Time for a bunch of random pictures!

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

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

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"

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

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

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

I thought this picture was kind of amusing...



(Thanks Dave!)

square dance

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

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

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

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...