9:50 PM
Added a few new Blogs/websites on the left.
The Real World is Matt Savrock's blog. Visit it to see his latest piece "Mardi Gras on the Plains". The Plains meaning Brusly with a 60,000 seat stadium. AKA the armpit of the south and the shittiest little town on the plains. Yes, Auburn.
Classical Katie is Katie from Tulane, just found her on Beth's site and decided to add her.
Rebecca's Blurty is Rebecca's second attempt at a blog/website. Let's see if the Blurty lasts longer than the Blog did. Be warned if you have eye problems, its very pink.
Anyway, its looking like LSU might be holding a similar gathering to the one Bobby & Friends held for UNO a few weeks back. I'm just reminded of the Simpson's poster in our living room/ "Beer... Now There's a Temporary Solution"
Monday, February 24, 2003
11:22 PM
Well I have a lot of stuff to talk about, but no time right now. However I did see this on Drudge just now:
ROSIE O'DONNELL SAYS NO TO WAR: 'THIS IS NOT THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE... WE ARE NOT THE TERRORISTS. WE DON'T RESPOND TO TERROR WITH MORE TERROR... WAR IS WRONG. KILLING IS WRONG. HAVE WE NOT LEARNED YET?'
ON OSAMA, SADDAM: 'I'D LIKE [THEM] TO GO AWAY...'
I'd like for them to go away too, but I don't think either will respond to polite asking. It must be nice to live in Hollywood where celebrities get everything they want. I seriously wonder sometimes if people living in Hollywood loose their grasp on reality or at least on reality in the world.
Some people said war wasn't the answer to Nazi Germany when they invaded Poland too. They just needed time and things would calm down, there was no need to stand up to Hitler, he wouldn't be a threat to his neighbors. It was OK that Germany violated every disarmerment treaty signed at the end of WW I, including the building of illegal missles. Time and patience were the answers to the problem.
WW II was caused by the policies of appeasement by Europe (especially that of a certain country that borders Germany on the east). If the UN keeps treating Iraq like the League of Nations treated Germany, Hussein will rally support from the rest of the Arab world and we will have WW III on our hands. France will probably sit out until they get invaded when they will send frantic telegrams across the Atlantic proclaiming "Please come save us, they are burning our croissants and berets!"
Wow, I went off on a long rant. Hopefully my next post will be more positive.
Random thoughts from Free wells and drafts at Lakeside Daquiri:
Yes, there are people at LSU that would rather play Dungeons and Dragons than drink all the alcohol they can for $6 and several of them happen to be friends.
I really suck at pool.
Candace is really really innocent.
10:1 guy to girl ratios suck, especially when you already know 3 of the 8 girls in the bar.
Habitual seat stealers suck.
Ever see a really hot girl (or guy for the ladies and Ole Miss fans out there) and then see her (him) chain smoking all night making her (him) seem less and less hot throughout the night? That sucks too
I'm sure that last one will spark some debate, but I can't find anything attractive about smoking cigarettes, especially after losing 2 grandparents and my father from complications that started with tobacco habits.
So I'm sitting here and suddenly I realize Dilbert is on! My favorite comic in animated version sweet! After Dilbert I start surfing the net and after a few minutes I hear "snoochie boochies" I turn around and it's CLERKS THE ANIMATED SERIES! I had been hearing familiar voices but didn't realize it was Dante and Randall but sure enough its them.
So much for waking up at 7 AM this semester
Wednesday, February 12, 2003
10:53 AM
There's new commercials up at TerryTate.com. First, there's the 3 minute Draft Day Commercial then there's "Streaking" which has the punchline to the streaking commercial we saw during the Superbowl. The Pain Train's Coming! WOO! WOO!
Tuesday, February 11, 2003
12:19 PM
A friend of mine from highschool, Chad Ferrand, has been featured as one of the random "Highlights" on LSU.edu. Check out the story.
Chad's been in a wheelchair most of his life and had some problems getting around the terrain at LSU in his mechanical wheelchair, so some Mechanical Engineering students did a class project turning a golf cart into a cart handicapped students could use to navagate campus. Anyway, there's the story and for once LSU tuition and research money is going to something good.
I'm seriously waiting for SNL Weekend Update or the Daily Show to bust this line out:
"It should be noted that while Germany and France both oppose immediate military action against Iraq, Germany does favor immediate military action against France."
1:00 AM
Vintage Homer Simpson and his version of "Do, Re, Mi..."
DO......the stuff... that buys me beer...
RAY.....the guy that sells me beer...
ME......the guy... who drinks the beer
FAR.....a long way to get beer...
SO......I'll have another beer...
LA......I'll have another beer...
TEA.....No thanks, I'm drinking beer...
And that will bring us back to... (looks into an empty glass)
D'OH!!!
Friday, February 07, 2003
6:18 PM
I was reading Bobby's World earlier about how Kiwanis has not been helpful with legislation from last year's CKI House of Delegates. Well, I tried to find meeting minutes online, but all I could get was June 2002 (when they met in New Orleans!). Here's some neat little tidbits. The full report is available at http://www.kiwanis.org/board/minutes/0206complete.pdf. This is only a few pages out of 69 pages of minutes and supplemental materials. This is just most of the info I found pretaining to Circle K (aside from info on new clubs formed and other statistical stuff), so please visit there for the "big picture".
2001-2001 Kiwanis International President Brian Cunat's Report
This year I have worked with our Key Club and Circle-K International Presidents to try and promote sponsored programs in all parts of the Kiwanis world, not just in North America. This attempt has been met with significant resistance from the Indianapolis sponsored programs staff, including direct attempts to discourage this type of activity. As the International President of an organization that is designed to work to improve the lives of children, I find this extremely disheartening.
As do we all, Brian. ***I have since been informed this was in reference to flying thein President Cindy around the world, on which I actually do agree with the CKI staff on. Definately not where I wanted my $18 going***
I do believe that there is still a fair amount of work to be done at the Indianapolis office with certain segments of staff before a significant degree of trust and confidence can be firmly established between the International Board and our team of paid professionals. I thank Executive Director Terry Shaffer for his continued understanding in working with these challenges, and look forward to a bright future for this organization.
I do too, but its getting harder and harder to see one.
Kiwanis Executive Director A. G. Terry Shaffer
President Brian and President-elect Ito have appointed a Special Committee on Sponsored Programs Funding, consisting of Paul Palazzolo (chairman), Jane Alexander, Nettles Brown, Scott Johnson, and Steve Siemens. We look to this group for creative thinking and proposals because of their strong individual backgrounds in sponsored programs.
Nettles Brown talking about Sponsored Program Funding? We may be in more trouble than we thought!
2001-2001 Board Counselor to CKI Steve Siemens
The Kiwanis Board has a responsibility to provide as much financial help as possible to CKI. Our policies need to be followed or changed. The changes in our reduction in subsidies this year provided some frustration to the CKI Board, yet our services to them have increased because of Project Phoenix and the reorganization. Regardless, if our policies state a procedure, we need to follow that policy or change it.
Just thought some people would find some of this interesting.
5:01 PM
Lots of comments out there on UnofficialCKI.org. Check out Bobby, Justin, Alison, and Brian's Blogs (links on left) for their thoughts.
Everyone is being so negative after the shutting down of UnofficialCKI.org. I think we need to look at some of the positives of this for members.
You want more membership benefits? Here's one. If you do nothing to help the organization, you WON'T be punished. Can you ask for much more of a benefit than that? Do nothing and you have nothing taken away. Sounds fair to me.
You won't have to waste your time trying to figure out the board communication plan (that no one pays attention to anyway) because without UnofficialCKI.org, YOU'LL NEVER FIND IT ON CIRCLEK.ORG! (I know, I tried)
No more pretenders using PHP. Back to the real experts and their HTML (aka *I* have enough web knowledge to do CircleK.org)
No more time wasted talking about how one Circle K site is so much better than another. Now there's only one out there so it wins by default (the only way it would ever win).
No more random people IMing you because they saw you around the site somewhere. We all know its bad to talk to strangers.
No more of your dues being wasted while staff spends their paid time surfing the web scouring the unofficial site.
I think we're all better off for the site being down when you look at it this way.
Thursday, February 06, 2003
9:34 PM
Fine I changed it. I try to bring some Carnival spirit around here and this is the response I get :-)
Bobby, its not Taps but will it do?
BTW, I am going to work on a Java random MIDI player sometime soon.
1:29 PM
Breaking news out of UnofficialCKI.org. The site has shut down after events occurring at the international board meeting in Indy this weekend.
I'm not going to say any more than that so that I don't bruise any egos, but read the admnistrators' farewell letters and you will see several familiar names including me, Alison Pellegrine, International Trustee Nick Borghardt, and LaMissTenn Governor Jody Harlow. They are quite a read!
Yes its that time of the year again. Now I've never had this website to put the rant on, but I've been ranting on this ever since I started being a commuter and a little even before that.
Every year, LSU has a big rodeo at the Parker Colloseum. That's perfectly fine, that (and basketball) is what the building was built for back in the 1920s.
What's not fine is that they do it while classes are in session and need to take away student parking to provide parking for horse trailers. You read that right, horse trailers.
They've started using the CEBA Overflow Lot (aka the Ostrich Lot because it used to be an Ostrich Farm) for this purpose. That's only about 3000 student parking spots they're taking away. After sitting in traffic for 15 minutes (that usually takes 5 to get through) I got to campus to find the lot closed. People were parking on grass lots and on the old golf course, and they will probably be ticketed by LSU Parking for illegal parking (which they wouldn't be if they were tailgating on a fall Saturday)
I ended up parking across the street from Alex Box Stadium and standing in the cold rain for 5 minutes waiting for the Kirby-Vet School bus to come and bring me down to CEBA. That's a great way to get over the flu.
The main point of this rant is, as always, a question as to who the administration cares about. Is LSU here for students or for a rodeo? As for parking, its a $27 (X 20,000 student parking passes = $540,000!!!) annual student parking pass fee that pays for upkeep and usage of the parking lots on campus. If we pay for these lots, why can't we use them? Move the rodeo to spring break when parking isn't a problem. Of course that would mean inconveniencing the horse trainers and riders that contribute so much to the LSU community throughout the year.
Wednesday, February 05, 2003
3:10 PM
Well I'm feeling a little better (actually made it to campus in the afternoon today) thanks to Sudafed Severe Cold.
Looks like my comments have been wiped out. I have no idea why and Haloscan's having server problems meaning I can't get into the help forums even.
Being sick because your sick roommate decided to hang out in the living room all weekend and infect the rest of the apartment instead of in his room (like I am) sucks more. Especially this week.
I have two student org fairs this week (one tomorrow at the union and a business one at CEBA Thursday)
On top of that, this is newsletter week for your resident LSU CKI newsletter editor and I feel too shitty to do it.
On top of that my credit card company never got notice of my payment from my bank I do online. It was due today and supposed to be posted yesterday. I won;t be receiving a late fee. Long story short/moral of the story: If you ever work ina call/customer service center, hope you never get ahold of me. Nick can attest to this.
Anyway the main purpose of this is that I was just curious what everyone's favorite "sick" food is. (ie what you like to eat when really sick).
For me its chicken and rice soup (which I had none of) or mashed potatoes (which I am having a big bowl of tonight)
Feel free to post yours in the comments.
Sunday, February 02, 2003
10:13 PM
Well I heard the Malcolm in the Middle quote tonight and decided I wanted it on my website. Then that opened up some other design problems, so I spent the last hour or so redoing the top of the site. Better than doing my appraisal homework. Thus another redesign is complete.
8:14 PM
One of Saddam Hussein's bodygaurds has defected to Israel.
Underground bunkers with Weapons of Mass Destruction.
How quaint.
Saturday, February 01, 2003
2:52 PM
Iraqis Call Shuttle Disaster God's Vengeance
24 minutes ago Add World - Reuters to My Yahoo!
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Immediate popular reaction in Baghdad on Saturday to the loss of the U.S. space shuttle Columbia and its seven-member crew -- including the first Israeli in space -- was that it was God's retribution.
"We are happy that it broke up," government employee Abdul Jabbar al-Quraishi said.
"God wants to show that his might is greater than the Americans. They have encroached on our country. God is avenging us," he said.
To paraphrase Eric Cartman...
We... are... going to... fucking... kill you guys.... Kill you guys.... KILL YOU GUYS
"If we must take this war into their homes and burn them to the ground, we will do so."
-Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
President, Louisiana State University
