Where’s the peanut butter?!

yaleshmale,
originally uploaded by Peru Tha Damaja.

Graduating from an Ivy League university doesn’t necessarily mean you’re smart.

From YaleShmale.com, which is a portal to a Lakehead University in Ontario, Canada. Whether you agree with the assessment of President Bush or not, it’s difficult to decide who should be most embarrassed by this - Yale/Yalies or all U.S. citizens. You could criticize whoever at Lakehead said this would be an acceptable way to advertise your school, too, but the fact that they’re able to is what I find more troubling. Oh well, we’ve got two more years of the jackass so I guess a little levity never hurt anybody!

sometimes the buses and predictive departure data works for you and sometimes it works against you. today mybus.org told me my regular bus home happened to leave my stop a couple minutes before it was supposed to even start its route. argh! but a quick eta check and I see that my alternate bus is due to leave in plenty of time for me to make it. great! but by the time I got to a point where that stop was in sight, I saw my alternate bus pulling away. argh! luckily (or something) I know that traffic between that stop and its next stop is always awful enough that if I run and get all sweaty I can make it to the next stop in time to still get on. great! so I did and the bus was full so I had to stand and be all gross and stew. ugh. my alternate bus involves a transfer, though, so of course rather than do something productive with my time I looked up the time for my connection and found two of my connecting bus should be getting to the transfer point right as I’m due to get there. great! but the transfers aren’t quite adjacent and as we’re pulling up I saw transfer bus 1 pull away, decided to kick it into high gear to make the second bus, and then watched it leave, too.

so the verdict is in and technology neither makes my life easier nor better - the question is: why am I so stupid that I keep relying on it?

So I’m getting all jiggy with QR Codes now that I found software for my phone that can decode them (courtesy of maker pt). Dig that bunch of illegible junk that shows up all over my blog now!

This awesome piece of
the Snakes on a Plane hype machine comes to me courtesy of my
brother. This movie would definitely have to draw from supernatural
powers to begin to live up to the hype, but it’s sure a good time
watching that all grow. I know where href="http://www.cinerama.com/">I’ll be this Friday
night.

Writer is somewhat nifty, however it doesn’t work nicely with blosxom’s filesystem based categorization (but then, what does?)

This bus can’t possibly go fast enough - UPS dropped off the enclosure for my RAID array and when I get home, I have sweet sweet redundant capacity waiting for me. I can’t hardly wait!

• Bet lost: The shell game. This was especially embarassing. It was about 1993 or 1994 and I was in line to see the Mighty Mighty Bosstones at First Avenue. As we tended to do growing up in Minnesota, we got to the show early - well before the doors opened - and were standing under the stars waiting for the mainroom to open. Walking up and down the street is this black man with a newspaper, three soda bottle caps, and a crumpled piece of napkin or something. He’s looking for suckers. “Witness! Who amongst thee is man enough to play my shell game!” I stepped up to the challenge. The first bet is for $1. Easy, right? Follow the shells - if I find the cap I win a dollar, if I can’t find it, I lose. He shuffles the caps - I follow the napkin - I win! “Harrr! Ye scallawag be a good foe - quintuple errrrr nothin!” As the stakes raise so does my endorphin level. “I’ll do it.” Shuffle - follow - I win! “Gadzooks! You found it again! 20 bucks - whatdya say?” This is where my pride took a hit it would not soon recover from. I reply: “No, sir, I can’t take your money.” I know these were my exact words because I was amongst good friends whose memories may not always be perfect but knew exactly where the next round of the shell game would lead me and committed this bit of my hubris to permanent memory. The shell guy would not be so easily deterred and convinced me to play again. Shuffle - follow - …
• Amount lost: $20.
• Lost to: Street man of Minneapolis.

All loaned to Nick, due for return in September or perhaps on 11/11?
• Mechwarrior Xbox game
• Xbox memcard containing mechwarrior savegame hack enabling xbox softmod
• Play Winning Chess from MSPress

• Bet lost: The christmas cards in that Edward Gorey set will not all be the same as the cover card.
• Amount lost: $5
• Lost To: Tanya

A new ongoing series of things worth giving to friends or borrowing
from friends. Also, a way to remember who has my goodies.

• Arrested Development, Season 2: to John-Anthony (or Steve & Catherine?)