Monthly Archives: November 2005

Who gives a damn if Sufjan Stevens is gay? part 1

Posted on November 27, 2005 by gloom

Apparently, a lot of people do. According to Measure Map and Google Analytics, approximately half of visitors get here by searching some variation of “sufjan stevens gay.” This got me wondering: why do people care if Sufjan Stevens is gay, … Continue reading →

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Overheard in the Toronto Urban Outfitters

Posted on November 20, 2005 by gloom

“I get a boner just looking at this pants.”

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School of CS sells naming right to a real m***f*er

Posted on November 20, 2005 by gloom

It appears naming right to UW School of CS has been sold to a certain Dr. David R. Cheriton of Stanford, California for a meager $25 million. (According to the press release, the lowly undergraduates, as usual, will never see … Continue reading →

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New major funding for CS?

Posted on November 15, 2005 by gloom

From a MathSoc spam important announcement sent out earlier today: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ David Johnston, President, University of Waterloo, Thomas F. Coleman, Dean, Faculty of Mathematics, and Johnny Wong, Director, School of Computer Science invite you to attend a major gift announcement … Continue reading →

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How do people get here?

Posted on November 13, 2005 by gloom

According to my beloved Measure Map tracker, the following keywords are bringing in the most visitors to this blog: “maya rudolph’s baby,” “tokion,” “sufjan stevens gay,” “is isaac brock gay?” and “michael ian black gay.” Well, my curious visitors, here’s … Continue reading →

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I heart Amazon Mechanical Turk

Posted on November 11, 2005 by gloom

Now, when I can’t go to sleep because of heavy caffeine consumption, instead of playing minesweeper, I can make money (albeit about dollar an hour at most).

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UW off-campus housing mapper

Posted on November 5, 2005 by gloom

Finally something that’s kinda useful on this blog. University of Waterloo off-campus housing mapper, brought to you by me.

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Measure Map is depressing

Posted on November 4, 2005 by gloom

According to Measure Map (and awstats log analyzer), only 12 out of 130 or so visitors I had in the last three days were not search engine robots. Uhh, and three of those 12 were me. I feel so alone.