5.26.2005 | Opening in Spring 2007:posted by Jon12:22 | SAY SOMETHING | 
5.20.2005 | Kraftyposted by Jon09:04 | SAY SOMETHING |  Right-click and select "Save Target As..." 5.19.2005 | Boy Nazisposted by Jon14:28 | SAY SOMETHING | I learned in class last night that the American Boy and Girl Scouts are the modern-day equivalent of Nazi Germany's youth indoctrination efforts. E3 Podcastsposted by Jon13:03 | SAY SOMETHING | Check out the podcasts from this year's Electronic Entertainment Exposition compliments of Popular Science. They are funny, informative, and seem to be trying to emulate NPR's "All Things Considered". Great stuff. “The fact is…it was a very nice party. The Killers played music, and then we wandered outside in the night and sort of collapsed into chairs under the stars and listened to a Brazilian conga band of some kind and, let’s face it, our hash was done at that point. My only regret is that we didn’t get any audio of that Brazilian conga band playing ‘Another Brick in the Wall’ by Pink Floyd — which, I think, pretty much summed up the spirit of my soul at that very moment.” 5.17.2005 | Star Wars is crapposted by Jon15:55 | SAY SOMETHING | I CAN NO LONGER REMAIN SILENT [John Derbyshire] "Star Wars is crap. The whole thing, all of them -- crap, crap, crap. An insult to the intelligence of our kids. Buck Rogers made more sense -- and that's not EVEN to mention Dan Dare, Tom Corbett, Kemlo, and countless other far-more-worthy-to-be-remembered precursors. George Lucas took classic space opera and MESSED IT UP. Verpfuscht! The Empire has no clothes." Aschposted by Jon08:40 | SAY SOMETHING | Last night I went to class expecting to learn very little. I’ve taken Organizational Behavior before (the undergrad version), and all the terms are familiar to me. The professor has an agonizing sense of humor (including one very bad hemi anecdote), and deviates from the text just often enough to keep me from falling asleep. Last night was exactly that way except for one small thing. The professor began the topic of group behavior by drawing on the board 4 lines: X, A, B, and C.  During the 1950s, a guy named Solomon Asch developed an experiment to measure group conformity. In each experiment, a group of people were shown the 4 lines and told that they would be asked which of the 3 lines — A, B, and C — was equal to line X in length. In some cases they were told to pick line A, in others, line B. A new and uninitiated person would be brought into the room, and the question would be asked each member of the group in front of him, with each member choosing the same obviously wrong answer. When the question was finally asked the subject, he would almost always agree with the rest of the group, consciously violating what he knew to be the actual correct answer. When the lines remained on a board in the room, each new person was more likely to disagree with the incorrect answer given by the rest of the group. These individuals had a constant reinforcement of truth right there in front of them. When the lines were shown and then quickly removed, the subject was more likely to agree with the group in the end. This experiment was by far the most interesting piece of information I heard last night, because it seemed to me like a good example of the power of sin. When I am constantly told by the world that something is right and good, and I know it’s anything but those things, the temptation can be very strong to not argue with the world and sometimes even agree in the way that I act and behave. It’s hard to go against what every single other person in the room believes. It’s even harder for Christians because we face ridicule and sometimes worse when we say what God teaches us to believe. If I had constant reinforcement of my beliefs — reading the Bible often — it would make it much easier to keep myself in check and actually have the guts to not give in. Just because the whole world says something doesn’t make it so. I think I got more out of that lesson than the rest of my class did. 5.11.2005 | Samurai Champlooposted by Jon13:22 | SAY SOMETHING |  Mugen I finished the second (and final) season of Samurai Champloo earlier this week. If you've not seen this, you are missing out. The show is Anime, but unlike other Anime cartoons (which I despise) that feature sci-fi or little kids with weird supernatural powers and whatnot, this one is set in Japan during the late 1700s and only ventured into the supernatural one time (one episode contained a weird plotline involving zombies).  Mugen, Jin, and Fuu The show follows the journey of three companions. Mugen and Jin are two talented swordsmen who assist a girl, Fuu, in searching for the "Samurai who smells like sunflowers". The development of these characters and the storyline in general are incredibly well-written, and the show as a whole is just plain good story-telling. The ending was especially nice and unexpected. I definitely recommend this to anyone who is not bothered or distracted by subtitles. This is one of my favs, now, right up there with Lost and 24.  Mugen attacked 5.10.2005 | I have a _____ personalityposted by Jon13:24 | SAY SOMETHING | Started my first class yesterday evening. It was intriguing but tiring (being on Eglin for 15 hours is kind of a drag). The class is sort of like my Organizational Behavior class from my undergrad days but without the games and with less (but more time-consuming) work. It's not as bad as I thought it might be. The first thing on my agenda for the class is to take 50-something individual psychological evaluations over the 'net and then write a 15-page paper evaluating myself. Then I get to interview and evaluate the "emotional intelligence" of 8 local people in management positions. Then there's a group presentation and a take-home final. One of the evaluations I have to take is the Jungian Analysis (the "16-Type Personality Test"). I took it this morning and was labeled an ENTP. You can take a free, simplified version of the test here. 5.06.2005 | Where I was bornposted by Jon13:02 | SAY SOMETHING |  Naval Hospital Pensacola 5.03.2005 | Top 10 things I'm glad I've doneposted by Jon11:54 | SAY SOMETHING | These aren't the most important things I've experienced, just some of the most enjoyable ones: ________________________________________________________ 10. Stayed in a beach condo for free and made lots of money working for 3 weeks as a Papa John's/"taxi" driver during Spring Break 2004 in Panama City Beach. |
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 |