Wow! It has been a loooooong time since my last blog. Relatively, at least. It's literally been over five months so in the course of the earth's existence, which I believe to be about 4.6 billion years, that's not too long. But since my entire blog is only about nine months old, a five month hiatus is a substantial amount of time. Much has happened since my last blog. Let me explain.
I graduated with my bachelor's degree last May and then moved into an apartment for the summer. I didn't have internet access at the apartment which contributed to my blogging delinquency. Since I was only going to live there for about three months I didn't bother setting up internet access. In this day where most have a near infinite amount of information right at their fingertips at any given moment, I guess you could say I was "roughing it" for those three months.
Then at the beginning of August I relocated to Denton, Texas where I began working toward my master's degree at the University of North Texas. That's gone pretty well so far. I got a job as a reseach assistant and have my own office complete with desktop pc, one way mirror, and crickets. I like Denton. It's got a plethora of restaurants and places to shop. It has a lively music scene as well. One thing I will complain about though is the drivers. My hometown of Brownwood is known for many things, one of which is the bad drivers. However, in my 14 years of living in Brownwood I witnessed only one moving car accident and a handful of near misses. Within my first three weeks living in Denton I witnessed two severe car accidents (ambulances, stretchers, and neck braces involved) and witness a handful of near misses weekly. I will have more on one of those accidents in a future blog. This is not to say that it is a myth that Brownwood has bad drivers, but in my experience Denton's drivers are even worse. But overall, I have enjoyed my time in Denton thus far.
As you can see I now have the internet. I'm thankful for this because it keeps me up to date on important, necessary, influential current events that shape our perspective on the state of society. Like Kanye West's little episode at the VMAs. I will not expound on this, if you don't know what I'm talking about just look it up. My favorite part about that whole incident were President Barack Obama's subsequent comments. Off the record, prior to an interview, the President and some people from CNBC were engaging in some casual banter when the Kanye West incident was brought up. Someone asked, "Why would he do [that]?" Obama's response - "He's a jackass." That will probably be one of the few statements of Obama's that I agree with over the next four years.
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haha yea. did you hear the audio from that? It was hard to get it through HPU's filters. It was labeled as pornography. The filter seems to think everything is pornography. Everything except ebaums world!
ReplyDeleteWhy do you think the earth is 6.5 Billion years old instead of the traditional 4.6 that most scientist agree on? Does this mean you think the still has 5.4 billion years left before it burns out or 3.6 billion?
I posted this on my blog this summer but with your limited internet access i dunno if you read it so read it again!!!!
"Compress, for example, the entire 4.5 billion years of geologic time into a single year. On that scale, the oldest rocks we know date from about mid-March. Living things first appeared in the sea in May. Land plants and animals emerged in late November and the widespread swamps that formed the Pennsylvanian coal deposits flourished for about for days in early December. Dinosaurs became dominant in mid-December, but disappeared on the 26th, at about the time the Rocky Mountains were first uplifted. Manlike creatures appeared sometime during the evening of December 31st, and the most recent continental ice sheets began to recede from the Great Lakes area and from northern Europe about 1 minute and 15 seconds before midnight on the 31st. Rome ruled the Western world for 5 seconds from 11:59:45 to 11:59:50. Columbus discovered America 3 seconds before midnight, and the science of geology was born with the writings of James Hutton just slightly more than one second before the end of our eventful year of years."
I found that entry and commented on it. Yeah I listened to the off the record audio, it was pretty funny to hear the president say something like that.
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