Big doin’s

I know it's been a while since I've updated but I just discovered this really neat feature in MS word 2007 that allows you to just type something up and then publish it to your blog, so I think I'm going to start doing that more. Which means you may be hearing more from me in coming weeks, although I doubt anyone still reads this old thing. Eh whatever I like doing it when I have the time.

The news goes something like this, I've finally gotten accepted to SUNY Oswego, and I start on august 24^th, and I'm currently the Copy Editor for the school paper The Hudsonian, and although I won't be uploading any articles I have been instructed to write up an Opus style piece as a final editorial describing whatever I feel like; so naturally I got very existential and elaborative, I will be publishing that as soon as it's printed, don't want to spoil the surprise, well that's all for now.

Reading:

Fear and loathing in Las Vegas: a savage journey to the heart of the American Dream

By, Hunter S. Thompson

 

Just read:

A brief history of time

By, Stephen Hawking

"MY CARR HURRRTS!"

allright i know i haven't updated in a while, but i've been very very busy. so here's what's new i got a job for the school paper, have re-joined up the martial arts club, been working on college transfer applications, and having two lab sciences on top of that, oh and did i mention a social life, yea dont' have that. in relation to the title of this post i managed to get my car stuck in my friend's driveway this morning and needless to say it was a very humbling experience 4 hours in the snow trying to get the thing out, then this guy with a plow on his truck comes along and goes "are you stuck" i responded with a resounding "yea" "allright lemme pull you out". so he backs over hooks a chain to the back of the car, and the car literally went 'pop!' and out it came, and i was on my way. it was more then a little demoralizing to see how little effort he had to put into getting my car out when i had done everything short of performing some sort of voodoo ritual on the car.

new news is good news

i just realized that i haven't updated since about ummm last year, so i'm going to make a new resolution and that's to start blogging more, i'm also going to try to start writing down my inner-dialogue. the sort of intense psycobabble that i tend to have early in the morning when i'm in the shower. things like "how can one make a hydrogen fuel cell economical for use in cars" or "if doctors remove an undeveloped conjoined twin, does it count as an abortion, and therefore would the catholic church take a stand against it" and even things as inane as "how does natural selection code for eyebrows"? more things like that, even if i don't reach a conclusion (i usually don't) but more inner thoughts and less just what happens in my life, since really nothing noteworthy ever happens.

Nerd humor

So today i'm going a little self-indulgent in my post to reflect on the anatomy of nerd humor. Why is it that to us nerds it just makes so much sense, and seem so funny, but to non-nerds (hmmm should develop a word for that, kinda like "muggle" but less lame) it barely passes as a joke. even after its been thoroughly explained by someone of a nerdy persuasion. take for example here.

in their minds it makes perfect sense, but to us the viewer, not being in on the joke it makes about as much sense as the writings of nostradaumus, complete gibberish. but yet somehow theres still something funny in this style of humor even for those of us not in on the joke. I think its because you can look at them and say "wow they're real loosers, at least i'm not that dorky" but yet i think at some point i know we've all done that trick where we write out inappropriate things with the graphing calculators in math class (personally i think that's what these two are laughing so hard at, the equation probably writes out "boobs" with the variables or something like that.); and that's what makes it so funny to us is that even though it's not us, we still see a little of ourselves in them, and that scares us a little bit, but just enough that we can laugh at it. that's why it's still funny and still accessable to outsiders.

HAPPY TURKEY SANDWHICH DAY!

So happy day after thanksgiving. also known in some circles as buy lots of crap day. Also since most of you will have LOTS of leftovers i've decided to start calling it turkey sammich day. so eat lots of more turkey, take a really long nap, and prepare for the winter hibernation the AMERICAN WAY. remember if we don't eat until we vomit the terrorists have won...

quick update

so, just a quick update, because i haven't updated anything in a while, but nothings really happened lately. other then the fact that i'm actually starting to feel like a college student this year, and no longer just a kid stuck in limbo between "real college" and highschool, it's probably because of the courses i'm taking this year, one of which is "invertebrate zoology" the work that's done in the class really makes it feel like it's on the collegate level and not just a review of highschool biology.

ps: sorry for the absurdity of today's picture, but it was so funny i just had to add it. it came up when "zoology" was searched for.

"millions of apples, apples for me!"

today we went APPLE PICKING! had apple cider, apple doughnuts, apples, apples, and just for a change of pace apples. but in all seriousness it was alot of fun i went with alot of the people from church. other then that not a whole lot has been happening recently, i had a job interview with Brunswick harley davidson, they seem like a neat company, but most of them graduated with my father from high school, i tell you, that's a weird feeling, knowing that these people were your dads old friends years and years ago. However if for some reason that doesn't work out, Jay brought up a really interesting thought, which was to try and get a job working for Time Warner he seems to think that they are almost allways hiring just based on a lack of overall staff, that might be an interesting place to work. but either way i need to work out something soon because being broke is pretty darn lame.


PS: oh and FYI i like to put alot of pop-culture puns in my post titles, see if you can figure out what this weeks is.