Sarah Palin and the Onion

I like Palin, but this was awesome.


Morbid Curiosity Leading Many Voters To Support Palin

Jake Heaps

Here's our star quarterback discussing the football off-season and BYU basketball. Watch till the end, because he demonstrates why he's so good.

Jimmer

This is why I love BYU basketball.

Video Courtesy of KSL.com

Jimmer is absolutely unconscious. He easily could have had more points in this game. He had 45 points when he was pulled from the game with almost 6 minutes to go (he was put back in for about a minute to stop a Utah run). Jimmer did make two mistakes. The first was a missed dunk that he took at a bad angle, and the second was a missed three, which was the only wide open shot he took all night. Go figure.

New Year!!!

I for one am not sorry to see 2010 go. It was a year that started with promise, but quickly plummeted into something much less wonderful. Not that it was horrible, it just didn't deliver according to my hopes and desires.

Highs and Lows of 2010:

High:Girls?

High: I graduated from college!

Low: Girls.

High: Working for the Park Service in Alaska.

Low: I did not finish a novel for publication.

High: Working out and gaining muscle. Being more healthy/fit than I have been in a long time.

Low: Girls.

Low: Entering my "adult" life (post-graduation) with no real long term career plan other than the wild hope that I can become successful as an author.

Low: Girls.

Low: Girls.

Low: Girls.

Low: Girls.

As you can see, there are a few more lows on this list than highs. That's why I'm looking forward to 2011.

Scientific Research

I came across an article on yahoo about a class of 8-10 year-olds, in England, who published a paper in a scientific journal.

After probing a little bit deeper (by clicking a link in the yahoo article) I found the actual report done by these children. I found it to be a fascinating exploration, not only into the intelligence of bees (the subject of their research), but on the intelligence and capabilities of children.

Seriously, this is really cool. The kids did some groundbreaking research. While they were supervised by a competent scientist, they created the experiments and did the research themselves.

So, here's the link to their research:

http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2010/12/18/rsbl.2010.1056.full.pdf+html

Enjoy.

Yes, I've been pretty Stupid.

I discovered recently that I am an idiot. Here is why.

You see, I always thought of being single as a kind of curse. As if my success in life is dependent on if I can get a woman to love me, and thus being single equals failure.

But I've been so wrong. Being single is a blessing. An opportunity. I will never be more free to pursue my dreams than I am right now. I've intended all through my college career to pursue my goal of being a successful published author after graduation. And so here I am, free to do just that. No wife, no kids, and no job to interfere with my writing (I manage to distract myself enough as it is). I can't believe I didn't see it before.

So here's to hoping that I can turn this freedom into a meaningful word-count.

Updates

I've known that I need to post something, but I haven't had any relevant ideas for a good blog topic. I still don't, but I figured I would post today just to keep my blog alive.

So, onto business.

Congrats to the BYU FOOTBALL team for actually making it to a bowl game this year! Through the first five games of the season it looked like BYU was dead. However, they made one of the greatest about-faces that I've witnessed in a sports team and won 5 of their last seven games (with their only two losses coming to top 25 teams). They were basically a different team during the second half of the season. So thanks to them for making this season a pleasure to watch(the second half of the season).




And thanks to the BASKETBALL team for being awesome right now. Unfortunately we need a more consistent inside game to take the pressure off JIMMER (because everybody knows who he is since he was on the cover of SI). Unless we develop one, I don't know if we'll go very deep into the NCAA tournament in March.




No thanks to WOMEN for being utterly confusing; at the same time demoralizing, but utterly intoxicating.




Cheers to PROGRESS! Over the last couple weeks I've actually written a few pages on one of my writing projects. Sure, it isn't that much, but it feels like I'm starting to break through my writing funk. Of course, I am now three months behind schedule. I wanted to have it finished by Christmas. I suppose it's possible, but I'd have to write about 75,000 words in the next three weeks (as opposed to ~2,500 in the last three).

And my favorite place to be right now? 24 HOUR FITNESS. I think I'm starting to turn into a muscle-head. I love working out. Not only do I FEEL different, but I LOOK different. I think after about 10 weeks of working out (5 days a week) I've put on at least 10 pounds of muscle. I confess that I end up flexing in front of the mirror a lot more than I used to : ) Seriously, I think everybody should spend consistent time at the gym lifting weights. Even girls, here is why:

http://health.yahoo.net/experts/healthieryou/why-guys-lose-weight-faster-women-and-how-steal-their-secrets

Anyway, that's life right now. The end.