Ipod/Camera

I think I’m going to buy an iPod and a new camera.

I’ve got the 40gb 4th Gen iPod on reserve at pcmall for $350, with my CAP discount. Then I added in the 2 year service agreement which was another $40. But I might take that out, do you really think that I need the extra year of service? I dunno.

I also added a PowerShot S410 in there for $300. I really like that camera, but I dunno if I should spend the money on it or not. We’ll see. I’d really like a new camera. But I dunno if I should be spending the $300 right now. I have to pay for my plane tickets back to Iowa here soon. I’ve also been thinking about getting my bonds from the PU’s and cashing them in, and just wasting the money and buy myself something nice. Or maybe I’ll hold them and use them as a downpayment on a car. Who knows.

Speaking of cars. I spent like 4 hours on the phone with JonJon tonight talking to him about something he was depressed about. I think I cheered him up and that was good. 🙂 I like making people happy.

I told him that if he wanted to, he could come over tomorrow morning and watch a couple QaFs with me before he has to go to work. We’ll see.

Also Friday night I think we’re going to go to Ozz, and then Saturday while Andrew’s doing checking JonJon and I are going to make some road trips around to find stuff. 🙂

I’ve been wanting to find somewhere where I can go horse back riding up into the mountians, and somewhere that will let you keep the horses long enough to see the sun set. I doubt such a thing exists in this stupid fucking state.

Tonight was amusing. Well that is after the annoyances. First, I took a “short cut” so that I woudln’t have to deal with the I-5 traffic. Yeah, well that short cut took me an hour. Fuck that shit. then I got there and ended up having to wait 1.5 hours before getting to go to dinner. Oh well.

We went to karaoke laters that night and taht was amusing as hell. Though the stupid sound system kept crashing and shit. Andrew and BM did ‘shoop’. Very funny! DANCING BM!

People kept thinking I was a new student. Very annoying cause they kept trying to get me to dance and shit. Bah! Fuckers

Umm, I fucked up my timesheet program by using task_name instead of task_id as a group by function, so now instead of having each Project/Task total seperate each task is totalled the same… Here’s an example:

Project1/Task1 Has 10 hours submitted

Project2/Task1 Has 4 hours submitted

Right now, it’s say that BOTH Project1/Task1 AND Project2/Task1 has 14 hours submitted instead of reporting correctly. Very annoying. Though it should be an easy fix… Just not in the mood to do it right now.

I have 89 songs left in my playlist before I’ve listened to ALL my music! Yay!

I also added a new plugin to give me the total words for each post at the bottom of the post, it’s it hot?

JonJon asked the other day when he gets to go back to Iowa. It made me feel good that someone actually wants to see what Iowas like and see what I’m always talking about…. At least I know people are listening. I wish I could take a group of people back to show them the Garden and Frathouse and Redlight and to see the town where I grew up and where I went to school. Though I’m sure they’d all be bored out of thie rminds. Whatever.

Whatelse? Nothing really.

Laters all.

Crazy Boy Scouts

Earlier this month, approximately 7,000 members of the Boy Scouts of America descended upon the ISU campus for their National Order of the Arrow Conference. For many students, their presence signified hypocrisy and squandered potential in an organization supposedly dedicated to the cultivation of young men.

Thanks to our proactive approach to combating child pornography, one of the conference head honchos — “Chief” Timothy Rand Wallace — was arrested for network sharing child pornography from a Memorial Union meeting room. He wasted no time, getting arrested a day before the conference even opened. The very next day, the BSA removed Wallace’s “Meet the Chief” profile from its Web site, although Google retains a cached copy. Interestingly enough, Google’s copy reports that Wallace hopes to teach high school (underage kids, mind you) political science, although his alleged child porn merit badge may end up hashing that dream. We must remember though that all people are innocent until proven guilty.

A few days after the arrest, I was walking to class when a scout looking for Music Hall approached me near the Student Services building. I could tell right away that in the 30 seconds required to walk him that way that he was going to tell me something crazy. The scout, who was around 15 years old, pointed to a bite mark on his arm and told me about a squirrel-chasing game he and his friends play.

He went on to tell me that he actually caught one of the squirrels and that he was so surprised and angered by its self-defensive bite that he snapped its neck. Then he dropped the bombshell: “My dad is real strong on eat whatever you kill.” That quote is forever burned into my mind. Maybe it was too early in the day to begin thinking about fried squirrel, but more likely I was just disappointed in such lack of principle. The Boy Scout Law clearly states that “A scout understands there is strength in being gentle … He does not harm or kill anything without reason.” The State of Iowa would grant him the responsibility of driving to and from school alone, and the BSA reckons its Order of the Arrow scouters the cream of the crop. Yet he boasts about breaking one of the commandments?

A friend from the class I was walking to that day had his own experience with visiting boy scouts. Just after getting home from work around 10:45 p.m., Ethan Newlin heard a knock on his door. Who was it? Why, it was seven uniformed scouters — claiming to be 17 years old — looking to score alcohol. Now that’s what I call “obedience,” as described in Boy Scout Law: “He obeys the laws of his community and country. If he thinks those rules and laws are unfair, he tries to have them changed in an orderly manner rather than disobey them.” Righto. It could have been worse, though — they could have been looking for 12-year- olds. The boy scouts were everywhere, roughly equaling students in number. While strolling through the MU food court one day, I saw a fairly large book sale going on. “Books are good,” I thought, so I decided to check it out. I was disappointed to see that it was just another boy scout fund-raiser, and immediately turned away, not wanting to give the BSA my money. Socially responsible spending dictates that one shouldn’t do business, if possible, with ignorant and discriminatory organizations.

The image of white boy scouts walking around campus in brightly colored, mass-produced Native American garb came to mind. How disrespectful! Imagine a white person trying to show respect for blacks for enduring centuries of slavery, followed by Jim Crow and racism, by donning black face paint and an afro. What the BSA doesn’t realize is that racism isn’t so much an event as it is a state of mind. The whole of racism — with any resulting action being physical or not, well-intentioned or malicious — is rooted in ignorance.

Furthermore, the BSA has a long history of discriminating against gays. This discrimination is not based on conduct or competence, but upon unchangeable status. The BSA has tried to hide behind the social and economic privatization of capitalism — what many Jim Crow supporters once used to defend barring blacks from lunch counters — but “what purports to be a constitutional defense of this discrimination actually amounts to nothing more than a grab bag of excuses each one more clearly pretextual than the last,” according to court documents in Roland D. Pool and Michael S. Geller v. Boy Scouts of America.

The unscrupulous behavior exhibited by many visiting scouts, who are supposed to be the green berets of the BSA, is not surprising given the organization’s weak foundation. Let it be a lesson to society: “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

I really wish I had been able to go to the NOAC at ISU this time. That’s twice it’s been there and twice I’ve missed it. Damnit. It’s sad to see that they left such a negative impression on ISU though. 🙁

So Bored!!

I’m so bored and the roomie is totally pissing me off.

Grrr.

Chris and I are really having a good time together though, today we went out driving places, and last night we did the same. It was TONS of fun last night. Tonight though has been horrible…

Ty bitching about EVERYTHING, then going to pet smart and them arguing FOREVER about what to get the cats.

Then I get home and talk to this boy online and Ty’s like, “I know him, stay away from him”. I relay the message to the boy and he gets all upset about it. Eventually we talk more about it and find out that we ARE talking about the same Ty, then he calls Ty and then Ty yells at me.

Saying that this boy only wants to get in my pants, blah blah blah. I tell Ty that “I’m a big boy and I can decide for myself.” Then he goes away.

The Boy (Jesse/Aiden) and I have a good talk about computers. He’s also hot, I’ve decided that it just comes naturally with living in SoCal. I hate it.

I should hang out with him sometime though, he seems nice enough.

Fucking living in Iowa all my life. Fuck me for being a fat ass.

Also talked to Andrew tonight for a good while. It was an alright talk, we talked more about our relationship. I can’t wait tell he gets back here so that we can work things out. After all the places that Chris has shown me I really want to take Andrew to them. They’re so nice and romantic.

I’m talking to Mike now, we’re talking about random stuff, it was funny at first, talking about cars and all. I was being all straight.

Anyways…

Laters all.

Sunday Night Sex Show

Well this week has been pretty good.

I’ve got another fun project to work on at work. However I have to learn ColdFusion, it doesn’t seem that hard though, especially if you use dreamweaver in conjunction with it. We’ll see how hard it really is. Though I think it will be lots of fun to do.

Tonight has been tons of fun. Chris and I went up to Newport Beach and hung out there, then drove down to Laguna Beach and hung out with Ty at work. That was really fun. I told Ty that I thought Chris has a really hot ass, and he was surprised that I thought that. Apparently most people that Ty knows doesn’t think Chris is cute or has a hot ass…

I think he’s really cute and has a really hot ass.

We also went out to dinner at this place called Rubys. There were SO MANY hot boys in that place tonight, the three of us were just hilarious all while checking out the boys. Lots of laughs and fun there.

The bill came out to be $39.00, and of that mine was only $10. I wanted to pay for my part seperate, but the stupid/cute waiter didn’t do it right, so we went up to the reigster and the stupid woman didn’t understand that worth shit, She just split the ticket in half. Stupid bitch.

tonight though has really made me miss Andrew, seeing Ty and Chris have a good night together and all the cute kissing/etc made me really miss him.

I don’t know if I can make it through the next 30 days without seeing him. I might have to go back to Iowa again one more time… To see him and to take up all the boys for threesomes that have been offering lately.

Anyways, I don’t feel like writing much more, so ltaers all.