shift happens?

i just got an email from one of my old professors with the link to this video/slide show thing. it's one of them pseudo-apocalyptic "be very afraid" kind of things but there might be some truth to it, i dunno... i'm really curious as to what people think. is it just a bunch of over-hyped exaggerations? half-truths? communist propaganda? or does it scare the bajeezus outta you?

i got two things out of it, really: one - the chinese will take over the world (damn, nancy was right!) but only until our computers outsmart us and make us their slaves, and two - if half of what i've learned so far in college is already outdated, i feel real good about all those thousands of dollars i've blown on my education thus far. just one more reason to ditch school and be a bum, right? (i should really try that one on my parents.)

My Baby(ies)!

I probably should have posted these pictures months ago, but oh well, some before and after pictures. You might not be able to tell really well, but the rabbit has gotten bigger, and slightly less cute. Her name is Coconut, Coco for short. My roommate and I got her for $40 from a sketchy pet store a few blocks from campus.

Before:

Coco with my other (crankier) baby, Potato

Now:

Some things don't change.


Bath time!

(I should be studying for my final tomorrow)

Disney Princesses, BEWARE!

Check out this *guy*:

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1792427

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1791891


-Karolyn

ice blocking!

i don't remember who told me about ice blocking but i thought they made it up. apparently i was wrong... sliding down on a hill on a block of ice is a somewhat popular pastime for people with nothing else to do (or those looking for new ways to potentially injure themselves)... it's got its own wikipedia page and everything (and rules?). it seems pretty genius to me... this may actually work better in warmer weather, i don't know, but i feel like this is something that needs to happen this winter break. so i'm gonna try freezing some ice blocks, who wants one?

figure 1. advanced moves in ice blocking: the superman. [source]

an ode to gravy.

hey gravy. let's talk.

you know, this is a great blog. there've been 885 entries since the first post over three years ago. and in it's early stages, there were as many as seven or eight posts in a single day. i did some quick research on blogging statistics and in comparison with the rest of the blog world, i'd say we made it pretty damn far.

and now... well, scott kind of summed it up. he's basically been the only one posting for the past few months, comments are kind of sparse, all the links are dead in the "our pictures" category over in the sidebar, and scott's is the only blog linked that's actually been posted on in the past year. maybe he's right in saying that it's on its way out. but the gravy's been my home page for the past few years and even though i was one of the last to become a contributor (and then didn't even contribute much at all), i've gotten kind of attached to this blog, and i don't wanna see it die.

you guys all know why the gravy's so great... look left at that long list of people. remember when we all went to the same school? i've read almost every post, every comment, and there were some pretty great ones. remember when mr. lum had a thing for pat? how about that infamous "conversations in ethics" post with its record 64 comments? and alright, i'll admit i may have skipped over a few of pat and ian's sports posts and some of that political nonsense, but i know that stuff had plenty of other readers more sophisticated than i. we had all kinds of amusing posts... jog your memory, here's a select few: patrick schneider's "feeling dirty," ben's "declaration," adrianna's "an ode to jim cantore, weather channel badass," pat's "lots of pressure," doug douganna(?)'s "price tag," and rachel's "haha, 'cock sandwich'." hey, and whatever happened to man's club? and the liberty party? what about them memories, huh? (see ben's "good times, if you forget all the crap")

i'm prolly just overly sentimental, still clinging to the hope that we'll all eventually reunite to start a crazy band or one day pile into nancy's family wagon on an epic road trip. i'm still waiting for the day the outsiders sees its first baby pictures. (a new generation!) but really, i like reading about what you guys are up to and laughing at your terrible puns. and hey, i'll find stuff to write about. so just write something - anything - and post it for god's sake. (c'mon, i know you all lead more interesting lives than i do. or at least you know of a few ridiculous youtube videos.)