The Agrinautica

   Today I swore-in my fourth ASUCD President & Vice President. There seems to be severe inflation of farewell speeches. Once upon a time they were held in the Mee Room, where Senate takes place -- a room rated for 50 people. Then it moved to the East Conference Room (rated for 80). Sara Henry held her farewells in MU II (150). Then Gallagher moved it off to the Cabernet Room of the Silo, and now Assagai had his farewell speech in the ARC Ballrooms, rated at 400 people.
   Also it was hellof catered. Y'all should have come for the food.. after all, you paid for it (well in one way or another through either ASUCD fees, state subsidies or federal subsidies, all of you except maybe ashael)


   Yesterday Phi Alpha Delta had a mock trial. I was a defence lawyer. The judge was the president of the Davis mock trial team (and a member of Phi Alpha Delta), John Wheat. The defendant was accused of kidnapping Bailey. I was rather anxious since I've never done mock trial before (and no one got back to me on what part of it exactly I'd be handling until the trial had actually started), but afterwords my cross-examination was one of two actions that Judge Wheat announced as particularly good (despite the fact I only discovered I'd mostly lost my voice when I began the cross-examination! (I've been a wee bit sick))
   Prosecution couldn't seem to get over the fact that Defendant Ms Tyler Perry has a wife (apparently same-sex marriage is legal in the state of Midlands). Prosecutor Sohaib invented some awesome new objections though, such as "Objection: Ridiculous!!" "Objection: Flattery!" and (against me) "Objection: badgering a child!"

   Also yesterday, I bought a dozen doughnuts. Over the course of 24 hours, I ate three, flatmate Vishal ate 1, & flatmate Jason ate eight.
   Now to some people this is self evident, but to others it is an utter mystery. Lest any of my readers accidently be "that roommate:" (1) generally, even if you have somewhat of an agreement to share food, you probably should not eat more than half of a particular thing of your roommate's. (2) Additionally, you probably should not either be the first to open or start eating something of your roommates, and (3) neither shalt thou eateth the last of a given something of your roommate's.


In other news: I've had to wear a suit for one reason or another every day for over two weeks now. d=


Previously on Emosnail
   Three Years Ago Last Tuesday: Kristy Visits - Kristy comes over for the first time, makes me sign up for classes.
   Three Years Ago Yesterday: Memes Say I Like Grey - Its true.
   Three Years Ago Today: Sachipalooza I - This was back in the golden age of parties at the List house.

   So one fine day on Daviswiki, contention erupted over the shadiness factor of Campus Crusade for Christ. To help solve this controversy, Emosnail staff benevolently volunteered to do some polling on the subject, but in response noted local Republican George Andrews stated "having Fricke do a poll on Campus Crusade in EMOSNAIL is like having me do a poll on Nathan Thomas/Black Caesar/Dan Beeman Approval ratings among DCR members."
   We then posted polls both here and on the UC Davis community (ucdaivs). Ostensibly this was to ascertain the shadiness factor of CCC, but really we're just using jedi mind tricks to make you think thats our motive -- the true motive was to show that CCC would get a higher shadiness rating from the UC Davis lj community than from the readers of this livejournal (the postings were exactly identical).
   At this point, more than 18 hours after the polls began, and with 60 responses: the ucdavis community has rated Campus Crusade for Christ at a shadiness factor of 7.14, while the emosnail readership has rated it at 6.33. Clearly Emosnail does not foster antireligious mentalities.


Resistentialism
   The other day my browser (mozilla) inexplicably crashed and when it came back up, all my bookmarks had been lost. I find this very aggravating because I had quite a few things that I regularly used bookmarked. I miss the most-recent-pictures-updated-to-livejournal webpage that I haven't been able to find again. )=
   Last night apartment-mate wdsguy came home from LA, where he spends the week steeped in the adult entertainment industry (you think I'm kidding), and promptly unplugged my internet and went to bed -- presumably without actually realizing I needed it (we don't have a router because I live in a cave so only one of us can be connected at a time). So I spent the rest of the night in the computer lounge working on my paper. When I returned in the morning I was plugged in again but our internet was down, appeared to be a problem with our service-provider. When it finally came up trillian (my AIM client) crashed and burned horribly. When I was finally able to get it up again all my friends groups had been eliminated, so I now have 435 people all in one big group. I promptly created the missing groups and garnered a small amount of satisfaction sending some people to the gulag (my friends-list category of that name anyway). I believe resistentialism is taking root in my computer. Either that or its developing bovine spongeform encephalitis ("mad cow disease").


The Order of Trogdor
   EMOSNAIL is proud to present Daviswiki creator Philip Neustrom with our highest honour, the Order of Trogdor:

   Neustrom is seen here receiving the prestigious medal in the traditional ceremony. (with the medal on)
   Neustrom has exemplified the most admirable interests in promoting community understanding, combined with illustrious competence in creating the Daviswiki and making the wonder that it is today.
   Truly, if there is anyone who deserves to be on Davis Mount Rushmore, it is Phil (incidently I've never heard of four of the five people listed there).*

Weekly ASUCD Shadiness Rating
   We're overdue for the weekly ASUCD shadiness rating. Since last polling, ASUCD went ahead and passed unanimously the legislation preventing members of the ASUCD judiciary from authoring legislation, and Kalen Gallagher was replaced as President by Caliph Assagai and Darnell Holloway (but not before Gallagher characterized choice voting as a disease he would squash). Here's an Aggie article on the recent adventures of ASUCD.
[Poll #457889]

Daviswiki Entry of the Day: Magic Items of Davis


Shady Quote of the Day:
PrzemekP: true, but if it's possible, have him hold off, like I said, the worst possible for her would be her nominating herself
PrzemekP: haha, or better yet, if Fricke does it!
amazonjedimaster: you have enough pull with fricke
amazonjedimaster: have him do it
amazonjedimaster: have fricke nominate her first
PrzemekP: I'll see what I can do
PrzemekP: but there is a part of me that thinks Fricke might vote for Veronica
amazonjedimaster: because if you want the worst person to nominate .... fricke is that person
PrzemekP: true
amazonjedimaster: janet and i made it clear to centian people that we hate kris
amazonjedimaster: with a passion
amazonjedimaster: some of them are peons at berkely
PrzemekP: yeah, but like I said, a part of me feels Fricke might vote Veronica
amazonjedimaster: you think nomiating gena will change how he votes?


Year Ago Today: Ice Cream Sandwich Cravings - & rooommate Jill asks us sausage themed questions for her lover.

*if someone wants to use the above picture to make it look like Phil (& Amie) are on the real Mount Rushmore I think that would be ridiculously funny, and um, I'll buy you a twinkie.