Are You Hungry?

This doesn’t happen too often in my life, but I was inspired by a song that, for lack of better words…pumped me up! The way I listen to music is quite different I believe from many. I don’t hear the words to well. I mean to say that the words are part of the music to me. They can say toilet bowl, but if they say it in a way that is harmonious to the sound then I dig it, but here is the catch…I don’t hear toilet bowl. I hear a smooth vocal serenade. I don’t know if that makes since. It is the reason I like vocal trance techno. In this genre there are often times fragmented lyrics put inside this nice rhythmic candy shell of a song.

Let me tell my story. I was just doing a little cleaning around the apartment today and I was listening to my iPod. Danny had told me some new Tiesto was on EZ so I grabbed it. DJ Tiesto is one of the top DJ’s in the world and EZ is a newsgroup. Let’s proceed. Anyway, I put these songs on my pod and was trancin’ as I was getting stuff done. Well, it got to this song and on the first play it pumped me up. The artist is very articulate so I had to listen to the words this time which I might add is very rare. The song is “Hungry” by the artist Kosheen and it’s a remix done the great Tiesto.

It just poses the question “Are you hungry for a little more than what you had before? Are you hungry for a taste of life? What is your appetite?” I won’t post the lyrics because the song is more effective listening to it. The verses outline the fact that you can be happy with the simple things in life and still want more. It is good to apply these things to whatever disciplines you have in your life. I have been accomplishing my New Years Resolutions and let me tell you. It has been empowering. So the more I accomplish the “hungrier” I get. On the Christian prospective, I am hungry. I thank God for everything He has blessed me with and now I want to be more and more the man He intended. Phil, a good buddy of mine, says all the time he is going to conquer the world. I want to adapt more of this philosophy. I don’t want petty things like lack of confidence or being dealt some cold hands get me down or take away from my hunger in this life. We can do anything with the strength that God gives us and skills we have. So…are you hungry? Listen to the song…. click here

What's New

Well, it’s been a rough week for me so I’m sorry that you have had to stare at Chuck Norris for half a fortnight. He is sexy though…id knee? Well school has taken off and I’m working hard at staying ahead or at least up to par. I am going to start my research projects early this semester because every one of my classes requires one and I have to take finals a week earlier than everyone else. So I don’t want to become the Tasmanian devil at the end of April. Right now, it is 4:26 a.m. I’m enjoying a light rain outside and the sweet sounds of the songs compiled by dj GT from the Voices of Spring 2004 mix. It is quite a cozy atmosphere. What’s new in my world? Well, I realized I was eligible for a free $18 phone upgrade through Cingular. There is some humor in that last sentence, but I’ll leave those that are savvy to enjoy it. I like my new phone.
My last phone was the first flip type phone I had and it was fun but it had some things I didn’t like. For instance, I got many complaints about the poor quality audio that my speaker phone emitted. I could never find a hands free device either that would add anymore accord, so I gave up on it. Well, this new phone has improved both those problems. It also does some video recording which I think is dandy. There are a bunch of other enhancements, but I will not talk about them because I do not use them. Yes, it searches the internet and has all those features, but who wants to search the web on a cell phone? Stupid if you ask me. You pay extra to look at web pages on a “1.5 screen and wait a minute per page load. Come on now. Anywho, I need to get back to studying and I’ll try to keep you more up to date on what’s happening in my world.

Chuck Norris

I thought some of these were pretty funny so I posted them (disregard the website on the pic, I just wanted a pic of Chuck)...

Chuck Norris' tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried.

A blind man once stepped on Chuck Norris' shoe. Chuck replied, "Don't you know who I am? I'm Chuck Norris!" The mere mention of his name cured this man blindness. Sadly the first, last, and only thing this man ever saw, was a fatal roundhouse delivered by Chuck Norris.

Chuck Norris sold his soul to the devil for his rugged good looks and unparalleled martial arts ability. Shortly after the transaction was finalized, Chuck roundhouse kicked the devil in the face and took his soul back. The devil, who appreciates irony, couldn't stay mad and admitted he should have seen it coming. They now play poker every second Wednesday of the month.

Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.

Aliens do exist. They're just waiting for Chuck Norris to die before they attack.

Chuck Norris can piss into gale force winds.

Chuck Norris is currently suing NBC, claiming Law and Order are trademarked names for his left and right legs.

Chuck Norris built a time machine and went back in time to stop the JFK assassination. As Oswald shot, Chuck met all three bullets with his beard, deflecting them. JFK's head exploded out of sheer amazement.

Filming on location for Walker: Texas Ranger, Chuck Norris brought a stillborn baby lamb back to life by giving it a prolonged beard rub. Shortly after the farm animal sprang back to life and a crowd had gathered, Chuck Norris roundhouse kicked the animal, breaking its neck, to remind the crew once more that Chuck giveth, and the good Chuck, he taketh away.

To prove it isn't that big of a deal to beat cancer. Chuck Norris smoked 15 cartons of cigarettes a day for 2 years and aquired 7 different kinds of cancer only to rid them from his body by flexing for 30 minutes. Beat that, Lance Armstrong.

If you can see Chuck Norris, he can see you. If you can't see Chuck Norris you may be only seconds away from death.

Chuck Norris doesn't read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.

Rather than being birthed like a normal child, Chuck Norris instead decided to punch his way out of his mother's womb. Shortly thereafter he grew a beard

When Chuck Norris's wife burned the turkey one Thanksgiving, Chuck said, "Don't worry about it honey," and went into his backyard. He came back five minutes later with a live turkey, ate it whole, and when he threw it up a few seconds later it was fully cooked and came with cranberry sauce. When his wife asked him how he had done it, he gave her a roundhouse kick to the face and said, "Never question Chuck Norris."

Chuck Norris doesnt shave; he kicks himself in the face. The only thing that can cut Chuck Norris is Chuck Norris.

Chuck Norris once tried to sue Burger King after they refused to put razor wire in his Whopper Jr., insisting that that actually is "his" way.

Chuck Norris once bet NASA he could survive re-entry without a spacesuit. On July 19th, 1999, a naked Chuck Norris re-entered the earth's atmosphere, streaking over 14 states and reaching a temperature of 3000 degrees. An embarrassed NASA publically claimed it was a meteor, and still owes him a beer.

After much debate, President Truman decided to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima rather than the alternative of sending Chuck Norris. His reasoning? It was more "humane".

Death to Sheener

Well, the time is nearing. Next Tuesday I start the brutal schedule of classes that I have signed up for. I’m very determined to graduate and be done with this black hole of a thing called college. In a way I’m excited because I am really trying to lose some weight and I think a huge factor that effects how well you can accomplish this depends on routine. You have to have a routine. So, I will either be going to school or work and Sunday night will be my only day off each week. I want to work hard so that I can enjoy this time. It will be very important for me to not get behind. I would definitely consider myself a professional college for the main reason that even my wife has a hard time believing I’m in school because I’m very good at procrastinating and getting projects done in no time. This will not be the case this semester. You will see me with my head in the book at most times or I will be in a bad mood because I’m staring at all the work I haven’t done. So I pray for a good routine and that I’m able to stay on top of things.

Online Professor Follow Up

Follow up on the email I sent to my online professor. Well, it took him about 2 ½ days to reply to that email and all he could say was that he would try to watch everyone and not let them get too far behind. Well, as he was watching I decided to take one of our tests that were available and I only had 2 days left to take it. Well, he had passworded it. I emailed him on that! He replies that it was his goof and fixed the glitch. I tell you what…they pay these guys to do less work than us and we pay to hassle with them. Oh, and after I took my online multiple guess test, it didn’t give me the grade. What kind of online test would give you the message “your test needs to be graded.” That means the professor hadn’t even spent the time to fill in the key template they have that will automatically grade the test for you. I have decided to work towards a new career…online professor. Apparently, you get paid well and have nothing to do.

Online Professors

I have dealt with 4 online professors in my time at DBU and have encountered 3 lazy ones. I think the professors are lazier than the students. Three weeks into this winter term and I have now had my first official “run-in” with my online professor. It all started as my fault but I just realized it got worse. Apparently, during the week of December 26 – January 2, the class was supposed to complete 2 chapters and do 2 online discussions plus 2 homeworks. Let me make something clear to you before I continue. This is an extended winter term and equates to the same length of a regular class, but takes advantage of the month during the holidays. Secondly, there is no other week listed on the schedule that asks for 2 chapters to be completed so why would you choose this week?

Let me continue on with this saga. Well, I emailed the professor after I completed the homework and made a couple posts on the discussion question for Chapter 4 (the second chapter I was oblivious to). In the email, I stated that I didn’t realize we had 2 chapters and did the work anyway. I made sure I let him know it was my entire fault and that I would watch things closer. I knew I was in the wrong for not catching this, but I sent the email to kind of feel him out. At best, he would cut me some slack and give me full credit for the assignment, but at worst; he would know I’m not lazy.

Well, 2 days later I get an email back saying that there was no problem and he said he would watch everyone to make sure know one gets too far behind. Ha! He sent another email to everyone saying he worked on grades and you could click on your grade for your quiz to see what you got wrong. Quiz!?!? Let me explain something further. With online courses, you have a certain time to take quizzes and tests and a link is only available during these times. Ok, well, that was a chapter 4 quiz which I got an egg on. I said to myself, how did I miss this quiz? Well, there is no place on the schedule for any quizzes and we got no heads up email on it. Since I didn’t read the online lecture (the place where the link for the quiz would have been)until Jan. 3rd I missed my opportunity to take the quiz.

Now I have a problem. Here is the catch. Had I known about the quiz I would have known about the entire chapter. Oh, from what I said earlier about what he required of us to do the week before New Years and the day after Christmas, now add a quiz. This did not sit well with me, especially the fact that I didn’t get an email response until 2 days later. Here is the email I sent to him in response to the bullet hole he put on my grade book….

“I'm not sure when this quiz was available and sure I missed the time window. However, it would be nice if the schedule reflected quizzes. The only indicator I think we had that there was a quiz could have been the link and maybe the spot allocated on the gradesheet that one would have to scroll down to see. I know I didn't realize we had 2 chapters last week, but I would have caught that had I known from the schedule that a quiz was going to be available from such date to such date. At least that would have been a prime indicator. Might I suggest a copy-all email at the beginning of each week to outline objectives to ensure everyone is in the know. Judging from the class average (44/100), I know I'm not the only one that missed it.”

It’s on….