tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-147083222011-07-07T15:21:37.131-05:00From the mind of a self-declared geek.Daniel Bergquisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13657831105245014506noreply@blogger.comBlogger1031100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14708322.post-25698060188214171242009-06-08T10:53:00.000-05:002009-06-08T12:25:30.051-05:00

A couple weekends ago I was told by several people that I need to blog more.Here we go!So I have been thinking about going for an MBA.One option is the major state university. Would have to contend with the problems of a public school and I would have to wait until spring 2010 to get in-state tuition, but it has been around for a long time.The other option is the local Concordia, which is

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What follows is the text of a letter I have sent to a DP of the LCMS concerning the Issues, Etc. trademark dispute. You can read about the issue with the good folks over at the Brotherhood of John the Steadfast. A petition has also been started for those who hold concerns for the situation. In the spirit of Issues, Etc. I have tried to keep the letter Christ-Centered, Cross-Focused while taking

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I gripped the phone as my friend told me how his day was. "This is why I tried to warn you that trying to know and do God's will takes you down a dark road."I get a stunned response from the other end. I don't remember what it was exactly because my own mind was stunned from what I just said. I try to recover and continue on."It's a dark road fully of frustration and despair."The conversation

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While I have been busy not making weekly blog posts, I have moments ago finished reading "It's Time: LCMS Unity and Mission." (PDF alert!) It's a good read, and I think he may be on to something. What are your thoughts?

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I have a new phone number. Please contact me or ask a mutal friend if you want it. I do not post such info here.

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I lost the template to this site a while back, so all of my links and such are gone.Meanwhile I have been laid off, but since found a new job that I am enjoying.I've never been much of an overachiever, but I think I'm going to become a glutton for punishment. I have about a half-dozen major things I am looking at undertaking in my free time.In addition to that, I would like to revive this blog by

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I just do not get this.Do we offend Christians, or non-Christians in our ministry? That is the choice put forth in Steve Benke's theology of the tension of offense. I would suggest that the choice has been already made, that God's Law and his Gospel offends the old Adam of all people.As many are prone to say these days, What Would Jesus Do? Jesus offended those that did not believe in him,

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After a bit of a delay, my brother is finally in basic training.At my mother's suggestion, I got him a small Bible. Nothing quite the thing I was looking for, but a "mere book" works. And that is the remarkable thing about the Bible, the fact that it's a "mere book." The Word of God is not brought to us by some nebulous spiritual experience but rather by ink impressed onto bound paper- matter,

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In a little over a week my brother is shipping off to Army basic training. What would be an appropriate gift would be?Though I'm open to other ideas, if at all possible I would like to have it be an item of tradition and symbolism, as an engagement ring is to an engagement or pilot's wings are to a pilot. Also, it needs to be something that I can have in hand by the end of the week.While we are

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Boy, time flies! I have been at my first "real job" for a few days over a year now. Yup, that's a year of making the "big bucks" and a year in the the "big city". Also, my place is finally starting to have some semblance of a home.Enough of "grasping at straws" for a post and of the "overused" quote marks.

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First, an apology to all of those hoping I had vanished. I am still here. I will reimburse any beer consumed at a he's-finally-gone celebration, just address all receipts to my imaginary blonde secretary. Better luck next time chaps.Now some of you may have noticed something fishy in the address bar in your browser. Yes, that's right, I now have my own domain, simdan.com. Sometime in the future

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Stairwell Originally uploaded by SimDan. I have been wanting a place to share photos. Many people I know use Facebook to share photos. However, Facebook requires viewers to have a Facebook account and doesn't support high-resolution versions of photographs.Thus, to this end, I have opened an account at Flickr recently. You can view my photographs at my Flickr page and follow updates at my

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This last Sunday was the last Sunday before the season of Lent starts. The service concluded with something that was entirely new to me. The following hymn was sung to celebrate the beginning of our liturgical fast as the Alleluia banner was removed from the sanctuary.Alleluia, song of sweetness,Voice of joy that cannot dieAlleluia is the anthem Ever dear to choirs on highIn the house of God

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Last weekend I got my bassoon back from the shop. I haven't had it in for repairs since I've had it (about five and a half years). As you can see, it's all nice and shiny. Aside from a few dings, it looks like new. Guess this means now I ought to actually play it.

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Here is a website that combines two things I really like: the Wii and Kitties. I'm a sucker for both.

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I've been working now for just over two months and I have yet to settle on a church. Perhaps it would help if I stuck around on the weekends more often but that's a side topic. Although I have moved several times throughout my life, the churches that my family attended were rather obvious with a father as a pastor. Thus I have no idea how to evaluate churches once a list has been narrowed down to

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Ladies and gentlemen, I present my new theme song.

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I do apologize for not posting in a long time. I been busy getting to know my workplace, the area and how it is to be pretty much on my own.I now work for a contracting company. This whole idea of a contracting company was new to me. Basically it means I'm paid by and get benefits from one but actually do work for another. I already knew someone working at the client's site (which is how I got my

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Since I can't seem to fall asleep at the moment, I thought I would share a few choice exchanges that have occoured recently around here.After going out for some Chinese to celebrate the news mentioned in the previous post, I thanked my parents for dinner. My dad lost no time and said, in an "about time" sort of voice, "Thanks for getting a job."While bringing my sister home from her flight my mom

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....for lack of a better word.I'm not going to go into details at the moment, but I just was notified that tomorrow an offer letter will be sent in the mail. Now this seems like a good thing. Until, that is, I realize that this means instead of a tired, grouchy sister returning I will have an excited, hyper sister returning. Gee, lucky me......More news to come as things progress.

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Two months out from graduation and still trying to find a job. On the other hand, I know of two other people in my field who's job searches lasted for over a year. One of them searched for over a year and a half, gave up, and joined the Peace Corps. Still, even after putting that into perspective, one can't help feeling like this, which really is the whole reason for writing this post anyway.I am

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Yes, you read that right. I didn't know it myself, but it just might be true. Where do I get my opium? Well, acorrding to this article my body makes it.It looks like it is possible that a person's "thirst for knowlege" may be the result of the brain's craving of opium-like chemicals that are released as a reward. Interesting if true... ...it would explain a lot.....

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I never would have thought it was possible to survive a decapitation. That is until I saw this boy named Ricky on TV. How did he survive? Well, he suffered a rare, and usually fatal, form of decapitation known as "internal decapitation." From what I can gather, this means that while his head was not detached from his body, his skull and ligaments holding the skull to his neck were. All that was

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While searching for a job I have noticed that there are quite a few job openings involving the C# programming language and the .NET platform-- both from Microsoft. Thus, in the last couple of days I downloaded MS Visual C# 2005 Express and dove into Learning C# 2005.So far, it's been pretty easy to pick up and I'm already on chapter five of nineteen. It helps quite a lot that I am familiar with C

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The Gallup Poll recently came out with their yearly poll that gauges the public's confidence in various institutions. The results are indeed interesting. One can be 95% sure that the results are within +/-3%. The military is on top with a 73% confidence rating, despite the efforts of some people who wish to lower such a rating. The police follow at 58%. Third and fourth goes to the Church/

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As many of you know, I very much enjoy using a Mac for my everyday computing needs. It truly is a fantastic platform to work with. Of course Macs have their drawbacks. If one is a heavy gamer, then you would want to stick to running Windows. Building a server? Try Linux or BSD instead. Use the tool that best fits the job. The reason why I probably come across as a big time Mac fan is that I think

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Yesterday I once again attended a Tripoli Southern Minnesota rocket launch. This time I dragged my dad and brother along for the fun. The wind was fairly strong but they launched anyways. We took a number of photos. If you click on the thumbnails you will get a bigger image and if you click on the bigger image you will get the full resolution image.This launch had an engine cluster rocket, two

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So recently we were driving through a town and noticed an interesting campaign sign that was in a number of lawns. The name is amusing enough, but when you add the tagline, "Vote for expirence," it gets even better.

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Some college students put on a great old-school act of Super Mario Bros. Simply amusing too all of us NES aficionados out there.If President Bush's political career tanks after he leave office, he could always try out a comedy gig. When Bush gets funny, everyone gets slammed. Yes, even himself.

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For any and all interested, graduation photos. I tried hard to not let my shiny forehead break the camera. That is why I was given that strange cap.(Update: Photos with my other grandma.)

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.....an article you wrote is listed in a bibliography. Granted it looks like a student site, but still odd to see.Will be making a few more posts over the next few days now that I'm out of school. See you then!

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Last week, the week that all students rush to finish anything they have left, I entered a computer lab to continue work on my final paper for the last of the "GS" classes. GS classes are a notorious set of classes that all students are required. Much of the classes focus on "servant leadership." Anyways, a friend of mine was in the computer lab and, when she saw me, started whining about her

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No, the title isn't a euphemism for cow pies, but rather something I've spent thousands of dollars and several years trying to get. Yes, that's right, I'm finally graduating from college. I will be receiving a B.S. degree in Computer Science and Mathematics. Next task: find a job.For those of you who can't make it and are interested in watching the services, both services will be broadcast on the

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Sorry about not making any posts in over a month. I've been busy and I'm just going to get busier over the next couple of months. I did try to make one post a couple weeks ago about my computer graphics class. But I lost the post before I was able to get it posted. Then I was too lazy to spend another half-hour reconstructing my work.Why then am I making a post if I've been so busy? Well, today

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The following headline was was on the front page of the school newspaper a couple weeks ago:Also, the golden throne was on my floor last week. I took the chance to take a closer look at it. Attached to the underside of the lid was a note to the victim. I found a couple things odd about it. First, it was printed on a dot matrix printer. I didn't know those were still being used at the consumer

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I have been tagged by Mike O'Connor. Since I can't seem to sleep, I guess I'll respond.Four jobs I've had 1. Paperboy, Omaha World Herald 2. Checker/Stocker HyVee 3. CS Intern, Concordia Publishing House 4. Life-long pest. Well, to family members that is.Four movies I watch over and over again 1. The Lord of the Rings 2. Serenity 3. Star Wars 4. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse

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Well, never got to talk to my sis today. So let's embarrass her in public!My sister is now the big 2-0. Consequently that's how many hours I sleep each day.She goes to school in Wisconsin. I'm not sure if it was the cheese, or the Sprechers (sp?) soft drinks that attracted her to that area.Frogs are one of her favorite animals. They taste great in a stew.She is rather fond of Tetris. She plans on

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To this semester marks the one and only semester I have had that I am first chair with a bassoon section with more than one person. It's quite daunting actually. I'm hardly an expert and half the time I'm just stumbling around. The other player is a freshman who has played for about three years. She's pretty much self taught up to this point. She also needs a boost of confidence. Coming up in

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I would really like to try my hand at homebrew GameCube development. Thing is, I need to get a hold of a copy of a specific game to do this, Phantasy Star Online I & II. Obviously it needs to be the GameCube version and I don't think the "Plus" version will work. If my readers could look out for a cheap copy of it, I would appreciate it.Box art to the game I am looking for. Note the white

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I would love to tell you about the first week of the semester. However at the moment this quick and totally unrelated post will have to suffice. I was over at Think Geek looking at their what's new section and I found this rather geeky Valentine's Day gift. Now at first glance it may look rather aesthetically lacking but there are two things to keep in mind. You just get all of the parts and you

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So I am packing to head back to school. OK, so my mom is doing most of the packing since I'm tired and gave myself a nasty scrape on my knee this morning. Well, at least that's why I think she's helping. She could just be looking to get rid of me.Anyways, all kidding aside, I have sat down to take a quick jaunt through the Net. After visiting a web comic I read I have decided that this is going

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This semester I begin my initiation into the Real World™ by searching for a job. There are a few questions on my mind that I will now present to my loyal readers to see what they have to say.Utilizing social networks. How does one go about leveraging people you know at a place that you are applying to?Web applications. Many of the places I intend to apply to have their own online systems to view

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Near the end of last semester I found a comic geared towards musicians. Well, perhaps not all musicians, but those who enjoy marching and concert bands will enjoy Tales From Band Camp I thought I would share it here for all my musically-inclined friends to enjoy. I liked this strip so much that I have it posted my by dorm door in the hall. Hey, I like bassoons and I'm crazy, got a problem with it

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A couple weeks ago my mom and I went to go pick up my sister for Christmas break. Near her school lives my dad's sister. A while back my uncle had bought a replica of the movie version of Andúril, a major sword from the Lord of the Rings. With my hands gloved I got to wield it for a short time. The result is these photos:Oooo, sharp and shiny!It's because of dorky poses like this that people

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I have come across several interesting computer-related items on the Web. (gee, imagine that, computer stuff on the Web) First up is case mods. These are custom built cases for computer and they can get pretty creative. First we have a top ten list of the weirdest case mods of 2005. Some of those are truly bizarre, but I will let you see them for yourself. Apple has given the Mac Mini, the little

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Apparently this week (Dec. 19-25) is thank a soldier week. I urge you to take a few minutes out of the Christmas weekend and head on over to ThankASoldierWeek.com to send a note to one of our boys who fight to keep us save and to bring freedom, peace and stability to those who do not have these things that we hold dear.

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Last weekend I was at a bar with a friend and I caught a news story on TV about a botched demolition. With the sound off I wasn't able to get any details. So I emailed the station for some details. Turns out it was the Zip Feed Mill in Sioux Falls, SD. I did a Google search and found an article that had videos of the event. Sorry about the videos being in Window Media format, I couldn't find it

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Paul McCain has, at his temporary blog, a neat little poem that meditates on shopping for a Christmas tree. It draws many parallels between Christmas trees and the stump of Jessie.In other news, while I was poking around Wikipedia the other day a came across an article about a movie that's probably best left forgotten. If you clicked on the link, yes you read that right, Santa Claus Conquers the

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Yesterday I turned in the GS301 portfolio and my poster. I am more than glad to be done with that silly class. Taking a lead from past students of this class I have considered ritual cremation of all documents involving the class. I also printed off a poster to sell my books last week. However, I am also considering getting a group of people together to put together a review of the class. So

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Here I now finally post the new MS Word autoreply for those who are interested.Greetings,You have recieved this automatic response because you sent the attachment in Microsoft Word format, a secret format, so it is awkward to use. If you send me plain text or HTML, then I will be able to read it. In the future, please avoid sending me Word attachments.Distributing documents in Word format can be

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I just emailed the following to someone who responded to my autoreply. I thought it would be good to share it here.Thank you for your concern on this matter. I had feared that the autoreply message might come off as somewhat cross. I plan on revising it when I have more time and I am open to any suggestions.However, you must understand that exceptions will not be made for any one. Sending me

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So this semester I have been receiving a number of .doc email attachments from people, mostly mass mailings from university faculty. Tired of it, I created a rule in my email program to automatically send the following out:**************Autoresponse from (Edit: Address removed. It's never a good idea to post your email address like that)You are receiving this as an automated response because you

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I have gone around and removed most of the posters advertising my computer repair service and I have already printed off a poster to sell my books for the class. The next seven days I am faced with assembling the "assignment portfolio" for this class that has wasted far too many hours this semester and has caused my focus on important classes to suffer. Perhaps after I have turned everything and

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So that newfangled xBox is out. I am personally not terribly impressed and will be placing my dollar votes in favor of the PC, PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Revolution. Those are the systems with the games I am interested in. The few games on the xBox that I am interested in come out on PC anyways, such as the excellent Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Also, the PlayStation 3 is likely to

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So last night while I was awake from being a bit sick I came across Hugin. Hugin is a program that stitches together multiple images into one to make a panorama. So I downloaded it and, having no real idea how to use it as I didn't care to read the documentation at the time, proceeded to have some fun. I dived into my iPhoto collection and pulled out a few photos to play around with. My ignorant

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Say you are working for the world's leading government-operated space agency, the same organization that landed on the moon. You have been working on some new robotics technology that uses infrared sensors to detect humans in close proximity and allows the robot to get out of the way. Finally, let's say that your creation is now complete. Just how do you plan to show it off? Isn't it obvious?

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I just looked at my blog's visiter statistics and noticed that I was sitting at exactly 1,024 visits to this here blog. I never thought I would have broken 1,000 visits so soon; I was sitting around 600 just last week. But with the large number of people coming into view my review of Facebook it seems that I have made it past that milestone. I shall now take 5 seconds to party. Whoopie!Anyways,

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Whoda thunk that posting a review of Facebook would result in a wave of visits to this blog. In the last week or so I have been receiving a large number of hits. They all seem to be coming from Google searches relating to Facebook.If I manage to have free time I could make a number of posts and perhaps capture an audience. But first school comes as well as my sister visiting in the next few days.

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For those of you who are interested, I corrected the link on the right-hand sidebar to Pastor Lucas' page. From what my parents told me a couple of weeks ago it sounds like he will be returning to the States soon. While in Iraq he lost his parish so what he will be doing when he returns is kinda up in the air right now.Pastor Lucas, if you read this, I know it's been a tough time while being away

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This is going to be one heck of a week coming up. For the campus as a whole it is homecoming week. That means lots of activities and people Also this is the week that the wind ensemble will be spending with David Holsinger. That means extra rehearsal time. But it should be great fun. The week ends for wind ensemble with a concert at the high school with all David Holsinger and conducted by him.

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It seems that Facebook has been all the rage around here lately. It has even made the front page of the school newspaper. I have been casually tinkering it for the last couple of weeks and I think I'm ready for a rough review.First of just what is Facebook? Facebook is community site that is based around schools, be it high school or college. This is mostly what separates it from the run of the

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I got to thinking a bit about various nicknames I have been given or assigned myself over the years. So here they are.DanDannyDaniel-sanDangerous Dan the Candy ManDangerous Dan the Candy Man with the Master PlanThe Mad ProfessorBilly (after Bill Gates, I shudder at the thought)Tang (short for Tangent Boy)Internet Aliases:The Real SimDanSimDanIf I think of any more I'll add them later.Names added

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Well, Friday is the beginning of fall break. Tomorrow I will be heading back to "home" to see my family and dragging a friend, Josh, along for the ride. Being the mischievous little bugger that I am, I am sure I will make sure that he will regret it. (whew, now that's a clunky sentence, and I like it) If I were going alone I could be sitting back in Iowa already seeing how I don't have any

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I feel like being random tonight. So let's have a little activity! Who can botch the spelling of "Hooked on Phonics worked for me!" the worst? The limit being that said botched spelling must still be pronounced the same as the real spelling. The subject for this post is the worst I can come up with at the moment. Post your spellings! Have your friends post their spellings! Oh, and don't tell your

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Forget about Snakes 'n Ladders, here's a few board games that my inner geek wishes to try!First up is c-jump. This game takes players down the slope of a mountain with paths laid out with basic program flow control constructs. The paths each skier takes is determined by rolling the die and plugging the resulting value into the code. First player to the bottom with all of his skiers wins!Next up

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Well, I finally secured my copy of Jeffrey Blersch's CD, Resounding Alleluias. I'm listening to it as I type this and I must say that it is most excellent. One of the tracks, Water Blood and Spirit Crying, is probably just about my favorite of Blersch's work. I am pleased to say that this hymn has made it into the new LCMS hymnal. It will make a very good hymn for Holy Week.In other CD news, Dr.

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Well, last Wednesday was the last class period for the class. This means I get to work on my stuff for the class now without having to do silly activities. I've got a poster I need to post around campus once I make a couple edits. Problem is I need a PDF editor to play around with it. Does anyone know of a free PDF editor I could use? Thanks.

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Sorry about the long period of dead air here. But, I'm in the mood to blog tonight and I have a number of topics that have piled up since last time. So with out further ado, here we go.A week ago last Sunday I accompanied a friend to the town's celebration for the centennial of the county courthouse. He had be hired to videotape the festivities. Once we arrived at the square we found displays of

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Today was the opening concert for the Lincoln Organ Showcase's 2005-2006 season. Ironically, the concert was in Seward rather than Lincoln. The performance was given by Dr. Jeffery Blersch, my school's organ professor. The concert was most excellent as well as energizing. It featured a variety of hymns and variations on them. In a number of the selections the audience was invited to sing the

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Well, the proff that is overseeing me for my senior project has pinned down a machine for me to use. It is in a locked room in the science building so I will have to walk across campus to get to it. But hey, at least I have something to run Oracle (translation: a big and memory loving program not to be confused with Windows) on now. They are going to wipe the hard drive on Monday and set me up

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In one of my classes this semester we are making heavy use of a program called Mathematica. Mathematica is a huge program that is popular in many scientific and engineering fields. No one knows more about math than Mathmatica.Well, this week the creators of Mathematica, Wolfram Research, have decided to get, well, creative. They have decided to teach Mathematica how to write music. It can write

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Yesterday the wind ensemble played for the LLL sponsored worship service at the Nebraska State fair. It was a nice day to have an outdoor service. Our school's president gave the sermon and the whole thing was broadcast on KNGN. Mike Nielson was there to do the radio broadcast stuff as he has been a big contributer to KNGN ever since its creation. (Edit: I guess he's currently the Interim Manager

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I warned you it was going to happen. Here it is. The first GS301 rant. Yes sir indeedy. GS301 is a class about "servant leadership" in which students learn about being a servant leader and do their own servant leader project. Let's get started about the amusing tasks from last week's class. I'm sure I will miss something that happened in the class though...The class started out with a few

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Well, this semester I will be doing a senior project. I am to write software to deal with the creation, printing, scanning and data storage for some forms. You know, the type that you fill in the circle or the square such as standardized tests? So far I have been mostly working on getting the tools I need for it. They want the data to eventually be stored in the school's Oracle database. So I

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Well, the other night I was in Lincoln and saw that the going gas prices there were $3.19 at the time. I'm sure it's gone further up in recent days with the natural disaster and Labor Day weekend. I'm still not too worried yet, I'm confidant that things will settle down again.

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Well, the first week of school is over. Time for me to talk a bit about my classes. I will not, however, be posting my class schedule on here as it would be unwise to post such a thing on the Web.The first class is a math class with a professor that I have never had before. This professor was my dad's college advisor and is known for being a fun lecturer. If the number is not an integer, then the

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Gas prices. Everyone is whining about them. In my last week of work during the summer I talked with a guy who was convinced that gas prices were going to single handedly bring down the entire US economy. He said that Americans spend "several billion" dollars a year on gas alone. That didn't seem too bad to me since the entire economy was several trillion (The GDP in 2004 was estimated to be about

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Thanks to my trusty flux capacitor I had enough time to make it back to Concordia by about 7:15 last night. My car ran fine for the trip here, though the engine light came on about an hour or so out from my destination. Dang thing has already been in the shop three or four times this summer. I was planning on going to a rocket launch today, but decided I would rather stick around and settle in. I

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Our exchange student wanted to see one of my rockets fly. So, I send my Big Betty on her maiden flight. She flew wonderfully and our exchange student was pleased. But the wind was a bit more than I had thought and the rocket landed in the nearby bean field. I should have gave the rocket more of an angle or a smaller parachute. I had hoped to take it up to the Lutheran camp my brother works at and

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Video and computer games have replaced rock and roll as the whipping boy for our society's problems. This was exasperated with the Columbine shootings and other such crimes. I personally don't think that video games, violent or not, alone have the power to create such monsters. Sure they can contribute, but not enough alone. If they were then we would have had millions of shootings as society

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They say that a great prank would be very visible, to cause a stir, very amusing and something that doesn't cause damage. I was poking around the web for prank idea on the web and I came across a list of the top ten college pranks. From square cats to a club for veterans of future wars to a fishy mystery in a state government building, it there have been some very clever and well executed college

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Well here's a grand idea. Build a replica of a Viking ship out of ice cream sticks and plan to sail it across the Atlantic. That's what Robert McDonald is planning to do. The ship is 15 meters long and will take on a crew of 25 when complete. McDonald says he's not going to want to look at glue again. Would have thought he would have been addicted to the fumes by this time. He's not sure about

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The new school year is coming up fast. Since the time that I started college, I have usually looked forward to the new school year with eager anticipation. While I do look forward to being rid of the monotony of the summer, are a few things about the new semester that I'm a bit concerned about.First off, I will be a fifth year senior. This means that, in addition to being among the student

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Ok, this one is just weird. Here is a praying mantis that has captured a humming bird. I didn't know that the mantis' forelegs were strong enough to impale a bird. After catching the bird, the insect ate a bit and then let the rest drop. God's world will never be out of surprises. I originally found this on Mike O'Connor's blog.

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Well, it look like the space shuttle Discovery made it back in one piece. I was hoping to catch the landing on NASA TV, but they kept changing landing opportunities on me. Oh well. Congrats on a job well done to the NASA guys!

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We went into town today to run some errands. Last stop was K-Mart. I bid my time perusing the toys video games and school supplies. I noticed they had a copy of Animal Crossing for the cheap. I've never really played it before and I have heard it is an good game. So decided to buy it, despite it being the cutesiest game I've ever bought. I had to wait a while for someone to open the case.The lady

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Well, my sister is back from working at a summer camp in Nebraska. She keeps talking about her "puppy" which really is the biggest, strongest horse they have out there. I guess it keeps following her around like a puppy.Our exchange student for this semester also arrived on Saturday. She is from Austria and like volleyball and Dairy Queen. My mom and I have decided we must be the only two people

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Well, I decided I needed something humorous to follow the previous post. Problem is I have no idea what to joke about. So here we go for some good 'ole stream of conciseness jazz. Boo ya!Milk, that's the first thing that popped into my head. It does a body good, right? Something about calcium building strong bones. Perhaps that's because bones are white and milk is also white. But teeth are also

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War is detestable. Mankind has used it to promote selfish desires such as land, money and hate. Yet at the same time it is a tool that God uses to keep defend the innocent and free the oppressed in this fallen temporal world. As such I would much rather avoid war but I would not hesitate to use it. Though some may not like it, peace though superior firepower. It must be stressed that I do not

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Ever wanted to catch a glimpse of the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station or your favorite satellite? Well, break out your spyglass, telescopes, binoculars or your grandmother's glasses. I've come across a page on NASA that allows you to do just that. They have several different options for you to pick from. I choose the J-Pass E-mail option so it will email me before something I'm

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As noted earlier, I went to an Apple store in Wisconsin. The genius (what Apple calls the tech support folks at their retail stores) at the bar was most helpful. One of my cousins, who was with, knew one of the other geniuses. With both of us with majors in computer science we got to chatting.He talked about how he went to WWDC once on a scholarship. He recommended that I try to apply for it next

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As I have mentioned before I don't particularly enjoy working at a grocery store. Today they decided to boost my morale.My parents and I just got back from a trip to visit family. Since we didn't know exactly when we would be getting back my mom said to ask for July 26th through August 5th. Just a little while ago we got a call from the shift manager telling me I was late for my shift. Those of

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I just got an email from the TSM prefect they just posted the launch report for last month's launch. Now you can get more photos of the launch as well as names of people and rockets. Spiffy! Now if only I could get to the genius at the Genius Bar. before I grow old then I would be good. Should have made a reservation before we left. Oh well. Fun times at the Apple store! :-)

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On Wednesday we went to the Holy Hill National Shrine of Mary Help of Christians near Milwaukee. There is the monastery of the Carmelite Order as well as a fantastic cathedral. We took the trek up one of the towers from which we could see downtown Milwaukee. As we journeyed back down, I joked with a cousin that we would lock her in the tower until her prince came to climb up her hair like

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On vacation, so things are getting posted a day or two after the fact.Well, it looks like Discovery lifted off just fine on Tuesday morning. My family and I had a fun time watching it. Mrs. Bush attended the launch at the cape. The only problem with the launch was a chunk of foam that fell off of the external tank (third photo). Since falling foam is what doomed Columbia to fall apart over Texas,

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Being a checker at a grocery store I sometimes get to see human ineptitude at it's finest from some of our customers. So, here I am tonight to poke fun at some of the silly things people do at the check-out counter.When someone buys a gallon of milk or something similar we usually ask if they would like it in a sack. This is done since some people find it easier to carry, it helps with sweat on

Daniel Bergquisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13657831105245014506noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14708322.post-1122262452725019162005-07-25T14:27:00.000-05:002005-07-25T22:28:45.286-05:00

One big thing I have obviously been doing this summer is living in Iowa. And not just any part of Iowa, but the world's (heh, "world's") most boring part of Iowa. Now those of you who know me are probably thinking, "Oh boy, here he goes AGAIN." But bare with me, there will be a point to this.Now don't get me wrong, I don't mind having space, quiet and the ability to be as loud as I want since

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Yesterday I went up to Minnesota to see a friend that I haven't seen for quite a while. Today, on the way back, I took the scenic route and stopped in a field near Maple Island, MN to watch Tripoli Southern Minnesota do their monthly launch. I arrived at the launch site shortly before 10 am when just two people were there setting up the launch equipment. They introduced themselves to me and we

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Just how did I get such a title and what do I mean by it? Well, it started out with the typical "Random Thoughts." Since that wasn't creative enough for me I shoved those words into my computer's dictionary/thesaurus and came up with "Quirky Notions."You know what? That's just about right. I've never really thought of myself as a normal person. Heck, sometimes I'm downright eccentric. Scratch

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This summer I have attempted to read several books for assimilation, some more successful than others. This diet of dead trees has consisted of four books.I quickly read through C.S. Lewis' fantasy of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. I had read the entire classic series once before back when I was in elementary. With the new movie coming out I thought I should re-read it. If you haven't read

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