Midterm Time

With the midterms a-coming I'm getting back into studying mode. Electricity/Magnetism is my first and probably the toughest midterm, coming up on Tuesday. Then Digital Circuits on thursday, Calc the following monday, Logic and CS falls on the thursday and the next monday. So yeah, I'll be pretty busy for the next 2 weeks.

You know, I haven't been to Fed a while, maybe we'll go this coming Thursday, after the digital circuits midterm.

Here's my class schedule if anyone's interested. I don't have the 8:30 CS134 tutorial in the morning and we only have the SE 141 labs like every other week, something like that.

Oh yeah, no luck in co-op, I have 10 rejections, 0 interviews so far.

I'm bored and I might dye my hair (don't worry not pink, not green/blue no freakish colours)... I haven't decided what colour yet, suggestions?

ORANGE DEATH!

- Backstab @ 8:46 PM

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See The Cat? See The Cradle?

That was a line I remembered from "Cat's Cradle" by Vonnegut again. It makes reference to how a cat's cradle (you know, the game) isn't really a cat's cradle. It's just a lie parents tell their children. See the cat? See the cradle? Fuck no.

I should really read that book again. It was really interesting. One of the few books I've actually finished reading.

Click here to see what I was laughing about all day long. Check video 1 and 2 on the sidebar. All your base are belong to us!

White death from above occurred today. I'm such an idiot, I drove to Finch today. Big mistake. One of the most scariest times driving.

What is wrong with you people at Waterloo? Absolutely NONE of you have Maple 7.0! For God's sake, WATERLOO CREATED IT!!!

".. and the whole world, loves it when you make that sound... bah bah, dad bap bap bah dah dah..."

GREEN DEATH.

- Liston @ 4:46 PM

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Aftermath of Ryerson
Tired, that what i was after Ryerson. I ate lots of chicken and fell asleep. I finished my article on Ryerson. I just need a couple of things just to touch it up.

No, Backstab, i can totally reasure you that they ain't there to suck cock because i heard Jessica Wong, aka the devil, got like 4 job offers.
4 job offers!! I doubt anybody would want her to suck their cock. But look at is this way, if you work at a company, you'll want the 50/50 male female ratio. Sure it's highly unreasonable and is it fair to give them jobs over qualified people? Of course not, but that the way the cookie crumbles.

Since were not comming to waterloo anymore, with all the exams and what not, i figured let's go to the brunny or some other place.

Short and pointless, that's what this post is. I still can't see polaris

The One and Only,

- Guru Mike @ 11:08 PM

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Are girls stealing the jobs?

Why is it that all the girls got the interviews for the jobs? I don't understand this. There are... let's see... 15 girls in my class? Yeah, 15. They all got interviews (excluding the ones who already found their own jobs). There are about what? 80 something guys in my class. Ridiculous enough, there's only a small portion of guys who got interviews. What does that mean? Girls with better resumes? Girls are smarter? I don't think so.

Now... how can you explain that this girl in our class, who's just like any other person in the class, got 4 interviews, including J,I,S jobs. And how this other girl in my class got an interview for a J,I,S job which literally everyone I know of got rejected. Or this other girl, apparently doesn't even have C/C++ put in her resume, got an interview for a position which requires C/C++, while the rest of the people, who are more qualified, got rejected. And how this company basically hired girls only. (not gonna mention any names but I will find a way to destoy that company in the near future)

It seems like its a fact that companies _want_ females in the workplace so companies can promote workplace diversity. I think this is pretty bullshit. It's true, yes, it's nice to have a mixture of people to work in a company, but that doesn't mean that they should have a 50/50 ratio. Especially in a field where it's male dominant (ex. computer/software), there SHOULDn't exist a 50/50 ratio, unless well, by some random luck that your company's got smart girls working for you. Think about it, do you see that many male nurses around in a hospital? NO, because it's a female dominant job. It should stay the way it is. What workplace diversity really is, is that you can't hire employees based on sex, race, culture, religion etc. Otherwise, it's discrimination. Therefore, if you're hiring only females, it's discrimination.

I'd like to think that's NOT the case at the moment. I just hope all the employers aren't doing this because they just want females to suck their cocks. This is my rant of the day.

P.S. Obviously this is directed towards the companies, not the girls. Don't get me wrong, I love girls :P

ORANGE DEATH

- Backstab @ 7:01 PM

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That Thing

You know that thing where when you can't have something you want it even more? Ya, I got one of those things... I've been searching for "No Regrets" by X-quisite.
Can't find it, someobdy help me find the mp3 before I buy the CD and the damn RIAA wins. Seriously tho, if anyone stumbles upon it, grab it for me, and let me know.
That is all

BROWN DEATH,

- Knobody @ 12:57 AM

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It Isn't In The Book Of Baby Names

Why don't parents name their child "Spankerton"? (Actually, I woke up laughing this morning about this)

Guru Mike came to Ryerson with me today. He kept taking notes, and I'm half interested and half afraid of what's parts are gonna be posted. Hopefully nothing that'll get me into trouble... :)
Now that I think about it, I do walk by the fashion department a lot. That's because it's on the way to the comp. sci lab. Really.

I figured out I'm crazy. It hit me two days ago when I was trying to draw this map from my house to Ryerson. It was pretty nuts. I'm pretty nuts. I'm a nice person though, so it's all good.

Smelled pot while walking to the subway once again. It's been awhile.

Montell Jordan put out another CD. Guess what'll be in my CD player for the next 3 months?

My house will ROCK for the summer. This mild weather is reminding me of patio, bbq and liquor. Plus, that Reid's dairy near my house just makes things even better.

"Watch Out For Herpes" is one of the funniest headers I've ever read.

The Raptors are finally here my friends. Two games back, and it's all good. Hopefully they can keep soon-to-be-free-agent Keon Clark... oh yeah, and keep that foolio Mo' Pete on the bench. Toronto's been doing great without his mediocre defensive capability. Trade him for another guard I'll say.

Me an' Guru most likely aren't coming to 'loo this weekend. Apparently, all the math/compsci students have some type of midterm. I wanted to come up before course load got crazy, but I'm not sure I can after this weekend.

GREEN DEATH.

- Liston @ 11:30 PM

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Quick Post Cuz I'm Tired

According to AH, you can play cards for other players, as long as they don't contain the text "territory you occupy".
That is all.

BROWN DEATH.

- Knobody @ 1:59 AM

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Watch out for herpes

All I need is a car, a girl, and a drink in my hand, and all my troubles can dissapear.

- Backstab @ 10:47 PM

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Rams are victorious, thank you very much.

Yup, thanks. Skieblade once again, with his elite prediction skills, predicted for an Eagles-Steelers super bowl. Well it's because of him that the Patriots and Rams were on top today and will be heading for the super bowl. What a dramatic victory for the Patriots, my former favourite team that is. Bledsoe coming in and leading the team for the win. Rams once again were the stronger team as Aeneas Williams intercepted yet another pass

My prediction will be simple... Rams over Patriots, by 10 points.

P.S. Risk 2210AD is annoying. Yeah... I'm unpredictable, I do crazy things, and I don't know all the rules because I played in the first few games when you guys set up THE WRONG RULES. Hey it's not my fault you guys didn't tell me about the rule changes.

- Backstab @ 12:50 AM

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Vendetta!

Yeah i'm 20, older and wiser. Huzzah ! Sadly enough, i spent the first couple minutes of my birthday playing risk 2210 AD.
+10 for me (btw we seemed to have developed a running gag which i will now explain)
It seems we were trying to decided who is the greatest nerd of them all. Based upon what we like, do and say, we add arbitrary values of nerdness.
ie. if i had a magic (the gathering) deck with me. + 5 for me.
Spending the first moments of my birthday playing risk, +10.

During that risk game, i have now a permenant vendetta against Backstab! With this vendetta, i reserve the right to strike him whenever i feel the spite corsing though my viens! What caused this need for putting Backstab on my vendetta list?
Simple, backstab! (notice the lowercase denoting no the person, but the actual defintion)
in 5th year, he calls a alliance, which i see and freely accept. HE CALLED THE ALLIANCE not me.
Liston was yelling at both of us calling each other hoes (for forming the alliance).
then Backstab, proceeds to rocket strike me. A clear violation of the alliance.
Therefore i submit that Backstab is a HOE! A no good cheating, lying, backstabing, vile, dirty, cheap hoe!
Now, i lacked the frequency jam to proceed for vengence, so i call upon my sort of divine justice!
VENDETTA! (NOW AND FOREVER! or at least until i feel my thirst is quenched)

Well, that was an eventful evening. Liston, there is a change of plans for the waterloo trip. My parents are leaving on the sunday of the weekend. That means i need to leave Waterloo early. I think i might drive up there. So i need to talk to you and straighten up my plans. Knobody, if you want to go the brunny, i'll drive, i got a car, plus you drove to the brunny too many times.

Thank you Steph Yau! for the lovely fan pack (that's a small case of tall boys {beer}). Your the greatest

Hmm maybe for my vendetta, i'll just drink Backstab into the ground....

Muscial thong eh? well i've got nothing to say to that.

I wrote Eye of the Tiger

The One and Only,

- Guru Mike @ 6:36 PM

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Be Professional!

You have to be professional in the game of Risk. I can't understand vendettas at all in the game for global domination. You have to ALWAYS look at the bigger picture... keep your eyes on the prize. For example, in one game, Ephraim took the world. How? No vendettas, no bullshit. Cool, calm and collective was the name of the game for him. Kudos on that game. Backstab is really hard to play against in Risk 2210. He usually has no plan, so he's unpredictable. It wasn't that I don't want GT to play a game with us... it's that he's hard to play against. He'd win a lot more games if he actually knew all the rules though. lol.

I still don't understand why Guru and Backstab teamed up on me at the end. It went a little like this...

"Well, I'm not attacking you (Backstab)", said Guru
"Well, I'm not gonna attack you (Guru)", said Backstab

This is usually okay, but considering that it's a 3 player game and that I'm the 3rd player AND in year 5, well... and so it goes.

I'm reminded of a passage from "Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut...

"There was a sign hung around my dead cat's neck. It said, 'Meow'." (Vonnegut, p78)

You know what? I'm also reminded of a movie now. Remember the movie The Skulls? Damn what a retarded movie. (I just learned that they're making The Skulls 2... straight to video thank God) Anyways, the last line of the movie was "Well done Mr McNamara, well done." In "Cat's Cradle", the last line of chapter 36 was "Well done Mr. Krebbs, well done." (Vonnegut, 78) The difference is that in The Skulls, Joshua Jackson kills some other teen in an "honourable" duel and drives away in a speedboat while proving some idiotic trying-to-have-a-great-meaning-made-for-teenie-bopper-piece-of-crap, whilst in Cat's Cradle, the main character says this because "Mr. Krebbs" stayed in his apartment, ran up $300 worth of phone calls, set fire to his couch, killed his cat and avocado tree, and tore the door of his medicine cabinet. I remember laughing at this literary blunder in the movie theatre.

Strangely enough, I also remember the new Planet of the Apes. Fucking Mark Wahlberg ruins everything he stars in. I think that's the only movie where I repeatedly swore after watching.

I saw Heartbreakers on the weekend. If you watch very carefully, Jennifer Love Hewitt is ALWAYS wearing low-cut everything, and either the camera is on a downwards angle towards her OR the scene would eventually change to a balcony, where she inevitably would bend over to look what was at street level.

As for Knobody, Jesus Christ man. Seven? My advice: choose from the ones who aren't already involved, from those choose the one you get along with the most, THEN (most important) MAKE SURE SHE ISN'T CRAZY. Always choose the stable ones. And if she has a licence & car, it's a plus! hahahaha. side note: I re-read this post and Knbody's post, and I forgot that Knobody is car-less for a little while. The previous statement was in a general sense and not for Knobody specifically, but everybody. However, this "loss of car" incident is a practical application of this "plus".

Oh yeah, and don't date (or sleep with) anyone who's crazier than you are. A should-be Universal Law.

On a final note, coming up at 6:30 pm on friday with Guru. Looking forward to seeing everyone.

Until then,

- Liston @ 6:24 PM

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My Universe Is Crashing Down Around Me

It's been a while since my last post and so much is going on around me. I've been sick and so while I've been home I've been sleeping. Would have rather gone out, but I've been sleeping. The first thing is that I am car-less. Yes, my only link to the T-Dot crew has been severed. My dad got in an accident and totalled our minivan...write off. You want the details ask me in person, it's not a secret, but I got much to post, and well I think a lot of you have heard about it already. But I'd like to point out that all that shit about most accidents happening close to home is right. This happened about 20 metres from my front door, actually in front of my driveway on the other side of the street. So yeah, down to one car, and in a family of 6 that one car can't be missing all day, so I am indeed ride-less. I am turning into a hermit again, my life changed so drastically when I started driving, I think that's when I actually got one. Oh well, my car is still around, I can take it out sometimes.

Well, there are much more interesting, boggling things going down. One of the rules of my universe is that Knobody is not a chick magnet. (heh it's a double negative that's not a double negative) That title is reserved fro Jonnie Mac. Low and behold, two girls at work, have told me that they like me. To make things better/worse, another girl at work asked me to her prom. Okay that one I'm not too sure about, she asked me and she sounded serious, but she kinda made it sound like she was joking about it later that night...probably due to my startled reaction. Normally I wouldn't have reacted so shocked by it, and so unwelcoming, but I hardly know her, I talk to her briefly when I work with her, and well never saw anything coming from that direction. I hope she was joking cuz if not, I must have embarassed her to shits. But wait it gets better. I think you guys know that my sister works at good old FP Colossus with me. (Don't know why, I told her not to) Anyways, she happens to be friends with all three of these girls. (by the way, my sister made supervisor, but that's off topic). But wait it's even better. The two that didn't ask me to prom, have boyfriends. One of them is going out with a really close friend. On a side note this guy was the guy that started me smoking, and he expressed his regret for getting me hooked, and told me he'd get me a patching and some nicoderm for my birthday. Heh, I hope I'm thru with smoking by then. Anyways, ya I already knew that one of them liked me, (the one whose going out with my friend)_because she told me she liked me when they were broken up, but they got back together and I thought I wouldn't have to deal with that anymore. But she still likes me, seemingly more than my friend, and that's not gonna work out well... where was I going with this,,,oh ya, I knew about one of them, and I was getting mixed signals from somebody else at work, so I might have expected two of these, but that makes four at Colossus, and it's freaking me out. Now, add the other 2 outside of colossus, who I get signals from and that makes 6. Oh ya I forgot to mention, there's another girl at Colossus that showed me her thong on a couple occasions to tell me how much she liked them, one of which was musical. (don't ask) But the fact that she owns a musical thong is testament that she's just like that, and I won't consider that number 7. But if it was that would be 7. What the fuck is that. Why can't they spread themselves out over my life. I don't understand this. This has never happened before. If I find out about anymore, I'm gonna go nuts. This is a major violation of the rules of Knobody's universe. When I say magnet....

Knobody is supposed to get drunk. This is a rule in the universe. My parties will offer evidence to support this. (Apparently they are famous, as highlights of summer 2001 and word has spread of their legacy as anticipation folr next year, don't worry I'll have at least one). But I haven't gotten drunk since September (New Year's excluded, I got nice and toasty then but not as much as i wanted). Either I've been driving cuz it was my turn, or driving cuz I was introducing people to Ye Olde Brunswick House or not driving to Finch but picking up my sister from work after, so limiting myself. It's not that I want to drown my problems away in liquor, but I need to let loose once in a while cuz, I'm 19 and finally of age, and shit I'm entitled to it. Which reminds me, Liston and Guru, let me know if you are in for Thursday at the Brunny, nothing planned yet, I just wanna know if I should be setting it up. And I'm not leeching off of you for a ride yet, cuz if I don't get one from you guys I can find one. I think that sums up the blunt of the things going on in my life that are on my mind.

All I need is a car, a girl, and a drink in my hand, and all my troubles can dissapear.

Oh ya I'm failing Calculus, probably gonna drop it, gonna find out my mark from my 2nd test on Tuesday, and then gonna decide if I wanna drop it. But I've only gotten a mark on one test, taken another, have another one left to go, and a 60% exam so I can pull up a failing mark...but I dunno, and I'm about to fail an economics test, cuz Fal and I stumbled on the Economics teacher that thinks we can handle more than the other classes, and well has provided us with tests that are 10 times harder than the other classes, I jest not, I have friends in the other classes. But this stuff matters not to me, it's nothing compared to the rest of it.

The sky is falling,

- Knobody @ 6:15 AM

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