What Happens When I'm Bored

A while ago I was bored, so I wrote out a long e-mail to a friend. This was before my days of blogging, so I ended up venting. A lot. Here you go.

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Hey-  

I'm sitting in class right now, bored out of my mind! Why couldn't you have just stayed sick... jk. I'm glad your feeling all better. I'm going to work on this e-mail intermittantly, as random things pop into my head, so expect it to get a little.... random. Heh.  

Anyway, I think I need a new e-mail address. This one is getting too cluttered with junk mail (I filled up my block list!) So, if you have an any suggestions, feel free to let me know. It'll prolly be with Hotmail again, cuz I love these guys, and I can check my e-mail using Outlook Express, which is a bunch easier to use than the normal website interface.  

Hrmmm... just checked my Netscape Mailbox. I got it for free, comes with a AIM account. I don't usually use it, but the little icon was flashing, and I got annoyed. AGGHH, there it is again!... Okay, thats done.  

So, what do you think of this real time e-mail thing so far? I'm just doing it cuz I'm bored. I really should do something else. Homework?....nah. Maybe I'll start my rants again. If I do, I'll be sure to include you, because I know you like them so much... well, the ones I showed you.  

Sigh.... stupid webcomics, they update too slow. I need my stories in one shot bursts, not in GIGANTOR (for some reason, I'm pronouncing that word in Spanish, so the G = H, as in HIGANTOR!) extended sessions, stretched out over weeks and months... I've got too much free time for them to be lolly gagging. Heh, I'm not one to complain, tho. Not like I have MY OWN webcomic... yet. *Can't draw worth a crap.* Oh yeah... oh well, scratch that idea, then. I'll just stick to my own rants and stories, and other text-based art forms. *Wonders: do ANSII naked girls count as text-based art?*  

Last night, I was watching Moulin Rouge (not ROGUE, though I believe a rogue [a ranger type fellow in a fantasy story, like Strider from Lord of the Rings] is definately cooler than a rouge [a pink? does that even make grammatical sense?] hehe, side tracks are funny) with a friend from Washington. No, we weren't together; we both started the movie at the same time in our respective locations, and chatted about it as we watched. If you've never seen it before (or even if you have, there's no stopping me!), theres a scene where the main characters (guy [Ewan Macgregor, by the way, the total bad ass who plays Obi-Wan in the prequels, and he's got my name smack dab in the middle of his last name, too!] and girl [Nicole Kidman, just to be fair]) are singing a romantic love song and dancing, and they step off the balcony, and are dancing around a minature version of Paris (its some sort of love trippyness or something). The conversation between me and Anya (the girl I was watching it with) went something like this (and no, I'm not going to use the actual screen names, because I'm too lazy):

"
Greg: OH NO!
Greg: EWANMACGREGOR IS ATTACKING PARIS!!!
Anya: lol
Greg: SUMMON GOZILLA!!!
Anya: how romantic
Greg: heh
*five minutes pass as she realizes that summoning Godzilla is not romantic after all*
Anya: hah
Anya: dork
"

So there you have it, unequivical proof that I am a dork. AND PROUD OF IT.   At this point, I have 3 major tangents bouncing in my head, but this one wins out: "I AM SO COLD RIGHT NOW!!!!!!" *sHIVERS* *Remembers he left caps lock on, debates whether to go back and fix that last bit* *Goes back and DE-fixes it* 

Oh yeah, I wanted to talk about my signature in that last e-mail you got. I don't usually go by the nickname of "Johnny". (Hell, I don't usually spell Johnny that way, I spell it Jonny, or just stick with John.) I included it as a reference back to myself being labled a type: "Johnny" Magic player, i.e., someone who likes making wacky and tricky decks, like the unbelievably long winded Leveler Deck I made yesterday. I do hope it didn't bore you. I usually throw in some random quip like that at the end, in the format Greg "something" Levine; or Greg Levine, something of something; or just Greg Levine, something. Today I'm leaning towards Greg "HIGANTOR!" Levine, but I think I have more stuff to tell you, so who knows.  

Plus, I have another hour to tell it to you in. gahh, I can't take this 3 hour stretch of NOTHING in between classes. I'm so glad I have you to get me through it all.  

I WAS GOING TO SAY SOMETHING HERE, AND I FORGOT IT!!! ...Oh wait, now I remember. This is the first e-mail where I have ever used those little ** brackets, or done any 3rd person narration like that at all. And I have you to thank for inspiring me.

Random tangent: I was watching School of Rock the other day, and theres one part where the principal is coming, and they have to make it look like they're really doing work. So they all scramble to clean up their rock stuff, and as she walks in, he says, "...and so, E=MC^2." (More on Einstein in a bit [and some other math related stuff, if I can remember it][This is more a note to me than to you, but I'm going to leave it in here, as a window into my odd little brain.) One of the random figures he has on the board, though, is this: "!x?". I just thought that was a funny little thing.  

This random memory was brought to you by this poster sitting in front of me. The headline reads "FREE TUTORING!!" which suprised me, because I wasn't aware the tutors are being held captive. Anyway, below that is a picture of someone with glasses teaching someone without glasses, because we all know people with glasses are smarter than people without glasses. (Listen to the track by Jim Gaffigan I sent you for more on that, and ask me to act out the things he does with them, because they need to be seen to be fully understood.) The girl with glasses, again, because girls are smarter than boys (you > me ^-^), is pointing to "2 x 4 = 8" and "2 + 4 = 6", and the boy is just sitting there with a confused look on his face (-.o, sorta) and a question mark above his head.  

Wow, do I love tangents. I just spend more time describing a poster that triggered a memory than the memory itself. I'd better nip this paragraph in the bud, before it gets too big, too. *Nips.* 

On Einstein: E=MC^2. Now, you know what that means, I hope. Energy is equal to Mass time the speed of light squared. C is the speed of light, mostly because he needed something REALLY BIG to make the conversion work, and the square of the speed of light (which i dont feel like writing out right now) is indeed, a big number... but its also a trippy number. It has been defined as constant, and that if, say, you are at a stand still and you shoot a lazer beam, it will go C. And if you are in a spacecraft traveling at 99.99% of C (because no object other than light can apparently travel that fast)and shoot a lazer beam, it will ALSO go at C! The usual way this would work, of course, is different. If you are at a standstill, and fire a projectile at Xmph, it will go Xmph, minus whatever decelleration factor it has, and if you are going Wmph when you fire the same projectile, it will travel at W+Xmph, the combined speed of itself and you. Okay, this is getting boring, so I'll stop that, because its starting to sound like a physics lesson.  

However... *dives back into the subject* what if you were in a spaceship going 30mph below the speed of light, and fired a projectile (not a lazer) with a speed of, say, 45 miles per hour. Logic, to my knowledge, dictates that is speed would be your own speed plus its own, in essence, (C-30)+45, or C+15, 15 miles faster than light per hour!  

Okay, now that your all excited, thinking I'm a genius, I've just been informed that I was wrong about light speed. Its not a Universal Constant, it is constant to the observer. So, if your standing still, a light beam will go by you at Cmph, and if your going 200 mile an hour, light going by you travels at 200+Cmph. Light is just screwy. I hate it, and I still think Einstein fucked up.  

Gee, I hope I spelt Einstein right.  

Hrmm, information is coming to my brain in slower clips. From the second paragraph through now, it has all been one straight shot of writing. ("Righting"; heh, damn I suck at spelling.) I crapped out again right about here.   I like this e-mail, I'm going to send a copy to myself. *Adds gtom5556@hotmail.com to "To: " space.*  

Hrmmm... I just randomly tried to check my Netscape mail (its squirrelmonger34@netscape.net, if your wondering, but dont send me anything there). (Actually, just about any of my screen names on Aim [don't put spaces] in followed by "@netscape.net" works). But this time, it won't let me. Grr.....   I'm sleepy. It's too bad there's no beds around here, or I'd be napping right now. Actually, I guess, for you, its a good thing I can't sleep now, because otherwise you wouldn't get this amazing e-mail! (Is it too big? I think this is just big today because my mind hasn't been dumped like this in a while.)  

It's one o'clock, so much stuff yet to do. I have that 600 word paper on optimism due tomorrow, which I'm sure I can complete (see, optimism!). I have two more classes today, no homework in them per-se, but I need to get a move on on my C++ Programs. I also need to read my History Book report book, so I have some idea of whats going on. Oh, and Math homework. That's been sitting next to me this whole past 2.5 hours. Hah, like I'm going to get started on any of that crap now.   Well, I've really enjoyed talking to you. Like I said, I needed a mental dump, and I think you've helped a lot. Thank's a lot.

Still got more time, and more random thoughts in my head. I listened to an Audio Cassette of a Power Rangers episode this morning. Finding old collections of childrens tapes is awesome. Anyway, it was the first episode with the White Ranger, and made me miss those spandex wearing freaks. Not the ones they have now, but the old and cool ones. I have like one random episode from the "Green Ranger Saga" on Video, but its not really worth watching. Once, when I was babysitting for some lil kids, they popped in the tape for the Mighty Morphin' (not "Morphing) Power Rangers Movie, and I saw like the first 15 minutes of it. THAT IS NOT ENOUGH! If you have it, could you bring it to me tomorrow?I need to finish it. I've already watched it before, but I feel its worth completing, and its starting to bug me.  

Other random Power Rangers things:     

     As much as I want to, I have yet to answer the question "Do you know what time it is?" with "ITS MORPHIN' TIME!" though it was once an away message. I'll remake that when I get back home tonite.     

     When and if I get a cell phone, I MUST make one of its ringtones the sound for the power rangers theme: "beep beep boo-beep beep - beep."

     Currently stuck in my head is the orginal rocking Power Ranger theme, as well as the Red Rangers amazing cry of  "TYRANNOSAURUS!"
     Whenever I see the card Sabretooth Tiger, or hear any random reference to the creature at all, I can't help but think of the Yellow Rangers equally amazing cry: "SABRETOOTHTIGER". Some how, she managed to make it all one word.  

K, thats enough of that. I really need to head off to class now.

-Greg "betcha forgot all about HIGANTOR!" LeVine

p.s. Just wanted to see the difference between LeVine and Le\/ine... hrmm much l33tn355 is included. I am so glad that the V in my name can be capitolized.

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Okay, that was fun. I only edited it to turn brackets into **'s, and to protect the identity of the friend I sent it to. All spelling errors and other typos are from yours truely, as of Monday, October 6, 2003 1:23 PM. That was fun to re-read.

OK, later days folks.