good bye movable type, hello word press. i think i secretly regretted staying with mt the last time i upgraded (thanks to spammers). so now i decided that since i was porting my journal to the root domain, it was a good time to make the jump to word press as well. and i have to say…yea, so much easier to use. i should’ve switched years ago. hey weird…none of my posts have their date listed anywhere. is that on purpose?

i think i’ll resume my on-and-off postings again next week or so. the games just too fun…har har!

in sadder news tho, one of my favorite cornell staples just passed away recently. bob petrillose, who ran the hot truck (and also invented the french bread pizza…woo), passed away on december 8th. his hot truck and original hot sandwiches would be familiar to anyone whos ever been to school in ithaca and drank heavily into the wee hours of the night (preferably on the west campus). his truck was usually parked behind my freshman dorms (class of ’22!), which made it painfully easy to just skip on down and order a triple sui, ra ra, or my personal favorite…the scooby. he will be missed…=(
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i just stumbled on something completely by chance on the ny times site. im not sure if the features always been there and id just never stumbled on it (honestly wouldnt surprise me), but if you double-click any word in an article (click-highlight), it automatically brings up a definition of the word in a new window. whoa fun! now i know what copacetic means!

har i just noticed at the bottom of the page the following:

Tips
To find reference information about the words used in this article, double-click on any word, phrase or name. A new window will open with a dictionary definition or encyclopedia entry.

i wonder how long thats been there…doh!

i wonder if its considered genocide everytime i drink a yakult and ingest 8 billion live lactobacillus casei strain shirota? goddamn its good stuff.

busy busy. ill post soon or something. this vitamin waters really good.

friendster is starting to freak me out a little. every other day some new button, layout, or doodad pops up on the site. its now decked out in a new layout, has all these random and cryptic icons, joint horoscopes(??) with my friends, and a hi-tech “energy meter” to predetermine for me my money, love, and attitude-o-meter for any particular day. it also does my taxes and keeps telling me that itll call me. but it never does…it never does.

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i found this ny times article interesting…about a church actually down the street from where i live. the st. brigids church on e.8th and ave B is currently unoccupied and scheduled to be torn down. i pass by it literally everyday, and always wondered about its history. the article details how the church came to be in its current state, along with a few stories of the people who grew up with the church. even tho ive only lived in the neighborhood since 2003, its still kind of sad to see the church go. but even without having read the article, i knew the church had structural compromises (there are several large cracks snaking its way across its walls). and now at least ive read a bit of its history before it disappears.

> st. brigids church of tompkins square park (via ny times)

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predictions for the years 2005-2008
1. bush will officially begin the 9th glorious crusade. he will henceforth be known as king george the retarded.
2. bush will take a big leak on the environment, then club a baby seal for good measure.
3. human beings and fish will however coexist peacefully.
4. bush pushes back scientific progress by centuries. scientists attempt to convince him the world is not flat.
5. the u.s. will invade another country to liberate the oppressed. yea, we’re looking at you azerbaijan.
6. bush has standard english revised to reflect his butchered variant, dubbed “englash“. “strategy” becomes “stratemegy” and “nuclear” becomes “nucular“.