This is my first post to this blog in over a year. Maybe even two years. I’ve been putting it off and putting it off, telling myself that I would make my own WordPress theme and really have something that I liked. This requires knowing CSS and some PHP, which I actually watched and read tutorials on and got some idea of how they work. (So don’t think I create obstacles just to avoid things. I create obstacles to have things to do.) So I learned some stuff, and yet still “never had time” to fix up this blog.
Finally I had the motivation to do it. Of course this motivation, as are most things in my life, was external. I took a class this spring called “Advertising on the Internet,” and one of the assignments was (is, due today at noon) to make a blog. Well wasn’t just so excited on the first day of class to know I’d have an excuse to work on this thing and get this ball of oil rolling again. And of course, I waited until last night to find a theme. All I really have to do is pick one, personalize it, add a pic and three 500 word posts, and what did I do? Did i make obstacles? You betcha. I spent all night getting the original theme, which you can see in demo form here:

http://themes.barleyhut.com/index.php?wptheme=Hunsecker

to make it look like the site you’re on now. And for what? So I could have that cool transparent header. That’s why. And after 8 hours of tinkering, I finally got it to look the way I want. Now if it looks the way I want on Firefox, it looks kinda crappy on IE, and I’m guessing it won’t work at all on any resolution lower than the one I modded it on. But it looks freaking awesome.

And now all I have left is writing three posts. Of course, this could have been started at 5 a.m., but I spent that time writing a tirad on individualism on my “About Me” page. Maybe one of these days I’ll actually spend all this hard work on what needs to be done and not on what I think needs to be done to get started. I doubt it.

Two more to go.

And it’s due in 2 and a half hours.

And I’m writing this at work, between calls.

Great start, right?

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Pre-Preface: This is my first “real” post, and I’m already annoyed I couldn’t think of a better title. I’m also annoyed that I was itching to write it 9 hours ago, and now I’m sleepy and won’t do that itch justice. BUT! I won’t ever use this thing unless I get used to it, so no more putting it off.

Preface: Most of this entry (and chances are, most entries to come) are very much based on the fuzzy picture and loose, sometimes second-hand, facts I’ve picked up here and there. If I make a huge error or misrepresentation, by all means, let me know.

Okay, so my friend Whitney asked me to come over to her place and help her write a paper. Every day I get asked out for coffee, a movie, or some other “fun” thing, and my reaction, at least these days, has been “I guess if I HAVE to”, and yet, as soon as she asked me, I said yes and was actually excited to help out. I think I need to get back into classes. I digress. So the assignment, simply put, was to choose a social problem and to weigh its pros and cons (from research, not opinion) and then give a personal opinion using a logical argument. She chose the problem of intelligent design taught in schools.

I thought I had a basic grasp of intelligent design. I understood it as: nature, science, and evolution have a harmony that suggest–imply, even, that there must have been an intelligent being which designed it. With this as my definition, my counterpoint has been that things work in harmony with each other in any system, or the system would cease to exist. Everything must overcome, adapt, or cease existence. If I roll over in my sleep and knock over my lamp, the lamp will fall over. It has no control over this, and since I was asleep, neither did I. There was not an intelligent force involved, [Read more →]

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