about me van Eyks and the emergency room

It happens every time. When I get together with the van Eyks one of us gets hurt. Apparently this time it was my turn. We were playing basketball (a game that is certainly much more violent than hockey) and as I was driving for the net to do a lay-up I tripped and smashed my face against the pole. I came away with my hand to my mouth and when I looked down I had half of my front teeth in my hand. After saying a few words that I won't repeat here for the sake of my good friend 'anyomous' I went inside and took a look at her. Let me tell you, it wasn't pretty. My one tooth was knocked out of its socket and sticking straight back into my mouth, and the other one had several large chunks missing from it. so to make a long story short; and not to bore you with the insignificant details like hot dental assistants and more unrepeatable language, I ended up with some temporary braces to hold my tooth in place and I'll need to go get some rebuilding work done on the other one plus I will probably need a root canal.
Thankfully when I called my insurance they said that this is covered by them since it is an emergency, but I doubt I'll be able to get the other stuff covered, so I might just be out a few bucks. praise be to God though, that it wasn't any worse and that the insurance company is being so helpful. Here is a picture of my teeth right before going to the hospital.

I'M DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm DONE EXAMS. Yippppppeeeeee!!!! I am happy :-D very, very happy!! Now the Christmas vacation fun starts for real. I'm heading down to the States to visit all my friends down there....I can't wait to see y'all. Oh man oh man I can't wait.

Discrimination

Click here to read an excellent satirical view of how messed up the whole concept of discrimination and equal rights is if actually take to its logical conclusions. There are different groups in society that have different roles and they are not being 'repressed' by being expected to stay withing those roles.

Leafs Rule Sens Golf

Every sane person knows that the Toronoto Maple Leafs are the best hockey team in the entire world even if they don't win. Winning has nothing to do with. The most important thing is that they are the Toronto Maple Leafs, which means that they are the best team. However, I have a slight problem this year. First of all about 20% of my class are Ottawa Senators fans, which is almost punishable by death were I come from, and then to top if off the Senators are kicking butt and the Leafs aren't doing so good. But do not worry. I am a Leafs fan. I do not have to listen to reason. The Leafs are the best. I do believe the following song will help clear up any confusion that there may be on this point.

Click here to find out the truth about Ottaw Senators

so nayna nayna nayna to all you Senators fans out there.

Dave Westy
(the Leafs WILL win someday)

Exam 3

I'm done my third exam, and I am excited. One more to go and then I'm done the semester. This one went really good. I'm talking done it in an hour and 15 minutes (for a 2 1/2 hour exam)!!!!! I think it was the easiest exam I've ever had. YIPPEEEE. Well back to the books to try and make sure I finish strong.

I APOLOGIZE

you see I have committed a horrible crime. I spelt my roommate's name wrong in my survey (see question 12) and he is so upset at me that he is threatening to make me clean the bathtub. So, I figure I better publically confess my crime. I'm sorry Asher. Now stop your whining you little baby.

brother peter

My brother Pete is moving up in the world. He got himself a blog, and I'm proud to say its not xanga :-P I've added his link on the right hand side so check it out sometime.

Surveys and insanity

apparently the cool thing to do is to post a survey on your blog...so I'm posting this one. I choose this one to show y'all how too much studing will make you go insane.

1. Have you ever taken goggles into the shower with you? nope.

2. Have you ever stared at the blobs in a lava lamp for more than an hour? well I'm not quite sure how long it was but it was long enough to get kicked out of the store....apparently I was drooling or something.

3. Do you feel bad for a spider when someone steps on it? NOPE

4. Have you ever wondered why M&M's are the color they are? umm yeah. I think it comes from the food coloring or something

5. Did you memorize how to spell supercalafragilisticexpealedocious? I can't even spell 6 letter words how would I ever be able to spell something with 34 letters?

6. Do you know the names of all the american presidents? nope do you?

7. Do you still wonder if Elvis is alive? uhhh no....he is alive. there is no wondering about it.

8. Have you ever tried to jump off the roof of your house? oh I haven't just tried.

9. Do you own a Chia-pet? well I have a couple of brothers.

10. Do you consider all blondes to be dumb? I knew a smart one once.

11. Do you have 0 TV's in your house? Nope

12. Do you have more than 10 pet's living in your house? Well let me see now...there is Mike, and Ashur, and Steve, and the bacterial culture growing in the bathtub, and my pet rock that I sleep with every night, and the cool rubber chicken on my key chain....but I don't think it quite 10.

13. Is your favorite movie of all time rated G? I plead the 5th...*wispers* finding Nemo was so awesome.

14. Do you have an Atari system in your house? I have a solar system...The big yellow one is the sun.

15. Do you buy more than 5 cd's a week? Why buy when you can download?

16. Is your favorite color tangerine? nope. My favorite color is definantly a mix between pumpkin and apple...I forget what it is called right now

17. Is your favorite food turtle soup? ohhhh....I LOOOOOVVVVEEE that stuff.

18. Do you spend more time in your house than you do with your friends? Friends?

19. Have you ever watched an entire episode of the teletubbies? I might be weird but I am NOT GAY.

20. Did you ever have an imaginary friend when you were little? well it wasn't just when I was little. And he's not imaginary. Bob thinks you are crazy.

21. Do you ever talk to yourself? why bother when I can talk to Bob any time I want?

22. Do you sing in the shower? quietly.

23. Do you have more than 5 body piercings? nah.

24. Do you have hidden video cameras in your house? hehehe don't you wish you knew.

25. Did you ever think that the government was spying on you? Dude, the goverment IS spying on each and every one of us. Look at googlemaps and see how detailed satellite images we can access for free and then image how much the goverment which spend billions of dollars on that kinda stuff can see. They can see you everywere. They track your every move so you better behave yourself.

26. Do you cover yourself in tin-foil, and put coat hangers on the ceiling? well I'm not sure about the whole coat-hanger thing. That's just wierd.

27. Do you make things out of dollar bills when you are bored at the lunch table? well its kinda hard to fold a loonie.

28. Have you ever won a contest in which you had to guess "How many jelly beans are in the jar”: noooo.....WAAAHHH. That is a very emotional spot you touched there. you should think a little more before you go around asking insensitive questions like that.

29. Have you ever trash picked? ummm YEAH. HELLLOO. That used to be my favorite thing to do as a kid. We would all talk my dad into taking us for a trip to the dump and somehow we always came with more on the truck than when we left.

30. Can you fling stuff out of your nose? I can fling boogers about 6 feet.

31. Do you know the meaning of life? 42. haven't you seen Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy?

32. Have you ever picked on someone smaller than you, just because you thought it would be funny? I make fun of short people and I tease cats. Does that count?

33. Do you count down the amount of days left in the school year? See sidebar.

34. Do you often see things that arn't really there? Bob....but he's really there.

35. Do you see dead people? only at funerals.

36. Is this a yes/ or no question? yes of course it is. It would not make any sense for it to be a no question because then you would have to spend so much time writing up an explanation which of course would be a total waste of time. The only logical answer is that the answer to this question is most certainly a plain and simple yes.

37. Have you ever worn clothes that belonged to someone else? yup. That is what brothers are for.

38. Do you enjoy tight clothing? on who?

39. Have you ever gone a whole week with out brushing your teeth? EWWWWWWWW.

40. Do you sleep with the lights on? Nope. If a monster is going to eat me I don't want to see it.

41. Do you consider money to be a form of evil? Only if other people have it.

42. Have you ever played bloody knuckles? Yeah!!!

43. Have you ever had the urge to have a sex-change opperation? hehehe...have you ever seen my before and after pictures?

44. Have you ever had a crush on a teacher? Sicko.

45. Do you believe fairy tales do come true? NO! I am a cynical and hardened person. Nothing good ever happens to anybody. Fairy tales are just for the weak of mind to help them cope with the evils of this life.

46. Do you enjoy using yo-yo's? yup.

47. Do you believe in superstition? no *touch wood*

48. Do you like DIET soda? DIIIISSSSSSGGGGUUUSSSTTTTIIIINNNNGGGG

49. Do you watch cartoon shows every day? Sesame Street is an educational show, not a cartoon

50. Do you ever read books for fun? yeah...you should read 'Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering' sometime. Its a great book!!!

Every question you answered YES to is worth 2% of insanity, so count up every question you answered YES too than multiply it by 2 and that is your insanity percentage!!!


and that would make me about 60% insane....that's what exams does to you folks.
Back to the insanity.

Gun Control

Liberal promise complete ban on handguns
Yes indeed. I dearly love those liberals. I mean who can't help but love those cute little fellows who so clearly think everything through before they do it. How touching; the liberals are very worried about all the people in Canada that have gotten shot and so they vow to get rid of handguns. This of course will not cost near as much as the gun registry did and will be much more helpful. Yes of course that is how it will work out because we all know that people would never kill other people if they did not have handguns. After all the Great Paul Martin himself said that "handguns kill people"

Well folks I have some news for you; banning handguns will not stop murders. Yes you heard me right guns don't kill people, people kill people. I mean think about it, when is the last time you heard on the news that a gun opened up the gun cabinet walked out of it and then walked up to somebody pointed itself at their head and shot them? It's been awhile hasn't it? No folks, you need to have someone pick up the gun, point it in the right direction and pull the trigger. "But hold on a sec" I hear you saying..."Isn't it true that without the means for murder there will not be murders?"
you know what, you have been listening to the liberals for a little bit too long and it has started to make you brain get a little mushy. You are missing out on a key point here. Handguns may have been involved in about two thirds of all firearm murders in the last year but that does mean that banning them will get rid of them, and even if it did mean that it does not mean that getting rid of them will get rid of murder. There are plenty of other weapons that can be used to kill people, and although they may not be as convenient as a handgun you can rest assured that they will be used if handguns aren't around. If my memory serves me correctly handguns hadn't been invented yet when Cain killed Able. Oh and one other thing: since it is the person wielding the gun that determines its use, is it not possible to have a gun used for self-defense?

It is an admirable thing to want to save people's lives, but to do so requires more than just anti-gun rhetoric. It requires cold hard facts. We need proof that this isn't just going to be another liberal financial fiasco, and we need proof that it is actually going to be helpful, neither of which outcomes seems likely to me. Lets not loose our heads to some mushy liberal rhetoric, but lets see some facts.

Exam 1

Yipppeee! My first real exam is done. Only 3 more to go. My first one was fluids and I think it went really good. I only needed a 15% on it to pass the course and I think I got about a 90% on it. I felt really good about it and I answered everything and I am quite sure that all of my answers are correct, so its basically just those fews marks that I always loose for the stupid typo's and stuff. So yeah, one done and feeling good. Well, there is no rest for the righteous, so back to books I go.

Prof Quotes

I'm going through my notes studying for exams and I came across some interesting quotes that came up in class and that I wrote down. Here are few of them:

Fluids:
Prof: (talking about air flow around a body) "this is similar to the force your car feels when are doing 150 down the highway as I know you all do."....."I on the other hand have respect for the law. I only go 145."

Prof: (to Nick who is always goofing around, cracking jokes or doing something wierd) "you should become a clown...it pays pretty good."
Nick: *in a mock-serious voice* "sir, I am NOT in it for the money, Sir"

Inorganic:
Prof: (day after Bill Gates visited U-Waterloo) "did any of you go see Bill Gates yesterday?"
Student: "yes I did"
Prof: "Did you throw anything at him?"
hmmm....wonder if he has an apple?

Prof: "What type of orbitals are these?"
*waits a few second*
"hint.....Nick is ....."
Nick: "DEGENERATE!!!!"

Differential Equations:
Prof: "Guess what we are going to do with this beast?"
Student: "TAME IT"

Prof: "I always find that when I teach engineers I have to make fun of Mathies and when I teach mathies I have to...*pauses and looks at the class full of engineers*...uhhh...make fun of MATHIES."

Prof: "I have a breakup line for you guys..."I'm sorry but u+i is complex""
(sorry that one was so corny I had to include it)