everyday

I have seen a few of the comics from xkcd and have found them to be rather funny (although I don’t know what that says about me…). Anyways, check it out!

I am now engaged to be married! A nice little slideshow from iPhoto is available on Google Video:

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My little sister is now a student at SDSU! I am very proud of her, she has worked very hard in community college for the last two years and I know she will excel at her new school.

Some of you may have noticed that this weblog has been down for a while, so here is a re-cap of things I probably would have written about:

• I now have a girlfriend, and she is great! There will be more exciting news on this topic in the future.
• I now have a new job! I will be working for a high school district as a network technician.
• I finally got my Ruby On Rails powered weblog up an running. There will definitely be more entries on the trials and tribulations I suffered while working on this

So I have started building a dog house. All is going well so far. I have the basic frame and the rafters for the roof completed, next will be the flooring, roofing and the siding. I have over-engineered it of course. I find it difficult to do something without over-doing it, oh well I suppose there are worse problems to have! Hopefully when I am done it will look something akin to the rendering.

No rendering is available.

Damnit… I have jury duty, and not the kind where you just call in for a few days. This may throw a rather large wrench into my future plans. Oh well, tis’ one’s civic duty.

via: Slashdot

The BBC has an article reporting that:

more than 40% of those questioned believe that creationism or intelligent design should be taught in school science lessons.

And here I thought that only us crazy fundamentalist Americans were into this shit. Hopefully this is one of those surveys where they asked people “Do you believe in God?”. I fully expect many people to say “Yes”, as sort of a knee-jerk reaction. I honestly believe that if you asked them to define their beliefs, that most people’s answers would vary widely from those defined by the Church. What I am getting at it is that in my humble opinion, this survey, like most, is flawed. I could go on and on about this topic, but I will leave it at that.

I am often annoyed by people saving seats in a movie theatre. I have, on numerous occassions, passed by many a fine seat because some person said “Sorry, this seat is taken”. Every time this happens I want to reply “I don’t see anyone sitting there, so, no, it isn’t taken.” and then promptly sit down. I don’t mind it so much when it is one seat, or even two. If a lady is saving a seat next to her for her companion, I don’t mind. It is when half a row of seats is being saved because one person in a group of 10 gave Timmy his order for a hot dog and jumbo Coke while he “saves” everyone else a seat. Why do we accept this? Would anyone really try to stop me if I just ignored the, “This seat is saved” comment and just sat down? I feel that I have the same right as any other ticket holder to sit in any seat that is not occupied.

The same goes for standing in line. I hate it when someone excuses themselves to the front of the line where their “friend” has been saving them a spot. I call shenanigans. Allowing people to cut in line defeats the entire purpose of standing in line. If a person arrives to an event later than the rest of their group, why does that entitle them to a spot in line in front of me. I was there earlier than they were, by definition, I should be ahead of them in the line, right? Perhaps the next time I witness this, I will call the person on it. I wonder what would happen, fisticuffs perhaps?

Your thoughts?

So, I am officially 30. I don’t so much mind it, but it sounds old. I certainly don’t feel 30, I don’t think I have changed much since I was 20! I guess I am more compassionate and less self-centered, which are both good things. I suppose now that I am 30 I should start to think about what I am going to do when I grow up. Having a crappy job and no social life is so last decade. Perhaps I should move to Oregon? Or maybe Arizona? Maine sounds nice too. I have been living like opportunity will just find me, but it hasn’t. I suppose I should go find it, but where do I start looking? I have an idea for a cool business, but no money to start it, so what do I do? I guess I will have to answer these questions to move forward. So here is looking forward to 40, hopefully I won’t be saying the same things in 10 years.

Have you noticed that in almost every advertisement heard on the radio or see on TV, Christmas has been replaced with “Holiday”. I really do not care one way or the other, but I do wonder if completely changing a popular traditional phrase in an effort to be politically correct really makes any Muslims, Buddhists, Atheists, etc… feel better. I think that if I were in one of the above groups I would be angry that out of all the possible social changes that could be made, this is what changed. I find it really hard to believe that anyone is truly upset by hearing “Merry Christmas”. I certainly wouldn’t be upset if a Jew wished me a “Happy Rosh Hashanah”. So if I don’t see you prior to the 25th of December, Merry Christmas!