A Spectrum

Don't look if you haven't seen the previous blog!

1. John Wayne
2. Judy Garland
3. Kirk Douglas

Did you know that Walter Matthau's real name was Walter Mattaschanskayasky? What a mouthful! No wonder he changed it. See if you can guess who these people are better know as.
1. Marion Morrison (Easy)
2. Frances Gumm (Medium)
3. Issur Danielovitch Demsky (Hard)
Hint: They are all older actors, well the first two are both deceased.
By the way William Pratt changed his name to Boris Karloff. I don't understand that one.

Well, once again I have a class with the infamous Doc Brown (see previous blogs). At least this time he warned us that he has a tendancy to go over the designated class time. The scary thing is that there is only eight of us in the class and my tactict of hiding among the group isn't going to work. What?! I need to participate in class. Darn it. Don't you know me? I'm quiet. Guess what my contribution was today? He couldn't think of the word that described the things they show before movies. My offering: "preview" YES, I participated. Never mind it was a tangent completely off the subject of the lecture. Oh well.

Here follows Doc Brown's Bad Geography Joke of the day: "Time doesn't cause the growth of population. It's idle time that causes the growth of population."

Answers to Quiz 1-22-05 (don't cheat if you haven't read the quiz yet;)

1. 7up (Becuase it use to come in 7 oz bottles, Thank goodness they changed it)
2. The Mirage
3. A blend of Cotton and Linen
Bonus: Benjamin Franklin

Random 3 question quiz of the day 1-22-04:
1. What is the product "Lithiated Lemon" known as today?
2. What Las Vegas Hotel housed Sigfried and Roy's show?
3. Paper money isn't made out of paper. What is it made of?
Bonus: Whose face is on the $100 bill?

Answers to follow at some point probably when I get around to it.

I weep for the students in Geog 106 on Wed. from 12-2. Do you know why? I am their T.A. This Wed. I get to teach them about the vertical structure of the atmosphere and I feel as if all meteorological knowledge has escaped me. I had a meeting with my head T.A. yesterday to go over the lab, point values, and other general information. He told me that I need to explain the math concepts as well as the science. He has had students that don't know how to cross multiply and divide to solve for a variable. I looked at next week's lab and it's all trigonometry. GGRREEAATT. Oh and the best part is I am in 701. The elevator doesn't even go up to the 7th floor and on the ceiling there is a tarp catching rainfall/snowfall that leaks through. I am dead serious. The tallest bloody room in the tallest bloody tower.... Will Shrek come save me and hilarity ensue? I doubt it.

Clear

tracing fingers in the sand
holding on to hope for now
looking up to the sunlit sky
i wipe the sweat from upon my brow

greater things have brought me down
promises that have flown away
sadness clings on oh so tight
tomorrow is another day

underneath this shell i hide
you want me to open wide
eventhough I doubt so much
i know, it's clear, your by my side

reaching out past my fingertips
for something to hold tight
i know i should reach for you
that's why i'm giving up the fight

underneath this shell i hide
you want me to open wide
eventhough I doubt so much
i know, it's clear, your by my side

Are you Lost? I am.
http://i-am-lost.com/

Sorry this post is way overdue. But.... Yeah, my Huskies won a bowl game. Alas, I did not make it to San Jose, however, I had a nice dry experience at home in front of my TV with friends. Apparently, it was so rainy there that it knocked out the power for ESPN 2. So they weren't even broadcasting the game at first. And then when finally got it on the air, the game had already started. And they only had one camera angle from the top of the bleachers looking down. It looked a taped high school game. It was very bizarre. Then they lost sound and had go off the air again. Finally they got the power back and more than one camera angle. Another oddity of the game was that the announcers were horrible. They kept talking about the team's uniforms being dirty and that their laundry was going to be tough. Also, they talked about this one family who had another son in a bowl game and so they were going to have to leave that game at some point. They beat this story to death. I swear they talked about at least 35 different times during the course of the game. OH I almost forgot one announcer called us the Bulldogs at one point. My friends and I figured we could do a better job announcing this game than they. Then at one point I swore one of the announcers called the other Pam, but I was like no, no, that's too masculine of a voice. It must of been Dan or something. But no it was Pam. Probably the only female Bass in her school choir. It was freaky how deep her voice was. Now I am all for women announcers but seriously, do you need to talk about their laundry...This one's long, sorry. If any of you read this through I applaud you.

I love Get Fuzzy. It is my favorite comic strip ever. Bucky, Satchel, and Rob are the craziest characters. I actually laugh out loud sometimes. If you are a human being who enjoys laughing, go to comics.com and have it emailed to you every day. Good stuff. (p.s. if you can't see the comic, click on it)

Get Fuzzy 

Thoughts to ponder: How can the word "cleave" mean to cut in half but also mean to stick together? Or when something is "fast" it can be either stuck firmly or moving quickly? Isn't trying your best a good thing, but trying one's patience a bad thing? Hmmm.

Do you call it pop, soda, coke....? Check it out. http://www.popvssoda.com/countystats/total-county.html
(By the way: It's Pop)