Jordan Spencer Cunningham: Editor at Last

Would you look at that. OSNews has been going through some major user interface changes the past week or so, making the whole site a lot easier to use for all. One of the revisions was to add the options of being able to see all of a contributor’s submissions or to see just his/her [...]

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You’ve Got Mail

Three magical words that are not heard often enough unless it’s the OSNews submission system notifying me of another story submission that I can’t edit. I didn’t get to work today. But I shall make up for it tomorrow. There aren’t tons of comments to sift, and if I find any juicy stories, I’ll submit [...]

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Boyz

I happened to be listening to a conversation between several boys and girls who stayed in the choir room after school as I was working on connecting my new netty to DeHaan’s printer across the network (networking with a Mac is like trying to preach the Gospel in Place, PS), and I couldn’t help but [...]

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The Girl Effect

Found this by clicking on an ad at OSNews. It was one of those ads that are quite mysterious– they just say some simple phrase or have a simple picture… in this case, “Chance Starts With a Girl.”
Watch.
It’s an inspiring idea.
Do you think it works?
See the video. Change the world.
I especially like the part that mentions [...]

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Curses and Jinxes and Hexes and Deathwishes and Priesthood Blessings Against Teenagerdom

Though I am growing older by the minute,  though I have come a long way in maturity the past four months, though I am now a legal adult, and though I have never liked the idea of being a “teen-ager,” I hate to say that I still am one, bound by these unsightly and invisible [...]

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Intrinsic Influences, Volume I: Eedie the Monkee

I’ve decided to, here and there, write about various people who have made great impact upon this short life I’ve thus lived. I shall try to write them in order of succession—for example, I write today about Eedie the Monkee because he came about when I was very young.

Eedie came into my life one fateful, [...]

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A Monumental Moment: The First Gushers in My Humble Abode

Up to this day, I had only ever had the anomaly of Fruit Gushers twice in my life—both at West Jordan Middle School during a lunch period. Today, however, my mother today bought two boxes of Gushers, for the first time in all of Cunningham/Ludlow/Aveson/Pedersen history (especially Aveson and Pedersen history—Gushers weren’t invented until some [...]

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My First Knuckle Sandwich

I’ve never really punched anyone before (no, that business with my brother back in 1995 doesn’t– doesn’t count). I haven’t had the desire to. There have been times when I’ve been close to wanting to, mark my words. But it hasn’t crossed my mind as something to actually do.
I was thinking, as I often do, and I figured [...]

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IPF² Tidbit: 50 Post Limit Incurred

In the olden days, when there were only few and far between posts to load, IPF² displayed every post in history– in the case of this moment, over 240, I believe. Now, that’s a lot of text, photos, embedded videos, and nachoes to load all at once, and probably leaves those of you still running [...]

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I Want a USB Missile Launcher

Buy.com is advertising this. They say the original price is $99.99, but the normal price on ThinkGeek.com isn’t much more than this sale is. Ah, well. Buy.com needs to make its money somehow– I know that they’ve been cheap enough to get some of mine, though not a vast amount compared to Newegg.com. At any [...]

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Protected: Late Calls, Gushes of Joyousness

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Don’t Stop Reading

Reading is probably one of the best things I can do—certainly not the best—but ranking up there. When I read for an hour or two (I’ve been reading probably around three or four hours per day over this break), and I’ve found myself more loquacious than I have been since school started up—more witty, better [...]

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Head Ache at Dinner

There’s nothing worse when you’re irritable than hearing the clink-clink of forks on knives, of the squealy scrape of silverware on “indestructible” dishes of 90’s fashion, of the grotesque chomp-chomp and squish-squish of those who eat loudly, and of the bland sliminess of meatloaf. I never did like meatloaf much, and I find that there [...]

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Seeing Stars

When other people look at stars, they see stars.
When I look at stars, I see beyond the stars. I see the fire and light that pulses so eternally from the heart of the star. I see the planets of varying color revolving about the star, reflecting its light. I see the moons around the planets, [...]

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Protected: A Quiet Little Something

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Do White Waters Calm, or Do You Just Get a New Boat?

I was recently updating my RSS feeds to Outlook 2007 on my fresh install of Windows 7 so that I could have all of the same news and blogs (I really, really don’t like that word… can’t we make up another word for them that’s somewhat more dignified?) as I do on Windows Vista. I [...]

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Renew

It is time to renew. It is time to sit down and smile at the stars once more. It is time for the seas to calm, making paths for ships to sail across reflections of grand potential that glows from up above. Sail your ship into this sea of dreams, and perhaps you will defy [...]

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dissonance: second edition

I updated “dissonance,” a personal history written for a class last year. Now it has more details on certain stories of Jordan Spencer’s life, as well as some entirely new sections. The second edition was written several months ago (October, I believe), so it’s not the most recent hunk of information, but I only just [...]

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Starry Nights

Sometimes late at night, while we are wearied, or tired, or perhaps even a little sad, forgetting about what needs to be done in life now, we elder folk sometimes hear a whisper of the child within. A slight rustle of the sleeping child will remind us of starry nights long past when the moon [...]

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Blessing Thoughts II: Missionistics

Reading my patriarchal blessing simply brings about bouts and gouts of inspiration or Something… because here I am again, reading the joyous paper. It’s quite exciting to hear mention of things in my future– while some of them are vague, it’s still a specific direction, and I’m excited to get on with it. If only [...]

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Death to Debianistic Open Source

The other day I was using Ubuntu to write a post, and this post was one that would clutch your soul and take you to far off places that you’ve never even dreamed of getting in line to wish to dream about thinking about wishing about seeing. It was brimming-full and spilling over with amazingness, [...]

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Hello, World! From Windows 7

From the Windows 7 Beta 1 (build 7000): Hello, World!

I waited until Friday for the beta to be released, then waited another day until Microsoft got their servers back up and running, and then I downloaded it. It took probably five or six hours—2.44 gigs squeezed through a 135KB/s connection will take quite a [...]

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Writing Musically

It’s a simple fact that I cannot write music. It’s something I don’t know how to do. Rather, I don’t know how to do it well. I have tried my hand at writing several scores using a program that will also play it, but it didn’t turn out so snuggly. I would that I could [...]

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Protected: Blessing Thoughts

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Quite Finished, but Ahead of Schedule; Et Cetera

Coming back from such a wonderful and glorious Christmas break has made me want to be done with school even more than I wanted to before. Certainly senior year has been and will be unforgettable, but I simply want to get to the juicity parts, experience them, and skip all of the fluff in between. [...]

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