I'm Kind of a Big Deal

Getting emails from the next leader of the free world and everything:



As Matt would say, "Obama, Obama, Obama!"

Cartoons/Photos of the Day

Graduation was today (not my graduation, mind you; the medical school graduation that I help to "orchestrate"...and by orchestrate I mean basically make sure all the faculty and students don't get lost and find their correct seats). The ceremony went well, but I am exhausted. I've been thinking of a bunch of random topics to blog about, but I am too whipped for any more coherent thought today. So I thought I'd post some funny pictures instead:

LOL, Internet 2.0

I have a love/hate relationship with Facebook. It is useful and all, but it can be incredibly annoying. No, I don't want to pet your weird virtual animal/put things in your solar system/ tell the whole world that I just took a breath. I also don't need my friends to "poke" or (even worse) "tickle" me--jesus, just have them say hi like a normal internet communication device! All that said, Facebook is still about 500x better than myspace (gah, myspace--I can't even type the word without getting repulsed.)

I read this on someone else's blog and found it pretty hilarious, though:

A couple weeks ago I removed the "in a relationship" banner from my Facebook page, because I felt way too old to be waving my personal life around like a flag on the internet, and decided I wanted some privacy in case weird people from college that I didn't really want to talk to anymore started finding me and asking to be my friend. Unfortunately, I didn't realize that this would send a notification to EVERYONE I EVER MET with an alarmist "broken heart" icon saying I'm single again suddenly, and I got a whole bunch of concerned e-mails asking "what had happened".

Random Update

So I haven't written anything in quite a while, and I am going to blame it all on my brother. (Family members are always the best to blame for everything, obviously.) He was home for a week, so I spent most of my free time hanging out with him. I recently got a couple DVD collections of Hitchcock films, and we watched a bunch of them (including watching "Shadow of a Doubt" on his laptop when there was a huge thunderstorm and the power went out for several hours--perfect atmosphere for a Hitchcock flick!) We never did get a chance to play any Rock Band or Guitar Hero, though (this is one of our favorite activities to do together--play one of these games while drinking fancy imported beers and trash talking each other's lack of skills). The one time we were about to start playing was right when the power went out.

When Matt arrived home last Sunday, one of the first things he said to me was, "I'm gonna use this week off to work on my poker game." He says this literally every time he comes home for a vacation. Did he play any poker? No. Did he watch any poker videos? No. He did watch me play a little bit, but that was it. It's frustrating, 'cause I am sure he would be a great player if he took the time to play. But he just never puts any hands in. Sometimes I think it's my fault--I put too much pressure on him, always telling him and anyone else who will listen what a great player he could be. He is super intelligent (much, much smarter than me) and has the best logic skills of anyone I know. Plus he's got that smugness (OK, arrogance) that comes with being so much smarter than most everyone--definitely a plus in the "confidence in your game" dept. And I know he likes the game, at least from a theoretical perspective; he will talk through hands with me and read the occasional strategy thread on 2p2. But I don't know if he enjoys playing. I don't think he knows, either, since he never freakin plays! I guess it could be a matter of me pressuring him too much, but I think the more likely explanation is just sheer laziness. Matt is the biggest procrastinator of anyone I've ever known. And I'm a pretty bad procrastinator myself, so that's saying something.

In other news, Matt, Virag and I went to the Cubs game on Saturday. I was looking forward to a great pitching duel, Zambrano vs. Zach Duke (young lefty who has pretty good stuff), so of course Zambrano got knocked out of the game in the 5th inning and the Cubs lost 7-5. I swear I haven't seen the Cubs win a game in person in five years (good thing I don't get to many games...). The weather was nice, at least. And I got a new hat.

More later, I suppose. Time for some actual work (gasp!).

Quote of the Day

This was on my google homepage this morning:

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
- HL Mencken