paris hilton gets torn apart

this is david letterman's best work in forever...

ad of the day

motivation

i went running and on my way home, it started to rain.

i felt like it was nature motivating me.

hangover

# The resonance which continues in a loudspeaker cone after the input signal has stopped. See also damping factor, impulse response, ringing.
www.dilettantesdictionary.com/index.php

# The wrath of grapes.


# A tendency for reproduced sounds to last longer than they should. Most noticeable at low frequencies, where it obscures detail.
stereophile.com/reference/50/index4.html

# disagreeable aftereffects from the use of drugs (especially alcohol)
# holdover: an official who remains in office after his term
# something that has survived from the past; "a holdover from the sixties"; "hangovers from the 19th century"


# A hangover, medically termed veisalgia, is the after-effect following the consumption of large amounts of one drug or another. In particular, it is most commonly associated with the consumption of alcoholic beverages.This article deals mainly with hangovers caused by alcohol consumption. See also withdrawal.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangover

blue balls

i want them.

here's the info. you know you want them, too.

they soften your fabric, reduce dryer time, and get rid of wrinkles in your clothes.

laundry has never been so much fun!

rip off

i can name the people i know that don't know themselves
without talking to nobody
i can count the people i know that want to fix themselves
without taking my hands out of my pocket

my goal in life is to live intentionally.

and it seems so simple and you could write it off easily,
but the more i go about my day,
the more i realize how humans are so habitual.

live.
live intentionally.
live.

racer

i went for a hike today that ended up being about 8 miles.
i ran mile 6. kind-of unintentionally. (long story involving boardwalks and a puppy)

i kept hearing things throughout the hike but one time when i looked back, a huge snake, about 4 ft. long, was behind me. it looked like the picture above.

apparently, it's a black racer. the one i saw was bigger than the one in the picture. i'm glad it didn't chase me because for a second i was thinking it might eat me.

(i wish i had gotten a picture myself)

shilo

the first week when i was in nyc for the summer, a friend put me on the guest list to a shilo party. an open bar and free t-shirts... what more could i ask for?

i liked what i saw and had been meaning to look up the company for a while now.

here's my favorite from what i stumbled upon: astor place cube

i love little kids

genius

where i wish i was

i think this pretty much sums up where i wish i was in life right now...

http://www.intothewild.com/

freedom, wilderness, no expectations, no regrets...

We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all; but we cannot have freedom without wilderness.
- Edward Abbey.

Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous raw material. It was very diverse. The differences in the product are known as cultures. The rich diversity of the world's cultures reflects a corresponding diversity. In the wilds that gave them birth.
- Aldo Lepold

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
- Sir John Lubbock

The wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask.
- Nancy Newhall

In wildness is the preservation of the world.
-Thoreau

and it's ironic, because really, i want to be in nyc. i think i just know i have to wait for ny, so i've moved on to wanting something in the mean time that is more attainable. (like living in the woods...?)

; )

no end in sight

I went and saw No End In Sight, a documentary directed by Charles Ferguson at Athens Cine. It won an award for a documentary at Sundance and

They shot over 200 hours of footage to tell the story from Fall 2003 when we started occupying Baghdad. We planned the occupation of Germany for 2 years before executing anything. We planned the Iraq occupation for 58 days.

The movie surprised me because many of the insiders seemed to be confused along the way... Richard Armitage, former Secretary of State was talking about when the US decided to disband the Iraq army saying "I think this decision came as a surprise to most of us." and then "I thought we had just created a problem. We had a lot of out of work [Iraqi] soldiers.

Overall, it provided a lot of insight into what we did, what we didn't do, but it was missing what we could have done. I left with a sense of hopelessness and felt ashamed to be an American.

Here are some reviews:
Roger Ebert
Entertainment Weekly

Nobody has managed to poke any real holes in Ferguson's work, perhaps because its most damning moments come directly from the mouths of one former Bush official after another, explaining with long-overdue sobriety what went wrong and how

the truth will surface

i'm really intrigued....

http://www.sharkwater.com/

are you smarter than a miss teen contestant?

so everyone probably saw the numerous versions of miss teen south carolina's response to "why 1/5th of americans can't locate the US on a map"... which is just sad, by the way. it included references to "US Americans" and "South Africa" and "the Iraq". Hmm.

this is my favorite thing that has come out of it: Maps For Us . the best by far is the map of Sparta.

please. just go there.

NYC

oh how i love new york city.

i love...
the big buildings that tower over you

people watching... and how it's easy to walk down the street, rock out on air guitar, and go completely unnoticed by most

s'mac and the other niche restaurants in the east village

azuki and all you can drink wine with sushi

walking everywhere

conversations with homeless people in Union Square

iPhone Unlocked

First off... If you don't know me, I'm a pretty big Apple fan. If you do know me, this is pretty obvious by the way I talk about Apple and about my love for my MacBook Pro.

I came across this article the other day about a kid who logged about 500 hours trying to "unlock" the iPhone so that he could use it on his own service provider.

Who didn't see this one coming?? I just didn't think it would happen so soon after the release.

While I love Apple, and I totally understand why they would make it available on only one provider, I think this goes to show that when there's a will, there's a way. I know that sounds cliche, but really... when you don't make something readily available to the mass, there's usually someone who will go above and beyond what is normal to make it work (whether it's for money or personal reasons...)

So what does this mean?

First of all, it means you can buy the code on ebay for about $3,000 and unlock the phone yourself if you want to use the iPhone with Verizon.

But what it really means is that you can bet iPhone 2.0 will probably have extra security measures built in so that it is more difficult for a (not so typical) consumer to "break the code".

Why

I have a couple blogs for various New Media classes, and a funny thing happened. Once I started writing for those, I realized I had so much more to write about.

So here I am... not a blogger... just your (a)typical sorority girl who enjoys rock climbing, pop culture, and long walks on the beach. Half the time, I have no clue what I'm doing, but I'm really good at pretending I do. The other half of the time, I like to think I'm pretty on top of my shit.

I'm not really doing this to share myself with the world, or even to share my inner most thoughts and turn all emo. I just think it would be cool to look back in a couple years and see what I was thinking my Senior year of college and what was going on in pop culture.