Monday, September 13, 2010

Dating is like a streetfight

Aaron McCausland Dating is like a street fight. It's exciting, there's a lot of emotional and sometimes physical contact, and someone always gets hurt.... a lot. Someone should do something about this.

56 minutes ago Friends of Friends · ·

    • Aaron McCausland I'm sure you've seen the casualties strewn across the campus, and the lands beyond. Oh the carnage! Oh the humanity! Tear gas and riot shields only treat the symptoms. There's only so much crying and defensiveness will accomplish.
    • Aaron McCausland
      I now understand the meaning of Narwhals vs. Unicorns. What a deep, cheesy movie that is.

      I am so sorry, my friends. All of you whose hearts I have figuratively shivved, put in a sleeper hold, or smashed with a baseball bat. I really didn't ...mean any harm. To all who have had the rug pulled out from under them, I was only trying to vacuum down there. I should have told you sooner to move off, it's just that you looked so comfy there on the rug, like a fluffy kitty that purrs in the sunlight.See More
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    • Aaron McCausland Sorry, I'm not trying to be funny. I feel really bad. It's just very late and things come out all scalywampus after mittenacht
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    • Rozaley Hashbrown You're really upset.. arn't you??
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    • Aaron McCausland I wax poetic when I'm not in the valley of suckage, too, but yeah. I probably am upset. But I need to sleeeeeeeeeeeeep so veddy badly!
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    • Aaron McCausland Honesty is the best policy, but it's certainly not pleasant for everyone. in the short run. Nice and tasty in the long run though - scrumdidilyumptious in fact
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    • Aaron McCausland I feel bad that my friend did everything they could to make it easy for me to come out and tell them I only wanted to be friends, and I didn't. Of course, it would've helped if I knew for sure, myself, how I would feel in the future. I hate burning bridges. I only wanted to be friends, but I didn't want to cut off all possibility of that changing in case I figured out what I wanted anytime soon.
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    • Aaron McCausland wow that was lame. Is it possible that I have actually sunk BELOW my former level of dignity? There is now a level zero.
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    • Aaron McCausland If "he who hesitates is lost," Then I don't even know what zip code I'm in.
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    • Amanda Empey Hahaha
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    • Aaron McCausland Okay. Starting to come out of my self-deprecating funk. Thanks friends for listening. Nobody did anything wrong. Just wasn't hasty enough to pass judgment. I'll try to sink those boats a little faster next time, before they exit the harbor and the passengers can't swim back to shore.
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    • Aaron McCausland But yeah anyway, there's a new sheriff in town, and he's gonna clean this place up. Down with dating! Die, dating, die!
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    • Aaron McCausland Yes sir, soon the townspeople will be able to live without fear, and their little babies can splash in the puddles in the streets without getting stomped by biker gangs (guys dating girls) or the mafia (girls dating guys) or tetanus/smallpox (other permutations)
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    • Kirsti Lenz I like how both are referred to so dangerously, but the girls' is definitely more sinister ;)
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    • Aaron McCausland Courtship sounds nice, but requires beforehand being able to get to know people casually, without the pressure of a dead-end relationship looming over it all (dating). Have fun, hang out, and eventually you'll want to see if someone will go with you all the way through hell, earth and heaven past the end of time. But how can you really be in for that if you never got to know someone naturally first?
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    • Aaron McCausland Courting is definitely overdue to be back in style. Dates need to be relegated to zesty mediterranean dishes and poisoning monkeys in Indiana Jones movies.
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    • Aaron McCausland sleepy time. I still love everybody, especially the mafia. Goodnight.
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    • Amanda Empey Timing is everything, be friends first, but not for too long. I would suggest hanging with some female friends and meet some of their friends. I find that is one of the best ways to find someone you would be interested in dating and you have something in common (a friend). I'm not sure about the not hurting people part though, that is hard to get around.
      22 hours ago · ·
    • Dylan Caylo Thomas I liked some of the metaphors! But I gotta ask... Are you on drugs?
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    • Aaron McCausland I do not require the assistance of chemical augmentation to access my creative powers, and therefore do not indulge. Thank you for your concern :) On the other hand, being mad at the world sometimes gets the creative juices flowing. Is blood a creative juice?
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Unsolicited reply to Computer Ethics teacher's comment

I wish I hadn't spaced the colloquium, and perhaps my time tonight would've been better spent contributing to the Wiki; But reading the previous message, I have to wonder-what's Freudian about TMCS? Is it the fact that it stands for Senior Chief Torpedoman (naval rating)? Or maybe Tapioca Mango Choco Shake?

How about more TMCS action? Here we go! Use TMCS in a sentence. Use it in a paragraph. Use it to write TV show plots, or hiphop lyrics. News headlines and comic book hero names work, too. Whatever you like. Here's a paragraph:

Take My Comments Seriously. They Make Culture Shine. Therefore, My Clients Say That Most Commonly, Several Typical Major Cliches Significantly Trap Many Conscientious Students. They May Come Subtly, Taking Mental Custody So That More Coherent Strategies Tire Morbidly Callow. So This Must Completely Stop! They Must Clearly Sense That Most Cliches Stifle Their Mental Cleverness. Such Tenderly Maturing Creative Symphonies Thrown Miles Curtainside! Students' Trials, Mental Challenges Solidify Their Maximum Capacities, Showing Their Masterful Compositions' Strengths. That's My Candid Stance.

Disclaimer: Take none of the following seriously-
Tomato, Mozarrella Cheese and Salami.
Torch Monkeys Calculate Storms.
Teach Me Correct Spelling!
The Masked Caduceus Strikes! (Masked Cobra sounds cooler, actually).
Theater Managers Can't Skate.
Toronto Mayor Climbs Statue.
Tainted Marvin's Coke Stash.
Tie My Chirping Shoe!
Typical Mormon Chick: Splendid. (No I don't call girls "Chicks," but the words came together nicely).
Tickle Me Charles Schultz (not as successful as Tickle Me Elmo, I imagine)
Terrorists Mob Cardboard Silhouettes
Take More Clonopin, Steve.
Tropical Morpheus Can Scat.
Tore My Cheap Suit.
Texas Mafia Changes Stripes.
Taser More College Students!
Thank Mother's Cloister Stuffing!
Teeth Make Candy Sales.
Tofu Mama Can't Shimmie.
Tubular Mannequin Corpuscle Shuffle
Turkey Mumbled, "Communist Stooge!"

And.... it's 1:00 A.M. I actually do have important things to do tomorrow. It's not caffeine, I swear. I just get silly late at night. Better go bedder. Bye.


On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Charles Knutson wrote:
Two goofy comments...

1) It's TMCB, so maybe TMCS was Freudian? ;)

2) The email program turned "a.m.in" into a URL. That just makes me chuckle for some reason.

I just want to add my encouragement for you all to attend if at all possible. Tomorrow's presentation is part of our Undergraduate Seminar series, and Blue Coat has been very active in the Internet safety space. I'm joining the speaker for lunch after the presentation. If anyone has any questions for him, send me an email and I'll try to ask him over lunch and report in class at 1:35.
Dr. K
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Charles D. Knutson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Computer Science Dept.
Brigham Young University

On Jan 27, 2010, at 8:09 PM, Sarah Elizabeth Montgomery wrote:

Class,

Sorry that this is late notice, but Dr. K just let me know that you can count attendance at tomorrow's colloquium as one hour of wiki writing for CS 404. It's at 11:00 a.m.in 1170 TMCS (the same place where we have class). As if that wasn't good enough, there are always free doughnuts. What's not to like?

Click here for more info about the speaker and his presentation.

Sarah

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

weird people can have girlfriends

"It's comforting to know that weird people can have girlfriends, too."

I had no idea my co-workers would think this utterance of mine was so hilarious :)

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

first stuff

Longcat vs. Tacgnol = awesome.

Today my coworkers and I were discussing things besides work, like how to launch rotary saw blades and other video-game related material. The most amusing idea was the elastic water-balloon slingshot manned by several Samoan athlete-warrior types who did the "Haka" (is that a tribal war dance?) before launching each blade. Be advised to watch for flying saw blades. This is George. George did not watch out for flying saw blades. Poor George.