Archive for the ‘Trial by Ordeal’ Category

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I started today off by accidentally hitting my face off the door on the way out due to a poorly timed sneeze.

June 9, 2007

Boy did that hurt.

 

 

 

NOTE: For the purposes of this entry “awesome” means “douchey”.

 

Where was I off to, you ask?

To present at my very first conference.

Did I get a black eye?

Not yet, but I suspect it is around the corner.

 

 

When did I realize my shirt was on inside out?

About ½ an hour before I had to present.

 

 

How did it go?

Umm…I have no memory of anything I said or the degree to which I was stumbling over my words. Leaving felt good. To help me slip into denial mode, I tossed on my ipod (playlist: “This is what it would sound like if the 90s threw up”) and walked home reflecting on my presentation…

Come on come on
Feel it feel it
Feel the vibration

I remember feeling nauseated…

It’s such a good vibration
It’s such a sweet sensation

slightly light-headed…

It’s such a good vibration
It’s such a sweet sensation

and that it was awesome that my co-presenter cut me off everytime I was making a point to make that point “better”.

Yo! It’s about that time
To bring forth the rhythm and the rhyme
I’m a get mine so get yours
I wanna see sweat comin’ out your pores

Then I hit up the grocery store, nearly having a nervous breakdown when phylis – 1 L 1 S – accidently put the cherries in as fucking avacados and proceeded to discuss how the difference was only a couple of cents so it didn’t matter. You know what Phylis? It does matter. That’s how the fucking grocery store orders in food. Now there are going to be like, way way too many avacadoes and far too few cherries to go around. And some kid with diabetes who likes cherries is going to die when his insulin is low and all he can reach for are some unrippened avacadoes. How do you feel about having that on your head, Phylis?

On the house tip is how I’m swingin’ this
Strictly Hip-Hop boy, I ain’t singin’ this
Bringing this to the entire nation
Black, white, red, brown
Feel the vibration

Anyways, overall I think it went OK.

And that I may or may not have an ulcer.

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Sumoology

January 3, 2007

Although the suffix “ology” tends to denote a field of study or academic discipline, “Sumoology” [pronounced. SSS - EW- MO – OLOGY] surprisingly does not just speak to the study of sumo wrestling in general – it also concerns a means of academic debate.

This week at work, we discussed having two academics from diametrically opposed disciplines come into the department to present and elucidate opposing sides to an ongoing argument: does deterrence work?

Unfortunately, the disciplines are at an impasse.

Fortunately, sumoology allows academics to push through the impasses – old school style – via a trial by ordeal.

As we are no longer allowed to test the viability of knowledge through the clash of steel upon steel (sword fights and what not) sumoology was developed to permit academics stuck at an impasse to decide who is, indeed, right.

Sumoology

Basically, each academic is placed in a giant sumo suit, and permitted to go at it until one is the clear victor, as per the rules of this ancient, and respected Japanese tradition.

 

Shout out to Channz who coined “Sumoology” on this auspicious day.