In the Key of Common Sense

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Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:35:07 -0700

Lifes a bitch, then you die.

Lets Change Degrees.

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:08:14 -0700

After 2 years of university, I have come to the conclusion that I have no interest in Psychology.

So I am falling back on my Grade 2 Dreams: I am going to become a climatologist.

Peace.

Seriously?

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:00:56 -0700

Nik Weltzin.

-Nuf Said.

I give up.

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 23:00:42 -0700

All the negativity, All the acting, all the pretending things are alright all the time. It’s too much for one person to handle.

I will be my true self, and I guarantee, None of you will like it.

-JON

I have been hit by a car, but this just takes the cake.

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:24:00 -0700

I hurt, A LOT.

Why? well, on the weekend, I the pleasure of sustaining a back injury. And no one believes me when I say what happened. I have scratches across my back that looks like i used a puffer fish for a loofah by accident, and i have a nice swollen bar across my back right where the lumbar support of EVERY seat goes. What happened? What attacked me?

Well, it was this:

Yep, a tree fell on me. We were pushing over dead trees to use for fire wood. We were pushing them back and forth in a safe direction, but when we spun it around once to loosen it up, it snapped straight at the angle i was standing. All i heard was “Look out!” and i was on the ground.

It was thick too!

I leave you with this: If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is there to hear it, will it still land on Jon’s back?

Military training get you ready for being late.

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:46:07 -0700

Yep. Woke up at 8:56am. Had to be at the doctors for 9:30am. The drive is 30 minutes. Luckily, I was a cadet for sometime and I have learned to rush myself to the extreme. I ended up getting into my car at 9:02, a full 6 minutes later which included me showering and eating.

Walked into the doctors office at 9:31

What I hate about Work.

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 10:38:30 -0700

Hey all,

So today, at 830am, who else calls my house? My work place. Some idiot called in sick and i now need to go in a work after I got home at 5am. WOOT more hours! WRONG. technically, these are already my hour. this work place has been consistently cutting my hours and giving them to the newer people to ‘be fair’. the funny things is that of the percentage of shifts they cut from me, I work about 50% of them. This makes me as the question, why would you constantly give away the most reliable persons hours to people who have consistently proved themselves irresponsible and ungrateful of them?

Yea, i work at an office supply store, and there is not too much of a demand for product right now. I understand that times are tough and all that crap but there is a little thing called employee loyalty, and in that principle, you would generally give the people who are more senior or more experienced priority in hours over the other associates and that new guy that doesn’t even the know the difference between a laptop screen protector and a back of yogurt covered raisin.

Why the annoyance? well, last night at about 5pm, the guy who called into work tonight asked if i WANTED to work his shift. Wanted implies, he’s got other things to do and needs to get out of it. I said no, I had plans today. Oh Well, this morning he called in sick. And who do they call to pick up the slack? Who do they need to come in and work a shift that should have already been mine?

The reason i am mad is because i plan my day to day event with excruciating detail. When someone calls me into work, its throws my plans and schedule right out the door. Had I already been scheduled today, it would not have been a problem. BUT now i need to let 5 friends now i am ditching out on them cuz of stupid work.

Feeling Mellow? Listen to Screamo

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:04:00 -0700

Yea Yea Yea, How is screamo going to help me in my mellow mood. Well Children, I went through the 2000 songs on my ipod and compiled a playlist of total mellow, gloomy and chill-out songs about love and heartbreak. Each band is either metal, screamo, punk, hard rock or the like, and i find that they do the slow songs the best.

Sink, Florida, Sink - Against Me!
Rough Hands - Alexisonfire
Pins And Needles - Billy Talent
What Lies Beneath - Breaking Benjamin
Don’t Go Away - Buckcherry
If It Means A Lot to You - A Day to Remember
Harder than you Know - Escape the Fate
Come Back - Foo Fighters (thanks Nik!)
Bring it On - Gaslight Anthem
Swan Dive Suicide - Hail the Villain
S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W - My Chemical Romance
Like Nobody Else - My Darkest Days
The Crow & the Butterfly - Shinedown
What Are You Looking For - Sick Puppies
One Day Too Late - Skillet
Say It Ain’t So - Weezer
World So Cold - 3 Days Grace

∞

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:34:50 -0700

I don’t entirely know why, but I miss math. Math, Algebra, Calculus, Pushing the beads over on a abacus, what ever it is, there is a beauty in numbers, and i miss it.

See, math is one of the few rewarding subject in life, and it is quite literally the fuel that the world around us has been constructed upon. If you are presented with a complex math problem, you will get frustrated, you will get angry, you will want to give up. BUT nothing can compare to the satisfaction you get once your answer is the answer that is posted in the results section of the book.

Math and beauty: You see, math is beautiful. Other than the complex shapes and figures you can create by replication towards infinity, but in architecture, art, even instrument. Music is a calculated scale of octave and sound waves that reverberate and transfer their energy into the surrounding. Much as a cone can be stretched to infinity to definitively produce two straight lines, the keys on a piano could theoretically could exceed the >100 keys you get on a piano, and reproduce sounds that would exceed the human hearing capacity.

Look, math is definetively about making order from chaos. To all the scientists out there going “no, all life runs on DNA and biology or chemistry or BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH” (<-aaron), just think of the foundational building blocks of life. DNA, is essentially a binary language bases on bases GTAC instead of the computational 010101010. It is mathematical formulae that produce individuality and infinitly recombine your genetic information to produce you. Think about the number of cross overs and recombinations that occured from the first humans in order to end up with the exact combination that runs through your blood stream and makes your hair red or black?

After all of the logarithms and matrices and computations and exponents and square roots and quadratics and so on and so forth, One needs to find Beauty in the genius revolving around the numbers that you so desperately crunch to get close to an A on your next test.

And because math is logic and logic is thought and thought is mind and mind is brain and brain is organ and organs are in essence when compiled in the proper order a human and humans are mammals and mammals are organisms and organisms are cells and cells are just a combination of fundamental elements and elements are quite common, Theoretically speaking, math should be common sense.

See what I did there?

Confusing

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:51:19 -0700

Sweat Pants and Dress Shoes.

What?

Winter driving

Sun, 21 Nov 2010 23:53:28 -0700

Hey, you in front of me! The roads are totally clear!!! Why are you doing 15km/hr on a 90 road!!!

Hey, you behind me! Why are you riding my bumper! This road has more ice on it than Mount Everest and the visibility is around 1 foot in front of me.

Seriously. People have no concept of winter driving. Living in Calgary, we get a lot of snow and ice, and some people just don’t learn. You drive as fast as the road will let you, and somewhere around the speed limit or 10 Km under it will do when the road conditions are fine. When they suck, go slow.

Signalling

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:26:14 -0700

Seriously, you move your finger a whopping 2” at the most to hit your signal. Surprise surprise, in this day and age, that is too much effort. Why? Because people have no regard of common courtesy and safety for others. If I’m in the turning lane at a light waiting for you to drive through, and you turn, you have A: pissed me off B: wasted my opportunity to turn and C: missed the opportunity to turn for the people behind me. It takes one second, and a flick of the finger, but still….

How do people get their liscences?

The Disrespect Of Remembrance Day

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:01:00 -0700

Some people don’t just get it.

Hippies, war activists, who ever it is, express disgrace every year towards our veterans. White Poppies, Purple Poppies, Anti war protests. I don’t think you get it! Remembrance day does not romanticize war. It is made to remember the people who died and the people who did not hesitate to put their lives on hold to go and fight for what is right!

If you dont want to stand behind our troops, feel free to stand in front of them.

PS- Why does the invention of the X-Ray, John Lennon, Loony Toons and other worthless events in history get a full spread on google, and remembrance day gets one 10x10 pixel poppy at the bottom of the screen?

This class is going to suck

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 09:20:13 -0700

So I brought my notes to my first class of the day in order to get some studying in. This big guy walks in, out of breath and sits right behind me. Obviously this guy has never been taught how to breath through his nose, so he is sitting there, gasping back on air, sounding like he is be strangled or have some sort of orgy. Look buddy, I know the ten steps leading to the classroom may be physically challenging to you, but it has been 15 minutes. Why hasnt your breathing leveled out? OH YEAH cuz your are gunna eat now too aren’t you. Do you really need those 2 doughnuts?

Oh great. The German exchange students have Entered the class. Nothing says quiet study time better than the loud and romantic language of German. I mean even whispering, they are SUPER loud.

Yay. The jersey shore kids are here. I mean, I don’t know if they watch the show, but they talk to each other in that dumb tone with many dudes, guys, bro, oh shit Yo, in between every word.

I feel like a multicultural schizophrenic. Not a good day to forget my headphones.

Calgary's worst driver

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 09:09:08 -0700

Honestly? What’s with people slamming on their breaks at the last minute. All that does is give me less time to stop. I got a semi behind me cruising at full speed…. Just because you are in your smart car and can stop in 2 feet doesn’t mean that the semi behind me will stop rolling! However, that would get me out of my midterm in an hour O_o

If there was a Calgary’s worst driver, I would nominate the entire NE.

WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 21:17:29 -0700

I remember After my baptism, i got a HUGE set of k-nex toys, i was 3

Found! One of the Best Photos of a Reason why an Apple a Day...

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 21:08:56 -0700

Found! One of the Best Photos of a Reason why an Apple a Day Keeps Giving You Nightmares.

This is where it starts

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 21:03:07 -0700

So, I am new to this. Nuf Said. I have always wanted a blog, simply because some of the stuff that comes out of my mouth, be it mundane or blasphemous, it needs to be shared. I hope you enjoy the things I have to say.

Welcome to J-DEC