If the legal drinking age does ever drop to 18, I'll wish I had gone to college later. I could drive, vote, enlist, and run for office; but drinking beer is obviously too dangerous. Then again, as an underclassmen I didn't have the money to spend at bars anyways.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/08/18/college.drinking.age.ap
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Olympic Hijinks
I seems there's more than meets the eye at the Beijing Olympics, what with fake fireworks, fake singers, and potentially underage athletes. The biggest surprise? Michael Phelps is actually an Atlantic salmon in a speed-o. Man, what computers can do nowadays is simply incredible.
Monday, August 11, 2008
Invisibility Jacket
We're one step closer to Solid Snake's invisibility cloak. And I think it makes for a pretty trendy fashion statement too.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/08/11/invisibility.cloak.ap
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/08/11/invisibility.cloak.ap
Friday, August 8, 2008
8/8/8
Happy 08/08/08 Day! This only occurs once like every bazzilion years.
I think I'll celebrate by drinking 8% beer, betting Spanish dollars against octogenarian arachnids in a game of Eight-ball, listening to an 8-track of 8.
I think I'll celebrate by drinking 8% beer, betting Spanish dollars against octogenarian arachnids in a game of Eight-ball, listening to an 8-track of 8.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Goddamn Mongorians!
Jenny and I saw Sergei Bodrov's Mongol last night - the first film in a planned trilogy telling the life of Genghis Khan. For a while we were hoping Huntsville would be included in the limited release, and though it's playing at one of Huntsville's crappier theaters (the only local cinema which seems to bring in indie and foreign films) we are pleased it finally made an appearance. Mongol is essentially an Asian Braveheart, historical inaccuracies and all - but how many Americans know the fine details about Genghis Khan's life anyways? All I have to say is: It was freakin' sweet.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Gmail Overload!
Uh oh! It looks like I'd better start cleaning out my Google mailbox...
After all this time I finally reached 2% capacity. Damn, that means I only have 98% free space.
You are currently using 156 MB (2%) of your 6960 MB.
After all this time I finally reached 2% capacity. Damn, that means I only have 98% free space.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Summer ‘08 Plans
Amongst my brief commentaries on current events, I decided to write about the current events in my life. Often times I'll have a grand 'ol time out of town, and when I return home I start to write about it, bore myself, never finish the post and ultimately get side tracked by the CNN tab on my Google homepage. What can I say? I have the attention span of a chipmunk.
So far this summer, I've traveled out of town about three out of every four weekends. Since the end of May, I've been to:
Hell, that's seven out of nine weekends. This weekend I'll be home, but we have Diana and Rob visiting which counts as more than the average sleeping, reading, movies, beer, and videogames (or SRMBV) weekend. The first weekend of August is Kristie Sparks's wedding outside of Louisville. The following weekend is Dave's birthday in Nashville. Then a truly, honest to God free weekend - unless Jenny's mom visits which is a possibility.
Thus brings us to the weekend of August 23rd - and my delicate conundrum. I am 75% dedicated to a camping trip up in Indiana. But recently Jenny and I were invited to a "free beer giveaway" party here in Huntsville. The Olde Towne Brewing Company, the only microbrewery in Alabama, tragically burned to the ground (along with its pet cats) the very day I pulled my U-Haul into town. Last Saturday the brewery hosted a Free the Hops meeting in their newly constructed establishment, whence they announced their "we're back" party, a sort of grand re-opening, to be held on August 23rd. For whatever reason (whether legal or logistical) they decided the best course of action is to make the event strictly 21+ and have free admissions, and FREE BEER! That's right, all their beer it completely free. It'll be like visiting a museum: an optional donation at the entrance, and past that you soak in as much beauty as you can handle. To top that, Jenny doesn't particularly want to be alone for the weekend so she offered to DD, an ingenious effort to bribe me into sticking around. I'll wait for more details to emerge regarding the camping trip (and perhaps balance my checkbook) before I make a decision, but the choice is a seven hour drive for a weekend camping with friends or a fifteen minute drive for an evening drinking unlimitedly.
I have no plans for the Labor Day weekend. Jenny is visiting a friend in Virginia, which leaves me home alone to fight off incompetent burglars for a few days. I originally had been considering going to Foam for the three day weekend, but recently I learned that Rose is starting classes after Labor Day, thus Foam Party will be the following Saturday - which is teh lame. So if anyone wants to make plans not terribly far from Huntsville let me know. Otherwise, I'll probably be doing a lot of hiking and watching a lot of cartoons.
So far this summer, I've traveled out of town about three out of every four weekends. Since the end of May, I've been to:
- Rose-Hulman Commencement in Terre Haute
- Magic City Brewfest '08 in Birmingham
- Robin Schaffer's Wedding in Indiana
- Visit Dave in Nashville
- Thiede & Willis's Wedding in Indiana
- Visit Family in Connecticut
- and the Pike Bar Crawl in Indy
Hell, that's seven out of nine weekends. This weekend I'll be home, but we have Diana and Rob visiting which counts as more than the average sleeping, reading, movies, beer, and videogames (or SRMBV) weekend. The first weekend of August is Kristie Sparks's wedding outside of Louisville. The following weekend is Dave's birthday in Nashville. Then a truly, honest to God free weekend - unless Jenny's mom visits which is a possibility.
Thus brings us to the weekend of August 23rd - and my delicate conundrum. I am 75% dedicated to a camping trip up in Indiana. But recently Jenny and I were invited to a "free beer giveaway" party here in Huntsville. The Olde Towne Brewing Company, the only microbrewery in Alabama, tragically burned to the ground (along with its pet cats) the very day I pulled my U-Haul into town. Last Saturday the brewery hosted a Free the Hops meeting in their newly constructed establishment, whence they announced their "we're back" party, a sort of grand re-opening, to be held on August 23rd. For whatever reason (whether legal or logistical) they decided the best course of action is to make the event strictly 21+ and have free admissions, and FREE BEER! That's right, all their beer it completely free. It'll be like visiting a museum: an optional donation at the entrance, and past that you soak in as much beauty as you can handle. To top that, Jenny doesn't particularly want to be alone for the weekend so she offered to DD, an ingenious effort to bribe me into sticking around. I'll wait for more details to emerge regarding the camping trip (and perhaps balance my checkbook) before I make a decision, but the choice is a seven hour drive for a weekend camping with friends or a fifteen minute drive for an evening drinking unlimitedly.
I have no plans for the Labor Day weekend. Jenny is visiting a friend in Virginia, which leaves me home alone to fight off incompetent burglars for a few days. I originally had been considering going to Foam for the three day weekend, but recently I learned that Rose is starting classes after Labor Day, thus Foam Party will be the following Saturday - which is teh lame. So if anyone wants to make plans not terribly far from Huntsville let me know. Otherwise, I'll probably be doing a lot of hiking and watching a lot of cartoons.
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