November 10, 2012 • 2 notes
Not too bad for my first fight ever. Just saw Jack Nicholson, Mickey Rourke, and Chris Shifflet #staplescenter #LA #showtime #KO #goldenboy #boxing #

Not too bad for my first fight ever. Just saw Jack Nicholson, Mickey Rourke, and Chris Shifflet #staplescenter #LA #showtime #KO #goldenboy #boxing #

June 4, 2012 • 10 notes
Saw them last night. Might just check em out again tonight: Chris Shiflett and the Dead Peasants (Taken with instagram)

Saw them last night. Might just check em out again tonight: Chris Shiflett and the Dead Peasants (Taken with instagram)

May 31, 2012
Never mind donating to a worthy cause #st.judes (Taken with instagram)

Never mind donating to a worthy cause #st.judes (Taken with instagram)

May 31, 2012
It’s becoming a habit as I grade… (Taken with instagram)

It’s becoming a habit as I grade… (Taken with instagram)

April 1, 2012
Make a wish! (Taken with instagram)

Make a wish! (Taken with instagram)

April 1, 2012
This kid is going to be trouble…or the life of the party (Taken with instagram)

This kid is going to be trouble…or the life of the party (Taken with instagram)

April 1, 2012
Me and the birthday girl. 10 already!!! (Taken with instagram)

Me and the birthday girl. 10 already!!! (Taken with instagram)

April 1, 2012
Smile! (Taken with instagram)

Smile! (Taken with instagram)

March 12, 2012

Someday…

Don’t you hate those random times when inspiration strikes? Those times that you should probably be doing work, or studying, or working on finals (whatever the case may be) but you simply can’t focus on anything other than the immediate need to put words to paper.

There’s so many things that I’m unsure of in life. A lot of things that I’m not certain will go the way I’ve planned them. Hell, the past few months have forced me to question myself in every way. They’ve forced me to come to the realization of just what I’m capable of and how far I would go for something I believe in. The optimist in me would like to remind me that there’s a positive in all the negative…that’s also the personna I would qualify as “overly romantic” and maybe even irrational. The rational thinker in me remembers that sometimes things in life just suck and no amount of romanticizing will make a shitty situation better. It also helps to have those wonderful individuals who keep you in check lest you fly away and sit on Cloud 9 all day.

But what happens when what you belive…what you utterly believe with every part of your heart and soul is put into question? By life itself sometimes. The simple answer is that if you can’t stick to your convictions than you never truly felt as strongly as you claimed in the first place. It’s easy to say that you’re supposed to stand and look uncertainty in the face, unafraid. Unfortunately the lessons that life teaches us are always in retrospect. We can never learn ahead of ourselves.

Maybe someday I’ll learn to look back on this particular moment in time; this unique moment that is filled with so many different clashing emotions as a good lesson learned. Until then, I’ve got to keep on smiling and remindind myself that the positives all around me far outweigh the negatives. Life is beautiful, in all its trivialities and intricacies. What I believe is real. The way I feel is not some idiotic romanticizing. The things that I’m capable of are far beyong what I ever dreamed. And every choice I make from here on out will be with the knowledge that life doesn’t sit around waiting for people to make up their minds about possibilities and uncertainties. We live in a world of motion…so it’s time to move.

Rod

March 7, 2012 • 1 note
The world needs to pay attention #KONY2012 #invisiblechildren #stopatnothing

The world needs to pay attention #KONY2012 #invisiblechildren #stopatnothing

February 18, 2012
Ready for my run w/ Cindy Huang #mthigh #snowboarding (Taken with instagram)

Ready for my run w/ Cindy Huang #mthigh #snowboarding (Taken with instagram)

February 10, 2012 • 1 note
Probably not a good time to be hiking #firehazardhigh #hiking #sunnydayin #cali (Taken with instagram)

Probably not a good time to be hiking #firehazardhigh #hiking #sunnydayin #cali (Taken with instagram)

February 7, 2012 • 2 notes
For those who need the words #thebard #shakespeare #theboss (Taken with Instagram at Cal Poly Pomona)

For those who need the words #thebard #shakespeare #theboss (Taken with Instagram at Cal Poly Pomona)

January 31, 2012 • 371,297 notes • devoureth

This is Great. Enough said. 

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January 31, 2012 • 538 notes • sweet-southern-comfort
sweet-southern-comfort:   An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama’s socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said, “OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama’s plan”. All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A…. (substituting grades for dollars - something closer to home and more readily understood by all).   After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.. The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F. As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed. It could not be any simpler than that. Remember, there IS a test coming up. The 2012 elections.  These are possibly the 5 best sentences you’ll ever read and all applicable to this experiment: 1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. 2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. 3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. 4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it! 5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.

sweet-southern-comfort:

  An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama’s socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The professor then said, “OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama’s plan”. All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A…. (substituting grades for dollars - something closer to home and more readily understood by all).

  After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little..
The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F. As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed. It could not be any simpler than that.
Remember, there IS a test coming up. The 2012 elections.

  These are possibly the 5 best sentences you’ll ever read and all applicable to this experiment:
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.

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