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Feeling Overwhelmed- (feb 24)

I have an enormous amount of work to do both professionally and personally right now.‚ My internal drive is out of whack and my balance is gone.‚ Need to focus and piece myself back together so that I can meet the challenges that are upon me now and plan for the rapidly approaching onslaught.

Funeral Held in World of Warcraft for Real Person

Funny video of internet trolls who found out about a funeral in the game of World of Warcraft for a real life person’s death… and busted it up. You WoW nerds will enjoy this.

Mount Baker Park Presbyterian Church: “Intellect is Over-Rated”

One of my coworkers was driving around Seattle, WA the other day and discovered a gem of hilarity.‚ The Mount Baker Park Presbyterian Church had a sign out front that said “Intellect is Over-Rated”.‚ Apparently Reverend Leland Seese isn’t a big fan of brains.‚

Update on Advanced Web Application Development Course

My Advanced Web Application Development Course at UW is coming along well.‚ I have bought myself a GREAT C# book (Beginning C# 3.0: An Introduction to Object Oriented Programming by Jack Purdum) and am learning tons about C#.‚ Since I have been so focused on learning C#, my progress with ASP.NET has started to lag a little bit.‚ … read more “Update on Advanced Web Application Development Course”

Insomnia or Enough Sleep?

I woke up about twenty minutes ago and have been wide awake since.‚ Not a bad “tired, but can’t sleep” awake, instead a fresh bright mental state.

I have no idea why I am so awake.‚ I’m concerned I may have started to overtrain on my workouts.‚ For the last few consecutive days, I’ve been doing “ergs” -1,000 calorie workouts on a variety of machines plus my regular weight lifting.‚ … read more “Insomnia or Enough Sleep?”

Indefinite Detention Morally Wrong

On my website in the past, I have discussed my views on freedom and how vitally important a free society is for the success of mankind.‚ America’s freedoms have been slowly bleeding away for a long time, but former President George W. Bush’s policies have greatly eroded very important human rights.‚ One right in particular that has been seriously harmed is the right to not be indefinitely imprisoned without any recourse.… read more “Indefinite Detention Morally Wrong”

Longsuffering People

People are willing to put up with a staggering amount of shit, if it’s fed to them correctly.‚ There are a very few people who have an absolute limit to what they will take, rather their limits are relative and if you increase it at a rate under their “exponential suffering curve”, they will tolerate it.‚ … read more “Longsuffering People”

Author: Joel Gross