The World Is Ending
June 25, 2009 § Leave a comment
In other WTF news of the day, my brother’s friend is having his birthday party at a nightclub this Sunday. Sure, it’s non-alcoholic, but really?! What kind of uninformed parent takes 13 and 14 year old kids to a juice bar [that supposedly caters to 16-23 year olds] where they’re supposed to dance?! Really? A huge group of little teenagers dancing at a club? What the crap!
Also, Burger King just needs to stop. My favorite fast food place is slowly becoming loathsome because of its offensive advertising.
Peeved
June 21, 2009 § Leave a comment
I would like to take a moment to address something that has happened to me a couple of times. The first time, I was confused. The next few times I became increasingly irritated by the irrationality of it all. I suppose that I should preface this with the fact that I had not had a conversation [online or otherwise] with this person for at least 24 hours. Yet:
“o hai”? Really?? As much as I appreciate the birthday wishes, I must assert that saying “oh hi” is only valid when somebody greets you first, and unexpectedly. Starting a conversation is very deliberate, especially over instant messaging, especially when I am not even online! Did this person just happen to stumble accross my username and click on it accidentally, thus meriting an “o hai”?? I DON’T UNDERSTAND, THIS KIND OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOR IS INCOMPREHENSIBLE TO ME.
Truly Awesome
June 16, 2009 § Leave a comment
Since last year’s election was the first one in which I was able to participate, Barack Obama is the first president that I really know anything about.
Now let’s talk about the intense hatred I have for insects. Last Friday when I was drying my hair in the bathroom, I noticed a fat fly buzzing around. I quickly closed the bathroom door, trapping the unfortunate bug with me. It flew around frantically as if it had foreseen its impending doom. I opened the blinds, since flies love crawling around on windows, and waited for it to land there. When it did, I smacked it with a little notepad that was in the door and picked it up off the floor with some toilet paper, disposing of its remains in the garbage can. I felt the thrill of victory.
I was delighted to see today that ninja-like reflexes [when it comes to exterminating annoying insects] are something that President Obama and I have in common:
The Early Days
June 8, 2009 § Leave a comment
From what I can tell, this looks like a woman with a tiny head and huge breasts:
It is, according to Economist.com, “probably the oldest human statue yet discovered,” carved from a mammoth tusk.
An interesting discovery, yes. The short blurb ends with this: “[…] this discovery adds to the evidence that human thinking—or male thinking, at least—has hardly changed since the species evolved.” I just glanced over these words and exited the page, but something caught my eye and I backtracked. “Male thinking,” really? Who’s to say that this wasn’t carved by a woman? It may be easy to wrap this statuette in a stereotype, and I know that comment was meant to be light-hearted, but I refuse to be taken in with such an easy joke.
auradis 