September 2010
1 post
Gal's Poems
Bad Brain observe think Make a statement, think make a statement, halfthink develop an unforeseen connection between the two statements Good Brain think think think (think)* think Get money and women
February 2010
2 posts
tic toc tic toc tic
boom
cryonics
I was talking to ‘King Tito’ today. Usually we talk about whatever conspiracy he’s convinced himself is true, for example that the Tiananmen massacre was actually a CIA plot to bring down communism in China.
Today we were brought back to a very old topic of conversation, the fact that King Tito has always wanted to freeze himself. When asked why he replies by saying ‘to...
January 2010
1 post
November 2009
4 posts
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Bear kills militants in... →
Death has never been this funny
October 2009
4 posts
My Heuristics (this isn't an essay)
Theory Proof: http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/1/3/8/3/7/p138377_index.html
In political science, the theory of ‘voting cues’ (no one calls it ‘the theory of voting cues’, they call it ‘heuristics’) states that uninformed voters do not require full knowledge of the complex processes of government to make an appropriate voting...
You've thought about this before, we need more...
People are obviously ethnically diverse. We can observe this visually. We see that a man with black skin is different from a man who has pink skin. These differences are incontestable.
We can understand these differences and we understand that they arise from the processes of genetic drift/ natural selection/ other evolutionary principles. For example, we can deduce that Northerners have...
So now the Nobel Peace Prize all of a sudden...
She was always one of the overlooked few; of those gray and hidden by overlapping reverberations of exaggeration and purported excellence. It’s funny that modesty does a better job of hiding the great than it does of humbling the proud.
September 2009
4 posts
Speculation seems to me pretty idle.
Dear Mr. Av-Gay,
I read your letter with interest. There is no solid evidence in these areas. My own judgments are different from yours, but I know of no way to settle the issues, except by continuing to explore and experiment. Speculation seems to me pretty idle.
Sincerely,
firefox →
August 2009
2 posts
Everyone is leaving
Functions of your mind become automatic. Your palms learn to tolerate the scorching ceramic heat. The stinging sensation from the small burn on your forearm becomes a minor frustration, buried in the back of your mind between your financial issues and the memories of Europe. The hours spent breathing in steamy fumes (which are laced with the mixed scent of potatoes and twelve dozen different...
I'm coming home
this blog has gotten to the point where I’ve written in such random and irrelevant detail that I don’t think I’d even read my own posts in their entirety. That fact isn’t going to stop me.
Only four days ago I was in athens, which reeked of homeless peoples’ urine and the over-applied perfume of sub-par hookers. That’s an exaggeration of Athens in general,...
July 2009
11 posts
porko dio
that’s how you curse in Italian, you say ‘pig god’, which apparently is a very bad thing to say in public.
To those of you who read this, I’m sorry for not having updated it frequently in the past week. It’s just that way too much shit has been going on.
“But Gal, if way too much shit has been going on, wouldn’t that give you more to write...
Van Gogh
I mentioned this previously, but in London Clarance and I developed the habit of referring to the location of our beds as ‘house’ rather than home.
In London everything seemed to stimulate and impress. In Rome I walk down via palestro, sliding my fingers against a corroded fence as if I live here. Last night we slept inside the airport in Milan, in front of a row of vending...
sheawmon, mercedes, phil, dashel, gavin, brittany,...
I woke Sam and Clarance up early (10 AM) to go to the louvre, Sawmon joined us. We left at 1:00, we got there at around 1:30, and then we were hungry. I lined up for asian food, and they all went somewhere else, we planned to meet somewhere at 2:00. I didn’t expect them to show up. It was actually more of a hope than an expectation. Had they been with me in the louvre I’d enjoy the...
See I reckon you're about an 8 or a 9, maybe 9 and...
Gal: look, a pigeon
Clarance: French pigeon.
Paris is like getting a static shock from a really hot girl. Or I should say a really fit girl. Within two hours of our arrival I was almost scammed twice by gypsies at Sacré Coeur Cathedral. Then we met up with Parker, Sam Parker, the man, the legend. Within an hour of his arrival we were playing drinking games with a South African, an American,...
Let's go back house
We found it confusing to refer to our hostel as ‘home’. I decided to write about last night rather than the night before that.
My grasp limited and my smile broad, I wiped an excess of salt from my slacks and we trodded onwards to piccadilly circus. The rowdy germans singing their anthem, cigarettes flaring as a gust of wind blew that reeked of budweiser and women’s perfume. ...
TigerTiger
I’ll add the photos later
Clarance has this habit of articulating things that he sees, as if they don’t even pass through his mind. We’d see a cat and he’d say “cat”, and I’d say “yes Clarance, a cat”. “British Cat.” he’d say.
London probably isn’t much different from home. We’ve got cats at home, we’ve...
Harold and Kumar (eurotrip entry 2)
Our taxi driver’s brother in law lives in coquitlam. We made the unfortunate mistake of taking a cab to Palmer’s Lodge (our hostel), it was much too expensive.
We spent our first day making sense of the intricacies of the tubes. We went down to piccadilly circus and to oxford street and to the theatre district. We went by Freud’s museum but we didn’t have time to take a...
Have an adventure, and then come back and tell me...
that’s what Jonah told me before he left my empty home at 3 AM.
I wasn’t planning on sleeping that night, I planned on staying awake until 6 AM, and then taking a cab to the airport and sleeping on the plane. It worked all right, with the exception the sleep-deprived paranoia that I developed while closing up my home.
I’m in guildford right now and it’s very chill. It...
June 2009
9 posts
I'm leaving in three days
Most of my to-do list has been completed, it’s a great feeling. I’ve killed the creatures underneath my bed, the residual arthropods who’ve crawled through the cracks in my walls to bask in the humidity of my bedroom. This could be a result of bad architecture, or the fact that my room is directly behind a laundry room/ bathroom.
I told my boss that I’d be leaving. I...
Being unbiased and impartial
Being unbiased and impartial doesn’t mean that you have to present an opinion that is the norm. Being unbiased and impartial does not entail a centrist perspective. It simply means that you state the facts objectively, regardless of outside influence, and in some cases these facts may support one group’s argument over another.
If ABC News decides to air a pro universal health-care...
the first vocalization in this song is crap, but I...
fruitcake
“In mid-2003, Rep. Bill Thomas (R-Calif.), Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, attempted to rush a ninety-page pension reform bill through his committee. Having not had an opportunity to read the bill, Democrats fled the committee room to review the legislation in an adjacent library. An irate Thomas called for an immediate vote, and passed the bill with only one Democrat, Rep. Pete...
Jonah and I wrote this song at the end of last...
May 2009
4 posts
“- Flash your goldfish”
– 474 Things To Do When You’re Bored
talk less, and more will listen
I started working at my father’s lab again, probably due to his indignance with my inability to get a job. The lab is in the old VGH Heather Pavilion, which stands miserably as a stone structure with a newer building built around it. Notice in the linked timeline that the Heather Pavilion was completed in 1906, and patients were transported to this location on horse-drawn carriages via...
I suck at driving
Applicant does not qualify for a class 7/8 license for the following reasons: Dangerous Action.
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April 2009
9 posts
Mr. Bojangles on MySpace Music
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Class Notes
PHYSICS 102
“You know what Gal? I think I agree with you; our professor is a serial killer.” - Rastko Djeric.
MICROBIO 202
“If you don’t get an A I don’t know if I’ll be able to show my face in the department.” - Father: trying to be funny.
CHEM 204
The best thing about organic chemistry is that it doesn’t involve math;
The worst thing about...
Search for your Name in the Digits of Pi →
AAAA
The day’s shortcomings were in plain view. It had not been entirely efficient, and Gal had a habit of riding the momentum of the morning into the late hours of the night. If he fucked up before noon there was almost no reason to continue trying for the rest of the day. It was almost as if failure gave him an excuse to fail again. But tomorrow would be better, or at least he would tell...
We recorded this song on the same night that we...
The life of a champion.
At this point in time I’m deliberating between another glass of water and a glass of scotch.
PS. I changed the background color because I couldn’t figure out how to java my way through the font color that fucking ‘disqus’ forces on you when you embed their stupid commenting box. As a form of payback, I took the liberty of changing the link to the disqus website into a...
