Who's this guy think he is?

Applications for biogeochemistry

There is a use for what Iʻm studying. Iʻm working in the lab of the professor from CSU. Unfortunately, the best application for my work is to track down dirty pot smoking hippies. Oh the irony......

What's worse than going to your ex's wedding?

Learning your Ex's pregnent.

Whats' worse than, learning your Ex's pregnent?

Finding out she had the baby and named it Ty.

God damn Ty.

"Got some change...

for a crack rock and some ice cream? Ok, forget the ice cream." Said to me today in Boulder. Silly hippies.

Well, the goddamn Sap isn't going to boil itself

China is always one step ahead of us

China's giant panda centre sees profit in poop

Orcas Island

I blew off job hunting today and went to Orcas island. In Puget Sound, it's about two hour's north of Seattle. I biked up and down breathtaking shores and checked out some starfish and jelly fish as I bobbed around in a kayak. The lady who rented it to me for 18 bucks an hour was this fat, gray, wrinkled, short, happy, hippie/packrat kind of lady whose lawn was full of sea junk, kayaks, odd wood things, lawn sculptors, and many other things we would gladly burn or launch at a school bus. When I kayaked back to her shore, I thought she was a rock in the water, then she popped fully up, clad in a bulging wet suit(perhaps an 18 wheeler's worth of rubber), with a shit eating grin and said she just lost dinner. A massive grab escaped her puggy fingers. She said to just put the money in the wooden box with the label "money box" on top and to take change that I needed. She was still in the water as I opened the box, and I thought about taking the few bucks change. Needless to say I never filled out a waiver or gave her a credit card. I guess she did have my bike if I decided to paddle back to Seattle.
I do think it should be Orca's Island not Orcas.

Get Fuzzy

I said, "Are you guys liberal?" and she goes "Yeah" so I went "Listen, Babe, Call back later, because the guy who lives here will throw more money at you than a Democrat at a gay atheists bake sale."

Words to live by

Aberration:
Ab·er·ra·tion Pronunciation: "a-b&-'rA-sh&n
1 : a departure from what is right, true, correct, etc.
2 : a deviation from the normal or the typical
3 : mental derangement or lapse
4 : Astron. a small apparent change in position of a heavenly body, caused by the orbital motion of the earth and the motion of light rays from body
5 : Optics a) the failure of light rays from one point to converge to a single focus b) an error in a lens or mirror causing such failure
6 : an aberrant individual (Spacemonkey, Harvey)

Antinomy:
an·tin·o·my Pronunciation: an-'ti-n&-mE
1 : a contradiction between two apparently equally valid principles or between inferences correctly drawn from such principles
2 : a fundamental and apparently unresolvable conflict or contradiction (antinomies of beauty and evil, freedom and slavery, work and beer, marriage and hanging out, Aj and nice people, Tim and buying a ring, Matt and phone conversations, Ty and motivation, Dan and Harvey, Jim and a pot of boiling water, Chris and mean people, Vinnie and ugly girls, Ryan and polite society, -- Stephen Holden)

Nintendo?

I started laughing as I applied to this job. I think I just did it, but I'm not sure; it seems so goofy. You should see how my cover letter connects my literay passions to the "infinite creative possibilities of the gaming world." Chris would kill me if got paid write and edit video scripts, manuals, and actually play them. Look at the third bullet on the list.

Nintendo Writer/Editor:

Description of Duties:
-Provides input regarding localizing game content
-Writes, proofs and edits game text, game scripts, instruction manuals, package copy and game summaries
-Tests and evaluates games and products and makes recommendations regarding design and content
-Monitors the progress of Nintendo and licensed products
-Assists other NOA departments with videotaping game play and taking screen shots, providing games, demonstrating games and participating in interviews
-Makes decisions and recommendations regarding localization and text content for games, manuals and other copy
-Up to 10% domestic and international travel