Thanksgiving and Disconnected Thoughts

was fun. I went home and hung out with family, and friends. I also got a haircut and my head feels lighter.

I have nothing really prepared for a post today so here are some random thoughts:

• The Warrior's Way is essentially Cowboys vs Ninjas. We should tie it together with Cowboys and Aliens and have a movie about cowboys, aliens, and ninjas. While we're at it we should throw in pirates as well.
• Pouring liquid nitrogen on something doesn't necessarily degrade its edibility. If that something is the right combination of ingredients you could very well end up with delicious ice cream.
• You know what would be awesome? Taking up electric violin. I wish I had an electric violin. Also a saxophone. And a keytar. Actually theres quite a long list of instruments I'd like to play.

That's all for now! Expect more posts this week concerning various things that are nonspecific now but will be specific later.

Procrastination

Procrastination is really great. You can give yourself lots of free time by not doing anything. Just remember that there is a limit to procrastination and you do have to eventually get to things before it's too late.

It's kinda like, blowing up a balloon. You inflate it and then inhale the helium to joke around with a squeaky voice and then once the gag is all used up and unfunny you refill the balloon and finish filling the other balloons and tie them to things with strings. I forgot where I was going with this.

Anyway, procrastination. When you tell yourself you'll "get to it eventually", you really do have to get to it sooner or later. "Eventually" can become "right freaking now" quicker than you think. Even if you think it happens really quickly, it happens quicker than you think.

So there you have it. Now I have to go do things that I've been procrastinating, because I decided the piece of mind and relaxation earlier would be worth the crazed frenzy that would come now.

I specialize in a very specific type of music composition...

The other day I was like "Man, I wanna hear the 8-bit chiptune version of Mind Heist, because I'm so awesomely geeky." So I check Youtube and it turns out that against all odds, I couldn't find such a thing anywhere! So I sat down, listened to the original song on a continuous loop for long enough that I haven't the slightest idea how many times I'd heard it, and threw together this:



Enjoy :P

I accidentally my playlist

This happened by accident but turned out to be a REALLY GOOD IDEA.

A while ago I did a little video project wherein I added lots of different sound effects to a video of my brother and I fighting with the Nerf swords I had just gotten for Christmas (This was just last year, actually). Most of the sound effects were various sword impact sounds, to make it sound as if we where fighting with metal swords.

All of the sound effects I'd downloaded in that endeavor ended up in my iTunes and therefore ended up in my iPod. I never noticed them though, because they didn't have an artist listed. However, putting my iPod on shuffle became a great deal more interesting.

Basically I now sometimes random short little sounds that pop in between songs, and its actually really cool. It's like having my own personal DJ or radio station even with the little sound bites added in. So I totally recommend putting a bunch of short sound effects on your iPod. It's really really awesome.









Also here's the aforementioned video, in case you feel like watching something ABSOLUTELY HORRENDOUS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_KNSY49htI

I don't even know why I did this

In lieu of a generous helping of dissertation on spontaneously composing a tune, I'll post the video instead!



I titled it Skullzard, because when I decided to post the song to Youtube I realized I needed something to occupy the visual space as the theme plays. So I opened up Paint and drew a monster, and since its a skeletal lizard I called it Skullzard, and adopted that as the song title. I think its a much better title than "fight.wav".

I'm about to go to sleep so here's some thoughts on food...

Spices are your friend.
Also wonder bread.
Toasters are a good thing to have as well.
If you really want to splurge,
you can drink tomato sauce like you would
put on pasta. Maybe even mix with a bit of
chopped garlic.
I'm of the opinion that it tastes better than V8
though quite a great number of things tase better than V8.

My main point is that marinara sauce is delicious and it doesn't just have to be a thing you put on top of stuff. It's perfectly good on it's own.

A quick little adventure-

Earlier this week I got the idea to use an arrow to carry a fishing line over the top of WTS, and looked around on Craigslist for the needed materials. Among all the different posts about how different people wanted hundreds of dollars for their various hunting bows, I came across a simple ad: "compound bow - $15". It had a picture of a compound bow on a table, and simply read "selling this compound bow, $15.00 o.b.o". I sent an email to this guy, and waited for a response. After two days I had given up on it, deciding that it had either already been sold or didn't exist. Then yesterday I get this email: "still interested in the bow?". I of course was elated and asked if I could pick it up the same day. Then the address turned out to be eight miles away and it was already getting dark.

I called around but the usual people I get rides from were all busy. Then I had the brilliant idea to assume that my friend Luke had a car, and asked him. It turned out that, yes, he did have a car, and yes he wasn't busy. He'd been sick with the flu, but it was okay since I'd had my shots. He said he would pick me up at 5:40, so at 5:30 I started walking towards the meeting point.

On the way there I saw this red swivel chair just sitting outside. This sort of thing immediately grabs my curiosity, so I went over to inspect it. There weren't any people around, the chair didn't smell, it was clean and intact, and there was absolutely no indication that it wasn't being thrown out. So I lifted it up onto my shoulder and ran like a madman across the cut to bring it back to my dorm. I'm sure it was quite a spectacle to see a man in a tweed blazer and a pork-pie hat dashing about with a bright red desk chair hoisted up onto his shoulder.

Anyway, I got back to my room, opened the door, tossed the chair into the middle of the room (much to my surprised roommate's disdain!) and dashed off because I still had to meet up with Luke to go get the bow. Eventually we got to the house, and it was really dark out. We found the correct house, which was tough because it was too dark to see any house numbers.

On our arrival I saw a gentleman outside on his front lawn doing some work with a table saw. I, still dressed like a jazz bassist, exchanged some currency for the bow, wished him a good night, and went back to my dorm room where the night was still not over... because I had Economics homework to finish!

There are no woes. Only WOOOHOOOOO!!!!!s

It's come to that time of the semester known by many as "crunch time". I suspect that the name stems from the fact that I will indeed be crunching the snow underboot as it gets cold and the ground threateans to turn white and fluffy.

It is also likely that I will be crunching other things as well. Just this past week I crunched a programming homework assignment, which had made a valiant attempt to crunch yours truly, but instead swiftly became the crunchee.

I will also be crunching some numbers as I attempt a MOST REDICULOUS WORK OF GUERILLA DECORATION. Specifically I'll be attempting to string Christmas lights all up and down a certain hundred-foot-tall metal pole that a great many look upon with such disdain. (My personal opinion is that CMU President Cohen originally put it up for Festivus, and not one has bested him in the ring since. The year-round Airing of Grievances supports this theory.)

Alas, time runs short.. and as I write this the time for Economics class draws near. I can do many things, but time-travel is not one of them (yet).

Until next time, adoring fans:
Clyde Shaffer signing out.