some cash into it to fix it up some, got it detailed, etc. It will be missed.
Sheesh... get over it, you woman....
The shirt is pretty kewl, however, it seems more hardcore than the music dictates. I like skulls and death and destruction, who doesn't?, but I'm not sure it grooves with the mellow grooves you turn out. Then again, what do I know. Nothing, that's what I know. But it's a kewl shirt, I just might have to pick one of those up too!
Work sux0rz.
Looks like tonight the 4Runner will be sold, and I am sad. I wanted to sell the Jetta and let Leslie have the 4Runner, and she did too, she just neglected to tell me that... she told all her friends that, but she told me she just wanted the money.... I am the Evil Boss, need the info... either way, I am sad. It is the best car EVAR. Nevar a problem with it, just sunk some cash into it to fix it up some, got it detailed, etc. It will be missed.
Sheesh... get over it, you woman....
Tuesday, June 10, 2003
"w" is for "www.biomass.com"
Good story Oon- Hadn't thought of that shit in awhile. Whup, shipmates is on, be seeing you.
In other SO-FUNNY news, I caught the beginning of the MTV Movie awards this past weekend (seemed highly unwatchable) but it opened with this rad skit where it was the scene from RELOADED with the Architect and Neo, and they super-imposed Will Ferrill as the archetcect, and just re-edited it so it sorta seemed like he was talking to Neo. Anyways, he's all: "Your presence at the MTV Movie Awards is an anomoly, apropo a glitch in the Matrix, vis a vis, a... wait- I don't know what the hell I just said." And then later in the skit he starts taunting neo by going "APROPO! VIS A VIS! APROPO! VIS A VIS! APROPO! VIS A VIS!" It was pretty god-danged fuckin' funny.
Just for Oon: In other Matrix news, I guess the supposedly uber-crappy game "Enter The Matrix" fills in a lot of shit that didn't make sense
in Reloaded. (Like, remember when they go to meet the French guy, in the beginning of the scene, you see them hustling out this homeless looking guy- well, he's a character in the game.) Also, that annoying kid that runs up to Neo in Zion and wants to carry his shit (he's like that MOUSE fuckin guy from matrix1) anyways, he's from one of the stories in the Animatrix, called Kid's Story. Its actually one of the cooler cartoons on that dvd- d/l it like i did. See dude, you just didn't UNDERSTAND the matrix 2. :P
Good story Oon- Hadn't thought of that shit in awhile. Whup, shipmates is on, be seeing you.
In other SO-FUNNY news, I caught the beginning of the MTV Movie awards this past weekend (seemed highly unwatchable) but it opened with this rad skit where it was the scene from RELOADED with the Architect and Neo, and they super-imposed Will Ferrill as the archetcect, and just re-edited it so it sorta seemed like he was talking to Neo. Anyways, he's all: "Your presence at the MTV Movie Awards is an anomoly, apropo a glitch in the Matrix, vis a vis, a... wait- I don't know what the hell I just said." And then later in the skit he starts taunting neo by going "APROPO! VIS A VIS! APROPO! VIS A VIS! APROPO! VIS A VIS!" It was pretty god-danged fuckin' funny.
Just for Oon: In other Matrix news, I guess the supposedly uber-crappy game "Enter The Matrix" fills in a lot of shit that didn't make sense
in Reloaded. (Like, remember when they go to meet the French guy, in the beginning of the scene, you see them hustling out this homeless looking guy- well, he's a character in the game.) Also, that annoying kid that runs up to Neo in Zion and wants to carry his shit (he's like that MOUSE fuckin guy from matrix1) anyways, he's from one of the stories in the Animatrix, called Kid's Story. Its actually one of the cooler cartoons on that dvd- d/l it like i did. See dude, you just didn't UNDERSTAND the matrix 2. :P
Monday, June 09, 2003
Two Poop Stories and Counting!
- Isn't poop just the greastest? It sounds like your new week is not going to be any better than the last one, eh R-Dub? And the surf sux0rz, so that also is not working out for you. And one more thing, the Ducks playing one game against the Devils for the Stanley Cup? I like the Ducks odds, it sounds like you might be a millionare with that bet you made in Vegas!
- Calling all Call of Cthulhu: I am running a game of CoC for the "other" gaming group, which is actually the "only" gaming group, starting *hopefully* in two weeks, obviously Enoto is in, just wondering if anyone else is interested that lives in the area, meaning Rael or RDub. We try to play Sunday afternoons, though with CoC we might try and play during the night some time. I know gaming isn't high up on your list of things to do for fun Rael, but it is CoC, and the group is pretty fun (even Lori seems to be loosening up a bit), and I just thought I would mention it to RDub since he has expressed interest in gaming after playing Battle Cry and almost (if my miniatures were not stolen) playing Blood Bowl!
- The WWII N scale destroyed buildings look kewl.
- That is all.
- Isn't poop just the greastest? It sounds like your new week is not going to be any better than the last one, eh R-Dub? And the surf sux0rz, so that also is not working out for you. And one more thing, the Ducks playing one game against the Devils for the Stanley Cup? I like the Ducks odds, it sounds like you might be a millionare with that bet you made in Vegas!
- Calling all Call of Cthulhu: I am running a game of CoC for the "other" gaming group, which is actually the "only" gaming group, starting *hopefully* in two weeks, obviously Enoto is in, just wondering if anyone else is interested that lives in the area, meaning Rael or RDub. We try to play Sunday afternoons, though with CoC we might try and play during the night some time. I know gaming isn't high up on your list of things to do for fun Rael, but it is CoC, and the group is pretty fun (even Lori seems to be loosening up a bit), and I just thought I would mention it to RDub since he has expressed interest in gaming after playing Battle Cry and almost (if my miniatures were not stolen) playing Blood Bowl!
- The WWII N scale destroyed buildings look kewl.
- That is all.
I just pooped and I think it came out sideways. Nevertheless, it clogged the toilet and the water overflowed onto the ground. I just spent the last 15-20 minutes cleaning it up. What an awful day so far! Glad I was at home instead of at someone else's house or at work. Yeesh. That's all. Oh, and hi everyone.
Sunday, June 08, 2003
A Greast Awakening
After a pretty fun party last night (Janice's surprise party, over at Yukari n' Jordan's), I abruptly awoke at 5:30 in the morning with a horrible, horrible stomach sensation and went to the shitter 3 times in the next 20 minutes. The third time I went to the can, both sluices opened up. Not at the same time... the oral right after the anal. Because I'd had a couple of red, tropical drinks, my vomitus was a startlingly bright color and at first I thought I was throwing up blood. Anyway, that's pretty much the most exciting thing that's happened the last few days. Except that I finally found my HarnMaster rules. HarnMaster is my very favorite game that I've never read the rules for. I don't even know how it handles combat and magic, I just sort of have all these exciting fantasies for how I think they are handled.
Oh, and I'm going to sell off some of my graphic novels like all of my Sandman books. It was fun collecting them, but it's time for me to unload some of this shite....
After a pretty fun party last night (Janice's surprise party, over at Yukari n' Jordan's), I abruptly awoke at 5:30 in the morning with a horrible, horrible stomach sensation and went to the shitter 3 times in the next 20 minutes. The third time I went to the can, both sluices opened up. Not at the same time... the oral right after the anal. Because I'd had a couple of red, tropical drinks, my vomitus was a startlingly bright color and at first I thought I was throwing up blood. Anyway, that's pretty much the most exciting thing that's happened the last few days. Except that I finally found my HarnMaster rules. HarnMaster is my very favorite game that I've never read the rules for. I don't even know how it handles combat and magic, I just sort of have all these exciting fantasies for how I think they are handled.
Oh, and I'm going to sell off some of my graphic novels like all of my Sandman books. It was fun collecting them, but it's time for me to unload some of this shite....
Zazzle
Just found out about this place called Zazzle. Its like CafePress but different- they do shirts n stuff, but it seems more on the poster/prints tip. Anyways, they got a bigger selection of shirt types and blah blah blah- looks kinda interesting. I've been checking out the cafepress message boards a little and there've been some lame changes (with prices going up and shit like that) so it'll be cool if there are neato alternatives.
(ADD: Well, they seem more expensive than cafepress although they definately give you more options (shirt types, shirt colors, etc.) so who knows.)
New Radiohead, "Hail to the Thief" = good.
Re-reading of Microserfs = pretty good. Its a little bit "aged" , but not too bad. Fun and easy to read.
Reading FastFoodNation = what a great book. Not really "gross-out" like I thought it would be, but just as disturbing (business practices) and pretty moving n shit. NiCE.
-WMD
Just found out about this place called Zazzle. Its like CafePress but different- they do shirts n stuff, but it seems more on the poster/prints tip. Anyways, they got a bigger selection of shirt types and blah blah blah- looks kinda interesting. I've been checking out the cafepress message boards a little and there've been some lame changes (with prices going up and shit like that) so it'll be cool if there are neato alternatives.
(ADD: Well, they seem more expensive than cafepress although they definately give you more options (shirt types, shirt colors, etc.) so who knows.)
New Radiohead, "Hail to the Thief" = good.
Re-reading of Microserfs = pretty good. Its a little bit "aged" , but not too bad. Fun and easy to read.
Reading FastFoodNation = what a great book. Not really "gross-out" like I thought it would be, but just as disturbing (business practices) and pretty moving n shit. NiCE.
-WMD
Captains Blog: Brown with corn. Plus bonus: Stupid too much to drink
Sweet, Sweet, gaming. Yesterday Ja -eL and I had some good gaming fun @ the gamesday event. Johnny Led Picket's Charge against the union with brutal losses, but was able to deafeat the union in a close 6-5 victory. Picket led with a few cards moving almost all the confederate troops to the center. Then played a "Forced March" in the center. This was followed by a "Counter Attack" by the union. Then the south played a couple small cards while the north led a couple of devastating "Leadership" charges. Next Ja -El led with an "All out Offensive" (Reshuffle), followed by a union led "Forced March". This was followed by another "Forced March" play by the south. This sealed the fate of the north. Carnage galore.
Battlecry was followed up by Iron Dragon. Two random guys jumped in, including a super rail game fanatic that swore we would be done in under 2 hours after I said the game takes 3-4 hours. I turned to johnny and said, "bullshit". Just because he plays the game all the time online does not mean that a bunch of amatures would be quick at mapping routes and patoffs. Even with his prolific and often quite helpful assistance, if not impatient to the point to frustration at times, the game had two Paul Barrs. All said and done: 3hrs 30min. Three cheers to johnny for defeating the wily old veteran one round before he would have won.
Went to a flat party, turned bar visit (Where I had that one extra beer that I didnt need... You know the one), turned dance club visit. D'oh! Didnt get home until 5:30. If it hadnt been for me driving I would have left at 2am. But they decided to go out to the club and I was too buzzing to drive home so I went with them to wait it out. Ahhh yes the club meat market. Blah! The cool thing though is that when we came back from the club we got pizzas. How sweet is it that a pizza place was open @ 4am? While we were eating, one of our friends who does DJ work started spinning records on her setup. Cool shit. She is pretty darn good at it. Overall it was a very good day.
Wheaties, the breakfast of champions
Sweet, Sweet, gaming. Yesterday Ja -eL and I had some good gaming fun @ the gamesday event. Johnny Led Picket's Charge against the union with brutal losses, but was able to deafeat the union in a close 6-5 victory. Picket led with a few cards moving almost all the confederate troops to the center. Then played a "Forced March" in the center. This was followed by a "Counter Attack" by the union. Then the south played a couple small cards while the north led a couple of devastating "Leadership" charges. Next Ja -El led with an "All out Offensive" (Reshuffle), followed by a union led "Forced March". This was followed by another "Forced March" play by the south. This sealed the fate of the north. Carnage galore.
Battlecry was followed up by Iron Dragon. Two random guys jumped in, including a super rail game fanatic that swore we would be done in under 2 hours after I said the game takes 3-4 hours. I turned to johnny and said, "bullshit". Just because he plays the game all the time online does not mean that a bunch of amatures would be quick at mapping routes and patoffs. Even with his prolific and often quite helpful assistance, if not impatient to the point to frustration at times, the game had two Paul Barrs. All said and done: 3hrs 30min. Three cheers to johnny for defeating the wily old veteran one round before he would have won.
Went to a flat party, turned bar visit (Where I had that one extra beer that I didnt need... You know the one), turned dance club visit. D'oh! Didnt get home until 5:30. If it hadnt been for me driving I would have left at 2am. But they decided to go out to the club and I was too buzzing to drive home so I went with them to wait it out. Ahhh yes the club meat market. Blah! The cool thing though is that when we came back from the club we got pizzas. How sweet is it that a pizza place was open @ 4am? While we were eating, one of our friends who does DJ work started spinning records on her setup. Cool shit. She is pretty darn good at it. Overall it was a very good day.
Wheaties, the breakfast of champions
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