Running

At the time that I am writing this, I don't believe there will be any deep meaning behind of this, but I'll write anyway.
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Yesterday, I got an urge to run. Yeah, I know right? When I told my girlfriend this, she had me repeat what I said so she could savor those words for one moment, because I'm not a runner and she is. I then went outside and satisfied my urge to run.
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I ran a total of 2 miles straight and I have never done such a feat before. In the past year, the most I'd run was close to a mile, most of the time, I had only ran half a mile at most, and the most I'd ever run in my life prior to that was a mile and a half. Needless to say, I was in pain the rest of the night. How did I make it through 2 miles? I don't know, because my mind just shut off and it was just running. I forgot about everything, only when the pain got so bad in my legs did I even think and that was only saying "a little further" over and over in my mind until I finally lost all thought again.
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This goes to prove a statement that I have always said: Runners are mentally insane. It is a simple equation that you must use to prove that this accusation is true. To be able to run, you have to not think at all and if you don't think at all, you are not using your mind, and possibly even not in your mind. Well, if your not in your mind, then where are you? Out of your mind, that's where. Finally, out of your mind is a common phrase used for crazy people and crazy people are also classified as mentally insane.
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So, the equation is:
Running=Not using mind=not in mind=out of mind=crazy=mentally insane
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I believe I have proven my point.

The Meaning of Life

Today, I had a fairly easy going day, but then I went to this two hour long meeting. The meeting was about the Marine Biology class that I'm going to apply for and it seems pretty stunning. A picture that the teacher took of it, is right here and you can see just how beautiful it is.

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I am not usually one to talk about God and life, because I'm easy going, laid back, and I'm definitely not a hardcore christian in the slightest. Life has never mattered to me. This isn't to say I don't care about other people who are allive and I don't care about their lives, but the meaning of life and the fact that we're here doesn't. Humans on Earth just so happens to be a thing that is reality. If anything, you would know me to be a strong believer in evolution. At this meeting, there were a ton of things that just blew me away. Not that the teacher was doing things to make us think about life and God, but rather I just got into that thinking mode.

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There were just so many pictures of the trip that they go on towards the end of the year. Just seeing the beauty of each individual creature-- fish, octopus, snails, slugs --was just stunning. There had to be something that at least have been touched by a god, if not THE God. This isn't to say anything about me changing my point of view. In fact, my view point has remained unchanged, except the idea that God exists is now more firmly in my mind.

Then I got around to thinking about the meaning of life; what about life is so special? What makes people happy? Why does it? This really happened to me when one picture came up on his slideshow. It was of two kids in front of a shabby-ish, but sturdy, building and they had just had such bright and smiling faces. These two little kids had nothing that we have and, yet, they were so happy.

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I believe that everyone, at least in the extremely populated areas of the world, happens to be forgetting the true way to live and what it means to be happy, myself included. Our world is slowly being taken over by technology. This isn't a bad thing. I know some of the people that will read this are people I never met, but talk to over the internet on a forum site. They are some really nice people that without technology, I would of never known. In fact, what I want to become is a computer engineer; there is almost nothing that is more technology based than that. However, our technology is consuming our lives. I spend most of my time on a computer, an iPod, on a phone texting, or anything else electronic. I love doing it, but have we lost what it means to be happy? True happiness doesn't depend on things. Those two children proved that. Happiness is really based off of being around other people.

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I am no exception to the idea that our world is becoming less and less friendly. I have people I dislike and people I just plain hate, but our world needs more loving than hating and at least I can say out of all of the things I've said here, that this is one that I actually do. I may have some people I dislike and hate, but I have so many more that I am great friends with and would help out with their problems no matter what and I have a girlfriend that I love so much. Why can't most of the world just learn to deal with most of their problems, instead of causing more, and just get along and be happy?

About This

I've been doing pretty much nothing with this site. I had originally created it for the purpose of my SciI class, but seeing as how the class didn't ever really use it, it just fell dormant.

I'm now probably going to spend a lot of time on here just typing random meaningless stuff about my life. The real inention is to actually have inspiring Thought of the Day (or week or however it turns out) kind of thing. This is because I was inspired by a kid that I barely know (however, he's pretty cool) from Central. His name is Kyle. Here is the blog that inspired me: http://kyleshade.blogspot.com/

About the very first post on here, if any of you were wondering (any of you as in the 0 that currently checking out this site) is an allusion to a story one of the kids at school made up for extra credit on a quiz. My teacher in another class made the first part of a story, dealing with how you are randomly in a forest with a knife and you hear a rustling from the bush, and the extra credit was to finish it. The kid had made a story about how the rustling behind the bush was me and I was wrestling bears.

Project Time

Well, I'm so far into the stages where I am almost done creating the design for the plastic board I need to use, and it will soon be created (as soon as I add the thread to the inside of the holes for the screws). As soon as this is done, I'll start on splitting the washers, and drilling two holes into each half just big enough for the screw. Once this is done, I'll need the arduino board and to connect wires to it and the board. This is when I'll need to work on the software, which is still sketchy.

How To Wrestle Bears

A few days ago, I was wrestling bears in my forest themed bedroom and I was thinking about how I might be the only person who knows the proper techniques of taking down a bear in a wrestling match. I have recognized some reasons for this occurrence. This can easily be tracked back to our poor education system; anyone who doesn't know how to make it through their life without the basic knowledge of how to survive an attack from a dangerous animal is bound to be doomed. I have also tracked it back to our rising obesity rate. The trends with obesity show that the more obese someone is, then the less likely they are to get involved with physical activity and there is definitely a physicality in a bear attack.
There is an extremely well intentioned idea of creating a safe environment to live in, otherwise we would be constantly thrown into events that would put our life in peril. There is never a one hundred percent full-proof plan that will ensure our safety though; we need to be prepared for the unimaginable. This is why I have decided to share my techniques for bear wrestling.
There are many techniques that I will explain to you, but the first and most important is not to use any honey. Bears take the idea of honey to distract them as an insult to their knowledge. Bears have seen that old honey trick a thousand times. The bears even teach that in Cub School. The use of honey will just enrage the bears beyond belief and you will almost certainly be slaughtered unless you have expert bear wrestling skills (despite the fact that an expert bear wrestler would know to never use honey).
The second technique is to start off a match with an immediate sidestep to your left (as you are facing them). Bears are predominately left pawed and will often take the first swipe to their left, and if you do take a step to your left you will get out of their reach of their swipe. A third technique is that if you ever do get hit by one of their swipes, never, ever, play dead. The first thing you do when you hit the ground from their swipe is to roll as fast as possible to whichever direction is the bears left. This goes back to the bears being left pawed. With their natural left sided strength, they are able to push off with their left legs harder creating a faster speed to their right.
The fourth technique is to never ever try to take a blow from one of the bear's running starts. His charge along with the mass of his body will absolutely destroy your ribs. The destruction of your ribs will lead to severe internal damage. This damage will be terrible enough for you to die, even with hospitalization, but most likely you will not even make it away from the bear and you will be dead from the bear finishing you off with a body slam.
These are the four fundamental techniques on how to wrestle bears. I may make a continuation on bear wrestling that includes flashy showboating moves that will make for an amazing show, but without these fundamentals, you will ultimately die.