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Sunday, February 01, 2009

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:07:26 GMT

yeah. I miss this guy's pretty face.

a lot.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:33:03 GMT

"...The influence of Aristotle has already been mentioned, but it has been argued (Dreyfus, 1972) that the history of Artificial Intelligence begins when Plato wrote that his teacher Socrates said, “I want to know what is characteristic of piety which makes all actions pious. . . that I may have it to turn to, and to use as a standard whereby to judge your actions and those of other men.”

Socrates was claiming that an algorithm could be defined that described the behavior of humans and determined whether a person’s behavior was good or bad.

This leads us to a fundamental question that has been asked by philosophers and students of Artificial Intelligence for many years: Is there more to the mind than simply a collection of neurons? Or, to put it another way, if each neuron in the human brain was replaced by an equivalent computational device, would the resultant be the same person? Would it indeed be capable of intelligent thought?"
- Artificial Intelligence Illuminated

focus

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:59:04 GMT

check out the new "focus" wallpaper:
here

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:22:23 GMT

YOUTUBE CHANNEL!

'Aight everybody, you all need to head over to http://www.youtube.com/ryno2019 to check out the new, recently updated rynoflavored youtube channel! Yeah tons of old classic videos have finally made their way to the cyberworld as well as a brand new video: Last Night by Skillet. So check it out, let me know what you think, and yeah... uh

...have yerselves a great night.

Friday, July 18, 2008

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:51:24 GMT

pain is selfishness leaving the body

I haven't really heard God the way I thought I was supposed to lately. It's felt like all of a sudden He thinks I don't need to hear His voice or something. It's been hard. I feel almost like I've been dealing with feeling betrayed by God. Like, I've done everything I thought He expected of me and He hasn't lived up to my expectation. But I think I'm at least just beginning to realize that it was only my expectation of Him. Not anything He promised. He only promised joy and fulfillment if I lived the life He asked me too... not popularity, ease, or just downright make-senseness. And it has only been everything He promised, and I forgotten to focus on that. I've forgotten to look forward and hope for where I know deep inside He's taking me. I've found myself looking back, and dwelling on times when I felt more useful, without realizing that the times I'm in right now might actually make me more useful.

As Erwin McManus says, "We think we lose clarity when God doesn't make it easy." In other words, we blame God for not feeling fulfilled, when, usually, we just need to re-focus on what He does do for us.

So I thank God for these moments of hope, and I will try, with James to: "Consider it a great joy, whenever I experience various trials, knowing that the testing of my faith produces endurance. But endurance must do its complete work, so that I may be mature and complete, lacking nothing."

lacking nothing.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:07:29 GMT

check it out, it's the "Fix You" remix.

Saturday, April 05, 2008

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 02:01:31 GMT

"Will you believe me now
Believe me here
Remember all the times I told you loud and clear
I am with you and I am for you
So believe me now

Believe it's true
I never have I never will abandon you
And the God that I have always been
I will forever be
So believe me now" - Steven Curtis Chapman

God is incredibly faithful and, though He can be confusing, I'm in love.

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:22:36 GMT

GET THE WIDESCREEN WAYNERPAPER... NOW

(man I love this kid)

Saturday, March 08, 2008

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 23:55:07 GMT

New On His plan for your love and New York City wallpapers (1280x800). Check 'em out!

Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:39:15 GMT

photoshop.magic
hey everybody. just sitting here before class messing around with photoshop stuff. check it out