grindmonkeh

ISU Community Friday - September 8, 2006 12:39 PM
SPECIAL GLOBAL E-MAIL - SCIENCE BUILDING EVACUATED

SCIENCE BUILDING EVACUATED

The Science Building has been evacuated as a precaution due to a missing rattlesnake.
The rattlesnake was discovered missing today from Room 245 of the Science Building.
It was last seen by faculty members on Thursday.

Personnel are searching the building which will likely remain closed for the remainder
of the day.

Anyone with any information regarding the snake's whereabouts should contact the
Office of Public Safety at ****.



Also...

Da Bears.

Bran and I took a mini-vacation to St. Louis over the weekend to catch a Cardinals game and go to Six Flags. The game was on Friday night, and we sat in the right-centerfield bleachers eight rows back from the outfield wall. It was a good game...Jeff Suppan pitched seven solid innings and St. Louis outscored the Cubs 2 to 0. Jason Isringhausen went into the game for St. Louis in the 9th inning (relieving Flores) and got booed by the whole house. I felt bad for him, but he pitched horribly during the entire month of August. (Last week while the Cardinals played the Mets and lead 7 to 6 in the 9th inning, I remarked to my friend Matt, "that dumbass is going to throw him something he can hit, just watch." right before Isringhausen threw his first pitch to Carlos Beltran straight down the pipe and it was knocked out of the park for a two run walk-off. That kind of pitching is why St. Louis won't go the distance this year. Now I shall digress.) We walked around by the Arch and went to the museum before walking to Laclede's Landing where we ate at the Old Spaghetti Factory. I'll never go back by choice...the spaghetti tasted like something similar to what can be found in a grade-school cafeteria, and I sat closer to the two strangers on either side of me than I did my wife...due to bad table arrangement. It sucked.

You know what the antithesis of suck is? An amusement park with no lines to get on the rides. The morning was rainy, and with school in session the crowd was pretty sparse. The Batman ride is my favorite coaster of any amusement park I've been to...we rode it several times and it was just as awesome every time. It feels like you're flying when you ride in the front car...definitely the highlight of the park.

Another thing to add to the list of things that suck that I hope to never repeat: poking yourself in the eye with a guitar string. I was restringing my 12-string and managed to scratch my eye with the end of a G as it flipped around while I was cranking the tuner. It managed to go right past my glasses and into my eye. It watered for about ten minutes, and I could see a small scratch on the surface, but my vision was unaffected and even the scratch has quickly disappeared. For at least the initial ten to fifteen seconds I was certain that I had put my eye out.



Seagull 12-string.



My (early) birthday present from Bran. The transparent red Dean Edge 1 bass on the left.



















( Busch Stadium Panorama... )

random photos from the month of July...

And I thought this song was pretty cool before.








My brother and I bought our own boat/trailer/outboard a few months ago and we finally had the opportunity to go fishing together on Friday. Now I've got the fever.

The plastic tips at the end of shoelaces are called aglets. Their true purpose is sinister.

frrg.






+1!

Long time, no update.

I had my wisdom teeth pulled a week ago so I've been on a liquid diet complimented by vicodin, ibuprofin, and a diluted hydrogen peroxide rinse. I just gotta say that it really fucking sucks. The dentist's assistant really messed my lip up by repeatedly seesawing the saliva/blood vacuum on it when it was dry and numb. I've got gaping blisters that have made me feel like a leper. Mouth wounds are miserable, but at least I can tell they're healing.

My cats have been fighting one another and behaving like the demonically possessed over the past week. It started once the weather got nicer and I opened the windows of the house to let fresh air in, so I'm guessing that they've caught the scent of another cat (or cats) in heat. The neighborhood is rampant with strays. I don't know how to (humanely) dispel the neighborhood cats or my cats' ill behavior. A water spray-bottle scatters them and pisses them off right nicely when they're in the midst of a growling and hissing standoff.

I've started some projects around the yard and slated up some to be done in the future. Yardwork and landscaping is fun and exciting. I bought a Dean Hardtail and Line 6 PodXT, and have been writing and recording a song. I don't know who or what to compare its sound to, but it's not like anything I listen to. I haven't worked on it for a few weeks, but I mean to get back to it soon. Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has stolen my soul. Is it me, or does the melody of one of the main music pieces sound like Call on Me? I get this song stuck in my head every time I play the game.

I caught up with Lost today finally after letting four episodes idle on the tivo for a month. In the wake of Battlestar Galactica's season finale I haven't spent much time with the idiot box.

Silent Hill, in a nutshell, blows Elvis. What the movie exulted with impressive visuals was lost by the poorly written story and jarring continuity. Sean Bean looked conspicuously out of place as he appeared to be the only person on the set with any notable acting ability...as the lead females in the movie couldn't salvage the script or direction for their parts. Then again...who could? The story went from completely meandering to a really bad kind of concise.

Happy John Frum Day!

A very talented friend of mine just launched a really promising indie music zine...for those who are interested in bands like The New Pornographers, The Subways, Bleeding Through, Death Cab for Cutie, and other indie superstars I would highly recommend this source of infotainment known as Running With Scissors Magazine. Give it a look!



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