Summer Goals

Here is a list of everything I hope to accomplish this summer. We'll see.

Get Married

'nough said.

Build an assembly level computer with pipelining

I want to build the hardware that will implement the MIPS language, I probably won't build it at a gate level, cause it would be rather large, but want to connect the major components myself

Wake up in time to be doing something at 7

Early to bed, early to rise….

In depth study of the Bible

I really want to understand the Bible more, not just spiritually, but intellectually as well.

Learn Iphone API

With the release of the Ipad, the API for the whole I-world system is being used by more and more people, knowing how to write programs for this platform has become more and more important.

Learn to type as fast as someone can talk

This would be helpful for taking notes in school or church

Learn Peter and the Wolf on the piano

Cause it's awesome. And I miss piano :(

Do in-book assignments from programming book (Data structures and Algorithms)

Cause I miss Java.

Learn everything I should've in Physics 1

I tended to use my Physics class to do homework for my other classes, but I'm really interested in learning Physics and I have to take Physics 2...

Go through my discrete book and learn the rest of it

Cause this was pretty much my favorite class so far, and we only covered like the first 5 or so chapters.

Read:

- Plato

Good luck finding another book where all you read is a conversation and you learn so much.

- Les miserables

Epic. At least the movie and audio drama were. Hoping the book will be the same.

- Crime and Punishment

I'm about halfway through and got busy. But keep having mental flashbacks to it.

- Cost of Discipleship

Been on my to read list for a while.

- LOTR

I'd like to reread and rewatch all of these.

- Intellectuals

An analysis of famous thinkers that have shaped society and their personal flaws

- The End is Now

Rob Stennet's book on the end times, should be good.

- I Isaac, Take Thee Rebekah

Ravi Zacharias takes Isaac and Rebekah's story from Genesis 24 and uses it as a model for marriage today

- King Raven Trilogy

Stephen Lawhead takes the story of Robin Hood and sets it in Wales to coincide with the Norman conquest of the Welsh people. Very interesting historical fiction.

- The Dragon King Trilogy

Just straight up good fantasy fiction

- 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

A classic

- What's So Amazing About Grace

Philip Yancey's exploration of grace, I'd also like to read 'Prayer', and 'The Jesus I Never Knew'

- Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass

A reread, my interest has again been perked by several discussions of Alice in Wonderland in my computer science classes.

- Inheritance Book 4 (if it comes out)

::sigh:: I've never been more disappointed then reading the whole third book of this series, thinking it was the end of the trilogy, only to find at the end that the author decided to split it into 2 books.

- Code

This book basically taught me the same thing as 4 of my college classes. Must read for anyone interested in the line between Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

- Grief Observed

C.S. Lewis's honest exploration of his grief after the loss of his wife. Must read.

- Divine Comedy

Dante's journey through hell, purgatory, and heaven. I've only read the Inferno, but its really interesting the characterizations of people he uses.

- Dune

Classic Sci-fi, I just haven't had the chance to read it yet.

- Earthborn

My favorite book of all time. Probably the most engaging story of grace I've ever read, I've read it probably a dozen times.

- Freakonomics

Pure Brain Candy

- The God Who is There

Francis Schaeffer's response to human dispare

- The Lucifer Effect

Philip Zimbardo, the guy who did the Stanford Prison Experiment, examines from a worldly perspective why "good people turn evil"

- The Myths of Greece and Rome

I love mythology, and find all the stories have very interesting parallels to Christianity

- The Object-Oriented Thought Process

A well recommended book to help me be a better programmer

- The Practice of the Presence of God

A book that I'm nearly constantly in the middle of. Must read.

- Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind

Orson scott card at his best. If you are in any way somewhat maybe interested in scifi type books, you HAVE to read these.

- The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers

More pure brain candy

- The World is Flat

We've been talking about this book in class, its another one that I've been meaning to read, but never have gotten to

- The Lovely Bones

I don't know what to expect from this one. Its outside my usual genres, and I'm intrigued.

So that's pretty much it, unless I find time to learn braille. Who knows?

I am yours

Here's a song I wrote for my theory class...
Verse 1
G
Will my broken heart be whole,
Em
Will you save my broken soul
C
I am yours
Dsus D
Complete me

Verse 2
G
Come and save me from myself
Em
Passions that rise from my hearts hell
C
I am yours
Dsus D
Redeem me

Chorus
G
God in all the heavens,
D
They trembled at your touch,
Em7 C
You starred the sky and breathed in me,
Dsus D
How could there be such love

G
God my holy maker,
D
Who came to live in me,
Em7 C
Amazing love Lord, this is it
Dsus D
That you would die for me



Verse 3
G
Heavens tremble at the sound,
Em
Of your whispers that abound,
C
From your throne,
Dsus D
Defend me my God

Walk Among the clouds tonight

Come and walk among the clouds tonight, where everything's ok,
Come and see the pretty city lights, from where i, for one, must stay,
Journey down that restful road, with burdens, none, and less the load,
Where all must come, yet all alone, inside this blissful night.

See this gentle quiet night, with ever drawing dawn,
See our hearts, these birds of flight, here, and still foregone,
Past the call of every world, our minds, our own, but all inswirled,
These clouds beyond all sight, these clouds of distant night.

Watch the tale thats been untold, removed from mind's understanding,
Watch this map of words unfold, this falling crash, love's soft landing,
This whisper of our future rising, often grasped though every twist surprising,
Our hands with bitter bite, this timid lurking night,

Tell this far off distant fright, to one who's heart has preheard,
Tell of great and fearful height, which is real, yet beyond all word,
Call softly, ever softly, with each syllable do herd, all with every action, of what has been inferred,
A place where each wight contrite, will fear that distant night,

Go with me to this place of might, where I long to be,
Go without a fear of light, and all that all will see,
Let go of all your treasured past, a tale of hurt that will not last,
Where all will be made right, this loving peaceful night,

Now hurry now! you rushing winds. Hurry now! you whispered friend,
Oh clouds that hearts ignite, Oh clouds rush in tonight,
Oh clouds my hearts delight, oh clouds of darkest night.

Snow...

I see the snow,
Falling fast and sleek,
How it comes, I can not know,
Floating high and flying low,
So cold, and light, and weak,

Racing through an alley,
Turning round a bend,
These flakes, they do not dally,
As they run to reach their tally,
Melting drifts with holes to mend,

These simple little snow flakes,
Tiny glints of moon's soft light,
Falling down in vast white lake,
Leaving nothing in its wake,
But quite, peaceful night,

A gleam of flying fairy ships,
On wings of star shaped hearts,
Falling down on graceful trips,
With out a pause for plan or scripts,
Each dive a graceful art,

Where do these crystals come from?
Where do they make their berth?
These little tiny snowman crumbs,
Each without out thought of what they become,
As they glide down to the earth,

Every flake a blessing,
None ever the same,
Every touch expressing,
Love and hope's caressing,
Through every cold and bitter pain.

Songs about rain....

Falling Sleek and smooth,
On my window pane,
Each driving in his grove,
And then merging with a lane,

Falling in my sand box,
Grabbing at every grain,
Trickling through the time washed rocks,
Like sand through time's vast drain,

Gathering as its falling,
Every scent the same,
And then through soft lawn a crawling,
Leaving a freshness none can name,

It lashes out in quiet,
A roaring, soaking flame,
And draws back its haunting riot,
exclusive and untamed,

It pours out in a thunder,
Dipplets of no acclaim,
And then in silent wonder,
ceases its fluctuated game,

A drizzle light and dreary,
A river without stain,
A cloud weepy and weary,
This hidden power without strain,

In a flash of distant lightning,
These tear drops never wane,
The sudden brightness isn't as frightening,
as the darkness that stays the same,

Who can understand thee?
Blowing ever about with my weather vane,
No mind can seek to map thee,
Your ways beyond any brain,

You fall on each in equal,
On plane, on car, on train,
And ever there's a sequel,
Blood of heaven's vein,

You never seem to falter,
Endless gordian chain,
You fall without an alter,
Onto pleasure, onto pain,

We chalks of people muddle,
To a sidewalk's woven grain,
All tossed in a great puddle,
Of dreams and futures slain,

Why won't you ever leave me?
Cruel and taunting rain,
Please don't ever leave me,
Changing, moving rain...

Take a look...its in a book....my discombobulated pooem...

Eyes whisper so soft,
Things said so oft,
Pulling back many threads,
In a Gulliver's web,

I fear an invisible corpse,
It twists and it warps,
No eyes ever seeing,
My crystalline being,

Hiding in tight woven fence,
My cave deep and dense,
I'll be saving no Fridays,
Enshroud in my ways,

My memories set,
my stories, every fret,
The fahrenheit rises,
But this library has no suprises,

Fighting my faces,
And running my races,
I run and I ride,
But can't leave my jekyll, my hyde,

Facing haunting times,
My thoughts and my rhymes,
A letter my own,
A 'C' little shown,

I can't build my own house,
For life falls, each heavy douse,
My friends easily tear through the guilt,
And now in their corner it's built,

Its speaking now, my hidden tongue,
My potrait painted, but not yet hung,
All may melt yet to meaningless blur,
But in my head, still all's astir,

Fear my mind and its dark lurkings,
A tree in torment, its words unnerving,
Seeking to be heard anew,
But the pain it takes will be heard by few.

On the phone...A song-breaking out my hip-hop skillz, lol

I see the people walking,
people walking by,
I hear the people talking,
they don't look me in the eye,
and I- hope that you-- won't pass me by,
and I- hope that you-- won't say goodbye,
As I sit in your presence---...on the phone,

On the phone!
Listening to gentle dial tone,
Beeeeeeep is your pretty moan,
tearing me with meaning unknown,
your response to the heartfelt words i've sown
As I sit in your presence...on the phone

I feel your heart a beating,
Mine is beating too,
I'm longing for a meeting,
a one with me and you,
And I- hear you say-- just what i try
And I- don't hear you say-- that long goodbye
As I sit in your presence---...on the phone

On the phone!
Listening to your music drone,
Voice like a bottle of sweet cologne,
Anger like a fierce cyclone,
You talk to me and I don't feel alone,
As I sit in your presence...on the phone

I love to hear you whisper,
'please hang up and try again"
I can't bear the thought of,
you near other other men,
And I-know your heart--you've gave me the sign,
And I-know your heart--longs to be next to mine,
As I sit in your presence---...on the phone

On the Phone!
For wrong numbers dailed, I feel atoned,
I won't take another clone,
Its you I want, you alone
I think of you, you are my own,
Sweet, sweet lady...on the phone!