24
May
08

American Idol Finale

Short first post from me.

Thank God David Cook won the season. This season has been a total downer. I’m nowhere near as excited as I used to be for the show. I sense it’s the beginning of the end. When I tuned in Tuesday night I saw the boxing announcer introduce Cook and Archuleta as if they were boxers.. which both are anything but. I felt embarrassed.

Having said that, I think the 12 million vote gap was based on the negative publicity Archuleta received about his father.. but Cook was honestly the better voice. The only other guy winner was Ruben and we know where he went.. a buffet (lol!).. but really, Cook’s voice is more about what people are looking for (the rocker type). Chris Daughtry was amazingly successful even though he didn’t win. I imagine Cook to get even more success.

Campbell. Out!

20
May
08

House – Wilson’s Heart

The 2nd part of the season finale of House tonight was utterly depressing and brought me rather close to tears.. and I’m not ashamed to admit that.

Spoilers follow.

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16
May
08

The Office – Goodbye, Toby

The long awaited season finale of The Office delivered for the first 3/4s of the episode then took a drastically downhill turn and ended on a high note.

Spoilers follow. Enjoy. Rant or Rave via comments.

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12
May
08

House – House’s Head

First of two parts in the season finale of House was on tonight in what was (in my opinion) the best episode of the series with the exception of Three Stories and Euphoria although it probably surpassed Euphoria. Spoilers follow.

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08
May
08

The Office – Job Fair

Plot Synopsis: Jim hits the golf course with Andy and Kevin in hope of landing a huge client; Michael sets up a booth at a job fair at Pam’s alma mater to hire a summer intern.

Spoilers follow. It was a decent (better than last week’s) episode.

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01
May
08

The Office – Did I Stutter?

Plot synopsis: Michael tries to give Stanley an attitude adjustment after Stanley snaps at him; Dwight decides to buy Andy’s car; after spending the night at Jim’s, Pam deals with an unexpected inconvenience.

This was an okay episode (yet again). Started off strong.. tapered a bit during the middle.. then ended in a disaster. The “true” ending (there’s a word for it.. the opposite of cold open.. don’t suggest hot closed) was decent though.

Spoilers follow. Click the link at your own risk.

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01
May
08

Wow?!

Wow.. that 2210 test was interesting to say the least. The problems (from memory) are below.. keep in mind that:

  • No one left early (after 3 hours)
  • Everyone leaving.. was.. distraught, dazed and confused

Problem 1 – Involved using a manometer with a tank that contained cells.. which was connected to the manometer.. the liquid in the manometer dropped by 18mm over 30 minutes.. estimate the oxygen intake of the cells.

I got something ridiculous.. like 1.2 * 10^9 nmol/(sec*10^6 cells)

Problem 2 – I’m pretty sure I got this.. was a multi-unit system with recycle streams.. hard to describe without drawing a picture.. which I will not do.. asked for the amount of stuff produced.. and amount needed to be recycled to keep it in equilibrium.

I totally forget what I got.

Problem 3 – Hole at the bottom of a tank 6m above the air.. water pours out of a certain size hole.. estimate the speed of the water leaving.. and the speed of the water as it hits the ground.

I got exit speed of 1.12 m/s and striking ground speed of 7.12 m/s. My friend got a pretty hilarious answer of 71 m/s exiting.

Problem 4 – Estimate the glucose intake required to keep glucose levels constant in a person who runs the marathon in 3.5 hours.

I got 1.1 g of glucose/sec (ha! .. that’s equivalent to two cokes / hr)

Problem 5 – Dead guy (who’s temperature was 37 degrees C) is thrown into a fridge that has a temp of 4 degrees C. The dead guy is found sometime later with a temp of 22 degrees C.. how long ago did he die?

I got 19 hours.. which I think is good.. but a friend got 84 minutes. Both seem wrong.. on either extreme.

Lots of information is missing.. but really, you don’t care and for 95% of you.. you wouldn’t know what it means or what it does. My answers.. for the most actually make sense?

29
Apr
08

House – No More Mr. Nice Guy

A decent episode of House.. not great.. I probably came into it with high expectations since I hadn’t seen it in a while.. I’m not sure how to do recaps of this show. I could go into highly medical stuff and say things like…

Jeff, a carpet cleaner by trade, is spending his lunch hour with his wife, a nurse on the picket line in front of the hospital. While there, he starts to have nystagmus (twitching eyes) and then collapses. He is admitted to the hospital Emergency Room for evaluation, but — thanks to the chaos from the nursing strike — is given a low priority and basically sits there waiting for several hours. House, who is in the Emergency Room avoiding Cuddy, is perplexed by Jeff’s constant cheerfulness and niceness. He decides that something must wrong with him and admits him to his service for evaluation.

But, I figure I’ll lose 90% of my viewing audience (out of 10) after the first paragraph. If you do want reviews (from the medical side), check out this awesome website.The episode confused me actually.. although I’m not sure if it’s because the episode was confusing.. or I was more concentrated on studying for finals.

Regardless, the highlight of the episode was Amber vs. House and Wilson being caught in the middle.. it was rather funny.

House: Joint custody.
Amber: Of Wilson?
House: Unless we have another love child…
Amber: (looking at Wilson) Deal with him.
House: He needs a mother figure. I’m not saying you’re entitled to spend time with him.. I’m just saying I’m entitled too.
(Amber looks at Wilson)
Wilson: I don’t know how to deal with him.. when he’s being reasonable.

And lastly, when did all of a sudden did House (and Amber) listen and agree to Cuddy’s punishment?

27
Apr
08

Funny Craigslist Ad

I don’t care what colour you are. I don’t care where you’re from. I don’t care what you do for a living. I don’t care what class you are, how you dress, what you smoke or drink or who you know or whom you’ve fucked.

I hate you all. I hate every last living, breathing, snot and feces producing, promiscuously copulating, celebrity obsessed, opinionated one of you. From right here in Toronto right around the planet and back, coast to coast, nationwide and internationally. Every. Single. Last. One. Of. You.

Fuck love. Fuck your insipid grasping at some abstract concept of chemical imbalances and reasonless actions, fumbling around in the crowd trying to find some cinematic supposition for real human interaction. Fuck lust, too. Fuck you all, from the lowlife dirtbags that think dropping trou and waving the little soldier in a sloppy arc is a pick-up line to the sniveling of the desperate ‘nice guys’ who never get the girl due to a total lack of testosterone grown stones. Fuck you all, from the crazy, under dressed sluts that judge a persons character by the price of their shirt, right down to the fat, flabby chicks that think personality is enough.

Fuck you drivers, for thinking that a yellow light is a sign that says ’step on the gas’. Fuck you wheelmen and women that think it’s okay to sit in a left hand turn in the middle of morning traffic, even though there is a protected left in the intersections before and after where you need to make your turn. Fuck you too cyclists – you’re not exempt from the traffic laws just because your peddling, you miserable spandex covered neon reflective fucks. Fuck you too, pedestrians. Use the fucking crosswalk if you don’t want to get hit, and use it before the little countdown clock says ‘3′. You don’t have enough goddamn time to lope across four lanes of traffic.

Fuck you chick on your cellphone. Fuck you attitude packed minimum-wager that makes my coffee. Fuck you cops that spend all their time handing out speeding tickets. Fuck you douche bag doing ten over the limit in the passing lane on the highway. Fuck you lady using exact change at the counter at the grocery store. Fuck you kids having a conversation in the doorway. And fuck you also for not getting the fuck out of your designated handicapped seat when a pregnant or elderly person gets on the fucking bus.

Fuck taxes. Fuck welfare. Fuck the whole selfish, over politicized and party driven government system. I’m sick and fucking tired of policies and new laws with seven hundred bylaws that nobody but you and your cabinet reads. Fuck you councilors and your stupid ‘district improvement’ plans. Fuck you unions, for asking for so much and giving nothing more that what you already give. Fuck the whole process that allows people who are supposed to be working for us work for interests that only benefit the next campaign. Fuck your short-sightedness, your rush to the bandwagons, and your incessant arguing over fuck all. Fuck the parties, fuck the conventions, and fuck your campaigns. Do some real fucking work for a change.

Fuck you bottles of water. You’re water. You’re not worth two fucking dollars.
Fuck you trendsetters, fuck you fashionistas. Fuck your little dogs and and your idiotic outfits. Fuck your high heels in the snow. Fuck your five dollar coffees and your fifteen dollar veggie burgers. Fuck your health kick, your diet or your fucking new interest in kickboxing or sushi.

Fuck your culture. Fuck your race. Fuck your sense of entitlement. Fuck your sense of uniqueness. Fuck you all for the belief that you have something unique and interesting to contribute. Fuck you for filling the internet with your useless garbage. Fuck your blogs, your wikis, your forums. Fuck your name calling. And most of all, fuck whatever you believe. It’s all wrong. Fuck it.

Fuck your complaints. Fuck your addictions. Fuck your dependencies. Fuck your pain. Fuck your tears. Fuck selling whatever it is you sell. Fuck your manipulation of others. Fuck movies. Fuck fucking. Fuck everything you own. Fuck your allergies. Fuck your stupid commons sense. Fuck your spelling and fuck your lack of education, or your ignorance, whatever is applicable.

I don’t give a fuck. Shut the fuck up and just get on with it.

Link

24
Apr
08

The Office – Night Out

A not-so-good episode, in my opinion tonight.

Summary

Michael and Dwight decide to surprise Ryan in New York; Scranton staffers must work on a Saturday for Ryan’s Web site project.

Spoilers follow.

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