Hey all, welcome Marc Chapman to the AIESEC Blogging community!  As another PPP blogger, I'm sure he will entertain and amaze you!  Good luck & Congratulations buddy, and let me know if you need any help. 

So i just finished my second drunk dial from Becky and Krystal.  Damn... NYC just don't KNOW!  Serious trouble, and I'm not there to see it.  I hope to get the videotape of them making out, and that NYC survives them going out again tomorrow.

Krystal I hope you really do love me, or want to marry me, or want to do naughty naughty things all night long.  whichever works... And if you want to stop in Indiana when you come back from Tunisia, I'll play the nice guy till I get you DRUNK!  LoL  And no... I don't love Heather, but I do really like her.  Until one of you have me chained to an alter that is... ;)

Whatever.  You girls rock.  I totally miss you both (even though I've never met Krystal).  I wish I could be there... but since i'm not, make some trouble for me.

Back to my hammock to dream of naught naughty things under the stars.

Somewhat related... I've just had a realization about why there are SO MANY DATING SHOWS on TV. In previous generations, your world was small. In our generation, our world is pretty large. Currently we encounter so many people, our choices for a mate are far more extensive. Previously, you only had to worry if your true love was around the corner, or in the next town. Personally, I sometimes wonder which country she's going to be from. And so, we have a lot of shows which work to bring diverse people together.

I think as a generation, we're more afraid we're not going to meet our true love than previous generations. And so... we're a little more risky, a little more fascinated with love stories, a little more... promiscuous as we try to find something that seems easier for previous generations. it's a fear that grows as we see failed more maraiges and relationships around us.

Blogging from the welcome/culture prep session of our new Mexicano family!  Just gave them a tour around purdue's campus.  We looked at buildings, made a few jokes, looked at squirrels and bunnies, ate ice cream, played in fountains, etc... very fun

Now we're talking about AIESEC, culture and everything else...  a little slower with translation but maybe more meaningful... more later!..

TOM SMITH

AND HIS INCREDIBLE BREAD MACHINE

by R.W. Grant

• The way to make bread he’d conceived
• Cost less that people could believe.
• And not just Make it!  This device
• Could, in addition, wrap and slice!
• The price per loaf, one loaf or many:
• The minuscule sum of under a penny.

• Can you imagine what this meant?
• Can you imagine the consequent?
• The first yet the world well fed!
• And all because of Tom Smith’s bread.

• A citation from the President
• For Smith’s amazing bread.
• This and other honors too
• Were heaped upon his head.

• But isn’t it a wondrous thing
• How quickly fame is flown?
• Smith, the hero of today -
• Tomorrow, scarcely known.

• Yes, the fickle years passed by;
• Smith was a millionaire,
• But Smith himself was now forgot -
• Though bread was everywhere.
• People, asked from where it came,
• Would very seldom know.
• They would simply eat and ask,
• “Was it not always so?”

• However, Smith cared not a bit,
• For millions ate his bread,
• And “Everything is fine,” thought he,
• “I am rich and they are fed!”

• Everything was fine, he thought?
• He reckoned not with fate.
• Note the sequence of events
• Starting on the date
• On which the business tax went up.
• Then, to a slight extent,
• The price on every loaf rose too:
• Up to one full cent!

• “What’s going on?” the public cried,
• “He’s guilty of pure plunder.
• He has no right to get so rich
• On other people’s hunger!”

• (A prize cartoon depicted Smith
• With fat and drooping jowls
• Snatching bread from hungry babes
• Indifferent to their howls!)

• Well, since the Public does come first,
• It could not be denied
• That in matters such as this,
• The public must decide.
• So, antitrust took a hand.
• Of course, it was appalled
• At what it found was going on.
• The “bread trust” it was called.

• Now this was getting serious.
• So Smith felt that he must
• Have a friendly interview
• With the men of the antitrust.
• So, with hat in hand, he went to them.
• They’d surely been misled;
• No rule of law had he defied.
• But then their lawyer said:

• “The rule of law, in complex times,
• Has proved itself deficient.
• We much prefer the rule of men!
• It’s vastly more efficient.
• Now, let me state the present rules,”

• The lawyer then went on,
• “These very simple guidelines
• You can rely upon:
• You’re gouging on you prices if
• You charge more than the rest.
• But it’s unfair competition
• If you think you can charge less.

• “A second point that we would make
• To help avoid confusion:
• Don’t try to charge the same amount:
• That would be collusion!
• You must compete.  But not too much,
• For if you do, you see,
• Then the market would be yours -
• And that’s monopoly!”

• Price too high?  Or price too low?
• Now, which charge did they make?
• Well, they weren’t loath to charging both
• With Public Good at stake!

• In fact, they went one better -
• They charged “monopoly!”
• No muss, no fuss, oh woe is us,
• Egad, they charge all three!

• “Five years in jail,”  the judge then said.
• “You’re lucky it’s not worse.
• Robber Barons must be taught
• Society Comes First!”

• Now, bread is baked by government.
• And as might be expected,
• Everything is well controlled;
• The public well protected.

• True, loaves cost a dollar each.
• But our leaders do their best.
• The selling price is half a cent.
• (Taxes pay the rest!)

"I don't use the phrase, 'better than jesus' often, but..." -- Mike

LOL... so checking my Referers, i learned that somebody found me by searching for 'Penis Package.' Thinking of PPP or the Purdue Penis Package, i could see how i'd be indexed under that search. But where does my penis rate on the different search engines?

• Google -- #?? (I was listed #17 last night... but now? nothing.)
• AllTheWeb -- #28
• Lycos -- #27
• AOL -- #23
• Excite -- #18
• Yahoo -- #17
• Webcrawler -- #10, #16, #20, #21
• MetaCrawler -- #10
• DogPile -- #3
• ASK Jeeves -- #2
• MSN -- #1 & #3
• hotbot -- #1 & #2

nice little lyric from face to face to start off the blog...

anyway, the randomness that is my life...

• was woken up at 1am last night by the police.  mom hadn't talked to me in a week.  decided to get my ''attention.'' whoah.  jittery for hours.  couldn't sleep.  in the words of jeff... "WHO DOES THAT?!"
• slept on my hammock out on the deck a few times.  who knew the hum of airconditioners could be so peaceful?.. nice view of the stars though
• alicia & steph were worried about me too.  whoops.  last time i forget my laptop and phone in a friend's car for a few days.
• managed to miss a meeting on tuesday.
• got a phone call in the office today from a girl who grew up in indiana, but goes to ASU.  but since she couldn't contact @ASU to find out about being an SN decided to call Purdue instead.  riight.  talked to her, and gave her the only ASU contacts i could find, sopan & Krystal's email addy's.  and if that doesn't work, she'll be an SN for Purdue... PBTHTHTHTHTHTHTHTHTHTHTHTHTH  ... ASU wouldn't want her, she sounded cute... ;)  'course i'll feel like a fool, if ASU was just calling to screw with me...
• done some conference stuff today... blah blah blah
• gonna schlep concrete for my brother in law on friday - help him finish the bathroom he's building.  i schlep real good.  i hope he doesn't have me do grout work.  i did it a few times while working for a construction contractor... and it sucks
• ali from UT wants to vent about INS.  since Kait is my registration gal, and has the title of INS, he's going to take it out on her
• rachel from Eau Claire is coming down on Saturday

My heart goes out for you Krystal. sorry things suck, but i'm glad you sound happier in your most recent entry.  you can add me to your list of people to call and talk to if you want.  i know how to listen real good.

So... apparently i'm a huge geek.  Mike suprised me last night with an invitation to go to his home in Michigan City, Indiana.  Last minute thing at 1am... Cool... now listen carefully, cuz this is when i go supernerd.  I pack up my wireless network and accessories, and a few games.

Who brings this stuff with them?.. I do.  LoL so Mike, his brother Alex and I are going to be playing 3 person half life, warcraft III and jedi outcast... pure insanity.  i love it.

jedi outcast is why i haven't been blogging.  I got it a week ago tomorrow, and have been working really hard to beat it.  i'm damn close.  oh, had a final last thursday... it was tough to balance gaming, and studying.

i met Mike's friend jasmine last night... very cute, i can see why he's so smitten.  we let her swing in the hammock under the tiki torches while we cooked... jazz played in the back ground... took the table outside to eat, drink wine and light fireworks.  (I love you Katie!!!!!!  Those were so awesome!)

happy blogging, and live it up...

• "As soon as you're born you start dying, so you might as well have a good time" 
• Cake - sheep go to heaven

"For all the time i waste on a life i'll never have

could have made myself into a better man"

      -Toad the Wet Sprocket

Ummmm... got no sleep last night.  just couldn't do it.  left  the apartment this morning for carbohydrates and caffiene, ended up with a flat tire... i have an exam in 45 minutes, and i'm poop for brains.
Posted by BG on 6/5/03; 12:08:51 PM

i figure you guys would enjoy a different perspective from a latina from the desert:>  and if not, there's a world of other bloggers that have awesome perspectives and lives...let me tell you i know too much about people i've never met, but i like it...like Brian, never met him, but the recent weblog was giggly funny, that and i'm delusion from doing sooooo much...i love it...

Uh... right.  thanks for the love Krystal... of course now i'm wondering what else she knows about me... ;)  but... giggly funny?  n/m, you must have some delusions going on... =P

cooked my awesome tortellini soup for Mike tonight.  Comfort food, cuz he may have screwed up his second interview with a company... in the middle of that, got notice, paul is signing the hotel contract for Salt Lake City, Utah tomorrow morning!..  about frigging time...

while telling my oc, and starting my 'call everybody in the world, and yell it from the mountain tops' plan... Cindy calls and invites me down to indy go bowling with her, knapik and curtis (AJ's circle of friends),  Since Mike was down, we clean up and leave.  as we pull into the parking lot, we come to find that they were done bowling, and end up going to a nearby bar to talk. 

there was that little bit of initial weirdness of dealing with somebody you used to love.. but we got over it well enough, we're still friends on some level.  i asked her if she found my weblog, but it wasn't her.  just PURE coincidence.  but if she finds it now... happy reading.  she seems to be doing well... just finished her masters, and is working to finish her Ph.D. IN MATHEMATICS... It always was a little intimidating dating somebody who's intelligence FAR outstripped my own.  though i appreciate that she never rubbed it in my face, or dumbed things down for me.

anyway, we talked as a group, and as individuals, and yatta yatta yatta... giggly funny?  still trying to figure that out.  but i appreciate your interest.  i've been meaning to reply to your email, just been a very lazy bum lately.   ooooh speaking of... Dima, thanks for the love, and i'll be replying to you very soon also...

Celeste, it was great to talk to you tonight too... thanks for understanding my pain, and giving me sooo much support.  glad you're working hard, and learning lots... hope you can come out for conference...

OK all, the land of sleep is calling my name... hope you found sweet dreams of your own...

happy blogging,

     -BG

So as i was getting home from the gym this afternoon, I recived an IM from an old girlfriend wishing me a belated birthday.  We parted amicably, and take a vague interest in each other's lives.  As we were chatting, I learned she was in Indy, and we talked briefly about meeting.  I suggested Yats, the cajun/creole place in Broadripple.

I just signed on and looked at my refers, and saw somebody found my weblog by searching for "Yats Broad Ripple."  go figure.

So, Cindy, if you're out there... Wave, and say ''hi'' to everybody.  ;)

Other Google weirdness... Mark Wukas emailed me today.  He was the editor of the book 'The Thing About Love is..." where i got Freyda Libman poem, 'Lady Moon.'  I can tell from the referers that he 'googled' himself, and found my blog.