April 18, 2006

  • It's Probably a Nerd Thing...

    EDIT: Heard all the songs I've been working my butt off to arrange today in the first rehearsal. It was awesome. It is so fulfilling to hear stuff I've written played by awesome musicians. These guys did great, and it was only their first read-through...but I was standing there hearing the music I'd written, in utter bliss, thinking to myself "THIS is why we moved back to LA." Right here, right now. This is it. Waaaaaaaay cool.
    The recording session is on Saturday.

    It's very possible that this will only be funny to those of us nerds that work in the Registrar at APU...but I have to share this, it's too funny not to share.

    At APU, all of us folk in the registrar use this funky program called TreQ (pronounced like trek--like Star Trek, which automatically makes it cooler than it would be if called something else...). Well sometimes it can be finicky, and have weird errors, but we have been working with the manufacturers to fix some of the program errors. Yesterday, they told us to open up a test section of the program that wouldn't affect actual students or classes, and to just start doing stuff to see if this one problem was fixed. So I just started creating nonsense classes in this "beta" section of TreQ. I was going as fast as I could...just making stuff up, and of course, amusing myself greatly. So I took screenshots and emailed them to some coworkers, who loved it and also started creating classes in the same section, and we all cracked ourselves up for a good thirty minutes until the software test was complete...
    I included the screenshots below of the final classes that we created for you to tak e from American River College...I'm not sure what major this is for...you decide.
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    So you know how classes are sectioned off by discipline (MATH 110, SCI 220, ENGL 101, etc...). Our discipline was BURP. Yes--BURP.
    You're probably going to have to click on these pics to see them up close to appreciate them.
    Have fun!!!

Comments (16)

  • You nerd. Any particular reason you chose this category? Been drinking a lot of soda lately?

  • My guess is that he sensored himself down from his first thought- fart.

  • My wife knows me so well...fart just wouldn't have been OK...although, more than once, if we had started to go the way of the fart, my first class would've been

    BFRT 133 Burpedus/Farteronomy

    OH! I'm so hilarious...

  • I have never laughed so hard at work in my life.

  • wow... Burping for Elementary Teacher?? They already know all about it! :D Though I will admit that "The Purpose-Driven Burp" is actually fairly close to how I feel about that book. If you substituted what you were orginally going to use, rather than burp. ;) And of course, there is the obligatory University Burpers and Orchestra. Classic.

    I like how you stop even trying to make them sound like college courses, too... i.e. "MY BURPS ARE BETTER THAN YOURS"

    If any of these classes accidently get put into next semester's schedule, I will laugh uproariously and point at you.

  • funny funny!

  • University Burpers and Orchestra was mine!!!!!!!!!! I'm a genius.

  • >>>I like how you stop even trying to make them sound like college courses, too... i.e. "MY BURPS ARE BETTER THAN YOURS"

    Well, that was somone else's...she wasn't getting it quite as much...

  • I thought you said that the cafiteria food was good? Whats up with all the burping? Tooooo funny! I guess your job is  harder than I  thought.

  • I was going to say, it could have been worse, but Christy already brought it up.  You work so hard Daniel! 

  • Always the bathroom humor with you...

    Hey, can you megaupload me the Frondi sketch?? And the Bush/Arnold ones too... Thanks.

  • Oh, the caf food fits the burps perfectly- it's so good, everyone eats it really fast, they swallow a lot of air, and voila! BURP 111, 165, 260, 270, and 427.

    Christy, I think you're right. I actually thought that, too, but I don't have as much license or background evidence to make such a pungent allegation.

  • ltms.

  • And you went to college to get your skills...too funny!

  • I'm taking it this project came after lunch!?!?!? $3 in the Cafe... remember you get what you pay for!!!

  • The purpose driven burp and Burp the Alphabet!  You gotta love that!

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