Instincts

Have you ever looked at your mouth palate, either before or after you introduce it a pizza hotter than the surface of Venus? It's funny looking. I wonder if all those ridges and bumps serve any purpose. I wonder if I would talk funny if I got all those ridges ironed out. I wonder why they call that thing an artist keeps his paints on a "palate" and which one came first- the mouth or the paints? I could probably do a little research and find out, but that would take all the magic out of life (and require effort) so I'm content to wonder.

Also, when discussing any painter I'm going to default to the male pronoun because as far as I'm concerned Bob Ross is the only painter there ever was.

Joggers

As the weather continues to improve ("improve" being contingent on if you consider the outside temperature rising preferable to it remaining below the freezing point. The local penguins and snowmen are probably freaking out about the current warming trends) I've noticed a corresponding uptick in joggers. They're for the most part female, and for the all part bad looking joggers as far as form goes. None of them posses any fluidity of motion, which has always struck me as being peculiar as girls are typically the more graceful of the genders. Disagree with me if you want, but if you do you'll be outing yourself as a) a girl who is b) a jogger and c) self conscious about their image while working out.

Conference Sunday

Difficulties encountered while watching Conference, respective to location:

April Fool's

Safado

PBS

Wicca

Seriously Though, You Should Probably Donate Something

401K

About a week ago I stopped doing the dishes. The sponge I was using to clean them was old and smelled like the type of bacteria that would turn my digestive track into Bosnia circa 1993 so I had to throw it out. I don't own very many dishes, and it didn't take long before all of them were sitting in the sink. Then I started eating out of Tupperware. Then I was out of clean Tupperware. Since then I've been living off Gobstoppers and Oreos.

Brackets

The Right Track

Wishes

Date Night

I didn't have an ice skating date tonight. I didn't have any date tonight, for that matter. I stayed home and read 'A Game of Thrones'. "Oh man, that is such a nerdy book," you say. You're talking to the same guy who's read both 'Children of the Mind' and 'Children of Dune'. So yeah, I'm not going to refute that. Or likely have a date next week either.

Khaos

whatever, i hate this and im done

I started this project almost a year ago. One year. I think it's time I come to terms with the fact that I'm never actually going to finish it. Growing up, I knew I hated certain things. Tomatoes. Marmosets. Bleeding to death. I never imagined I would hate lip syncing as much as I do now. It is the worst.

So there were a couple visual gags I was going to add- Steven was going to do a google search of "knee cancer" and it was going to return zero results, and in the end Nick was going to hold up a picture of a yellow VW Bug and punch Steven. But other than that it was just the two of them talking and I did not want to sync that. Maybe I'll do another one in the future, but with talking bubbles. Also, thanks to Beau for Nick's voice.

...and for some reason the latter half of the video wont load. Oh well. It was way funny. Use your imagination. 

Working with Gramps

 

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Writer's Block

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Professor Marbot-

At the beginning of the week I checked Blackboard to see when the midterm was due by. I saw it was Friday and concluded that, similar to the postings, it must be by midnight. Typical to my nature and manifested by my several Friday 11:30pm postings, I waited until the last minute to start the test. Much to my chagrin, ten minutes ago I discovered the test had already been recalled. I realize my having missed the test is a quantifiable representation of my irresponsibility and the purpose of this email is not in any way to seek redress for my habitual procrastination. The syllabus was nothing but explicit about the availability expiration of the test, but if there's any form of  truancy with percentage deduction clause the especially penitent qualify for I would be eternally grateful. If not, I understand the consequences and hope to compensate with exceptional performance on future assignments. And even without any measure of clemency, this letter will at least prove to the instructor that while I may be irresponsible, at least I'm not apathetic about it. That makes me feel slightly better about myself, though it does little to improve my GPA.

Paul  




Man, if there ever was a guy who set himself up to be punished for being such a smart a in class, I am that guy. Response pending. 

My friend is selling the t-shirt on the left here. I'm trying to pitch the one on the left. It's not the more Christlike of the two, but it would increase his market base.

Perspective

Why aren't there more movies that come at a situation from the perspective of the invading aliens or lunching zombies? "District 9" came kind of close I guess, but I don't want to form an opinion on Armageddon until I see both sides of the story.  

Week 7 Response

Question:

You are a pizza shop owner and have determined that is costs you $6.00 to make a 12 slice pizza.  Discuss the price you would charge for a slice and why.  Be sure to consider other factors as well as cost.

Answer: 

What's up with all these pizza related questions? "What would the mission statement of your pizza store be? What would you call your pizza store? How much would you charge per slice?" Does anyone else here think the teacher recently opened their own pizza store, and is now farming her class for ideas on how to run it? If the final exam is something like "the last thing you need to do to finish the class is buy a large pizza at Mimi's Pizzeria and then tell all your friends how great it was" I will be 0.00% surprised. 

 

Also, getting ideas from the class is a terrible business strategy. There are some really, really bad ideas out there. Case and point:

I would charge $4.00 a slice because I'm looking to make an obscene profit per pizza. I wouldn't have any overhead costs because I would be making and selling the pizza out of a renovated ice cream truck that I would drive around on campus. I could get away with charging that much per slice because I'm the only pizza truck in the area. It would look like this:

Anyone steals my idea, be it teacher or student, and you'll be hearing from my lawyers.

back by popular demand, here's that other student's response:

I would charge 1.00 because selling in bulk is always cheaper because you will you will reach some profit. When you make a whole pizza it is a definate fact that you will sell the whole pizza. Selling the pizza slice by slice is never a definate process. With selling the slices for a dollar you would only need to sell 6 slices in order to make your money back and would allow for a 6 slice waste margin to cover any dropped slices as well as pizza that was never sold and got old or slices unsold at the end of the workday.  The bonus to selling a dollar a slice is there would be a profit of .50 cents a slice or 6 dollars a pizza which is a smart buisness move people are willing to pay for convience!!