Month: December 2007

  • Putin Joke

    Stalin’s ghost appears to Putin in a dream, and Putin asks for him help
    running the country. Stalin says, “Round up and shoot all the
    democrats, and then paint the inside of the Kremlin blue.” “Why blue?”
    Putin asks. “Ha!” says Stalin. “I knew you wouldn’t ask me about the
    first part.”

    I read this joke in Time Magazine’s excellent article about Putin: A Tsar is Born. Putin is Time Magazine’s Person of the Year.

  • Random thing I miss …..

    .. is hanging out with Greg senior year of high school.

    During senior year of high school, me and some of my friends took Calculus at Oakland University. The great thing about this was that I had an hour and a half of lunch everyday, and so did Greg.

    Here was what we did during this hour and a half:
    1. Go play disc golf at Firefighters / or go to my house and watched Tivo’d Simpsons episodes
    2. Eat for under $3.50 at Seroes / or make food and eat ludicrous amounts of Apple butter on bread
    3. Get to Ms. Demontigny’s class in the nick of time

  • Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

  • The Boydian Code

    Ever since my friend Justin moved to NYC, I started noticing his last name all over the place.

    The first instance was probably the strangest. I was looking through the library at Xanga and came across this book: Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War

    The next time I saw something was on the train ride home from JFK. There’s a subway stop called Boyd Avenue on the A train.

    When I was looking up good restaurants for my friends to go to when they visit NYC for New Years, I came across Boyd Thai.

    I was reading an article linked from Google news about facial recognition, and the person being interviewed was named Boyd.

    Finally, when reading some random research paper, I came across this in one of the citations:

    [16] J. Little and J. Boyd, “Recognizing people by their gait: the shape of motion,” Videre, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 1-32, 1998.

    I believe there is something very mysterious going on here, and I will get to the bottom of it. I have a feeling this is a massive Boydian conspiracy.

    I’ll start my research using this book: The Boyd Name in History

    ***** Edit **********
    I found out that Justin is running some sort of cartoon site. Are the cartoons possibly part of the code? I don’t know yet.