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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
11:36 pm	One of those LJ memes YOU'RE ON MY FRIENDS LIST, I want to know 36 things about you. I don't care if we never talk, or if we already know everything about each other. Short and sweet is fine ... You're on my list, so I want to know you better! BE HONEST! COPY FROM HERE, THEN SEND DIRECTLY TO ME IN A COMMENT, THEN REPOST THE EMPTY QUESTIONS. 1) Are you currently in a serious relationship? A. 2) What was your dream growing up? A. 3) What talent do you wish you had? A. 4) If I bought you a drink what would it be? A. 5) Favorite vegetable? A. 6) What was the last book you read? A. 7) What zodiac sign are you? A. 8) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where. A. 9) Worst Habit? A. 10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride? A. 11) What is your favorite sport? A. 12) Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude? A. 13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me? A. 14) Worst thing to ever happen to you? A. 15) Tell me one weird fact about you. A. 16) Do you have any pets? A. 17) What if i showed up at your house unexpectedly? A. 18) What was your first impression of me? A. 19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary? A. 20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be? A. 21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience? A. 22) What color eyes do you have? A. 23) Ever been arrested? A. 24) Bottle or can soda? A. 25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it? A. 27) What's your favorite place to hang at? A. 28) Do you believe in ghosts? A. 29) Favorite thing to do in your spare time? A. 30) Do you swear a lot? A. 31) Biggest pet peeve? A. 32) In one word, how would you describe yourself? A. 33) Do you believe/appreciate romance? [note: feel free to answer this as two parts if you feel as I do that these are two distinct questions] A. 35) Do you believe in God? A. 36) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you? A. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, August 30th, 2004
3:44 pm	Back at School At the moment, I write this from my room at the UofR. My roommate, being a senior, didn't move in till last night. He seems decent enough; anyone who has Invader Zim on DVD can't be all bad. Being a physics major, I'm currently registered for math, math, and more math. It should be a fun year. I'll let you all know more as I find out about it. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, March 29th, 2004
3:45 pm	LJ Friend Fusion argetlamh's Friend Fusion ...sleeping then awake. But are still very happy. You are most inspiration to the other Four Goddesses since without water there ...say this book simply rocks! This is going to be a 144 page, hardcover book that presents d20 stats for over ...put you back on (ie if you just absolutely >love< reading my posts, or something). take care, y'all. xoxox, radha! for ...If so, you have achieved purity of will. If not, your will is ill and you are a centre of pestilence. ...to make the most of the trip. If you are in Boston, and would like take me up on this for ...checking-out kind of way, and I don't mean videotapes. I, attracted to her and uncomfortable, looked zombeatifically at the TV which ...came back. "It would have been better to come back at the same hour," said the fox. "If for example, you ...board posting. 4) Crank out at least 1 1/2 pages of Yeats paper. 5) Character research: Girondists, anxiety, class system under ...a poem about a table! I have no time for this, but I must purge my soul of Marat Sade.... to ...is who I am now , and you will either respect that or you won't. I hope you will.' I was ... Make your own LJ Friend Fusion LJ Friend Fusion by hutta (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2004
2:51 am	Another dumb meme Introverted (I) 85.71% Extroverted (E) 14.29% Imaginative (N) 51.22% Realistic (S) 48.78% Intellectual (T) 78.79% Emotional (F) 21.21% Organized (J) 51.52% Easygoing (P) 48.48% Your type is: INTJ [Error: Irreparable invalid markup ('<td [...] left">') in entry. Owner must fix manually. Raw contents below.] <div align="center"><!--85.71 51.22 78.79 51.52--> <table style="color: black; background: #eeeeee" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td> <div align="center"> <table style="color: black; background: #dddddd" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td> <div align="center"> Introverted (I) 85.71% Extroverted (E) 14.29%<br> Imaginative (N) 51.22% Realistic (S) 48.78%<br> Intellectual (T) 78.79% Emotional (F) 21.21%<br> Organized (J) 51.52% Easygoing (P) 48.48%<br> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table style="color: black; background: #eeeeee" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td> <div align="center"> Your type is: <b><font size="+3">INTJ</font></b><br> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table style="color: black; background: #dddddd" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="280quot;>> <div align="left"> You are a Planner, possible professions include - management consultant, economist, scientist, computer programmer, environmental planner, new business developer, curriculum designer, administrator, mathematician, psychologist, neurologist, biomedical researcher, strategic planner, civil engineer, intellectual properties attorney, designer, editor/art director, inventor, informational-graphics designer, financial planner, judge. </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <a href="http://similarminds.com/career.html">Take Free Career Inventory Personality Test</a><br><font size="1"><a href="http://similarminds.com">personality tests by similarminds.com</a></font></div> There you have it. I'll try to post something relevant later. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, March 5th, 2004
8:11 pm	Yet Another Stupid Quiz Postatem obscuri lateris nescitis. "You do not know the power of the Dark Side." There are two possibilities: you are a Star Wars geek, or you are unreasoningly scary. Which Weird Latin Phrase Are You? brought to you by Quizilla (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, February 20th, 2004
7:41 pm	You're Australia! You're easy-going, relaxed, and yet somewhat tough and hardy all at the same time.  You can appreciate culture, scuba diving, and even safaris.  This makes you pretty interesting and intriguing to others, though also really unpredictable and even wild.  Your knowledge of nature is unthinkable to most of those around you, even though your respect for it is sometimes less than perfect.  People really like your accent. Take the Country Quiz at the Blue Pyramid (Comment on this)
Saturday, February 14th, 2004
3:28 pm	The Potion Maker argetlamhium is a translucent, grainy purple powder extracted from the bones of a wolverine. Mix with argetlamh! Username: Yet another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 11th, 2004
12:35 am	Hilarious And the nice thing about these... (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, February 2nd, 2004
11:25 pm	So I guess I'm the Captain... [Error: Irreparable invalid markup ('<img [...] malcolm">') in entry. Owner must fix manually. Raw contents below.] <img src="http://images.quizilla.com/C/craezame/1035593252_TheCaptain.jpg" border="0" alt=""The Captain" Malcolm"><br>"The Captain" <br><br><a href="http://quizilla.com/users/craezame/quizzes/Which%20Firefly%20character%20are%20you%3F/"> <font size="-1">Which Firefly character are you?</font></a><BR> <font size="-3">brought to you by <a href="http://quizilla.com">Quizilla</a></font> (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, January 30th, 2004
10:40 pm	Wrong on so many levels How the hell does that thing fly straight? (Comment on this)
Thursday, January 29th, 2004
12:37 pm	Leaky Ceiling Argh. My ceiling is leaking water all over the floor. I suspect that my neighbor(s) upstairs may have bad plumbing, but unfortunately nobody's home. I have some towels out to soak up the water so it doesn't form too big a puddle. Operations & Facilities says they'll have somebody over to take a look in "a couple of days." Tell me again, why do I pay $40,000.00 a year to attend this place? Current Mood: aggravated Current Music: dripdrip, dripdrip, dripdrip (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 28th, 2004
1:01 am	This Needs No Explanation (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 16th, 2003
3:40 pm	Song I Found This song was originally by Jason Hinds, and can be found on the forums at www.RPG.net What do you do with HP Lovecraft? What do you do with HP Lovecraft? What do you do with HP Lovecraft? So early in the morning? Force him to write about eldritch horrors Force him to write about eldritch horrors Force him to write about eldritch horrors So early in the morning! Hooray, Cthulhu rises Hooray, Cthulhu rises Hooray, Cthulhu rises So early in the morning! Clever. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, November 23rd, 2003
8:36 pm	Head Hunting Firm Decapitates 250 http://www.bbspot.com/news/2000/10/head_hunt.html (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, November 14th, 2003
10:09 pm	This Pleases Me Disgruntled Asian Tattoo Artist Inks His Revenge http://www.asianguy.com/msgs1/71.shtml Symbols on the back of a Pitt Student inked by Sakai (inset) were originally meant to say, "princess." They really say, "prostitute." Reprinted from Sept. 2002 -- Pitt junior Brandon Smith wanted a tattoo that proclaimed his manliness, so he decided to get the Chinese characters for "strength" and "honor" on his chest. After 20 minutes under the needle of local tattoo artist Andy Sakai, he emerged with the symbol for "small penis" embedded in his flesh. "I had it for months before I knew what it really meant," Smith said. "Then I went jogging through the Carnegie Mellon campus and a group of Asian kids started laughing and calling me 'Shorty.' That's when I knew something was up." Sakai, an award-winning tattoo artist, was tired of seeing sacred Japanese words, symbols of his heritage, inked on random white people. So he used their blissful ignorance to make an everlasting statement. Any time acustomer came to Sakai's home studio wanting Japanese tattooed on them, he modified it into a profane word or phrase. "All these preppy sorority girls and suburban rich boys think they're so cool 'cause they have a tattoo with Japanese characters. But it doesn't mean shit to them!" Sakai said. "The dumbasses don't even realize that I've written 'slut' or 'pervert' on their skin!" In the last month, seven people unknowingly received explicit tattoos from the disgruntled artist. Kerri Baker, a Carlow College freshman, paid $50 to have the symbols for "beautiful goddess" etched above her belly button, but when she went into Szechuan Express Asian Noodle Shop sporting a bare midriff, the giggling employees explained to her that the tattoo really said, "Insert General Tso's Chicken Here!" "I don't even like General Tso's!" Baker sobbed. "I'm a vegetarian!" Sakai doesn't feel guilty about using hapless college students as canvases for his graffiti. "I think I'm helping my fellow man by labeling all the stupid people in the world," he explained. "It's not a crime, it's a public service. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 11th, 2003
12:04 am	A Revelation Regarding My Cat I've just realized something about my cat, Rambo. The facts were there all along, right under my nose. Only now have they come together. 1. He is a mammal. 2. He fights, all the time. 3. His goal is to flip out and kill people. Obviously my cat is a ninja. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, September 29th, 2003
3:43 pm	Giving the Monkey a Fair Chance In Physics today, Kanwal presented us with the old problem of "The Monkey and the Gun." She wants us to work out where to aim and why for Thursday. Now, I already know the solution, so that's not the problem. The problem: I need to find a weapon firing a projectile slow enough that the monkey has time to react. This weapon also needs to generate enough noise that the monkey will have something to react to. Rifles, being supersonic, are out. Bows, being quiet, are also out. I've thought of using a pistol, something slow like .45 ACP, but can't predict if the monkey will react to that quickly enough. On the other hand, an airgun is always an option... Current Mood: silly (Comment on this)
Monday, September 8th, 2003
6:56 pm	Classes Starting... Well, I got all my classes: Physics with Calculus, Social Psychology, and six music components. I expect not to have a life this year. Physics and Psych start tomorrow. I'll let you all know how they go. Until then, Dan PS: I have free coffee and candy. Drop in. Current Mood: bored (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, August 28th, 2003
2:49 pm	Sound and Fury... "Magick is for all!" "Science is leadership!" Personally I think that "Science is for all!" and "Magick is leadership!" might be closer to the truth. Any thoughts? Current Music: Radio Free Vestibule - I Don't Want to Go to Toronto (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 26th, 2003
10:08 pm	Worst Bands Ever? Against my better judgment, and fully aware of the evils inherent in rock journalism, I browsed through an issue of Maxim Blender on a shelf in my local Barnes and Noble. The issue purported to (dis)honor "The 50 Worst Bands Ever." Of course, by "Ever" one can assume the author means "of the past 25-30 years." Now, some of the choices I wholeheartedly agreed with: Manowar, Celine Dion, and Kenny G all belong on that list. However, some baffled me: Oingo Boingo and the Doors? My big complaint though, was the author's inability to discuss anything remotely pertaining to the music he claimed to criticize. So, the moral of the story: rock journalists don't know shit. -Dan Current Mood: tired (2 Comments |Comment on this)