| The Commencement Nears |
[21 Apr 2003|10:01pm] |
The Commencement nears, such changes made
Throughout the years, ascending through grades.
Learning of love, and saying farewell,
Dying for love, our own hearts we fell.
Joining for fun, or maybe to grow,
Though fame we shun, we join the show.
Through problems we fly, for good or for ill,
For love we still cry, against a strong will.
The music we made, in it we delight,
Though dampened by shade, we give up no fight.
Alone we strive, gasping for air,
Together we thrive, none can compare.
Though skies are grey and winds are fierce,
The music still plays, our own hearts to pierce.
Now going away, not wanting to leave,
Not leaving today gives fear a reprieve
But alone we may be, without love returned,
To our comforts we flee, to ourselves then we turn.
The creations of hands, and the working of minds
Con show us new lands, our own place to find.
There?s nought we can do, with or without our fears,
That makes this less true: the Commencement nears.
This will be the theme of my scrapbook, which I really should start sometime soon.
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| Talent Show |
[17 Apr 2003|10:21pm] |
So, yeah. The talent show was tonight. Good times, good times. Everyone says that I did really well. I guess it couldn't have been too bad if my brother was impressed. Many, many thanks to all who said it was good, and also to Sterling for making wear a tux ;)
Other good acts included Boatner and the Megans. Very nice. And of course the jazz band.
All in all, a fairly successful evening. Good night, all.
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| UIL Academics |
[29 Mar 2003|09:43pm] |
Well, again it has been quite some time. However, I feel that today is worth mentioning.
As some of you may already know, today (and yesterday for some) was the UIL academic contest. Many congratulations are in order for:
Sterling Morriss -- 1st place, ready writing
Jeff Goldsmith -- 5th place, ready writing
Travis Christensen -- 1st place, number sense
the accounting team -- 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th places
the computer applications team -- also did very well, don't remember exact scores and such
Travis Shaefer -- 6th place, computer science, with 104 points
Travis Steel -- 2nd place computer science, with 150 points
My profoundest apologies for all people not listed and all names misspelled.
Finally, my scores were as follows:
Number Sense -- 50 points, 5th place was 58.
Math -- 4th place, according to Ms. Rivoire, but I don't know my score.
Computer Science -- 232 points, 1st place, missing only one question out of 40.
So Travis, Travis, and I get to go to regionals on April 11 as the first place team. Might I also point out that the second place team beat my lone score by only 8 points. Might I also point out that Travis, Travis, and Brad also would have made first place. I am quite proud, yes. Good day.
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[19 Jan 2003|09:18pm] |
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I have officially finished the Windows version of Gravity. Get it here.
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| I'm not dead |
[05 Jan 2003|04:34pm] |
Well, it has been pointed out that I am a bum. Very well then. It's just that little of importance has gone on. Here are all the things I think you people might care about (in some semblance of chronological order):
1) All-region was a farce for all the drummers.
2) School ended.
3) I was accepted to college. Twice. On the same day. LeTourneau University and UTD, if you must know.
4) I am now using a Dvorak keyboard. If you don't know,
5) I got a total of nine CDs for Christmas/birthday from my family. Eight of them in two separate sets of four: classical and opera, as well as a CD of Holst's Planets. I also got other gifts, including a (magnetic) dartboard, two shirts from thinkgeek, and books.
6) I attended a small gathering of friends intended for the Common Grind, but which ended up being held at the conveniance store there.
7) I attended an ever-getting-smaller gathering of friends to bring in the new year.
8) I wrote my own version of Tetris, which I called Gravity, so I can't be sued in case I ever release the code or some such thing. Unfortunately, someone will have to convince me to reboot to Windows to see if I can cross-compile it and give it to you. Good luck.
9) I start working as the "creepy gym guy" at First Baptist tomorrow.
10) I will be having a birthday party for myself this Friday, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Baptist Student Ministries building at Grayson County College. If you can read this, consider yourself invited. I will probably also be telling people at school. It only goes to nine because of aforementioned job, as I must be at work at 7:30 Saturday morning. Comment if you can come. And...
11) I have once again posted on livejournal.
12) School starts Tuesday.
Thank you and good day.
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| Duncanville, etc. |
[04 Nov 2002|06:48pm] |
So there was no explosion. So there probably will be no explosion. Yay. Moving on.
It feels good to not have homework. (Although I actually have both calculus and chemistry, it seems like nothing compared to the homework I did yesterday.) It also feels good to get 8th at Duncanville. Though I didn't particularly like playing tympani in the rain, not playing tympani in the rain ended up being better. :-D Thank you all for saying how cool the silence was. Much appreciation to all of you.
Alright then, off to do my calculus not-homework. What?
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[19 Oct 2002|11:30pm] |
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Why do I have the feeling this will all blow up in my face very, very soon?
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| Knights and Banquets |
[19 Oct 2002|11:12pm] |
Note to self: C-c C-c posts, not C-x C-c. *sigh* Anyways, that's Emacs for ya. Powerful enough to fix your plumbing, but not user-friendly like Window$. I'll learn from my mistake.
So, my day was fun-like. Before the mass parties, I got my postfix expression parser to work, which means I can program. Yay.
Party the first, was Holloway's. There was much ping-pong, foosball, movies, and dominos to be had by all. Then I came home for all of 45 minutes before heading to Stack's where they did not straighten my hair because I am no fun. Then people came, and there was much foosball, ballooning, movies, and cookies to be had by all. Good times, good times.
Had that movie been half an hour shorter, this night would have been much much better. (No slight to those at Heather's party or the movie, both of which were thouroughly enjoyable. Sometimes I'm just weird.) I may just have to wait until tomorrow for my day to brighten up. Yes, it's getting worse. Don't know what I can do, and don't know how much I'd want to do if I could. For any who know what I'm talking about, go read 2 Timothy 2:22 and tell me that I'm crazy.
Flee the evil desires of youth, and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
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[06 Oct 2002|02:41pm] |
Glistening girls are
Sweaty, it should be noted,
And yet beautiful.
This Sweaty Girl haiku brought to you by Giles and Gallagher.
In other news, our band rocks. I want to see the comment sheets. That is all.
Collaboration, n.:
A literary partnership based on the false assumption that the other fellow can spell.
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| colon hyphen close-parenthesis |
[12 Sep 2002|10:11pm] |
Although not about dead guys writing stuff, this is a rather humorous piece of history. I say it counts as history; it did happen before I was born, anyway. :-) But I think that this guy and his transmodem friends helped perpetuate the nerd stereotype. "Be sure to read it sideways..." Ah, well. If it weren't for geeks like them, this whole internet thing wouldn't have happened.
When a fly lands on the ceiling, does it do a half roll or a half loop?
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| Memorial service |
[11 Sep 2002|08:55pm] |
Well, just got back from the September 11 Memorial/Great Days of Service closing ceremony.
Before any of you *coughRobincough* start talking about church and state, remember that it was the Great Days of Service closing ceremony. GDS is a thing (I love upper-level diction) organized by a bunch of Christian churches in our area. Hence, all the prayers and sermons and crosses etc. But as far as being a memorial service, I don't know what says patriotism quite like The Horse. Or Zoot Suit. Or all those other stand tunes. *sigh*
Sattinger's Law: It works better if you plug it in.
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| Bad epic fantasy |
[08 Sep 2002|10:10pm] |
Intelligent discussion is a good thing. :)
Just finished Mistress of the Catacombs by David Drake. Not particularly good. The whole series is just weird, but not in a thought-provoking way. It just seems like he adds stuff whenever he needs to, not worrying about foreshadowing, immediate resolution, or how his abrupt changes would actually affect the story as a whole. For example, he added an entire race of bug people that would serve the archetypal bad guy. You'd think that the wizard from a different time would have known about them and the good guy army would have been adequately prepared. And the guy's description of the battles wasn't done well, meaning it didn't make my stomach turn.
Of all the fantasy I've read, the only good ones are Tolkien's Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Stephan R. Lawhead's Pendragon Cycle, the Celtic Crusades, and his novel Byzantium, and George R.R. Martin's series, A Song of Ice and Fire. Those 15 (going to be 18 when the last three books of Martin's series come out) books are highly recommended by me. Ed: Now 16: A Feast for Crows has just come out. *orders it off amazon*
In Pocatello, Idaho, a law passed in 1912 provided that "The carrying of concealed weapons is forbidden, unless same are exhibited to public view."
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[07 Sep 2002|11:56pm] |
Went over to Elizabeth's house with Jason Miller for a wild and crazy party. While there, I discovered I am the worst player at just about every video game ever. Maybe it's just the X-box and anything from Micro$oft just hates me.
Also, Elizabeth finally got me to watch the Princess Bride. Good movie, but A Beautiful Mind is still better. Still good, though.
Rule of Feline Frustration: When your cat has fallen asleep on your lap and looks utterly content and adorable, you will suddenly have to go to the bathroom.
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| Larry Wall on perl, religion, etc... |
[06 Sep 2002|04:48pm] |
This is one of the most interesting explainations of Christianity I've read recently. If you don't like perl, just scroll down to question 7, just over halfway down the page. I particularly like the part on systematic theology.
P.S. In case you didn't catch it, Larry Wall is the creator of perl, a very fast and easy programming language. :)
Ed: only if you understand binary and read the article, the Holy Trinity is explained. lol
"The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free." -- Henry David Thoreau
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| cholesterol |
[04 Sep 2002|10:08pm] |
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Chemistry is dangerous.
Binary, adj.:
Possessing the ability to have friends of both sexes.
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| asdf |
[04 Sep 2002|10:01pm] |
for more information, go here.
"They spell it 'da Vinci' and pronounce it 'da Vinchy'. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce."
--Mark Twain
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| Welcome, me! |
[03 Sep 2002|10:12pm] |
Why pitdemon? I don't know; it sounded cool. I'm in the pit, and uh... not exactly a demon, but I've got a samba daemon running right now, does that count? (Actually my computer's full of daemons) If someone would care to look into my choice of name and discover the depths of my soul, I would be greatly appreciative.
Football = not cool. Football on Thursday = VERY not cool.
Loud burping while walking around the airport is prohibited in Halstead, Kansas.
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