Saturday, April 29, 2006


My awesome girlfriend Michelle, went to Union College's masquerade banquet recently and I MISSED OUT :( Fortunately I did get pictures... which made me realize just how much I missed out!

She's almost done with her semester and a few weeks after that, I'll be with her again. IKES she's beautiful!!!

Llama llama llama!

Hey everyone, I've been crazy busy over the last few weeks and haven't posted a whole lot on my blog :( BUT, I'm still hanging in there ;)

I must say that last Saturday was fantastic - I spent most of the day with Jen, Janelle, and Nate. The photo was taken on the way to our afternoon hike out at South Forks and these llamas were super cute!! We also went to a Jewish synagogue and salsa dancing in the evening - all around, a very busy day, but a great break from the normal college homework.

The weather around here has been unbelievable - warm and sunny practically every day and I've started eating outside most of the time.

This coming week is going to be tough - loads of projects, tests, and homework, but I'll make it through somehow.

Thursday, April 13, 2006


I'm blog-stealing again, but this time from Jen and this time for a better cuase than my own humour. The Invisible Children is a project started by youth who made the effort to uncover and change a horrible situation in Uganda... You can see their documentary film and find out more about their history/goals etc at their official website. Here is another good site with information about the situation and current fundraisers.

If you do nothing else, at least watch the documentary - it's less than an hour long and better than the tv show you were planning on watching tonight. And if you don't feel like watching this because it's not nice to see the darker side of the world, you especially need to see it...

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Ahhhh, I'm a thief, so after seeing the following excellent Mony Python quote on my good friend Dr. Della's page I absoutely had to steal it for my own uses ;) Actually, I've been looking for this particular skit for nearly 2 years since I saw it on Ben's live DVD. So here you go. Enjoy!

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
Because we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness, son".
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Aye, 'e was right.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
Aye, 'e was.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
I was happier then and I had nothin'. We used to live in this tiny old house with great big holes in the roof.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
House! You were lucky to live in a house! We used to live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, 'alf the floor was missing, and we were all 'uddled together in one corner for fear of falling.
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
Eh, you were lucky to have a room! We used to have to live in t' corridor!
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
Oh, we used to dream of livin' in a corridor! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House? Huh.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Well, when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was a house to us.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
We were evicted from our 'ole in the ground; we 'ad to go and live in a lake.
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
You were lucky to have a lake! There were a hundred and fifty of us living in t' shoebox in t' middle o' road.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
Cardboard box?
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
Aye.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you.
ALL:
They won't!

Sunday, April 09, 2006


I found this picture on a guy's MySpace site and thought it was good that I had to steal it!

This picture is only funny for those of you who are familiar with the cult classic "Napoleon Dynamite." People either hate this film or love it... It's like an ugly stpuid dog that you either despise or like... because it's ugly and stupid :) This morning at the caf, I heard both sides. One of the guys was rejoicing that the actor Jon Heder OD'd on crack and thus a second Napoleon Dynamite was narrowly avoided. From what I can tell, however, he is alive and well and is in several upcoming films... Whew!

Saturday, April 08, 2006


Everything is illuminated in the light of the past....

I had the opportunity to watch an interesting movie this past week with Jen: Everything Is Illuminated. It's an amazing film and I would recommend watching it. I won't even try to explain why it is good - just to make you more curious.

Two weeks into the quarter and I already feel intimidated... Oh well, at least I have Saturday to repose. (Sunday is a full study day)

So far, life has been looking great though! I'm learning a tremendous amount in every class (really interesting stuff) like how to test infinite series for convergence, types of logical proofs, why a gaseous state of egg doesn't exist, methods of searching tree data structures, and 3D models of parts in AutoCAD for example. Rigid homework has been flowing forth from practically every class, but I've been studying with Johnny (freshman bioengineering) quite a bit recently and it's nice to be around someone who views homework as a challenge and opportunity rather than a dreaded chore.

Aside from school, though, life is also looking great. I'm getting plenty of exercise between running, tennis, rockclimbing, and my new area of exploration: swimming. Walking to the pool at 6:20 am is less than "fun", but after a good swim I really feel awake for the day - and it should help for some of the triathlons I'm hoping to participate in this quarter. If only my Speedo wasn't so hard to get on. I thought about asking for help, but that sounds a bit... dodgy. My Speedo swim cap, people... sigh... ;)

I went to a really premium concert twice last week called "Prism." Basically the music department here at WWC collected a lot of musician students and made a great program consisting of 5 minute pieces of music (solos, choir, orchestra, or small groups). The best part was that it didn't all take place up on the stage. Some performers were scattered around the venue and as they began, a spotlight focused attention on them. It made for a really unique and enjoyable evening and I have a new love of the xylophone (the piece performed reminded me of the music from Riven). It's just too bad I couldn't take Michelle along - it would have made a great date ;)