Andy offered to take me on a visit to Purdue. The day started out bright and early at 7:00. Forty minutes later, after setting up the power inverter and squid, GPS navigation unit, and musical capability, we pulled out of his driveway and started south on the I-90 obeying the Garmin Streetpilot c320. This led to Andy getting off somewhere in south Chicago *screeching violins* when he was supposed to stay on. We ended up driving under Kennedy\/King college, which is more of an overpass than a college, before remerging. <\/p>\n
Then two and a half boring hours of filler. We did see a big billboard that proclaimed, “HELL IS REAL”. Obviously a tourist-luring ploy by the notoriously named town. But wait, Hell is in Michigan. Oh! It’s the other<\/em> Hell. Oh, those wacky theologists and their billboards.<\/p>\n It wasn’t until we passed some really rustic architecture and a large river that we were approaching campus. Thus began the interminable search for parking.<\/p>\n I’ll be honest and say that I don’t think the Boilermaker is a very cool mascot. All I knew initially is that it was either a factory worker or an alcoholic beverage. Mrs. Schmitz explained to me that it was a beer with a shot of whiskey or vodka. She then requested that I not drink any Boilermakers on the trip. O-kay. Since I’m blogging this right now, I’m pretty sure that I’m the kind of person that couldn’t get beer if I tried. <\/p>\n When we were parking, I noticed the car in front of us had a sticker recommending, “Lick it”. Andy pointed out that it probably had said “Click it or ticket” at one point. I certainly hope someone points that little confusion out to the owner. I can’t think of anything scarier than coming back to one’s car at night to find some drunken frat boy licking the hood ornament.<\/p>\n The tour was the expected: here’s a slideshow, here’s a video, here’s a tour guide, here’s a food court, here’s a library, here’s a belltower. We saw a dorm in Wiley Hall. Sort of a poor example to lead a tour group through. It had a 32″ LCD hooked up to a Wii, as well as a Ferrari of a triple-headed SLI rig complementing three LCD monitors. If I were that lucky geek, I would be a little concerned about my baby. I ditched the tour early to meet with Keith at the Engineering fountain. He showed Andy and me a realistic dorm room. Instead of the sturdy aluminum-framed bunkbeds and futon of the Wiley dorm, Cary had unsanded plywood-framed bunks and enough room for only a small CRT and Xbox 360. Plus a bottle of Herbal Essences which Keith repeatedly claimed was his roommate’s.<\/p>\n We parted ways in the shadow of a building named after some astronaut. Keith was to continue his 23 hours of Tuesday sleep. We were to make it home just in time for rush hour traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Andy offered to take me on a visit to Purdue. The day started out bright and early at 7:00. Forty minutes later, after setting up the power inverter and squid, GPS navigation unit, and musical capability, we pulled out of his driveway and started south on the I-90 obeying the Garmin Streetpilot c320. This led […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3704,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/3704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}