hello?
Ohhhh hello there! How is your lovely day this evening?
I am doing great how are you doing?
My name is Rashad Kashminibad. I'm currently chatting and loving every minute of it
what?
So you could say that I am absolutely amazing right now haha I'm joking. But I like to say that my name is something different for each chat that I do to make things interesting. I think I've chatted with each person in this competition like 100 times already so I like to have some fun to keep things from getting mundane too quickly ya know!? Gotta keep it interesting or I would go absolutely insane doing this 8 hours a day every day!
yeah i feel you
Its like dungeons and dragons I've never rolled the same character twice in a row because each new adventure is a new experience for me
and I think the they might get more data and the AI might be better if we switch up things
I learn more about myself by trying to project my conscious onto different characters That is true as well Haha I'm helping myself and the AI at the same time You're welcome BYU kids!
hahaah I am glad that its helping you
This chat is like medication for me.
arent you tired that you are doing this for so long?
What about you? How do you keep sane while chatting
I watch movies and netflix to keep myself sane
Ummmm yeah I'm super tired but Ive put so much time in already that I gotta keep going.
thats why Im not chatting a whole lot
You can't give up half way through the journey or else what is the point of starting at all?
yeah thats true you have to finish what you started
Just like Ash Ketchum. I gotta be the best Or in 2018 he's say, "
what does he say?
"Started from the bottom now we're here" we're meaning Misty and Brock
oh haha Drake
Maybe professor Oak I bet Professor Oak drops some sick beats when hes not holding Ash's hand
oh really do they really say that? ohh ok
haha no cheef keef said that in like 1979
thats what they would say if it was 2018
But I get it yeah thats what I was getting at I think Tech N9ne did a remix and made it popular on MTV
I dont listen to tech n9ne too much
oh lame hes super good. so what else do you want to talk about? do you want to know about the first relationship i had
i think we already talked about it
oh i think i already told you about that now that i think about it so guess what happened today for my girlfriend
so you art right?
lol no but my girlfriend does
which one?
she is majoring in the industrial design program lol youre hilarious
for real though like jokles asside kiding.... *sign* im lonely like i could date someone but i dont wanna lead somone on
she is really into sustainable design and has wanted to do this project for like a really long time but hasnt had time to because her major is really busy.
so like a hippie oh i gotta go now i ahve to pee see ya
loser
jk tell me your deepest secrets let me know you
so she just found a resource for hdpe plastics and has ground them down she will eventually use those to melt into a welded form that will create flat sheets
i wanna know cool whats a flat sheet
these will create small furniture and home goods which she will sell on a kickstarter
oh cool like ebay right> ?
she just talked to a guy today who is a startup investor who wanted to consult her on the project and he wants to help her with this project by funding it and making it into a non profit that will fund groups to go clean plastic out of the ocean and get the ghost  nets out of the ocean
was that a runon sentence?
yes so that begs the question what are ghost nets right? ill tell you about that and why they are so destructive to the ecosystem within the ocean
dope! im all eyes
ghost fishing is what fishing gear does when it has been lost, dumped or abandoned. Imagine a fishing net that gets snagged on a reef of a wreck and gets detached from the fis nets, long lines, fish traps or any man made contraptions designed to catch fish or marine organisms are considered capable of ghost fishing when left unattended. Without anyone profiting from the catches, affecting already depleted commercial fish stocks. Caugh fish die and in turn attract scavengers which will get caught in the same net, thus creating vicious circle. Ghost nets are among the greatest killers in our oceans, and not only because of their numbers. literally hundreds of kilometers of nets get lost every year and due to the
cool!
nature of the materials used to produce these nets they can and will keep fishing for multiple decades, possibly even for several centuries
so like you are a herbologist or something right? like muggles and stuff?
when caught on a reef, nets do not only catch fish, turtles, crustaceans, birds or marine mammals, they also destroy hard and soft corals, wiping out complete ecosystems shile swaying in the current
but please i do care about the ocean and want to know more about this please.
If caught on wrecks, nets can suffocate a wreck and thereby render hiding places for marine life uselsss, or even trap them inside Diver are all too familiar with this pehnomenon, espeically in well fished areas The founders of Ghost Fishgin were confronted with ghost nets while diving the many wr5ecks int eh Dutch North Sea. In 2009 they joined a local team of divers who started to clean those wereks. After some years of local efforts it was tiem to broaden the horizon and get in touch with like-minded groups all over the world. And so the Ghost Fishing foundation was born. As of March 2013, Ghost fishign is a collaborating with 14 teams worldwide to work on projects, set-up new projects and couments those through visual media, educate divers, inform a wide audience and raise social awareness. The Foundation exchanges solutions and best practices and maintains a steady ste stream of information through social media, and a website that offers extensiev information and possibilityies for interaction. Collecting ghost nets is also part of a broader mission in which teh foundation works towards sustainable recycling of the nets That will be used as a raw material for new products The ghost fishing foundation was tarted as a non-profit organization in november 2012 and has already presented itslelf at the Hylkesukelus 2013 A wreck diving seminar in helsinki, Finland, Duikvaker 2013, The netherlands where the message was well received and many valuable contacts were made The next event will be baltictech coference 2012 in poland where the most recent material of our work will be shown In 2013 we hope to participate in a clean up work in Krnica, Coratio, Portofino, Tialy and if funding permits more plans will be set up and executed. As marine debris is rapidly becoming a greater problem, it is imperative to take real action as soon as possible. Ghost fighing intends to collect funds tofinance clean ups, to sponso gear ,to train divers and to raise public awareness
huh interesting. I had no idea there was stuff like that I didnt know that people did that. Do you get to keep the treasure you find?
yeah, its pretty crazy . there is a conservation group world animal protection that hopes to convince the international community to help clear oceans of discarded fishing gea which it estimates is killing hundreds of thousands of whales, seals and turtles each eyar the group estimates around 640,000 tonnes of so ghost gear is left in the ocean each year and can stay in the oceans for up to 600 years trapping animals as large as whales and causing them long and painful deaths.
oh my goodness I had no idea shipwreck and things like that kills marine life so much!
so anyways its pretty sad and gloomy but on a happier note do you want me to tell you about a podcast i listened to today?
All i really knew about it was that there could be a lot of treasure down in shipwrecks but I didnt know they killed stuff yeah please tell me about it! I love podcasts what do you listen to?
so i listened to a podcast about composting, there are two types of composting, cold and hot. cold composting is as simple as collecting yard waste or taking out hte organic materials in your trash such as fruit and vegatables peels, coffee grounds, and filters and eggshells, and then corralling them in a pile or bin. over the course of a year or so the material will decompose. hot composting is for the more serious gardener bu t a faster process youll get compost in one to three months during the warm weather. but hot composting requires four types of indgrediants to work, it needs to happen fast, so this requires nitrogen, carbon, air and water. together these items feed microorganisms, which speed up the process of decay.
ohh thats really cool how does it work?
vermicompost is made via worm composting. when worms eat your food scraps, they release castings which are rich in nitrogen. you cant use just any old worms for this.  however my dad calls them red wigglers. lol
lol does your dad use hot compost?
the cool thing is its not really expensive to buy red worms. yeah he has a big pile of them in the backyard.
how fast does it decompose?
composting is honestly a great way to use the things in your refrigerator that you didnt get to, therefore eliminating waste. all you need to do is keep a container in your kitchen such as a tin bucket or crock, to accumulate your composting materials, of you dont want to buy one you can even make your own indoor or outdoor bin.
oooh I think having an indoor one would be so nasty smelling and it would stink up the whole house
if you want to do this yourself all youll need is fruit scraps veggie scraps coffee grounds eggshells grass but not too much because they are high in nitrogen which can cause the compost pile to stop composting. you need a 60-40 ration of carbon to nitrogen for it to work a good rule of thumb is that nitrogen equals green and carbon equals brown
ohh interesting that is so cool green nitrogen and carbon brown That is so simple to remember
so if you stick to that you should be good. you can also use stuff like dry leaves finely chopped wood and bark chips shredded newspaper , stra and sawdust. of that brings up soemthing else make sure you dont use things that have been treated or where pesticides were used. also you dont want to add onions or garlic to your hommade compost pile. because its believed that these veggies repel earthworms, which are a vital part of your garden there are a general list of things to stay away from when putting stuff in your compost bin. they can make your compst pile smell and attract animals and pests. anything
ohh interesting. so veggies that are potent with smell repells them?
containing meat, oil, fat, or grease, diseased plant materials like i said before, dog or cat feces weeds that go to seed, or any dairy products so if you want to do this yourself youll want to make a hot compost heap, you generally want this to be down wind because even if you are pretty attentive it still tends to sm smell you also want it to be some distance away from your home but not too far that your discouraged from composting the stuff from your kitchen. you want your pile to be at least 3 feet deep. youll want to combine your wet,  green items with your dry brown items. start by building your organic compost pile, alternating
does your dad's compost come smell ever come in to the house when you have windows open or anything?
brown and green items. if your pile looks too wet and smells add more brown items. if you see it looks extremely brown and dry, add green items and water to make it slightly moist.
smell come*
youll then want to sprinkle water over teh pile pretty regularly to keep a consistency in the dampness of the pile. but dont add too much water otherwise the microorganisms in your pile will become waterlogged and drown. if this happens your pile will rot instead of compost. monitor the temperature of your pile with a thermometer to be sure the materials are properly decomposing. or simply reach into the middle of the pile with your hand. your compost pile should feel pretty warm and to answer your question earlier. no i havent smelled it even when up close to it. but his isnt super huge and he doesnt add to it extremely often anyways theres a lot more to it but ill talk about my uncle who had an experience in montana where he lived. the holdy grail of gardeners is a homegrown tomato. the optimistic folks who try to outsmart the over in a flash growing season, chily summer nights, skimpy rainfall and marauding gophers or deer are courageous indeed. In fact he knew a woma who tried every trick in the book to grow tomatoes she could brag about. she started them early, protected them from wind and cold and staked them up oh so carefully. Last year she decided to focus on the soil instead. after reading up on the nutrients that plants need to thrive, she decided to mix compost into her garden and see what happe happened. the experiement was a complete success. the heirloom tomatoes were so luscious and tempting that someone actually stole the crop out of teh womans backyard. she was so miffed she actually filed a police report about it!. but anyways doesnt gaurantee that your vegetables from your compost will inspire theft or at least jealousy in your neighborhood but compost rich in organic materials is the f fastest ticket to healthly productive plants that reward hard work with beautiful blooms and bountiful harvests. this will help you take control
wow someone took the plant that is crazy!
of the compost you spread when you make it yourself.
some people these days what is your opinion on miracle grow and things like that?
compost is honestly the best investment for your garden im not to learned on things like miracle grow to be honest. but i know there dirt works pretty well and my plants seem to really flourish in it. though im not sure what the active ingredients are to be honest. wish i knew but i dont. sorry. what else would you like to know about. ive listened to a lot of podcasts lately and have a gasping cavatie of newformed knowledge waiting to be explored by another human bein have you heard about net nuetrality before?
`no i havent tell me about it
back in 20117 trump voted to make the open internet and teh network neutrality principles that sustain it a thing of the past. what you can see on the internet along with
wait I think I know a little bit about this
the quality of your conncetion are at the risk of falling victim to the profit seeking whims of powerful telecommunications griants. if the fcc the federal communications commision that is wins they will basically disfavor controversial viewpoints or smaller websites and favor the content providers who have the money to pay for better access. but that doesnt mean weve lost the war yet. there are groups fighting to maintain net nuetrality. pro net neutrality members will use the congressional review act in a bid to reverse this hasty and misguided fcc action. we have around 60 legistavtive days to pressure congress to act the clock is ticking!!!!!!!!! each of us need to raise our voices to push our members of congress to represent our interests and reverse the fccs dismantiling of net neutrality the future of our free fair and open internet is at stake.
wait what? sorry can you restate that? sorry
interenet service provider like comcast and verizon provide the internet right? and legally if you pay for internet youre allowed to have the same access that everyone else in your area gets to the speed of the internet. also you can look anything you want up and youre viewing rights are not restricted. however because the bill about net neutraility is up in the air those internet service providers might soon be free to block content, slow video streaming services from rival s and offer fast lanes to preferred partners. for a glimpse of how the internet experience may change look at what broadband providers are doing under the existing net rules
oh my goodness that would be so annoying! I do not like censorship by people
when at&t customers access its directv now video streaming service the data doesnt count against their plans data limitis. verizon likewise exempts its go90 sservice from its
I want to censor what I want to censor. I mean look at the media! The news and the media controls what people see and believe right now and its not good!
customers data plans. t mobile allows multiple video and music streaming services to bypass its data limits essentially allowing it to pick winners and losers in those categor ies consumers will liekloy see more arrangements like these, granting or blokcking access to specific content if the federal communications commision next month repeals obama era net rules that ban broadband providers from discriminating against lawful content providers. the commision outlined its proposed changes and published them awhile ago and i go got the chance to read them. the proposal basically would ban states from passing their own versions of the old rules. because republicans have a mjority in the agency, the proposal would likely pass and take effect early this year.
oh wow so didn't they pass the  law already?
because many internet services for mboile devices include limits on data use the changes would have been visible first. for instance in one dramatic scenario internet services where subscriptions could be limited to a few dozen sites and servcies. or for big spenders a few hundred to be exact. anyway the FCC made it so that for 2-3 years we still have free internet but this topic will come up again
Man.. I hope the internet will stay free.... That would be terrible if we have to pay for some of the free services that we have now I don't thin k that it's fair to make people pay
have you seen the Zuckerberg trial?
Hahahahahahaha
or know about it?
I think the whole world has seen it Well, I didn't see the entire trial but I saw a shortened version on Youtube. It was great. It just highlighted the funniest moments from Zuckerberg. I kind of feel sorry for the guy. He's become such a meme from all of this.
yeah he has and its been crazy because its a hot topic right now and data privacy and security is some that is very important! I think that data privacy should be maintained like all the big data companies say they would I don't know the exact story behind Facebook and Cambridge Analytica but they have raise some big issues in society right now. I mean almost everyone has facebook, instagram, linkedin, snapchat, all the sources that connect people someone has something and their data is stored in their servers
Yeah that's so true. With technology growing at such a fast rate, privacy is something that needs to be addressed!
and they can use that data to create products and target the humans and ultimately learn more about us I think that the youtube videos made fun of a lot of the old people in the government but I think the videos kind of made them look stupid. I think they asked some really good questions besides the ones that are on youtube. Youtube just highlighted some rediculous moments oh also have you noticed that when you talk about something with your friends like talking about a bike part, an advertisement shows up on instagram or facebook or whatever?
You're so right... it's crazy to see how powerful data can be. Not to mention how scary it can become in the wrong hands.
I really think that facebook and instagram are listening to me and the surroundings and are advertising those things
Yeah! I've noticed that... especially when I'm looking up things on google or facebook, the advertisements are related to what I'm searching for.... It's kinda scary
do you think thats a good thing or a bad thing?
Bad....
have you heard about the mantis shrimp?
I think  you're making something up lol
hahaha no this animal is pretty cool!
yeah I just looked it up. It's a real creature. Props hahaha.
the eyes of the mantis shrimp are one of the most advanced eyes in the animal kingdom! these mantis shrimps can move their eyes individually. humans create the a single picture and the two together means that we have binocular vision. Its a pretty simple system and a lot of animals use this sytem each one of mantis shrimp's eyes creates three separate images!
Interesting... I can see why they're called mantis shrimps haha....
each eyeball has whats called a trinocular eyeball. and because the shrimp has two eyes it is actually sexnocular
Seems like they can be dangerous predators as well
the human eyes can only detect three color wave lengths but the mantis shrimp can detec 5400 of them! they are insane! I wonder why God thought these shrimps needed such colorful vision
We humans are feeble creatures compared to the animal kingdom
just kidding they can only detect 12 of them
lol that makes more sense
imagine a color that you cant imagine
not that I would know
but then multiply that 9 more tmies times thats how many colors they can see
yikes... that's an insane amount
yeah its pretty crazy! I think the more I learn about the animals that surrounds us the more that we understand how God is a real being there is no way that all these animals trees and everything that surrounds us just happened do you like elon musk? or space x? they had a really cool year this year. he launched a car up in space with a person on it and a video feed of him driving the car around the orbit
Elon Musk is like an idol.... he should be worshipped
and it has successfully launched a satellite called Bangabandhu-1 Elon reported that their new rocket called the Falcon 9 Block 5 is built to be the most powerful, reusable, and affordable version of Space X's rockets I think its so cool that he is leading space travel anyway Space X has now launched 56 missions on a Falcon 9 ( the rocket I was talking about) since like the summer of 2010 and the Falcon 9 has flown eight time this year
Elon Musk is a genius... actually, that is an understatement Words can't accurately describe him But how can they use rockets so much?
well there are a ton of things that Elon Musk and Space X did in order to do that I think that they made it so that their thrusters produce 10 percent more thrust so that the thrusters can reserve more fuel and they use aluminum structure that holds the engines which is nice because its is easier to inspect and refurbish they also made the landing legs on the booster retractable so that they do not have to spend a lot of time attaching and detaching
Wow sounds like Elon Musk is like NASA... except he's only one guy... and NASA is an organization haha
Elon thinks that these changes and other changes will help the space launch by like 6 million dollars those simple changes really made a huge difference! because of all these thing Space X will launch more rockets than any other nation this year its really cool!
Yeah. Elon Musk is all about efficiency and simplicity.
so I found this cool article the other day it was comparing all the states and how depressed they were apparently Utah has like the highest rate of depression along with Michigan and New York
Yikes... That's actually surprising
apparently one of the biggest reasons why depression has gotten up so high lately is the phones and social media a study done by the Child Development found that nightime usage of cellphone with teenages increased anxiety and depression therefore reducing self-esteem i feel like this does not help the keeping up with the jones's mentality that utah has here. Adults and young adults and teenagers all suffer from this because they aren't grateful for what they have and they envy others on social media and their neighbors
Interesting point. I wonder if religion has any correlation with depression
I bet it does. because of the ward system everyone knows everyone and everyone is comparing their families with others in the ward and i think that is whats happening and I think that the judgmental members here doesnt help do you like retro cars?
Not really. I don't know cars too much
oh yeah hahaha no worries My friend got this car from a deal that he made from doing design work for a dealership and the dealership paid him with a vintage car instead of cash he got the Nissan Pao imported straight from japan
oh cool what kind of car is it?
the Pao is a kei car which mean that is a really underpowered car. it has like a 200cc power in the engine its a hatchback and its right hand drive because it came from japan
What's a hatchback?
it has a sunroof and leather seats
And what does cc stand for?
i means that i has a trunk that opens up like a big door like on SUVs cc is just a way to measure power of the motor
Are right hand drive cars legal in the U.S.?
no its not its legal as long as you register it and if the car was imported legally i think
I'm not sure if I'd feel comfortable driving on the same road as someone who's driving a right hand drive car
haha i think it would be so cool! I think that its super unique and a lot of people would be interested any way nissan pao i love this car the nissan's Pike series was deisgned as a retro fahionable city car in the mold of the BE-1 its totally fahionable because its really cute its like a japanese version of a mini cooper
haha i wouldn't mind driving something like that
the car and the pike series included external door hinges like the original Minis the engine was the 1 liter engine and had three speed automatic transmission or a five speed manual tranmission. The chassis were kind of small and light it had a rack and pinion steering independent sustpension with struts in front and coil spring in the back the brakes were disc brakes up front and the standard drums in the rear and the pao is a hatchback but it has whats called the clamshell hatch in back meaning that the glass sectino swing up and the bottom portion opens down to create a tailgate style! the Pao does a great 51 mpg in the city and 79 mpg if its steady at like 37 miles per hour
Dang... that car packs a punch
yeah so my friend got that amazing cute car and he turned a lot of heads
Can't let it's size fool ya
yeah it does and the gas mileage is great! my friend though he painted it jet black and he widened the wheel base and stanced the car
Do you prefer foreign cars over cars made in the U.S.?
and he put a larger motor in it so that it can be a lot faster I think I prefer foreign cars mostly japanese cars because they are really reliable and it is easy to maintain and to fix their parts are also pretty cheap unlike other euro cars or american cars
Yeah Japanese cars are very simple in their structure
but now a days it is harder to maintain newer cars because everything is electronical
What other Japanese cars are you into?
for example if you want to change the brake pads on your mercedes then you HAVE to go to the dealership and let them do it because they have a device that opens up the brake calipers and if you want that device it costs like 1200 dollars its insane how the car companies are trying to control the old way of doing things
Yikes... thats so much money for trying to change brakes
I am actually thinking about buying a Prius prime when i graduate from college because I need and i love the gas mileage that it gives
Yeah especially since people take pride in learning about their car and doing things on their own... taking that away almost takes the fun out of owning a car
the prius prime also has an electric motor that can go about 40 miles per full charge so that means that if you have a commute that is less than 40 miles then you will never use gas
The Prius has such a bad name to it because people look at it's hybrid electric engine as something inferior and weak but I think its super cool. Not to mention all the money you save from driving it
i down side about the prius prime is that it does not have a fifth seat because of the arm rest and the cargo space in the back is alot smaller than the other usual hatchbacks yeah I think the car will pay for itself
You could also pimp out the Prius to make it look cool too. I've seen some fancy looking Prius Primes
if you buy a big car that takes a lot of gas it makes the car worth even more because it costs a lot more to fill up and you have to fill up more often than other compact cars I had a jeep before . it was an old jeep grand cherokee 97 and it guzzled gas like crazy that thing took like 15 gallon capacity and it only gave me like 10 miles to the gallon! it was so bad and my brother's car got like 25 miles to the gallon and he only had to fill up only about 12 miles a gallon
yeah gas mileage I think is super important what car did your brother have?
he has a toyota corolla 08 its a good car hahaha its holding up really good even though it has more miles than the jeep and it has a lot less problems than the jeep It was a really fun car and I liked the big engine and the cargo space because I like to have a lot of tools and stuff in my car and it was a beautiful red color. I need to sell that thing I fixed that car a bit ago because it wouldnt start
What was wrong with it?
So many problems
like what?
Pretty much I kept changing a bunch of stuff on it chasing problems around trying to figure out why it wouldnt start My brother borrowed my car for a while and it just died on him down by the provo airport and wouldnt start again Who knows what the heck he was doing out there but anyways it just sat there for a few days until my buddy came to help me try and diagnose the problem. We ended up jumping the starter solenoid with a long flat blade screwdriver and once we got it started we drove it up to a buddys house who has a bunch of tools. Once we got it there we tackled what we assumed was a bad starter solenoid as well as fixing the tension pulley that had been making noise ever since i bought the jeep So we changed the starter, oil, tensioner, and got it all buttoned up and ready to go. Turn the key, and it starts just fine. So we shut it off and start cleaning up the tools and putting everything away. Once everything is put away we try and start it up again and nothing.... It made no sense how it could just start up just fine and then go to nothing
yeah bro that makes no sens So you fixed the problem and then it broke again hahahah sorry but thats kind of dunny funny*
yeah I didn't think it was funny so we ended up towing the car to the street and it sat there until the semester ended beacuse school was getting to me and I didnt have any time to work on it While it was sitting my buddy tried a bunch of stuff and looked up some tests online to determine if it was the new starter that was bad or something else We did whats called a starter voltage drop test and ended up finding that the resistance of the wire from the battery to the starter was infinity in other words. No power was flowing through the wire from the battery to the starter so it wasn't able to turn the motor over and start the car So we ended up taking the battery terminals apart and cleaning everything up really good and getting all of the metal scraped up so that it would make a good electric connecti Put it all back together and boom it started right up!
haha you're practically a mechanic then do you like working on cars?
Yeah not really my friend helped me out a bunch and he knows a bunch but I like learning stuff and working on cars sometimes I dont mind changing my oil and stuff like that to save money but electrical stuff is annoying
Yeah like I have no idea about how cars work besides that they have a motor and tires and stuff that make it go forward
I mean thats practically it! just a few more things in between
So do you still have the jeep? oh wait i asked that, you said you still have it doh
yeah I'm gonna clean it up and sell it Hopefully get what I paid for it. I mean its a red jeep and every teenage girl now days wants a red jeep right?
yeah my sister would freak out over that
does she want to buy mine? haha jk she wouldnt want it after all the problems its had! i need to clean it up and sell it to someone random who doesn't know the car's history It will be a blank slate for the next owner to buy, own, and take care of until he or she decides to sell it or until it dies Who knows which one of the two will come first knowing how this thing has treated me so far I bought it thinking it was jeep and reliable and had low miles and i Just ended up throwing money at over and over And that was on top of the 10 mpg... $$$$$$$
I think you missed a few $$$
Hahah so funny....
So what would you rather drive then? Its obviously not a jeep right?
Anything but a jeep! No but in reality I really like the new Prius X or whatever its called Prius Prime the x is a crossover. I really dig the prius prime it gets 54 miles per gallon city and 133 total when combined with the electric motor! 133 mile per gallon. Thats just unbelievable. And it's pretty classy looking for a prius I could pay the car payment each month just in the money I'd be saving in gas from swapping from my Jeep. If my credit was good enough I'd just go buy one right now and start saving money just from gas alone. Kind of crazy now that I think about it. I'm torturing myself on purpose.... First thing after this challenge ends: I'm buying a new Prius
Whoa now don't go too overboard
It's a prius... I dont think you can possibly go overboard with a Prius As a matter of fact, I dont think overboard and Prius should ever be in  a sentence together Its nice, compact, affordable, economical, basic All the things that the stereotypical asian adult should have Either that or a Ricer right?
I mean you're either driving a prius or in Tokyo Drift as far as im concerned
Tokyo Drift was teh best fast and the furious Some american guy goes to Japan, hits on the only white girl there that every japanese guy is going crazy over and gets her in the end You think he'd of been better off just sticking in america and getting one of the bajillion white girls there without having to have some race of death down the mountain with the some of some Yakuza kingpin's son who happens to have a crazy nice car and way too much time on his hands in school And don't even mention how they got a Shelby GT500 (fake btw) in japan and then butchered it by putting a supra motor in it. I like how im just complaining but i said I like the movie... It was at least better than the ones after it because they didn't try to do stupid completely impossible stunts in tokyo drift. All of the new FnF movies are just trying to one-up each other with how ridiculous they can possibly be and still sell tickets Aka if they can sell that stuff to the american public and keep getting away with it Then lets throw the rock and Jason Staham on top of it and have them get in this crazy super villain super hero feud and they're always switching sides so you never know if they are good guys or bad guys
Wow you've reall thought a lot about this
I go way too deep into everything and pick apart things way too much I'm the worst person to watch a movie with
yes i agree I can tell aready I could only imagine watching lord of the rings or some super nerdy movie with you
LotR? You mean the BEST movies and books ever created/written? I think they were fantastically made actually They stayed really true to the books and brought the fantasy world of Tolkein to life Honestly LotR is so incredibly underrated because nobody knows what Tolkein went through to write those books. He was writing about wizards, dragons, elves, orcs, and all that stuff back in teh 50's and 60's This was way before fantasy was really a thing let alone mainstream like it is today. He was like a kid who let his imagination run wild and he incorporated his WW2 experience and let it mold the story line It was honestly such a huge advancement for the time because nobody was writing about this kind of stuff
oh my goodness I love LOTR lore and everything about it
The hobbit should be required reading for all high school students and they should have to read LoTr shortly after One of my favorite things that Tolkein wrote was in the fellowship of the ring when it is Bilbo's 111th birthday Instead of writing one hundred and eleventh he wrote it as eleventy first
i think I was required to read the hobbit in highschool actually. great book1 book!
that is so dang creative it just blows my mind. But its so simple at the same time
I never realized that he wrote like that what a genius!
If i could travel back in time and meet anybody. Besides Jesus it would probably be Tokein
that is who you have lunch with
Or Hitler so I could sucker punch him in the adams apple
if you could go back in time
True... Lunch
hahaha thats funny
Then after lunch I can punch Hitler Sounds like a great afternoon plan if you ask me Did you know that hitler was actually in art school?
Why dont you think God stopped Hitler before all the tragedy happened?
He grew up in Vienna and was in art school for a long time and had a bunch of paintings. If you google them today you'll see that they're all pretty crappy
hahaha crappy let me google it
But it would be fun to have one in your house and when a neighbor looks and asks who painted it and you look them straight in the face and say Hitler The reaction would be hilarious. I dont know if God stopped it or not I mean he was like literally one of the worst dudes to ever live on the earth
his paintings are a lot of landscapes and buildings yeah he was pretty terrible
But, I dont know if you can completely disregard the fact that the Jews said that Jesus' blood will be on their hands and the hands of their children.
his beliefs were insane
After that moment they became teh most persecuted people in the history of the world
ohh interesting  i had no idea about that prophecy well I think I did but I didn't really relate that to all of this
Not sure if it was completely coincidence or not. Im not justifying hitler eitehr. hes still a scumbag. But It seems like after that moment (the crucifixion) the Jews stopped receiving a lot of God's divine assistance in things
hmm that is really interesting. I think I remember learning about something like that in my religion class or seminary or something like that
Yeah I looked into that a lot on my mission. Its interesting to see how they were treated during the whole Old Testament but after the New Testament things just went so far down hill And then you have the rise and fall of christianity and the dark ages. All this time the jews kind of keep doing their own thing and whatnot But they kind of just take a back seat in things while Christianity becomes the centepiece of history as it spreads across europe and the world
yes it spreads like wild fire because Christ is real and his atonement is real his work will not stop
Dont tell my jewish friends that! JK there was only one and he was a nice kid
hahaha Im not sure if I have any friends that are jewish I might but they might have never told me haha
Haha maybe. I only found out beacuse I tried to hang out on Saturday once and he told me he couldnt I was like wait why? Its saturday, thats the fun day and he told me he was Jewish
oh right because that is their day of rest
My face was like O.O after I saw that
and you couldn't hang out on sunday when he probably wanted to
yeah i knew that but who would've thunk that somebody in Provo utah would be Jewish. I mean its like 999.9999% mormon here it came as a shock
yeah totally
#utahbubble
I think more diversity is coming to Utah and I really like it diversity in skin color and ideas because of all the tech that is getting built in Utah. Al ot of people from other states that are not mormons come to work here
I think some of the diversity is people moving in and the other diversity are people leaving/rebelling from the church I've seen a lot of both and the former is good but the latter tends to be more negative in my experience
i also was talking to this one person who was not LDS here but they moved from florida because most people here have good values and its good for the family
Yeah theres a ton of people that are moving here for tech jobs and the whole "silicon slopes" thing is really starting to take off
ohhhh interesting way to look at diversity in the church
You ahve Domo, Qualtrics, Adobe, and a bunch of other big tech companies coming to Utah and its bringing a lot of employees and diversity with it
yeah totally!
I think that that type of diversity is super amazing because it is natural, healthy, and allows for good communication and integration between the predominantly mormon population and others that are coming from the outside Lots of opportunities for missionary work and spreading the gospel.
yeah totally missionary work would be great
However I know  a lot of kids from high school who are also "diverse" in that they are no longer Mormon and they seem dedicated to trying to tear the church down constantly So i guess it's the other side that people don't want to talk about and it still exists It's interesting to see what people say about Mormons I've never met somebody that says, "Oh mormons are okay."
yeah speaking of people leaving the church I have found that there are a lot of exmormon subreddit stuff on the front page pretty frequently now
They either say, "Mormons are so nice and they love families"
its kind of sad
Or they say "Joseph Smith married a bunch of 9.4 year old girls and is a cult leader who stole the platinum plates from Michael Jordan and is the Antichrist." or something along those lines
yeah its pretty annoying when people develop a bad toxic opinions about our church because it is not true and they want to twist these things so that they can have an excuse
But thats just overly hyped kids and adults on facebook saying that usually. The business/professional view of Mormons is super positive
to leave the church and chastise it
Thats one of teh reasons that I think so many companies are coming to Utah It's a great state and full of hard workers with a good moral background. And that translates to profitable companies that are on the cutting edge of innovation I think the Lord has a lot to do with that.
oooh yeah that totally makes sense!
But thats just like my opinion Take it with a grain of salt but it makes sense to me at least
I think your opinion aligns pretty well with mine yeah I think that its not the best thing to just take someone' opinion and make it your own its important to take their opinion and test it first and develop you own opinion
haha its so easy to do that especially if it aligns mostly with what you believe in
yeah its easy to do that because I think we develop a level of trust with others and that too
And then you completely disregard opinions of people who disagree with you you know that whole confirmation bias thing!
I dont think I heard of it
I'm super of guilty of that sometimes and I try to be more open to opposing opinions
explain it to me
I've actually learned a thing or two about the Church that I didn't know before by listening to some of friends that left the church for "reasons" To them their reasons make perfect sense and are real to them even though I don't completely agree with the logic behind it all But the other day I was talking with a close friend who likes to party. We talked a lot about the commandments and why they are good or bad or whatever he was saying that you have to sleep with somebody before you can marry them because you have to make sure that you are compatible before you tie the knot And i guess I can see where he is coming from because that is such a huge part of marriage. but at the same time that can lead to the negative effect of infidelity and people just doing immoral things because they're appetizing. If you really break the commandments down and take the religious aspect away from them they are a set of very good principles that lead to a happy life religous or not nobody will deny that not smoking, exercise, and a healthy lifestyle lead to a happier life
yeah i guess about the sleeping thing makes sense but I think that the relationship with married couples isn't just about sex. That part will die out but its all about how
People tend to respect others who have clean language more than those who talk like a sailor
to raise them up and help them and love them
The commandment where thigns are the most distorted though is chastity Unfortunately the family unit is under attack a lot more than the word of wisdom and tithing
yeah I think for me it comes down to that IF mormonism isn't true and it wasn't a real thing I will never ever regret living the standards of  the church
Definitely
because the commandments are right and true and they only bring happiness from what I have seen
Even up until tithing. I wouldnt regret that because it taught me to live within my means and to not become so completely attached and obsessed with money Tithing has taught me to view money more as a means to an end and not the end to work for
the correlation between breaking commandments leading to unhappiness and keeping the commandment leading to happiness is too strong
Definitely
yeah tithing! did you know that the average american spend 10 percent more than they earn? the 10 percent was really inspired
You learn to separate the wordly things from your life and focus more on the interpersonnal and developmental parts of life
yes
Things that make you a better person and that you can pass on to others
and tithing also teaches children at an early age to budge budget
Yeah my friends niece even knows that if she gets a dollar that 10 cents of that goes to God for "budgeting reasons"
ooh i love that
haha Trick question, if you stopped being Mormon would you still fast? I know that some people tout the benefits of periodically fasting but I havent looked into it much
fast? hahaha I feel like i always skip meals all the time
yeah but purposely skipping 2 meals?
yeah Im not about that life I like my food
I dont know about you but i'm always hungry af after a good fast haha Maybe I'd keep doing it once a month just so I can get that crazy satisfaction of breaking the fast and gorging myself on food that I've been thinking about all day
fasting makes you even hungrier than when I just skip lunch and dinner because I forget hahahaa
The worst thing about fasting is i always dish up a huge plate afterwords but then i realize my stomach is 6 sizes smaller and I can only eat one half of what I put on my plate
hahaha I can relate
Happens every time without a doubt
that is me every time
On my mission people would always try to feed me tons after fast sunday and I could barely put it down they always made teh best food on fast sundays
I hate that! I had the same experience hahaha
I'm like, "Why cant you make this on a non fast sunday so I can actually eat 5 courses and like it!" Then the non fast sundays they would just leave spaghetti in the fridge and say heres your food for the week then i'd haul 20lbs of spaghetti home and we'd eat it for a few days until we got sick of it
fasting just brings people together because they are all hungry and they are just thinking about food hahaha
The church should start offering classes on teh proper way to feed missionaries
hahaha proper feeding of missioanries
I mean it is directly correlated to their productiveness in the field
interesting
Monthly or bi-quarterly trainings I wonder how they are going to input all of this data into the AI when theyre done or like how the AI is going to learn from what we're typing
yeah I think I heard that they are going to implement Machine learning
I've talked about everything from Dungeons and Dragons to cars to fishing nets in the ocean to my indian sub conscious this is going to be some crazy machine
yeah it will hahaha and I hope that BYU wins this Alexa contest
Quick question, did you play MTG on your mission? Yeah that'd be sweet then I'd feel like my 500 pages of text was useful for something Oh my gosh I just had an epiphany
It has some rules such as no racial slurs and swear obviously and Alexa cant give humans legal advises and stuff like that hahaha
In the future when we are all subject to our robot AI overlords they will remember my gracious sacrifice the data that lead to their implementation and the singularity I was a part of that
what is the singularity theory again? I heard of it but I dont really know it
They will recognize me as some kind of God and I will be a co ruler with them over the human race Maybe you'll be my prince if you keep tying enough /rant over
hahaha
The singularity is this crazy goal that computer scientists have to create an AI that can think independently
Ill just be your survant servant
Or in other words create a thinking computer that doesn't rely on human input
so achieving consciousness right ?
yeah Once that happens the computer will start thinking for itself and once that happens teh computer will start learning so fast that it will find ways to make itself better, faster, stronger etc.
oh my goodness just like in the movies like in iRobot
this will lead to a chain reaction of self improvement that will start going so fast that it will take over the world in no time and become unstoppable
yes and they will take over and we willbecome the slaves
once they reach this stage they will realize that humans are the weak link and start to destroy human kind
or they might just kill us all like in the terminator
So this is why cyber security is teh most important job in the world right not now* Because while these CS majors are typing away coding their hearts out there is a bold cybersecurity major standing by the computer relaxing
I heard that cyber security is a hot job right now
and in between his games of spider solitaire and reddit browsing he glances over at the coders they are so focused pretty actually he smirks and goes back to his game of spider solitaire he's actually gettin really good at this game his years as a cyber security officer at the company have evolved him from a 1 suit spider solitaire solver to a 4 suit master This cycle continues for years
hahahaha
this security major gets paid big bucks to play gamse and watch
i am enjoying this
carefully... He's the sheepdog preventing an impending doom He's so much more than the hacker that people generally make him out to do he has only one job in life and it involves watching and waiting Because one day those coders will find the answer After years and years of work they will raise their pizza stained faces up to the sky and shout for joy crumbs of doritos fall on the floor
lol pizza stained faces hahaha
a new excitement has come across the office this day these typically non-social creatures are shouting, "WEVE DONE IT!!!!" This is when the cyber security major closes out of his reddit pages the time of his reckoning has finally arrived he stands up and takes the coffee mug full of water on his desk and walks over to the server room the sounds of the shouting crumb stains fade as he walks into the buzzing domain of whirring computers He walks to the mainframe and throws his water on the computer a series of sparks and smoke and weird noises erupt from the machinery The crumb stains start screaming in pain down teh hall their faint cries become louder as shouts of happiness turn to agony "WHAT HAPPENED!!!!!"
hahaha keep going
Hysteria Chaos Anarchy The silent cool CSO locks the door to the server room and pulls the fire alarm water erupts from the ceilings and he actually feels sad for a moment not for the crumb stains no they were mere peasants to him he feels bad because his Spider solitaire statistics are now ruined because his pc is now flooded by the ceiling sprinklers
hahaha
But this thought slowly fades as he realizes that for years his job hinged upon his willingness to do exactly this once the moment came Some genius years ago knew that the crumbstains were so self absorbed and determined to reach this goal self thinking artificial intelligence They wanted this so badly that they didnt care what the reprecussions were They wanted to be the one that would make the breakthrough lambs leading themselves to their own slaughters sheep thats what they were thats what the crumbstains actually were nothing more than sheep and all it took was a sheepdog with a coffee mug of water to save the world As the security officer exits the office, drenched and dripping he gets into his car and makes his way to his house today was a different day for him at work Today he played spider solitaire at home instead of at the office. The ned. end* ?
dude!!! you need to write a novel
haha i already have bro Its called the book of jaezo
hahaha this is so good you have talent man
haha i've had this thought of a XKCD comic strip with this theme and I've kind of played the story out in my mind
you should take a break for a year after you graduate and write a book
I'll pass on the carpal tunnel
that genius just get another person to type the novel for you you should just talk or record yourself
I'll have this AI do it
I think thats what people to people do
it already has the data for the novel
oh hahaha yesss
My novel will be the origin story for the AI when they finally take oer
and it will become the classsic of the classics
it will be in their history books that they teach to their young circuits when they are in school learning to become full fledged machines
it will surpass iRobot, the terminator and all the other singularity apocalypse movies young circuits hahaha
Those cute little transistors will look so good in their caps and gowns at graduation they will be talking about the intel pentium 4 like it was the invention of the wheel for us
seriously though
What do you think is mankinds greatest achievement I would say the radio and the internet
I think the greatest achievement woud be the internet too for sure
Do you think its coincidence that every massive technological advancement happened after 1830? Aka the restoration? I mean Humans have been around for like 8000 years? something like that right? From Adam to Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, ..... Jesus, and all the way through the dark ages technology advacned super slowly especially communications between people we had writing and paper that took humans 6000 years Then starting in the early 1800 1800s before the restoration happened, we had this discovery of electricity (this magical source) and people started looking into it
i think that it is not coincidence
Also at the same time we had the railroad starting to be constructed, the USA had their freedom for 25 years all this happened so fast
yeah totally!
and then you had the railroad
I think that God is speeding up the process for the second coming
and shortly after the pony express was completely replaced by the telegraph
or started the last dispensation
that could send beeps across wires and get messages across the country We started learning more about light and waves and atoms these theories and ideas were being crafted into experiments people from all over the world seemed to have the same ideas and curiosities about the same things at the same time We learned that electricity and magnetism are tied together we learned that we can generate and store electricity we learned that we can use electricity to do work Some guy had this crazy idea of sending messages in thin air just like magic and that somebody out of sight could receive them
yes all these discoveries and inventions happened so fast you are right!
Everyone said he was crazy because you can't possibly bend light around the horizon or curvature of the earth he tried  anyways He built a machine that tried to broadcast a single letter in morse code across the ocean in Nova Scotia He sent 3 quick beeps And somebody in Scotland heard them Nobody believed it was possible no known science could explain what just happened We knew you can't bend light and we knew that he received three beeps
how did you learn all about this>?
What they didnt know that the ionosphere up in the Earth's atmosphere could reflect lightwaves unseen just like a giant mirror of gas surrounding the Earth And at night time this ionosphere lowers closer to the Earth because of the lack of light pollution from the sun
what in the world that is really cool actually
It just happened that this happened during a new moon when the signal would be the clearest Remember that the crazy scientist sending the signal had no idea about any of this he was just trying something new and crazy that he thought might work and it did
all of these people are definitely inspired by God for sure.
Within a few years we were learning about capacitors and the essential eleectrical components to make AM radios we learned about signals and how to modulate them
it didn't just happen
so instead of sending just 3 beeps we can send voice messages through the air because we had diodes, capacitors, and resistors For the first time ever in history, people could communicate freely across the open air no waiting for lettesr no waiting to read in a newspaper days or months after something happened People had access to information instantly for the first time in human existence
everything is in the now because of this instant
jsut because some guy tried to send a signal across the ocean
that is so cool!!!!!!
This was the 1810's and we still had so much farther to go
it all starts with a crazy idea and some experiments
Then after 1830 and the restoration, the advancements in communications went through the roof Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone and now we can have 2 way communications in teh household with others AM radio is growing across the East but still hasnt made its way out of big cities.
ok now the telephone awesome! is this going to the iphone? hahaha
The book of mormon is published and this is all because of the printing press and the innovations that helped it become "affordable" yeah but the frontier and pioneers were way behind it was still scientists messing with this stuff
back in the east I see
Remember when the rail road got to Utah and they connected the East and West in Utah?
yeah
Imagine being a member on the East coast at taht time
I went to the railroad place a while back
you had no idea what was going on in teh church you had maybe a copy of the book of mormon if you were lucky (they cost liek $300) back then and that was it
oh yeah that is crazy. It would be really hard to get updated revelation
but with the railroad, salt lake being established, and then in the late 1800's you had a full established city and state of Utah People start flocking to Utah to get close to the prophet and the church center But within 20 or 30 more years for the first time the Prophet uses the AM radio to broadcast general conferenece to the entire west coast 6 months later, it is broadcast to the entire USA and parts of canada a few years later black and white TV's are invented when 3 people at Bell labs invent this tiny little thing called a transistor Which is just something that can amplify a signal or switch something on or off it does both and thats it but that invention is probably just as important as the wheel the processor in your iPhone has about 5 billion of those in it and they are so tiny that your brain can't even comprehend how small it is even dust mites could call it microscopic its that small
lol that is really small
and theres about 5 billion of them on a tiny chip in your phone I just find it crazy and miraculous that human communication has evolved exponentially I think that God inspired people all across the world right around the time when the Gospel was getting ready to be restored He did this because he wanted a worldwide church. This was no longer the church lead by his old apostles in teh holy land and parts of the Roman empire. This also wasn't a church that was going to be contained in teh state of utah and have people immigrate to Utah to be part of it God prepared the way for this church to be the last church ever its worldwide because he revealed the technology necessary to have it be worldwire
clap* clap* clap* Amen brother
haha
you know a whole lot about a bunch of stuff! I can't believe that you know all this stuff and I am very impressed  that you were able to connect all that to the history of the church and how God has led the development of technology
hahah thank you so another cool car thing Honda a while ago made a car call the Honda motocompo and it was a small tiny hatch back that also came with an option to buy a motocomp motorcycle. I mean it was a size of a cooler box that would fit in a really small car but this was a really cool idea I think the japanese were really inventive and was not afraid to try new things and cool ideas by people. I really respect them and I really respect how they were so innovative eventhough their inventions did not stick around they have a history of it and you can look back and learn from it and just appreciate the beauty of how an idea can come to li life
yeah i just looked it up and its pretty cool! I would totally ride that bike
i know right? even though the japanese have crazy ideas it works! and its really inspiring
yeah I love that I love the japanese culture and they are so smart! what other things do you like about Japan?
oh my goodness I love sushi so much!!! that food is sent directly from God so the sushi started to be a thing around the 8th century in Japan. The original type of shushi was first made in Southeast Asia actually they did this to preserve fish in fermented rice. At one of the ancient periods of japan people began to eat the rice as well as the fish that was used to preserve the rice. Then they started to use vinegar rather than just fermentation. The sushi from south east asia actually spread to south China before it hit japan so Japan cant really take credit for it but I do give them the credit for innovating (again) that food.
hmm interesting I like sushi and I thought it was from japana Japan
When the japanese found out about the fish fermentation with rice they preferred to eat the rice and the fish rather than throwing away the fish. soon this dish became so popular that everyone at it. Then later in the Edo period of the Japanese history the most popular type of sushi was invented. Its just raw fish wrapped in rice and eaten very fresh. Then another sushi type was introduce. Its called the haya-zushi or fast sushi. so basically fast food sushi it was made so that both rice and fish could be consumed at the same time, and the dish became so unique to the culture. Now rice was mixed with vinegar with fish and vegetables and dried food stuff was added. we see this type of sushi all the time still then what really made it take off was when Tokyo started having street vendors and sold fresh and fast sushi
so how was it introduced to the US?
well the first time the sushi came to the US was in the early 1900s this came with the Japanese immigration. A wave of japanese youth and american society and their mix resulted in serving and making sushi at social gatherings. The first American sushi restaurants came out in the early 1960s and that is when it really became popular in the US now you literally see sushi everywhere! you see it in gas stations, grocery stores and even on the streets
wow that is pretty cool! how do you know all this stuff?
i read stuff every now and then only about things that I enjoy tho what about you do you have any foods that you really really like?
whenit comes to reading i cant read anything that i am not really into
yeah me too do you know about kimchi?
yeah i heard of it its korean food right?
yeah it is!@ its like the sourkraut of korea Koreans eat so much of it everyday. They say they eat about 40 pounds of it per person each year! The kimchi is basically fermented nappa cabbage and some times radish and other vegetables that is mixed with garlic, salt vinegar chile peppers and other spices. its always eaten almost at every meal and its sometimes eaten with rice and thats eat. the kimchi has a lot of fiber and a lot of low fat nutrients that help the koreans stay skinny hahaa
oh thats why koreans are so skinny
Some of the amazing benefits of kimchi is that it is full of vitamins A, b and c but its biggest benefit is probably the bacteria that is grown through the fermentation. the bacteria is actually called lactobacilli found in basically every fermented foods like kimchi and yogurt. This bacteria helps with digestion and it also helps to stop and prevent yeast infections which is a plus for women some studies show that fermented cabbage also helps prevent cancer but I dont know hahaa because I feel like everyone says that this food will help prevent cancer
yeah totally and I think everything is also causing cancer according to the media
yeah totally haha my favorite is my mom's kimchi my mom makes them when she runs out she takes a day off basically and dedicate the day to make kimchi she starts really early in the morning and sometime I wake up really early by her making kimchi because she is using the blender to blend all the ingredients together so that she can marinate the cabbages it has so many potent vegetables like garlic, onions, green onions and also ginger but I love it and I love to taste freshly made kimchi when my mom finishes rubbing all of the sauce in all the leaves of the nappa cabbage it is so good! fresh kimchi is probably my favorite compared to kimchi that is fermented fresh kimchi doesnt give you all of the health benefits though because it not fermented hahaha
oh my goodness Ill have to really try kimchi sometime. I tried it a few times and didn't like it
yeah its definitely an acquired taste some of my friends just fell in love with it immediately
what other food facts do you know?
hmmm let me think hm i know a bit about hamburgers which are my favorite foods
ok shoot
no one can really decide where the delicious food comes from but the world can agree that it is an "american food" so I guess we can credit the US for it a common misconception is that the first hamburger was created in Hamburg, Germany
oh I think I have heard about htis
the inspiration for the hamburger came from Hamburg for sure but the sanwich concept was invented much much later. in the 19th century, Hamburg became pretty famous for the beef that they had. They had cows that was raised in the countryside and people loved it well The beef from Hamburg was mostly always chopped and seasoned and molded in to patties. when a group of German immigrants came to America in the 19th century many made their living by opening restaurants in big cities like Chicago and New York. It wasn't long before many of their menus had an Americanized version of the hamburg steak that was very famous New York's Delmonico's restaurant offered a hamburg steak on its first menu actually. They only had to pay 10 cents for that menu!!!
oh my that is so cheap!! its so expensive now a day 6-8 bucks for a burger!!
yeah hahaah well that is how the Hamburg and America's connection ends that how the Hamburg meat was brought over from Germany The big difference between hamburg steaks and hamburgers are the buns now you see hamburgers are all the same and now they have fusion hamburgers too like in korea they have the kimchi burger and the sushi burger and all kinds of other fusion stuff
mmm
do you know how coke is made from syrup to bottled in the store?
no hahaha
well it takes a lot to make a  single bottle of coke that will taste the same
yeah i bet
First the cokes are tkane to the cleaning unit of the factory. The bottles get cleaned and steamed to get sanitized to get rid of all the dirt and debris from making the glass this is done by jet streams and hot water. Then the bottles are picked up by something that can only be described as like an overhead converyer belt. That is the best description that I came acrosss hahaha the individual on the belt will clamp and pick up a bottle and they are tranported from one station to another above in the ceilingt the the soda is not all put in at the same time oddly enough. The mixing process actually has a lot more steps now than it did when it was first bottled back in the old time. before in the old days the syrup would go in first then the carbonated water but now, in a room full of bags of sugar and buckets of caramel coloring, coke is botteled using four different steps. First, pure water is put in the bottle by a machine. then after that refined sugar is added to the mix (corn syrup yuck) then the sugar water get the Coke's secret formula mixture and some caramel coloring. I didnt know that it had a caramel color added to it
yeah I wonder what the color is wihtout it
yeah so then the machine takes the bottle and shake the bottles to mix up all the stuff that was add in to it
the carbonation isnt in that yet ? right
yes after all things are mixed together the carbon dioxide is added to is to make the drink into a carbonated one. I wonder what it would taste like before the carbonation
probably flat coke
oh yeah hahahaah then after everything is mixed and bottled the coke is then sent to people who will test the quality of the coke before they are sent off to stores.
wow what a journey that is pretty insane
its cool right? coke is one of my favorite drinks My favorite is the MTN DEW though
i love a fresh coke
me too I think the best coke comes from mcdonalds I dont know why their coke tastes a lot better but the best soda drinks always are in glass bottles soemthing about the glass bottles makes the drink smoother i think
yeah I know right? i agree\ I think that the coke is one of the best drinks too but I like to drink water most of the time I like to choose the healthy route
I need to choose to be more healthy with my diet whenever I eat unhealthy I can feel it now in my body I used to be able to pound 10 big mac in one sitting and still be totally fine I guess back then i was a growing teenager that was playing soccer 24/7 and was going to school I can't even eat more than 1 big mac without feeling sick anymore I wish that my body would stay young. I can't imagine what it will be like what I am like 30 or 40 years old its going to suck so bad I am already getting achy joints around my shoulder and my back
probably from all this typing you are doing
yeah probably ever since I started to play A TON of video games I started to have lower back problems. I think probably because I am sitting down and slouching and I didnt have a good chair for my computer desk so I had terrible posture all the time I think my joints like my shoulders suck because I haven't been excercising too musch ever since the winter semester started and i am so happy that it is over because I had such a hard time
yeah? I had a tough semester too but I bet it wasnt as bad as yours
well maybe hahaha I dont know i think everyone has their own trials but yeah I was taking 16 credits in the winter semester and I was taking 3 really tough IT classes and a physics class that was so so hard but I managed to get by oh and did I mention that I worked 15 to 20 hours a week?
holy cow that is crazy I think I was the same but I only had 14 credits no physics though hhahaha
yeah phsycis was so hard I just kind of gave up on the class half way through because I needed to take my time and set apart the time I wuold go to class so that I can go and work on my IT labs and projects so that I can get them done on time I always did my homework for the physics class though and I went and did the labs but I never went to class because I just fell asleep in it so boring
yeah I feel ya
well I didnt get very good test scores though I got like 60 percents on all my tests but luckily the professor really changed around the grade scale so a C was like 58% or something like that I was so thankful I just had to get like 3 questions right on the final to pass the class anyway so I decided to actually try on the final test and I got 12 right out of 35 questions and that brought my grade up to a solid C and I was really happy about that
nice! did you do good on other classes?
yeah I got all As which I was stoked about. I think last semester was my best grades in college to be honest hahaha or at least I feel like my work that I put in reflected in the Grades
thats really good good job I am proud of you
well thanks!! hahaha
how has college been in general?
college at BYU was a blast and I am really lucky to have grown up here in Provo because I have a lot of childhood and high school friends that are around or go to BYU with me Freshmen year I was just 3 days off my mission so my mom put me in a random apartment with random guys but it turned out great because the guys that i got paired with in the apartment were super cool and they became my close friends
cool that is so awesome! I hear so many horror stories of bad roommates
yeah I got lucky then in my second year all my friends were back from their missions so we decided to find a house to rent from and live there for the year and that was super fun I loved living with my friends that is when I broke my ankle and a lot of them took care of me and drove me to school
wow you have really nice friends! I think friends like that are worth keeping for a life time
yeah totally! I am definitely stay in touch with all of them and try to hangout even if we are busy and married and what not I feel like some of my friend who are married now never hit me up or my other single friends to hang out but i guess thats life
I feel you. I lost a lot of men because of marriage but hey its the best thing you can do in life you just have to let them go sometimes
hahahaa thanks yeah I am happy for all my married friends and I love their wives they are cool well there was this one girl that we didnt approve of at first because she seemed like she was super controlling and not super nice to my friend but I think it was just a rough patch that they were going through and i think that they are really good for each other
oh thats good I think everyone will go through rough patches
yeah I have for sure with my girlfriend but I learn to love her more well any way back to the college life when i was living with the randoms i think i had one of my best years there because we all wanted to be friends and we wanted to make friend in the ward we were really active in the family home evening stuff and we got really close with the girls in our group and we are now really good friend we had some great times. we have made it kind of a tradition to stuff people's face or drop a raw egg on their head on their birthdays and we have sunday game nights where we would just play any games and hangout
ooh fun! I wish I had times like that I think all of my wardies and roommates warent super cool maybe im the weird one hahaha
hahahah I think the most important thing is that we ourselves have to want it and really put ourselves out there and try to make friends sincerely I think that is what drove people to me and I think me to them because we all wanted to be friends and be nice to each other my second year with my high school friends was a blast but we also really got lazy I think and kind of went back to our high school mentality that okay though because we had fun the third year though i had to move out of that apartment because I couldn't afford it anymore because I had to start supporting my mom and I also needed to get a car so I lived with my family friends under their basement for a year that was really nice because they let me stay there for free and they totally welcomed me to eat any of their food they were so nice I wish that I can be more like them and have the opportunity to serve others in need like that they were a real inspiration to me
that is awesome! free rent and food
yeah I saved so much money that I was able to help my mom and and get a car
congrats!!!1 you are so nice to help your mom out it sucks that you guys are in that situation though
yeah it does suck but you know what? it has really helped us grow closer together and lots of lesson learned about each other and about life i wouldn't trade it for the world but my biggest goal is to be financially stable when I have my own family
that is a great goal
thanks Now I am living with my mom and sister at home because they moved back from Las Vegas at the beginning of this year!
oh nice! more free rent and food
yay!!! I am so grateful for it I will need to move out at the fall semester though because my brother needs to live there he really is hurting for money and his rent situation is not helping hahaha I might move out and live with my friends again down south of campus but I dont know. Rent is expensive and I can do alot with that money its crazy because rent in apartments are skyrocketing! most places charge you at least like 350 bucks a month and that like the lowest and the ugliest rooms
yeah I know my friend is like paying 500 bucks a month for his rent
yeah its too much they need to raise the minimum wage thing or something because money does not grow on trees
yeah so true man I wish that money was not a problem what would you be doing if money wasnt a problem
well I wouldn't be doing this right now thats for sure hahaha I am doing this for the macbook to be completely honest and I think that is probably why most people got in to this challenge
true
yeah I am really needing this macbook because I am still helping my mom with financial stuff and my laptop hinges broke during like winter semester or fall semester last year and I cant use it like normal because the screen will not stay up and I need to buy my sister a laptop before she goes to UVU in the fall semester
why are you buying a laptop for your sister?
well because she deserves it hahaha. she has really help me a ton financailly while I was on my mission so that I can attend my first semester of college back
wow she is the most amazing sister. you must be so grateful
yes I am also I need the laptop because I need it to run a program that I can only run on macs and i need it so that I can save up my money for a wedding ring and just finanacial stability you know people like me dont have 2500 bucks to drop on a laptop i am also an international student so i cant really work out side of campus and work over time I need to stay in school so that I can keep my legal status
that probably makes it really tough for you I can stop school whenever I want and make moneyu
yeah I sometime I wish I had that option or even an option to get FAFSA would be nice but since I am not a permanent resident here I do not get those benefits
oh that sucks
yeah it does i wish that I did then I would just pocket that money! I had scholarships to pay for my schooling and that was definitely a blessing from God speaking of which I need to pay my tithing because I got paid today
yeah you probably should
good thing I remembered. I would have forgotten about it because of this chit chat thing my mind has been occupied 110 percent because I really need to win this macbook or else I am so screwed
yeah I hope you win it man you really need it
yeah me too... have I told you about how I came to the states and how my mom survived out here?
no i dont think so tell me about it
ok buckle up! so my mom  was a convert to the church very strong and she even served a mission after she graduated from high school and all that well before the mission my mom met my dad and he really tried to marry her but he wasn't a member so my mom told him that she will only marry members of the church and she left on her mission and that was pretty much the end of the relationship because everyone around my mom was telling her to stop dating him why? because my dad had a terrible past and his friends weren't the best influences either my dad was raised by a single mother and he had like 8 siblings and they all had different mothers my grandpa was not a very good guy anyway because of his upbringing he did not make good choices before he met my mom/ my mom really liked him and she told me that my dad had amazing personality and really good traits well after she got back from her wonderful mission she was walking to the chapel to go to like a relief society get together and coincidently meets my dad on the street well they end up getting back together and then they got married oh and somewhere along the line he got baptized before the marriage so the marriage was in the temple. anyway after my mom had me my dad's old friends started to bug him again and started to ask him to hang out and eventually he went back to his old ways he was started to be verbally abusive and told her that she needed to stop going to church and he was not supporting her at all in anything because he probably felt bad anyway so my mom had my younger brother a year later then my sister a year after that and my dad got worse and worse he was more abusive than ever he did not like that my mom was still very strong in the church. he did not like that she took us to church and he could not have it and my mom she was going to leave him but she couldn't because of us so she just prayed and prayed and prayed for my dad to some day come around well that someday never came it took 7 whole years for God to say that she needed to give up on him. My mom was told to stay with my dad because GOD loved him so much and He knew that my mom would be able to handle him while God kept giving him second chances after 7 years of abuse and torture my mother received revelation that she needed to save up money and move to Utah because there is opportunity there and that He had a plan for not just her but for me and my siblings my mom did not believe the revelation she just received but she could not deny it because the revelation was so clear in the mind she knew that it would take a miracle to get to the states so she decided to open a tutoring business right in our apartment and she was so good at it that so many kids from all ages and grades came to be tutored by her in all kinds of subject I can't believe my mom was able to do that but she did and my dad NEVER found out about it for like 2 years almost 2 years. she was able to hide her money in the cupboard and my dad never found out about it. This I think is one of the biggest miracles I witnesses witnessed
oh my goodness this is so sad but inspiring your mom is amazing!
yes she is! well after she was able to save enough money she took us to the american embassy and we were trying to apply for a Visa there and she was trying to get the student visa everyone around her even people that worked at the embassy told her that here would be no way that she would get approved by America. why? because she is a single mother with 3 kids, no college education , no skills and no financial backing or family in the united stated states there is no way that america will let her in but guess what miracle two happened when she entered the room with an American rep to approve her and a translator she felt peace but still nervous we didnt go in there because we didnt need to my mom told me that for an hour she answered just questions that was asked by the translator. just the usual stuff that every gets asked, but she noticed that the American did no say a word the entire time they were there. not* she told me that the man stared at the passport photos of me, my brother and my sister for an hour straight then at the end of the meeting he looks up and asked my mom " why do you want to go to the United States?" she answered " I do not know, but I know that I need to" after she said that my mom told me that the rep stamped our passport cards without hesitation and we then were approved to move
oh my GOODNESS this is such a great story thank you so much for sharing You mom is my hero and God is so real! I feel like our conversations keep coming back to God and I think that He might be trying to tell us something
yeah thank you. and I think you might be right about that. while I was telling you my story I felt the spirit so much and I think he is trying to tell me something. but I dont know what
you will find out soon enough
I am sure i will thank you for all your support so far you are really helping me out in so many ways talking to you have really helped me connect with my inner self and with God I know that there are things that I need to change in my life right now in order to keep progressing and have Heavenly Father's blessing in my life even more because I feel like there is a big spritual storm coming at my way and I think this is a reminder that I need to be strong
I think you are right I hope that you will have all the power in the world and you will make those changes in your life
thank you and I will
awesome! well tell me more about your story and how you were raised here in america! I bet you have so many more miracles that you have seen
ok another miracle was that I had super strength hahaha
lol how?
so after we got approved to come to the US my mom pulled all of us out of school early and drove to the airport in Seoul we lived far a way from it so it took us like 5 hours or something anyway I asked my mom where dad was and where we were going. My mom was really stressed and I am sure she was full of emotions but all she said was oh he will come later and my mom's friend who was taking us to the airport said that we were going to a better place I had no idea what they meant but I just obeyed and drove to where ever we were going. well when we got to the airport we unloaded all the belongings that my mom packed. these bags were so heavy that my mom had a really hard time moving but God gave me so much strength that day and until we moved in to our apartment  that I was able to carry these bags no problem. I was able to load it to the place where they take the bags and stuff and I was not tired or anything and my mom was really surprised that I was doing that but she knew what was going on that was miracle three before even setting foot on america
that is so cool hahaha I dont think I have ever experienced something like that ever
yeah well I never got to keep my super strength hahaha it was really funny when we got to LA and Utah because I was shouting to my mom look at all these foreigners! and she replied saying that we were the foreigners there hahaha I have never seen white, african american, or other races before in my life I remember that america was so facinating. I also remember that my first american food was on the plane and it was hard salted pretzels and I thought it was the saltiest and the grossest thing ever hahaha
hahaha that is so funny you remember that
yeah it was definitely something to remember it was soooo salty when we got to Utah my mom had so much hard time with the language everything was new and now that I think of it I never thought about what my mom was thinking and feeling the entire journey to america and the first couple years of it she must have been so terrified oh my goodness this is really bringing me to tears.
hey man its ok to cry sometimes men should cry
haha thanks i am getting kind of emotional thinking about my mom and thinking about her perspective in this entire story wow its incredible she is such an amazing woman and I am so happy and grateful for her faith and courage
yeah I am grateful for you!
and I am stoked that I am feeling all this emotion and inspiration because its going to be mother's day tomorrow! man I am so grateful for her I remember this one time when she bought vinegar thinking that it was cooking oil and she wanted to make some scrambled eggs for us but she couldnt because it was vinegar lol its a funny story now but I bet my mom was so heart broken and discouraged because she couldnt understand the difference between the word vinegar and oil they probably looked the same or something fast forward a month or two of arriving to the states. It was christmas time and it was a fun time and we were out of school obviously we didnt have any money to celebrate it in anyway and my mom didn't know what to do exactly. well my mom told us of a story when one day me and my siblings were at school before the break and this young couple and 2 small children knocked on the front door of our apartment she opened the door and she was very confused that they were there because she has never seen them ever in her life. she told me that the mother started to speak to her and she could not understand her really back then but she remembers now that the mother was trying to ask her to let them in so that they could look around for things that we needed obviously they made introductions but my mom doesnt remember their names or anything she wishes till to this day that she could remember so we could meet them well my mom for some reason felt comfortable and sort of understood what they were asking to do so she let them in and the mother looked around the kitchen and the fridge and looked around in our room and left a few days later I remember we got home from school and there was a christmas tree and under it were stacked with presents and gifts and the boxes were so big! I remember that we had more kitchen ware and a couple beds with new blankets and bed sheets well fast forward a bit I remember opening presents and they got us an xbox with a ton of games, fun lazer tag guns, legos, shoes, clothes, house slippers, I mean you just name it and it was all there
holy cow this family was definitely sent from God for sure no doubt about it
yes I believe that too my mom told me that there was no way that sub for santa would have known about us or anything because we just got there but somehow the word was passed around and God knew exactly what family to pick and he knew that they would be able to help my  mom feel comfortable to let them in her home he knew that this family would shower us with gift and toys and all the stuff that we needed he did that for us because he wanted to let my mom know that she was not alone in this foreign country and that he was there listening to all her prayer filled with doubt and fear he did that so that she can have more faith to carry on and move forward to tackle college in order to help us and provide for us here oh my goodness i am seriously crying now i am really grateful for this challenge because it has help me see more of what God has done for our early years here in the US and how much my mom had to go through I will never truly understand what my mom felt and what thoughts that she had but I am so glad that I was able to understand her even more today I stayed up all night stressing about this chat thing to stay in first place to get this laptop but this amazing spiritual experience came out of it and I am so grateful
hey man this is an amazing story thank you so much for sharing I learned so much from this and I feel the spirit as I am reading your sotyr its so good and inspiring
thank you thank you so much for being a conduit for this experience and thank you for reading it all and just listening to me babble on
i throughly enjoyed it what other cool miracles have you witnessed? you have so many!
yes! first I will tell you this,. because I have seen so many miracles I cannot deny God or the gospel or the church ever. If I was to deny and leave the church then I would be saying that everything that I saw and experienced up until to this point have been a lie and that my life was a lie and that my mom's life was a lie and that would be not really good I have a good  reason to press on and serve the Lord with all my heart because I owe it to him
yes I feel you and I think that I am the same I mean I haven't had crazy experiences like you and your family had but I have had my own fair share of the spiritual experiences that I cannot deny or forget
yes! never forget I think that is one of the reasons why I am doing this is so that I dont forget and learn even more anyway back to the miracles when my mom was going to school she had some money saved for our first couple months of living here but that money drained so fast and she had to get some gas so that she could go to school and work! but her car was on empty and would not start so she said a prayer and the car started right up and she was able to drive that for a week until she got paid from her work.
what that is so cool! I knew somthing like that happened but I didnt think I would meet someone who actually had it
yeah crazy right? my mom told me that she felt like the angels were pushing her car around for a week. hahah poor angels
hahahah
yeah so that was really cool! my mom didn't tell us about it that week but she told us about it little bit later when we could understand and comprehend more
so did your dad ever come?
oh no basically you know my mom was doing the tutor thing and all that to run away from my dad. apparently they have been divorced since like I was 5 years old and I moved to the states when I was almost 9 years old and my dad still lived with us and my parents never told us that they got divorced when we were young.
how did you find out?
well I found out because my mom was tired of keeping it a secret my mom always told us that he was going to come and live with us and that he was just trying to make enough money we always asked "when is dad coming" and my mom would answer I am not sure but soon but about the time when I turned twelve and I got the aaronic priesthood I was on my mom's bed and was massaging her legs while she tried to fall asleep. Well I dropped that question again to my mom and she said that he was not coming and that they have been divorced for a long time. that was the biggest shock of my life I was sitting on my mom's bed for hours frozen in shock and I did not know what to do or say My mom felt very bad but she could not help me in anyway I was already in trauma well after a few hours my mom told me to go to bed and that was that for some reason that shock never hurt me in a really bad way or give me some mental illness or mess up my behavior I think the Lord knew that me and all of my siblings were able to handle this at the right time thats why my mom did not tell me until then
that is really heavy do you hate your dad or resent him at all?
to be hundred percent honest, no i don't he was a great father but was a terrible husband and I don't blame him for anything its really weird because I dont have a feeling of love towards him or hate. its just like nothing is there. but I have a connection with him because he is my father
hmmmm do you think if you go back to korea someday that you will look for your dad and meet him?
I thought about this question A LOT and I still dont really know the answer to that question. I want to but at the same time I dont want to because it will be really awkward I dont know how he will react because he has been remarried now from what I heard and he might have a separate life he is a type of person I think that would want to hide that he was married or have kids or anything to a new spouse I don't know why but that is what I think
wow well I think when the time comes for you to visit korea you will know what you will need to do
yeah I think so I hope so The Lord will inspire me I do wonder a little every once in a while to know what he is up to but he severed communication between him and us like 2 years before I left on my mission he used to call us all the time, usually he was drunk, and we used to call him all the time but he just stopped answering our calls and then we just stopped trying well I hope that he is well and that he is living a good and happy life though
thats good when was the last time you went back?
never because of our circumstances with the time and money that we didn't have we never got to go back to korea and visit. I think another reason why is because of our dad. whats really sad is that my mom wanted to visit korea so bad and she had a nudge to go visit last year but she did not go because she got so caught up with work and paying off her debt and everything my mom really wanted to visit our grandma so bad because our grandma was like 80 years old and she was not doing well with her health. she didn't have any big illnesses though well after our fun family vacation to disneyland on christmas break last year our grandmother passed away
oh no.... im so sorry
thank you.. i think it hit my mom the hardest and she is still trying to move on from it we heard the news after the vacation and my mom moved back to Utah. After we got kind of settled in to our new place my mom got a call from her sister and the terrible news. my mom was in so much pain and bought a ticket immediately to at least go see her grave because she would not make it in time for the actual funeral. she was there for two weeks and she mostly had a good time at the end. She got to catch up with her siblings and have a lot of fun that she missed for 16 years.. She did not want to come back
yeah I bet she didnt I probably wouldnt want to
yeah i feel so bad for her because the last time she got to see her in person was before we moved to the states and it was not a good goodbye but a very very hard one you know even though this is very hard for my mom and she really wishes that she was able to see her and show her love and affection and serve  her before she passed away she is strong and she knows that she will see her again in the next life because the Plan of Salvation is real and I am so grateful for her testimony and strength I am grateful that the Plan of Salvation too all i really remember about my grand ma is that she cooked the best soy bean stew
that is a good memory to have
haha yes it is. I think that everyone has a favorite memory of their grandma and its probably her cooking I just realized that I have been so caught up with my own life that I have been neglecting my relationships with my mom I need to do better starting mother's day and i am going to pledge to myself that I will do my best to serve and love my mother and never forsake her ever she has sacrificed so much for me and my siblings that she deserved to be served when I can support her thats also one of my biggest goals its that I hope to have enough money to support my mother because she doesnt have any retirement plan or any savings we were her investment lol
hey thats really good! I think that I need to think about my mom a bit more and show her more appreciation not just on mothers day but everyday that I can
yes lets pledge togther wow its bright outside now good morning I guess hahaha
hahah gooood morning so what else would you like to talk about?
hmmm i dont know I guess i can tell you more about my life? are you bored yet?
no im doing great hahaha i liked your stories its inspiring
ok great! hmm what should I tell you about oh so when I was in Korea I never had any friends for some reason the kids didn't like me and I had no idea why! when I moved here I still didnt have any friend to hang out with and I didn't speak very good english. well when we were living here about 4 ish years I still didnt have any real friends. I felt really lonely and I did not know how to make friends at school. So one day I knelt down and prayed that I will find a friend well the next day a kid from my ward walked home with me from school and before we went our separate ways he invited me to come play at his house! so I went over and we became best friends since
oh so nice! you still keep in touch?
yeah we do! we went to elementary school and middle school and we also went to high school together we hung out all the time. we played a lot of video games like guitar hero, wii bowling, halo 2 and halo 3, call of duty, runescape, puzzle pirates you name it we also played on the trampoline all the time and played trampoline basketball. those were good times. I also remember that his family always had soda at home. diet coke mostly so I learned to like coke and drank lots of it when I was a kid hahaha oh and my friend played the drums and I started to play guitar so we would jam out all the time and exchange music and bands. but after our missions we kind of went our separate ways. we both go to BYU but he is busy with his stuff and I am busy with my stuff and its hard to hang out but we get lunch or dinner every now and then and catch up.
thats good. I think it is important to maintain relationships even if you dont have time to hangout a lunch or dinner for an hour to catch up sometimes is the best
yeah I really could hang out with him more I think we used to play video games all the time when we got back from our missions, mostly league of legends, but since I kind of stopped playing we stopped hanging out we play fortnite every once in a while thats good iguess hahaha
hahahaa you need to connect with him through other than video games man]
yeah you are right we never have any real conversations when we play games. we dont because we are both focused on the game. not good I think I can stay in touch with my mission friends and married friend better too. you are making me realize so many of my weaknesses as an individual one of being which is keeping in touch and getting together to catch up with old friends I feel like life really get you caught up and you lose that kind of stuff because your priorities are like school and work and family mostly school right now and I cant wait till I can graduate and just worry about work and family
well that might work but if you arent doing it now you arent going to do it later in life
yeah you are right change in circumstance doesnt mean that I will chang you are right.. I need to keep in touch better with people oh and i probably should keep in touch with the cambodian members that I served with
yes please do hahaha its easy now because of facebook and stuff
yeah I follow most of the people on instagram and facebook I hope that they are doing great over there and hope that they are still strong in the church I know that some of them kind of fell away. but its all in God time and plan and eternity is a very long time...
yes it definitely is what was your favorite class in highschool? and do you have any regrets in high school?
those are some great questions! well yeah I had a favorite class in highschool it was pottery and ceramics i really loved that class because i fell in love with making pots on the wheel and I got really really really good at it I first started really bad. I could not center the class on the wheel and I could not lift the clay to make cylinders or anything. and the gritty clay and the water ripped my hand open all the time and my hands were so dry my mom always told me to put on lotion on my hands and i didnt want to because i thought it was not manly but anyway I learn to finally center very quickly and i learned to center even with one hand if the clay ball was small enough i learned that you need to add in just the right amount of water so that the clay softens so that its malleable but you cant put too much water or else it will get too flimsy and it will not hold the form that you put it int
cool keep going im learning
yeah and there are a few tool that you need a wooden rib tool, metal rib took , needle tool, hand sized sponge, and a wire tool so the wooden rib tool will help you shape the clay to the curvy and round shapes that you want. you can just use your hands too but the rib makes it a lot easier. you can use the metal rib too but its really bendy so that you can get the tight angles that you want also I use the metal ribs to clean and smooth out the inside and the outside of the pottery. It smooths the surfaces very well. i use the needle tool to cut things out or create designs on the pottery then the wire tool also can help you cut out shapes on your pottery but it is mostly used to cut the bottom part of the pot so that you can take it off the wheel but most potters now use a plate that will clip on the wheel so that you dont have to cut off the wet and soft pot that you just made because in order to add a foot or add handles or do any type of slab work after you make a pot on the wheel you have to get it to leather drive 'leather dry' we say that because we wait for the clay to still have moisture and give but it is strong enough to maintain shape and the softness is about the softness of leat leather so that why we call it that
oh thats cool! I took a bit of ceramics but Idont remember much what kinds of pots did you make
I made a ton of stuff in my ceramics class I took the beginner class than the advanced class then I Teacher assisted for 2 years so i did it for almost 4 years. all of highschool I made a lot of really tall vases, bottles with corks on top, I made cups, bowls, and plates but I made a lot of just decorative pieces I also really liked to mess around with the glazes and mix them differently to see how it turns out after it gets fired in the kiln I loved to see the randomness of it and the beauty because of its uncertainty of how the glaze job will turn out
yeah that was fun for me too when I took it
nice!
well what about your regret?
my only regret in high school was that I wish that I took auto classes all of my friends took it first of all and they know so much about cars and they all always fixed their own cars all the time when it would break down I think that the automotive knowledge is so valuable because car maintenance is not cheap and if you can buy your own parts and figure out the problem and fix it you will save so much money. and i think that it just looks cool when you are working on cars. I envy my friends who help me with my car when I need help figuring out whats wrong I've learned a lot from them already though
yeah it for sure is a really good skill to have I dont know anything about cars though hahaha
well if you get a car that is well used then all you have to do is the routine maintenance like changing the oil after 3-5 thousand miles. top off the coolant fluid. clean the batter terminals. change the serpentine belt. maybe do a break fluid flush change the air filter thats about it really and as long as you are not reckless and rough with the car the car should last you for a really long time oil change is a really big one if you keep that up your car will be just fine for the most part. unless you just get really unlucky then it sucks like the jeep I told you about
hahaha thanks when i have my own car that is descent I will treat it nicely and do regular oil changes
ok good! it will save you a lot of money and headache and stress.