Wolfram Alpha has informed me that Scarlett Johansson was born on the same day as me. See… very useful.
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Author: Gene
Is there a word for a person who is willing to have sex with someone because that someone’s sexual history is linked to some highly desirable person? Like, Lisa loves Johnny Depp so she’s willing to sleep with Mike because Mike had a tryst with Depp’s ex-wife, for example. If there isn’t such a word, perhaps someone should craft one. It seems like the kind of thing that could use a good latinate word.
Paul Pirone, CS friend, won the Central Washington University strong man competition that was held recently. So congrats to him. I saw him win the flippy tire thing and the round stone picky upy thing so I figured he probably did well, but I didn’t stick around to see that he actually won.
I guess I haven’t posted since Lauren and I came out as a couple. So, yeah, we’re dating. One caveat for you guys out there, we haven’t come out to her family yet. We’re assuming none of them read this, but if you could avoid telling them, or posting things on facebook in such a way that they might see, or whatever, that would be appreciated.
So, probably largely because of this new dating situation, I’ve stayed with the Central people. Hanging out with everyone, doing the same ol’ things. We went to Portland as planned and did stay with Keston and Ody, except Sidney and Dan ran away to Linfield cause they are weak (allergic to cats). Whatever, just extra driving for them. Yusuke became good friends with the cat. I named the cat Henry, since it had no name. I dunno if it’ll stick w/o my presence, though.
Portland was Portland. I never really understood why people think it’s so great. I guess if you’re not raised amongst the hippies you think seeing hippy people and hippy stores is really novel and awesome… maybe? I dunno. Regardless, stores and just stores to me, filled with piles of stuff I don’t want. I bought volumes 3 and 4 of Otherland used from Powell’s, though, for Sidney and Lauren. The rest of the time I spent walking around, which I found quite pleasant because the weather and company were so good.
School’s out for the Central peeps in 2 weeks, so then I’ll have to go home I suppose, maybe even before. Otherwise the plan is to continue hanging out while I can before everyone goes to their preferred countries. Tonight we’re going to play basketball.
There’s this new thing called WolframAlpha. It looks cool to me. If I had headphones I would have learned all about it by now and could recommend better how to use it, but I think it has a variety of uses for everyone and that you all should play around with it yourself and see what you come up with. It’s good if you have math homework for sure, and if you wanna do financial analysis, or if you just curious about some statistics but you don’t know where you’d find them. Like, finding out the number of people with your name… or the population of females in your area. I dunno, it’s new and probably will ever grow, but I plan to keep an eye on it. Yeah, it’s definitely cool.
K, I’m gonna go play with it some more. TTFN, folks.
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I like praying… and chainsawing
Well, I’m still at Central. We went to Lauren’s last weekend and chilled and ate. There were lots of people around all the time, so I couldn’t really be doing what everyone was doing all the time, but there were some good times anyway. We played capture the flag and I got to show that I’m fast. People keep thinking I’m not fast just because I don’t move fast very often.
Donny’s around. Occasionally he disappears all day with his other friends, but he’s around more than never, so that’s cool.
On the whole getting my degree from Central front, I think it’s all taken care of. I looked at my report and as far as I can tell the master computer agrees now that I did the work required. So I just have to wait until June and see, I guess. And then I’m sure there will be more paperwork and stuff related to the internship. Evermore.
This weekend the central gang is going to Portland for fun and to meet up with Sidney’s friend, Emily Anne Geddes. Since I’m still hanging around I’m planning on tagging along, and since I am we’re gonna sleep at Keston and Ody’s place, it looks like. It’ll be good to see those guys, so hopefully the find some time to chat and stuff. I’m gonna try and meet up with some of the other Linfieldians and Portland dwellers too, but I’m not very hopeful. Lots of people have plans for the weekend already I’m sure.
My sister is home, apparently. I haven’t seen any evidence, but that’s what mom claims. Sorry I’m not there with my gaggle of friends, sister dearest. Umm… I hope someday you can forgive me. And to you other Kennewickians who have been left behind, umm… come visit, or text me or something. I dun want to leave you behind really.
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You don’t need me, you have my links.
I’ve been busy. Busy for me is somewhat different than for normal people. See, for me, when I have work that needs doing, then I necessarily have time in between that needs to be filled with procrastination. When there is nothing that needs doing, I don’t need to procrastinate, and so the blog suffers. Basically, I’ve been busy with play, no time to blog.
It’s been too long since the last update so I can’t actually give you much of a blow by blow, and frankly you wouldn’t want it. Suffice it to say that I’ve been hanging out with Pat a lot, Aaron occasionally, and on most weekends with Lauren, Sidney, Dan, Hiro, and Yusuke, the Central peeps.
What have we been doing? Well, we saw Wolverine. And the Asians went camping out by my house. And we all visited Sidney’s home on the range. When the Central people are around we do a lot of PS3 and basketball playing. Now that I’ve been kidnapped up to Central we swim occasionally. Pat and I mountain bike and play WoW. We made it to 80 so now we kinda grind a lot of rep and work on getting geared. That’s all kinda on hiatus for me now that I’m stolen.
I get a lot of people asking me what I’m doing and I have taken to responding, “living the dream.” Basically, I’m on summer break. I did apply for an internship at PNNL, and I think I got it, I just don’t officially have it yet. News today is that I won’t have it until June. At least that’s what I’m given to understand. I haven’t officially graduated thanks to the wonderful staff here at Central, so I can’t have my internship, I guess. I’m still working on getting a piece of paper signed so I’ll be all set to graduate after this quarter. I need the new chair of the Math department to sign something, but apparently he only comes into work on days that start with “Q”. Either that or the secretary doesn’t want to take responsibility for her forgetting about my piece of paper. Anyway, I think once that’s done all I have to do is wait patiently for something that should already be mine so I can start making money. *shrug* I want the break anyway. I really don’t enjoy the paperwork hassle, though.
Tomorrow supposedly the paper will be signed and I can get this stuff and then we, the Central people, are going to Seattle and Lauren’s house. The Asians are gonna go see the Mariners play. Donny is coming, and there’s a chance we can meet up with Pat. Lauren’s house will have lots of fatty foods, so I can store up for the next winter I come across.
Tonight the plan is to play basketball from 9-11. We’ve been ordered to not disturb Megan in her watching of the season finale of Grey’s Anatomy. She’s been irrationally vehement about it. I have no leg to stand on given I’m technically breaking rules just by being in Anderson as long as I have, so I can’t complain. The other people are unwilling to face her wrath so instead of risking an accidentally audible sound we’re just going to hide out in the gym. Also, some of us are gonna go watch a crippled guy break dance. *shrug* I’m not doing anything else, right?
Anyway, that’s the gist. Hopefully I’ll be a bit better in the future… although the immediate future is filled with lack of computer, so don’t hold your breath. I’ll try and post something more insightful next time.
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Skeptoid
Skeptoid is one of those great skeptical podcasts I listen to and recommend. A recent episode was on the placebo effect, which I want to highlight, since it’s such an important and complicated issue. I think listening to 10 minutes of carefully crafted information on the subject will be helpful to nearly anyone. Here.
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Observed
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I’m very busy for an unemployed person
The CWU crew, as they’re apparently called, came an went this weekend. They like me so much they stayed a few hours longer than they planned even. We had a grand ol’ time, I think. We played outside and inside and we cooked and we ate. We didn’t really go anywhere, like stores or malls or anything, but I think that’s because we hate malls and stores and stuff.
I’m going up to CWU next weekend, so more postponement of our prolonged separations.
I am still in media consumption mode, I think, cause I’m not really getting much flow here. So… just wait. I’ll flip eventually.
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Can’t blog, must consume internet media
The Central gang is coming back to visit in like 39 hours. Yay! We’ve set up Skype and webcams and stuff so I’m pretty sure I talk to them more now than before. They’re being very nice to me.
Pat’s gonna DM a few of us TC locals. We decided we’re rolling stats straight down. I got good rolls. The restrictive nature of the chosen character creation process has me leaning towards Bard. I need to wait and see what Gar and Kim do, though, before I make any firm decisions.
Also, I had the idea that one could probably sell some sort of self help doctrine around the idea of harnessing one’s need to go to the bathroom as a source of motivation for success in the rest of one’s life. Kinda like one of those self empowerment strategies and stuff wackos are always spending money on. I know it sounds crazy, I just want to say I thought of it before it comes out for real so people will believe me when I say I thought of it first.
Tomorrow I am going to play some board games with Mom and Ms. Craig, my kindergarten – 2nd grade teacher. And then Kim is gonna come over and work on her character, supposedly. That’s the plan.
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Pick up
Today I walked into the kitchen where mom was listening to some audio book. The first words I heard were, “if they had half a brain cell to rub together”.
This is a very funny phrase. I have laughed heartily twice at the thought of this phrase today. I give it to you all freely.
Just imagine someone yelling that at you. Oh… lol.
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update post
I’ve been not blogging because I’ve been so swamped trying to eek out seconds of the “last” days w/ Lauren and Sidney, and Dan, I guess. I use the “” incorrectly to mean that I don’t think the days are actually the last. I mean, modern times and all, and I’m just 2 hours away. Seems like them moving to opposite ends of the globe will be more of a strain on our relationships, but whatever.
So, we left Lauren’s and came to my place and hung out. Mostly just hung out. We watched Watchmen and Dan lost his wallet, but that was pretty much the only structured activity. We started a new campaign that includes Dan. I’ve got it all set up so MapTools should allow us to continue over long distances, provided the internet doesn’t get crappy on us.
On Thursday they drove me to my interview at PNNL. Everything went really well and I was feeling pretty confident I’d get the internship and also feeling pretty good about it being a sweet gig, but then the boss lady e-mailed me and told me she needed transcripts and letters of recommendation. So, if they still need those things kinda shakes the confidence a bit. But, we’ll see. They also were supposed to tell me on Monday or Tuesday if I’m part of the team, but that won’t happen now since I can’t get them the transcripts or letters that fast. Transcripts are gonna prove to be problematic I bet, since I don’t have access to unofficial ones from Linfield anymore and I can’t seem to find a complete copy anywhere. /sigh I hate paperwork.
I also got an e-mail from CWU telling me that they wouldn’t give me my Math minor. For some reason the people in charge of giving out such things think I never declared it and I need 7 elective math credits. This despite the math department telling them I fulfilled all the requirements. I dunno. They want me to pay $20 or something to re-enroll for spring and who knows what else. Personally I don’t really care about it, but I’ll ask the folks. Again with the hating of paperwork.
Today everyone left except Yusuke. We did the whole parting thing dry eyed which I’ve pleased about. I mean, not on my part, that’s unsurprising, but on the others. I know how they miss me so. ;P
Pat came over and got Yusuke and I to help him move Heidi’s crap. She’s moving to Bellingham and Burmingham or something. Who cares. She’s not gonna be here anymore. It took us, and 2 other people who actually helped, about 4 hours to get the stuff out of her apartment. Pretty incredible. We totally jam packed thie big ol’ U-Haul. Tomorrow Pat and the other’s unfortunate enough to be directly affiliated with Heidi will make the dangerous trek accross the pass in the early morn and unpack everything. Weeee! Poor them. I was going to be counted among them, but Yusuke’s staying here has saved me.
Oh, I got all my grades in an I officially have graduated again. I guess that’s noteworthy. Got A’s except for Boris’s class (B+) so whatever.
Before he left Dan gave me a t-shrit he claims say Korea on it as a parting gift. Looks pretty cool. It’s still in the bag, but I can only assume it’ll look better with me involved. Lauren gave me the gift of talking to her at least 30 minutes a day.
/shrug I’ve got nothing else right now. I’m abnormally sleepy today. I must not have slept well knowing I’d be sans so many CWUians.