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What is happening to the US? Hearing about this kind of thing once might just be a odd concidence ... but this is not the first time. As TripMaster Monkey (862126) * posted under the article here is something semi-recent fomr The Register:

Growing numbers of Americans support the idea of teaching creationism in schools, and in a recent CBS News poll, 51 per cent of respondents said they rejected the idea of evolution

So once we are done with that part of the curriculum we'll cover Exodus 22:18 and it's implications to internatinal politics. I think Harry is gonna be in trouble.

A New Plan

Talking about Timmies and conquering the world found me fingering myself on physics yesterday (hehe). And thus it came to be that I realized my plan was out of order:

fbergh@physics ~> finger fbergh

Login name: fbergh (messages off) In real life: Frank Berghaus
Directory: /home2/fbergh Shell: /bin/tcsh
On since Nov 22 08:56:15 on pts/46 from moonbase-1.physics.ubc.ca
No unread mail
Plan:
FICK DICH INS KNIE (that was for fingering me!)

Now may I introduce you to my plan for world domination. I shall use the huge amount of money i am making as a grad student to assemble a weapon as menacing as the little spit-ball-throwers people constructed in high school. This weapon must look about as threatening as a Kill-O-Zap bastard ray gun so that I can convince the local military to join my cause. Then I will slowly and surely take over north America starting from the north, possibly skipping the south and moving right along to Latin America where may stop in favor of zipping on a cold drink at the beach.
Before I start though i need some coffee, where is the closest Timmies??!

"Circumcisions. Today's special: Half off."
->Mel Brooks in Men in Tights

Since there is a new Timmies on campus I don't know any longer how to counter my plan to conquer the world ... any suggestions?

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My new motherboard arrived today, so I am looking forward to getting nekkid this afternoon and performing some high level surgery on ym beloved computer. Whee, I'm so happy!

And afterwards: Cyberpunk (in case you are not versed in nerdom: Cyberpunk is a scifi roleplaying game, a little more obscure then Dungeons & Dragons, but the same thing to a first approximation).

On less geeky news, UBC finally got a Timmies on Campus! God it's good to have some good coffee on campus.

A Good Day

Well I just had an awsome day! So let me start at the beginning ...

This morning I get up and wake up Shawn so we can go to the Only U Cafe for some breakfast. Just before we head out I run into a new resident, Lindsay (I hope I got that spelling right). She lives across the hall from me to the left (Olen's old room for you vetran SJC (ex)residents). I invited her to come along for breakfast, and Shawn and I showed here about the campus on the way. While we were on it we discovered that there finally is a Tim Horten's on the UBC campus, andit's on the way to the Physics department (score!). Anyway we met Amber at the Only U and had a fun breakfast.

After that Amber and I hopped onto the 99, she was heading to Future show to pick up the first season of the muppets while I was off to meet my friend Wes. He is one of my best friends way back from Charles P. Allen High School in Halifax (well Bedford if you want to be precise). We spend most of the day tripping around Vancouver, I showed him some good places for bikes, outdoor gear, we looked at office furniture and finally went for a tour of Vancouver 'downtown' as well as the World Trade and Convention Center (where we not only plotted to commandeer a cruise ship but also met Mati who was shwing two new SJC residents around Vancouver) as well as Gastown. We finished off with a stop by Drexoll Games, a great board gameing store out here.

Anyway after that we played a bit of WC3 and then reconvened with Shawn to get some food and headed (where we met up with Amber, Brian, Sarah, and Carly) to the SUB to whatch Madagascar. That movie was a lot of fun, and if you are around the UBC campus I suggest you head to the sub on Sunday evening and watch it there (7pm showing). Afterward we headed to the SUB arcade since Carly had challenged me to a game of DDR the night before (we had been playing Settlers Of Catan and also whatched The 39 Steps, an excellent Alfred Hitchcock movie). Anyway she proceeded to pwn me at DDR, of which I cannot admit I am all to ashamed, but as a true gamer this meens I must train at DDR ... *shudders*

We did not have enough people for a good LAN game at the arcade so Shawn and I showed Wes and Carly to the bus stop and send him under way with Carly, who was going the same way for a short bit. Then Shawn and I headed back to SJC, discussing what to do next on our way. We finally reolved to watch Harold And Kumar Go To White Castle and have some rum and coke. That hit the spot nearly as well as those burgers did for Harold and Kumar in the movie (btw. when I was at Carly's yesterday I picked up your copy of Harold and Kumar Erwin ... next time you are over for dinner, tomorrow I persume, you should come by and pick it up).

In conclusion, that was a really good day. I hope all of you have an equally good one ... and please forget the spelling errors I am sure are prevalent throughout this entry since I am still slightly drunk from all that good Appelton Estates (thanks Shawn :)

Holy ...

... crap I have not posted anything in so long it is hardly funny anymore. Let's just throw out all notions of catching up with myself out the door and get going from where I am right now, or more precisely where I was yesterday evening, because that is the latest cool thing I have to ramble about.

So a lot of new residents moved in yesterday, and it was fun meeting just a few of them. I have set my quota to remembering one name a day, and yesterday that place was snatched up by a guy called Tom the moment he said:

"So feel free to drop by my room for a glass of wine. The door will be open and I will be playing violent videogames."

Well if it where beer instead of wine I'd be getting along with this guy even better, but so far we're off to a good start. Sadly I was not able to drop in for wine and violent videogames due to my even geekier previous commitment: Dungeons & Dragons. So after a quick supper Shawn and I sailed off to a friends place to geek out for the evening. This was my first game with this group (while Shawn had been playing there for about a month now). We are in fact a group of level two characters that somehow got lost in the underdark. I had a great time introducing my pirate character to the game, my main goals: consume all grog in the Underdark (we are off to a good start on that one, since I can't seem to get my hands on anything other then water to drink now, and my attempts to distill liquor from mushrooms have come to disastrous ends), then return to the sea (found a big ice lake, I'll call that a good start).

After returning to SJC from the D&D meeting I played through the F.E.A.R. demo (get it from their downloads page). It's only about 30 min of game play, but it gets the idea of the game across. The feel of the game makes me think Doom 3 meets the X-Files. No demons but the paranormal. No Mulder and Skully (ever since watching Full Metal Jacket I can only snicker at that name) but a (!space)marine armed to the teeth ... It was fun to play, I even got a scare or two out of the game. And there was one really creepy episode in a corridor, that would give my grown up sister nightmares for years. Ohh, who am I kidding I was panicking like a little girl too. It deserves the favorable preview it got out of PC gamer (September 2005 Issue, page 24 ... while you are at it, check out Battlefield 2 starting on page 56, it roxxors m3y3 boxxors)

My Way News

We all know I love Starcraft, but this guy loved it to death. Damn, and only 48 hrs ... I have gone on longer stretches then that, although I suppose I had a proper supply of junk food and caffinated liquids. WHile we are on that topic: I had sme Bawls today, and it was great :)

Incoherent Mumbelings

Just recently whatched Charlie And The Chockolate Factory. Good film that, I suggest whatching it.

Well I am currently in Halifax and I am having one good time. I took my camera along, and will see to putting up a picture album of my Nova Scotia stompin grounds. For now you'll just have to do with a picture of what I see when i look up from my computer right now:


On a completely different note, one of my collaborators on the K2K experiment just wrote up this article on the Tsukuba Express on Wikipedia. As some of you may recall, Tsukuba is where I spend my two or so months in Japan recently. If you look into the blog a little (or you read it while I was in Japan) you will hear my inane babble about how orgasmically geeky Akihabara was. Long story short, they now have a direct train line from Tsukuba to Akihabara ... now that the experiment is over :(