bloody word of the day

MEATWARE!

amazing.

watching paint dry whilst my eardrums die

turns out a lot of my research ends up being watching epoxy dry, furances heat up and cook shit, watching furances cool down, waiting for lengthy tests to complete over a few hours...of course most of these things don't require much maintenance in the process. now i COULD use the time wisely to possibly do a few experiments at a time...but unfortunately i've tried that and fucked up either one or both of them ona few occassions so i stopped doing that for the most part.

then i made my FIRST trip to the library! the excitement was short lived (if you don't remember, i used to pride myself in how long i could go without stepping foot in Butler at Columbia, i think i went a semester and a half-across summer). i borrowed four books, THREE of which had never been borrowed before. that was another small step into geekdome. oh well. for a while i was reading through these books while waiting for shit to dry or heat up or cook or cool...but now i surf the internet. haha.

in other news, i'm going to start playing guitar a lot more. because i'll have more time to myself *sigh*.

also, i emailed a buncha' people about it but there's a huge tournament here called the kaimana klassik that's celebrating its 20th aniversary next february on president's weekend, here's the website from last year:
http://www.hawaiiultimate.com/kk/kk19/index.html

amazing tourney, and oh yeah, it's in hawaii. hit me up if you're interested. a few people have expressed interest already and are going to see if they can save up for it :) would be awesome to see you guys again.

boomboom

insomniac theater for the malnutritioned

this is why i never fuckin' sleep, all the coolest geek shows are on!

tonight...two entire fucking hours of BUGS. this show's called bugs or something like that where this crazy guy explores all these fucked up animals. and by "explore" i mean letting a scorpion sting him, putting his hand in a tupperware full of ARMY ANTS, pissing of a yellow jacket nest (with protection but still getting stung through his suit)...yeah. dude's crazy.

two craziest (number two and number one) in the "most aggressive" show...there's this wasp called i think the "japanese giant hornet" (is a hornet a wasp? no clue) that'll send scouts out to find honeybee nests. sprays pheramones all over the nest and goes back to HER nest to alert the cavalry and a buncha' these giant hornets (they're like..4 times the size of a honey bee...disgusting) will roll up into the honey bee nest and DECIMATE the ENTIRE NEST in half an hour. and funny it was half an hour, because the way they kill the honeybees is by CUTTING THEM IN HALF. like, seriously just chopping their heads off, boomp, boomp, boomp...and i just realized that 'decimate' is the wrong word to use (literally to exterminate by 1/10th) because they pretty much kill all the honeybees. and then they eat all the larvae.
BUT!

the weirdest part is that the hornet wasn't the insect that made the list...because the honeybees found a defense. weirdest fuckin' thing i've ever seen but they BAKE THE MUTHAFUCKA. honey hornet pie! what they do is they LET the scout into the nest and then they all start jumping on him and shakin' their junk (no i'm serious, they vibrate their abdomen) to raise their body temperature. collectively, they can get their little oven up to 117 degrees (i think it was farenheit, but i could be wrong...) while the hornet can only withstand 115. bake the scout and the cavalry doesn't know a thing.

number one on the list was the yellow jacket. they make the largest colonies of the wasp family numbering in the HUNDREDS of thousands in one nest. so these two dudes suit up (the crazy guy and a professional pest controller) and just walking near the nest (~10-20ft.) and talking, hundreds start pouring out of this hole in the ground. 2 minutes later, THOUSANDS, 5 minutes later, and it's like a cloud of locusts come to swallow the earth. the hole looks like it's literally pouring out of itself and the dudes start getting stung through their suits and bail. craziest fucking sight.

now he's taking a nap with his foot in a leech infested river...(blood suckers show).

and i was planning on going to sleep early...now i'm gonna have nightmares.

oh speaking of bugs, in my last post i mentioned the i think i sprained my ankle in a drunken stupor. um...took a better look after scratching the fuck out of my ankle and realized that something bit me. something...big. there's two holes in my ankle right where that tendon was hurting...i'm thinking either a centipede or a big spider :-/ fucking WEIRD. i put some anti-itch and then antibiotics and a bandaid on it when i found it and the next morning it was scabbed up and the ankle pain was gone! wtf!

also have a weird bite on my thigh that swelled up to the size of a quarter and actually like...bruised. another first. what the fuck is going on with me...i haven't even been hiking or anything. doubt it's my room, i sleep 3 ft. above the ground....

bah.

i guess i taste good, fucking bugs.

half a man

met a dog last night with one'a those big sorry lookin' plastic cones on his head. i asked my friend what he wasn't supposed to lick and he says "his ball." he didn't understand either why only one had been removed...(his friend's dog).

i've hit an especially horrible tv binge in the past few days. in an odd way i think my social life is souring my antisocial life. i used to find at least half a dozen things to do with myself (if you don't count the different positions) before i turned on the idiot tube but i dunno, these days, i think i drink too much and play too much ultimate that by the time i get home and have some mytime...i'm beat! i wake up in the morning, have breakfast and want to go back to sleep. i eat to stay up at night to avoid falling asleep at 8pm. i eat horribly, haha. cheap, though! it's amazing how much money you save when you eat saimin, rice and eggs, in different positions, of course. oh, not to mention the money you save when 40's find their way into my cooler. fuck.

i'm gonna go surf more. in the morning. that'll get my ass up. not starting tomorrow, though. well, maybe i can pull that off. i'll try. i'll load up on bacon first. i just went to cook my last few strips of bacon yesterday morning and my kitchen was filled with the most godawful stench i've ever put in a frying pan. good lord. i didn't think it was THAT old...the only thing i could do to make the kitchen smell better was to fry up some other kind of meat. how convenient!

weekly or monthly or whatever damage report:
fucked my knee again two saturdays ago at league finals. think i sprianed the PCL again. kept me from playing in the loco moco tournament this past saturday which i'd actually made a team for. yeah i felt pretty stupid putting a team together and then not being able to play. i did play about half the last game which was pretty relaxed...my knee healed fast but healed TIGHT.
and now there's something funky going on in my ankle...i don't remember spraining it but i have been drunk a lot in the past couple days. ya' never know.
i think for a rare portion of my life i'm actually not bleeding anywhere! wow...that's amazing.

but i can surf on the knee. so i'll be doing that. they're playing fuckin' beach ultimate for the summer league..i don't really like beach ultimate. i don't think i'm gonna play much if at all. considered trying to start a rebel league on some small patch of grass somewhere.

or i could just surf more. i dunno, i kind of do feel like laying low for some reason...maybe it's all these lonely hours in my den watching tv all night? FYI, my "den" is the small space under my bed that i lofted about 3ft. i'll take pictures at some point i suppose....

enough, i'll stop blabbering.

i should light my entire head on fire for halloween this year

fuckin' GHOST RIDER, bitches. i almost peed myself. i thought he was so goddamn cool. sad to say i didn't read much of his comics (i was a darkhawk fan...) but he looked damn cool. and i didn't really almost pee myself, but i did get goosebumps all over. does that happen to you? all this fuckin' reliving childhood bullshit does that to me. superheroes and blowing shit up will probably never bore me. i'll be 60 years old with a pacemaker and a cane and still dream of flying in a ball of fire.

oh, and x-men. i will never understand what retards keep deciding to make ridiculous storylines for these goddamn movies. stan lee's probably tearing what's left of his hair out EVERY TIME. poor guy. i totally just deleted a bunch of spoilers, haha, go see it for yourself. VERY cool action, sweet fight scenes, but goddamn, what retards. x-men could run FOREVER...but i think they fucked that one up. and there's no way they could be worried about too many sequels chipping away at attendance 'cause the fuckin' movie opened at the top of the box offices.

well, nick cage does look like he could pull of ghost rider...looked fuckin' SWEET in the previews....

hopefully it's somethign to look forward to. there is always dead man's chest :)

i have to start thinking about halloween already...