September 29, 2003
Christianity is not without flaws when it is forced peg-like into the organization hole. One of the flaws that is currently bugging me is the Public Relations problem that seems like it might be an inherent potential of the way Christianity works.
First, Christianity is a very accepting religion and organization. In fact, parts of it is evangelical, so they are zealously accepting. This sets up the problem.
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September 28, 2003
This Presidential cadidate has recently (a few years ago) retired from the Army as a four-star General. He was Commander in Chief of two different world theaters, Supreme Allied Commander of NATO (lol… such a funny name,) and probably got to be all of this because he was a West Point Graduate.
I don’t really know all that much about him still, but I am interested in learning more. That’s about the entirety of my opinion so far. I do know that I am not all that happy with Bush. I wish he could pick a Supreme Court Justice and then be replaced with someone better. The question is… is there someone better coming from the Democratic party? No one else I’ve read about seems to fit that bill, but I still have to read more about this newest candidate.
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September 27, 2003
After complaining about games Wei showed me this addictive game called Drop!. I think that level 12 on Hard is the best I can do for now, so I saved a screen shot to record my current skill level.
Try it out
UPDATE: 10/5/2003
I finally managed to beat the score that I posted here. So, I saved a screenshot. I decided to replace the old screenshot with this new one, and I think that henceforth my best score will be displayed on this entry.
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September 23, 2003
The US Military has already taken a few things from Martial Arts, but the knowledge our military has borrowed seems to have been limited to hand-to-hand combat. Just for the record, I am no master of any martial art, but I have studied and practiced two of them. What I’ve learned in the few short years of study were the basics, and that is what I am suggesting the military borrow — just these basics.
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September 22, 2003
Sometimes in life… we just don’t feel like we have the energy to be selfless. I guess that when we’re tired and worn out from a hard day or an especially busy day people tend to feel like they’ve earned a period of time to be less than selfless… or selfish.
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September 21, 2003
I’ve been wanting to type in Arabic in my windows programs for a few weeks, but I have been unable to figure out how to do it. This is mainly because I’ve been going about it in the wrong way. Now that I have it all figured out, I need make a record of it, so I can do it again after I forget and get a new computer.
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September 19, 2003
Whenever I see this word, fundamentalist, it is used in a negative way to describe someone who is strictly adherent to some worldview — often religious, ethical or moral in some way. I looked up the word and even the definition notes that a fundamentalist is usually a religious movement OR point of view. If the point of view is characterized by a return to fundamental principles and an adherence to those principles than that point of view is open to having this adjective attached to it.
My “realization” is that most of the people I’ve come across, read about, heard about, etc. are fundamentalists. I would venture to say that we are all fundamentalists.
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September 18, 2003
Well, I’m pretty happy right now. In my Arabic class we’ve learned all 28 letters of the alphabet (which makes Arabic the fourth alphabet that I know) plus a few other ‘letters’ that aren’t officially letters. (Yeah, I don’t get it either… I’m still in the beginning of learning so I am accepting what I hear.) This week we are moving on to the definite article “AL” as in Al Jazeera — the Arab satellite news station. The reason I am so happy is that I’ve already managed to use some of my linguistics skills to help me do my homework and learn a new language.
Note: The rest of this will still be written in this ‘happy with myself’ mood that I’m in. If you don’t like that sort of thing wait two days for the next entry.
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September 16, 2003
I have a problem this year. I bought season tickets last Spring with the expectation that Joy would also be able to get season tickets. Unfortunately, she tried and tried on the first few days and then forgot about it until her block was sold out. Now I have all these season tickets, but I don’t have someone to go wtih nor do I have someone to get my tickets with so I can sell the tickets to the games I don’t care to see. If you or someone you know has this problem or would simply like to help me out by purchasing my ticket, going with me to the box office to make a pair and selling the pair, or any other ideas… let me know! Thanks.
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September 14, 2003
I haven’t really figured out a way to put a list of sites that I find interesting into my blog, so I’m just going to include this as a post. It is an interesting point of view from someone who has made an impact on my life through his artwork.
http://www.reemst.com/calvin_and_hobbes/?page=author&topic=license
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