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Monday, March 31, 2003
Holy shit, two updates in as many days! That’s just weird.
I’m getting a haircut tomorrow around 2 I think. Who’s with me? Eh? EH?!!!?
My fucked up brother just sent me a link to some weightlifting website with a picture of a guy who “blew his guts out of his ass”. The picture is just as graphic as the description and I only looked at it for a second. Of course my first course of action was to send this gem to Dan. Still waiting to hear his shriek of revulsion. I fear he might have heard my shriek of revulsion and knows my plan.
My experimental day today is a mixed success. The experiment was that since I had a class at 530, I couldn’t run with the team at 415. My plan was to get up early, eat breakfast and run around noon. I would read in the hours between breakfast and noon. While I got up early, had breakfast and got to the library to read as I intended to, trouble struck two pages into the book when I dozed off and someone in a dream told me to go to sleep. So I napped for an hour and a half. I did go running, I did make it to my 240 class, dinner, my 530 class, and now I have time to read again-so it’s by no means a total failure. Still, I might as well have just gone home and napped.
I found a great “Uniball Micro” pen on my way back from running. I’ve found the two best pens I own outside of CFA on the grass. The other one is a “Pentel RSVP”. If one of these pens is yours-tough.
Coolest moment in comics: The Avengers are about to be destroyed by the “Timekeepers”. Who comes flying out of Limbo to save them?
Rick Jones: Dude that Bruce Banner saved from the Gamma bomb and off and on wielder of the unstoppable “Destiny Force”.
Kang the Conqueror: Sort of a galactic Alexander the Great, arch enemy of the avengers.
The Supreme Intelligence: An organic supercomputer computer created by the Kree, to house the knowledge of the Kree empires’ greatest minds. It’s shaped like a massive head with tentacles and floats in a jar of fluid.
They’re inside what Rick Jones calls the “Supreme Cycle”, which looks like a 4 wheeler with multiple wheels. Rick Jones is driving, Kang is behind him with a massive gun in each hand. The Supreme Intelligence is in back, in his jar, strapped down on a trailer somehow. Oh yeah, they’re surrounded by “Limbo Bugs”
Frank 7:37 PM
Sunday, March 30, 2003
Rose wants book recommendations from me. If you don’t give a damn what my favorite books are then just skip this list:
Changed the way I think about reality:
By Neil Gaiman
-Coraline
-Neverwhere
-American Gods
-Good Omens (Funny)
By Stephen King
-It
-TommyKnockers
-Night Shift
-Skeleton Crew
By HP Lovecraft (Stories)
-“At the Mountains of Madness”
-“Shadow over Innsmouth”
-“In the Walls of Ery’x”
-“Imprisoned with the Pharoahs”
-“The Temple”
Changed the way I look at science and the future:
By Isaac Asimov
I, Robot
The Foundation Trilogy (“Foundation”, “Foundation and Empire”, “Second Foundation”)
“The Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition” By Ed Regis
A few others that were just good are:
“Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut” By PJ O’Rourke
Really funny book although sometimes idiotic, makes you wonder why he ever wanted to become a Republican. He had a lot of fun as a hippie.
And
Nero Wolfe Mysteries by Rex Stout
Books I’m going to read:
-More Nero Wolfe
-“The Pact of the Fathers” by Ramsey Campell
“Perdido Street Station” By China Miéville
“Ender’s Game” By Orson Scott Card
And now, an IM conversation with my gullible (but still very intelligent) Mom (who despite being very intelligent, didn’t know what an otter was-pretty odd):
Frank: we have Otter now
Frank: can't have two pets
Mom: what is an otter
Frank: you know an otter. aquatic mammal
Frank: looks like a seal
Mom: where do you keep an otter
Frank: it likes the tub because it's wet
Frank: but he goes where he wants
Mom: are you kidding me
Mom: who got an otter?
Frank: i stole him from the st. louis zoo
Mom: I almost fell for that one
Frank: yeah, it was pretty funny
Mom: no it wasn't.
Frank: he's as bad as Roland though sometimes.
Frank: he was reading my private e-mail yesterday
Frank: and he was on the table drinking a Rollingrock a few minutes ago
Mom: Frank you are starting to worry me now
Frank: I had to take it away and put a Killian's in his paws
Mom: I know it's late and you are probably sleep deprived so I will try not to worry.
Frank: (he's stuffed. i got him at the zoo. he's like the apartment mascot)
Mom: Ok now I understand
Frank: Aaron's last name is Hook. So we started calling him "Captain"
Frank: and I decided that he actually thinks he's steering the apartment around on the high seas
Frank: and when he gets zoo drunk to steer he drunkenly passes out on the couch with his pet Otter
Frank: so i got an otter
Mom: Ok once again I must say I'm worried about you and your roommates.
Frank 11:13 PM
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