NOTICE TO ALL: Utah is under construction. Wherever you head, North, East, South, or West, expect delays, detours, and lots of orange signs.

So I'm in a car driving down the road going forty miles an hour. I take my cellular phone out of my pocket, toss it straight up in the air, and catch it in my hand again without having to move my hand anywhere. So I start to think... If I throw my phone straight up, would it not, to the bystander on the side of the road, be traveling at the same speed as the car, in this case, forty miles an hour? While the phone is in the air, it is still traveling forward which is why I don't have to maneuver my hand anywhere to catch it. Thus, an example of a cell phone traveling at forty miles an hour, safe and sound. That is awesome.

"The guilty take the truth to be hard."
-David Dixon

"It is appallingly obvious our technology has exceeded our humanity."

"A mind once stretched by new thoughts can never regain its original shape."

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction."

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

-Albert Einstein

"Five sixteen, restate my assumptions:

One: Mathematics is the language of nature.
Two: Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers.
Three: If you graph the numbers of any system, patterns emerge.

Therefore, there are patterns everywhere in nature.

Evidence: The cycling of disease epidemics, the wax and wane of caribou populations, sun spot cycles, the rise and fall of the Nile."

-Maximillian Cohen - Pi

The other day, I was driving in the car with Brittany when she says, "Think if you could see all of the sounds waves around. Think of how many there would be!" She continued describing how crowded and unorganized the world would look. She talked about light waves, x-rays, and all the other invisible things the naked eye cannot see. "I bet the world looks cRaZY to God!" Amen to that Brittany. Amen to that.

Your mouth has two parts: your mouth, and your jaw. You are always in control of both of these. For example, you can open your jaw without opening your mouth. You can open your mouth without opening your jaw. And, you can open both of them at the same time. Trippy to think about...

One day, a buddy of mine got too curious and decided to try cocaine. Liking it, he continued to use it until he became addicted. He started to get so desperate for it that he spent all the money he had towards the addiction. His craving remained, even after all his money was spent, so he tried to bargain with his dealer. They decided that if he would give the dealer a ride to and from work, the product would be supplied for free. Because the cocaine had such a strong grasp on him, my friend accepted. As they passed a local high school one day on the way to work, the dealer told my friend to pull over and wait because he had something he needed to do. My buddy did so, and waited in the car for several minutes, only to see the dealer come out of the school doors in handcuffs and surrounded by a swarm of policemen. They came over and pulled my friend out of the car, handcuffed him, and took him to jail. The sting set up by the police was a success, yet again. MORAL: Police are not stupid. Don't take chances, don't get too comfortable. Keep your distance and stay smart & cautious.

Our world today is run under the influence of greed. Think about it. People gain power by gaining money. The more money you make, the more power you get. These powerful people then take their money to make businesses which are run by other people who are only working under the influence of greed themselves as they wait patiently for payday to come around. We always want more money, higher wages, lower prices. But this is only to a certain extent. There are those few people who money has no effect on, people who can see right through its contagious poison. Sadly, I am not one of them (ha). Money has damaged our society, it seems damaged it more than assisted it. It has infected the minds of millions, driving them to want more power, more wealth. It is a trading solution that has backfired and is causing more and more tension each and every year. May the power of greed someday be overcome, and the difference between want to need be more clearly defined.

A little sketch I drew up during Counsel Aid, 6th period. It seems I can come up with some pretty cool designs if I'm bored enough. Every line in this pic was drawn with a straightedge ruler. Just ignore the little part where the ruler moved on me...