A new found respect for pirates

Today I was watching the travel channel and they were talking about gold. One topic was of the Inca civilization, their uses of gold, and the Spannish, and their theft of this gold. It made me sick to see the gold caked over the palace of King Phillip II depicting saints and christian scenes. But not all of the gold made it back to spain. Pirates intercepted many of those ships.

I applaud those pirates. They really stand for freedom. Isn't it interesting how the line between freedom and inprisonment is so fine? If you follow all of the laws, then you're a prisoner of the laws. If you live by your own laws alone, you could be taken prisoner by the authority in power. I believe this is a paradox. So, hurray for the pirates, who lived by their own laws, played by thier own rules, and gave the Spannish a little bit of their own medicine when they were taking so much from people who could hardly fight back.

Semi-Annual Post

So, I stumbled across the email account my comments get posted to and thought I was being spammed or something. It was the 16 comments that have accumulated on my last post. Most of them seem to be advertising there own website or something, but it suprised me, as I was unaware of it as a method of advertising. They're nice though, people saying, "I like you blog" and stuff.

FRANCE TURNS WINE INTO FUEL? Yeah, read about it here:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/10/06/news/wine.php
Aparently some very fine wines are being turned into alcohol for fuel. This interests me mildly because I like wine and I'm taking a french class this term. I guess this is small news compared to the riots there (in france) that have been going on for eleven days now, though.

This is the first term I've been in college full time. I'm taking two math classes, french, and a design class. I met a fellow math major today (sophomore) and amusingly they were taking some of my favorite math classes that I have taken, multivariable calculus and linear algebra. I like them mostly because they deal with 3D concept images, which seem to have more substance for me. I have taken more math than most freshmen. This will actually be the fourth year for me here at Western Oregon University, I started while I was still in high school and this will be my first term going full time.

One more thing, here's a kitty for you.