Life, the University, and Everything

Yay, home for Thanksigiving!

I'll post something more substantive later...

(and by substantive, I mean more than zero substance)

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Worst four words in the English language: "twelve to fifteen pages."

Fifth-through-eighth worst words in the English language: "due in sixty minutes."

Best three words in the English language: "ungraded rough draft"!

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Read this:
http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2003/novdec/features/game.html (opens in new window)

That's crazy and awesome. And crazy.

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QOTD (taken from Kenyon "Target" Colloran's signature)
"This is the kind of impertinence up with which I will not put."
- Winston Churchill -- A Nobel laureate in literature -- after discovering an editor of his memoirs "corrected" one of his sentences ending with a preposition.

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Shit hits fan

Jeremy County was buried in shit late last night as a shit system moved into a stationary fan front.

Mayor Hoffman reported that the region was still reeling from the impact. "Oh man," said Mayor Hoffman. "Shit..."

Hoffman went on to yawn and stumble off to class, blindly clutching a six-page comparison of Locke and Machiavelli to his chest.

Meanwhile in Jeremy County, fellow resident Mike Posa felt it necessary to play many games of Yahoo! Backgammon and repeatedly announce, "It's a good thing my paper due tomorrow is an ungraded draft!"

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[01:02] JeremyHoffman03: ok, time for me to go to sleep
[01:02] JeremyHoffman03: and by "sleep" i mean IHUM paper
[01:02] JeremyHoffman03: and by "go" i mean "work"
[01:02] JeremyHoffman03: and by "to" i mean "on"
[01:02] JeremyHoffman03: and by "me" I mean "you"
[01:03] JeremyHoffman03: and by "ok" i mean
[01:03] JeremyHoffman03: "ARRRGGG"
[01:03] JeremyHoffman03: :-D
[01:03] precioustova: hahahaha

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Meteorology update
Ok, a small piece of the shit system broke ahead of the pack last night, causing an early shitstorm which caused Jeremy County to announce a two-hour delay-of-sleep.

Two problem sets and a lab were due today, and I underestimated them, of course.

At least now all I have facing me are a combined 20 pages of essay...

Meta-meteorology update
My weather forecast was humorous enough to make my hallmate Laura's profile. *Cheers*

Talk about GMTA...
JeremyHoffman03: I was wondering out loud about whether library shelves get really dusty, since my shelves seem to get really dusty
JeremyHoffman03: and one of my roommates offered, "well i'm sure they dust them periodically"
Lord Torgamus: or, they dust the periodicals?
Jeremy: and i said, "do they dust the periodicals... periodically?"

Best. You-say-tomayto-I-say-tomahto. Ever.
Someone wrote "You say to-may-to, I say to-mah-to..." on the hall dry-erase board. People tried to come up with humorous analogous statements (mostly sexual or otherwise profane). But mine got the most positive reaction from my RA and roommate, among others:

You say, "light is a wave phenomenon," I say, "light is a particle phenomenon."

Now try singing it :-D.

"Wave phenomenon, particle phenomenon, wave phenomenon, particle phenomenon, let's throw the whole thing down."

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From a discussion board thread on dating:

Person 1:
Why do guys waste their money on someone they're gonna drop in a week or two anyway?!

Person 2:
Simple answer: Guys are stupid.
Complicated answer: I dunno.

Best. Answer. Ever.

Oh by the way, the shit is moving at a rate such that ETA for fan-hitting is 48 hours. *weeps*

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The Frosh Formal was great. I had fun, although a lot of my Roble friends left early :-P.

I really like dancing in a tie. I think from now on I will wear a tie to all parties and dances.

On second thought... that does look sort of dumb.

On third thought... ties are awesome.

Anyway, I'm not going out tonight because of looming problem sets and essays.

(conversation edited for presentation purposes)
lordtorgamus: So what's going on
JeremyHoffman03: work...
JeremyHoffman03: probably going to do nothing tonight
lordtorgamus: heh
JeremyHoffman03: i mean, not going to go out and do anything
JeremyHoffman03: i am going to work
JeremyHoffman03: :-)
JeremyHoffman03: i took a mini-weekend on thursday cuz i had nothing due thursday or friday
lordtorgamus: oh
lordtorgamus: haha
JeremyHoffman03: now there's a fan on one horizon
lordtorgamus: totally the other meaning
JeremyHoffman03: and i think i see some shit just coming over the other horizon
lordtorgamus: hahahahahahahahahaha
JeremyHoffman03: :-D

PS: To all my friends who aren't Kevin Chang, could we get some more blogworthy conversations flowing? It might increase my readership to "rounds to ten instead of zero" :-).

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JeremyHoffman03: the Big Game between Cal and Stanford is next saturday
JeremyHoffman03: so the next week is supposed to be crazy
JeremyHoffman03: for example
JeremyHoffman03: there's a train horn thing
JeremyHoffman03: that they will blow 100-something times
JeremyHoffman03: because this is the 108th Big Game
JeremyHoffman03: or soemthing
JeremyHoffman03: they'll do it once an hour
JeremyHoffman03: leading up to the start of the game
JeremyHoffman03: starting Tuesday at 2am or something
lordtorgamus: wow
lordtorgamus: That seems a bit excessive, but the reasoning's solid

hehe... that's my kind of logic.

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I thought this was nice:

[01:02] *** Auto-response from precioustova: Always wear cute pajamas to sleep, because you never know who you'll meet in your dreams. I've got mine on. ~* Sleeping *~

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(I'm just joking, don't take offense...)

My writing assignments for IHUM and PWR have got me stewing. It's not that I mind the Humanities, but... It's like gay men. I have no problem with them doing their thing, I'm happy for them... but I don't really want it right in my face.

I like the social sciences, though... I suppose that's like lesbians. I know I could never really be involved, but it's still fun to think about.

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JeremyHoffman03: loik, doubleyoo tee ehf maits?

http://members.cox.net/impunity/endofworld.swf (if you want a new window, you'll have to do it yourself)

This one is spreading around the internet like Southern California wildfire.

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Several people have asked me about Matrix Revolutions. Here is my response:

Eh.

I didn't read any reviews before seeing it, but then I read a few on the Internet and I think they were dead on.

I didn't dislike Reloaded like a lot of people apparently did... but Revolutions makes Reloaded look good.

Possible exception: Reloaded had tons of philosophical BS yakking. Rest assured that there is very little yakking in Revolutions. Or dialogue. Or plot.

In conclusion: Matrix Revolutions is not The Matrix. It is BattleMech.

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Matrix Revolutions. In four hours. On IMAX.

Yeeeaaaaa, baby.

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Well, I died in Assassins yesterday. Ryan Vineyard is such a lucky bastard... Turns out he has physics section just after me, in the same room. So at 3:10 Thursday afternoon, he's walking into a room that I'm leaving; he saw me, but I didn't see him; and I got squirted right in the neck as I walked out. No Roble people were in the area to witness the killing, so it was a clean shot.

My roommate Mike proceded to get Ryan today.

The Orchestra put on an awesome hour-long concert tonight. It was cool cuz they were all costumed while playing. I got to see dear Lisa with her face painted white. Surprisingly, it didn't all rub off onto her violin.

The Haunted PentHouse was really cool; horaay for upperclassmen with so much time and devotion!

I hope everyone had a fun Halloween.

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