Test.

China being ridiculous.

This is my friend's blog. It demonstrates the ridiculousness of China these days pretty well.

Kevin's Dim Summary

New Purdue Dorms

For the rich and the famous.

I love the internet

People rock.

Where babies come from

http://www.planetdan.net/pics/babies/

The dietitian in me...

Information is beautiful

Worse than swine flu?

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=8250776&page=1

Christmas in Beijing!

Blogspot and Youtube are unblocked!!!

Harry Potter is getting released!!!

Remember when we had a blog that people posted cool stuff on? What happened to it?

Ridiculousness in China

1. The other day I saw a person bicycle riding with a face mask (to protect against swine flu) that was inside of a sports face mask holder. Maybe like you would buy a sports band to hold your iPod on your arm but it's function is to hold your face mask to your face during extreme activities...bicycle riding.

2. Last week we couldn't see more than 100 ft. in front of us and I thought it was a weird fog (it rained during the day). In fact this black mass was a thick layer of particulate matter. Here's a time article about it. http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1905736,00.html

and here's the twitter link so you can track what I'm breathing at any given hour.

http://twitter.com/beijingair

It usually says "unhealthy". When it reads "harmful" is when I bring out my own face mask.

I wear a face mask sometimes.

You can follow frisbee goings on and essentially my social life in China at beijingultimate.blogspot.com.

Miss you guys.

Chinese government at it again

Try hacking around THIS Bones

Plan to be hip.

Today I was walking and saw an American girl in skinny jeans. I'm not even cool enough in Beijing.

Fighting the man!!

I totally forgot about proxies. Hah. I'll show you Chinese government. Booyah.

To Houston!

I got a job on Friday for a NASA subcontractor located in Houston, TX. I will be working at or near the Johnson Space Center doing stress analysis for hardware, etc that supports the ISS, shuttle, and Constellation programs. 

The job starts June 15th, so I am going to be leaving WL pretty quickly. Just wanted to keep yall informed. My plan of moving as far away from Joe and Kata is nearly complete!

Love, 

Soon to be sweaty slothy....

Under my Umberella ella ella eh eh eh

"If you still believe that the song Umbrella is simply a song about a woman's love for a man, then it is entirely probable that you are in a state of intellectual possession"

So check out this series of youtube videos on how Rhianna is possessed by evil. It's a little slow at first (start with parts 15) but if you can get past the 9 minute description of the structure of the California university system I promise you'll laugh out loud a lot. At one point I'm pretty sure he blames Rhianna (and the evil Rain Man entity who possesses her) and Jay-Z for the global recession and gas prices.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=65C0708B299A1460

Deductive reasoning skills (empty hair dye box, glove with dye on it in the garbage) not a change in appearance told me sara dyed her hair today. Should I a.) compliment her on it "Hey the newly dyed hair looks great!" b.) ignore it altogether since that's how I treat most of our relationship?

Memorial Day Weekend

I know Memorial Day weekend plans for most of you are up in the air (weddings, possible jobs etc), but I thought I'd put this out there. Come visit Minneapolis!

Nate will be here that weekend and although you might have been here a few times, you haven't actually seen anything! Trust me, its going to be a great time. Bike rides to lakes, swimming, free music and brewery tours. Plus Nate and I.

Let me know :)

Party.

I'm having a welcome home from China party for myself Sept. 5th and or 6th (Labor day). You guys should all make plans to come. More details to come closer to the date of the party.

Fun in the Sun in August

Okay, guys while I do think we should hang out memorial day weekend if possible this is a very different proposal. So for Eric's birthday (August 7) we were thinking of going down to Florida to see the shuttle launch. They are retiring the shuttle soon so this is pretty cool and launches are really cool to see - i've seen them, trust me :) . My parents own a timeshare down there and we want to rent one of the rooms. We get a 25% discount. The place is really nice, has a hot tub, pool, its all oceanfront (seriously like 50 ft from the ocean).

So it would cost ~$35 person per night but if someone wants to come and can't afford that much we would definitely help out. There is a kitchen in the room so we could save lots on food. I think flights to orlando are always pretty cheap....$150-$200 round trip

I know it will be hot as hell in august in florida but its right on the ocean so i think its a lot better and the water would actually be warm! We would probably go down Wed Aug 5th after work and come back either Sunday night or Monday morning (Aug 10th) and have a half day at work. So it would be 2 1/2 days off or less if you can flex it or something like that.

Here is the website for the resort... www.discoverybeachresort.com

So if anybody is interested or even if you are not interested please let me know...we kind of have to book the room in advance...don't feel bad if you don't wanna go, I realize its a decent amount of money and may not be convenient, etc.... if people wanna go and try to find lower cost housing that could be an option too.

ok thats it, let me know what you think. pros and cons. and if you do/do not want to go.

kali

Something for Everybody

all right, i know its been a long time since i posted....please forgive.

So I am wondering if we can get together in Chicago the first weekend of May. The Museum of Science and Industry is having an exhibit on a green house...you know green technology and all that... and ALSO simultaneously will have a Harry Potter exhibit. and hopefully the star trek movie will be out by then which i am determined to share with kata since it is her only childhood pop culture memory. also what about august. minnesota trip? ok that is all.

love,
kali

True or False

Joe looks like Jimmy Kimmel.

How is abstinence teaching now that her daughter is a single mother?

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101771953

Dreaming.

I had my first vivid dream without medication last night! I don't even know if I can describe it but it was crazy and awesome. Stupid dad calling this morning woke me up...

does anybody know a guy named Vaibhav Garg? he poked me and when i went to see if i know him somehow, his status update said "Vaibhav is looking for an arch enemy... prefer someone with a nickname 'the dark lord/lady' with half hatched plans to rule the world."

hahaha seriously?

How a 7 year old's brain interprets anesthesia

Drunk David

Nothing says "Be Mine" like...

One packet of bumblebee tuna in water, light
One jar of whole black pepper corns
A ziplock bag of dried apricots
One instant Ohio lottery tickets
One heart shaped card.

Thanks Mom.
for the best valentines day care package ever.

Trying my hardest.

Today I watched 2 videos on TED.com on how to be creative. It's just not going to happen. Sorry friends.

Story of Stuff

This video is long, but pretty entertaining. Everyone should watch it when they get around to it. About 20 min.

http://storyofstuff.com/

Alabama Get Away

Can you guys give us an update? How was it?

Liberia pictures.

In case any of you guys wanted to see a sampling of our pictures from Liberia here's the link.

Liberia in a nutshell

Let's talk about communal living.

I officially ( without a bed) live in Chicago. Darcy when are you coming?! Let the commune commence.

New Years

im getting pumped about the new years bash (and then some)! so i have a cousin in town and was wondering about the timeline we're lookin at. kal, are u guys still planning on driving up on wednesday? kata and joe, did u guys find anything cool to do?

Anyone up for a Chicago visit next summer? This will be on the itinerary.

Best part of moving to Chicago so far.

Asteroids made by Neave Games

Vegas, Anyone?

Who is planning on going to Vegas? I'd like to, but havent bought a ticket yet. I did see, however, flights from indy that connect thru minneapolis...if that can convince joe and kata.

if we all go, we can get a room thats not at the strat?


slothy...

Party

Hey Dudes,
Who's going to the cocktail party?

We're still alive

Hey everyone. Just letting you know we are on the face of the earth still. After 31 hours of traveling we made it from Liberia to Sevilla, Spain. We each had the equivalent of 1 light beer and are feeling the effects on our bodies as we walked back to the hostal...Kali will be in great drinking shape by New Years...ie she'll be waster-faced. I on the other hand am sorry to report that I will be spending the new year celebrating in Chicago with Kami. Keep on keeping on and always remember that we are all brothers and sister's in Christ.

Love,
Marge and Kali

a little epiphany...

hey folks, so last night i was talking with a friend when he said, "that group of people is just dull" in discussing some of the people i hang out with here. after further analysis, i realized how right he was. if all people give off a certain energy in a group of people, a room filled with this specific group of "friends" from home would have the kinetic energy of a shoe on the floor.

therefore, THANK YOU!! for being exciting, intelligent friends who bring something to the table everytime. cause if i didn't have friends like you guys, i wouldn't know how lame these people are. haha put that in your pocket.

p.s. i hope that everyone will know their blood type for our new years extravaganza...

Great Idea

After a long night of boozing with some ultimate people from chicago, among them Peter Crotty, and listening to some cover band play too many fallout boy covers (thus the text message Joe) I passed out hard. Then at around 6 AM I woke up instantly with one of those light bulb moments. We should open a bar called Wifflers. It would be just like a regular english or irish pub, except in the middle there would be a wiffle ball stadium. We could have leagues every night of the week and serve traditional pub food with cute names like the Home Run Burger, which you could get with "wiffle fries"...


And that's why you keep a notebook and a pen next to your bed

new years

hi yall,

kata and i were hoping you guys would all come up for new years. is that in the cards?

We Made it!

Just Letting you guys know that we're safely in Monrovia. Kevin: We shared a toothbrush the first night, out of convenience, but this morning we dug out the second one. You can put your worries aside.

Love you guys,
Marge and Kali

Who can take a punch better?

Kata or David Blaine?

It's about 1min into the footage.

Thinking about Minnesota....

Last weekend in September?? What do you guys think?

I can't believe these ads play on tv

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEbRxTOyGf0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVsgXPt564Q

skydive video

after multiple requests from my brother, I've posted the skydive video online.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aZkZd5hR3w

Silly British babies

I was behind a British couple at the produce mart yesterday and their kid was talking with a tiny British accent. It reminded me of this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OBlgSz8sSM

Oh baby.

House warming Party:

As you all may know the ultimate team is moving into a new house with 7 members, we need to think about a weekend to break the partying hyme of the house.

I'm not giving up on camping

Anyone who reads this still want to go camping before or after cooler in Wisconsin?