Getting there is half the fun

Merry Christmas Everyone!!

Posted by Evan at 1:48 PM

Wicked Weekend in Whistler!

After a few good days of partying after exams Matt, Mike (my brother) and I drove up to Whistler for a few days. Alli just moved to Whistler with her friend Amber and they were gracious enough to let us 3 slobs sleep on their floor, eat their food, mess up their place and hit on their friends. We only got 1 day of skiing in and what a good day it was. Whistler is suffering super poor conditions right now - everything black and up is basically a rock field, and there's lots of ice, but that didn't stop us from having an awesome time. We met my roommate Taylor at the lifts early and went hard all day until closing. Spent quite a few runs in the terrain park and tried rails for the first time, but that only ended in many crashed and ripped pants. I think I may be addicted to the half pipe now though!

Either Mike or Taylor walking through the flats at the end of Blackcomb Glacier:


It was Amber's brother's bday so at night a whole bunch of people went out for dinner then out partying. The only problem was my brother is not quite 19 so it took some careful ID switching and bouncer distracting to get him in clubs, but getting him drunk was worth it. Plus, he out drank Matt!! The camera didn't come out until later when most people had left and after alcohol showed up, so the pics aren't too good:(

Whistler apparently has a highly enforced fine for drinking in the village. So we did the next logical thing and ended up drinking in an underground carpark!


Tyler, me, Mike & Taylor sometime around when we should have gone home:


Alli and Mike on the dance floor (my mom's gonna love this):


Monday night there was a ton of freezing rain, everything was covered in a centimeter of solid ice, just check out the van:


The roads were so slippery we couldn't even walk to the car without holding on to something! Driving was super tough, and unfortunately it got the best of Alli. Just down the hill from her place she slid the wago into a ditch!:


And finally, a trip isn't a trip without Matt embarrassing himself! WTF Matt??!!:

Posted by Evan at 11:52 PM

Whistler Bound!

Well, exams are finally over!! hell-yeah!...Had a few nights of (too many) drinks after to celebrate not failing. Tomorrow Matt and I leave for Whistler for a few days to go stay at Alli's and hit on all of her hot friends. Also Taylor should be lurking around town so it should be a fun few days. Catch y'all later...

Posted by Evan at 5:46 PM

Need help learning calculus? Need a refresher on why the derivative of a constant is zero? Need to have your intelligence insulted? Well probably not, but just in case check this out: the How-to-Do Girls Guide to Calculus. I'm pretty sure these girls don't actually know what an integral is, but if you throw enough sexual innuendos in there I guess it doesn't really matter. A for effort, D for everything else.

Oh, and they also have some desktop wallpaper that's both sexy and informative: the Chain Rule background:

Posted by Evan at 6:05 PM

The Ultimate Most Loved/Hated Prof Wallpaper!:

Posted by Evan at 5:25 PM

So I guess the Calgary Flames made a "music video" in the 80s titled: "you can't touch a flame when it's red hot". It's about as good as the title suggests!!

Posted by Evan at 7:14 PM

Heisenberg is out driving on the interstate, and he's really cruising. Sure enough, he gets pulled over by a state trooper. "Do you know how fast you were going, sir?" asks the state trooper.
"No," Heisenberg says, "but I can tell you exactly where I am!"


A neutron walks into a bar and orders a beer, and asks the bartender what he owes. "Hey," says the bartender, "for you, no charge!"


Two atoms end up in a car crash. They get out to assess the damage, and the first atom asks the second of he's OK. "Oh man," says the second atom, "I think I lost an electron!"
"Are you sure?" asks the first.
"Yeah," says the second, "I'm positive!"


Charlie was a chemist
But Chalie is no more
What Charlie thought was H2O was H2S04


What is the difference between a physicist, an engineer, and a mathematician?

If an engineer walks into a room and sees a fire in the middle and a bucket of water in the corner, he takes the bucket of water and pours it on the fire and puts it out.

If a physicist walks into a room and sees a fire in the middle and a bucket of water in the corner, he takes the bucket of water and pours it eloquently around the fire and lets the fire put itself out.

If a mathematician walks into a room and sees a fire in the middle and a bucket of water in the corner, he convinces himself there is a solution and leaves.

Posted by Evan at 5:27 PM

living with pigs, err roommates

I'll cut right to the chase...my place is absolutely disgusting. I know everyone always says "no one cleans the place but me" about their roommates but at least this time it is true. I don't think we have cleaned the bathroom upstairs since we have moved in and now the toilet and tub are almost black! I at least cleaned all other parts of the house at least once but refuse to clean up there before someone else cleans something. At least one other roommate has vacuumed the living room once!

Also no one seems to take out the garbage or the recycling except me or the said other roommate. I took it out last week and now it's a heaping pile of processed food packaging, and we only have one roommate who eats so much crap. It's getting a little annoyed with this filth!!

Posted by Evan at 8:19 PM

...
Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool's gold mouthpiece
The hollow horn plays wasted words
Proves to warn
That he not busy being born
Is busy dying.

So don't fear if you hear
A foreign sound to your ear
It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighing.
...

Advertising signs that con you
Into thinking you're the one
That can do what's never been done
That can win what's never been won
Meantime life outside goes on
All around you.
...

Although the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

For them that must obey authority
That they do not respect in any degree
Who despise their jobs, their destinies
Speak jealously of them that are free
Cultivate their flowers to be
Nothing more than something
They invest in.
...

And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They'd probably put my head in a guillotine
But it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only.

- Bob Dylan - It's alright ma

Posted by Evan at 9:12 PM

Banff Film Festival

Went to the Banff Film Festival (world tour) with Matt and Keddie tonight and man was it great. I won't bore you with poor exclamations and praise though. Info on the festival can be found here. I know I'll be there next year!

Posted by Evan at 12:59 AM

Having fun with names:

From Wiki:

In Etruscan mythology, Evan was the god of personal immortality. He was one of the Lasas.

Evan is also in contemporary use as a male name, pronouced either "E'vaun" derived from "Iefan", the Welsh form of "John" and is closely related to "Ivan," "Ian," and "Juan."; or " Evan" a celtic name meaning "young warrior"; It can also be derived from the Hebrew word for 'rock'. Nicknames include Ev, Evo, Evvy (sounds like ev-vee), and/or van(vaughn).

Posted by Evan at 2:15 AM