Category: General

-While this may be a chronicle of my life, I like to remind myself sometimes of what is happening around this time. On this day, America is still at war with Iraq and is 100 miles away from Baghdad.
-On a lighter note, college students like myself are enjoying some rest and relaxation away from classes and such. And, rooting for their schools basketball team in the “Big Dance”. Unfortunately, my school just lost to Oklahoma yesterday. Isn’t that just sad when California, the most populous state in the country and the best public school in the country, can’t beat Oklahoma, the state where everybody came in too soon?
-I know that joke was bad, but it could have been a lot worse.
-At least we beat North Carolina state. For those of you who saw it, it had to be the best game of the first day. I mean last second heroics by both teams.
-My vote for best game in the tournament though, so far is Arizona vs. Gonzaga. Double overtime, down to the wire, and two last second shots to extend the game. And Arizona won by just one point. Wow.
-Gee I was all gun ho about writing this thing and now I’m out of ideas. Very strange.
-I find it rather odd that there has to be a dichotomy between high school friends and college friends. I mean they are all friends right?
-As soon as everyone leaves the comfort of the dorms high speed connection, the amount of people online on a buddies list decreases dramatically doesn’t it?
-You know those ugly pixilated reruns of TV shows you download on the net? If you can, try playing them on you’re TV. You’d be surprised how good they can look. Try DVD rips too as they look great too.
-This is now also the time for college admissions to send letters of acceptance or rejection to prospective students. Good luck to all of you and also here’s hoping you go to the right school (i.e. Cal)
-It’s also that time of year colleges start courting people to come. Berkeley offers a free trip for some people to come. Take advantage of it and come by. Who knows I may host you and you might stay in my room (don’t mind the smell).
-And speaking of which, hardly anyone on my floor signed up for this program. What is up with that? I mean a bunch of you came here because of it.
-Back to 56k modem speed. How can people tolerate this?
-Berkeley has drawn a massive amount of media attention, because of the anti-war or (to be more politically correct) peace protests. It’s cool seeing people you know on TV like Geoff from the floor. And it’s all for a good cause.
-In Berkeley, though, you’ll find a huge amount of distrust with the media. Someone tagged underneath the logo on a KRON-4 news van the word “lies” indicating the “bay-area news leader” isn’t all its cracked up to be. I’m saying that’s just vandalism, but do they have a point?
-It is times like that I wish I carry a camera and a voice recorder with me all the time.
-A lot of parents want their kids to come home every weekend when they go to a close school. However, when they go to a far away school, some parents ask why would you want to go home? Striking contradiction.
-Well I didn’t get the health worker position I wanted. That really stinks.
-It’s also really annoying when you feel like other people can do so much more than you. I don’t know I guess I just need reassurance sometimes.
-And lately it’s been one of the many things that hasn’t gone right for me in a while. I thought it was just a phase but now it’s compounding. Oh what to do, what to do?
-Lately I’ve been more open and talking to more stingers and such. I wonder if that’s a good thing, knowing my trusting nature.
-It looks like depressing Allen managed to infiltrate subjournal. I don’t know I guess it’s been kind of hard for me to count the positives in my life right now. Oh well, bright and cheery Allen should be happy after he gets back from Fry’s Electronics tomorrow. 🙂
-With these last words I type, I will have used all the characters I am allowed.

-Spring break in a few days.
-Got to love the new humor page. It’s incredibly funny, but I wonder what I’ll do with it once everyone has seen it. I mean how many times can a person possibly laugh at why did the chicken cross the road jokes. Here’s hoping I can eventually write my own material.
-Apparently, when I try to be witty funny, it doesn’t work. But I just start saying things in a weird voice or say a completely obvivous joke, it comes off as really funny. Go figure.
-I’ve spent to much time trying to appeal to a very small group of people. How very, very sad. For those of you who do come by and visit the site, you’ll find there are some very appealing features in it to keep you coming back for more.
-Where are all the agnostics and atheists in this school? I need more help from people who don’t believe in God. Isn’t this school suppose to be full of super liberal people?
-Headed back to old high school over break. I went back there with good old pal Fabian and a person said that Berkeley people fight for the most ridiculous issues like whether or not coffee is organically grown. To me, the fact that she knew about it makes her a good candidate to go to Berkeley.
-What happened to subprofiles? Nobody seems to have these anymore, which might explain my lack of subfriends. Speaking of which, why am I not on anyone’s subfriends list?
-So much for this stuff being funny.
-You know when you are addicted to the net when you can just shoot out web sites off the top of your head when people ask you for one.
-You also know that you are addicted to the net when you read silly journals like this one all the time.
-I can not believed I missed seeing Scott Adams, the man who currently writes the Dilbert comic strip.
-Speaking of celebrities, I can’t believe how many famous people Fred has seen. He had Arnold Schwarzenegger as a guest speaker in his Poli Sci class, saw a few players from the Golden State Warriors at the gym, and met Snoop Dogg and has a picture with him. Me and Eugene have a side bet to see which one he’ll meet next.

-Believe it or not there is no formal definition of the word planet. Not only this, but the newly proposed definition would say that there are 12 planets in the solar system. Check out this site for details.
-I know promised more updates all the time and this time I really mean it. I’ve been inspired by my fellow blogging brethen to keep writing for the good of the community.
-New additions to the subprofile include a new late night humor and links to fellow blog pages.
-The late night humor page should be good. I feel bad that they will not all be my jokes. Hey who knows? Maybe I’ll put up so many jokes, maybe some of that humor will rub off on me.
-I now have a new found respect for online journals. They provide great information to the masses and quite quickly I might add. Check out some of them.
-It would have been a bit of an inconvience for me to make this as a Geocities page, but this is so much easier.
-The text messages finally stopped at 2 PM Monday afternoon after they started at 2 AM Saturday night. More info on the live journal.
-If there’s anything about computer programming in general is that the tinest mistakes can lead to huge errors. Those of you who ever do, know exactly what I’m talking about.
-Intresting to note how a multiude of people started downloading movies off P2P file sharing programs, after being told the programs were capable of this by public service announcements telling them not to do it.
-Spring break is in a few more days. Counting down the days and then I get a week with no classes.
-Good luck on finals for all you quater schools.
-Why is nobody keeps me informed over down south? Over here, there’s nothing about my what my friends do that alludes me (say on or two things). Come on I tell you what happens to me up here.
-Here’s hoping I can fill up one subpage by the end of the semester.
-Please visit. I promise I’ll update more.

Continuing my power of the Internet motif, I thought I’d talk about the wonderful world of online journals. Blogs, as most people call them, are predicted to be the latest craze (if they aren’t all ready), as it allows people with no experience in webdesign to be able to update their own websites. It’s generally quick and painless. What I find rather amazing amount them is the information they contain. There are some devoted to personal data, political events, technology. Heck there are even blogs about blogging. It’s a forward trend to think about. Check out this article on Cnet comapring blogs and the so-called “real journalists” on TV. You can also take a look at a few other journals my friends have put up on the net at this page and post a comment on this entry to refer people to more Blogs.. Finally, you can visit web sites like Xanga, Blogger, and of course LiveJournal to get you’re own. The internet is waiting for you’re voice.

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Remember when people used the words “information superhighway” and “world wide web” and referred to “getting on the net” as “getting on the web?” It seems like yesterday for me, at least in my old ripe age of 18. Why do I suddenly bring up 90s slang? Well, I was exploring my favorite search engine, Google, and it was just interesting to me how one link could lead to another and another and another. It reminded me of makes the net so great, one click on a source of information could lead to thousands more. There is information on literally every time, just a matter of how hard you look. With that in mind, I refer you to my links, downloads, and trivia pages in my subprofile. It’s right now very small, but I hope it can become quite big very soon.

Julie asked if I could look over her paper. I said sure send it over. What I meant to say is not over my phone. She tried to send me her paper as a word document, but somehow it ended up as a set of text messages on my phone. But remember a cell phone message only holds so many lines and her paper was 4 pages. So now my phone is filling up with short messages every now and then with lines from her paper. It’s been 4 hours and I’m still getting messages. Oh wait it stopped. No there it goes again.

By the way, people can send you text messages on your phone when you’re signed off AIM. It’s not typically this annoying and can be in fact quite useful. Click here.

What I did last night:

1. Went to a gay bar called Rock Hard
2. Sat in the back of a cop car
3. Sat on the back of a cop car
4. Humped a statue with 8 other guys
5. Urinated at Coit Tower with 8 other guys
6. Bought condoms
7. Went to a place selling the nastiest videos in town
8. Had to carry a bondage whip in the all guys dorm
9. Found a 16″ dildo
10. Saw Joey rub down fellow pledge brother Patrick in baby oil
11. Saw Billy’s butt and in a girl’s wig

It’s not what you think. Just don’t ask. Please don’t ask. Really don’t ask. Stop asking.

I’ve slacked way to much on these updates. Good thing I can remember a lot of stuff.

-Let me see what bad things have happened to me, because I decided to pledge a frat. I have been humiliated, hissed, intoxicated, thrown up, forced to act stupid, serve alcohol, and almost run over. Why am I doing this again?
-It’s official. I now hate Keanu Reeves. I never respected him, but I acknowledged his right to exist. Now, all I think of is err.
-Okay so Josh Hartnett is up for Superman, then Brendan Fraser, Victor Webster, and now David Borenaz? In my opinion (and Christopher Reeve), Tom Welling would make a great Superman. Not only that, it wouldn’t break continuity established by Smallville and isn’t that why you watch the show, to see him become Superman?
-Why is it my roommate can walk around and say things like “what’s your favorite position?” and have a girlfriend whereas I’m walking around helping people with problems?
-Two midterms in one day is bad. Two midterms and missing a trip to Lawrence Berkeley Labs, one of the biggest research facilities in the world, is even worse.
-Why is it when I have not seen a person in months, the first thing they ask me is “could you help me with this”? I’m glad to help, but a simple, “how are you doing?” before hand would be nice?
-So all the quarter schools have finals in a couple of weeks. 3 sets of finals a year? How does anyone do it?
-Do I really deserve what I think I deserve or am just delusional, thinking I’ve done nothing wrong? Good question, I’d like to know the answer to that one.
-Now my guy friends and I all have our own really embarrassing stories and it’s only the first year of college. Just imagine 3 more.

Can you believe my frat wanted me to sing this song?

Hast Du etwas Zeit fuer mich
Dann singe ich ein Lied fuer Dich
Von 99 Luftballons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont
Denkst Du vielleicht grad’ an mich
Dann singe ich ein Lied fuer Dich
Von 99 Luftballons
Und dass sowas von sowas kommt

99 Luftballons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont
Hielt man fuer UFOs aus dem All
Darum schickte ein General
Eine Fliegerstaffel hinterher
Alarm zu geben, wenn es so war
Dabei war da am Horizont
Nur 99 Luftballons

99 Duesenjaeger
Jeder war ein grosser Krieger
Hielten sich fuer Captain Kirk
Das gab ein grosses Feuerwerk
Die Nachbarn haben nichts gerafft
Und fuehlten sich gleich angemacht
Dabei schoss man am Horizont
Auf 99 Luftballons

99 Kriegsminister
Streichholz und Benzinkanister
Hielten sich fuer schlaue Leute
Witterten schon fette Beute
Riefen: Krieg und wollten Macht
Mann, wer haette das gedacht
Dass es einmal soweit kommt
Wegen 99 Luftballons

99 Jahre Krieg
Liessen keinen Platz fuer Sieger
Kriegsminister gibt es nicht mehr
Und auch keine Duesenflieger
Heute zieh ich meine Runden
Seh die Welt in Truemmern liegen
Hab’ nen Luftballon gefunden
Denk’ an Dich und lass’ ihn fliegen

(Note the song is in GERMAN!!!)

Shosanna, a girl who leaves across the hall from me, had a bit of boy trouble. She went out on a date with a guy she liked in fifth grade, but apparently she’s out grown those feelings. There were hopes this could become a friendship, but he kept persisting on a relationship. The guy asked Sho to a comedy night and she reluctantly said yes. However, it finally struck her that she would be alone with him. What to do? I (yes I do have a part in this story) tell her that Panda has an extra ticket. Sho gets the ticket to give to her roommate Jacqueline and they’ll pretend to run into each other. There seems to be a flaw in this story though, because they are roommates? Wouldn’t they know where they were going? We came up with a bunch of silly reasons. Just about every guy on the floor was asked to be Jacqueline’s date, even Eddie (who happens to be gay!!!!) Even worse, we asked Vicki and Jacqueline to pretend to be a lesbian couple. Eventually they decided to be just friends and meet show there secretly. However, it didn’t stop him from making a move on Shosanna, and she never wants to speak to him again. Good riddens.