Goddamn it has been a long time.  This semester of 18 hellish credits has been near deadly.  I will be in 7 classes next semester..so i will probably post even less.  I really love the engineering school and the people in it...and i am doing some REALLY cool things, like i just finished building a boom box.  I will post a pic or two of it.  And i ( Read more... )

if i had the patience to look back i am sure i could find the date, but for almost a year i have been keeping track of the iraqi war death total versus 9/11.  today it happened, the numbers are matched.  Amazingly, yahoo news picked up on it right away.  This is a very sad fact for most americans, and an angering fact to all competent americans.  ( Read more... )

Here comes by ceremonial pre-move lj entry.  This time its for me going back to DC.  This summer was uneventfu, relaxed, and at times infuriating.  But i guess so is life, so who am i to complain.  I wish i saw more friends while i was here, but it never happened. Cest La Vie.  Tonight we celebrated my birthday early at Flemmings.  It was a very ( Read more... )

The new RHCP album stadium arcadium rocks my fucking socks.  That is all i have to report.

10 days left in the CA

a friend of mine sent this to me today.  he knows i listen to his and his girlfriend's issues all the time, and i am often the shoulder people cry on.  he feels i am "the nice guy" so eloquently described here.  so here it is.  This, through brett and the other of this piece, is my ode to all of us good guys, who deserve a break.

Ode to the Nice ( Read more... )

pay close attention, because i dont think i will ever say this again.  Pat Robertson ACTUALLY understands something.

"Conservative Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson said on Thursday the wave of scorching temperatures across the United States had converted him into a believer in global warming."

Now..."old pat" would just say that god is blaming the ( Read more... )

I really should be happier, but my grandma was being a bit of a bitch tonite.  I found out today i made the dean's list, and i was happy.  And the second i told her about it, she said "do you get any money for it?" and i said no, just a letter of recognition.  Well she replied saying to let her know when i get money, not just a stupid letter.  and ( Read more... )

i was trying to find some profound song for peace in light of the events in israel.  then i quickly moved from peace to love.  i find the two are often mutual.  then i remembered a great song from a B movie that most people probably never saw, but i loved it.  Hedwig and the Angry Inch.  it is wierd, but has great images of love.  in taking ( Read more... )

I am reading Al Frankens new book The Truth (with jokes) and i am loving every page of it.  he is the only author i can stay up reading at 2am and not wanna go to bed.  Well all i really wanted to report right now was the best quote i have read in a long time.

"I think that the proposition of going to Baghdad is also fallacious. I think if we were ( Read more... )

Throughout this week, amidst the chaos, confusion, heartache, and even the tears, there has been one constant in my life; music. Music has the ability to tell us exactly what we want to hear at a given moment. It can comfort us, inspire us, teach us, or humble us. Listening to a song like “Like a Rolling Stone” by Bob Dylan can teach us how ( Read more... )