aggienaut: (Pope Kristof)

   Now, though earlier today I issued an encyclical urging you all not to post about your daily lives, I'm going to go ahead and do just that. But wait, before you declare me the antichrist, let me note that I bring you a photo essay -- a photo essay with drunken debauchery, people dressed up, and people practically naked! This, my friends, is almost always a recipe for an acceptable blogging. Also I already posted a less underbloggist entry today, and though I recused that one as being too recursive (being about 30 in 30 itself), I think together these two entries should meet blogthodox requirements.

   Last night Kristy & I attended both my Φ A Δ (Pre Law) formal & then Gina Scheffel's "Dress Your Best .. Or Not!" Party.


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   Or see all these pictures and some more from thte party that I didn't work in here on flickr.


   For no particular reason I thought I'd link to one of my all time very favourite 30 in 30 posts now to inspire you all: Jesus Cthulhu.
   As to my best day 3 post choice, I'm not gonna beat around the bush, its going to [livejournal.com profile] apoplecticfittz again. Though original megabloggist philosophy1 frowned upon the use of multimedia as taking away from the technique & craft, it was quickly seen that the use of images very greatly enhanced the achievable hilarity in entries. Even those without digital cameras can still find images on the internet to enhance their entries, and I would say I definitely encourage this. It helps counteract the debilitating effects of TL;DR, and frankly I think some of you need to turn some attention to the TL;DR issue.
   And so my point is: that [livejournal.com profile] apoplecticfittz's post for today is a brilliant example of how a simple office prank can be turned into a hilarious blogccomplishment through effective use of multimedia.

   Another example of good use of multimedia I'd like to recognize is [livejournal.com profile] orwell_troll's first post (ever, actually). The simple addition of a 51st star to the US flag demonstrates how very simple a brilliant idea can be. In addition to the aforementioned Brent "Darth Laabs" Laabs, I'd like to give a shout out to the other people who have either joined 30 in 30 since my last post or I just forgot them at that time: [livejournal.com profile] gerbilgrrl, [livejournal.com profile] professor_david, the mysterious [livejournal.com profile] anonymous_frosh, [livejournal.com profile] punitrebel, and the venerable [livejournal.com profile] citizene (reporting from Singapore).


Previously in the Blogosphere
   Three Years Ago Today:
UCD MUN Conference 2003 - First annual UCD MUN Conference. To this day they were my favourite committee ever.
   Two Years Ago: 30 in 30 I, Day 3 - [livejournal.com profile] shekb declares the pulitzer prize "tapped out." I didn't think the entry was that funny but comments from other participants seem to laud it as blogging gold. [livejournal.com profile] lerani posted about Dennis Quaid & the Sharks, and how you can get him to touch your enemies. [livejournal.com profile] stephenl decides that “The fact is, girls can't keep their pants on when they encounter a guy who's big into anime,” which is further proven by the fact that [livejournal.com profile] shid is now engaged. Also, bloglarious as usual, [livejournal.com profile] apoplecticfittz posts a must-see entry about gummy bear porn - I swear its tasteful ::caugh, get it?::.
   Year Ago Today: 30 in 30 II, Day 3 - From the Field - Phonepost abilities unexpectedly failing me, I desperately make a post from some random person's house in Santa Barbara. Not much of a post, but I had to use maximum intrepidness to get it done at all and its the thought that counts, no?

Touch & Go

Mar. 29th, 2006 01:19 am
aggienaut: (snail piracy)
photobucket hellorz shrank this

   Last Week I drove down to the County of Orange (The CO) on Sunday and Returned on Wednesday. This week I went on an epic roadtrip with nine others down to Las Vegas on Friday and back on Monday. Today (Tuesday), I'm in Davis. Tomorrow school resumes, but after class I'm flying down to Los Angeles for the PAXMUN AMPAC MUN Conference in Los Angeles. I return on Sunday.
   Presumably then I will stay put for awhile, but in the mean time I will have travelled about 2,854 miles in two weeks, mostly by car and in a generally back and forth pattern.


Before I left The CO: I came downstairs around dinner time and exclaimed, "it smells like someone's cooking with stout!" To which a suprised mother answered "I'm making stew with stout, how'd you know??" I went on to say "this starfish looks like its got chocolate chips" only to be told it was a "chocolate chip starfish" and be asked if I already knew these things and was just being saucy. In conclusion, I am the next Amir Ghasri Adrian Saint. That and I can smell a good stout at a distance of two furlongs.


Vegas
   I probably don't have time to even begin to update about the Vegas adventure before I embark upon my next one, but at least here's the roll call of shinanigans who were in attendance: Brian "B-Fog" Fogerty, Olivia Pisano ([livejournal.com profile] pygmypeach81), Colleen Milton ([livejournal.com profile] colleeniebeenie), Julie Parker & Brittawater Segerstrom, Chris "C-Bunch" Bunch, Lyrakeet Fischer, and of course Kristy ([livejournal.com profile] basicallyasap), Sashie ([livejournal.com profile] slosha)& I.


Emosnail special report: Today one of our secret Emosnail correspondants tracked down a local Deputy DA to find out the real deal on a recent locally infamous case. The conversation went roughly as follows: "So this hit & run..." "gag order." The DA did go on however to enthusiastically endorse the "alpine dog" available at the Fat Cat Cafe for $3.75.


In Jurisprudence Today
   Captured Al-Qaida member Zacarias Moussaoui, currently on trial for involvement in the September 11th attacks, has testified at his trial -- as a prosecution witness. As Moussaoui joined the prosecution team and argued that he had indeed been the intended 20th hijacker, Defense scrambled to defend him against himself and undermine his testimony. (story)

Picture of the Day


Myself, Kristy & the Sashikeet
Note the Bellagio in the background



Previously on Emosnail
   Year & a Week Ago Today:
The Reagan Doctrine Meets Somalia - A term paper under construction.
   Year & a Week Ago Last Sunday: Shadiness of Campus Crusade For Christ - And more importantly, compelling evidence that the Emosnail readership is not more biased against religion that the UC Davis community at large, despite what prominent Daily Show celebrities1 might say to the contrary. Also, Kaplan missed the boat and gave out their Excellence in Student Teamwork Award to some random thing instead of the Daviswiki phenomena which has literally changed life in Davis as we know it, but creator Philip Neustrom is awarded a more prestigious honour: the Sacred Order of Trogdor.
   Year Ago Last Thursday: Symmachies Sammiches & the First Athenian Empire - Actually there are no sandwiches. A term paper under construction.
   Year Ago Last Saturday: Daviswiki Theology - You can actually watch as Brent Laabs spirals into the darkside & becomes the person we know today as Darth Laabs. Also Saul Sugarman discovers wiki & immediately proceeds to edit Daviswiki towards his own fascist paradise -- battles ensue with entrenched wikites across a number of pages, but he makes Ikea his Stalingrad and fights in the spirit of the Soviet slogan "not a single step backwards!"
   Year Ago Today: International Atheist Convention - The Atheist Alliance International convention takes place in Los Angeles. I may or may not have been in that general area hanging out with Penn & Teller.

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