My success in Scientology

July 28th, 2008 lackhead Posted in Uncategorized 1 Comment »

Today I stumbled across the unveiling of a new search engine, called Cuil (pronounced “cool”). It started up recently as a challenger to Google’s search domination, and has taken a very different tack towards processing data out there on the Interwebs. You can cuil for “cuil” if you want to find out more about it (or you can google it, if you’re out of touch. I mean, googling things is so yesterday!). For me though, my first test of this new search engine was to indulge in the ubiquitous narcissistic query, and when “chad lake” didn’t turn much up, I tried searching for “lackhead” and got this result:

Lackhead Cuil results

As you can see, Cuil was able to somehow dig out my deep connections with Scientology, despite the fact that I have never gone to a meeting, never read any Scientology materials, and as far as I know am not on the “bridge to total freedom”. While it might have been due to having read Battlefield Earth back when I was 13, I’d rather like to think that Cuil has stepped up the ante and is now reading and archiving every human’s OT level, and obviously I’m scoring pretty high.

So, at least I’ve got that going for me. Chad 1, Xenu 0.

-c

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A French approach to North American geography

July 4th, 2008 lackhead Posted in Uncategorized 2 Comments »

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What is wrong with this picture?

-c

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Book ‘em, Chad-o.

July 3rd, 2008 lackhead Posted in Uncategorized 3 Comments »

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Hello.

My name is Chad.

I have a problem.

I am addicted to books.

-c

ps- back in DC, and yes, with all of the books. Lets just say that I pushed weight limits for my suitcase, and my two carry on bags. Now I’m off to see what the limits are for the flight back to Salt Lake….

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All good things come to a close, I guess…

June 30th, 2008 lackhead Posted in Uncategorized No Comments »

Bonjour le monde-

Greetings from Geneva! As y´all might have noticed, I´ve slowed down on the posting front. Things got super busy back in Tours, and then I kinda entered this supremely self-reflective phase, blah, blah, blah. I’ve been travelling around a bit on my own for a bit- I spent a couple of days in Annecy, France, and I´ve been in Geneva for a day or two, traipsing around, seeing what I can see. Tomorrow I head back to the states, and I think it is about time too; last night I was chilling in a bar catching the Euro2008 finals, when this woman walked in and I thought to myself, “Wow, that dress looks really good on her, especially with earrings, but the handbag is just too big- she could do better with a smaller number with a different color.”

Embarrassing to admit, but there you have it.

Time to get back to the good ´ol red-blooded USA. I´ll have to relearn how to type again- I´m now using a Swiss keyboard, which aint French and aint US either, and am having a hard time typing. Plus the access here is expensive! Dinner last night, a small panini with a side salad and an iced tea was $22. Cokes are $4.50, stamps to the USA were 2x what they were in France. But hey, at least the toilet paper comes in rolls, like God intended.

Anyway, I´ll be in DC shortly, and will hopefully upload a slew of pictures and movies then.

Peace out yo,

-c

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