Showing posts with label TV shoes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TV shoes. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Faffing About at RPI

Currently I am sat in my room watching "Tales from the Darkside" on the SciFi channel (which has actually undergone a recent name change auntie Gianna style to SyFy) while waiting for class to start--PHYS 6900, Physics Colloquium. It is Ten-Thousand degrees in my apartment (plus or minus five degrees) and the fan isn't helping very much anymore. It is becoming truly unbearable--my own private hell from which I cannot escape.

I blame the heat for my slightly delirious state these days--which seems to carry over into my dreams. For example, last night on the phone with my sweetheart I was given an errand to pick up cereal from the supermarket for when she visits. I suggested a granola-like cereal and Farah was quick to remind me that she can't have nuts (I remember most of the time okay!). Incidentally, "Grape Nuts" do not contain nuts, so I would have been safe either way, but I believe the incident lead to the dream I had--I drempt that I bought Cocoa Pebbles--but that when I opened the box, it was FULL of almonds. Needless to say Dream-Ben got slapped haha!

Another microdream I had was even more disturbing: I drempt that I took up smoking. The only thing I remember about this dream is that in my dream I took up smoking to deal with the stress of graduate school and qualifying exams and I really liked it--and it was awesome. I also remember trying to hide it from my friends and family and Farah (wow all words that start with F...suspiiiiiiiiicious...)--while simultaneously rationalizing how many times I should smoke per day to not get super-hooked...very weird...very crazy...

In the mornings I watch PBS-kids before class--its a good way of warming up for the day--and oddly Sesame Street and Arthur reruns have a way of getting you ready for school in a way that Spongebob cannot!

Here is me getting ready for my first day on the job as the Teaching Assistant of "Earth and Sky".

And here is my favorite MIT engineer being adorable as usual.

Till Next time...
-Ben

Friday, February 26, 2010

"Pushing up Daisies"

This blog is, slowly but surely, becoming just another list of rants fuled by some pedestrian mind out to make moot points about social workings. Let me explain.

Today I did a simple yahoo search (because here at my father's store, he is missing the google search bar at the tiop of the screen and I prefer not to search for another search engine--even though eventually I did try google as well) to try and find the origins of the saying "pushing up daisies" which we all know to mean "to be dead".

On any other day this would have yielded a few crap links and a few desirable outcomes--fruits for my labor. Not today.

Instead I was assaulted by 11 pages of links and blog posts about a Television show conveniently called "Pushing Daisies". I tried every variation of the search that I could think of--evenh using the dreaded exact quotes to seek out specific phrases and to no avail.

Seriously, what the hell do the people who make these search engines think all day? That by searching "pushing up the daisies" saying origins, what I really mean is TV show "Pushing Daisies". Go to hell, google and your sponsored links takign precedence over helpful items.

I gave up after thirty minutes of trying.

And apparently the show "Pushing Daisies" is pushing up the daisies.

"Silence and Valor"
-B