pleonast.com: cmvermont

**see post below also**

i'll even spot you the north vs. south big 12 championship thing.

how messed up is it when the team representing your region is a team with your same record that you previously beat?!?!? that's messed up.

i just read this article. if a 5 point lead in the human polls is "basically a tie" then why isn't a 0.0128 point deficit in the computer polls "basically a tie?!?!?!"

does this make any sense at all?!?!?!?!?
NO!

theoretically

11-30-08 04:54pm CST

so if oklahoma loses the big 12 championship game, would that put texas in the #2 spot, and into the bcs championship game?


cmvermont	that is of course assuming that alabama beats florida. a florida win would screw everything up
adampual	yes. this is entirely possible. USC also has a shot.
joes_wife	But the Gators ARE going to win ;)
adampual	:) the SEC did something smart. if there is a three-way tie, the highest BCS ranked team goes to the conference title game UNLESS the next-highest-ranked team is within five rankings. then they use head-to-head. of course, i'm not sure what would happen if all three are within five rankings of each other...
tnerbydoom	FL Vs AL is the BCS Championship as far as many are concerned anyway. The rest is just details.
kon_tiki	wouldn't it be great if FL just barely beat AL and other teams tanked so that the BCS championship game was a FL vs. AL rematch. That would be way cool! Then maybe Barack Obama would step in and enforce an 8 team playoff.
sarahpet	I felt like dirt pie because of one sentence I said referring to him i said to who I wrote to, " I am going to tell____that I do not want to be his gf"...that was all about him that i mentioned. He read it first and did not hear it from me.
moe	mo it dosent nice pic
sarahpet	thank you for your follow-up comments. I appreciate it.
adampual	LOL great observation!
viarostultega	been there, done that...as far as current planning goes
viarostultega	I had a layover at IAH.
maucknot	It might, but how crazy is that? They don't play for their conference championship but play in the BCS championship???? Would somebody just tell Missouri to stay home and let Texas play?
	login to comment

hide comments

go auburn

11-29-08 03:46pm CST

but just for this game (cuz i don't really like auburn, but for once they're not the most full-of-themselves team on the field).


iheartshoes	Hellllllloooooo!
kon_tiki	can you root for Florida next week :)
cmvermont	haha. i don't think i should, but it's ok because i don't think i'll have to ;)
viarostultega	Well...just one. I said something about seeing ads again and then I thought, "Hmm...that's a lot of ads," so I removed a post and said something in a previous one. Make sense or did I lose you?
maucknot	Accurate assessment, but the result was unfortunate. Texas got robbed by the BCS system. Missouri should remove itself from the Big 12 Championship as a courtesy and allow Texas a rematch with OU -- it should be settled on the field...AGAIN!!
	login to comment

hide comments

......................................................

11-10-08 12:36pm CST

i don't really have anything new to write about. sorry folks. but i'll try to come up with something here.

the weather is dreary.
i'm wearing a rice shirt at u of h today. is that bad?
these are starting to sound like newspaper headlines.
why do you have an apple pie in your purse?
i have the cutest girlfriend ever. EVER!
she also has an apple pie in her purse. (weird!)
she wanted me to make a new post using her as inspiration, and this is what i've come up with so far. this is not at all representative of how she inspires me, cuz this post stinks lol
she's calling herself lovely. right now. and she's denying it. don't believe her.
hmmm.. i made a gaff doing the announcing bit friday night. a substitution was being made, and a girl named kacie kratch was coming into the game. well, guess what i said? yeah. kacie crotch. awesome.

and yeah, now it's time for lunch. i just realized that i have about 3 weeks to write 3 10-page papers. i've had all semester.. lol i'm so bad. i hope i finish them all.


iheartshoes	I am wearing a Longhorn shirt...oh well!
adamandjessesdad	Sounds like 2-for-a-dollar apple pies at McDonalds: Eat one, save one for ~~Chris~~ later.
adampual	i literally laughed out loud here at the office when i read about kacie crotch.
spimman	You may have ruined the next year of Kacie's life, hopefully not. lol
alex	Poor Kacie.
kailua	Ohhhhhhhhhhh my! Christopher Aaron! I had Ed come from the other room to read this post ~ subsequently we are both laughing! Now get to work on those papers. Whoa - what a flash back that was?!?
indianajoanna	BOOOOOOOO wearing a Rice shirt to U of H!!!
trx	woot! Owls are bowl-eligible!
rainout	i bet kacie has had that before!
wife_of_burt	yes, we did have a great time. i finally just uploaded another one, and i think i might just have to use it for our c-mas cards, it looks all staged and professional. anywho, i love my babies, they're great and i'm a proud mama! ;)
sarahpet	that was some gaff.
bah	BOO TSO? Are you on crack?
jamie	are you procrastinating?
viarostultega	The one you're buying doesn't have all the options and accessories and probes and such. Actually...one of them literally caught fire on Wednesday. Flames, smoke, the works.
holly_h	Seriously???? Christmas Vacation???? I'm going to have to stop making eyes at you.
kon_tiki	what were you saying about Texas Tech's line :)
sarahpet	yep, you got it. :-)
anothermatt	my brother showed me this this morning and of course i thought you'd like it
	login to comment

hide comments

overwhelming

11-06-08 09:35pm CST

this world is chock full of stuff. there are so many things to care about. sub-categories within sub-categories of issues and ideas and causes and items. organisms within species within genus within orders within classes within divisions within kingdoms.

i have long held the belief that it is commendable and admirable to be "well-rounded" and possess a knowledge of (and at least a fair familiarity with) a plethora of subjects. in the name of transparency (and by the power of self-awareness) i admit that i have also considered myself talented, and capable of attaining this state. more than a jack of all trades; a polymath.

i'm realizing i can't do it in 25 years.

which is slightly disappointing, but more unsettling. i need to make a living.. i need to pick something to "do" and right now i'm just kinda... building myself to no particular end.

the way i've been going about it, it would take issac newton to make my educational/occupational endeavors turn out the way i want them to. and i might be proud but i'm certainly not delusional.. so i'll just ask the question. am i issac newton material? i do not know.

i'm feeling internal pressure to pick a direction. after all, specialization has been important in the advancement of society. i know that picking a direction doesn't mean turning my back on other things, and i can still have hobbies and have fun. trouble is i'm not sure what i really like well enough to make it my direction. and that gets me back around to the beginning of this post; there are so many things, but what do i choose? i can learn about anything, sure, but what do i care about? can you learn to care? to have a desire for something?

religion is a lot like politics (minus that little caveat about there only being 1 way *tongue in cheek*), and while i certainly want Christ to be the center of my life, i don't think i would be satisfied as a preacher. likewise i don't want to be involved in politics, or any other occupation that would consume my life.

what should i do?


trx	have you taken a Myers-Briggs Personality Type test to see what your strengths and predilections are? (see wikipedia article) That might be a start....
trx	see also Kiersey Temperament Sorter
trx	You can take the sorter here
trx	And a variant here (this one looks a bit more accessible)
trx	I think this site relating personality types to career issues might be interesting and useful...
cmvermont	yes i have. i'm an entj, although i was only 56% extroverted. fieldmarshal / mastermind
cmvermont	the irony is that i have not picked a goal..
cmvermont	a quote from here: "The drive towards constantly increasing their knowledge base and being highly competent is what gives Rationals a sense of personal satisfaction." that is right on the money.
emmywoo	not enough money for that, and trust me, i've already thought about that. lol
adampual	56% extroverted? really??
adamandjessesdad	I was really fortunate in that my third change of major in college found me in Computer Science, which I still enjoy after 26 years. I have no idea how that came about, though... I signed up for the class on a whim after changing my major back to music. All that is to say that I don't know how to help you.
rainout	have you ever thought about buying a Chick-fil-a franchise? it's really not as expensive as you would think, but it might involve relocation.
slave_of_jesus_jdb	peace corps
kailua	Albert Einstein believed, #1 "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited where as imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution." #2 "All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree."
kailua	Few are those who know exactly what they want to be when they grow up, and then indeed become that. Trust in God. Pray without ceasing.
tnerbydoom	Go get a doctorate. Than you have lots of doors open for you.
cmvermont	i've thought about it, but fast food really isn't what i'm all about anymore.. i dunno. i'd like to own something tho. it's not that i need more open doors, it's that i can't decide which door to pick.
adamandjessesdad	I took this test and found the majority of the questions to be difficult to answer, because they're things I find conflict within myself about.
sparker	manage something - you can always switch businesses if you get bored, but your skills are transferable
heliocentric	Dude, what do you love to do? And what has God gifted you in? I mean, do you love talking to people? Do you love people in general? If you're 56% extroverted you might just need yourself a people-person kind of job. For me, if I got myself a cubicle job I would probably not live out the week. Just sayin. I had this dilemma, only it was kind of the opposite, because I realized that I kind of hate all the jobs out there and can't find any one that I would want to do for the rest of my life, at least not a responsible one. So I decided to get a responsible major, work in a responsible job for about a year, until I had enough money to pay my way to music school and become a stodgy old music professor (if I don't make it big, which isn't what I care about doing anyway), because music is my passion and it's all I really want to do.
heliocentric	Also, this might be a dumb idea, but you could try compiling a list of your childhood dream-jobs and seeing if there's at least a common thread there that could shine some insight on your current perdicament. It didn't work for me, as my list consisted of: Safari Guide, CIA Operative, Rollercoaster Designer, Rock star, Hollywood Stuntman, and Surfing Photographer. Looking back at that list though, some of those are outlandish, but if I really wanted to be a Safari Guide, I could totally just move to Africa, it couldn't be THAT hard... Hey, have you thought about teaching?
chooselove	ENFJ- apparently I'm a teacher under idealist. apparently only 2% of people are. huh. interesting.
steroid_steve	Well, my understanding is that idolatry is a couple of things: First, it is worshipping something as an inaccurate representation of God such as the golden calf the Israelites worshiped, when Moses went onto the mountain. So, if we are bungee jumping for the Lord, that would be a form of idolatry because the Lord has clearly mapped out how we must worship Him. Secondly, idolatry is putting things in place of God. For example, if I lifted weights rather than study the bible, then that would alse be considered idolatry. There are many things that we do that are not necessary for life (i.e. play a baseball game w/ friends, having a potluck, etc...) but I would not consider it an addiction, nor would I consider it idolatry. And yes, I have faced a few addictions in my life and I'm still trying to get over some. That is why I wrote about it. My whole thing was rationalizing that something is not wrong. I know I'm wrong when I act out in some of my addictions and I never try to use scripture to show that it is okay for me to still act in the sin. I'd rather take the rough path than the easy path of continuing in sin.
steroid_steve	Let me give you an example, I was listening to the Virtual Bible Study and they said they were going to interview a man who sued some particular publishers of the bible because they included the word homosexuality. He was suing them to take the word out because he is a homosexual and it made him feel very uncomfortable. I have not heard that particular program, but I hope to soon. You see, instead of trying to stop being a homosexual, he wanted to continue in his sin or he is a liar trying to attain some wealth. Why can't he just stop? Because he is addicted to homosexuality and wants to obey sin in it's lust. I guess you could consider that idolatry because he is trying to change the representation of God.
steroid_steve	I just noticed your comment on the hat thing. I would claim that any deviation that does not follow God's word is false doctrine.
	login to comment

hide comments

5 >> 25 >> >>>