Stuff from February, 2006
This is the archive of tumbledry happenings that occurred on February, 2006.
Singing
Mykala knows her singing.
This is the archive of tumbledry happenings that occurred on February, 2006.
Mykala knows her singing.
Genius Gap Commercial - In which people at the store proceed to completely demolish it. The guy tackling the mannequin is the best part. Or maybe the part where the woman drives the van into the store front. Yeah, that part.
Directed by Spike Jonze.
The Nine Billion Names of God - God, Faith, Monks. Great short story writing by Arthur Clarke.
Starbucks put in a vending machine on our campus, which serves up hot cans of their drinks (for $2.50 per serving). We’re not sure how they heat up the can … my guess is the plastic ends and wrapper are put on afterwards (the can is just like an aluminum soup can).
Alright guys. A certain man I know named Sean Green passed an incredibly great and entertaining phrase down to me through a man named Dan McKeown. He didn’t pass it down intentially, it just happened - and I am thankful. That said, writing about this phrase would never do it justice, so when I was home, I picked up a microphone and brought it back to the dorms to allow you all to experience this phrase first hand. Click below to listen.
These two birthday cards are not connected. They just appear to be so. The inside of the card on the right said “Unless you are the donkey.”
Talbott Neck Ties - Maybe for my dad for Father’s Day? These are ridiculously nice ties.
I love cookies - “The Internet’s most complete selection of trusted cookie recipes and advice - including oatmeal cookie, chocolate chip cookie, and brownie recipes.” Well, obviously I have found my mecca.
Today, at the bottom of a routine piece of paperwork stating that I had read (and understood) the rules and regulations of OChem lab, I signed my name. This is something that I do every day, day in, day out, but today I signed the most beautiful letter ‘A’ I have ever written in my entire life. It was jaunty, yet balanced. Hip, yet outlined with classical curves. An thing of beauty. I sat and stared at it for a while, wondering how my writing based on the general principles of seizures had produced such a character of elegance.
Ryan’s birthday party.
Disgusting hotdogs - Pick your hotdog topping. My favorite is the tartar control toothpaste with the fruit stripe gum.
Unbelievable VW Car Factory - The VW Phaeton assembly plant in Dresden Germany is see-through, featuring wood floors, simply jaw-dropping cleanliness, and a glass parking garage for the finished cars. Simply unreal.
The forum notes: “At some stages of the build process, it is easier to do the work if the car can be lifted up and moved around as needed. The overhead cranes lift the car up, using the same 4 points that the car normally rests on, and the employee can then move the vehicle around as he or she wants. The working environment in this assembly plant has been very carefully thought out - there is no comparison with other car manufacturing facilities.”
I just threw this up as my away message on AIM, but I have to open my problem to the greater wisdom of you lovely tumbledry readers. The question is tangential to that dressing rule which has haunted men for a long time: when wearing black clothing, one’s belts, shoes, and accessories should not be brown. I am not completely sure where this originated, but it makes sense. A small infraction on the rules can be ok, but beyond this it starts to look weird. Ever seen a brown car with a black interior? I have not. While purely anecdotal evidence may not be sufficient to prove that black cars with brown interiors do not exist/look good, my point stands. (Because I say it does, and this is my personal pulpit. I am abrasive tonight.)
On the wall of Buca.
The Safe House - Milwaukee, Wisconsin - I wish Minneapolis had an unbelievable bar like this: with a secret entrance, bullet proof windows, a password required to get in, etc. Amazing. Recommended to me by my Quant prof.
Here’s a new one: I went through two classes today, and then came back to my dorm room. I looked at my watch as I was coming in the door and wondered aloud: “Did my watch stop or something?” It was way too early. I was so focussed on the lab report I had to do that I had forgotten I had only been to 2 classes instead of 3. It doesn’t end there, though. Oh no, this Monday had more Alex-mocking to do.
Ryan’s first legal alcohol purchase.
Thank you, Saint Thomas, for such scholarly surroundings:
Girl 1: So I was talking to her and she was, like, being such a bitch!
Girl 2: Yeah?
G1: Yeah she’s all like “Stop being such a space-case.”
G2: Really? A space-case?
G1: And yeah, then she was all …
G2: Did you say ‘space-case’?
G1: Yeah.
G2: Is that even a word?
G1: I made it up.
G2: Oh, you and your words.
Walking through Ikea, the three of us heard this strange strange announcement. “Would Wanda Sorry please return to Smallworld. Wanda Sorry, please return to Smallworld.”
How can you do anything but laugh after hearing an announcement like that? I mean, this is Wanda Sorry (Mykala thinks it might be spelled Saari) and Smallworld. And she doesn’t have to report to it, she has to return to it. Like, she was once a child and now it’s time … tiiiime for Wanda to go back from whence she came!
Great cheap steadycam - Uses a t-mounted counterweight to steady a camera for commercial-quality stabilizing with a college-student price. Link from Justin. Useful for Nils.
Check out the example footage - it really works!
The AV Club is impressive - great article about Sigur Ros - This website should be the premiere media review clearinghouse on the internet. Consistently astronimically high quality content. You could learn how to write from these reviews.
Don’t get me wrong, I do like WCCO Channel 4 News. It is the number one rated newscast in the Twin Cities, as it well should be. Consider one of its competitors, Fox 9 news, which has reported on (and aired “teaser” portions promoting) such life-changing issues as school bus drivers not showing up to work, rusty fire hydrants, and what your pets do when you leave the house. The pets piece was actually advertised on the radio the day that ground-breaking investigative masterpiece aired. Oh, and if you are wondering how Fox 9 cracked the mystery of what pets do: hidden cameras. Wow.
Mykala got me a whole heck of a lot of gum.
Chicago River Dyed Green - I guess they did this for Saint Patrick’s Day in 2005. They got the river incredibly green. Governments should do stuff like this more often.
Reading Plato’s Republic, I called Mykala over to share a passage with her about Plato saying “But I am too stupid to be convinced by him.” I never got there because the “him” was Thrasymachus. Now, while reading the passage, I went with the pronunciation Thrassy-maykuss, which caused both of us to halt a minute or two later. “What?” Mykala asked, genuinely puzzled by my pronunciation. “I was just trying to read through it and get to the point,” I replied. Mykala took one glance at the page and said, “Oh, Thrasimakiss.” Stunned silence from both sides.
Sunlight streaming across the lens gave this picture it’s look, I think. Very cool.
All humans are simmering pots of needs; every person you meet has a unique concoction of needs brewing. Take a baby, for instance: its needs overflow moment to moment in cascades of petulant tears. As that baby grows up, it does not stop literally crying out for things because it no longer want to, it stops because crying out no longer works, surrounded as it is in a sea of selfish people. Over the years, we learn to bottle up our needs, yet they continue to drive us from the inside out.
