So, watch this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wvy19h9KNQ
It's backwards, in case you didn't realize because the band is facing the student section on the other side.
Muffinman, you would like the next show - we're playing Southern Rock today.
-Dontscuffmyshoes
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009
First Impressions
Muffinman, I agree that this blog has become too depressing for its own good, so I decided to spice it up by posting the picture below.
I think Robocop is gay. You know I love you, but no homo man.
I wanted to update this blog more regularly but it’s been really hectic these past few days. Between fixing up my resume, going to the career fair today, and actually attending all my classes (without taking naps in them), I haven’t been able to make time to write about every detail of my amazing life story.
Recently, I have literally been living and breathing in the career center (Wasserman). I would go there in between classes, during my lunch breaks, after classes to get help on my resume and figure out what the fuck I am supposed to be doing in preparation for the career fair. It was especially hard to make my resume awesome based on the limited amount of job experience I actually have, but I came up with something that looked passable and went over to the fair anyways. It was a good experience – I looked good in my suit and I got a lot of great insights from talking with a lot of professionals in banking. Did I mention I looked good?
Because I’ve lived in Wasserman these past couple of days, I’ve been getting my coffee fix there. The coffee’s free and the free Wi-Fi is always a plus, but the coffee comes in a little pack that looks as if it should be filled with a Japanese mocha-flavored jelly – not coffee. At least my expectations were low – the coffee tasted like guess what, free coffee so I wasn’t disappointed. It’s not very good, but it’s free coffee and still drinkable.
On the other hand I was unlucky enough to encounter the worst coffee I’ve ever had. The coffee I bought in the Stern student lounge was a lukewarm cup of shit with cream in it. I am still in disbelief that I paid for coffee this bad. I needed to get it off my chest and put my devastation out into the world for people to see.
On the flip side, I like all the professors I have this semester. None of them are 80+ years old and look like they might go to bed one day and never wake up (One of my professors last semester was over 90 years old). Now that I’m taking classes that I’m actually interested in (Intro to Investments, Intro to Marketing, Macroeconomics/International Trade, and Chinese) I’ll hopefully be attending these classes more often than I used to in the past. The fact that Chinese is my first class everyday and attendance is mandatory doesn’t hurt either. As a side note, I’ve decided not to take tomorrow’s placement exam into Chinese II because: first, I haven’t retained much from Chinese I; second, I didn’t study Chinese this week like I told myself I would; and last, I want at least one easy class this semester.
BTW, where the fuck is my digital camera?
--Emoinacloset
Monday, September 7, 2009
Banana Cream Pie For All!
I am going to change up the blog today after Shari made me realize that we only have depressing entries.
I made Banana cream pie for the family BBQ today and took some pictures in order to share the process with all of you.
Baking the pie was bit frustrating this time around since I had to make 3 trips to the grocery store while baking. At first to get eggs and cream then flour because my mom failed to tell me we did not have any. And lastly to get bananas because my mom bought the smallest bananas she could find.
Despite these setback (story of my life) everything came together pretty well except for the crust which was undercooked (listened to my mom).
My Command Center in the Kitchen
First the Crust (Possible sponsorship opportunity?)
I love my stand up mixer, it is my favorite kitchen appliance
Best crust I have made yet!
The soybeans keep the crust from popping up when I bake it
On to the custard
I burned my first try so this is actually the second time doing it
The crust out of the oven
The custard finally thickens after I stir it for what feels like hours
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Everything coming together
Made my sister decorate the pie
She did ok after messing up the first time
Ready to eat
-muffinman
I made Banana cream pie for the family BBQ today and took some pictures in order to share the process with all of you.
Baking the pie was bit frustrating this time around since I had to make 3 trips to the grocery store while baking. At first to get eggs and cream then flour because my mom failed to tell me we did not have any. And lastly to get bananas because my mom bought the smallest bananas she could find.
Despite these setback (story of my life) everything came together pretty well except for the crust which was undercooked (listened to my mom).
My Command Center in the Kitchen
First the Crust (Possible sponsorship opportunity?)
I love my stand up mixer, it is my favorite kitchen appliance
Best crust I have made yet!
The soybeans keep the crust from popping up when I bake it
On to the custard
I burned my first try so this is actually the second time doing it
The crust out of the oven
The custard finally thickens after I stir it for what feels like hours
'Everything coming together
Made my sister decorate the pie
She did ok after messing up the first time
Ready to eat
-muffinman
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Happily ever after?
Man, for the past few days, I have been watching so many movies. Most of them (well, all of them) have been chick flicks.
I don't know what's wrong with me, but for some reason, I can't get enough of them. It's so I can share slightly gay things like this that we have nicknames. I've watched A Walk to Remember (one of my all-time favorites), Definitely, Maybe, Failure to Launch, The Notebook, He's Just Not That Into You, The Holiday, and Mean Girls.
Holy crap, right? But I'm not going to lie to anyone of our followers (yes... all 8 of you), I enjoy chick flicks. I thoroughly enjoy chick flicks. I think they are sweet, endearing, and a great emotional roller coaster ride. And for some, it turns on the waterworks too. I think chick flicks is my favorite genre of movies (and yes, that is actually the name of the genre)!
As great as chick flicks are, I always notice something that is a bit unsettling every time I watch these movies: they all end with happily ever after, save for A Walk to Remember (unless you think the death of a girlfriend leading to a guy's beautiful transformation into a better human being is a good ending.. pff.. talk about overrated).
I mean, every chick flick that I watch fits one of three molds.
Mold 1: Boy meets girl. Boy is seemingly, completely incompatible with this girl. They fight and argue all the time and can never seem to find a common ground, but this fighting fuels their lust and subsequent love for each other, and of course, "happily ever after."
Mold 2: Boy meets girl. Boy is obviously compatible with the girl, but the girl unfortunately doesn't take notice, because she is too busy ogling at this Brad Pitt-of-a-guy. But, of course, in the end, she takes notice of the boy who she made the mistake of ignoring. And yes, "happily ever after."
Mold 3 (or as I like to call it, the Disney mold): Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl. Girl falls in love with boy. They kiss, may have sex, and live "happily ever after."
*There are variations of each one, but you get what I mean.
The common theme between these molds is that the boy and the girl end up with each other, even if one of them decides to get cancer and die at the end.
I know these are just movies, but one can't help but wonder if there is one person out there for everyone. An even simpler thought would be whether or not everyone is capable of finding true love with another person. Does everybody have a soul mate, or are there just a group of people that you're really compatible with, and you marry the first person with whom everything works out? I know the latter sounds soo romantic, but seriously, who knows?
I guess I personally don't believe in soul mates. I'm not proud of it. I honestly like the first option better, but being one of those dream-popping realists of the scientific era of humanity, I can't help but NOT believe in soul mates.
I mean, come on, there are like 4 billion people in the world, 303 million in the US, 19 million in New York, and 8 million in New York City and you are telling me that, out of those numbers, you can't find at least a dozen of people who you would be attracted to and perfectly compatible with. I mean, DNA is different from person to person, but how different do personalities get? How different can the 4 billion people in the world be from one another.
I just believe that you may meet people that are more suited for you than others, but I don't believe in there being one perfect person for everyone. Yeah, I'm a romantic.
And is everyone capable of finding love? I believe so. There's really nothing explain there.
For the few of you that not only "follow," but also READ our blog, what do you think?
Man, I cannot wait until we have a gajillion followers, so we can get more than a couple comments.
Don't you guys worry about that though. Muffinman and I recently visited Best Buy to look at some laptops, and I changed the homepage on one of the computers from bestbuy.com to our blog page to help get the word out on our awesome blog. You guys can help too!
Visit a Best Buy store near you!
-Robocop
I don't know what's wrong with me, but for some reason, I can't get enough of them. It's so I can share slightly gay things like this that we have nicknames. I've watched A Walk to Remember (one of my all-time favorites), Definitely, Maybe, Failure to Launch, The Notebook, He's Just Not That Into You, The Holiday, and Mean Girls.
Holy crap, right? But I'm not going to lie to anyone of our followers (yes... all 8 of you), I enjoy chick flicks. I thoroughly enjoy chick flicks. I think they are sweet, endearing, and a great emotional roller coaster ride. And for some, it turns on the waterworks too. I think chick flicks is my favorite genre of movies (and yes, that is actually the name of the genre)!
As great as chick flicks are, I always notice something that is a bit unsettling every time I watch these movies: they all end with happily ever after, save for A Walk to Remember (unless you think the death of a girlfriend leading to a guy's beautiful transformation into a better human being is a good ending.. pff.. talk about overrated).
I mean, every chick flick that I watch fits one of three molds.
Mold 1: Boy meets girl. Boy is seemingly, completely incompatible with this girl. They fight and argue all the time and can never seem to find a common ground, but this fighting fuels their lust and subsequent love for each other, and of course, "happily ever after."
Mold 2: Boy meets girl. Boy is obviously compatible with the girl, but the girl unfortunately doesn't take notice, because she is too busy ogling at this Brad Pitt-of-a-guy. But, of course, in the end, she takes notice of the boy who she made the mistake of ignoring. And yes, "happily ever after."
Mold 3 (or as I like to call it, the Disney mold): Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl. Girl falls in love with boy. They kiss, may have sex, and live "happily ever after."
*There are variations of each one, but you get what I mean.
The common theme between these molds is that the boy and the girl end up with each other, even if one of them decides to get cancer and die at the end.
I know these are just movies, but one can't help but wonder if there is one person out there for everyone. An even simpler thought would be whether or not everyone is capable of finding true love with another person. Does everybody have a soul mate, or are there just a group of people that you're really compatible with, and you marry the first person with whom everything works out? I know the latter sounds soo romantic, but seriously, who knows?
I guess I personally don't believe in soul mates. I'm not proud of it. I honestly like the first option better, but being one of those dream-popping realists of the scientific era of humanity, I can't help but NOT believe in soul mates.
I mean, come on, there are like 4 billion people in the world, 303 million in the US, 19 million in New York, and 8 million in New York City and you are telling me that, out of those numbers, you can't find at least a dozen of people who you would be attracted to and perfectly compatible with. I mean, DNA is different from person to person, but how different do personalities get? How different can the 4 billion people in the world be from one another.
I just believe that you may meet people that are more suited for you than others, but I don't believe in there being one perfect person for everyone. Yeah, I'm a romantic.
And is everyone capable of finding love? I believe so. There's really nothing explain there.
For the few of you that not only "follow," but also READ our blog, what do you think?
Man, I cannot wait until we have a gajillion followers, so we can get more than a couple comments.
Don't you guys worry about that though. Muffinman and I recently visited Best Buy to look at some laptops, and I changed the homepage on one of the computers from bestbuy.com to our blog page to help get the word out on our awesome blog. You guys can help too!
Visit a Best Buy store near you!
-Robocop
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