24 posts from January 2008

If you missed this past Sunday's episode of "The Simpsons" then you missed one of the greatest episodes.  It was all about Homer & Marge in the 1990s and Homer's foray into the grunge music scene.  And it was awesome.  Below is a YouTube clip of all the songs from the episode but if you want to watch the whole thing you can do so here at Stage6.  I highly recommend watching the whole thing because at the end there's a great bit about what's coming in the new millennium and how there can be no president worse than Bill Clinton because he lied in court.

Our week of freakishly cold weather has finally ended.  It's currently 29 degrees F outside right now and, surprisingly, it feels good.  It was so nice to walk across campus today and not have every inch of skin covered.  It was also nice that my nose no longer felt like it was about to freeze off every time I stepped outside.

As I was walking to and from the library there were a half dozen kids or so walking and playing on the frozen Ganges (our name for the irrigation canal that runs through campus).  Now, I know it's been 20-30 degrees below freezing for the past week but I would not want to take my chances with the ice over the Ganges.  Even though there's hardly any water in it during the winter, I do not want to think about what I would fall into if the ice broke.  Oh well, it's their health they're putting at risk, not mine.

When I accidentally deleted all my music off my computer I freaked out because I didn't have any of it backed up.  This lead me to scouring the internet looking for all the songs I lost.  Shortly after finishing that I found some CDs that I had burned as backups for albums that I had previously deleted from my computer.  Today I opened them up only to discover that 2 of them basically contained all the individual music files that I had lost at the end of December.  And of course, since I didn't know they contained these files I found new copies and put them on my computer.  So now I have to go through each disk file by file and see which songs I still have on my computer and which songs I have to copy over.  Argh.  Thank goodness my one class today was canceled so I have to the time to do all this.  The other good thing about finding the disks is that they contain some songs that I wasn't able to find on the internet - like "Charlene (I'm Right Behind You)" and some hard to find mash-ups.

I would totally play this game if they made it.

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I know there are some people in my 'hood who watch "Chuck" (Chuckers?  Chucksters?) so if you haven't already heard: NBC is airing the last 2 episodes of "Chuck" tonight.  The first one airs at 8 PM and the second one airs at 10 PM.  Even though I'm sad these are the last episodes of "Chuck" I'm happy to finally have new episodes of a TV show that isn't a reality show.

Oh, and in the continuing weather saga - it got down to 0 degrees F sometime last night (which WeatherBug is reporting as -0 which is impossible *is a math geek*).  Thankfully it's warmed up to 3 degrees and I'm hoping it hits 4 or 5 before I leave for class.  And thank God tomorrow's Friday so I only have to brave the cold to and from one class.  Hopefully it starts warming up around here soon.  And by warming up I mean reaching freezing at some point.

So yesterday I said it was the coldest it's ever been in the 5 years I've been living here.  Well scratch that because today just beat it out for the top spot.  Today at 8:40 AM it is 1.0 degrees F.  There's also a 3 mph breeze which makes it -6 degrees F with the wind chill.  I seriously just want to go back to bed and never come out (and the cold is only one of those reasons).  It's days like this that make me hope they'll just cancel all classes before noon.  I really, really, really want it to be summer already.

Edit: I was walking back from class and I passed a guy who was wearing jeans and a t-shirt.  As in, there was no jacket present.  Or gloves.  Or earmuffs.  It's 11 degrees outside and he was wearing jeans and a t-shirt.  I have no idea how he was still moving.  Also, I opened my curtains for the first time in a few days and the condensation that accumulates every night was crystallized on the glass.  It was actually kind of cool looking.

So Heath Ledger's dead and it just boggles my mind.  I think it'll take awhile before it actually sinks in that he's dead.  I feel so sorry for his daughter.  She's what?  2?  No kid should have to lose a parent at that young of age.

Wow.  So, yeah.  In happier (I guess) news it got up to 21 degrees F today.  It is currently (7:50 PM) 10.9 degrees.  They say it's supposed to get down to 4 tonight and up to 26 tomorrow and I'm inclined to believe them.  It's so clear tonight too that the moon is freakishly full and bright.  If it wasn't so cold I'd go out and look at it for awhile.

Time: 8:30 AM.  Temperature: 1.9 degrees F.  My current mood: kill me now.  This is the fifth winter I've spent in this town and this is currently the coldest it's ever been while I've been here.  I'm so very, very tempted to skip my 10 o'clock class and hope it warms up some (like, maybe reach double digits) before my 2 o'clock one.  Also, can I go back to Saturday and start the weekend over because that would be really nice.  I can already tell this week is not going to be a good one.

Edit: Time: 9:40 AM.  Temperature: 7 degrees F.  Since it's warmed up slightly (5 degrees in an hour is pretty good) and I was able to finish a chunk of homework that I didn't do over the weekend, I think I'm going to bite the bullet and go to my 10 o'clock class.  It better not be canceled when I get up there.

Edit 2: Time: 11:20 AM.  Temperature: 12 degrees F.  My nose did not fall off walking to and from class but at times it certainly felt like it was about to.  I think I'm going to take a shower to help me warm up.

I don't think he's released an mp3 version of this song yet but Party Ben recently posted a video mashup of "D.A.N.C.E." by Justice and "You Spin Me Round" by Dead or Alive on his website.  It's pretty good - I hope he releases an mp3 soon.

If you were suddenly granted the day off today, how would you go spend your free time?

Well, considering I get most of today off anyway, the same thing I do every Friday (how much to I love classes that only meet twice a week?): surf the 'net, watch movies/TV, and eat food that I know is bad for me.

We get Monday off too this week which will be nice as it will give me a chance to get all my homework done that I didn't work on on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday.