| Google suggestions |
[feb. 11-a, 2009|11:04 am] |
I had to capture this before they go and change it.
Google will give you suggestions as you type in your search query, thus:
Wait, what? |
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| Anatomy of Humor |
[feb. 6-a, 2009|01:18 pm] |
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Although a joke can take any one of many forms, perhaps the most basic form consists of two simple parts: The set-up, and the punchline. |
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| (neniu temo) |
[jan. 24-a, 2009|03:32 pm] |
Instructions: Open up your iTunes and fill out this survey, no matter how embarrassing the responses might be.
How many songs total: 2209
How many hours or days of music: 7.3 days
Most recently played: Desmond Dekker - King of Ska
Most played: Bonnie Prince Billy - Goodbye Dear Old Stepstone
Most recently added: The Boxer Rebellion - Evacuate
Sort by song title:
First Song: Snake Apartment - A 1 Paint the Walls
-- but I don't think the "A 1" is really part of the song title so:
Steven Finz - Abuse of Process
-- but that's not a song but a lecture so:
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Accidents will Happen
Last Song: Tom Waits - 9th & Hennepin
Sort by time:
Shortest Song: Indigesti - Detesta (0:05)
Longest Song: (not counting podcasts and lectures) Mogwai - My Father My King (22:57)
Sort by album:
First album: Adventures in Afropea 2: The Best of Djur Djura - Voice of Silence (Djur Djura)
Last album: 60's Girl Groups (various)
First song that comes up on Shuffle: 100 Flowers - California's Falling Into the Ocean
Search the following and state how many songs come up:
Death: 13
Life: 26
Love: 55
Hate: 9
You: 195
Sex: 4 |
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| (neniu temo) |
[jan. 17-a, 2009|12:03 pm] |
Anyone play Animal Crossing: Wild World?
My friend code is 0001-8082-2588
And my name is Linus and my town is Lansing.
Check it out! And leave your friend code in comments, if you like! |
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| :) |
[sep. 25-a, 2008|10:10 pm] |
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| Let's have a debate. |
[sep. 25-a, 2008|09:58 am] |
“It is my belief that this is exactly the time when the American people need to hear from the person who, in approximately 40 days, will be responsible for dealing with this mess,” Mr. Obama said. “It is going to be part of the president’s job to deal with more than one thing at once.”
So. Nice. |
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| The Rules |
[sep. 24-a, 2008|10:34 am] |
More like this please:
(link)
"Rule 5: Always keep in mind the goal is to privatize gains to a few, and socialize losses to the many." |
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| Thing |
[maj. 3-a, 2008|08:17 pm] |
What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a Memoir in Books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian: a Novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible: a Novel
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes: a Memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States: 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse Five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake: A Novel
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road(garbage)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers |
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| Alice has favorites |
[nov. 24-a, 2007|09:57 am] |
Alice tried to get a facebook and a myspace, but those two discriminate against babies. Unfair! Next she'll try to get a livejournal - we'll see how that goes.
Alice's favorites:
Favorite actresses: Drool Barrymore, Droolia Roberts, Droolia Stiles
Favorite comedian: Drool Carey
Favorite actress in a musical: Droolie Androols
Favorite rappers: Droolio, Ja Drool
Favorite author: Drools Verne
Favorite chef: Droolia Child
Favorite movie: The Cider House Drools
Favorite song: What a drool believes (the original version by the Droolbie Brothers) |
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| Photo update!!! |
[okt. 21-a, 2007|08:49 pm] |
You asked for it, you got it - the latest photos of little Alice!
4 other new ones here. |
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| Alice |
[aŭg. 24-a, 2007|09:55 pm] |
Alice Margaret Banghart
August 24, 2007, 3:43 pm.
10 lbs., 7 oz.
22 3/4"
Fat, red, beautiful, perfect.
We couldn't be happier, all three of us are exhausted.
Pictures to follow. |
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| Baby day? |
[aŭg. 21-a, 2007|07:52 am] |
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Going to the hospital today. May come home with a baby. The baby! Our baby! Our baby may be born in a few hours, maybe tonight, maybe tomorrow. Are you excited?! We are! |
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| Bush makes good. |
[jul. 3-a, 2007|11:45 am] |
"There's leaks at the executive branch; there's leaks in the legislative branch. There's just too many leaks. And if there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. And if the person has violated the law, the person will be taken care of."
George W. Bush, September 30, 2003
True to his word, Bush has today taken care of Scooter Libby. Very good care indeed. |
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| Updizzle |
[maj. 30-a, 2007|06:36 am] |
| [ | Nuna humoro |
| |  relieved | ] |
I keep meaning to post, and then I'm about to, and then I stop. Don't know why.
Here's what I've been stressing about lately:
Law Review. Here's how it works. Law Review is the main journal of any law school. Every law school (I think, or at least almost every law school) has at least one journal. MSU Law has, I believe, three official journals, and one or two unofficial journals. Law Review is generally the top one at any school. The Law Review is basically student-run. They publish articles from professors, students, and legal scholars. The whole thing is very circular, that is, a law school that is perceived as very good can attract higher-caliber authors for its law review, and higher-caliber authors published in a school's law review will increase the reputation of that law review, and increasing the reputation of the law review increases the reputation of the school in general, thus attracting better articles, and so on. So it's something schools take very seriously.
It's also something employers take very seriously. We hear stories about some employers who will take the resumes they get and separate them into two stacks: one with law review, and one without. There's no guarantee that the employer will even look at the second stack.
So, it ought to be something that is important to students. To a great extent, it depends on what you want to do. If you want to work at a large firm, or if you want to eventually teach law, it's basically a "must." If you don't know what you want to do, then it's important to do because it keeps a lot of doors open for you, especially when you attend a relatively low-ranked law school. Anyone will notice a Harvard or Michigan grad, but an MSU Law grad needs to have that something extra.
So, who is on Law Review? And how do you get on Law Review? Glad you asked. This is how it is at MSU - I'm guessing it's substantially similar at other schools, but I don't know. At the end of your first (1L) year, you pick up the Law Review Packet. Within the packet is all the information for getting onto Law Review. Basically, there are two parts - a Bluebook exam and a Casenote.
The Bluebook exam is an exercise in correcting citations. The Bluebook is a citation guide which tells you exactly how to cite sources in Law Review articles. Punctuation, capitalization, abbreviation, what order things have to go in - it gets very complex. So they give you a few pages of incorrect citations, and you have to take your red pen and your highlighter and correct them. But you can't just write out the correct citation - that would be too easy. You have to use the special correction marks to show the changes that need to be made. Nobody gets on law review without getting a score of 75% on the Bluebook exam.
The Casenote is a short essay (12-15 pages) on a particular legal issue. It is strictly "closed research," that is, the Law Review gives you a few (this year, it was 14) sources you can use, and you are absolutely not allowed to do any outside research. There are, assuming you get 75% on the Bluebook exam, two ways to get onto Law Review. If, once class rankings are determined, you are in the top 5% of the class, your casenote will be ignored and you will be invited to join the law review. If you are not, then your casenote will be graded, and if it is good enough, you will be invited to join the law review. These are known as "grade on" and "write on" respectively.
So imagine this, you spend an anxious two weeks preparing for finals (remember that in a typical first year law school class, 100% of your grade is based on your final exam score), you get through your finals like you just ran a marathon, and on the day of your last final, you pick up two difficult homework assignments, due in three weeks. All that "last day of school" excitement? Kind of gone.
Today, as I post this, is the due date for the Law Review packets. I have done the Bluebook exam. I have completed my casenote. I am worn out and stressed out from it. All that remains is to go to school today, print out a copy, check it for any glaring errors (I am beyond major revisions at this point), correct those errors, print out five copies, stick it in an envelope with my Bluebook exam, and then keep my fingers crossed.
The cruel part is (and I'm not usually one to brag, except to my wife, but) I'm in line to grade on to this thing. I'm sitting on a 4.0, so you'd think I wouldn't stress so hard about the casenote, right? Unfortunately, grades aren't due until June 7 (I only have two of my six grades for the semester that just ended), and class ranks won't be finalized until sometime in July. If I maintain the 4.0, I'll know my class rank (1), but if not, I won't know until July. So, the nightmare would be that I get overconfident and fail to turn in a casenote, then my grades come in, and it doesn't take much to drop you out of the top 5%. One B might do it. So, yeah, I had to write it.
But! Now, I've written it! And after just a bit of correction for obvious errors, I'll be turning it in! I don't know how to celebrate... if I were a drinker, maybe I'd be drinking tonight. Since I'm not, I don't know what to do with myself. But at least I can finally relax a little! |
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| Odd. |
[apr. 11-a, 2007|05:55 am] |
 | You scored as agnosticism. You are an agnostic. Though it is generally taken that agnostics neither believe nor disbelieve in God, it is possible to be a theist or atheist in addition to an agnostic. Agnostics don't believe it is possible to prove the existence of God (nor lack thereof).
Agnosticism is a philosophy that God's existence cannot be proven. Some say it is possible to be agnostic and follow a religion; however, one cannot be a devout believer if he or she does not truly believe.
agnosticism | | 79% | Buddhism | | 63% | atheism | | 54% | Islam | | 50% | Christianity | | 46% | Judaism | | 42% | Paganism | | 42% | Satanism | | 38% | Hinduism | | 29% | </td>
Which religion is the right one for you? (new version)
created with QuizFarm.com |
If I had tried to predict before taking the quiz, I would have said:
atheism
agnosticism
Buddhism
Christianity
Satanism
paganism
Hinduism
Judaism
Islam
Shows what I know. Or shows how good this quiz is. |
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| Blood and Chocolate |
[feb. 21-a, 2007|06:13 am] |
I think this will probably help me lose weight.
Don't buy diamonds and don't eat chocolate, okay, people?
The good news (for me, but the bad news for my belly) is that I think the convenience store at the law school has "fair trade" chocolate... I'll have to check it out. |
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| Posting lyrics |
[nov. 14-a, 2006|11:43 pm] |
| [ | Nuna humoro |
| |  hard to hold it steady | ] |
| [ | Nuna muziko |
| | Knuckles | ] |
I've been trying to get people to call me Sunny D, because I've got the good stuff that kids go for.
People keep calling me Five Alive,
because the last guy didn't really die; I just lied. And the first four didn't really die; I just lied. |
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