Month: March 2005

  • One of my first poster efforts from when I was at UWSP. I was but a child
    making this stuff in Photoshop… Now I’m a more sophisticated InDesign
    user, hehe…


    Every day in the trees, I do my best to avoid doing this.

    The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is currently in the midst of
    elections. I remember this time two years ago….ah…. yes, the good
    old days. Check out my old campaign site!
    Those were the days…. That was the first time I used ImageReady to
    make a website – the e-mail addresses are no long functional
    now…fyi…

  • My
    attempts at entertainment shall continue with the daily posting of some
    silly stuff from my old school server. They cut me off from e-mail, but
    I’ll max out the web space before reliquishing the account. hehe

    This video is of the most insane chainsaw ever. I watched as this guy built it and is now traveling all over for competitions.

  • Thursday was:
    Tree climbing by day:     A monstrous honeylocust that I didn’t want to
    tackle the day before. This is the first time that I’ve climbed a tree
    in a snowstorm!


    Salting by afternoon:     I took a pitstop and got a new lens in my glasses for $85 from Lenscrafters. It was out of warranty.

    Hasty homework attempts by late afternoon: Honestly, if my homeworking
    doing skills were only half as good as my homework avoiding skills!


    Class presentations by early evening:     This leadership class is coming around, and I’m starting to get something out of it.

    Gunnar’s science and religion lecture by night: He gives a lecture at
    Marquette every couple of weeks, and he does a great job of talking
    about science, philosophy, and religion. He takes a very open approach,
    but I missed most of it due to the previous item on this list.


    And George Webb’s by midnight:     It was quite a lot of fun, and I think I
    made two friends. Kristen was demanding, and Amanda knew that Stihl was
    a chainsaw. Quality. Then I pulled my phone out and had missed 5 calls,
    2 voicemails, and a text message. Oops!

  • Wednesday night I saw The New Loud and Adam’s Mom at The Mad Planet
    on Milwaukee’s fashionable East Side. I know Nick, the lead singer in
    Adam’s Mom, from Chi Alpha, and I made a deal that if he went to the
    Tuesday night small group, I would see his band.

    The New Loud was really good – the drummer especially. He had a mixed
    acoustic and electronic drum set that was incredibly well played.
    Lehnert and I were impressed right off the bat, and he was quite
    interested in the female band member who was, I must say, quite
    attractive. Then I heard her tell someone afterwards about her
    boyfriend and……. yeah that lost steam in a hurry.

    But I’m getting ahead of myself, we started the night out at Club Timbuktu
    with Captain Midnight, a crazy dancing gentleman who was reciting his
    poetry to the 10 people in the place. His stuff was mostly about
    getting on women. The next guy is a PhD candidate at Marquette and
    recently came to Milwaukee from South Africa where he is a Catholic
    priest. His poetry was much deeper and spoke to women in the church and
    other topics.

    But Adam’s Mom was why we went, and I thought Nick did a great job with
    the vocals. They need some performing experience, but hey, that’s what
    they were getting! Adam’s Mom is named after a former bass player’s
    mother who made them cookies and let them play in their garage!

  • I took this test on a CD for my class – it has 49 different self-tests that you can take. If you want a copy, let me know.

    Now I know what a Type A personality is! And I am one, apparently. Reading the description, I’m quite clearly a Type A!
    ———————————————————————————————————————
    AM I A TYPE-A?
    Your score is: 102

    This instrument
    measures the degree to which you’re competitive and rushed for time.
    The Type A personality describes someone who is aggressively involved
    in a chronic, incessant struggle to achieve more and more in less and
    less time. More specifically, Type As are always moving, walking, and
    eating rapidly; feel impatient with the pace of most events; strive to
    do two or more things at once; do not cope well with leisure time; and
    are obsessed with numbers, measuring their success in terms of how many
    or how much of everything they acquire. Type Bs are the exact
    opposites.

    A total of 120 or more
    indicates that you are a hard-core Type A. Scores below 90 indicate
    that you are a hard-core Type B. The following gives you more
    specifics:

    120 or more points = A+ personality type

    106-119 = A

    100-105 = A

    90-99 = B+

    Less than 90 = B

    If you score in the “A”
    categories, you need to be aware of your tendency to focus on quantity
    over quality. You may do better in jobs that are routine and rely on
    speed rather than creativity for success. In addition, Type As often
    experience moderate to high levels of stress.

  • Lessons Learned the Hard Way
    [#1] When a girl asks if you want to go see a play, DO NOT ask if you can bring a date.

  • I love this…


    Acts 18:4
    Every Sabbath he [Paul] reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade Jews and Greeks.

    Sarah and I talked about this for a while yesterday, but it strikes me.
    It blows my mind. That Paul, the amazing person that he was, still tried
    and experienced a less than 100% success rate. The end of Acts 17
    starts this, but it encourages when I think that I’m not having any
    effect on anyone or on someone in particular. All we have to concern
    ourselves with is doing our jobs and letting God watch over the
    results. After all, we can’t take credit for it ourselves – so why feel
    responsible when it doesn’t seem to work right away?

    The other part of the verson soars right out of Earl Creps’s (Coffeedrinkinfool) message at SALT, Chi Alpha‘s regional conference. Paul was, get this, reasoning with people! The fact is that Christianity in its purest form embraces
    the use of the mind. After all, God gave it to us, why not use it? This
    is something I’m beginning to piece together after growing up in a
    family that tends to rely too much on the reasoning with a church
    denomination that tends to disengage it too often.

    So, friends, fire up the brain cells! Reach out to others and don’t get discouraged when things don’t happen right away!

  • Get in the swing of spring with disc golf!

    I already ruined an hour, Pete did, and so can you!

  • “I’m just tired. Just bone weary. Not the tired that a good night of
    sleep fixes,” he said yesterday after retiring from the job. “Burnout,
    I guess, is what they call it in the industry.”  (Ohio State’s Geiger ‘bone weary,’ gives up athletic director position)

    That quote cracks me up! Everytime they play it on Bob & Tom,
    I can’t help but crack up. I guess that I’m “muscle weary” after
    today’s climbing, working out, and not sleeping. Alas, it is my choice.

  • Google is notably absent from Yahoo!’s 10 Year Netrospective. They list 100 moments in Internet history in the last 10 years. Wow…some memories there.

    Above, I’ve linked a book that is great reading for Internet
    historians. I read the book a couple of times (yes, I know…) after my
    granddad gave it to me for my birthday. He’s in a couple of computer
    history books himself. Check out the second paragraph. And no, Al Gore did not invent the Internet.