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I guess today is the one year anniversary since Bush claimed that major conflict in Iraq was over and that “the mission was accomplished.” What a crock of shit that was.

More Americans have this month in Iraq than have any single month in this war that’s supposedly been over for a year.

Now here’s my question: Where do people get off talking about how Bush is the man, because “at least he’s got the balls to take some action.” Look around people.. We’re still fighting a year after the war was declared over. Part of taking action is finishing it.

Another thing I’ve been noticing a lot is Cheney going around bashing Kerry (Doesn’t he have a job to be doing? A “war on terror” to be fighting? Something worth is salary, at least.). One of his complaints against Kerry is that Kerry questions whether the “war on terror” is really a war at all. I can’t see where anybody could have a problem with him saying that. Have we declared war? Is there a country that we’re attacking that is called “terrorism”? I don’t think so. It’s not a real war. Everybody remember that war on drugs we had a while ago? Yeah, good thing for it. There’s no drugs anymore.</sarcasm>

Another thing he’s said is that looking at Kerry’s history, he’s not sure that he’s devoted to defending our country. Hm.. I wonder if he just happened to skip over the part where Kerry defended our country in the only true way – he was in the military and fought in a war. How dare he even say things like that when Bush is AWOL from the damn national guard. It’s pathetic.

If found this link over on Penny Arcade, and it was rather interesting. To sum up, it’s about how some firm has developed this technology that uses lasers to project a HUD-like (Heads Up Display) display directly onto your eye.

As I understand it, think of the movie Terminator. Whenever they show stuff from Schwarzenegger’s point of you, they show a bunch of other shit on there. Now I doubt they’d use it to show stuff like that, but that’s just a comparison.

And BTW, before you go to the link, I should give you the same warning that Tycho at Penny gave: “When you read this article, you will have an orgasm. Take whatever precautions you deem necessary.” Hehe.

Well, he was found not guilty of aggravated manslaughter and having a weapon for unlawful purposes. However, he was found guilty of hindering apprehension, tampering with witnesses, tampering with evidence, and fabricating physical evidence.

Surprisingly, there was no verdict for reckless manslaughter. I don’t really know what that actually means, but it seems strange to me, at least.

I’m sure you can find more on a news site or something if you want.

It’s a little late, but Tuesday’s game ended pretty close. Al and I actually watched it. It’s about time my team will (um, they should anyway) make it to the second round.

As a little side note, I have to mention that I can’t really consider myself a huge fan or anything. Most of my family is from that area, though, so I do root for them. And I’m just saying.. It’s about time.

as im sitting outside gregory hall today, luther head walked by. for those of you not in the know, he’s the starting small forward on u of i’s basketball team. as he passed, i watched for a second, and i noticed a kid walking parallel to luther in the other direction. the kid was wearing a luther head jersey. this was going to be a spectacle. luther nodded his head at the kid, and walked along. the kid got one of the gayest smiles on his face i’ve ever witnessed. smiled like that for a good 10 seconds i’d say. i wanted to laugh out loud, but the kid was going to pass me. so i held it in. im laughing now though.

It’s amazing how many actors there are out there who aren’t actually that good. It’s no wonder that you see the same people in so many movies.

I’m sitting here watching Snake Eyes, which has Nick Cage and Gary Sinise in it. Watching it, I can just tell that Gary Sinise is not the best actor in the world. Now, nobody ever said he was, and I’m sure he did a fine job in Forrest Gump, but his acting definitely leaves something to be desired in this movie.

It sort of detracts from the experience when I’m sitting there thinking that that’s not how somebody would really act in a particular situation or something. I’m not entirely sure what it is, either. Oh well, though. It’s still a decent movie.

The power was out in my dorm for around 12 hours today. It was actually quite relaxing. Normally, I have to put up with loud music coming from other rooms. Today, it was not the case. I enjoyed it, but I would have liked to have had my internet connection. Overall though, it wasn’t such a bad thing.

It got knocked out by some construction guys running new water lines to my dorm. Then, while they were working on the transformer, they messed up. Witnesses heard a loud BOOM then saw the electricians running away from the transformer. Afterwards, the power was out on half the campus. Supposedly the guy almost died. I don’t know though. I’d say that’s a little to ‘gossipy’ to trust.

The RIAA just sued 477 more people. I’ve got to admit that I never expected them to still be suing people by this time. It’s actually rather surprising to me. I guess I just always figured they would come to their senses by this time. And if not, that legislators would have stepped in the way.

Go big business, I guess. Isn’t that what the Republicans want anyway?

Well, kids, school is almost over. I mean, not really. Once this year is over, I get a few months off and then it starts over again. Yay. Regardless, I do get those months off. That’s something that I’ve been looking forward to since somewhere in August when school started. Heh.

I emailed Evolution, and it looks like I’ll be working there over the summer this year again. That’s nice. I like it there quite a bit, and I could use the money. I’ve used up quite a bit of the reserves that I’d built up since last summer when I worked there. I’m planning to buy a new video card next school year, so the money will definitely be needed. Those things don’t come cheaply. They seem to not be coming small anymore, either, but that’s an entirely different topic.

Another thing I’ve been looking at is a Pocket PC. Mind you, not a Palm. There is a difference, which is, namely, that they use different OSes. The problem is that those things are expensive for the good ones. The one I want has a fuckin’ thumb scanner on it, which would be infinitely cool. I would love that shit up. My problem is that I don’t really need one. I just want to play with it. Hehe. $600-700 is just a little bit much to justify spending on a toy, though. I suppose it’ll all depend on how much money I end up with once school starts again. After all, I do have to pay for that shit, too.

So this week was hell week for the ATO frat, of which my roommate and the 2 guys in the room next to me are members. That means for this week, I’ve had a single and 1/2 the ppl in my bathroom. One of the guys who is gone was the messy one too. It’s been great. Too bad it has to end.

I’m going to Indianapolis tommorrow to see an Areana football game. I’ve never seen one. Hopefully it will be fun.

I saw Man on Fire tonight. That’s the new Denzyl Washington movie (sp?). I’d reccommend it. The theater had a blown subwoofer though, so it rattled periodically.

If you’ve seen Kill Bill Vol. 2, then you probably saw the preview for Hero. It’s a Chinese Jet Li movie. I saw it last night. It’s good stuff, but it’s subtitled. So if you have a problem with that you wouldn’t like it. The action and story were quite good.

That’s all for now.

I had to go to a meeting today for the Homework Hotline. The director was having people share their most memorable moments. This one guy starts talking about how one time the kid he was tutoring mixed up orgasms and organisms. He described it in a little more detail. He stopped for a second, and the director thought he was done talking. So she starts up w/ her speech, and he starts going again. He tells us that the kid went on about multiple orgasms during the call. Right after he said this, the director says, “And that’s why we come to work everynight.” It was the funniest thing I’ve ever heard.

The president of the college was about 2 rows behind me, and I heard him say, “Oh, I didn’t know it was a hot, hot, hotline.” That’s really not funny except he’s the president of a college, and you don’t expect stuff like that from a man in his position. He’s like that though.

“I’m not real big on work. I think work is one of the most overrated things in the world.” – Charles Barkley

Look closely at Kurt Shilling’s hat. It says HY instead of NY. That’s Yankee Hater. I want one.

Haha, I just remembered something else. On my way back from the WYSE awards, somebody got drenched by a passing car. It was hilarious. I never thought I’d see anything like that except in the movies.

It has been raining on and off for quite a bit of the day, and because of the poor drainage, some parts of the campus collect rather massive pools (We’re talking pools, people. If I had some swimming trunks around these parts, I could partake in a nice cool, muddy swim on the side of the road. I must say, just the thought makes me giddy with excitement) of water near the curbs, especially around where I live.

So, back to the story. Here I am, coming up to the corner of the street the way I do – which is, of course, with my sexy swagger. I stop at the corner and notice some chick across the road from me, actually standing partway past the curb, as if she’s actually in that big of a hurry. She has to go as far out as possible without actually being in the road. As a side note, this is a big problem at this school. That is, pedestrians are morons and assholes. I guess a passing car drove too closely to her half of the road (mind you, the side of the road that the car passed had cars parked on it, so she had to be out past the curb at least a car’s width), because she flipped it off and started screaming something about how she could have been killed. Seeing this, I’m actually thinking to myself, “God damn, I hate when people do that. I wish she’d get soaked by one of these cars.”

The next thing I know, there’s this damn monster of a truck (note, however, that though it was large and monstrous, it was by no means a monster truck) flying down the road in front of her. I can’t see her any more, that’s how much of a monster this thing is. After about 15 minutes (eh, ok so maybe it was like 2 seconds, but this thing was a monster!), this is done passing her, and she’s wet from head to toe. I started laughing instantly – out loud. I think I may have actually pointed too, I can’t really remember. I was drunk with pleasure.

She started running down the sidewalk – assumedly to her apartment or something, but it’s tough to tell. She may have just been running away from my laughter. Yeah, right. Good luck with that, as I was laughing so hard and for so long that I missed my whole turn to cross the street.

That’s not the end of the story, though. Oh no, it gets better. When she started running away, one of her sandals came off, and she fell into puddle. I don’t even think she went back to get the sandal. Haha. Suffice it to say, I’m still chuckling about it.

I have two “midterms” this week in classes that I just had “midterms” in two weeks ago. That’s about the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. Oh well, I can deal. Studying just isn’t fun, though.

So the Herrin WYSE team was in town yesterday and today for their competition. That was pretty cool. Al, Kyle, Jason, and I went to ate with some of them yesterday and then headed over later that night to play some good old Texas Hold ‘Em. We had 9 people and split up into two tables. We didn’t actually have time to finihsh, but when we quit I was chip leader. So I’m happy with that performace. I can out $15 ahead, and you can’t really complain about that.

Today was their actual competition, and so I went over after classes to check out the awards ceremony. Unfortunately for them (and, admittledly, humorously for me), they didn’t get their name called once. Herrin’s thing has never been WYSE, though. The math team competition is a whole different story. Defending state champions.