I went to rent my books for the upcoming semester this morning, and to my surprise despite having only 5 classes, I still needed 10 textbooks. My favorites are for my Intro to Women's Studies class. FOUR books, and check out these titles:
Feminist Frontiers
Issues in Feminism
Women: Images and Realities
A World Full of Women
Sounds like fun to me. We watch 11 movies throughout the semester as well, including:
Out in Suburbia: The Stories of Eleven Lesbians
Period Piece
Step by Step: Building a Feminist Movement
Now I am all for equal rights, but not to the point of favoritism. Women already have more power than most know, that is why men try to dominate at home. If that aspect of control is lost, men have nothing left. That being said, I have nothing against men cooking, cleaning, or shopping. I could go on, but whatever I type may be used later for assignments, and I wouldn't want to do homework ahead of time, so I better quit now.
I now have my own room in the Platteville dorms. Now I have twice as much room to spread junk over before I have to clean it up. God Bless America. I also have a few gifts left by my old roommate: a half gallon of laundry detergent-won't need that, a half box of Corn Flakes-too much work to throw out, and 12 plastic clothes hangers. Since I am by myself, I can now go to bed and wake up whenever I choose. I can also play my music (aka good music..aka country music) all day in the background as well as watching what I want on TV(No more Real World-Road Rules Challenge or soccer for this guy.). Additionally, now I can legally keep alcohol in my room. I'll have to keep a good stock in the fridge. So if anyone is in the area, feel free to stop in. I have beer and an extra bed. Sorry no weekends as that is time to go home and get the laundry done. (For pictures of the room, click here and here)
Well, I guess that is enough for today. I may update again tomorrow, but I will be starting a new page with the next update, so look for these older entries in the archive.
For any of you who wish to attend, the night for HTB (Home Town Buffet in Fond du Lac) has been set as Saturday, January 8, 2005. Anyone that would like to attend is welcome....it's a public place, how could we stop you? Those who so desire can first meet up by Tony Thorn's house between 7:00 and 7:25 p.m. Otherwise feel free to go straight to HTB when we will arrive at approximately 7:45 p.m.For those of you concerned with the price, I believe it will cost approximately $10 ($9.65+tax to be precise) for all-u-can-eat and drinks are included in the price. If you have a conflict that prticular night, all grievences can be resolved by Tony as he picked the day, the blame falls squarely on his shoulders. I set the over/under at 10 people, and took the under. You don't want to prove me right do you?
Standard Useless Information:
Uh oh, I think the Eagles are screwed. Bye bye Terrell, hope you enjoyed you season, because it's over now. Broken leg and messed up ankle puts an end to the crowded rush of people jumping on the Eagles bandwagon. If they struggle at all, clear out or you may get crushed from the rush to get off of it. This recent development further muddles the NFC. The Eagles essentially had it won already, but now it is wide open. I'm actually starting to think the Packers may be better off to lose their next two games so they can play the winner of the NFC West in the first round and then go to Philly for round two. Seems like a better road to me now than winning the North and playing either Carolina, New Orleans, or Tampa in round one and then going to Atlanta for round two. No one makes Vick look as good as the Packers can. A few lucky breaks here or there, and the Packers have a realistic shot at making the Super Bowl. Once there, they would need to put together one decent game and then who knows?
Here is a possible NFC Playoff Bracket:
6 Carolina--------->>>>>GB--------->>>>>>Atlanta
3 GB--------------- Atlanta
--------->>>>>Atlanta
4 Seattle(by default)-->Minnesota------->>>Philly
5 Minnesota--------- Philly
OR:
6 Carolina--------->>>>>CAR ------->>>CAR
3 Minnesota---------------Atlanta
--------->>>>>GB
4 Seattle(by default)-->Green Bay------->>>GB
5 Green Bay--------- Philly
See how much better that works?
Man the Bucks suck, I'm starting to be glad that I've only been able to see four games so far this year.
1 Final Exam to go. Thank God for that. I don't think I've got more than 1 good hour left in the tank. Maybe some pizza will help that. And beer, that stuff works woders sometimes.
Random Song Lyrics:
"Well ask anybody I'm a pretty good guy
And the looks decent wagon didn't pass me by
There ain't nothin in my past that I'm tryin hard to hide
And I don't understand why I gotta wonder why"
"When tough little boys grow up to be dads, they turn into big babies again"
"Single six months yesterday. Though I oughta celebrate, so I went out to grab a couple beers"
"If I can't find some peace of mind, I'll take what I can get."
"How's it going, might be what I'd say. You broke my heart you know, or looks like rain today. God I missed you since you went away. Your looking well, or Go to Hell, might be what I'd say."
"They thought no one would miss it
Once it was dead and gone
They said no one would buy them ol'
Drinkin' and cheatin' songs
Well there ain't no justice in it
And the hard facts are cold
Murder's been committed
Down on music row"
Now when I receive a forwarded email, I rarely pass it on to others. O.K. Maybe that is because if I received it, everyone else in my address book already received it too, but notwithstanding, what is the point? On the rare occasion I do decide to not “break the chain”, I always remove the Fw:. This small change is convenient, since the message now appears to have been written/started by me. As you all know, stealing credit from someone else is much easier than putting in effort, so it is much more enjoyable this way.
Do you know why the Home Shopping Network is so popular?
Because it has no commercial breaks.
As sad as it might seem, I have to agree. Have you watched television lately? Every two seconds there is a commercial. By the way, you would think a station called Music Television or Country Music Television would occasionally have programming that remotely relates to music, but you would be wrong. Granted, I've only had access to MTV for about 6 years, but I do not recall EVER seeing a music video on it. CMT, I'm afraid, is going down that same road. Sure they still play videos during the daytime on weekdays, but 5pm or later and on weekends, it is all reality shows. If I want reality shows, I'll turn on any other network in the world, because they are all over run with it as well. If I turn on a music channel, I want to see music videos, or possibly see music news every once in a while. CMT is possibly the worst with their “Cowboy Cool Theater”. Last year on a Saturday, I turned on CMT five different times throughout the day, and all five times, City Slickers II was on. That movie that had nothing to do with country music, was on the whole damn day, back to back to back to back. Seems the only good thing on TV is football, and luckily the next month is packed with it, so I am happy.
Again I would like to remind everyone to save a night the week after Christmas to go to HTB. We've got 6 people already confirmed, sign up now, only 294 spots remain!
Random Song Lyrics:
“It's hard to kiss the lips at night that chew your ass out all day long.”
“A couple of beers on a Tuesday, at one in the afternoon, ah yeah college.”
“What's so great about normal?”
“Troubles come, and they go.....good with beer.”
“I've done a little stepping out there on a limb, but my open mind winds up closed again.”
“We'll treat our love like a firefly, like it only gets to shine for a little while. Catch it in a mason jar with holes in the top, and run like Hell to show it off.”
(WARNING: Engineering Joke)
And remember, it's not the length of the vector, it's how you apply the force.
If you don't like that one, don't make me bust out my math jokes. You've been warned.
O.K. You can all put your hands down now. Of course you like food, who the hell don't. Here's the deal: HTB (HomeTown Buffet in FDL) sometime over Christmas Break, most likely the week after Christmas some night. The objective is to get as many people as possible and close down the place...easy to do since it closes at 9 pm. Afterward, I'd be up for heading to a bar, but those of you youngin's should find a more age appropriate activity. As an actual idea, how about Moonglow/whatever the particular bowling alley calls it bowling. Always fun, plus all bowling alleys have a bar. Feel free to invite friends/relatives that are interested. For those of you with “significant others” only bring them along if you intend to share with everyone. If you are too whipped to go out and have fun, then I pity you. Please only bring female siblings/friends if they are visually appealing, else give the dog a bone, this old man is rolling home...remember that old kid's song? (OK, just to be sure I'll add a note that I am just making a little joke here people, remember that no matter what I say in this rambling, “We are all the same”)...Gotta love the disclaimer. I “borrowed” it from The White Guy and The Indian..AKA..Williams & Ree.
Please let me know if interested. You can click on the comment link at the top of the page to send me an email. Else it is: Wisbang_12345@yahoo.com Don't forget to spread the word.
Project Coordinator: Tony Thorn
Assistant Coordinator/Communication Engineer: Jon Theisen
Chief Food Consumption Specialist: Jon Theisen
Chief Executive of Sugar Packet Consumption: Tony Thorn
See him go for a Personal Record (PR) of 12 packets after the meal.
Now on to the official ramblings business. How 'bout them Packers? Sucked in the first half and then turned around and totally redeemed themselves in half number two. With the ViQueens losing again in what has become a traditional second half of the season collapse, the Packers can lock up the division on Christmas Eve when they face the once formidable Vikings in Minnesota. A win this week against Jacksonville would clinch a playoff spot for the Packers.
Did I see this right, the Brewers traded two lower priced players for a guy making $8 million a year? I don't think they have done this before. I'm starting to worry that they actually might improve this season, and that startling discovery has me worried. I read an interesting fact today: The Milwaukee Brewers had their first winning season in Paul Molitor's first season, and their last winning season was in 1992, Molitor's last season with the team. So in Conclusion, the Brewers have not had a winning season except for when Molitor was on the team. Coincidence? I think not.
Excerpt from a conversation with the Infamous 112:
Tony Thorn: all the asses get the girls
Jon : no, you've got that backwards, all the girls got the asses.
Now that is humor. Don't forget about HTB.
I am now in the home stretch for the semester. I only have 6 exams and a presentation to go before the break. Oh, by the way, it is CHRISTMAS break, not holiday break, not winter break. If you don't celebrate Christmas, that is just too damn bad. I'm not going to change since I'm right. Everyone else is wrong, they can be the ones to adjust. That's the same with people refering to soda as "pop". WTF, its soda, get it right people. "Pop", as you call it is what the weasel goes in the nursery rhyme, not something you drink. I tell you, people sometimes, well, they just piss a guy off.
Yes, tomorrow night is the Sartori Foods Christmas party for all their farms. That means two things: 1. Free meal
2. Open bar
I am there. Just try and stop me.
Next week I will have to start returning some of my textbooks as Platteville students rent their books, we must return them at the end of the semester. I have yet to open 5 of my 8 books. I see no use for them either, good thing I don't have to buy the worthless crap, huh?
If we lose one engine, how far will the other one take us?
All the way to the scene of the crash. Which is pretty handy since that's where we're headed. I'll bet we beat the paramedics by at least a half hour.
(Ron White-Blue Collar Comedy Tour)
This past semester I've had the always riveting class of Linear Algebra. For those of you who are less mathematically inclined, it involes the manipulation of matrices in a suprisingly large number of ways. Anyway, each class period, or twice a week, the professor would "assign" 20-30 homework problems. Since they are not graded, I have yet to do even one (I can tell that you are all shocked at that revelation). Apparently, almost the entire class besides me actually works on these problems. I'm not quite sure why though. I've yet to find a problem that even moderately difficult, even the exams are easy. My worst score by far to date was a 90% and that was when I decided to read a question wrong and answered the wrong thing. Outside of that one exam, my worst score has been a 96% on the first exam. So I guess what I am trying to ask is, why do so many of these other students do the unrequired homework? I cannot be the only one who finds it ridiculously easy can I?
As you may be able to tell from the long bonus post tonight, I am again overly bored. I even played video games for the first time in about a month today for about 3 hours. So if anyone reads this and has any suggestions for me to type/write about, please email me right away and I will try to add it in.
Yeah, only 6 more days of classes, and 5 days of finals! I'm just about to the point where I say, "Screw it. I don't care any more." But then I remember I paid like $4000 for this semester alone, and I remind myself to close it down to the end. "I know I oughta feel guilty about something, I just can't figure out what it might be." I really like that line. I've tried, unsuccessfully I might add, several times to incorporate it into many things.
I'm just guessing, but I think the Packers would like a mulligan on that game in Philly. While their at it, why not take a mulligan on the game their last January as well? That's a s far into it as I can go. Any more analysis is just to depressing. Who am I supposed to root for if the Packers struggle? The Bucks? Nice wish, although they are in the Eastern Conference.
Is it wrong to thoroughly enjoy watching the Vikings lose?
Gotta love the remake of the song "Convoy" by Paul Brandt. Come on, its "Convoy"...its awesome regardless of who is singing it or when. The best all-time trucking song. Roger that. 10-4.
Just thought I'd mention that I am putting my cd-coaster to good use again tonight. Ordered pizza tonight, so I had a good reason. Last night there was football, so it got used then too. By the way, I know most of you didn't care for my suggestion that gravy is good on pizza, but this one is even better. I used to laugh at people who put ranch dressing on their pizza crust, but I found that Blue Cheese Dressing is great for that. It was discovered by accident (as all great discoveries are. If you were looking for it, it couldn't be that incredible.) I ordered some buffalo chicken kickers with my pizza once and they came with blue cheese sauce. I figured I would try it and it was great on the chicken, but it was even better on the pizza. So next time your eating pizza, bust out a bottle of the good stuff, blue cheese dressing......and I suppose a beer would be good too.
Well, that's it for this week, unless I feel up to updating on Thursday. I really should wash some of my dishes, they've been piled up on my dresser for about 2 weeks now. Oh well, as I've said for two weeks, "Maybe tomorrow."
I had a welcome suprise this morning, my computer crashed, and I lost evertything. Fortunately, I don't do anything of real importance on it. The only real loss is my collection of 1800 songs, that I can recover from cd's..it will just take some time. I guess I also lost my internet favorites, but I will get over it. I was rather pissed at the time, but luckily it happened today when I still had time to fix it. Any day later this week, and I would have struggled to find time to restore.
On Friday we need to test our prototype grill for my mechanical system's design class. Gonna go outside and grill up some brats and drink some beer to make sure it works. Tough job, but somebody's gotta do it.
I would just like to alert everyone to keep an eye on CMT and GAC for Paul Brandt's remake of the classic song "Convoy". Great stuff there.
I actually thought it might help the Packers against the Rams that Green was out. He has never had success against them, and he has great success against the Eagles. Well, the Pack plays the Eagles next week, and they need a healthy Green.
Thanksgiving was fun. I ate too much and my table of nine drank too much wine, but it was great. Wine bottles were used as props for disturbing pictures. Additionally, the fart machine worked wonders under the main table and in the bathroom the whole day. Many people wondered who had the problem, another fun point. On Saturday night we went out to eat for my sister's birthday, I had a 24 ounce prime rib and two large plates of salad. I didn't really want a second plate of salad, but it was free with the meat, so I ate that and figured I could take the meat home. The only problem with that plan is I was hungry enough to eat the rest of the rib too so I finished it off. Good times.
Oh yeah, I was also impressed by the performance of Peyton Manning on Thanksgiving. I may be biased since I have Manning on my fantasy team, but he is playing great. Did I mention he is on my fantasy team? So in closing, Manning is on my fantasy team and he is not on yours so that must suck for you.
On my way back to P-ville on Sunday, I heard a great song on the Sunday Classic Country radio show. Here are the words to "I Like Beer" by Tom T. Hall
In some of my songs I have casually mentioned
The fact that I like to drink beer
This little song is more to the point
Roll out the barrel and lend me your ears
(chorus)
I like beer. it makes me a jolly good fellow
I like beer. it helps me unwind and sometimes it makes me feel mellow (makes him feel mellow)
Whiskey’s too rough, champagne costs too much, vodka puts my mouth in gear
This little refrain should help me explain as a matter of fact I like beer
(he likes beer)
My wife often frowns when we’re out on the town
And I’m wearing a suit and a tie
She’s sipping vermouth and she thinks I’m uncouth
When I yell as the waiter goes by
(chorus)
Last night I dreamed that I passed from the scene
And I went to a place so sublime
Aw, the water was clear and tasted like beer
Then they turned it all into wine (awww)
I like beer. it makes me a jolly good fellow
I like beer. it helps me unwind and sometimes it makes me feel mellow (makes him feel mellow)
Whiskey’s too rough, champagne costs too much, and vodka puts my mouth in gear
Aw, this little refrain should help me explain as a matter of fact I love beer
(yes, he likes beer)
Well, I am in cruise control from now through next Monday. The brain is officially shut down as of 9:00 tonight.
Well, I suppose I can't go on without expressing my thoughts over the Pistons and Pacers brawl/riot. Here goes nothing. Obviously, the drunken idiot fans were wrong to thrown beer/food/other at Artest and the other sporting event participants. However, despite the fact that he was provoked, Artest had no excuse to enter the fan area. That action crossed the big line that kept fans and players apart in all sports for as long as there have been spectater sports in this country. Artest was rightfully upset, and I know he is a headcase to begin with, but he had other options. He could have thrown things back at the fans, swore/yelled at the fans, or even threatened to kill the fans in the parking lot after the game, but entering the stands is not in that list. Personally, I think Jermaine O'Neal got an unfair suspension. Yes he did reapeatedly assault fans, but he did it on the court. O'Neal belonged on the court, the fan didn't, so if he wanted to deck him, so be it. Stephen Jackson is the guy that got off easy. Granted he was not the first to enter the seats, he connected with the first punch, and he did not have a defendable reason to be there other than his teammate was there first. That's a pretty weak defense. So now you all know where I stand on that issue. Any questions or comments, you can send to: kissmyass@usuck.com.
Well, I wanna watch football and shut my brain off, so later.
I ordered two x-large pizzas from Domino's on Tuesday night for 2x Tuesdays. Here it is Thursday night, and I still have breakfast and lunch for tomorrow. That was one heck of a pile of pizza.
Hey 112, haven't watched that movie yet.
Took a test in Dynamical Systems yesterday morning. We had 52 minutes. I finished the exam, working all problems twice......in 8 minutes....and I was not the first one done. Far from it actually. I was shocked to say the least. Too easy for a college class.
"I'd lay pipe in that basement." Perhaps the best line I have ever heard. Who said it you ask? None other than the infamous Jeremy Scheerer, my freshman year roommate. Perhaps the funniest moment of my life revolved around this line, and nobody knows it but me. What's even funnier is that 3/4 of the people that actually read what I write were there when it happened. I'll just leave it at that.
It is sad that I can no longer make it past halftime of Monday Night Football. I am so damn tired about halfway through the 2nd quarter that I go to bed and fall asleep during halftime. At least I am spared from watching the horrible ABC halftime show, so it is not all bad.
Oh and those of you complaining about my top 20 songs, you need to consider throwing some other classics in the top 20. I basically disqualified any song less than 5 years old as it may just be a passing fancy. Tony can confirm that "Coward of the County" by Kenny Rogers is definitely in the top 20. Especially cranked way up with me singing along. Well, it sounded much better with me singing the louder it got.
"Hey Bobby!" I still can't believe you did that.
Hey Ty, tell me more about this three legged dog of Thorn's. He told me, but I want a different perspective. First I'd heard of it.
Well, I guess that's enough for this week. I don't know if I will update next week with the holiday and all. If its not there on Wednesday morning, you'll have to wait for your weekly fix of my great writing until the following week. I'm out from P-ville.