1.20.2007 | Update your links!posted by Jon20:49 | SAY SOMETHING | 1.17.2007 | zzzzzzzzzzzzzposted by Jon06:45 | SAY SOMETHING | 1.12.2007 | Site designposted by Jon14:05 | SAY SOMETHING | The current design will only stay as long as it takes me to update my old code to get it to take advantage of Blogger's new system. Don't know when that'll be. Labels: blogging A few thoughts to make up for the dry spellposted by Jon12:53 | SAY SOMETHING | Last month was a lot of fun (actually, last year was a lot of fun). In the month of December there was of course Christmas, which was very nice with Caleb and Alec back home. The party at my parents' home was great, as was the college/youth party at the new Fellowship Hall. I got a pseudo dart board from the gift exchange of which I am particularly fond having traded a ghastly looking pink and furry cat ornament for it. Saw a lot of friends who'd come back for the break and enjoyed some time off work. Now that the fun is over, I'd like to say that things were going back to normal, but that's not the case. I've started three courses through UWF's MBA program, and the workload is doable but daunting. This three day weekend I will spend nearly half of in libraries. ******** Last week I saw Children of Men in Jacksonville with Luke, and tonight I'll be seeing it again with some other friends. That was a really great movie with some of the most beautiful urban warfare cinematography I've ever seen. If CounterStrike were anything like it, I'd be going to CRC as often as some other people I know. ******** I really like the new Blogger. It's very web2.0-ish. Labels: blogging, christmas, movies Here's a new late-to-work/class excuse idea:posted by Jon09:08 | SAY SOMETHING | 1.07.2007 | And the radio plays "How to ruin a lifeeeee"posted by Jon19:49 | SAY SOMETHING | It's too easy these days. America quickly condemned three lacrosse players from Duke University for the rape of a "dancer" at a party early last year. She picked the three from a line-up and bingo, they're guilty. At least that's how the media portrayed them. Forget the fact that at the prosecutor's request, she was only allowed to pick from a line-up of Duke lacrosse players. Forget the fact that there were cellphone calls placed by the accused at the time of the alleged rape. All that matters is that the "dancer" was African-American and the accusers were moderately wealthy, white, American males. Now even though copious amounts of forensic evidence were found on the "dancer"'s undergarments, they succeed in nothing but proving that none of the accused (nor any of the lacrosse teammates at all) had ever done anything to the "dancer". Two of those boys are still in court for kidnapping and sexual-offense charges just because some whore (and I'm not being flippant) said they should. Now it goes without saying that these guys are probably not angels, but when Americans are so concerned about PCness that they'd rather ruin the lives of innocent people than offend anybody, that's just messed up. EDIT: Here's a link if you haven't been following things: Newsweek Exclusive: Duke Lacrosse Player Speaks Out 11.30.2006 | Soundtrack to My Lifeposted by Jon07:06 | SAY SOMETHING | (Via Sarah): SO IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE? So, here's how it works: 1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc) 2. Put it on shuffle 3. Press play 4. For every question, type the song that's playing 5. When you go to a new question, press the next button 6. Don't lie and try to pretend you're cool... Opening Credits: "Chickfactor" -Belle & Sebastian Waking Up: "Two Hearts Beat As One" -U2 First Day of School: "Only at Christmas Time" -Sufjan Stevens Falling in Love: "Happy Hang Around" -Travis Fight Song: "What Makes You Happy" -Liz Phair Breaking Up: "Black Flowers" -Yo La Tengo Prom: "Lines of Light" -The Subways Life: "Over My Head" -The Fray Mental Breakdown: "Whipping Tree" -The Dandy Warhols Driving: "Hysteria" -Muse Flashback: "Walking on the Skyline" -Yuki Getting Back Together: "Muzzle of Bees" -Wilco Wedding: "Call It Clear" -Halloween, Alaska Birth of a Child: "Self Righteous" -Third Eye Blind Final Battle: "Way Away" -Yellowcard Death Scene: "Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head" -Sufjan Funeral Song: "Nightingale Song" -Toad the Wet Sprocket End Credits: "I Saw Three Ships" -Sufjan Labels: music 11.05.2006 | Do not despair!posted by Jon19:07 | SAY SOMETHING | Whatever your thoughts on the current state of our union, we at least live in a country that saw fit to honor the 40th anniversery of one of its greatest pastors' ordination on the 9th of October by flying a flag over the Capitol. Thanks to Senator Trent Lott for recognizing Pastor Schneider in this way. 10.30.2006 | Better get crackin' (or you'll end up like McKrackin)posted by Jon07:59 | SAY SOMETHING | St. Augustine can be a creepy place to begin with, but its creepiness is enhanced by Halloween, and actually gives the occasion some suitable context. During my stay there this weekend I ate breakfast on a strange stone altar, gazed east at the behest of a giant stone chaplain, declined an invitation to a gathering of Zombies, passed by witches, a wolf-man, and a wide and wrinkly Wonder Woman, and ate lunch with the ghost of a gentleman who had killed himself over a hundred years ago (he actually resides within his portrait, often in the company of his dead wife, who was not with him this Saturday). I love St. Augustine, but it's good to be back in the company of the living. Labels: halloween, roadtrip, scary 10.20.2006 | "You thought I went to the theater by myself because I had no friends?? HAHA. I'm here alone because it's easier that way! No, really, I swear!!!"posted by Jon12:38 | SAY SOMETHING | |
Trinity-ers:Be Jolly For Girls! Family:coffeemagic People I Know IRL:A Soldier's Story People I Don't Know IRL:Barlow Farms Music:Asthmatic Kitty Version: 4.2 |
