Full Throttle

Die, I do not really care

Superbowl Sunday approaches, the biggest American Holiday of the year. The Superbowl represents the idea that those who are the best at they do come together to who is the ultimate champion. There are winners and losers, period. We do not talk about feelings, we dominate the other guys. You are horrible if you lose, wonderful if you win. This is an important concept. It is a concept none of the hippies can take from us. If you are a hippie and you are reading this, I suggest to you the following course that will alleviate your suffering at the thought of people winning. This course of action will restore balance to your Zen.

Kill yourself.

Ahhhh, I can feel my Zen return to normal... It's no secret I love football and the Superbowl is my second most beloved holiday, right after Christmas. Those who say they dislike organized sports are morons and should be discredited as intelligent humans. Organized sports is true, pure capitalism. The best win, everyone else loses. If you want to win, you train harder and play better then everyone else. Those who are motivated win. Just like it should be in life. You have no motivation, no ambition, no drive? Goodbye and step aside, someone better is coming through. Economics, by the way, is awesome. My professor appears to support pure capitalism, so I get to listen to the joys that is a libertarian viewpoint. This is the kinda stuff I could get my Masters in. But education gets in the way of real life, so I still ponder if I want to delay life and careers for it.

I am now about to watch a movie in the comfort of my home (I still get a kick out of saying that). Live forever apes (and die now, you damn dirty hippies)!
- Maddog
like a rootless tree

Lost - For Realz

I lost my stinkin' thumbdrive, which had all of my papers for most of my classes. This includes a rough draft for a ten-page research paper for my English course on Federal Involvement in Education. Now I'm facing performing a total re-write of the paper. This is not cool, thus I'm kinda pissed. Argh.

Today I've got a meeting to discuss my transfer and pick out my courses for the Fall semester. I'm taking two classes this summer during the May-June semester and another possible course later on. Most are all super easy classes. Just prereqs I need. But still, I might have to work a lot less then I wanted. I wanted to get a good number of Lifeguarding hours in.

Stuck here at the computer lab again, reading my Guns, Germs and Steel book. It's written by Jared Diamond, a massive socialist professor from UCLA. He gave a speech that I went and listened to, drove me crazy. Anyways, Diamond's talking about kleptocracy and how elites ensure control of the populace. One of the methods he mentioned was, now get this, take away the weapons from the general public. Ok Mr. Diamond, if you are saying a kleptocracy is bad and the elites are controlling society, then shouldn't we get rid of our restricting gun control? Won't that let us ensure that our society isn't oppressive, that the general public is still in charge?

Just more conflictions from the wonderful world of socialist centralizationists.

- Maddog
tonight

Two More Friggin' Weeks

   Only two more weeks until the end of semester; I'll be so happy. I'm really looking forward to being done with these classes. Currently, I have a paper in Anthropology that's four to six pages long due tomorrow, a rough draft two to three pages long due in Mythology tomorrow, another two to three final report due to tomorrow in Mythology, a seven to ten research paper on the need to decentralize education due Tuesday in English and two final exams on May 8th. Crazy.

   The research paper is very interesting though. It's really leading me into some fascinating research on decentralization theories in our government. I'm becoming a big fan of the Articles of Confederation. In a way, I'm kinda glad I'll (most likely) be going to Hillsdale, a strong conservative background of students is something I'll really enjoy. I'm really looking forward to being around other right-thinking political theorist students!

   I'm taking two summer classes, a math class that starts the 8th and a 3d Animation class that I'm really, really, really looking forwards to. I can't wait to start that thing. It offers total 3d animating instructions, all the way to articulation. Should be totally awesome.

   Nothing else really to put up here. I had an interesting discussion in Mythology today about feminism and how World War II developed the modern feminist movement. It was a heated discussion, pretty fascinating. Most of the girls I was talking with all supported part-time or full-time employment of women, even when having kids. They said that someone that stays at home would be "bored to death". Another reason why I'm looking forward to going to Hillsdale. I'll actually be around intelligent, Conservative, intellectual right-thinking girls who most likely will be coming from some sort of Protestant background. That's pretty awesome as well.

   More later!

- Maddog

oh na na nan nan nan na na na

Alaskan Wetland

Weird weather today. It's been raining and freezing all morning, creating a vast ice sheet. I left the house early to arrive at my morning classes and saw several emergency vehicles go past, warning lights creating a weird blur in the rain and dark. When I got on campus, the parking lot was solid ice. Inside, there was a massive gathering of students as it was rumored they were going to have to shutdown the campus and postpone the class outing.

Sure enough, the Parks Highway was such a mess that the radio was advising people to not go to work and stay home. They shutdown campus and so I got to be home at 10:00. Nice little reprieve, I sorely needed it. Cramming in my math problems, I have almost two hundred math exercises to finish up and a take-home Mathematics test. Another test on Tuesday. I'm not looking forward to it. Not at all.

Well, I'll be here all day. Weeee. Laters,
- Maddog
so glad to see you well, overcome them, completely silent

Sleep is the opium of the Masses!

I was so tired today I fell asleep twice during the Anthroplogy lecture. Weird thing was, I kept writing notes, which have turned out to be a massive scrawl of a collection of weird and strange thoughts. I totally missed the lecture and I'm trying to make sense of what I wrote. I need to start sleeping more but this homework, it ain't doing itself.

So, no Halo 3 in 2006. Big whoop. We all saw that one coming. Personally, I'm dying for a new Halo but a new Halo means I need a Xbox 360 and Xbox 360 cost $$$. They should just give one to me. Each according to his need and I need a 360, dognabit!

Great, awesome new webcomic: Dr. McNinja. All the old cliches of a Ninja combined with werelumberjacks, doctors and McDonalds. It couldn't get any better.

This new workout routine I did was EASY-PEASY. I need to seriously switch to a different one, I think I'll do that next week. I'm beginning to feel the results of all this working out. I'm....getting...stronger....more...powerful. Oh! Because the weather warmed up, some guys at the school are starting up a football game tomorrow! Yes! I get to crush people for fun! I love being defensive tackle.

That's about it, you crazy people. Nothing too exciting. You stay sexy, readers.
- Maddog
being with you girl, is like being stoned

Wires and Wired

I finally ran a cable for my internet down to the basement, where my studio is. Before, my studio computer was connected to via Wi-Fi. But now, due to some mysterious occurrence, the Wireless is down and thus I finally had an excuse to try and wire it. So, with the Pops helping (he actually knows what he is doing with construction and all via being an ex-contractor), I got a cable down here. Finally, actual fast internet.

Simply went to classes today and worked out. Nothing exciting. I want to do something this week in the worst way. I'm starting to get Cabin Fever and winter has just set in. Ugh. Going to be a looooonnnngggg, cold, dark winter. I'm gonna want to actually be active, instead of sitting around freezing. Sarah's probably going to get sick of me dragging her around to billions of activities. I just do not handle doing nothing for long periods of time very well. I hate it. Besides, it's way more fun when you've got someone to actually share the spur-of-the-moment wacky fun stuff.

I need a snowmachine this year. Or like, fight Zombies.

Alaska is meant for adventures and I'm ready to start Adventure Season! Throw the sandbags in the back of my truck, grab some clothes and head off for the entire day. I need to do this. Perhaps this weekend.

Life, however, is still good. Driving home from my classes in my truck, listening to my new Joe Purdy CD and watching the Sun shine off the heavily frosted trees is awesome. It's just good.

To quench my desire to be more active, I've decided I'm going to start my swimming back up. I'm due for a re-cert on my Lifeguarding certificates and I need to practice my lap swims again before I take all the classes once more. This time, I'm going to do my WSI (Water Safety Instructor), which is just a fancy way of saying that you can teach swimming classes. Working out at the Club is all good but I need more. Maybe when I start that Personal Trainer, it'll be better. I'm really wishing there was a sports team I could join. Wasilla just doesn't have it's opportunities. Perhaps I should get back into Martial Arts.

I'm rambling now. Better sign out,
- Maddog
it's not that we are scared, it's just that it's delicate

Musicana

Sara was over today. She recently got an iPod Mini, I helped her load it up with a few songs and scan a few of her artwork pieces. Burned it on a disk for her to start an art account in some art gallery thing called "Elfwood" or something. She's getting really good at the artwork. She could easily persue it into something. We took the dog for a long walk around the neighborhood. Aftwerwards, we went out to Taco Bell then dropped her off at her house.

Good times.

I'm leaving Wednesday night to fly to Washington where I'll tour Western Washington University and go to Promise-Keepers, a large Christian Men's Convention. I'll get back late Sunday night. I'm hoping I have internet access while I'm down there but not entirely sure. I'll take pictures for sure, count on that.

And I really need to do a podcast. Emily! Showtime!

- Maddog
you are the antidote that gets me high

Revisions

I pulled the last post of my blog and set it to a private level. No, I'm probably not going to talk about what happened. Nothing happened, really. If you really feel like you need to know what was going on, talk to me in private.

In other news, I'm looking at doing a experimental podcast, merely because I haven't done one and they look cool. So, I'll be trying to do one and see how it goes. Look around here later this afternoon for a completed one.

- Caleb
funky fresh