The reason I came back for the two days of this week was because I had a presentation I had to give on Monday morning in my Communications class. Seeing as I needed a good grade on this to help my overall grade in the class, I knew it would not be an “optional” attendance day.

I showed up a few minutes late to the class to find him already in sort of a lecture. I didn’t intend on being late, but I was unable to board the first shuttle as it had filled just before I got on. My presentation was ready, but he decided to have me put it off until the end of class. After having me wait for most of the class as he seemed to ramble I was finally given a short period of time to present my article to the class. It seemed to go well, but I was unable to entertain any questions from the class, something that other students had the opportunity to do. Too bad.

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On Friday Night Eoban was coming home from Indiana University and, since his route goes somewhat close to Loyola, I decided to go up to Milwaukee for the weekend. It was an uneventful weekend I guess. When I arrived on Friday Night I mostly spent the time with my sister Samantha’s new 12″ Powerbook. She just got it and I found myself glued to OS X and its ease of use and power. I never knew that the “applications” on OS X were actually packages that contained multiple files inside of them that could even be modified if desired.

When I woke up the next day I went to lunch with my mother, other sister, and brother to meet up with some extended family. The rest of the afternoon was spent on the Powerbook, finding new and amusing things to do with OS X.

Later that night I went to the Marquette basketball game with Ryan Alexander. It was fun seeing Ryan again, especially now that I was an annoying college student instead of an annoying high school student. He seemed in good spirits, until Marquette got their ass kicked by Winthrop. We went back to watch the first half of the USC football game, during which time USC started doing poorly. He took me back home at halftime and when he got back, USC started doing well.

I woke up Sunday Morning to find that I had deleted a good amount of my sister’s data from her Powerbook. I felt horrid at the time, but all was not lost. The data she absolutely NEEDED to keep she has backed up. I offered to have Eoban use one of his disk-recovery tools to see what else I could salvage, but she said that it was unnecessary. On Sunday Afternoon I left for Chicago at 1:00PM and got back to my dorm at approximately 4PM. It was a fun weekend.

Session Start (CatalanoNick:Eoban Binder): Mon Nov 21 15:53:10 2005
[15:54] CatalanoNick: alright… I’m going to send the CEO of General Motors a cookie for being paid $4 million a year for many years and still having to fire 30,000 people because they never thought of the long-term reprocussions of focusing on SUVs
[15:54] Eoban Binder: uh huh.
[15:55] CatalanoNick: “Congrats. You get to keep your 4 million a year. Have a cookie”
[15:55] CatalanoNick: will you have your 550
[15:55] CatalanoNick: ?
[15:55] CatalanoNick: I can take photos of this
[15:55] Eoban Binder: lol
[15:55] CatalanoNick: and it has to be a homemade cookie… so we have to take pictures of me making the cookie
[15:56] CatalanoNick: I should buy the domain name “GeneralMotorsCookie.com”
[15:56] Eoban Binder: i dont know, dude, what do you think
[15:57] CatalanoNick: I think it may get me on boingboing.net
[15:58] Eoban Binder: when cookie monster takes over the world and we’re all forced to speak cookie monsterish, and GM has to change their name to GM, Cookie instead of GM corporation, because ‘cookie’ happens to be the translation in cookie monsterish for ‘corporation’ (as well as a high number of other words), and then GM has to buy the generalmotorscookie.com from you for a rather high amount of money–i mean, cookies–then i suppose you will be able to consider the original purchase of the domain to have been a good idea.

One of the best Jeopardy question ever. Requires some knowledge of World of Warcraft.

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NPR has a 21 minute story narrated by a man who, as a boy, fell victim to psychiatrist Walter Freeman and his rapid ice-pick lobotomies. You can Stream or Download. Just listen.

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