My letters: N1 R1 U1 F4 B3 S1 A1 On the board there's one E to work with, and it sits directly next to a triple word score. Holy cow. F4A1R1E1S1 : 24 points. B3R1A1N1E1S1 : 24 points. S1A1B3R1E1 :…
My Only Hope: One day Someone will Realize my Mediocrity is Actually a Super Human Feat
UTormail: Inbox Email # 339 of 340 Date :Tues, 10 Feb 2009 00:09:10 -0600 From: Heather To: Phil Subject: AUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hey Phil, Ya, you're right, I really haven't gotten back to you in a while. This is…
A Deliciously Lethal Combination: Chocolate and Everything Else
Alrighty Valentiners... Here's my next post - Short, but sweet 🙂 With the impending Valentine's Day, authors and bloggers alike attempt to entice the public with stories ranging from how to get a date, how to keep your date, how…
UTGDDC: Game Making Deathmatch, and a Tribute to Randomness
I hope you like non-linear narrative GAME MAK- Ah. Before that, did I mention our 'in-house' game project this year? We're attempting to develop, or at least flesh out the ideas needed to develop, our own game within the club.…
The Quarter-Life Crisis of a First Generation Immigrant Part III: Breaking Free
One of my biggest fears in life is to miss an opportunity. I hate the emptiness of "never knowing" that accompanies regret. It's like a big, black hole that sucks the optimism out of me, and leaves me deep in…
Act One: The Magic of Rare Books
Before I had gone there, this is how I pictured the Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library: The student walks onto the stage, through the revolving doors of the Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library. In front of her is a grand…
A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned?
Alrighty Penny Pinchers! This post is for all of you who empty all the change from your wallet and start counting pennies, just barely scraping up enough change just to pay for cookie at Tim Hortons. Almost two years of…
Death By Poetry
It's Sunday night and I'm surrounded by coke cans, empty plates, chocolate bar wrappers and bottles of Real Canadian Natural Spring Water. My neck is bent up at my screen in an unhealthy angle and I have a mighty headache…
UTGDDC: OMGUFTRXZORZ (sometimes)
Me: "OMGZ I HAZ TO JOIN DIS CULB" - Mark, previous exec: "Uhh, okay, sure. Just sign up here." - Me: "K SWEET CUZ I HAZ TO JOINZ I EXCIT3D" - This is what occurred at the Club Fair during…
The Quarter-Life Crisis of a First Generation Immigrant Part II: Tough Love Re-rooted
In science, there are two fundamental key concepts that paradoxically co-exist in nature: “Like attracts like” “Opposites attract” Even if you are not a science type of person, it doesn’t take much to realize that both make perfect sense but…