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My PhotoI'm Carlos Killpack I like music, I guess you could even say its my addiction. That being said it shouldn't be much surprise to hear that I host a radio show called Indie Invasion. (Which is, by the way, the greatest radio show on earth) I play the drums and the guitar. I play football and I am Mormon, meaning that I belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The purpose of writing this blog is to ponder the mysteries of the Universe and share my views of them, (cool right) therefore the topics discussed here can vary widely. Each post is filed under one or more of the categories at the top right. Please enjoy.
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Pondering Life, the Universe, and Everything

Thursday, November 22, 2007

A Bit of News

I'm going to a Three Days Grace Concert at Graham Central Station on December 5th!

Quote:

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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A Little Advertising

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Monday, November 19, 2007

An Interesting Observation

I was recently riding the bus home, something I do very rarely, and I noticed something very interesting. There was a very attractive girl sitting in the front seat and, despite what I would suspect, more girls looked at her than guys. I expected nearly every guy to look at her while walking by, but the opposite occurred, interesting right? I have several theories to explain this phenomena, all of which I will elaborate about in the following paragraphs.


The guys walking by want the girl to think that they are not interested hoping that she will find interest in a guy who doesn't want her. In my experience that doesn't work, especially when there is no preexisting relationship. A guy or girl may being to avoid a friend they have begun to like to avoid awkward situations or to see if the other person is interested. But besides this ignoring someone to make them find interest in you doesn't usually work.

The girls walking by are jealous because she is extremely attractive, therefore they would look at her because of this jealousy. It is often mentioned that girls can be self-conscious and feel threatened by another girl that is more attractive than her. This may explain the phenomena that I had witnessed on that bus ride.

The previous example could also apply to guys, because a guy can also feel threatened by an attractive girl and not want to look at her because of how they feel when they see her (i.e. threatened). Unlike girls guys tend to avoid things or people that make them feel threatened, at least in this respect.

There are probably a million more possible explanations but I believe these to be the most likely of those possiblities.

Saturday, November 10, 2007

Ten Philosophical Questions (Response 3)

If two distinct objects have something in common then in what ways are they the same and different?
The fact that two things are similar, or in other words have something in common, does not make them identical. Therefore the differences between two similar objects would be everything about them that is not the same. For example, two similar triangles may look like one another but they are not the same size, ergo they are not the same, but they are proportional to each other.


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Philosophical Question

Saturday, November 3, 2007

I'm Writing A Book!

I'm starting a book I hope is going to be part of the next great fantasy series of all time, hopefully even rivaling the likes of J.R.R. Tolkien. It'd be awesome if you left some comments etc. The book I'm working on right now is pretty intense, its called The Skull King. I've included a small excerpt.

From: The Skull King

Darien awoke with a start. Looking around his small room a sense of dread filled him.

Oh, no
, he thought, Norek is drunk again.

Within moments there was a crash and the sound of a man stumbling through the house, his father, the town drunk. He heard Norek angrily moving things that got in his way. There was another crash and Darien heard his mother scream. He leaped up to run to her rescue but he could not move! Darien could take it when his father beat him, he was strong, he had to be, but not mother, not her. He could hear his mother pleading with Norek to calm down, but his drunken excuse for a father would not listen. Muffled thumps and cries stuck daggers of ice into his heart that quickly became a burning fury in his mind. Despite his fury all Darien could do was stand, shaking in his room and listen to his mother die.

When the screams stopped the drunken Norek stumbled to Darien's door. The door opened and Darien heard his father speak to him with the slurred speech of a drunk, "You heard it didn't you, the screams. Haha. She deserved it, the witch, and her demon whelp didn't have the balls to stop me." And he spat in Darien's face.

His anger suddenly intensified, Darien felt as if his blood had become molten light. It built as every fiber of is being became saturated with hate-laced light.

"Drunken bastard," Darien replied, his voice sounding strangely calm and detached, "You don't deserve to live!"

Then the was a roar and fiery light enveloped everything.

Note: The purpose of this event and several others like it in The Skull King is to allow for Darien Voreyé's development as a character who would become the Skull King