The Schoolyear of Scott

Last Monday, I had a complete and utter geek out moment, as I spent nearly two hours watching Microsoft’s feature presentation at the annual video game expo, E3, on the G4 television station*. During the presentation, Microsoft introduced an addition to their Xbox 360 gaming system called Project Natal. For lack of a better phrase, THIS WAS THE COOLEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN!  I mean, seriously, I felt as though I was looking into the future right then and there.  Many people made fun of me for the amount of excitement I had towards Project Natal, but I feel as though it was/is completely warranted.  If you continue reading, I think you will understand why!

*G4 is a station that totally caters to nerds. Besides showing reruns of Lost and Arrested Development, it has a show every evening called Attack of the Show, co-hosted by girls who I’m sure have no idea what they are talking about (video games and youtube), but are hot. Curiously, for a channel that talks so much about technology, it isn’t available in HD.

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I went to a fundraiser for Prostate Cancer at Morton’s this evening.  The speaker was Dr. Weiner.

You can’t make this shit up

The complex where I live now has a rooftop pool and I have an issue with it.

The pool is not what one might consider to be a “normal” pool.  This pool, you see, is on the 22nd floor, and, due to a number of reasons, is only three feet deep.  I guess the builder realized that the buildings structure could only handle so much water weight and thus made the executive decision to only make the pool accessible to kids 8 and under.  But this is not the issue that I am talking about.

My issue deals with the fact that there is a lifeguard on duty at all times at this pool.  This lifeguard (paid for, by the way, by myself and the other owners) sits in her lifeguard chair and makes sure that no one drowns in the glorified swimming pool (wearing her lifeguard bikini uniform, no less).

Her's is blue, but you get the idea

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Well, yes actually!

A week ago today, I had Lasik surgery in both eyes.  Lasik surgery, for those that do not know, is type of refractive surgery for correcting myopia, hyperopia, and astigmatism.  Having astigmatism in both eyes (basically, a condition where the eyeballs have little craters in them and therefore aren’t perfectly round), I was a prime candidate for the surgery.  I thought I would use this forum as a public service and discuss the surgery, and even open it up for questions for those that are on the fence about getting the operation (that is, if anyone even reads this site anymore.  Seriously, if you want a prime example of someone not living up to their word, read the first paragraph of my Passover entry nearly two months ago).

Not as scary as it looks!

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Friday night, for my dad’s birthday, I went with my parents to L’Auberge Chez Francois, a French restaurant in Great Falls.  My mom signed us up for a cooking demonstration with Chef Jaques (Jack), entitled “Lewd Food: Oysters”.

The food was great.  The ever flowing wine and champaigne was greater.  The atmosphere, though, was downright uncomfertable.

Lewd Oysters

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Earth Day is a day dedicated to cleaning the Earth.

When are they going to create a day dedicated to cleaning Uranus?

Tony K

SoS Note – I apologize for not having a new post the past few weeks.  Yesterday I had my internet turned on in my new place and before that, since I’ve moved, I had only been able to use the internet through my blackberry and my parents surprisingly terrible internet connection.  I will not bore the blog with any moving stories, but rest assured that I am all moved in to my condo and I plan to resume updating Summer of Scott regularly. Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

The Jewish holiday of Passover began Wednesday night, and as any Jew will tell you, that means that the Passover Constipation started Thursday morning.  Passover, for all the gentiles (goy’s, if you will) reading this who do not know what passover is, is an eight day holiday celebrating the Jews being released from slavery in Eygpt by the evil Pharoh thousands of years ago.  The story goes that the Jews, after being released, were baking bread to eat on their long walk from Eygpt to Jerusalem but during this time, the Pharoh changed his mind and so the Jews had to leave ahead of schedule, leaving their bread to not have enough time to rise.  This unlevened bread became known as Matzah and is the main food that Jews eat during Passover (we are not allowed to eat anything with wheat, corn, flour and some other things that I can’t think of off of the top of my head).  As you might expect, having a diet largely made up of glorified crackers with no fiber for eight days has its consequences, and I would like to discuss this a little bit on my public forum.

Funny because it's true

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I know some of you are wondering why I haven’t been posting as frequently lately (and I know some of you haven’t noticed at all), but the truth is that I have been busy packing and getting everything ready for my move.  Come this time next week, I (hopefully) will be moved into my condo in Arlington, Virginia.  In preparation of the move, I have been partaking in Operation: Sell Everything I Own on Craigslist.

Craigslist Hillarity

Here is how I’ve done so far:

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