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Only for Adam and Not For Non-Trekkies OMG NSFW,

I know I always made fun of you for watching Enterprise, but I
liked Voyager. Kind of.

Voyager:
- Harry Kim! Especially when he is old, angry Harry Kim.
- Tom Paris! You know you love Tom Paris. You write yourself
into Tom Paris slash fic and hide it under your pillow.

Enterprise:
- I find the new hot pink velvet jumpsuit Vulcan girl to be
FAR more annoying than Seven of Nine.
- Whenever I walked by the television and you were watching
Enterprise, something dumb was always going on. Like when they
started to de-evolve into uninteresting creatures. or when
Data's grandfather comes on and he thinks he is all that, but
I assure you he was only partially that.
- dorky theme song.

So yeah. I eventually more than warmed up to DS9 but
Enterprise just had too much crap. Btw, "Firefly" has the
awesomest dorky theme song ever. You'll see what I mean when I
show it to you. Abandon Enterprise. Embrace Firefly.

Dakota is funny.

-----Original Message-----
From: dakota smith [mailto:dakotasmith@[xxx]
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 5:29 PM
To: adam@[xxx]
Subject: Re: contra

also, how is that fun at all, since like i already had the number at
the beginning and you made me do all this shit just to get my number
again.

On 5/5/05, dakota smith <dakotasmith@[xxx] wrote:
> thanks... from the same page...
>
> Here's a fun trick with division.
>
> Write down a three-digit number.
>
> 423
>
> Write it again next to the original number, making a six-digit number.
>
> 423423
>
> Now divide by 7.
>
> 423423 / 7 = 60489
>
> Now by 11.
>
> 60489 / 11 = 5499
>
> Now by 13.
>
> 5499 / 13 = 423
>
> You will always get your original number back.
>
> NO SHIT SINCE YOU'RE JUST DIVIDING BY 1001. OH GOD WHAT A WEIRD MATH
THING.
>
> On 5/5/05, Adam Mathes <amathes@[xxx] wrote:
> > http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~tdemores/fun/contra/weapons.html
> >
> > On 5/5/05, dakota smith <dakotasmith@[xxx] wrote:
> > > did contra have a powerup that was a p with wings? if it did, will you
> > > get a screenshot of that for me? a B with wings would work as well. i
> > > just need a letter with some wings, dude.
> > >
> > > dakota
> > >
> > >
> >
>

I have *important exciting* plans for tonight.

I'm seeing the documentary:

The Man Who Wanted to Classify the World
From the Index Card to the Internet

http://www.filmakers.com/indivs/Man_classify.htm

"In 1934, a Belgian visionary named Paul Otlet conceived of a library with
no physical books whose contents could be viewed on a screen. His
obsession was to classify, encode and unify books and documents published
all over the world. Over the years, he and his staff would fill in 12
million index cards. His classification system is regarded today as
similar to hypertext, which enables us to navigate the internet."

It's being screened at the European Modernism and the Information Society
conference help at my department tonight.
http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/conferences/EuroMod.05/home.html

I bet it's going to be way better than Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

I made, honestly, the best iced coffee I've ever had in my entire life
tonight.

Holy crap it was good.

As I was Tivo'ing through SNL, tonight I stopped during commercials twice.

First, for a diet pepsi commercial featuring Yoda and Chewbacca. I guess
once you have Yoda wasting his Jedi powers in a completely worthless and
stupid lightsaber battle looking like an idiot, using them to try and grab
a diet pepsi doesn't seem like that much of a stretch. He's clearly not a
master in the old skool martial arts style, but in the "run around like a
fucking moron because we have better CG now" style.

Thanks, George, thanks for selling out in ways I didn't even think *you* would
stoop to.

Sugar water? You're fucking using Yoda to sell sugar water? HE IS
SUPPOSED TO BE A JEDI MASTER, FREE FROM DESIRES BUT HE WANTS A FUCKING PEPSI?!

The thing is, that didn't bother me *nearly* as much as the later ad that
used clips from Spartacus. "We have a pepsi here from Spartacus." And then
parts of the classic "I am Spartacus" scene, spliced in, including the
TEAR. SPARTACUS WAS CRYING IN A FUCKING PEPSI AD.

You know, if Lucas wants to fucking whore himself to even greater levels,
that's his business. But Kubrick? Kubrick's dead! He's not even around to
object! All he can do is roll in his grave.

I bet Kirk Douglas drinks coke.

I am currently in Connecticut for my brother's graduation from Wesleyan.

THIS HAS BEEN A BROADCAST OF THE ADAMMATHES STATUS INSTITUTE

I'm kind of bored, obviously. But at least the hotel has internet.A

The Wesleyan commencement speaker (some lifelong Princeton academic who is
now the President of Penn who seems to have been chosen since she is
friends with the current President of Wesleyan) was SO BAD it *almost*
made Condi Rice's speech at my graduation seem not so bad.

I mean, this was HORRIBLE. Absolutely horrible.

Her address focused on her "work" on "deliberative democracy" and she kept
talking about how "mutual respect" is key.

Which is, of course, complete bullshit.

I think it was mostly a "fuck you" to the students from the President of
Wesleyan, who has had "issues" with the students and their protests to his
policies (which I think involved, amongst other things, storming his
office building and keeping him there for like 10 hours, and something
about firebombing something? Maybe that was an exaggeration.)

But. It's not just that it wasn't inspiring, it's hard to give a good
commencement address. But this wasn't even a reasonbly decent speech, it
was pathetic. It was disheartening. It was idiotic.

I think what I'm trying to say is: don't go to Penn, kids, the President
sucks, and thinks she is "hip" because she quoted the Flaming Lips, even
though she totally is not even remotely hip.

uber.nu turns five today. wow.

I think that the longshot bet was it would last six months..

I am in California.

I should be trying to find an apartment this very second instead of
writing this.