Old people need to learn about the internet

So this Weiner scandal has been all over the news today and it is really annoying. I am not so much bothered by the amount of tv coverage although I would prefer to watch Bones or sports but what really annoys me is how dumb (or narcissistic) these people are thinking that they won't get caught tweeting a picture of your junk. Then there is this story about a man who gets caught bugging his wife's car and plotting his murder because she set up a facebook account for a 17 year old girl who started flirting with him. Just keep it in your pants man. I was beginning to get depressed about how dumb men are when I was saved by learning about this story where a teacher (she is only 29 but that is still older than me so my title still stands as is) sexts her students not expecting children to have parents checking cellphones of their children. I now realize that instead of men being stupid and not aware of how technology works and that you will get caught sending people pictures of your penis it is just old people. Hopefully, people will read my post and realize that it is always a dumb idea to flirt with people on the internet that you do not know, send random people pictures of your genitalia, and basically do anything over the internet that you don't want the whole world knowing because when the internet knows, everyone knows.

What do you put in a feminine hygiene kit?

BYU recently had their annual Women's Conference. For two days there were thousands of women on campus and what upset me most was that the stole my bathroom on the second floor of the JKB. On Monday when I return to school, my bathroom will be returned and all will be well. Except for one thing. I walked in on Friday and saw that they were making feminine hygiene kits. I have always understood feminine hygiene to mean hygiene that women need that I don't e.g. tampons and maxipads. Here is a picture:

Thinking this would be a weird kit to assemble and very curious as to what they would be cutting I asked the next known female what she thought that they would be doing. Katie Day confirmed what I had previously suspected but was also confused as to why you would need to be cutting anything. Her guess which I think I have since confirmed is that they are making homemade maxipads. I have pictures to show it. Judge for yourselves and leave me any guesses in your comments. I would appreciate your help.

This is a lady cutting fabric from a pattern. I don't know if you can tell but the pattern on the floor that she has already cut out kind of looks like this:

which kind of looks like this:

Based upon this evidence I concluded that Katie Day was correct; they are making making kits filled with homemade maxipads which is kind of gross.

Easter Sunday

For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
Isaiah 64:4

About a few weeks ago I was cornered by a member of our bishopric and asked to give a talk today on Easter Sunday. The task seemed daunting; I love speaking in church but finding a way to honor our Savior on the day in which he was resurrected. I was sitting in church last Sunday in Newport Beach and decided that the perfect way to celebrate Easter is to renew our dedication to be a disciple of Christ. Therefore, I will be talking about the blessings that come from following our Lord. I have learned a lot through reading the scriptures this week. There are many blessings that we receive such that we cannot fully comprehend them all and it will be impossible for me to properly discuss them all in the 10 minutes that I have been assigned. Here is a short list; you are more than welcome to add more as the following list is not even near completion.
Life
Financial Stability
Physical Health
Spiritual and Temporal Knowledge
Trials (this is a tough one to acknowledge as a blessing but many times it is)
The Gift of the Holy Ghost (and with this come thousands more)
Repentance
Freedom
Motivation
Comfort
Priesthood Power
Forever Families
Greater faith, hope and charity
Exaltation
And many more personalized blessings
As you can see there are more blessings than what I would know what to do with for a 10 minute talk and this is not even a complete list. The blessings that we receive are not just spiritual but many are also temporal. Writing this talk has given me a renewed desire to follow Jesus Christ more fully. Hopefully, we all can remember this Easter Sunday the blessings that the Lord has given us and express our gratitude through our words and our actions.

Probably Against the Honor Code

I was walking to school the other day and I saw this truck entering BYU campus. If you look closely, it says Cuban Cigar, Inc. on the front door. I don't know what they were delivering but I can't imagine that it would fit with the Honor Code.

A post about me!

I decided that I would make a post about me and it has been a long time since I have posted anything. The biggest news that I have probably deals with my weight. I was about 215 lbs when I got married and over last summer I got to be closer to 270 (I am not really sure about this number because when I first stepped on a scale I was 263 but that was after a month of swimming). Last September I began swimming as part of a "Swim for MS" program. It felt great but I was very out of shape. I started running as well and I started losing lots of weight. At the start of this semester I began lifting weights and playing basketball for my workouts instead of swimming and running (running hurt my knees and the pool in the RB is only open early in the morning or in the evening so I had to give those up for now). I am now celebrating my 42 lbs. lost mark. I am very happy. Here two pictures of me to prove it::


In other news, I took an OPI with ACTFL yesterday. It was a lot of fun. I really like talking and this guy (Jay) was paid to listen to what I had to say. It took a half an hour and we talked about planes, trains, automobiles, baseball, and drugs which means it was a pretty normal conversation. I don't know what I will be rated but I will be happy with an Advanced High and thrilled with a Superior. The nice thing is that they paid me $10 to take the test because it was a part of some sort of study. I like getting paid money.
I think I might have changed my thesis idea. I was planning on writing about three novels that I thoroughly enjoyed and how they are used to combat faschttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifism in Spain and I still like the idea a lot but I just didn't know where to start or how to approach it. I am now writing about Angel Gonzalez (a Spanish poet), Rene Descartes, and George Berkeley. I wrote a paper on it in a class last semester and it was actually a fun paper to write because it gave me an excuse to read more Gonzalez poems that we didn't have time to get to in class. My goal is to write my prospectus in the next few days and defend soon that I can finish the thesis and graduate.
Lastly, I made fish last night. I had never cooked with haddock before but I enjoyed it (and so did Rianne which is more important). I have been experimenting with cooking lately and for the most part it has been a fun adventure with of course some bumps in the road (lentils are tougher to cook than I would have thought).
I will now conclude by posting a link to a video from youtube by my new favorite sports announcer: Enjoy!

Rage against the machine

Several months ago I read an article by John Stossel about transportation and he mentioned that he feels that stoplights are not necessary and that perhaps we can be safer without them. I found the idea interesting at the time but had never really thought about it. After a few months and reading some more reasons why we might not need them I have decided that they are unnecessary.
First, other than google, there is no machine that is really smarter than humans. The stoplight has no idea if I am sitting in front of a red light and no one else is there. Even if they have sensors, you will still need to come to a stop and wait for the lights to change. It is inconvenient and inefficient.
Second, green lights give a false sense of security. When you see a green light, you speed up and just think "go." I think people are less likely to speed through an intersection if it doesn't have a stoplight because we would be more afraid. That fear will make us safer because we will be looking cautiously as we cross an intersection and not just relying on others to obey traffic signals. When we pass through an intersection, are we more concentrated on what color a light is or if it is safe to pass? If there is no stoplight, we will pay more attention to traffic and road conditions.
Third, stoplights increase pollution. In a few places they have taken out stoplights and traffic has improved. Without all of the congestion pollution will be decreased.
It seems to me that we are smart enough to live without traffic lights. I can tell if it is safe for me to go with or without a stoplight. I say it is time for us to fight back against the machines and get rid of stoplights.