Clipse's song "Famlay Freestyle" makes reference to Steel Reserve. The lyric is:
This shit is like 2-11 mixed wit coke.
...Why would you mix Steel Reserve with anything? As if it needed help with the flavor....ppssshhh
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Friday, February 16, 2007
Early to Bed
At the beginning of this week, I was sick. As such, I needed my rest. Since I have early classes, that means that I had to go to bed early. I've kept going to bed at unreasonably early hours (before 11:30, 10:30 even). It is nice to wake up in the morning after getting roughly 8 hours of sleep and to proceed through the day without wanting to fall asleep in class.
I might try to delude myself into thinking that I can continue this early to bed thing as a course of habit, but I know otherwise. All it will take is one late night to throw the whole thing out of whack and I'm back to being a night owl.
...but the cool thing about being really tired is that you can lay down and be in the middle of REM sleep within 15 minutes! (I know because my alarm woke me up in the middle of a powernap-dream).
(so, if you've tried to call me later on, I haven't been ignoring you...I've been asleep).
I might try to delude myself into thinking that I can continue this early to bed thing as a course of habit, but I know otherwise. All it will take is one late night to throw the whole thing out of whack and I'm back to being a night owl.
...but the cool thing about being really tired is that you can lay down and be in the middle of REM sleep within 15 minutes! (I know because my alarm woke me up in the middle of a powernap-dream).
(so, if you've tried to call me later on, I haven't been ignoring you...I've been asleep).
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
B&W Photos
I was talking to Sarah a couple days ago about black & white photos & why people like them. I think that maybe it's because they are able to represent the world in a way in which you can't see it.
For most color pictures, you can stand in the same place as the lens of the camera and see the same thing (assuming that it's not a picture of a dynamic setting). But, since we don't have b/w vision, we can never visually replicate the scene of a b/w photo. It makes the image simpler and perhaps more appealing.
Personally, I like b/w, but not in all contexts. I mean, a bunch of stuff is better in color.
For most color pictures, you can stand in the same place as the lens of the camera and see the same thing (assuming that it's not a picture of a dynamic setting). But, since we don't have b/w vision, we can never visually replicate the scene of a b/w photo. It makes the image simpler and perhaps more appealing.
Personally, I like b/w, but not in all contexts. I mean, a bunch of stuff is better in color.
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Pick #11
Amos Lee's song, Keep It Loose, Keep It Tight, off his self-titled album is this week's pick. It's hard to pick just a single song off that album...you should listen to it in its entirety...but you can start with this one, just insert disc and press play.
Splashes
Warning: talk of excrement in this post.
I hate it when my pee splashes out of the toilet. Actually, I don't know if it's the pee or if the force of the stream causes water to splash out of the bowl. Either way, it's a little gross when it comes out & lands on you. Not as bad when it lands on the rim of the toilet. I wish I could figure out how to keep my pee from making splashes, but nothing seems to work. You can aim for the middle of the water or the sides or back of the bowl above the water level. You can impart extra force or try to pee slowly. Nothing consistently works.
What's even worse is when this happens at a urinal. As if a public toilet wasn't bad enough, you get some serious splashback off of a urinal's porcelain sometimes. One solution to this is sometimes feasible...stand back farther, out of the splash range...but you can't always do that. Sometimes, I think urinals splash less if you aim for the small pool of water in the bottom.
Maybe even grosser than the pee splash is the poop splash. Especially if the water is already a bit soiled. I think the poop splash is worse because the volume of water in the splash is larger...and it's more likely to have non-pristine water when you get a poop splash than a pee splash.
If anyone has a splash-stopping trick that they think works consistently, let me know about it. Stay dry.
I hate it when my pee splashes out of the toilet. Actually, I don't know if it's the pee or if the force of the stream causes water to splash out of the bowl. Either way, it's a little gross when it comes out & lands on you. Not as bad when it lands on the rim of the toilet. I wish I could figure out how to keep my pee from making splashes, but nothing seems to work. You can aim for the middle of the water or the sides or back of the bowl above the water level. You can impart extra force or try to pee slowly. Nothing consistently works.
What's even worse is when this happens at a urinal. As if a public toilet wasn't bad enough, you get some serious splashback off of a urinal's porcelain sometimes. One solution to this is sometimes feasible...stand back farther, out of the splash range...but you can't always do that. Sometimes, I think urinals splash less if you aim for the small pool of water in the bottom.
Maybe even grosser than the pee splash is the poop splash. Especially if the water is already a bit soiled. I think the poop splash is worse because the volume of water in the splash is larger...and it's more likely to have non-pristine water when you get a poop splash than a pee splash.
If anyone has a splash-stopping trick that they think works consistently, let me know about it. Stay dry.
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