fall quarter's over for me, like it or not...
but jon's not... and since we carpooled, :(
*sigh*... 1 more day up here... i wanna be home w/my mom, or songwriting, or something... but not up here...
Friday, December 12, 2003
Thursday, December 11, 2003
technically, i'm done w/the fall quarter; i have only 1 more final to go, and it's my easiest class... gonna have some fun cramming tonight... man, i've done to hell my sleep schedule this week... at least 2 times i've pulled all nighters out of fear of not doing my best on the finals as i would like. i just wanna be able to go to sleep at 11:00 after a nice shower each night and wake up at 7:00 refreshed, but that'll never happen partially because i waste time...
the most interesting philosophy question i've gotten today during my Ethical and Social Problems in Contemporary Society final; usually philosophy questions i get in the past philosophy classes up here i brush aside, but i was chewing on this one for a bit. i'll try to paraphrase it for you readers:
suppose a medieval scientist desires to create an advanced form of a dog by genetic breeding and giving them voice boxes and artificial hands... essentially, he desires to create a dog who can think and interact with humans. he disappears into canadian wilderness and we never hear from him again...
in 1999, we discover about a group of 1,000 such dogs living like they're 19th century high-class Prussian ppl... after a celebrated public notice, they move to NYC where they begin to partake in human activities; namely business, entertainment, and the like ventures. however, after beginning to interact with humans, they slowly begin to contract a disease that transforms them back to their canine instincts. essentially, they would lose all of their human intelligence. now, not all of the dogs have this disease, but it is inevitable that all of them will eventually contract and sucuumb to it. except one dog which appears to be immune; this dog is named Ludwig. it's possible you can extract a cure for this disease if you can perform many painful and unbearable experiments upon him. however, Ludwig is not willing to partake in the experiment voluntarily, and as a fatalist, chooses that once all but him sucuumb to the disease, that he will kill himself.
that said, is it right or wrong to perform those experiments upon Ludwig?
essentially, this question tested the lessons we learned on abortion(just like how a mother refuses to let a baby live over her own happiness) and animal cruelty... and so what it essentially comes down to is that if we do the experiments, we have a good chance of saving this race; one dog's selfish ambition pales to his entire race(consequentialist argument)... however, it is right to torture a dog? and now think: he's a dog who can think like a human, essentially making him one. would we torture a human against his will too? also, in light of the abortion side, this would be like a case of rape; we subject the dog unwillingly to the experiments, and force him to bear the burden to save another group of dogs... we normally allow for cases of rape in abortion cases, but what about this?
so even though the final doesn't say what you have to say, only that you back it up, i answered in favor of the experiments, but i couldn't help but wonder just really what would I do if i were in the situation in real life. is one being's life worth sacrificing to save a whole race, and what if the being is unwilling to cooperate?
what do you think?
the most interesting philosophy question i've gotten today during my Ethical and Social Problems in Contemporary Society final; usually philosophy questions i get in the past philosophy classes up here i brush aside, but i was chewing on this one for a bit. i'll try to paraphrase it for you readers:
suppose a medieval scientist desires to create an advanced form of a dog by genetic breeding and giving them voice boxes and artificial hands... essentially, he desires to create a dog who can think and interact with humans. he disappears into canadian wilderness and we never hear from him again...
in 1999, we discover about a group of 1,000 such dogs living like they're 19th century high-class Prussian ppl... after a celebrated public notice, they move to NYC where they begin to partake in human activities; namely business, entertainment, and the like ventures. however, after beginning to interact with humans, they slowly begin to contract a disease that transforms them back to their canine instincts. essentially, they would lose all of their human intelligence. now, not all of the dogs have this disease, but it is inevitable that all of them will eventually contract and sucuumb to it. except one dog which appears to be immune; this dog is named Ludwig. it's possible you can extract a cure for this disease if you can perform many painful and unbearable experiments upon him. however, Ludwig is not willing to partake in the experiment voluntarily, and as a fatalist, chooses that once all but him sucuumb to the disease, that he will kill himself.
that said, is it right or wrong to perform those experiments upon Ludwig?
essentially, this question tested the lessons we learned on abortion(just like how a mother refuses to let a baby live over her own happiness) and animal cruelty... and so what it essentially comes down to is that if we do the experiments, we have a good chance of saving this race; one dog's selfish ambition pales to his entire race(consequentialist argument)... however, it is right to torture a dog? and now think: he's a dog who can think like a human, essentially making him one. would we torture a human against his will too? also, in light of the abortion side, this would be like a case of rape; we subject the dog unwillingly to the experiments, and force him to bear the burden to save another group of dogs... we normally allow for cases of rape in abortion cases, but what about this?
so even though the final doesn't say what you have to say, only that you back it up, i answered in favor of the experiments, but i couldn't help but wonder just really what would I do if i were in the situation in real life. is one being's life worth sacrificing to save a whole race, and what if the being is unwilling to cooperate?
what do you think?
Wednesday, December 10, 2003
queen of hearts 98 is pretty friggin fun... it's a fighting game between japanese anime school girls(don't worry, it's not hentai :D) if you thought capcom's combo system was thrown out of the window, i beg to differ... here, you can link all over the place... stuff like crouching lightx2, crouching heavy, crouching medium, standing heavy, standing lightx2, jumping lightx3... i need to get a gamepad when i return...
but perhaps the greatest gem i've found today is this:
BBQ(Yakiniku)
a small freeware game where you COOK your own japanese bbq beef!! that's so cool... very unique game concept... got a buncha giggles from me everytime i made the beef look black; then the customer got pissed... actually, according to the FAQ, the customer was me, cause that green bar is actually my health bar :D but it is very entertaining... i like how the beef actually browns very fast, just like how sukiyaki beef would realistically brown... man, i should goad mom into going to hot pot city or something... now i want asian bbq... dl the game readers... it's not large, not too complex to play, a good break in between your work...
but perhaps the greatest gem i've found today is this:
BBQ(Yakiniku)
a small freeware game where you COOK your own japanese bbq beef!! that's so cool... very unique game concept... got a buncha giggles from me everytime i made the beef look black; then the customer got pissed... actually, according to the FAQ, the customer was me, cause that green bar is actually my health bar :D but it is very entertaining... i like how the beef actually browns very fast, just like how sukiyaki beef would realistically brown... man, i should goad mom into going to hot pot city or something... now i want asian bbq... dl the game readers... it's not large, not too complex to play, a good break in between your work...
virtual on is so friggin fun... check it out at the abandonware site... it's like robotech/transformers/what not gone fighting game... like one must fall, but modified to use the 3D environment... once i get a gamepad i'm playing this like crazy... my only stipulation is for some reason the software doesn't work as well w/my laptop... if i die playing against the cpu using certain characters the game automatically exits. ah well... it's still fun to play.
2 down, 2 left to go... technically, it's over thursday though, cause my easiest class is on friday...
list of things to do during break:
-buy phil a xmas present(i don't buy gifts for my mom... except authentic davis fruit, haha...)
-get hair cut... if this thing on my head lasts any longer i'm gonna look like a genuine authentic fob
-get saturn fixed, and figure out how to tow the damn thing outta the garage
-record at least one song before break ends(if anything else, i hope this occurs during break, and it better be good)
-help finish phil's song(which i have never gotten around to; damn i'm flaky sometimes)
-try to record some samples for sam(again, this shows my flaky side)
-keep up to date w/org chem(i HATE this course! well, it's partially my fault cause i should be studying this thing 24/7, but i don't, but it just seems harder to me than bio which comes so easy for me) and bio
-maybe start my own form of bball conditioning to build my stamina and hops...
-get a gamepad
-almost forgot this: GET MY BIBLE READING ON... i have almost neglected coming to God during school... if you go by whether i do daily bible readings... also, i'm considering fasting during each school month for 2 days... it might help me keep my focus...(i will consider that along the weird notion i had of getting up early on sunday morning to sprint to UCD and all the way back to my apt every sunday)
THINGS NOT TO DO DURING BREAK:
-slack off and sleep in and put off everything i plan like i do with every single break
-play all my cpu games to death and put off everything i put above...
they say chance favors the prepared mind, which is why crammers are less healthy than the nerds... i'm a nerd w/untapped potential... hence why i am not that healthy during finals week...
turns out i was fuming about nothing when it came to my winter schedule... i got it all fixed out now just now... god is good... to me... sometimes... by the superficial standpoint...
may god have mercy on us two ucd peeps... we try to strive for what we're supposed to do, but we almost always come up short...
my favorite week of nba top 10 is STILL week 2... 3 reels by ginobili(the pump fake reverse going between the two jazz was sick, and duncan's finish from him was also rapage), 2 of jrich, lebron, etc...
why must all you mainstream white christians rock slow? :D
2 down, 2 left to go... technically, it's over thursday though, cause my easiest class is on friday...
list of things to do during break:
-buy phil a xmas present(i don't buy gifts for my mom... except authentic davis fruit, haha...)
-get hair cut... if this thing on my head lasts any longer i'm gonna look like a genuine authentic fob
-get saturn fixed, and figure out how to tow the damn thing outta the garage
-record at least one song before break ends(if anything else, i hope this occurs during break, and it better be good)
-help finish phil's song(which i have never gotten around to; damn i'm flaky sometimes)
-try to record some samples for sam(again, this shows my flaky side)
-keep up to date w/org chem(i HATE this course! well, it's partially my fault cause i should be studying this thing 24/7, but i don't, but it just seems harder to me than bio which comes so easy for me) and bio
-maybe start my own form of bball conditioning to build my stamina and hops...
-get a gamepad
-almost forgot this: GET MY BIBLE READING ON... i have almost neglected coming to God during school... if you go by whether i do daily bible readings... also, i'm considering fasting during each school month for 2 days... it might help me keep my focus...(i will consider that along the weird notion i had of getting up early on sunday morning to sprint to UCD and all the way back to my apt every sunday)
THINGS NOT TO DO DURING BREAK:
-slack off and sleep in and put off everything i plan like i do with every single break
-play all my cpu games to death and put off everything i put above...
they say chance favors the prepared mind, which is why crammers are less healthy than the nerds... i'm a nerd w/untapped potential... hence why i am not that healthy during finals week...
turns out i was fuming about nothing when it came to my winter schedule... i got it all fixed out now just now... god is good... to me... sometimes... by the superficial standpoint...
may god have mercy on us two ucd peeps... we try to strive for what we're supposed to do, but we almost always come up short...
my favorite week of nba top 10 is STILL week 2... 3 reels by ginobili(the pump fake reverse going between the two jazz was sick, and duncan's finish from him was also rapage), 2 of jrich, lebron, etc...
why must all you mainstream white christians rock slow? :D
Saturday, December 06, 2003
duncan posted 47 pts, 12 rebounds in the win against magic... crazy...
i'm starting to believe that trading walker away for lefrentz was a bad idea(what, it took you THIS long to realize that?!?)... celtics just aren't doing good this year so far... they haven't even broken even... it's one thing to trade him away for some height cause you lack it, but you trade away an all-star for a bench player, don't even let him start, and are not doing good right now... soooo...
kings twolves game was amazing... IMO i was hoping kings would win this one, but you can't win them all... kg was superb, and cassell and spre were both hot... in fact, spre was doing monstrous on the offensive end... miller was also amazing... kg had an amazing block against bobby jackson... just came outta nowhere on the transition defense and swatted away the easy layup... but haha... later jackson would also come outta nowhere to swat kg's shot away... that was sweet... too bad the 1st will make the highlight reel, not the 2nd one...
dennis rodman was on the best damn sports show period... haha...
go comfort joe when you have time... tuffy passed away... i liked the dog, but she seemed cranky towards other dogs... i remember when chris liu was visiting our church again and alice brought oski and someone else (eva maybe?) brought her dog, and jean brought tuffy, and even though she's this tiny assed furball, was barking the yell at the other two even when the others were trying to be friendly(oski especially) and scaring the hell outta them... overall, she was this cool furball who skittered all over joe's crib and didn't care a thing about going anywhere...
i'm starting to believe that trading walker away for lefrentz was a bad idea(what, it took you THIS long to realize that?!?)... celtics just aren't doing good this year so far... they haven't even broken even... it's one thing to trade him away for some height cause you lack it, but you trade away an all-star for a bench player, don't even let him start, and are not doing good right now... soooo...
kings twolves game was amazing... IMO i was hoping kings would win this one, but you can't win them all... kg was superb, and cassell and spre were both hot... in fact, spre was doing monstrous on the offensive end... miller was also amazing... kg had an amazing block against bobby jackson... just came outta nowhere on the transition defense and swatted away the easy layup... but haha... later jackson would also come outta nowhere to swat kg's shot away... that was sweet... too bad the 1st will make the highlight reel, not the 2nd one...
dennis rodman was on the best damn sports show period... haha...
go comfort joe when you have time... tuffy passed away... i liked the dog, but she seemed cranky towards other dogs... i remember when chris liu was visiting our church again and alice brought oski and someone else (eva maybe?) brought her dog, and jean brought tuffy, and even though she's this tiny assed furball, was barking the yell at the other two even when the others were trying to be friendly(oski especially) and scaring the hell outta them... overall, she was this cool furball who skittered all over joe's crib and didn't care a thing about going anywhere...
Friday, December 05, 2003
i know that mistakes in life are just blips on the screen; one or two here and there but they won't make a difference... i may just have gotten myself out of the A range from bio(by accidentally oversleeping and not taking a QUIZ), might have gotten screwed over in org chem, might have botched a chance to get closer to the reqd 3.5 gpa for med school, but in the end, it won't matter. but then, this principle, for all its theory, is very hard to shallow... sometimes i see mistakes as one screw-up in a combo in a capcom fighting game... if one hit's off by the slightest timing, everything else comes crashing down...
that said, you can always fix the future, just not the past, by concentrating upon the present, soooo....
-when i get close to only 3 hrs of sleep during a night cramming, i will set my alarm clock to ALARM, not RADIO... hard times demands harsh actions... i will catch up on sleep one week later...
we look down on those of us who are more boisterous about their negative feelings, but in actuality, we all feel that way sometimes... some of us are just more politically correct about things...
i'm seriously considering the possibility of fasting maybe 2 days/month that i am in school... i never leave time for God, and this is a way not only to have to set that time aside for God, but on a small way take care of some of my food problems... feel that sometimes i run out of food pretty quickly... oh yea, i should consider running hard and fast every sunday morning, since i don't really exercise up here either...
that said, you can always fix the future, just not the past, by concentrating upon the present, soooo....
-when i get close to only 3 hrs of sleep during a night cramming, i will set my alarm clock to ALARM, not RADIO... hard times demands harsh actions... i will catch up on sleep one week later...
we look down on those of us who are more boisterous about their negative feelings, but in actuality, we all feel that way sometimes... some of us are just more politically correct about things...
i'm seriously considering the possibility of fasting maybe 2 days/month that i am in school... i never leave time for God, and this is a way not only to have to set that time aside for God, but on a small way take care of some of my food problems... feel that sometimes i run out of food pretty quickly... oh yea, i should consider running hard and fast every sunday morning, since i don't really exercise up here either...
Wednesday, December 03, 2003
man, it appears that more and more evanescence is looking more like a "creed," ie you don't know whether they're selling christianity or not:
read this rolling stones article
and indeed i started questioning them a bit too; even though i had known the lead two were christians, the lyrics that i heard lately sounded more like things out of linkin park(ie lyrics that sound like this relationship isn't working, let's break it, you're drowning me, etc)...
"Despite that intensity(Moody stated he was intense with Christ), God shows up on only two tracks on Fallen, "Tourniquet" and "Whisper," and the group's propensity to drink, swear and act like normal, everyday human beings has caused the album to be pulled from Christian record stores. This hasn't hurt sales, though, which continue to climb week after week."
this is the only hope of the band; they state that they haven't finished stating their message yet:
""You know how you were talking about misconceptions?" Lee says. "We've only just begun. Just be open-minded. You don't know us yet. We hope that you can.""
so that may be good... (i hope...) in the meantime, at least i'm glad 12 stones is christian all the way... their songs are definitely christian... too bad they don't get recognition like evanescence does... not by the christian industry, and not by the secular industry... just from guys like me who love modern rock with extremely talented licks coming from the lead guitarist... it does seem at times that ppl think they're secular(maybe they don't really spread the word onstage, just by their music?), and the secular industry thinks they're christian(which would explain why i NEVER hear them on any secular rock station)
but then for the guys who DO get rave reviews all i need to do is listen to jeremy camp(robin parrish of cmcentral.com must like him, which IS GOOD), and sanctus real(they beat 75 local rock bands to win a radio show contest, that kinda already says of the good stuff they're made of)...
ok, gotta study
read this rolling stones article
and indeed i started questioning them a bit too; even though i had known the lead two were christians, the lyrics that i heard lately sounded more like things out of linkin park(ie lyrics that sound like this relationship isn't working, let's break it, you're drowning me, etc)...
"Despite that intensity(Moody stated he was intense with Christ), God shows up on only two tracks on Fallen, "Tourniquet" and "Whisper," and the group's propensity to drink, swear and act like normal, everyday human beings has caused the album to be pulled from Christian record stores. This hasn't hurt sales, though, which continue to climb week after week."
this is the only hope of the band; they state that they haven't finished stating their message yet:
""You know how you were talking about misconceptions?" Lee says. "We've only just begun. Just be open-minded. You don't know us yet. We hope that you can.""
so that may be good... (i hope...) in the meantime, at least i'm glad 12 stones is christian all the way... their songs are definitely christian... too bad they don't get recognition like evanescence does... not by the christian industry, and not by the secular industry... just from guys like me who love modern rock with extremely talented licks coming from the lead guitarist... it does seem at times that ppl think they're secular(maybe they don't really spread the word onstage, just by their music?), and the secular industry thinks they're christian(which would explain why i NEVER hear them on any secular rock station)
but then for the guys who DO get rave reviews all i need to do is listen to jeremy camp(robin parrish of cmcentral.com must like him, which IS GOOD), and sanctus real(they beat 75 local rock bands to win a radio show contest, that kinda already says of the good stuff they're made of)...
ok, gotta study
so it was kinda cool when i was all frantic today with the amount of cramming of catching up i have to do when i realized that the bio class was canceled... praise God... only to find out just a few minutes ago that it was due to the teacher's son being sick... not due to the fact that she didn't have anything to teach... *damn*... at least tomorrow's just gonna be review...
God, please help me when i cram these next few days... please supply the desire, and the ability to put my arcade stuff aside and just cram... in fact, help the others too...
man, spurs lose to lakers by THIS CLOSE! 4 pts! cmon duncan, you should've been working the mailman all night! seriously!
and warriors lose to nuggets... man, it's like they just gave out in the final seconds... i'm watching the game update, and it got from a close deficit to about 8 pts like that...
those socal girls are just plain weird(going by what i saw on lydia's profile)... haha... that's why us college guys should just swear off the girls completely until we're around 24 or something...
God, please help me when i cram these next few days... please supply the desire, and the ability to put my arcade stuff aside and just cram... in fact, help the others too...
man, spurs lose to lakers by THIS CLOSE! 4 pts! cmon duncan, you should've been working the mailman all night! seriously!
and warriors lose to nuggets... man, it's like they just gave out in the final seconds... i'm watching the game update, and it got from a close deficit to about 8 pts like that...
those socal girls are just plain weird(going by what i saw on lydia's profile)... haha... that's why us college guys should just swear off the girls completely until we're around 24 or something...
Monday, December 01, 2003
michelle branch - breathe
seven places - landslide
so it's crunch time again aka uc finals week... do you ask for the rock? do you give someone else the rock? i wish there was a third option; that it was still 3rd quarter... better yet, i wish it were still halftime, when i could get a chance to take a breather...
seven places - landslide
so it's crunch time again aka uc finals week... do you ask for the rock? do you give someone else the rock? i wish there was a third option; that it was still 3rd quarter... better yet, i wish it were still halftime, when i could get a chance to take a breather...
cracked me up seeing this on joe's xanga site:
"I miss my dog. I tried to talk to her on the phone the other day. Don't think it worked"
next time we organize a praise night, i'll start WAAY earlier... small turnout this year because i sent out an email on a saturday before the event(if i have done so before then, the counselors could've told the others about the event on friday), couldn't get the sound to work for close to an hour when we first arrived, then wes all of a sudden says he's not going at the last moment, jerm arrives late, etc, etc, etc... yes, i know that the object of worship is God... but if i get the minor details outta the way first, doesn't it make it that much more easier to concentrate upon God? (of course, you could always counter that if i concentrate upon God first, the minor details disappear) that said, it was neat being able to worship next to the current worship leaders of the youth, sam and clement... musically i know they have deep potential... they just need to practice... funny how the thing they need to get down is to get a good strumming pattern down... with me, i kinda just follow the rhythm when i'm strumming, but it's kinda sporadic... eh, different ppl, different difficulties i guess... bob, you need to teach them some strumming stuff... or wait til winter break, when i'm back...
laura played with her new dark blue bass for the first time that night... um, maybe someone should've practiced some during school, instead of just panicking when wes all of a sudden doesn't show up(NOOO! richard, call him back! i can't play bass!)... then jerm couldn't figure out how to write "Schwarzenegger" for a prayer request, so he just wrote "pray for our governor..." that was funny... um, yea.
but it was fun...
warriors > spurs, +2... awesome...
went to rib crib for my pre-bday and jerm's post-bday... it was funny how fast i inhaled the free desert oreo sundae, even though me and jerm got the same thing and started at the same time... jerm was so full he passed his desert around, while when they turned back to look at me i had nearly finished mine... man, seriously i wonder if i have a naturally fast metabolism... it seems that no matter what i eat, my weight currently AVERAGES out to 128-131 lbs... eh, it'll probably catch up to me when i'm past 25 yrs... but i should exercise more... even this type of diet isn't good for you. it might be due to the fact that i move pretty fast, but eh...
damnit, and my saturn's engine just gave out on saturday night RIGHT after i got back from mike's house... at least there's some good to this, like that fact that it was in my garage when it gave out, on a thanksgiving break, right after getting a smog check, but uh, um...
man, i wrote so much i have no time to study before bio class... i guess i'm just gonna end this blog, shut the laptop off and go to class early...
oh yea, thanks to all who wished me a happy bday... jerm, where's MY gift man?
"I miss my dog. I tried to talk to her on the phone the other day. Don't think it worked"
next time we organize a praise night, i'll start WAAY earlier... small turnout this year because i sent out an email on a saturday before the event(if i have done so before then, the counselors could've told the others about the event on friday), couldn't get the sound to work for close to an hour when we first arrived, then wes all of a sudden says he's not going at the last moment, jerm arrives late, etc, etc, etc... yes, i know that the object of worship is God... but if i get the minor details outta the way first, doesn't it make it that much more easier to concentrate upon God? (of course, you could always counter that if i concentrate upon God first, the minor details disappear) that said, it was neat being able to worship next to the current worship leaders of the youth, sam and clement... musically i know they have deep potential... they just need to practice... funny how the thing they need to get down is to get a good strumming pattern down... with me, i kinda just follow the rhythm when i'm strumming, but it's kinda sporadic... eh, different ppl, different difficulties i guess... bob, you need to teach them some strumming stuff... or wait til winter break, when i'm back...
laura played with her new dark blue bass for the first time that night... um, maybe someone should've practiced some during school, instead of just panicking when wes all of a sudden doesn't show up(NOOO! richard, call him back! i can't play bass!)... then jerm couldn't figure out how to write "Schwarzenegger" for a prayer request, so he just wrote "pray for our governor..." that was funny... um, yea.
but it was fun...
warriors > spurs, +2... awesome...
went to rib crib for my pre-bday and jerm's post-bday... it was funny how fast i inhaled the free desert oreo sundae, even though me and jerm got the same thing and started at the same time... jerm was so full he passed his desert around, while when they turned back to look at me i had nearly finished mine... man, seriously i wonder if i have a naturally fast metabolism... it seems that no matter what i eat, my weight currently AVERAGES out to 128-131 lbs... eh, it'll probably catch up to me when i'm past 25 yrs... but i should exercise more... even this type of diet isn't good for you. it might be due to the fact that i move pretty fast, but eh...
damnit, and my saturn's engine just gave out on saturday night RIGHT after i got back from mike's house... at least there's some good to this, like that fact that it was in my garage when it gave out, on a thanksgiving break, right after getting a smog check, but uh, um...
man, i wrote so much i have no time to study before bio class... i guess i'm just gonna end this blog, shut the laptop off and go to class early...
oh yea, thanks to all who wished me a happy bday... jerm, where's MY gift man?
Tuesday, November 25, 2003
getting bogged down w/praise night preps... that seems to be the big thing going on for me this week... and it doesn't help that i'm the only one sending the emails and no one is replying back... maybe i should add "heart of worship" into the routine just to remind myself what it's all about...
stumbled upon the classic "christian rock good or bad?" debate(it never dies, doesn't it? and it probably won't for as long as some ppl can't accept rock) in one forum trying to search for chords and lyrics for some of the praise night songs... what amazes me is how some old ppl think christian rock and christian hip-hop are bad... they see the guy moshing around, guitar turned up to 10, heavy distortion on so hard the speaker's getting feedback, and they somehow think it's bad... (or in the case of a hip-hopper, he's yelling so many words into the mic you can't tell what he's saying)... but those ppl need to remember that almost that the hymns were first considered devilish in their own right when those started emerging... so we should ban those too? do we just listen to jewish music then? also, consider this: christianity is not a religion built upon customs... that debate was ended in acts a short while after God made Peter see the light and how christians don't need to do "kosher" things... and let's not even get into how i do solo worship...
stumbled upon the classic "christian rock good or bad?" debate(it never dies, doesn't it? and it probably won't for as long as some ppl can't accept rock) in one forum trying to search for chords and lyrics for some of the praise night songs... what amazes me is how some old ppl think christian rock and christian hip-hop are bad... they see the guy moshing around, guitar turned up to 10, heavy distortion on so hard the speaker's getting feedback, and they somehow think it's bad... (or in the case of a hip-hopper, he's yelling so many words into the mic you can't tell what he's saying)... but those ppl need to remember that almost that the hymns were first considered devilish in their own right when those started emerging... so we should ban those too? do we just listen to jewish music then? also, consider this: christianity is not a religion built upon customs... that debate was ended in acts a short while after God made Peter see the light and how christians don't need to do "kosher" things... and let's not even get into how i do solo worship...
Saturday, November 22, 2003
me and jon showed up late for fellowship yesterday... but anyways, they were putting on a praise night of their own... songs were slow... but the attitude was sincere... it was like a couple of songs, prayer time, then rinse and repeat... since it was the late fellowship of the quarter, after that there was a bunch of photos on a slideshow for recap...
anyways, it was just good to have this thing... too bad i was sleepy from cramming for the org chem test... (man, i still have to improve my study habits...) but anyhow, good for getting myself into the whole praise night mentality...
god is great, and his praise fills the earth, fills the heavens, cause we're living for the glory of your name, the glory of your name
anyways, it was just good to have this thing... too bad i was sleepy from cramming for the org chem test... (man, i still have to improve my study habits...) but anyhow, good for getting myself into the whole praise night mentality...
god is great, and his praise fills the earth, fills the heavens, cause we're living for the glory of your name, the glory of your name
Friday, November 21, 2003
dante hall of the kansas city chiefs owns...
i thought i'd mention that... i really haven't been keeping up w/football, until i saw him appear as a guest on the best damn sports show period... and saw his october 6th performance against the denver broncos... i wish i could find the clip online, cause if you saw it you would've left your mouth way open... he shook the ENTIRE broncos defensive line! i was just getting awed watching this guy recieve a kickoff, then do all these fakes and you just see the defensive line collapsing trying to follow where this guy is going... he then breaks through the line and runs it for a touchdown...
i thought i'd mention that... i really haven't been keeping up w/football, until i saw him appear as a guest on the best damn sports show period... and saw his october 6th performance against the denver broncos... i wish i could find the clip online, cause if you saw it you would've left your mouth way open... he shook the ENTIRE broncos defensive line! i was just getting awed watching this guy recieve a kickoff, then do all these fakes and you just see the defensive line collapsing trying to follow where this guy is going... he then breaks through the line and runs it for a touchdown...
Thursday, November 20, 2003
i just spent some time at www.nba.com/history and watched the video clips of the greatest plays of all time(i haven't subscribed to IT, but you can watch the 56K clips for free)... damn... you don't know highlight reels til you see those... ol skool... not as much shaking and baking off of good dribbling(first to do so was AI on MJ i think), but the stuff they did in the air as well as their defensive stops were unbelievable... my mouth was gaping... mj, how many highlight reels can you make? it is really unbelievable how much he can change his moves and adjust when driving to the rack and going up for a layup.
Wednesday, November 19, 2003
there's an angry noob at the arcade getting frustrated at a fighting game playing AGAINST THE CPU, but EXPRESSING HIS EMOTIONS VERY LOUDLY; i have to say, i have never seen someone yell FAAAAUCK! and slam the buttons so hard after losing to a cpu... calm down man... and stop ruining the arcade buttons...
linkin park- numb(live in texas)
oh yea, there's some weird trick in area51, that arcade shooting game, which makes the game colors look all psycadelic or something... hecka hard to discern what you are shooting, although it's sometimes cool to do the code, as it's like you're seeing everything in infra-red.
Jeremiah 6:27-30: God compares stiffnecked ppl to metals that just can't be refined; you heat and heat but they just wont get rid of their impurities. What is the use of such things? You can only destroy them and rid them from the face of the earth.
linkin park- numb(live in texas)
oh yea, there's some weird trick in area51, that arcade shooting game, which makes the game colors look all psycadelic or something... hecka hard to discern what you are shooting, although it's sometimes cool to do the code, as it's like you're seeing everything in infra-red.
Jeremiah 6:27-30: God compares stiffnecked ppl to metals that just can't be refined; you heat and heat but they just wont get rid of their impurities. What is the use of such things? You can only destroy them and rid them from the face of the earth.
Tuesday, November 18, 2003
i saw one of those evangalistic ppl on campus today... ykno, the ones which hold up a sign saying "jesus loves you; turn or burn" or something like that, and i saw him debating with a small crowd gathered around him... i could seriously not do that, because it would take so much courage on my part to put myself on the spotlight like that... yes, thru God all things are possible, but i just could not see myself doing something like that without a huge leap of confidence.
i wonder if christians like that turn OFF nonbelievers more than they turn them on; often they carry what feels like negative news of doom; granted, the gospel HAS been getting a lot soft lately(i remember the lesson of the gospel needing to be more offensive in church), as people need to realize that what they have done is wrong, but at times, i wonder if it concentrates more upon the fear essence than the love side of things.
arcade stuff:
absolute worst place to go for online capcom combo videos:
www.akumacombos.com
this guy doesn't know how to do crap... well, the main guys... i could probably do better in all the games that i have and do play...
so our ucd games area now has an "ultracade;" sorta like a collection of ol skool games all packed into one machine; it has STREET FIGHTER 1! i haven't played it yet, i want to, but seriously, it was crap from just watching it; aside from a historical landmark for a video game genre, many of the moves came out extremely awkward. some moves are too fast when they shouldn't be(up-close games look like just mashing low punch is the way to go), others WAAY too slow to start(hurricane kick's like a super move in this game; takes like 1 full second to even start hitting), the other two shoto specials are awkward in their own light; fireball's slow too, although dragon punch was the best of them; from what i've read before, it's unblockable.
of course, they also have the old sf2 series; the original one, the championship edition, hyper version; no super or super turbo though... and i'm not big on nostalgic street fighter too much. sf2 WW was pretty jacked up; if you weren't guile or dhalsim, you were getting butt-raped; it didn't look like that when us youngsters were playing the game, but that's how all the tourney guys were playing it when we were too busy doing hadoken until the opponents jumped then SRK'd them. tick throws, etc...
i am still big on MVC1; that seems to be the fighting game i play the most these days; no comp plays me not because i'm good, but because i usually play when no one's challenging me; it's no big deal, usually i just play 1 game's worth to relax. it's really fun how top tier tactics often boil down to just gaining meter, then calling your partner in and just chipping your opponent to death with super after super after super after... fun...
let's talk nba:
i can't believe that the magic currently are the ones holding the worst ranking in the league right now... and they have tmac too... players' fault? doc rivers' fault? i dunno; don't look at me... but i will say this; they definitely don't belong there; they have tmac...
fave new west team: denver nuggets; any of you warrior fans regretting us trading boykins away now? boykins+anthony= golden...
and let's not forget the sonics man... flip murray? lewis?
btw, there's a LOT of good movies out this winter... matrix 3, elf, LOTR 3... haha... scary movie 3...
1 down, 2 more to go...
stand up write the soundtrack for your life
it doesn't happen to you you happen to life
stand up, you know you're gonna have to fight
don't wanna lose the will to find your light
stand up, God gave you the gift of life
it doesn't happen to you, you happen to life
stand up, do something with your light
you're a light on a hill, you're meant to shine so bright
(superchick- so bright)
i wonder if christians like that turn OFF nonbelievers more than they turn them on; often they carry what feels like negative news of doom; granted, the gospel HAS been getting a lot soft lately(i remember the lesson of the gospel needing to be more offensive in church), as people need to realize that what they have done is wrong, but at times, i wonder if it concentrates more upon the fear essence than the love side of things.
arcade stuff:
absolute worst place to go for online capcom combo videos:
www.akumacombos.com
this guy doesn't know how to do crap... well, the main guys... i could probably do better in all the games that i have and do play...
so our ucd games area now has an "ultracade;" sorta like a collection of ol skool games all packed into one machine; it has STREET FIGHTER 1! i haven't played it yet, i want to, but seriously, it was crap from just watching it; aside from a historical landmark for a video game genre, many of the moves came out extremely awkward. some moves are too fast when they shouldn't be(up-close games look like just mashing low punch is the way to go), others WAAY too slow to start(hurricane kick's like a super move in this game; takes like 1 full second to even start hitting), the other two shoto specials are awkward in their own light; fireball's slow too, although dragon punch was the best of them; from what i've read before, it's unblockable.
of course, they also have the old sf2 series; the original one, the championship edition, hyper version; no super or super turbo though... and i'm not big on nostalgic street fighter too much. sf2 WW was pretty jacked up; if you weren't guile or dhalsim, you were getting butt-raped; it didn't look like that when us youngsters were playing the game, but that's how all the tourney guys were playing it when we were too busy doing hadoken until the opponents jumped then SRK'd them. tick throws, etc...
i am still big on MVC1; that seems to be the fighting game i play the most these days; no comp plays me not because i'm good, but because i usually play when no one's challenging me; it's no big deal, usually i just play 1 game's worth to relax. it's really fun how top tier tactics often boil down to just gaining meter, then calling your partner in and just chipping your opponent to death with super after super after super after... fun...
let's talk nba:
i can't believe that the magic currently are the ones holding the worst ranking in the league right now... and they have tmac too... players' fault? doc rivers' fault? i dunno; don't look at me... but i will say this; they definitely don't belong there; they have tmac...
fave new west team: denver nuggets; any of you warrior fans regretting us trading boykins away now? boykins+anthony= golden...
and let's not forget the sonics man... flip murray? lewis?
btw, there's a LOT of good movies out this winter... matrix 3, elf, LOTR 3... haha... scary movie 3...
1 down, 2 more to go...
stand up write the soundtrack for your life
it doesn't happen to you you happen to life
stand up, you know you're gonna have to fight
don't wanna lose the will to find your light
stand up, God gave you the gift of life
it doesn't happen to you, you happen to life
stand up, do something with your light
you're a light on a hill, you're meant to shine so bright
(superchick- so bright)
Monday, November 17, 2003
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Thursday, November 13, 2003
woot! and warriors and spurs win! warriors win by 2 in OT! amazing!
and ginobili... man... i'm just loving this guy... it's funny... the truth is, sometimes he's even too flashy for greg popovich... that cracks me up... imagine courtside huddles:
greg: stop doing that!
manu: what... winning?
davis police has nothing to do...
that's what my "bio of aging" instructor tells us... we didn't really have a lecture today; he just wanted to kick it back and learn more about us(man, this guy is an awesome teacher... he actually takes time to know you; granted he has a small class to work with, but whatever, it's fun)... 2 incidents that stand out:
-a guy got into a carwreck with a bike; the police arrive, and help him move his banged up car alongside the road, then arrange a ride for him... so he takes off... my instructor is witnessing all this... he goes away, and comes back in a few... and a cop's writing a ticket for this illegally parked car! haha... what gives?
-then there's the daily show w/jon stewart incident: a woman got arrested in davis for get this: SNORING TOO LOUD... haha! who would have thought?
also, get this: university instructors aren't paid by how well they teach; only by what they earn by research... that's how the legislature of ca decides it. they exceed their research projects... they get a raise... you get the idea.
oh, btw, bob, this instructor also pointed out how most of our body can run on fat as energy for about 50 days total, given total fat revenues... so there... proof that you can fast a while w/o killing yourself... i dunno the exact stats though, but basically there's a lotta calories that can be burned off from fat...
perhaps one of the things that annoys me the most about college is that it blazes too fast... no time to take to breathe... and class registration always annoys me greatly.
and ginobili... man... i'm just loving this guy... it's funny... the truth is, sometimes he's even too flashy for greg popovich... that cracks me up... imagine courtside huddles:
greg: stop doing that!
manu: what... winning?
davis police has nothing to do...
that's what my "bio of aging" instructor tells us... we didn't really have a lecture today; he just wanted to kick it back and learn more about us(man, this guy is an awesome teacher... he actually takes time to know you; granted he has a small class to work with, but whatever, it's fun)... 2 incidents that stand out:
-a guy got into a carwreck with a bike; the police arrive, and help him move his banged up car alongside the road, then arrange a ride for him... so he takes off... my instructor is witnessing all this... he goes away, and comes back in a few... and a cop's writing a ticket for this illegally parked car! haha... what gives?
-then there's the daily show w/jon stewart incident: a woman got arrested in davis for get this: SNORING TOO LOUD... haha! who would have thought?
also, get this: university instructors aren't paid by how well they teach; only by what they earn by research... that's how the legislature of ca decides it. they exceed their research projects... they get a raise... you get the idea.
oh, btw, bob, this instructor also pointed out how most of our body can run on fat as energy for about 50 days total, given total fat revenues... so there... proof that you can fast a while w/o killing yourself... i dunno the exact stats though, but basically there's a lotta calories that can be burned off from fat...
perhaps one of the things that annoys me the most about college is that it blazes too fast... no time to take to breathe... and class registration always annoys me greatly.
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