Isn't it nice when Honest Virtues win?

My mom was actually the one who picked up on this one....

Watch this Subaru Commercial:


Cute, huh?

Notice Anything?

(If you don't know...this is a Girl Scout Brownie vest.)

I bet this child will have some identity issues when he gets older. Good one Subaru.
Next time, pay your marketing directors a little more so maybe they'll go figure out what not to dress their little boys in.

Funky Little thing called love...

Contrary to the title, I wanted to explore the wonderful world of television, and the fact that whenever I discover a new tv show that I enjoy, it is swiftly discontinued. The list is as follows: Firefly, Moonlight, Eli Stone, Pushing Daisies, Life on Mars, Black Donnelleys, and I am sure countless other precious but brief shows that are all but memories now. If you are searching for a way to pass some time, picking up one of these series would be worth your time.

Pushing Daisies


Eli Stone


So, there are two quick synopsis' on some fairly decent shows which no longer air. Enjoy!

User Experience

Maybe this has turned into a blog about computers? I write about what I know, and this happens to be one of those things.

I just wanted to discuss layout changes on websites to make things "easier" or "more intuitive" but the actual problem is that every time there's a little change, like the "sign out" button on yahoo mail moving from the right hand of the screen to the left, or facebook's numerous daily changes, they should take into consideration the Systems Analysis and Design interface principle of "User Experience".

We'll analyze this picture: (Use of facebook because that is a very likely culprit)



First off, there are numerous changes like the buttons at the top not doing the same thing, but the most recent change is the addition of chat, and then changing it so you can't view all your friends at once. I have numerous friend groups, although I do not know how, I believe this came from when I first got facebook several years ago and decided it'd be funny to add "how I know you" to random people, including sometimes checking the random "we lived together" or "we hooked up" with random friends. But now it makes it so complicated, that I can't find people when I want to.

First, for novice users there should be a "ease of learning" where it's easy to find out what the little green and white oval do. But, since most people are facebook addicts, there should be an "ease of use" principle applied, which obviously they have overlooked. The constant changes are making it harder and harder to figure out what is going on.

Also, they have seemed to not work out all the bugs which is also a problem (as in, they should've completely tested it before rolling it out). I don't know if it's my browser being incompatible but occasionally when I'll click on something on facebook, a run-time error occurs and my entire internet session is closed. Extremely annoying especially in this high-paced society.

Okay, this is my slight rant about topics that I have had to learn about this past semester, and now think you should know a bit about, too.

Enjoy your day!

The Validity of Wiki

Thought this was interesting. The fact that many people pull sources directly from wikipedia, and site other sources in papers is proven by this article.

Wikipedia quote Hoax

That is all for now.

Also, always keep proper identification on you, just in case, ya know, you're mistaken for someone else.

"Catholicism is a very sensual religion"

Many Catholics have heard of Christopher West, or heard him talk before, but I think it's important to see Christopher West through the secular media:

http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=7534337

A few things I would like to note: ABC quotes a "biblical endorsement of oral sex as foreplay". However, I believe this is a false quote. If you continue listening it talks about condoms/birth control as "sexual bulimia", which is similar to oral sex...thus, not endorsed by the Catholic church.

"Christians must complete what the sexual revolution began".

Softly Call the muster, Let Aggies Answer here.

Although this was a couple of weeks ago, I still thought it would be good to share. This is Secretary of Defense Robert Gates giving the muster speech.

This is in memory of all Aggies who have gone before.

For those who are not Aggies and do not know what muster is, this is just a good way to reflect on the sacrifice of all those soldiers who are willing to give the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.



"Here."