I'm Working on It

And by "it" I mean NacMan. The basic premise is that there is NacMan, a seminarian at the NAC. Your job is to help him find his way around Rome while being chased by I don't know what, all the while drinking espresso and picking up vestments and other liturgical goods. I've got the blank screen and NacMan himself done and now all I need is some replacements for the ghosts. So I'm taking suggestions for this. If you have ideas for something to replace Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde let me know. For now I'm just going to be making screenshots of it as I don't know how to code yet. And no, I cannot fit Fr. McBrien into that size screen and still make it look like him, not even just his head.

**update: I've got one ghost transformed into a liturgical dancer.**

Glass raised to Emily, Holly, and Jenny for all their help with this.

You Are Incredibly Logical

(You got 88% of the questions right) Move over Spock - you're the new master of logic You think rationally, clearly, and quickly. A seasoned problem solver, your mind is like a computer!

How Logical Are You?

Fantastic Four

Length: 123 minutes
Rating: PG-13

Well it's no Spiderman but it's still worth seeing.
That being said, it was definitely worth seeing. Without spoiling it entirely I will say that the graphic effects were really well done. It was somewhat lacking in action scenes unfortunately. Unlike Spiderman and X-Men it didn't really have a clear moral message. If you're looking for something to do on a Friday night it's well worth seeing.

And now we know why I never pursued journalism.

And Then There Were Four

Sister #3 has started a blog so now all of my sisters have blogs.
Sister #1
Sister #2
Sister #3

You scored as Anselm. Anselm is the outstanding theologian of the medieval period.He sees man's primary problem as having failed to render unto God what we owe him, so God becomes man in Christ and gives God what he is due. You should read 'Cur Deus Homo?' Anselm 73% Augustine 67% John Calvin 67% Karl Barth 60% J�rgen Moltmann 60% Charles Finney 47% Jonathan Edwards 40% Friedrich Schleiermacher 40% Martin Luther 33% Paul Tillich 20% Which theologian are you? created with QuizFarm.com

I won tickets to the advanced screening of the Fantastic Four, so hopefully I'll have my review up late on Thursday night.

Roman Catholic 100% Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan 71% Fundamentalist 64% Neo orthodox 64% Classical Liberal 46% Emergent/Postmodern 39% Modern Liberal 32% Reformed Evangelical 29% Charismatic/Pentecostal 25% What's your theological worldview? created with QuizFarm.com

O'Connor Retires

Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has retired after 24 terms on the Supreme Court.

Keep Your Pants On

It's the tagline of one of the coolest sites I've seen in a long time. NoMoHo is a website dedicated to those trying to live a chaste life. It has a question and answer section and some great statistics on the front page. Check it out!

Thanks to Fr. Shane for this.

Another Year Older

but not much wiser. Smarter maybe, but I don't think I've gained much actual wisdom. Anyways I'm 19 now.

The Mother of All Book Memes

Here for your enjoyment is the list of the top 110 banned books. Bold the ones you’ve read. Italicize the ones you’ve read part of. Read more. Convince others to read some.

1. The Bible
2. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
3. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
4. The Koran
5. Arabian Nights
6. Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
7. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
8. Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
9. Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
10. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
11. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
12. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
13. Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
14. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
15. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
16. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
17. Dracula by Bram Stoker
18. Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
19. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
20. Essays by Michel de Montaigne
21. Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
22. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
23. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
24. Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
25. Ulysses by James Joyce
26. Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
27. Animal Farm by George Orwell
28. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
29. Candide by Voltaire
30. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
31. Analects by Confucius
32. Dubliners by James Joyce
33. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
34. Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
35. Red and the Black by Stendhal
36. Capital by Karl Marx
37. Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
38. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
39. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
40. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
41. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
42. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
43. Jungle by Upton Sinclair
44. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
45. Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
46. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
47. Diary by Samuel Pepys
48. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
49. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
50. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
51. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
52. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
53. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
54. Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
55. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
56. Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
57. Color Purple by Alice Walker
58. Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
59. Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
60. Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
61. Molly Flanders by Daniel Defoe
62. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
63. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
64. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
65. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
66. Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau
67. Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
68. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
69. The Talmud
70. Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
71. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
72. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
73. American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
74. Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
75. Separate Peace by John Knowles
76. Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
77. Red Pony by John Steinbeck
78. Popol Vuh
79. Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
80. Satyricon by Petronius
81. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
82. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
83. Black Boy by Richard Wright
84. Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
85. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
86. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
87. Metaphysics by Aristotle
88. Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
89. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin
90. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
91. Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
92. Sanctuary by William Faulkner
93. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
94. Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
95. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
96. Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
97. General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
98. Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
99. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
100. Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
101. Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
102. Ãmile by Jean Jacques Rousseau
103. Nana by Ãmile Zola
104. Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
105. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
106. Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
107. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
108. Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
109. Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
110. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

From Mike.

The Alphabet Game

A is for Age - 18, but not for long
B is for Booze - Bailey's on the rocks, or in coffee. Otherwise Guinness is also good.
C is for Career - Student, eventually Physical Therapist.
D is for Dad’s name - Tony
E is for Essential items to bring to a party - Camera, much to people's dislike. I have gotten some great blackmail video before.
F is for Favorite song at the moment - "Soul" by Matchbox 20
G is for Goof off thing to do - Swing dancing.
H is for Hometown - Oak Grove, MN since I've lived here most of my life.
I is for Instrument you play - Piano, sort of.
J is for Jam or Jelly you like - Lemon curd.
K is for Kids - None that I know of.
L is for Living arrangement - Home for the summer, dorm the rest of the time.
M is for Mom’s name - Sue.
N is for Names of best friends - Brian, Dan, Jess, Matt, and the list goes on and on...
O is for overnight hospital stays - Only one really early morning, and I was working there not being treated.
P is for Phobias - Biting spiders and falling.
Q is for Quote you like - "The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, remain neutral." ~ Dante Aligehri
R is for Relationship that lasted longest - 2 months and two days, assuming we're talking about relationship in the dating sense. Mind you I'm not really that insufferable, it's the just only relationship that ever occured. Well....okay I might be that bad...
S is for Siblings - Sister 1, Sister 2, Sister 3 (who doesn't blog yet), and the lone brother (who also doesn't blog).
T is for Texas, Ever been? - Once
U is for Unique trait - Well I have this strange attraction to veins...
V if for Vegetable you love - Carrots!!!
W is for Worst trait - I'm rather blunt at times.
X - is for XRays you’ve had - None.
Y is for Yummy food you make - Grasshopper Cheesecake
Z is for Zodiac sign - Gemini, a least that's what I've been told.

Yeah, Yeah, I'm a Slacker...

but at least I admit it. Dan was nagging me about updating sometime here, so I figured I'd better. In my defense I've been on vacation and came back just in time for the comencements of a good sized group of friends. I'm hoping to have the screenshots for NacMan up in the next couple of days here.

Sweet XVI

Check out these nifty shirts from Catholicism Wow.

Updates

With school winding down I've had time to do some needed updates to the site. I've added to and edited my links list, added a couple more clocks, and now if you go and look at my profile you can see a picture of yours truly.

Your Inner European is Irish!

Sprited and boisterous! You drink everyone under the table.

Who's Your Inner European?

I'm not quite sure why they chose that particular picture, you'd think they could find something better than someone's legs.

Finally Finished With Finals!!!

I just got done with my Statistics final!!! I get to head home tomorrow afternoon. Must finish packing.

A Little Something From WuzzaDem