evolution

you know, i should start compiling a list of other blogs that suck. here’s another one. this guy’s entire website consists of taking pictures of what he ate for lunch. the obvious question is “who gives a shit?” i realize that one could make the following case against my site: “jason, your site contains your thoughts and the details of your life. who gives a shit about that?” the answer is, in my opinion, that i at least try to convince you why you should give a shit - and if you don’t, then i can’t help you. this site is totally useless - just pictures of the greaseballs this dude crammed down his gullet for lunch. there’s no evaluations of the food or the places he ate at, no impressions, no nothing - just pictures of food. what a waste of time.

you should avoid like the plague any woman who refers to men she is dating or wishes to date in general as “boys”. they are either idiots or far too much trouble to hang around.

fuck it, i’ll be a bandwagoneer. the kansas city royals are 17-4 and have won five out of the last six games. it’s fun when your team wins - they stunk so bad for so long, so it’s so nice to see the city get behind them out of the gate.

the chiefs picked:

• larry johnson, rb/penn state (27)
• kawika mitchell, lb/south florida (47)
• julian battle, cb/tennessee (92)
• brett williams, ot/florida state (113)
• jordan black, ot/notre dame (153)
• jimmy wilkerson, de/oklahoma (189)
• montique sharpe, dt/wake forest (230)
• willie pile, cb/virginia tech (252)

wildcats picked:

• terence newman, cb/dallas (5)
• terry pierce, lb/denver (51)
• melvin williams, dt/new orleans (155)
• taco wallace, wr/seattle (224)

a dispatch from the bullhorns of far-left lunacy: peta has offered officials of the town of hamburg, new york $15,000 to change its name to veggieburg. if i were the mayor of such a town, i would respond by banning any peta members from my town for life and declaring that day “mayor’s barbeque day”.

seriously, how can this group of radicals expect to ever be taken seriously with stunts like this? also, peta released an ad that compared eating meat to the holocaust, in which hitler’s nazis killed six million jews. isn’t this over the top? they have only managed to turn reasonable people off to their message, which might in part be legitimate. they are toeing the line of ultra-radical (and even terrorist) groups like the earth liberation front and the people who bomb abortion clinics.

purdue sweetened their offer to me even after i had already made up my mind to attend. they are offering me a bigger stipend, and a year off from teaching. now, i don’t mind the teaching; in fact, i like getting in the classroom. but, it will be nice to focus on passing the qualifying exams straight away as opposed to taking a year or so of classes first.

it appears illinois’ bill self will take the basketball head coaching job at kansas.

i’ve noticed that many other bloggers are now using 4-point type for the text in their entries. why? it looks ridiculous, and it’s impossible to read. here’s an important lesson for web designers: just because it looks nice on your computer doesn’t mean it will look nice everywhere - it’s just impossible to determine what the effect will be unless you use a different computer to look at it. and there is no reason - ever - to use type that small. i don’t even know why it’s included.

my website traffic has spiked lately. i wish i could say that it was due to the brilliance of my writing, but i can’t. i think that some traffic is being pointed here through my fellow grad student vidyaranya “bobby” nanduri. unfortunately, i have not heard any updates about his health. however, those of you looking for information about him might be pleased to know that i did see him - i was sitting in class, and i saw him walking quite briskly out of the office and down the hall, the ever-present grin on his face. if that is any indication of his health, then things are looking better indeed.

update: i just checked up at his website and discovered that in fact vidya needs a bone marrow transplant, so my hopes above were misplaced, at least for now.

a story buried in the entertainment section of yahoo’s news service is claiming that the kuwaitis have found a stash of gay porn films starring saddam hussein. i tracked some of the links leading back from this, and then i realized that this is the work of the tabloid weekly world news, so it is probably not true, but it’s funny nonetheless.

the bob and tom radio show proposed several titles for the iraqi strongman’s films. here is a sample:

• “the road to turdistan”
• (costarring mike piazza) “the catcher and the guy”
• (my personal favorite) “weapons of ass destruction”

i am told that “weapons of ass destruction” is the name of an actual, existing porno flick. no, you weirdos, i have not seen it.