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Another biggest month ever

Jacob — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 06:06:13 +0000

Last month I announced that August 2006 was the biggest month ever for this website. August’s reign didn’t even last a month as September, with 4 days left in the month, just passed up August. Well over 1000 users came in so far this month through Google alone, which is a 30% increase over all of last month. The photos category was the most popular, while posts about search engines and Halloween dances were the most popular posts.

Thank you all very much for reading. I appreciate every visitor, including the rude ones, but not really the ones that spam.

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Jacob — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 07:06:51 +0000

I went to a dance last night, and although I might have uttered these words before, it might have been the worst dance that I’ve ever been to. It was so bad, that staying at home and Googling the word boring would have been a more enjoyable experience. There were too few many individuals who could not understand that dancing actually involves foot work, and even fewer individuals who actually decided that a dance was worth their presence. Furthermore, it would be great if the people operating the musical devices (normally I would use the term DJ if their creative talents justified such usage) knew a more diverse portfolio of musical pieces, or at least what the true interpretation of the letters R and B should be.

Maybe I just come from a land where dancing to the band is somewhat more grand. I mean, when scenes from reality musicals break out everyday on the streets, it is difficult to view a dance without tunes as extraordinary, although I do promise that I at least tried to keep an open view.

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Themes for Halloween dances

Jacob — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 06:28:07 +0000

I’m always trying to help out my readers, so when I saw that one reader arrived at my site by looking for “themes for halloween dances” I thought that maybe I could help him or her out.

I think perhaps the best theme for a Halloween dance is: Halloween. You can have pumpkins, spider webs, costumes, fake or real ghosts, and other creepy Halloween oriented things.

Of course, I am not a fan of Halloween dances, mostly because people wear costumes and costumes make it difficult to meet new people. My advice is don’t plan a Halloween dance, plan an October or November dance, without costumes. I’m afraid, however, that you are on your own for finding a theme for such dance.

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Valentines Dance

Jacob — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 04:25:27 +0000

Almost as bad as halloween dances are valentines dances.

University Villa tried having a valentines dance tonight. As far as setup, it wasn’t that bad, except for a little hyperactive fog machine. There were only 7 people there; I feel kind of bad about that. I didn’t stay any longer than I needed to grab a cookie, but I might had stayed longer if there were more people.

Honestly though, I’m not surprised. Besides the fact that it is a weekday night and everyone has class tomorrow, I don’t imagine that valentines dances could succeed more than any other dance. I would guess that Valentines Day isn’t exactly everyone’s favorite holiday, so why would a valentines dance be predestined to success? Those who are looking forward to celebrating valentines day, probably have a significant other, and thus don’t need a dance as an excuse to dance. Those who don’t have significant others, probably aren’t so excited about the whole valentines thing anyway, and consequently are not the most likely to be excited about a valentines dance.

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Jacob — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:38:35 +0000

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?

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Yttrium

Jacob — Sat, 18 Sep 2004 04:05:58 +0000

Girl talk. Wow, now this is confusing for me. I would make big bucks if I could tell people what I just heard. But I don’t think that any words can describe what goes on inside a girls apartment. Its random, and loud, and full of emotion. You can never predict where it is going to go or what might come up. I don’t even know if its a conversation as much as its a soundtrack.

A soundtrack of life. Sometimes isn’t worth listening to. You might hear some girl things that you really didn’t want to know. Either that, or you might learn some of the elements.

Woah. Major insight here. But I still can’t put it into words. Its like pure knowledge, like the way the holy ghost talks to your soul.

A song and a dance. Thats what this place is life. Never start out a conversation with “She’ll be coming ’round the mountain,” because the next thing you know girls will start clapping, and singing and stomping and dancing, and swinging themselves ’round the room. I wish I had a camera, but it just couldn’t contain the excitement.

Heads falling out of faces.

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Fall Fest

Jacob — Sat, 11 Sep 2004 05:38:30 +0000

I know weeks of planning go into a big campus party, but it seemed like BYUSA lacked some prior experience when planning things. They messed up in a couple of areas.

First, the whole wristband thing was totally stupid. You had to first get a ticket, then you had to exchange the ticket for a wristband. What a waste of time. Even though they had 4 or more people doing this at at least three entry points, the time it took to do all this was absolutely rediculous. I waited in line for about an hour, just to get a wristband so they would let me into the dance, where I spent 45 minutes before they closed it down.

Yeah, they closed down the dance early, because there were 2000 people too many in the ball room. they didn’t even have the overflow open either. So after waiting in line for an hour, wandering around for a half an hour trying to find my friends, I only got to dance for 15 minutes before they closed it down.

It seemed like a mistake to confine things to the wilkensen student center. With all the people, there simply was not enough space for everyone. They needed to have another dance or two in other locations. For example, if they had a dance in the HFAC or CB lounge, not only would they have more space for people, but by having another location out side of the wilk would have spread people more around campus making things less crowded. They could have had movies playing in the HFAC, commedy in the JSB. Lots of things could have been done.

But they didn’t have a large enough vision for fall fest, and I could tell. Of all 4 fall fests I’ve been to, this has been the worst.

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