I talked with Rachel Doyle tonight, Katie’s roomate. Apparently, there may be some interest. She also concluded that I was "cute" and better then the last person Katie was interested in. Anywho, Rachel said that she’ll keep me informed of what there plans are. I think this holds some promise. Could this be the one? Who knows.
And for today’s update:
I think I’m going to get the Colorado 10 Pass instead of the other unlimited pass. This let’s me ski for less then $38/day at any of the Vail owned mountains.
My Bluetooth Desktop set came today and I have to say it is really awesome. Everyone should own one. My Bluetooth PCMCIA card should be arriving soon.
I offically moved out of my Mines Park appartment today. Don’t forget to send me mail at my new address!
Assignment:On pages 24-25, Grove sets out three ideas that tool hold in Europe. Forget about the second one. The first (I’ll call it the ‘design’ idea) holds that all of nature was designed for the benefit of human beings, to support human life, to sustain human development. And that designer was God. The idea is that everything in nature is there ultimately for humans being and that all of nature, one way or another, benefits us.
The third idea (I’ll call it the ‘improvement’ idea) holds that human beings have built on and improved what was there in nature and that human civilization represents an advance and a development of nature. We have buildings instead of caves; we drive cars instead of walking; we use phones instead of yelling real loud.
On one page typed, 200-250 words, tell me what you think of the design-improvement idea. Do you like it in general’ If so, give me some examples to support the view that nature was designed for human beings and that human beings have developed and improved nature. If you don’t much like the idea, give me some examples of how nature seems not designed for human beings and how human beings, over history, have not developed and improved nature.
You can agree with the ‘design’ part and disagree with the ‘improvement’ part. You can disagree with the ‘design’ part and agree with the ‘improvement’ part.
Response:For the last 21 years, SETI, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence, has been scanning the skies, looking desperately for a signal that might indicate the presence of life other than our own. However, as astronomers learn more and more about our universe, there seems to be an unnerving trend that inevitably leads one to surmise that Earth is, and will be, the only planet to ever support human or human like life. It is rather uncanny that we are a precise distance from a medium size star to support a relatively stable temperature climate that facilitates rather mild winters (when compared to Pluto at -240�C) and decent summers (when compared to Venus at 400�C) that in turn supports liquid water. We are only one of perhaps a handful of planets to have an atmosphere that not only lets us breathe, but also shields us from the violent rays of the sun. To postulate that Earth was an accident and human beings just happened to develop successfully is inane.
The real question is what we, as humans, are doing on Earth. There really is no answer to this; at least not at this time. The best we can do is keep on living and hope that we find out. However, in doing so, we create a pseudo cause-of-living ideology: we exist to keep on existing. In doing so, we also must take care of Earth, lest we destroy it and ourselves.
//Name: Andrew Ferguson
//Date: 1/17/2005
//Purpose: To see if I can get this work!
#include <iostream.h>
void main()
{
cout << "Hello\n";
cout << "Goodbye\n";
}
My schedule is finally been squared away today. I got out of MACS 261 JAVA and into MACS 261 C++. Also managed to complete my first assignment (that will be in the next post). So I’m officially taking 15.5 credit hours and loving just about every minute of it.
I went skiing with Liz Purday at Keystone and all I have to say it WOW. The snow here is so awesome, it’s mind boogling. I also think I’m going to get a 5 mountain pass for A-Basin, Keystone, Breckenridge, Beaver Creek, and Vail. It’s about $700, but since I’m also planning on joining both the TeleSki club and the Ski Team here at Mines, it will definatly be worth it.
My Port Replicator for my Toshiba M200 was sent out from Toshiba yesterday via FedEx!
So I went telemark skiing with the newly formed CSM TeleSki club. This was their first (or second, depending on who you ask) outting. This story is sort of interesting, so just hang with it.
I was originally planning on going skiing with Liz Purdy yesterday. However, that shifted to tomorrow so that we could ski all day (I wasn’t going to be done with class until 12). So here I am, eating dinner at the Cafe when I run in to Rachel Doyle. That was actually kind of exciting because I was worried that she might have left CSM because she was mentioning that she might no come back next year in last semesters Earth Lab. Anyways, she is roomates with Katie Gallagher whois the co-president of the CSM TeleSki club (although I didn’t know this at the time). After I was done eating, I grabbed my desert and headed over to their table to chat it up. Making small talk, I asked what they were up to this weekend. As it turned out, they we’re going to go Telemarking tomorrow. They asked if I wanted to go and I said yes, stating that I wasn’t going to do anything else tomorrow and they were saving me from a full day of boredom. After dinner, they were on their way to Alpenglow to rent tele equipment because Rachel didn’t have any. So I came along so I could rent equipment too.
So this morning we headed up to A-Basin and I spent the day learning how to telemark and I have to say it’s pretty awesome. I’ve been skiing for about 15 years now and teaching for the last 4, so this was a welcome digression to something new. So yea, check out the pictures.
Many interesting things have been happening since I moved down to Morgan Hall. First, it takes less then two minutes to get from bed to breakfast. Second, the sense of community is much greater. There have also been many more opportunities to do extracurricular activities, such as IM 5-man soccer. And Telemarking with the CSM TeleClub. On a slightly related note, I saw Rachel Doyle today (duh!). I was worried that she might have left CSM because she was mentioning that she might no come back next year in last semesters Earth Lab. Anyways, she is now rooming with Katie Gallagher who is sort of like Peter Walchenbach, but a girl, much hotter, she teleies (doesn’t alpine), and competed in Junior Olympic Kayaking. Anyways, she seems like someone I would consider dating. We’ll see. I’ve talked with her only a handful of times, however tomorrow should provide some opportunities to learn more.
Skiing with the Purdy’s got pushed back until Sunday, however, I am going to go telemarking with Rachel, Katie, and the newly formed CSM TeleClub. I’ve never teled before, so this should be fun! Robin Williams calls the winter biathlon a Nordic drive by because you telemark between shooting points.