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I don’t know why I think this is interesting, but I do. It just goes to show that if you go to design something for a computer program, things are bound to get a little messy. Don’t try to make sense of it at all. Just admire the beauty of computer software chalkboard design.

In one of my classes, we’ve been talking about business ethics. I presented the following self-check questions that someone can ask themselves. Here is the list of these questions:

• Is it against the law?
• Is it against the commandments or the teachings in the scriptures?
• Would my wife approve? (Note, I don’t have a wife, but this would be one of those questions to ask yourself if you did)

So, supposing in business, there was an opportunity to do something questionably non-ethical. One can begin to answer resolve if the opportunity is or isn’t ethical by answering the three questions above.

I’ve decided that I don’t really like stake Halloween dances, and let me tell you why.

Actually, its not the fact that a Halloween dance is bad, but its when there are generally only two stake dances every year and one of them is a Halloween dance. I’m unhappy because about half the the stake dances that I’ve ever been to at BYU have been Halloween dances.

Halloween dances can be fun, but I just think that the Halloween theme is so often done (every year) that there are other fun themes for dances which never happen.

If you ask people about why there are dances, you might get a variety of answers. Some might say that its for the free food, free fun, or the exercise. I suppose many people will say that it provides an unique environment to socialize with friends. If these were the only reasons, then perhaps a ward Halloween dance would be appropriate. But I’m talking about stake dances here, which have an additional couple of purposes. I think one of the biggest reasons to have a stake dance is to be able to meet new people in the stake that they would not normally have a chance to meet. Of course part of this is meeting new people of the opposite gender that you might want to get to know better.

So if one of the major purpose of a stake dance is to meet new people, then let me ask, does having everyone disguised in costumes promote this purpose? It seems like with Halloween, people dress up and look (and often act) different than they really are. I don’t think that having people look and act differently than they normally do makes it easier to meet and get to know new people to make friends with.

How is it suppose to be easier to meet some cute girl that I’ve never met before if she has makeup and whatever that makes it look like she has an axe coming out of her back or something?

When I was in Romania, I found this very good chocolate called Heidi Chocolate. It was the best milk chocolate that could be purchased for about 50 cents for 100 grams. It was good to eat along side pretzels, crackers, nuts, or just by itself. I really enjoyed it. I really enjoyed looking forward to eating it. It was sweet, it was good, it was delightful. It made me happy.

Collage without crayons
where did the color go
the rhythm is the same
along with the flow

The crayolas stirred
deep, passionate shades
visited the paper often
it seemed the road was paved

But now the crayon does sit
lonely with 31 friends
It has so much to offer
but the author now uses pens