Sunday, October 25, 2009

 

Blasphemy RULES

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FIRST UP, ANNOUNCEMENT TIME! I'VE OPENED UP MY NEW SHIRT STORE ON MY WEBSITE! Filled with a bunch of unseen designs before, and one of them has been featured on the homepage of redbubble.com! GO THERE! CHECK STUFF OUT! Reeses2150.com/store.
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Well, let's say that past week of being home alone was AMAZING. I loved every second of it, and I wish it happened more often! Had all the time and the free schedule to work on classwork when I wanted, take a shower when I wanted, eat and watch tv when I wanted, and pretty much everything except go to class when I wanted! It was awesome!
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College stuff, well, like I keep saying, I am loathing my freehand drawing class, but not so much because of the workload anymore, not because of the drawing itself. My style is based on drawing things small, with solid lines and everything be outlined. The professor is looking for big drawings with blurred or even NO lines and all these center and structure lines. Ugh... At least my 3d design class couldn't be going any better and my other two seem to be doing fine.
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Tech.MCC is doing quite well now that we've had the schedule and venue change, our first social night is coming up, and we've got an idea for spending money on the budget now, as well as our fliers being up around campus now. Things are going well.
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Daily Life:
Well I don't have a story to tell, but as I was forced to mow the lawn today, I had time to do some random thinking. A week or two ago while I was in my college advisers office, I made a joke about my being an atheist, and there was a hardcore christian in the room, the type that want s to convert everyone. So she asked me to stay for a few minutes after I was done to have a quick little philosophical debate. I learned recently that the best type of debate to have is with someone who doesn't agree with you at all, because that's when you get to actually have to think about things. We pretty much ended the debate in a stalemate because I had to leave for class, but she gave her proof as "when you see this picture (she didn't have with her, she said she would bring it in sometime and show me) you will say 'Oh My God...' and you won't be able to deny it's because of god." Now that statement of course is wrong because of course I'll be able to deny it, but let's look at the part where she put words into my mouth, because that's what I was thinking about as I was mowing the lawn today...

"Oh My God." She thinks that if I say that I'm agreeing with her about Jehova, Jesus Christ, and the Christian god. Let's break that saying down though. "Oh", "my", and "god". in that, the "Oh" is just an enhancer/expletive, so let's take it out and say that I'm saying "Oh God." which is the same thing in almost every way. "MY" according to the rules of English that I learned as a little boy, is possessive, it means "MINE" or "to convey ownership". When put into the context of "My God", it turn out I am saying "MY god", as in "The god I believe in". Now, being an atheist, I don't believe there is a god, so I'm really calling out to someone that doesn't exist, like someone saying "Holy Shit", they don't actually believe in a divine piece of poop. I could easily replace the entire thing with "Oh President Gore!" or "Oh my million dollar bank account!" it doesn't mean anything, especially that I believe in HER god.

But while I'm on that train of thought, before I go on to another example of an expletive taken at more than face value, let's examine her logic. To her, my crying out "Oh My God" would mean that I believe in the christian god. The ONLY way I could deduce as to how she could think of that is to solve this like I would solve for X in a math problem. Input x X = Result. In this case, Oh my god x Her thought process = Belief in god. Now, let's look at this as two layers. There's the words at face value and there's the meaning behind why I said them. In this case I would say "Oh My God" as an expletive, like as if I was saying Holy Shit. She disregarded that meaning and took the words at face value. Her thought was, "Ok, so he's said 'Oh my god', what do I mean when I say 'Oh my god'? I mean 'Praise the lord Jesus!', so that's what he must have meant as well, He's saying he believes in Jesus Christ!" To which I slam my head against the desk. WORDS MEAN DIFFERENT THINGS TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE. Just because I said the same words you did doesn't mean I MEAN the same thing you do when you say them! So my conclusion is something I already KNEW about Christians, is that they only hear what they want to hear, and they don't listen to anything else.

Now, I had another line of thought while I was thinking about taking words at face value in the name of god, I thought about something that I have said before that she would also take as me praising her god. "Jesus Fucking Christ." Now, let's take that completely without tone of voice and anylize it word for word. "Jesus", usually refers to Jesus of Nazareth, a dude who supposedly was born 2009 years ago. "Fucking", the act of having sex with usually is what that means. "Christ", the holy spirit, a divine presence or person. So when I say "Jesus Fucking Christ", I'm REALLY saying "Jesus of Nazareth is having sex with the holy spirit." That made me laugh so much. Why? Because that TOO can be blasphemous in more than one way. It either means that Jesus wasn't holy and that he was also fucking around with the holy one, which would be a huge insult. It can be even MORE blasphemous though by saying that Jesus IS the holy one, in which case the sentence would go "Jesus is having sex with Jesus", or in other words, Jesus Christ, who is supposed to be completely free of sin, is Masturbating, thus making him a sinner because according to Vatican rule, any sexual act that does not result in the production of a child is a SIN. I just found that to be funny as hell when I figured out the undeniable logic of it.

So now I FINALLY have an explanation rather than just "It's a figure of speech" to give the hardcore religious nuts for when they "CATCH" me calling out "Oh My God..."

A Day In The Life Of A Peanut Butter Cup ~ Reeses2150

Monday, October 19, 2009

 

Take Time. Make Time. Break Time!


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Well there is definitely ONE incredibly awesome thing happening with me this week, my parents are on vacation with grandma for the whole week! I have the house to myself, and just the dog to keep me company! Ahhhh, it's so nice to be able to stroll around nude at whatever hours I want, take a shower when I choose to, and just live a little ^^ I love it so much!
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Now on to the crap. Though we've finally got things rolling with Tech.MCC (The computer club at Middlesex County College), to get our projects approved, we need to get paperwork done to setup the arcade at the two parties we'll be having this semester, we need to print out lots of fliers and put them up around campus, and of course we need to think of things to do throughout the semester. On top of all that, my ability to get messages out and use the website is really slipping with my lack of time, and it's hurting the club quite a bit. I'm actually starting to think about letting someone else be president next semester and just hanging bck as Vice president instead.....
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FREEHAND DRAWING CLASS!!!! UUUGGGGHHHH!!!! I mean come on! I spent a good 5 hours total working on just my sketchbook for a checkup last week, and after seeing what others were doing in theirs, I'm going in a completely sidetracked direction. Damnit, I hate this class, I really do, not to mention the big drawings I need to get done too! I mean my other classes are all doing great, I know for sure I'm passing my 3d Design course, it's the easiest course I've taken so far and I love doing it, and my Salesmanship class isn't too bad either, my Sociology class I still sorta hate because of the assignments we need to do, but last week we had off, so it's not really looming in my memory right now...
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What else. Ummm, juggling stuff! Still absolutely no time for JoJ, it looks like I might be finishing up season 4 after the semester ends if things keep going the way they are, same with my next big juggling video! Even though I do already have most of the footage I need, it's just too time consuming right now for me to do it all... I frickin hate college burning up all my time.
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Juggle This:
I must admit, I have been neglecting my rings in favor of balls and even my clubs! I'm absolutely astounded by this! But when i thin about it, it does make sense because I only really have the space and time to practice rings on Thursdays, and for the past 2 I really haven't done rings even then, I've been doing so much ball stuff it's ridiculous. Though it has thrown me into an oddly great spot where now I can hit 97531 every time and where I'm doing 3 ball combinations worthy of being recorded, I've even been working on a 5 ball back of the hand cascade! It really is weird for me, and I hate how I'm not having as easy a time doing my 5 ring cascade, but at the same time it is a very nice change of pace to be working on 7 balls quite often, and being able to run a 6 ball half shower for as long as I want...

Let me think though, what else have I done..........
Yo-Yo Sticks! I've finally uploaded the video and putup the page for people to buy them online from me! I haven't sold many that way so far, as I expected, shipping costs included the things are ten dollars or more, but I've gotten a lot of interest from the video, and when I go up to Cornell (if I do go, there's still a slim chance I won't be able to depending on the DATE) I'll be selling them there too, and like philly, I should be able to cut my convention costs or even eliminate them!

A Day In The Life Of A Peanut Butter Cup ~ Reeses2150

Monday, October 12, 2009

 

Damn To Do Lists.....


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Fuck my busy life......
I literally didn't even have time to do this all of last week, and forget about doing JoJ, I just don't have the time between college work, socialzing, and trying to find a job. Damn do I hate not being able to do my personal projects....
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Well at least Tech.MCC is doing good, last week we tried our first Wednesday meeting, and it was in the cafeteria where we could be out in public and use the wifi point as well. It was the first really successful meeting of the semester, and as such we'll be holding all the meetings, same place, same time. Now we can finally focus on actually DOING things in the club.
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Right now with my job search, the best possibility for me is Walgreens, having a friend who works in one, a new store opening up nearby, AND my customer service experience. I need to go in and interview, but so far I've applied online and hopefully I'll be getting up the cash to pay for last semester soon.
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Daily Life:
So Saturday was my mom's 50th birthday, and despite knowing I'd probably have a bad time at the party, I figured it was worth doing for her. I woke at around 10:30 for the 2 hour drive, of course I wasn't expecting my grandma and aunt to be carpooling with us, but there I was suddenly sitting next to my Aunt, who for the first 30 minutes would not stop talking. I love her obviously, but I mean, my grandma knows when she's being annoying, and so does my sister, but I digress.....

So after the two hour drive in which I managed to fall asleep for a good hour of which, I found myself looking at the massive selection of wines that everyone was drinking, a few people encouraging me to have a few of the free samples. One thing though, I hate wine. The taste of it is horrible, and it doesn't do anything for me. So I spent a good deal of my time there turning down wine samples, glasses during dinner, and pretty much constantly. The whole thing was then brought into the big dining hall for dinner, and between the soup/salad, main course, and desert there was a set of opera singers. The guys were good, but god damn do I hate women opera singers. It just sounds so much excuse to hit high notes and shatter eardrums, I can't stand it...

Besides the opera, we only had a choice between two meals, Chicken Parm with Angel Hair or Salmon. Of course being the "fancy" crap that it was (I refer you to Penn and Teller's BULLSHIT episode on "The Best"), it was way too small AND, I never knew it was so possible to screw up spaghetti like they did. It was absolutely disgusting, though the chicken was good for sure. ALSO being a fancy doo, the tables were absolutely packed with people and relatives, essentially giving everyone a half square foot of space for their legs, and I am NOT exaggerating. It was an absolutely miserable 5 hours, and to make things worse, the drive home wasn't spectacular either.

We all piled into the car and headed back along the turnpike, and guess what we hit. MASSIVE traffic, enough that it held us back another hour. Luckily I managed to fall asleep for two of the hours we were driving, but I absolutely hated that I'd lost a full 10 hours to this thing, but then again, it's mom's 50th, and I did it for her....

Juggle This: PHILLY JUGGLERS FEST 09!
Alrighty then, so as a couple of my good juggler friends (especially Paris) convinced me this year, Phily fest is basically just a half tank of gas away and no cost to me other than the food, so no mater what my situation, I'll be going every year now. So this year I woke up on Saturday with a few plans to do throughout the festival, one was to obviously go enjoy the fest, but the second was something I really liked doing and will do in the future. What was it? To sell my custom modified Yo-Yo Sticks. What the hell are Yo-Yo Sticks? Well, I'll be releasing a video showcasing them soon, but at the moment, I'll just explain it as a moderately sized tube which has an elastic powered sting attached at the center. Simply put, it's a non-sleeping yo-yo with the added dimension of what a juggling club is compared to a ring. It's an awesome prop, and I'm happy to say I more than paid for my entire trip by selling my modified sticks! Now I'll explain more about them later when I put up the web page about them, but for mow, let's get back to Philly Fest.

I started out filling up my gas tank and getting breakfast at the shop, ready for a 2 hour drive at around 11:00 or so, and to my joy and surprise I found myself pulling into the parking deck not even an hour later as I walked in to find the gym mostly empty, save for a dozen and a half jugglers or so that dotted the floor. I was early after all, and everyone was heading out for lunch at that moment anyways. I ran into Al Teal outside the gym as I was walkin in though, which was always a cool thing to have happen, he is a good friend. And I immediately started up with the usual hello's and introductions before taking out a set of yo-yo sticks and messing with them. INSTANTLY, I had a crowd of like 4 kids and a few guys coming around to take a look at the things, and I sold two of the 8 I brought with me that day right there, not even ten minutes after having arrived at the convention. So I did my thing for a while, and suddenly I'm approached by one of the organizers who I was friends with asking if I'd be willing to host the intermediate 3 ball workshop. I agreed almost instantly, and a few hours later, there I was with about 6 people, helping them to learn 423 variations.

A little while passed before it was time for the show, and without Greg Kennedy, it was really a little bit less than previous shows, but suddenly Paris came out and did a Bounce Juggling routine, and noone even knew he bounced! DAMN was it impressive and cool! The second Larry Vee act was absolutely classic, and besides that I honestly don't remember, I remember fighting to stay awake because I'd only gotten about 4 hours of sleep the night before, but hey, everyone makes mistakes.

So it was party time! And quite a hell of a good surprise too, because the party was no longer being held at a house on the other side of the city, it was literally 5 blocks down the street! WOO! Of course as I went out to walk there, I walked completely the wrong direction without realizing it, and tired myself out after wondering where the place could be after 5 blocks and a 7/11 hot pocket dinner... So I made my way back to the party and sat at the campfire, which i was SO glad there was like previous years, and though the beer wasn't very good, I ended up getting to stay up until around 3 or so trading jokes and one liners with a few guys, and makin smores. Absolutely a good party, despite not having anyone play the game console I brought in X3.

So i slept on the couch there good and late, came in to the gym and sold a few more yo-yo sticks. I literally sold out of them on the first day, but luckily I had the presence of mind to buy more on my way to the fest, and overall I sold 12 of them, and literally PAID for my visit to the convention, including gas, food, and everything, by selling yo-yo sticks! That was such an awesome realization when it hit me that I left home for the on with 80 dollars and arrived back home with, 80 dollars!

So back to day two, the main thing to happen there were the games and combat (at last, combat!), the most noteworthy things were how completely lax the games were run, it was a bit refreshing and a little confusing when the organizers were going "Ok, ummm, let's do, the, uhh, 5 BALL ENDURANCE! Yeah, that's it!" And I don't mean that as an insult in any way, just that it was interesting. Wht was also quite interesting is that I managed to place third in the 5 object/ball endurance! Beating out Josh Horton, Paris, one of the Hodges, and a few other names. I broke 2 minutes and 15 seconds, making my new personal best. I also won a few rounds of combat early before Josh and the others came in, but it was definitely nice to be the victor for more than one round, lol.

A Day In The Life Of A Peanut Butter Cup ~ Reeses2150

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