I have a cough. Not a terribly terrible cough as you might imagine. It cannot be described as a smoker's cough or be likened to black lung. Just a cough.
It's not even one of those nuisances of a cough that causes its afflicted to make as if he were to clear his throat every eight and three quarter seconds. It's just a cough. Although it does make me feel the need to clear my throat. Ahem.
And as I whittle away at the keys beneath my fingers, there rests a satchel of relief-coated lozenges a mere twenty-one inches forward, ten and a half inches off to the right, and thirteen and five eighth inches below the very throat to which I could offer instant, if only temporary, relief.
But at this moment it has been
As it turns out, I don't want to write about my cough anymore. At the moment, I don't really feel like writing about anything. My inspiration has presently ran dry. I was hoping to make a mildly amusing post about something rather trivial. So trivial, in fact, that the degree and nature of the trivial subject is trivial itself.
Here's a thought: if I were to pursue using the word 'trivial' more times an a sentence than anyone else, could I then consider that a game of trivial pursuit?
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Friday, February 6, 2009
Recycled Laces
Sure, it's Friday night and I could be out chillin' on the town. But instead I'm here ranting about shoes. Well, I plan to go see Gran Torino later tonight. I heard it was good. Then maybe order a pizza. But about those shoes...
It was June and I was just hired to my new job. I needed a good pair of work shoes. Something that looked nice, as my Frankensteinish gray Sketchers just weren’t going to pass in the workforce. I compare my beat up sneakers with the Modern Prometheus due to the fact that the shoe’s leather – or whatever its composition may be – began tearing along one of the seams on the inner side of the foot; a problem I remedied by hand-stitching the fastidious fissure with black thread. Nevertheless, it is a good shoe and I still wear it to the day of this posting.
In preparation for the onset of my fledgling career, I paid a little visit to Target (pronounced tar-ZHEY for you French speakers). I wanted a shoe, and I wanted cheap. Surely the Zhey could provide. And they did. The brand, I believe, was Mossimo. I have a plain black Mossimo shirt, which is kind of dressy and I like. The shoes, on the other hand, suck.
Right from the get-go I remarked their lack of comfort. My heels grew calluses and my feet began to hurt. Oh, my aching sole! (Terrible, yes; but I had to do it) After months of wearing these, one of the laces snapped and something really caught my eye. Only the outer weaving of the lace had snapped; and the core around which it had been woven… was bright purple. PURPLE! On a stately-looking, professional man’s dress shoe!
After I had replaced both laces, a thought crossed my mind and I followed it on a whim. Taking the still intact original lace and a handy pocket knife, I sliced the outer weaving of the shoestring, emulating the snap of its twin. What I saw confirmed my suspicions. The lace’s core…was brown. I initially thought that maybe Mossimo was saving a dollar by going to their supplier, picking out the cheapest, most unwanted color of yarn, and using it as their shoelace cores.
As it turned out, that is not so! These laces are recycled! I can’t say enough bad things about these shoes. Even the material out of which they were constructed began cracking around high stress points; namely at the joints of the toes. One nice thing I can say is that even after my few months of wearing these, the solid rubber soles did not crack once, unlike a pair of dress shoes that I wore throughout most of high school.
But with the shoe string snappage, I deemed it time to upgrade to a far superior, if not much more costly, pair of shoes. Which, as it just so happens to be, is a wonderful segway into my review of the Dr. Scholl’s Harrington black work shoe.
Also view this highly educational video on shoes!
WARNING: language in this video is not very appropriate for anyone.
It was June and I was just hired to my new job. I needed a good pair of work shoes. Something that looked nice, as my Frankensteinish gray Sketchers just weren’t going to pass in the workforce. I compare my beat up sneakers with the Modern Prometheus due to the fact that the shoe’s leather – or whatever its composition may be – began tearing along one of the seams on the inner side of the foot; a problem I remedied by hand-stitching the fastidious fissure with black thread. Nevertheless, it is a good shoe and I still wear it to the day of this posting.
In preparation for the onset of my fledgling career, I paid a little visit to Target (pronounced tar-ZHEY for you French speakers). I wanted a shoe, and I wanted cheap. Surely the Zhey could provide. And they did. The brand, I believe, was Mossimo. I have a plain black Mossimo shirt, which is kind of dressy and I like. The shoes, on the other hand, suck.
Right from the get-go I remarked their lack of comfort. My heels grew calluses and my feet began to hurt. Oh, my aching sole! (Terrible, yes; but I had to do it) After months of wearing these, one of the laces snapped and something really caught my eye. Only the outer weaving of the lace had snapped; and the core around which it had been woven… was bright purple. PURPLE! On a stately-looking, professional man’s dress shoe!
After I had replaced both laces, a thought crossed my mind and I followed it on a whim. Taking the still intact original lace and a handy pocket knife, I sliced the outer weaving of the shoestring, emulating the snap of its twin. What I saw confirmed my suspicions. The lace’s core…was brown. I initially thought that maybe Mossimo was saving a dollar by going to their supplier, picking out the cheapest, most unwanted color of yarn, and using it as their shoelace cores.
As it turned out, that is not so! These laces are recycled! I can’t say enough bad things about these shoes. Even the material out of which they were constructed began cracking around high stress points; namely at the joints of the toes. One nice thing I can say is that even after my few months of wearing these, the solid rubber soles did not crack once, unlike a pair of dress shoes that I wore throughout most of high school.
But with the shoe string snappage, I deemed it time to upgrade to a far superior, if not much more costly, pair of shoes. Which, as it just so happens to be, is a wonderful segway into my review of the Dr. Scholl’s Harrington black work shoe.
Also view this highly educational video on shoes!
WARNING: language in this video is not very appropriate for anyone.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Job Search
Things are getting a bit hairy for yours truly. I need a job. And I can't seem to get one. I'd sit here and mope, but something in my gut tells me that isn't why people visit my site! On to something else: something that has been tossing over and over in my mind is the inclusion of my own programs on this site. Some fun java apps or perhaps some javascript (such as Cabel Sasser's Fancy Zoom). Maybe that way I could point out my website to potential employers and they could be totally impressed by my amazingness. Problem is, I would first need to write those programs. Sure, I have a few things on hand, but those are all programs written as parts of homework. And it's not exciting (for you) when you know 20 other people wrote the exact same code to do the exact same thing. But if you're really dying to see some assembly language code that imprecisely calculates e to the power of x, I could hook you up.
EDIT: Visit my website, which is what I keep going on here about.
EDIT: Visit my website, which is what I keep going on here about.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Not Last!
Happy New Year and all that but what I really wanted to share is that I just checked the results of U-Band chair placement auditions and I'm not last! I'm actually third from last and I don't think the last kid even tried out, but third from last is a slight improvement from last year.
On another note, I just showed up for a few minutes today to keep my admin status at 'active' since when I went inactive over the summer all of my pictures got ripped. I really want to avoid that happening again.
Oh hey! Big deal on Staples' blank media! I needed some more discs and saw Staples brand cd-r 100 pack and dvd-r 50 pack for $24.95 each. The real kicker was that each spindle came with a 256 MB USB memory stick. Hooray says me! So I got 3.
Saturday, December 29, 2007
GUITAR HERO SELLS OUT
Video games have really begun to sell out with their product endorsements. It's starting to make me sick. I first began to notice in either Tony Hawk 3 or 4 when billboards for Jeep and Nokia started popping up in the skateparks. Booooooooo! And now with its third incarnation, Guitar Hero has also given in and sold out for mo' money. Take note of the Axe special guitar up for purchase which is designed to mimic a can of the odiferous body spray. Also, the "Bom Chicka Wah Wah" backup dancer that comes out during various encore performances. What is this? Seriously!
A little less subtle is the pack of Wrigley's 5 gum laying close to the playlist in either career or quick play modes. Why all this? Personally, I blame Neversoft. I was a big fan of those guys since I don't think the Tony Hawk games would have ever gotten off the ground without them. But their games are becoming way too commercialized. Guitar Hero is a really popular game now. Do they really need the extra dough brought on by in-game advertising? Surely enough people are buying the game that they can enjoy cruising in their Hummer H3's without that pack of 5.
I also blame Neversoft for the list of songs. Granted, there are some greats, like "Welcome to the Jungle" and Stevie Ray Vaughn's "Pride and Joy", which is a lot of fun to play, but there are too many songs on there that I don't know and don't enjoy. I don't like playing the game when 4 of the 5 songs in a set are from the year the game is released. I don't know these songs! And most of the time they're not that fun to play, either.
But what irks me most is Neversoft's less-than-obvious show of stinginess. The Sex Pistol's "Anarchy in the UK": also in Tony Hawk's Proving Grounds, a game by Activision and Neversoft. "Holiday in Cambodia" by Dead Kennedys: "Police Truck" by Dead Kennedys in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater by Activision and Neversoft. A coincidence? Could be. My thoughts are that Neversoft is either striking some pretty cheap deals with certain bands or are saving a lot of money by regurgitating songs for their different games. But seeing as I have never heard of Dead Kennedys outside of these two games, I doubt Neversoft is picking out these songs because of their chart-topping status.
A little less subtle is the pack of Wrigley's 5 gum laying close to the playlist in either career or quick play modes. Why all this? Personally, I blame Neversoft. I was a big fan of those guys since I don't think the Tony Hawk games would have ever gotten off the ground without them. But their games are becoming way too commercialized. Guitar Hero is a really popular game now. Do they really need the extra dough brought on by in-game advertising? Surely enough people are buying the game that they can enjoy cruising in their Hummer H3's without that pack of 5.
I also blame Neversoft for the list of songs. Granted, there are some greats, like "Welcome to the Jungle" and Stevie Ray Vaughn's "Pride and Joy", which is a lot of fun to play, but there are too many songs on there that I don't know and don't enjoy. I don't like playing the game when 4 of the 5 songs in a set are from the year the game is released. I don't know these songs! And most of the time they're not that fun to play, either.
But what irks me most is Neversoft's less-than-obvious show of stinginess. The Sex Pistol's "Anarchy in the UK": also in Tony Hawk's Proving Grounds, a game by Activision and Neversoft. "Holiday in Cambodia" by Dead Kennedys: "Police Truck" by Dead Kennedys in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater by Activision and Neversoft. A coincidence? Could be. My thoughts are that Neversoft is either striking some pretty cheap deals with certain bands or are saving a lot of money by regurgitating songs for their different games. But seeing as I have never heard of Dead Kennedys outside of these two games, I doubt Neversoft is picking out these songs because of their chart-topping status.
Monday, December 17, 2007
THE FIRST
This is the first entry into my "blog". I say "blog" because it's a place for me to "type" stuff. Just any darn little thing I feel like. I say "type" because I think it's funny. Who's with me on that one?
As of this entry, remote linking is still forbidden on this page, even though that's not what I'm doing. The only image that chooses to show its ugly little face is the PS2 "Links" menu button. I say "Links" because, you get the point. The time is now 11:06 Central Standard Time and I have a final exam at 7:30 tomorrow morning, CST; 8:30 Eastern, 6:30 Mountain, 5:30 Pacific, yada yada yada. The subject is programming languages, which curiously, I feel less confident about than my Japanese language final.
As of this entry, remote linking is still forbidden on this page, even though that's not what I'm doing. The only image that chooses to show its ugly little face is the PS2 "Links" menu button. I say "Links" because, you get the point. The time is now 11:06 Central Standard Time and I have a final exam at 7:30 tomorrow morning, CST; 8:30 Eastern, 6:30 Mountain, 5:30 Pacific, yada yada yada. The subject is programming languages, which curiously, I feel less confident about than my Japanese language final.
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