| The 2005 Livejournal Awards. |
[Jan. 1st, 2006|11:00 am] |
The new year has arrived, and with the new year comes the new Livejournal Awards. Feast your eyes, dear friends. Because the next one is another year away. Or never. Probably never again.
The categories have changed somewhat from last year. For instance, there haven't been enough recurring theme posts to warrant a category, but there have been enough dream posts by a variety of people to get its own category. Also, there are more nominees cuz it's more fun that way.
You can vote if you want, but it's highly likely that there won't be enough votes, so I'll probably just pick the winners on my own. But vote anyway cuz it's fun.
But that's it. Here they are.
Nominees for best comment:
Sarah for Toilet paper.
Matt for Drunken pronunciations.
Ben for Survey comment.
Dave for Wackiness.
Kris for The new candidate for the Supreme Court.
Dan Waller for Linguistic analysis.
Mark for Percentages.
Mark for Big news.
Mark for David Copperfield.
Will for "I chipped my tooth..."
Will for "In my head..." (read all of the comments to understand the context better.)
Christine for Similar words.
Nominees for best thread:
Dan and Ben for Fun to look at.
Dan and Ben for Little Qualler.
Dan and Ben for Gone too long.
Mark and Ben for House party.
Ben, Kris, Paal, and Mark for Gay dance party.
Dave, Dan, Ben, and Chaney for The Wham!bulence.
Mark and Ben for Sperm and Gorillas and such.
Mark, Erika, Dan, and Kris for Describing Mark.
Ben and Will for Fire.
Mark and Ben for Fake hijacking.
Ben, Chaney, and Erika for Ben is drunk.
Nominees for best subject:
Mark for Crapping your pants.
Dan Waller for M to the inneapolis.
Dan Waller for I want a president who doesn't interrupt good television.
Christine for Theories proved, Bog Saget vindicated, Paal asleep.
Christine for My favorite things, These are a few of.
Dave for Nothing says love like vampire tendencies.
Sarah for If I were a bionic woman, what would I wear?
Sarah for I eat zombies for breakfast.
Lacey for The cartwheelin' ninja.
Chaney for ...and I did it all with socialism.
Nominees for best randomness:
Ben for The bastard children of history.
Ben for The Ashely Temple Phenomenon.
Mark for The Mark Waller Phenomenon.
Mark for Completely true trivia.
Christine for Relaxing Road.
Dan Waller for I am Dan Brown.
Dan Waller for Boring.
Seth for And then you're dead.
Lacey for Cheerleaders.
Chaney for Rhyming post.
Nominees for best quiz/survey-type thing:
Ben for Birthday meme.
Ben for Why Is It Cold? Quiz
Ben for Dr. Bikenstein.
Sarah for The Absurd Cat.
Sarah for Gay childhood icons.
Mark for Self-description with song titles.
Dan Waller for SAT score meme.
Dan Waller for Fortune Cookie.
Matt for A brief survey of my life.
Nominees for best dream post:
Matt for Practical dream.
Christine for "The answer was yes."
Ben for Marrying John Goodman's daughter.
Ben for Zombie toddlers.
Mark and Brigitte for Wheelbarrows.
Will for HUGE toenails.
Nominees for best list:
Mark for What Chris said.
Ben for Why I should be the next pope.
Ben for A night of firsts.
Ben for A list of thoughts.
Christine for Facebook findings.
Dave for Career fair.
Lacey for Things to celebrate on 4/20.
Nominees for best single-sentence entry:
Ben for I am science.
Ben for Why my face doesn't melt.
Mark for The Little Mermaid.
Mark for Also...
Will for Science fiction analogy.
Christine for Cream.
Christine for Learning from facebook.
Matt for Math plus Humphrey Bogart.
Lacey for 1! 2! 3! 4!
Dan Waller for Alternate title. (It's two sentences actually, but only one of the sentences matters.)
Nominees for best picture:
Ben for Lightning bolt.
Ben for Pants and Deodorant Explosion!
Ben for Dr. Sinusaurus.
Will for Camels doin' it.
Christine for Lane on the Playground Titanic. (It's the very last picture in the post.)
Christine for Pinkies, Gnome skeleton, Skeletor, and Golden Girls.
Sarah for Lightning bolt, part II.
Dan Waller for A Dan Waller slide show. (Especially for the one where he's wearing the Kerry Edwards sticker.)
Dan Waller for Santa Is Real.
Dan Waller for Looking like Kris.
Nominees for best conversation:
Ben and Matt for Conversation shotgun.
Ben for Ben vs. SmarterChild.
Christine and Raymond for Christine fires Raymond.
Christine and Jess for Our cable went out.
Christine, Jess, and Muffin for Muffin has something to say.
Seth for Seth vs. SmarterChild.
Lacey and Chaney for Boobs.
Lacey and the Onion Promotions Dept. for You could win $1500.
Dan Waller and his roommmate for You know how I know you're gay?
Nominees for best resignation post:
Mark for Mark didn't really quit.
Paal for Paal quits.
Ben for Ben quits.
Mark for Mark actually quits.
Christine for Chistine suddenly quits.
Nominees for best post of the year:
Ben for The 2004 Livejournal Awards.
Ben for Impersonating an 18th Century poet.
Will for Surreal Saturday.
Christine for Oregon Trail
Mark for 2004 Year in Review
Lacey for Duane.
Dan Waller for Boring town. |
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| Coming soon to stuff itself into your eyes... |
[Dec. 23rd, 2005|03:33 pm] |
The 2005 Livejournal Awards.
That's right, I will return for a brief time in January to award the achievements of the most recent year in livejournaling. Who'll win the big one this year? Will Mark Waller take his second Post of the Year in a row, or will he be toppled by his in-family brother? Who will replace Paal as the list champion? What new categories await evaluation? All this and more, developing over the times that I've very bored these next few weeks. |
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| I'm back...sort of...I guess. |
[Nov. 30th, 2005|12:52 pm] |
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I decided to update LJ because blog is boring. This is boring too, but I figured I'd be less completely bored if I shook things up a bit. So here's to the shakes! |
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| This is probably the last thing I'll ever post as a Madison resident. |
[Aug. 5th, 2005|02:29 pm] |
This is it. After today, I'll no longer live in Madison and will probably never live in Madison ever again. Now I could give you all the sappy crap that a normal person would, but that's not at all fun to read, and it's pretty boring to write. I will say only that it will be awesome to the extreme to be back living in Minneapolis, and I look forward to having no internet and being jealous of all my friends who are still in college.
The next time I post, if I ever post again, will probably not be for a few months. So everybody have a stellar August, September, October, and maybe even an awesome November and December too if I still don't have a job and an apartment by then.
It's the end of an era, and as with any era's ending, this one needs an explosion.
BOOM. |
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| It's done. |
[Aug. 4th, 2005|11:22 am] |
The thesis is done.
The thesis is done.
I feel like I just gave birth. I'm surprisingly overjoyed. Not relieved, overjoyed. This is a very happy moment.
I am done with school. |
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| Is it just me...? |
[Aug. 3rd, 2005|09:12 pm] |
Has anyone ever noticed that "Close to Me" by The Cure seems to be half about masturbation? Maybe it's just the weird breathing and sounds that made me think it had something to do with sex. Or maybe that's just typical Robert Smith. Whatever.
80s music rules.
I'm hungry as hell. |
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| Concerning Sufjan Stevens |
[Aug. 3rd, 2005|06:50 pm] |
I just saw a "You Hear It First" deal on MTV2 about Sufjan Stevens, and they straigtened up the name pronunciation issue.
It's SOOF-yon. |
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| College Football and Dr. Awesome |
[Aug. 3rd, 2005|03:28 pm] |
Dear Everybody,
In the spirit that brought you the NCAA Tournament pick 'em disaster, I have created a College Football pick 'em group.
Go to this place, click the button, join a group, and use this info.
Group ID#: 2735
Password: potato
Group Name: Rock Chalk, Friends
The name was going to be "Rock Chalk, Bitches," but they said they might delete the group forever if it was profane. Not like "bitches" is profane, but Yahoo is stupid.
EDIT: I changed some things.
Play now involves "confidence points," meaning you rank your picks on how confident you are that you're right, and you get the number of points that you assigned if you're right.
Also, I eliminated the spread rule because that is lame. |
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| The thesis adventure, page 48 |
[Aug. 2nd, 2005|03:32 pm] |
I was trying to find a synonymn for easy because I just used it the previous sentence, and nothing seemed to work. Then I foud it: slutty. And the sentence now reads thusly:
These silences contain the same meaning, but one is sluttier to understand than the other.
Where's my genius medal? |
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| The worst website ever |
[Aug. 1st, 2005|07:51 pm] |
...is AskJeeves.com.
This "Jeeves" guy is the ultimate idiot. You ask him a question, and he never gives you a straight answer. He hardly ever gives you an answer at all.
If this is like a butlers' rights group or something, they're doing a good job. Cuz I'm never going to ask Jeeves to do anything for me ever again. |
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| Today is the first day of August. |
[Aug. 1st, 2005|09:17 am] |
Two-thirds of the summer, over.
Only five days left in Madison forever.
Things are becoming more surreal than expected. |
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| The Catholic Kids |
[Jul. 31st, 2005|07:18 pm] |
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At church today I saw a family with 8 kids, and all I could think was how I could never remember that many names. |
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| Al Gore owns an awful television network. |
[Jul. 31st, 2005|02:40 pm] |
Has anyone heard of Current TV? Probably not cuz it's dumb as rocks. It's some new cable network that I don't understand and don't intend to. From what I've read, it doesn't show anything interesting or good. It broadcasts in "pods," little videos the idea of which reminds me of those real life clips you'd see spliced into Sesame Street or whatever other PBS show you watched. The kind of thing the Teletubbies show on their tummy TVs.
Worst of all, though, is that they're trying so hard to be cool. Any disciple of cool knows that trying to be cool is the cardinal sin of cool. Take this quote from their FAQ as an example:
Q: Is this a news network?
A: If by "news" you mean "what CNN does," then no. If by "news" you mean "all the cool, interesting things happening in people's lives today," then yes. This is actually a new format. "News" is one thing, "reality TV" another. What's the name for TV about the full breadth and richness of real life? TV that talks about what's going on in the world in a smart, fun, useful way? Seriously, if you can come up with a cool descriptor, you'll be Current's BFF.
Get the hell over yourself, Current. Go eat an egg sandwich or something. But you'd probably make that pretentious too. |
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| Thesis self-examination |
[Jul. 29th, 2005|11:04 pm] |
What am I learning by writing this thesis?
A. That life is meaningless.
B. That I was better off staying in the womb.
C. That every breath I breathe is a waste.
D. That I envy the dead.
The correct answer is B.
I hate this thesis so much. |
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| The Alcoholic College Days, Remembered |
[Jul. 29th, 2005|02:31 pm] |
I cleaned off the top of the entertainment center today, and as most of you know, it was home to all the bottles of stuff we once drank in this apartment. Here's what it looked like moments before I took it all down:
Each bottle I touched brought back so many great memories, but now college is over, and it's time to move on to a slightly less binge-drinking oriented lifestyle. But before I make that transition, here are some of those great memories in picture form.
( The days of wine and roses...and beer and liquor and bad decisions )
Thus is the history of my drinking career. |
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| Album of the Year |
[Jul. 28th, 2005|10:02 pm] |
Mercury Rev: The Secret Migration
Freaking mind-blowing. The only problem is that the Rev has always copied the Flaming Lips like a little brother, and this album is once again feeble in comparison to the Lips' last, but it's epic and great in its own right, and I will listen to it for a long time. |
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| Home decor |
[Jul. 28th, 2005|12:29 pm] |
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Once I get my own place, the walls are going to be covered in the most bizarre things. A giant fan, a blue number 4, a PetSmart poster that says "chews wisely," probably some goo. I'll appreciate it because it'll make me wonder what's going on every time I enter the room. |
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