How We Didn’t Date Each Other September 2, 2010
Posted by Sina in : Daily , add a commentAn isomorphic copy of my summer.
She & Him August 27, 2010
Posted by Sina in : Daily , add a commentSina: So the problem is that it’s going to get better, which according to you means it’ll get worse?
Gamma: Mmmm. Yes.
Sina: Hmmm. Alright.
Gamma: I’m glad you understand.
Sina: Oh yeah, of course. But enough of that, on to more interesting stuff. Hey did you know that arts majors can’t understand simple paradoxes?
Gamma: what? noooo…..
Sina: yes! I have original first-hand research that clearly demonstrates a strong correlation and, as I argue, causation between liberal arts students and an inability to detect simple illogicies. Here I have the analysis right here — look.
Gamma: Hmmmm. well your methodology is rock solid, but I actually see that as a weakness that refutes your claim.
Sina: Exactly!
My job description August 22, 2010
Posted by Sina in : Daily , add a commentI’m reading Nineteen Eighty-Four at the moment, and the main character Winston seems to be really good at describing his job my job:
Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in their rectified version. A great deal of the time you were expected to make them up out of your head. For example, the Ministry of Plenty’s forecast had estimated the output of boots for the quarter at 145 million pairs. The actual output was given as sixty-two millions. Winston, however, in rewriting the forecast, marked the figure down to fifty-seven millions, so as to allow for the usual claim that the quota had been overfulfilled. In any case, sixty-two millions was no nearer the truth than fifty-seven millions, or than 145 millions. Very likely no boots had been produced at all. Likelier still, nobody knew how many had been produced, much less cared. All one knew was that every quarter astronomical numbers of boots were produced on paper, while perhaps half the population of Oceania went barefoot.
Now reread the paragraph and just replace “Plenty” with “Finance”, “boots” with “jobs”, “Winston” with “Sina”, and “Oceania” with “Ontario”.
Our heroes plan their unlikely escape August 16, 2010
Posted by Sina in : Daily , 1 comment so farMeanwhile, somewhere in Korea…
George: yo we bitch slapped jetlag
Sina: damn right we did
George: hopefully we’ll bitchslap jetlag on the way back too
Sina: fuck that. I’m gonna skull-fuck jetlag on the way back.
George: hahaha….skull fuck jetlag. I think you’re the first person to ever use the word skull-fuck to describe jetlag.
Sina: you think?
George: you should add that to urban dictionary
And so I tried, but stupid urban dictionary rejected my definition. Their email below.
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Urban Dictionary
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skull fuck jetlag
To travel to a far away land and not feel the effects of jetlag while going there or coming back.
You: Yo guy, I hope we bitch slap jetlag on the way back from our trip.
Friend: fuck that. we’re gonna skull fuck jetlag on the way back.
In the beginning was the command line… August 9, 2010
Posted by Sina in : Daily , add a commentHave I ever told you about the smartest man in Babylon? (via Abstruse Goose)
Updates and other tales from the crypt August 8, 2010
Posted by Sina in : Daily , add a commentI’ve been deathly sick for the last 2.5 weeks since returning from Vietnam and thus not at my computer doing computer things. So here are some quick updates:
- I still have some things about my travels that I’ve been meaning post!
- honest to god, who says no to an invitation to a beer festival?
- I won cash for life!
- drinking when you literally haven’t eaten anything all day is not only a bad idea, it’s the worst idea you’ve ever had. twice.
- treasure hunting is really one of the funnest things ever.
- things are coming together.
- when I say freedom always wins, I’m not telling you my opinion. I’m stating a law of the universe.
- I read a lot of news.
Freedom. No exceptions. August 8, 2010
Posted by Sina in : Daily , add a commentRespek to my main man Fareed Zakaria for having the courage to do the right thing. Although, I feel he gives the modern ADL too much credit. Fareed talks more about building a mosque at ground zero and freedom of religion here.
Our media needs more courage these days.
So pathetic July 16, 2010
Posted by Sina in : Daily , add a commentThe government here in Veitnam is blocking Facebook.
I didn’t really care to use it, but it’s really bugging me now that I can’t.
When will these oppressive governments learn?
Same same July 15, 2010
Posted by Sina in : Daily , add a commentProbably my last update.
- I love the unexpected hiccups that pop up when travelling
- the pho I had on my first night in Vietnam is going to haunt me the rest of my life. (“that’s not dramatic at all.” “fuck you george, it’s going to haunt me forever.”)
- Ho Chi Minh City is so damn filthy
- I still prefer the name Saigon
- motor bikes everywhere. and crazy traffic, but that makes jaywalking a lot of fun.
- shuttle cock in the main square with locals? damn right.
- An Hoi is not as bizarro as I would’ve liked
- I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, biking is the best way to explore
- custom made suits and shoes is pretty bad ass
- I am not looking forward to my interviews upon my return.
More on my travels.
Or at least Rock Stars July 9, 2010
Posted by Sina in : Daily , add a commentMy parents arrived in Thailand with three kids, stayed a year, and then left to Canada with four kids. That was in 1984. For the first time ever, I can sorta see what their life was like during that year.
What I’m basically saying is my parents are super stars.