The beginning of a new season of Vomit....

Today my friends is January the 18. A Wednesday to be exact. Do you know what the implications of such a date is? No? Well I shall illuminate you. There is exactly 28 more day till THE day ....Oh yes a holiday created under what I like to refer to as the axis of evil...aka the Godiva Chocolate, Hallmark, and Tiffany's. Happy unimaginative consumerist-oriented and entirely arbitrary manipulative and shallow interpretation of romance day....more commonly know in narcissistic circles as Valentines Day. I as always like to prep for this grossly overrated holiday by starting the bashing fest a whole month in advance...it helps to circulate the blood. Now I am sure there are several people with significant others who will want to comment on my bitter and cynical tone...yeah well bite me .....Happy Shove Your Red and Pink Valentine Where the Sun Don't Shine 2005......I give you a poem for you lover birds out there.....umm..mom i apologize ahead of time...

Happy Valentine's Day
by
anonymous

Screw valentines day, Hearts and roses and kisses galore.
What the hell is all that shit for?
People get mushy and start acting queer.
It it definitely the most annoying day of the year.

This day needs to get the hell over with and pass,
Before I shove a dozen roses up Cupid's ass!
I'll spend the day so drunk I can't speak,
And wear all black for the rest of the week.

Girls act all sweet, but it will soon fade,
For all they are doing is trying to get laid!
The arrow Cupid shot at me must not have hit,
Because I think love is a crock of shit.

So here's my story. . . what else can I say?
Love Bites my ass. . .Screw Valentine's Day!

The Oreo Personality test

I think Interium is eating my brain. No really I mean it. Yesterday I was sitting at my desk when I noticed a giant fork protruding from Boe Chapel where i have my class (the dreaded Lutheran Heritage). This made me nervous as it was sort of an unusual occurrence. So I decided to be a little more cautious on the way to dinner. However no matter how careful I was this giant fork managed to impale me as I walked by it, immediately I felt a bit dumber....Hallucinations probably - some sort of cabin fever - most definitely. To relieve this slow drainage of my brain I have been going online a lot....As you can tell by the copious amount of entries....However I found this nifty little oreo personality test and felt I had to post it...Enjoy.....


The Oreo Personality Test
Psychologists have discovered that the manner in which one eats Oreo cookies provides great insight into one's personality. Choose which method best describes your favorite method of eating Oreos:

1. The whole thing all at once

2. One bite at a time

3. Slow and methodical nibbles, examining the results of each bite afterwards

4. In little feverous nibbles

5. Dunked in some liquid (milk, coffee, etc.)

6. Twisted apart, the inside, then the cookie

7. Twisted apart, the inside, and toss the cookie

8. Just the cookie, not the inside

9. I just like to lick them, not eat them.

10. I don't have a favorite way because I don't like Oreo cookies.

Your Personality:

1. The whole thing all at once: You consume life with abandon, you are fun to be with, exciting, carefree with some hint of recklessness. You are totally irresponsible. No one should trust you with their children.

2. One bite at a time: You are lucky to be one of the 5.4 billion other people who eat their Oreos this very same way. Just like them, you lack imagination, but that's okay, not to worry, you're normal.

3. Slow and methodical nibbles: You follow the rules. You're very tidy and orderly. You're very meticulous in every detail with every thing you do to the point of being anal-retentive and irritating to others. Stay out of the fast lane if you're only going to go the speed limit.

4. Feverous nibbles: Your boss likes you because you get your work done quickly. You always have a million things to do and never enough time to do them. Mental breakdowns and suicides run in your family. Valium and Ritalin would do you good.

5. Dunked: Everyone likes you because you are always upbeat. You like to sugarcoat unpleasant experiences and rationalize bad situations into good ones. You are in total denial about the shambles you call a life. You have a propensity towards narcotics addiction.

6. Twisted apart, the inside, and then the cookie: You have a highly curious nature. You take pleasure in breaking things apart to find out how they work, though not always able to put them back together, so you destroy all the evidence of your activities. You deny your involvement when things go wrong. You are a compulsive liar and exhibit deviant, if not criminal, behavior.

7. Twisted apart, the inside, and then toss the cookie: You are good at business and take risks that pay off. You take what you want and throw the rest away. You are greedy, selfish, mean, and lack feelings for others. You should be ashamed of yourself. But that's ok, you don't care, you got yours.

8. Just the cookie, not the inside: You enjoy pain.

9. I just like to lick them, not eat them: Stay away from small furry animals and seek professional medical help--immediately.

10. I don't have a favorite way because I don't like Oreo cookies.: You probably come from a rich family, like to wear nice things, and go to upscale restaurants. You are particular and fussy about the things you buy, own, and wear. Things have to be just right. You like to be pampered. You are a prim.

And all that there grammar Stuff...

Just recently i have posted about my excessive bad use of Grammar and spelling and.....stuff. So as a tribute to every bad grammatical mistake i have ever made...and to that grammar nazi also known as Father Jason, i give you a short essay on Grammar rules






grammar Rules

Don't use no double negatives.Don't never use no triple negatives. No sentence fragments Corollary: Complete sentences: important.Stamp out and eliminate redundancy.Avoid cliches like the plague. All generalizations are bad. Corollary: All statements must be specific. Never listen to advice. Take care that your verb and subject is in agreement. A preposition is a bad thing to end a sentence with. Down with categorical imperatives. Avoid those run-on sentences that just go on, and on, and on, they never stop,they just keep rambling, and you really wish the person would just shut up, butno, they just keep going, they're worse than the Energizer Bunny, they babbleincessantly, and these sentences, they just never stop, they go on forever...ifyou get my drift...Never contradict yourself always. You should never use the second person. When dangling, watch your participles. Never go off on tangents, which are lines that intersect a curve at only onepoint and were discovered by Euclid, who lived in the sixth century, which wasan era dominated by the Goths, who lived in what we now know as Poland...As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "I hate quotations."Excessive use of exclamation points can be disastrous!!!!!Remember to end each sentence with a periodDon't use commas, which aren't necessary. Don't use question marks inappropriately? Don't be terse. Don't obfuscate your theses with extraneous verbiage. Never use that totally cool, radically groovy out-of-date slang. Avoid tumbling off the cliff of triteness into the black abyss of overusedmetaphors.Keep your ear to the grindstone, your nose to the ground, take the bull bythe horns of a dilemma, and stop mixing your metaphors. Avoid those abysmally horrible, outrageously repellent exaggerations. Avoid any awful anachronistic aggravating antediluvian alliterations.

thank you

"Grammar rules" was found on Getamused.com, a place that is a wealth of humor ....ha .....

An introduction to the Crab Nebula

Here is an interesting little tidbit. It has come to my attention that the world does not know enough about astronomy. Whenever I give somebody my screen name or email address (which many of you know is Crabnebula and then 13) They ask me what is that or how did you come up with the name. Well of course Crabnebula would be THE crab nebula, my favorite astronomical object in the sky since well.....i was 13 (hence the 13 at the end). I was bumming around Astronomy.com today and came across this image. Here is the best picture ever taken of the crabnebula curtsey of the Hubble.

Here is a little info about my favorite nebula, from an article taken from astronomy.com ...don't worry short and sweet. I promise ...


December 6, 2005

The Crab Nebula (M1) has fascinated generations of observers since Chinese astronomers witnessed its supernova explosion July 4, 1054. The Crab Nebula's colorful and distinct features offer astronomers clues to the universe's evolution. The more detail scientists can see, the more information they can learn about an object. No other M1 image offers a better view than this one.

The new image combines 24 individual exposures taken with HST's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2). The camera gathered the exposures in October 1999, January 2000, and December 2000. Images were taken through different color filters, each unveiling different elements within M1. Blue reveals neutral oxygen; green shows singly ionized sulfur; and red highlights the presence of doubly ionized oxygen.

Astronomers suspect exploding stars help make the universe a dustier place. But new Spitzer Space Telescope images show the Crab Nebula, the wreckage of a star that exploded in A.D. 1054, contains none of the fine, micron-wide, smoke-size dust particles expected to condense out of supernova ejecta."This is a real surprise," says Tea Temim, the University of Minnesota graduate student who led the study. She presented the images June 1 at the American Astronomical Society's summer meeting in Minneapolis. "The images are exciting because we're filling in the puzzle with infrared," she says. "Infrared is where we can find out about dust formation." "We know dust forms in supernovae," says Robert Gehrz, Temim's adviser and a collaborator on the study. "SN 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud formed dust about 600 days after the explosion." But estimates of the amount of dust it produced range over a factor of 10,000, and Gehrz notes recent studies suggest lower estimates may be more accurate. Elements like carbon, for example, should be among the first to condense and clump together. "Theoretically, we expect as much as a solar mass of dust to form, but when we look with infrared instruments, we see very little," Gehrz tells Astronomy.It's difficult to distinguish newly formed dust in recent supernovae from dust produced by the star before it erupted. Here, too, the Crab Nebula seems cleaner than expected. The new images show no circumstellar halo of dust shed from the Crab's progenitor. So, where did this smoke-size dust go? "I think shockwaves from the explosion may have destroyed it," explains Gehrz.

One of my friends once said that everyone has their own personal soundtrack to life. You know, those songs that get in your head as you go about your business. For example, you wake up feeling particularly good, right away a song pop's in your head, maybe something a little 80's such as some Duran Duran or Whitesnake or if you are sitting on a bench contemplating the world ....a little early 90's alternative...live or nirvana, if it is a warm summers day a little BB king and so on and so forth. So I was thinking what would my soundtrack be? Which are the songs that get in my head the most and can't stop singing....Well folks here it is 10 special little tracks to get that have been stuck in my head for the last few days......

1) Yellow - coldplay

2) Success - Iggy Pop

3) Lucky - Bif Naked

4) Sway - Michael Buble

5) Suite No. 1 in G Major II Allemande - Pablo Casals

6) Crazy Life - Toad the Wet Sprocket

7) Arc Of Time (Time Code) - Bright Eyes

8) Maahi Ve - Sadhna Sargam Sujata Bhattacharya Udit Narayan Sonu Nigam

9) Let It Be - the Beatles

10) Our Paths will Cross again Someday - William Elliot Whitmore