large televisions, Saw II, and naps...
well this entry is going to be sort of a mixed bag...but when is it not, you may ask? well, you would be correct, i'm just stating the obvious in this case to eat up some space since you know i don't do the one or two sentence blog thing.
today wasn't terribly thrilling since i spent most of the day in the dana building commons area working on my presentation on my master's research, which i had to give earlier in the evening. now, i had most of it done last spring, so it wasn't a classic 'wait until the last minute' thing, but it was close enough. i actually like speaking to/in front of large groups of people, so i don't mind presentations and i like to see how close i can come to having to wing the whole talk due to cutting the completion time so close to presentation time. today i got to use one of those fancy slide-advancing/laser pointer devices, so it was almost like a video game; i think next time i get one of those i'm going to point to the exact opposite thing i am talking about and see how well people follow along. well either way, the talk went very well and i got a lot of good questions and responses as well. this also justified my doing almost NOTHING productive for the rest of the day.
while i was hanging out in the dana commons they were working on the new giant plasma TV they recently installed in one section of the room. there is a lot of buzz about this thing and what it is supposed to do, and what they will put on it. now keep in mind the dana building is the home of the School of Natural Resources & Environment, so you can bet there is going to be something unusual and ridiculous done with this normally perfect college football-viewing device.
my friend hal (fellow SNRE student) came over a couple times and we chatted about the TV. apparently the tv is going to be used to display the electricity consumption of the dana building over the course of each day...yeah, i told you it was going to be something unusual...i mean stupid. well, one may ask (as i did) "isn't it ironic that it would monitor electricity usage, yet it could contribute to more electricity usage in and of itself?" to which hal responded "well, i heard it's supposed to actually be powered by the wind." yeah, i don't think he believed it any more than i did. so now we have this giant 60"+ plasma TV that is going to show us how much electricity our 'green' building is using up and it's powered by the wind. this is so ludicrous i can't even comment further on it other than saying i still think we should be able to watch college football games on it on saturdays. either that or my roommates and i would be more than willing to give the tv a new home. it should be noted that this idea is right up there with the composting toilet idea and the fact that the SNRE building runs the AC to 50F during the summer. now, i am all about protecting/preserving/conserving the environment (well, at least the fishes) but it's this sort of conflicting action that really annoys me about my school at times.
so Saw II is coming out! this movie is going to be SWEET! it definitely won't be the best horror movie ever made, but i honestly thought the first one was rather innovative and actually held my interest for the whole time AND i couldn't predict the ending (which one can normally do with any genre movie at this point in movie-making). that and there is the hilarious (but creepy) tricycle scene which AJ and i were cracking up about long after the sequence had passed in the theaters. i think hal found it funny as well, but was too tied up with being scared from some of the other parts. good times. my roommate james wasn't as thrilled about the sequel coming out, but we're definitely going to get a group together to see this movie (and probably watch the first one at my place since i own it) when it comes out october 28, so let us know if you're interested in getting in on what is sure to be an academy award-winning film.
ok, i'm actually pretty tired, so the 'naps' segment is going to have to be cut shorter than what i intended (not that i plan any of this stuff out). i was FINALLY able to take a nap today, the same nap i had been hoping to take over the past couple weeks. if there is one thing the david clan is good at, its taking naps to avoid doing other work as well as just for the sake of getting some 'extra' sleep or the fact that it's the afternoon or a day that ends in 'y'. we don't do those 10-minute 'power naps', these are serious '3-4 hour wake up and you don't know if it's day or night or what day it is' naps. i find that what determines how serious you are about a nap depends on whether or not you actually get under the covers or not. if you don't you're not taking a real nap, its one of those wussy naps. i like the ones where you wake up and you're actually more tired (because you obviously slept too long) and so you hit the snooze (yes, set an alarm for these naps) or shut off the alarm and just continue sleeping. if it wasn't for a tiger eating someone episode on CSI:NY i would probably have just slept through the rest of the night (9:15pm turn in time? that's just nuts though).
ok well i'm satisfied with the mediocrity of this entry so i'm going to call it a night. oh yeah, bonus points go to janine for remembering where 'murky & lurky' comes from in my reference to these two villains HERE . if you don't remember this tv show/movie then you are definitely tragically young and lost...you may think i'm old, but i'll still look like i'm 20 when i'm 37 so shut it.
tomorrow is going to be a long and busy day, and then my friend julia is having people over to her place so the next update may not come until later...always craziness down there around south U. good night <:><
random pic:
blast from the past...my birthday at Dominick's, April 2004
today wasn't terribly thrilling since i spent most of the day in the dana building commons area working on my presentation on my master's research, which i had to give earlier in the evening. now, i had most of it done last spring, so it wasn't a classic 'wait until the last minute' thing, but it was close enough. i actually like speaking to/in front of large groups of people, so i don't mind presentations and i like to see how close i can come to having to wing the whole talk due to cutting the completion time so close to presentation time. today i got to use one of those fancy slide-advancing/laser pointer devices, so it was almost like a video game; i think next time i get one of those i'm going to point to the exact opposite thing i am talking about and see how well people follow along. well either way, the talk went very well and i got a lot of good questions and responses as well. this also justified my doing almost NOTHING productive for the rest of the day.
while i was hanging out in the dana commons they were working on the new giant plasma TV they recently installed in one section of the room. there is a lot of buzz about this thing and what it is supposed to do, and what they will put on it. now keep in mind the dana building is the home of the School of Natural Resources & Environment, so you can bet there is going to be something unusual and ridiculous done with this normally perfect college football-viewing device.
my friend hal (fellow SNRE student) came over a couple times and we chatted about the TV. apparently the tv is going to be used to display the electricity consumption of the dana building over the course of each day...yeah, i told you it was going to be something unusual...i mean stupid. well, one may ask (as i did) "isn't it ironic that it would monitor electricity usage, yet it could contribute to more electricity usage in and of itself?" to which hal responded "well, i heard it's supposed to actually be powered by the wind." yeah, i don't think he believed it any more than i did. so now we have this giant 60"+ plasma TV that is going to show us how much electricity our 'green' building is using up and it's powered by the wind. this is so ludicrous i can't even comment further on it other than saying i still think we should be able to watch college football games on it on saturdays. either that or my roommates and i would be more than willing to give the tv a new home. it should be noted that this idea is right up there with the composting toilet idea and the fact that the SNRE building runs the AC to 50F during the summer. now, i am all about protecting/preserving/conserving the environment (well, at least the fishes) but it's this sort of conflicting action that really annoys me about my school at times.
so Saw II is coming out! this movie is going to be SWEET! it definitely won't be the best horror movie ever made, but i honestly thought the first one was rather innovative and actually held my interest for the whole time AND i couldn't predict the ending (which one can normally do with any genre movie at this point in movie-making). that and there is the hilarious (but creepy) tricycle scene which AJ and i were cracking up about long after the sequence had passed in the theaters. i think hal found it funny as well, but was too tied up with being scared from some of the other parts. good times. my roommate james wasn't as thrilled about the sequel coming out, but we're definitely going to get a group together to see this movie (and probably watch the first one at my place since i own it) when it comes out october 28, so let us know if you're interested in getting in on what is sure to be an academy award-winning film.
ok, i'm actually pretty tired, so the 'naps' segment is going to have to be cut shorter than what i intended (not that i plan any of this stuff out). i was FINALLY able to take a nap today, the same nap i had been hoping to take over the past couple weeks. if there is one thing the david clan is good at, its taking naps to avoid doing other work as well as just for the sake of getting some 'extra' sleep or the fact that it's the afternoon or a day that ends in 'y'. we don't do those 10-minute 'power naps', these are serious '3-4 hour wake up and you don't know if it's day or night or what day it is' naps. i find that what determines how serious you are about a nap depends on whether or not you actually get under the covers or not. if you don't you're not taking a real nap, its one of those wussy naps. i like the ones where you wake up and you're actually more tired (because you obviously slept too long) and so you hit the snooze (yes, set an alarm for these naps) or shut off the alarm and just continue sleeping. if it wasn't for a tiger eating someone episode on CSI:NY i would probably have just slept through the rest of the night (9:15pm turn in time? that's just nuts though).
ok well i'm satisfied with the mediocrity of this entry so i'm going to call it a night. oh yeah, bonus points go to janine for remembering where 'murky & lurky' comes from in my reference to these two villains HERE . if you don't remember this tv show/movie then you are definitely tragically young and lost...you may think i'm old, but i'll still look like i'm 20 when i'm 37 so shut it.
tomorrow is going to be a long and busy day, and then my friend julia is having people over to her place so the next update may not come until later...always craziness down there around south U. good night <:><
random pic:
blast from the past...my birthday at Dominick's, April 2004
posted by Solomon at 1:18 AM
1 Comments:
You certainly give StD a run for the money. (And stop worrying that doesn't mean Sarah's a walking, talking, dirty, infetsed venerial disease. No, no, she's just a crazy drunkard...hahaha)
j-stranger
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