This is so interesting. There are scads of comments but they’re well worth reading.  One interesting thing I came across is the idea that deja vu is the result of your brain "messing up" and simultaneously processing a stream of events as observations and memory.  Deja vu is definitely pretty high on my "things to ask God someday" list.

One of the main debates in the article is the belief that memories cannot form until a person is 3 years old.  I have tons of memories from the house that I lived in for most of my pre-5-years-old life, but as I sit here and think, I can’t think of any that are definitely before age 3.  That’s just me, though, I’m not saying that proves/disproves anything about that concept.

All theorizing aside, I do enjoy the article just to read the memories that people share.

so... yeah... I often look back with regret on the example I set for my classmates because I was always behind, and I let school stress me out so much... I’m a bad student and when I could I did the bare minimum of work and slid on through when I deserved to fail, but then it got tough and I had to try to learn to work hard... after year 2 of engineering school.
I never had time to study I was so busy doing homework and not sleeping and still trying to be as active as possible with His House Christian Fellowship and just working very hard at school... still I was behind and learned very little; I guess I’m slow. Sometimes I was at fault, and still I managed to get slightly higher grade than I thought, or pass when I should have failed, and I often wondered why God let me pass, believe it or not.  It would have been good for me in a way to fail, give me a chance to actually learn the material and become more humble.
And then I thought I’d study really hard for the Fundamentals of Engineering exam, and relearn and learn some stuff for the first time.  But I didn’t; I was lazy.  I took the FE, and it was a horrible 8 hour exam in which I frantically tried to come up with answers to things I just plain didn’t know.  By the way, the exam is multiple choice.  So anyway, I left knowing I would fail this time, and have wasted the $100.  I had learned a lesson.  Wait there’s more!!!  I got the results this week, and I passed!!!!!!  I cannot fathom God’s reasoning behind letting me remain so incompetent!!

when did I say that thing about me and things moving. I cant believe I said that.  that’s powerful!

I love Bob Whitaker. I love him because he speaks the truth about issues, with absolutely zero regard for what’s politically correct.

"...From then until 1980 Republicans stuck to the middle of the road strategy, half liberal silliness and half a rejection of liberal silliness.  If you say "middle of the road" it sounds really Shrewd.  If you say it as I just said it, "half liberal silliness and half a rejection of liberal silliness," you get a realistic view of what moderation really is.  This so-called "moderation" doesn’t work in real world politics.  If you look at the real congress and the real legislature where people are really elected, they tend to be on the right or on the left.  Those who preach moderation never look at the real world.  They just kept mumbling "middle of the road"... Liberalism does not work.  Moderation does not work because it takes liberalism seriously.  To be a moron is forgivable.  To deliberately be half a moron is true insanity.  To be a Moderate is to be a half moron on purpose."

My life is perfect,
because I accept it as it is.
- Lenny Kravitz

This awful semester is over. Argh.... it’s not really that the semester itself was bad.  I mean, I live in an awesome townhouse with 2 friends and I have a giant backyard (a rarity in a college town), and this area is nice what with mountains and caves and such.  But it was stinky in terms of classes.  For my entire life, including the first 2 years of college, I got basically straight A grades without putting forth any time or real effort.  Then junior year it suddenly -- and I mean really suddenly -- got difficult.  Sophomore year was like grade school, and junior year was nearly impossible in comparison.  So it’s taken me a long time to accept the fact that I now need to spend considerable time on schoolwork... and to actually start doing it.  As a result, I’m about a year behind where I should be, and my GPA went from 3.7 to 2.8.  Grrr, Penn State, anger!

And then there are days where I’m absolutely sure I could can this whole "engineer" business and just do web design/scripting for a living.  It’s so fun.  I recently designed a site for my friends in the band Owned and Operated at www.oaorock.com.  It uses the same CMS elements as my site (which I built about two years ago before I had even heard the term content management system) so it has a similar feel.  But um... the giant bug photo at the top, that wasn’t my idea, though I was present at its creation.  And it’s not a race, it’s a rebirth.

If u got a relasonship with a person and they make u feel bad then what do u do. u talk to them and if they dont lison to u then lose them it would be a good thing!

Okay, this is annoying. I can never find anything! The internet hates me!  Someone, anyone, I don’t know the name of the song, but I want the lyrics to the second song on Blindside’s "Silence" CD.  My friend let me borrow it, but without the case.  Please, help before I injure myself.

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On your music thing it said you like pigeon but you didn’t know if he has any solo stuff he does its an album called clueless

Saw this on Phil of Power’s IM profile:

Apple has an ad campaign featuring people who supposedly switched from PCs to Apple computers... in the ads, these people talk about some horrible experience they had with a PC, and then how their new Apple computer is perfect. Some of the ads are mildly interesting/entertaining.

But what’s really funny is this video made in response to the Apple ads.

Hey, I just happened to stummble onto this site and I only have one thing to say. It rocks, dude!  I was actually looking for lyrics and google (Hating and teasing me as it is prone to do) took me here.  It’s cool to find some random site and learn a lot of it is deticated to some awesome C-rock.  I recently gave up secular music and it’s been hard finding anything about christain rock.  Luckly, my friend Ryan’s mom just opened the only Christian store in town.  If not for that my only hope would me the local Christain radio station and, no offense, I am not a very big fan of listening to Micheal W. Smith and ZOEgirl all day. (In fact, at all.)  Thanks man, I’ll probably end up here a lot.

I get a "Daily Dilbert" comic in my email every day, and once in a while I get a Dilbert Newsletter. The most recent one was hilarious, especially this part... I know a few people like this:

Is there an Induhvidual in your house who doesn’t understand that when you’re using a sink you can’t hear conversation directed at you from another room? If so, try this little speech.

"I can hear a vague buzzing sound that I believe is you, trying to talk to me from another room while I am using the sink. Believe it or not, the physics of sound have not changed that much since the last fifty times you tried unsuccessfully to yak at me from another room while I was using the sink. Tomorrow, when you try again, I will still not be able to hear you over the sound of running water in the sink."

Happy Birthday week, Anthony! Hope  you had a wonderful birthday-trip home over Thanksgiving.  It was sooo hectic here this past two weeks!  I had every good intention of snail-mailing a happy birthday greeting to you @State College, then all ____ broke out those days late last week.  Today here I am,  MORE than a day late!  Here are some of my poor excuses:  my new duel-fuel range was delivered to Sears Gainesville,  from Jacksonville last Friday, so  I eagerly ran (drove) 40 mi. there to pick it up.  Last Sunday Paul intended to install it for me.  However, he decided "we needed" a longer gas line so I can pull the range out to clean behind. (and a good idea).  Of course, that meant we needed to wait until Monday to buy the part.  Well, we ended up working 8 hours on your birthday, w/Paul having to install a 220 electric line first, for the electric oven, then re-configure a  new,  longer gas line for the cooktop.  Etc. etc. as things go with new installation.  In the meantime, I was preparing for Marc coming home (an 8 hr drive from Nashville, Tennessee) and Laura & Doug (2 1/2 hours home from Daytona Beach) to spend Thanksgiving (they ended up staying w/their sister Lisa all week-end, 10 miles from Mom’s!)  Needless to say, I was running back & forth everyday!  But, we all enjoyed being all together.  We went to see the new 007 movie Friday (not as intriging as some of the older ones but great graphics), then to dinner @Carrabba’s --great Italian food.  Of course, Marc had to go to the toy store and buy a boy-toy...a little electric car.  Only to have Doug talk him into going the next day to a "real hobby store" and Marc bought a "real  ’gas-powered’ car";  then they along with my Grandson Brett, raced cars late into Saturday night and Sunday early morning before everyone had to drive back home.  Whew!  We are all now looking forward to the next holiday when we can all be together!  Wish you were nearer, to enjoy sharing time w/us.  Wish the whole family was nearer.  You all will just have to come on down sometime. . .probably nicest @Laura’s. . .to enjoy the beach!  Well, just wanted you to know I was thinking of you all this birthday week-end...and wishing you "Happy Birthday!" Love you xoxo

Happy Thanksgiving, world!

I’m going home and I’m going to eat turkey... mmmm smoked turkey is good.

I’m listening to the latest Slick Shoes album, the self-titled one. This album is just beyond words. It puts you in the best mood, it’s so upbeat and sing-along.  If you like punk or pop-punk or emo, even a tiny bit, you will love this album.  When I first heard it, I was really upset because I loved the earlier album so much.... and I thought this new one wasn’t very good at all.  But after 2 or 3 listens, I couldn’t stop listening to it!  So really, go check it out.

Hi Anthony, I just found your web site by chance which i really liked alot, i was looking for a way to mame my own family album onsite, you gave me a real good idea...
Thank you

Hey Anthony,

Smile, it’s your birthday!! Have a good one!

It is a sad day. Not everything in life is good. But all things do work together for good.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God...
(Romans 8)

I believe that.

We let the madness sleep on a Sunday night,
beneath the torn bedsheets and the spider’s sight,
when words are few and far...
Only the depth of time makes you realize
this is not a chance to fly.
And only the good men take their time.
And only the good men do what’s right.

You slide an inch or two towards the other side.
I’m staring at the street through a curtain seam,
it’s just enough to see.
And only the bedspring creaks make you realize
when you just don’t feel alive...
And only the good men take their time.
And only the good men do what’s right.

We’re lying faceless adrift in the night,
and what more will it take just to realize
this is not our idea of paradise?
And I can feel the breaking inside,
there’s much more to life than to be alive,
I wish that I could say this to her tonight...
but they never see your side.

We let the madness sleep on a Sunday night,
the television screen, a magazine and a
flickering street light.
Only the quiet nights make you realize
this is not what love requires...
And only the good men take their time.
And only the good men do what’s right.

We’re lying faceless adrift in the night,
and what more will it take just to realize
this is not our idea of paradise?
And I can feel the breaking inside,
there’s much more to life than to be alive,
I wish that I could say this to her tonight,
but they never see your side...

- Joshua, What Love Requires

Apparently most young Americans aren’t very sharp when it comes to geography and other general information about the world. National Geographic conducted this recent survey; you can see the results and take the survey yourself on the website.  I got 19/20 correct... I couldn’t locate stupid Sweden.  Alright, I take it back, Sweden isn’t stupid, I’m just bitter.  Anyway, I thought the survey was pretty simple, and I hated geography/history classes in high school... never paid much attention.  But I do listen to NPR news once or twice a day.

What’s up, A? Talked to Brian today and he pointed me to the site.  I figured I’d drop a quick note to say "hi."  Good to see that all is going well with you...  Tell the family I said "hi."