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What is Your Life Path Number?

What is Your Life Path Number?

Kinda interesting…my favorite number has been 9, and number in volleyball was 9. Then coincidentally I was bored and did this little “life path number” thing and guess what?

***Your Life Path Number is 9***

Your purpose in life is to make the world better

You are very socially conscious and a total idealist.

You think there are many things wrong with the world, and you want to fix them.

You have a big idea of how to world could be, and you’ll sacrifice almost anything to work towards this dream.

In love, you can easily see the beauty in someone else. And you never cling too tightly.

You are capable of great love, but it’s hard for you to focus your love on one person or relationship.

You have a lot of outward focus, and you tend to blame the world for your failures.

You are often disappointed by the realities of life – it’s hard for you to accept the shortcomings of the world.

Interesting at how close it really is at describing me…weird.

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Untitled 4.26.07

It sucks when you don’t know know what you apparently did wrong. As seems to be a growing trend in my life, shit just stops working for absolutely no apparent reason. It is funny the parallels that can be drawn from computers to real life (on occasion). I had recently “rediscovered” a particular application two months ago. I hadn’t touched it in nearly a year, but this past month I began to think it was the best thing since sliced bread. This is before yesterday. Yesterday the application decided it did not feel like working any longer. Either it was sick of me, or I said something stupid to it, or the planets were aligned, whatever. Clearly something changed though, and now something I had just started getting used to being their again was magically gone in the blink of an eye. I guess it would be far more frustrating for someone other than me though. I am getting to the point that I almost expect shit to just stop working irregardless of what I do. Hah, a bit of cruel humor for my life. The phone just rang (and scared the crap out of me), and of course I thought it was you. Yeah right, my life never works like that.

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The Children of Hurin – The Lost Tolkien Novel

The Lost Tolkien Novel

Just heed this warning: The Children of Húrin is a darker, bitterer tale than we’re used to seeing from Tolkien. Its hero is proud and imperfect and willful — more Boromir than Frodo — and his story is full of accidents and disasters, poisoned barbs and ruinous betrayals and grievous misunderstandings. Which makes sense: after all, if the good guys had beaten the forces of darkness in the First Age, they wouldn’t have been stuck with Sauron in the Third.

I am incredibely excited to get my hands on this. I usually don’t get to read much for “fun” anymore, and this might just be the book that will make me. Don’t get me wrong, reading about DOM and Javascript is sorta fun, but in a different way. The wikipedia link for this book as a little bit more information as well.

By the way, you can buy this book right now on Amazon, The Children of Hurin. I’ll be picking this up very soon.

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4.5.07 Thoughts and What is Coming Next

It’s been a long time since I just wrote a post with no real purpose or intention so I thought I’d do just that today.

So quite a lot is going “right” for me at the moment. *Knocks on wood* It looks like I am doing pretty well in my classes this first semester back at college. That’s a nice surprise. I landed a research job that starts this upcoming Summer, and then it will turn into an independent study in the Fall 2007 semester as well. This is a good thing if nothing else than for the experience. I am going on a wonderful vacation to Mexico in June. Obviously a good thing. I have “rekindled” (for the lack of a better word) a friendship with someone I have been missing a great deal. You might see a theme, this is another good thing. My point in all of this is that I feel optimistic and I feel hopeful about the future. I don’t know the last time I was able to say that. Sure I still don’t fully understand what I want to do with my future, but I feel like I am able to deal with that battle when it comes.

I have big plans for myself this summer, besides work and research, and I just hope I can stick with these plans. I can’t possibly make it through a post without some obviously nerdy comment(s) right? Right. Well, I plan to hopefully learn a significant chunk of javascript and DOM this Summer during my free time.  The links I just mentioned point to the W3 Schools webpage which is an incredible source of knowledge for any aspiring developers/coders. I recently spent an evening hacking away at the Twitter API because they offer some truly god awful embeddable”badges”. I had to fight with the API a little bit to get it to spit out more than one Twitter at a time, long story short I got it working and it felt great to figure it out. This was also encouraging to me because I remembered a bit of the C++ programming that I had learned way back in highschool. Anyways, I digress. I hope to learn some useful things this summer that I can eventually implement on this blog.

Along these lines of learning, I also plan to make some major changes to my blog/webpage. Right now I use ExpressionEngine to power this site, and it has served me quite well for the past 4 years. That being said, I think it is time for me to move on to a different CMS. I’ve tested just about every CMS/blogging engine over the past 4 years in search of something that might be the perfect fit for me, and I think the “best of the worst” is WordPress. I specifically phrase it this way because there are definitely some things about WordPress that I do not like, but it also has some very enticing features that in the end have won me over. In conclusion, hopefully sometime around the middle of May I will start work on a new design, and then work on the transfer of all 900-something entries to WordPress. I am sure there will be some rough patches, and the typical glitches during this switch over, but I think in the end it will be for the best.

p.s. Season 3 of Lost is absolutely rocking my world… rasberry

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My Problem with Catholicism

So my grandmother passed away… (I am not saying that to get sympathy, (but thank you), I am saying that to explain this better).
My mother calls the church that she had attended for nearly 60 years to setup a mass…
The dickhead at the church says to my mother “My records here show that Jennie hasn’t donated to the church in nearly 10 years…”
Are you fucking kidding me? She was married there, my grandfather’s mass was there, and oh right she went there for 60 years of her life …and all this asshole can talk about to my grieving mother is money?
I am sorry, but fuck that, and fuck Catholicism
Did I tell you what happened when my mother tried to get me baptized?
My mother asks the guy if I could be baptized soon…
The prick says to my mother “Why don’t we wait and see what your donations look like and then we’ll talk about it”
….um, again, fuck that
Just for the record (and for clarity)
Different church
Different guy
SAME attitude
Yes I am venting, but this is seriously bullshit. And you’d really like to try and tell me that religion is something I am missing? Sorry, but I am definitely not missing this kind of bullshit.

A More Mature Me: v2.0

I realized something the other day while I was sitting in class. I answered probably close to 6 questions back to back. A friend nudged me and said “teacher’s pet” and I whispered to him “well then you answer the damn question.”
This illustrates my point quite nicely in that I’ve realized that I’ve “grown up” a bit now that I have gone back to school. I used to be that kid, sitting in the class who knows the answer, but I don’t want to be the person to raise my hand. The teacher would patiently wait for someone to answer in awkward silence until they would slowly nudge the class towards the answer they wanted (the same answer that everyone already knew).
My point is this, I am tired of wasting time, I am tired of playing stupid or lazy, and therefore I am going to raise my hand to answer the question if no one else will instead of sitting there in an idiotic silence. If that makes me a “teacher’s pet” then I don’t give a damn. I see the people that I am taking classes with and realize that I am in such a difference place then these “kids”. I am not really that much older then most of them (I’ll be 24 in April), but I feel like have a bit more maturity than most of them. Perhaps it is just me, but the “sitting in silence when you know the answer” behavior I just described seems like a very juvenile behavior, but I admit that I could be wrong.

Random Thoughts 3.20.07

”…but [it was] a great night tonight. A really [great] night. But it wasn’t wasn’t complete, it wasn’t nearly close to being in the same vicinity as complete, because I couldn’t share it with you. I couldn’t hear your voice, or laugh about it with you.
— Jerry Maguire

‘nough said.

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The 300 Workout

The 300 Workout

Not your average workout: Tire flipping, jumping, sprints with a jumpstretch band, runs with kettlebells, turkish get ups with kettlebells, medicine ball throwing, kipping pullups, bear crawls, tuck sits on gymnastics rings, barbell thrusters.  Real, oldschool, brutal – full body movements.

In case you don’t understand what is going on here… The newly released movie, 300 had some VERY (and that is an understatement) jacked Spartan warriors. For example:

Yes, those are real muscles. To be honest, I saw the movie and thought it had to be computer generated…that is how jacked these guys were. As it turns out, those are real muscles, and this is the workout plan that got them to that point. Part 2 of the 300 Workout is also available. Maybe this will be my little summer project…if I could end up half as jacked as these guys I’d be happy.

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