I have been meaning to write again but my life is really so uneventful that I feel I never have any substance for writing. So when something does finally pop up, I jump on the chance. Usually that thing is just something that annoyed me to the point that I had to get it off my chest. But, whatever works.
So the other day I was on my computer and decided to download yahoo messenger. I figured I havent talked to any of my filipino friends in a while. In the little toolbar that came with the messenger were some little hot buttons like yahoo mail, myspace, and things of that nature. One of them was a "Download Internet Explorer 8" button. In my manly quest to have biggest and best of everything, this button was staring me down everyday I let it just sit there. I finally gave in and decided to download internet explorer 8. Little did i know...
The download went fine up until the point where I had to restart my computer. I restart it and instantly started having problems. When it went to reboot, I had this error message saying something about trying to do something with customizations? I dunno. So I instinctively call my mom who is the know all for any crisis. After an hour on the phone with her trying to get it figured out, I get my desktop to work again.
A couple days later, I go to print something off the internet. It starts printing then all a sudden another error comes up. Something about how some sort of spooler is not working and wont print my stuff. Again, I call mommy. After another hour and a half on the phone with her, I start downloading all these updates. Mind you, our internet makes dial up seem lightning fast. I mean, it is ridiculous how slow this thing is. It takes 20 minutes to watch a 5 minute video on youtube. And its not even the high quality ones. It is always one of those crappy videos where it is super blurry and shaking the whole time. I like to start one downloading and then go clean the oven and change my oil, watch the 2 minutes that have finished, and return to my activities to allow the rest of the video to download. Anyways, so I start downloading all these updates and stuff from microsoft in hopes it will fix my poor little computer. Nope. It is still having an error. So 20 hours of downloading updates later (and multiple help calls to the mother), we figure out it might be a virus. So now I have to do this super intensive virus scan of my computer which will take another 3 hours to do.
Technology can be a wonderful thing. But sometimes, it is extremely difficult to keep a christian tongue when you have computer problems.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Totally Random stuff
BYU-Idaho is peculiar place to say the least. The whole Mormon culture stuff kind of bugged me at first but I'm over that. There is just all this other stuff that revs my engine, so to speak.
The school newspaper The Scroll is just one of them. The first part of the newspaper is always just stuff that students get from other news sources like associated press and stuff like that. It is all about what is going on in the nation and things I should care about but have lost hope over a long time ago. It is the actual student's writing that gets me going. They have this one section called "lifestyles." They might as well change it to the "our take on dating and getting married" section. Every single article is about someones idea to dating. What to do, what not to do. When to do, when not to. It is super annoying and everything you read you learned already in young men and women BEFORE you were 16. It was reiterated and over-addressed in young men and young women. Now it is just a nuisance. I wonder, is there really no other topic under lifestyles that could be addressed? Couldn't they talk about food, music, movies, art, plays, concerts, etc. etc?? Or is dating really all they could talk about. Now, I'm not one of those bitter single people who hate hearing about it because I'm not dating anyone right now or hate being single. I was thinking today how much I actually like being single. It remains the fact that I hear about it everywhere and it is like hearing the same song on the radio on every single radio station. Its just annoying.
Another thing about The Scroll is the letters to the editor. The stupidity level of students here never cease to amaze me. Just when I think it can't get any worse, it does. These people keep writing in and arguing through the newspaper about petty things like, how vegetarians are or are not following the word of wisdom (which came mind you from an article on how americans are not getting enought meat. ???????). Another trivial item was about the death sentence. One person wrote their opinion and so of course, every do-gooder and RM in the school had to write and give their 2 cents and try to support their idiotic opinions by using scriptures. I don't mind if you have an opinion. Even if it is a stupid one. But when you try and use false doctrines and self-interpretations of the scriptures to back your ignorant opinion, that gets me fired up. People are just dumb!!
So these are the latest things to have caught my glance while here at BYU-I. Sorry for the rant but it is just some fun/frustrating things I have noticed.
The school newspaper The Scroll is just one of them. The first part of the newspaper is always just stuff that students get from other news sources like associated press and stuff like that. It is all about what is going on in the nation and things I should care about but have lost hope over a long time ago. It is the actual student's writing that gets me going. They have this one section called "lifestyles." They might as well change it to the "our take on dating and getting married" section. Every single article is about someones idea to dating. What to do, what not to do. When to do, when not to. It is super annoying and everything you read you learned already in young men and women BEFORE you were 16. It was reiterated and over-addressed in young men and young women. Now it is just a nuisance. I wonder, is there really no other topic under lifestyles that could be addressed? Couldn't they talk about food, music, movies, art, plays, concerts, etc. etc?? Or is dating really all they could talk about. Now, I'm not one of those bitter single people who hate hearing about it because I'm not dating anyone right now or hate being single. I was thinking today how much I actually like being single. It remains the fact that I hear about it everywhere and it is like hearing the same song on the radio on every single radio station. Its just annoying.
Another thing about The Scroll is the letters to the editor. The stupidity level of students here never cease to amaze me. Just when I think it can't get any worse, it does. These people keep writing in and arguing through the newspaper about petty things like, how vegetarians are or are not following the word of wisdom (which came mind you from an article on how americans are not getting enought meat. ???????). Another trivial item was about the death sentence. One person wrote their opinion and so of course, every do-gooder and RM in the school had to write and give their 2 cents and try to support their idiotic opinions by using scriptures. I don't mind if you have an opinion. Even if it is a stupid one. But when you try and use false doctrines and self-interpretations of the scriptures to back your ignorant opinion, that gets me fired up. People are just dumb!!
So these are the latest things to have caught my glance while here at BYU-I. Sorry for the rant but it is just some fun/frustrating things I have noticed.
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