| Zombie Prom |
[Apr. 15th, 2007|08:21 pm] |
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So we drove by a high school with a big sign about their Zombie Prom. Best prom theme ever. "I don't care what anyone thinks, I'm wearing pink anyway." |
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| NERD ALERT |
[Sep. 18th, 2006|11:12 pm] |
Something like this came up at work a couple weeks ago.
1. The numbers 1-50 are put in a bowl and 30 of them are drawn - how many combinations of drawn numbers are there?
2. What are the chances that out of those 30 numbers, you'll have all the numbers from 1-10? (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.2) ___blank___ had an answer for this, but I closed the MSN window before I could check it, because I'm a jerk.) |
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 2nd, 2006|10:51 pm] |
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Hands slippery with bug dope, sun at about 10 degrees and just sitting there. Yellowknife has the best swingset evar. |
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| Making food is complicated |
[Dec. 11th, 2005|06:07 pm] |
I think I need to cook more. Chopping onions will make a man of me. God that hurt.
Why is it that every recipe starts off with "Preheat oven to 350", when they know damn well I'm going to be chopping and grilling vegetables for half an hour? |
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| William Shatner is awesome |
[Nov. 27th, 2005|08:46 pm] |
I finally listened to William Shatner's Has Been thanks to some well-placed DVDs. This is the album that Ben Folds produced, I think.
It is awesome in all senses of the word and you must listen to it. It's happy, melodramatic, incredibly sad, and just right. Besides the "Common People" cover, there's "You'll Have Time", in which William Shatner informed me that I am going to die. He is probably right, because he is a smart man. |
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| Planes |
[Oct. 19th, 2005|10:13 pm] |
Air travel is a necessarily awkward experience. Outside Canada, every airport has different procedures. It's a big mess of security, immigration, customs, emigration, and random checkpoints.
When you look someone in uniform in the eye and say hello, and they say hello back, there's a 60% chance they want you to present some sort of passport or crumpled-up form you've been holding onto. But that means there's a 40% chance they're not expecting you to stop. It's like when you pass someone you know on the street, and you stop to talk but they keep going. I'd rather take the chance of having someone stick their arm out to stop me than look sad when they don't want to see my papers. (I spent a whole 15 seconds filling them in.) Besides, 20% of the time that I stop, they just ignore me rather than saying "You don't need to stop here. I'm just being paid to look stern. Keep going."
Security is another grab bag. In most First World airports they want you to take your laptop out of your backpack. (Except CDG in Paris. But their phone system makes those weird Third World beeping noises, so it makes sense their airports would run the same way. They also have a super-adhesive blue "CDG Security Screened" sticker that in two years I haven't been able to scrape off my suitcase, so basically any luggage that has ever passed security in Paris, has passed it for all eternity.) Otherwise, 60% of the time the other passengers look at you like you're crazy if you pull out your electronics. But you have to figure this all out at the last minute, because there are no signs posted anywhere.
At each airport you pass one or two immigration and customs desks, plus maybe a uniformed officer at an unmarked "checkpoint", on one side of security or the other. After all this continued awkwardness I'm usually feeling pretty nervous by the end of the day. This works in my favour: the nervous, confused looking white guy always gets waved through. (Except last week in Toronto when they detained me for half an hour to test my toothbrush for narcotics residue. You can't maintain proper oral hygiene *and* do drugs on a trip, apparently. Good thing I don't.)
I'm not going to start on the airport in Barbados. They're working on a lot of construction and improvements, but none of those improvements seem to involve things like adding exterior walls, or logic. |
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| 3 WTFs in one little park |
[Sep. 18th, 2005|05:15 pm] |
1. A giant pile of snow melting in 20 degree weather.
2. An overweight man in swimming trunks practicing kata in a dried-out wading pool.
3. The Ferret Frolic. I guess it's a ferret rodeo. When we showed up, they were taking pictures in the winner's circle. I'm not sure what the contest was, but the times they were reading off were in the range of 10-20 seconds, so I'm guessing it was pretty easy. My cats could totally beat their time. |
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| (no subject) |
[Sep. 14th, 2005|09:45 pm] |
goin to kenya
goin to kenya |
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