Kevin->Write(thoughts, browser, time)

subtitle: Kevin's first blog concession to vanity.

A Hard Days Night, Beatles
Help!, Beatles
Purple, Stone Temple Pilots
Ben Folds Five, Ben Folds Five
Whatever and Ever Amen, Ben Folds Five
White Blood Cells, The White Stripes
The Joshua Tree, U2
Lateralus, Tool
Automatic For the People, REM
In Search Of…, N.E.R.D.
IV, Led Zeppelin
Quality Control, Jurassic 5
The Marshall Mathers LP, Eminem
Slippery When Wet, Bon Jovi
Bridging the Gap, Black Eyed Peas

When we were working in small groups in communications class today, Many Facial Piercings Boy casually mentioned that he does not stand up for the Pledge of Allegiance. I wanted to ask him why, but I didn't because I didn't want to have the discussion right there and I didn't want him to feel threatened by me since we have to work together and blah blah. But I wonder still.
In America, we have the highest standard of living in the world, from our richest citizens to our poorest. We also live in the most heterogenous society in the history of the world, and that society is committed to tolerance and steadily increasing equality for all types of diversity. The previous two sentences are incredibly important and meaningful, and I cannot understand such a lack of respect for them. Which is not to say that this country is perfect, or even close to it, but it is as important to celebrate the success of America as it is to work to make it even better. If you won't stand for the Pledge or the national anthem, you are symbolizing a unilateral rejection of all of America, good and bad-including the very freedoms that allow you to make that silent protest.

The Title of This Blog: It's C++ computer code. I'm a dork.

Lebron James, NBA Superstar and Ohio Native: He's absolutely the real deal. He's much better than everyone thought he would be. I'm one of the last twenty-two NBA fans in the world, and I want to have his babies. He's the next Michael Jordan. Seriously folks. Watch the Cavs this year.

The Astronomy Sun Lab: is due tomorrow. Supposedly, I've been recording the position of the Sun every few days at 5:45 pm. My last entry was on September 15th. Oops. Let the forgery begin!

Vanilla Ice Cream: Severely underrated. Simple, cold, creamy, with subtle flavor. Perfect for savoring as Lebron dunks on a host of tallish African-American gentlemen. People who think vanilla is boring are the same sort who put A-1 on top notch steak.

I've created a blog. A blog is a neat idea for several reasons:

1) It will inspire me to record my thoughts. I often have thoughts, and usually they disappear with frightful abandon. If I record them here, they will surely disappear with somewhat more mundane abandon. This is a good thing.
2) Other people can read my thoughts. I have friends, and some of those friends are compulsive AIM profile checkers like myself. If I had a blog, they could spend even more time reading trivial things that I've created and less time worrying about real life. This is a good thing also.
3) The blog appeals to my vanity. This is probably the central good thing. My thoughts, I like them. You'll like them too, or your money back. I like to think about things I thought about before and compare the thoughts and see if they're different. I like meta. You also like meta. You will like thinking about things that you've thought about before in the new context of my thoughts, or you will recieve a voucher good for a dollar off your next purchase. Over the course of this process, you'll reach a deeper understanding of you and me and us and quite possibly even them. I like being that enabler, and you will like being enabled, but this part of the service does not fall under warranty. Sorry.

For some time, I've resisted creating a blog. A blog is a bad idea for several reasons:

1) It will inspire me to record my thoughts. I often have terribly dangerous thoughts about cutting off the heads of the boring and stupid and going a whole day without once telling the truth and the absolute importance of affordable medical care for every American citizen despite the fact that we'd rather spend our resources finding ever more sophisticated ways to take life, but these thoughts generally just disappear with frightful abandon. If I record them here, they might stick around long enough to be implemented. This is a bad thing.
2) Other people can read my thoughts. I have friends, and some of those friends are compulsive AIM profile checkers like myself. If I had a blog, they could spend even more time reading trivial things that I've created and less time worrying about eating and sleeping and writing their papers and going to class. This is a bad thing also.
3) The blog appeals to my vanity. This is probably the central bad thing. My thoughts, I already overvalue them, along with everything else in my life. You know this. I already spend far too damn much time thinking about things I've thought about before and comparing the thoughts and seeing if they're different. You're quite sick of it. Meta is tremendously overrated and so last year. Over the course of this process, you'll quit reading and quite possibly even quit speaking to me. I don't like putting myself in that position, and you don't like seeing me there.

Caveat Emptor.