The defense date is now October the 27th due to it being easier for people to get out here then vs. november. Huzzah!

yesterday I had the worst cramps I’ve ever had, and today I feel like garbage. Going to be a long week.

That I’ve missed working on web design and updates during the last 6 months.

I wonder if the drives of imperialism are imparted to us as chillens? I had made a sarcastic comment when someone misspelled Santa Barbara, and then looked up babar the elephant because I remembered some of the stories when I was a wee one.

Babar the elephant is a story about “a young elephant called Babar who leaves the jungle, visits a big city, and returns to bring the benefits of civilization to his fellow elephants. Then he comes back and becomes king of the kingdom.”

How interesting…the benefits of civilization…hmmm.

On November 15, 1864 General Sherman began his destructive march to the Sea by burning parts of Atlanta.

On November 15, 2009 Sean Froyd begins his destructive march on Academia by defending his dissertation at 11am. It will be totally sweet AND awesome.

Or swawesome if you will.

Just because you get a pop up ad that says your computer is infected is no reason to click said ad. In fact, the easiest and safest way to deal with such ads is to ctrl-alt-del and force quit your browser.

Also, if you do get Antivirus 2010 on your computer and there are a lot of pop ups and “windows” warnings, get Malware Bytes, install it, then restart the computer in safe mode and run a scan.

It should take care of the problem. Just spent about three hours cleaning out my pastor’s computer and getting it up to speed with all the necessary windows updates.

Good times.

EDIT 9-25-09: Props where props are due…Carly Page awesome Paul Bunyan Net employee, and wife of Josh Page was the one who informed me of malwarebytes’ existence about January. I forgot to mention her. My bad.

was found in Staffordshire that’s apparently even larger than Sutton Hoo.

this is so FLIPPING AWESOME.

Good lord, I hope that there are some good drinking cups and artifacts which reflect a good number of myths and tales which are lacking evidence prior.

This is huge folks…this is prior to Christianized invaders…and roughly cognizant of the time of Beowulf. Uff, this has made my day.

EDIT 9-24-09: Apparently not before Christianized invaders, as one of the items has a verse from the bible on it. But still, awesome.

I realize, and have felt for some time, that I’m more a Dr. Watson than a Sherlock Holmes.

Discuss.

As some of you have probably noticed that go through Froyd.net proper, the site is undergoing some heavy maintenance. This blog, in opposition to what I said before, will also undergo some cosmetic changes so that site wide there’s a good consistency.

I am going to split Froyd.net into four sections: this blog, a section on my scholarship in mythological studies, a section for my creative writing, and a section on my teaching philosophy. Those changes should start being implemented this week sometime, and should be ready by October I believe.

Good times.

All three approvals have been gathered. Now it’s up to my Chair and the Dissertation office to schedule the defense. The sooner the better for me…the sooner the better.

Also, as promised for Sharon, here’s a video of the happy dance. I interrupted my roommate’s baseball game in order to have him film it.

It be international talk like a pirate day!

Now lissen up, ye scallywags…even th’ news companies be talkin’ about dis here holiday. It be gainin’ ground faster ‘n Cap’n Morgan took Porto Bello! Yarrr, it be a fine day fer larnin’ the histree of the piratin’ folk.

Me problem, mates, is dis: as it be talk like a pirate day, bein’ already established in the precedin’ letters (and wot finely written letters dey were, yarr), piratical sitchyouations have moved for’ard since yon good ol’ days. So if’n we ought to elocute like the piratical brethren, we ought to talk like pirates nowadays.

Which leads me to ponder harder’en Cap’n Kidd’s heart: does any of ye scurvy dogs know somolian?

This weekend will show some re-engineering of the site as a whole, not just this blog. I think I’m going to cut down the other sections (movies, philosophy, video games) and then parse it down into Blog, Curriculum Vitae, Scholarship, Fiction.

Don’t worry though, the blog link won’t change, and neither will the barely contained rants.

in Tanzania and no one knows why.

Maybe the squirrel was just…bat shit crazy?

ahahahahahahaha!!!!

the GF is working all weekend, we’re having an outdoor service for church that I won’t be going to, and all my grading will be out of the way. I think it’s time to do things: play video games and clean up the sidebar section of this blog.

it’s been about 2 years since I redid the design, and about equally long since I updated the blogs section. This morning I went through and noticed that a good half were gone, and another third hadn’t been updated in about a year.

Time for some pruning. I don’t think I’ll redo the design, I still really like it.

Not that hard folks.

To: location – I’m going to the store.
Too: too much or also – I’m going to load up my plate with too much chinese food. Oh really, you too?
Two: number – Two people usually understand these differences.

There: location – People should go over there, away from me.
Their: group possessive – Their ability to mess these words up astounds me.
They’re: they are – They’re going to enjoy the quiz on this.

Honorable mention: are/our
Are: a state of being – You are awesome.
Our: group that author is part of possessive – Our collective intelligence in the US is extraordinarily disappointing.

Your/you’re
Your: another person possessive – Your skills amaze me.
You’re: you are – You’re quite an indignant monkey.