Trendy blog person Mar 21, 2005
In case I haven't made this completely obvious, yes I'm now one of those people with a trendy blog. I even have the trendy formatting and trendy titles and timestamps. I don't care. I doubt many people will ever read this besides me (and maybe Wendy since I told her about it), so I'm not too worried. Be prepared: now that I finally figured out my stupid website problems and some HTML formatting, I think I'll be doing this a lot (b/c I'm a major geek). #technology
Shopping carts rule Mar 21, 2005
What's the deal with shopping carts these days? You put all your weight on the handle and they don't flip over on top of you. You stand on the bar right below the handle, and you don't fall on your back and crack your head open. This is one thing that gives me hope that we're actually making forward progress in this world. Yeah sure my stupid cell phone only gets reception in places that I don't live (i.e. not Hoboken, not Hampton, not Randolph), but at least something works: shopping carts. #business
Political commentary Mar 21, 2005
Believe it or not, I have a few opinions about the current state of affairs in our world. You might call me somewhat of a conspiracy theorist (probably more on this later), but I believe the world is run by a few very powerful people, and the leaders we see in power are just puppets. Or at least that's how I think America works. Go ahead, make fun of George W. Bush for how stupid he sounds or how his foreign policy is pigheaded. Criticize his over-concern for nations in the Middle East and in East Asia, and his lack of concern for nations in Africa. But I think he's just acting out what the people behind closed doors tell him. "Go invade Iraq, George. That'll crumble the power in the Middle East and it'll hopefully help our dwindling supply of natural resources. Then associate North Korea with an 'axis of evil' so they know we don't like them. Then they'll build up their nuclear program. Then we'll invade them. Then we'll take care of the real problem: China." Granted, some of these ideas are not mine, but even if they're not original, they're what I'm believing more and more. #politics
Jesus fish Mar 21, 2005



Ιησους Χριστος Θεου Υίος Σοτηρ

Iesous Christos Theou Uios Soter

Jesus Christ, God's Son, Savior
#religion
A reason to go to college Mar 21, 2005
We had some people over for dinner on Saturday night. It was cool to see everybody. But Mike walked in our apartment and noticed our ginormous kitty tower and said, "Who is this kid?" This is just one example of how all my friends expect me to act in a certain way and say certain things, which is why I'm so glad I went away to college. I wouldn't really call it peer pressure, but that's sort of what it is. I never really felt pressured into doing certain things or acting a certain way, but I always felt like I determined my position in the world probably when I was about 12 or 13. Everything after that was based on how I acted when I was that age. So any time I tried to act different in some way, people would say, "You don't usually do that. You're not like that." My point is, what if I want to be like that? What if I want to change? This is why it was sooo good to go away to college. I was in a whole different setting with all new people who knew nothing about me. That's when my personality was truly defined. I still had some of the same old quirks and mannerisms, but God worked on me and changed me little by little. That's why college was so good for me. Yeah there was all the school work and pressure and stress and running around and sleepless nights, but those experiences partially formed who I am today. #education
Nothing but text Mar 21, 2005
Just to set the record straight: this site was created with nothing more than TextPad. I don't use any of that PHP, ASP, or CGI nonsense. If you're smart, you can probably tell already that I don't even know what those things are or how they work. But I'm happy with my pure text HTML and a little bit of Javascript. #technology
My site is up! Mar 21, 2005
My site is finally up! After more than a week of changing DNS and IP settings, it's finally up and running. Here's my final setup: I registered a domain name through 1and1, got a gig of space from FreeWebTown, and used ZoneEdit to point the domain name to the hosting space. The whole process cost $5.99, which was just the price of registering a .net domain name for a year. I'm pleased. #technology