Anyone who hasn’t figured out what an amusing writer my cousin Steve is should take a look at his latest addition to his site, steve.mathcaddy.com. He’s one clever guy. And he actually isn’t even as evil as he sounds in his writing! He’s really an absolutely awesome person! But don’t take my word for it! Doo-d-doo! Oh. Sorry. I just watched Reading Rainbow. And speaking of books – can I have my book back if you are done with it, Steve?
I want to read more of Steve!
After 3 hours or some hardcore mp3 reorganization, my music collection is now ready to be squeezed into my tiny new iPod. This shiny silver and white box is amazing! After trading in my easily emulated gameboy advance and overpriced Rio mp3 player (with a horrendous 128 mb capacity!) I was able to actually save my parents money by letting them get me an iPod.
Today I also played with the neat bold and italic options for posting.
Merry Christmas everyone. I’m spending the holidays with the Randalls in Olympia until the 3rd. I love Washington.
Today was my dad’s birthday… so, of course, it rolls around that we have to (“get to”) sing happy birthday.
I recently made a discovery.
The birthday song is my all-time favorite song. It’s simple, it’s full of emotion, it’s personal, and it has an incredible hook… It’s so catchy, in fact, that practically every English-speaking person knows all the words, in the right order, in addition to the countless number of non-English speakers who learned it in an English class.
Well, if I happen to see you and just spontaneously belt out a rousing round of “Happy Birthday to You,” don’t feel awkward or embarassed. Don’t try to explain to me that it isn’t your birthday. Just join in… and maybe… just maybe… some guy with a rototiller will come along and swiftly put us out of our misery.
Hooray for Steve! What an enjoyable journey through the ins and outs of pencil sharpening. We shall forever remem… never mind. On to something new.
You may notice that mathcaddy.com now recommends Death Cab For Cutie’s new album, Transatlanticism. If you noticed that, good for you. You get a point. If you also noticed the Bruchi’s logo, good for you. You get two points. (That’s three points altogether, for a total of… wait for it… three points! Congratulations!)
Anyway, that particular album is incredible. Since first hearing them on a CMJ cd a few years ago, I have greatly enjoyed DCFC, as they are often called by people who cannot waste their time by spelling actual words. But to put it simply, this album kills. It’s incredible. (In fact, it gets no credit whatsoever. It’s that incredible.)
But seriously folks, this is just a wonderful peice of plastic. (Yes, I bought the CD.) Go get it. Or download it. Or whatever. Just listen to it repeatedly. It will take you a few listens to get into it, but you’ll be quite glad you did. I sure was, my friend.
“I wish the world was flat like the old days, so I could travel just by folding a map. No more airplanes or speed trains or freeways. There’d be no distance that could hold us back.” – Lyric from “The New Year”
Well apparently passing preschool, kindergarden, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and part of 9th grade will teach you how to write a great persuasive essay such as this:
In todayís fast-paced kill-or-be-killed society, we really just do not have time to fumble around with the slow, clunky pencils sharpeners of yester-year. The future of pencil sharpening needs to be nothing less than quick, efficient and easily accessible machines that produce the quality of sharpness that we have come to know and love. We simply do not have the time or energy to continue to use the fiddle-faddle that our ancestors left us with.
Back in the day, when pencils were first invented and proved to be a very viable product, the only thing missing from their trend was an easy way to sharpen this new-found contraption. Early pencil users would sit by the evening fire for hours on end just whittling away at their pencil trying to achieve pencil bliss. This process soon became know as a ëwaste-of-time.í The next few generations of pencil users made such improvements like the famous hand-crank sharpener, the more famous hand-crank sharpener with adjustable pencil sizes and the most famous automatic pencil sharpener. Although these were all great inventions for their time, they lack the speed and efficiency that consumers need today. For example, say you only have 3 hours in which you have to write a 5-paragraph essay that will determine the rest of your life as you know it. Would you waste any second of that time fiddling with an obsolete pencil sharpener? I did not think so.
Pencil sharpeners should not only be quick and efficient, but also easily accessible. Place yourself in that same situation again. You raise your hand to get permission from the instructor to sharpen your pencil. The instructor is deeply involved in a novel and he does not notice you as soon as you would have liked. Once he gets to a point in his novel where he can put it down, he walks quietly towards you, being very careful not to disturb any one else. He slowly heads your direction and takes his time to check your peerís papers as he passes them by. Finally, he reaches you and he nods his head approvingly. You get up, walk to the pencil sharpener, sharpen your pencil, walk back to your seat, sit down and continue writing. A total time of 1 minute and 48 seconds completely wasted. That single pencil sharpening took up nearly one third of the allotted time, when you round up to the nearest hour. If pencil sharpeners were somewhere easily accessible, on the back of your pencil for instance, then you would not have to waste so much time or suffer the ridicule of using a cheaply produced pencil sharpener in front of the whole class. The benefits are just infinite.
Although a quick, efficient and easily accessible pencil sharpener would be nice, what good would it do without providing the sharpness that we have come to know and love? It wouldnít do any good at all. With all the previous ëimprovementsí in pencil sharpening there have always been obvious flaws that have not been addressed. With the hand-crank it often left you with a dull point and it was constantly jamming. Although the newer automatic sharpeners did not jam much and they provided a very sharp tip, they were very noisy and ate up your pencil instantly. Pencil sharpeners of the future will get rid of those petty flaws and set a new standard for pencil sharpeners everywhere.
Now you may think all of this is just too good to be true, but let me get to my point. We can not thrice another day while our pencil sharpening technology stays stagnant! We need quick, efficient and accessible pencil sharpeners today! And we, the generation of now, are the only ones to fulfill this need!
Oh boy, oh boy! Do you think that I passed? By the way, BLogger apparently does not like indents at the begging of paragraphs.
While I turned my back, this web page turned into a Bruchi’s franchise.
Place your order into your keyboard and then start munching on your mouse about 20 minutes later. (It’s worth the wait – I promise!) Your mouth will be filled soon with that mouth-watering cheesesteak goodness and Bruchi’s perfectly seasoned french fries. Mmm… Just taste the flavor! I bet you never thought a Logitech could taste soooo good!
— note: after making the logo to go along with this post, I realized a better post title might have been: “Whose Mathcaddy.com is it? It’s Bruchi’s Mathcaddy.com!” But I decided to stick with the whole Roman thing.
I have fallen to the recent fad of the classic game and movie ‘Tron.’ And by recent fad, I mean the recently sparked interest between a friend of mine, and myself. To keep trendy, I hunted down a freeware version of Tron that supports up to 22 other computer players and a maximum map size that is simply indescribable. I also found a web site that uses some computer geneology type learning program to learn from all its past tron experiences with humans in an attempt to create the best computer controlled Tron player ever. Or something like that. Unfortunately, I lost the link to it and to the game and I really just don’t feel like looking for it right now.
On another note, has anyone seen the DVD or VHS release of Bruce Almighty? I noticed that the phone number of God that was sent to Bruce was changed from 776-2131 to the more common media standard 555 prefix, with the not so common 0123 suffix. DId anyone hear anything else about those news reports about 776-2131 being some woman’s phone number that lived in Pennsylvannia?
On still another note, this is my first of 25 posts.
And after I posted this, I took the liberty of hunting down those links.
The learning game can be found here
The Tron game can be found here
My room is pretty small and I just dont feel like I have enough space to cram all of my stuff into it. That’s why I want to cut a hole in my ceiling and make a ‘bonus room’ in the attic above my room. The only problem with this plan is that I have parents that dont really want holes being cut in the ceiling. When I first asked if I could do it my parents olny tried to stop me by giving me reasons like there wouldn’t be enough room and that it would be too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter. After they realized that I didn’t really care about the temperature they started giving me impossible tasks to accomplish before I could build it. Specifically, making some building plans and getting them approved by the city. I I think that this was just my Dad’s way of trying to get me to give up, but instead of giving up, I obtained a ‘trial version’ of Autocad 2004 and actually drew plans for it. So far all that I have is the basic interior of my room with a window, a door and my closet but I hope to finish the plans soon.
Here are a couple of friendly Steve Geluso for President campaign logos… click on the links for larger files.
