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Name: Tyler
Country: United States
State: Texas
Metro: Fort Worth
Gender: Male
Interests: Good movies, cheezy boardgames, coffee, the outdoors, good old friends, coffee, good new friends, coffee and espresso...
Expertise: one hand clapping
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Yahoo:  tyler1032
Member Since:
3/14/2005
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| a plant, a frog, and a blender walk into a bar...
Current mood: amused
8:30 pm the night before. I decide I'm extremely tired and plan on going home and straight to bed.
8:45pm. I get a call from my buddy Wes. He's in town (soon to be a permanent thing) so we go grab IHOP.
11:45pm...I get home and find out where my classes are online so I'm not lost and go into the wrong class or anything. Then I go to bed.
First Day of school.
6:45am. Earliest I've been up in 3 months (It wasn't hard to get up because I was excited about the first day of school, shut up I'm still cool.)
7:00-8:00am.. Hour long drive in what should take 30 min. I've never had to fight rush hour traffic long-term.
8:03 am...Spanish. I'm late and punished for being so by the rain that starts. 8:12am... A girl walks in and there are no desks left open. The professor tells her to find her own furniture, so she leaves but does not return. We're all told that if we put in the same amount of effort in SPAN 2 as we did in SPAN 1 we'll all fail.
9:00am... I walk in the wrong class, sit down, stand up and walk to the class next door. (Some classes in college are so large that they have two doors leading into them. This one wasn't one.) My sociology professor is very smart, but not so smart he talks over my head... Good combo.
10:00am... Stats. My statistics teacher is a woman pursuing a Ph.D. in Mathematics. Rare among women... But very cool.
11:15am...
My biology teacher has a plant a frog and a blender on his lab table. He takes the plant and purees it. He talks to us about how plants have cell walls and therefore break down differently than animals do. He then takes the frog and tells us to note the difference. He starts the blender, and drops the frog...................right behind the blender making it look like he dropped it in. Up to then nobody had really flipped out because we all knew he's wasn't really going to do it. When that frog dropped, there were screams from some girls, and maybe even a couple of guys. I performed the gasp and cover mouth maneuver. He told us the real experiment was to show that we feel something for animals, but not plants. I think a simple questionairre could have proved that...
1:00pm Sociology lab in a computer room. I check my myspace, facebook, and e-mail. It's what we all do when we first sit down at the computers. Everybody's looking on everybody else's screens to see how many friends they have and if those friends are hot.
1:10pm. We are dismissed.
3:45pm. I take a nap to make up for IHOP.
7:20pm, the time on my computer.
8:56pm.. The time your computer says as you look down in the little box now. (If that actually happens to anyone, you better let me know) | | |
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Jesus Could Have Walked on Ice, Scientist Says
Sara Goudarzi
LiveScience Staff Writer
LiveScience.com
Tue Apr 4, 2:00 PM ET
Rare conditions could have conspired to create hard-to-see ice on the
Sea of Galilee that a person could have walked on back when Jesus is
said to have walked on water, a scientist said today.
The study, which examines a combination of favorable water and
environmental conditions, proposes that Jesus could have walked on an
isolated patch of floating ice on what is now known as Lake Kinneret in
northern
Israel.
Looking at temperature records of the Mediterranean Sea surface and
using analytical ice and statistical models, scientists considered a
small section of the cold freshwater surface of the lake. The area
studied, about 10,000 square feet, was near salty springs that empty
into it.
The results suggest temperatures dropped to 25 degrees Fahrenheit
(-4 degrees Celsius) during one of the two cold periods 2,500 –1,500
years ago for up to two days, the same decades during which Jesus
lived.
With such conditions, a floating patch of ice could develop above
the plumes resulting from the salty springs along the lake's western
shore in Tabgha. Tabgha is the town where many archeological findings
related to Jesus have been found.
"We simply explain that unique freezing processes (what!?) probably happened
in that region only a handful of times during the last 12,000 years,"
said Doron Nof, a Florida State University Professor of Oceanography.
"We leave to others the question of whether or not our research
explains the biblical account."
Nof figures that in the last 120 centuries, the odds of such
conditions on the low latitude Lake Kinneret are most likely
1-in-1,000. But during the time period when Jesus lived, such “spring
ice” may have formed once every 30 to 60 years. Jesus
only lived 33 years, and could probably only walk 32 of those. Are
these guys saying that he just happened to coincidentally be living
when this was going on?
Such floating ice in the unfrozen waters of the lake would be hard to spot, especially if rain had smoothed its surface.
"In today's climate, the chance of springs ice forming in northern
Israel is effectively zero, or about once in more than 10,000 years,"
Nof said.
The findings are detailed in the April 2006 Journal of Paleolimnology.
So what about Peter. If it was
ice, why was Peter able to sink??? Hello!?? Because he took his eyes
off Jesus then the ice melted? Give me a break. Science cannot
explain the miraculous . When it tries to, it just looks sad and
desperate. That's why they're miracles, because they go against all
logic, reason, physics, chemistry, and any other science you can think
of.
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| Dear Tyler Downing,
Our law firm has been hired to represent Dallas County in the
collection and disposition of the outstanding cases against you. You
have failed to respond to our previous correspondence.(what
correspondence?) To avoid possible additional action by the court,
return your payment in the amount of $393.00 within 5 days. (WHAT!) A
warrant may have been issued by the court. If a warrant has been
issued, you may be arrested by a peace officer at any time.(I'm going
to get arrested on my way to church... I know it.) bla bla bla... It is
critical that you give this matter your immediate attention.
So I got a ticket for no inspection or registration back in October. I
took care of it, mailed in the renewal forms and all, with a check for
$24.00. Yeah I was a little late taking care of it because my car
inspector didn't sign the inspection form that would make it a legal
document. Anyway, I thought it was taken care of with the 24 bucks...
According to some attorney in San Antonio, I owe another 400. I got
this letter last friday (10th) and it has sufficiently scared the crap
out of me for the last 4 days. I couldn't call the office monday
because of presidents day, so I had to stew until today. I called the
courts and told them my citation number and all and asked them what's
going on... The lady literally tells me that they receicved payment,
but that "I forgot to place an x in this box saying the cases were
closed... oops.") So i'm thinking all weekend that I could be picked up
by Walker Texas Ranger, or at best, get to pay 400 in what I would call
a procrastination fee. Neither happened... which is awesome! I don't
owe no money to no one! Except my mom, and Visa. oh and Sallie mae
(student loans) oh and Citibank (more student loans). Heh. Life is
good. No more preparing my speech to the officer who's arresting me.
(yes I did have a speech ready) and yes that makes me a pansy. Again
life is good. Even if your a pansy.
In other news, I would like you all to find something.. Anything. A
childs toy, or a remote control, or your cell phone... Anything. Look
on the back of it and about 9 out of 10 of you will see "made in
China". Pretty normal, yes? We all know that everything is made there.
Jennifer, Adam and I (did i use that "and I" thing right Jenn?) Went to
some chinese restaurant on saturday. We just happened to sit down by
three 5.0's (that's police officers for those of you who aren't
rebels... Like me...) and we finish our meal and we find our fortune
cookies... "Made in Chicago." So everything is made in China... Except
Chinese fortune cookies. Have a nice day.
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