Posted
Sun, 01 May 2005 16:28:30 GMT
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So…. for those who haven’t heard/been told/figured it out, my post regarding my implant being broken was a lie, a sham, a fraud. Why, however, would I do an awful joke like that?
Well, to make a long story short, a group of my friends got together and decided to play an elaborate prank with all their blogs, staging a huge fight and generating many scathing comments.
Due to experience and intuition, I realized that this was a joke. Please note that me realizing that something is a joke, and letting someone get away with it are two VERY different things. So I concoted that post and watched what happened.
One person actually asked what the freak accident was. Unfortunatly, the first thing that popped into my head was a story of how I narrowly avoided being hit by a speeding vehicle, damaging my implant in the process (sorry I had to tell you that by the way).
So yeah, I showed up at a party on Friday, had my implant in my pocket, but not actually wearing it. I spent the first 30 minutes or so reading everyone’s lips. After that, I went into the kitchen, poured a drink, and then put my implant back on. No one commented on this transition, so as far as I know, no one caught on.
The joke continued into the next day, when I showed up at the CS building to help with an event. James Bowes came up to me and asked, very slowly, “Are you in lip reading mode now?” A little hungover, it took me a second to figure out what he was talking about, and then I laughed and explained the whole thing. He thought it was funny.
I apologize to anyone who is offended by this, but hey, I could have kept this under my hat and waited until like a 10 year reunion.
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Posted
Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:26:58 GMT
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Due to a freak accident, part of my implant is broken. Better yet, it happened after the offices I would call closed down. Due to the fact that parts come from AUSTRALIA of all places (I shit you not), it has taken parts up to two weeks to arrive before. That’s right, 2 weeks of deafness.
Not that it really matters I suppose, since everyone seems to be fighting.
First some of my best friends leave the city, and then the rest start fighting? Sounds like Ontario all over again. At the very least, this time I know I have prospects for employment in the states, instead of blindly trusting my senses and uprooting myself 3 provinces over.
Something to apply myself towards I suppose.
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Posted
Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:10:34 GMT
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Tags humor
- Take over the new ‘Management’ Building next door once it is complete. It’s taller than ours and the management faculty is obviously not as important as us.
- Turn the current CS Building into an Urban Paintball field to generate revenue. I mean, think about how awesome it would be to do Couterstrike like missions with paintball guns in the CS Building.
- What about the management students? Well, they’ve gotten used to the management building already. What’s a few more years taking classes there?
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Posted
Thu, 02 Dec 2004 21:21:24 GMT
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Tags humor, music
One of the reason some of my friends are so awesome is that one of us will have a crazy idea, and run with it. Maybe not in reality, but in a big long discussion on what we would end up doing.
Today, the following was thought up:
Starting up a nerd-punk band with a name like “Iain and the Stooges” (help desk individuals would understand). Which has evolved into me being singer/songwriter, my friend Jon (not you Despry) as guitarist, and other individuals of tech support filling additional spaces. We figure, there is so much BAD punk out there, that we couldn’t really do any worse.
I’m getting ideas again… and we all know what that means…
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