05.28.08
Reevers and zealots
I hate to say it again, but I hate to say it again, but I hate to say it again.
05.24.08
Ichiro says,
“Playing on this team and seeing what is happening around me, I feel that something is beginning to fall apart. But, if I was not in this situation, and I was objectively watching what just happened this week, I would probably be drinking a lot of beers and booing.”
05.22.08
Life before the internet
Having no internet at the apartment has given me some time to think about things. For example, I thought about how life has changed since the internet became something convenient to use.
Back in fourth grade, we had to write a report on an animal of our choosing. The rubric stipulated that we were to use something like 4 sources of reference such as books, encyclopedia (print or electronic), and the internet. I remember looking at the rubric and thinking dang, I’m gonna need to find 2 books. Because, you see, 56k was as good as it got back then, and besides that, I doubt anyone in my class knew how to use the thing back then. These days, I bet 4th graders are using the internet to raise all sorts of hell. Man, how times have changed.
And remember how if you wanted to use the internet, you’d have to lose the use of your phone line? And how the rich kids and their rich parents could afford to have TWO phone lines so that they could use the internet all the time? Those crazy rich folk!
I guess that if it weren’t for the internet, I’d have fallen in love for real. I’d have used the phone more and spent less time in front of a monitor. But hey, at least I went through 14 years of my life without it, right?
The old man laughs.
05.15.08
Tungsten is the king of metals
If I could forge a chain of any metal, it would be a bond forged of naught but the purest tungsten.
Such a chain would bind to me forever my love of tungsten.
And, should the heat of passion never exceed 6192 degrees Fahrenheit, my love will never abandon me, for said chain would hold strong in hotter flames than hell has to bear.
Oh tungsten~
You are the metal with mettle.
You are the filament of my guiding light.
W, 74, I am yours.
05.10.08
What exactly is a post-intelligencer?
After having watched sports news talk shows for 3 or 4 years now, I’ve developed a subconscious knowledge of the big newspapers in many cities around the US. Can you name a newspaper for the following major cities? There are more than one option in some of these cases, but if you know at least one newspaper for each of these cities, that’s pretty impressive.
Denver
Seattle
Miami
Orlando
Washington D.C.
New York
Boston
Los Angeles
Chicago
Houston
Dallas
Atlanta
Kansas City
Detroit
Philadelphia
You can see my quick list after the break.
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05.06.08
Penultimatum
In a few hours, I’ll be a college graduate.
Whatever.
I’m not feeling the excitement, guys. It’s a lot like when I graduated from high school, except this time there are less friends that I’ll never see again.
So I don’t know what there is to say about it.
Maybe when you graduate, you’ll know what I mean.