Max Weber's Spirit of Protestantism and the Rise of Capitalism

This consciousness of divine grace of the elect and holy was accompanied by an attitude toward the sin of one's neighbour, not of sympathetic understanding based on consciousness of one's own weakness, but of hatred and contempt for him as an enemy of God bearing the signs of eternal damnation. -Max Weber

Plans

This week: two homework assignments, two projects, two presentations at State Farm
Next week: Study for finals
The week after that: Finals
Next month: Take the second Actuarial Exam, register for last gen. ed. online
June: Study and work
July: Study and work
August: Study and work, a couple weeks off, go on a trip
September: Fall semester, three classes left
October: Study for third Actuarial Exam
November: Take the third Actuarial Exam
December: Graduate
January: Replace studying with work
Febuary: Work
March: Work
April: Work
May: Work
June: Hopefully by this point, I'll recognize a pattern and come up with another plan.

19th century sarcasm

I don't know about you guys, but I really like the way this guy writes . . .

"There is no difficulty in proving any ethical standard whatever to work ill, if we suppose universal idiocy to be conjoined with it; but on any hypothesis short of that, mankind must by this time have acquired positive beliefs as to the effects of some actions on their happiness" - John Stuart Mill

NASA

Describing NASA as an agency “in transition”, Griffin said that more changes would be needed to “reshape” NASA to “head down a new path” that includes returning to the Moon by 2020 in preparation for eventual human expeditions to Mars.
www.space.com

This would be exciting.

It turns out I'm really kind of fat when I let Scott - the star of Invasion Iowa - borrow my shirt. He's an awesome guy and was willing to talk to us for almost an hour about the show. 

What?! Where's Billville?  

This sign ended up in Murphy's Bar and Grill. The funny thing was, they were watching Invasion Iowa on TV when we got there. 

Murphy's Bar and Grill. Great for Cyborg bar fights and french fries. I had a cajun chicken sandwich and it was actually really really good. I'd definately recommend it. 

They wouldn't let us brake any of its windows either. 

The creepy made-up gravestone that started it all. 

The Kwik 'N E-Z. Gas, Jerky, and Racoon Manhood. 

Remember to look both ways before you cross the street ... even if you are the degena- degenert- degenerat tra- degeneratrics 3000. 

Maybe Po-Po could just have small wings and that's ok. 

Iowa

I'm a big fan of Invasion Iowa. We went to Riverside for a little visit.

Comment only blog

I have a comment only blog on xanga. The plan is not to make any posts. Just comments. So far there are only two comments. It's a blog for the people, by the people. You can make a comment or sign the guestbook. My work as the creator is done. It's in your hands now. Only time will tell what this monster will become. It's a revolution in blog technology (actually it's pretty much just a newsgroup now that I think of it).

Post a comment on my comment only blog. Every blog comment counts. I like to call it a blogment. We need your blogments today!

Roth IRAs and 401Ks

Sometimes I forget how helpful older brothers can be. Mine was kind enough to answer a ton of questions about Roth IRAs and 401Ks.

It was funny, I asked him about how regulations on retirement accounts might change 50 years from now. He said new programs could be developed that money could be rolled over to, or who knows, we could be socialist and have to give half our income to the poor. He said that that would be an interesting legal case. I thought that was funny. It might not be too funny if we really are socialist 50 years from now, but it was funny at 11:00 tonight.

Thanks to my other older brother, I'm going to Iowa next week to see something called Invasion Iowa. I don't really know anything about it, but according to a friend it has something to do with William Shatner and a fake movie. Don't quote me on that. I think you can get more info at www.williamshatner.com

It looks kind of funny.

-Scott

Multilple Linear Regression

I'm having a little trouble solving a math proof this morning. Like so many other things in life, one too many square roots and not enough squares.