So . . . last night I posted a term paper here as a joke, mostly because so many people have been doing it of late. But then BlueDev warned me in the comments section that it might be plagarized.I worked my ever lovin' ASS off on this paper.So . . . down it came.It was in Spanish anyway, so not many people could have gotten it. Deep crap about the wonderful play, "La vida es sueno" (Life is a dream) by Calderon de la Barca.Oh well. Better safe than sorry. Suckers.

Well, since it seems to be all the rage to write a “resolutions” blog this time of year, I said to myself, Self? You's a pretty decent chap, you oughts to make-a yourself a list o' them so-called resolutions . . . just for gicks and kiggles. Consequently, myself answered back, Well, there, you, that's quite the idear . . . you should DO it! So I did. Without further ado . . . or adieu . . . or poo-hoos . . . here's-a my list. 1.Play music at a higher level, thereby annoying tho...

I stumbled upon this website years ago, and I've been trying to find it again ever since, because in eleven short paragraphs, the entirety of the internet is summed up for me in one fell swoop: The internet is shit. Simple as that. I think this person makes some interesting points that are worth thinking about. And I can remember a time when the internet was something . . . I don't know . . . special. It's lost that specialness. In fact, it lost it years ago. It's replaced books...

Yes, it's that time again, children. Time for us to offer up our whole souls to our God again . . . yes, it's time for Barbara Walters' TV special, “The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2006”! Yes, that's right, everybody – bow down and adulate to your God, CELEBRITY, and make sure you worship well! [/sarcasm] Let's look at our list of the “Most Fascinating People” this year, and analyze why they're fascinating: Andre Agassi: Wow, a mostly-washed-up tennis player who's finally real...

Another in a long line of dreary days and unending nights. Another in a long line of weeks stuck in the loony bin. What the hell was I thinking taking a job here? Oh yeah. Money. I was thinking of the money. I hate that stuff. Rules your life. Pointless slips of paper, all of them the same size and shape – well, used to be, now they got those ugly colorful bills now – but all worth different amounts, depending on what it says on the front. And what do those numbers on the front...

"The Apparition" kicks butt. John Arch had some nasty nice pipes. I'm tired of writing papers. I've already written twenty-three pages today for four different papers. One more to go. Have you ever noticed that if you look at pictures of a young Jim Matheos he looks a lot like a young Steve Harris. Same style hair (well heck, they still both have that hair) but back in the day, they even stood the same way in the band fotos and everything. Weird. Alberto Rionda, grand musici...

So . . . here's the deal. I'm thinking of getting a new laptop and I'd like to recofigure it to run Linux, rather than XP. The only problem is . . . I don't have the slightest idea how to do it. Now, I've found a company that seems to have put together a reliable, user-friendly Linux-based system (Xandros). I'd like nothing more than to purchase it, get a new laptop, while that sucker clean and install Xandros instead of XP. So, computer gurus of JU and WinCustomize . . . give me ...

One of my favorite things to write is a snapshot of the moment; exactly what things are like in that exact instant – my emotions, etc. (The first two that I've posted can be found here and here .) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stark blue skies hang heavily over the valley. The mountains were salted well last night, rightly covered in the nasty white stuff. I sit in the driver's seat of my car. It's cold this mornin...

This isn't a story I just began for the Writer's Club, this is one I've been working on for weeks, but its climax has to do with our inspiration paragraph a bit. So here it is. It's very, very, strange. (Word of caution and all that.) The reason this story exists is this: It began as a nondescript, strange text message to a phone number of someone I didn't know. Prank texting, for lack of a better way to describe it. And I caught the fever of surrealism. Think of it as T.S. Elliot on...

For my submission for the first writing challenge for the JU Writer's Club, I finished a surrealist story that I've been working on for weeks. I will post the surrealism story later this morning, I'm putting the finishing touches on it right now, but this poem serves as a preamble to the story. Read this, and then (when the other is up) read the story. It won't make sense, but it's surrealism - it's not supposed to. --------------------------------------------------------------------...

I don't know how familiar any of you are with the political spectrum (or lack or spectrum) in the "great" state of Utah, so I'll enlighten prior to my diatribe . . . Utah is a very - probably the most - Republican state in the union. With the exception of the second district, all of our elected officials are Republicans. (And the Democrat in the second district, Jim Matheson, is as conservative as Democrats can be . . .) We have two Republican senators, and two Republican congressmen. ...

Earlier today, I wrote a thread about being apathetic towards the current drama going on between a couple of the “politically inclined” bloggers here, simply trying to poke fun at some of the drama that is enjoyed on the JU site. But in reply to my blog, one of the so-called “good guy” bloggers, BlueDev, had nothing but scathing, biting words towards me! Nor is this the first time that BlueDev has shown his true colors. Many times, on many threads and in personal e-mails, he has made t...

Heh heh heh. That's all I want to say as I poke around JU today. I've finished my homework (I think) for the weekend, and here I am, sitting at the kitchen table in the new house, waiting for the plumber to fix the tub, and then it's off to work. (hi-ho.) Once again, the Drama Dragon has reared its ugly head and there's just "so much emotion!" Heh heh heh. The drama can be fun, and I really don't care about this one one way or the other. MM and I have had our tiffs, but we genera...

I've been here at JU for almost a year now, but I didn't really start getting active until this last February. Of course, as many of you know, I go through spurts here, sometimes being very active, sometimes being really lazy. Sometimes I don't like to get involved with different things going on here, and other times I really do. But if there's one thing that I'm always a fan of, without fail, it's hijacking a thread. There's nothing better than having a conversation with someone about ...