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not productive enough. must prepare for Bryn Athyn stuff. must go to U of I Library, write interview questions, etc. bah.

saw Minority Report. was able to get past disdain for feeeeeeg Tom Cruise to enjoy movie. ate at Courier with Ma and Sis and Devon. enjoyable.

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Ma had a big party for Fran. highlights: potato salad, slaw, Heineken, rasberry mousse cake, grilled pork, veggie chips with salsa. damn good.

always looking to learn, today brought insights from several good sources: Chris Rock and Maxim.

• Chris Rock on taxes: “you know what’s fucked up about taxes? you don’t even pay taxes. you get the check — money gone! that’s not a payment, that’s a jack! you get check-jacked every week. let me get this straight — they take money out ya check, then they want some more money in April. what kinda gangsta shit is that? why can’t they just take the money they needed in the first place? don’t come to me all late like a crackhead! “i need a lil bit more money. ahh, the Pentagon need a paint job!” Uncle Sam’s on the pipe!
• Maxim on picking up chicks at a bar: “Always bring cigarettes, even if you don’t smoke. Leave them sitting out so girls can bum them from you. It’s the one instance in which a woman will feel comfortable approaching you. And it attracts the right kind of woman: If she’s willing to risk getting cancer, chances are she’s willing to risk getting an STD.”

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mmkay, i’m on a bit of a political kick at the moment. got up this morning and found some interesting stuff, so i thought i’d share it with you.

i started poking around for some information on the Animal Liberation Front. for those of you haven’t heard of it, it’s essentially an organization that carries out acts of sabotage and terrorism “on behalf of” animals — all in the name of… well, i’m not sure, but some vague but very important responsibility to protect animal rights. we all have this responsibility despite the fact that most ALFers are atheists, so we as a race aren’t subject to any higher law. yeah, it’s kind of a tough jump to make, but i guess they do their best in their mission statement. (too bad they don’t do their best to edit the spelling errors on their junkyard of a Web site, but that’s another story.) anyway, one of the most interesting pages on the site is a list of animal rights supporters, many of whom i doubt would like to be associated with ALF. the list includes some unexpected names, such as Mark McGwire, Hulk Hogan, David Horowitz, Clive Barker, Richard Pryor, Larry Bird, and Mo Vaughn. if you read the fine print, it’s often unclear that these people are really “animal rights supporters” (especially in the ALF’s extremist sense), but it’s still thought-provoking.

perhaps the most interesting person listed in the above page was Emanuel Swedenborg, who wrote the doctrines of the New Church, the faith i subscribe to. evidently, a number of vegetarians cite Swedenborg as an important figure in Christian thinking on vegetarian eating, as evidenced from a Google search on “swedenborg vegetarian.” for example, this page on the “History of Vegetarianism” site actually quotes the Heavenly Doctrines. interestingly enough, they cut off the first quote from Arcana Coelestia 1002 two very important sentences early. take a look at the unabridged version AC 1002 and you’ll see what i mean.

in other meat-related news, it seems that close to Northwestern, the kids at New Trier (grr) have started a Carnivorous Club. bravo. probably the first time i’ve praised the Winnetka millionaire-teens for anything.

and lastly, Michael Newdow, the atheist who brought the suit against the Pledge of Allegiance, seems to own the same digital camera i do. yep.

The Man is keepin’ me down

first a speeding ticket, then a parking ticket?! what the hell is this, Evanston? and get this: I got it at 9:54am, and you’re allowed to park there at 10:00am. fuccckkkkkk that!

ah yes, i hate spending money. total yesterday? $206.36 (Alpine CDE-7870 CD deck + smart cables + wiring harness + tax) + $75.00 (bullshit speeding ticket) = $281.36. ouch.

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fuck! speeding ticket! arghhhhh. anyone who knows me knows i HATE wasting money, and what’s a bigger waste than a speeding ticket? 46 in a 35, which isn’t too bad, and it was a damn speed trap to boot. and you know how some people (and by “people” i mean “good looking girls”) can get out of tickets? i can’t. i can’t sweet talk cops. it’s just not in the repetoire. and i though about contesting the ticket, but Ma says my insurance won’t go up, so i don’t think i’ll do it.

Ann Coulter has been a friggin rampage lately. Last night I turned on MSNBC and she was ripping into the host (it wasn’t Chris Matthews) and some liberal chick on there. then i read today on CNN that she duked it out with Katie Couric on The Today Show. the sparring match is on video here, along with some excerpts from her new book Slander.

oh yeah, i think i’m gonna buy me a new car stereo deck. i need something to survive the Champaign to Bryn Athyn drive in a couple of weeks.

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not much to do around here, but that’s ok. i’m ok with relaxing, working a bit, working out a bit, spending too much time on the Internet, eating Fran’s amazing homemade cherry pie, drinking Lady Grey tea, and engaging in the over-the-top nerdiness of thinking throughout of the day about what will go in today’s jotsheet entry.

15 pages edited so far. took longer than it should, but my sis’s thesis is coming along slowly but surely. i’m editing for grammar, spelling, content, and organization. it’s a big task. it’s more time consuming than i thought it would be, but i’m glad i can help her.

i already mentioned a couple weeks back about the clear suckitude of Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, despite the fact that i hadn’t seen it. its crappiness should be obvious to any clear-thinking, red-blooded male. now my suspicions have been confirmed by a delightful article on NRO. a choice quote: “As for me, a man from Mars watching a film from Venus, it was just another reminder that rationality, logic, and a sense of proportion had long since fled this unapologetically manipulative piece of hokum.”

ah yes, annoying liberals. they’re like those German cockroaches that are so hard to get rid of. first they go messing with the Pledge of Allegiance. hm. yeah, i bet that’ll sit well with the Supreme Court, not to mention the American public.

closer to home, allow me to discuss a cute little group of lefties called the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center. aw man, these kids are the best. first off, they call it “Urbana-Champaign,” which, in my book, is grounds for a paint-the-ground-red assbeating. they’ve got a program on WEFT (a radio station) at like 5:30 p.m. that throws around commie cliches like a gaggle of Berkeley Lesbians at a G8 protest. in the canned little intro to the show, i actually burst out laughing when some 19 year-old trust fund-socialist proudly proclaimed, “i want to agitate for revolution.” aww man. that was the best. and the age-old claims about the media being conservatively biased? oh boy, just busts me up. great ab workout, i tell ya.

mm, and from the nerd file… ever wondered about what the processes in your Task List actually mean? try the Task List Programs page from www.answersthatwork.com.

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i was poking around the ol’ C:\misc directory a couple of nights ago and found some pics that Erin scanned for me a long time ago. although i’m sure they’re more meaningful to me than anyone reading this, i’d thought i’d share them, because sometimes it’s nice to see a picture of the people a person talks about.

• Diana, whom i dated during the last part of senior year. it ended badly. sad story. we’re on better terms now.
• The guys Maple, a wonderful summer camp i attended for four years during high school. Ryan Tennis is in the light blue Maple shirt, Anders (”awwwwwwwn-durs”) Lindquist to his left in the black shirt, me in the white hat in the center, Anders (”annnnnnnn-durs”) Hyatt to my left in the green, and Bron Tennis to his left in the tan Maple shirt.
• Grand and Rebekah. Grant is an excellent minister in my church, and Rebekah is an old friend from my early days at Laurel.
• Jennica is another old, close friend. She used to date Ryan.
• Laura. I dated Laura during the beginning of senior year, but i broke up with her because i was still stuck on Erin.
• Erin. i used to sort of be in love with Erin during high school, but the feelings were not mutual. still, she’s a great person, and i highly respect her, although we have gone our separate ways a bit after high school.

underscorebleach: i found another googlewhack
underscorebleach: “bombastically bling“
dj gwenkittie: your life is boring.

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underscorebleach: haha
underscorebleach: no can do
dj gwenkittie: just say you got lost. :-)
underscorebleach: har har
underscorebleach: when i hit the Rockies
underscorebleach: i think i’d be hard to lie anymore
dj gwenkittie: they’re the appalachians.
…

dj gwenkittie: so then i bit you.

making fun of stuff is fun

for your procrastinating pleasure…   Commercials I Hate: A diatribe by Nathan Alexander

something to be proud of: underscorebleach.net is the only search result on Google for “elimidate nudes.” (no, i didn’t search for it — someone who came to my site did.) my heart a-flutters with pride.

find out more about Googlewhacking.

on the tip of my tongue…

twice in the 15 minutes? i’m sitting on the Quad, editing my sis’s dissertation on midwifery, and a tour guide for the U of I walks by. “hey Tom Sherman!” she calls out. “hey! what’s up?” i answer, completely unable to remember her name. of course, it came to me as soon as she was gone with her tour group. Lisa Verdick.

no more than 15 minutes later, an Asian guy walks up to me and says, “hey dude!” i respond in kind. i’m pretty kinda sorta sure it’s Mike Chen from Glenview, which would be neat and very unexpected, but something isn’t right. i do the standard stealthy information gathering and learn he’s from a Chicago suburb. well, that checks out. i say “ANC,” sort of under my breath, and he interprets this as “UIC.” hm. and right before he leaves, he mentions Circuit City. d’oh! Paul! ack! my memory is like a 90 year old man’s!

but anyway, in Googlewhacking news, i have submitted my first (and last? how nerdy am i, anyway?) Googlewhack: “transubstantiate crepes.” yeah, a new version of the Holy Communion, i suppose. try the Google search yourself. and here’s the proof i’m in the Whack Stack. Ben made it in as well with “satiating smalltalk,” while Jackie pitched in with “preternatural monosaccharide.” well met, young squires!

alcoholics often speak of “triggers” that cause them to revert to drinking. unfortunately, i think i have something similar when my personality clashes with certain other people’s. i’m “triggered” into being a dick, or being immature, or hassling people, or being cocky, or whatever. i tell ya what, i don’t like it, because i don’t feel like i’m in total control of my behavior when it happens. unfortunately, my niece and i don’t get along, and i’d put her in that “trigger” category for me. it’s just damn hard for me to be civil around her. my mom got pissed at me today about it (not necessarily completely justified, but oh well), so Ma and i had a fight and she stormed off from dinner. ya. oh well.

long talk with anna marie tonight. it was good. she is sweet. together over summer. that is good. good to have someone care about you.

<< memorandum >>
to: Champaign and Urbana city planners
re: parking in campustown
message: blow me! all the way to Oregon & Lincoln for free parking? blow me

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