Overheard: Cheerleader

I was gripping for a camera at the Purdue women's basketball game today and overheard a cheerleader analyzing one of the players:

(Girl) Cheerleader: "Yeah she's got nice legs. I mean they aren't fat or anything."

How sweet.

Letters To You: Dining Hall Staff

Dear Dining Hall Staff,

Thank you so much for taking extra time to check my student ID the other night. If it weren't for your thorough efforts, someone could have used a stolen ID to gain access to your delicious, high quality food, and I just wouldn't be able to deal with that. In today's world, it is people like you that keep us safe from the horrendous dangers of dorm food thieves.

Indebted to you,
Tsunami Steve

The Purdue Exponent, Yo

Our school paper, The Exponent, strives to publish all the letters it receives in an effort to give everyone a chance to speak their mind, but this is absolutely awful. Some things to look out for as you read:
-the headline says Purdue 'student' when the writer is in fact an alumnus
-use of the word 'broad'
-someone graduated from Purdue and still writes like this...

Student thanks buddy for help
On Feb. 17, while on the Northwestern bus, a brother hit the STOP button for me and I want to say thanks. I thought he was getting out too and so I didn’t think anything of it. My bad. Good looking out though. And oh, one more thing, why is it that that one broad from College Hill, what her name iz, um Brittani... When you see her walking around, it’s like WHOA but then when you see her up close it’s like OHHH. It’s an enigma, yo.

Vivek Saxena
Purdue alumnus

Blog Update: tsunamisteve.com

Well I decided to get crazy and shelled out a whole $6 to get tsunamisteve.com. Nothing too major, but it's easier to tell people. Just FYI, if you link to a specific blog entry, you might have to right-click and copy the link to clipboard. In Safari, 'tsunamisteve.com' is displayed even if it isn't the main page, and there's nothing I can do to change that through the domain admin panel.

God is pissed!

I can't believe all the earthquakes, mudslides, and tsunamis that have occurred in the past few months. I think Someone is a little angry. Actually I can't back that up--I changed my number after Paris Hilton got her phone hacked so God hasn't called in a while. Anyways, just a few hours ago Iran was hit with an earthquake leaving (so far) 80 dead and 300 injured. It's a good thing our trusty CNN is keeping us updated, because if it weren't for them I wouldn't know that "a magnitude 6.4 is classified as a "strong" earthquake by the U.S. Geological Survey." No shit? Anyways, let's hope the death toll stays relatively small.

Clinton/Bush "Tsunami" Tour

This pic comes from a CNN article about former presidents Clinton and Bush and their tsunami tour. "Tsunami tour" or oral pleasure?

"Well I'll be damned! Hey Hillary, it still works!"

Coincidence? I think not.

Well the fuzz finally caught up with me on Friday. I was heading home for the weekend and was going a little too fast for the state trooper chillin on the side of the road. I pulled over before he even turned on his lights because I knew he got me. After a nice 5 minute chat about what a nice day it was and how great Purdue is, he handed me a $90 ticket. Thanks man. Now this is a pretty typical story, except that I "happened" to be listening to "99 Problems" by Jay-Z when I was stopped, which, if you don't know the song, is all about getting pulled over. Also, earlier that day when I was packing, I just stopped for a minute and had this bad feeling that I was going to be pulled over during my trip. FInally, when I was waiting for the cop to check my license and all that, I looked at my odometer, which was at 159,000 miles. Call me crazy, but for all the traveling I do, the timing seems pretty suspicious for me to finally get a ticket.

Letters To You: Lady at Gas Station

Dear Lady at the Gas Station,

There are clearly-marked warnings on gas pumps telling you to turn off your vehicle and not re-enter it until you are finished filling up. While your van is huge and can probably carry all your kids' soccer friends, it is not safe to leave on while a highly flammable liquid is rushing into it. Also, if you do leave your vehicle running, at least keep an eye on the nozzle instead of balancing your check book. Together, we can make the world a better place.

Sincerely yours,
Tsunami Steve

How to get rid of telemarketers, Lesson 1

It is apparently in Purdue University's best interest to give out all kinds of personal information to businesses, because my roomate and I get 3-5 calls everyday from telemarketers. It became a game after a while, and we've given them all kinds of crap, leaving them speechless since the only English they know is what their script says. Today, though, I got a call while I was at class, and my roommate explained to the telemarketer that I died from alcohol poisoning. The heartless bastard didn't even offer his condolences to my roommate, who was laughing his ass off. No more calls for me!

A New Hope

Well this is my third official blog. I started at LiveJournal, went to Myspace, and now I'm here. This one is different in that it'll have whatever kinds of content I want. Readers beware. I believe this feed publishing thing will work with RSS and Atom, but maybe not, so check it out and try to get it to work. So that's all I got for now, but this place will be rockin pretty soon.

--TS