What to do in New Zealand when you're a geek...

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by sertanarig

Still love this commercial

Was going through my iTunes and came across Nick Drake's Pink Moon...



This would be me in high school, minus the beautiful ladies and the convertible... Why would anyone choose the drunken party?

Hopefully, he got the digits as well as the ball...

Skip to about 1:10ish.

If the neighborhood is too run down to sell houses...

...pay actors to play like everything is okay. j and I heard this story today on NPR's Marketplace.

Apparently large developments are paying actors to mow the lawns, run into the interested party playing the parts of 'lawyer with children' or whatever. My personal favorite is "They might invite their future neighbors to a Little League game. The teams are borrowed from another town..."

Borrowed from another town! That's great. I don't know how pissed I would be if I found out the truth later.

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Story #2: j and I went to a party this past weekend. The theme: 90s.

j's costume involved shoe polish and silk pajamas...






It is...






wait for it....








That's right, Left Eye from TLC (may she rest in peace). And yes, I realize that my Kris Kross shout out would be funnier had I had an Andre Rison jersey. "That D guy looks dangerous"

We also had a tournament bracket of 90's songs, set up as regions of Alternative, Rap/R&B, Dance, and Pop. If you can make it out, predictably "Smells Like Teen Spitit" won. I was trying to vote against it if the matchup was right but it never had a worthy adversary. More disturbing is that BBD's Poison was beat out by friggin Brittany Spears. I think it shows the age of the other people involved. There's no way anything BS ever said can compete with the advice "Never trust a big butt and a smile." What do these kids know anyway?

Yeah, what she said...

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MarioKart Has Infected My Brain

You know it's a problem when you ride your bike to school in the morning and see this:


And you're shocked when you don't get a boost in speed after running over the arrow.

DAMNIT!!! Can I at least have a red shell for that stupid car in the bike lane!?!

I'm pathetic

My laptop died over the weekend. I took it to the repair shop on Monday, they said they will have a diagnosis (not fixed, just a diagnosis) by Friday. While it is entirely frustrating to wait that long, I'm more concerned with the fact that I can't function without my laptop anymore. At school, I've been using a general lab computer, and it sucks because I'm not at my desk and I'm in the middle of a heavy traffic area. At home, I had to unhook my desktop from my television, to an old school monitor so I can actually get some work done. I'm helpless.