Tuesday, September 27, 2005

I guess the whole evolution/creation crap is getting thrown back into the courts, this time calling creationism "intelligent design", and with people trying to get the theory worked back into the schools. The evolutionists don't think it should be because it's apparently some sort of awful plot devised by those jaded churchtypes to throw a monkey wrench into their infallable elitist truths.

Despite that last paragraph (heh), I don't have anything at all against evolution. Is it true? There are strong references in Genesis that seem to point both ways, so I don't know. And even if I did, I have the feeling that my life would be, inexplicably, exactly the same as it was before. Go figure, eh?

I'm only posting about it because I think it's pretty interesting how the tables have turned in these three decades or so, where before, scientists and parents were fighting against the overzealous, oppresionist conservatives to get evolution in schools via the just argument of free speech, and now they're the bigots who are trying to keep any view contradictory to theirs out of our education, lol.

Really, they should both be taught (or at least touched on). So should reincarnation and any other theory--religious or non--dealing with how life on Earth began. (I don't think any of those ideas are right by a long shot, but then again I don't constitute but 1/7000000000th of the world's population.) Evolution should be taught in much more depth than any of these other theories (perhaps naught but a sentence or two is required for the others), but only because it's much more complicated than them and requires more explanation to understand. Not because it's necessarily true.

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We are, finally, totally moved into our new house. A week or so ago, we went back to Ottawa to help coordinate our move, and I ended up with a nice little desk/table on which to mount my homework and laptop. The size of my room also allowed me to put my TV at the end of my bed for the first time, giving me comfortable access to movies or Super Smash Brothers at any time. My room is a blast, and as soon as I get out to Wal*Mart (who knows when that'll be, though), I'll buy a disposable digital camera and snag some pictures of it.

Speaking of movies and watching them in my room, I fortunately remembered, when we went to rent movies a few nights ago, to look at Hastings (they have a Hastings here =O) to see if they have one of the coolest movies of all time there. They didn't anywhere else here or in Ottawa, see. But lo and behold, ten seconds after I started looking for it, I had my eyes fixed on a beautiful, beautiful DVD copy of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.

For you hopefully few dweebs who don't know about the movie, Bill and Ted are two guys who are failing their history class--and thus, school--because they're spending so much time on their crappy band, Wyld Stallyns. But as you find out in the beginning of the movie, the music of Wyld Stallyns is destined to eventually align the planets and unite the human race, creating eternal utopia on Earth. But in order for this to eventually happen, they have to first pass school. So a man from the future named Rufus, played by George Carlin (you're hooked by now, aren't you?), travels back in time to help Bill and Ted by giving them a time-traveling phone booth that they can use to learn about history and pass their final. It rocks.

And speaking also of pictures, my school has a scanner that's open for public use, as I displayed two posts ago, so you might be able to expect some more drawings and things from me. Then again, you might not.

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Everyone: That was not what I was looking for when I said I wanted someone to shift the blame away from me. But oh well, at least you all tried your best. Go have some steaks on me.
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Sunday, September 25, 2005

I don't think fate wants me blogging. *twitch*
Just as I was about to post something of decent length, I closed out the wrong tab in Firefox (how? Damned if I know), and now it's all gone. Just as seems to happen every. stinkin'. time I try to write something longer than 100 words.

Does it happen to anyone else very often, or what?

Maybe I should blame this devil machine in my lap, the betraying piece of crap. Or the fool who forgot to program the Three Laws of robotics into it.

I need someone to take the blame away from me, that's for sure. >=O
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Wednesday, September 21, 2005

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Monday, September 19, 2005

*Is a bit tired*
So just a link today.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Nothing to say, except for everything.
Via Alan, I learned of a certain website by the moniker (does that word only work for people?) Last.fm, and I looked for some comparisons to the band Hum (which I need to get much more material from, anyway) and found a band called Centaur at 100% similarity. I could only find one song by them anywhere, called "Wait for the Sun", but after one listen it really captured me. Like, really really. If anyone else has any information on planet Earth about them, tells me.

I'm not going to say anything else, because I'm listening to this song too hard.

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Mimmzorz: w00t!

Al: Good idea, if only that "never" part was actually possible in my life, lol.

Dr. Phil (hur!): Yeah, proofs are pretty tedious. I understand them, though, because I'm in ALGEBRA 2!!!!11 Hooah.

Shinvincible: Stronger! Faster! More pathetic moustache!
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Monday, September 12, 2005

As an initial note to the people who write math and other school curricula, life does not fit into an inspirational acronym like IDEAL or THINK, so stop wasting students' time with frivolous steps like writing the problem in the form of a question, exploring different strategies, writing gourmet recipes that use the constants in the problem to measure the ingredients, etc.

That out of the way, life has been standard. I was forced into a haircut Saturday, and now I look like I'm twelve, but eh, what can ya do?

I also worked from 11 to 4:30 at the student union yesterday doing nothing but dishes. Lots and lots of dishes. There was a catering event (a big wedding, specifically) the night before, and the workers didn't get out of it until eleven at night or later, so I don't blame them for not getting any of them cleaned up, heh. That, and it afforded me an extra thirty bucks or so (I've still not gotten a paycheck yet, though. Lots of hassle with the jillions of employment forms.)

Math is really sucking. I have no clue why, but I'm somehow doing really, really bad. Probably has something to do with it being so early in the year, with so few assignments (and me not having a calculator, lol). The teacher sucks something awful, too. Hopefully I can get that patched up very soon.

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The Professor: Well, I assume you already have a nice, comfy home computer, and everyone could probably use most of the other things on the list, so that's probably it. ^_^

Shinhooha: No bowling, no driving...

I really don't see how natural selection hasn't eliminated you by now.

ru570rz: Are you mad? Of course the original DM was good. The original DM was amazing. I just meant I needed to see the other two, not buy. (Well, not necessarily, anyway.)
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Wednesday, September 7, 2005

John is still in need of...
-A guitar

-An mp3 player (I can certainly do without for as long as is required, though)

-Several CD's

-Some nice headphones

-A driving permit (I should have my license by now +_+)

-A nice, comfy home computer

-A Master Plan

-A haircut, so I'm told

-The sequel and remake to/of Drunken Master, and much more Bruce Lee

-Some online Splinter Cell-age

-Glasses, eventually

-Telekinesis

-A new theme for the ol' myO (working on it, but very very slowly)

-The other two sets of Twilight Zone DVDs

-A new bed (there's a chance of this in the near future)

-Some sleep -.-
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Monday, September 5, 2005

I suck at blogging.
Yep, it's true. Shocking, yeah, but true. I suck somethin' awful at it. Which seems strange to me, because I love to read blogs and comment on them, and really I even love having my own. I just don't do it well, heh.

And it's not like I don't have anything to post about, either. My life--if not my day-to-day doings--has been fairly eventful. It's just that whenever I hit "Add Post", anything that I may or may not have had in my head at the time simply flies out, and for the life of me I can't figure out why, other than my feeling constrained whenever I'm on the computer.

As I've said before, my dad hates me being on the computer. I don't want to bag on him or anything, but for some reason he can't comprehend that I don't like doing most other things, and that the computer != games. =P

So (before I get all rambly on that, heh) whenever I'm on I've pretty much developed an instinct to always feel like someone wants me to get off, and I'm unable to write any posts of decent length or content. Or coherency, even.

I'd like to try and break that up some, now that I've got my own computer and a lot more time on my hands because of it. An increase of me posting should make you all ecstatic beyond your wit's end, or at least cure various deadly diseases and stop Earth from plunging into the sun.
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Monday, August 29, 2005

Screwed-up eyes and screwed-down hairdo.
Today was a downer a lesson in downers.

It started out ok - I was allowed to sleep in for an extra two and a half hours for a reason that still eludes me. Then, as happens every so often, a few crappy things all happened in sequence, and I became pissy, which I don't happen to like becoming.

Really, it doesn't make any sense to me to simply stay sulking in a state like that, and I think that doing so only displays a lack of maturity and (moreso) self-control. I don't care how you get rid of it, but I think it's important that you do.

My game plan was to simply cheer myself up and not let this get to me, but almost as soon as those events happened, I had to get off the Internet (which, all nerdiness aside, is probably the quickest way to find cheerful things to see and do) for most of the day. So I instead resorted to playing The Beer Song by Weird Al in my head all day.

My word, that song does wonders.

EDIT: Geez, how did I forget? We sold our house in Ottawa, rented a house here, and moved some of our stuff (and ourselves) in in an incredibly short timespan. Awesome.
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Friday, August 26, 2005

Some shots o' the compy.
I changed up a few simple things on the laptop, and I really like how it turned out. I decided to go with a Sam Brown theme.






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