cat3 makes you look pretty ugly

July 06, 2001, 02:18 pm

Ugh. My alarm went off at 8:05am (as it's supposed to) and I thought it was Saturday. I fell back asleep and had a dream. It's been a long time since I've been able to remember my dreams, so this one has been in my head all day.

I was in some other country where it was very cold and there was a lot of snow everywhere. And I was in this classroom-type setting, but it was outside. And Avery Kolers (who taught my business ethics class) was apparently teaching this class, but for some reason he was on rollerblades (maybe this is influence from playing Jet Grind Radio before going to bed?). I was thinking, What the hell is he doing?!? There's snow on the ground!!

And my friend Davis was there (I haven't seen him in two and a half years (I think (?)). And this kid that I play guitar with sometimes (who keeps trying to get me to be in a metal band with him so we can "take Louisville by storm") was there. And he was telling me about how his father plays guitar in a rock band, but he's really a telekinicker.

Also, there was a gaggle of black girls sitting around a crappy, 80's-sounding keyboard. They were desperately trying to figure out the rockin' part to Paranoid Android (think “Ambition makes you look pretty ugly...”). I kept trying to tell them, “NO! It ends on D!” but they wouldn't listen.

Then the class watched a video (or maybe it was a filmstrip) on sedimentary rock.

tel·e·kin·ick·er
Pronunciation: 'te-l&-ken-ni-k&r
Etymology: a variation on the word Teletekniker (which, to my understanding, means Telephone Technician in Swedish)

Once upon a time, there was a man named Zan who worked at Internet Tool & Die. He was very unusual. And one day he brought in a Swedish magazine that featured an article on teleteknikers, complete with a full page picture of one, shirtless, with some cat3 cable wrapped around his body. He became The Telekinicker.