Old Blog Jones

I don't think it worked,

I don't think it worked, but I have to get off line now. Getting up at 5:20 AM and all that. See ya!

Brand New Feature!

Following Alliance HQ's advice, I'm going to try getting around the BlogSpot Permalink Problem. This involved having titles on my posts for some reason. So, now my posts will have titles. Yay!

You can get everything at

You can get everything at Wal-Mart!

Because it's been on Dave

Because it's been on Dave Barry's blog, I'm sure everyone already knows about the woman trampled at WalMart. What get's me is WalMart's reaction:

How nice of them! They put a DVD player on hold for her. It seems to me that if you really wanted her business later on, you'd just give her the DVD player. And maybe a new TV. It might have warded off the lawsuit that you know is coming.

I'm pretty normal then.

I'm pretty normal then. Cool.

Something I saw in my

Something I saw in my local paper this morning: Some educators lament trend away from liberal arts.

Key Quotes:

Riiiiight.

Well, duh! What are you going to do with an English and Literature degree? Besides become an English Literature teacher and perpetuate useless knowledge. (See my earlier post about poetry, Friday, Oct 24) People need skills that will get them jobs. Or as my Dad put it, "People need to eat."

That's why I'm a business management major, not an English major. (Only a few more weeks of literature to go!)

It's nice to know how

It's nice to know how competent my local police force is. They spent all kinds of time trying to catch this bank robber, who during the chase broke into two houses, then stole and wrecked a police car. They took him to the hospital, where (my emphasis):

I need to move. Soon.

Glenn Reynolds: Evil Scientist

Does anyone else think that Glenn Reynolds bears a striking resemblance to Wayne Selenski in Honey I Shrunk the Kids?

Glenn	Rick (Wayne)

I'm thinking that he uses the shrinking machine to fit puppies into his blender.

Yummy Cheddar X! 1. What's

Yummy Cheddar X!

A girl in my speech class last year told us that she lived in North Pole, Alaska. That, of course, led to no end of teasing throughout the rest of the semester

Um... I went to one of the Smithsonians on my high school senior trip (Air and Space). Pretty neat.

When I saw this: Tapeworms!

I like the Patriette. It's clever.

Sort of; I was born in Barge, the BJU hospital. My mom and dad lived in Greenville, SC, then we moved to Georgia, and then back to Spartanburg (30 mi from Greenville). All for Dad's job.

I'd buy plane tickets from Greenville to NY to London to Paris, etc back to Greenville. I'd steal things between flights from the local airports. Thus, I would take, over the world.

::comes up for air:: Wow.

::comes up for air::

Wow. That was a long weekend + couple of days.

Saturday: Wake up, shower, go out with church group to rake leaves for shut-ins/visit with them. Eat lunch. Visit another shut-in. Go home. Go to school for a society brother/sister outing. Enjoy this. Go to the library to work on stupid American Lit. paper. Discover that no one has written anything about your topic. Struggle to come up with a new one. Fail. Go home. Sleep.

Sunday: Wake up, shower/eat breakfast, church, brief video game time, lunch, other homework (skip choir practice to finish it in time), eat dinner, go to church, go home, take care of more homework, go to bed.

Monday: Wake up, shower/breakfast, go to school, get done with classes/chapel at noon, lunch, go to library all afternoon to find out what to write about, figure something out, see advisor to make sure it will work, go back to library, spend what's left of the afternoon (til after 5pm) finding reading material, go home, look up more reading material and type up an annotated bibliography and outline to turn in on Tuesday.

After that, things died down a bit, but it's going to be very nice to relax for a couple of days. Ah.......

Wow! That's two weeks I've

Wow! That's two weeks I've missed ofCheddar X! Double dose this time; actually a triple dose since this weeks is double sized already.

Hmm... Probably that if you ever doubt God's will, after having gone to the Bible and gotten the counsel of godly friends, to take a baby step in the direction you're contemplating. As long as you're praying for God to direct your path and for his wisdom, he won't let you get too far in the wrong direction. That I've ever found? I tend to think blogging is pretty good, as is the software from StarDock, and Real Alternative (see the post below). Oh, did you mean a tangible object? Not sure. Probably the book Rich Dad, Poor Dad. Intermittent. BJU student. Not sure, sorry. If something comes to me, I'll edit this. Michael Jackson and the head of the National Organization of Women. The womanliest man and the manliest women. I love being able to know virtually anything in seconds. On the other hand, I hate the sluts who try to get me to view their naked bodies. Just leave me alone for crying out loud.

And now, this week:

Aw, I hate this question. There are a lot of good movies. I like pretty much anything made by Pixar, and Shrek. My least favorite is easy to pick out: Inspector Gadget 2, a Disney straight-to-video disaster. Awful, awful, awful. Not fit for human consumption.

Um... Lord of the Rings is the only one that comes to mind... I don't cry when I watch movies; I tend to disconnect myself more than that. The scene in The Fellowship of the Ring after Gandalf "dies" is touching though. I don't know; usually if I'm feeling sad, I'll do something at my computer, get my mind off of it. Or else I go feel sorry for myself for a while, then kick myself and get doing something worthwhile. Not really. I've never been to a movie theatre (parental restriction, and now a BJU restriction). I guess stay at home :-) Plot, definitely. Although the effects have to back up the plot; I can't watch the original series of Star Trek without giggling at the pitiful effects. But OTOH, Enterprise has great fx, but lousy plot and actors/characters, as did Voyager before it. That's hard to overcome. DS9 was the best--a good mix of fx and a great story. Another one of those hated questions. I like Allison Mack, who plays Chloe on Smallville (I know, not a movie; deal with it). Least favorite actress would have to be Kristen Kruek, who plays Lana Lang on Smallville. (Die Lana! Die!) Favorite Actor: Lots of possibilities here: John Glover or Michael Rosenbaum, Lionel and Lex Luthor respectively on Smallville, a number of actors on DS9 and ST: TNG; Hanks isn't bad. Good actors aren't hard to find. Neither are bad ones; I don't remember the names of the ones I make fun of. Cult movie? You scary. I don't watch Jim Jones' home videos. See 5 & 6. I haven't even see Revisited yet.

*sigh of relief*

We get to go see

We get to go see MacBeth next week! I'm excited. (You can tell by the exclamation point). If I'm not mistaken, Dr. Bob is going to play the title role. (Yep) Which should be interesting, given his accent. As a child, he had a very, very southern accent, as you know if you've ever seen any of the old Unusual Films movies. Now, it's just kind of weird. Listen (Real Player format) If that link doesn't work, just go here and pick a message by Bob Jones III. Especially listen for words like "huge." He says it "hyooj," emphasizing the vowel sound.

It's a role that he has played before, and quite well. His wife, Benneth, plays Lady MacBeth, IIRC. And BJU plays, especially Shakespeare plays, are renown for being really well done.

Attendance for students is compulsory. But few people complain (about the plays; the semesterly opera and instrumental concert are another matter; they aren't as good, IMHO), as they offer an excellent dating opportunity.

But, I'm not dating anyone this time around; instead I will be going with a group of my friends (both female and male) from my church. I think that's likely to be more fun; it's certainly less trouble and stress.

Besides, I think it might not be a great idea to take someone on the first date to a tragedy. That's some kind of omen, isn't it?

Hey, I'm back. For now.

Hey, I'm back. For now. More or less. You know Dr. Bob told us in chapel about a guy who said that medical school was easy compared to Bob Jones academic requirements, and I've heard of another guy making similar statements from a law school. It's encouraging to hear that.

Anyway, in case you wonder, that's why I don't blog often. Usually my time is spent on Expository Writing papers, American Lit. papers, reading 30+ ~8 1/2" x 11" pages of Management or Accounting texts at once, weekly meetings for my management project, discipleship group meetings on tuesday evenings, church, going to MacBeth (that's actually next week), going to Writers' Forum meetings, etc, etc, etc. Add to that a 35 minute drive each way to and from school, and life gets just a little busy.

I'll stop whining now. Everyone's busy, I know.

Once again, sorrow flows from

Once again, sorrow flows from my heart for my infrequent posting. We had a church missions conference last week, so Monday-Wednesday evenings were taken by church, thursday was taken by homework, and friday was my crash day: TV, reading Honor Among Enemies by David Weber, etc. Today I found Cheddar X through Pyrojection Here's my responses to this week's questions:

I contributed to the economy by providing valuable services to a local quick-service dining establishment. (Translation: I worked at Chick-fil-A) Glad to see gone: How about this? As far as waiting to go away: The exposed mid-riff. First off, half the women who try it are too fat for it anyway, and second, it's just disgusting. In fact, any fashion trend started by Brittany Spears deserves to die an unspeakable death. The greatest sports moment I've ever seen was my senior year of high school. My high school boys team was playing some other Christian high school, and the score was extremely close; we were something like two points behind. The clock is running, and BRRRRRRR the buzzer goes off, and we apparently lose. But wait! Our coach had called a time out two or three seconds before the timer went off; the clock is set to ~three seconds and the time-out is held. The teams reposition themselves on the court. The timer begins. The man with the ball passes it to Josh, a junior, who throws a wild three point shot at the buzzer--and makes it! The crowd goes wild. So many possibilities: The cast of IndyMedia, Michael Moore, war protesters, Brittany Spears/Madonna/Aguilara/any other rock'n'roll slut, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, etc. I usually have a glass of Dr. Pepper nearby; generally, I surf the net and write about whatever I find. I ought to find some habit to get ready to write; maybe then, I'd do it more often. PC. I like computers that run most software. And I like mice that have multiple buttons; that's the one reason I'd never, ever own a Mac: One button? Are you kidding me? As far as linux goes, I want a computer that works when I turn it on, little/no tweaking required.

Anyway, maybe I'll do this regularly. Right now, I need to go to bed, or I'll end up sleeping through church. G'Night.

Speaking of cool MP3 players,

Speaking of cool MP3 players, here's one that conducts music directly into your skull. It was designed for being able to listen to music underwater; one alternative use mentioned in the article was for underwater communication with divers and such. Pretty nifty! And a lot less painful than a tooth implant.

I want one of these:

I want one of these: a Dell Digital Jukebox, the latest competitor to the iPod. This thing, according to the specs, has a battery life of 16 hours. The reviewer tested that, and it ran for 20. Plus it can be used as a 20 gig hard drive, if you so desire. And I do... :-) When I start running out of hard drive space, chances are, this is what I will buy.