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Name: Mi(ke)(rza)
Birthday: 3/25/1988
Gender: Male
Interests: Apple computers, 20th century history, ocean wildlife, all things related to Lego's, the female mind, milk with fat content (at least 2%), ultimate frisbee, Lego's, music piracy, Tetris, thunderstorms, Tostitos Hint-of-Lime chips, social gatherings void of movie-watching, fresh air, bad puns, mesh shorts + flip-flops, the desert
Expertise: I made this username up when I was in 7th grade. I haven't changed it since then because it always annoyed me when people would change their names all the time and I could never keep track of who was who. It's got to be the worst name ever, and I'm not proud of it. But then again, it's so bad that it could be taken as a joke. Not a laugh-out-loud kind of joke though, but more of a light-chuckle kind of joke. Sometimes (but not always), those kinds of jokes are more intelligent.
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2/29/2004
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| New account here. Make sure to leave me a comment saying that you subscribed to my new name. And if you were even thinking about just browsing it without subscribing and commenting, I will punchisize you in the lip. | | |
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I'm retiring this Xanga name. Don't worry though, I'll make a new one soon. It'll probably look exactly the same, except with a different (read "better") name (something better than what I came up with in 7th grade). In addition, I think I'll be ditching my once-a-month policy as well, and will begin updating as I please; in a more "normal" fashion. I would just as soon quit Xanga altogether and just let people keep in touch with me through Facebook, but not all of you can get Facebook accounts yet, and besides, Facebook doesn't allow me to rant the way Xanga does. So hold your breath folks, because I'm just taking a hiatus (I'll post a link to my new page whenever I get around to making it).
Want to know where I've been for the past month? In Wisconsin, of course!
Mike | | |
| July, I'm forced to greet your month's post prematurely, for the second year in a row. You know I'd love to give you the time and respect you deserve, but alas, looming obligations prevent you from quite fitting into my schedule. Enjoy shaftation.
I am so glad open house (or "graduation party" for you weirdos out there) season is finally over. In the last month, I have attended anywhere from 5-20 open houses every weekend, including my own, and frankly, I'm just plain sick of them. They're so over-produced and dramatized. I mean, honestly, what's so great about them anyway? Sure, the grad gets money for college, but for all of the guests, it's really quite an awkward time. It goes like this. You show up, give the grad a hug, make small-chat for a minute or two, eat a courtesy-piece-of-cake while no longer being able to talk to the grad at all because they're busy with other guests, and then leave, having spent more time driving to and from the party than was spent at it. I've gone to so many because I just can't say "no" and feel a horrible obligation to go to every party I'm invited to, regardless of the driving distance or strength of our relationship. Darn you open houses! Darn you and your pretentious socially-enforced "etiquette!" I never want to go to another one again! Who am I kidding though? I know I can't possibly escape the death-grip of next year's open house season. The invitations will pile up once again, and once again I'll have no choice but to attend most of them, lest I be deemed a "bad friend." Sigh, let roll the infinite cycle.
I wish I had more to offer you in this month's post, but, to be completely honest, I'm updating my Xanga out of self-inflicted obligation, just like with open houses. I've been keeping this "always on the first of the month" system going for so long now that I can't bring myself to stop. Unfortunately though, my time is very limited, and I simply can't contrive anything worthwhile. Why is my time so limited? Well, here's a timeline of a few major events in my life that are coming in the next two months:
- Today: I leave Michigan for a long while for Chicago/Wisconsin
- Friday, June 30: Orientation at North Park
- Saturday, July 1: I move in to Phantom Ranch, where I'll be counseling/working for the rest of July
- Saturday, July 29: I finally return home from camp
- Monday, August 21: My last full day in Michigan before school starts
- Tuesday, August 22: I move in to my dorm room at North Park
- Monday, August 28: My first day of real college classes
Wow. This is the first time I've assembled this schedule, and I must say, it's kinda overwhelming. I'm suddenly realizing that once I get back from camp, I'll have just three weeks to chill with my Michigan friends before I ship out to school. This is kinda scary...
Since I couldn't offer you an entry with genuine substance this month, I've compiled a bunch of random awesome links for you to explore in your summer boredom. All of them get my personal stamp of approval, which is worth about eight dollars. Enjoy:
Engrish - Japanese doesn't always translate into English very smoothly, and this site proves it by finding the funniest real botched translations.
Cute Overload - This is an absolutely awesome picture blog of the cutest critters on the WWW. Guaranteed to make you smile!
Retro Junk - Awesome archival site for reliving your childhood.
Make Zine Awesome blog full of detailed guides for building tons of sweet D.I.Y. stuff, including everything from air conditioners to mobile blenders.
The Brick Testament - Almost every Bible story written, presented in comic format. The catch? They're all made with Lego's!
Tea Games - My favorite game site ever.
Hero Machine - Create your own superhero! Very extensive and totally addictive.
Gibbs Aquada - An amphibious car! Seriously! Make sure you watch the vids on the right.
Grow Cube - Try and apply each object in the perfect order in this crazily addictive puzzle. Only one specific sequence will make you a winner!
Sony Bravia - The best commercial ever made, hands down.
Mr. Nice Hands - An incredibly intelligent website for advanced minds only. Highly sophisticated, and not to be taken lightly.
Well, it's about time for finish packing. Please write me letters while I'm at camp! I would greatly appreciate hearing from you all, but won't really be able to accept phone calls, except during the weekends. So! Your letters, or even food (elbow nudge) would be greatly appreciated! So write to this address:
Mike Mirza (Staff)
Phantom Ranch Bible Camp
W309 S10910 Hwy. I
Mukwonago, WI 53149
Thanks a bunch guys. I'll do my best to see you all a ton during those three precious weeks!
MM (Migrant Mopin'-houser) | | |
| Oh June, I've never been as happy to see you as I am this year. You mark the official completion of my high school career, as well as the beginning of a another great lazy summer. By the way folks, it's not officially summer vacation until you don't know what day of the week it is. Oh wait, what's that? Most of you are still in school? Man, oh man.
It was a joyous occasion indeed, despite it being rescheduled to during-my-open-house because of a "tornado threat." Whatev, school district. Anyway, to clarify, in the last pic, I had just emptied an entire box of Mike 'n' Ikes into my mouth.
Now that high school's over with, I can begin to focus on the next chapter of my life, college at North Park. It will certainly be a very different chapter, to say the least. I'm incredibly excited to go, because I'll be enjoying the Chicago city life, and of course, will be basking in the full college/dorm experience, which definitely boasts the advantages of heightened responsibilities, freedoms, and deeper relationships. However, while totally stoked, I'm terrified at the same time. Though I was born in Chicago and lived there as well as in Minnesota, Michigan is the only state I can remember living in. In other words, I'll be leaving behind my entire childhood history and current friend base, and basically starting a whole new life, out there in the big scary world. I know I won't have any trouble at all making new awesome friends, but the thought of losing touch with the ones I have now geniunely worries me. Will a three-hour drive keep be too much to make the trip often enough to stay close to my friends now? I'm going to do my best to visit often, but I still have my doubts. Are any of you other distant-college-bound folks going through anything like this?
If you've got Quicktime/iTunes and are on a broadband internet connection, click here to see the best commercial ever, ever. And if you don't believe it's real, watch this.
Darn ol' open houses keep gettin' in the way of precious frisbee time.
In an attempt to better compete with MySpace and Facebook, Xanga has been releasing a ton of new features lately (which is fine with me, because I always have and always will think MySpace to be one of the most poorly-designed interfaces ever, and am amazed/disgusted by the recent influx of annoying pre-teen girls on there). What I'm talking about is enhanced profiles, the new "friends" feature (which I don't completely understand yet), the thing that lets you block non-Xanga users, etc. I think the new profiles are especially cool; you should all go fill yours out like I did. Now, whenever I'm looking to find out more about a person who randomly comments me or whatever, I look at two things: their profile, and which blogrings they're members of. But anyway, I just wanted to draw attention to some of these new features, because I'll gladly do anything that will shy popularity away from MySpace.
For some reason, I really enjoy mowing the lawn.
I don't even need to introduce the following music video; it's just so hilariously, awesomely metal that it speaks for itself. I'd recommend hitting Play and then quickly hitting Pause, so you can let the entire playback bar load so you don't have to interrupt the metalness part-way through.
At the time of this post's creation, my 1995 Honda Accord had 229,128 miles on its odometer. I'm going to throw a party for my baby when it breaks 230K, celebrating how it's still an awesome car, and further reinforcing why I'll always buy a trusty foreign car over any trashy American car. Now before you call me unpatriotic, let's just take into consideration that with 230K miles, the only "service" I've had to have on my eleven-year-old Honda is routine stuff like oil/air filter/shock changes. My family had a Dodge minivan a few years ago, and in the two years we owned it, we had to have major transmission work done three times. And if that doesn't convince you, pick up any recent copy of one of Consumer Reports' guides to used vehicles. The stats don't lie; American cars are, for the most part, much less reliable than foreign makers like Honda, Toyota, and Volkswagen. Sure, American cars may offer more to people who lease (which, by the way, is the absolutely most moronic way to pay for a car, since you end up paying a large sum of the total value anyway but not being able to keep it), or sell after five or less years, but if you want a car that'll work fine for a decade and more, foreign is the only way to go. So am I unpatriotic for loathing American cars? Not at all! In fact, I'm more patriotic, because I'm utilizing the full potential of capitalism by buying the best product I can get for my money. Honda pride forever, or should I say, quality pride forever.
If any of you are on Facebook, you should add me. Facebook > Xanga > MySpace.
It's time for another one of those great photo-caption contests that very few of you actually participate in! Like usual, the rules are simple: Come up with a funny caption for the photo below, and the winner gets a prize from me (something really marvy). Here's your material for this month:
It's occured to me that in my recent Xanga posts, for the most part, I've replaced my "humorous observations" with incredibly opiniated "editorial" propaganda. But oh well.
MM (Mad-mowing MySpace-hater)
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| "April showers bring May flowers." I prefer "April whatever brings May Ultimate-Frisbee games."
I've decided that if I was a police officer, and I pulled a girl over for speeding, and then she cried, I would give her the full-blown ticket, rather than potentially granting some mercy if she just handled it like a normal adult.
EDIT: To clarify though, so I don't sound sexist (since a few girls already read this and weren't so happy with me), I'm not talking about cases where the girl is under legitimate emotional stress. I'm just referring to when girls use tears in attempt to cop out of the ticket (pun intended).
There are basically two websites that could take over the entire internet if they really wanted to: Google, and Wikipedia. Seriously, besides indivual people, if it's not Wikipedia, it simply does not exist. Even our own government relies on it. Here's a few examples of just how thorough the information on Wiki is: (the tiny town I live in) (where I'll be next fall) (my roots) (sweet aquatic/Christian mythology) (the "5 second rule") (a page I cited when I wrote my research paper) (a TV show I watched when I was a kid) (one of the sweetest guys in Star Wars) (retardation that speaks for itself) Phew. I rest my case. Just for fun, let's see who can comment with the craziest Wikipedia article link. The one I deem the winner will get a joyous prize.
You know, I really should be a musician, and a darn-tootin' one at that. A guitar player, probably. I've got the creative mind for it, and a great memory, but, for the life of me, I just don't have the time and determination to sit down and learn how to play. Well, if I never get around to it on Earth, I can still rest assured that when I get to Heaven, I'll be able to play like in the video below (except, without a silly cigarette). It gets really good about 59 seconds in:
Ah yes, the coming of yet another Cinco de Mayo. Just another holiday that's completely irrelevant to Americans, yet they love to celebrate it anyway because it's an excuse to get wasted. I feel so patriotic right now.
What are y'all doing on the night of Thursday, May 18? If you don't have plans already, don't make 'em. Why? Because you should be at Skelletones in downtown Grand Rapids. The absolutely amazing Anathallo will be gracing the venue, along with Denison Witmer, Saxon Shore, and Menage. Seriously, if you have functioning ears, you NEED to be at this show. I promise Anathallo will redefine the way you listen to music forever. And, for a mere entry price of $8, you really can't go wrong.
Everybody makes resolutions and changes at New Year's. I made mine after Easter.
Since I was about eleven years old or so, my mom's been subscribing me to a Christian magazine for teen guys, called Breakaway. In a recent article, author Greg Hartman makes some simple yet truthful arguments against the incredibly popular Da Vinci Code book, as well as the upcoming movie. Even though the mag isn't your typical reading, I'd highly recommend considering what Hartman says. With controversies like the Code and the unearthed Judas Gospel, it's important that we stick to what we know to be the one Truth, so that we don't stumble, and so that we can tactfully refute the arguments and questions that will certainly be presented by the world. In these confused times, people (including many Christians) will be quick to believe anything that seems to be intellectually backed, and, in cases like this, we can't let that happen. I'm not saying that you shouldn't see the upcoming movie; in fact it may be a good idea, so that you can recognize its flaws. All I'm saying is that you should educate yourself about something you may have obliviously thought to be harmless. Please, stay true in Him.
All these links are making me crave some sausage.
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