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Friday, October 21, 2005


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Monday, July 25, 2005

Blogging for Christ

A friend at my church has started a blog ministry http://www.weblogministry.org/ . Since this blog is now syndicated at yellowproject I thought I would share it and ask people to get involved. With fulltime ministry over at http://www.faithcycleministry.org/, he is looking for help to organize the blogging ministry as well as people to take part in the ministry. They are mostly focused on xanga sites but they want to spread the ministry to other blogging sites too.Pray about it. I know I am.

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Get along home...

Well I went home for the first time since I began working full time in the middle of no where corn country. It was almost like I didn’t leave at all. Parents were still the same. Sisters were still the same. Church was still the same. Somehow this was comforting. I did go to my Aunt’s wedding and saw the extended family. Unfortunately the wedding was only family and the groom didn’t have a whole lot of family come. We must have out numbered them 5-1.

Wednesday, July 20, 2005

POST

It has been so long since i have had a post. so i guess i'll keep this nice and quick

the one person who reads this thing i emailed already today.
Yeh i guess that covers it all.

Monday, June 06, 2005

The Greatest American?

The discovery Channel has compiled a list of the top 100 greatest Americans. The list was created by people submitting via internet, and snail mail a 150 word paragraph on why people deserve to be nominated. 5 people could be nominated per submission. These were the top 100 America chose.

Abraham Lincoln
Albert Einstein
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Hamilton
Amelia Earhart
Andrew Carnegie
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Audie Murphy
Babe Ruth
Barack Obama
Barbara Bush
Benjamin Franklin
Bill Clinton
Bill Cosby (William Henry Cosby, Jr.)
Bill Gates
Billy Graham
Bob Hope
Brett Favre
Carl Sagan
Cesar Chavez
Charles Lindbergh
Christopher Reeve
Chuck Yeager
Clint Eastwood
Colin Powell
Condoleezza Rice
Donald Trump
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eleanor Roosevelt (Anna Eleanor Roosevelt)
Ellen DeGeneres
Elvis Presley
Frank Sinatra
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Frederick Douglass
George H. W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Lucas
George Patton
George Washington
George Washington Carver
Harriet Ross Tubman
Harry Truman
Helen Keller
Henry Ford
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Howard Hughes
Hugh Hefner
Jackie Robinson (Jack Roosevelt Robinson)
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Jesse Owens
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Stewart
John Edwards
John Glenn
John F. Kennedy
John Wayne
Johnny Carson (John William Carson)
Jonas Edward Salk
Joseph Smith Jr.
Katharine Hepburn
Lance Armstrong
Laura Bush
Lucille Ball
Lyndon B. Johnson
Madonna (Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone)
Malcolm X (Malcolm Little)
Marilyn Monroe
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
Martha Stewart
Martin Luther King Jr.
Maya Angelou
Mel Gibson
Michael Jackson
Michael Jordan
Michael Moore
Muhammad Ali (Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.)
Neil Alden Armstrong
Nikola Tesla
Oprah Winfrey
Pat Tillman
Dr. Phil McGraw
Ray Charles
Richard Nixon
Robert Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
Rosa Parks
Rudolph W. Giuliani
Rush Limbaugh
Sam Walton
Steve Jobs
Steven Spielberg
Susan B. Anthony
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Edison
Thomas Jefferson
Tiger Woods
Tom Cruise
Tom Hanks
Walt Disney
Wright Brothers (Orville & Wilbur Wright)

Any Comments? Do you even know everyone on that list? Who belongs? Who doesn’t? Any notable omissions? Say like one painter or architect? How about Hemingway, Miles Davis or Louie Armstrong?

Friday, May 27, 2005

What have you been doing?

Well I haven't posted in a while. I guess I could blame it on being too busy, but that is just not the case. I've been out and about.

I Graduated May 7th.


When I got home among other things to do, (like mow the lawn twice a week), I new I had to get a new (to me) car.

I couldn't get just any car. I wanted a car that was cool like this Model A


I also wanted something fast like this 2005 Porsche Carrera.


Plus I needed it to be cheap like my old 1984 Ford Thunderbird. (I paid $50 bucks for that car)


The compromise was the new to me, 1995 Chevy Camaro. With only 100K on it and a friend of a friend price tag, I just couldn't resist it. Good thing Iowa has one of the lowest gas prices plus it does get 29 mpg on the highway.



Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Enjoy that movie

What an interesting month. At first it seemed like I was King Midas, but instead of everything turning to gold it all turned to @%#@$ (oh sorry for the typo, I meant to say) everything turned to mud. First it was my car. The radiator sprung I leak (I think). Yes, it is still busted because I don't have the time or money to fix it. Then my computer broke. The power supply went kaput and in return 10% of my hard drive decided to go bad. I lost about four weeks of senior design work. Putting in the double digit hours to get back on track has been loads of fun. No more complaining. I just wish graduation was both farther away and over.


Now for the title of this post. "Enjoy that movie" is a message to whom ever it is that is stealing the blockbuster movies I rent online. Currently blockbuster’s version of netflicks is having a free two week trial. So I said what the heck, and signed up. These movies that are sent to me via regular US mail. They come in bright yellow envelopes. About half of the movies that are sent to me are intercepted by someone before they get to me. I only received the address label with no DVD. If it is a movie the person likes, he keeps it. All nerdy titles like LOTR, Stargate, and Alien vs. predator are taken. Movies like Manchurian candidate and Ray pass through no problem. The idea of a nerd thief cracks me up. Oh, don't worry I’m not responsible for the "lost" or "stolen" DVDs. I just thought I would share the story.

Monday, March 28, 2005

The Search is Over

Spring break was not totally fruitless. I found out were i will be living. The Apartment has four rooms and lots of appliances including a washer and drier. Construction is scheduled to be finished May 1st. Split three ways the rent is pretty cheap too.

Here is an interactive floor layout. You will have to install shockwave to view it.

Wednesday, March 23, 2005

The Liberty Flames Defeat the Blue Demons

How 'bout that little liberty team. They were coined a "Cinderella" team yesterday after being only the second 13th seed in woman’s NCAA history to make it to the Sweet 16. Next they play a top ranked LSU team that has demolished everyone they have played. Good luck!

Monday, March 21, 2005

Japan Subs Found

I remember reading about these Japanese subs and wondering what ever happened to them after the war. These subs had fold up bombers in them.

An I-400 and I-401 were captured at sea a week after the Japanese surrendered in 1945. Their mission -- which was never completed -- reportedly was to use the aircraft to drop rats and insects infected with bubonic plague, cholera, typhus and other diseases on U.S. cities.

When the bacteriological bombs could not be prepared in time, the mission was reportedly changed to bomb the Panama Canal.