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[Jan. 14th, 2008|12:02 am] |
Oh, by the way. It is that time again. It's time for me to do the polar bear plunge, where I go running into the bay like a fool in support of the Maryland Special Olympics. Basically, I need people to make donations. If you are feeling generous, you can sponsor me here.
Also, if that link doesn't work, you can donate by going here and searching for Timothy Herndon |
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[Jan. 13th, 2008|10:41 pm] |
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Meh, I guess I'll actually update this for once. Whether or not anyone is going to read this, I don't know, but whatevs. Well, I don't know what to say, really. Things are kind of the same for me. Exciting, I know. I still have a bunch of school to do, work is still a bitch, and I still have the same old routines. I'm really tired. It seems no matter how much I sleep I'm still tired. Whether I get 4 hours of sleep or 12 hours of sleep or any amount in between, I'm always tired. I don't know, I guess a part of it is that my schedule is always so inconsistent. I never work the same schedule and by the time I get used to something it changes. I can't wait to be done school and to be able to get a real 9-5 job, no matter how much I hate the 9-5 life. I guess that's the spirit in me dying. As much as I hate being a tool that is stuck just going through the grind, I know it's the only option I'll have and that it's probably better than the other options. My butt hurts so I'm going to move to the couch now. Ahh, that's better. I'm glad that the new American Gladiators is so much like the original. It would have pissed me off had they screwed that show up. Similar, I guess, to the way that it would have pissed me of if they had screwed up The Simpsons movie, just not as much. I bought myself a nice pretty 32" Samsung LCD for Christmas. I like that tv. I also bought myself a PS3 and a Wii, but those weren't for Christmas. I bought those a while ago. The Wii was a waste of money, it's so boring and I never play it, but I love the PS3. I play it all the time. |
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[Aug. 3rd, 2007|10:12 pm] |
Ok, so I figure I should go ahead and make a post because I haven't made one in quite a while.
Hmmm... what has happened?
Simpsons Movie > You
Yea, it's the only movie that I actually paid twice. I even went to Bladensburg to go to the Kwik-E-Mart. They actually had Indians working there.
School is going to start up at the end of the month so I'm going to have even less time to spend online. :-/
I have almost no money right now because I just paid my credit card completely off from buying a PS3. I've been spending a lot of time playing Resistance. Of course, Guitar Hero 80s Encore came out as well so I do every once in a while plug my PS2 back in so I can play that. As soon as Guitar Hero 3 comes out, though, I'll be trading in my PS2 and my controllers because I will then be able to get a controller that is compatible with the PS3 and will no longer need my PS2. I should pretty much get GH3 for free when counting in the trade in values of my controllers and PS2.
We're having inventory at work on Wednesday which should be rather boring. Standing around and watching people count things, that sounds like a day to me. Hopefully, they will start working on expanding our store as soon as inventory is finished. The store is supposed to go supercenter by August of next year. They haven't started working on it yet but that was probably because they were waiting for our inventory to be done. They are building a shopping center across the street from the Wal Mart which should finally give us some choices in terms of things to do on lunch because they are going to have a Quiznos and Ruby Tuesdays on top of whatever else they will have. Right now we are stuck with Subway, Burger King, Chinese, or Italian (they can never get your food ready in the hour that you have on lunch). I try to avoid BK so Subway and Chinese are the only real options. It will be nice to have some variety. Also, RT will be nice for hanging out with friends after work without having to drive all the way to Westminster.
I managed to hurt my neck pulling out of my driveway because I turned around too fast looking behind me. I'm lame. I also think I have something wrong with my ear. It always sounds like is popping and sometimes I feel pressure in it. I think I may have done it riding roller coasters but I don't know.
Well, I don't know what else to say. |
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| Yet more nerdiness! |
[May. 7th, 2007|09:13 pm] |
So, continuing my plummet into nerdome, I have ordered
Both of the hats.
The Domo kun one (that would be the one in the middle)
and...
The Goomba.
Oh...and this
Comment here and...
1: I'll respond with something random about you.
2: I'll challenge you to try something.
3: I'll pick a color that I associate with you.
4: I'll tell you something I like about you.
5: I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
6: I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.
7: I'll ask you something I've always wanted to ask you.
8: If I do this for you, you must post this in your journal. |
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[Apr. 20th, 2007|12:31 am] |
Well, I am posting because Alejandra nudged me because I have apparently not posted in 7 weeks. Anyway, I've been busy with work and school. School is almost over so that should lighten my load a bit. Because I am a nerd, my recent purchases have been
1) Wii (so overrated :(, then again, I mainly bought it because those bastards at Nintendo have completely halted support for the GameCube and this will be a way for Lynn to keep playing her GameCube games and so we can get the new Mario Party when it comes out. So far I've been playing Kirby from Nintendo that I downloaded more than the actual Wii games but that might partly be because I don't have enough time right now to start a game of Zelda or Super Paper Mario and Sonic is such a crappy game that I almost feel ripped off even though my dad is the one who bought it. I do feel like I'm going to play the downloaded games from the VC more than the actual Wii games though. I have downloaded Kirby, Sim City, and the original Zelda. I kind of wish though that I had just spent the same amount of money that I have spent on accessories and games to get a PS3 and an extra controller just to play my PS2 and PSone but again, I am too much of a nerd that I have seen enough rumors of a price drop that I can't justify buying the PS3 for 600. That, and Guitar Hero, which I have also been playing more than Wii can't be played on the PS3 without modding your controller yet, so I would still have to keep the PS2. However, I could have used that as an excuse to move the PS2 to my room so I can play Guitar Hero in my room and play at any time without having to worry about other people not wanting to listen to me play.)
2) Wireless Guitar Hero controller- You probably saw that one coming if you read the end of the last purchase's paragraph. However, I like the wired one better and still use that one more, but I think that might be mainly because I'm just so used to that controller that it will take a while to get used to the wireless one, but having that wireless controller opens up the possibility for multiplayer rock action. w00 \m/
3) 
The coin block is for me and the turtle shell is for Lynn. They make their respective noises when bopped. I'm going to hang mine on the ceiling of my room but they unfortunately don't come until mid-August. I can't wait.
4) 
Yea, you knew that was coming.
Anyway, I need to not spend so much money for a little bit, but my next purchases are going to be 
and
 I want the Mario one more, but I might have to get both of them even though they are $23.00 each. Even though I don't use a mouse, I might start just to use these. Just in case any of you are feeling generous and would like to buy me something, the stapler is from thinkgeek along with many other things that I would want (I have a wishlist on there) and the mouse can be found here
In case you didn't notice, I was even nerdy enough to create an html link for thinkgeek just so I could have it say thinkgeek instead of www.thinkgeek.com but still work as a link. I even typed the html each time I mentioned it in this post rather than just copying and pasting it. I really don't know when I got so nerdy. |
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[Feb. 16th, 2007|11:22 pm] |
Can anyone explain why I check my friends page at least three times a week yet I never seem to post any entries on my journal? I'm lazy.
Anyway, I hate my classes already. I hate having 3 lab classes, especially since my chem teacher wants a formal lab report for every lab. I hate having to drive an hour to school and an hour back home all five weekdays with two of the days being for one class. Working every day sucks, too. I turned 21 Saturday but I still have not gotten drunk since turning 21. I'm so exciting, huh? There is snow outside. It actually got me a day off and then I didn't go the next day because I wasn't going to drive in the snow and ice for one class since our school stayed open even though the streets were still crap on Thursday. I have still not found my charger for my camera battery which sucks. That's all I have to say for now. |
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[Jan. 23rd, 2007|09:01 pm] |
Hokay, so I will be doing the Polar Bear Plunge this Saturday. It is supporting Special Olympics Maryland. What I need are people to pledge money (I need a minimum of $50). Any amount would be helpful, even if it is just a few dollars.
You can pledge money here. |
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| How do you do? I don't think that we've met. |
[Jan. 21st, 2007|07:41 pm] |
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My name is Tim. Well, we have met, but it has been a while since I've been on here. I don't know if you even remember me it has been so long. I've been busy with school and work and stuff like that. I don't know how it happened, but I only had maybe 2 free days the entire winter break and I was expecting to use that to finally get a bit of rest from being either at work or school every day. Oh well, at least I pulled off a decent semester. In contrast though, the 4.0 from this semester is stellar compared to the .6 I had my first semester of college. It's looking like I have gotten myself a little straightened out at last. I just got back from Vegas. That was fun. I'm still working on getting readjusted back to EST. Having to work the 3 days following my trip isn't helping at all in getting readjusted. I'm less than a month away from turning 21 so look out world. This semester I will be going to Towson University but I don't know what classes I'm going to have because my orientation isn't until Tuesday. I'm probably going to have a really shitty schedule because of it. I have to pee. |
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[Nov. 14th, 2006|10:23 pm] |
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I no longer have any pictures of my red mohawk. Does anyone else have one? |
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[Oct. 23rd, 2006|01:54 am] |
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This semester might kill me. |
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| Because I'm a trendy asshole |
[Sep. 26th, 2006|11:04 pm] |
Ask me a question about each of the following:
1. Friends
2. Sex
3. Music
4. Drugs
5. Love
6. LiveJournal
No matter how rude or confidential, I'n not promising to answer them all but I'll try my best. Then post this in your journal and see what questions you get asked. |
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[Sep. 24th, 2006|07:38 pm] |
Weird.
Out of nowhere all of the dogs in the neighborhood started barking like crazy. All of them except for mine, which is probably because she is retarded.
Oh, and yesterday, for whatever reason I was bored and started looking at Maryland's sex offender registry and found out that some guy that I have sold 4 phones to and I have dealt with several times is a third degree child sex offender.
Welcome to my random life. |
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| CLASSIC! |
[Sep. 7th, 2006|01:20 am] |
Auto response from Someone:(aka, her away message)
couldnt understand a word of social theory, so im off to bed...school til 3is, then dinner with PJ;-)
TiMMay ThE SpED: Social theory refers to the use of theoretical frameworks to explain and analyze social patterns and large-scale social structures.
Though many commentators consider social theory a branch of sociology, it functions inherently in an interdisciplinary manner, as it uses ideas from and contributes to a plethora of disciplines such as anthropology, economics, theology, history, and many others.
Social theory attempts to answer the question 'what is?', not 'what should be?'. One should therefore not confuse it with philosophy or with belief.
TiMMay ThE SpED: Harrington in his work Modern Social Theory: an introduction (2005) discusses the meaning of social theory, stating that while the term did not exist in any language before the twentieth century, its origins are ancient and lie in two words, ‘social’ from the Latin socius and ‘theory’ from the Greek theoria. In ancient times, theoria meant contemplation and reflection. It helped the Greeks make sense of their lives, and to question the value and meaning of things around them. Social theory emerged at the same time as modernity and was largely equated with an attitude of critical thinking, based on rationality, logic and objectivity, and the desire for knowledge through ‘aposteriori’ methods of discovery, rather than ‘apriori’ methods of tradition.
TiMMay ThE SpED: Social theory always had an uneasy relationship with the more traditional academic disciplines; many of its key thinkers never held a university position.
Compared to workers in disciplines within the “objective“ natural sciences -- such as physics or chemistry -- social theorists may make less use of the scientific method and of other fact-based methods to prove a point. Instead, they tackle very large-scale social trends and structures using hypotheses that they cannot easily prove, except over the course of time. Criticism from opponents of social theories often objects to this. Extremely critical theorists, such as deconstructionists or postmodernists, may argue that any type of research or method has inherent flaws. Often, however, thinkers may present their ideas as social theory because the social reality that those ideas describe appears so overarching as to remain unprovable. The social theories of modernity or anarchy can exemplify this.
TiMMay ThE SpED: However, social theories still play a major part in the sciences of sociology, anthropology, economics, and others. Objective science-based research often begins with a hypothesis formed from a social theory. Likewise, science-based research can often provide support for social theories or can spawn new ones.
TiMMay ThE SpED: For instance, statistical research grounded in the scientific method that finds a severe income disparity between women and men performing the same occupation can complement the underlying premises of the complex social theories of feminism or of patriarchy.
In general, and in particular among adherents of pure sociology, social theory has appeal because it takes the focus away from the individual (the way in which most humans look at the world) and focuses it on the society itself and the social forces which control individuals' lives. This sociological insight (often termed the sociological imagination) has appealed to students and others dissatisfied with the status quo because it looks beyond the assumption of societal structures and patterns as purely random.
TiMMay ThE SpED: Prior to 19th century, social theory took largely narrative and normative traits. Expressed in story form, it both assumed ethical principles and recommended moral acts. Thus one can regard religious figures as the earliest social theorists. Saint Augustine (354 - 430) and St. Thomas Aquinas (circa 1225 - 1274) concerned themselves exclusively with a just society. St. Augustine describes late Ancient Roman society but through a lens of hatred and contempt for what he saw as false Gods, and in reaction theorized The City of God. Similarly, in China, Master Kong (otherwise known as Confucius) (551 - 479 BCE) envisaged a just society that went beyond his contemporary society of the Warring States. Later on, also in China, Mozi (circa 470 - circa 390 BCE) recommended a more pragmatic sociology, but ethical at base.
TiMMay ThE SpED: The first “modern” social theories (known as classical theories) that begin to resemble the analytic social theory of today developed almost simultaneously with the birth of the science of sociology. Auguste Comte (1798 - 1857), known as the 'father of sociology', laid the groundwork for one of the first social theories - social evolutionism. In the 19th century three great classical theories of social and historical change emerged: the social evolutionism theory (of which Social Darwinism forms a part), the social cycle theory and the Marxist historical materialism theory.
TiMMay ThE SpED: Another early modern theorist, Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903), coined the term "survival of the fittest" (and incidentally recommended avoidance of governmental action on behalf of the poor (socialism) as a positive act). Vilfredo Pareto (1848 - 1923) and Pitirim A. Sorokin argued that 'history goes in cycles', and presented the social cycle theory to illustrate their point. Ferdinand Tönnies (1855 - 1936) made community and society (Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, 1887) the special topics of the new science of "sociology", both of them based on different modes of will of social actors. Emile Durkheim postulated a number of major theories regarding anomie and functionalism. Max Weber theorized on bureaucracy, religion, and authority. Karl Marx theorized on the class struggle and social progress towards communism and laid the groundwork for the theory that became known as Marxism. Marxism became more than a theory, of course, carrying deep implications over the course of 20th century history (including the Russian Revolution of 1917).
TiMMay ThE SpED: Most of the 19th century pioneers of social theory and sociology, like Saint-Simon, Comte, Marx, John Stuart Mill or Spencer, never held university posts. Most people regarded them as philosophers, because much of the their thinking was interdisciplinary and "outside the box" of the existing disciplines of their time (eg:, philology, law, and history).
TiMMay ThE SpED: Many of the classical theories had one common factor: they all agreed that the history of humanity is pursuing a certain fixed path. If you are still reading this, comment to this post with "I like hubcaps." They differed on where that path would lead: social progress, technological progress, decline or even fall, etc. Social cycle theorists were much more skeptical of the Western achievements and technological progress, however, arguing that progress is but an illusion in of the ups and downs of the historical cycles. The classical approach has been criticized by many modern sociologists and theorists, among them Karl Popper, Robert Nisbet, Charles Tilly and Immanuel Wallerstein.
TiMMay ThE SpED: Although the majority of 19th-century social theories now class as obsolete, they have spawned new, modern social theories. Some modern social theories represent some advanced version of the classical theories, like Multilineal theories of evolution (neoevolutionism, sociobiology, theory of modernization, theory of post-industrial society) and various strains of Neo-Marxism.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, by a more or less arbitrary division of topics, the social theory became most closely related to academic sociology while other subjects such as anthropology, philosophy, and social work branched out into their own disciplines. Such subjects as "philosophy of history" withered, and their subject matter became part of social theory as taught in sociology.
TiMMay ThE SpED: Attempts to recapture a space for discussion free of disciplines began in earnest in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The Frankfurt Institute for Social Research provides the most successful example. The Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago followed in the 1940s. In the 1970s, programs in Social and Political Thought were established at Sussex and York. Others followed, with various different emphases and structures, such as Social Theory and History (University of California, Davis). Cultural Studies programs, notably that of Birmingham University, extended the concerns of social theory into the domain of culture and thus anthropology. A chair and undergraduate program in social theory was established at the University of Melbourne and a number of universities now specialize in social theory (UC-Santa Cruz is one example). Finally social theory seems to be gaining more acceptance as a classical academic discipline.
TiMMay ThE SpED: In modern times, generally speaking, social theory began to stress free will, individual choice, subjective reasoning, and the importance of unpredictable events in place of the classic determinism – thus social theory become much more complex. Rational Choice Theory and Symbolic Interactionism furnish two examples. Most modern sociologists deem there are no great unifying 'laws of history', but rather smaller, more specific, and more complex laws that govern society. |
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