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Entries from November 2008

September 30th, 2007 · Comments

The Matrix is done, well almost.  I have no windshield wipers, FM radio or center console, but driving the thing’s like operating a micro RC car.  In a pinch, I think I could park in our family’s mailbox or possibly under the doormat.

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Tags: Daily Highlights

September 29th, 2007 · Comments

Pete:  Where the hell where you?
Me: A wizz turned into a fart turned into a shart turned into a shit.
-Philadelphia Pre-Release

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Tags: Moment of Fatness

September 29th, 2007 · Comments

Pre-release!  The venue was an aircraft hanger located beneath the main concourse of the Philadelphia convention center and the room was fucking huge.  But, we were still only able to use a 100′ x 100′ area despite having been able to hold three concurrent cricket games in the remaining space (barring [...]

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Tags: Daily Highlights

September 28th, 2007 · Comments

I’ve replaced my school notebooks with my tablet at school and in some classes, other people with laptops have started to bring them, particularly in Law 1001.  Today, the women’s basketball team player brought hers and immediately spent the first 20 minutes of class rotating between taking notes and buying revealing [...]

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September 27th, 2007 · Comments

Tom did something to network at camp.  Normally, when Tom fucks up the network there’s a IP conflict or there’s a spoon in a network socket, this time, something new:
1) The router only had 2 functioning ports, 2 and 4.
2) The switch had 6 functioning ports, 1-4 and 6-7, if you plugged something [...]

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September 26th, 2007 · Comments

I was going to tell a story about my Finance instructor insisting that the discount rate and the interest rate were the same thing and me rallying the campuses actuaries to wage war but terrible news has hit: Friday marks the end of Leper as a creature type in Magic.  Frown.  [...]

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September 25th, 2007 · Comments

I buy soda on a biweekly to triweekly rate as I consume roughly 1 bottle of diet drink every 1.25 days.  I don’t bring all the bottles in at once and leave the rest in my car.  In the Cherokee this was fine as I could easily stand them upright and they’d [...]

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September 24th, 2007 · Comments

Dr. Gupta: You do not have to keep your hand raised, just raise it briefly and I’ll call on you.
Me: I usually do, but sometimes you miss.
Dr. Gupta: No I don’t, that’s why I don’t ask you to keep your hand-raised.
Me: But you’ve missed me a few times.
Dr. Gupta: I don’t miss anyone.
That’s not [...]

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Tags: Daily Highlights

September 23rd, 2007 · Comments

One of the outlets in the Totem kitchen doesn’t work.  I tried using my skillet on it to no avail and realized that the old microwave was thrown out because it didn’t work, probably because no one checked the outlet as everyone just wanted to throw out the damn thing.  Someone [...]

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September 22nd, 2007 · Comments

I was cooking for the campmaster corps this weekend and some say I use too much butter.  I wager this is impossible but an incident highlighted this.  When I make grilled cheese I dip the outside of the sandwich in warm butter before toasting to give the sandwich, well a buttery [...]

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