Its never too early to start planning...

Yesterday I overheard manager discussing whether or not we could dress up for Halloween this year. I think it sounds like an AWESOME idea. I've already got an idea for a costume as well. Check out this link.

I'm not going to let anyone know, so they'll have to decide if its worth sending me home for.

Kids are getting smarter everyday

My proposal for a renewable resource...

A new sandwich shop opened up today in Springfield - Head West. Its like a Jimmy Johns/Subway only tastes SO much better... oh yeah, and its ran by Hippies. This was something I was told before even going there by multiple people on seperate occasions, and I didn't take them very seriously. But sure enough, The Dead Bears and Widespread Panic Posters and the like plastered on the walls... two very skinny (read: vegitarian) girls in homemade clothes were working behind the counter. I made some small chat and found out that they were new to town which, after leaving, made me realize: They imported these hippies. Head West apparently has a stockpile of Hippies that it uses to staff its locations and I can only imagine how they're getting paid. This prompted another realization:

What if the government grew weed, and paid hippies in weed to do various tasks. What if they paid hippies to grow the weed as well in government green houses. Its like a self replicating currency... and Hippies will do ANYTHING for weed. No more hazzard pay for those jobs no one wants: Hippies will do it. No more having to work with Sewage and the like: Hippies don't bathe anyways. You want a housekeeper? Contract one from a government Hippie-Aid company, you pay the government a quarter what you normally would pay someone, and that will translate into top quality pot for the Hippy. Its a sure thing... almost as good as monkey butlers.

Hey Jacob:

Now I'm talking about you.

Things I've learned

I ponder things I've learned often... and it often winds up being at ridiculous times like 5am. What am I doing up at 5am, you may ask? Well, I'm trying to clean up the aftermath of one of my more complex procrastinations: I rearranged the furniture in my apartment. I have to say, I like what I've done with the place. With the exception that all my knick-knacks are all over the place right now and papers are covering the floor and my shelves are mostly empty right now. But these are not the things I've learned. What I've learned, spawned from an experience at the Buy today. Speaking of which, check out the picture I made:



Me after a hard day's flipping out and Ninja'ing people at Best Buy, and my bestest girlfriend Ro in her teacher clothes and her favorite MP3 Player.

But back to what I learned: If you want anyone to EVER take you seriously in a Political conversation, never try to convince anyone of something by saying these words "Well I was listening to X on the radio." Or "X says that." and have X be any of these people: Rush, Micheal Moore, Coulter, Stewart, O'Reilly, or Corbert. Now I love Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert, but I don't try winning arguement with them. I recognize that they are entertainers, not politicians. They make thier living by entertaining others. Some of these entertainers may think just a little too highly of themselves, but they don't research, they don't truely know very much at all. They make money by ranting and raving, or by making wisecracks. If someone tries arguing points and says one of these people... just sigh, smile and patronize. And be glad that no matter what your new found adversary (who seems hellbent on making a battle out of every opportunity) believes about how great it would be if Rush or Moore ran the world... it will *never* happen. So sleep soundly.

A Glimpse into the Future

So I took my girlfriend out to lunch yesterday, at Casa de la Arby's (but you gotta say it with a thick accent.) And I realized that there I was, with my signifigant other, out to dinner in an Arby's, wearing my Buy outfit (a job that doesn't pay me enough), drowning in debt, with a career totally unrelated to my major, with an empty fridge at home, trying to make ends meet. And I realized... that's all ok. I've got the greatest girlfriend in the world. Did you know she left me a origami crane on my desk when she left my apartment that I just found - it had a message on the inside for me. She's the greatest.

We just recently celebrated our 2nd anniversary... know what I got her? Three 99 cent camera bags (for her to accessorize with), a $3 DVD (Requiem for a Dream), Season One of the orignial Ninja Turtles cartoon, and some nice shampoo (Biolauge or something) that she always talks about wanting but would never buy. She got me a Paddle Ball toy, a ninja toy set, and some puzzles with special messages on the back once you finished. We didn't even plan that out, but it was funny to us because we had thought so much alike.

Oh yeah, and I should re-announce. The Nintendo Wii will be out November 19th. From that point on, consider me unreachable. I will be busy. Oh yeah, and I have a paper due tomorrow... and a bunch of reading tonight, that I probably won't get finished, but oh well. Off to work for now.


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Edit: For anyone who hasn't heard of Echolocation (blind people using sonar to get around) you should check this out... I can't believe what they gave him.

Hey Houston!

Have a very Ninja Birthday!

The first four letters of Analysis are...

yes, these are the things I notice in my Research Design class. For those of you who don't know what my research design class is, its a class where my entire grade stems from the creation of a single research project. You know things like: Monopolistic Competition, Increasing Returns and the Effects of Government Spending (DO NOT actually try and read that stuff, just for illustration purposes). Its kind of like writing a really hard paper that only like 10 people in the world will care about, but is somehow more important than all of those essays you regurgitated on Christopher Columbus in the past. That makes it doubly wierd thinking that your paper "could" wind up in some "Scholarly Journal" and others will start citing you when they write their own papers... eh, probably won't happen anyway. Its more likely that I'll just drop out of grad school once my new Nintendo comes out.

Some other things I noticed in class: When my teacher says phenomenon, all I hear is Manamana.



Also I need to say that after memorizing 1,928 words... the 8th Amendment is a blessing:

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

I love the 8th amendment.

Is it bad when your outlets bleed?

I got back from the weekend in J-to-the-Z-ville and found that a majority of my power didn't work in my apartment. I fliped the switch on the fusebox to have a nice spark pop and the fuse to blow right back. Flipping it again, the lights came back on and stayed on. Was I wrong to assume all was well? Apparently.

Ro went into the bathroom and then yelled for me... there was a brownish redish liquid puddled on the floor. It was trickling down my wall... and apparently originating from one of my outlets where my razor was plugged in. Crazy huh? Well, I guess its not that weird considering the number of times I woke up to find the door to my apartment wide open in the middle of the night, or the time that crucifix hung by my closet revolved until it was upside down and gave off a sour smell.

For now I'm hungry though, time for a sandwich. I woke up at 4:30 to work some more on some awesome homework. I've got 15 of my 20 sources and need to write up my research proposal before 5 today... and I work 9 to 3.

LAME!

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As a throwback to old posts about 80's cartoons and the like.
Lessons we learned from 80's Cartoons

Scott, you're gonna have to just deal with it.

I'm going to start stealing stories from Digg when I don't think I have anything really important to say about my own life. Right now I could post about how I just ate a whole package of Jello Pudding with Strawberries... but aside from a bit of a tummyache, there's nothing really note worthy there. I've got a lot of homework and reading to do, but again not interesting. But THIS, This is interesting.

Video Tributes

Two things of note, both with videos, one sad and one... happy... for me anyway. First the happyish thing. In case there are some that haven't noticed, I made a List of people I hate on the right side (all the way at the bottom). And one of those people is Fred Phelps. You can click the link on the side for my original post of despise, or you can simply watch the video that has its own little intro anyways:



I think everyone should hit on a Westboro Church member at least once in his/her life. It'll make you feel better.


Secondly, by now I'm sure most of you have already heard, but Steve Irwin was killed recently. Even though everyone at some point has made the comment that it was bound to happen sooner or later, its still very sad when it did. He was a great conservationist, activist and educator for all things nature. He will be missed, and it should have been Fred.