So I was reading a breaking news story and it occurred to me that one tiny piece of information changes how people react to the story entirely. So I tested it by telling my wife about the news. A man flew a small private plane into an office building today. Before he did, he set fire to his own home and wrote a suicide note so this was not an ( Read more... )

http://www.dailynews.com/ci_14382788

Short version of the story: Woman tries out to be a dancer at a bar. She gets rejected and thinks another dancer was disrespecting her. So she gets drunk, attacks the other dancer, pours gasoline on her, and lights her on fire. Now admit it, you just read that and had a mental image of a woman on fire doing a ( Read more... )

So after a few weeks of classes, I'm starting to wonder something. What type of god damned moron signs himself up for Business Statistics, Accounting, and Economics all in the same fucking semester? None of it is hard, but good god is this shit boring. I should have spread these classes out over a time period where I could accept their boredom more ( Read more... )

Basic old time story of 1850 justice, hanging, and all that in what was then a rather frontier type of town. The full story is here if anyone cares. In middle of this story is this bit (emphasis mine ( Read more... )

One of my many discarded AMV attempts was basically a spoken word fairy tale with simple animation or still images as a background. What I learned is that either I suck or even a fairly simple fairy tale is too complex for a video. Perhaps both are true. So now I have a fairy tale I wrote and nothing to do with it. I guess it's time to dump it a ( Read more... )

Just doing my homework. For business class I have to answer the following question:

Comarketing and cobranding are techniques that organizations often use to market their own and each other's products. Choose two firms with goods and/or services you think would work well together for comarketing separate products or cobranding a single product. ( Read more... )

I've been thinking I should write more. Most of the time I get semi-interesting ideas, I flesh it out a little, then I forget all about it once the conversation is over. I should start writing this shit down. Perhaps it's just that I have more time on my hands now that I dropped IRC or something. Anyway, I think I'll be posting more of my random ( Read more... )

Tonight I came up with a new business idea. Our cemetaries are filling up and a lot of people don't like the thought of cremation. Plus with cremation a lot of times the grieving relatives go to some pretty countryside area and scatter the ashes to the wind. Which has got to suck for those who actually live in the pretty countryside. I mean there ( Read more... )

Last night was my accounting class. Something about write-offs must have really stuck in my mind because I had an actual dream about accounting. When I woke up, I remember going 'Wait a second. That was wrong. The entry should be this instead...'

I have never felt like such a depressed loser pathetic nerd as I do right now.

I have a paper I gotta print up at school tomorrow. For whatever reason their email system has been bitchy recently. Oddly enough, I can access LJ just fine though. So this is just a copy of a boring paper on the offhand chance the email I sent myself doesn't go through.
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