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Archive for May, 2007

25 Ways To Confuse Your Professors

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

This is another old e-mail that I’m purging…

25 Ways To Confuse Your Professors

1. Brush your teeth during class. While doing so, raise your hand as if you have a question, and mumble your question incoherently while brushing, spewing toothpaste all over the place. If your professor objects to your actions, go on a tirade about proper oral hygiene.

2. Sit way at the back of the room, up against the wall, to get as far away from your professor as possible. While he/she is lecturing, shout out things like, “What!?” and “Speak up! You’re mumbling!” If your professor advises you to sit closer to the front, tell him/her you can’t because you’re scouting the room for “assassins.”

3. If you have an early morning class, get there before anyone else, and bring a pillow, some blankets, an air mattress, and an alarm clock. Wear your pajamas. Lie down on the air mattress with the pillow and the blankets and act like you’re asleep. Have the alarm set for about two minutes into class. When it goes off, preferably very loudly, hit the “snooze” button and go back to sleep. Keep doing so for the duration of the class.

4. Dispute everything your professor says, no matter how simple. Try to get him/her to “prove” everything to you. Rant and rave about what a big liar your professor is. Yell at students who are taking notes, saying, “Stop writing down all these lies!”

5. Show up to class about ten minutes late. Ride into the room on a bicycle, yell, “Look out!”, and crash into the blackboard. Get up, take a seat, and act like nothing happened. Do this every day.

6. Keep “accidentally” setting fires at your desk. Burn notebooks, papers, or whatever you have handy. Whenever you start a fire, no matter how small it is, start yelling, “Fire! Fire!” and run out of the room in a panic. Don’t return for the rest of class.

7. Hide somewhere inside the classroom. Wait for your professor to take attendance. Don’t come out when he/she calls your name. Halfway through class, jump out and yell, “Just kidding! I’m here! Fooled you again!” Sit down and be quiet for the rest of class.

8. Wrap yourself in bandages and come to class in a wheelchair. Throughout class, cry a lot and moan things like, “Why me?” and “Please kill me!” Get up during class, like your going to miraculously start walking. Instead, fall down, cry out in pain, and wait for someone to help you back up. When class is over, say, “I feel better now,” leap up, and run home.

9. Come to class with a jar full of angry hornets. Five minutes into class, release the hornets, scream, and run away.

10. Bring a vacuum to class. Halfway through class, stand up and start using it. If your professor objects, explain that you “can’t stand sitting in this pigsty any longer.” Keep vacuuming, grumbling angrily.

11. Bring a small cactus to class with you. Raise your hand, and when you’re called on, say that the cactus has a question. Turn and look at the cactus, as if you’re waiting for it to say something. After a few moments, shrug, and wait for your professor to move on. Do this once a day, and become increasingly irritated with the cactus every time, sighing heavily and giving it evil looks when it fails to “speak.” When you leave the room after class, start yelling at the cactus, “I can’t believe you embarrassed me AGAIN….”

12. Every time your professor stutters, do a shot. If he/she objects, explain that drinking games make the class more interesting.

13. When your professor gives you a syllabus, take it home, correct it, give it a grade, and return it to the professor. Demand extra credit.

14. Come to class every day wearing scary Halloween masks. Try to get your professor to guess who you are. Shoot him/her with a water pistol, scream, and run around the room knocking things over. Say, “Pretty scary, huh?”

15. Get the whole class to show up a few minutes early, and throw a surprise party for your professor. Insist that you can’t start class until he/she has a piece of cake. Keep asking people when the strippers are going to arrive.

16. Instead of taking notes, do an abstract painting during every class. Call the paintings things like, “Professor Acting Like Mr. Know-It-All” or “An Idiot Who Doesn’t Know What The Hell He’s Talking About.” Give the paintings to your professor as gifts.

17. Wait for your professor to mention a date, and then yell out, “Bingo!” Apologize, and explain that you got confused.

18. Carve a bust of your professor out of cheese. Tie a ribbon around it, and present it to him/her at the beginning of class. Demand extra credit.

19. Write your professor a note that says, “I’m going to be about 15 minutes late. Go ahead and start without me.” Wait outside the building until the time when class is supposed to begin. Tie the note to a rock, and throw it through the window.

20. Write down everything that your professor says, word for word. Think up a melody, and turn the words into a song. Bring a guitar to class and perform the song for the class. Explain to your professor that he/she is “very inspiring.”

21. Get a monkey, and bring it to class with you. Tell your professor that you’ve hired the monkey to take notes for you. Sit back and relax during class, letting the monkey scribble on a piece of paper. When it comes time to write a paper or take a test, write down things like, “I wish I had a banana” and “I miss my tire swing.” Assuming you get a bad grade, angrily fire the monkey in front of your professor.

22. When you have to write a paper, get it done early and mail it to your professor’s house. From then on, don’t hand anything in, and blame it on the sluggishness of the U.S. Postal Service.

23. Tell your professor that you’d like to interview him/her for a writing class. Get him/her to tell you his/her life story. Act interested, and write down everything he/she says. Fabricate a few romantic interludes and turn your efforts into a trashy romance novel. Make copies for the entire class, and your professor. Demand extra credit.

24. Draw hearts and flowers on the backs of your papers and tests. Next to them, write things like, “You’re the best, even though you suck” and “You’re the worst professor in the world, but I still love you.”

25. Start asking questions in a fake foreign language. Act like your professor is stupid for not being able to understand you. Get other people in the class to start speaking the fake language too, and have frequent discussions during class. Act like you’re really interested in what you’re discussing. If your professor tries to interrupt or stop you, act annoyed and kick his ass

Enjoy!

Pretty Much a Brand New Bissell

Monday, May 21st, 2007

None of you will find this exciting, but the other day I noticed that my Bissell bagless upright vacuum wasn’t sucking up any of the crap on the floor. Put aside the fact that there is crap on my floor and focus on the issue at hand, folks. I had a broken vacuum.

I immediately started looking for the problem and it turned out that the spinner brush underneath the vacuum wasn’t spinning any more. What a bitch, right? After finding out the problem I went out and started looking for a new machine, figuring that it’s been about 6 years since I bought the current one. Have any of you looked at the prices of good vacuums these days? Geez! I bought my current vacuum for a little under $100 6 years ago when it was top of the line and now it’s considered a mid-grade machine.

This excursion taught me two things. First, good vacuums are expensive. Second, I had a good vacuum that probably deserved a closer look. After getting back home I began dissecting the machine and found that the belt snapped. To make a long story short, I went to Bissell.com, ordered a new belt and some new filters, and fixed the machine today. And (you can guess where I’m going here) it worked like it was a brand new vacuum.

So now I can add vacuum repairman to my long list of skills. And let me say before I go that dealing with Bissell.com was an absolute pleasure. The items were supposed to arrive in 7 - 10 business days from last Thursday and they arrived in about 3 business days. Excellent customer service - Bissell comes from me highly recommended.

The Monmouth County Real Estate Market

Monday, May 21st, 2007

Some of you may know that I’m looking to buy a home in the Monmouth County area of New Jersey. The house hunting experience has given me a new look on some of the people who buy homes around here - and it’s not a good look at them, either.

The big problem with buying a home in this market is that the sellers are just completely out of their mind in terms of pricing. And if this isn’t obvious by the exorbitant and inflated numbers that they are asking, then it is blatantly apparent due to all of the “for sale” signs that are beginning to accumulate around the county. And honestly, I don’t feel bad for the sellers one bit - they deserve to not sell these properties and they deserve to be stuck with the carrying costs (which probably ruin their budgets).

Through various connections and people I know here and there, I’ve been able to acquire some inside information on some of these houses that I’m looking at. For example, there is a condo that I’m looking at where the owner is asking $300 thousand for it. Seems reasonable, right? The thing has been on the market for months and I couldn’t figure out why. Then I was told what the other units in that development were selling for…wow.

The MOST that someone paid for the other units was $239 thousand (and that was at the height of the real estate boom). This smarmy prick was asking for $60 thousand MORE than what the most expensive unit sold for during the height of the boom - and he’s asking for it after the housing market crashed! What a jerk! And I won’t even get into how the $300 unit isn’t “fully equipped” (no refrigerator) while the $239 unit came with all appliances included. If this doesn’t show you how an idiot tries to sell a house, I don’t know what does!

Stories like this abound in the Monmouth County real estate market. It’s sad because the current owners are literally saturating the market with overpriced real estate. Sure, this creates a huge buyer’s market (and believe me, Monmouth County is becoming a buyer’s market), but in the mean time, you have people who want to buy homes but cannot do so because of the owners’ desire to get a huge return on their investment. Someone needs to tell these people (I’ll do it!) that they missed their chance. Real estate booms come in 10 year cycles, the next one will start in a few years so unless they want to hold on to these properties until then, they better start getting their prices out the stratosphere and start real-world negotiations.