New Blog!

Go to my new blog now

I've decided to retry blogging, but using a little bit more user-friendly setup. I'm not really too sure what I want to do with this current website, but you can see the new blog here.

Comments? | Posted on Tuesday, Jan. 8 2008 at 6:30 pm by brian

Joe's Goals

I'm using an online web-app called Joe's Goals (reminds me of Eskimo Joe's) to keep track of some goals this year. One of my goals is more writing activity on my website, hence this post. I will add this, though:

I found out my Computer Systems class today is also a teleconference/class with OSU-Tulsa. I thought the whole thing was pretty neat except that teleconferencing is only good at letting the people on the other end know that they can't hear you or see the documents you put on the screen.

Comments? | Posted on Tuesday, Jan. 9 2007 at 12:34 am by brian

Hope Not Hate

Last night I went to an event OSU organized. It was called (something like) "US-Muslim Relations: Hope, Not Hate." (I went to get extra credit for my American government class, but it was still an interesting topic. I thought it was a good discussion/lectures that sort of mirrored my feelings from a TV show I recently watched. It was Morgan Spurlock's (from SuperSize Me) 30 days. If it's an older show and isn't on any more, I apologize (I don't know because I don't have cable and rented it through Netflix). In this episode, a middle-aged Christian man lived with a Muslim family for 30 days and had to adhere to all their cultural traditions. It made me realize there is a lot of misinformation out there as well as a lot of unnecessary stereotyping of Muslims. I have taken note of this and have been trying to be especially careful about what I think when encountering Muslims/people of Middle Eastern decent. The OSU lectures basically mirrored the same thing -- stereotyping and realizing that not all Muslims are terrorists. The question that kept occurring in my mind was, "Why aren't we hearing more outcry from the Muslim community about these outrageous acts?" Maybe it's a problem of perspective...I mean, if some group of radical Christians went around bombing places (such as abortion clinics), I think it'd almost go without saying that I don't approve of those actions. I don't need to be protesting every day against it. In fact, looking at CAIR's website, I found this page.
    I thought the lectures ended on a somewhat sour note. One of the closing statements was about Muslim dislike of the Colonial occupation one hundred years ago. It almost sounded like someone was holding a grudge of hate. :\

Comments? | Posted on Friday, Nov. 3 2006 at 9:07 pm by brian

Sadness is...

I am very sad that we got no trick or treaters last night.

Comments? | Posted on Wednesday, Nov. 1 2006 at 4:04 pm by brian

Going through Norman is 30 more miles

In case anyone wants to know, if you drive from Stillwater to Lawton through Norman, it's 30 more miles than just going through Oklahoma City.

Comments? | Posted on Monday, Oct. 2 2006 at 10:11 am by brian

Diff Eq

Note to everyone: Differential Equations is HARD. But it pays off to study for the test.

Comments? | Posted on Friday, Sep. 29 2006 at 11:32 am by brian

The State Fair

Happy 100th, State Fair. I haven't been in a few years and it was great to go. Something about the food is so spectacular...the roasted corn, funnel cakes, cotton candy...I'm hungry. It's a great time to people-watch, as well. All sorts of people come out and enjoy the activities. I noticed quite a few OSU fans as well. :)

Comments? | Posted on Thursday, Sep. 28 2006 at 2:34 pm by brian

Update

In case anyone didn't know, I've transferred to Oklahoma State University. And it rocks.

Comments? | Posted on Saturday, Sep. 23 2006 at 10:54 pm by brian

Freakonomics

I finished Freakonomics last night. It was a good book, but not something that I felt was really all that "revolutionary" as some made it out to be. The book was a few examples of some good economic principles and techniques at work, but nothing else really. I still found it a good read.

Comments? | Posted on Saturday, Sep. 23 2006 at 10:52 pm by Brian

Why I don't have a Flickr Pro account

Besides the money, of course. When I had bought my camera, I had opted for a UV filter, as I read it's a great way to keep your camera lens clean and protected. When it arrived, I couldn't fit the lens on the camera. I thought they had sent me the wrong size and put the lens away. Today I started thinking about it and got the lens out again. This time I turned it around and it screwed in perfectly. D'oh.

Comments? | Posted on Monday, Jun. 26 2006 at 12:35 am by Brian

Flickr Updates!

I went hiking on Saturday, and grabbed a bunch of great shots. The set is located here. Some of my favorites:

Happy Cactus Flowers
A  balancing act
A cool lizard
Tree in reflection
Bees on Flowers
Lost Lake
The rocks of Medicine Park
Curvy Roads
Cycling
and
Mountain in the cloud

I also got a great picture of my car, which I had just waxed. Alas, nothing compared to the van, however.

Comments? | Posted on Monday, Jun. 26 2006 at 12:32 am by brian

I've disabled commenting

Sorry everyone, but I was starting to get spammed pretty bad from having the comment form open, and it's currently disabled for a bit, until I can find a better solution.

Comments? | Posted on Monday, Jun. 5 2006 at 6:25 pm by brian

Some more photos

I've updated my flickr page with some photos from the Altus AFB Air Show that I went to last week. The temptation to upgrade to a pro account is very tempting.

Comments? | Posted on Thursday, May. 25 2006 at 8:11 pm by brian

Springboard 2006

Our church's annual youth rally, Springboard, is this weekend. I encourage you to come if you can.

Yes, I designed the website and it's quite a bit different from what I'm used to. I'm not too happy with it. These things seem to always get dropped on me when I'm busiest with school and other things. At least the venturing into light on black was interesting.

Comments? | Posted on Tuesday, Apr. 25 2006 at 12:57 am by brian

My feeble attempts at photography

For my birthday I bought myself a new camera, and have been playing with it when I get the chance. I've got to shoot some different things, like Sarah's niece (more of my favorites: 1, 2, 3, 4), and sunsets, various night/long-exposure shots, Sarah at night, and others. See all my photos on my flickr page. Comments welcome, more coming soon.

Comments? | Posted on Tuesday, Apr. 25 2006 at 12:11 am by brian

You know you're in college

You know you're in college when a majority of your happy birthday greetings come through facebook.

Comments? | Posted on Monday, Apr. 17 2006 at 8:02 am by brian