I really, really, really hope it doesn’t snow/sleet like they’re saying it will tomorrow.
UPDATE: It didn’t rain; it was just really, really cold. I’m sure it helped the hot-chocolate salesmen that wandered the stands.
Faculty Body was pretty hilarious. Fireworks were moved to Monday night, after the evening service of the Bible Conference. I’m about to start my last class before our poor-man’s Spring Break. I hope he lets us out early….
I went into the FMA today at about 4:15 to pick up my tickets to the upcoming Living Gallery program for my family and me. I had hopes of securing tickets for Saturday afternoon, either at 4:30 or at 7. Unfortunately, I was running a little late; students were required to get tickets by tonight at 5 or face the penalty of demerits. Predictably, there was a shortage of the tickets I wanted: Only 1 ticket was available at 4:30, 1 ticket at 7, and 3 tickets at 2.
I asked the Programs & Productions Guy if there were any other tickets available for the times I wanted; there were not. ~OK, let me call and see if should get the 2:00 tickets,~ I said to P&PG, walking out into the lobby to call my mom. Short answer: Yeah, get the tickets. I take the three steps necessary to return to the ticket tables, and…
~I know you just didn’t.~ I stood in mild disbelief. P&PG had not only abandoned the table, but had, in the course of my thirty second phone call, during which I was in plain sight of the ticket table, given two of my tickets to someone else while my back was turned.
~I’m sorry, what was that?~ P&PG’s associate, P&P Girl, looked up from the Friday table.
I mumbled something, which I’m proud to say didn’t include any of the derogatory terms for P&PG that I was formulating. I then started for the door; P&PG called after me: ~Hey, there are some seats opening up for Saturday at 4:30.~
Well, then. All is forgiven. Another group had exchanged their tickets for a different day, leaving 4 seats together for 4:30pm. I asked for three and handed P&PG my permit slip, which entitled me to a free ticket. ~How much for the other two?~
~Oh, I’m sorry. You have to buy tickets at the ticket window, and they closed at 4.~
My mild disbelief returned.
~And we’re not open tomorrow because of Gold Rush Daze,~ he finished.
~OK, so can you reserve those tickets for me so I can buy them on Friday?~
~No, I’m sorry, we can’t reserve tickets. But there shouldn’t be any problem getting three seats together then.~
Sure. Helpful guy. One or the other of the P&P team pointed out that I needed to get my ticket today so that I wouldn’t get demerits, but that I could exchange them on Friday for the group of tickets.
So, now I have possession of a ticket that I do not want, and I do not have possession of the three tickets that I do want, which were sitting there unclaimed on the desk. I also now have the hassle of trying to find time to get there; I have classes until 4, which is conveniently the same time the ticket window closes. This means either A) They must be open during my 12 o’clock lunch hour or B) I must miss some portion of class in order to get my tickets.
Let’s get the act together better next year, hmm?
Here’s a program that might help you bloggers out there: It’s called “Send to FTP.”
(For the benefit of the uninitiated, FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol; programs called FTP clients use FTP to send files around over the internet. It’s the best way to add files to web servers like the one that hosts Blog Jones.)
I don’t know about you guys, but there are a lot of times when I’ll want to upload one or two files to Blog Jones; say I want to add a picture or a new plugin for WordPress. Before I found this program, I would have to go find my FTP client (either LeechFTP, which works well, but was last updated in 1999 and was poorly translated from the original German, or the File Manager on cPanel, which was pretty, but slow) connect it to my server, locate the folder on the server I wanted the file to go to, upload it, and close the program; a lot of steps.
Now, I can just right click on the selected file or group of files, highlight “Send To” and click “Send to FTP.”
It’ll prompt you for the name of the server, your username, and your FTP password, and then you hit OK. Seconds later, the file arrives on your server, ready to be shown to the world.
The software is simple, efficient, and best of all, completely free. Definitely worth a download!
For the love of all that’s sacred, why?
Coming in 2005 to a theatre near you….
Well, I’m off to put out my eyes now. Good night.
(Thanks to CinemaBlend for the poster.)
Imagine if your cell phone company recorded every single conversation you had and stored all of them in a huge database someplace. Everything: From your plans to go to the mall after work to company trade secrets.
Imagine further that they could make this database available to anyone they wanted–including selling it to other companies or playing conversations on advertisements.
Let’s also pretend that the cell phone companies had the capacity to send this database (or portions of it) anywhere in the world and could keep all of the data forever.
Scary picture, isn’t it?
Well, under the new America Online Instant Messenger service’s Terms of Service, they claim the right to do all of the above with your conversations on AIM.
Here’s the relevant portion of the Terms of Service agreement, my emphasis:
by posting Content on an AIM Product, you grant AOL, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, agents and licensees the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to reproduce, display, perform, distribute, adapt and promote this Content in any medium. You waive any right to privacy.
(via SlashDot)
(Program Note: This was written on Friday afternoon)
I don’t know about y’all, but this has been an extremely difficult week for me.
At least four, maybe five tests, and a paper. One of the aforementioned tests was a Bible doctrines verse test: We were supposed to regurgitate every verse we (should have) learned throughout the semester. That’s about a full-page, front and back to memorize, perfectly. Some of the verses are familiar; others are not.
It’s quite difficult.
In fact, it got me thinking: Why do teachers require the verses to be recited word-perfect?
Lest you think that this is just whining, let me give you an example: If, in a verse, a student should write “Christ Jesus” when the verse says “Jesus Christ,” that counts as an error, and the student is penalized.
Now, the differences between two translations of the Bible–or even two of the Greek source texts–include such minor variations as meaningless word reversals. One Greek text might read Jesus Christ; another might say Christ Jesus.
So, the BJU student is required to be more accurate than the Bible itself.
(Why yes, I did get a bad grade on the test. How could you tell?)
A friend of mine has a problem with the concept of verse tests in general: His opinion is that such tests encourage taking verses out of context in spiritual arguments. These tests, he believes, condition the student to use verses that support his or her case without considering the surrounding verses.
And he might just have a point.
A variety pack:
You think you’re having a bad day? Try getting your car crushed by a tank. While you’re still inside.
Scary photo of the day.
The residents of Satan Wood Drive want a name change.
The toilet of the future.
101 things you can do with FireFox that you can’t with Internet Explorer.
And, finally, the reason I plan to avoid British Airways for a while.
UPDATE: Fixed an HTML tag; stupid quotation marks.
It’s always fun for bloggers to look in their website stats to find out how readers have found their webpage. Here are some of the search phrases people have used to get here in the past two months:
These guys fall under the category of “Dude, write your own paper.”
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