Accession of Coady

[aggienaut]

   Congratulations to Tim Coady, the new Chief Justice of ASUCD! He should be being confirmed approximately right now at Senate. I will remain an associate Justice for exactly a week until I hit four years on the bench on the 25th.

   The Case 37 hearing has been postponed a week to the 31st. It has been officially announced that Case 39 was rejected. A Case 40 has been filed today.

   An Aggie reporter was apparently calling around trying to talk to someone on the Court. She called three other justices (who all asked me what they should say), but never called me. Silly reporters. I'm still alive, and more available for comment than ever before! So find my number.
   And The Aggie does a whole retrospective about ASUCD President Holloway's retirement and term in ASUCD, but the end of my much much longer involvement doesn't get a mention, I see how it is. I guess you don't be Chief Justice for the adoring fans.


   Last week I was in Davis. It was cold.


   Then I took the train all night right on down to San Diego. Kristy & I went to Sea World (An Anhauser-Busch Amusement Park!) on the tickets I got her for Christmas. We got year passes to the park (which cost as much as one day tickets, I was so confused trying to find out what the catch was) and backstage tours. The backstage areas we got to see consisted of two locations: the first one was kind of decent it was the back pools where they put animals that aren't currently on exhibit for one reason or another; the second was a lameo fake backstage area with some baby sharks -- baby sharks are cool but we'd seen simiilar things on normal exhibition at Monteray or Long Beach or both.
   Anyway, Sea World was extremely commercialized compared to the zoos and other aquariums we'd been to. They tried to make the arctic animal exhibit into a ride practically. Nevertheless, we got a better view of the polar bears than we've gotten at the SD zoo, and they had other fun animals the other places didn't have.
   The shamu show was really retarded. They tried to make it into some story about some kid who "wanted to connect" with the animals or some crap and... I dunno it was really lame. They kept showing this dumb kid on the huge telescreen rather than the actual whales.
   One of the most interesting things however was when we were just observing the orcas, the young one was toying with the birds. She'd spit a bit of fish out so it floated just a foot above her on the surface while she stayed below it. When a bird would try to get it she'd try to nip the bird. The second day we went the orca had feathers sticking out of her mouth.


   In other news, the legendary Diedrichs off La Paz will be closing down forever on Monday. When it reopens, it will be a starbucks. )=


   I've been back in Mission Viejo during the week, but I'm about to go back down to San Diego to take care of Kristy after she has a dental procedure tomorrow morning.


Picture of the Day

Capybara!

Comments

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

I think the capybara is winking at you.

[nibot.livejournal.com]

The current Shamu show is titled "Believe," as if it starred Michael Jackson. As corny as it might have been, consider the shows of the past (via Wikipedia):

1966 Doctor Do Little
1971 Shamu Goes Hollywood
1974 Shamu for Mayor
1975 Shamu the Yankee Doodle Whale
1977 Shamu Goes to College
1982 Shamu, Take a Bow
1984 Shamu Celebration
1986 Shamu's House of Douse
1987 Shamu's Water Symphony
1989 Shamu 25th Anniversary
1989 Baby Shamu
1992 Shamu Visions
1995 Shamu World Focus
1998 The Shamu Adventure
2006 Believe

[sostrowski.livejournal.com]

He better be confirmed better than my 7-6-0.

[cedyeus.livejournal.com]

well, seeing is how you were still in the room when they did, you should know that Coady was confirm unanimously.

As for the Aggie, I took one for the team and sat down with the reporter after the court meeting last night. The article should be out tomorrow, and I look forward to once again being greiviously misquoted.

unrelated to your post...

[slosha.livejournal.com]

but related to snails...

a poem, if you will, from our new favorite comedian, Demetri Martin



snail.

i heard the story
of the tortoise and hare
but no one mentioned
the snail who was there
who barely moved
and couldn't less care
because his business was
not to rush or compare...

his speed and his pace
to those in that place
who lose time to save face
but miss all the grace
in their hurry to ace
every moment in space.

slow and steady wins the race

but who cares about racing
when the best part of life
is enjoying the spacing.

(go snails, eventually).