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Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, Before the TCU/BYU game, I heard the BYU marching band's drumline play as the whole band marched into the stadium. I've heard it at other games too so I think it's a consistent thing. I'm hoping you can help me find the name of the cadence they play as they march in (it sounds a lot like one my band in high school played called "Slush" though I assume it's called something else here). Even better, I'd love to know if there's an online audio or video of this so I can listen to it. I listened to a lot of BYU drumline stuff on YouTube to no avail. Thank you! - yay drum cadences
ADear Yay, You're right, it is a consistent thing. According to my roommate, The Engaged One (who happens to have some pretty high contacts within the band), the BYU drumline plays "Synergy" with an insert of "Sassy Spice" while entering the stadium (this is also what they play during parades). Unfortunately, neither of us could find any recordings of this, whether online or within her massive collection of BYU Marching Band music. ⋯Anomalous ADear everyone, I actually just got a response back from a friend who is part of the drumline, and she provided this handy link. You can find "Synergy" on there, along with a lot of other stuff. - Commander Keen Back to top QDear Marzipan, You seem like a cool girl, but unlike some of the other board members you don't have a dating application, which is kind of unfortunate for guys like me who wouldn't mind filling one out. Having said that, how do I get a date with you . . . or at least become a candidate to go on a date with you? - Feeling Spontaneous At the Moment
ADear Spontaneous, You know, nothing can quite make a girl's day like having an anonymous, random stranger she's never seen ask her on a date via an online forum. Ah. Now I can add that to my "List of Obscure Things That've Happened to Me" - or, if I were to ever create such a list, this would certainly be on it, probably with a gold star. The reason, dear friend, that I don't have a dating application is because I'm quite new around here, and the issue has never come up. So, to humor you and all the other prospective single males out there, I have created this dating application for your filling-out pleasure. Enjoy! Marzipan Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, So, this is quite the embarrassing question to ask, but I have noticed an awful trend that I pass gas in small burts that I can't control, especially when I am standing up. These moments of flatulence usually do not have a smell, and I can't even tell if others notice sometimes. But other times, I think they do notice, and it's quite embarrassing. So my question is this: why am I plagued with these short farts? Why do they come when I stand up so often? How do I stop them? Help please! -Embarrassed and stumped!
ADear Embarrassed, As always, we are not medical professionals, so here are just some ideas: The first thing is that you don't really mention for how long you have been having this flatulence problem. Has this always happened? Do you know if you have some kind of digestion problem with a certain type of food (like lactose)? Flatulence happens when food gets all the way through the small intestine without being completely digested. The food then moves into the large intestine, which is inhabited by large amounts of bacteria. As the bacteria break down the food, they give off gases as a waste product which build up until they are released. So if you are eating foods that don't digest easily (like foods that are high in fiber), or if you are naturally unable to digest some types of carbohydrates easily (lactose is a carbohydrate), you could have chronic flatulence. Some things you might want to try to cut down on your overall flatulence production (and please keep in mind that these have been gleaned from the internet) are eating more slowly (giving your GI tract more time to break down all of your food), go walking after you eat, Beano (I've heard good things about this), capsules of spearmint or peppermint oil (many websites recommend this, but mostly those that sell spearmint or peppermint oil . . . of course, the Beano website recommends Beano, so who can you trust?). The reason you might be pooting more when you stand up than when you sit down is because your large intestine has a series of folds that helps retain solid waste while letting the gas build up and be released. It's possible that your folds don't fold so efficiently when you are standing the way they do when you are sitting. Having said all of that, your specific problem might be geographical as much as gastronomical. Here's a very interesting paper on high altitude flatus expulsion (HAPE) - spontaneous flatulence that occurs at a certain altitude. According to the paper, this typically only happens at around 11,000 feet in elevation, so even if that's not the primary reason, it might be contributing. - Rating Pending (who notes that "poot" is just one of a myriad of other euphemisms you could use) Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, Okay, so, I asked a question a bit ago where I asked about undeserved awards. Now, in my question I was attempting to channel people I had talked to who went overboard (you know, comparing Obama to Stalin or Napoleon, quoting quotes that no one said, etc.) in their disapproval of getting that award, sort of like how Dr. Stephen Colbert would do. Unfortunately, it's kind of hard to spot straight-faced sarcasm in such a short, written question, so I forgive you for thinking I was serious. Anyways, my question never got answered. What major figures can you think of who were awarded with something that many of the general public thought they didn't deserve? - Marty McFly
ADear McFly, Here's my list of recipients followed by what they received. I tried to pick those with widespread criticism, but obviously it reflects my own opinion. Any offense is unintentional. -Ineffable Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, Is there an Italian version of youtube? Also, are there any Italian children's shows (like Dora the Explorer or Handy Mandy)that would help me learn the language? - romanticlanguage learner
ADear Linguist, Italian YouTube is pretty much YouTube with a different web address: it.youtube.com. Go there for all your Italian video needs. I would recommend looking up the Italian band Nek, if you like rock music, that is. As for Dora the Explorer, I actually learned something pretty cool. Dora has become widely popular worldwide, so a lot of countries have adapted it. Now Dora is seriously multi-lingual! In Italy, Dora is an Italian girl learning English, which means most of the show is in Italian. The Dora Wikipedia page says:
Once you start looking on YouTube, you should search for "children's shows" (probably in Italian). After you know the basics, the best way to learn a language is total immersion. Find some simple Italian kids' shows, or even American shows that have been translated, and begin studying. Learning languages is so fun! -Mico Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, So I just started dating my first boyfriend and I don't know what to do! Any tips for how to be a good girlfriend? Specifically, any ideas for things that I can do that will make him...swoon? Like the guy's equivalent of a bouquet of flowers or a personalized guitar song or something!! - Head over Heels
ADear Head Over Heels, I'd like to direct you to my Guide to Being an Awesome Girlfriend in Board Question #49175. You might also be interested in Board Question #54410 (if you can't access it now, it'll post soon). I decided to poll some guys I know (and you might be familiar with some of them too). I asked them "What, in a romantic relationship, makes you swoon?" My sample is skewed to the preferences of academic Caucasian LDSs, but I think affectionate behavior in relationships is fairly transferable. Their (preserved) responses are below, but let's look at trends here. Independence, intelligence, and their unexpected combinations appear to be most likely to make men "swoon," along with dependability ("always being there") and small favors (planning special things ahead of time). Yellow: lack of oxygen, probably. Mr. Jimbles: Benzodiazepine, I'd say. Optimistic.: I've always liked it when a woman enjoys things that seem to be stereotypically masculine Cognoscente: I dunno Laser Jock: Hm, food (whether baked goods or a meal) is always nice. Going out of her way to see me. Maybe planning something small and spontaneous (though that's a bit bigger than flowers). Leaving little notes. Sauron: creative, shared interests, easy and frequent conversation that doesn't get routine. Quandary: maybe this is too nerdy but I would say intelligence does more than anything else. PD Kirke: I enjoy being surprised by girls. Daniel (blog commenter): Unexpected attention (surprise visits at work, periodic unnecessary (and brief) phone calls to talk, etc.). -Whistler Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, I have been in several wards that split large Elders' Quorums in two but not Relief Societies (even if, as in my current married ward, there are equal numbers of men and women). Do they ever split Relief Societies, and if not why not? - halvesies
ADear halvesies, They sure do. My freshman ward (in Helaman Halls) had two Elders Quorums and three Relief Societies. (We had two halls of guys and three of girls, and each was its own organization.) —Laser Jock ADear Halvesies Doctrine and Covenants 107 outlines the maximum number of members priesthood quorums can have, but there is no scriptural guideline about the size of a Relief Society. In Section 107 the following quorum sizes are allotted: Deacons: 12 Teachers: 24 Priests: 48 Elders: 96 -Humble Master Back to top QTo The Most Awesome 100 Hour Board, Okay, here's the situation: Me and some friends are looking for someplace in or near Provo to practice archery indoors, preferably with a 20, 30 and 40 yard target. One of my friends mentioned that BYU used to have an archery class, and that the facility may still be around/functional. I am needing some help getting information about this. Also, if it is still functional, would only current BYU students be able to use it? Part two of question: If BYU does not still have a facility, I need help figuring out where to start looking for a range. The internet has not been helpful. Gracias mucho! --OneBoot :D
ADear OneBoot, This is what we call a yellow pages question. If you open up one of those yellow books under Archery, you'll find something that rhymes with Snake's Blarchery in Orem. They have an indoor range. Or you could try a Google search for 'archery provo.' (BTW, I haven't heard of an Archery range at BYU.) Love, Waldorf and Sauron ADear OneBoot, If there once was an archery range at BYU, it's definitely not there anymore. Jake's Archery is the only place I know of in the Provo/Orem area with an indoor range. If you're going with a group, make sure you call them ahead of time. They don't like it when a whole bunch of people just randomly show up. I remember they close pretty early in the evening, too. -Sky Bones Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, How can I find a pen pal from Italy that can help me learn the language and culture of the country? Does the LDS church have any system like that? - lingue di italiano bambina
ADear...Bambina..., 1. Go to Italy and introduce yourself to someone. 2. Go to an Italian restaurant and find an Italian. 3. Use the internet. Option three will be most effective, although number two includes eating dinner, which is always pretty good. From personal experience I know that Lang-8 is an exceptional website to help you make friends from other countries who will help you with the language. There are two slight issues you may want to keep in mind as you search online for an Italian pen-pal. First, if the person seems like a creeper sort of person then don't continue contact with them. Second, it may take a few tries to find a pen-pal who is as dedicated to the writing and learning as you are. You may have to contact multiple people before you find someone who wants the same things you do. This is part of why I suggest using Lang-8 - on that site not only can you keep a journal, which native speakers will correct and help you with, but you can also have one-on-one letters between each other. It just seems that there are more options there. The LDS church does not exactly have a pen-pal system, but let me suggest some super alternatives. I don't know how bold of a person you are, but you may want to ask your friends and fellow church members if they know any missionaries serving in Italy. There are definitely ways to get in contact with someone from Italy by using your church connections, it will simply take initiative on your part. If you are currently attending BYU then you could drop by the Foreign Language Student Residence and see if anyone there has friends or family in Italy who wouldn't mind exchanging words with you. Also, you should absolutely check out the BYU English Language Center. You can sign up to be an ELC Study Buddy, which will help you to find a native speaker living in the Provo/Orem area. So while the Church itself doesn't have a pen-pal type system, BYU does. -Mico Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, Fact: I am a nail-biter. Problem: If H1N1 touches hands and hands touch mouth, I'll become swine. Solution: (This is where you come in. How do I break the habit?) -Tasty fingers
ADear Tasty,
ADear Tasty, Board Question #14611 has some suggestions, including the gross-tasting stuff. Tell everyone you know that you're trying to stop biting your nails so they can tell you to stop if they see you doing it. Reward yourself with a manicure when your nails are long enough (or maybe you're a guy and don't care for that kind of thing, in which case reward yourself in some other way). If you keep it up, you'll be able to actually scratch people's backs again! -Whistler Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, I went to BYU and received a BA in English. I currently work at a law office. In my job interview I was asked what my favorite class was an I randomly picked Victorican Literature and choose Charles Dickens as my favorite author. These were not true statements. I just blurted out an answer and stuck with it. My boss just asked me a question about a Dickens character and I have no idea. Please help. What Charles Dickens character curses people by putting their names into a drawer? My boss also seemed to think that I knew of reputable websites that would have answers to questions like these. Any ideas? Thanks. - K_T
ADear K_T, I am not sure why your boss would even ask you that. Very strange. Alright, all my searches have been coming up at a loss, but I finally found a character who may fit your description. Also, if this is the character, then your boss reads fairly obscure Dickens. In The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain the character Mr. Redlaw curses people after he himself has been cursed. I found this on a site dedicated to Charles Dickens. Hopefully Mr. Redlaw is your man. -Mico Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, What do you think of black people? Stereotypes don't create themselves, though I admit some of them are certainly more accurate than others. In my experience many of the stereotypes are typically true (though with exceptions of course). Here, I will not detail which stereotypes I have validated by observation/experience and which ones I haven't, but instead I will curiously ask you to relate your own observations - since this is, after all, a site for my questions and your answers. - A Little Racist
ADear racist, Congratulations. You've been nominated for my Small-Minded Question of the Week. -Sardonic. ADear obviously, Really? I'm not going to answer your first question. To comment on your second paragraph: Have you ever heard someone speak badly of your race? Did you say, "Oh, well, that is true for most [race] people, so it's okay," or did you think, "Hey, that's not fair. I'm not like that, and neither are my other [race] friends"? I'm betting it's the second one. -irascible ADear A Little Racist, I'm trying to figure out if this is serious or not. I guess I'm just not quite willing to believe that someone would think it's okay to ask this. Here's what I think of black people: Their teeth often look whiter than mine and they always seem to have really clear skin. All of the black people I've been friends with have been pretty self-confident. And those are about all the generalities I can make. Funny story: When Sauron started a blog in high school, he called it "The K___ K___ of Koolness" (I'm leaving two of the words blank because you can still Google the full title and find Sauron's real name). While he was working on it in a computer lab at school, a kid came up to him and asked what he was looking at. Sauron answered, "The KKK's website." The kid said, "Really? Are you a racist?" Sauron, reasonably assuming that this was not a sincere inquiry, jokingly said, "Yep." The kid said, "Me too!" Moral of the story - Really, world? Didn't we get rid of this nonsense a few generations ago? Now go think long and hard about what Jesus thinks of black people. That's right. He loves them. A lot. Sincerely, Waldorf and Sauron ADear Sounds like it, Okay, stereotypes. What's the deal? Why are all these other writers so upset that you want to find out if stereotypes are accurate or not? Did you know that sometimes, just by believing something is true, you'll only see examples of when that belief is true? This is called confirmation bias. It's kind of cool to know about, but also kind of sad that humans are really irrational. For this reason, relying on personal experience is an inaccurate way to judge psychological phenomena. Another social psychology principle that might help you understand why stereotypes are such a problem is stereotype threat. Stereotype threat is when a minority group performs worse when they're made aware of the stereotype about their group. For instance, when women are reminded that they are stereotypically worse at math than men, they perform worse on math tests than they would have if they had not had this reminder at all (women aren't worse at math necessarily, but there do seem to be more men at both ends of the extremes of intelligence). So, in conclusion, it's good that you're acknowledging your racism, but please be aware of the detrimental effects your racism can have on others. -The Supershrink ADear A little, You know, the funny thing with stereotypes is that it's only okay to laugh at them if you're making a stereotype about yourself. Case in point: stuff white people like. It's funny! But think of how uncomfortable we would feel if the makers of that site created "stuff black people like" (there is such a site, but it looks like they are not the same entity as SWPL, and I kind of feel uncomfortable reading it because I'm thinking "well not all black people are like that!"). Anyway. Something to think about. -Whistler ADear A Little Racist, Sort of related story without a moral: in high school one of my band directors was this tiny, old, classy man from Arkansas. Even though he was just a little bit racist and more than a little bit sexist, everyone at our so-open-minded-our-brains-had-fallen-out arts school loved him to death. One of my gay best friends is black and was in the flute section, which was on the front row of the band room. Every time we played any song that hinted in any way toward Africa or old spirituals, even if the song was titled something really generic like "African Nights" or something, our band director would lean over to my friend and ask, "[Gay Best Friend], did your parents teach this to you growing up? What can you tell us about this song?" He was always totally serious. It was especially funny because this particular guy was perhaps the least stereotypically black guy that I ever knew, and he knew nothing more about black history or black culture than I did. So one day, my friend gathered up the entire band outside of the band room and explained to them his plot. When our band director came out of the room, my friend told him that he had a surprise for him and that he had taught the entire band a traditional African dance. He proceeded to stand in front of the group and make something up that sort of looked like a really stereotypical African dance, only we were all obviously faking it, but it made my band director's day. I went to visit him a few weeks ago, and he brought it up as a good memory. Oh, those were the days. - The Black Sheep AHey racist, Let me provide some examples of the sort of abstract ideas in The Supershrink's excellent answer that I picked up in class this week. The confirmation bias: The stereotype: Asians are bad drivers. You're cut off all the time by bad Caucasian drivers, and to you, they're simply bad drivers. But when one Asian cuts you off, suddenly it's "Dang Asian drivers!!!" When you have a bias like this, your mind selects and emphasizes things that fit into this bias, and you never notice when Asians are being good drivers. Racism-as-hegemony: Hegemony (for the purposes of this conversation) means an ideology put into action, which then reaffirms the original ideology. More specifically pertaining to our subject, you start out with a racist idea given to you by society—for example, let's say you live a few centuries ago when it was widely held that Women are mentally incapable of learning the art of writing. You might pick this idea up from the wide illiteracy of women in your town. But here's the thing: you perpetuate this stereotype through your actions. If you're a father, you don't let your daughters go to school, since it will be a waste of time. In many places, educating women was actually made illegal. Of course, the idea that women are unable to learn to write is clearly false now, but illiteracy among women perpetuated this sexist myth. Moral of the story: Even if black people are statistically less educated or poorer or more likely to wind up in prison or more likely to eat watermelon and fried chicken, that doesn't mean those traits are inherent in the race (they're not; they're culturally imposed through racism), and it certainly doesn't mean that you have any right to use a stereotype to make assumptions about people who belong to that race. You say these "stereotypes don't create themselves," and that's true—you want to know who creates said stereotypes? White people. Now snap out of it. -Groucho, Harpo, and Karl Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, My youngest son is attending BYU-Hawaii and strongly desires to transfer to BYU-Provo. He attended First Term and is currently a Fall Semester student. He is very homesick for Utah and it is affecting his school work. He's typically a good student and already has 36 credit hours with his APs and a 3.7+ college GPA. Is there any way to still him back to Utah for Winter Semester? Grandma Hula
ADear Ms. Hula, Although I sympathize with that feeling of being at the wrong school, the transfer student application deadline has already passed for Winter semester. The deadline was October 1st. He can still send in an application and hope to come for Spring term. He can still technically come to Utah for Winter semester, and even take classes. If he signs up for Independent Study courses he will continue earning BYU credit while waiting to find out if he can attend BYU. If your son has any more questions while going through the application process he ought to ask the academic counselors at BYU-HI. Good luck, Grandma! -Mico Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, This includes more than one question: I have an IBM ThinkPad laptop that I received in 2005. I am getting a new laptop- what can I do with my old one? Should I save it for something? Is there any way to make money off of it, or is it too old? It still works fine, but more outdated than I'd like. Some have advised me to sell the parts (how would I do that?) or try to sell it to a needy freshman. :) What would you do with an old laptop? - Could use the money
ADear couldn't we all, The parts of a 2005 laptop are likely just about worthless at this point, so I'd forget about that. (If you had a new-ish high-end-ish laptop you could theoretically strip out the processor, RAM, graphics card(s), etc. and actually make money selling them on eBay, but I think demand for components that are four years out of date is not large.) Selling to a needy freshman seems like a good bet; you might be able to get a couple hundred bucks from the right buyer. If I had an old laptop, I'd use it to replace my present Linux box, which I'm renting - I do all my programming in Linux and I've had some flakiness with VMWare, so I like having a dedicated Linux machine. I understand virtually all Linux OSes are lightweight enough to run well on 2005 hardware, so if I had such a laptop I'd blow Debian (or something) onto it and use it as my programming toy. I'd also consider doing some disassembly and toying around if I had a good project idea that required a screen. Example: I hear people make digital picture frames out of appropriately modded laptops. I don't think I'd do that, because it's not that original/exciting, but I might do something comparable if an idea hit me. ~Ƥ. Ɗ. Kirĸe |
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