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Proto Tank - Mail Order Comedy

2012-01-27T22:48:00.000-08:00

Mail Order Comedy is the same guys who do the Comedy Central show, Workoholics. They're very crude and irreverent, but so good! I threw in a Citizen Fish track too because it seemed cohesive with the Proto Tank video.

John Gonzalez - Yale's Last Comic Standing

2012-01-27T19:10:00.000-08:00

The Yale Record, Yale's student humor magazine and the world's oldest humor magazine, held a Last Comic Standing with student contestants. John Gonzalez's performance was pretty good.

The Ping Pong Cannon

2012-01-27T18:55:00.000-08:00

BYU physics professor, Dr. Stokes, executed a much performed experiment with an air-vacuumed ping pong cannon, but he did it just a little differently. Stay with it, especially the last 3 minutes.

Do you want to blog for Insight Magazine?

2012-01-26T20:25:00.000-08:00

Insight Magazine is looking for fascinating, well conceived blog content to bring together the minds of BYU and BYU Honors Program students. We don't want to give any directions, but allow your creative processes to flourish. We just want to know that you're interested in having one of your posts on a preexisting blog published to the Insight Magazine blog, and we'll routinely check your content

HST - Hipster Playlist

2012-01-26T10:15:00.000-08:00

I thought this was really funny because I've sat in on these conversations too many times. "Songs where you get tickled are so exclusive."

Hogwarts Houses of the Honors Program

2012-01-25T19:51:00.000-08:00

Harry Potter has been the connection in lots of social situations lately. It was the craze of the PKP experience as the final installment dropped, enhancing our British experience. Indepedent of home universities, we liked Potter. Harry Potter's been a commonality for me with other honors students, and with lots of Insight staff members too. In an earlier post I supposed which house I would

Latin American and European Histories

2012-01-23T17:47:00.000-08:00

I've been studying Latin America for a few years now, and something never seemed to add up in Latin American history. I became interested in Europe after my study abroad at Cambridge, and realized Latin America can only be abstract without understanding of European events simultaneously.

My Academic Life - Act I

2012-01-22T00:26:00.000-08:00

Brett Peterson suggested on Facebook that I create a blog post clarifying my profile status which stated that my academic life was starting to look up. It sounded like a good idea, and I told him that I would. But after sitting in front of my computer attempting a few times, I realized the story is not completely unfolded. I'd had wonderful academic experiences involving some of the best people

The Contagion of Harry Potter

2012-01-21T14:33:00.000-08:00

I didn't read the Harry Potter books when they came out, and I fell asleep at the midnight showings of the first and second movies, and subsequent DVDs watched, but Katelyn Hemmeke filled me in on the events of the first seven movies as we went to see 7.2 in Cambridge, and I got into it. I made a promise that I'd start reading the books, which I didn't intend to keep. But Lindsay and I purchased

Compounding Interest or Compounding Visuospatiality - A Metaphor in Metacognition

2012-01-20T20:37:00.000-08:00

In BYU's Family Finance class with Dr. Israelson, I learned about compounding interest rates, either annually, quarterly, or daily. By compounding interest rates, the earned interest in the specified time is added to the next time frame increasing yields. But I've found that instanteous compounded, for me, yields less than periodic compounding. It's a strange dilemma, but I found that my

Listening to Ska

2012-01-15T22:23:00.000-08:00

I've been enjoying the quick and sometimes jazzy rhythms of ska lately, and wanted to post a few of the songs that have struck a chord with me.

A Couple of Positive Stats

2012-01-14T20:33:00.000-08:00

News media sources in the US have terror tactics mastered, sensationalizing disconcerting points to provoke responses from viewers. We know that issues can be taken in many ways and that news agencies are in the entertainment industry, but with the formula laid it's hard to get the optimistic real facts some times. I read a couple startling facts about US demographics that gave me a little

Digital Civilization: Blogging and You

2012-01-12T21:25:00.000-08:00

I liked this post about academic blogging.Digital Civilization: Blogging and You: Up until now, to you blogging may have been something that your aunt did to keep the extended family in the loop or something your creative...

Matthew Henry - quote

2012-01-12T15:19:00.000-08:00

I liked the following quote by Matthew Henry (1662-1714) There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear of keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt of abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.

Two Courses that Have Helped Me Feel Optimistic About the Future

2012-01-10T15:10:00.000-08:00

At the beginning of this winter semester I did one of the smartest things I've done in my college career, I went back to reexamine my metacognition and self-regulation with study skills. I have only a couple more semesters before I graduate from BYU but I realized I want more organization and better study skills for grad school and future jobs. I'm taking a study skills class that has opened my

New Years Resolutions

2011-12-31T15:20:00.000-08:00

My life was rocked by brutal things experienced in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and I've spent the better half of my years back neglecting the effects it's had upon me. I took off the fall semester of school to everyone's chagrin and critique, but have re-harnessed my desires and motivation and am ready to kick again. I've made New Years Resolutions addressing certain aspects of life, and intend to

The Coming of the New Year

2011-12-31T14:17:00.001-08:00

I haven't really had my head in the academia game for a couple of years, but I'm back, and not in a bad spot. I'm going to take what I set out for! 2012 is the year of Sean and Lindsay Watson.

Christmas Together

2011-12-30T16:55:00.001-08:00

We expected snow to stick upon the barren trees as we observed from inside our cosy basement apartment. But then again nothing was traditional for either Lindsay or myself as we spent our first Christmas together. With our families in California and Lindsay working both Christmas Eve and Day we were inclined towards childhood nostalgia, but Christmas somehow transformed to a magical day for

War of Words 1.4

2011-12-29T18:59:00.000-08:00

Nick had wanted to leave for some time now, but costed back antisocially watching the partygoers get their fix. It seemed very strange to him, irritating a little that the get together was a therapy session for its clients. All throughout the day he imagined uncertainty and confusion until the Xanax of social validation focused the three or four emerging self-perceptions that before the party had

America's Colors

2011-12-29T15:38:00.000-08:00

The US is anthropophagist, only in a different manner than Brazil. We ingest cultures, traditions, and trends, but only in their affliction. As the Pygmalion effect forms individuals' identities according to how they're perceived by others, the US has toned itself according to its hateful image fed by society's sensational worst. Once the worst is standard it's kicked lower until sex, death,

Lying

2011-12-24T18:47:00.000-08:00

Americans have become comfortable with lies in politics, it is to be expected. It's even common to lie when talking about politics, and then to lie when not talking of politics. This is a grave error! Integrity is the essence of character, and America doesn't have character without it.

War of Words 1.3

2011-12-24T16:45:00.000-08:00

Their shoes clapped as Nick and Grace were ushered to a quaint table by the window. The hostess whose eyes spoke of affection greeted them. Restaurant guests filled her reservoir with care, which erased with the next morning's yawn. A tear was always at the crack of her eye, but so was a smile to her lips. Either could emerge unannounced, and retreat to the other as swiftly. She remained chatting

untitled poem

2011-12-23T20:51:00.000-08:00

I suppose the day has come that I have read, When judgment falls and no longer I'm free. In things I've done I've reached for God; Most surely I've slipped on wilted sod. But exactly why I've fallen from His grace I cannot explain in this, my case. I've withheld no sacrifice that I can give, Nor have I sought comfort in the way I live. Success thickened solid as I'd had my way out, But it

Bridal Veil Falls with Justin

2011-12-22T17:03:00.000-08:00

The Paradoxes of Belief

2011-12-22T16:59:00.000-08:00

I've got conservative values, a leftist heart, and take issues for what they are, and that doesn't have to contradict anything. I believe in God and I believe in knowledge, but I also believe God holds all knowledge as I too want, and that doesn't affect my belief in either one. I truly love, and I condone correction, but I know they can coexist without threatening the other. I'm sure the