ramble on

previously on mantooth!:
sarah moved to ithaca. it was cool. what hilarious and wacky misadventures await our hero? stay tuned, for this exciting episode of mantooth*

kiel: getting tired
kie: bed, with the laptop on my lap, about this close to burning my genitals.
kio: echoes, some celtic-sounding chanty thing. it might be enya. who knows.

it's been so long since i updated i actually forgot my password to log in to update. then i remembered it, (obviously) so it's all good... then i found 5 dollars.**

what's happened since march? well, here's a brief synopsis, in classic list format.

• sarah moved to ithaca. she now lives here.
• i was in a show, the beauty queen of leenane, here at cornell. you can read about the show in the link. talented cast, excellent directing, irish accents, and i got to touch a boob. if you came to see it, you are really on my good list.
• sarah got a job in cortland (about 30 minutes north of ithaca), [so no mom and dad she is not sitting around the house watching tv and making babies] and she seems pretty psyched about the job. rock.
• i did some western blots
• i saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to geico. no, seriously, i did!
• i did some programming in JAVA, and by "programming" i mean i tweaked some code that was already written for a modeling project
• we found a duplex in fall creek, so sam and stephanie will live downstairs and sarah and i will live upstairs. heat rises, so our bills will be lower. nyah nyah. the lease doesn't start til august 1st, though.
• we found a sublet right by the chapter house (note: the website looks a lot nicer than the actual bar. but it's a great place to hang) for june 1-august 1

other than that i've just been doing work.

so i am co-advised by matt delisa and jeff varner, and varner is a huge mac guy. he's also a huge republican, but that's irrelevant to this discussion. anyway, he got me a mac mini intel core duo machine. i gotta tell you, it fricking rules. i grew up on mac (powerbook 520c, system 7.1.1, 4 MB RAM, 68040 33 MHz processor), and it is nice to be back. plus this machine is so fast. here are some specs:

• 1.66 GHz Intel Core Duo processors (up to 4x faster than PowerPC)
• 2 GB RAM (TWO GIGS!)
• 100 GB HD
• MacOS 10.4.6 (Tiger)
• 20-inch widescreen Cinema Display
• Apple Mighty Mouse (so neat)

don't get me wrong, i'm not one of those cream-your-jeans-over-steve-jobs hyper mac people. i think both systems (mac and windows) have their benefits...and shortcomings. i don't know if the next computer i buy will be a mac (they are a bit expensive), but i hope to get lots of use out of mactooth in the next few years, even if only a little bit of it is for actually modeling stuff.

oh also i entered the google da vinci code quest, basically a series of little puzzles that you could do over like 3 weeks, and the first 10,000 people to submit all of them got a cool movie souvenir. well, i got one. it's a cryptex.
sorry for the bad lighting, it's 4 am, i'm in bed, and i took the picture with my cell phone. ps can you find the secret code?

ok i guess this entry isn't really going anywhere so i will leave you with two comics i saw recently. the first one is from married to the sea, a joint webcomic by drew of toothpastefordinner and natalie dee and the second is from dueling analogs, a comic about video games.

dig it.




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*if you're not in ithaca, you probably don't know that i was blessed with the nickname "mantooth" (after vince vaughn's character in anchorman) long before i arrived at cornell. most people use it interchangeably with "tom", but lately i think it has become more of a dr. jekyll and mr. hyde kind of deal, where tom is a mild-mannered grad student, but mantooth is a guy who gets very drunk and into all kinds of situations, most of which involve urinating on or in something. but that's a story for another time.
**for those of you who don't know, if someone ends a story out of nowhere with "and then i found 5 dollars", it means his story is clearly going nowhere and he wants to add an interesting ending. the dollar amount goes up with increasing lameness of story, though 5 is the standard amount.