amateurs step right up

Ahhhh, new years eve. the one night of the year in which you stay up past midnight. Oh wait, ive been up past midnight for the last week maybe 2. but another thing about new years, the easiest time to tell a joke. Who here hasnt used the "see you next year" or "I havnt seen you since last year" jokes. usually people say them in a stupid voice then laugh at the stupidity. but this "joke" is really getting old. sure its funny when your young but it is just so easy to use and requires no comedic ability and really isnt very funny. So im gonna boycott the joke. Im not going to use it and try not to laugh at it (cuz that is gonna be really hard). I seem to really like boycotting things. like i sort of unoffically boycotted Sky Captain, but i now have someone that sorta changed my mind cuz im gonna watch it now. Also im sorta boycotting Alexander. Also i think im gonna boycott messanger 7.0. I have my reasons, ill cave at some point but ill let the hype dye down. I really like boycotting stuff (sort of).
Challenge this is challenge to anyone (preferrably someone i know, or else its kinda weird) out there. The challenge. syrup chugging. thats right, like in Super Troopers. Im not doing this because i am the syrup champ or anything, i just want to do it and say that i did it, and hopefully that i won at it. I did "shoot" a small glass (bigger than a shot glass) of syrup once and that was kinda interesting. but a bottle would be cool. So anyone out there, JUST BRING IT.
New Years Resolutions. no dont worry, im not making any. accually right now life is pretty good, there arnt many things i want to change. and also i usually dont make them anyway. what is so special about new years? does it have a magically power that makes it easier to do stuff? the only thing special thing is that it is the location at with the "man made" calender system changes numbers. if i sound angry or anything, im really not. im just in a weird mood i guess. im not trying to sound all negative and hating and whatever.
Cool list rather than a list of NYR, i thought i would give you a list that is kinda like a dream list. its not really a 'things to do before i die' list, its just kinda a list of things that would be awesom if i did or happened to me or whatever the proper english way of saying that is.
1) Appear on Jeopardy, like as a contestant
2) Go into space
3) Ride the Vomit Comet (aiming a little lower)
4) Skydive
5) breaking the sound barrier would be cool
6) be 'spoofed' or mocked on almost any tv show or movie but pref Simpsons or SNL
7) make a camio in a movie. pref a jedi in star wars or a superhero in mystery men 2 (if they decide to make it)
8) Be knighted. "hello I am Sir Ian ..."
9) Phd would also be cool "hello im Sir Dr. Ian..." (or is it Dr. Sir?)
10) driving a fast car fast.
11) become multilingual (elvish or klingon would be cool and nerdy)
think thats about it. I dont think i missed any big ones. apperaing on price is right would be nice too.
Unanswered questions here are some of the questions that have been bugging you all for the year and will continue to bug you cuz i dont know the answers.
1) How far will reality tv go?
2) How can Doug creat a great post out of nothing but fan mail questions he wrote to himself and his answers to them?
3) What does the song "somebody told me" by the killers mean?
4) Why are candy bars now fruit flavoured?
5) Will the current SNL cast be as big as Ferrel, Myers, Sandler, Murphy, Spade and the otheres?
6) war in Iraq, good or bad?
7) why are Calculus, geology, autoCAD/drafting, material engineering, beam deflection classes all tied together?
8) Why cant movie posters have the name of the actor above the picture of the actor, rather than swited all around?

Thats about all i have for now, check in ne... oops, caught myself. check back soon.
Ian

A derrick.
Author Note: the internet is a great tool for learning things. like google, or yahoo. And i would also like to point out that i used the correct spelling in this case. props to me.
Ian

NNNNNNEARRRRMMMMMMMMMM

The title is the "spelling" of the noice and airplane "makes". Why would i start out this post with a childish spelling? good reason. Christmas. I think ill explain. For christmas my father got a friend to take our family (in 2 waves) up in a little airplane. It was SUPER cool. there we were cruiseing at 1000-2000 feet. It was pretty cool. the funny thing is that were were travelling not much faster than some of the traffic on the "World Famous Alaska Highway" below us. The one thing about that elevation that is the most interesting was the what we will call 'forshortening' (check it out yourself I think it could be correct). Where there were hills or valleys or anything tall or hilly, they didnt look near as hilly. For example, the area I did some haying at had hills all over and it was a pain. but from the air if i wouldnt have known how steep it was i wouldnt have guessed. but overall the flying experience was excellent. And the other Christmas things were good as well. My "nerdy" presents i got were a stand thing for my laptop so it doesnt overheat (this one even rotates) and a USB 2.0 memory stick/flash drive/jump drive/ect. . but the cool thing about this one, 1 gig. yep 1 gigabyte, 1,024 Megabytes, 1,048,576 Kilobytes, 1,073,741,824 Bytes, 8,589,934,592 Bits. Thats quite a bit of stuff for a devise smaller than a finger. wow, i think that is all for now. I guess in the spirit of christmas i will let you all off with only a small waste of time. have a great holiday,
Ian

Coconut White Hot Chocolate anyone?

Gather Round the Fire

Decemberween is here, decemberween is here today! Well tis the christmas season so I figured i would spread the holiday cheer by sharing stories/legends/tales that i have picked up on campus. These were told to me by different people and the validity im not sure of but they could have happened I guess. So grab a seat by the fire and enjoy;
Mmmmmm... Math
This story was told to me in the middle of the 20th, 21st, 22nd episode of '04 and it made me chuckle cuz it woulda been funny at the time but i prob wouldnt do it. So there was a class (pretty sure an engineering one) that a particular student (well prob alot of them but this one in particular) was having difficulty with the class. There was little, if any, hope of this student passing and/or doing well on the test so he (im pretty sure with help from his friends) came up with a good (i.e. funny) plan. So in he walked to the exam (bad english), ketchup in hand. so when the exam started, off comes the front page, on goes the ketchup, and down goes the page. that is right, he ate the first page of the exam. I'm guessing the plan was to eat the whole thing but he apparently didnt feel so good after the first page so he left. Moral of the story, you are cool if you do what your friends tell you to do.
Lower the curve
Aww small engineering faculties. I beleive this one may have occured or was planned to occur at the time i was told the story. In this particular CompE(i believ) class the small, prob 20 -30, students came up with a great plan. rather than all studying and working hard to learn anything, they decided to come to a mutual agreement. They decided to not study the last chapter and so they all didnt do the question/got the question wrong on the final. The plan was to play the curve and if everyone didnt do it the curve would erase the lost marks, a good plan and unfortunatly i dont know if it worked. Moral of the story, Teamwork is always a good idea.
Aim high, Plan big
This is one of my favorites. If anyone has any information on the validity of this or better yet any pictures (00seventeen@groups.msn.com) pass it/them along. So here are the main parts i remember of the story. So a group a students (sorry cant remember the fac) hachted this plan and carried it through. So i guess the story goes that they got this prof., or something like, who happened to be a welder, drunk and in on the plan. So they welded this like 2 story oil derek shaped structure in parts. they then took these peices and snuck them into CAB. they then assembled this structure on the lowest floor on CAB. campus five oh aparently showed up just as they were taking pictures and everyon scattered and i think got away. The next day everyone shows up for school and there is a huge derrick in the middle of CAB. So the maintanence people start to take it apart and it was i beleive difficult to do, they may have welded the bolts after putting it together. So eventually the derrick was removed but definitly an interesting "prank". Moral of the story, uh, "Aim for the stars, even if you miss you can still hit the moon." thank you Chetwynd school.

"That's just a sub-urban legend."
Ian

First one doesn't look too bad but picture a picture taken secends before and them not really close at all

suck it up

Today my post is about the toughness of people, such as football players, or other professional athletes. On sunday in the Green Bay- Jacksonville game, Donovin Darius closelined Robert Ferguson after RF made a catch. It was a pretty savage hit but after the hit RF rolled over like twice before stopping, his helmot had also been knocked off, but the amazing thing, he held the football. he is lying on the ground with little feeling in his feet and he is still holding the ball, amazing. links 1 2. Another pretty bad hit, Dwyane Wade was going for an open layup and Ricky Davis took him out. It was pretty bad but DW returned to the game. link. Another story from a couple years ago, Brenden Morrow (yes he was at my cousin's wedding) from the Dallas Stars had a broken foot in the playoffs and came back much earlier to play again. athletes do it all the time and here is a shout out to all those play-semi-injured/suck-it-up authletes out there.
"He's a Corvette, I'm a brick wall" -Shaq on Kobe
Ian

already said 2000 words so this is 2008 i guess.

Got a question? Ask the 8-ball.

I have figured it out. For days or weeks you have seen and heard all us college (again the college and university thing, refering to as college, yada yada) complaining and all about finals and finals week(s). Well i have figured out a good thing about finals week. yes one (but i guess no classes is also nice), and it is, (drum role please). It makes posting easier (if you have time that is). as im sure all of you who read "I wanted number 4" will sorta know what im talking about. When you are almost completely insane it is alot easier to write about stuff. but dont get me wrong, im not saying the posts are better quality, or really quality at all, but they flow nicer, out of my head that is. So why am i crazy, i spend 13+hours on campus today. and the end was a 4 hour math review and math makes me go mad (all you readers of "What have you done with my sanity?" will realize that). I think im allergic to math. But do to this semi-human state I found THE greatest web log story of all time (and a new visiter to LNR, at least a one time one). Gather around and listen to this tale of the greatness of small towns and how small the world really is. So i was talking to an Engineering friend and was reminded that his girlsfriend was from The old DC (dawson creek) (I had known this but forgot, this really isnt needed, unless some of you dont know what reminded means, oops). anyway. I had to ask, is this person realated to _____, no, oh, what about ______. Ya they are ______. So the story branched from this. My friend showed me a scar he had and this is how it relates to me. He got the scar is from my parent's accountant's trampoline. It was alot more interesting/funny at the time but still pretty good. but ya i thouhgt that was kinda interesting. And because that turned out kinda lame, another story that is kinda funny. So my friend's friends, ok makes sence, were eating watermellon jelly bellies. So they were apparently one of the best kinds, so my friend asks for some and recieves them. so he eats a couple, then i jump around in the telling of the story. these certain jelly bellies were a nice watermellon green colour (go Canada) to them. so jumping back to after the friends had eaten some WJB, i ask, kinda jokingly, are the insides pink? mostly just pointing out that that (makes sence) would be funny and interesting while not really believing that they would be. So the friend bites one in half and turns out that the insides were accually pink. I'm(<- look and apostrophe, cool)like "I really didnt think they would", and he's(<-another one) like "me neither". It was funny. and the badge of impressive merit of excellence goes to The Jelly Belly Candy Co. for makeing the inside of watermellon jelly bellies pink. I would also like to add that i didnt get to watch football at all this week (i did play a little on PS2 though) due to stupid lack of power and then math review.
Ian

Pretty, no; funny, yes

I wanted number 4

SNL. ok. De Niro was good but overall the show was a weaker one (a weak SNL is still a good show though). The first several sketches were good but they went downhill. weekend update wasn't really that good. the Leviticus "prophet" i think was writen to be played by Chris Farly. Ok a little creeped out right now. I was gonna say too bad he's been dead for like 5 years or whatever then i figured i would figure out how long exactly to sound better. So off to imdb i went and went to his page. year of death 1997, so like seven years. but now the creepy part. the day of death, Suspensful music Dec. 18th DUN DUN DUN exactly (rounded down) 7 years ago. so weird. it ties in so well with my last post too. I am sorta creeped out about the whole SNL somehow realating to my posts. Last week NHL and gay marriage (thanks Brett), this week the birthdays and Farley's death (note: on the last post the time is wrong, it was accually posted like 5 or 10 mins into SNL not half way through it). so back to SNL. WU =weak. Good sketches (that i remember) opening: terrorists hunt (i like the Dan the Garbage Man tie in) pranksters: good one. "I pranked him in half". gay wedding: OK sorta funny. several other ones, cant remember. TV funhouse; pretty good. undercover FBI, ok. but the best sketch of the night was definitly the BEAR CITY one. i love bear city, and this one was awesome. the monologe was good, closing song ok to good, but i was hopin Sandler would show up with a Chanukah song but o well. and when Horatio was gonna sing ans was Jimmy, (other name). Im like JIMMY!? JIMMY!? but no jimmy. wow im sad. and Destiny's Child. I used to like the songs they did, well most or some of them, or at least i standed (stood?) them, but i really dont like the new DC. or Beonsay (brutal spelling) either (still laugh at your explaingin the "Crazy in Love" video to me big sis). [for a test im going to randomly space the letters/words in the next "sentence" and put in random periods. and capitalization will be all messed up]. B. uTy. . a iDi.Dn t . reall..Y. en. J.oY t.h e. Dc... o.n . .Sn . ..l, b. uT.wh.. a T.ev. eR.[end test] Ya so SNL was ok but meh, im happy anyway. the Killers on Jan 15. YAH! "He-a knock-a me-a down-a"
Ian
PS I shouldnt be allowed to post when im giddy.

killing time and also inpressive

Due to my time killing and not wanting to watch Love Accually (shortish story) i surfed onto imdb.com and there was a bad pic Brad Pitt, it was his birthday (was because it was the 18th, it is now the 19th. So what is the point of this post? good question. No actually that BP got me looking and here is a list of "big" celeberitys (i.e. celeberties ive heard of) whose birthday were the 18th of Dec. Brad Pitt (41), Christina Aguilera (24), Katie Holmes (26), Trish Stratus (29), DMX (34), Steve Austin (IV) (40) (Stone Cold), Steven Spielberg (58). Well SNL is on, enjoy yourself.
Ian
PS funny thing, global came from commercial, the warning the following program contains bad stuff thing came on, then it came to the ending of Driving Television. lol

The Best Part

Im sure you all know that Kelly Purdew won the apprentice in the last couple days (at least you know if you read my post below). Something got me to thinking, what is the best thing about being the apprentice?Is it"
a) being able to say to all other contestants, "I beat you :P"
b) Getting to meet and work for Mr. Trump
c) Getting a sweet job with big salary and benefits
d) Becoming famous due to televsion
now these are all great things, but i think the best part lies in e)
e)Getting to hop on Ben Stiller's back and have BS march around on national televison. The Late Show with Jay Leno. I really dont want to get into it cuz the story is weak and im tired (FINALLY) but long story short, well not really short, more not like a story at all but an ending. Stiller got up and Kelly hopped on his back and stiller marched around in a circle. Quite funny and definatly a highlight in Kelly's life. That is all i have for now. will try to get pic (finally got one for christmas list water bottle)
Ian

2 down

Well the apprentise 2 is over. I really dont have much to say cuz i should be goin to bed and i missed the first hour of the show. One thing that i found odd is the whole Mr. Trump and Mr. Philman thing. Is it just me or are the completely opposite. The only thing they have in common is they are easy to mock on SNL and like shows. And also i really dont like the nickname, "the Donald". it just sounds funny to me. And how bout Raj, he did accually go for coffee with Robin. that is awsome, raj rules. And while watchin Jay Leno, and found out about a new "reality" tv show. And yes it is on a new subject. now the question, what topic hasnt been taken you ask? no its not a race through rush hour traffic or watching nothing but "reality" tv shows. The name is "who's your daddy". the "game". An adopted child is faced with 8 men to choose from. what they are choosing? who they think is their real father. wow. WILL IT NEVER END?. anyway enjoy your reality and the "reality" on tv.
Ian

My old stomping grounds

No, really its good, no sarcasm

This is a wonderful post about the greatness of college (and also university but i will refer to it as college cuz its easier to spell). this is mainly for 2 reasons, 1) to make all those non-collegians to make them realize what they are missing and those who are out of college to reminis (sp?) about the good old days of college life, ok that was reason 2, and 3) for all of us current collegians who are going throuhg finals right now, just to remind us all how much we like college. I cant really explain it but college is awesome. It is especially awesome for me cuz i got to move away from home and live on my own, also a good experience. College life is just so cool, where else can you sit at school for hours talking about things like spoon forks, or human catapults, or any other completely random topics. then you can go home and watch tv til 2 am then go to school for an hour and a half math class at 8. It is quite painful, but everyone understands because they have all done it. And the good old trying to explain a concept using all these formulas, on messanger. i have really enjoyed my college life and i havnt done much of the fun pranking (two words, spaghetti, microwave) and going for wings and beer, and tenting parties or kidnappings. but there are so many fun and exciting things to do at college. Go to college. it rocks. i will now leave you with 2 things. the first is quite nerdy but meh, this is the fomula for the probability of survival of a ceramic when a stress is applied. Ps=exp[-(σ/σy)^m]; (σ is stress). I just found it funny because it was given to us during the last week of classes and it was a formula with probability of survival due to an applied stress. I thought it sorta might apply to students as well. and the second ending leaving thing is a quote from today said by a friend of a friend. he is a CompE (computer engineer) in training. and the quote, "There is a time and a place for everything, and that place is college."
Ian

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein.

Survival of the Fittest?

i will now link you too a site that will make you appreciate your inteligence, no matter how low you think it is. It is called the Darwin Awards. it is a site with a collection of storys and uban legends of the stupidity of people, and yes many of them end in death. but some are also extrememly funny. here is one of my favorites that i read. It is under the Urban Legends Catagory.
Bizarre Death
1994 Urban Legend

At the 1994 annual awards dinner given for Forensic Science, AAFS, President Dr. Don Harper Mills astounded his audience with the legal complications of a bizarre death. Here is the story:

On March 23,1994 the medical examiner viewed the body of Ronald Opus and concluded that he died from a shotgun wound to the head. Mr. Opus had jumped from the top of a ten story building intending to commit suicide. He left a note to that effect, indicating his despondency. As he fell past the ninth floor his life was interrupted by a shotgun blast passing through a window which killed him instantly.

Neither the shooter nor the descender was aware that a safety net had been installed just below at the eighth floor level to protect some building workers and that Ronald Opus would not have been able to complete his suicide the way he had planned.

"Ordinarily," Dr. Mills continued, "a person who sets out to commit suicide and ultimately succeeds, even though the mechanism might not be what he intended, is still defined as committing suicide."

That Mr. Opus was shot on the way to certain death, but probably would not have been successful because of the safety net, caused the medical examiner to feel that he had a homicide on his hands. The room on the ninth floor, whence the shotgun blast emanated, was occupied by an elderly man and his wife. They were arguing vigorously and he was threatening her with a shotgun. The man was so upset that when he pulled the trigger he completely missed his wife and the pellets went through the window, striking Mr. Opus.

When one intends to kill subject A but kills subject B in the attempt, one is guilty of the murder of subject B. When confronted with the murder charge the old man and his wife were both adamant. They both said they thought the shotgun was unloaded. Thed old man said it was his long-standing habit to threaten his wife with the unloaded shotgun. He had no intention to murder her. Therefore the killing of Mr. Opus appeared to be an accident; that is, the gun had been accidentally loaded.

The continuing investigation turned up a witness who saw the old couple's son loading the shotgun about six weeks prior to the fatal accident. It transpired that the old lady had cut off her son's financial support and the son, knowing the propensity of his father to use the shotgun threateningly, loaded the gun with the expectation that his father would shoot his mother. The case now becomes one of murder on the part of the son for the death of Ronald Opus.

Now comes the exquisite twist. Further investigation revealed that the son was, in fact, Ronald Opus. He had become increasingly despondent over the failure of his attempt to engineer his mother's murder. This led him to jump off the ten story building on March 23rd, only to be killed by a shotgun blast passing through the ninth story window. The son had actually murdered himself so the medical examiner closed the case as a suicide.



good stuff,
Ian

"Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer."
"If it bleeds, we can kill it."
"My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it."
Arnold Schwarzenegger

this and that

Just when you think someone has become as low as they can, they keep sinking. (this is not a stab at any friends but if you are feeling guilty maybe you should really think about it). Anyone here watch the Amazing Race 6? you know jon? no not jon and kris jon, but johnathon and victoria jon. What a terrible person [true that is just the impression i get from how he is shown to treat his wife on the tv show]. He is always yelling and getting angry at his wife, and the worst thing, THEY KEEP ADVANCING. I just wish they would lose so i wouldnt have to watched them every week. It is soo bad. It is one of the main reasons i dont like "reality" tv, you see the worst of everyone. now for that. After visiting Devious at least 20 times in the last couple weeks, something just occured to me, and i will try to pass it on to you. (Jeanine did you fall for that link to?? it is accually a link, really. trust me?) well basically doug is the shakespear of 2000+ internet weblogs. So when he writes, i read and sometimes comment. he is the inspiration, if not for him this web log would not exist (at least not as mine) (and without jon it wouldnt look this cool). So this is day 13 without a new post from DVS, and it got me to thinking. First im like this is so sad, he hasnt posted in almost 2 weeks. Then i really started thinking, Is it sad, or am i sad. Here i am checking back like daily waiting to see what he was to say. the posts are entertaining but really dont have a major impact on my life, they really dont even make good water cooler talk. So maybe doug has accually come to the realization that sleep, food, studying, homework, friends, sports and other real live things are more important than feeding facts to the frenzed flock of followers on the world wide web. So all you web loggers out there, shame on you for spending time reading (midless) writings on all web logs (including this one), that said, please just feel bad and keep coming and reading and commenting.
Ian

Lack of motivation

Do to my lack of motivation to post, and my abbundance of time doing nothing, i havnt post in sevaral a-day. So here is my post. i will be using the format onced used before which i believe was stolen by ms. Jeanine at Artichokes. But i changed it a bit and added a new 'feature' thing.
1) HALO 2. 13 people. (drooling noice). Saturday i played like 6 hours of halo 2 with about 11 other people. it was insane and fun. one of the best things is that the network connection thing was working (unlike last time with 2 x-boxes it was only sorta working) and there were some good people but they didnt entirely dominate. My best finish was 2nd overall for kills in a team sniper. but my team lost. drat. "I see a room. With walls. And ceilings. No, just one ceiling." -Micheal J. Caboose

2)Peterson case. After being found guilty, Scott Peterson will be put to death for the murder of his Wife Laci. "Brian: What will they do to me?
Ben the Prisoner: Oh you'll probably get away with crucifixion.
Brian: CRUCIFIXION?
Ben the Prisoner: Yeah, first offense. " -Life of Brian (1979)
3)SNL. SNL was pretty good this week. I really enjoyed the Bono on the spanish talkshow sketch. THe big Cockroach one was also funny. I did miss the opening sketch and monologue though, stupid halo 2, ok no. But weekend update was definatly the best part of the show and one of the better WU of the new season. Brett Hall was funny (see "anonymous'" comment on NHL and MTC post) lindsay lohan cameo was ok to good. all the stories were like every other good week, and the colin farrel Interview about alexander was hilarious (but still doesnt beat Fallon/Hilton interview). "So you used Greece to beat off the entire pursian army?" -Tina Fey (SNL)
3) This is also tied to SNL, my dislike/[large rabbit trial so an honourary 4) inside 3)
4) if 'un' is a prefix meaning 1. Not: unhappy.
2. Opposite of; contrary to: unrest.(dictionary.com). (incomplete senctance previously) now if i understand something 1. To perceive and comprehend the nature and significance of; grasp. See Synonyms at apprehend.
2. To know thoroughly by close contact or long experience with: That teacher understands children.
3.
1. To grasp or comprehend the meaning intended or expressed by (another): They have trouble with English, but I can understand them.
2. To comprehend the language, sounds, form, or symbols of.
4. To know and be tolerant or sympathetic toward: I can understand your point of view even though I disagree with it.
5. To learn indirectly, as by hearsay: I understand his departure was unexpected.
6. To infer: Am I to understand you are staying the night?
7. To accept (something) as an agreed fact: It is understood that the fee will be 50 dollars.
8. To supply or add (words or a meaning, for example) mentally.
Then does that mean that if i 'derstand' something, it is the opposite of understandng something? and before you all get all"its not the root . . . meh meh meh . . . dont you know any english . . . meh meh meh" when it first occured to be it made sence, then i looked at the word 'understand' and realized i was shooting in the dark, and rather than completely ignoring it and saving face, i posted it on the internet so anyone with an internet connection can see it and read it. "So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
- Bertrand Russell" which now brings me to (yes i still realise im in 3)
5) Ian's form of English. I now declare derstand as the opposite of understand in Ian's language loosly tied to english. The only other main feture of this language, that basically every plural is made by finishing the word with an 'i'.
cats=cati equations=equati Weapons of Mass Destruction=Weapi of Mass Destruction.
"The best tank terrain is that without anti-tank weapons."
-Russian military doctrine. and now back to the middle of 3)]derstanding of bands with gender names (ex. Spice Girls, Backstree Boys (new albumn out next year march maybe)) that do not use the prober gender(ex. Boomtang Boys, or DiCammilo Sisters) or the ones with mixed genders (Venga Boys and Scissor Sisters). The scissor sisters is the tie to SNL. They had a male band with 2 lead singers. one was a female and the other male. but in there defence the male singer looked about as straight as a slinky, so. . . and the DiCammilo Sisters have a funny song "But Why's it so cold?" that i have been watching on Yahoo! Lauch but they are apparently the same people who sing a mustard song or freaky mustard man song or something. but still. that is my beef with confusing gender artist names. "Oops I mean girl girl girl girl" -Eminem (Just Lose It)
6) I beleive that is all i can think of so 6) will be telling you the addition i made to the original patern. At the end of every number i added a "quote" that was in some way realated to the subject. Im sure if i had more time and cared more they could be better and all have the same properties, or something (good idea for next time maybe). but that is all i have for now, so enjoy my postings and post for ya later. "Why do writers write? Because it isn't there."
-- Thomas Berger

Ian

Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum
(Latin for:Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe.)

NHL and MTC

"Do you really want me? Do you really want to make me cry?" lines form Molson Canadians GREATEST COMMERCIAL EVER. So the NHPLA gave there proposial to the NHL owerers or whoever and the owers will be responding on tuesday. So from what i heard and think myself is that tuesday will decide weither there will be hockey this year, or if this strike will drag on for another year or so.
Today I also saw my first of Bell's making the Cut (which just happens to coincide with the strike, convienient) But i thought it might be like a hockey camp in which at the end they just cut people and you just watch them play hockey. but its not exactly like that. the game is cut and stuff so it is just the interesting or key parts. the camera angles are sort of a mix between an NHL hockey game and the movie(s) The Mighty Ducks. Only rather than focusing on all the great things of hockey, uh, i guess like watching it. they focus on the interplayer diolog. Now for all of you who have played hockey, or can just read lips, you know this isnt always positive. So basically they are trash talking and swearing at each other for cross checking/high sticking/turtling/ducking a hit/ect/ect. So for being the only hockey ive seen in months, it really wasnt that good. thats about all i have to say now, except that i really hope that the federal thingy decides that marriage is between a man and a woman.
Ian

This makes me feel better, what is it you ask? nothing other than the formula for the perfect peice of toast. link, crazy English.

What have you done with my sanity?

Second last day of school, i should be relazing hanging out with friends just relazing right? wrong. im going/went crazy. I think it is a combination of lack of sleep, stress, and just almost giving up cuz i wanna be done(ex. like when i use cuz and wanna, im to lazy to put in the prober words). But after a math class in which my brain wasnt functioning properly and another class, a bunch of us were ajust hanging out eating, no homework on the table, and we even got candy, :). then i had to go work on my project, 5 hours later i walked over to my cive lab. this lab was pretty bad til the pizza came. 4 of us ordered pizza about half way through the class and they delivered it to the class, it was soo cool. it tasted so good, but then at that point any warm food would have tasted increadibly good. but ya that is one of my best memories from the year. It was a thing we had been talking about for weeks and it was worth it. It gave us the boost we needed to snap out of insaity momuntarily to finish our lab. then i worked on cive some more and got home a little after 11pm. arg. but i will share my new theory which i, along with a friend, invented today. it is called
Ian and Erin's Theory of Sputtering timei guess im not sure im the first one to think of this, and it thought of at about 9 in the morning in the last math class of the year on the second last day of classes).
Now most of you think that time is a moving continuously into the future. (just smile and nod). But what if time were not movie continuously, what if time stops often. Because if time stoped, wouldnt all of our moviements and thoughts ect stop as well. If you are watching a dvd and pausing it ever 30 sec for several seconds, to you the video stops, but to the dvd itself, the movie is still a continous thing with no pauses. So our theory, time stops at certain times, for whatever reason, and then resumes and we do not notice it and carry on our lives like nothing happend. because is time absolute thing that cannot change or stop?
Ian
[authors note: please note my sanity is questionable right now in the middle of the day, let alone at 1 am. basically the theory is a "fun" thing to do when you are losing or have lost your mind and shouldnt be taken too seriously, unless some great scientist dude backs it up, then we thought of it first}

Disturbing fact of the week

While watching videos on Yahoo! launch, they have an add about net safty for children. Their fact is that last year 1 in 5 children were sexually solicited online. How creepy/sick is that im sure that alot of them turned down the solicitation or whatever, it is still disturbing. what kind of world do we live in,
Ian

Nothing says microsoft like the blue screen

It has now happened.

For all of you out there in college/university or possibly high school, you will understand this. for you others, you'll be cool if you read this. so all you educational institution people, im sure you all know the smart person. There is at least on in every class. often there are more than one and in that case there is one you know or is the friend of a friend kind of thing. they are the people who ask all these deep questions in class about the affect of negative mass on time while you are talking to your friend trying to figure out why gravity has a negative sign in front of it. And when you get midterm marks back the teacher will be like the lowest mark was a 21 and the highest was a 92, and the average was 55 sorta thing. automatically you assume/figure out that the smart person is the one with the 92. (the 21 you just laugh at but secretly hope it isnt you). So how are these smart people usefull (except for raising the average so the curve can bite you)? basically they can make people feel good. If they get like 30% higher than you, no big deal cuz they are smart and do homework 24-7 and study and stuff. but when you get within about 5% or beat them (even by .5%) you feel really good. Also if they have a problem, say with a math question, and you figure it out, you feel really good and it makes your day. or at least my day. Im not sure but i have a feeling it is hard being the smart person because everyone always has expectations that they want you to satisfy. but, meh. So im sure (ok entirely guessing) that you are wonding why i am posting on this, well i will now tell you. today(technicaly yesterday) an increadable event took place. I am now the smart person in a certain class. well sort of. In my Math 209 "the return of the calculus" lab, i was the one and only person to get 100% on all my lab quizes. It was close to the easiest 10(i think)% ive ever got. but i still feel good. Me, I am the altimate math 209 quiz writer (in my section). But yes earlier that day i did sign up for the Math 209 review, and yes I had spend the last 5 days trying to figure out my homework assignment, but i still had a perfect quiz record. but befor you all think the greatness has gone to my head (or if you think it is already there) last year in "the calculus strikes back" i was the one with the 21, only i think it was an 18. yes 18% on my math 101 final. that was ugly, but i did pass, scraping my back on the bar. But anyway that helped make toay cool. me, i am the smart one, ask me questions, o wait people already do that.
Ian
Author note: the views and opinions expressed in this post are not necissarily the views and/or opinions of the author, ok im just messing with your mind, i need sleep. but the accual note, even thouhgt i "spoofed" the star wars titles to relate to calculus 2 and 3, even The Empire Strikes Back and The Return of the Jedi were movies 2 and 3 to come out, they are accually numbers 5 and 6 respectively. I just used movie 5 to relate to calc 2 and 6 to 3. i hope i cleared up that BLATENT mistake

Hot new trailer

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This is a link to the hot trailer for the CivE club Engg Week movie featuring u=yours truely. bear with us (jon and I, mostly jon), "we" are trying to get this to work smoothly, but let me know if it works nice.
Ian
PS and a prof made a good point, why is it called a trailer if it comes before the movie?

Is there any doubt?

Not all Slurpee runs are all they are cracked up to be

Some of you will understand the greatness of the slurpee run. What better way to spend a little time and money than running to a 24 hour story and buying a bunch of almost liquid frozen sugar. In fact there is almost nothing that can go wrong with a surpee run, WRONG. So i fell like a slurpee run, i strap on my rollerblades, but on a sweater (it was a chilly 2 degrees C on dec 3) and grap my coupon for a free slurpee, which makes a slurpee run better cuz you dont have to try to justify the money. I look at my wallet and think, nah, ive got my coupon, i wont need a wallet. so off i go to the nearest 7-11 shoes in one hand, coupon in the other, after 4 block of rollerblading i round the corner to the 7-11. Only not. Do my great suprise, not only in the 7-11 closed, but entirely emptied out, gas pumps, signs, everything gone. Even though its quite obvious what happened, i go and read the note on the door, Blah blah blah, out of business blah blah nearest one at 101something 82th ave. i know where it is and the craving of sugar drive me to rollerblade the 10 blocks that way (4 back to my house, 6 to the store). Apon arrival i head over to the slurpee section, only to find they are out of a certain cup size, the same size (plus or minus 50 ml) that my coupon entitles me to. DOH. there just happens to be a nice employee lady standing there so i ask do you have any of that cup size she responds no we are all out of that size. And due to the fact i didnt bring my wallet, this stuck a wrentch in my slurpee run dreams. So saddly i rollerbladed home and craving a slurpee even more than when i had first thought of the idea. I was thinking of going back the next day (wallet in hand), but it was snowing and -12, so i really wasnt in the mood. but i did walk past the 7-11 and guess what, they had the cup size in, rrrrrr,
Ian

Cool looking game

Check out this video from LOTR Battle for Middle Earth. very cool. and a link to all the videos.
Ian

Friends are great eh?

Lets try this again

Ok the frist post didnt work so here is attempt 2 at the new thing im trying (only this is the more condenced version for all you visitor out there). Apprentice challenge-make (a predesigned bar) and sell new m&m candy bar, most money wins. twist, after making the bars, the bars had to pass inspection if not, broken in 2 and discarded (this was a little painful to watch, and i would have asked to keep the discarded ones to eat). So even from the beginning impression that Mosaic was making hardly any bars, they ended up pretty close to apex in passing numbers. Then the selling, apex sold at 1 for $2 and 2 for $3. i thought this was a little high and figured they would do good. Mosaic on the other, "we are going to do anything to win, within reason' jenn(i think). and well thats what they did. They dressed up in lowish cut shirts and shortish skirts and went around selling bars, for $5 dollars. and they accually ended up selling all of them too. but when ivana found out they were selling for so much more, she came up with a great (<-dripping with sarcasm) idea to increase profit. she was selling a chocolate bar for 20 dollars. but that is not all you got. if you bought it, she would also drop her skirt. yes that is right drop her skirt. Now that is what i want to see in an American businesswoman (again sarcasm). ya she should have stayed within reason. long story short, mosaic basically got twice the profit and won. then the board room which wasnt that good. Trump did his usually repeat something that is slightly funny/ironic or whatever. last week and the week before, Andy's (I think) losing the yelling battles even though he was on the high school debate team. trump found it important to mention that both weeks. this week, at least twice, probably more, he explained to the team that they lost to two girls who were yelling at each (due to hate) other a week before. thats about all ive got but i leave you with a quote of sandy's about jenn "She's like a manacan, she's like plastic"
Ian

beat me will you

What is not Fed Ex?

Just like The Star Wars Empire's domination, Mugatu's evil model empire, and the use of explotion welding on pipelines all came to an end. another epic reigh has come to an end almost 6 months after starting. No im not talking about a song on a countdown show, but a Mr. Ken Jennings from a little show called Jeopardy. so as november came to a close, so did KJ dominating steak on jeopardy. winning 74 times, answering (questioning accually???) ove 2700 questions (figured it out: Giving over 2700 correct responces), winning $2,520,700 (i think plus a $2000 runner up prize for appearance 75).
Ian's Opinion WOW. that is one thing i can say. this guy is not only a genious, but a well rounded genious. it takes still to win that many games. and in the winning alot of the time we was basically walking over everyone else. Sadly i only got to see him a couple of times, the brodcast and my timing never seemed to line up, which is sad because jeopardy is a great show and Alex a great host. And i have to add that KJ is a software ENGINEER. KJ's affect on Jeopardy? I think he gave it a boost that will help carry the show for a while. A little while ago Jeopardy doubled there prize money to attract more people or something. But nothing will (or did) bring in the people like 74 wins by one person. One of the people i was talking to said that the question (answer) "Most of this firm’s 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only four months a year" will be showing up in trivial pursuit and the equivalents in 5 to 10 years. I beleive that we have crossed an epic moment in tv game shows that we have not seen since, im sad to say, the first survivor.
Summing up the Rambling Good job Ken, you rule. Alex and the rest of Jeopardy, keep up the good work.
Ian

What can i say?

Hanks to play Langdon

I just heard on the radio and then found on imdb.com that the hit book The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown WIll be made into a movie. The movie is staring Tom Hanks, and directed by Ron Howard.
Ian's opinion: First of all, the book was absolutely amazing, but can it be turned into a movie? One of the great things about the book is all the almost offtopic notes and stuff about a ton of cool stuff, example, phi, that make the book so interesting. My guess is that most of these will be taken out in order to make the movie a reasonable length. that will be a great detroment to the movie. On a positive side, alot of the artwork and scenery and other things can be tricky to picture, there is an illustrated version of the book out that is pretty cool, but a movie will definatly help that. My greatest concern, think of of other book movies tomhanks did. The Polar Express, didnt read the book or see the movie so no sure, Catch Me If You Can now that one I saw. to be fair it could have been a good movie, in not really sure. But one thing that really annoyed me is that the book was sooo good, but the movie was changed so much. Im watching it and going, no, thats not right Even the little significan details, for example, his first con was different in the movie than in the book. so i was very disapointed by the movie, but i wouldnt have read the book if the movie hadnt come out most likely (i read the book, then saw the movie)
Summing up the rambling: The movie could be big, but my hopes are pretty low.
Ian