Demetri Martin is awesome. He’s something like Seinfeld, but for this generation. His inventiveness and flair show a very deep and very real understanding of the our brave new world. But I say good things about everyone, don’t I.
Watching the excellent series called Extras with Ricky Gervais. Classic British/Gervais hybrid humor.
Concentration Camp for Me!
Economics was deadly deadly dead. Not really that hard – we just needed more time. A day more of study, and 10 minutes more of answering time. Both essays were things I didn’t study well enough. And I screwed up the last bits of both of the last two questions. Probably because I TRIED TO DO THEM BOTH AT THE SAME TIME.
My answer was nonsensicalness ridiculousness. I can only hope that it is MISTAKEN FOR ECONOMIC GENIUS.
Concentration Camp for Me!
Today’s economics test can only be described through the use of profanities. Make 2 huge mistakes for the second parts of the last questions of both sections. Probably lose 10 marks straight away. I just hope I still pass.
In hindsight, its actually pretty funny. My answer was ridiculously nonsensical. I think my mental circuits must have crossed or something. I won’t reveal any more details, because I am an honest man, and HOPE TO GOD YOU DON’T LEARN FROM MY MISTAKES.
Platform Removal
Assorted events took place.
We finally got around to moving the platforms back to the boarding school. The experience filled me with a great sense of nostalgia, it brought me back to younger, happier and simpler time.
There is something deeply satisfying about moving great hunks of oddly shaped wood around a massive artificial maze. There are many levels to the process.
In other news, angry korean loner became the next american high school shooter.The seriousness of this didn’t hit me until I read the Time magazine article on the subject. Time is cool. Maybe it’s just me, but it looks like they’ve started going into overdrive ever since Jon Stewart flamed their “LOL WEB 2.0 MAKE JOO PERSON OF YEAR ,NOOB!” issue.
MORE BLOONS!!! VERY VERY ADDICTIVE
Also SNL. Sometimes good, sometimes bad. This one was pretty good, but the ending was weak.
Funny Things (2)
Human Door( Sam)
When people are bitten by radioactive things, they gain superpowers linked to said thing. So if someone gets bitten by a door….
James Bond and Vengeful Q.
James Bond has it coming. After years of abuse and disrespect, Q wants revenge…
Q: Hello,James.. Here we have what seems to be an ordinary GUN. However, it is in fact, a PHONE!
JAMES : Let’s try it.
Q: Sure James.. (grins and hands over gun. Smiles stiffly.)
James puts the GUN to his ear and is about to pull the TRIGGER. Suddenly, he notices Q’s expression, his eyes narrow in suspicion.)
Jame: Hold on a minute, Q , old friend. Why don’t you test it.
Q takes the gun and pulls it to his head, still smiling stiffly. He starts to sweat. Losing his nerve, he throws the GUN down in anger.
Q: DAMN YOU JAMES!
JAMES: (laughs) Oh, Q, you scamp. (picks up the GUN casually and shoots Q.)
Funny Things
I’ve taken to compiling lists of the vague humorous things we discuss.
1. Awkward Silences and their variations ( Ali and Reuben)
What happens if you see someone you know, but they don’t seem to see you? You could wave and look like a tard, or not wave and look like a prick. Dillema! Especially if, at the last moment the person notices you, and looks you right in the eye. Aah, the horror! The social horror!
2. Famous Orphans (Ken Tay)
Harry Potter, James Bond, Anne Frank, Darth Vader, BATMAN. The list goes on. Why are orphans so popular? They should make a game, or a tv-show. “Orphan Escape?”.
3. The Chewbacca Defense ( Sam and Feng – A reference to South Park)
Apparently, the Chewbacca Defense is something litigators use to confuse the Jury.
As Taken from Wiki
“Cochran: Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, Chef’s attorney would certainly want you to believe that his client wrote “Stinky Britches” ten years ago. And they make a good case. Hell, I almost felt pity myself! But, ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!
Gerald Broflovski: Dammit!
Chef: What?
Gerald: He’s using the Chewbacca Defense!
Cochran: Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I’m a lawyer defending a major record company, and I’m talkin’ about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you’re in that jury room deliberatin’ and conjugatin’ the Emancipation Proclamation, [approaches and softens] does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests.”
Everyone is going to end up either a Doctor or a Lawyer. Honestly, they should just ask us all to go to the audi, then tell the doctors to go to the left and the lawyers to go to the right. Then tell the rest of us to leave.
I spent the last few days slacking. All I have left in terms of IAs is Chem Pracs, WL1 and 2, and CAS Documentation. Which is pretty much nothing, compared what I had due about a month ago.
Meanwhiles, we approach the 24 of April, the day of the 24-hour comic. I wonder whether I can convince anyone to take part in it. ( hint,hint).
On the subject of comics, it’s high time that I introduce you lot to Bryan Lee O’Malley, the guy behind Scott Pilgrim and Lost at Sea. I can’t tell you much about them, since I’ve only read extracts so far, but from what I’ve seen on the internet, they’re really good. He has a unique style, something like manga, but not quite. I’m going to one or the other up sometime in May, maybe.
EDIT: Also, he works for a group called Oni Press, the publishing Company responsible for some of the most diverse and offbeat comics on the market.
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Grr. I hate doing those particularly mindless practicals, that are oh-so-common in SL Sciences. I don’t know what the hell I’m doing, just putting small vials of colored liquids into sinister machines which beep angrily at me, and plot graphs grudgingly.It seems that SL subjects are all about the mindless. Mindless Maths Portfolio, Mindless Practicals, Mindless Malay Projects.
