Friday, February 23, 2007

My peepz

The asian club scene is probably one of the coolest in all of New York City. It's kind of like other popular clubs where you get in line and wait at least 30 minutes to pay 20 dollars just to get inside away from the freezing cold. Luckily once you're inside they're usually nice enough to take your coat off you hands for the cheap price of $2. Then when you're past coat check you can go in and buy a $15 dollar drink or dance a bit. The only problem is that the only people dancing are girls. You wouldn't think that that's a problem except for the fact that they all have boyfriends and their boyfriends all work out a little too much and they're all on the side of the dance floor standing with their arms crossed watching their girlfriends dance with other girls. If you even get close the way too buff boyfriends come down from the sides and then regulate or if you're lucky, you'll just get a dirty look that says "don't do that again." So after getting rejected from the dance floor you normally want to take a seat somewhere like at the bar or at a table. Problem is that there aren't any chairs at the bar and all the tables are occupied by people who are paying $300 per bottle of alcohol with a 3 bottle minimum. So basically if you want to sit down it's going to cost you at the least a couple of hundred dollars and most likely closer to a grand. After all that you get to go home and then you can say that you were at a cool club with hella asians and you'll be cool to all your other asian friends.

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Hey Shorty!

I went to the doctor the other day because I hurt my finger rock climbing. They sent me to a orthopedic surgeon named Dr. Nader Paksima. Later on I looked up the guy on the internet. It turns out that he's had some pretty famous patients.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3006357.stm

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

oh pencils!

My mechanical pencils finally ran out of lead the other day, so I went to the store. It really surprised me to find that a pack of bic's cost nearly $5 for a pack of 10 and a pack of 2 more expensive ones were around $4. Instead of buying those expensive pencils I went the cheapo route and got a pack of 10 real pencils for $1 and a pencil sharpener for 60 cents (note that the $1 pencils were cheaper than the $1.60 option).
I went hope and immediately opened up my box of pencils so that I could sharpen them all in preparation for all the scan-tron tests that I take. To my surprise I couldn't sharpen any of the pencils. The sharpener would shave away the wood, but when it got down to the lead, the lead would snap off. This same thing happened for all 10 pencils. After shaving about 50% off each pencil I was left with 4 sharp pencils and 6 stuffy pieces of crap.
The next day I woke up with a huge blister on my middle finger.
Moral of the story - Sharpen more pencils more frequently so that I get a huge callous on my middle finger.