ROLLING ^_^ THREAD

1. I've almost finished the incredibly hellish stored procedure/DLL rewrites needed to finish integrating a new search engine into our application!

2. Mr. Que giving me awesome ideas for things to do with my iPhone!

3. an A (reduced to a B+ for lateness, but ya know.. still) for a paper i wrote and an oral presentation on the Codex Seraphinianus, which i thought was a piece of shit, but apparently was not ^_^

4. I got into a Tempest Keep raid yesterday!

what is that??

this: http://www.wowwiki.com/Eye_%28Tempest_Keep%29

its when furries get together and talk about their feelings.

hahaha damnit xpost

I STILL SUPPORT YOUR OPENNESS AND BRAVERY HI DERE

OHHHHHH

IM DUMBFOUNDDED --- NEW CAR IS REDDAY ^_^

6. already posted this on lingjack overbertdrive's thread but: i'm well on my way to writing a pretty decent essay and actually handing it in on time!! WAHOO. also: minor improvements in diet seemed to be making me feel less mental about schoolwork, so yay ^_^

7. boredom led me to make chocolate chip cookies and they are warm and gooey (and also the kids and A. will love me for them)

8. Possesion of new car :])

9. High-caffeine gym supplement is making me ^_^ for no discernible reason

10. there is a baby dainty green tree frog sitting on top of my gate, it is as small as a magic bean but has a bold facial expression, i think it doesn't know how very little it is <3<3

more on the 'bold facial expression' please

11. I HAS PAID OFF MY HECS DEBT

12. The first birthday present has come in... LOL PS3 WTF THX FOLX

I can't tell if that is a positive review or not!

IT IS SUPER POSITIVE

In that case YAY!

13. I have a book list for school!

14. first proof printed for letterpress-printed postcards - success!

please tell everything about postcard, rubyredd?

Hey HI DERE, plz to encourage your parents to send me an xbox 360 for my birthday ok thx bye

15. Part 2 has arrived.... WTF limited edition of Rock Band????!?!!? WAY

GOT MY GMAIL ACCOUNT BACK.

It seems one ebay seller got fucked over by this fucking guy.

lxy: I WAS HOPING SOMEONE WOULD ASK THAT!
actually it is super boring, but i'm super excited. i'm doing a class at uni on book-making history and learning how to letterpress print. our practical printing project is this:
choose from one of the standard postcard sizes; design a p/c for a real or invented client and audience - using paper of your choosing, one ink (black only) and no more than 15 words and no images; must include budget for projection of a 100-edition, explanation of concept, diary of development etc etc...

so my idea was to use the guerilla poetics project as our client, with the notion that our PCs would be a kind of promotion of an antipodean branch of the GPP, trying to expose undiscovered NZ poets. so the PCs would be placed in suitable books in both the uni library and bookstore (the same way GPP operates).

i will post pics when we have the final product printed on monday, but the text is:
although 'caution' is not a dog,
we implore you to exercise it.
[poet's name - friend of girl in my group who is weirdo]

www.guerillapoetics.org

we're using super nice paper, with a special overlay that will be held in place with a kind of rivet. and the idea was all mine! and i also made everyone agree to use garamond (we could only work from a list of about 10 fonts), because i love it so much and it's also the typeface in the GPP reader....

OMG i'm so sorry this is pretty boring :/

and way long

(xpost to Dan) hmmmm, I don't know what that even is, but obviously you like it.

I don't suppose your parents have always wanted you to have a sister, Dan. They could adopt me! Cuz my birthday is next month, and really, right now I'd be happy if I just had a decent pencil sharpener.

Rubyredd, I will look forward to seeing your pictures of your project!

http://www.rockband.com/

wau wau wau wau wau it has the guitar, the mic and the drums with it wau

Well, even if we can't see you, we should be able to hear you clearly. ;)

17. just got an email from one of the dudes who runs the GPP, and he is interested in ACTUALLY PAYING ME TO PRINT THE POSTCARDS FOR REALZ

AWESOME!

yeah he was really impressed with my idea, and wants to do it here in NZ. don't know if i'll have the time or opportunity to actually do it, but still... and it's good to be making some connections for when i actually go out and try to apprentice myself to some poor old printer.

Sounds cool... I hope you get to actually do it!

ruby, thanks! it's NOT boring, it's totally cool! i am intrigued, and i hope the guy will pay you lots to make them for real.

(and secretly, selfishly i wish i could get one in the mail.)

lxy if you webmail me your address i will send you one; we're supposed to only print off 10 but i'm gonna do a few extras. i definitely won't get paid lots to do the job for the GPP - they're a non-profit organisation so i'd only charge for materials and studio rental, but it would be an excellent thing for my cv, and i really love what they're doing.

RR, i will! thanks thanks!!!

18. Fighting through the sicko to go see an 8:00 showing of Cloverfield tonight excitement woot

I don't even know what Cloverfield is, BUT have fun! And take your Advil!

(ahem, but don't mix Tylenol and booze, that is not a good plan, dude)

19. JUST SAW CLOVERFIELD AND IT WAS FUCKING AWESOME

20. my secret name for sara is night nurse

That sounds incredibly sinister, and therefore I approve.

http://www.americanartarchives.com/cohen_for_men_only_all_night_nurse.jpg

1st GIS for "night nurse"

There are others

before you find out where it's from it's important that you know i like you.

xp

lolololol

Okay, first of all I am not blonde.

but still, this caused me to dissolve into hysterical laughter

<i>10. there is a baby dainty green tree frog sitting on top of my gate, it is as small as a magic bean but has a bold facial expression, i think it doesn't know how very little it is <3<3

-- estela, Wednesday, January 16, 2008 10:14 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Link

more on the 'bold facial expression' please

-- Autumn Almanac </i>

"if i have to, i can do anything
i am strong
i am invincible
i am phibian"

....

21. CLOVERFIELD YAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWW!

Is that your way of saying "two thumbs up?"

I watched the previews and I was all, hmmmm, looks fun... but how likely is it that I'm going to end up cowering behind some random stranger because I had to go alone because finding a babysitter is so hard? (How scary is it, guys?)

not actually all that scary, more thriller/action. but not in a standard way. maybe?

It should probably be noted that I watch a lot of the Asia Extreme/Horror stuff though, so I might have sort of a high tolerance. Still, I don't think it's really horror per se.

Obviously we need to create a standardized scale.

Also, it looks like it has the potential to create motion sickness in the viewer. (I never get motion sick, so this is hardly problematic for me, but A. seems concerned that I'm going to yak on some stranger, and Northfield IS a small town.)

DONT SIT TOO CLOSE.

I think that the motion sickness thing is mostly an excuse to bitch about the movie when you don't have anything interesting to say.

Kind of like how "terrible dialog" translates to "I didn't get it why they talk so fast" and "unrealistic" means "i dont like to make the imaginarium wackitude part of my brane work are you sure 'you've got mail' isn't on a different channel" 90% of the time.

Well, since the odds are that if I went to see it, it would likely be at Southgate Cinema - which is unchanged (except they don't rent movies anymore), even if I sat in the front row it would not be a problem.

BECAUSE DRIVING TO HASTINGS OR LAKEVILLE JUST SEEMS SO DIFFICULT

uuuuuug "You've Got Mail." But I think it was "Sleepless in Seattle" that traumatized me more. Mostly because A. wanted to watch it and my recently widowed uncle was sitting right there... awkward.

Also, I don't like cute and Meg Ryan is cute.

and the way "well i saw that coming" translates to "oh shit i better say something or people are going to figure out that i'm dumb".

OK, I'm done. xposts I saw Super Mario Brothers at that Southgate theater.

wow was i drunk

also, still terrible despite alcohols best efforts

I think I feel the same way about most people talking about film as Tombot feels about most people.

I have seen many movies at Southgate, none of them while drunk. I wish I had been for Bram Stoker's Dracula, but it's too late for regrets now.

...There was a Super Mario Brothers MOVIE?!

I have been living under a rock for a very long time, haven't I.

when it comes to Super Mario Brothers, stay under the rock.

John Justen: ADVICE YOU CAN USE

(even over a decade later)

BOB HOSKINS. DENNIS HOPPER. JOHN LEGUIZAMO. SAMANTHA MATHIS. MOJO NIXON (!!!!).

SOOOOOOOOO TERRIBLE

If FB and I ever resurrect the "watch it" thread, I will do this to myself again.

Who - or what - the hell is "MOJO NIXON?!"

Yes, you guys should definitely live blog that. At least I hope that is what "I will do this to myself again" meant.

now in my netflix queue. i dont know how to explain mojo nixon, and i need to go to bed. beating sick at its own game yo.

Hope you feel better tomorrow, John.

nope

Ugh, sorry. Everyone here recovered finally; I'm sure you will, too.

22. going to meet a friend for lunch in St. Paul and try Nepalese food, but most of all I AM GETTING OUT OF THE HOUSE FOR A WHILE YAY!

did somebody say mojo nixon???

It wasn't me. Well, at least I didn't say it first.

Nepalese and Tibetan food is pretty good, and also I HAVE EATEN YAK MEAT.
Also very good!

MOJO NIXON MOJO NIXON JARVIK JARVIK NIXON JARVIK

This drink. Need suggestions.

first stage of production complete!!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2374/2208509474_427dbaa81c_o.jpg

still needs to be trimmed down and the rice paper overlay riveted on.

Will the color be changed significantly by the rice paper overlay - or just subtly?

the overlay will only be riveted at one point. you'll be able to clearly see the text through it, but it will fold back. it's basically a design feature to give the card longevity: placing it in books means that we're not concentrating on the design being 'eye-catching' because there's no competition for that; but we need it to be something that the reader wants to keep, so the overlay takes it out of the realm of junk mail and makes it a little more collectible.

Oh!

I would probably keep it either way, but I am a notorious "keeper" of... uh... everything.

23. Really enjoyed CLOVERFIELD and it improved my mood 100%

24. Kids go back to school tomorrow ^_^

25. http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=56&threadid=2031#unread

26. Nearly through the checkbooks for one of Dad's stores and so far his manager has only made one 4 cent mistake. I suppose it won't last...

lol, I wish my clients only made one 4 cent mistake ;__;

27. Three day weekend starting noww ^___^

xpost Believe me, it's usually much bigger mistakes. I hate being the person to call my father up and say, "uh... L---- added when she should have subtracted, so one of your stores has a surprise $3,000 deficit" or whatever.

I don't know what happened this year; she finally realized that she should double check her math? It's a mystery.

28. The guitarist from my band (also my boss) received medical treatment and is no longer on the verge of dying!

Yay not dying! (I'm sorry about the diagnosis, but so glad he's doing better, jeez.)

29. wayne's world essay complete. critique of article about hypermasculinity and the dominant discourse of violent sports also complete.

30. my new favorite thing to do; open up brand new medical dictionary and look at awesome photos

31. NO MORE MIL
32. NO MORE HYPER CAFFEINE SUPPLEMENT OVERDOSE AT 5.40 AM EVERY DAY
33. NO MORE LONELY NIGHTS NEVER BE ANOTHER

34. Get to spend tomorrow playing WICKED AWESOME NEW WII GAME and then looking at houses to buy (!!!)

^^^^^ WAU

GO BUY THAT HOUSE

HELLO I ARE LANDED GENTRY YO

it is probably indicative of my immaturity that i am more excited about WICKED AWESOME NO MORE HEROES WII GAME

sir, this is a very nice home, but i fear that the living room is not sufficiently large to encompass my VIRTUAL LIGHTSABER SWORDPLAY YAAAAAHH!

TS: No More Heroes vs Rock Band?

"Do you like my 40" flat panel 1080p TV? Doesn't the drum track look awesome on that?"

Oh yeah this reminds me:

35. GETTING A 40" FLAT-PANEL 1080P TV THIS WEEK

AWESOME about the house! Now = bad time to sell, but probably awesome time to buy. good luck - it is so fun. (and also terrifying, I won't lie to you)

good lord, the tv thing, Dan. WOW!

36. I am finally starting nursing classes tonight (finally, FINALLY).

But I feel kind of boring compared to you guys now!

(also really could use some advice on where to eat in the neighborhood of St. Kate's - has to be cheap and open halfway late, since class goes to 9:20... so John, if you or Caledonia have suggestions beyond "the St. K cafeteria," please please let me know)

Leaving for class now, suddenly nervous, wtf

BEHIND YOU

*hugs* Dan

Wait, unless you're saying that you want to stand behind me so I don't see you when I'm trying to find someone to, like, practice injections on.

37. OH MY GOD THE SMASHING PUMPKINS ARE COMING TO WELLINGTON IN MARCH!!!!!!!!!!

i don't like the new album much, but they've been my favourite band since i was 13, and i've never seen them live. so excited!

38. before i found out they were coming to nz, bf offered to pay for me to go to australia to see them <3 <3 <3

Aw, that is awesome!!!!

39. It seems like there have been more ^_^ posts than ;_; lately.

40. looking at awes house again tomorrow in the daylight. built in 1926, all original woodwork intact (china cabinet, kitchen cabinets, icebox, staircase, moulding, etc.) 2300 finished square feet, 9+ foot ceilings, new deck, heated 4 season porch, new roof, 3 car garage w/ full story upper storage loft, central air with independent radiator heat, 239K and willing to take offers. i am trying to avoid being insufferable about this on ITR, but i might fail.

Okay, I'm going to be so bitter if you have a freaking CHINA CABINET and I don't. SERIOUSLY BITTER

JESUS that sounds utterly amazing! a house like that in wellington would probably be around the 750k mark. backyard?

Ahem, over my snit; it sounds awesome! Reasonable price for all that, too.

big backyard (it's on a big lot too, for the city - 50x140)

sounds awes ^_^

I think our house was... 213K or 219K; we moved in 2003. Love the location and the space. Wish we had a mud room (not such a problem if you have no kids, though). Wish we had a bigger kitchen and more cabinet space in kitchen.

WISH WE HAD A CHINA CABINET (I have two sets of china, for god's sake!)

Okay, I'm really, really jealous (except for the moving part, which I loathe).

ok i will fix positive manifestations on you getting it. sometimes i wonder if i will ever own my own house. i am sick of paying other people's mortgages.

BUT still happy for you guys, so awesome!!!

also, under amenities, there is an old-school neighborhood bar on the corner.

Well, that's probably all you need, actually.

Re: kitchens - I was just talking to a friend about our kitchens, and we wish we had kitchens with more than one way in and out of them. We both have breakfast bars that divide the kitchen from a broader living area. Personally I feel kinda trapped in there if others are in the room and I have to walk past them to get through. But it is a small kitchen.

That's just a random detail that I know I will change when we move from here (and please god build a house ourselves).

having looked at a bunch of houses now i have realized that people sort of forgot how to build things well between 1940 and 1975

hahaha yeah

Wait, 2300 square feet for 239??????????

ARGH

I mean, CONGRATS

(fucking Boston real estate)

Our house was 213K and I think it is 2400 square feet. (Northfield!)

To be fair, though, the laundry room is huge, unfinished, and kinda creepy (that is where the centipedes show up when it's warmer... soooo many legs).

Considering the recent weather, I'm not sure that the higher prices of Boston wouldn't be better. But I'll probably get over that.

In June.

i need to know what dan thinks of the PS3 (i got an xbox360 instead and im kind of regretting it) and also brand of 40" TV

JJs house sounds great

PS3: Apparently Rock Band is the only game out for it that I am likely to ever play, at least until Street Fighter 4 and Soul Calibur 4 come out. Fortunately, I FUCKING LOVE ROCK BAND.

TV: We got the "cheap" Sony Bravia (ie, not the $2500 one with the recessed glass backing frame) on sale from Sears.com. It should be delivered sometime next month.

AWESOME!!!

I'm totally envying the tv!

ENVY MOAR

http://s7.sears.com/is/image/Sears/05771647000?qlt=90,0&resMode=sharp&op_usm=0.9,0.5,0,0

41. One of my coworkers made someone in another office cry!

I am totally envying the tv! Should I ask about the crying thing?!

42. We finished watching all the Arrested Development episodes, which is a bit ;_; because we've seen them all, but mostly ^_^ for lolz.

I think my favorite thing in all of it was the pastors wife coming on to Michael with the line, "I want to please you... secularly."

Please ask about the crying thing!

HI DERE PLEASE TELL US ABOUT THE CRYING THING

So we are in the middle of a high-stress work-all-night project with a hard stop date next week that's being coordinated between the East Coast, the West Coast and England. Every time someone makes a change on the West Coast, something someone on the East Coast has worked on breaks. This has caused a large amount of frustration for the East Coast, particularly since all of this tends to happen between 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM PDT, which is 9:00 PM - 1:00 AM EDT, yet the East Coast ppl still have to be around working to react to these changes/breakages.

Yesterday, there was a ping-pong effect going on where someone on the West Coast would break something and someone on the East Coast would revert his change, only to have the dude on the West Coast revert the reversion, etc etc etc. This was bad because the system needed to be up and running for a demo today at noon. At about the third go-round of this, someone in my office sent an email basically saying "STEP AWAY FROM THE KEYBOARD, DO NOT CHECK IN A SINGLE THING" that made the dude who kept breaking stuff cry.

lololololololololololololol

We also got yelled at today for sending mean emails to them for breaking our stuff that said, "Please stop breaking our stuff."

lololololololololololololol

Okay, that is kind of crazily hilarious, but at the same time wow I am not envying you right now at all!

The best part is that the guy who caused the crying is like the most even-handed, non-mean person we work with! It's like... it's like watching L4r4 M1s3g4d3s make someone cry!

ha ha ha, okay, that is kind of awesome

(for non-HSTNGS ppl, imagine if a less-meek-but-as-polite Radar from MASH made someone cry)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erFaoqLwod0

^^^^^^^^ ^_^ ^^^^^^^^^

FB, I seriously hope that clip is not related to our conversation from earlier this evening.

43. Got my first choice of nurse mentor. Area: med-surg.

Only time will tell if this was a brilliant idea or a grave error.

44. lost was GOOD

;_; that I have to wait to see it since I was out all night and our recording device did not work as it should have (ugggg Panasonic, you bastards!)

But ^_^ that it was good - I'm sure I can get it online or from 4ndr3w

45. Werner, you nut, I <3 U! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xQyQnXrLb0

"Taking a close look around us, there is some sort of a harmony. It is the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder, and we in comparison to the articulate vileness and baseness and obscenity of all this jungle...we only sound and look like badly pronounced and half finished sentences out of a stupid suburban novel, a cheap novel. And, we have to become humble in front of this overwhelming misery, and this overwhelming fornication, overwhelming growth, and overwhelming lack of order. Even the stars appear in the sky look like a mess. There is no harmony in the universe. We have to get acquainted to this idea that there is no real harmony as we have conceived it. But when I say this I say this all full of admiration for the jungle. It is not that I hate it. I love it. I love it very much. But, I love it against my better judgment."

^_^

46. I went to the local Sears today. The TV that the website said was unavailable in my town was there for less than advertised on the website. I NOW HAS A TV.

The TV stand arrives Monday and I'm supposed to be getting some speakers delivered soon, at which point the sound system will be IN FULL EFFECT YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW

47. NY GIANTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#46 = MOST AWESOME THING EVER (or at least today)!!!!

48. I finally got to watch the season premiere of LOST.

49. My speakers are being resent at no extra cost with several layers of management checking the shipping label to make sure the right information is on it this time! ^_^

50. dentist appointment was so easy: J. had her tiny cavity filled with no novocaine or anything. She said, "that hurted a little bit, but I don't even care!" I HAVE THE MOST AWESOME 5 YEAR OLD

Also great news about the speakers, Dan!

'hurted' <3

The tone she said it in was so devil-may-care, too; I wish I had a video clip of it. She slays me.

51. Awesome bf wrote an insanely good black metal song all by himself using Buzz, a bass and a guitar in less than 2 hours. <3 his talented little butt to pieces and Ima so marry this one some day.

Awwwwww.

Remind us how you met...?

I've known him about 5 years - hate to admit it but we did meet online at first. He was dating one of my best mates and they both lived in perth. We've always been supportive buds to each other over the years, moaning about our love lives, telling each other everything, swappingmix cds, etc, and I always quietly had a massive crush on him but either or both of us always seemed to be taken.

Then last may he came to visit (2nd time I met him in person) and we were both single, and we hit it off in a big way. Still put that aside (long story, but I was going through some major emotional baggage at that point), but he'd decided to move to Melb so as a close friend I said "hey be my flatmate, that'd be fun!"

IN the ensuing 3 months, we realised we'd fallen in love with each other so now we're living together as a couple instead of as flatmates and it has been fscking brilliant, I'm stupidly happy :)

What a great story! YAY! :)

WITH IDIOT GRIN

That is so aw and aw and <3 and aw and <3.

Its almost ridiculously chick flick storyline innit?

BTW Adam R said he bumped into you and the missus yesterday. Hahah at least he didnt blank you like N did ;P

I didn't want to take him away from his headphones (I hate it when people do that to me) but he was standing right next to us god damnit.

52. NEW TV IS CONNECTED TO NEW PS3 ON NEW TV STAND; JUST WAITING ON NEW SPEAKERS THEN I CAN INCORPORATE NEW RECEIVER

^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^

!!!!!!

AWESOME!

!

my james bond ultimate box set arrived today and rest of Wire season 3 will be in tomorrow's mail!

also for the first time in ages and ages I actually have some ideas and want to make some music again

55. My boss/guitarist doesn't have cancer or a fatal blood disease and should be ready to start playing again next week.

All so great!

56. looking at new stupidfun house tomorrow. i thought this whole house-hunting thing was going to be a drag, but its a hell of a lot more fun than trying to find a not shitty apartment.

this one has original built in glass doored bookshelves from 1926!!!

SO AWESOME SOUNDING!!!!

Ooh, nice.

Househunting is totally fun if you're in a no-pressure situation!

yeah, this whole month-to-month situation is definitely making life easier.

well, as is the utter and total collapse of the housing market. GO FAILURE OF THE US ECONOMY oh wait i sell things for a living ;_;

xpost Dan OTM

When you are expecting a baby in a three months and you need to move, it is not so fun. (Then when the baby shows up 6 weeks early... GOOD TIMES)

John is all about the ups and downs xpost

I work for the govt ha ha

I'm in a no-pressure situation but I have very little for a down payment right now and I don't even know how to start looking for a condo around here. part of me doesn't even want to find out what's available because I feel I will invariably be disappointed and disgusted, and also I imagine all the options will try to force me to get comcast or some such shit instead of DirecTV oh wait this is the wrong thread

Hey Tom if worst comes to worst can you help me get a DC job?

Tom, you should just go look once. If you hate it, you don't have to go again, but you never know - you could find someplace awesome!

Dan wants to flee to DC...?

DC's changed a lot since the summer I spent there but I still have superfond memories of it, plus my brother lives there and it has the National Opera for Joei.

I have nothing against DC; I just didn't know you were thinking of leaving Boston!

My only memories of DC are the trip I took to the pro-choice march in 1992. So I saw, like, a zillion people in the streets and walked past some landmarks. I would like to go again someday and, you know, go inside some buildings or something.

Hahaha I've been thinking of leaving Boston since 1997!

Dan I can probably help you get a job but keep in mind almost all my contacts down here work in and around SCIFs

MPLS/STPL has all the things that you listed there except for your brother and the National Opera for Joei and probably superfond memories of it. on the bright side, we've barely changed at all!

so keep handy that file of every place you've lived and every overseas vacation for the past 10 years plus the names and contact info of three people who can verify all your jobs and mailing addresses for that same period. also I hope you hate windows

The beginnings of my software career was a LISP/UNIX job with a TS clearance. I'm totally cool with all of that.

Hmmm, I've been wanting to visit Boston since 1989! THE IRONY

(not really)

And yeah - MPLS/STPL CHEAP HOUSES and also, um... well, lots of entertainment laughing at your friends.

(...I'm trying to remember if any of you knew about the whole NO SARA YOU CANNOT APPLY TO A COLLEGE IN MASSACHUSETTS OR OUTSIDE OF THE MIDWEST BECAUSE IT IS TO FAR AWAY bullshit. And then they DROVE my sister to Colorado to check out colleges. Not that I'm still bitter or anything. BECAUSE I ACTUALLY AM!!!)

oh, god, this is the ^_^ thread.

57. skool is over. 6yrs of fucking around, off and on, failing tons of shit, trying to work at the same time, and now i'm really done. i never ever want to go back for anything!

Congratulations!!!!

58. Just cause I'm so great. Uh, yeah.

59. I just really get a kick out of this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=tFRhs3-pP8w

hahahahahahhahhahaa

thats awesome

that should be the official ITR movie. each of us can take turns being the fridge letters.

RUG BURN

60. I need a sleeping bag. Guy at work, who didn't know I need a sleeping bag, said 'omg I have 2938749328749% off everything at my sleeping bag shop! ONE WEEK ONLY!'

^makes me unreasonably happy, considering it has nothing to do with me. i like the idea of a sleeping bag shop, and i love that percent. :)

61. a+ on my art theory paper!

awright! Is this the one where you had to hang stuff from the ceiling or whatever?

diff thing actually, i'm hoping for the grade on that by this week.

62. passed the media studies paper i was worried about. yay i'm seriously done with school!

63. found great US visa forum, and am getting a ton of help and support and advice. feeling much more confident and way less stress about the process of immigrating.

64. am getting a HUGE SURPRISE FOR REALZ THIS TIME GRADUATION PRESENT from jordan that is apparently almost as freakin cool as the ray caesar limited edition art book coming my way.

OHMYGOD I LOVE PRESENTS!

65. Making this tonight:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2015/2273595388_86b7dceb6c.jpg

Dude, are you still cooking dinner? It is past 10 p.m. there! (Also what the heck is that?!)

This was much earlier in the evening! It's an escarole soup.

74. escarole soup

Whoa. That sounds crazy!

Not really! Recipe's here if you'd like to try it.

63. found great US visa forum, and am getting a ton of help and support and advice. feeling much more confident and way less stress about the process of immigrating.

Which forum, rr? I keep meaning to point you towards "mates upover". They have a forum with mostly australian but some NZ too people that have immagrated to the US. They know all the DHS tricks.

oh, yeah:

http://www.matesupover.com/

xpost Thanks Ned! We had some rosemary and white bean soup last night; it was pretty good, too.

thanks sunny!

75. passed my print class! so i got a C for the media studies class (big surprise, since i didn't hand in an essay worth 25% of my final grade until it was so late it wasn't worth anything) and a B+ for the print class. not great grades, but passing grades, so i'm happy.

AWESOME ^__^

thanks w4lter! :)

Congratulations on being really, truly, FINALLY done, Rubyredd!

76. I'm done with the checkbook for the second of three stores, and again it's less than $5.00 off. And the mistake is in the store's favor! (That third store is going to be a mess to make up for it, I'm sure, but still...)

61. a+ on my art theory paper!

your school has a+???? o_O

77. http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1802919 wau

The existence of this:

http://www.aolvideoblog.com/2008/02/12/ronald-mcdonald-goes-insane/

Tetsuo the burger man

78. OH SHIT MY SPEAKERS JUST ARRIVED EVEN THOUGH I HAD MY MONEY REFUNDED

NO WAY

Partytime.

dan is buying us all $800 worth of burgerz n beerz

I am SO spending my school loan money to fly out for THAT party

79. ACCORDING TO SAGE LEGAL ADVICE FROM MY BROTHER I AM UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO TELL ANYONE HOW THEY SCREWED UP BY SENDING ME FREE SPEAKERS AND MIGHT BE ABLE TO FINAGLE A "SETTLEMENT" WHEN CONTACTED BECAUSE I ACTED IN GOOD FAITH THROUGHOUT THIS ENTIRE RIDICULOUS TRANSACTION

iow if I have to pay for these bad boys, I may only have to pay $200

Wow, crazy!

Also, can we trade brothers for a while?

No.

80. My 40-year-old brother has found a legal skate pool in DC and has started skateboarding regularly again.

;_;

Well.... uh... my brother killed an elk last fall! And then my Dad sent a picture of it to my cell phone! And now I have to avoid them both until all the elk sausage is gone because it's gross.

Seriously - MY BROTHER WILL GIVE YOU FREE ELK SAUSAGE AND SEND ODD IMAGES TO YOUR CELL PHONE

Mark really can't compete, can he.

Not really, no.

My brother is sending me a picture of himself doing a nose grind at this skate pool. woot

Good lord. I don't even know what that is, but it sounds insanely dangerous.

Also, still trying to find a reason for you to trade brothers with me and I'm coming up empty.

I thought of "I HAVE A SISTER AND YOU DON'T," but you've met Heather, so...

lol

This is a nose grind: http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/2476245/2/istockphoto_2476245_skateboarder_nose_grind.jpg

Wow. And he's 40!

And he can KICK! And STREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETCH! And KICK!

Okay, now I'm thinking of a mashup of your brother and Molly Shannon. DISTURBING

Yeah well my sister is cooler than any of your siblings SO THERE.

I don't know, I think Dan's brother might be competitive here.

My siblings probably not so much... ;_;

Has your sister been on HBO, Ned? MY BROTHER HAS.

LATE NIGHT HBO = how Dan's brother paid for law school?

(omg CATHOLIC GUILT - I don't even KNOW Dan's brother!!! It is so wrong to pick on him.)

Has your sister been on HBO, Ned? MY BROTHER HAS.

I see you your lame HBO and play the ultimate trump card. Now STFU.

http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Russell_Simmons_Presents_Def_Poetry_Season_3/70034914?trkid=222336&lnkctr=srchrd-sr&strkid=1735747445_2_0

WHERE'S YOUR NETFLIX LINK???????

Fame and appreciation from peers, WHATEVER. *handwaves*

Nice try, but even though your hands are in the air, you are waving them as if you do care; in fact, you care a lot.

Lips move
Can't hear what saying
Comfy numb

Since some scoff at my sister's greatness, though, a more recent example -- so when we were in Hawaii and hung around with gr8080, he took us to a Quentin Tarantino-themed birthday party that a friend was having. Now, many people there were reasonably cool (it's Hawaii, therefore plenty of Crazy 88s in attendance, etc.). My sister, informed of the party a couple of hours before attending, said, "To heck with trying to imitate a character, I'm coming as a line of dialogue." And she did:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2355/1725237626_24c51a9504.jpg

Back of shirt: "How many dicks is that?"

Best costume of the evening.

(Oh, and the tattoo on her wrist there is of a needle and thread stitched around her wrist because she is a sewing and knitting fiend, and this picture of her sitting out in the Zeitgeist beer garden in SF is essentially her idea of paradise, the one absence being her boyfriend, who was at work at the time:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2388/2144369791_0b357d7823.jpg

SO ANYWAY.)

guys, my brother wanted me to tell you that youre all wrong. he has the coolest sibling ever.

also, ned sister is cute on that submarine video.

also, i dont think thats a nosegrind but i could be RONG

I'm feeling very outclassed in terms of siblings here.

;_;

It's a bad angle so it looks like the back axle is on the lip of the pool. Or maybe the back axle is on the lip of the pool; I picked that picture because it was a grind on a pool, much like what my 40-yr-old brother has been doing recently.

dans brother is SO FUCKING AWESOME

1n fact:

81. DANS AWESOME BROTHER IS AWESOME

At least I know my siblings are cooler than JOHN'S siblings.

Only by dint of existing, but still. I must take my comfort where I can find it.

now its settled, because it has been numbered on the ^_^ thread.

xpost: i wouldn't know, i have not actually met them. (i has mystery half brother and half sis from previous parental marriage, which many of you that know me may never have been aware of)

WHOA that is the craziest thing I've ever heard about you, John.

Well, not really, but I was kind of taken by surprise by that and apparently if I'm surprised I will make an inaccurate statement.

(The whole scurvy thing probably still wins for craziest thing)

82. NONE OF US HAVE HAD SCURVY (except one)

I knew about the half-sister! Maybe at one point I knew about the half-brother...?

82. I just found out that my brother's wife is in "Step It Up 2". (also a candidate for "ROLLING o_O THREAD")

who had scurvy?

dan's bro may win the best sibling ever sweepstake, but how bout WORST sibling ever? my big bro could totally win this: he's the biggest asshole in the world, and basically i haven't spoken to him in about 5 years. and as for half siblings: my younger bro and sis, as well as the elder, are all halfies because my mum somehow managed to have 4 kids to three different guys O_o

WOW DAN THAT IS CRAZY

xpost Dan is in charge of helping John create the official ITR John Justen Trivia Challenge.

xpost I don't think it is a secret that John managed to get scurvy his first year in college.

lol, last night we were talking about assessing for respirations and the first step is "inspect the chest for symmetry and unusual findings." I SO wanted to tell the story about John and his chest, but I thought if I said, "yeah, same guy I know who had scurvy" that people would think I was making it allll up.

83. the one positive thing about being stuck here for extra couple of months is that i can now be part of the international print project i was invited to be in a few weeks ago. i emailed the two main guys today with a couple of ideas i had, and they LIKED them! which made me all blushy and stuff, like an idiot, because they are super good at what they do and have been doing it a long time and i have tons of respect for them.

84. came to realisation the other day that if i had not been such a procrastinating loser and had gotten my degree in the normal amount of time, i would most definitely not be eligible for the new 12 month visa to the US (is only for full-time students and those who've graduated within the last year). so all my fucking around for all these years was for the greater good!

YAY for both those things, Rubyredd!

85. I have finally made it through all 12 months of the last of my dad's stores checkbooks. And I have found many errors, which I will enjoy teasing Dad about.

86. The best part is that the errors mean that his balance is about $3,000 MORE than he thinks it is. (He should really give me some of that money, don't you think?)

he should def give you some $$$

87. my sister

I wish I had more in common with my siblings. Or rather, that they had more in common with ME.

My SIL is prety great.

xpost Well, he will pay me the usual amount for doing the work at least...

88. havin beerz w/an old friend 2night!

89. Almost finally copying over the CDRs to my hard drive. And where to begin...

DVDRs?

82. I just found out that my brother's wife is in "Step It Up 2". (also a candidate for "ROLLING o_O THREAD")

-- HI DERE, Friday, February 22, 2008 4:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

WOAH WWOAH WOAH WOAH WOAH WOAH

^^^ I really think Dan should offer us more details on this.

DVDRs?

All those were already loaded in.

Apparently there's a reporter in one of the dance battle scenes... and that reporter is her!

90. Hangover (which is a bellringing horror) totally worth it due to seeing Gay Witch Abortion and drinking beeeeers with Fluffy Bear, Subgenius, Caledonia, gff, and non-ilx awesome dudez last night

Gay Witch Abortion

Bandname or actual incident?

best band in MN right now. although if i had to watch an actual gay witch abortion, i couldn't think of a better crowd to share it with.

I am so tempted to go see that band, just to say that I did it.

xpost I guess it's time to consider another trip to an actual movie theater. Although is Step it Up 2 really going to come to Northfield? Hmmmm.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=226709858

THEY ARE HERE THAEY ARE GREAT

Hmmmm. Maybe they will have a show during my spring break. I WILL HAVE A WHOLE WEEK OFF AND I WILL BE ABLE TO COME OUT AND PLAY. (Uh... not sure of the dates because I can't see past the massive homework thing here, but I will tell all of you someday. Hopefully.) Otherwise I'm going to have to wait until after June 15 to have any fun. ;_;

Oh, do you think FB would let me hang at his house after Sat. clinical shifts that end at 11 pm? (I'll be up at Fairview Riverside sometimes, and food-wise, it SUCKS. Otherwise really cool though.)

(also thanks for the link John)

91. I got my T5 shoulders from Serpentshrine Caverns in World of Warcraft last week and I forgot to tell people (LOL because no one but me cares)

92. Just finished singing a super modern solo at church and I was very good! ^_^

I wish I could have heard your solo!

It's not that we don't care; it's just that we have no idea what you are talking about. (But... congratulations?!)

turning on the TV, channel that comes up is AMC, playing godfather 2, right at "YOU BROKE MY HEART" ^_^

putting in an offer on a house, only time will tell if the result is ^_;

thus, not numbered

actually i have a better idea

93 (I think). J is at a friend's house, so A. and I are going out for Indian food for lunch. YUM.

at first i read that as "I think J is at a friend's house" and I was going to congratulate you on your free-wheeling parenting style.

"Seen the kid anywhere? ah shes probably at a friends house, lets go chow down."

why don't i say "chow down" more often?

94. CHOW DOWN

95. GOBBLE GOBBLE

xpost It is so clear that you weren't there this morning for the OMG WEHRE ARE J'S MITTENS SHE CAN'T GO OUTSIDE WITHOUT THEM moment.

(Also, it was pointless for me to freak about it, since she had put them IN HER BOOTS)

96. just sold a vintage fender amp (the store, not personally) for MAD MAD LOOT take that shitty economy

So it looks like I might drive X-C sometime in mid-April. Should I take the extreme northern route up by the Twin Cities? I have been to 42 of 48 states, I would like to knock off a few more (ND, WI, MN)... but I don't want to be driving through treacherous icy conditions.

Worth it or not?

TOTALLY WORTH IT

mid april will definitely not be treacherous here or in WI, and i really doubt ND would be trouble either

If it's treacherous and icy in mid-April, I think I'm going to have to run away. MN might still be cold, but the roads should be fine. Also, sometimes MN April is like 80 degrees one day, 40 degrees the next.

AND YES YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY COME

ND probably would be fine, but it is like, the FLATTEST state in the U.S. You can watch your dog run away for days. I'm not a fan.

Congratulations on the sale, btw, John!

I will plan on it, barring settlement in SF

YAY!

Guys, show Remy an awesome time!

NO

ok wait fine then we will

remy do you drink?

97. 25/25 on my first paper for nursing school, which kind of makes up for the fact that I am having a horrible time finding references for a totally different assignment

congrats.

and yes, i do drink. not well, but with great enthusiasm.

if remy drinks, then remy will have a chance to enjoy a nipsy russell while in town

xpost awesome, enthusiasm is all we could ask

nipsy rusell = the one with habeneros Y/N

last weekend we didn't have the proper ingredients for a nipsy russell (still had the booze and the habenero) so we subbed all manner of strange canned "beverages" from the asian market for the grapefruit juice.

of course we had to rename it, so it was initially christened the "Kurt Russell". After drinking it, we dubbed it the "Big Trouble In Little China"

xpost Y

hoo boy

also - thanks remy! My perfectionist streak is totally gratified right now

xpost to John hahahahaha

Asian "beverages" are so weird.

"Asian" beverages are so weird.
Asian "beverages" are so weird.
Asian beverages "are" so weird.
Asian beverages are "so" weird.
Asian beverages are so "weird".

Now write a haiku about them

Kimchee beverages
Effervescent spicyness
Leads to farts of doom

okay, hilarious!

PERFECT

97. N3N4 W0LF0RD? IN MY MYSPACE FRIENDS????

WAHT

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=265698740

THIS IS HER BAND

This means something.

(Remy, you realize we are having drinks on Saturday down here and then again at the end of the month in SF.)

More HSTNGS ppl we graduated with turning up online.

Oh cool!

I haven't looked at my myspace page for, like, 3 weeks; I should really do that.

keep not looking at it? yes, you should

Tom, you may have a point there.

I hadn't looked for 3 MONTHS; I found out shortly afterwards that a bot was posting filthy bulletins to all of my friends.

And since of course everyone assumed it was business as usual nobody said anything.

(I kid. Or do I?)

Dammit, now I'm bummed that I missed the filthy messages somehow ;_;

EVERYONE GETS FILTHY MESSAGES EXCEPT ME

(I should really consider taking a nap, shouldn't I)

There was one that was titled something like "filth d0g p0rn". UH

Okay, now I don't feel so bitter about missing it.

98. MMMMMMM FREE LUNCH BBQ

99. there's a ray caesar exhibition coming up in toronto, so jordan emailed a guy who works for his company and lives in toronto, and offered him $100 to go to the show and get any flyers/programs/etc for me. still no reply, since guy probably thinks jordan is a weirdo, but it made me ^_^

100. got an a+ on my ridic satirical art proj

101. graduation present #2 (picked by jordan but officially from his parents): a micro portfolio of 32 cards by wicked awesome japanese artist naoto hattori (it's signed AND numbered!). here is one of his many cool paintings:

http://naotohattori.com/prints/images/idolize.jpg

102. Crazy ass house woman called the realtor we had make the offer and is hyper-apologetic and somewhat humbled which means maybe perhaps new house for low dollars reallllll soon.

which would also mean that my rekkerds would be released from prison into their natural habitat which is REAL LOUD ALL OVER MY HOUSE YEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!

john did u guys just call up a realtor and start having them show you around or how did you go about it? i realize you buying a house in minnesota and me looking at condos in the capital of the fucking nation may be slightly different in some ways but I got 0 XP in this

K4l1 was referred to the dude by her parents, and i swear to god having a "buying agent" is about the best thing ever, basically an informed realty hardman. Also, they can often force the seller to pay their commision and most of the closing costs, which makes them FREE realty hardman.

srsly, this guy has not only spotted shit like slight chimney leans, but also taught me a shit ton about all the things that can be fucked up about a house/require irritating regular and expensive attention (hi dere shake siding) that i never would have seen or known about in a million years

oh yeah, and the right dude has the temperment of a pitbull. one thing though, a bunch of these people basically walk you around and talk about how awesome what you are looking at is, because they want to score their commission as quickly as possible. You want the guy that's willing to crawl into the attic and say WTF THESE CEILING JOISTS OMG

Awesome news John! Sounds like Seller Lady may be beginning to face reality.

Also expect me to grill you on all this next time we buy/sell a house (NOT anytime soon).

YAY!

my jim woodring orignial!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2151/2317618504_078acc724e_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2145/2316809969_b93ae716a7.jpg

if you haven't seen this animated version of pushpaw/pupshaw/frank, it's really freakin cool:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=brHZ69DsfQI&feature=related

Aw to picture.

103. iPhone = mine

Rubyredd, that is really cute!

Ned, I am jealous!!!

more presents for me!

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d111/hotkizzle/Set.jpg

the luke chueh mini print set, signed and numbered, limited to 500. from jordan of course. really really super nice postcard sized giclees. i want to mount them in a really deep box frame.

just to clarify: i AM spoiled rotten by jordan, but i DO give him cool gifts too! and technically this wasn't actually a 'gift'.. he bought for 'us' but he's letting me have it till i come to the states.

Awww - those are totally cool!

105. Just got simultaneous news from my cousin and my mother letting me know that a different cousin is expecting her first baby. So happy for them - AND happy to get good news again. LOVE THE GOOD NEWS, PEOPLE

106. So we got the kids a Wii for Xmas. We tried it out tonight (to make sure that it works, ha) - weirdly fun. Yay, I am looking forward to Christmas now!

Those prints are great.

Sara somehow I suspect "We got the kids a Wii for Christmas" will soon become "we got ourselves a Wii for The Third Week Of July."