aggienaut | Visitors in the Night (Reply)

Moden United Nations
   This weekend was the UC Davis Model United Nations Conference (DMUNC). I chaired the Special Political & Decolonization Committee, it was my seventh time chairing a committee. Didn't like the committee that much. My favourite committee of all time remains the kids I had for UCDMUNC last year.
   As per tradition Henry Gromet (to_live_again) explained in a speech what "emo" is. In doing so he wrote "his" livejournal on the board as "emosnail." For committee mascot "emo trogdor" beat out contenders "snail of death" and "the ninja turtles." The best placard award went to Guatamala who had written his girlfriends name on his. awwwww.
   During "Saturday Night Activities" I was stationed with one Anamica by the fountain in Voorhies (For the sake of delegates who couldn't pronounce it I referred to it as "rufies") for the scavanger hunt. It was cold and I was sick and sometimes no delegates would come by for an hour. My only consolation was watching the "terrorists" pounce on unsuspecting groups of delegates and soak them with water guns. The terrorists were someone's friends who were actual army ROTC kids, so they were decent at the sneakin and creepin.
   I wrote a more thorough report on (UC)DMUNC '04 in modelun.

Azver
   Last night around 2am Azver called because he was just getting out from somewhere or was in the area or.. something. (=
   So he stopped by. We talked for a bit and then he watched TV and drank a newcastle while I worked on my paper. Then we talked a bit again and he went home around 3am.
   I am very glad to have friends that are so random and feel comfortable stopping by like that.

Steel Reserve
   As you may or may not know, I'm very fond of my Steel Reserve (AKA 211). You also may or may not know there is a livejournal community dedicated to this delightful malt liquor, 211.
   Now see, we don't just sit around saying "man, steel reserve is so good." Well sometimes we do that. Often actually. But we actually have had some pretty insightful conversations lately about the differences between different batches of steel, or what makes it high gravity. The batch number discussion is under a members-only post for some reason, but the conclusion was that higher numbered (ie more recent) batches are better.
   Also, as per the observation that the last bit of steel in a can/40 is significantly more bitter, I'd recommend one gently shake their steel before consuming.
   In conclusion I nominate the 211 community for the award of most unexpectedly intelligent conversations.

Brother Jed
   Brother Jed, "the foremost campus evangelist in the USA," is back on campus. There are certainly other crazy evangelists who make the circuit, noticably That Last Guy but I don't think any others have the tendency to be as insulting to everyone as Brother Jed.
   In addition to being blatantly insulting muslims, jews, catholics and even other christians (in roughly that order of decreasing adamancy that the group is going to hell), he warned us all against the terrible sin of "premarital kissing" and amused the audience greatly by going into detail as to why specific sexual acts disgust him.
   Anyway, so he's back on campus. I haven't had a chance to watch him yet, but I happened to be walking by around noon today. He stopped talking and just watched me walk by with an amused smile. I kept walking with a "I know you're smiling at me and I'm certainly not interested in arguing with you" smile myself.
   Its funny that he doesn't know that I know who he is and that I'm the president of the agnostic and atheist student association at Davis, presumably I was just a kid with a mohawk to him. Maybe I'm crazy but I felt like the real reason we were both smiling was because the real fools are the ones who try to argue with him. I dunno. It was an interesting moment though.

Poll of the Day
   Direct links preferred, but I'd rather have you describe the intended entry as best you can than not answer at all:
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