Accept no
imitations
July edition
(7-2002)
http://tim.hopto.org/
Introduction:
Tim is now back
at wonderful purdue university. Back in
the lovely dorms, Wiley to be more specific, Wiley 203, phone# 495-9384. Yeah, dorm life. So contact me, or else I will get bored, and a bored Tim is a
dangerous Tim.
Current
events: School has started. Get studying, cause I don’t want my tax
dollars to support you. Also the
official tim newsletter is now online.
Tell all of your friends. A fan
of the official newsletter (I swear it is not me) has created a website
dedicated to the official tim newsletter for some reason. The address is: http://tim.hopto.org. Now you can read back issues of the official
tim newsletter and watch tim cam, as soon as it gets up and running (it could
even be up and running right now, beware it takes a long time to load). Maybe even links to some websites will be
added. Who knows what it could
become. Watch out amazon, yahoo, and
Microsoft. The official tim newsletter
is now on the world wide web, waiting to infect the world.
National News:
According to the
Reuters news service (that’s right I am going to actually start quoting my
sources for news) Aug. 05, 2002, the United Nations could be relying on lottery
money to fill its coffers. The UN is
planning to start a world lottery to supplements its income. The lottery would be ran by the world
lottery association (WLA). While the
Official Tim Newsletter applauds the fact that perhaps some of the money will
be used to fight poverty, I myself am wondering why there is now a world wide
stupid person tax (lottery). Look, the
lottery in Indiana was suppose to help fund education but due to the blundering
of our elected officials there are still teacher layoffs. Will the UN also waste the money on stupid
expenditures for the official’s home countries instead of the poor and needy?
We will have to wait and see. I suspect
someone is going to make a lot of money (and I do not mean the poor of the
world, the ones the need the money the most).
Perhaps we should all manage our money more carefully and give more to
charities.
Also, according
to a study performed by the Forrester Research, there is no evidence to suggest
that there is a decrease of cd buying among people who frequently download
digital music (BBC, Aug. 14, 2002). The
report says that the reasons for the decrease in music sales, is due to the
economic downturn and competition from other media. Also, it suggests that the music industry needs to improves its
downloading sites so that they support the burning of their music to cds and so
their downloads could be played on a variety of devices, instead of being
limited to computers like many of the music downloaded from their sites are
limited.
Technology
news:
I now have I dvd
player.
Auto week:
I have fixed the
leak in my trunk and next is touch up painting time.
Living
Conditions:
I live in Wiley
hall now. Stop calling me at home. I don’t live there anymore. Wiley hall is the best dorm on the
planer. I wish I lived someplace else.
Work:
Tim is
unemployed. I need a job for next
summer. Employ me please, or invest in
the new website. Give me money.
Social Life:
Tim is bored, but
at purdue. I am an engineering student
I have homework. Socially I am at the
bottom of the pool. Economically I am
at the top of the ladder. So I guess,
I suck.
Music:
I have changed to
list to be my top 6 because everyone else has a top 5 or a top 10. I have a top 6.
Rank
Song Album Artist
1 Fallow Fallow the Weakerthans
2 My Friends Over You “Sticks
and Stones” New Found Glory
3 The Closest “Start With a
Strong and Persistent Desire” Vex Red
4 Cupid’s Victim “II: The Power of
Moonlite” Tiger Army
5 Sugar Free “A Jackknife
to a Swan” the Mighty, Mighty Bosstones
6 Headlights “Who are We
Living For?” Dispatch
So here is the
list. The latest New Found Glory cd
made the list. The songs are catching,
what else can I say. An old weakerthans
cd made the list. Vex Red made the
list. Check them out.
Messages to
people: I have no clue if I have any messages to
people. So if you want to talk to me my
AIM name is: agaldor. Call email, smoke
signal me, telegraph me, whatever you feel like.
Passage From a
book (to increase your culture):
“I have paid no
poll-tax for six years. I was put in
jail once on this account, for one night ; and, as I stood considering the wall
of solid stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick,
and the iron grating which strained the light, I could not help being struck
with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere
flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up.”
From “Civil
Disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau
Editorials:
(If you would
like to see your editorial in the Tim Newsletter send it to me and I’ll put it
in my next issue)
Goodbyes:
Adios, Auf
Weidersehen,
Tim