Picture a Saturday in late August 2004: Groups of frosh are arriving in the coolest city in southwestern Connecticut to begin a four-year slog through the best university in the world. In glorious Vanderbilt Hall, Aaron and Danny spend the day pushing their beds closer together, Paul has our entire suite smelling like it just spent six weeks on the Appalachian Trail, and Brian is artfully dodging chairs tossed by an enraged caveman.
It's a tough day for us fresh-faced youngsters, what with the stress of moving in, dealing with parents for the last time in a while, fretting about orientation and shopping period. But leave it to New Haven to find a way to get us all together, stress-free, for our first evening together: Isaac Hayes in concert on the Green.
Isaac Hayes died Sunday at age 65. Although this first outing wasn't the best thing ever to happen in college, or even the best concert, it was the first thing that got us all out of our new rooms and chatting like roommates, or, dare I say, friends, after just a few hours. We found common ground in a love of South Park and good music—especially the "Shaft" theme song, which would later decorate a pivotal scene in the groundbreaking "Van Hellsing" series.
I didn't know Isaac Hayes personally, of course, but I want to thank him for that experience. I want to thank him for being the first of many things we shared as friends in New Haven, and for giving us a great start to our Yale careers, on that humid Saturday in August 2004.
Requiescat in pace.
Cyberdyne, the original creators of Skynet, is actually a real company based in Nippon.
Wow. I just heard the single that will be the lead song on the album. Sound hasn't changed much, but it sounded different enough from Operation Ground and Pound that I looked at my slacker player to discover it was called "Heroes of Our Time." I have not yet seen the music video, but I will guess it sucks like all fantasy metal videos, sadly.
That's how much a high bidder in Japan paid for 1.5 lbs of some premium fruit. That's about ten times as much as the most popular premium variety sold there, which goes for $90 a bunch.
Picture a Saturday in late August 2004: Groups of frosh are arriving in the coolest city in southwestern Connecticut to begin a four-year slog through the best university in the world. In glorious Vanderbilt Hall, Aaron and Danny spend the day pushing their beds closer together, Paul has our entire suite smelling like it just spent six weeks on the Appalachian Trail, and Brian is artfully dodging chairs tossed by an enraged caveman.
This article reads like it was straight out of The Onion, but somehow it's true. Apparently microwave popcorn mishaps have caused enough evacuations from municipal buildings that Seattle is considering banning the snack altogether. I love the line "Popcorn is not the easiest thing to cook" and the use of the phrase "illicit popping." It's good to know that our best and brightest are getting things done and tackling the real issues in local government!
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