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When You Can't Play Games
2008-02-12 20:38:00
You know, it is really difficult to want to do something when you can't. Take me for example, I am a pretty big fan on online gaming. I've played Final Fantasy XI, World of Warcraft, Everquest, tried to play Everquest 2 but my computer wouldn't run it, City of Heroes/Villains, and the Matrix Online. Most of this happened either on my summer breaks or before I got to college. You see, where I go to college it's very difficult to play something I want to play. This wasn't the case at first. When I was a freshman three years ago, any online game I wanted to play was open. Now this was a problem for the small campus. Because all the ports were open people were free to use filesharing programs like Kazaa or Limewire. Okay, so I used to use these too, but they ended up taking so much bandwidth (or something) and the IT department closed every port except for the general internet.This was bad for me. I was paying monthly for WoW and City of Heroes at the same time, along wit...
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St. Louis on Film
2008-02-10 02:37:00
Note: If you missed our Introductory message you might want to read it over here.I don't believe I mentioned the fact during my introduction, but one of my major interests is photography. Recently, I was on a field trip to St. Louis and found myself immersed with many unique subjects for photography. In fact, I believe I was consistently the last person of the group to leave a sight and multiple times was told I "got lost" when everyone was ready to leave. How this happened I am not sure, I knew exactly where I was. Anyway, Dr. Nicovich and the rest of the group had enough patience to wait for me so here are the results. Maybe there not the best, but hey we're working on that!To see all the pictures please view my Flickr album here or click on the gallery picture below.-Justin
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The Symposium Begins
2008-02-08 04:12:00
Symposium: A conference at which a certain subject is discussed.Random: Lacking any definite plan or order or purpose.Thoughts: Mental process which allows beings to model the worldSo it begins. What begins you may ask? Good question; essentially whatever. In a break with the set in stone conventional blogging wisdom, this blog has no specific topic. Why? Quite simple really 1) We are new to this and have no idea how to blog correctly. 2) We have many different interests and don't think it politically correct to single any one of them out. 3)We felt like doing it this way. 4) Unless you immediately leave after reading this sentence we will assume you are at least somewhat interested and therefore our new scheme of blog writing has at its core some merit.So the next question is "Who is we?" The simple truth is we don't know exactly who we are, but we are normally called Justin Gunter and Jeff Holingsworth. We're both students at William Carey University and are roommates (selecte...
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The Symposium (Batman?) Begins
2008-02-06 07:01:00
I agreed to the title "Symposium of Random Thoughts" not only because I thought it sounded cool, but because I couldn't think of any other title that most described what I plan for my part of the blog. I really enjoy writing; I write stories from time to time and I can articulate my interests better through word than through talk. This gives me plenty of space to let my own interests be known, as if I thought any reader might care. However, everyone's thoughts are equally valid, so hey, why not make mine known?My sincerest wish is that someone other than Justin or myself will get some sort of enjoyment out of this dumping place for the mind's garbage. I believe we have agreed that our interests are varied enough (at least in intensity) that we will likely talk more about different things depending on who posts. From my side of things, expect reviews of games and movies and poignant glimpses into a (semi)beautiful mind. This is certainly not the rule though. Justin my decid...
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