Category: Miscellaneous

I’m in the process of trying a new recipe. Actually pretty much all recipes are new to me considering I don’t do much cooking. Now that I’m an official bachelor I guess that’s going to change.

So I’m cooking up some delicious smelling (and hopefully delicious tasting) dall. It’s an East Indian vegetarian dish and it’s great — at least it was when Anna-Maria made it.

I’ve decided to go on a trip to Malaysia. It’s part of the cultural studies class I’m going to take next semester. It’s 6 weeks long and after I’m done, with the exception of one applied studies class and the internship I’ll be done my degree. I’ll be pretty happy to finally be done school.

The middle finger on my right hand is swollen. At the end of my 50 Breast I jammed it into the wall. Then at the end of my 200 free and 50 free I also finished with my right hand and hurt it again and again! I can’t tape it – because that would be cheating, but I’m not sure it would make much difference anyway.

I didn’t race this morning. I am looking forward to my finals tonight and the 4×100 relay. We have some really fast free-stylers so I’m hoping that we are going to get a team record – if not for the 4×100 tonight then the 4×50 tomorrow.

Here are some Logo’s that Anna and I created for the ESL students that came to the University of Lethbridge last summer.

I’ve been getting hate mail from a certain Mychal Homsley (either he doesn’t know how to spell his own name or his parents are great practical jokers). For those of you that don’t know, when he asks what I have against “Led Zeplyain” (sic) he is referring to my Stairway to Heaven Backwards page. Anyway I was telling some friends about these hate emails and they wanted to read them, so here they are:

Email #1 Subject: (no subject)

“Yo i just want to know what the HELL you have aginst Led Zeplyain, It’s pretty obvisis that ypu can’t stand a classic Rock N’ Roll band so you know give me the word on WHY you seem to hate them”

Email #2 Subject: Why do you Hate Zepplian

“Yo I want to know why you hate Zepplain so much…. It’s because of people like you This band has a bad repurtaion so take you’r damn FAKE song off you’r site if there is a problem with that E-Mail me back…………. But there should be no Problem right….”

Email #3 Subject: REPLY BACK

“You need to get a DAMN life. If you have nothing better to do then sit there and post lies among lies then that should tell you that you need to get a life or sometimg… I play for a band and i resent what you said Take it back or E-Mail me you DAMN PUSSY…”

Email #4 Subject: (no subject)

“Hey listen up i sent you about 4 diffrent E-Mails and i need to know why, why do you hate Rock are you going to bring up the inncident with ozzy and John Mcollen”

Email #5 Subject: (no subject)

“Replay back and i’ll stop E-Mailing you, or i can just make your life a living HELL you’r pick”

What Mychal Homsley fails to realize is that #1 I don’t hate “Led Zeplyain” (sic) or Rock ‘n Roll. He would know that if he would have bothered to read the text below on the site. #2 With all the homework that I have due in the next couple weeks my life is already a “living HELL” and that is why I haven’t had time to reply to his obviously well thought-out attack mail. Also #3 I have no idea what the incident with “Ozzy and John Mcollen” is all about.

This morning’s swim practice was the most intense I can remember doing ever. We swam 5200 meters and although it’s almost 12 hours later I am still feeling it. Afterwards I got my hair cut and then spent 4 hours at the pool where I work taking a first aid and CPR recertification. I tried to watch a movie for school but haven’t been able to make it through it without falling asleep, meanwhile Anna-Maria has been great cleaning up the house and even making supper for me tonight. She was feeling a little neglected given that I was so tired and cranky so I gave her a bit of a massage on her sore back and suggested she take a nice hot bath and hit the hay early. It all seems to have cheered her up significantly. Tomorrow I have another 4 hours at work – this time for a kind of lifeguard refresher course. I’m seriously not impressed with how many of these we’ve had lately.

I have a picture to draw for Monday and a couple of tests on Tuesday. At least I will have a break from swimming tomorrow. I hope my body recovers enough to be back at it on Monday morning.

A friend of mine recently sent me the following forward. I had seen it before but like it enough that it deserves to be shared. Snopes has their take on it too.

The following is an actual question given on a University of Florida chemistry mid-term. The answer by one student was so profound that the professor shared it with his colleagues via the internet, which is, of course, why we have the pleasure of enjoying it as well.

Bonus Question: Is hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle’s Law, (gas cools off when it expands and heats up when it is compressed) or some variant of that law. One student, however, wrote the following:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So, we need to know the rate that the souls are moving into Hell and the rate they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let’s look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Some of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there are more than one religions, and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls will go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change in the volume of Hell because Boyles law states that in order for the temperature and pressure of Hell to stay the same, the volume in Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added. This gives two possibilities:

1.If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than that rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all hell breaks
loose.

2.Of course, if hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it? If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my freshman year, “That it will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you.”, and take into account the fact that I still have not succeeded in having sexual relations with her, then number 2 cannot be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and will not freeze.

The student received the only “A” given.

With the American elections coming up next week there has been a lot of talk lately about the upcoming Alberta Provincial election. The discussions can get pretty heated. If you live in Alberta you should check out this site about Ralph Klein and learn a little bit about his track record.

My mom is a teacher and I know she’s really not a fan of the Klein Government.

Isn’t she cute?

I can’t believe it! This morning I sent in a link for BoingBoing to publish and now they have a thank-you link pointing back to this page. I’m extremely thrilled! Welcome BoingBoingers to my little place on the web.