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Tuesday, August 31, 2004
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I find this Funny
skyofoctober: getting ready for the hurricane?
J0E one: I am leaving Friday for Pensacola to spend the weekend with Kristy
J0E one: You deal with the damn hurricane!
El Guapo Phyl: imagine a homicidal, 6 foot tall, blood-thirsty Mr. Potatohead
El Guapo Phyl: that speaks Yiddish
J0E one: LOL!
El Guapo Phyl: oh yeah you laugh
El Guapo Phyl: but will you be laughing when a deranged Yiddish Mr. Potatohead Mutant Hybrid eats your face off while saying, "Schlmiel! Schlmazl!"
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Changes to OP: About Me Page
I have completly redone the About Me page. I have changed it into an index page for the other About Me pages. I am also doing away with Randomness and Deep Thoughts. Randomness was one of my earlier pages. Deep Thoughts I always wanted to do, but never got around to doing much about it other than writing one essay. Since the page will be taken down soon, I have moved the content on the Deep Thoughts page, an essay I wrote about understanding God, to my blog. Hopefully, one day I will get Moveable Type and will be able to categorize my posts, so that the post below this one will be part of a "Deep Thoughts" label. I plan on changing the headers of all the About Me pages to reflect the page reductions and a new page added. I am creating a 100 Things page; a page that contains 100 random facts about me.
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Thoughts on God in Relation to What Subjects of Study Further our Understanding of Who God Is
There are many religions in the world. All these religions have a god or gods. By so many religions, there are many different perspectives on God. For my beliefs, please refer to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, that is truly what I believe, but not what I will discuss in this essay. Here, I will put aside my ideals and try to take on a very objective stance in regards to what subjects of study further help our understanding of God though the theology classes I have had verses the science and engineering classes I am currently taking. I will attempt to show that, when all things put aside, the most direct method for studying God is studying what he created: the universe, which is most directly studied though science, mathematics, and engineering.
 Throughout human history, we have tried to further our understanding of God though many different ways. Many beliefs include tradition, ancient texts, logical reasoning, and meditation. In the traditional way of understanding who God is, we refer to theology. Webster's dictionary defines theology as "The study of the nature of God and religious truth; rational inquiry into religious questions." Understanding God has traditionally relied upon such ways. Most religions can be said to use these ways. Now consider the classes one would take in college to make rational inquiries into a greater understanding of God. Besides theology, one might take classes on other religions, such as Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, or Shinto; other classes might include philosophy and history. However, all of these classes were developed by humanity. It was not God who did philosophy but Socrates, Plato, etc. With the exception of divine events in history, humanity is primarily responsible for how our history unfolds (I will not bring up the possibility that God could be responsible for humanity's history, that can be argued without end). Most of the classes we use to further our understanding of God are the liberal arts fields. However, all these areas are based on human reasoning and events. What then would be an absolute? What area of study has God created without any doubt? Science, Engineering, and Math.
Assuming that God created the universe, Science, Engineering, and Math are the fields that God is the architect of, not any liberal arts field. I realized this last night at 4am. It has been said that Physics is the study of the universe. It is like poetry or novels in their attempt to represent the world. For instance, a poet would write a poem about waves at the sea. A physicist could explain why the sea has waves, their frequency, period, amplitude, and wavelength. A chemist could describe it's composition. A biologist could explain the life living in it. An engineer could harness the wave's energy for some useful function. If God created the universe, then he is responsible for how it works. Who tries to understand what can most closely be defined as God's work? It is the engineers, scientists, and mathematicians. An example of this: If God created the universe, then He is responsible for the universal gravitational constant. Who deals with this? Scientists and engineers. The Milky Way galaxy follows a mathematical curve (name to be inserted once found). That same curve can be found in countless other places in nature: the swirling of water, the shape of a shell, etc. Understanding physics, engineering, and math, is the most direct method of studying the language of God.
Science is the creation of God and the sole power of man.
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Monday, August 30, 2004
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Hero and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
Hero is a movie that makes you think as you watch it. But not in the crappy think way such as "have you ever considered this?" but making you think to keep up with the plot. Hero consists of a man talking to a King. As they figure out "certain events", flashbacks appear. As new information presents itself new flashbacks appear and the old flashbacks had old, wrong information.
The fight scenes were done perfectly.
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Thursday, August 26, 2004
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Janet Jackson blames Bush for showing her Boob
How dumb are these stars? Janet Jackson now blames Bush for the hype about her boob falling out of her dress at the Super Bowl (Source: Fox News GBlock 8/25/04).
She said that all the hype in the media was created by our president in order to distract everyone from Iraq. This is just ridiculous, but hell, while we're on the subject of Bush distracting us, I think Bush did the following:
1. Pulled out Janet's breast at the Super Bowl
2. Sent that little boy to Michael Jackson's house
3. Killed Laci Peterson
4. Had sex with Paris Hilton on the tape
5. Raped the woman accusing Kobe Bryant of rape
6. Caused Hurricane Charlie to rip up Florida
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Tuesday, August 24, 2004
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End of Second Day of Classes and Job Interview Tomorrow
So I had my second day of classes today. They were nice. At 6 I went to a presentation by someone from Lockheed Martin for Knolls Atomic Power Labatory. They research new technology and design the reactors that are used in America's nuclear navy. They are also working on a reactor for the Prometheus Project. I got an interview setup for tomorrow with them. Second day of class and already a job interview... not bad. Only thing is, it is in upstate New York, which is normally a place I would be happy to visit, but it is out of the way from where I want to be now.
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Friday, August 20, 2004
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I'm back
So now I am back at UF. I don't know if it is any better than Orlando, but both are much worse than Baton Rouge. I already got an assignment for class, rewrite the report I wrote for what I did at Entergy. I was thinking more of one to two pages with technical terms, my advisor was thinking about an inch thick of paper with graphs and plots. I have no idea what I can do for that considering I spent the entire time writing visual basic code. Plus I really miss Kristy. I wish I was back in Baton Rouge. She's preparing for grad school at LSU.
My house in Orlando got hit pretty hard. We lost 9 / 11 solar panels. They were on the roof of the back of our house and ended up on our front yard. We lost a bunch of trees too: avocado, precimin, tipawannatapoo (sp?), banana, and many other non-fruit trees. Insurance is nice, but the deductible sucks. Here are some images from my house:
I got everything moved in to my apartment at UF now. I don't think I am going to try to move in with my former roommate Steve, since everything is nicely organized now in my room, plus the one roommate I have met so far seems like a cool guy. I might be doing something with Alex today or tomorrow, she went to Russia over the summer and got dysentery there, interesting, no? Party tonight at Dustin's place, that should be interesting too. Well, I guess it is finally time to take a shower and go down to the monster line at UF's parking services and spend a few hours trying to get a decal.
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Wednesday, August 11, 2004
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Holy Shit!
This is aiming right where I am going! This tropical storm will be hitting the panhandle late Thursday, early Friday. My lease expires on Friday, which means I will be having to leave that day. Fortunatly, Kristy has invitied me to stay with her Friday night, so I can drive home during the day on Saturday (w00t!). She told me yesterday about the storm via email when I was at work, so I checked out weather.com and thought what was presently over the panhandle was the tropical storm and thought it would dissipate by the time I got there (the image was zoomed in on the panhandle). It wasn't until today that I saw the gulf and then I was like, Holy Shit! in my office (well, almost). I am so glad I am driving the day after it hits, not during the storm. w00t for aftermath!
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Better Late than Never, Microsoft releases SP2 for Windows XP
It's about time, Service Pack 2 for Windows XP is sceduled to come out this Monday. This thing took so freakin' long to come out. It is supposed to contain a Security Center, IE pop-ups, a firewall, etc.
What is ironic is I have been searching download.com for a firewall program, since I had given up hope waiting for Microsoft's new firewall to come out. I am really glad that they greatly improved the power and flexibility of their firewall. Apparently, Microsoft's firewall is said to be too protective (Source), blocking out stuff like the Sony Clie's ActiveSync, but you can make allowances for your programs with MS's new friewall. IE will have a pop-up blocker, but I doubt anyone cares at this point, Google beat them to it and their pop-up blocker works flawlessly.
One thing that interested me is a "Security Center", which organizes all of SP2's myriad security features and provides a snapshot of your system's firewall (either Microsoft's or a third party's), Automatic Updates, and third-party antivirus app. The center keeps you abreast of the status of each security tool and alerts you to any needed updates. A centralized security center is cool. It's like a Department of Homeland Security for your computer.
SP2 is a bitch when it comes to size. It can take up anywhere from 100MB, if you have downloaded every MS Critical Update, to 270MB, if you do not download MS Updates. Luckily, since the service pack is going to be up before I get to UF, when I get there I can take advantage of a 10MB/second connection to get it.
I guess we can thank Microsoft for finally coming out with SP2, but still, why the hell did it take so long? It had better be good.
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Friday, August 06, 2004
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a meme
1. Using your Current Initials, choose a different name for yourself.
Jebadiah Abraham Coolio
2. Outside of your era, when would you want to be born and why?
Reign of King Louis XIV, b/c he was cool.
3. If you ran a store, what would you sell/have?
Electronics
4. What part in a movie would you love to play?
In an epic movie, the hero's elder friend who teaches him then tragically dies.
5. In your opinion, why do people suck?
Some do, some don't.
6. If you had your own state, what would you put on your new quarter?
Me in a pose like Jebadiah Springfield
7. What's the oldest article of clothing you own?
Some baby outfit.
8. What piece of furniture have you replaced the most?
I have not yet replaced furnature.
9. What instrument do you wish you could be more than great at?
instrument? intstrumentation? I guess nuclear reactor since if you know how to operate one you make lots of money. If not that then the guitar :P
10. Record, Tape or CD?
People still use tapes and records?
11. What do you think would be the best concert ever?
Sinnister Squirrel, but replace their lead singer, Josh, with Celine Dion, that would be funny as hell.
12. What's the best part of your favorite movie?
Sam and Frodo in Mt. Doom
13. What do you think is the most over-rated candy ever?
over-rated? hmmmmm..... off to the nuke plant's candy machine for an answer to that question! brb... back. KitKat. It has such happy commercials and catchy phrases but the bar itself is quite small.
14. If you were writing out your will, who would you give your CD collection to?
Phil, since he found this meme.
15. If you could only debate two topics the rest of your life, what would they be?
Why communism will never work
why hippies are wrong about everything
16. Out of your friends, who would you say you are most jealous of, artistically?
Barrett probably...bitch can draw
17. Most jealous of....intellectually?
Uh.... Kristy!
18. What do you collect?
Old coins
star trek, simpsons, family guy, and invader zim episodes.
19. What is broken that you have, that you wish was fixed?
my Oakleys
my car's ash tray that I use as a compass holder / coin holder
20. What do you do when you're home sick?
lie down
21. Why does this survey rock?
cuz Phil wrote it? really?
22. Story behind your username?
omniprime.... first came OmniStrain, which was my first website based off a book called OmniStrain, "Omni" because my site had several different themes. My second site was called OmniPrime since i wanted to keep the "Omni" thing going...
23. Current Favorite Article of Clothing?
Grey Polo and grey shorts
24. Line from the last thing you wrote to someone?
ttyl, (aim message)
25. Famous people you have met?
Macho Man Randy Savage
Chekov from the Original Star Trek
Bill Clinton
Jeb Bush
26. Favorite way to waste time?
web surfing, well, not favorite, but most often way
27. Last thing you bought yourself?
Escort Solo S2 radar detector
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Veterans Alive from the First World War?
 I didn't know that World War I veterans were still alive today. August 4, 2004 was the 90th anniversary of the start of the Great War. Apparently, there was a ceremony in Great Britain and 4 WWI veterans attended. This is awesome! I am glad that there are still some of them still here. Here is the article. I have never been one to say old people are cute, but just take a look at this image.
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Waffles!
John Kerry did yet another flip flop yesterday.
John Kerry (CNN 8/6/04): "Had I been reading to children and had my top aide whispered in my ear, 'America is under attack,' I would have told those kids very politely and nicely that the president of the United States had something that he needed to attend to -- and I would have attended to it,"
John Kerry (CNN 7/8/04): "...And as I came in [to a meeting in Sen. Daschle's office], Barbara Boxer and Harry Reid were standing there, and we watched the second plane come in to the building. And we shortly thereafter sat down at the table and then we just realized nobody could think, and then boom, right behind us, we saw the cloud of explosion at the Pentagon..."
Note: the second plane hit the World Trade Center at 9:03 a.m., and the third plane hit the Pentagon at 9:43 a.m. By Kerry's own words, he and his fellow senators sat there for forty minutes, realizing 'nobody could think'.
(via BlogsforBush / Red State)
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What an Ominous Feeling
So I am working at the nuclear plant today and not next Friday* and no one is here. The entire engineering parking lot is empty. No one appears to be on the floor I work on... nooooooooo ooooooooooonnnne. Thus I am sitting in my cube blogging. The sound of the keys appear very loud compared to this huge office floor's emptyness. I am thinking of running off to a Sonic to eat some breakfast (since the cafeteria is also closed) and come back later. I can't take the eeriness in here!
*We get alternate Fridays off, since I leave my job next week and work that Friday, I switched to work this Friday so I can get out one day early.
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Thursday, August 05, 2004
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http://www.motorists.org/ma/
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Wednesday, August 04, 2004
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A Realistic Plan for World Peace
The most insane, funny, and completly irrational plan for world peace: IMAO: Nuke the Moon. This essay is a work of art, it is enjoyable and political, but not the boring type of political that so many essays on the web are. Basic Idea: America becomes so irrational and so insane that we lash out against the slightest thing that provokes us, thus creating a fear so great no one would ever want to get in our way.
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Want GMail?
GMail, the invitation-only webmail service that gives you 1 gigabyte of space, is now available to all blogger members. There is an invitation once you sign in to blogger. This is great! GMail for everybody! I am really glad that I got an invitation from a friend of mine early enough to get a cool address ("joeone") before all Blogger members could sign up.
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Finished Viewing the Internet
I have finished viewing the internet. There is nothing left for me to see (or at least it feels like that). I am so incredibly bored at work that I have been viewing everything that I could find amusing on the internet, and now I have concluded that there is nothing left to see. This is so sad.
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What? I'm not Stewie?
Which Family Guy character are you?
Hell Yeah! I am good at... Cudding?
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Tuesday, August 03, 2004
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Never do this
I learned something today. Never mix Tabasco sauce with soy sauce. *mixed Tabasco with his stir fry today for lunch* It tastes like that acid you get when ur about to throw up but u don't... NEVER DO THIS! You'll be sorry! :P
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Abortion t-shirts
I bet every girl will want one of these for Christmas. Hey, you can even get one as a gift for your mom! oh wait... nevermind...
*barfs*
"I had an abortion t-shirt"
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Monday, August 02, 2004
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The Florida Gators and eBay.
Two 2004 Season Tickets for UF Football on eBay - $1,225.00 . Who would pay that much? Apparently, many people; it got 17 bids. UF Football is just that good.
2 Florida - Georgia tickets - $600.00 Of course, the UF-UGA game is very popular. However, tickets to UF's season opener, which should be low due to it being a poor team - Middle Tennessee State are $179.99 for 4 tickets. Most UF tickets are $25.00 each, so apparently there is quite a market for this stuff. If two UF students got season tickets next to one another... the possibilities on eBay are endless.
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Random Memes (A few from Steve)
last one is made for more than names. nice...
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