The Daily Adventures of Mercat

If you watched Hawaii Five-0 tonight and saw a red-headed girl in the photos in the house they raided, that is my good friend Kim. :D

Have you seen this article about the college essay writer? It's so fucking depressing, on so many counts. That these students are okay with it. That the school isn't catching them. That they're so inept in the first place, and getting no real help. That entitled people are just paying their way to a degree. My only recompense is that they likely won't be able to get or hold onto the jobs they think they deserve, which is actually sad for the people who have just been forgotten and pushed through the system. ANYWAY. Poor ethics piss me off and if I ever meet a person who admits to using a service like that I... will no longer be friends with them. And will probably be paranoid. (An easy solution though, honestly? It looks as if these teachers just had in-class writing assignments they would probably be a lot more suspicious, at least based on the communications supplied in the article.)

Also, this metafilter comment wins for the Sneakiest Use of Xkcd in Serious Discussion Without Drawing Attention to the Fact:

If you pretend that the degrees are evidence of your mastery in some subject, and that this mastery will allow you to produce good work in some area that you could not without this mastery, ie, that colleges are not a waste of time in general, then this is a misrepresentation of your abilities to your future employers.

Imagine you buy a chair on e-bay, and it has a certificate of Being a Chair, and instead, it was a bob-cat who hired someone to forge its certificate of Chairitude. You have essentially had your money stolen. If you try to sit on it anyway because you also forged your certificate of Being Able to Tell What a Chair is, you will sit on it anyway and it will RUIN your butt.

Cheating on papers is ruining the butts of society.
posted by EtzHadaat at 6:38 PM on November 14

Things I learned today:
>Bawls is good. I can see this becoming a staple in my "take to parties" collecton of drinks which so far consists of only Mountain Dew. (Heynow, I love Mountain Dew.)
>Xkcdians are fantastic nerds. Yay! =) Nerds are awesome.
>Star Wars Family Guy is quite possibly the best Family Guy I've ever seen.
>Rock Band is fun!

So w00t w00t to all that jazz.

Hmm... I think I might get up early tomorrow and ride my bike a little, that sounds like a good plan. Oh, crud, I still need to buy plane tickets for this weekend! Auck.

Lol, maybe Bawls wasn't such a good idea, my thoughts are really flighty now. I've started noticing the effects of caffiene more and more as I get older. Interesting.

Okay, I'm just going to cut to the chase. 32 days?! (Seriously?!) I can't believe we're that close. CRAZYYYY. What to post for today, eh? I still haven't gotten those pics up. Hmm. Oh! Fun fact. You know a lot of the things they do with whips in the movies aren't possible? From what I understand, swinging on it, while it's difficult to hang from in the first place, would break the whip anyway.

No. Seriously. Today is the best day ever.





http://xkcd.com/389/

That's right, Randall Munroe just rickrolled band kids everywhere.

Also, in the spirit of being rickrolled: http://limerickdb.com/?top150 (There are some really, really good ones on there.)

Also, found this link, which claims The Fall is the movie that The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen should have been. And on my god are they ever right. Plus? Lee Pace (aka the Piemaker in Pushing Daisies). Why has this not come to my attention earlier? Damn you US, this was made in 2006! Curse your run-of-the-mill tastes.

85 days until Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull! Today's trivia: I'm sorry, I can't think of anything better than the fact that Harrison Ford is in that second video.

Seriously, because of this day, I think think I can die happy. I need to find downloadable versions of those videos, because I'm pretty sure that's the medicine for never having a bad day ever again.