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Smugmug address change

2006-08-03T14:43:00.000-07:00

I am handing my photo site over to my brother Paul, so the URL has been changed to:

http://kimballbrothers.smugmug.com

I've been pretty busy of late, but soon there will be new photos on the site...

Back Home

2006-06-01T06:01:00.000-07:00

Well, Dave, Nick and I finally arrived back home after a really long drive. 25 hours actually - and we did it straight through. And getting only 2 hours of sleep the night before leaving doesn't help a bit! So I'm not exaggerating by saying I was tired when I got home. So much so that I walked right into a screen door! Ouch.

Heres a picture of our graduating class:

(props to Mr. K for the photo!)

Panoramic shots

2006-05-01T08:39:00.000-07:00

A pano of the quad from 3rd floor. I also have some others, including a 360 view of the quad (which isnt that great, I'm going to redo it sometime) and you can see them on my site if you'd like - Panoramas

A Collection of Quotes

2006-04-22T19:10:00.000-07:00

"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them."
- Mark Twain

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.

- JRR Tolkien

"It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish."
- Aeschylus

"A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice."
- Bill Cosby

"You can determine how confident people are by listening to what they don't say about themselves."
- Brian G. Jett

"There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behoves any of us to find fault with the rest of us."
- Anonymous

"May you be a half an hour in heaven before the devil knows you're dead!"
-Irish saying

Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid.
-Jack Sparrow, in "Pirates of the Caribbean"

2 Months later!

2006-04-22T18:45:00.000-07:00

Wow I cant believe its been almost that long! Oh well, I guess that means Im busy with school work and thats a good thing.

Well, this is going to be short. Im supposed to be writing a paper. (Isn't it funny how you just look and look for something to do other than what you're supposed to be doing! Thats life I guess.)

Thats what it was, I just remembered. The retreat caused the drought in posts. After retreat (which was awesome) computers/internet just seemed so unimportant. Anyway, time has been flying, graduation is a little more than a month away. Recently life has been a blur of history quizzes, good ol' metaphysics, Lent, cafeteria "food," pictures, dancing hamsters, a recent square dance, and things like this:

No, Dave's drumming isn't THAT bad! Will just had a bone to pick with him!

Well, must go back to that wonderful history paper! But not before your picture of the day (or more like month!)

I thought this fit the occasion pretty well!

By the way, my smugmug site has a new look and lots of new pictures!

P.S. The "quotes" post will be a collection of all my "Quotes of the Day". I dont know why I didnt think of that before!

Canisius Cup

2006-03-08T15:23:00.000-08:00

March 1-4, 2006 we held the Canisius Cup ping-pong tournament. It was the most ping-pong Ive played in a long time, and the most fun Ive had in a while too. We had a little more than a dozen that competed, but the best were from the dorm. I got pretty dang close to taking it all - after beating the unbeatable Joe Stannus in a preliminary round, I lost to him in the finals, but it was awesome all the same. Heres a photo:

Here are some more - theres some videos too.

And I must include the funnies!

hockey and lightning and all that stuff

2006-03-08T15:08:00.000-08:00

What to do on a boring night in the dorm...well theres lots, especially if someones got full hockey equipment! Dave suited up so we could take a few shots. Yuppers, right in the junior wing!

Same night, we went out to check out a lightning storm that was happening a few miles away; it was a cloudy night so it was lighting up the whole sky - pretty impressive. Heres one of the shots I got:

And some other random pictures - heres one of me hiding behind a pole while we were throwing the baseball around over at the Carrolls:

Will Watner playing some serious hockey:

A (not so?!) serious lab team.

We may not have done the best in our lab, but we sure had a heck of a lot of fun!

Just another day...

2006-02-21T13:21:00.000-08:00

Todays picture:

For more, here ya go!

For your enjoyment:

Gmail Talk

2006-02-16T16:54:00.000-08:00

Im sure most of you know about the new chat feature that was just added to Gmail...if you dont, you should definitely check it out at gmail.google.com. Ive had Gmail for quite a while now, and its worked awesome for me.

Anyways, for those that do use Gmail Talk, heres a link to list of all the smilies or emoticons that you can use with gmail talk...some of them are pretty funny!

As for the comic of the day, here it is!

Antigone

2006-02-05T13:33:00.000-08:00

Well, I never did get to post about the play that the College did here a while ago, so now I think its a good time to mention it, although you may have read about it in the smc pix blog. The cast did an awesome job with the play and we are all looking forward to the next play, the "Taming of the Shrew"!

I took a bunch of pictures of the performance (probably too many!) and I tried to organize them the best I could on my smugmug site. Here is a list of some of the divisions I made:

Antigone, the Story - A selection of pictures presented in chronological order with accompanying quotes from the script.

The First Performance - Pictures from the opening performance on November 18, 2005

The Second Performance - Pictures from the performance on November 19, 2005

The Third Performance - Pictures from the performance on November 20, 2005

Backstage and Preparation - Pictures taken backstage and during preparation

Close-up shots - Pictures of individuals, or just really close-up shots

Wallpaper - Wallpaper for your computer I made with assorted pictures from the play

Funny pics - Pictures that you may find humorous

Search by Keyword - You can find pictures of each cast member by looking for their name in the keywords!

And of course, I have to include todays comic strip! This as well as the former one are known as "Pearls before Swine" and they are random, stupid, and laugh out loud hilarious!

This one is especially appropriate, considering that everyone gets way too many forwards nowadays!

Comic-a-day

2006-02-02T11:04:00.000-08:00

Ive decided to try to post a comic strip that hit me as funny every day. I probably won't do it EVERY day but they should keep coming semi-regularly! Heres the first in the series:

As for whats been going on, lifes back to business as usual; I'm trying to get it into my head that school is still here even though finals are over...and theres one of those oh-so-wonderful History tests tomorrow to help me realize that!

Anyways, the cgshowoff site I mentioned earlier is constantly being approved and added to. Expect a lot more to come, so hop on over, register and keep coming back!

I came across this awesome photo site while looking for photoshop tutorials:
Cambridge in Colour
It has some really breathtaking photos in there - they show how good photography plus some basic photoshop skills can produce awesome results!

A recent creation:

Photography

2006-01-25T18:27:00.000-08:00

Heres a shot I took the other day right out my window...I took it in the late afternoon and then I messed with the colors to get this effect.

Im putting all my best "photography" pics over at my Flickr site if you want to see some more.

New header, etc

2006-01-25T17:14:00.000-08:00

As you can see, I now have a new and improved header!! It was done by Joe Carroll (thanks!) who is pretty dang good at photoshop... Hes got a bunch of pretty sweet creations of his over at Bump on a Blog. The two of us are working on a website/forum for that kind of stuff if you want to check it out -- cgshowoff.com.

Anyways, life is more or less back to normal here now that finals are over (pheeewww!). Sunday we went skating at this "miniature" rink in Manhattan...we basically scared all the other people off of it eventually because of our incredible speed and whatnot. Also, when you start playing crack-the-whip in a rink that small, it kinda turns into a game of hey-lets-see-how-many-people-we-can-knock-down-this-time or something... (actually they might have been scared of the three Canadians that came along!!) Speaking of Canadians, they are crazy when it comes to skating. For example:

Yea...pretty high, eh?!

So, while I'm at the computer, I figured I should have a quick photographic run down of what happened since break and all that. Here we go....

On the last day before break we had a pretty awesome celebration day...everyone was pretty happy that break had finally arrived.

Yup, even good old Squishy was wearing shades!

While back home, we took a family portrait.

Paul and I over break...

Christmas dinner at the Kimball Household...for more christmas photos, click right here!

One of the little parties at our house...now that Gabe learned to play the guitar its awesome!! Lots of fun...

Yup I admit I started to crack up when I saw that look on my face!

Well, its back to the good old school routine, lets hope I can keep on top of everything...

Ive been kinda busy...

2006-01-09T18:41:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, etc, etc, hooray everybody... (!!!)

Hope everyone had a great vacation!

Weeelll, this has been whats been keeping me busy:

Let me know what you think of it.

As usual, you can check the latest on my smugmug site

Time for a bunch of random pictures!

2005-11-19T11:09:00.000-08:00

OK, I haven't posted many pictures in a while, so here we go...

Heres a pretty nice shot of a sunset I got a few days ago.

To see more sunset photos, check out the sunset keyword in my smugmug photo site

This is Ryan's door...pretty interesting isn't it?!

I forgot about this before...Ryan's been working on decorating his rug and this is what it looks like so far!

Meet the newest member of the family! Although its a film camera, its an SLR either way and its awesome! Once I get some pictures developed (imagine!) I'll be sure to get some scanned in.

This is a time exposure of the Immaculata I got a few nights ago. The moon was in just the right spot.

Last night I took a whole bunch of time exposures of campus. Heres the College building.

The glowing chimney

The steeple and one heck of a big moon

A view across campus

A front view of the Immaculata

The Victory Arch

Microsoft Windows Arkansas Edition

2005-11-19T11:05:00.000-08:00

I thought this was pretty funny!

It has come to our attention that a few copies of the WINDOWS 2005 Arkansas EDITION may have accidentally been shipped outside of the STATE of Arkansas .
If you have one of these, you may need help understanding the commands.

The Arkansas EDITION may be recognized by the unique opening screen. It reads: WINDERS 2005, with a background picture of Waylon and Willie superimposed on a bottle of Jack Daniels.

Please also note:

The Recycle Bin is labeled "Outhouse"
My Computer is called "This Dern Contraption"
Dial Up Networking is called "Good Ol' Boys"
Control Panel is known as " The Dashboard"
Hard Drive is referred to as "4-Wheel Drive"
Floppies are "Them little ol' plastic thangs"
Instead of an error message, " Duct Tape" pops up

CHANGES IN TERMINOLOGY IN Arkansas EDITION:
Cancel............stopdat
Reset..............try'er agin
Yes...............yep
No................nope
Find...............hunt fer it
Go to.............over yonder
Back...............back yonder
Help..............hep me out here
Stop...............kwitit (WHOA!)
Start............crank'er up
Settings..........settins
Programs......... stuff at duz stuff
Documents....... .stuff ah done did

Also note that the Arkansas EDITION does not recognize capital letters or punctuation marks. Some programs that are exclusive to WINDERS 2005:
Tiperiter............a word processing program
Colerin' Book..................a graphics program
Cyferin' Mersheen............calculator
Outhouse Paper................notepad
Inner-net......................Microsoft explorer 5.0
Pitchers........................a graphics viewer

We regret any inconvenience it may have caused. If you received a copy of the Arkansas EDITION, you may return it to Microsoft for a replacement version.

I hope this helps all y'all!
Billy Bob Gates

Jeffrey Energy Center

2005-11-19T10:13:00.000-08:00

Recently, I went on a tour of Jeffrey Energy Center with a few other College and Academy students. It was a lot more interesting that I thought it would be. Even though we didnt get to climb the stacks, which were about 600 feet high, we got to see a lot of other things...we got to look right into the boiler, where it gets about 3000 degrees! It was pretty neat, because you could see a stream of crushed up coal getting shot right into the flames...they go through 3 million pounds of coal PER HOUR!! Thats a lot of coal!

Heres a picture I got from up about 13 stories high...click on it to see the rest of the pictures:

"The Exorcism of Emily Rose"

2005-11-12T21:17:00.000-08:00

A week ago or so, I saw "The Exorcism of Emily Rose." It was a great movie and everyone should see it. It was pretty scary, but if you're a catholic, you know whats happening and why. Although very supportive of the catholic point of view on the subject of exorcism, the movie never really seems to come to a concrete conclusion. However, it probably, and hopefully will bring many people to realize that beings besides ourselves do exist, and play extremely important roles in our lives.

There were a number of details that were very interesting. Its kind of hard to remember them now, but one of them was when she was being exorcised, the house shook so much that the crucifix downstairs became loose and hung upside down, signifying the inverted nature of the devil. Also, the fact that 3 AM is prime time for the devil because it is the opposite of 3 pm, when Our Lord died on the cross. In addition, she was possessed by not one, but SIX devils! During the exorcism, they were forced to identify themselves, and they ranged from Satan himself to the devils who resided in Cain and Judas.

As to the story itself, it seems that it was taken from the case of a girl in Germany in the '70s. More or less the idea is the same, but the details are a little different. Her name was Anneliese Michel and the incidents started in 1968. Her parish priest started the exorcisms in 1975, and until her death in 1976, she supposedly was exorcised dozens of times with no success.

I'm not definite that all the information that I found was true at all, knowing the nature of the internet, but there should be some kind of truth to it. Heres a link for one of the stories that I looked at.

There are also a few books that have been written about the case; heres 2 of them:

The Exorcism of Anneliese Michel, by Felicitas D Goodman (this one is older and probably more accurate)
Casebook: A Rose for Emily, by Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell (this one is newer and may refer more to the movie...)

One interesting fact that I would like to note is about the medical side of the story. If you've seen the movie, you know that her possession was attempted to be attributed to a kind of epilepsy. After some research, I found out that in one half of epilepsy cases today, the cause is NOT KNOWN!! It cant be known for sure, but it may very well be that those unknown cases are cases of demonic possession.

Mike wrote a more review of the movie in his movie review blog, and made a bunch of interesting points in addition to giving a more complete summary.

In conclusion, I hope that this movie will scare the hell out of many people and make them realize not only that are there devils out there, but also that God DOES exists.

Halloween

2005-11-06T15:27:00.000-08:00

A few of us decided that we should dress up for Halloween and see what kind of luck we could have trick-or-treating...here is what we looked like:

Dont ask me(on the right) what i dressed up as...it was a mix of everything, including a cowboy hat!!

By the way, we ended up not having too much luck...I think I ended up with about 2 pieces of candy!

updates for smugmug site

2005-11-01T19:17:00.000-08:00

Of course right now I'm supposed to be studying for my mid-terms...so its time to waste time in the computer room!!

I've got a few new pictures of the college building, the Immaculata, and campus at sunset on my photo site.

Heres a sample:

If you want to look at the rest of them, feel free to bounce on over to here

Next up: My photo site now comes with video!! There are a bunch of videos that I have taken - in the dorm, over the summer, etc...I also threw in a bunch of commercials that will probably make you laugh because they are funny. Here they are!

beer, beer, beer

2005-10-31T07:57:00.000-08:00

I thought this picture was kind of amusing...

(Thanks Dave!)

square dance

2005-10-18T17:10:00.000-07:00

Friday night a bunch of us college students went to a square dance. It was fun. There must have been about 60-70 people there...

Monica, Adam and myself (and Albert actually) took a bunch of pictures. Heres a few of them:

All lined up

Me and Erin

Stop stepping on my feet, would ya?!

He's goin for the cheese!

Heres the rest of the photos that we all took...

fun with photoshop

2005-10-15T09:41:00.000-07:00

Recently I've been playing around with Photoshop when I can find the time; this unfortunately doesn't seem to be too often, but heres a few of the finished products:

Thomas and Larry, the two canadian stars of SMC's production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night"

A pretty sweet sunset I applied a couple of effects to...

Funny!

To see some others, click here for my smugmug site...

Soccer Tournament in STL

2005-10-12T17:19:00.000-07:00

Last weekend the St. Mary's Soccer team headed off to St. Louis to play an SSPX Soccer Tournament.

Despite the fact that the fields were just about the right size for 5-year olds and that we ended up not getting to the championship game, we all had a lot of fun.

We lost to Kansas City in the first game 3-0 or something, won the second against Mexico 5-2, and the won the last against St. Louis 2-1. I have another post about the game in the SMC pix blog here

Heres a few pictures:

If you want to see the rest hop on over to my smugmug photos

latin class

2005-10-11T19:24:00.000-07:00

Latin class yesterday was pretty funny. Larry went a little wacko with his translation and came up with something about Pompeius dancing around with his men inside the walls or something! As if that wasn't enough, Pompeius then went and give birth to a horse!!

Needless to say for the rest of the period we were laughing our pants off...