STUPID COLLEGES!

I think I'll watch some G4. . . . *traipses into living room and plops onto couch, turning on tv*

". . . interested in video game design? Want to play video games for a living?. . . "

AAAACCK! Stupid Devry Institute commercial! I'll jump to the Discovery channel.

". . . I used to not know what I was going to do. I took 4 years of electronics in high school and decided 'I should probably go to college'"

@$#@! ITT Tech, you will haunt my dreams! Fine, I'll go over to the History Channel.

"At Brown College you can make a living and have fun doing it!"

I'll have fun throwing this coffee table through the TV if I hear one more stupid advertisement for some stupid online college!!! Let's try G4 again. . .

". . .At ITT Tech you decide your future. . ."

*CRASH!*

Crap, now I need a new TV.

Ah, it was worth it though.

*Walks into Circuit City to look at new TV's*

Wow, check out this new surround sound system! ". . .COME TO BROWN COLLEGE TO SUCCEED WITH WHAT YOU WANT!. . ."

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! They've invaded Circuit City! 200 screens and 1000 speakers of fake college propoganda!!!! MAKE IT STOP!

*cue incredible hulk-esque transformation into "LIBERATION MAN!"*

"I WILL LIBERATE THEE!"

*The store fills with screams as TV's fall and smash and speakers fly across the building.*

BE FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!


You have just experienced Snively Stream of Consciousness. Hope you enjoyed!

Cal Ripken E-Mail

I have a perfect attendance record in elementary/middle/high school. I'll write an entry about that later. This entry is about an e-mail I sent to Cal Ripken Jr. (my inspiration for the streak) and his reply. Ok, well, kinda. It's impossible to find Cal's e-mail address on the internet, because putting it there would be stupid. Sooooo, I had to work may up to him. I e-mailed one of the co-owners of a corporation (the other co-owner happens to be Cal) and had him forward an e-mail to Cal. Essentially, I asked if Cal could write a college recommendation for me. Bear in mind, it's impossible to get responses to these things, all you end up with are pre-fabbed stock e-mails, but I didn't get one of those! Here's a copy/paste of what I got:


Michael,

Jeff Eiseman recently received your email and passed it along to me. I shared it with Cal and he wanted me to thank you for the kind words and congratulate you on your impressive run in school...far more impressive than any attendance run Cal had at school!

As for the letter of recommendation we will have to respectfully decline. Letters such as that are not something that we or Cal take lightly and due to the fact that we don't personally know you we would be uncomfortable submitting such a letter.

I truly hope you understand our position and on behalf of Mr. Ripken I wish you all the best with your pending collegiate career.

Happy Holidays!

John Maroon
Vice-President, Communications & Branding
Ripken Baseball

Cal knows I exist! He is impressed with me! YAY! Ok, that's my happy of the day! Ciao!

MIT's Application

Yep, I was right, MIT's application is now online. Here's the mystery though. . . . McGann said that the downloadable paper application would be online before the online application. It's backwards, the online one is on first. Don't know why, don't really care, just a curiosity. Yeah, so. . . .I'll be applying now, ciao!

MIT DOWN?!?!?

OMG! Could it be? Could it??? Huh huh huh?!?!?!? (note the use of the triple interabang). MIT's website is being worked on until 5 pm Eastern (2 pm Pacific). My deduction? THEY'RE UPLOADING THE APPLICATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is my solemn quest to be the first one to download it! I'll wait here with baited breath, refreshing my screen more and more as 2 pm approaches, probably in a normal distribution, but that would mean that an hour after 2 I would hardly check at all any more. . . . how about a backwards Chi-squared distribution, that's more fitting! Check more and more and more and more! (I'm excited). Ok, that's all, click the pic, you'll see!

Boooooo diversity. . . .Hooooooray Beer, erm, I mean, pie chart!

If you haven't seen the commercials, don't freak out about the title. You'll get it once you see the commercial. I found this nifty little pie chart and data table online that describes diversity in my high school. We suck at diversity. We are the epitomy of the rich white school. Here you go:

Marching Band

~DCI 2006~

August 10th
3 pm
MOVIE THEATRE!
$25

DO IT!!!!!

A1 Steak Sauce and The Rock

So, there's an A1 steak sauce commercial where a bit of steak sauce falls onto the grill of the bbq. The guy, being stupid, licks it off. . .cue ambulance. Fairly stupid commercial, but the cool part is the music in the background. It's the beginning to "The Chase" from "The Rock" soundtrack. Yep, I've listened to that soundtrack a lot because the movie is THAT good! I'm not sure if they were hoping nobody would notice or if they got permission, but either way I CAUGHT YOU! good music choice though!

My Senior Pictures

Yay! I just had my senior pictures taken and I want to share them with you! They were exciting enough to break the blog hiatus. Keep in mind, technically these pictures are copyrighted and shouldn't appear here, but sshhhhhh, nobody has to know. Just please don't save them or reproduce them and we should be ok. For the originals or to order some, go to haugensgalleri.com. Enjoy me!

Warning, Geeky Post

Soooo, I'm sitting in Stats and my friend is flipping frantically through his physics book.

[ME] "What's up? Looking for something?"
[HIM] "I can't find this conversion rate!"
[3RD PERSON] "What are you trying to convert?"
[HIM] "I'm trying to convert Joules to feet"

. . . .

I apologize to any of you who may not be as unit savvy as I, but the laughter that erupted from this particular conversation was quite amazing. To this day we tease him about his conversion mishap. If you don't understand this and don't think it's funny, um, allow me to explain. A Joule is a measure of work, energy, that kind of thing. Feet is, well, a distance. Converting Joules to feet is like physics class alchemy, or squaring the circle, or getting an A in english, it just doesn't work! So yes, that's the geeky post of the day, hope you enjoyed it!

Bird

Sorry, no posts for a while, but this is worth it. I came home from school today and I went up to the garage. I noticed a bird hopping around my dog's food bowl, so I walked up to it to check it out. I know not all of you out their are aspiring ornithologists like myself, but the bird is known as an Oregon Junco. It's basically a brown bird with a black head. Well, it was hop-hop-hopping and I approached it. It eyed me and ran into the garage. I followed it and then it jumped through the door into our second garage. Again, I followed, and then it made it's final escape outside. I continured to follow and sure enough, it was back at the bowl. I went inside and chatted with my dad. He said that it had been attacking the bowl all day because it could see his reflection in it. I found this entertaining. I went outside to check it out and the bird was gone. . . or so I thought. It turns out that he had actually just moved on to bigger and greater things, the jeep! He was attacking the windshield and the review mirror with fervor. This was just too much, a bird attacking his reflection in shiny objects for the entire day!? So, photo op! I ran inside and got the camera and took his picture a couple of times. Here ya go, this is the Junco and his attempt at his reflection's life. Also, I uploaded a movie of his attack so that it can be viewed by everybody on the internet. Here's the link: http://jzzsxm.googlepages.com/BirdReflection.MOV Please enjoy! Thanks for reading!