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GMAT-ador

Stu — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:00:34 -0500

If anyone has taken the GMAT (B-School entry exam) and has the inside scoop on scoring a 790, please feel free to divulge. As I'm sure you're well aware, standardized tests are fun like adult orthodontia. or fun like a pretentious rich kid. or fun like pelotas azul. or fun like standing behind someone...

Gladiator Russel Crowe vs. Tiger

Stu — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:05:15 -0500

I'm an epic movie nerd. Whenever Gladiator, Braveheart or Last of the Mohicans is on one of the movie channels, I will watch it from the point I turn it on until the end. This is not a very productive trait of mine, and it becomes especially unproductive when I stumble upon the movies at the opening...

Jack & Jill + Hill= Grade School Romance

Stu — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:24:32 -0500

"Dating" in Grade School rocked. I put dating in quotations because it was never more than aggressive hand holding and the occasional peck in the school parking lot. It rocked because it was exquisitely simplistic. All you had to do was ask your buddy to go over to a particular girl and see if she...

Written after an especially drunk weekend, and brutal cross-country Southwest flight(s)

Stu — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:24:06 -0500

Hey friends, Just got back from my 5-year college reunion, and I had a lot of time on my 13.5 hour trip home Sunday involving the same Southwest plane (that I was unable to step off of), 4 separate airport stops due to inclement weather and a hangover that could subdue a water buffalo. I...

Grandpa

Stu — Tue, 27 May 2008 00:41:07 -0500

(This was included in my grandfather's remembrance booklet.. Knowing my grandfather would likely make this more poignant, but just know he was a fine man who would show up to parties on his blue tractor with the front end bucket carrying the beer cooler).

The best way to celebrate one's life is...

The truth about cats and blogs

Stu — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:45:40 -0500

Both are independent, smart, passive aggressive and untrustworthy.

Rumor has it, more blogs are written about cats than any other topic. You read that correctly: More popular than dogs. More popular than religion. More popular than David Schwimmer. A subsequent study concluded that the...

Walking, paying and elevatoring in multiple languages

Stu — Tue, 8 Apr 2008 00:32:32 -0500

I'm apparently a really awkward walker. Walking to work this morning, I saw a lady about 20 feet away from me and as we approached one another, I motioned left as though I was going to pass her on the left, but then tacked right deciding to walk by her on the right. This series repeated itself one...

ipod + commute to work = a better bad trip

Stu — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:01:04 -0500

I am way behind the times. For comparative purposes and to put it in perspective, if I were a woman at an LA pool party thrown by Jessica Alba, I would be the party-goer wearing the one piece bathing suit worn by Brendan Fraser's girlfriend in School Ties. For further illustration, if I were an NBA...

Are sexoholics reincarnated as rabbits? ps. Happy Easter.

Stu — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:25:10 -0500

Growing up, only a few things were more fun than waking up on Easter Sunday: 1) Waking up on Christmas Day 2) Party favors and 3) penny gumball machines. I, like many stupid kids before me, believed there was a man-sized rabbit that went from house to house depositing candy filled plastic...

Jackson Five Hole

Stu — Fri, 8 Feb 2008 01:55:31 -0600

I went to Jackson Hole, Wyoming last weekend to see a buddy of mine ('sam' on matador) and to do some back country skiing. It seems Jackson Hole exclusively permits young, fun, athletic people who look good in puffy jackets to enter town limits. The 20 and 30 somethings live the life there, full...

Weddings...

Stu — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:30:56 -0600

In the span of 13 days, 2 family members got married and I wasn't there for either wedding.

One wedding, I had no choice. My sister, who was planning a low key wedding in Hawaii towards the end of February, decided things (guest lists) were getting too complicated and had her wedding on a beach...

Faceboob

Stu — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:19:31 -0600

Friendster. Myspace. Facebook... If I were Mark Zuckerberg, I would sell.

There was a time when Myspace was the 800 pound gorilla, and before that Friendster was the novel site spreading through the interweb like poor judgement through the Michael Vick/Jackson/Tyson households.

If history is...

How to lose 10 pounds in 2 days...

Stu — Wed, 5 Dec 2007 01:00:46 -0600

throw up a lot. It seems everyone I know is sick or was sick over thanksgiving. Let's just hope this isn't another turkey Avian Bird Flu. On a somewhat related topic, here's a tanget.

You know what's somewhat awkward: Whenever someone says they were really sick, and then they said they had food poisoning...

I was a lot cooler before contacts..

Stu — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:23:38 -0600

I have 50/20 vision and glasses that I wear for work, driving and other activities requiring sight.

Until recently, I would go about standard day to day stuff without glasses, sacrificing the ability to see things beyond 10 feet for the freedom of not having to wear anything on my face. You might...

It's that time of year again!!! better get your thinking caps on.. or make a web.. or do what ever you do to brainstorm

Stu — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:25:37 -0500

I am clearly referring to Halloween. Studies conducted by renowned Stansberry sociologists found that hang nails, the kid from the Indiana Jones movies and people telling you about their dreams last night were the only three things more annoying than picking out one's halloween costume..

(I...

high comedy with butter

Stu — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:17:45 -0500

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ts9pqNvJFqY&mode=related&search=

This is an enjoyable tale..

San Francisco: The city of goodbye parties..

Stu — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:20:38 -0500

I dig San Francisco. Love it, in fact. I've heen here about a year and I
think you'd be hard pressed to find a more livable, active and fun city
anywhere in the States.

San Francisco is a destination city.
People move here with a perception of what they believe San Francisco
to be, and normally the...

The Immaculate recovery alleveating pissed-offness.

Stu — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:19:52 -0500

I took a cab ride from point A (Hayes Valley) to Point B (The Bar) and a few minutes after I got out of the cab I realized my cell phone had fallen out of my pocket. This caused sadness and inconsolable pissed-offness. Believing I had lost my phone and all my contact information (which should serve as...

Ever had a bug bite on your face the size of a sand dollar nipple?

Stu — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:09:38 -0500

I have one right now and it fucking hurts. No idea how I got it. probably when I was sleeping last night. Which is disheartening, given that I live indoors.

Anyway, two things about bugs:

1) I have two unkilleable flys that hover in front of my TV when it's on. I think they enjoy the...

Twittling my thumbs in San Diego

Stu — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:55:29 -0500

Ok, actually not really. just my index fingers. I'm on a work trip to San Diego, put up in the Omni hotel right next to Petco Park. Which is top 5 on the terrible list of sporting stadium names- up there with:

1) Energy Solutions Arena where the Jazz players of Salt Lake City ball.
2)...

The only thing that should be added to scotch is more scotch.. Part 2

Stu — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:47:49 -0500

The Bolivian wedding was on a Saturday at 6pm, and I made the typical American mistake and showed up to the wedding 30 minutes early to get a seat and settle in (this was a trick taught to me by my absurdly-punctual father). Little did I know that I would be there 60 minutes before people even started...

The only thing that should be added to scotch is more scotch Part 1.

Stu — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:30:54 -0500

A friend of mine, Gaby, lives in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, and I happened to be traveling through town when her brother was getting married to Miss Bolivia 2000. It should be noted that Santa Cruz, Bolivia is offically, the "good looking person" capital of the country. As Gaby's brother, who was getting married...

In the words of Martha Washington: That’s how you fucking Lobsterbake!!!

Stu — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:51:27 -0500

A few weekends ago, we had the 11th annual Poole family lobster bake in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. And for those of you who don't know, Maine is a state in the Union, harboring exclusively awesome people.

To support the photographic documentation, the anatomy of a lobster bake looks something like...

What's worse that getting a tetanus booster shot when you're 12 years old???

Stu — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:51:47 -0500

Getting one when you're 26 and being crippled by it.

I hadn't been to a doctor in approximately too many years, and I figured since I now have insurance, I might as well be tested for acute molluscom contagiousum and bird flu.

The first question he asked was "when was the last time you had a tenanus...

There are worse places to have a wedding reception...

Stu — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:03:04 -0500

Just got back from a two week east coast swing full of family, friends, golf, mountains, rivers, humidity, lobsters, drinks, late nights, hangovers, sunsets, sunburns and laughs.

My trip was capped off with my buddy's east coast wedding reception in New Hampshire. Since he and his wife were wed...

Anywherebutlaptop! MUST READ!!! (if you're a guy)

Stu — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:57:52 -0500

Don't type with your laptop on your lap. It lowers your sperm count.

(Conversely, girls, if you want decrease the odds of your significant other impregnating you, put a charged laptop on your bf's junk while he's sleeping).

Ever had one of those days??

Stu — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 14:42:55 -0500

You get woken up by an earthquake, you're late for work, your boss is pissed at you and then you go to the bathroom and your underpants are on backwards..

Well, that was yesterday for me. Inexplicable, really.

At 4:45am on Friday, July 20, I experienced an earthquake for the first time. 4.2...

We put the T & A in Tahoe, and the Retard in Real Worldt.

Stu — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 01:11:30 -0500

6 guys and 6 girls rented a 3 BR house in Tahoe last weekend. (From this point on, I advise you to stop reading, as it will only make you dumber).

Given our tight living quarters, we did remarkably well avoiding the shirtless tirades that have consumed MTV's real world.

Speaking of which, that...

Why Drinking is so Damn fun:

Stu — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:21:52 -0500

(Preface: nothing herein condones drinking of alcohol. except in a few places).

1) because when you pee, you trick yourself into thinking you're hydrated for once.
2) drinking games are competitive, and lets be honest, you haven't been in a team oriented competitive athletic event since high...

Camping in Northern California..

Stu — Sat, 9 Jun 2007 13:21:05 -0500

Looking for a couple of good 2-day camping trips to take from the Bay Area.. Hopefully a place where finding a campsite on a friday won't be too much of a hastle and where I won't get eaten by a bear.

If you have any advice/recommendations/etc, I'm very open to suggestions.

Thanks.