Short one today! It’s New Years and I don’t have any exciting plans, just a quiet time with friends. I got my camera, so I’ll be cluttering this thingie with pictures from now on. See you all in ‘06, and may we all become a little wiser in light of what we’ve been through in the past year!
Happy New Year!
Whew! After spending way too much of my precious holiday time I’ve finally upgraded Pleasant Interruption to a new system – called Drupal if you care – which is a whole lot better than what we were using before – b2evolution. Everything looks pretty similar but the major difference is that we can do a whole lot more cooler stuff now.
I’ve also transferred over all our older posts from when we used to be hosted on www.blogger.com so now we have a full history. There are a number of changes as well but I won’t bother listing them all.
Anyway, back to business!
Funny vid from SNL, link here. I won’t say anything else cause it’ll ruin it. Thanks to Pete Thorn for the heads up.
Alright, this past friday I was at a house party where I ended up drinking a “blank” number of beers, and then made my way home at around 330 in the morning. I ended up going home alone, cause I skipped out on taking the cab, and Nana stayed over, so it was a great 3K walk back to my place. Anyways, all I remember on the walk home was doing the drunk walk all through downtown, banking off walls and lamp posts, it was awesome, if there were any cops that saw me, I would have been stopped, and if I was lucky, I could have gotten a ride in the back of a cruiser, that would have made my night. I also remember yelling “YEAH!” at Parliament for no real reason when I passed by. I got home safely…somehow, so no sleeping in ditches that night, and I also for reasons unbeknownst to me got a free Ottawa Sun, which was great.
Other Things…
WOW, I can’t believe its Christmas already, so MERRY CHRISTMAS (no happy holidays, cause I don’t care what you think!) so going home will be fun I guess, Belleville still sucks, but its nice to be home. The thing that sucks when exams are over and Christmas is here, is that just when you think its over, you back in the saddle again with the next term, working your ass off. Such a sad cycle that destroys our youth…use it wisely my friends, for the spring of our youth is almost over.
Nestlé Canada got owned by a bunch of 6th Graders.
This guy is awesome, what he does is so crazy pranks and experiments, and for some reason he is able to get away with it, this one particular story is just one in many, but check out his site, its great.
What kind of sick person would steal a Jackass? Get the thing back before it dies, its so terrible what people do.
Nana is a terrible person…just terrible, he also likes to kill chickens.
Can’t wait to get back to the suck! Merry Christmas
Today, it was one of those days when the condensation comes out of the manholes like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which is gross when you think about it. It’s also cool cause it’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Thank you to my dear friend Liam, who has been posting relevant comments on most of the posts down there. You are truly a saint (sarcasm doesn’t work on the internet, so I’ll just tell you that I’m being sarcastic Liam. But I do appreciate the posts. I might see you soon, I might not. C’est la vie.)
I woke up at 6:30 am to day to cram for my final exams. My next and last one is in half an hour. Wish me luck. I wrote one this morning, and I think I did well.
In other news, the world is going to end unless you buy things for your loved ones. CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME. It is the reason for the season.[/facetious]
Honestly, I’ll just be happy to be done my exams and see my family. But a digicam would be nice (hint hint).
While I’m procrastinating (early morning studying), I figured I’d let you all in on a few things.
There is a conspiracy theory out there about why Dave Chappelle REALLY cancelled his show. I don’t know how old this is, I might be the last to hear about it. I’m pretty sure it’s all fake (lots of inconsistencies, and IMPOSSIBLE things occur), but it’s really well written anyway. It’s a long read, but worth it if you have the time. I won’t comment on it, cause I don’t want any of the Dark Crusade to drag me away in the night.
Jenga is a man’s sport, and it’s not for women (if you don’t get the joke, then forget I even said anything).
Awesome mp3 blogger Matt from You Ain’t No Picasso turned me (well not just me, anyone who reads the blog)on to an unreleased Elliott Smith song recorded during the time he was making From a Basement on the Hill. YAY! But the news gets better: there are more songs! Pick them up here, at Where is Your Mind. Thanks to Jeremy of WIYM for hosting those.
Finally, Deep Thoughts are always good for wasting time. I remember staying up with my sister to watch SNL and seeing these sketches. I never really got some of them at the time, but I laughed anyway.
Christmas is almost here! I am filled with the cheer and happiness of the season, for the first time in a long time. I’m not sure why that is though. I guess it’s the perfect storm of friends, snow, cute girls in layered clothing and pea coats, and thankfulness. This year was crazy bad in many ways, for me and for the world. But it’s been crazy good too. I know I’m a few days early with this post, but I need to get back to studying for the rest of my exams and other things. I probably won’t be posting much until after Christmas, and if I don’t see anyone who is reading this before the 25th, have a Merry Christmas!
And if you’re from a different denomination, Happy whateveryoucelebrate!
So the other day while “studying” in the SLC I was walking around talking to people. I had just gone to the washroom and washed my hands. I then ran into a friend whom was talking to two girls that I didn’t know. After a couple minutes of chatter, I introduced myself to the two girls. It is at this point that I stumbled upon a revolutionary discovery of human psychology. ‘Revolutionary’? you ask. Indeed, this may very well change how we, as humans, interact with each other.
You see, after having initiated introductions with the magical words “Hi, my name is…”, I consider it – at least in my books – fairly standard procedure to follow up with the shaking of the stranger’s hand. This is usually accompanied with a verbal acknowledgement, usually in the form of “nice to meet you.” It is in this mutual act that we demonstrate that we mean each other no harm and appreciate having created an additional node in our social network.
Maybe I’m just weird, but in the 1% of occasions during which I engage in introductions after having recently been to a washroom and washed my hands – in addition to the lack of paper towels – I tend to reflexively announce that my hand is wet from washing and apologize for not participating in the aforementioned shaking-of-hands ritual or to mentally prepare the stranger in the case that they decide to proceed after having been warned.
So there I was, repeating exactly as I have in many previous encounters, yet this time my brain arrived at a certain conclusion. How silly is it that we apologize for having a wet hand that no doubt resulted from having been sanitized by washing with water (and in some cases with soap). Even sillier, is how one on the receiving end may find it uncomfortable to find out they just shook a wet hand if no warning was communicated.
Now I’m making a couple of assumptions here based on my own personal experience and so we’re dealing with a biased sample here. Let’s just assume for a moment that I’m not an oddball and that most people react in a similar fashion. Let’s look at this from both sides. Why would you apologize for extending a sanitized hand? Should you not instead be apologizing for shaking hands with a dry yet dirty, germ-infected hand as is the norm? On the receiving end, why would you feel disgusted by a wet hand? Wet should imply water which should in turn imply washing and translate to clean hand. I have been given a counter-example in the form of sweaty hands. Let’s think about it for a second, it’d be pretty obvious if the wetness came from sweat because it’d be warm and…moist. Whereas a freshly washed, wet hand would be nice and crisp.
In conclusion, I would like to encourage people to go out there and engage in hand-shaking with wet hands with confidence that you are by no means providing a disservice for not having transmitted millions of germs. Consequently, I urge you to fight the flood of negative emotions as you shake someone’s wet hands and alternatively rejoice in the cleanliness of their sterile, wet hand.
Okay, so I’ve only been gone for a “few” days and things have been pretty normal around here. Well I’ll also welcome you all to reading my post on this great partition of the internet of ours.
These past few days have been so hectic, with studying, sleeping in too long, and listening to awesome music. More rambling, talking about random things!
I read an article here and I’d like to comment on it but I don’t know what I’m saying. Now I’ll say that someone said something he didn’t!
More rambling!
Other Things
I have a hairy butt and it’s big and it smells.
Now I’ll talk about political correctness, but that’s not PC! The Blue Jays.
I’ll be posting more here, instead of once every two months, twice every two months. The world is interesting but I suck. Yeah!
Okay! I’ve only been gone for a “little” bit and things have been going insane around here.
Well I’ll welcome Rua to this great partition of the internet of ours.
Its been a terrible time, first midterms, then essays, now exams with essays! But I have found some time between sleeping, and school work to talk…Talk dirty!
The past month or so have been hetic, but some of the days in between have been quite interesting. From being a drunk AS Roma player at halloween, not being drawn in to the Eye of terror becuase I am awesome, and watching “The Dancing Machine” (AKA Nana) bust a move. I can’t forget the other days in between which involved drinking, yelling, and doing other random things.
Anyways, I read the CBC article and thought it was a good idea, why? Not that the governemnt is just putting a “Band-Aid” on the situation, its because with the high school drop out rate at 30% in Ontario, which to me is quite high, they need to do something. With a good majority of the drivers young students (or drop-outs even), it is a good incentive to try and keep them in school. Yes, I agree with Nana that the government should set up more apprenticeships, co-op and other programs aimed at keeping students in school, but if Nana RTFA
then he would have noticed that the government was going to make sure that the High Schools across the province have programs in place to try and keep at risk students in school:
“Kennedy says the penalty will come into effect once schools establish a wider choice of courses and add more co-op and apprenticeship programs to keep at-risk students in school.”
Anyways, I think it is a good step towards keeping young students in school, ALSO it would reduce the number of drop outs who have trouble supporting themselves when they are out living on their own. Now if people are having trouble living out on their own, then they might end up on social assistance, which they usually do, so this could save the government some money keeping the kids in school, and off governemnt assistance.
Other Things
So another election, Joy! more BS from the backroom, but I damn well know who I am not voting for…Steven Harper. Give me tax cuts that don’t help me, that’ll make things much better.
I hate it when I’m talking to one of my professors, and when I am leaving, I want to say “Merry Christmas” but something in the back of my head says…maybe the person isn’t Christian, maybe they get offended by that. So one of two things happen, I either say Merry Christmas, walk away and panic, or the second, where I saw “Happy Holidays”, which makes me sound like a pompous politically correct person, who is chickenshit at not want to spread the Christmas Cheer. Damn these issues and damn other people for raising this issue, and making me waste brain power worrying about it…damn liberal media.
So, how about them Toronto Blue Jays, looks like Ted Rogers might actually make some money this year, blowing over 100 Million for 2 players, yeah awesome, all thats left for them is if they can make the playoffs.
yeah, I think I’ll be posting more, unless I say otherwise, there is alot of good stuff happening in the world, so I’ll be sure to talk about these issues. Yeah!
