If You Leave Me Now

Posted on 17th December 2010 in Something Daily

I didn’t expect it, but I was actually incredibly productive today. Not in the first part, but in the second part. I woke up at 7 AM for my last Friday morning tech shift, and did pretty much nothing the whole time. It was absurdly boring. On the other hand, though, I’ve pretty much gotten used to the tech shift being boring, at least the Friday morning ones. I browsed reddit for a total of about three hours this morning – it’s a tough job, I know. My male boss also braided my male coworker’s hair. I tried to snap a picture, but he dodged it. I was so close! Afterward, though, I got to meet up with my friend David, and he gave me a christmas present! His professor wrote a book about the implications of video game culture (called Gaming), and David bought it for me. It looks like a very interesting book – he talks about Shenmue a lot, which makes me want to play that (I never have).

Other than my pizza outing with David, I worked on a paper on Frank Zappa’s Joe’s Garage for class. I got four pages done in just a few hours! Joe’s Garage is an amazingly sweet album, so it’s really easy to write about. I’m mentioning the use of prerecorded guitar solos over new rhythm tracks, as well as showcasing some of Zappa’s ridiculous lyrical stylings. It’s a fun paper to write. I just finished my work on that for the night, and I’m off to dinner in a few minutes.

Justin and I recently became obsessed with the Chicago song “If You Leave Me Now”, mainly because Butters sings it in a South Park episode and it’s awesome. It’s likely the cheesiest song I’ve ever heard, but singing it with Justin is a great time, if I do say so myself. We’ve worked up a little keyboard duet on it, with him on piano and me on my synth, rocking the crap out of the pitchbend wheel. We’re ridiculous people.

Some of my plans for winter break:

  • Kario Mart
  • Star Fox for SNES
  • Too much hot chocolate
  • Seeing everyone at home again
  • Maybe I’ll program something awesome

I’m really tired today, probably as a result of having to wake up at 7. It’s ok, though. I have an exciting day tomorrow, and then a break coming up very very soon! Can’t wait! I hope my blog is going alright for you, the reader. Finals week involves a lot of work combined with unrivaled lethargy, which is not a great combination for interesting blog posts. Sorry, I’m trying. I think I’m doing ok, but maybe not.

You know what? Screw it. Who cares what you think, right? It’s my blog anyway. It’s mine, my own, my….precious…..

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The importance of stretching

Posted on 22nd October 2010 in Something Daily

I learned the importance of stretching today. I spend a lot of time sitting up straight at the computer and/or holding my backpack on my shoulders, and the pain in my back today was getting to the point where I couldn’t really stand up straight. But then my roommate London showed me some stretches and we did them together, and now I can stand again! Remember to stretch in the morning, especially your back. You will not regret it, since your back will be mobile, as opposed to immobile. It’s funny that I didn’t know how to stretch until today. Maybe I should engage in more physical activity, then I’d know a little better. But now I know. So there.

I went to this comic book store on Broadway today called Forbidden Planet. That store is incredible. They have so many different comic and sci-fi franchises represented with all their merchandise. I got a shirt with a lot of the main Mario characters and enemies on it, and a Street Fighter II shirt as well. They are…quite awesome. In case you were wondering.

Also, I just downloaded the Opera browser a few minutes ago (and I’m currently using it to type this). Definitely check it out if you’ve ever thought about switching from Safari or Internet Explorer. So far it’s decently speedy for me, and I much prefer the speed dial function to Safari’s top sites, mainly because you don’t need to visit a site a bunch of times before it appears in the list. Opera’s cool. I like free and open-source software. I tried running Ubuntu 10.04 on my white MacBook over the summer, but ultimately I found the issues with firmware to be too much of a hassle for my needs. It took a lot of work to get each individual piece of hardware working – the iSight camera, the USB ports, the trackpad. Maybe I’ll try Linux again sometime in the future.

Maybe I’ll code some more tonight. We’ll see, but my hand kind of feels like it has carpal tunnel. So I may just take a rest. Either way, here’s the new South Park that makes fun of Inception. It’s awesome.

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“You kids just haven’t been to college yet”

Posted on 18th October 2010 in Something Daily

I arrived at my dorm from lab this evening and found a bunch of clippings from a newspaper taped up everywhere. There’s a shirtless stripper guy wearing a sombrero on my desk with a caption that says “Every Monday: come out to the fiesta”; a black and white clipping of a normal looking guy looking up thoughtfully with the caption “Curious about men? Other guys are too.”; a clipping from Cosmopolitan (which Ivey so thoughtfully left about fifty copies of on our kitchen table) that says “give his junk a once-over”. I believe there’s also one on the mirror in the bathroom advertising a male stripper competition.

Interestingly enough, this isn’t a new thing. Last year, Justin’s room was tastefully decorated with a cache of nude men from a Playgirl magazine. I think it was an April Fool’s thing.

I think it is awesome that I live with a bunch of dudes who do this kind of stuff. Mainly it’s hilarious, but it’s also way more respectable than saying “no homo” when you’re about to do something that might be considered gay.

I’m enjoying my room’s newfound silliness and watching some South Park. Here’s wikipedia’s list of dinosaurs; my favorite is the Megaraptor.

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