Category: General

Don’t you feel like the important stuff is glossed over at the expense of the fluff some days?

I just discovered that since March 17 I’ve spent 13 hours talking on my cell phone.  That’s pretty amazing, since my previous phone (which crapped out on me) which I got it June had just over 83 hours on it when I got it replaced.  I averaged about 9 hours a month with that phone, and I’m on track to hit 17 hours in the first month of having this phone.  I’m turning into Mike Swann!  He logs about 3000 minutes (48 hours) a month on his phone.

Sometimes you get a very well intentioned email that makes you stop and think.  This morning, I got an email with the subject Fw: Engineers  Against Cancer.  Even though it came off the ECE department listserv (they forward just shy of 15 billion emails a day), I glanced at the message and got to thinking.  If there’s an engineers against cancer, doesn’t that imply that there’s also engineers FOR cancer?  You could argue that by being indifferent, you are indirectly for cancer, but you usually see the term used when there’s two sides each with clear supporters.  It would make more sense if it were engineers against gun control, because you could also clearly see a group engineers for gun control existing.

Note: The email was actually about the Relay for Life to support the American Cancer Society.  It’s a good cause, they just had bad word choice when forwarding it to a group of engineers.

In the past two days, I’ve been mentioned in two other blogs.  While I read and link to both these blogs, I find it amusing that I would get my first and second mention in another blog only a day apart.  Saturday, I was featured (complete with photo!) by Snook for being his second largest referring site.  Sunday, I was mentioned by Erock for my guess on the milage on his new Jeep.  Incedently, Snook and Erock are two of the first people that I met through NLCF during my first week at VT.  Snook actually has the distinction of being the reason that I stuck with NLCF instead of trying more churches.  I prayed going in to the first service that if God wanted me to go to that church, someone would have a meaningful conversation with me.  Let me put it this way: Snook sat in front of me.  I stayed.

For the record, my top referrer is Google.  My second largest referrer is Tim.