Happy Brithboy, Vajohnna

So, Johnna's bday was yesterday... I sent her an e-card and it bounced back as no good.

Happy Birthday to Johnna... and give us a new email address, sucka.

Arrested Arrested Development...?

(you need to type in the words you want to be displayed as the link (such as "Hayley Says Click Here", then highlight those words, then create the link...))

Hayley Says Click Here

Josh... fix the link if you don't mind.

So, AD's main guy has quit... the hits just keep on coming. And Showtime was going to pick it up, too! Boo.

Soooo....

Anyone else see V for Vendetta? I was very pleased with how it turned out. King Kong comes out on DVD today for all you slackers who missed it in the theater, and cool people that are planning on making a smart purchase. On a sad note, according to CHUD.com, Mitchell Hurwitz has quit Arrested Development. He said he would be a consultant of sorts if the series was picked up by Showtime, but either way this is a bad omen.

cruel?

or incredibly lucky!




your thoughts...

because i care

... so i finally finished my 3 month-long public service project with the fraternity...
it kinda was hard because i had to be involved in every single step of it, including all 15, 3-hour public events... but its all done... and that makes me happy... i have some pictures because you probably have no idea what's going on... basically we made a display board about a health topic (avian flu this year) and some brochures and we went around to places like libraries, grocery stores and pharmacies and peddled our information... and most of the time it drifted to other drugs and medical questions... i thought it was going to be hard, but it turns out i might have actually learned afew things about drugs these last few years... so thats been cool... ANYWAYS... here are some pictures holla: www.pictures.uk.net.edu.cool

Law School and Laptops

Hayley's Platinum Plus Law School and Laptops Link

Sorry if the link doesn't show up... I'm at work.

At University of Memphis, the students are boycotting/protesting a professor that banned laptops in class. I understand her argument.(that they keep people from processing info), and Sewanee had the same policy. The laptops were distracting in small spaces (clicking all the time), and my profs. thought it kept people from listening and processing info in favor of simply remembering it long enough to get it on the computer, thus cheapening the “learning experience”.
I had an old-school English prof who calmly walked over to a laptop user, and closed his computer while he was typing, never ONCE breaking stride or lecture. V. impressive.
LeTal and CBry- does the laptop help… or do they just make you use them?

you got... sitemeter

this is a really great sitemeter that jeff whittle showed me back in my website glory days. i think you'll find it really fun and interesting. you can click on the icon at the bottom of the page and see all sorts of information about who's visiting the site, when, where they come from, where they go to... i mean, you name it and it's available to see. so have fun with it and definitely go check it out.

one question. how would you prefer the meter to look?

A)


B)


C)


D)


(i've always liked the last one because of it's subtle look, but let me know what you think. i also like A)

Mea Culpa mea culpa mea maxima culpa

Ok.. I'm not sure exactly what just happened, but I want to assure you all that it was not intentional.

Josh said I could edit my comments on a page called haloscan.com

I went there, registered, and it didn't list any of my comments. So I played arount with it and somehow managed to erase ALL the comments. Nowhere did it say this was going to happen.. NOWHERE.

I'm really sorry. I guess we get to start anew... now that it is spring and all...

Let the abuse begin (just think, the first comment of a new era can be highly critical of my mistake... i swear it was an honest mistake)

can you guys help me out?

so i'm doing this window display thing about the avian flu... and we've got some great contact numbers so far, actually with some hard work i've been able to set a fraternity record of about 3,025 through brochures and direct contacts... BUT we've got a website which is basically a compilation of all the information i put on my display board..(i.e... its all me)... and there is a counter at the bottom and i get to count every count as a contact (the website is on the back of the brochures too)... so if you guys could maybe all visit this (and no more than once per person, i'm not trying to cheat or anything) that would help my numbers out... and thats a good thing!
looking forward to seeing you guys this weekend, first time i've been home since early january -

here is the website (and feel free to explore around the fraternity site if you are curious as to what kind of organization i'm the VP of! woot!)

Statutory Interpretation

Don't be too intimidated by the title of this post. I have a very simple task for all of you.

I'm sitting here in my little conference room that I use as an office in the law firm I work for, and the senior partner (who must be nearly 80) comes in and hands me a piece of paper. "This is going to be debated in the General Assembly next week. Tell me what it means." I proceeded to read it, then he very loudly said "Now what in the FUCK does that mean?" After the moment of surprise for his choice of words, I read it again and realized it doesn't really make sense. But since we legally minded folk sometimes fail to see the forest in all the trees, I thought I'd elicit some ideas from the rest of you (Todd- you can participate despite your legal mind in training). Many of you did Youth in Government, so maybe you understand.

"If a motor vehicle is involved in an accident and there is more than (1) driver of such motor vehicle, only a driver found at fault shall be charged with a violation of the rules of the road complied in title 55, chapter 8."

Read it again carefully and tell me what it means. If it is written correctly, I can think of only two situations where this makes sense. 1) Fire trucks with a "back driver" or 2) Drivers education cars with two "drivers."

My other idea (the more likely one) is that it is a terribly written attempt to keep non-at-fault drivers from being cited when they get in an accident with another driver (in another car). Based on the apparent average IQ of a Tennessee lawmaker, this seems to be just a horribly written attempt at that.

Last thing- I realize this isn't TERRIBLY interesting, but nobody is talking about anything else... so this is what you get.

BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH

Bewaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaare the ides of March...

Gamers/Violence Lovers, Beware...

I highly doubt that this would make it to an actual law, but I could see it happening in Tennessee over many other states.

http://www.gametrailers.com/viewnews.php?id=3018

I read this on a couple of other sites as well. If you don't enjoy video games, then this isn't a problem for you. If you do, I suppose you could always buy/rent online. Age restriction is acceptable, but this seems like excessive and unneccessary censorship to me. Book burning, anyone?

recap

here's a recap of my white coat ceremony with some pics, if anyone is interrested

For British Eyes Only...

I finally finished Arrested Development last night, with a feeling of satisfaction and despair. From episode 1, that show was fantastic, and it just kept getting better and better. I just can't believe that's it. How could Fox cancel such a good show? I guess they judge all shows by ratings, but I can't believe a program of such high quality could be cut down in the prime of it's life. Was it too self-referential? Was the humor too sophisticated, over-the-top, or off-beat for mainstream America? What do you guys think? It seems that TV is trying to pull itself out of this downward spiral with the few really good shows that have come about recently, but it keeps getting dragged back down. And what the hell is the deal with this "doing things with celebrities" reality show trend? I don't give two shits about ice skating, why should I care about ice skating with some has-been that was on an obscure TV show in the 80's? Seriously, come on.

Nothing much going on in the personal front, mostly just studying for the MCAT again. I've come to severely dislike standardized tests. How will this determine if I would be a good doctor? I know they need a way to narrow down the number of med-school applicants, but devoting a Saturday to taking a test that I have no idea how to study for and will never feel prepared for irks me on many levels. And it costs $210. Seems like a scam to me.

B.A.N.A.N.A.S.

sooo... me and my roommate went to the local kroger, often affectionately called the "crack kroger"... and i'll let you figure out why... and we did some shopping, just a quick in and out deal. I got some diet mountin dew, bananas, and milk... so we get out to the parking lot and, to my suprise someone asked me for some money (and by suprise, i mean that happens no less than twice every time i go shopping there)... it was a little old lady... she walked over and got right up next to me like (not unlike the close-talker from seinfield) and asked me for some money for some food... my reply:

"well i just have my credit card, i'm sorry"
"but i'm just really hungry"
"well i have some bananas, you want one of those?"
"i need some food... i'm really hungry"
"yeah... you want a banana?"
"no i'm really hungry... i just need something to eat"
"sure, no problem... so 2 bananas? would that do it?"
"no i need food... can you give me some money??"
"no, but i can give you a banana"
"i just... i'm hungry... i need food... need some chicken... "
"sooo is that a yes or a no for the banana?"
"i'm just really hungry"
"yeah i bet, you want a banana? i've got some of those right here in my car, you can have one... or two?"
".....i dont really like bananas"
"ok...well... see ya"

gotta love memphians

booyah, brokeback

so jess and i went to the Oscars last night. it was a lot of fun.

(a 3 piece suit? how do you like them apples?


so how awesome was that when Three 6 Mafia won best song for Hustle & Flow? that was the craziest. i mean, a rap group just won an Academy Award. and i was extremely happy when Crash won Best Picture. i was pretty happy in general. i was really afraid Brokeback was going to pull in way more than it did. (while it did win 3, i can't argue with those).

anyway, hope you all had a good oscar night. happy week 9 of 52.