Yukon Ho!

You can see more wacky beauty: http://www.flickr.com/photos/13701559@N04/

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

Employed!

For better or worse, I'm once again gainfully employed. I'm the new Inventory Coordinator for a women's clothing company called Fresh Produce based out of Boulder. Sounds boring, but I think it could be a pretty cool job. They're planning on growing a bunch, and I can kind of make the position what I want.

Chilling in a Random Coffee Shop in Idaho

Al Bundy once said, "Lets put all the pregnant women in a state no one is using, like Idaho. We'll call it PregnaHo."
I've been to the south of PrednaHo to climb, and I felt that he was mostly right. Besides some great rocks, the place is barren. Now I sit in laughter and tears in the North and I may feel differently. Driving along 90, I was impressed by the mountains, vegetation, and massive lake. Then I stopped in Coeur d'Alene to see a movie, drink some coffee, and chill after driving many long hours alone. The little town at first seemed quaint and fun, but as I walked among the people wearing cologne and gold and the shinny BMWs, I began to feel like I was in some even more yuppy (is that possible?) version of Martha's Vineyard. Last night I sat on a bench and watched a strange variety of rich white people on vacation from nearby cities. It's on a large lake and seems to be a "summering" place for the upper class. I couldn't even find a bar I felt comfortable enough to enter to have a beer. Odd.
Al may not have known about this place, but I'm sure he'd still like to send all the pregnant women here.
On a much more jubilant note, Glacier National park is skewered by immense stark mountains. Sure I expected the glaciers (which were a little smaller than I had hoped), but I did not expect the beautiful spires of rock. I hiked a rather brutal 9 mile climb to Sperry Glacier and was blown away by the turquoise ponds that form from melting ice with snow and ice trapped underneath the water. Who claims ice always floats?

Dedicated to Mr. Prince of Pee

Cause he's a dork and likes the flute.

Jim

Oh-Be-Joyful

Well boys I'm looking forward to seeing everyone soon. Ryan's pictures inspired me to send a few of my own. These are from my trip to Crested Butte last weekend.

This drop is from Daisy Creek and is affectionately called Rip your Head Off.




This drop is from Oh-be-Joyful Creek, and is called Bajillion Falls. One of my friends went a little too far to the right, and landed on some rocks and had to limp out. I was a little more fortunate.

My March Survey: Rocks: Beer: Utah

Notice Jim's central location on the hood. This is essential climbing prep.

Still simply sipping scenes. Considering climbing.

Guess this is my first V6. Very big deal. That right foot hooks and holds my body against the stone with the heal. It's essential to turn the sloping nothingness, which my left hand desperately chews, into a sloping slightly somethingness.





Finally we must only
worship that which we can taste, touch, and that has holes into which we can put our sausage appendages.

Surface Computing

Although I prefer a hot blonde to take my order, I must admit an interactive table is pretty cool too (and a whole lot smarter).

...what about Dad?

Us 3 boys from Colorado have booked our flight, Jim, Chris, and Dan are in. If Matt doesn't show I'll hunt him down and kill him with my bare hands.

Cornell in a nutshell

Remind you of anyone you know?

AJs Party

Hopefully we can all make it, Ryan and I were talking last night and are definitely going to do what we can. Even if I manage to get a job before then, I'm still coming, so count me in. Good food, good friends... can't beat that.

New York, New York

I've had the rarest of sightings, the rare Matticus Kingus. The migratory specie has taken root in mid-town Manhattan somewhere in the vicinity of 42nd and "Lex", though is believed to roost somewhere in the vicinity of Prospect Park. Sightings have also occured in a few seedy bars in nefarious sections of Brooklyn and the Lower East Side. This sighting has exciting consequencs for science since the species was previously believed to be extinct.

This picture is of interest as the subject is sporting a pink tie and is clean shaven, behavior believed to serve the dual purpose of giving an impression of success in the field of law and feminine style in order to attract perspective mates.

Special thanks to intrepid explorer and amatuer botonist Daniel J. Webb and to Mr. C. Principe for his working knowledge of Wii and his delightful discovery of delicious Israeli food.

Cheerio!

Off to Nam

Well, my pals, tomorrow I'm off to Nam with ten little buggers. If you haven't checked out Regina Spektor, I highly recommend her.

I

Beer Launching Fridge

I love it!


Robotic Beer Launching Refrigerator - The funniest bloopers are right here

Another day at the Office

Given the foot of powder last night, classes were cancelled,
and this is what I did instead of teaching. Too tired from the powder, I had a few beers as I waited for some other teachers to join me. They got stuck and three little frosh girls sat with me while I drank waiting for people born before the nineties.

I am Dumb. what a surprise...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9OfLyiu7Mc

Posting

Not sure what the monkey was talking about...everything works the same for me as it always has.

Posting for the hell of it

Nothing interesting has happened to me lately, except my sewage line collapsing and backing shit up into my house, but I don't even want to talk about that. Just wanted to let Dan know he wasn't alone in our blogosphere.

Cool Discovery

At the risk of redundancy, I have found an even cooler web music site. You can search artists, instantly play them, and the radio station complies an endless list of similar artists. You can rate each song as it plays (skip junk) and the site continually reconfigures the music according to each song you love or loath. It seems to have any obscure artist, even Katie Sawicki.
http://www.pandora.com/

"We'll be scoring heaps of chicks"

Hilarious.

Because I'm just that big of a dork...

I actually felt pretty good about myself solving this.
I'm Althris, pretty far down, the last posting on 1/10/2007

Blizzard 2006.02

A new version of the Colorado Blizzard of '06 being released already!! Who would have thunk it? Unfortunately this time I'm at the folks in St. Louis and am supposed to be flying out to Denver on Saturday. Not likely I'd say. Even if I manage to get in, Vicki drives a Civic, and theres no way that thing is cutting through a foot or two of snow. When I was waiting in the 3 hour line last weekend they said that when they closed the airport down before, they handed out free beer. Maybe there is a silver lining?

Snow Pics

It just keeps snowing

The Colorado Blizzard of '06. It just keeps coming. The city of Denver is totally shut down. I shoveled 3 houses out today, and an hour later it didn't look like I had done a thing. At least its pretty...

Mesmerizing

This should probably be stupid, but damn its catchy...

The Blue Ribbon

Thinking of you...

Caught my eye...

Naked man smoking crack attacked by 11 foot alligator...
Bad day for him, huh.

FABCHANNEL

I have spent multiple nights alone watching free concerts here: http://www.fabchannel.com/
You should at least check out The Presidents of the USA at the Pardiso. I can not believe what he does for song 7 and 18 not to mention Froggy and Kitty. I have never seen such a cool concert.

Thanksgiving

Probably a little late, but it just occured to me that I don't know if any of us mentioned this to the rest of you guys. Ryan, Ty, and I are doing Thanksgiving in Fort Collins. If any of your plans fall through, etc, hop on stand by on a red eye sometime before then and get the hell out here. I aint doing shit for most of the next week and a half.

Stranger Than Fiction

This movie didn't get the best reviews, but I loved it. Definitely recommend seeing it. Very few movies have me laughing out loud, but I and most of the audience was. It was good witty, intelligent comedy.

Oh no...

Britney and K-fed are splitting up! Whatever will we gossip about now girls! Stupid tabloids. Kevin apparently doesn't understand the concept of birth control as he is up to a total of four kids by two mothers...that anyone knows about.

Full Disclosure

Saw this at a short film festival. I think it's well worth the $2 on iTunes. It's clever and well written.

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewMovie?id=197994755&s=143441

We the people

As snow falls more and more in Steamboat,

we the people support fossil fuels and climate change.

IQ != Success

So, in my normal procrastinating way I was reading stuff online and came across the site Tickle.com which gives an IQ test. I did it and got a 138. I thought to myself, that's pretty high, but what exactly does it mean. So I search for an IQ scale and found one that said 130-140 is very intelligent, just below genius level which starts between 140-145. So I'm feeling pretty good about myself and then I read below "...but IQ should not be given too much weight as studies show self discipline is a much better indicator of success." I am so screwed.

il telefono

“The first sensation this book should convey is what I feel when I hear the telephone ring; I say “should” because I doubt that written words can give even a partial idea of it: it is not enough to declare that my reaction is one of refusal, of flight from this aggressive and threatening summons, as it is also a feeling of urgency, intolerableness coercion that impels me to obey the injunction of that sound, rushing to answer even though I am certain that nothing will come of it save suffering and discomfort. Nor do I believe that instead of an attempted description of this state of the spirit, a metaphor would serve better—for example, the piercing sting of an arrow that penetrates a hip’s naked flesh.”
-Calvino

I don't Love Virgnia

Here's a picture I took in the Shenandoahs. It's just like Tim's picture except:
1. They're Deer
2. They're closer
3. They're too busy eating to pose for my stupid picture

I love Colorado...

because I can go see this for an afternoon. Elk mating season up in Rocky Mountain National Park. Click the image to see the whole album.

AHHHH Purdy

Say what you will about AJ, but don't ever question the man's ability to cook meat.

it's just so good...when it hits your lips!

"Aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

So much to do.
So little time.

The Armor of God.....Pajamas

Nothing about this really seems wrong, except for the feeling i get looking at the picture. Children crusaders and bible thumpers. Freaks me out.

CSU Fight Song

CSU sings this song called Fum's Song along with an old guy (Fum) on video during football games. It's been banned this year to much argument. Interestingly, Cornell is in the song. I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's for the rhyme.

I'll sing you a song of college days
And tell you where to go.
Aggies where knowledge is,
Boulder spends your dough.

CC for your sissy boys,
Utah for your times,
DU for your ministers,
For drunkards, Shcool of Mines.

Don't send my boy to Wyoming U.,
A dying mother said.
Don't send my boy to Utah State,
I'd rather see him dead.

But send him to the ole Aggies,
'Tis beter than Cornell,
But rather than in Boulder,
I would see my boy in hell!

Little Miss Sunshine

Though I wouldn't want to raise your expectations and thus ruin the experience, I recommend seeing this film. Surely a big screen is not necessary; you could wait for netflicks, but are you really going to remember? Is there really anything else out there right now? Factoid looks fun, but it won't come to my little town soon. This little film has great cartoon like characters and some wonderfully dark humor.
But you know me. What film wouldn't I love that begins with a girl hugging her brother after a suicide attempt and saying, "I'm so glad you're still with us."
He says, "That makes one of us."

For Matt with Love

"Some physicists have even proposed that it isn't the amount and type of matter in the universe that needs to be adjusted, it's the law of gravity itself. They have suggested alternative theories that boost the strength of gravity on galactic and intergalactic scales in order to do away with the need for dark matter."

Irrefutable proof my ass. What a load of crap!

Trial

Vicki had sentencing in this crazy trial she prosecuted a few weeks ago.

In Another Life

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4107678319738298617

Nerdds of the world unite

This is a pretty cool article. I like the gecko robot.

http://www.slate.com/id/2145813/nav/tap1/

August Get Together

I've got a free flight anywhere in the US on United if I get the ticket two weeks in advance, so if we can figure out where and when for sure in the near future that would be awesome. Looking forward to hanging out! Ry, thanks for being the guy to get this up and moving.

Aussie Football

I went to the park today to play some volleyball with friends, and there were some guys there messing around playing what I thought was Rugby. Turns out it is Australian Rules Football, and is damn cool. We kicked the ball around with them for a bit, and they invited us to come to their next practice on Sunday. Think I may do it, it's kind of rough but seems like a lot of fun.

Seals

David Thomson.
While I've actually spent a good amount of time reading esoteric nonsense (god damn Kant), banging my head against the contrived walls of literary criticism, I've also enjoyed little stories like this one(in the comment).
Beauty. The story becomes even more random, but I'm sobering up and tired of typing.

nonsense

"everybody 's gotta learn sometime"

Matthew King

Always the role model: from November 1988.

Monkey in Vermont.

So I'm officially a grad student. I'm not the teacher in the classroom anymore and I find myself misunderstanding the assignment two days running. I remember jumping on my own students for being so stupid as to misunderstand an assignment, and I can't wait to jump on them with renewed vigor in the fall.

I go to a party and find a seat next to a keg so I can fill my glass without standing (starting to enjoy my new taste for beer). There are no other seats on the porch and most people are by the fire until it starts to rain. They all crowd onto the porch; because they are standing and I'm in a very low chair, I can't really have a conversation. I continue to drink and enjoy watching this old scene of boys trying to get laid. "I'm happy happy happy happy by myself." Monkey continues to drink silently for a few hours, every once in a while soliciting aid because of his excellent location to thirsty grad students. Later a girl sits on a stump next to him and they exchange a few words for a minute. He focusses on standing without wavering and walking straight as he goes across the lawn to his own room.
I don't get cell service here, but I'll check my messages once a week if I remember. I plan to plan to try to spear head a gathering sometime between Aug 11th and 17th. Location suggestions? Date preferences?

Fort Collins Beer Festival

Sunday I went up to hang out with Tyrona for a bit and we made our way over to the beer festival. Awesome. Colorado has so many microbrews. There were probably at least 2 dozen breweries serving beer. Then there was the live music and plenty of sunshine. Tons of people ranging from the attractive CSU girls to the 50 year old hippies. Towards the end the beer servers were obviously tasting there wares because I walked up on a three way beer fight between some very cute ladies. Good times.

Finito!

Just finished the quarter from hell, and am now on a one month vacation. Plan on playing golf, video games, and hanging out with my new neighbor Tyrona. Hope you're all having enjoyable summers.

Monkey Chow Diet

This is HORRIBLE, but fascinating. I can't believe he's stuck with it.

Cornell Gallery of the Fantastic

Something positive finally about Cornell in the news. They collected images of the fantastic (angels, demons, etc.) from old texts and created a gallery. Some very interesting pieces. This one appears to be the biblical flood. You can see the arc in the background. Link.

Rock, Paper, Scissors on Crack

Awesome!

Jackson Pollock

Somebody made this site where you just randomly paint in a pollocky sor of style. Kind of fun.
http://jacksonpollock.org/

Blues

Everyone take a moment this day to listen to Muddy Waters. If not this day, this weekend with some whiskey.

Still Alive

Hey all. Guess what? I'm still alive! Well don't all cheer at once it would be deafening. This picture is a testiment to me being alive: It was taken last Sunday morning (bout 3am) in Brooklyn. Although I was still alive when the picture was taken, I was nearly killed a couple minutes later by a gang of Punks that didn't think my Sweater Vest was particularly funny. Kids these days!

I'm down for meeting East coast style in August. LEt me know what's going to work for everyone and I'm game, cause I'm not planning anything.

Cheers.

Update: My Life

I've decided to postpone going back to the real world a little longer. Instead of graduating and getting a real job in December, I'm probably going to take the minimum number of classes for a bit and graduate at the end of March.

2 reasons why you care: First, if you guys all decide to get together out east in August, I should be able to fly out given enough notice. I promise I won't throw up on anyone's stuff. Second, one of the main reasons I'm doing this is so I have more time to work on my graduate project, and I'd like some ideas from you guys.

I started my project 8 weeks ago doing research and have narrowed it down to an area. It is a game for 1 - 4 players, age 6 - 12. The game will be designed to develop children in the areas of reflex, coordination, balance, and spatial relations. This summer I'll be spending a lot of time coming up with different concepts for the tasks involving the above abilities. If you think of any ideas crazy or plain, even impossible, I'd like to hear them. Good innovation often starts with ridiculous ideas.

Infinite Pictures

This is pretty cool. It's a picture photomosaic that zooms in infinitely. It doesn't really, but they give the effect that it does pretty well. I wonder how many different pictures they used.

via BoingBoing

Get your bacon

Friend of a friend of a friends blog about bacon. Here's an excerpt.

The Waffle House is a legendary American breakfast institution. Since 1955, they have served 786,449,152 slices of bacon. Also, if you lay all of the bacon end-to-end that Waffle House serves in a year, it will stretch from Atlanta to Los Angeles seven times.

http://www.baconunwrapped.com/

June, Part Deux

I'm not going to let this get together idea die, dammit! Ryan has confirmed that he is indeed intending to drive out east at the end of June, and i'm seriously considering joining him. So would you fellas be up for trying to arrange a weekend get together somewhere? Jimmy, could we pick you up on the way? I think this has some potential.

CU Pot Smokers

I thought this was a minor thing, until I saw it on the national news today. Ridiculous. CU is offering $50 if you can identify any of the pictures of people smoking on 4/20. Where's Waldo?

Slope Day

I just happened to discover it's slope day. Raise one high to the memories of Tequila sunrises and our painted monkey!

This reminds me of Ryan, or maybe Dad.

June Vacation!

I'd like to make the official proposal of a late June get together out here. I know it's hard to plan, but Ty will be here by then, I'll be on break, and Ryan will be free for the week of June 18th I think. Jim should be on break, and Matt will be done. AJ, Dan, and Chris just need to suck it up and take some time off work. We could go up to Steamboat, or here, or whatever. Matt, don't give me any crap about studying for the bar.

Gawker Article

Here's the article in gawker. I love the last line, "No wonder there are so many suicides."

More Like Lost Weekend

sooo, i got pretty drunk in ithaca this past weekend. both friday and saturday nights. On Friday night I passed out around 1am. i completely missed the gay a capella singing in the parking garage that always happens after the Spring Fever show. Saturday night, i missed sake bombs and hanging out on a rooftop spying on a kid getting a blowjob from a fat chick through an open window.

what the hell happened to me. now before you say "girlfriend, matt, girlfriend is what happened to you." you should know that both nights (!) Liz was trying to get me to stay awake and hang out.

I am only 25 years old. Jesus. What the hell is happening to me.

Last Weekend

Which of the following did I not do this weekend?
A. Ordered two pitchers of Old Milwaukee at 12:50 at Dunbar's
B. Finish a growler of red ale on the shore of Cayuga with Dad
C. Drink wine for about 3 hours with Gwen's family on Sunday afternoon
D. Saki bombs
E. Eat 4 servings of vegetables

Curl Up and Dye

The name of a hair salon I drove by yesterday. First I did a double take, and then I chuckled for several minutes.

Heading to New Zealand
with kids to watch tomorrow.
Talk to ya'll in a month.

Bought a rug. One leg.
Center. Raised arms. Drink.
Numinous. Savant.

Beer

I was in this sports bar on Thursday watching basketball and drinking some beer when the waitress came up and asked me if I wanted another. I looked at my glass which had only a mouthful of beer left and thought about it and said, "Not yet, I'll order one in a few minutes." She looked at me a little confused and said, "If you want another one why don't you just order it now?" I proceeded to explain to her that I love beer. If she were to set another beer down in front of me at that moment I would immediately finish this one and start on that one. My self control only extends far enough to holding off on ordering another one. She just looked at me weird and walked away. Five minutes later I touched her arm as she walked by and said, "I'll have that beer now." Score one for self control.

Hubble

A slideshow of cool images from Hubble, put to cheesy music about angels. The pictures are cool at least. And it features the Eye of God! Hubble Slideshow

Not that anyone cares about Vermont...

but I had to post this article, because it contains this quote from the Governor:
"I respect the laws of the United States, of course," Mr. Douglas said. "But the cows have to be milked."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/04/national/04vermont.html?th&emc=th

Well boys I have some good news to share.

I'm going to graduate school. I got into CU-Boulder with funding, and evidently I just got another grant, a chancellor's fellowship, for another chunk of money. They are even offering to fly me out there for a visit. I just want you all to acknowledge the Matthew P. King level of deception it requires for some school to give me money to go there. Needless to say the western chapter of 130 Linden is going to be a bit larger come June.

Hawai'i is fantastic, and I apologize for being so out of touch, but I stay pretty busy out here. I wish I could describe what is going on but I think that would probably take me all night. So I'll try to post some pictures to give you an idea of what's happening. Here's one from my second week here.