Call it a prayer request

Netherlands Hospital Euthanizes Babies. Unbelievable the inhumanities humanists will commit.

Return of the King Trailer

After my little rant about Slashdot, I found a link from the geek blog to a 6 minute long trailer for the extended edition version of LOTR: Return of the King. It’s pretty good, and they include some of the 50 minutes of extra movie that we didn’t see in the theatre.

And since I’m posting about Slashdot, you have to read what they call the “coolest story Slashdot’s ever had.”

It’s a new day…

And I von’t be poosht around!

I tried an experiment last night–I was really tired and didn’t really feel like doing much of anything (except to poke around on the Facebook or within the blogosphere), so I went to bed at 8:00. It worked pretty well (I’m up now at 3:00, and I’m feeling great), but there were some odd things about last night.

First, someone called my room at 8:50. This was really confusing in my stupor, and so I thought that it was time to get up. When I saw that it wasn’t even 9:00, I had to check all my clocks to make sure they were correct. Then I realized that I could go back to bed. By the way, the jerk who called (no offense if said jerk happens to be reading this post!) didn’t even leave a message.

At about 1:00, I was extremely ready to get up. Part of it was because my room was roasting (I had to get up, turn down the thermostat, and get a drink of water), but I don’t think that my body was quite sure what to make of this attempt. I could still hear people up and about. I have to make absolutely sure that I don’t get up/go to bed any earlier than this.

By the way, my neighbor (Chris) heard me get up yesterday morning because he was staying up almost all night to write a paper, so he came over at about 4:00, and we had a good time until he wanted to go to bed.

We’ve Already Been Left Behind

Tyndale House is publishing a fictional series that is essentially a preterist version of Left Behind. The new series will be written by author Sigmund Brouwer (with whom I actually attended a writer’s workshop, back in my younger years.) Read more here.

In related news, don’t you hate those stupid sites that require a login and password? Worry no more. Bug Me Not is a project that provides people with user names and passwords for getting into common news sites, etc. All you do is type in the site address and it gives you a valid name and password for the site. Case in point: the above article can be accessed with the user name “noone99999@nowhere.com” and the password “123456.” Pretty cool, huh?

Cornucopia

Today, the Huskers officially broke all their streaks held over several years: I forgot to wear a Husker shirt to show my Husker pride despite our loss on Friday. I felt terrible when I realize my mistake, but there was nothing I could do; I hate to create unnecessary laundry. The only excuse I can offer is that I got up at 3:30 this morning–this was so early that it seemed like it was still yesterday.

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This was my first night rooming with Buzz. I set him to get my coffee ready at 3:20 (ten minutes before I got up) so that I could wake up singing, “The best part of waking up is Folger’s in your cup!” The only problem is that Buzz is one noisy kid! He was all clicking and whooshing and doing just about everything else to signal that it was almost time to get up. I don’t think I will program him early anymore. On a positive note, that boy makes some good coffee! I think that we’ll get along fine–I mean, even Andrew made funny noises at odd hours of the night when we roomed together.

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I got new shoes over the weekend, and today was the first day I tried them out. In wearing them today, I made a big mistake.

As Andrew can verify, I become somewhat obsessive-compulsive when it comes to the gravel/sand grit that they shovel across UNL’s sidewalks at the first snow. When that stuff gets into your shoes, it ends up on your dorm room floor. When that happens, you can just forget about walking barefoot across your own floor. Poor new shoes. Poor bare feet.

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I joined The Face Book. I don’t really know why I did, because, as far as I can tell, it is nothing more than a colossal waste of time. By the way, there’s a picture of me holding a gavel on my profile. It was one of my senior pictures, and it was always my favorite.

The Facebook

Here’s something for all you people who have (or are willing to create) a “unl.edu” email account.

The Facebook is an online college database of sorts that connects people with their friends from their own school as well as people from other schools. Once you locate someone, you request their permission to list them as a friend, and if they agree, you’re both listed as friends on one another’s profile page. (Cheesy sounding, I realize.) Anyway, it allows you to see your friends’ friends and their friends’ friends and so forth. Friends anyone?

While it smacks of (there’s a shout out to Jakob) middle school cliqueishness a bit, it can be useful in locating old friends you haven’t seen for ages, etc. And it serves as a great way to waste infinite amounts of time that should be spent studying.

Que je vomisse!

The Missouri Tigers just defeated the Iowa State Cyclones 17-14 in overtime. Normally, I wouldn’t care too much about this game; this time, the loss of the Cyclones (combined with the loss of the Huskers yesterday) gives the Colorado Buffaloes the Big 12 North Title and sends them to the Big 12 Championship. I was definitely more thankful on Thursday.

Free Sandra McCracken (with Derek Webb) song

Because Andrew has been slacking over break (he’s let the blog suffer so he can work on homework–can you believe it?), I feel the need to report to you something I found on the Derek Webb Webboard: there is a free mp3 of a song called “No More Tears,” which you can get here.

I would review this or something, but that’s not really my domain–I’ll let Andrew do something appropriate whenever he gets his homework done. (By the way, how’s Dante’s Paradiso coming, Andrew?)

You have good taste in radio

A while ago, Andrew posted about a web site called You Have Bad Taste In Music. I must confess that I didn’t even check out this site until Andrew forced me to do so today. So, I poked around through some of them and found them interesting.

But, after a second look under the tutelage of my keen ears (and eyes), I think I found something quite interesting. On the site’s video documentation of a trip to a Justin Timberlake/Christina Aguilera concert, at the very end of the clip, there is a lady who says, “Turn on Rush Limbaugh.” Obviously, this in itself isn’t very interesting at all, but I strongly believe that the lady is Ann Coulter, an extremely prominant conservative pundit. If so, this is a breakthrough in the world of politickery–this means that Ann Coulter in fact has bad taste in music! I wonder if the guy who runs this site knows who she is.

You can see a list of images of Ann Coulter here. Anyone think I’m correct on this?

Anguish

Believe it or not, I was not thrilled to get up this morning at 3:40. Still, my family and I wanted to leave Hastings at 4:30 to make it to Lincoln as early as possible. But it wasn’t the getting up early that was the worst part of the day, although what we did for the morning in Lincoln took a close second for that position.

We shopped. We shopped today–the day after Thanksgiving, the day that inaugurates the Christmas shopping season. I usually love Wal-Mart, but seeing its entire parking lot full at 6:00 a.m. made me nautious.

I should note, though, that there is someone whom I would like to welcome into my family: Buzz, my new coffee maker. You see, I accidentally knocked my old coffee maker (who didn’t have a name, by the way) onto the floor, creating a lot of smashed glass and broken plastic. I was worried that I wouldn’t have a way to supply myself with coffee, but Buzz will fill that position admirably. Also, I can program Buzz to get my coffee ready a half hour before I wake up. It’s great!

But the biggest blow of the day came when Nebraska mathematically eliminated themselves from going to a bowl game, breaking a bowl streak of 35 years and a winning season streak of 43 years. It wasn’t the streak that bothered me so much, though, but rather the fact that we had to lose to that school of slime, the University of Colorado. I hate the Colorado Buffaloes.

Furthermore, I couldn’t yell during the game because I was saving my voice to preach in church on Sunday. Usually, I’m like the 12th man for the team, but today, all I could do was clap as loud and long as my hands would let me. I was hamstrung from donating my voice to the cause of winning.

So, I’m employing the same tactics I had to use when we lost to Texas Tech by the biggest margin in school history: I have to say, “Yes, Jacob, we did lose to the Colorado Buffaloes, giving ourselves a losing season and preventing ourselves from going to a bowl game. But still, life will go on.”

I guess I was just more thankful yesterday. Now if you will excuse me, I need to go launder a Husker shirt for Monday.