ANAL@umich.edu - Ana Licerda
Don't need to explain why having your uniquename be anal could be taken the wrong way.
BROHEAT@umich.edu - Heather Bromand
I work with her and every time she sends an email I think it's from the furnace at ADPhi.
BJAMESS@umich.edu - Brendon J Schwartz
Its clear B-James-S. It's his first initial followed by his middle name, and the first initial of his last name. But not when you read it BJ-A-Mess. Every time this shows up in my inbox I crack up about the messy BJ.
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Quickie Burger: Outlook Good
Without the competent workforce of Dlowe, Tubbys closed down at the end of fall semester. It was probably for the best, seeing as there are 7 other places that sell subs at the Hill-State-Packard area. It is being replaced by this:
Yes, it's a cleavage laden blond holding a stein of beer while her other hand grasps the reins to the burger she is riding bareback while condiments spew out the rear. That is awesome.
P.S. It looks like she has the boots with the *Spur*
I kill myself sometimes.
Yes, it's a cleavage laden blond holding a stein of beer while her other hand grasps the reins to the burger she is riding bareback while condiments spew out the rear. That is awesome.
P.S. It looks like she has the boots with the *Spur*
I kill myself sometimes.
I've decided to Blog More
I think I am going to start posting multi-day posts. This means that post might be shorter, quicker and not so much content based. Think more zwarlick. Only not so much with the non sequiturs.
In my horrendous effort to spell non-sequitur I typed seqwitier, and the built in spell checkers first suggestion was "frontiersman". That's terrible.
In my horrendous effort to spell non-sequitur I typed seqwitier, and the built in spell checkers first suggestion was "frontiersman". That's terrible.
You only turn 21 twice
Over the roughly 26 hours that I was turning 21
I can't believe I remember this...
1 Busch
2 Natty Lite
3 Busch
4 Natty Lite
5 Jagerbomb
6 Bacardi 151
7 Sam Adams
8 SoCo and Lime
9 Mystery Shot
10 Miller Light
11 Wild Turkey
12-13 Labatts Deuce Deuce
14 Natty Light
15-16 Rouge Pilsner Deuce Deuce
17 Acid Rain
18 Hairy Gorilla Fart
19 Liquid Cocaine
20 Green Beret
21 Honey Brown
22 Muff Diver
23 Cement Mixer
24 Honey Brown
25 Tequila Shot
26 Dos Equis
I am all that is man/all that is very hungover and in explicitly awake at 7 am.
I can't believe I remember this...
1 Busch
2 Natty Lite
3 Busch
4 Natty Lite
5 Jagerbomb
6 Bacardi 151
7 Sam Adams
8 SoCo and Lime
9 Mystery Shot
10 Miller Light
11 Wild Turkey
12-13 Labatts Deuce Deuce
14 Natty Light
15-16 Rouge Pilsner Deuce Deuce
17 Acid Rain
18 Hairy Gorilla Fart
19 Liquid Cocaine
20 Green Beret
21 Honey Brown
22 Muff Diver
23 Cement Mixer
24 Honey Brown
25 Tequila Shot
26 Dos Equis
I am all that is man/all that is very hungover and in explicitly awake at 7 am.
Friday, February 29, 2008
Best and Worst State Quarters
Please refer to the diagrams here for the rest of this post. Thank you.
It seems as if the treasury will put anything on a coin if they think people will like it. What do they care if people like it? They are printing money, not memorabilia. Although, they have made about 3.8 billion dollars through the state quarter program. You would think that if you were designing a state quarter you would put some thought into it.
It seems like most states wants one of the following to appear on their quarter:
A) Image (15 states)
B) Historical Significance (11 states)
C) Landmark (9 states)
D) Person of Interest (10 states)
But you could also break it down like this:
A) States with a stupid bird (6)
B) States with a gay flower (6)
C) States with a fucking bison/cow/horse (8)
States with 2 of the previous 3: 4 (Kansas, Arkansas, South Carolina, Oklahoma)
3 states (North Dakota, Montana and Kansas) use the image of the Bison on their state quarters. Bison are practically extinct and almost no bison live in any of the states that use it on their coin. Wyoming whose state flag is pretty much just a bison, doesn't even use it. It shows my point that you should use something unique to your state.
State quarters are the one chance for a state to show everyone what it has to contribute to the nation. A good quarter represents your state through simplicity. It should be easy to tell what state it is from without it having to say so. Also, you should show what your state represents. That is the key to a good state quarter. Here are the best 4 and the worst 6. (There are more bad than good)
Best 4
4.
Wyoming
I like it because it is so simple and elegant. Just the outline of a cowboy riding a bucking bronco. It shows the spirit of Wyoming without cluttering the coin with a bunch of flowers or birds. Its not like Wyoming has a whole lot of stuff going in anyways.
3.
Alaska
The rugged American outback. The last wilderness. A fucking bear catching a salmon with its mouth in a raging river. That is so boss.
2.
Texas
It's simple and shows just the state and the lone star over the capitol. I like that even though they could have put so much more on their quarter, they chose to leave it without anything else. It comes off as timeless.
1.
Illinois
This is the best state coin. It incorporates an image of the state, a landmark and a person of interest, while not including a bird, flower or animal. One one side it has the outline of a barn and silo which shows Illinois commitment to farming and agriculture. On the other side of the image of the state shows the outline of downtown Chicago and the large commercial side of the state. Inlaid in the outline of Illinois is an image of a young Abraham Lincoln. It makes good use of the space and shows everything that you should think of when you think of the Land of Lincoln.
Worst 6
6.
Utah
Its quarter depicts the golden spike and the completion of the transcontinental railroad. Your state chose the completion of a cross country mode of transportation that is barely still in use today. What next? Will Arizona show the completion of Route 66 in 1926? Its almost as dumb as Florida putting the space shuttle on their quarter. In 2 years the space shuttle will be retired, so they could have put an image of a Saturn 5, which is a much more badass spacecraft.
5.
New Hampshire
Your contribution to the nation appears to be a rock face that kind of looks like an old man. It might as well be a piece of burnt toast depicting Franklin Pierce. What? Your beloved rock crumbled to the ground in 2003? So your telling me that New Hampshire should be known for a cliff face that when viewed from the right angle looked slightly like a person, and was destroyed. Gotcha.
4.
Connecticut
Your state quarter appears to show a dead tree. I guess it is supposed to be an unusually large white oak tree. You might as well have shown Gustav Whitehead on your quarter. No one, your own residents included, has any fucking idea why there is a ugly tree on your state quarter.
3
Mississippi
What could possibly be worse than a tree with no leaves? A bunch of flowers. That's all that is on the Mississippi state coin. It must be because Magnolias only grow in Mississippi. That's why it's The Magnolia State. Wait. No? MAGNOLIAS GROW EVERYWHERE! Every state is the magnolia state. There is nothing special about magnolias and Mississippi. They might as well call themselves the dandelion state.
2.
Alabama
So what has your state contributed to society. A dead, deaf, dumb, blind chick. Yes, a woman who had the courage to learn to communicate with those around her. What a fucking accomplishment. Well, I'll salute you for having the courage to not just put a picture of the confederate flag. Bravo. Ohh and what else is on your coin. A MAGNOLIA. TAKE THAT YOU MISSISSIPPI FUCKHEADS.
1.
ohio
Keeping in line with being the worst state ever, ohio managed to thoroughly piss me off. You keep having this coy game where you keep claiming shit as your own. Why is there an Astronaut on you state quarter? What does ohio have to do with space? I can think of 49 states more deserving of an astronaut on their quarter. Did ohio invent the astronaut? People from Ohio who have walked on the moon: 1. People from Texas who have walked on the moon: 3. The other image on your quarter is a picture of the first recorded flight. THAT DIDN'T OCCUR IN YOUR STATE. You have an image you clearly stole from North Carolina and put it on your state quarter. I get it, "birthplace of aviation". The logic is as follows, without ohio there would be no Wright Brothers, and without the Wright Brothers there would be no airplanes, and without airplanes there would be no space program. Space exploration is more akin to rocketry than aviation so that honor would go to Massachusetts where early rocketry tests were performed. The wright brothers were not the only ones working on the airplane (see Connecticut and Gustav Whitehead above). BUT GET THIS: Wilbur Wright wasn't even born in ohio. HA! The birthplace of aviation belongs just as much to Indiana as it does to ohio. Your license plates should really read "Half of the birthplace of aviation" So that's it. Your states' claim to fame is that one of the two guys that eventually went on to make the first airplane was born in your state well as a few of the hundreds of people that have been in space. You my friend have the worst state coin ever.
Here is what the ohio state coin should look like:
It seems as if the treasury will put anything on a coin if they think people will like it. What do they care if people like it? They are printing money, not memorabilia. Although, they have made about 3.8 billion dollars through the state quarter program. You would think that if you were designing a state quarter you would put some thought into it.
It seems like most states wants one of the following to appear on their quarter:
A) Image (15 states)
B) Historical Significance (11 states)
C) Landmark (9 states)
D) Person of Interest (10 states)
But you could also break it down like this:
A) States with a stupid bird (6)
B) States with a gay flower (6)
C) States with a fucking bison/cow/horse (8)
States with 2 of the previous 3: 4 (Kansas, Arkansas, South Carolina, Oklahoma)
3 states (North Dakota, Montana and Kansas) use the image of the Bison on their state quarters. Bison are practically extinct and almost no bison live in any of the states that use it on their coin. Wyoming whose state flag is pretty much just a bison, doesn't even use it. It shows my point that you should use something unique to your state.
State quarters are the one chance for a state to show everyone what it has to contribute to the nation. A good quarter represents your state through simplicity. It should be easy to tell what state it is from without it having to say so. Also, you should show what your state represents. That is the key to a good state quarter. Here are the best 4 and the worst 6. (There are more bad than good)
Best 4
4.
Wyoming
I like it because it is so simple and elegant. Just the outline of a cowboy riding a bucking bronco. It shows the spirit of Wyoming without cluttering the coin with a bunch of flowers or birds. Its not like Wyoming has a whole lot of stuff going in anyways.
3.
Alaska
The rugged American outback. The last wilderness. A fucking bear catching a salmon with its mouth in a raging river. That is so boss.
2.
Texas
It's simple and shows just the state and the lone star over the capitol. I like that even though they could have put so much more on their quarter, they chose to leave it without anything else. It comes off as timeless.
1.
Illinois
This is the best state coin. It incorporates an image of the state, a landmark and a person of interest, while not including a bird, flower or animal. One one side it has the outline of a barn and silo which shows Illinois commitment to farming and agriculture. On the other side of the image of the state shows the outline of downtown Chicago and the large commercial side of the state. Inlaid in the outline of Illinois is an image of a young Abraham Lincoln. It makes good use of the space and shows everything that you should think of when you think of the Land of Lincoln.
Worst 6
6.
Utah
Its quarter depicts the golden spike and the completion of the transcontinental railroad. Your state chose the completion of a cross country mode of transportation that is barely still in use today. What next? Will Arizona show the completion of Route 66 in 1926? Its almost as dumb as Florida putting the space shuttle on their quarter. In 2 years the space shuttle will be retired, so they could have put an image of a Saturn 5, which is a much more badass spacecraft.
5.
New Hampshire
Your contribution to the nation appears to be a rock face that kind of looks like an old man. It might as well be a piece of burnt toast depicting Franklin Pierce. What? Your beloved rock crumbled to the ground in 2003? So your telling me that New Hampshire should be known for a cliff face that when viewed from the right angle looked slightly like a person, and was destroyed. Gotcha.
4.
Connecticut
Your state quarter appears to show a dead tree. I guess it is supposed to be an unusually large white oak tree. You might as well have shown Gustav Whitehead on your quarter. No one, your own residents included, has any fucking idea why there is a ugly tree on your state quarter.
3
Mississippi
What could possibly be worse than a tree with no leaves? A bunch of flowers. That's all that is on the Mississippi state coin. It must be because Magnolias only grow in Mississippi. That's why it's The Magnolia State. Wait. No? MAGNOLIAS GROW EVERYWHERE! Every state is the magnolia state. There is nothing special about magnolias and Mississippi. They might as well call themselves the dandelion state.
2.
Alabama
So what has your state contributed to society. A dead, deaf, dumb, blind chick. Yes, a woman who had the courage to learn to communicate with those around her. What a fucking accomplishment. Well, I'll salute you for having the courage to not just put a picture of the confederate flag. Bravo. Ohh and what else is on your coin. A MAGNOLIA. TAKE THAT YOU MISSISSIPPI FUCKHEADS.
1.
ohio
Keeping in line with being the worst state ever, ohio managed to thoroughly piss me off. You keep having this coy game where you keep claiming shit as your own. Why is there an Astronaut on you state quarter? What does ohio have to do with space? I can think of 49 states more deserving of an astronaut on their quarter. Did ohio invent the astronaut? People from Ohio who have walked on the moon: 1. People from Texas who have walked on the moon: 3. The other image on your quarter is a picture of the first recorded flight. THAT DIDN'T OCCUR IN YOUR STATE. You have an image you clearly stole from North Carolina and put it on your state quarter. I get it, "birthplace of aviation". The logic is as follows, without ohio there would be no Wright Brothers, and without the Wright Brothers there would be no airplanes, and without airplanes there would be no space program. Space exploration is more akin to rocketry than aviation so that honor would go to Massachusetts where early rocketry tests were performed. The wright brothers were not the only ones working on the airplane (see Connecticut and Gustav Whitehead above). BUT GET THIS: Wilbur Wright wasn't even born in ohio. HA! The birthplace of aviation belongs just as much to Indiana as it does to ohio. Your license plates should really read "Half of the birthplace of aviation" So that's it. Your states' claim to fame is that one of the two guys that eventually went on to make the first airplane was born in your state well as a few of the hundreds of people that have been in space. You my friend have the worst state coin ever.
Here is what the ohio state coin should look like:
Introduction to Brian's Guide to Colleges
In the last 4 weeks I have visited 4 universities in 4 states. All of them are unique and have ups and downs. After this post, I got the idea to start rating the girls at each school I visit. Better yet, I am going to devote part of this blog to give overall ratings the different colleges I visit. Usually when I visit a school I take time to walk around campus and get a feel for the school. I try to visit the union and see the stadium. So now when I go to different schools I am going to rate them based on how I feel about the following factors:
Campus layout:
This is one of the most important factors in a school. Most notably, does the campus have a good feel to it? Is the campus planned out in such a way that it is organized, yet not cramped or too spread out? How are the buildings, are they interesting and unique or do they just look like boring office buildings? Is the school close to a downtown, or is there stuff immediately off campus? These are questions that can be easily answered by a walk through the campus.
Student Population:
The people make the school. A great student population is key to a great school. What are the students like? Are the girls hot, and are the dudes total D-bags? How is the Fratmosphere?
Night Life: This is sometimes hard to tell based on a one or two night visit, because it kind of depends on how good of a time you have. But its easy to tell if a school has a great bar scene or lots of parties.
Food, Stadium, Bus System, Other:
How are the food courts and off campus food? Is the stadium big and intimidating? As a bus driver, I have to take a look at the bus system to determine whether it is up to par. Is there anything else that stuck out on campus?
College Humor already ranks the Colleges across the country on all the important measurable aspects. But these are the immeasurable ratings that are really important.
Campus layout:
This is one of the most important factors in a school. Most notably, does the campus have a good feel to it? Is the campus planned out in such a way that it is organized, yet not cramped or too spread out? How are the buildings, are they interesting and unique or do they just look like boring office buildings? Is the school close to a downtown, or is there stuff immediately off campus? These are questions that can be easily answered by a walk through the campus.
Student Population:
The people make the school. A great student population is key to a great school. What are the students like? Are the girls hot, and are the dudes total D-bags? How is the Fratmosphere?
Night Life: This is sometimes hard to tell based on a one or two night visit, because it kind of depends on how good of a time you have. But its easy to tell if a school has a great bar scene or lots of parties.
Food, Stadium, Bus System, Other:
How are the food courts and off campus food? Is the stadium big and intimidating? As a bus driver, I have to take a look at the bus system to determine whether it is up to par. Is there anything else that stuck out on campus?
College Humor already ranks the Colleges across the country on all the important measurable aspects. But these are the immeasurable ratings that are really important.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Michigan Baseball 4 The New York Mets 2 (Well 4)
Today we went to the Michigan Baseball game vs the New York Mets. We got to watch the Michigan almost beat a professional baseball team. The Mets played their starters for the first half of the game. There were a surprising amount of Michigan fans there but I think we were the only college aged ones. We were being loud enough that some people gave us their seats next to the dugout behind home plate. If you have never gotten the chance to belittle a professional for being struck out by a college kid, I would highly recommend it.
Michigan was up 4-2 with 2 outs in the bottom of the ninth. But Michel Abreu hit a 2 run homer to tie it up. At the start of the tenth the Mets threw in the towel. So it's a win via technicality. I guess since it was a exhibition game they didn't go to extra innings. Ill count it as a win for Michigan.
Michigan was up 4-2 with 2 outs in the bottom of the ninth. But Michel Abreu hit a 2 run homer to tie it up. At the start of the tenth the Mets threw in the towel. So it's a win via technicality. I guess since it was a exhibition game they didn't go to extra innings. Ill count it as a win for Michigan.
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