Thursday, September 29, 2005

Question:

What are you looking for in life?

Thursday, September 15, 2005

an idea so brilliant, it just had to be blogged

School. I'm sorry to say that it's actually pretty good. Actually, i'm not really sorry to say it, because if it was terrible than i'd hate going, and that would be far worse than having to sound lame and saying that I like school. But yea it's quite good. Philosophy is gonna be an awesome course I can tell you right now, because it's pretty much what I want to learn, so when i read what's comin up next class I'm like "SWEET! THE KALAM COSMOGICAL ARGUMENT!" or "NO WAY!? THE EMPIRICIST THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE!" Hmm, english might be okay too, because my prof says she doesn't give lectures, we just have discussions every class, and that she'll actually show us how to read poetry so we can understand it for once. History...well i guess it's interesting but it's kinda boring at the same time. New Testament is awesome so far, we'll be learning stuff about translating and critisms and stuff like that I think. And then there's greek which is so simps, and the teacher is pretty funny and tells us what's on our upcoming quizes that we have each week. So overall, school's good and i'd bet that i've met more people in the first 2 weeks than i have in my past 20 years of life before that.

The new switchfoot cd is pretty good. Similar to the last one, where there are a couple amazing songs and the rest are okay. Well they could be awesome too but i've only listened to it like once. Just, you know, the amazing songs always stand out right from the start.
So buy it...don't steal it, and don't say "i have no bling." That's right, I know all your style.

Oh and another thing about school...today i had to write a response to this thing i read for history. Only had to be 1 to 2 pages long, double spaced. Yet, i took like 3 hours to do it (i started at like 3 and its 8 and i just finished, i took breaks between though, for dinner and some raymond and etc.). I believe it's gonna take quite some time to get in the habit of putting my thoughts together and putting them down in essay format, because I haven't done it in pretty much 3 years. So hopefully that happens, because if not than when I have to write research papers it'll take me months.

Oh and maybe I'll write something that pertains to the title of the blog...my reason for starting it in the first place, and i forgot about till just now when i looked at it before clicking "Publish Post." The brilliant idea is this:

Starting tomorrow, which is friday, I'm gonna start getting ahead of my school work. So...i'll do all the stuff due for monday tomorrow. Everything due for tuesday i'll do on saturday. Everything for wed i'll do on sunday. For thurs i'll do on mon. For fri i'll do on tues. For mon i'll do on wed...and it'll keep going like that till i'm so far ahead that i'll finish early and just have my essays to write and my midterm and final. The reason this is possible you ask? Because at university they give you a schedule of all your homework and test dates, and mostly, what you read in your textbook is what the homework is based on, not what the teacher teaches. They may clarify or talk briefly about it, but mostly they lecture on stuff not mentioned in the textbook, and there is no homework on that stuff, just questions on tests. So i can do all the homework way in advance of each class, and therefore, rule the school.

Goodnight

Sunday, September 04, 2005

Comment KkKkrazy

You will now notice that when you add a comment to my blog, you'll have to do a little verification thing. Because I hate those stupid ad's, i've had to delete like 3400 per post. So suck that you blog spammers.

Friday, September 02, 2005

logic = math

So I ordered this book (remember Todd and Scoot you came over for practice and I was paying for it and told you it was like 40 bucks for a frickin book). Well anyways, i'm reading it, and it's basically a philosophy textbook. Starts out with what philosophy is, goes into logic, then metaphysics, ethics, and other stuff that is probably gonna be death to my brain. BUT right now it's okay because looking at logic is like looking at algebra. You have your letters, &'s, or's, brackets, negatives, positives. The only difference is words instead of numbers. And I was kinda overwhelmed at first because there are so many rules, but since it's so similar to math and physics, which we all did in grade 11 (well maybe not physics, but i just mean the algebra in physics), i've been able to understand it pretty well. And you probably see no point in me saying this to you, but mostly i'm saying it to myself. I'll probably start writing lots of crap on what i learned, because ideas and word definitions stay in my memory a lot better if i write them all out. So one day you might come and see a new post from Jon and unfortunately it will just be some lame definition or some

modus ponens
1. P --> Q
2. P
3. Q

1. Objective moral values exist only if there is a God.
2. Objective moral values exist.
3. There is a God.

I'll probably end up writing all the 9 rules out, because i can't remember them without looking back at where they are explained...

Thursday, September 01, 2005

Oh, the art of innuendo.

Make it a goal that before you die you will go to Valencia, California, pay admission into Six Flags, and hop on the roller coaster called Goliath. All other coasters, in comparison to Goliath, provide the thrill of reading an Instruction Manual which reveals the inner workings of MS DOS. Now I know that some of you (todd most of all), would love to revel in the knowledge of how MS DOS makes compatability with Windows and the computer hardware possible, but trust me Todd, Goliath is even more gripping than even that.

So school starts soon...like this saturday...will be Orientation day and then becomes Orientation week. I don't know how much of that I have to go to, and I plan on not going to as much as possible. Maybe Lindsey can fill me in on the "manditoryness" of it all. Then, thursday it all starts up, and homework begins. I hate homework. Work is okay because once you're done the day, you're actually done the day. But at school, once you're done the day, you bring more "day" home. So, I'm Game Over. Not in the same sense as G-rath and Todd though, because what I have to do I don't really want to do.