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Saturday, March 26, 2005
"Penises don't just come in birds"
I think that line should win some award for "best out of context sentence" (FYI, the classics prof was talking about so-called phallus-birds, drawings of birds that looked like penises). It's a good course, humour in the ancient world. I did an essay on it on "the humour in a loss of control over bodily functions" and edited it afterwards to remove all occurances of "shitting himself". We had a prof from Trent come in and give a guest lecture last week.They did another experiement on me, on internet relationships. So I'm scanning the info sheet and a phrase pops out at me, "correlate internet use with physical attractiveness".
Me: Er- how exactly do you measure physical attractiveness?
Her: Well I'm going to take a picture of you, and then we'll have three grad students analyze it and give a rating between one and seven.
Me: Isn't that a little subjective.
Her: Oh if there's a difference of 80% we'll have a meeting.
So I can just imagine a troika of grad students sitting together starring at my picture with one going, "Oh he's not that ugly.
Speaking about the subjectivity of rating attractiveness, I'm probably one of the last people to come across the site HotOrNot.com. It's strangely addictive. I put up my picture from this site just to see how low a rating I can get. Some of the ratings seem pretty unjust though. This girl got a 6:
I'm really fascinated by this picture. There's a mystery behind her face. I can see her in a library somewhere listening to emo music and reading Nietzsche...
Oh, I got 73% on the test.
Friday, March 25, 2005
Surbibour
I took the damn zombie test. I haven't even seen many zombie films.
Official Survivor
Congratulations! You scored 69%!
I also spent 9 hrs editing today and again tomorrow. The reason I know how to survive zombies is cause I know how to think like one.
Democracy blows
As I told Jacob last night, he's not the only one who hates his student government. The newly elected SAC here at U of T is filled with ultra-liberal fucktards who want nothing more than to waste my money. Two plebiscites passed in the election, one was to throw my money at a student centre, even though we already have two. This would constitute a $45 levy on tuition, for something that won't be built until I'm long gone. I'm told this plebiscite is non-binding but for fuck's sake, are people crazy?
The second was for financially supporting "Radical Roots", an idea for a student run cafeteria that specializes in vegetarian and vegan food. Now, firstly, if you're going to choose that lifestyle, it's your own fucking problem, there's already plenty of veg* food up for grabs in Toronto. In fact, there's already a student run restaurant on campus that sells a disproportionate amount of that icky stuff, so what they're basically proposing is to clone Diablo's café and making like it's their great idea. But moreover, when we pay taxes for healthcare and the social safety net, we do so so that these services will exist if ever we find ourselves in need of them; if I need a kidney transplant, I've got OHIP; if I suddenly lose my job, I've got welfare/UI; if I am injured badly and unable to work, I've got worker's comp. Now, I don't anticipate ever turning vegan. Since it is completely voluntary, I can actually fucking guarantee it. So why the fuck should I be paying for a service that I'm never going to use?
That felt good, to get all of that off my chest. Back to your regularly scheduled aping.
Thursday, March 24, 2005
Nothing I hate more than those damn dirty zombies.
84%!
I'm satisfied with my accomplishment. I got the picture of the pistol wielding guy. I was hoping for riot gear.
Take this hippies! RRRAAARRRGGGHHH
Hooray I'm a stormtrooper!
| Armed and Dangerous Congratulations! You scored 87%! |
| You made it out, alive and well supplied. You probably even kept most of your party alive too. You know what to look for, what to take, and when to just run. You even feel a strange inkling to go back. If you did, you'd probably do just fine. |
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My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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| Link: The Zombie Scenario Survivor Test written by ci8db4uok on Ok Cupid |
Coming home friday
Wednesday night is Retro Night at the Trasheteria, the most popular bar among students, it's alwas packed. Kimi and I arrived from cadets at about 11:30 cause we'd stayed in the Officers Mess with the others. When I showed up my Tom and Ryan were there with our friends Jenn Amanda who was there with two of her friends Erin and Kate (she's a politics major from Kingston), who I hadn't met before. Soon Kate and I were dancing together. I'm going to call Kate today/tomorrow/thursday.Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Also...
| Official Survivor Congratulations! You scored 64%! |
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Whether through ferocity or quickness, you made it out. You made the right choice most of the time, but you probably screwed up somewhere. Nobody's perfect, at least you're alive. |
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My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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| Link: The Zombie Scenario Survivor Test written by ci8db4uok on Ok Cupid |
Job News
So, due to a lack of money, I will now only work on weekends. Fortunately, this isn't as much of a pay cut as it sounds, cuz tips are at least double on weekends.
What this does leave me with, however, is a new overabundance of time. Where I once had three solid days of work, I now have three gaping holes in my scheduel. Granted, I lost some weekend time, but I won't have to get up as early to make work on the weekends. My question is: what should I do with all my excess time? I was thinking of collecting all my comics in anthology format for sale at the Beguiling (a vanity project if ever there was one), but really, any suggestion is helpful.
What is there to do?
Geek Day
April 7 will be Geek Day on Trent Radio, a day to celebrate all things geeky, dorky, dweeby, nerdy and just plain goofy. Anyone can sign up for a time slot to do a show about anything they want. When Tom and I were in there on sunday afternoon people had already signed up to do shows about 40k Warhammer and a game of D&D. Tom and I signed up to do TMNT and Transformers possibly Ghostbusters.
Continueing with the theme, check out Hero Machine 2.0
It's wicked
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Hey!
What happened to the comments?
Now we can't answer Atly's question.
Yes. 'Toons are representations and exaggerations of people. We find people attractive. A photograph or a video is an inanimate object - it is a representation. A cartoon is an abstraction of said form, but still a representation.
Monday, March 21, 2005
Various Things.
Don't click here if you have any intention of completing homework or what have you tonight.
Screened the rough cut of the film I'm editing today. It looks pretty bad, but it's not my fault. Many shots are out of focus (blame the directory of photography) and haven't yet been re-shot (blame the director). When everything's done they'll say, "Leo, he organized that mess as best as possible".
Home alone this wknd. Managed one decent dinner, ravioli and one great dinner, veggible 'n' sausage stir fry, but tonight was my downfall. I thought fried eggs were supposed to be easy. Instead they all got ruined and I mashed them into my rice and ate a bunch of bacon. Oh, and my salad tonight was lackluster because some jerk insisted on eating my tomato when I offered him fruit.
Every day I think about Killbear. Got the application in. Now I'll just watch my watch for a couple months.
One more link. If you just read up to where he starts about Houdini, you'll have read the best of it.
Fighting for democracy, Central Asia style
Bringing you your weekly world update, here I am. It looks like the beginnings of civil war in a country very dear to me, at least as former Soviet states go. Protesters in Kyrgyzstan, protesting election fraud, burnt down a fucking police station today, and are occupying 6 government buildings in Jalal-Abad.
If it ever comes time for some sort of grand revolution 'round these parts, I want to burn down a police station. I mean, that's fucking hardcore. Shouts out to my homies fighting the good fight in the dot k-g.
Sunday, March 20, 2005
A woman?
St. Patrick's day was loads of fun. We turned in all the bottles that were in our living room (in the centre we found an unopened case of homebrew! Score!) and took them down to the Beer Store. It was almost beautiful, the tower of tied down boxes, flanked by us with backpacks full of bottles. We made $26.60 which didn't leave the Beer Store, it was turned into a 2-4 right there (a "real" 2-4, not a "Jacob" 2-4). After that we pretty much just drank at my housemate's girlfriend's house (going out later to Rhea's, a townie bar). She had this great card game, Pimp, the Backhanding which is not only funny it's pretty fun to play. Some of the ho's have special abilities, (k)andy (the transvestive hooker) for example is immune to the "Knocked Up" card. My favourite was Jenni who's an art school grad: "Clay Pots, Jenni has the ability to make clay pots. This ability is completely useless on the streets".Last night I saw Moonraker, which was quite a fun movie. Throughout the movie I kept thinking, "Hey they stole that from Austin Powers! Oh wait..." I like how it started off semi-seriously and then got progressively more silly until it concluded with a giant laser fight in space (One wonders why the USA didn't use their space marine squad to take out Goldeneye). Some of the dialogue was priceless. "I'm looking for Dr. Goodhead." "You found her." "A woman?"
Adding butter to your rice really makes it better. I had the fluffiest rice I've ever made last night.
Watching Uncle Joey say "Flavor is tearing this house apart"
Today I caught the first sign of The Apocolypse. If you've ever seen the Surreal Life you know what I'm talking about. This is a show where they put a bunch of awful washed up D celebrities in a house and watch the wacky sparks fly. This seasons "cast" includes Dave Coulier (Full House), Jordan Knight (New Kids On The Block), some woman who had failed on the first American Idol. These are all people who would beg for a chance to be on Hollywood Squares (*shudder*). The only redeeming quality of the show is that it has Flavor Flav. Yes, THE Flavor Flav, wearing a massive gold or brass viking helmet. He's graduated to the digital clock bling chain. For him the highlight of the show seemed to be yelling "I'M FLAVOR FLAV", the highlight of the show for me was watching him trying to seduce the woman from American Idol...and he was doing it with fried chicken. Chuck D on the other hand has managed to maintain his dignity and continue to be a vocal artist with a conscience.Recently I've been watching a lot of Mythbusters, Trailer Park Boys and Six Feet Under to keep myself sane while working on essays. Thank gawd to risk taking HBO.
Oh yeah Dave Coulier was also the voice of Peter Venkman in the Ghostbusters series.
