You mean like the guy in the book of the same name? Interesting, I will check it out. And Jere I think I'll need a ride down to Pete's party tommorrow. I'll phone you later to talk about it.

Deceptacon Dance

Nuff said

i was just saying to Katie the other day that the "fall guy" in the documentary, "A Thin Blue Line" (Errol Morris) is a real life version of the Outsider. you should check it out.

cause i can't handle a friggin' Mac check out this blog for a picture of how Urkel looks TODAY

Existensialist don't believe in dreams Hank. Don't you remember Camus? You should of phrased it as: "this is a crossroad in your life, if you choose to act on it then the consequences that will follow will be because of your action. You can not control your surrondings only yourself. To sin is not to act therefore you should act and take whatever comes of it as it is." Not to bad for a "science" loving Engineer... Truth be told I actually wanted to be a historian.

coincidence theory
ripped off from the new york times article

Skill-testing-questions are required before winning any prize in which you did not outrightly purcahse an entry (like you would in a raffle). Legally, nothing can be given away for free which is why when your dad gives you his old car you usually have to pay him a dollar for it. As such, in order to win your prize, you must perform a service. The skill-testing-question is that service which is supposedly worth the value of the prize.

Or so I've been told...

Congrats Ed!!!!

Yeah, the whole thing is pretty awesome. And random. And it is for real, I took the sticker in and they got me to do the skill testing question (which is 5... which I used paper to work out just to make sure). But the secretary didnt know the details about how it would work... she seemed to think that it would be money I could only use towards tution, but I read the rules on the side of the coke machine and it says that the winner gets a $5000 dollar money order they can use towards tuition or "towards whatever they deem" ... or something like that.

Well, if this is all indeed true then congrats Ed!!! So when are you taking us all out for dinner to celebrate :^)

it's five! isn't it? well, hey Ed, congratulations!
That's always strange though... to see the "win your tuition" signs on the campus vending machines. I'm glad someone actually won it and it wasn't just a big old hoax. I'm also glad it was someon I know... so kickass Ed!

I think the skill testing questions is to ensure that someone who went through math gets the prize... not some total idiot. no, really I don't know why they do it.

I do wonder though if they make sure you're a student before you can claim your prize.