Archive for May, 2008

Daily Finals Timewaster #11

Hey, how are finals going?
Here’s another timewaster.  It’s called Castaway, and it’s a wonderful online choose-your-own-adventure just like the good ole’ days.  After playing it a few times, you may think it’s one of those “ha-ha-I-made-this-silly-website-that-makes-you-think-there’s-a-way-to-solve-this-puzzle-but-really-there’s-no-way-to-not-lose” games, but really, I assure you, you can win, and it’s not that difficult.
SOoooo check it out HERE.
If you [...]

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Colonialist Presents: “On Parole” World Premiere

(above) TJ Miller, DC Pierson, Molly Ryman in “On Parole”
You heard it right. The world premiere of the comedic short film “On Parole” will be THIS FRIDAY in the Betts Theatre, at 10pm. The film was written by Colonialist writers Kevin Mead and Darren Miller, along with Paul Briganti. Kevin and Paul [...]

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Daily Finals Timewaster #10

We received this DFT email this morning!
Flash game: Super Crazy Guitar Maniac Deluxe 3 (SCGMD3). Link:
http://www.kongregate.com/games/Shinki/super-crazy-guitar-maniac-delu…
It’s basically flash-based Guitar Hero for the PC, except it’s free, you can hold your keyboard like a guitar to play it (if you’ve got a desktop or a wireless one) and *it’s actually more addicting*. Plus, the site I [...]

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Daily Finals Timewaster #9

Soooo, the last Timewaster requires a bit of a commitment, and there were no comments.  So I’ll make this one a little easier.  This is just a really cool animation I found online.  It will only waste 2 minutes of your time.  Or longer, if you want.  You see, the original animation is available here, [...]

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Book Selling Reminder

Don’t Sell To The Coffee Guy In Kogan!

Reminder from my experience last semester:
I decided to sell to the cart outside of Kogan on H St. I buy coffee from the guy twice a week and he always seemed to be a fair man. I gave him five books to scan, and he did so with [...]

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Daily Finals Timewasters ARE BACK!

Hi!
You must have been wondering why you’ve been so productive lately.  I can fix that.  It’s finals time!  Yay!
Let’s waste time.
If you’re just joining us, I started a serial post last semester which include Daily Finals Timewasters 1-7.  These all still waste time, and thus deserve a second look.  You can check them all out [...]

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Unconfirmed Finals Rumors

Just received a late night email claiming the following:
Word on the street is that they have officially stopped letting people into Gelman.  The writer, as he composes this, is currently hunkering down in an anonymous office in the Marvin Center, hoping the disembodied voice of authority won’t come in and sweepingly kick him out.  What [...]

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Phones and Dinosaurs

Colonialist correspondent Jon Foox alerted us to some big news.
Phones and Dinosaurs.
More details below:

MORE AFTER THE JUMP.  If you have any information, please send it over ASAP!

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Fire in Schenley

We’ve known about this for a few hours now, but we’ve been preparing for the receSs show.
While the information is minimal at the time, there was a fire in Schenley and there have been no injuries.  We received a text from one of the students who live in the room stating that they got into [...]

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Hatchet Blog Gets The Hard Scoop!

Take a look at this amazing hard news entry.  Content-starved perhaps?
Anyone on G Street between 10:30 a.m. and noon today probably noticed that there was a group of cement trucks lined up and Metropolitan Police Department Officers on scene. The trucks were traveling to the construction site of the new residence hall. An officer said [...]

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