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Name: Jon
Interests: See above. I mean, that just makes sense, right? (Laura is cute! She definitely didn't write this herself!)
Expertise: Nothin' -- seriously, I got nothin'. (Laura is good looking! Again, definitely not written by Laura!)
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7/28/2004
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| Summer's been fun for me, but probably boring to talk aboutAlso, I've apparently lost all ability to write titles.
So, the summer's been fun in the fact that, yes, Laura and I are (still) married. Seems we enjoy each other's company; crazy, huh?
It's sort of fun to live not-in-a-college town for the first time in awhile. I mean, Terre Haute sort of doesn't count, but whenever I live there I'm surrounded by college students so I think that defaults it to a college town as far as personal experience goes (the other town, for your Jon Bergdoll trivia knowledge, was West Lafayette last summer). Also, though, it sort of sucks in the fact that there's no incredibly cheap places to eat around here (who knew that people liked expensive food in Carmel?).
Currently Laura and I are having a discussion of the worst possible way in which Harry Potter could die. My nominee is an enlarged heart, with the sentence somewhere of "All the magic in the world couldn't save him from something so mundane, something so normal that any one, even normal children, could have it." Laura's is an opening sentence of "Harry Potter is dead," with the following 700+ pages being his funeral and wake. Bad people? Yes, yes we are.
Anywho, work is incredibly, incredibly boring this summer, but, hey, whatever. At least I'm getting paid, I guess? Really, at least I learned I never want to work for [COMPANY I WORK FOR HERE]. Why the brackets? I really don't want it recorded online that I bad-mouthed my company.
Well, as it's now 2 AM I suppose I should go to bed. If you have any...umm...I don't know where I was going with that.
Hey! Scott! While I'm thinking about it, get in touch with me sometime! We can hang out sometime, eat lunch or meal or something together.
Later, folks.
Jon
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| Hey, I'm married and in New York Check it: NYC is pretty cool. I could totally see falling in love with this city -- but, on the other hand, I can't even begin to imagine the horror of actually living here. That being said, I have gotten to go to the following two exciting restaurants while here:
1.) Goodburger, home of the goodburger. Have any of you seen the amazing cinematic endeavor that is Goodburger, starring the esteemed Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell (I had to look up Kel's last name. Poor Kel)? Well, it's an amazing movie, so going to the restaurant that only coincidentally shares the name of the movie was pretty fun for me.
2.) Happy Deli, owned by Rupert, constantly featured on Letterman. This was actually a pretty awesome place. Not only was Rupert a really nice guy, but the food was really reasonably priced (I mean, I wouldn't mind paying these prices in Indiana, so here I'm practically hugging him across the counter), and in addition to that, it's the best food I've had here. Definite recommendation for anyone. Also, they have Rupert's Signature Energy drink, which I will upload a picture of once I have one.
Oh, yeah, also, being married is cool, hah. I'd write more, but, well, it'd either be too romantic for this blog or something else entirely. I really am quite happy though. She's a wonderful wife and I couldn't be luckier. Also, few wives would give their husbands a nice internet half-hour per day on their honeymoon  hah.
Jon
P.S. Good god, if I hear about Paris Hilton again before bed I will...well, I don't have an adequate reaction. Probably just scream with such anguish that 1000 legions (yes, that's 3000000) demons born and made of the fires of hell will find anchor to draw themselves into our plane through the pain expressed in that primal rage. Is that a hyperbole? Just barely.
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| Life update:I've not updated this in some time. Well, time for a bulleted life update!
- I'm getting married this Sunday. To Laura, in case you REALLY need a life update. That'll be good. I'm looking forward to it. The whole marriage thing that is -- it'll be pretty awesome. (I'm saving all my romantic writings for my vows, which will probably be written tonight). I'll write more on it later -- probably after the wedding.
- I'm minus a set of grandparents. That was a bummer few weeks.
- I'll be honeymooning in New York City! That's going to be sweet. And, as a forewarning, unless you want to get a quiet chuckle from me, don't ask the same question as Laura's brother did of "What are you going to do there?"
- I maintained my 3.5ish at Rose, w/an exact 3.5. I've realized that I, regardless of difficulty/ease of classes, will put out exactly enough energy to get a 3.5. It's almost creepy how I can do it so steadily, really, like how geese can "know" to fly in a V, or dogs can know calculus, etc.
- I'll be working at Roche over the summer. That's on the northeast side of Indy, for those of you who don't know (which would be most of you). I'll be doing...some stuff, hah. Labview work mostly, I think. Not too exciting, but I can work with it.
That's it.
Jon
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| Language RantSo, as I sit here typing a paper at 3:45 in the morning, deciding that I can finish it tomorrow during my break (oh procrastination), a thought struck me. Here I give it vent.
I wonder if cultural focus can be indicated by the general location of word genesis? What I mean by this is whether there is a direct correlation between the fields in which new words are located and a culture's attention, respect, focus, etc. What made me wonder is that someone like, say, Shakespeare invented words all the time, and some of them stuck. We still use the occasional word that was more or less coined by him, or words that are direct derivatives of something of his (e.g., fart). Usually these words had their own derivations, true, but he, or some other writer, would be the person to make the leap between original source and new word. Science of the time, while occasionally bringing new terms into the fray, almost entirely used pre-existing lexicons.
Now, elsewhen in the future, we have a rather definite reversal of that. Want proof? Engineers, when's the last time you wrote a paper that didn't have a red squiggly (and not just because you butchered February or something). Now, liberal arts folks, what's the last paper you wrote that had a nice red squiggly indicating something completely sensical?
I wonder if this actually means anything. Probably not -- but, hey, I thought it'd be fun to write something on a topic slightly less dry than MEMS actuators in the world of HDDs. Later, folks.
Jon
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| It's Bergdoll, the Makes-Poor-Time-Related-Decisions Student!Hey kids! I'm here to teach all of you a little something about -- Time-Wasting!
See, sometimes when you have work to do, your whole body just tells you "NO." Do we all know what we should tell our bodies when they tell us not to do any more homework?
That's right -- offer them a compromise between working and doing nothing. Great job, guys!
Does anyone know what sort of compromises those could be? That's right -- video games is a great choice! Throwing the same piece of jello at your roommate's face until it goes into his mouth, regardless of how often it hits the ground? Bit of a weird one, Timmy, but that's ok! Everyone's in the spirit!
What's that? Write a blog for no reason in the tone of a child mascot? Great idea!
Jon
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