So I was looking up random stuff on the internet today while watching the Colts and Jets AFC Championship game and I found this link to an optical illusion that starts a battle between your right and left brains.

The illusion below will spin clockwise or counter-clockwise depending on which side of your brain you are using to process it. Check out this article for all the details. When I first looked at this I thought it had to be a trick that it was just randomly changing direction so I did a little test. I started by staring at the picture for a little bit. It was spinning to the right. Then I started…

Charles M. Schulz was the creator of the ‘Peanuts’ comic strips.

I received this mass email and I usually just read them and keep the interesting ones and all the rest but I seldom pass any on and I refuse to do it via email. Just a quark I have I guess. But this is one I felt I should share.

You don’t have to actually answer any of the questions. Just ponder them. Read the following straight through, and you’ll get the point.

Question Set 1:
1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world.
2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.
3. Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer Prize.
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So wow, I get heartburn all the time. Usually it strikes me when I’m sitting up late at night watching infomercials because I can’t sleep. Unfortunately this happens way too often. Well, it’s never fun and I have heard of this remedy from people over the years but I always just hated the idea of drinking baking soda and water to cure the burn. Well tonight I was having a particularly bad episode and so I decided to give it a try. Only this time, I used a 500 mL bottle of grape flavored Propel fitness water with 5/8 tsp. of baking soda. I shook it up and poured it into a cup for easy chugging. Well I didn’t need…

I haven’t been much good for anything lately. Between being sick for the past 3 weeks or so and it having just been October, my head and my heart just want to give up and lay down and die. It has all been way too much. Tonight as I began to play catchup on all my assignments, I came across several things I wrote years ago after Lorna’s death. It was a mistake to re-read them right now. They took me back and I haven’t been able to get hold of myself long enough to start back on my assignments in 8 hours now. Anyway, I felt like I should share these things with all 0 people who visit my…

I’m not sure why I even maintain this site. Honestly, I seldom write entries here. These personal websites for nobody’s like me seem to no longer be needed, what with facebook and myspace and twitter and all the other devices given us by the WEB gods to maintain contact and communication with people. However, when occasion permits, I still enjoy writing a few tidbits from time to time. In fact, here is one now!

Here is my quick life update. The semester is drawing to a close and I am behind, as usual, with my homework. I have two major projects that I need to be working on that I haven’t had much time for until now. I have to…

So I found something fun today… I exist as a town in Western Sweden.

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I even have my own website to talk about myself as a town in Western Sweden! -> ME!

- Air Quality

Last weekend it was cold and cloudy and the air was fine and clear.  Last Monday night as I prepared for bed, I all of a sudden felt that small tickle in the back and top of my throat that very quickly turned into a dry soreness.  My eyes started to burn and my nose started to become stuffed up.  I knew I was getting sick.  I pumped myself full of vitiman c and zinc, ate a banana and downed a glass of water then went to bed.  I hoped that that would head the sickness off at the pass.  Unfortunately I was wrong.  I woke up the next morning feeling awful.  I couldn’t breathe and I…

I have started my new major this last week.  I finally decided to pursue a BFA in Performing Arts Design through the Theatre Department at the U.  I am emphasizing in Sound Design.  It has been better than I had expected so far and things only are looking up for the months to come.  I have very unexpectedly been given an opportunity to design the sound for an upcoming production called Ring Around The Moon by Jean Anouilh.  I am so excited to be able to work with the head sound designer for the Pioneer Theatre Company, Joe Payne.  He is also one of my professors.  I have nothing but great things about Joe from everyone I’ve talked to and…

Something has been bothering me for a while now.  I wasn’t quite sure exactly what it was until yesterday but it’s been in the back of my mind since the end of last spring semester.

My family got our first computer back when I was about 10 or 11.  I remember being mystified by it.  It was amazing.  My life had been such up to that point that I really wasn’t sure exactly what it was or what you could do with it.  All I really remember is turning it on and seeing a black screen with a letter, a colon and a slash (c:\).  I had no idea what to do.  I started typing… “start”, “on”, “go”… finally I…

As I am sure all of you know by now, last Sunday, January 27th at 7:00 pm, Gordon B. Hinckley, Prophet, Seer and Revelator, died in his home. He was 97 years old. As I have reflected on this great loss, I have had many diverse feelings: happiness, sadness, joy, depression, hope and hopelessness. I have pondered the reasons why the loss of a man I did not personally know has effected me in such a way. When I was young I vaguely remember President Benson and President Hunter but for more than half of my life, President Hinckley was the Prophet and President of the Church. It was his face I saw and his name referenced with many different…

“They” say that it is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all. What “They” don’t say is that it is more painful to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all. While this pain is not explicitly stated in what “They” say, anyone who can affirm this saying knows that pain goes hand in hand with ‘loving and losing’. From this, we can understand that the deeper meaning of this phrase is that those who experience an opposition in regards to love, are better people for it. We can broaden this scope to include all things and should. For example, a baseball player would never improve his skills if there didn’t…