January 2012
1 post
today's websites
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug_(rapper)
“Slug is probably the most famous person we’ve fed [at Savory Sunday]. We fed his ass some sandwiches” -Paul
http://www.nomadicmatt.com/travel-blogs/why-americans-dont-travel-overseas/
This guy hates ‘Mer-ka. Anyway, I googled “how much does the average American travel in a lifetime” and got pretty much nothing....
December 2011
0 posts
lifestyle differences after moving out
tea drinking: up 800%
i don’t know why i drink so much more tea when i’m not living with my parents, but i become a serial tea drinker.
MSNBC watching: down 300%
and the rest of TV watching for that matter. which is generally a good thing, but i do like watching the news. however this means dad will have to find someone else to complain about republicans to.
Dad:”Nitro! What...
November 2011
2 posts
Where the cornbread at
It’s right here in #2)
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/228973/20111011/herman-cain-quotes-pokemon-republican-presidential-candidate-debate.htm
I appreciate that someone else likes cornbread, but unfortunately, that looks like the extent of his sanity.
October 2011
5 posts
Me vs Robot
User: Hi cleverbot.
Cleverbot: What’s up? User: I work in a genetics lab. Do you know anything about genetics?
Cleverbot: I know what it is. User: Does it interest you?
Cleverbot: Not really. User: Why not? Cleverbot: It keeps me busy, we get a lot of orders of paint, it distracts me. User: That didn’t make any sense. Cleverbot: It does make sense to a human. User: How do you know...
Today in Lab
Today in lab I was bored. I found a spectacular fungus growing on one of the amp/tet plates… it had somehow decided to develop resistance to ampicillin AND tetracycline. I was impressed. So I decided to keep it as a pet. I put it on my lab bench. His name is Reinhärd.
Constants
Dear Internet,
Today I have successed at deriving the Deen Butter Constant for Frosting. Clarification: when you have a recipe by Paula Deen that involves frosting, and it says to add X amount of butter, you add 0.5 the amount of X. I did this for my pumpkin bars and the cream cheese frosting was perfect.
The constant of 0.5 works only for frosting. I would guess that for the cake itself one...
too yutilitarian
http://www.bls.gov/tus/charts/
this site is interesting–it’s a bunch of graphs from the bureau of labor statistics about how americans spend their time. i’ve always wondered about how we use our time.
they could have broken down “leisure and sports time” more. The subcategories seem pretty vague. though i have confirmed what i thought all along. TV is by far our national...
hi connie!
September 2011
3 posts
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July 2011
1 post
scott do you have a damn job yet?
just checking if you do, and if this future-blog thing works.
Scott
June 6, 2011
June 2011
2 posts
I'm future-posting
Tumblr apparently has a feature where you can control when you publish your blogs. Since I apparently have nothing better to do with my time, I’ve decided to check it out right now. I sent myself three messages: one for tomorrow (which is technically in one minute), one for next month, and one for today’s date, 2059. This kind of reminds me of that one Radiolab episode where that one...
Test
does this work?
May 2011
2 posts
30 day song thing... all in one day.
(courtesy of aarushi and facebook) here, read it:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/30-Day-Song-Challenge/120874111270003?sk=app_4949752878
1. This changes all the time, but Local Natives have it now with Wide Eyes. This song also means that the best album i’ve heard is about to follow.
2. Because I’m considering Rebecca Black’s “Friday” as more of a “noise...
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the bro/hipster dichotomy: does it exist?
here’s something i’ve devoted an unreasonably large amount of time to think about. is there a necessary dichotomy to be drawn between bros and hipsters? or are they independent social categories? i used to assume they were opposite ends of some social-category spectrum, but upon further review, I see no evidence to support this. maybe they’re even positively correlated. of...
April 2011
3 posts
number eleven!!!
anne lynn asshead lisa gunther finkelstein dumblebuck inconsideratisha slobbenthal gillian hades dr.evil daniels.
if you were a protein i would denature you with SDS and run you in an a polyacrylamide gel while turning up the voltage extra-high. just go away. nobody likes you.
actually, more a list of things i "hate"
i’m doing this because it allows me to better deal with the things i hate when i write them down.
1) league of legends.
2) people who play league of legends.
3) people who play league of legends and YELL AT THE TOP OF THEIR FUCKING LUNGS because they’re fucking addicted. (i wonder who i could be talking about here….) anyway, the thought that i’ll be a productive member...
March 2011
2 posts
It's one of those days
… where i feel like America’s gone to hell again. OH WAIT that’s every day. With this Libya fiasco, I’d choose not to vote for Obama again if it were not for the other options. Apparently the leading option thinks that America will also go to hell soon, though dominated by secular athiest radical islamists (????????????????????????????). seriously.
“It’s just like, well, there’s social injustice in the world, and...”
– Me, about how my job at a fungal lab is rather unfulfilling
February 2011
5 posts
old people and blaogs
this one old lady in my gamelan class “sassy lois” was talking about blogs. and she was talking to my gamelan professor about facebook too. they were talking about thef aiewruy987498723987IOUY(*Y screw this i don’t wanna make a blog post. maybe i should just click CREATEpost. also, my typing is much more inaccurate latey.
scott walker
there was this one guy from my high school whose name was scott walker. he was pretty cool, and he ran cross country. i don’t know what he’s doing right now, but unfortunately, he’s not the scott walker who is currently our governor.
there’s another guy named scott walker who apparently sells real estate in the madison area. his real estate signs say “NOT the...
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i was just looking at old song lyrics i wrote
… god, how embarrassing. they were so trite and unidimensional. i hope nobody’s hacked into this computer and stolen them for the internets to make fun of. but then, i guess there are a lot better things on the internet to make fun of. like craigslist….. wtf bro.
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January 2011
2 posts
some quotes from an old blog entry of mine that...
“I always find myself sitting near Amanda. I haven’t talked to her in over a year since we had to do that project together. I don’t have anything against her, it’s just that there’s no reason to talk to her.”
“Old men have this strange obsession with the weather that I’ll probably never understand.”
“Her name’s ________and (how else can I say this?) she looks...
BARfFF
i don’t really care about football too much, but it will be hard for me to root for either team in the upcoming super bowl. surprising, i know, since i live in wisconsin. actually, maybe it’s because i live in wisconsin and have to put up with “OMG PACKERS” every morning. it seems to have died down a bit after brett favre leaving and the packers sucking a season after that...
December 2010
3 posts
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atheist christmas
i had a pretty uneventful christmas. mostly it was because we didn’t go to chicago, and it was just the four of us plus grandma goldie (and turbo and seefa, if you count cats). but i was thinking about how i used to believe, like most christians do, that the true meaning of christmas is the birth of jesus. i mean, that’s why the holiday was founded in the first place. then capitalism...
some random music vids
ok
take this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx0auZZSTYc&feature=related
and add this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1wg1DNHbNU
and wait a decade or two….
and you get something like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZjpWs1h7pU
take that result and then combine it with this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmCO4z8Uv5k
and you very definitely get this
...
you know what I don't really like
conversations that kinda go like this:
other person: so you’re in a band? what kind of music do you play
me: something alternative something….(mumble as much as possible)… ish piano rock
other person: oh do you mean like elton john? billy joel? ben folds? etc etc insert another name of shitty piano artist here
me: *^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^* billy folds/joel elton/ben...
November 2010
5 posts
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Da Vidja-Games
Two-thirds of my roommates keep playing their DAMN VIDJAGAMES all the time. Matt played from 10-1 today, according to Trent, who is my sane roommate. I got back from class at 4, and he was playing with Jeremy until around 8. After an hour or two of not playing vidjagames, he was back at it and STILL PLAYING NOW. That is a total of 9+ HOURS TODAY!! Don’t know about Jeremy, who might be at his...
i am becoming obsessed with my place paper
i just got this image
in my mind of a large, muscular guy with an arnold schwarzenegger voice going up to a bar and saying “I WOULD LIKE A SEXONTHEBEACH” and enjoying his dainty little cocktail with one of those little umbrellas…
overheard at borders
young guy discussing job searches with his dad:
“it’s in strotton… strotton, wisconsin, spelled s, t, o, u, g, h, t, o, n… strotton.”
“no, dad, i can’t work for the FBI. I have a restraining order. I need to get that dropped first.”
“i’m not gonna put my previous college in there because i failed out… almost failed...
a hypothetical conversation
This kept my mind entertained at work today. It’s only funny if you know who these people are and can imagine actually hearing the conversation for itself (especially Mr. Lyman’s voice, which always sounds enthusiastic, boisterous, and fun).
Mr. Lyman: Hi Samuel! How are you today?
Samuel Huang: not bad, how are you?
ML: I’m having a shitty day! a VERY shitty day! (knocks...
October 2010
3 posts
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halloween 2010
going to ginza of tokyo with my parents and their friends (the zarembas, dybdahls, and moores) and watching them get slightly intoxicated while seeing the hibachi chef do his crazy shit, then compiling a reggae cowboy pirate costume, going to dallas/nicole/claire/joel’s and hanging out with them and a bunch of my favorite people i haven’t seen in a while while using a laser pointer to...
I used to feed people clay.
My geography/energy resources professor was talking about oil shales today, and he was saying how shale is made of compacted clay. Being the offhand kind of guy he is, he told us that there’s essentially clay in soft serve ice cream. I looked it up later, and i think the mineral he was talking about is calcium sulfate, or plaster of paris. yep, that’s in your dairy queen. Since I...
if i wanted to start being a professional...
i’ll try and keep a list of stories, and/or story fragments on reserve. Here are some of them:
1. Allison, the girl with facial hair
2. Gabe, the kid who barked like a dog in 6th grade, somehow got into Yale, and what could have happened in between those years?
3. My roommate, Trent, getting busted by the feds for possession of 700 kilos of cocaine (okay i admit, this one’s made up,...
September 2010
4 posts
this song is so cool
the raindrops the raindrops the raindrops the raindrops the raindrops the raindrops the raindrops the raindrops the raindrops the raindrops the raindrops the raindrops the raindrops the raindrops the raindrops the raindrops the raindrops the raindrops the raindrops the raindrops the raindrops the raindrops the raindrops the raindrops the raindrops the raindrops the raindrops the raindrops the...
Stereotypes
One thing I like to do is make fun of conservative people, along with Nate. It’s great fun. Their ignorance about world issues, ignorance about national issues, ignorance about anything beyond the realms of pop culture and aphorisms, their habits, the ways they talk, and how one might name his son “Pabst” and enter a local Chinese restaurant only to order a “Kung-Fu Big...
dream
Last night i had a dream where i was rocking out in my backyard to “Cannibal Resource” by the Dirty Projectors with some friends from SFS. I don’t remember who was there exactly, but I was playing the drums. It was awesome, and so I woke up and listened to Bitte Orca this morning. I think I’m beginning to see its genius.
Fun names for synth settings!
I just found the sheet of paper that Nate and I wrote on to describe the settings for my really old, used synthesizer. They’re hilarious!
#46- R2D2
#99-Airplane
#22-Clockwork Orange
#72-Birds
#79-Sara’s Grandma
#47-Space
#25-Evil Space
#65-Pooping Robot
#17-MGMT noises
#91-French
#42-Cool
#03-Insects
#05-The Withering Winds
#09-Bach in Space!
#15-Whirlpool
#19-Stars...
August 2010
6 posts
Self Sufficiency
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/11/28/051128ta_talk_surowiecki
An especially interesting point this article makes is that because Americans work more hours, they pay other people to do many things that they could do themselves, but don’t want to (eating more at restaurants instead of cooking dinner, dropping the kids off at daycare, etc). The result is that there are more...
Critique of objectivism:
First some quotes:
Ayn Rand:
“Whatever you choose to consider, be it an object, an attribute or an action, the law of identity remains the same. A leaf cannot be a stone at the same time, it cannot be all red and all green at the same time, it cannot freeze and burn at the same time. A is A. Or, if you wish it stated in simpler language: You cannot have your cake and eat it, too.”
...
post it notes that i created
dried fruit
‘Mer-ka
“life with microsoft office is like a shit casserole, and every day is shitsgiving”- scott k
post-postmodernism
“i can do the gangsta rap” -mom
SCHLUMPFS
“the disney channel is nothing but mental masturbation” -dad
mashup: kidz are so small, ring of fire, fuck the pain away, everybody looks like tom z, scissor arms, my love, o...
Dear Mr. or Ms. Boobs
Dear Mr. or Mrs. Zhamak Boobs,
Thanks, I guess, for your email. It was very kind to tell me about all these types of wallpaper. But see, there’s just one problem.
I don’t know who the hell you are. See, chances are not likely that you exist. First of all, your name is Zhamak Boobs. And what else I’m wondering is, how did you get into the Wisco-TC emailing list? and do you know...
Dear Mr. or Ms. Boobs
Dear Mr. or Mrs. Zhamak Boobs,
Thanks, I guess, for your email. It was very kind to tell me about all these types of wallpaper. But see, there’s just one problem.
I don’t know who the hell you are. See, chances are not likely that you exist. First of all, your name is Zhamak Boobs. And what else I’m wondering is, how did you get into the Wisco-TC emailing list? and do you know...
oh,
I was just at the union with Brian and Andrei. As a result, I am a bit tipsy right now as I write this. Don’t worry, I can still type everything just fine. I haven’t misspelled anything yet. It’s just a bit harder to type everything. But that’s what I wanted to talk about. The whole “being drunk…whooooo!!!!” thing. I don’t get it. I don’t feel...
July 2010
1 post
You know what I miss.
Lately I’ve been thinking about some of the not-so-obvious things I miss from the island, and here are a few:
Waking up at 5:55 in the morning and going out to run. I’d have a shirt on so that none of the islanders would get “offended” by my bare chest. This was part of the guise of complying with the staff rules: Ok Jessee, I’ll be sure to wear this shirt so I...