we all pack a little light

If the internet ever did one thing, it was create a massive pool of human kind. You can find all sorts of people saying all sorts of things and strangely enough at their center you'll find religion. Defined here loosely as a set of beliefs, practices, and a compilation of ideas trusted on faith, I can't imagine a single person who doesn't have some type of religion they reference daily for guidance and confirmation. I've always seen official religions market themselves as a package deal of conviction, but take a look down a line of people identifying as being in the same faith and it's plain to see that people have affiliated themselves for entirely different reasons. This makes me think that even religion en masse remains a very personal and private thing. The things that attract people to religion are the things they put their faith in to help them get through the day. Be it a hope of salvation, a chance at redemption, a desire for order, or the justice of damnation. Despite what anyone ever tells you, a person puts faith in a few precious things to make it through the day.

unwired

Now that I"m super uber high tech awesome man on campus I have to pay careful attention to important things. Things like electrical outlets. I was thinking about how there aren't nearly enough of them in the Barnes & Noble Cafe area, when I was struck with an idea: 'wireless electricity'. I know what your saying, 'John that's just arcing bolts of lighting', yeah-yeah, whatever you big baby. Don't focus on the impending danger, lawsuits, and impracticablity of the idea! Look past all that to it's inner beauty: I would never have to look for electrical outlets again, oh the connivence! There's an old saying, reasonable solutions are only common-sense deep.

fingers.crossed

all of today has been weirdly quiet. After this crazy week I keep expecting some guy to pop up and start freaking out about something else. I dare say, now the semester is winding down. I'll enjoy my hot dogs today and start planning the Wack-A-Mole paper. I just might get up the courage to clean the bathroom. People are going to come over to watch a few Paranoia Agent episodes tonight (everyone is invited btw). I expect today to be a good day.

where the waves is?

I can't wait for school to let out. This weather is awesome pool weather. There should be a pool on campus, in the class rooms! Think of how awesome that would be! I think it would help the learning process. I would be less inclined to fall asleep if doing so lead to drowning. (-_-) I would also be less inclined to zone out if once in a while the WAVE MACHINE WOULD START! (0_0) Think of the excitement the young kids would have to THE WAVE MACHINE. They'd be so excited to be at school. I imagine we'd all cheer and go "Yay! Waves! This subject is fun! (^_^)" I propose that A&M floods the entire campus this summer, so that all the buildings are half submerged islands. Instead of those buses we could have huge boats. Viking style row boats I say! It could be just like Wind Waker, they could stick a kraken in the bottom of the MSC...
(+_+)

redrum stna

My apartment has an ant problem. I tried to get rid of them for a while but they are surprisingly resilient. They always endure. Ants eat everything! I forget to empty the trash for a couple of days and their there. I leave food on the counter for a day and their there. I left a glass of water on my desk and went downstair for food... came back 2 minutes later to find 3 ants drowning in my water! Every morning, noon, and night I take a shower, ants are crawling out of the shower head. Ants flock to the residue of my mouth wash in the bathroom sink and swarm my tooth brush. Ants line trails down my garbage disposal! Their crawling over my computer! The creepiest thing happened today, I cut my toe while managing toe nails and stumbled down the hall for a bandaid... when I got back they were eating my blood! the ants are going to consume me in my sleep I know it!

ANTS!! BLARG eNGLOFedumanu.. oup.

probably a medaphor for calculus

I'm always set to have some weird dream every 6 days or so I guess; I had another one last night. I started in some giant maze of a locker room and there was some thing that had woken up or gotten out in a distant part of the same complex (or maybe it crashed in... that part had a lot of smoke and fire). And for some reason the creature had a set of very explicit 'urban legend'esc rules: (1)if you know the name of the thing it'll hunt you down. (2)if it finds you it'll kill you 'When Animals Attack'-tiger-mauling style. (3)if you try to get away it'll track you down without fail and kill you harder. The entire dream consisted of flashing to it starting to get up and move around and me running around the complex like a moron, wondering if I should try to get away. On the one hand it was ludicrous just to sit there, but on the other hand it seemed to rank people who run away on a higher priority; and of course on a third hand (??!) within the rules I was pretty much set to die regardless of what I did. Unable to stick to a plan, I started looking for a loophole in the rules, wondering if one rule was fake which rule it would have to be. All in all I was screwed. Good thing I woke up. And the best part is that I can't remember what the creature's name was (in the dream it definitely had a name). Saved! Best.plan.ever.

you can't count on me

I'm still feeling a little under the weather. Of all the things I'm vastly successful at, being sick is not one of them. Some people are awesome at being sick, they don't even have to try; they might not even know that they're sick! They go about their daily lives as if everything were normal, and the diseases and viruses they host go with them and spread. Me? I don't excel at that sort of thing. I publicly display that I'm sick which seems to make other hesitant to get close enough for a good old fashioned disease transfer. I also tend to sleep a lot more than usual, which further hinders my contact with others. It's safe to say that while I'm sick my life is a big let down. I let down others with my subpar performance, I let down myself with a complete lack of focus, but most of all I let down the pathogens who trusted me enough to pass on their next generation. Man I suck.

Oh Possum...

I ended up going 2 for 2, it was a pretty unremarkable day but at least complaining about it was fun. Last night on the long drive back I hit a small grey animal running in circles around in the road; I would have swerved if traffic hadn't been around me. I felt really bad about it at first but the more I think about it the more annoyed I get. What in the name of all things Segnosaurus was that thing doing running in circles in the road? There's no food in the road! It's not warm or inviting! If I was a small furry creature with night vision, I would think that barren tar and asphalt would be the just about the worst environment ever! What a digital dummy.

2houston4scarecrows

Nothing says 'unnecessary vacation' quite like a day trip into Houston, just as nothing says 'I'm in Houston for a day' quite like a children's card game. The impending experience and the promo is an uplift, which is good as car rides and gas prices can be a real downer. I'm sure the alternate art has some fans but really the original holds a more clear representation. In the mean time I guess I better put clothe on and contemplate color choices instead of just thinking about how goofy the online experience is going to be in 3 weeks, giver or take. Wish me luck (or else).

cant.wash.away.the sin

A little more than a week left of school. All of my precariously positioned classes are wrapping up, so I really can’t act too indifferent towards the assignments. Introduction to Computer Science’s last report is a fresh take on an old degrading history. One last paper, it's based on a class lecture given by representative of Valero and it has to summarize itself in an ending with a personalized opinion. This assignment can be most tactfully summarized as an obligatory blowjob to the oil giant. The presentation was breezed through and contained three or four presenters with no contact information given, even the stories and accounts given (that were on topic and might be relevant) were dumbed down to the effect of a cheap commercial and always ended with ‘we waved money around… and paid people to do ridiculous things overnight’. Get the mind frame a Duracell battery commercial and read on...

Valero, when our power blinks out, we spend 8 million dollars to rent the largest cargo plane in the world (out of Russia) to fly a generator (that could power a small city) into Fort Worth Texas overnight. Why? Because Valero makes more than 8 million dollars every day... on weekends... during a recession. Velero, you'd be surprised how causally spending massive amounts of inconsequential money can run a business...

At this point I've conceded that any valuable information on the field of computer science won't come from any (of the several) oil company presentations comprising the core of this class. I’d like to just power through it, have it over with, and move on to other classes. The work I get assigned from this one makes me feel... dirty.

Dear Dr

Dear Dr. Elsa A. Murano,
How about those ____(adjective, positive) Aggies participating in ___(noun, sport)! That ____(was/is/will be, choose one) something!! Now that we've established a repoir of close friendship, I would like you to come to me for advice. I know you must wonder about it every day, 'how can I strive to bring A&M University into a gloriously guilded age of awesome?' Well my dear, trusted friend, I have but one gift of knowledge: SSC.

...

(please regard you mail closely for part II of this letter)

at night

Sunglasses are pretty much the coolest thing ever, prescription sunglasses are the only thing cooler. I've never worn them much but since I got a pair a few days ago I hate going outside without them. The outside world really is too damn bright. Not only that but prescription sunglasses can be very revealing in the social arena. Other people, obviously taken back by how comfortable I look, keep making me take them off. I guess the miserable love company.

this stuff coagulates if you dump it in the sink

I'll never understand the people who go to the Rec center during insane busy times and then walk around the 4 lane running track in a horizontal line with their friends. who does that?! seriously! There are four lanes clearly labeled for the enjoyment of everyone: 4 lanes equal 4 speeds, inside to out is walk, jog, run, sprint. This changes a little, if there are a lot of people running and jogging for example, then faster runners move to the sprint lane... reguardless though, there is no good reason to walk in wall formation! OMG iTOTALLY goteh new shoes t o t cute sughud hup2me lol I KNOW dmb ppr stpidich yol43pple ttyl.
I imagine their conversation goes something like that.

those crazy canadians

I've been feeling dehydrated lately. That's no good so I've decided to drink more water; however, my college station water is 99.9% liquid mercury and my water filtering container is dirty. I threw my contraption in the dishwasher and sought to refill the filter... only to realize I'm out of filters. There are no more filters left in my apartment! Not even one! This leaves me in a pickle... now it's absolutely impossible for me to drink clean, delicious, refreshing water ever again. There's absolutely nothing I can do to rectify this problem, there are no easy answers and now I'm forced to make a difficult decision: which nearby neighbor should I attack with hopes of a successful aqua-coupe?

hmm... I'll probably end up killing hostages to maintain an example... so I'll need lots of spares...

should I feel comforted or unsettled?

Dan Savage's mother apparently died on Monday. Never met her, saw her, heard what she sounds like, and I can't say exactly what kind of person she was. Everything I ever heard of her was from Dan, in his book, podcasts, or column. Although it's only a distant secondary account that I know of her, I have to say I'm a little genuinely sad. That probably says something about how people can draw strange connections to each-other.

please don't leave litter lying around

I had the weirdest dream last night. I was driving somewhere with my dad... then I realized all the boxes of my stuff were empty... he got mad... yada yada yada dad called some crazy guy on the side of the road fat, and so then the guy started picking up sharp things covered in meat and running up, throwing them through my open window.
I think it's a valuable lesson to be more thoughtful to crazy people who are sensitive about their weight.
or a metaphor of Calculus...

i need foreign aid

­I am so far behind on laundry it’s not even funny! (Unless you have a really sick sense of humor… sicko) I’ve been picking up shirts off the floor and evaluating them on the ‘is this clean…ish’ scale and wearing those; a few days ago though I made a bad decision and choose the shirt I wore when I got my hair cut last week. It was itchy! This kind of tragedy tends to plague my daily life.