The horizon has been defeated

by the pirates of the new age

Problems I have been thinking about....here are 2 statements that are true...according to my knowledge of physics and the universe.

The speed of light remains a constant speed regardless of the sources speed.(i.e. the speed of a beam of light being shined by a car going 60 mph is not going 60 mph faster then the speed of light...nor are the tail lights going 60 mph less then the speed of light...basically the speed of light is source independent.)

The second statement is that there is light from stars that will never ever ever reach our solar system.

This made no sense to me...even if the galaxies are moving at a magnitude of 1.5 the speed of light....light in theory would still make it here...Galaxy A going .75 the speed of light and Galaxy B going .75 the opposite direction = magnitude of 1.5 speed of light. Since light is not source dependent it would only have to over come the .75 SoL. This means yes it would make it to us right?

Turns out the answer is NO. Here is where my brain broke for about an hour. I totally forgot about the universe is expanding. Imagine the universe is a giant piece of nylon and galaxy A and B are on opposite corners....now have the nylon start to stretch...this is the same concept...now add the galaxies also moving on the nylon away from each other....this means the beam would never be able to beat the speed of the expansion of the universe and the speed of the other galaxy that it is chasing...

Mind blowing?

Naughty or Nice

Consider the Price, to an Elf...

So let me update what is going on.

Since the last post, I have had a birthday, dead day, finals starting, and a few crazy nights in between.

I have also laid down the money to purchase my new laptop. It is a HP 2730p. 1.86 ghz, 120 GB hard drive, 3 GB of ram and its a touch screen. I don't know how I feel about it right now. It is a lot of money but I feel that I made the best choice...just not sure if economically it was the best one. I haven't splurged in a while so I guess I am splurging now? Oh well, I'll give my review of it soon.

I also have recieved my certifcation to test concrete by the ACI. This makes me happy. Maybe it will get me a summer time job.


Below is a video of our compression tests on some concrete samples we made. The concrete we batched surpased 20'000 psi which in turn gave us a 10 percent bonus in my Structural Materials class. While watching the video you may want to turn the volume down as some one lets out an explitive when the concrete finally gives way. I am in the background as well. It honestly was a pretty scary site when the concrete cylinder exploded.




This is at a "yay school is about over" party where we watched about 5 minutes of revenge of the nerds...we were suppose to dress up as nerds...sadly this is the closest thing I had while I was in fayetteville.

The night got much better after we quit watching and moved into the garage.






This picture is from the National Missionary, where I was litterly locked out on the roof. What happen is I was exploring with the Tyler Twins when we decided to go out this door. Well the door opened just fine but had no door handle to get back into the building. So we were stuck outside on the roof looking in through the windows on the roof. Thankfully some one let us back in.

Yeah I realize I covered the NMC in the last post but I forgot this photo.


My new computer should be here with in the week, and I should be done with finals on Wednesday...therefore I should have plenty of time to do some comics...and get back to some more enjoyable stuff.

So with my Tablet PC (aka a laptop you can write on) being down for the count for good, I will not be having comics for a little while. Never fret though! The laptop going out gives me the opportunity to buy the laptop I was wanting. Of course the wanting and needing things were totally different until my current one decided that it was better to not have a screen that worked.

Anyways. I figure I'll update everyone on my life to this point with pictures starting with the first one below!



A few weeks ago I was invited to watch a Razorback game from a box seat. It was awesome and amazing all at the same time! Thanks Tyler and thanks Dyers that allowed Tyler to invite me.


Here is a picture of the guys that were there...me left, Tyler middle left, his brother Travis middle right, and my former roommate Adam on the far right.


This is Tyler and is Fee Aunc Say!(Fiancee(In my best wanna be french accent(Hey gotta use it up it'll only last like 6 more months then it is just plain ole husband and wife...where is the fun in that)))




My church is adding a new sanctuary and a new drive thru. Apparently they were tired of the old one continually getting hit by vehicles clearing the 10 foot mark...I mean look how gianormously high that thing is...like 30 feet.


Ah yes my wanna be civil engineering side coming out. Who in the world takes pictures of cracks in concrete...that is besides me? Any ways beyond that...mainly I am wondering why it cracked...I am guessing because they did not put a thermal expansion joint in this peticular section...this was an extremely long section compared to the rest that are in the new sanctuary.


Another random event that happened...I was doing home work for mechanics of materials(class of the devil) when a random mechanical engineering professor came around and asked if anyone wanted tickets to that nights game...it was the first night I was going to have off in a couple weeks and wanted to take the oppertunity. So I called Adam (you remember Adam right from the other picture?) and asked him if he wanted to go and he said sure so I jumped up and accepted the offer. A very generous gift from a random professor that more then likely I'll never see again.




Once again who takes pictures of this stuff? Well I do...I am guessing they are making some form of a slurry wall to help stabilize the ground? They are adding an addition to the parking deck to the right. Any ways they are driving these things into the ground during the middle of the National Missionary Convention. Frustrating for those inside the Tulsa Convention Center.


These are my good friends I saw at the NMC. Justin is on the left and the very beautiful Beka on the right.


These are two girls that are twins that go to my home church...Katie on the left and Shelly on the right.


Part of the youth group from my church came up and visited the NMC on Saturday...here they are...


This is the BOK Center...not knowing what BOK stood for...I just assumed it was a word. I procedded to go around calling it the "Bok" Center. Finally later in the day some one stopped me and asked me what I was talking about. They procedded to laugh when they figured out what I was saying. Apparently the building was funded by the Bank of Oklahoma(Interesting with the current banking crisis ehh?). This in causes the correct saying to be the B.O.K. (Phonetically: Bee Ohhh Kay) Center. Bah...


Back to my random construction pictures. This is the addition to the parking garage that I spoke about in previous photos. The vertical wood support is what got me...I havent a clue as to what in the world it is there for...support? I really dont know...

Oh well there you go...That has been my life over the past few weeks...minus all the homework I suppose. Hopefully in a couple weeks I'll have another computer and can start doing comics once again...or maybe I'll find a girlfriend that I can donate my time too...either way it is all down hill from here....except for the whole last round of test and finals thing...blah

You Can't Stop Nothing

If you got no control...


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So this last week has been ba ba badddd. The comic above is the last one I drew before the happening. Initially I was not going to post this comic as I did not think the quality was up to par with the standards of previous ones ( pssh like I have quality standards on my blog).

Any ways my tablet PC bit the bullet and kicked the bucket this week. I was working on a presentation at the time so that realllllly sucked. Oh well what can you do...

I am working on repairing it was some super glue later today...perhaps it'll work. If not I'll be buying a new one just because I NEED a laptop for school hence the thing I was working on and using it for at the time.

For all those curious the one I am looking at is the HP EliteBook 2730p
http://www.amazon.com/EliteBook-KS096UT-12-1-Inch-Notebook-Windows/dp/B001G0SV2M/ref=wl_it_dp?ie=UTF8&coliid=I2KZY6ZJ7GIVPI&colid=3DBL17TSFO33E

I was originally looking at it dreaming kinda sorta...but unfortunately it has turned into a need.

Oh well, update soon

We Gotta Rewind, Start It Up Again

Because we fell across the fall line, ain't nothing sacred any more...

Second Chances...
What a foolish thing to expect, yet a wonderful thing to experience.

I am watching Lost the TV show...of course they are all reruns that I have never seen.
Today's episode obviously revolved around second chances. This got me thinking. How often do we as humans receive second chances? I know I have personally received an amount that could not be counted, yet, I casually act like it is perfectly normal.

How amazing is it that we are able to start back at square one? You can do this on the spiritual level by asking forgiveness and repenting (turning away), say you are sorry, or worse comes to worse move to another location where people dont know you.

This episode...whether it's intended affect was or was not this... reminded me how blessed I truly am. For all intents and purposes I have the world on a string. I am young, going to school, single, not in debt, and living in one of the richest countries in the world. What more can I ask for? Well since I am an American there is a list about a mile long...but how much do I really need? None... My greatest fear is doing poorly on a test or not getting married by 30... It truly is amazing.

I hope everyone is thankful for the 2nd, 3rd, and the 7 x 70 chances that they receive daily.

Just remember to
On what is important...