TU Cent Thoughts, 1-4-06

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Welcome
Welcome new friends exrandu and rollick!

Administration
I now have 100 friends! Level up!
EDIT: I mean I have 100 people who have friended me.

On another note, I have officially added The Ferrett School of Blogging to my user info.

The Ferrett School of Blogging
-The Compleat Guide To LiveJournal Stardom And Fame, Part I (or don't you wanna be an LJ Star?)
-The Compleat Guide To LiveJournal Stardom And Fame, Part II (or why you should be a comment whore)
-Reject #5: Sandwich Time (or how bad writing induces your readers to go out for a ham sandwich or slurpee)

There's a dark side to hope
For my friends who don't read the news The first reports had 12 of 13 miners surviving. Then BLAM! Whoops, we misunderstand the communication. Twelve of thirteen died. [Droopy]Boo hoo, boo hoo.[/Droppy]

There's nothing like raising someone's hope and then crushing them mercilessly. That's the dark side to hope.

Sanguine saline turns into sorrowful saline. Terrific tears of joy become terribe tears of despair. A kind, understanding God becomes a mocking, incomprehensible Lord.

(Obligatory note: Droopy voice was used to shock you. I am actually very saddened by the death of the miners. So sad that I have to use sarcasm to detach myself from their sad story.)

Something that happened in my life
I managed to organize five out of six of my high school inner circle for dinner and a movie tomorrow night. The only one missing will be fighting insurgents in Iraq. May God bless samurai Maph.

We're meeting at Mike's apartment. I'm cooking burgers, Big Sis's fried potatoes, and corn with assistance from the black mage.

Syriana will be the movie for the night.

Random factoid
“Blue Hen State”: This nickname was given to Delaware after the fighting Blue Hen Cocks that were carried with the Delaware Revolutionary War Soldiers for entertainment.

Verse of the Day
"I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life."
~1 John 5:14

Convos of the Day

Father John: I bought FFXI.
D2: That's funny, the black mage said he would play FFXI if the rogue played FFXI. I bet the monk and the fighter would get on FFXI, too. Guess I'm going to have to be the last bastion against MMORPGS.
Father John: C'mon, it'll be fun.
D2: Well if the friend that I've known since kindergarten is going to start, I suppose I owe it to him to try it out.

John: Yeah, I'd be glad to help out this Saturday for the Quiz Bowl tournament we're hosting.
D2: I'd make it myself if I wasn't picking up this Delaware Blue Hen girl myself that day at the Tulsa Airport.
John: Hey, don't worry about it, I'll be glad to help.
D2: Yeah, you know how high school people can be flaky.
John: I know.

[Exrandu comments on D2's LJ with a crappy poem]
[D2 deletes it]
D2: I will not tolerate crap on my LJ.
Exrandu: Teeheehee, I was trying to antagonize you.
D2: The problem with trying to antagonize me on my own LJ is that I'm the benevolent dictator here. You are subject to my whims while you are on my LJ.

D2: Baptists don't believe in contraception.
D2: That's why so many of them get pregnant.
Kat: AH!
D2:?
Kat: You know, "ah", that makes sense.
D2: Oh, I thought it was AH, I have a second point comin' up.
Kat: Nah, it was point-less.

Mr. Adams: This flag is red, white, and green with...
[D2 buzzes in]
D2: Crap...
Mr. Adams: Daniel?
D2: Um...Mexico?
Mr. Adams: Oh my God, that's correct!
D2: BOO YAH!


Quotes of the Day
"Writing can be a wonderful way of confronting and toying with fears in a metaphoric, fantasy world where the demons are more likely to hurt your characters than you."
~purplkat

"Joking about Christianity isn't evidence that I'm intolerant—hell, I'm perfectly willing to tolerate Christians. I have never, for instance, attempted to prevent Christians from marrying each other, or tried to stop them from adopting children, or worked to make it illegal for them to hold certain jobs. I don't threaten to boycott companies that market their products to Christians, and I don't organize letter-writing campaigns to complain about Christian characters on television."
~Savage Love (vector: kimmaline)

Links of the Day
Crash course in learning theory. (vector: passionateusers)
A link describing the main theories of teaching. Also helpfully if you're trying to establish a "learning blog" or wanting be a teacher (which I want to be). Complete with awesome graphics and writing.

Well written USA Today article about the limits of what you pics you can take with your new shiny digital camera (vector: wolflady26). They actually make sense, too.

Sports Report
Joe Paterno is 79 years young and coaching a top tier Division I-A school like Penn State. I love the interview they showed during the interview.

"The worse thing somebody did was to invent the calendar."

Joe Pa is awesome. He's not like most coaches, solely worried about boosters and recruiting. Joe Pa actually cares about his players and wants to see them develop as men, not football players. That's why he's so highly respected, because he not only loves to coach footbal but he loves to coach life even more.

We need more coaches like Joe Pa. At all levels of sports.

Entertainment
I never thought I would start an MMORPG, but FFXI has been on my mind recently...

Seven is the perfect number
(vector: wolflady26)
Seven things I plan to do before I kick the can:
1. Get married.
2. Write a book, hopefully a science fiction one.
3. Memorize Fur Elise on the piano.
4. Graduate.
5. Run for a local election.
6. Be a contestant on Jeopardy!
7. Win the lottery.

Seven things I can do:
1. Write
2. Memorize entire songs on the piano
3. Make my mom's One Pound Spaghetti
4. Beat you in foosball using only one hand
5. Take you to school in Dr. Mario (original NES version)
6. Discern who you are.
7. Read your mind.


Seven things I can't do:
Good grief, seven? Well, ask a stupid question....
1. Mow the lawn.
2. Do the dishes.
3. Fold when I'm beaten.
4. Help a friend in need.
5. Stand poetry. poetry is the sux0rs
6. Talk slow.
7. Read your mind.

Seven things that attract me to another person:
1. Eyes
2. Smarts
3. Not afraid to tell me the truth
4. Breasts
5. Legs
6. Face
7. Thoughtfulness

Seven things I say most often:
Hmm, do I actually talk that much? I have no idea, now that I think about it!
1. Random
2. How awkward.
3. Do you really want to know what I'm thinking?
4. I'm a pessimist.
5. That's some bull!
6. Amaaaaazing! (in that inflection only Asians can put on)
7. Uh...no.


Do you listen to Voice Posts?
[Poll #645648]

Comments

[odclay.livejournal.com]

I thought you had 100 friends a while ago?

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

I should say 100 people who friended me. I'll edit it to make it more clear.

[loga.livejournal.com]

I have to pay for incoming bandwidth. Voice posts tend to be large in file size. Therefore, no, I do not listen to them...it costs too much.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

Wow, I didn't know they charged for incoming bandwidth in Russia. That's a drag!

[loga.livejournal.com]

Yeah, tell me about it. :/

[kmg-365.livejournal.com]

The first reports had 12 of 13 miners surviving. Then BLAM! Whoops, we misunderstand the communication. Twelve of thirteen died.

I was going to post about this yesterday morning. Talk about a kick in the gut if you're one of the relatives waiting for word in that church.

I can't imagine what they must have gone through. You're holding out for the remotest possibility that your loved one will defy the odds and make it out alive. Most people have resigned themselves to the fact that they may be entering recovery mode, but you're still praying that they are still alive.

Then the news comes. The nay sayers were wrong! Your prayers have been answered! The hours of dread and waiting are over, now you just have to wait for them to be pulled up from the mine shaft.

Then a scant time later, you find out that they were actually dead.

I think it would be too much for me to bear, emotionally, were I in that situation.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

I happen to think that the family that will feel the most pain is the sole survivor's. Everytime they see him or talk to him, they will be reminded that he was the lucky one. And, if it is a small coal mining town, it is very likely they will be reminded of the 12 other miners.

That's heartbreak.