Guess what kids, I fixed my ipod that was broken and never mentioned in this blog. I have decided to join the club of people who believe that you can fix any computer-type thingy buy taking it apart and then put it back together again. It always works.
Regards,
Joe Creason
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Monday, April 27, 2009
One is the loneliest number...
I just realized that with Sam no longer living in our apartment and Robin sleeping over at Lady Powells' I've started kind of talking to myself...
Regards,
Joe Creason
Regards,
Joe Creason
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Last quarter was my best quarter ever at UCLA:
Anthro 186P Cultural Evolution : A
Anthro 131 Misc. Topics in Culture : A-
Anthro 149A Language and Identity : B
ESS 116 Paleontology : B-
I must admit that _every_single_ grade I ended up with was a shock to me. 186P and 116 I was praying for a C- because I didn't do so well on the midterms. I do not know how I got an A in 186P. I miss semesters because back when I was at LBCC I was having the same problem I have at UCLA: I mess up on the midterms. But in semester you had more than just a midterm and a final going towards your final grade and much more time to get your crap together.
I was surprised by my grade in Language and Identity because I actually thought I was for sure getting an A. I got an A- on the midterm, I showed up to all the classes, I turned in almost all of the questions we were required to make about our readings AND the professor LOVED me. The latter NEVER happens, professors and teachers are either indifferent towards me or annoyed by me/dislike me. The ignore thing isn't surprising considering there are a billion people in all my classes. But I shocked by this grade and it turned out that I got a low B on the final and on the group project that I was apart of. The latter was even more confusing because those are ALWAYS giveaway As and our presentation went well.
The thing that also bugged me was that my prof for that class might not like me as much because of how poorly I did in the end. I need to get letters of recommendations out of these people and the universal policy professors have is "if you got an A in my class I'll write one for you" I dunno, maybe she'll still like me. I did get an A in the head of our departments class though, and I'm taking another one with him this quarter, that would be awesome if that resulted in a letter of recommendation. God knows I need them.
That reminds me, I have absolutely no idea what I'm gonna do after I graduate. Not a single clue. I'm serious.
How's that for a post, eh?
Regards,
Joe Creason
Anthro 186P Cultural Evolution : A
Anthro 131 Misc. Topics in Culture : A-
Anthro 149A Language and Identity : B
ESS 116 Paleontology : B-
I must admit that _every_single_ grade I ended up with was a shock to me. 186P and 116 I was praying for a C- because I didn't do so well on the midterms. I do not know how I got an A in 186P. I miss semesters because back when I was at LBCC I was having the same problem I have at UCLA: I mess up on the midterms. But in semester you had more than just a midterm and a final going towards your final grade and much more time to get your crap together.
I was surprised by my grade in Language and Identity because I actually thought I was for sure getting an A. I got an A- on the midterm, I showed up to all the classes, I turned in almost all of the questions we were required to make about our readings AND the professor LOVED me. The latter NEVER happens, professors and teachers are either indifferent towards me or annoyed by me/dislike me. The ignore thing isn't surprising considering there are a billion people in all my classes. But I shocked by this grade and it turned out that I got a low B on the final and on the group project that I was apart of. The latter was even more confusing because those are ALWAYS giveaway As and our presentation went well.
The thing that also bugged me was that my prof for that class might not like me as much because of how poorly I did in the end. I need to get letters of recommendations out of these people and the universal policy professors have is "if you got an A in my class I'll write one for you" I dunno, maybe she'll still like me. I did get an A in the head of our departments class though, and I'm taking another one with him this quarter, that would be awesome if that resulted in a letter of recommendation. God knows I need them.
That reminds me, I have absolutely no idea what I'm gonna do after I graduate. Not a single clue. I'm serious.
How's that for a post, eh?
Regards,
Joe Creason
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Update, plugging and my parents
I needed to update this piece so here I am.
My parents seem to be the only ones who read this besides Alyssa, Alan and this girl named Jesse who I'm pretty sure I know but maybe I don't.
So I'm gonna post some photos of my roommates so my parents can know who to go after if I'm found dead or something and this chick I like too.
Roommate: Robin, in his natural habitat, Powell library.
Roommate: Sam
Chick I'm kinda into: Ariel
Me doing my Dennis the Menace impersonation and wearing my favorite shirt.
Oh and I got glasses, they're totally hip.
Regards,
Joe Creason
My parents seem to be the only ones who read this besides Alyssa, Alan and this girl named Jesse who I'm pretty sure I know but maybe I don't.
So I'm gonna post some photos of my roommates so my parents can know who to go after if I'm found dead or something and this chick I like too.
Roommate: Robin, in his natural habitat, Powell library.
Roommate: Sam
Chick I'm kinda into: Ariel
Me doing my Dennis the Menace impersonation and wearing my favorite shirt.
Oh and I got glasses, they're totally hip.
Regards,
Joe Creason
Saturday, January 10, 2009
I wonder...
I wonder what Richard Dawkins thinks of the film Mission to Mars. Seriously. It's totally panspermia! With Tim Robbins! And Brian De Palma!
In other filler blog post news, I was listening to the Loveline episode with Ben Stein in it, and he detailed that he was smoking weed, hash, and popping prescription meds from 1966 to 1988. Maybe this would explain his views towards evolutionary biology? I don't think this completely excuses him, but--no no, I won't make a clear eyes commercial joke. It's been done.
Oh and I'm president of BASS now. I would plug our blog, but it's down right now. Off to a good start.
Regards,
Joe Creason
In other filler blog post news, I was listening to the Loveline episode with Ben Stein in it, and he detailed that he was smoking weed, hash, and popping prescription meds from 1966 to 1988. Maybe this would explain his views towards evolutionary biology? I don't think this completely excuses him, but--no no, I won't make a clear eyes commercial joke. It's been done.
Oh and I'm president of BASS now. I would plug our blog, but it's down right now. Off to a good start.
Regards,
Joe Creason
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Yes, I still love talking to crazies.
Hey mom and dad, and I guess Alan,
I was thinking about how bummed I've been the first two days of class because I have yet to see my favorite crazy fringe cult of personality folk, the LaRouchebags. I'll explain them in a little bit but I should say that at least I was able to have a reasonably decent Ask an atheist tabling day yesterday.
As always a lot of people who were excited that there was a club that catered to their worldviews and blah blah blah--no one wanted to come up and argue. I know that that should be considered a good thing, but I've said it before and I'll say it again, I just like arguing with folk. But the closest I got to in an argument was this elderly black man who came up and asked me (I'm a little fuzzy on the first few questions)a couple of questions and here's my recollection of the ordeal:
EBM: Do you guys hate religion?
Me: No, of course not, why should we?
EBM: Because it's the exact opposite of atheism.
Me: Well I would disagree, I mean, I think religion can do a lot of good, I've got nothing against that--of course I'm against the bad things that religion and its followers do but really--like ok, do you accept evolution?
EBM: Yes.
Me: Do you fell that homosexuals have the right to marry?
EBM: Yes.
Me: Do you think the Earth is 10,000 years old?
EBM: It's 6,000 years, yes.
Me: All those things accept for the age of the Earth part are all I need to be concerned about reall--
EBM: I'm just pulling your leg, I'm a communist.
at this point we were all talking about once and he said something like I just came over here to test you guys and mess with you and I asked,
Me: Oh, how did I do?
EBM: Ehhh you need to strengthen your arguments a little more it comes off as too [I can't remember what he said here]
Me: Well I meant all the things I said, if you're down with evolution, separation of church and state, not supporting the literal truth of the bible--which I would be no bs on, if we continued.
Then it kind of fizzled out and he went back to the communist table that was set up a little up bruinwalk. The reds love us cause of the irreligious and secular aspect and they all seem nice but I generally try to distant our club from there's cause yeah Marxism has flaws, but mostly because I don't want BASS to be anything else but nonpartisan. But what was cool about that whole thing was that Alan told me that he thought I handled him really well, and that I was articulate and had an answer for every thing he threw at me. And Alan is someone who's opinion I totally respect even though I think he's way too nice towards me, haha.
Regardless, I can only agree that I have improved a certain amount by putting myself into these situations but I know I still got a lot of work ahead of me. I think that the LaRouchebags can help some of that and I've decided to make a more detailed post about them later on. Far now though here are some quick things and links about them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Views_of_Lyndon_LaRouche
They want to turn the Sahara Desert in fields of crops
Think that Newton was a fraud and stole every thing from Kepler
They worship Kepler so much that they took his work on harmonics and concluded that they should sing as choirs. At our schools. With chorus lines found in their songs like, "he is a nazi" repeated 5 times.
And one of them has accused me of being a protectionist
Another called me a Malthusian
And another called me a Tory because I didn't want to help take down the British empire....
What?
Regards,
Joe Creason
I was thinking about how bummed I've been the first two days of class because I have yet to see my favorite crazy fringe cult of personality folk, the LaRouchebags. I'll explain them in a little bit but I should say that at least I was able to have a reasonably decent Ask an atheist tabling day yesterday.
As always a lot of people who were excited that there was a club that catered to their worldviews and blah blah blah--no one wanted to come up and argue. I know that that should be considered a good thing, but I've said it before and I'll say it again, I just like arguing with folk. But the closest I got to in an argument was this elderly black man who came up and asked me (I'm a little fuzzy on the first few questions)a couple of questions and here's my recollection of the ordeal:
EBM: Do you guys hate religion?
Me: No, of course not, why should we?
EBM: Because it's the exact opposite of atheism.
Me: Well I would disagree, I mean, I think religion can do a lot of good, I've got nothing against that--of course I'm against the bad things that religion and its followers do but really--like ok, do you accept evolution?
EBM: Yes.
Me: Do you fell that homosexuals have the right to marry?
EBM: Yes.
Me: Do you think the Earth is 10,000 years old?
EBM: It's 6,000 years, yes.
Me: All those things accept for the age of the Earth part are all I need to be concerned about reall--
EBM: I'm just pulling your leg, I'm a communist.
at this point we were all talking about once and he said something like I just came over here to test you guys and mess with you and I asked,
Me: Oh, how did I do?
EBM: Ehhh you need to strengthen your arguments a little more it comes off as too [I can't remember what he said here]
Me: Well I meant all the things I said, if you're down with evolution, separation of church and state, not supporting the literal truth of the bible--which I would be no bs on, if we continued.
Then it kind of fizzled out and he went back to the communist table that was set up a little up bruinwalk. The reds love us cause of the irreligious and secular aspect and they all seem nice but I generally try to distant our club from there's cause yeah Marxism has flaws, but mostly because I don't want BASS to be anything else but nonpartisan. But what was cool about that whole thing was that Alan told me that he thought I handled him really well, and that I was articulate and had an answer for every thing he threw at me. And Alan is someone who's opinion I totally respect even though I think he's way too nice towards me, haha.
Regardless, I can only agree that I have improved a certain amount by putting myself into these situations but I know I still got a lot of work ahead of me. I think that the LaRouchebags can help some of that and I've decided to make a more detailed post about them later on. Far now though here are some quick things and links about them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Views_of_Lyndon_LaRouche
They want to turn the Sahara Desert in fields of crops
Think that Newton was a fraud and stole every thing from Kepler
They worship Kepler so much that they took his work on harmonics and concluded that they should sing as choirs. At our schools. With chorus lines found in their songs like, "he is a nazi" repeated 5 times.
And one of them has accused me of being a protectionist
Another called me a Malthusian
And another called me a Tory because I didn't want to help take down the British empire....
What?
Regards,
Joe Creason
Monday, December 29, 2008
My Last Post
Was totally gay. I wonder if I need to be more cautious with what I say considering my parents are the only ones who read this...seriously they have this bookmarked and everything.
I totally called into Atheist Experience and I was nervous like no other cause I'm lame like that. I'm listening to it right now and I'm surprised that I wasn't going um uhh but I kind of sound like Kent Hovind if anyone's been so lucky to hear his voice. Here's a link to the MP3 I'm on the very last six minutes, kinda. Pretty much I'm surprised I didn't sound as nervous and incoherent as I felt but I definitely need to work on clarity and speaking faster. The clarity part would have gotten more productive feedback with respect to Matt's response because I think he misinterpreted my question. However that was not his fault at all and I shoulda just called in earlier.
I'm thinking of calling into some creationists radio shows tomorrow, I've decided that I need to kind of throw myself into the arguing fire and attempting to out-argue people who essentially get paid to defend their convictions looks to be the perfect flames to jump into.
Plus I can hear recordings of myself after the fact and hopefully better myself not only in arguing but being able to assert a concise and coherent position in a setting which has me under pressure...
I think I'll end this hear cause I need to look up what's up with these creationist shows.
Regards,
Joe Creason
I totally called into Atheist Experience and I was nervous like no other cause I'm lame like that. I'm listening to it right now and I'm surprised that I wasn't going um uhh but I kind of sound like Kent Hovind if anyone's been so lucky to hear his voice. Here's a link to the MP3 I'm on the very last six minutes, kinda. Pretty much I'm surprised I didn't sound as nervous and incoherent as I felt but I definitely need to work on clarity and speaking faster. The clarity part would have gotten more productive feedback with respect to Matt's response because I think he misinterpreted my question. However that was not his fault at all and I shoulda just called in earlier.
I'm thinking of calling into some creationists radio shows tomorrow, I've decided that I need to kind of throw myself into the arguing fire and attempting to out-argue people who essentially get paid to defend their convictions looks to be the perfect flames to jump into.
Plus I can hear recordings of myself after the fact and hopefully better myself not only in arguing but being able to assert a concise and coherent position in a setting which has me under pressure...
I think I'll end this hear cause I need to look up what's up with these creationist shows.
Regards,
Joe Creason
Monday, December 8, 2008
Dear Cute Girl who came up to Ask an atheist last Tuesday,
Come back! You were cute. Well I guess we're not doing the ask an atheist thing during the finals...but that just means you need to hang out near the physics building or math sciences or pretty much anywhere I have to stay at studying all day...
You knew what Bonobos are, that's hot and bad ass dammit.
How's this for a post, eh?
Regards,
Joe Creason
Come back! You were cute. Well I guess we're not doing the ask an atheist thing during the finals...but that just means you need to hang out near the physics building or math sciences or pretty much anywhere I have to stay at studying all day...
You knew what Bonobos are, that's hot and bad ass dammit.
How's this for a post, eh?
Regards,
Joe Creason
Thursday, September 4, 2008
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