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Give me a shout if you're in the neighborhood! Or on yahoo! ]]> ~complicus15 http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/2045295/ http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/2045295/ Fri, 19 Mar 2004 19:24:15 PST
I've decided to do an experiement with ants (my mom loved this idea so much that she told me to do it outside ). I've been taking some pictures of the ones I found in my backyard (prospective test subjects) in a petri dish I just recently purchased. My latest submission is of one that's crawling along the lid upside down.

My best guess of the species is leptothorax, of the subfamily myrmicinae - judging from the description at one of the species picture catalogs I looked at online ( [link]). In all probability though, I have a different species. I think I'll go to an entomologist next week and let him/her have a look-see at one under a microscope.

In the meantime, I've been collecting several plants from around my house and planting them in plastic cups & empty plastic milk jugs. They're doing pretty well - the cups have clear plastic covers over them (other cups) that make them little greenhouses, so I don't have to water them often. It's nice to have things sprouting again - spring is definitely here in Idaho. That short, but sweet period of perfect weather that precedes a hot desert summer. I wish it would be spring all year. ]]> ~complicus15 http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/1387060/ http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/1387060/ Tue, 11 Nov 2003 14:10:53 PST

Happy trails! ]]> ~complicus15 http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/1225872/ http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/1225872/ Wed, 01 Oct 2003 20:21:17 PDT
I haven't submitted anything for quite a while - my account has been mostly dormant since school started. My (favorite) grandmother's birthday was on the monday my camera was discovered, so I thought I would send her a nice framed picture from something I took w/ that camera. I've already picked a few candidates from the archives (taken 2000+ pics w/ it so far) that look promising. I sure hope this trend of events continues to unroll - it just keeps getting better. ]]> ~complicus15 http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/903125/ http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/903125/ Wed, 02 Jul 2003 23:11:41 PDT
I took a few pictures of some new flowers in my backyard last tuesday (july 1). I took about 35+ shots, only about 5 turned out decently, and I have submitted only one so far. That's the basic trickle-down process for most of my "photo shoots". ]]> ~complicus15 http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/854891/ http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/854891/ Thu, 19 Jun 2003 21:09:19 PDT

I don't suppose anyone sees a theme? I'm a vain person in ways I don't like to admit. Anyways, if you ever feel like having a good discussion over some topic, feel free to drop a line I'm just waiting for something good to mull over during my summer [vacation] days.. ]]> ~complicus15 http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/838072/ http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/838072/ Sun, 15 Jun 2003 18:56:21 PDT

I'm thinking about a research project based on the concept of a self-supporting human community in a natural ecosystem. Needless to say, it will take a lot of work if I expect to get it done. In any case, I'm happy that the homework drafts are over for a little while

I've been wondering: does anyone else think about such things as a self-sufficient community that takes care of itself? I've always thought the best way that we could improve our quality of life is to go back to the natural lifestyle in nature, "living off the land" so to speak. Unfortunately this would be hard to do, because buying property somewhere in the US still requires you to pay property taxes, hence requiring that you make money, hence requiring that you do more than live off the land. Hence, hence, hence... It's a nice word

Nonetheless, if I were able to buy a small uninhabited island somewhere that wouldn't require taxing of the land, I think it would be pretty neat. ]]> ~complicus15 http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/775190/ http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/775190/ Thu, 29 May 2003 20:53:26 PDT

Also, many deadlines in school rushing up in my face, but not to worry.. the great procrastinator strikes again! Last minute creativity is afterall, the best ever

I changed my avatar to do too. It's one of my more artistic ways of writing a * quickly. I like curves and straight lines, and this just looked plain cool to me. It was scanned in from my comp(osition) book (i.e., English clasS) and greatly sized down pixel-wise. I think this is going to be my symbol for a while... just a lil' thing to draw on stuff I do... The mark of an artist

Hope you've all had a good time looking at my deviations/making your own! ]]> ~complicus15 http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/706004/ http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/706004/ Fri, 09 May 2003 21:06:39 PDT
Jac Colon isn't quite as bad as I described him in my last entry. I think at some point I have realized I'm a critical person who focuses on negative things too much. So, to point out a few positive aspects of Mr. Colon (note that the last o needs an accent over it):

1. He can deliver an interesting message at times. (I'm just sort've selective)

2. He has a good message. The Gospel + Prophecy can be quite fun the first time. Most of what he's preaching at the seminars is aimed towards non-adventists however, so I'm hearing stuff that I've heard about from my earliest childhood. ( I was raised an Adventist )

Main Con:

He's slightly deceptive. He likes to give enticing hints of topics in the nights to come. Stuff like "There's gonna be miracles performed right on the stage!" - that particular night, he had people come forward who wanted to recommit their lives to God.

My first thought: It's not a miracle. A lot of people do this at seminars because they are somewhat emotionally adrift, or atleast know that they are doing something wrong and want to make it right. The seminars provide a clear direction to repentence/a hopefully better life in Christ. Is it truly a miracle that people are seeking direction in this confusing world?

Anyways, that's just the rational side of me speaking. I hope I haven't driven anyone off with my bouts of pessimism.

In the meantime, I've recently dumped some pictures I took a few months ago that I really liked. I also figured out how to use the macro feature of another digital camera I bought a while ago, so I've been experimenting with that to find how to properly focus it. So far I've got some pretty good results that will probably be submitted here when I have the intestinal fortitude + enough energy to do it. ]]> ~complicus15 http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/688077/ http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/688077/ Sun, 04 May 2003 13:54:59 PDT
What's most disappointing about this is that these meetings are being held in the church that I regularly attend, and the meetings are largely about the doctrines of my church, though more focused on the ones that "predict" the future. In some ways, I am a believer in my church merely because my family is. Aside from that, I seriously doubt how correct Adventism is, much less the true belief in a theological religion. All these problems would of course be solved if I got to have a chat with Jac Colon to get a few straight answers. A few things I ponder:

1. Why did God create Adam/Eve without the "Knowledge of Good & Evil"?

What is so inherently "bad" about being able to tell the difference between good and evil? If this knowledge is the sin, then God is a sinner. The only reason eating of the forbidden fruit was a "sin" for Adam/Eve was because God told Adam/Eve it was. Couldn't this whole matter have been avoided if He created them with the knowledge?

Furthermore, why did God punish Adam/Eve for this sin when He hardly game them a chance to gain much other knowledge about these issues in the first place? Is this not a manifestation of the old, outdated parenting method of "because I said so, you must obey" that doesn't work?

2. If Adam/Eve couldn't tell the difference between good/bad, was it really a sin for them to eat it if they didn't know they were sinning?

Anyways, that's mostly just scratching the surface of questions I would have to ask. I hope one day they can be answered... ]]> ~complicus15 http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/515583/ http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/515583/ Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:15:13 PST
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In any case, I should probably make it a habit since I'm usually feel somewhat sleep-deprived, even though I usually get 8 or more hours of sleep each night. To tell you the truth, I don't understand why people don't get the sleep their bodies need. I could never survive on less than 7 hours of sleep each night on a regular basis.

In other news, I got to see some of the LOTR: Two Towers movie. Didn't ge to catch the ending, so I'm kind've held in suspense 'til the DVD comes out. I also heard the song "I Saw the Sign" on the radio today, decided it had enough of a beat to be worth downloading. As of this moment, it's playing on my new 4 speaker/1 subwoofer system. It's kinda fun to go into the volume control panel and mess with the Bass settings - that particular song is especially good for making the floor thump

I've been thinking about starting an piece of introspective prose, but haven't really had the inspiration lately. In any case, I'll probably get around to it eventually. I've also had some fun in Advanced Studies class in school lately because Ms. Hicks finally decided that we should have some debates. The other people in the class at that particular period haven't really addressed the case directly, which is somewhat unfortunate. To make a long story short, the affirmative of the case is airtight if others were actually looking at it intelligently, but they aren't. I unfortunately picked the negative side which is pretty much airtight too (considering that it isn't addressing the case directly, and can't be refuted), so I have to defend something which I don't believe in. Ho hum, that's the way life goes I guess.

Quick Medical Fact: Keeping your chin up will actually improve endurance when reading for long periods of time. When your head is nodded downards, some capillaries/arteries are constricted and can cause a burning sensation in your eyes after a 1/2 hour or more of nodding downards. So keep your chin up and bear it! ]]> ~complicus15 http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/463719/ http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/463719/ Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:32:45 PST

In other news, I also got a new 5 piece speaker system for my computer on sunday as well. Now I can enjoy surround sound at my computer!

My dad also put his new all-in-one wonder tv card into my computer because every other computer in the house has an incompatible chipset on the motherboard, so my computer will now be the base of video recording in the house. My dad wants to make vcd's of all our home videos which are on tape (which will eventually degrade in 10 years, so he's in a hurry), so he'll be shunting all the recorded video across the network to his 2 ghz computer for all the compression for the vcd's and the video editing. He also has a cd burner in his computer to burn them on to disc.

In the meantime, I might get lucky enough that my dad will get a splitter and run a reciever wire into my room connected to the tv antenna in the attic (my room is next to my parents room which has a tv connceted to the antenna, and there is already a hole in the wall for networking cords, so it's just a matter of getting the splitter & cable).

That's about it for home news!

I better get cracking on my school newspaper's layout, so I have to end this entry. So, later! And keep reading my journal! Leave a comment if you like! ]]> ~complicus15 http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/458419/ http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/458419/ Fri, 24 Jan 2003 15:04:26 PST ]]> ~complicus15 http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/457362/ http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/457362/ Thu, 23 Jan 2003 20:03:39 PST
I'm a bit tired of homework now. I probably think about it too much (and talk about it too much). I think I'm ready for another vacation. But aren't we all? Well, just added something to my sig which will hopefully show up in this journal entry.. so, guess we'll see. ]]> ~complicus15 http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/453744/ http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/453744/ Tue, 21 Jan 2003 16:55:09 PST

In the new semester which just started this week, I have been switched to 9th English Honors, as opposed to what I was in last semester - 9th English. Because the 9th Honors class is doing harder daily work, they haven't gotten to start the Technical Text project which 9th English has already had a week to work on.

The first final draft of my Technical Text was going to be due tomorrow if I were in 9th English, however since I'm in 9th Honors now, I won't have to touch it for two weeks (the time which they are supposed to start it). Plus, I'll be ahead of everyone else when we start it!

Now I'm only working on two projects, one of which is due on Thursday this week (I'll be working like a madman tomorrow night). The other "Flash" project I'm doing for Advanced Studies will just have to wait I suppose. In the meantime, I'm a bit relieved to have tonight mostly work free - I only have to make a short story using some vocab words & read a few pages of the book they're reading in 9th Honors.

I hope everyone's day has gone as well as mine has!
]]> ~complicus15 http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/451557/ http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/451557/ Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:38:23 PST ~complicus15 http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/448624/ http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/448624/ Sat, 18 Jan 2003 15:24:44 PST ~complicus15 http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/431912/ http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/431912/ Wed, 08 Jan 2003 17:26:04 PST
In reality, it isn't such a bad deal, besides the fact that I am more squeezed for unwinding time than I'm used to, but that seems to be a common syndrome after vacation. School ends at 2 pm, and I get home at about 3 pm, so I have about 5 hours to eat dinner, do homework, and hopefully relieve a little tension of the day. The school, however, is just about state-of-the-art. The setup is pretty cool, it's very spacious, and in one of the classrooms you can look out the window and see a barn & green tractor - something that I have heard to be unusual to the common school. I guess you take things like this for granted in Idaho.

In any case, being on the newspaper isn't so bad. Since the staff is composed of approximately 7 students, there is relative amount of importance felt by each student. I was forcibly put on the newspaper by a teacher (without resistance, mind you - she just did it) because of my more advanced skills in computer operation. Basically, all I have to do is help design the layout of content and physically input it into the computer.

I've never been much for writing conclusions, but I guess this can be considered a distant stab at one. I have to start homework in approximately an hour lest I not have enough time before preparing for bed. I have no idea how many people read my journal here, so if you happen to read it - please leave a comment whether it be a smiley or something more. I just want to have an idea of how many really read this, and I suppose only the ones who lasted to this paragraph are the ones who would actually do such a thing. So, have a good day wherever & whenever you are, and put a smile on. ]]> ~complicus15 http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/425064/ http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/425064/ Sat, 04 Jan 2003 18:04:53 PST ~complicus15 http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/399909/ http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/399909/ Thu, 19 Dec 2002 20:25:10 PST In the meantime, I have been procrastinating submitting my photos from the 16th; I'm having a bout of depression over my camera. It is only 1 megapixel, I wish it were more. I finally got down to finding out from HP what the biggest size of a print it could produce and printing out a blank square from Word just to see how big that is in real life (5x7 the page said). I guess it isn't too bad, I've been thinking about a DA account for sometime. It would be worth it just to see my work in a decent form - the printer in my room murders complex pictures.
And yet again, I also ponder why I don't do these journal entries every day. It seems to bring together my thoughts in some ways. I would guess that from these entries you can see just how scatter-brained I am in thought patterns.

I hope for more intelligent comments from everyone and thx again indierockboy; I think you're catching onto my subject the way I meant it to be. ]]> ~complicus15 http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/394538/ http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/394538/ Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:41:36 PST
Really stormy today too, when I got home from the test there were some really inspiring clouds! I probably took about 50 pics back-to-back as fast as I could, the clouds were constantly changing cuz of all the wind. I haven't yet dumped them onto the computer yet, just wanted to let the suspense build for a lil while

My day's gone pretty well so far I sure hope the rest of the vacation is this stormy.. ]]> ~complicus15 http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/392601/ http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/392601/ Sun, 15 Dec 2002 08:22:16 PST Oh yeah, and I've got 3 weeks of christmas vacation that just started this week ]]> ~complicus15 http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/382293/ http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/382293/ Sun, 08 Dec 2002 16:08:44 PST I probably won't be submitting much of anything until next week when I'm on vacation and I have time and energy.. until then I have to get through a week of grade-changing projects and some other stuff that isn't too fun... ]]> ~complicus15 http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/378457/ http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/378457/ Fri, 06 Dec 2002 07:43:10 PST
And BTW people, if you look at my pictures could you please comment on them? I would really appreciate it. ]]> ~complicus15 http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/375388/ http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/375388/ Wed, 04 Dec 2002 10:16:42 PST so many thoughts in my head.. so disconnected, yet I want everyone to know them, just seems weird how I switch the trains on the track...

Nugget of philosophy:

To be selfless is to put the needs of the group before your own. To be selfish is to take advantage of the selfless and not give back. This is the problem of society - too many selfish people, and not enough of the selfless. The co-existance of these two opposing parties almost always spells the doom of the 'less, and the rise in power of the 'ish.

Another facet of this theory - This involves relationships as well. If you are in a giving relationship, with no return on your gift, you will feel drained by this person. This is the reason that a relationship needs to be a 'two way street', so that both receive, and are nourished, and both have also given, and are satisfied.

What do you think? ]]> ~complicus15 http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/373621/ http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/373621/ Tue, 03 Dec 2002 09:09:20 PST
On another note, I've been playing "Somewhere over the Rainbow" (from the movie "Finding Forrester") non stop on my computer yesterday and today.. just love that song. C'mon everybody, sing along! Hehe... I hope I don't get too tired of it so I'll keep playing it forever... maybe I'll make it my theme song or something

Perhaps I'll write another entry after school about how the day went... Stay tuned!

~ djc

]]> ~complicus15 http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/371772/ http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/371772/ Mon, 02 Dec 2002 07:35:53 PST Back to the usual grind on monday... get assignment, panic, get another assignment, panic.. hehe. It'll be better on Tuesday hopefully, usually my nerves are settled by then. ]]> ~complicus15 http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/370328/ http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/370328/ Sun, 01 Dec 2002 10:27:56 PST ]]> ~complicus15 http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/367359/ http://complicus15.deviantart.com/journal/367359/ Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:35:53 PST ~complicus15