Bored, bored, bored. There ain't much to do here, so I'm starting to play pool at the local bar. I'm getting good at backgammon too.
I've realized that the best way for people to learn something is to have them experience it. For example, my roommates. The moroccan is pretty damn annoying, so I've just responded in kind by being equally annoying and harassing. It's starting to work; poke me in the back randomly, I'll punch you in the stomach. Wake me up by calling out my name repeatedly from the kitchen for no reason, I'll harass you when you fall asleep on the couch. Similarly for the mexican, we're always waiting around for him. So today I said he could find a ride home (since class ended early so we could do presentation work) and nobody else wanted to leave right away. Waiting around for people sure sucks, doesn't it? We can't discount the importance of experience, as lecture and discussion rarely have a visceral memory attached to them.
I was reading an interesting article online that stated that Mars has gone through a global warming of 0.5 C over the past 50 years (or 100, doesn't really matter). Almost identical to what Earth has gone through...
Also another interesting article: Click!
Gotta leave it to the Germans for the ice cold logic of why you can't have your cake and eat it too. It is a pretty good point though, either your for women's rights or you're for multiculturalism; you can't have both. I personally don't believe in culture, or tolerance of culture; people have basic rights. You are your own person dammit, and should be accountable for your own actions. Yeah, I went there Ian.
Check out the floating bed, I want one! Click
Party...PARTY
I was talking with the Europeans and it's rather funny to see the symmetry between Nutella and peanut butter with North America and Europe. As you well know, peanut butter is quite popular in North America here, and we have many choices. And in the far off corner of the shelf is the Nutella (the chocolate hazelnut spread). Apparently it's pretty much the opposite in Europe, all the different kinds of Nutella, with a single jar of peanut butter in the corner. I dunno how I'm gonna make it over there, without my peanut butter and banana sandwiches, how long can a man last? And how the hell can you justify a chocolate spread? Jesus, I just think of spreading a pot belly on bread.
I've realized that the best way for people to learn something is to have them experience it. For example, my roommates. The moroccan is pretty damn annoying, so I've just responded in kind by being equally annoying and harassing. It's starting to work; poke me in the back randomly, I'll punch you in the stomach. Wake me up by calling out my name repeatedly from the kitchen for no reason, I'll harass you when you fall asleep on the couch. Similarly for the mexican, we're always waiting around for him. So today I said he could find a ride home (since class ended early so we could do presentation work) and nobody else wanted to leave right away. Waiting around for people sure sucks, doesn't it? We can't discount the importance of experience, as lecture and discussion rarely have a visceral memory attached to them.
I was reading an interesting article online that stated that Mars has gone through a global warming of 0.5 C over the past 50 years (or 100, doesn't really matter). Almost identical to what Earth has gone through...
Also another interesting article: Click!
Gotta leave it to the Germans for the ice cold logic of why you can't have your cake and eat it too. It is a pretty good point though, either your for women's rights or you're for multiculturalism; you can't have both. I personally don't believe in culture, or tolerance of culture; people have basic rights. You are your own person dammit, and should be accountable for your own actions. Yeah, I went there Ian.
Check out the floating bed, I want one! Click
Party...PARTY
I was talking with the Europeans and it's rather funny to see the symmetry between Nutella and peanut butter with North America and Europe. As you well know, peanut butter is quite popular in North America here, and we have many choices. And in the far off corner of the shelf is the Nutella (the chocolate hazelnut spread). Apparently it's pretty much the opposite in Europe, all the different kinds of Nutella, with a single jar of peanut butter in the corner. I dunno how I'm gonna make it over there, without my peanut butter and banana sandwiches, how long can a man last? And how the hell can you justify a chocolate spread? Jesus, I just think of spreading a pot belly on bread.
posted by Poshy at 12:07 PM
3 Comments:
Don't be hatin' on the nutella. It's like a chocolatly truffle, but we pretend it's not like, 200 bazillion calories per half teaspoon because supposedly, it's healthy.
Not that I even have much toast anymore... Maybe they have the equivilent of Adam's peanutbutter in crushed hazelnut/pure cocoa form?
I just can't imagine a chocolate spread with that consistency being healthy. Hell, I don't even know what it's really made out of, nothing natural has that texture.
Over here in India, I could close my eyes, throw a rock and probably hit nutella. the european invasion has brought nutella into everything from sandwiches to crepes... one of my favourite treats (breakfasts) is a nutella banana pancake.
for the most part i pretend its a nut spread that tastes conviniently like chocolate. placebo effect is everything.
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