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So this blog is currently at a state of inactivity. I still want to keep it updated, but now that I’m in college it’s so easy to do other things first–notably more fun things. That said, I will try to keep this a little more updated. Also, speaking of me slacking off on things, I really need to work on t-shirt designing. The “Banana Bre(a)d” t-shirt has been untouched for way to long.

Something to chew on for the time beeing is this cool video (in HD, even) on a cool site called Vimeo that I found.

~ Jon

So today is my last full day in Pennsylvania. I’m pretty excited to get back to Harding; this year will be quite awesome. I have some big goals for this year that will make my life there less lazy and more scheduled, and I’m excited for that too. I’m also excited to see how much God will use me, and am trying my best to give him my all.

On a completely unrelated note, I put a menu on the front page of jonyoder.com that links to all the non-menu sections of the site. In a way it kinda makes the ‘Stuff’ link useless, but I think I’ll leave it there anyway since it’s accessible from anywhere and not just the front page.

So long all! Be safe.
~ Jon

Gah…I’m so tired, but I have so much that I want to do tonight. We’ll see what happens.

I thought this was great. And I’m out.

~ Jon

I found this video today (via) about yo-yo tricks. I know that incredible talent is not hard to find on youtube, but I like this video especially because I used to have a mechanical yo-yo like that. The best I could do was baby in the cradle, where you just make a box with the string and then move the yo-yo through the box a few times. And I thought that was good…

Also, this is pretty epic:

~ Jon

These past few days have been pretty crazy for me. God is so good. On a similar note, I rediscovered this song:

Lyrics:
Is this the strange feeling
Of you working all to good
‘Cause I am so confused
I don’t even ask for what I should

For you so loved the unlovable
That you gave the ineffable
That who so believes the unbelievable
Will gain the unattainable

I love how God can work in me and take what I give Him and make it something good. I’m working on giving Him my all so that all of me can shine of Him.

So much is on my mind right now…but I’ll leave it for a later time. I believe that I can do so much good if my strength is from God…and I have some big plans for this coming semester, a higher calling.

There you go working good of all I have
Till all I have’s not that bad

Love you guys.

So tonight was quite a hectic night. I’ve been doing tons of stuff on this site.

Yeah, so now the time is approaching 4AM now…ah well. I guess when I’m in ‘the mode’ I just don’t wanna get out of it.

Some of the things that I’ve been messing around with:

• PCC 2008 Slideshow page is now about as completed as it will ever be. Okay, it’s completed. But for some reason the Proshow (slideshow program I use) player won’t work for that massive show that is PCC, so you’re stuck with the flash version, where the quality leaves much to be desired. If you want the best quality, then you’ll have to download the PC-only version.
• Minor changes, such as adding the PCC stuff to the video page, figuring out how to spell elevated and apologize :-P, and other things so minor that I don’t even remember what they are.
• Finaly– jonyoder.com Gallery! I’m pretty excited about this. Almost all the pictures from PCC are on there (well, the notable ones–I’m not going to upload all 3,500 of the pictures I took. :P), and I will continue to update it with pictures that I take. I’ll probably talk more about this later on, but check it out–it’s quite a cool system.

And…that’s it. Putting it into a 3-point-list makes me more sad that it took as long as it did. Ah well, live and learn! I don’t regret doing that.

So I originally didn’t like Switchfoot’s Oh! Gravity CD, but lately I’ve been getting more accustomed to it. Oh yeah, and this song reminds me of The Nobility (band at Harding).

God bless!
~ Jon

p.s. If you’re interested in the forums at all, I posted a thread requesting feedback here.

So I found this site today called Spreeder.  It displays text one word at a time, starting at 300 words per minute, but you can set it to display faster than that, such as 400 or 500 words per minute.  At first 400 words per minute sounds like a lot, but with this it actually isn’t too hard to keep up with, it just isn’t a relaxing read. 

And according to this site I can read at around 250-300wpm (not sure where my comprehension lies exactly), so this effectively increased my reading speed ability by about 150 words per minute.

I don’t know if I will ever use this on a regular basis, but it’s definitely interesting.

~ Jon

I thought this picture was golden. 

Click for bigger picture.

~ Jon

Beard, no Beard.

You probably heard the song Pork and Beans by Weezer, but have you seen the video? This was a really cool move of Weezer to do–incorporate youtube ’stars’ into their song. I don’t know how/if this will translate into more songs, but I really like the idea.

Just in case you didn’t get all the references here are a few of the main ones–Chocolate Rain, Miss Teen South Carolina, Kelly (from the Shoes video), Chris Crocker (Leave Brittany Alone), Diet Coke + Mentos, guy from Evolution of Dance (random–but is it just me, or is this video not that great? I guess it’s just me, since 91 million views says otherwise), Daft Hands, Daft Bodies, Charlie the Unicorn, the Ninja guy (haha, I love how weezer gives this guy a comeback :P), the Dramatic Look Gopher, Peanut Butter Jelly Time, K-Fed, Lightsaber guys, 155 T-shirts, Numa numa, all your base are belongto us, Sneezing Panda, and GI Joe PSA.

The ones that I didn’t link to contain profanity, so yeah.

And hopefully I’ll never have this many links in a blog post again.
~ Jon