Saturday, February 14, 2009
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Torn
I spend a week at Hume and absolutely love it, having a hard time heading back to school. I then spend a week in SLO and absolutely love it, and I start having a hard time wanting to move on with life. As much as I really want to have a solid group of friends where ever I have to live, I hate the idea of leaving those friends behind as I move forward. But I found leaving a place on a good note, with the constant longing to return to the good times with good friends, is far, far better than leaving a place ready to get out. Then I also realize that pulling an all-nighter for a Senior Project is something I never want to have to do again. I am ready for school to be done.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Movie Quote Game (and Consequently some of the greatest movie lines of all time)
"Here's the game.
1. Pick 20 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDB and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them in a note for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDB search functions. That's cheating and it ruins the fun."
1. "Y'know that ringing in your ears? That 'eeeeeeeeee'? That's the sound of the ear cells dying, like their swan song. Once it's gone you'll never hear that frequency again. Enjoy it while it lasts."
2. " I would tell you to go to hell, but I think you're already there."
3. "So if you wake up one morning and it's a particularly beautiful day, you'll know we made it. Okay, I'm signing out."
4. "I am Jack's smirking revenge"
5. "Have you ever crossed the road, and looked the wrong way? A car's nearly on you? So what do you do? Something very silly. You freeze. Your life doesn't flash before you, 'cause you're too f-----' scared to think - you just freeze and pull a stupid face. But the pikey didn't. Why? Because he had plans of running the car over."
6. "Whether or not what we experienced was an According to Hoyle miracle is insignificant. What is significant is that I felt the touch of God. God got involved."
7. "Get me a hardtop with a decent engine and make sure it's got a big trunk."
8. "Unfortunately, THIS guitar said, 'When I get back to Georgia, that woman gonna feel my pain.' THIS one said something along the lines of, 'Why yes, these pants ARE lycra.' THESE said, 'I'm very sensitive, very caring, and I have absolutely no idea how to play the guitar.' "
9. "For England, for home, and for the prize!"
10. "After watching the footage of the Kent State shootings, Bobby Jay, then seventeen, signed up for the National Guard so that he, too, could shoot college students."
11. "Have you ever fired two guns whilst jumping through the air?"
12. "There's a time when a man needs to fight and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny's lost, the ship has sailed and that only a fool will continue. The truth is I've always been a fool. "
13. "It was not my intention to do this in front of you. For that I'm sorry. But you can take my word for it, your mother had it comin'. When you grow up, if you still feel raw about it, I'll be waiting."
14. "He who questions training only trains himself at asking questions."
15. "Love is not a feeling, Mr. Burns. It's an ability."
16. "Lizzy, how can you put your faith in a man you spectacularly binned for being unreliable? A man whose idea of a romantic nightspot and an impenetrable fortress are the same thing? It's... This is a pub! We are in a pub! What are we going to do?"
17. " Look at this. Look at what they make you give."
18. "Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest in Monte Carlo and came in third; that's a story."
19. "Do you know the Tristan Rêveur quote about bad art? It's 'bad art is more tragically beautiful than good art 'cause it documents human failure.' "
20. "I'm no martyr. I did it for the money. But it's not worth much if you can't face yourself in the mirror. Respect is the ultimate currency. I was stealing from a man who traded his away for a few dollars. And then he tried to wash away his guilt. Drown it in a lifetime of good deeds and a sea of respectability. It almost worked, too. But inevitably, the further you run from your sins, the more exhausted you are when they catch up to you. And they do. Certain. It will not fail."
1. Pick 20 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDB and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them in a note for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDB search functions. That's cheating and it ruins the fun."
1. "Y'know that ringing in your ears? That 'eeeeeeeeee'? That's the sound of the ear cells dying, like their swan song. Once it's gone you'll never hear that frequency again. Enjoy it while it lasts."
2. " I would tell you to go to hell, but I think you're already there."
3. "So if you wake up one morning and it's a particularly beautiful day, you'll know we made it. Okay, I'm signing out."
4. "I am Jack's smirking revenge"
5. "Have you ever crossed the road, and looked the wrong way? A car's nearly on you? So what do you do? Something very silly. You freeze. Your life doesn't flash before you, 'cause you're too f-----' scared to think - you just freeze and pull a stupid face. But the pikey didn't. Why? Because he had plans of running the car over."
6. "Whether or not what we experienced was an According to Hoyle miracle is insignificant. What is significant is that I felt the touch of God. God got involved."
7. "Get me a hardtop with a decent engine and make sure it's got a big trunk."
8. "Unfortunately, THIS guitar said, 'When I get back to Georgia, that woman gonna feel my pain.' THIS one said something along the lines of, 'Why yes, these pants ARE lycra.' THESE said, 'I'm very sensitive, very caring, and I have absolutely no idea how to play the guitar.' "
9. "For England, for home, and for the prize!"
10. "After watching the footage of the Kent State shootings, Bobby Jay, then seventeen, signed up for the National Guard so that he, too, could shoot college students."
11. "Have you ever fired two guns whilst jumping through the air?"
12. "There's a time when a man needs to fight and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny's lost, the ship has sailed and that only a fool will continue. The truth is I've always been a fool. "
13. "It was not my intention to do this in front of you. For that I'm sorry. But you can take my word for it, your mother had it comin'. When you grow up, if you still feel raw about it, I'll be waiting."
14. "He who questions training only trains himself at asking questions."
15. "Love is not a feeling, Mr. Burns. It's an ability."
16. "Lizzy, how can you put your faith in a man you spectacularly binned for being unreliable? A man whose idea of a romantic nightspot and an impenetrable fortress are the same thing? It's... This is a pub! We are in a pub! What are we going to do?"
17. " Look at this. Look at what they make you give."
18. "Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest in Monte Carlo and came in third; that's a story."
19. "Do you know the Tristan Rêveur quote about bad art? It's 'bad art is more tragically beautiful than good art 'cause it documents human failure.' "
20. "I'm no martyr. I did it for the money. But it's not worth much if you can't face yourself in the mirror. Respect is the ultimate currency. I was stealing from a man who traded his away for a few dollars. And then he tried to wash away his guilt. Drown it in a lifetime of good deeds and a sea of respectability. It almost worked, too. But inevitably, the further you run from your sins, the more exhausted you are when they catch up to you. And they do. Certain. It will not fail."
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Mistake
I want to be someone's mistake. (Not in the Superbad sense)
I came to the realization, after noticing a similar thing may happen to me in the near future, that I would really like to have such a title. To be the one that got away, to be someone's big mistake. Like I would like to have some girl somewhere saying "I really wish I would have said something." Or some company saying, "We really shouldn't have screwed him over."
But the larger truth is I would probably much rather have those people's wishes come true. I think I would much rather enjoy my life if I was working where I was needed. And when she did say how she felt. But I guess thats the good thing about God's will, it is often much different from ours.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Friday, December 5, 2008
I'm in Love with this Site
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/realtime/
This gives satellite images over the last day or so. Pretty cool. Major timewaster.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
This Week the Trend
A young man commits suicide, live to the world on his webcam. I hear a story of an elementary school class riding the train on a field trip, only to experience the shock and gore of a woman throwing herself before that train. A loved member of SLO Crusade's fellowship ends her life. My tutoring student asks me jokingly how as a math major I hadn't killed myself. Laziness. Having struggled with depression like many Americans, the thing stopping me in dark times was sleepiness and lack of proximity to a deadly substance that wouldn't make too much of a mess.
I've noticed a continual trend these last weeks about depression and suicide. Depression related deaths are a leading cause of death in my age group, and it seems God is dropping it on my heart. But every human being with a soul ought to help in this. The key: Love.
People need honest love. Not the fake love that just tries to convince an individual that there life is important, but a love that causes the person to know why anyone around would be deprived when he or she was gone.
Let the people you love know that you do love them. I am certain that every person that has committed suicide was loved, but it was just not made known of it. Save a life. Love.
-Tyler Hall
I've noticed a continual trend these last weeks about depression and suicide. Depression related deaths are a leading cause of death in my age group, and it seems God is dropping it on my heart. But every human being with a soul ought to help in this. The key: Love.
People need honest love. Not the fake love that just tries to convince an individual that there life is important, but a love that causes the person to know why anyone around would be deprived when he or she was gone.
Let the people you love know that you do love them. I am certain that every person that has committed suicide was loved, but it was just not made known of it. Save a life. Love.
-Tyler Hall
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