November 2002

The final phase of getting new tires is complete! I took my car to Midas today to get it aligned. It took three hours, but no matter. I spent the time roaming the adjacent Wal-Mart and Comp-USA with Michelle. I got lots of Christmas gift ideas, too! The family is going to get some neat stuff!

Someone told me a few days ago that they hate commercial auto repair places like Midas. I have to say that I don’t mind them at all. The guy there was very friendly (he had the voice of a game show host) and the cost was about $30 less than a quote I received at a private mechanic.

To help Michelle feel better, I made ziti, garlic bread made from homemade french bread, and salad. It was an amazing meal if I may say so myself!

I had rented Shallow Hal at Blockbuster (which neither of us had seen, but we needed a comedy to lighten the mood) which we watched after dinner. It’s definitely a cute movie with an interesting message. Definitely recommend it to anyone out there!

I’m headed to bed so I can get up early in the morning. Goodnight all!

I think Michelle is getting sicker by the hour. Actually, it seems like everyone around me is sick! I’m slowly coming to terms with the fact that I’m the next one to go. Dum dum dum…

I just took my last Diffy Q quiz forever, and it was great I would say that I was going to miss spending my Friday afternoons in the CII taking a quiz, but it just wouldn’t be true!!

I spent tonight at the first annual Miss RPI Contest. Ok, that’s going to take some explaining…

Every year for a long time, one of the local sororities hosts the Mr. RPI contest in DCC 308. Think of it as the Miss America contest without the girls and without the political correctness (horny boys don’t care about world peace!).

The Miss RPI contest is very similar, but with girls (duh!). They give answers that are just as raunchy, and the swimsuits are quite revealing. Now you’re probably thinking that the only reason I went is because for some reason I was feeling extra horny or something.

Actually, I went in support of my friend Katie. She lip-synched to Jennifer Lopez for her talent (and sported a very large ass to make it believable!). Her question was “If you could be a boy for a day, what is the first thing you would do?” to which she responded “I would have someone kick me in the balls so I could finally see what all the fuss is about.” Most of the other girls gave answers to various questions that were made in attempt to flirt with the hosts and/or judges.

So indeed, it was a fun time! Katie placed second out of 9 girls and received a $50 gift certificate to Crossgates Mall. The girl who won (Laura, a learning assistant in the QUAD) was very sweet, sang an Italian opera for her talent, and gave a thoughtful answer to her question. Katie wasn’t particular raunchy either, especially since she wore a one piece. Honestly, I think the judges appreciated the nice girls over the trashy ones.

But there were some problems. The frat the sponsored the event (Pi Lambda Phi) didn’t really advertise until the day of (again, it was Katie who told me about it several days in advance, otherwise I probably wouldn’t have known). It also costs a good deal of money to rent DCC 308 from RPI, and they only charged $3 admission to get in. The proceeds from the event went to Joseph’s House, a local charity.

By my calculations, they couldn’t have made that much of a donation. The turnout was poor, DCC 308 holds about 500 people, but it was less than half filled. They spent a lot of money on prizes and flowers for the girls who won. It’s a fun event, but I found out later that they only donated $400 to Joseph’s House… it could have been so much more!

With that, I’m headed to bed! I took pictures of the event for the school’s yearbook, so when I get those developed (next week hopefully) I’ll post them!

I think Michelle is coming down with a cold, which wouldn’t normally be a problem except that I have also been short on sleep recently and definitely don’t want to get sick! Uh oh!!!!

I spend most of tonight catching up on work in the Union. I actually learned several important things. Here are two important ones:

1) There are lots of really cool distributions of Linux, and this site lists several of them. Over winter vacation, I think I’m going to play around with some of them and see what Linux can do!

2) I really love web development and wish I had more time to design applications. I would almost like to do that for a living, but I still want to be in management somewhere. It’s good for freelance summer work!

So that is that! I’m headed to bed gearing up for a pretty relaxed Thursday!

Marie is sooo funny! Here is a snippet of us wasting time during Physics class reminiscing about the past.

Marie: its so sad! i turned 20 in October
Me: haha I know You’re soo old!
Marie: its really quite depressing, i went through my like quarter life crisis
Marie: i am old!!

I can’t believe I too will be 20 in a couple of weeks. Scary when I think that my teen years are over. And I remember the b-day card my parents gave me on my 13th birthday… it said something about having a teenager in the house. I should look for that card, it’s probably somewhere. I save everything!

Ok, so here you have it folks, the world’s funniest joke. This is for real (check out this article over at CNN if you need confirmation).

What are your thoughts about this? Do you think it’s funny enough to be considered the world’s funniest joke?

If you’re curious, you can read more about the results of this study at the LaughLab website. For completeness, here is the joke that came in second:

Dinner turned out great, it was all amazing! Here’s a tip for you soon-to-be Thanksgivers… use the oven roasting bag by Reynolds. When you cook your turkey in it, the bag traps all the moisture and steam making for very juicy meat. Since it traps the moisture, there are plenty of drippings left over to make gravy. Michelle made her famous mashed potatoes (with lots of butter, go figure!) and Katie made an apple pie. Duane did a wonderful job carving the turkey.

What an excellent evening! I’m going to bed on time so I can get up and spend the day running around putting the finishing touches on my DSA projects. Wish me luck!