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Sunday, October 14, 2007

Something weird

Something really weird happened to me today. It was weird. I shall explain later. Perhaps.

Saturday, October 13, 2007

All shirts are the same

Where else have I seen this shirt? Maybe here?

Friday, October 12, 2007

Old Kinderhook

Am I total nerd that I find entomology interesting?

Okay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Mommy and daddy love you; they just want you to get in your own bed"

My
parents put up one of those child barriers in their room. A baby
blocker, if you will, that parents sometimes use to confine their
offspring to specific parts of the house or prohibit free movement into
others for concerns of safety, sanitation, and sanity. Adults can
easily step over, but children must construct elaborate Rube Goldberg
contraptions and ziggurat structures to overcome them. He likes to
stroll into their bad in the late night and often wets the bed. I find
it amusing. I bet he'll knock it over or break it somehow before the
weekend is over. He's crazy affectionate towards them, boarding on
creepy, in my ambivalent opinion. He wanted to cross the wall tonight
just so he could "give mom a hug". Kinda sweet, I suppose, it still
made me LOL. Being this jovial when my family so isn't corrupts me into
a hyena, braying and giggling at silly things. I talk all high and
weird. Weird. I'm kinda liking this, however short-lived and artificial
it turns out to be.

Okay, so the child-gate thing isn't that funny, but it could be. We'll see when he trips on it tonight.

The Eye of the Storm

I love listening to Chocolate Rain. Mr. Zonday's other work is not as impressive, although I do enjoy the occasional Tayroll. Hilarious! Every time! A much friendlier prank than the meatspin, which I shall not link or mention again.

I figured out what it is. I'm in the eye of the storm. And it's hilarious. Perhaps it's indicative of some greater neurosis, but lately, my families altercations have been comedic. Even the slight ones, like my parents arguing over whether to watch Friday Night Lights or Las Vegas and the domestic hierarchy of television the decision entails, have yielded laughs out loud, or at least little contained giggles (LCGs for short). Maybe it's the corruption of the lulz.

I've lost my train of thought.

So..

I'm done for now (have to use the bathroom. Perhaps will continue later.

Danger

I couldn't resist changing my preferred name to Danger.

Im-Pressed

I wish to witness:
Extreme ironing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Overheard

I just overheard my father say,

"Well, wait to go, Kirsten. You made my daddy cry."

I look forward to a day when a spouse may make my own father cry. Perhaps often. Would it be wrong that I become so easily enamored by women with a mean streak?

Now hearing: "Mom, I'm dying. Mom, I'm going to die...Oh, I'm dying"

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Guidebook

Extensive. Comprehensive. A cry for help.

SIRC Guide to flirting

Proteans

“Human flirtation involves sequences of gestures and expressions not
unlike the courtship dances of birds and other animals that we see on
wildlife programmes,” says the report.

Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan - Solved: flirting code that baffles the boys

Interesting

I love how wikipedia summarizes. It's wonderful. Spark-notes for all!

Seduction community - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Yikes

The headline is Study Ties Marital Strife, Heart Disease

Wired News - AP News

Wholesome

I just got out of my journalism class. We shared our media log reflections, which I had posted here last night after finishing it. I felt like such a weirdo. I seemed to have spent a considerable amount more time on mine than my peers did. I got maybe 4 hours of sleep because of it, and some weird dreams when I slept in my car earlier, but I'll get to that. I felt like a total loser reading my paper. I don't listen to music or watch movies or read; it is my socialization. I'm listening to Chocolate Rain and I apologize for my fragmented thoughts. It is so catchy! And fragmented is the only way they come. I cannot claim to feel good about my paper, but it did make them feel bad about their own, embarrassed one even. Certainly not my intention, although they seemed to enjoy it, laughing at comments about being that Don't tase me, bro! guy and my candid reflections of how incredibly unhip I am with my grand total of 22 MySpace friends. I shoved my foot quite forcefully into my mouth when the query what media don't we like was proposed. I started going off about ABC's fall lineup, which is terrible. I wish I hadn't of done that, I thought it was going really well up until that point. I'm not a very competent speaker, even when reading a simple paper I wrote, I tend to stammer and trip, to my embarrassment. I'm even worse when I haven't written anything down. I just spin my tires in the mud, so I don't comment much in class. If the instructor asks me to elaborate, I'm dead in the water. It's easier to blend in.
Given that there was such a consensus that MySpace is the new black perhaps I will add some of the people from my journalism class in as MySpace friends! Because I really have a lot to offer..
In reality, I don't support many Disney products, with perhaps Pixar movies being an exception; although they do pimp those children's toys pretty hard. Shamelessly, in fact. A whole seven years after the last episode of the franchise, although they are offering free shipping. Apparently, they are making a new one. I liked Patrick Warburton as the voice of Buzz Lightyear better than Tim Allen. But what can I do? I am but a lowly consumer whore.

I've put some effort in not attracting attention with my nondescript wardrobe, but today I got pegged as wholesome. Wholesome. I'm not sure how I feel about that. I certainly don't feel wholesome. Kinda sweaty, really. But I am wearing several layers.

"Are you a mormon?" A peer asked. I responded, "My family is." Was that the correct response? I think about things too much.

I can't believe...I made an LOLcats joke when we were discussing in our little group! WHAT HAVE I DONE??!

Oh, you are such a fool, Derek. Such a fool.

I also completely confused the Rock Creek and Capital Center campuses in my head, so I didn't ride the bus like I had planned, but since I had already left my house I got to Sylvannia early and got to catch some Z's. I'll have to make arrangements for next time. Again, supporting the above thesis.

Media Log: The Rumination

Twice a week I shuffle between classes to edify myself. Seven days a week, I am a media junkie. Each morning I graze on the singsong tones of NPR’s Morning Edition that flutter down into my dreams. Some mornings I listen intently to Steve and Renée, others are marked by a poignant sensation of déjà vu. Cartoons augment Saturday mornings with siblings; days beginning with ‘T’ will feature a silent commute and television in the evening. I’ll listen to the Rick Emerson Show, if time allows, or watch an odd episode of The Office on DVD, but the majority of media devotion belongs to the Internet. The twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth were no exception to this habitude.

I come from a religious family that uses a special brand of DVD player that skips scenes deemed inappropriate. I can count the number of rated R movies I’ve seen on my hands. I received a rather awkward assignment in the past week that involved watching media coverage from a 24-hour news outlet; I don’t have cable. I only have twenty-two MySpace friends, perhaps because I am a late adopter (although I have failed to adopt a trendy iPod at all). I haven’t set my radio to a commercial music station since my family made the leap to country music formats, although I will still listen to my extensive jazz collection when I have work to attend to. I would consider myself a media anomaly.

I have not found the college environment to be a significant variable in my media consumption nearly as much as other factors such as work and social schedules. Even as I write this reflection, I continue to check my RSS feeds for updates and browse Wikipedia between paragraphs. While some assignments provide me with excuses to listen to music, which I would not make otherwise, I would not consider classes to be the most substantial affect on my media consumption. I have noticed that my movie intake has decreased dramatically since I became single again and the corresponding free time has been relegated to other forms of media, primarily electronic entertainments with a slight increase in television engagements (possibly due to a new fall schedule).

I am very much entertainment oriented. Whatever medium, I hate the feeling stagnation that accompanies boredom. There is always some information conduit that can be tapped. Fortunately, most of the entertainment I desire can be procured through a series of tubes if I happen to miss the original broadcast. This applies to my favorite television and radio productions, as well as music, movies, and games if I sought them over peer-to-peer networks. I subscribe to a multitude of feeds through my customized Mozilla Firefox browser so I can be certain to check the latest updates of my favorite sites or avoid looking at outdated sites. I constantly reference various online encyclopedias and dictionaries as references when writing both assignments and weblog postings.

One of the most amazing applications of media is the ability to unite people in a common experience, whether watching a college student get tased, a presidential debate, an anticipated book release, or musical event. With so many diversifying venues to choose from, it becomes more difficult to choose which to invest in. Ultimately it comes down to content, but the medium greatly affects the freshness, which I value. Due to my distractible nature, I find both novels and movies difficult to appreciate without an invested interest. I enjoy the Internet and radio because of their flexibility and rapid responsive to a dynamic world at a pace television and print cannot match. I also find the static nature of most popular music to be restrictive. Reading and television require more resources to process to the fullest extent than both the Internet and radio that better facilitate multitasking and can be enjoyed both passive and actively. The Internet, and the radio to a much smaller extent, can be enjoyed both as an audience member and active participant. I would also afford music some of this comfort, but because I listen to it so infrequently and the prohibitive costs involved in consuming and producing music much less so. I must disclose that my favorite entertainment comes from the television as The Office, which I enjoy enough to schedule my week around. But the episodes are only new once (though always awesome), however, the Internet is almost always accessible and new. I also dislike commercials. And The Office is available online, with deleted scenes. Delicious.

Monday, October 08, 2007

Speaker City and More

I'm sure it's just a coincidence. They're drawing on the same inspirations, right? I mean, how many cow bell variations can there be? Compare yourself.

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