Doubled SI. Rejecteds I also liked:
"Yasser Arafat Pronounced Dead in Paris" [2]
Linguists Unsurprised
Chirac Reveals Palestinian Leader's Secret Nickname: "Mortie"
"A Squeal of Approval for Avril Lavigne"
Teen Star Fit for Pigs
"Lindsay Lohan, Wilmer Valderrama Break Up"
Pair Considering Sprint, Cingular as Alternatives
"Iran Says It Will Suspend Uranium Program"
Secret Underground Cavern Will Hold Lofted Laboratory
"Schumer Will Not Run for N.Y. Governor"
Pataki's "Relay for Life" Team Left Undermanned
[likely unprintable]
"Coming of Age Takes on a New Meaning"
Beauty Left Unsatisfied
12/2/04
Well played, Ken, a perfect replacement should Alex Trebek step down.
Continuing in the category “Other Things I Really Shouldn’t Care about This Week”:
These are collectively a crash, and should have a better plural form.
[What are rhinoceroses?]
Continuing in the category “Other Things I Really Shouldn’t Care about This Week”:
These are collectively a crash, and should have a better plural form.
[What are rhinoceroses?]
12/1/04
The season’s first snow is always glorious, but especially following such a dreary rainy week. And yes, I know, it’s not the first snow; but why force it to count if no one else experienced it either?
Noon registration: Anyone considering sections of Diff.Eq.s, EComp, CompSci 2, or (less and less likely) Intro. to Linguistics? [Diff. Eq.s = 01 (10-11), EComp = 49 (2-3), CompSci 2 = C (4-5:30), Intro. to Linguistics = hahayeahno.]
Noon registration: Anyone considering sections of Diff.Eq.s, EComp, CompSci 2, or (less and less likely) Intro. to Linguistics? [Diff. Eq.s = 01 (10-11), EComp = 49 (2-3), CompSci 2 = C (4-5:30), Intro. to Linguistics = hahayeahno.]
11/29/04
Nothing in this week’s SI for I completely misread the contest instructions; a particular shame since it ruined a joke I first attempted in 5th grade with an ideal setup, only to have been left waiting for another opportunity after mangling it. At least I am getting practice in faux-French collaboration.
‘Monsieur éléphant, while zee life is insignificant, as is zee living of it, and zee outcome of this situation may not be worth zee immediate intervention- mon dieu, who of us can ever tell?- it is not zee place of me to act decisively; but I will allow myself to say that zee ‘cowboy’’ (and by this he meant the Crocodile) ‘will bring about an unfavorable diplomatic isolation before you might say “qu'est-ce que c'est que cette petite tasse là qui j'ai prendre à ma tante de la bibliothèque, n'est-pas?”’
This is the way Tri-Colored-Python-Rock-Snakes always talk.
‘Monsieur éléphant, while zee life is insignificant, as is zee living of it, and zee outcome of this situation may not be worth zee immediate intervention- mon dieu, who of us can ever tell?- it is not zee place of me to act decisively; but I will allow myself to say that zee ‘cowboy’’ (and by this he meant the Crocodile) ‘will bring about an unfavorable diplomatic isolation before you might say “qu'est-ce que c'est que cette petite tasse là qui j'ai prendre à ma tante de la bibliothèque, n'est-pas?”’
This is the way Tri-Colored-Python-Rock-Snakes always talk.
11/28/04
[And back through the bedroom window.]
Finding Neverland, despite adultery compounded with implications of pedophilia and drug usage, was a sadder “Shakespeare in Love” or “Shadowlands”. Perhaps it’s only a Washington thing, but the line “redskins are defeated” caused a wave of laughter to overwhelm an otherwise teary-eyed theatre. I still think the title would be better simply “Neverland”. Odd seeing Johnny Depp pretending to pretend to be a pirate.
The LinDanny bonding prior to returning from the east allowed chopstick usage to be instinctively taught. And you so owe me awesome points.
“...So we have time for a game?”
Finding Neverland, despite adultery compounded with implications of pedophilia and drug usage, was a sadder “Shakespeare in Love” or “Shadowlands”. Perhaps it’s only a Washington thing, but the line “redskins are defeated” caused a wave of laughter to overwhelm an otherwise teary-eyed theatre. I still think the title would be better simply “Neverland”. Odd seeing Johnny Depp pretending to pretend to be a pirate.
The LinDanny bonding prior to returning from the east allowed chopstick usage to be instinctively taught. And you so owe me awesome points.
“...So we have time for a game?”
11/26/04
11/25/04
“Sweet dreams are made of this...”
With linen having not yet been praised, let me now extol the modal sheets, plush backrest, and luxurious egg crate which have allowed my dorm’s narrower bed to make even the diminished hours of sleep so luxuriously restful. And now at home I am able to sleep less tensely on eggshells.
[And also thankful for being able to get into Baskin-Robbins 5 minutes after they close.]
With linen having not yet been praised, let me now extol the modal sheets, plush backrest, and luxurious egg crate which have allowed my dorm’s narrower bed to make even the diminished hours of sleep so luxuriously restful. And now at home I am able to sleep less tensely on eggshells.
[And also thankful for being able to get into Baskin-Robbins 5 minutes after they close.]
11/24/04
Not exactly sure how Away Messages will be maintained over Thanksgiving. If this is being displayed, likely not very well. Cell me.
[If this Away Message is being displayed I should be at home.
Although, since it means I'm away I suppose I could be out. It's still probably best to cell me. Or, since I'm allegedly home, call me here.
[Or, since I forgot how bad cell service is back home, perhaps IM would be better.]]
[If this Away Message is being displayed I should be at home.
Although, since it means I'm away I suppose I could be out. It's still probably best to cell me. Or, since I'm allegedly home, call me here.
[Or, since I forgot how bad cell service is back home, perhaps IM would be better.]]
11/23/04
“Deseritur Cieros, linquunt Pthiotica Tempe
Crannonisque domos ac moenia Larisaea,
Pharsalum coeunt, Pharsalia tecta frequentant.
Rura colit nemo, mollescunt colla iuvencis,
non humilis curvis purgatur vinea rastris,
non glebam prono convellit vomere taurus,
non falx attenuat frondatorum arboris umbram,
squalida desertis rubigo infertur aratris.
Ipsius at sedes, quacumque opulenta recessit
regia, fulgenti splendent auro atque argento.”
Obviously it’s about a cow.
Crannonisque domos ac moenia Larisaea,
Pharsalum coeunt, Pharsalia tecta frequentant.
Rura colit nemo, mollescunt colla iuvencis,
non humilis curvis purgatur vinea rastris,
non glebam prono convellit vomere taurus,
non falx attenuat frondatorum arboris umbram,
squalida desertis rubigo infertur aratris.
Ipsius at sedes, quacumque opulenta recessit
regia, fulgenti splendent auro atque argento.”
Obviously it’s about a cow.
11/22/04
Singled in this week’s SI, though it is more of a halved I suppose; my actual submission proposed a 2π% sales tax. I think I impressed the Empress by parenthetically citing an entry I feared similar to my proposal of strictly enforced 11-20, 21-30, 31-40 etc. item lanes. Yay academic integrity.
11/21/04
For a great book ought to not be read but once. As stated in a previous Away Message:
Reductio ad absurdum:
Orwell/Carroll/Orwell/Tolstoy/Unknown/Waller/Dostoevsky/Chaucer/Dickens/Dumas/Dostoevsky/Marx/Dickens/Mann/Hubbard/Frank/Johnson/Dante/Cervantes/Stevenson/Stoker/Bradbury/Turgenev/Friedan/Hemingway/Rand/Shelley/Steinbeck/Dickens/Fitzgerald/Seuss/Rowling/Conrad/Doyle/Twain/Hugo/Dostoevsky/Homer/Freud/Ellison/Benchley/Alcott/Nabokov/Golding/Kafka/Eliot/Melville/Homer/Steinbeck/Dickens/Kerouac/Kesey/Darwin/Woolf/Milton/Wilde/Austen/Plato/Rushdie/Hawthorne/Austen/Eliot/Carson/Lawrence/Shikibu/Dickens/Lao-Tzu/Hardy/Dumas/Nietzsche/Lee/Woolf/Stevenson/Joyce/Susann/Thoreau/Tolstoy/London/Baum
Reductio ad absurdum:
Orwell/Carroll/Orwell/Tolstoy/Unknown/Waller/Dostoevsky/Chaucer/Dickens/Dumas/Dostoevsky/Marx/Dickens/Mann/Hubbard/Frank/Johnson/Dante/Cervantes/Stevenson/Stoker/Bradbury/Turgenev/Friedan/Hemingway/Rand/Shelley/Steinbeck/Dickens/Fitzgerald/Seuss/Rowling/Conrad/Doyle/Twain/Hugo/Dostoevsky/Homer/Freud/Ellison/Benchley/Alcott/Nabokov/Golding/Kafka/Eliot/Melville/Homer/Steinbeck/Dickens/Kerouac/Kesey/Darwin/Woolf/Milton/Wilde/Austen/Plato/Rushdie/Hawthorne/Austen/Eliot/Carson/Lawrence/Shikibu/Dickens/Lao-Tzu/Hardy/Dumas/Nietzsche/Lee/Woolf/Stevenson/Joyce/Susann/Thoreau/Tolstoy/London/Baum
11/19/04
11/18/04
11/17/04
I somehow forgot to link to <http://www.johnkerryisadouchebagbutimvotingforhimanyway.com>; I think I planned to use this for my Election Day Away Message. A pity, for what had once been a refreshingly novel outlook has regressed into a too common repetitive mantra.
To paraphrase Churchill: American democracy is the worst form of government but I’m voting for it anyway.
To paraphrase Churchill: American democracy is the worst form of government but I’m voting for it anyway.
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