Micah's ideas

Empty Inboxes

2009-01-02T09:57:00.003-04:00

Thinking of adopting this policy. Hummmm..... 5 sentence maximum on replies. If people wanted longer emails, I could just send them my address and we could write letters : )

Mankind

2008-11-22T09:44:00.001-04:00

A little girl asked her mother: "How did the human race appear?"

The mother answered: "God made Adam and Eve; they had children; and so was all mankind made."

Two days later the girl asked her father the same question. The father answered: "Many years ago there were monkeys from which the human race evolved."

The confused girl returned to her mother and said: "Mum, how is it possible that you told me the human race was created by God, and Dad said they developed from monkeys?"

The mother answered: "Well, Dear, it is very simple. I told you about my side of the family, and your father told you about his."

*Lifted from some email foward...

Be Careful of the Guy Just Standing There...

2008-11-18T13:04:00.003-04:00

Internet Overload

2008-09-12T12:56:00.002-03:00

Well, it has finally happened. One too many lunches wasted. One too many real life priorities put off. One too many hours wasted at work. I'm on Internet Information Overload (IIO). I think somehow I thought it would be cool that now that I can access all the world's information, I should. I was wrong. Blogs, news sites, aggregators that aggregate other aggregators, twitter, email, wikipedia........It has all come crashing down on me today. I will never keep abreast of the world's information. I will never know everything. I'm taking my lunches back. I'm taking my free time back. I'm taking my family time back. I'm taking my personal quiet time with God back. I don't think it will be easy, but it starts today....

Who knows, maybe if the news is really important, it'll find me?

The living Room

2008-09-03T21:49:00.000-03:00

Relaxing in the evening...

Michael Phelps

2008-08-19T11:59:00.007-03:00

A tribute to the 2008 Summer Olympics...

1 - There is no need to save the whales, Michael Phelps has saved them all.

2 - Michael Phelps caught Moby Dick. He then let him go because he is just that awesome.

3 - There is no need for an astronaut to go to Mars. Michael Phelps has already been there and swam so much that there is no longer water.

4 - The real reason Poseidon has a magical trident is to protect himself from Michael Phelps.

5 - If you look into the eye of a hurricane you will see Michael Phelps swimming.

6 - Every time Michael Phelps farts in the water a hurricane is formed.

7 - Michael Phelps caused an uproar when he joined the United States Olympic swim team instead of his native Atlantis. The Atlantians blew themselves up in protest.

Jokes "borrowed" from michaelphelpsfacts.com/Welcome.html

Can't Take Criticism

2008-04-17T11:55:00.002-03:00

Although Proverbs warn me to keep my cool and to absorb as much criticism as I can (filtering as much as possible that is negative), it's like as a human I am not built for criticism. When someone points out error in me it's like I burn inside. Anybody else feel like that? Lord help me to be cool as a cucumber....

My 3 Friends - WWH

2008-03-26T20:07:00.004-03:00

WWH

Hello all! I would like to just take a second to introduce you to 3 good friends of mine. Their names are What, Why and How. I met these friends in university and they helped me to not go crazy. If you ever have a class in something and you kept thinking: "Man I hate this class, I am not learning anything, *sigh*", chances are that your teacher does not know my friends What, Why and How. I believe it is the secret of great teaching!

What

First you start with What. What are we learning? This seems obvious but you would not believe the number of professors that I had that just jumped to the how. You start taking notes and your brain is frantically trying to put the pieces together: "Ok, ok, yup, yah, sure, right, oh then that goes there.............WHAT ARE WE DOING!!??". That's a good question! The teacher should start with this first.

Why

Now that I know what I will be learning for the day.........do I care? Where will I use this? How will this help me? Where does it fit in the grand scheme of things? These are all Why questions. There is no point in teaching someone how to do something until they have a reason to learn it. If you give them a good why, they'll be chomping at the bit for the how.

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how"
-Friedrich Nietzsche

How

With the What in place and the Why questions settled, it's time to move onto the How. Tell me you have a good how!? You'd better! Nothing worse than somebody who gets up and tells you about something and why it's so cool, then doesn't tell you how to do it!!! Or even worse, does a terrible job of telling you how to do it (now they've confused you and wasted your time). We can talk about how to teach a good how another time, I just wanted to introduce you to WWH.

Next time you are in a learning environment and you think it stinks, ask yourself which one is missing (or in the wrong order), the What, the Why or the How.

Do My Blogs End Up On Facebook Now?

2008-03-11T13:07:00.001-03:00

I just want to see if I update my blog, if this will then show up in Facebook because I added our blogs to the notes section...

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[ micahandkatie.blogspot.com ]

I Emailed My Blog

2008-03-11T10:22:00.002-03:00

I just wanted to test emailing a blog to myself. Did it work?
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[ micahandkatie.blogspot.com ]

2005-03-04T10:59:00.000-04:00

The b sharps jamming out at the UNB red and black revue. Joey Stilwell on guitar, Matt Steeves on Drums and Myself on Bass. We played a 7 part original funk riff called "Bohemoth in Flight". It is a metaphor of how the song is like watching a big awesome bohemoth funk sound take off and just keep rising and flying. The song has 7 parts, so it never comes down. It just climbs for like 7 minutes until you feel like your head will pop off! It's pretty fun to play! Kudos to the boys. Thanks to all my friends who came out to see us! And shiloh for the mashed potatoes after the show. Yow.

Hospital Thoughts - Gramp Jamer

2005-03-04T10:34:00.000-04:00

From 1948 to 1999 I was never in a hospital, except to visit someone else. Then on the morning of Dec. 8 about eleven A M I found myself admitted as a patient who had suffered a major stroke. This was a completely new experience for me and I would like to share some things I learned from my hospital bed.

1 - First thing I learned was that the nurses were not all the same. Somehow during my many visits to friends or family members I never noticed this fact. They had all looked so much alike, that I had never really realized how different they are. They come in all shapes and sizes, of course, but also in all types of personalities. This is such a simple observation; I was quite surprised that I hadn’t noticed it before. When you are lying on your back, not able to move very much on your own, you must depend on them. That is when you start to notice the difference. You can tell some enjoy their work, and to some it is just a job that puts bread on the table. The ones that really enjoy their work are a joy to be around. Since I was partly paralyzed, they came in every two hours to pull me up in the bed, and check my vitals. This is when you see them as they really are, especially at four A M I can truthfully say though, that I found very few that were not pleasant, and easy to get along with even at that time of day. I was on 4 B South for the first few weeks, where all the nurses are qualified to work in the N.I.C.U. This means they are above average in competence and skill. They would take their appointed shifts in the unit, and then work on the floor, as if it didn’t matter. I soon found out that certain patients really gave them a hard time, so I went out of my way to try and cheer them up when they came my way. This paid off in many ways. One memory I have, is being moved from 4 B S over to 4 C S, which is the Rehab floor. Since it is only one tower over on the same floor, they just roll your bed and all your belongings across the connecting causeway. The nurses actually disputed among themselves as to whom would get to push my bed. Irene and some other nurse won the right as I recall, and they seemed to have a ball. I think they were trying to say how much they appreciated having me as their patient, without telling me directly. I used to have lots of fun joking with them, and keeping them laughing as much as possible. One night when my hand was still paralyzed, I used to speak to my fingers and tell them what to do. This one night I couldn’t sleep, so I was telling my fingers to get moving. I thought I was speaking under my breath, so no one would hear but apparently the little night nurse was walking by my room and heard me. She came in to see who I was talking to and I tryed to explain that I talked to my fingers all the time. She thought this was quite strange, and must have told the other nurses about it. The next morning when they came in to make my bed, one of them mentioned something about it and I said yes I talk to them all the time, and tell them what to do, but they don’t do a thing, They just remind me of some rebellious teenagers. One of the nurses said “I know exactly what you mean, I have two of them at home”.

2 - Another thing I learned early on was that our bodies were never designed to take on or to dispose of fluids from a horizontal position. Plastic straws and urinals have been designed to help, but they are a poor substitute for standing or sitting upright.

3 - I now understand why they call us patients----its because they are teaching us to be patient. This is a hard lesson to learn for some of us. The method they use to teach us, as near as I can see, is to make us wait for everything. When we learn patience, then, we become a good patient.

These are a few things that I remember, and hope that I won’t soon forget, so I can pass them on to others.

Napolean Sounds - Yessssss

2005-02-02T21:08:00.001-04:00

Check out the Napolean Dynamite sounds!! High larious. Tina you fat lard, eat your dinner.

March 11, 2008 - Unfortunately, this site is gone now.....*sad*

Princess Bride Personality Test

2005-02-02T10:54:00.001-04:00

Click here to check out this sweet test to see who you are most like on the Princess Bride movie, no not the the princess diaries, the Princess Bride, which is halarious and has Andre the Giant in it, that’s enough about that.

March 11, 2008 - Unfortunately, this site is gone now....I'm not really down with this movie anymore either because the little boy takes Jesus' name in vain.....

A Quote

2004-11-05T23:56:00.000-04:00

"There are two secrets to success in this world:
1. Never tell everything you know" - Chris Lepingwell

Best HTML Color Picker

2004-09-24T15:42:00.000-03:00

http://www.massless.org/colorpicker/

I'm really tired

2004-09-15T13:53:00.000-03:00

I feel like my eyes will fall out soon.

2004-09-08T15:38:00.000-03:00

It can happen to the best of us!

DragModule

2004-08-30T15:44:00.000-03:00

Implementation of order table

DragModule

Future of Web Apps

2004-08-30T13:55:00.000-03:00

I could be right out to lunch here, but I think that macromedia is going to win. It's the browser compatablity issue that is going to kill web app programmers, always has. You would have to be a retard to make css and xhtml compatible with all the friggin browsers out there. The only company really doing it is google. But google is a fortress of secrecy and simpletons like myself will never learn the tricks of the googods.

Macromedia works on all browsers. Design your app once. Winner. I know we all love free programming enviroments, but sometimes you gotta pay. You bought microsoft windows right? Even if you didn't want to, you can't use a rag-tag OS, you can't use a rag-tag web app programming enviroment.

Just my two-cents, I love CSS, but I only want to program for one browser and that is not happening.

Good Experience - Interview: Marissa Mayer, Google.com

2004-08-27T15:36:00.000-03:00

Good Experience - Interview: Marissa Mayer, Google.com: "All of us on the UI team think the value of Google is in not being cluttered, in offering a great user experience. I like to say that Google should be 'what you want, when you want it.' As opposed to 'everything you could ever want, even when you don't.' "

Micah's ideas

2004-08-26T15:23:00.000-03:00

poop

2004-08-16T16:46:00.000-03:00

Grampa

business

2004-07-29T14:02:00.000-03:00

You gotta have ppl on top who care about ppl on the bottom.