| Two links that make me happy. Piiiiiiiiiipe wreeeeeeeeeench fiiiiiiiiight... |
[08 Oct 2008|01:17am] |
From the world of college football: Tennessee's (starting tailback) Arian Foster Will Only Talk To People Who Speak In Pterodactyl (found here):
Arian Foster snickered.
He sat down and peeled tape off his ankles.
Practice had just ended last week. The Tennessee starting tailback, a senior on the verge of becoming UT's all-time leading rusher, was requested for media interviews.
He had a demand: whoever interviewed him had to speak Pterodactyl, some made-up dinosaur language. No interview was conducted.
It was kind of funny and it fit Foster's quirky personality. But considering the environment and Foster's recent demeanor, it quickly became sad.
The reason is because 10 yards away, Coach Phillip Fulmer was addressing reporters about his quarterback crisis. Fulmer discussed how starter Jonathan Crompton and backup Nick Stephens would duke it out for the starting job against Northern Illinois.
It was a national story about an offense looking for leadership.
It could determine the fate of Tennessee's season and Fulmer's legacy.
"Veeeeek! Veeeeek! Veeeeek!" Foster shrieked.
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After that, here's Take On Me: Literal Video Version, the best thing I've seen on YouTube in months.
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| Accidental Zappa |
[27 Aug 2008|11:08am] |
UofM has a music library with a pretty impressive catalog. It's really hit-or-miss with stuff that's more recent, but they have a ton of classic rock albums. I went there yesterday to check out a few I had been wanting to listen to. One of them was ZZ Top's "Eliminator," because I've had parts of the album stuck in my head for the past month. Now, "Eliminator" has a pretty distinctive cover:
...as did the other two albums I got, the self-titled from The Cars and The Who's "Quadrophenia." That's why I was a little surprised to see this on top of the stack of CDs they handed me:
Apparently, I've got a Frank Zappa album to listen to.
I've never listened to Zappa before in my life. I'm not sure why - I don't have anything against him or his music, and I've even got a hunch I'll like it when I listen to it - but up until now, I hadn't actually made an effort to get one of his albums.
Looks like I didn't have to make that effort, seeing as it was literally handed to me. Now that I've got the CD, I'll listen to it and give it a shot. If I like it, it looks like the library here has most of Zappa's vast catalog, so I'd be able to catch up without having to pay for any of it.
Ah, the "benefits" of $20,000+ a year tuition...
Next up: get the ZZ Top album they didn't give me last time, some David Bowie and (maybe against my better judgment) ABBA's greatest hits, which can't be any more embarrassing than the rest of the stuff that's currently on my iPod.
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[08 Aug 2008|11:46pm] |
8.
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| WINGS WIN! |
[05 Jun 2008|01:38am] |
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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[22 May 2008|06:02pm] |
For the past few days, our internet connection kept alternating between "working" and "not." The crowning moment? A 5+ hour period last night where we couldn't get the connection to work at all. I say 5+ because, when I went to bed at 1:30 after neither my dad nor myself could get our connection to start working again, the connection was still dead.
We called Comcast today; apparently, they don't support routers and our internet connection should be plugged into one computer, and one computer only. They also told us that if our setup had anything "illegal" included (like a router), they'd charge us for the service call instead of fixing it for free like they're supposed to, and like they have in the past when we had a router sitting next to our modem.
But on the plus side, they gave us a $5 credit. Apparently, that's what a few days' worth of intermediate downtime costs?
Anyone have any experience with Wide Open West/WOW or AT&T? Either one of those has got to be better than the steaming pile of crap that is Comcast, and with any luck we'll be switching soon. Very, very soon.
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[08 Apr 2008|07:17am] |
Urgh.
Exam in about an hour.
I don't know how much sleep I got last night, but I know it feels like I laid in bed for at least an hour (though it's hard to tell because I forced myself to stop clock-watching after a little while at the beginning). That usually means "not nearly enough."
Caffeine, save me!
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[24 Mar 2008|03:07pm] |
Top 5 Reasons It Sucks to Be an Engineering Student
Yes, they're generalizations, but this does a pretty good job of summing up college so far. I've experienced everything on this list at least once (and most of them multiple times) in the past three years.
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[18 Mar 2008|11:02pm] |
This song describes my life perfectly right now, if you replace "coal mine" with...um, apartment. Maybe "Duderstadt Center," but that doesn't flow with the rest of the lyrics.
The fact that it's easier to find a song as a YouTube video than it is to dig up an MP3 of it is a sign of how much things have changed in the past few years.
In the next week or so, I've got three papers, an internship fair, an exam, and all of my usual homework on top of that. JOY.
But on the other hand, I've got pie, there's a lot of albums coming out in the next few weeks I'm looking forward to (Panic at the Disco, the Counting Crows, the Raconteurs, and the new version of Tally Hall's album...fear my questionable taste in music), and I've still got the occasional Smash Brothers break to take my mind off of work. Things could be worse...but they'd be a heck of a lot better without all of this work.
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[18 Mar 2008|01:41am] |
I spent all day Sunday on one homework assignment.
I had class all day, and then spent four hours scrubbing dishes alone in the back of Bursley's kitchen. It got so bad that my boss (Chuck, for the two or three of you that know him) spent an hour helping me because we were so busy that, even after three years of practice with the job, I couldn't handle the amount of dishes they sent back on my own.
I've spent the past hour trying to figure out why the Maple file I need for my lab tomorrow morning won't open, and cursing the fact that my lab partner's got appendicitis and has been incommunicado for the past few days because of it.
And on top of all of that, my glasses are currently locked in an office in Bursley, which means I've got a huge headache brewing, which will be made all the worse by the fact that I'm getting up at 6:30 tomorrow morning.
I love my life. >_<
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