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Thursday, April 26, 2001
10:21 PMHate mail: I don't get any, (no one reads these pages anyway) but I have been reading an awfull lot of it lately on other websites. Here are some:
Democratic Underground
Cat Scan
8 Track Heaven
They are very amusing.
Tuesday, April 24, 2001
5:25 PM
And Now I am off to play darts.
5:21 PM
I am in the final week for my senior design project, the written report is due on April 30th and the final presentation is on May 3rd. I am almost done with school, but I have a case of Senioritis.
I am addicted to Snood.
Friday, April 20, 2001
2:37 AM
I don't know why but I seem to be doing alot of searches for old friends on google lately.
Old friend Bridgid Fennell
Old Girlfriend Luna Munoz and her site.
Old friend Bridget Barton (but I can't find her)
Kimberly Foley (also can't find her)
Chrissy Demsey (but I still have her email and write.....occasionally)
All female, says something doesn't it.
1:08 AM
Got my Propulsion test back, 73. C+. Now I need some extra cred.
Bought 2 tickets to DM today, and boy am I excited. (Sorry had to.) I am also thinking of getting tickets to the Madison Square Garden, so far only Guazzo has said he wants to go, hopefully I can get some more friends to go. It could, I hope, get to be similar to the Violator tour when we all went in a giant bus. That was a riot. Me and a bus of people I hardly knew, except for my then girlfriend Luna, going to the Meadowlands for the show. I was in my anti-people stage then, and so sat quietly up front on the way there. (Boy I must have been a fun date) but on the way back, I was happy, happy and talkative and generally on a nice buzz of contentment. Well the show is on July 1st at the Tweeter Center (formerly Greatwoods) my seats are in section 5 Row M. Tickets don't go on sale by phone til April 27th and already I'm no where near the front. I think that there will only be lawn seats by the time they go on sale by phone. This is what my view will be. Not bad.
For some reason, maybe the fact that it was just Easter, and me a lapsed Catholic and all, I have been listening to my copy of Jesus Christ Superstar (1970). I have also watched the film version for the revival that has been playing on 'GBH over the past week. This musical always tugs at those strings that Sister Nancy and my mother sowed in my heart when I was young. I have been singing "I don't know how to Love Him" and "The Arrest" over and over. Been an ok week.
Wednesday, April 18, 2001
2:54 AM
Its late and I find myself in the scud lab once again. I think it is the lull of the faster then I can get at home connections that bring me here. Downloads are a hell of a lot faster and all that. Once again listening to Nothing Records Soft Cell is playing Sex Dwarf. I like this song better then Tainted Love mainly cause it so much weirder and abnormal and reminds me so much of my "youth". Back when I worked at Tobay Beach and Nassau County Beach in the summer. When I was introduced to Depeche Mode and WDRE (now again WLIR but still in Westhampton as a relay station for 'LIR). Those were the days.
12:01 PM
Check out this site librarian avengers. Pretty funny. Now I have never been a librarian but I have had to answer similiar questions as a bookseller. For some reason much of the public confuses libraries with bookstores (its the books, they do odd things to people) The large chains have so much material on hand that a lot of students go there to study and research and then try to get a bookseller to do the research for them. Which is when we usually tell them to go to a library.
My favorite stupid questions/stories:
"I'm looking for a book. Its blue and has a dolphin on the cover."
After searching the stacks we come back with 15 books that are blue with dolphins (fiction and nonfiction)
"No none of these are the book."
Later on the customer brings up a copy of SAIL and says "Here it is."
Cust:"I'm looking for Black's The Cherry."
Me: "I'm sorry, we don't have a listing for a book with that title and that author."
Cust. hands me a printout of an email message her son sent her, he was a student at a law school, all the books are actual law titles but at the top it says Black's The Cherry.
I directed her to the fifth floor to the law room and told her she wanted Black's Law Dictionary. I wonder how her son did at law school.
And my favorite:
Cust:"I'm looking for The British of Garrison Money."
After much searching I tell the customer she may want to visit our business or finance section on the fifth floor.
Cust:"Oh no. Its Fiction."
Me:"Still I see no listing for it at all. Do you know anything else about the book."
Cust:"Yes it was just a movie starring Clint Eastwood."
I leave the info desk walk over to the shelves and give her a copy of Bridges of Madison County.
Cust:"No thats not the book."
I open it up (it was the MOVIE EDITION, I hate movie editions) and show her the pictures.
Cust:"ohhhh."
I have a propulsion test in 6 hours wish me luck.
1:22 AM
I finally updated the links. I had too, an old friend who I recently refound scolded me.
Go visit her site, her cat is quite odd.
Now if I could just get up the willpower to contact the other 6 people I like soo much that I never speak to them.
You can always tell if you are a good friend of mine, I'll never talk to you because I assume that you know what I am doing at all times.
Odd.
Monday, April 09, 2001
12:51 PM
Well I finally visited a foreign country. Granted it was only Canada and I walked across a bridge to get there but it was another country. This past weekend I went to SUNY Buffalo for an AIAA student conference. The conference was OK, the only good presentation was by an MIT Graduate team from France. The project wsa called COSMIC. They did an experiment in the ESA's parabolic flight airplane .(The US version is called the "vomit comet") It was a pretty good presentation, some of the others were OK but boring to say the least. The odd thing was that there were at leats 6 colleges attending but only MIT and Buffalo students gave presentations, mostly MIT (5-2). So MIT took alll the awards. MIT's Engineering program is radically different from almost any other schools. They almost force you to publish a paper during your junior year (hence the majority of presenters being from MIT) I kind of wish BU did that.
Well the conference was on April 6th and later that night we went ino Canada to drink and have some fun so that I had my 28th birthday in some bar called Pumps. The falls were completely blocked by fog so we had to go back on saturday to see them. Overall was a pretty good weekend, unfortunately I did not bring my camera so pictures will have to wait.
I took the trip with fellow seniors Pete and Scott and Pete's roommate Eric.
Monday, April 02, 2001
10:52 PM
Was woolgazing today and I, as usual, was watching TV. I was waiting for Batman Beyond to come on (Remember that I'm addicted to TV) and I had to wait a half hour. Well the show that was on was Histeria. Ugh. I don't know what deranged mind came up with this concept but he should be drawn and quartered. Of all the shows that parents groups could protest this should be at the top of the list. The WB probably list this as an educational kids show. The cartoon is about History, but in a stupid inane way. I think you could possibly learn more on Blue's Clues then this show (and that is for preschoolers).
The shows premise, a fat bouncing Baby and the rest of the gang travel throughout time to tell you what happened. Then characters from that time participate in a stupid retelling of history. On todays episode they started in 1929 in the USA, with the Stock Market Crash and then carried on to the New Deal and then WW2. They get the basic facts correct. In some ways its like looking at a Timeline (which is what they must use as a storyboard) but they just throw some weird shit in there. Examples: Hitler is pink, with sharp pointy teeth and horns, Mussolini is wearing a Doctor Freeze type outfit that shoots Meatballs and Spagetti, and the basic Japanese soldier looks like a basic japanese soldier, its hard to tell who he is supposed to be. Well the good guys are the Freedom League (all superheroes): "Super Prez" (FDR, who can walk mind you, but who also has a mighty wheel chair), "TRUE-Man" (Truman, even though some of the story takes place in 1941 and Truman wasn't elected VP til '43), "Mighty Joe" (Stalin, who looks like a madman says stuff like "I don't have time to starve you with famine so ....", when asked what to do with their enemies "I feel the urge to Purge!" ) and "Churchillinator" (Churchill, with his mighty umbrella). These guys then fight the axis, lose and get rescued by Eleanor Roosevelt. They then go to Yalta and eat up a food map of Europe, "Stalin your eating Germany, give me some!". Episode 41 Just think of all the kids whose knowledge of history will be warped because of this show. It even get a Go rating on this Parents site kidscore. Supposedly the show is for 6-12 yearolds.
What is really funny is that here in Boston it shows between Men In Black and Batman Beyond, 2 shows that have no educational value and have more violence then G.I Joe used to have. (which was the Most Violent Cartoon of its time, according to my Mom.)
