It’s great to be back in Vienna. I hadn’t even been in Vienna for 12 hours before I was already on my way to a great night out (photos here). Vienna is just so great… The bars are hassle-free, as are the girls. No one cares about what care you drive, what house you’re in…
Last Night of Capitalism
I enjoyed my last night of living in an ultra-capitalistic society Sunday night, when I went to my local 24-hour Wal-Mart Supercenter at ten at night to buy cheap stuff. Nothing like buying 250 aspirins for $1.99! Now that I’m back in Austria, I have to go to a small-ass store that’s never open (only…
Packing Hell
As expected, moving out of my apartment was hell. I just have way too much junk, it’s incredibly ridiculous. It took me two fully-packed rides home to get it all home, and hours upon hours of packing. What makes matters worse is that my “packing” wasn’t even real packing, just throwing stuff in boxes. And…
A Night of Kazakhstan
I drove home today to get some peace and quiet so that I can work on my take-home final for my Introduction to Human Rights class, which is to write a draft about the human rights issue in a country we were assigned, in my case Kazakhstan. The problem is that I keep getting conflicting…
My Saturn Becomes a Ferrari… For Ten Minutes
These pieces of paper caused a lot of sweat Thursday I finally got my tickets for my stay in Vienna this summer, thanks to my mom, who managed to get me nonstop transatlantic flights using my frequent flier miles. She called me in the morning saying I’d have to pick up the tickets from the…
Is Syracuse Neverland? Part II
Human Inefficiencies, Snoop Dogg, Feet
I was just thinking about how inefficient human beings are today. Especially the whole college system is a mess. This fact dawned on me tonight while back-archiving old weblog entries. During the summer I’ll do nothing at all, but right now I have to work my ass off on a daily basis. Tonight I’ll be…
Added “On This Day” Plug-In
I finally finished installing the pretty neat “On This Day” plug-in for Movable Type by Brad Choate. The plug-in itself was really easy to install, but I had trouble getting this main index to automatically rebuild itself every day so that it would always be up-to-date. I ended up using the “MT-Rebuild” script by Timothy…
Depressing Weblog
This past hour I got the “great” idea of back-archiving some of my old weblog entires that haven’t made it to this site yet. I started webloging in December 2000 while at home in Vestal, New York for Christmas Break. This weblog is probably one of my favorite parts of my “web conglomerate,” but reading…
Is Syracuse Neverland?
Today I read a quite funny article by Jeff Kramer, who writes a weekly humor column in the Post-Standard. This week he compared Syracuse to Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch, and managed to find over a dozen similarities. Is Syracuse just another Neverland? This past week Syracuse Police began teaming up with the Onondaga County Sheriff’s…