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I’m sure many of you have seen and enjoyed Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. However, many of you will not have seen Requiem for a Dream. It is not a happy movie nor does it have a happy ending. Rather it shows in rather a gruesome detail just how drugs of many different types can tear a family apart. Now someone has very artfully mashed up scenes from Ferris Bueller with the soundtrack from Requiem. I definitely recommend giving it a watch and if you haven’t seen Requiem for a Dream, then go out and rent it.

Hooray!!! My fraternity the Pi Kappa Alpha Alpha Tau chapter won songfest or at least won against the other fraternities on campus.(Not really sure on that point) Enjoy the video of their performance and laugh at the other fraternities Booing being drowned out by the cheers from the rest of the audience.

Although I am was not an English major and quite frankly I am usually at a loss for words especially when writing, I have always been fascinated by interesting words an their origins. For instance brouhaha definitely doesn’t seem to fit in with the English language but there it is. Last night I ran across an origin for a word I had never thought twice about. The word teamsters I had always assumed was just some reference to them being a union. When historically teamsters comes from the term teaming in the 19th centure(possibly earlier, but I am not sure) which was defined roughly as “driving a cart for hire.”

It’s definitely been interesting reading some older books, in this case Bram Stoker’s Dracula, that have been annotated and end up teaching you something new.

So if you haven’t already noticed I have mostly finished moving to Wordpress from Moveable Type. I liked MT in the beginning, but as time went on I was getting more and more spam and having to spend more time trying to clean it all up. Unfortunately when you spend so much time clean it up there isn’t much drive left to actually write in it. I’ve still got a few more things to iron out, but nothing major….that I know of.

Although if anyone knows of a plug-in or seperate program that will let me show a random image from my Flickr photos I would definitely be interested.