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Back to top QDear Black Sheep (or anyone else who knows musicals well), I love to listen to musicals. But, I have a hard time finding new ones to listen to. You seem very knowledgeable about the subject. Do you have any suggestions? I love musicals that have a lot of songs and little spoken dialogue so that I can hear most of the story. I like modern ones. Most of my favorites seem to be pretty depressing. I also love to sing, so strong, female solos are a plus (especially alto). Some of my current favorites are: Parade, Miss Saigon, Les Miserables, Jekyll and Hyde, Ragtime, Phantom, Into the Woods, and Evita. Any musicals that are similar to these would be awesome! I also like them to be relatively clean (Miss Saigon is as risque as I can stand and I skip all the songs the engineer sings...) Thanks for your help! - Christine Daae p.s. I also love things like Wicked, Hairspray, My Fair Lady, Music Man, etc., but I don't really need any more super mainstream, upbeat suggestions. Those seem easier to find.
ADear Christine Daae, Are you ready for a deluge of suggestions? I sent your question to Chillylint, Imogen, and one of the regulars and they each sent me a ton of musicals for you to check out. They didn't really overlap with each other, but every single one I thought of was on someone else's list (go, team!), so I'll just quote them. Chillylint suggests: ChessImogen suggests: In the Heights - "An absolute winner" with very little language at all and three female leadsOne of the regulars suggests: Shows with lots of showy girl songs:So, there you have it. Don't take my word on the appropriateness of all of the above musicals, as I honestly haven't heard some of them. I do trust the taste of these people, though, so I hope you have fun with them. - The Black Sheep Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, Who wrote the music found at C:WINDOWSsystem32oobeimagestitle.wma ? - the ln(e)
ADear 10^0 From everything I've found, it looks like nobody knows for SURE, but most people believe it to be Brian Eno (who also wrote the lovely ditty that plays on the Windows 95 startup). So, he's your best bet. I'd say it certainly qualifies as ambient music, which is Eno's specialty. -Commander Keen Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, Can Superman drown? - Bok
ADear Bok While his cells are charged with the rays of Earth's yellow sun, not so much (he can survive in outer space, he can survive under water). If his cells were depleted, he could (he also couldn't survive in space in that scenario). -Humble Master Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, Are you hard to fit, clothing-wise, in any way? E.g., are your feet different sizes or are your arms too long for most dress shirts? - Katya, who has very wide feet
ADear Katya, My arms do happen to be longer than most dress shirts. Thus, I usually rock the rolled-up-a-bit style. Looks classy and nobody can tell the difference. I don't know if it's normal, but I can reach around my entire head and grab my ear on the same side as my reaching arm. I'm not sure if that's normal or not. Also, to get a little personal, my thighs are now somewhat bigger than is proportional for my waist size, due to some pretty beefy biking muscles. This results in my wearing of pants that typically look a little loose. Not too much, but still... Oh, and like Waldorf and/or Sauron, I have a huge head. My fitted hats are ridiculous, and even the largest of the stretchy hats I've found won't fit. -Commander Keen, who has had his sleeves pushed up all morning because his arms are pretty long ADear Katya, I have: -Wide feet -Long arms -An uncommon leg-to-waist ratio -Huge shoulders -A rather out-there rump Yeah...I wear a lot of loose clothing. -Claudio, who apparently got back ADear Katya, I am a bit taller than the average female (5'11"), so, yes, I have a difficult time finding clothes that fit correctly. My arms are usually a bit too long for long-sleeved shirts, so I push them up to my elbows, if I wear them at all. I also have pretty long legs...normal pant-leg lengths (in proportion to my waist size) are typically too short. If I want to buy pants that are not sold by waist size and inseam length, I have to get them a little baggier just so they will be long enough. I don't like that idea, so I typically spend a lot of money at Vanity. I've got my sleeves pushed up as I type this, ⋯Anomalous ADear Katya, My head is huge! I can't fit any hats that aren't stretchy. Love, Waldorf or Sauron ADear Katya, Similar complaints here: my pant and sleeve lengths are consistently too short. Also, my fingers are really long, so if I wear women's gloves I need an extra-large size. -Whistler ADear Katya, Okay, I'll be the jerk here and just say that when I was getting sized for my wedding gown, the seamstress said to me, "Wow, you have nearly perfect proportions!" Despite what she might have thought, however, I tend to have a difficult time finding tops that fit me nicely. A couple years ago I finally turned to wearing a lot of shirts that have empire waistlines because they often tie in the back and create a nice shape. I have no patience when it comes to shopping (in fact, I actually kind of hate shopping) and empire waistlines are just more convenient, particularly in the early months of pregnancy. It just makes you feel fantastic when you don't have to start wearing maternity clothes until you're almost 7 months along. -Sky Bones ADear Katya- As a pretty Gangly DudeTM, I have a hard time with a few items of clothing. Like apparently a lot of people here, my arms are long; my "wingspan" is significantly longer than my height, so dress shirts without sleeve sizing wind up several inches short of proper wrist length. Like CK and others, I usually roll those up to the elbow. I must also complain about pants. With a waist size of 30 inches or less (depending on the cut), it's ridiculously hard to find pants that have a 33 or 34 length! There is apparently some unwritten rule in the pants world that the waist measurement must be greater than or equal to the inseam, so I have a hard time finding pants that are long enough but don't instantly fall to my ankles (savor that visual, everyone). It seems like these are not uncommon problems. Listen up, fashion world! -Foreman ADear Katya, Generally I don't have too much trouble, but my head is apparently very small--if I were to wear a baseball cap, I'd have to get it from the kid's section if I wanted it to fit. I have pretty narrow shoulders, so that poses a problem with dresses and neck openings. I'm also pretty short, and pretty small, but I'm not a stick, and when they make jeans in my size, they don't seem to take note of the fact that some of us have a tush! -Miss Scarlett Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, I have completely fallen in love with Yiruma's "River Flows In You." Is there any way to learn how to play this piece if I have never played the piano before and I cannot read sheet music? If possible, how would I go about doing that? How much effort would it take? Would I have to hire an instructor? - JPEG
ADear JPEG, Having seen someone play this song, I can say that it looks somewhat difficult to play, at least at the faster parts. In fact, I tried to tinker around with it myself once and couldn't do much except the main "doo-doodley-doo-doo-doo" part. I hope you know the part I'm talking about. Anyhow, I would say that it would take a pretty large amount of effort, considering that you don't play and don't read sheet music. Your best bet would be either to find a video like this or maybe this (which, I must say, would actually make things considerably easier - you can use the "S" button on the player on the second one to change the playback to slow motion) or, as you said, you could hire an instructor to...watch werf play it repeatedly, I suppose. Personally, I'd give that video a try first. That's a pretty sweet website, I gotta say. Best of luck. I used to play piano a bit, then stopped. Now all I can play is "Passenger Seat" by Death Cab for Cutie. -Commander Keen ADear JPEG, I just got my grubby little hands on some sheet music and learned how to play this, just for you. My opinion is that it will all come down to your ear. If you have a good one, this is possible. If you have a mediocre one it's not probable, and if you have a poor one, give up now. I say that as lovingly as possible. This is not the most challenging little tune ever, but there are funny little syncopated bits that I would be worried about if I knew a beginning piano player who was attempting to learn this. In this case, the fact that you're attempting to learn it rote might be a help to you. You don't have to worry about how the sixteenth and thirty-second notes line up, as long as you can hear how they line up. Another thing that would make it hard for a lower-level pianist is its key signature. The key of A (three sharps) isn't too hard, but it might be for a beginner. This is another place where you learning it rote might be a good thing, since you have less of a chance of psyching yourself out. Just about everything else, though, will be much harder for you than it will be for someone who even reads a little music. I'm going to suggest that before trying to learn this piece you familiarize yourself with the names of the keys. It will make the learning process a lot easier. You will also want to familiarize yourself with the A major scale (A B C# D E F# G# A), as those are the notes you'll be playing most often in this song. Make sure to play it with both hands. Now here's where you have to find yourself a really good, music-literate friend. I think that if I were going to teach this to someone rote, I'd teach it one quarter note at a time, both hands at the same time, one pattern at a time. The really good thing about this piece as far as learning it rote goes is that it's really just a couple of patterns that repeat themselves over and over, embellished in slightly different ways. I'd hope that your friend wouldn't start at the beginning, for pity's sake, but would start at the beginning of one of the simplest patterns and teach you one quarter note at a time, playing very very slowly. It would be a slow process with lots and lots of repetition, because one of the awful things about learning everything rote is that you don't get the benefit of anything visual to help you remember what you're playing. But if your friend is patient enough to teach you a little new stuff at a time and you are diligent enough to practice it on your own, I bet you could do it. As a matter of fact, do you live in the Utah or Salt Lake County area? I should be back there within the week, and I'm intrigued as to whether someone without musical training could learn something this difficult. If you can't find anyone else, I think it would be interesting to give it a go, and what's more, I'm free. Shoot me an email if you're interested. Good luck. I bet you can do this, though you might hate the piece after you do. - The Black Sheep Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, Why isn't the Thursday, January 18th Copy of the Daily Universe listed? http://newnewsnet.byu.edu/pdf/... - Curious
ADear Curious, Unfortunately, this answer is unlikely to sate your curiosity. The only information the Daily Universe would give me is as follows:
Apparently the reasons will remain a mystery to be discussed by conspiracy theorists... ⋯Anomalous Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, How would one go about getting proof of being a registered voter in Utah? - need cheaper tuition
ADear So do I, I spoke with the Utah County Clerk's Office, and they gave me a couple of different options. The most convenient would be if your university accepts a copy of your voter registration card as proof of residency. If not, that's okay; there's another way to get proof. According to the county clerk:
This is assuming that you are already registered to vote in Utah...if not, the deadline for registering before the 2009 November General Election is Monday, October 19. If you do need to register, this site will help you figure everything out. Hooray for voter registration! ⋯Anomalous Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, i want to go into the profession of designing home floorplans. what major would that be under--architecture? and how much schooling is needed? - fork is back
ADear Fork, While you could go into architecture, a slightly more focused field of study would be interior design. According to this guide to the interior design major you could get by with an associate's degree, but most people go on to get at least a bachelor's. If you want an edge on your competition, consider additional training in architecture or marketing, something that will give you more experience and a unique outlook. After schooling you still will need to be certified, registered or licensed by whichever state you live in, according to their policies. Here is something from the website I cited which you need to remember:
Don't worry, once you pursue a degree in interior design all this information will be brought up again. It is still good to know ahead of time, though. -Mico Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, What can I do as an individual to change the university policy of everything closing down during devotionals? I could go on and on about how it's a terrible policy and doesn't encourage people to attend or watch, but that's besides the point. How can I show my support for keeping services open? - hates wasted time
ADear hates wasted time, Well, you could write a letter to the Daily Universe. If nothing else, it would probably provide for some entertaining reading later. The reason almost everything is closed during devotionals is so that BYU employees can attend the devotional. Having everything closed may encourage potential patrons of those services to attend devotionals or it may not, but it definitely enables employees to be able to attend when they otherwise wouldn't. I've been very grateful for that policy because it allowed me to attend some fantastic devotionals. You could also make a suggestion through BYUSA's "Bright Ideas" program, either on the website or when they're out collecting ideas in exchange for cookies. That's probably your best option. I strongly agree with the current policy, though, so you're not getting much sympathy from me. -Yellow ADear Everybody, It seems like we've gotten several questions in the last week asking how individuals can change university policy on this thing or that. Here's the unpleasant reality: BYU isn't a democracy. You can voice your opinion to whoever you want, but individuals really have little effect on policy in the system—and you can bet you're not the first person to bring up your concern. I know in America our first response to something we don't like is "how can I change that?" but really, on campus the question you should be asking is "how can I deal with it?" Love, Waldorf and Sauron Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, Is there anyone at BYU with a finite Erdos number? What about Bacon number? - The Post-it Note
ADear The Post-it Note, There are definitely people at BYU with a finite Erdős number. After a short investigation, I learned that my boyfriend, a super-recent BYU graduate, has a whole new level of nerdiness: an Erdős number of six. I suspect a lot of professors who are in the mathematics and science departments have Erdős numbers. If you want to look up some you can use the American Mathematical Society's MathSciNet. Also, according to Wikipedia, and further confirmed by this very scientific website, at least 200,000 active mathematicians worldwide have an assigned Erdős number, and even more people have one, but are not famous enough to be mentioned in that statistic. I've got a Bacon number of three every Saturday morning at IHOP. -Mico, maker of unfunny jokes ADear Post-it Note, Barta Heiner, associate professor in the school of Theatre and Media Arts, has a Bacon number of 2 that can be achieved in two different ways: 1) Barta Heiner appeard in the movie Brigham City (2001) with Wilford Brimley who appeared in The End of the Line (1987) with Kevin Bacon. 2) Barta Heiner was in The Testaments: Of One Fold and One Shephard (2000) with Oscar Rowland, another local actor, who was in Footloose (1984) with Kevin Bacon. - Rating Pending (who, just to brag, came up with the Testaments/Oscar Rowland connection himself, whereas the Wilford Brimley connection was provided by a website) ADear Post-it Note, I have a Bacon number of 4. There are two ways. I was in an independent film in high school with a guy who was a bit player in Singles Ward with Will Swenson, who was in Six Degrees with Ruby Jerins who was in Taking Chance with Kevin Bacon. The other way is kind of dumb, it is really stretching it because it starts with a home movie, hahaha. My uncle (who I was in the home movie with) was a voice actor in a video game with Pat Miller, who was in Summer Heat with Lori Singer, who was in Footloose with Kevin Bacon. My brief brushes with fame. Although, pretty much anyone who had a part in Singles Ward has a Bacon number of three. Pretty special. Dr. Smeed With great thanks to the Oracle of Bacon. ADear Post-it, I have a Bacon number of 2, if you count being a VERY PROMINENT EXTRA in a TV movie. I was in Double Teamed with Sam Dalton (I), who was in Footloose with Kevin Bacon. Love, Waldorf and Sauron Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, there are some songs that i heard some "stars" dancing to on dancing with the stars, this season, that i'd like to download. but...where can i go to find out the names of the songs and the artists who sang them? there is one song in particular with these lyrics: i feel feel feel so good one plus one is two show me all the things you can do--i did a google search and the only song that came up was "smile" by lou bega but that's not it. thanks, shake your boo-tay
ADear boo-tay-licious, Actually, those lyrics really are a Lou Bega song, but the name is "1+1=2". Why do I know this without even having to listen to it? No reason at all...cough cough... I did a quick search and it looks like there was a salsa dance performed to this song by Natalie Coughlin and Alec Mazos on September 22. You can find all songs used that night by going here and scrolling down a bit. For future reference, you can find the latest episode guides and the songs used in said episodes here. -Commander Keen Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, Hello! So since I'll be 20 by next summer, I am now eligible to be an EFY counselor. Last year when I was looking into it, there was a bunch of information about when the application would be put up well before October...However when I'm looking at the site right now, there's only information about last year. Does anyone know when the application is going to be available for 2010 counselors? Thanks!! --Rekrab
ADear Rekrab, According to the EFY counselor employment webpage, applications for counselors open up for next summer starting Novmeber 6th. That's awesome that you want to be an EFY counselor! I got to volunteer as a counselor for a few weeks this past summer and it was an absolutely incredible experience working with the youth. Best of luck to you in the application process. Marzipan Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, I'm worried. I'm about to graduate and recently left the church. I wanted to be honest and let my close friends and bishop know instead of pretending until I moved somewhere new. Now I keep hearing horror stories about people who leave the church and then get kicked out or denied their diplomas simply because they chose a different religion. Can that happen to me? I follow the honor code, I lead a moral life, which for me includes being honest when someone asks me my religious views. I don't want to be punished for following my conscience, but I'm terrified of not graduating. Can I be denied my diploma for starting BYU as an LDS person and leaving as something else? - Wanting Out
ADear Wanting Out, This is indeed a problem. Here's the full university policy:
Love, Waldorf and Sauron ADear Wanting Out, I can imagine how hard it must be to want to be open in this situation but to feel like you can't be. If you want to talk to someone about this who doesn't know you and who doesn't have any kind of pull over your life, you are officially invited to email me at byublacksheep (at) gmail (dot) com. I'll be back in town soon, even, so I could even fix you a yummy dessert while we talk. Plus, I have a really close friend who just went through a very similar situation, and I could put you in touch if you want. - The Black Sheep Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, As a grad student, am I allowed to take undergraduate courses? - Over achiever
ADear Over acheiver, Yes. Although it's always a good idea to talk to an authoritative figure in your program to make sure that they think that the class is a good idea given what you will be doing as a graduate student, there is definitely no university policy preventing graduate students from taking undergraduate courses. Some programs even have course requirements that can be satisfied with undergraduate courses. ~Hermia ADear Over, I was actually just talking about this today. So, I don't know how it is for your grad program, but for mine, we have to fill out a course of study our first semester for the rest of the two years in the program. It's basically just what seminars we're planning to take. Then, if you want to take an undergrad course on top of that, no one will stop you (a classmate decided to take Russian and decided he "wouldn't tell anyone"). However, if you want the class to count toward your graduation requirements, you'll have to fill out some more paperwork and talk to your graduate secretary. You can also audit religion courses freely (with no extra cost to you - check your graduate handbook). -Whistler Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, What is the maximum number of items a person can have in his or her amazon.com shopping list and wishlist, respectively? I've searched all over amazon.com and can not find this information anywhere. -Bibliophile
ADear Bibliophile, Instead of sending them an e-mail, I decided to postpone my research paper for a few minutes, go to amazon.com, and start adding random things to my cart until it cut me off. My results are as follows: - Total items allowed in my shopping cart: 81. Gave the following error message:
Before proceeding, I'd just like to say that I added almost every single item in my cart by clicking whatever "Add to Cart" button was available on the screen. So the Disney flick is just a random click, nothing more. Just back off, all right?! ...*ahem*. Continuing: - Total items added to Wish List before I decided "Man, I really need to start this paper,": 110. I then proceeded to call Amazon and speak to a nice man with a heavy accent. He told me that you could have "70, 80, maybe 90," items in your cart. This was the popular consensus, he said, since nobody had that info written down. After a bit of persuasion and pestering, I got him to ask about Wish Lists. Apparently, nobody knew! However, they were kind enough to do a little testing for me and got up to 300 before giving up. So, they say it's probably infinite, and if not, to just make another Wish List. So, final count: Shopping Cart: 81±10 or so Wish List:∞ I hope this helps you out somehow. -Commander Keen Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, So I heard this in one of my classes and it positively disturbed me. Does the church really pay off the mafia in order to keep our missionaries in Russia safe? I looked through the archives and saw that this had been answered before, but the question was sort of dismissed as ridiculous. Many of my classmates accepted this as true. How is that possible? Where could this rumor have possibly started? Is it a rumor, or is there some actual founding for this? - SNAFU
ADear SNAFU, I'm connected to a mission president currently serving in Russia; when I sent him your question, he responded as follows:
So it turns out the rumors should in fact be dismissed as ridiculous. ~Ƥ. Ɗ. Kirĸe ADear SNAFU, Here are three stories that I got second-hand, meaning that I got them directly from the people who were involved. Two are from Russia (with love) and the other is a possibly relevant example from the Philippines: My brother's best friend was a missionary in one of the Moscow missions. He had just moved to a new area, a small, isolated town. While he and his companion were out tracting one day, a car pulled up, two men got out and, without saying anything, started beating up the elders. The missionaries managed to get away, but not before my brother's friend had his hand broken. They later heard that the men were from a local criminal organization who were angry that the Church wasn't paying them. The next story is from a friend of mine who also served in Russia (I forget which mission). He said that the local gangsters were quite friendly to the missionaries. They would always come up and talk to the missionaries and wave at them when they would pass by. Once, as they were talking, one of them said to my friend (and I'm paraphrasing here), "We love the elders! You work hard and are good people. And it is good for people to see well dressed men in suits walking around who are good, religious people." Take from that what you will. My friend took it to mean that it was in the local Mafia's interest for the missionaries to be around, promoting an appearance of order and a religious atmosphere and also to have men wearing dark suits who weren't associated with the Mafia. When I asked, my friend emphatically said that the mission definitely did not pay them off and that they went to lengths to assure the locals that there was absolutely no official Church-gangster association. Finally, a story from the Philippines. When a relative of mine was a mission president there about twenty years ago, a senior sister was driving herself and her husband around in a mission car. She was a terrible, erratic driver and she unfortunately hit and killed a local man. There was an understandable uproar and the sister missionary was arrested. When the mission president heard about it, he hurried to go find out what could be done. When he arrived, he found that a local priesthood leader had bailed her out of jail and, under the table, paid off the police and the family of the dead man to avoid any more scandal. I don't know what money was used to pay the family or for the woman's bail, or any more details of the story (except that the missionary couple was sent home). My point in mentioning it at all is that even if the Church as an official body doesn't use money in unofficial ways, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that, in decades past, members or leaders unknowingly went along with local customs that would involve using money in less than perfectly legal ways. - Rating Pending (who also heard stories from a friend who served in Korea about members struggling to find a way to avoid paying bribes to officials) ADear situation normal, I've heard similar rumors, but mostly involving the APs or office elders bribing ersatz cops in isolated instances in South America. My experience was that even gangsters and drug dealers would give us respect, because they understood that we were "de Dios" and just preaching the Good Word, not trying to make a big foofaraw of everything. Funny unrelated story. I was tracting with my brand new greenie in THE most dangerous area of our Chilean mission. Dirt poor, crime-ridden, and full of pimps and dealers. We didn't go to certain areas late at night. Anyway, we stopped at a group of obviously dangerous youths, and after introductions I started teaching them about Christ's atonement. I had an object lesson I was fond of at the time in which I would ask the person to imagine the pain of, say, getting punched in the arm, and then equate that to the weight of one sin. Then, expand on the concept that Jesus suffered for all the sins of the world. I had everyone's attention, and I asked the young hooligan next to me not to get mad. Then I slugged him in the arm as hard as I could. His friends all laughed, my companion was in hysterics, and he stared drop-jawed at me in disbelief and rubbed his arm as I proceeded to teach him about the worth of his soul and the magnitude of the Savior's suffering on his behalf. It was a great "2nd charla," they were all invited to church, and we left as friends. To this day, I cannot believe I got away with that. A few days later, one of the young men in the ward told me that one of the guys in the group had asked him if the Mormons all took karate lessons. Ha! -Cognoscente Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, So, I have part of a song stuck in my head and it's driving me nuts. I've googled the lyrics I can remember, and searched youtube for the commercial I heard it in... No luck. So here's what I know about it. 1) Part of the song includes the phrase: "I'm lookin' for the sun" with the sun drawn out, with glottal stops during the vowel (aka. sounds like su-hu-hu-hu-hun) it is sung by a female vocalist. I don't remember it being a capella, but it's a possibility. 2) I'm fairly certain that it is from a hybrid car commercial. I just can't find the commercial. I tried looking up the Toyota Prius commercials, but I haven't found it. Another option is a Target commercial... I'm really not sure... The Actual Question: What is this song? and/or What commercial is it from? I don't know if this is enough information, but just in case anyone sees the commercial or knows the song , I'd really appreciate it! - MoM (Master of Mystery)
ADear MoM, The best I've been able to come up with thus far is the Toyota Prius commercial entitled "Harmony," and the song is called "Let Your Love Flow" by Petra Haden. You can see the commercial and download the song here. That fits the bill pretty well, I think. While they're not the exact same lyrics as what you said, we (or at least I) tend to create different lyrics in our heads to things that we've only heard a couple of times. It includes the word "sun," in a hybrid car commercial, and has some glottal stops. I'd put money on it. If this isn't what you were looking for, feel free to write back in with any more details you can remember about the commercial/song and we'll try again. -Commander Keen Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, I just read this fun little article: http://www.zug.com/pranks/cred... And it got me thinking... Why don't they just print your photo directly on your bank cards and credit cards? They obviously have the capability of doing so, given the newer cards with the personalized backgrounds. Wouldn't that prevent some instances of fraud and theft? -Needs a new card anyway
ADear Needs, I will tell you why they don't! Oh, wait, I can't do that because a couple of banks actually do offer bank cards and credit cards with your photo.
Thanks, Yahoo! Finance. But it does remain an issue if you do not have a bank account with Bank of America or Citibank. If you want to be really cool and slightly artsy, you could have your picture on your card's personalized background. Now, this article gives a couple of reasons why photo ID credit cards actually have not caught on yet. Their main reason (which I suspect is mostly joking, but one never can tell) is that people don't want another bad, awkward photo of themselves. Another, more sensical reason, is that merchants are not required to check the photo, so it may not even make a difference. I agree with you that one more prevention method against fraud and theft is worth it. Yet it seems most major bank corporations are not totally sold on the idea. -Mico ADear Needy, Our Costco American Express cards also have our photos on them. Just sayin, Waldorf and Sauron ADear Neiderman, First a little digression based on your hilarious link: after a month in the mission field when I was on *MY* mission, I saw that my district leader would sign "Snoop Dogg" every time he had to sign a receipt, so for the rest of my mission I would sign a different name. I still do so, sometimes signing in Arabic, sometimes writing "Dr. Smeed" (especially in the BYU bookstore) and sometimes writing the names of celebrities or a little poem. I have probably done everything in that article: pictures, drawing an "X", even drawing a straight line. Never been checked. Okay, back to the question: my credit and debit cards both have my picture on them. I still get ID'd every time I make a purchase, but they never bother to check my signature. I guess it is the asking for ID that is still the gold standard in preventing theft. Dr. Smeed Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir sung If You Could Hie to Kolob at general conference during one of the sessions in the last 8 years or so. Can you tell me which session and where I can get an audio or video recording? It was beautifully done and very powerful. Thanks. - Paul
ADear Paul~ It was in the April session of 2008. Feel free to listen to it here or stop by Distribution in Orem to buy the CDs of the entire General Conference. If you don't live in Utah, order them here. ~Hobbes feels like he actually helped someone today. Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, What do you think about the academic honesty of BYU students? You always hear people estimating the cheating rates of students nationwide to be somewhere around 60% to 70%. But if someone asked you to give a ratio of dishonest to honest students here at BYU, what would you guess, based on your experiences? -Frankly disappointed...more times than I would prefer.
ADear disappointed~ I think that depends how you define "cheating." If we're talking about habitual cheating in the worst ways, like trying to access exam answers, buying reports online, etc. etc. I would say 10%-20%. If we're talking about someone who has ever cheated in the above fashion, I imagine the number would go up. I'll say 30%. If we're talking about "cheating" in the sense that BYU tends to abuse the honor system—"Okay, just check here if you did your homework," or having a friend write part of an assignment (which, admittedly, is pretty blatant cheating), or things like reading every other paragraph of a reading assignment, or fudging that observation report, etc. etc. then the percentage of those who habitually do this kind of cheating would go higher, let's say 40%-50%. If we're talking about people who have ever engaged in the above kind of "minor" cheating, I'd argue it's as high as 90%. Note that this is based on conversations with my friends and not any serious statistics. Now I will sit a little lower in my chair, because I just ran up and made a big to-do over a girl here in the LRC, only to find out that she wasn't who I thought and was, in fact, a complete stranger. And yet I continue answering questions. Behold the sacrifices I endure! ~Hobbes Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, I'm an eager traveller - Particularly when the travel includes a flight – But in more recent years, I've had problems with my ears popping. I used to travel often with family when I was young, and I chewed bubble gum to "help" not have problems with my ears taking off and landing. Now at an older age, I can throw out that theory with more recent flights and the pains I have had with my ears while landing and chewing on overpriced bubble gum I brought at the airport.... I leave late December on the first of six flights within four weeks. What advice would you give me to stop having the pain in my ears while landing/taking off during these flights? I'd like to have a few tricks up my sleeve so I don't have to experiment throughout the whole trip... -LDS Camera Guy
ADear Guy, Yawning helps me. (I feel like that's too short to be an answer, but that's really all there is to it. Anyways...) ~Ƥ. Ɗ. Kirĸe ADear Camera Guy, After perusing the interweb for a bit, here's a compiled list of suggestions that I've found: - Yawn while ascending (and often!), but "blow" the pressure out when descending (a technique which is called the Valsalva maneuver, I learned). - Buy special earplugs that can supposedly help. Something like this is sold at Wal-Mart or probably any retail/drug store. Multiple people online have vouched for it, if that means anything to you. - Suck on hard candy or a lollipop/anything that'll keep your jaw in some sort of motion. Swallowing often is also recommended. - Use a decongestant (I assume this is if you have any blockage in your sinuses; don't dope up for no reason) and time it so that the effects will last the entire flight, if possible. - Gently rub the pressure point behind your jaw/up and under your earlobe. Personally, yawning has always worked for me. As for the biology behind popping ears, you can learn more here. I hope this helps! -Commander Keen ADear LDS Camera Guy, Yawning has always helped me a lot, but I would also suggest drinking bottled water, too. I know bottled water can be expensive as well, but I always bring an empty water bottle through security and then fill it up at the water fountains near my gate. Sleeping might also help if you can pull it off. One time, I was so exhausted that I fell asleep while the plane was still waiting at the gate. When I woke up an hour later, I was really confused but at least I didn't have any problems with my ears. I've also noticed that the more I fly the less likely I am to have problems with my ears hurting. Maybe you just need to travel more. Good luck and I hope you can find something that will work for you! -Sky Bones Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, How much of ASL does a person need to know to survive ASL 301 (Deaf Culture)? Is the whole class signed? I'm just wondering what to expect in the way of presentations and exams. I mean, it's about the culture, but does that mean it is ALL ASL? - Novice
ADear Novice~ When I went through ASL a few years ago, all except the most introductory classes were taught entirely in the language. I think this may have been primarily because most of the ASL faculty is Deaf. I would expect 301 to be taught entirely in ASL, so if you don't have a fairly solid grasp on the language, it would be wise to obtain one. ~Hobbes Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, "Oooooh, isn't this amazing? It's my favorite part because, you'll see! Here's where she meets Prince Charming, but she won't discover that it's him till chapter three!" I've been wanting to read that book for ages and ages! Where can I find one like that? - Lafou
ADear The Fool~ Hmmm... This question is problematic. Belle's book is described as having three qualities, which I restate thus: 1-The girl meets the man very early in the plot, but he is in disguise. 2-The boy is Prince Charming 3-The girl discovers that she's met Prince Charming, also relatively early in the plot. I've even added a bonus for you. 4-The book is French. (After all, why would Belle be reading something so terribly uncultured as not being French?) The Disney movie of Beauty and the Beast is slightly ambiguous as to when it takes place, but it's well within the realm of possibility that this book existed by then anyhow. I am speaking, of course, of The Count of Monte Cristo. Now, in chapter three of the book, I don't think Edmond has even been imprisoned yet, but maybe Belle was confused, or maybe she was smarter than I was and she read the abridged version. Also, Edmond's love-interest isn't quite that quick at realizing with whom she's dealing. (That sentence brought to you by the grammar-nazi question I was just looking at.) However, she does eventually figure out it's him. *SPOILER WARNING* In the book, of course, this ends tragically, but in the movie, it all turns out for the best. If you want to be a little depressed, go with the book. If you want the good guys to win and fall in love, go with the movie. They're both really good. *END SPOILER WARNING* Another benefit of the movie (there was a benefit mentioned in the spoiler) is that everything happens a heckuva lot quicker, so you can pretend it's all been figured out by chapter three. Enjoy! ~It's no wonder that "Hobbes" means "beauty" ADear Lafou, Although Belle is certainly not referring to it, I think the book you are looking for is Ella Enchanted. Not only is this a fantastic book (I just reread it a month or so ago), but as a very clever and very enjoyable retelling of the story of Cinderella it meets most of the criteria: 1) There is a literal Prince Charming - although in this story his name is Charmont. He goes by "Char." 2) They meet in chapter two of the book. He isn't disguised, or unknown to her, but they meet under unexpected circumstances. The only thing is, she knows it's him when they meet. He's famous, and who doesn't recongize celebrities. This slight deviation from your "discover" and "chapter three" shouldn't keep you from reading this book. But you don't have to take my word for it! . . . - Rating Pending (who recommends, even more strongly, that you NOT watch the horrible, horrible movie version of the book, starring Anne Hathaway shudder) Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, My husband, a UVU student, is planning to graduate and enter the legal profession in a few months. He currently sports a goatee, which he is very good about keeping trimmed and well groomed. He has had this goatee for over a year, and both of us agree that it makes him look older (he has one of those faces that makes him look a lot younger than his 30+ years). Here's our question, though. As he begins interviewing and looking for a firm to hire him, should he get rid of the goatee or should he keep it? Do you think his having facial hair will influence those looking to hire people or make a bad first impression? Maybe living near BYU has hampered our worldview, but we're really not sure of how facial hair is viewed in the professional world. If it makes a difference, he will be looking both here in Utah County and elsewhere. Thanks for your opinions! -no clever alias
ADear Alias, If the goatee is as well-groomed as you say, then there should be no problem. Some men grow a goatee and look kind of like hippies, as if they are trying to be rebels or something. Then other men grow goatees and suddenly look more serious, more professional, or in the case of your husband even a little bit older. I think goatees are comparable to graying hair: on some men it is no good, but on others it gives a distinguished flair. If your husband's face looks better with the goatee, then leave it. The only way it will make a bad impression is if the goatee is growing wildly out of control, and stray hairs seem to be taking over his chin rather than complimenting his face. In Utah County you are slightly more likely to run into people who feel weird about goatees, simply because of the high LDS population, including BYU students, and the culture which is embraced. If you are really worried about that, then he ought to shave for the interviews and talk to his boss about facial hair policies once he has a job secured. I do not think a goatee will have a substantial effect on his interviews, or leave a bad impression. -Mico Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, Does anyone know the recipe to make scones out of the Church scone mix? We have one of those big metal cans (you know, the family canning ones) of scone mix but lost the label that had the instructions. - yum... scones on a cold day
ADear yum..., From all I can find, Provident Living's Home Storage program doesn't produce any canned scone mix. However, I did find scone mix packed in the same distinctive #10 cans as those found at Home Storage Centers from a company called USA Emergency Supply. Their label reads as follows: Directions: Warm Water—2 1/4 Cup (105°-110° F) Instant Yeast—2 Tbsp Scone Mix—6 Cups 1. Dissolve yeast in water. 2. Add scone mix and knead until smooth and elastic -OR- mix for 10-12 minutes using dough hook on 2nd speed (3-speed mixer). 3. Cover and let rest for 20 minutes, roll out and cut. 4. Fry at 375° F in hot oil. -Ineffable Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, Playlist question! Let's say you wanted to get a large number of people out of an area in a short amount of time, let's say, fifteen minutes, yet you didn't want to lose your mind. What music would you choose for your fifteen minutes? I would like to hear your opinion on music that is annoying, but not too annoying; music that will pump you up yet not get you to dance on tables. Thanks guys! - 727
ADear 727, You could play a dirge and people would dance on tables. Especially freshmen. -glib ADear 727, "So Long, Farewell," from The Sound of Music seems like an obvious choice. Or any song from Schoolhouse Rock. Yes, that link only has lyrics to the songs, but I think reading the lyrics will give you a fine idea of how annoyingly upbeat the songs can be. -Mico ADear 727, The problem with playing annoying music is that there will always be someone, somewhere, who actually likes it. You could play it on the nose with "Closing Time." You could also play some novelty music, like easy-listening Lemmy or a Queen mambo. If nothing else, it'd be funny. -Cognoscente ADear Boeing, How about polka? Kind of fun but also kind of annoying, and definitely not something most people can study to. It wouldn't keep people from dancing, but at least you'd get some funny security videos of people doing the polka. (Plus, you really can't do polka on a table. Not enough space. So the tables would be safe.) Alas, I don't know any polkas specifically, but I'm thinking the entire genre would work here. —Laser Jock, who never imagined he'd have a legitimate reason to use the word polka five times in one answer ADear 727, Have you considered the Disney Channel genre of music? You know the like - High School Musical, the Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus and all those little starlets. It's definitely annoying, in a cheerful sort of way, yet not dance-on-the-table worthy...unless you are a freshman, who just barely went to EFY this summer. Ugh. I better stop writing before my gag reflex kicks in. I think I'd leave the area after fifteen seconds. Marzipan Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, If there is an old BYU grad singer (whose name may or may not be Aaron Edson) who made a CD, which I have never seen in "print" (just in copied form), which, to my knowledge, hasn't been copyrighted, can I burn it? I've contacted him twice (kind of): I don't know if the first got to him, and the second was on Facebook, but he didn't respond. You can't buy it anywhere online. I'll look again, but if you can't, what are the rules for that? - illegally swooned
ADear illegally swooned, The music is automatically copyrighted by virtue of being recorded. To quote the U.S. Copyright Office's FAQ: When is my work protected?It doesn't matter if it doesn't have a copyright notice, or if it wasn't registered with the U.S. Copyright Office. He has a copyright. Not being able to buy it doesn't matter either; copyright holders have no obligation to make their property available for sale. You already know what many people would do (just burn it, like the two you've seen), but that's indisputably illegal. —Laser Jock ADear stop wondering, I listened to his album a lot on my mission, it's a good one. And it looks like you can buy the mp3s here or here, if you desire. -Cognoscente Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, I have recently picked up Starcraft with some friends and play on battle.net. However, I am having issues with connectivity through BYU internet at home(Wymount). When I host, the latency is too high for anyone to join. I have done everything; open ports on firewalls... This has only occured with the game Starcraft using battle.net. I know the network can support it physically, because I play X-box Live through it as well, which uses way more packets than the older game of Starcraft. I know its not a problem on my end, I believe itto be a network issue with BYU, can you tell me what it is? - Curious Frodo
ADear Curious Frodo, I sent your question to branflakes, a former writer who works for the Office of IT as a network engineer. He explained that academic uses of the network take priority over recreational activities (like online games); as a result, certain things are throttled to help make sure there's enough bandwidth available for academic uses. Online gaming, as a category, is limited to a total of 5 Mbps for all of on-campus housing. (The overall bandwidth available on campus—including on-campus housing—is 1 Gbps; this is quite a bit, but it's shared between, oh, 15 thousand people at school and in Wyview, Wymount, Helaman Halls, and Heritage. And yes, they do use the majority of that bandwidth during the day.) So what about your particular games? branflakes pointed out that both Battle.net and Xbox Live are in the same category, and share that 5 Mbps limit. So although OIT is restricting the bandwidth you can use for the games, it's not treating Starcraft any differently than when you play games through Xbox Live. His guess is that maybe you're just trying to play Starcraft when there's less available bandwidth (due to more people playing games online.) —Laser Jock, with many thanks to branflakes for all his help ADear master baggins, See also Board Question #47637 and the subsequent Board Question #49298. -Cognoscente Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, The graduation deadlines for April are quickly approaching, and I'm trying to decide what to do. Between possible marriage, possible career, and possible graduate school attendance, my post-April plans are currently unknown. It's crazy. Because of all this chaos, I think it would be safest to plan on getting my diploma in April. But there are lots of elective classes that I would love to take at BYU, and many of them could actually supplement my future career (like a minor...sort of). So I'd like to leave the door open for taking classes during the summer, if I'm still living in Provo at the time. Does that mean I should apply for an August graduation instead? Or is it possible to defer graduation, if it turns out that you'd like to stay in school for another semester? I've also talked to various people in different situations over the years...and if I remember correctly, I think some of them walked in April (I don't know when they actually got their diplomas) and then took classes during the summer immediately after. But I also heard a girl in my advisement center say that you can't take classes after you've already graduated. But I've also heard of something called a "non-degree-seeking student" status, which might be applicable to my situaton. Do you guys know anything about this stuff? What are my options? I wish my life had some sort of structure...if it helps, I'm mostly interested in taking business classes, web design classes, and fun classes. I don't know if those are offered in the evening, but that would be amazing. -My life is chaos.
ADear Chaos, I would go to your college's advisement center and request to defer graduation. Be prepared- they're probably going to act like it's a fantastic hassle and it's a long-shot for your request to be granted. You'll have to convince them that you have a good reason for staying, that you aren't just avoiding growing up. It can even be something as nebulous as: "I want to apply to graduate school. But, I've just begun considering a master's degree this last year, so I haven't taken all of the prerequisites necessary for the programs I'm interested in." You can still go into your college and request your diploma if you decide not to stay in Provo after Winter since you will have already met all of the requirements for graduation. -Ineffable ADear My life, I registered to walk in April. About a week before then, I decided I wanted to do another semester, so I talked to my counselor, and I was easily able to defer my graduation until December. Also, since there is no graduation ceremony in December, December graduates are invited to participate in the ceremony earlier in the year. I still did the graduation ceremony in April as planned, and I'm taking classes as an undergraduate now, 6 months later. So yes, it's possible to defer graduation, and it was a good option for me. Also, pretty much anyone is able to take night classes, even if they've graduated. Love, Waldorf and Sauron Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, I'm looking to do some independent design projects, and I'm hunting for ideas. What are some examples of things you find difficult or frustrating to use? What are some things you wish were designed differently? Why do you want them to be different, and how are they badly designed? This could include physical objects, like things around the house, your car, or even the layout of a building. Or even more technological things like the software on your computer or a hard-to-navigate website. Anything that you feel is badly designed. I want to build a nifty portfolio, outside of my classwork, so I'm looking for as many ideas as possible! -Future interaction designer
ADear Future, Okay. Garbage cans. They are almost always ugly. I like the classic mesh ones, but then what happens if something spills out of the liner? Kitchen trash cans with a lid on them sometimes work, but they end up looking either like they belong in a hospital or a nursery. Plain, solid plastic seems like a good idea, but then when you put a liner in you have to push out the extra air (if you've read The Mezzanine, you know what I'm talking about). Oh, and some of the designs for external hard drives are really stupid. External hard drives should be designed to not fall over while they are running, otherwise their users risk data loss. The best design I saw was a Lego-type one (which encouraged buying multiple external drives). Microwaves always look ugly to me. Can we get some with real fonts and in cool colors? Also, I don't use half the buttons on my microwave. I think the design of microwaves could really improve, I mean, I don't know how many ounces my food is, but I have to put something in to just get into defrost mode. Come on! -Whistler ADear designer, Cheese graters are annoying. I don't think I've ever used a cheese grater that I liked; it seems like you always have to hold them in uncomfortable positions and it takes forever to grate a meaningful amount of cheese. I would like for it to be fast and easy, preferably without having to buy and store something much bigger than a normal grater. Three-ring binders. If someone could make the rings be like auto-locking carabiners or something similar, so they lock shut on being closed and require more than just pulling on them (but not much more) to re-open, that could be cool. I am not a fan of when binder rings pop open and spill papers everywhere. (Doesn't happen often - even I am not all that clumsy - but when it does it is annoying.) You'd have to keep it easy to add and remove papers, though, and not add very much to the price. Staplers are often unnecessarily large, heavy, etc. Computers are hard to program. Make them less arbitrary and faster. (A millionfold speed increase by December would be helpful to my research.) I think that's a good sign that I'm out of helpful suggestions. Good luck! ~Ƥ. Ɗ. Kirĸe ADear Future, Blenders have always driven me crazy. They have five-hundred parts that are almost impossible to remove without the help of someone who is also an expert pickle-jar opener. Once you do get one taken apart, you lose the pieces and can't use the blender anymore. I can't really think of a way that could be improved while maintaining functionality, but that's why I'm not going into design. Parking lots are also a nightmare. Diagonal stalls are definitely an improvement, but parking is still not a fun experience...Every close-call that I've ever had while driving has taken place in a parking lot. One thing that Wal-mart has taken to doing that I really like is to make each aisle one way--then, you don't (usually) have people turning into you as you pull out. More medians would also help to cut down on accidents from people who drive like lunatics. I am also of the opinion that whoever designed University Mall had a vendetta against Utah County. Seriously, the place is a joke. Could they have designed a more ridiculous building? You think you've been everywhere, and suddenly you find this random hallway with stores that you've never seen before. Sometimes, there's even cheese at the end of it to reward you for a job well done. My first time in Provo, I wandered around lost for like twenty minutes looking for the entrance that I had originally used. A more simplified layout would be fantastic. That's about all I can come up with off the top of my head. ⋯Anomalous Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, Since some of the newer Board writers have recently taken the political compass test, perhaps they could also take the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), such as the one given here: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cg... My question is, what is the correlation of MBTI scores and position on the political compass for Board writers? I have MBTI scores for some of the writers. I don’t have scores for Sky Bones, Dr. Smeed, Mico, Anomalous, Foreman, Yellow, Hobbes, and Commander Keen. It would be nice to have their MBTI scores, if possilbe. Thanks. - Vorpal Blade
ADear Brother Blade, My type is ENTP: E-11% N-50% T-25% P-11% Some characteristics from www.typelogic.com include:
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Some Famous ENTPs: Alexander the Great Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart Sir Walter Raleigh John Adams, 2nd US president. James A. Garfield Rutherford B. Hayes Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt Thomas Edison Lewis Carrol, author (Alice in Wonderland) George Carlin John Candy Weird Al Yankovic Marilyn Vos Savant Alfred Hitchcock Tom Hanks David Spade Man, Weird Al? George Carlin? J.E.B Stuart? TEDDY ROOSEVELT!!???!? I am in some good company. Dr. Smeed ADear Blade, Haha, due to a weird set of loosely connected events, I was actually in the middle of taking this when I saw that you asked. What providence! Your Type is ESTP: Extroverted - 22% Sensing - 12% Thinking - 12% Perceiving - 78% This makes me a "Promoter." I quite agree with much of the description there, though it's not all accurate, of course. This puts me in the ranks with JFK and my boy Winston Churchill. Hmm. I particularly agree with this sentence: "In a word, [Promoters] are men and women of action." Combine that with "...their boldness and sense of adventure tends to make them highly attractive to many other people," and you have a recipe for fun! I would heavily agree with at least the Perceiving score. The results explain: "Perceiving means that [werf] is inclined to improvise and seek alternatives." That's so extremely true for me, as opposed to the alternative, Judging, which is based upon strict organization and subsequent execution of life plans. That sounds...SO boring. If you're bothering to be creepy enough to collect all this info, I certainly hope you'll make us a nice little graph of sorts. -Commander Keen ADear Vorpal Blade, What are you doing with all these scores? I'll try not to wonder why it would be so "nice" to have all of our scores... My Type is: INTJ Introverted / Intuitive / Thinking / Judging Strength of the preferences % 78 / 25 / 1 / 56 Just so people know, "Judging" is not meant in the negative sense. I am not sure that I agree with my results, mainly because they told me I should be a Computer Programmer. Hey website, wrong answer. Also, I would definitely disagree that I am at one percent for Thinking, because all the time I dedicate to thinking about seemingly unimportant details of my life proves otherwise. An interesting test, though. -Mico ADear Commander Keen, Oh, the irony of life. Due to a set of seemingly random circumstances, I, too, was in the middle of taking this test when I noticed the question. Freaky. Dear Vorpal Blade, My type is: ENFP: The Champion E: 100% N: 38% F: 38% P: 22% I think the extroversion is a wee bit out of control on this one, but whatever. The analysis does get at a lot of the major parts of my personality, but leaves out some important aspects. For the sake of brevity, I won't focus on what it leaves out. This is where it rings true:
That paragraph screams me. The rest of the entry basically summed me up in this one sentence: "Champions are always on the lookout for what's possible." I like that. I also happen to agree with it. ⋯Anomalous ADear Blade, ENFJ 56, 38, 75, 1 respectively. And since I didn't take the political test, here are my political compass scores- Economic: -2.38 Social: -0.82. -Ineffable ADear Vorpal Blade, I find your collection of Board writers' personality scores, and the fact that you know which ones you "have" and "don't have," creepy. Pretty darn creepy. - Furious George ADear Vorpy- More for my own curiosity, I took the test. Let's see what happened: I - 78% N - 50% T - 50% J - 67% Let's see...a strong introvert with high emphasis on rationality and reason...sounds right to me. I think that's about the same as I remember from my score in 8th grade (the last time I took one of these). Described as the "Mastermind," the descriptions run thusly:
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This is...frighteningly accurate. But hey, I'm down with anything that puts me in a category with Dwight D. Eisenhower, Niels Bohr, Stephen Hawking, Ayn Rand, and Isaac Newton! Seriously, if I made a list of my 50 favorite people, they'd probably all be on it. -Foreman ADear Vorpal, I really struggle with these tests, so take this for what it's worth: ISFJ: Introverted - 44% Sensing - 38% Feeling - 25% Judging - 1% I only agree with some of the descriptions for the "Guardian Protector":
This is certainly true (future suitors, take note!):
Interestingly enough, I took this same test a few months ago, and on reading the results with my best friend, both of us agreed it didn't fit me all that well. I had her take it for me, and got an ISFP, which is called the "Artisan Composer." This was also not a perfect fit, but seemed a lot closer:
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So there you have it. I'd say I'm somewhere in between--the Artisan personality makes sense with the fact that I am actually a musician, but, well, if being a Protector Guardian means hanging out with the likes of Jimmy Stewart, I'm in! What a stud! -Miss Scarlett, in the Conservatory ADear Vorpal Blade, Yes, why are you collecting facts about us? Seems a bit strange, but if you're that curious then here you are: My type is ENFJ: Extraverted- 28% Intuitive- 38% Feeling- 25% Judging- 56% -Sky Bones ADear writers, This is why Vorpal Blade is curious, to clear that up. - The Black Sheep ADear Vorpal, I'm (supposedly) an INFJ: Introverted - 11% Intuitive - 88% Feeling - 50% Judging - 44% However, on nearly every question which had any relation to thinking vs. feeling, I really struggled picking an answer. I think I could take the test on another day and come out INTJ; it just depends on my mood, probably. -Yellow Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, Where did you go on your mission? - Jane/John Doe, X, bearding, incognito, innominate, nameless, pseudo, pseudonymous, secret, so and so, such and such, unacknowledged, unattested, unavowed, unclaimed, uncredited, undesignated, undisclosed, unidentified, unnamed, unsigned, unspecified, what's his/her name, whatchamacallit, whatsis, you know who (see http://thesaurus.reference.com...)
ADear anonymous, Spain Malaga. -Yellow ADearie, Warshington, Everett. Please do not stalk me! Dr. Smeed ADear you, Arizona Phoenix. Ditto on the non-stalking. -Claudio ADear meh, Minnesota Minneapolis. I sustain the non-stalking movement. -Commander Keen ADear Jane- Washington, D.C. North. Which makes a whole lot more sense than this answer. You can stalk me if you're hot. -Foreman ADear ladies, Wait, can I change my answer to what Foreman said? The hot part, I mean. Get on it, -Commander Keen ADear Joahne Mexico Leon. -Humble Master ADear you, I served in the same mission as Dr. Smeed. I even have pictures of us on a zone P-Day, out in the baseball field. Dear Dr. Smeed, My first recollection of you is when you were passing around that doctored photo of Sister What's-her-bucket with Elder So-and-so's arm around her, which you had deftly plucked from your briefcase. Do you remember that? Now, go jump in front of a bus! -Miss Scarlett, in the Conservatory ADear gender ambiguous, You might also be interested in some answers from the archives; if so, check out Board Question #35737, which includes some current writers, and Board Question #28241, Board Question #27309, Board Question #5946, Board Question #3460, Board Question #32486, Board Question #35900, Board Question #21776, Board Question #10168, Board Question #3687, Board Question #3629, and Board Question #26307, which include mainly retired writers. (The ones at the end there are mostly individual writers, while the first five have multiple responses. Also, some of the questions with just a single response are from writers who'd already said where they served in a question with many responses, but since they provided extra information I linked to the singlet responses too.) —Laser Jock, who stole some of those links from Katya ADear Sister Scarlett, Haha! Of course I remember that picture! I still have about ten copies of it in my missionary papers! Remind me to show you the page in my journal where I prophesied that they were going to get married, that was uncanny. Elder Smeed Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, The dress and grooming standards and more specifically the rules on facial hair are the topic of a certain amount of controversy at BYU (ie the front page article of the Daily Universe this Tuesday). Besides girls who don't like to kiss guys with scruff nobody seems to think that the no beard rule is that important. I know that the dress and grooming standards have changed in the past and I wonder what it would take to get this rule amended. Is it in the power of the student body? some elected official? an old rich white guy? Is there any way that I, a humble undergraduate student, could make a difference? Also, any ideas or guesses on how many students would want to keep the current standards if it came to a vote? - Clean Shaven
ADear Clean Shaven, Please see my response to a slew of recent similar questions in Board Question #53899. Love, Waldorf and Sauron ADear Clean Shaven, Recent changes to the honor code have been handled at an administrative level in the Honor Code Office and the Dean of Student's Office. I'm sure that approval from the university president is necessary as well. Although I can't exactly see any of these parties caving on the issue simply because they received petitions with a certain number of signatures, I'm sure that the continued discussion of the issue on campus will help keep this issue near the front of their minds when changes are being discussed. Since the issue of facial hair relates to the idea that BYU students should maintain a clean, "mainstream" apperance, the powers-that-be would need to be convinced that facial hair has mainstreamed enough to be considered respectable by conservative groups. I'd say we're definitely getting closer on this, but still have a little ways to go. Time will probably be the best catalyst for change here. ~Hermia, who, for the record, enjoys kissing men with scruff Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, I spend quite the amount of time in the good old HBLL, and have noticed something funny. Many, not all, of the outlets are marked with Red electrical tape. I had a friend who worked for custodial and I know they mark broken light fixtures with red tape to get fixed, but the outlets seem to be in perfect working order. If so, why do we need all this red tape? - Far too observant
ADear Observant- As I pointed out in Board Question #41602, light fixtures and electrical outlets with red tape on them are ones that are indeed screwy in some way. Not all of them are beyond functioning, but they have all been marked for some reason (such as a loose cover or a bad attachment to the wall). Again, why so many of them go so long without getting the apparently needed attention, I don't know. -Foreman ADear Far too observant, I might be able to shed some more light on perhaps why there seem to be so many outlets requiring maintenance. In the department of the HBLL that I worked in for two years, we could submit facilities help desk tickets if there was ever anything wrong with lights, outlets, etc. On each of the tickets, we were required to rank how important they were (i.e., how soon they needed to be taken care of). You've probably noticed that there are a lot of outlets in the HBLL, and many of them are hardly ever used, which would result in them being registered on the lower ends of how soon they might require maintenance. My best educational guess would be that the custodians acknowledge that the outlets need maintenance by putting a piece of red tape on them, but there isn't really an immediate need to take care of them. There are probably much larger, much more important things that require their attention. I guess the outlets will just have to wait. -Sky Bones Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, I'm 18, and the gun law information I'm finding online is pretty wishy-washy. Let's say I'm an Oregon resident wanting to buy a handgun in Oregon, how could I do so legally? I understand that under 21 you cannot purchase a handgun but over 18 you can legally own one. Then how can I legally acquire a handgun? - Twitchy Fingers (Just kidding)
ADear Twitchy fingers (and I certainly hope you're kidding!), You're right; the information online is quite sketchy. After wading through a bewildering assortment of completely unreliable and out-of-date websites, I finally went straight to the source of all Oregon knowledge: their own government's website. From there, I explored around a bit and came upon this little gem, which clearly states in an act passed on June 10, 2009 that "a person commits the crime of unlawful possession of a firearm if the person...is under 18 years of age." (It includes several other things as well.) I know your question is about handguns specifically, and this organization, the Legal Community Against Violence, states on their website that in order to purchase a handgun or long gun in the state of Oregon, you must be at least 18 years of age, rather than the ripe old age of 21. I hope these sources combined answer your question satisfactorily! Marzipan |
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