So yesterday I went to start an assignment, only to find out that I was SOL because I didn't have half of the parts needed.

It's due Thursday.

I am annoyed with myself for not looking into it, but I'm also annoyed with the TAs for not quite emphasizing how important this particular thing was to do. They weren't grading it, they brushed it off, I had parts from the old class, I was sure I'd be fine.

No. I didn't have a great deal of parts. It wasn't at all like the lab class I'd last done.

(also, Chrome needs to do something about these input boxes... it's really annoying to have half a word disappear or any edits overwriting things... to shift it later)

But so, I spend the morning spazzing, and then have the great idea to call a friend who'd taken the class and would likely have the parts that I needed.

She did, yay! So I start on it again this morning, to find that a kit they had us order back in 2005 or so, doesn't have enough parts. The page they send us to to order these parts hasn't changed, so the parts I have are the right parts. They just require more than what comes in the kit of parts, so I had to go scrounge Dave's stuff to find some more.

Between the two of us there are about three or four of these damn kits, AND I AM STILL TWO PARTS SHORT! Bah! I am not at all happy.

I really should have started this on Friday night like I'd originally planned. Now I have to do homework and three-ish labs tonight. Woot.

At least I didn't start tomorrow morning. That would have been awful.

AND THEN! I am going to start on another assignment, and my calculator was NOT where it is!!! I of course had a spaz, my pricey calculator is now somewhere and I guess I left it in lab maybe my friend picked it up oh god I need it to do my-HEY! THERE'S MY CALCULATOR!

Today... it will be.

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Augh, crazy people and their Donald McDonald!

As much as I hate crazy remixes of classical songs, especially Fur Elise and Rondo alla Turca, this RaT is ... mesmerizing?



It kind of falls apart in a few places, but the end... is ridiculous. No, it is amazing. That's what it is.

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I don't quite remember how I found this... but it is creepy and hilarious. Hypnotizing, too.



Donald McDonald... made seizurey, and for those who didn't know... he is indeed Donald in Japan (it's under localisation (or with a z... I don't know. I get Bri'ish spellings and Murkin spellings confused... :( )) If you click on the link, at the very bottom of the page is a play-button, you can download the song by clicking on it.

Anyway.

Dave and I went to Red Robin last night, because Olive Garden was PACKED like a minivan full of Mexicans (I'll have to tell this story next). It was some kids birthday, and they had the Red Robin bird, and some people sing Happy Birthday to the kid in the tune of Alouette, which last I knew was a song about eating a sparrow. According to wikipedia, it's about plucking a skylark, but the crazy intent towards birds is still there. That bothered me a bit.

So, the minivan full of Mexicans story:
In my high school Spanish class, our teacher was from Colombia. For some reason or other, we would joke about the Mexicans in a minivan phenomenon, where you would look over while you were driving, and see a regular minivan crammed to the hilt with Mexicans. Our Spanish teacher never quite got this analogy, since we used it in place of "packed like sardines".

One day, he walks into class, and exclaims something along the lines of "I saw what you were talking about! I didn't believe it, but yes, I was driving next to a minivan FULL of Mexicans! I have no clue how they all managed to fit!" Of course, the class fell over laughing.

Also, the electric company stopped by today, because some guy in a house across the way is also having the same problems we are having. Wonder if his toilet flushes on its own too.

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So, my electricity has been flickering wildly for the past ... two days. It wasn't doing that before. It'll be fine, and then it will drop, low enough to set off the UPS alarm.

Beep! Beeep! Beepbeep! Beebeep! ... Five minutes later: BEEP!

So we've unplugged the UPS. The power doesn't ease down into being low, it just goes, and then it suddenly drops.

There's also a lot of crows outside. CAW CAW CAW CAW. Because they're crows, you know. CAW! They like to fly at the window and pull up at the last second, scaring me. Mean ol' crows.

But! yesterday, I came back from class, and my toilet is flushing. There's no one inside, just me, but the toilet is flushing. Not constantly running like a leak, I lifted the lid and watched the tank refill.

I mentioned this to one of my friends, I told him about the crows this morning. He totally thinks that maybe my house is possessed or something.

There are also squirrels that like to sit outside and yell (now with examply goodness!). What about, I don't know.

Imagine if I could control both the crows and squirrels... I'd be unstoppable!

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So we have moved. We need to finish unpacking and buy a dining table-thing.There is this fancy schmancy dining set at Kmart that I absolutely love. They don't have a picture of it in black on the website, though.

I really want to buy it, but not for 199.99. Definitely not 250.00. It seems really sturdy, though, so maybe this weekend I will see if I am fully unpacked.

I am checking Sear's, what with my gift card and all, and they have a chair that costs more than the table! Sheesh.

My mom is trying to talk me into getting crazy expensive furniture, but she really likes the Kmart table as well. Someone mentioned Labor Day sales, so maybe it will go down to 175 or 150. If it does, I'm totally buying it.

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So, between then and now, more people of questionable scruples have been joining NuTang and stirring up the poo with a broom handle.

It's sparked a ton of entries, this great comic by randomjunk (I love the dangling eyeball), more guidelines for noobs, a forum post on things we consider NuEtiqutte... and so on.

Firstly, I'd like to suggest that we go back to these entries, and tag them with something. Important Info, Good things to know, catatonicloki, lykfe, whatever.

Back in this entry, I enumerated a bit of the NuTOS.

Apparently, on Nuttz's entryWanna know what happened?, she goes into the most recent drama/poop-stirring, and at some point states that the broom-handled noob le_battement (shame!) said the following:

"I also don't understand why providing anime/manga links is such a big deal. They're still bringing in traffic, regardless if it's from posting boring blog entries about their life or selling heroin."

Well, I will say, having been on NuTang for a little more than five years, it upsets me to see people not respect communities. It upsets me when people figure that the rules don't apply to them, so they will completely violate the TOS, and when people begin to call them out on it, they whine. Not "oops, sorry", but "weh ur jelus" or "weh stfu" or "Go back to blogging about your cats and your first kiss and your lunch. All of these threats and this whining is getting pretty damn annoying." (says the whiner).

You know, I don't like it when NuTang is down. I don't like when NuTang is down because people are trying to scam it. I don't like it when NuTang is down because someone decides the rules don't apply to them, and end up abusing the awesomeness that is NuTang.

And in the end, when it comes to "hosting" anime/manga? Sure, they could be bringing traffic, but we ALL know what a great country the US is, and I for one don't want to see NuTang go away because some whiny person who doesn't understand that rules are around for a reason ticked off the feds.

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