Rock Payne

Most hated class

2006-12-11T09:51:00.000-08:00

I absolutley hated, along with everyone else in the class, my humanities class. It was called the Developement of Western Civilization: Up to the Renesaince. I thought it would be like a history class, but wasn't. The professor was an old time hippie; rules are bad. Free thought. Do your own thing. No, you're doing it wrong! Do it this way! Make your own path in life. No! Your thinking is wrong. Think freely (my way) or you fail.

My act of defiance, petty as it was, was to write my paper about the roman military. It is the ultimate machine, destroyer of free thinking, and also smashed the Greeks, beloved by the professor.

My Question

2006-11-29T09:50:00.000-08:00

As we haven't officially recieved a question, I'll post one of my own.

What is cooler; Banded Iron Formations or Ultramafic rocks?

Worst Family Vacation

2006-11-20T09:56:00.000-08:00

One time when we were touring Svalbard we bought a box of donuts. When we opened the box however, it was actual filled by a dozen starving, crazed weasels! They jumped out and latched onto my face and I went running around screaming," Ah! Get them off me! Get them off! Ah, ah, ah!!!"

It just so happened that that's when I ran into the girl of my dreams. I'll never forget the very first thing she said to me. She said, "Hey, you've got weasels on your face." It was great for a while, but eventually I realized she could never accept me for who I am; a weasel encrusted boy from Nunavut. So my family went home and amid weeping and wailing and much gnashing of teeth.

By the way, thanks for not mentioning the weasels. I still get self conscious about them.

My Animal Side

2006-11-17T09:55:00.000-08:00

Well, I should think that its fairly obvious that my totem spirit is a vernicious k'nid.

Oddest Person In My Family

2006-11-17T09:38:00.000-08:00

Well I would have to say that our pet kumquat, Sparky, gets pretty strange sometimes. My sister is a pretty close second though.

Favorite Childhood Toy

2006-11-13T09:58:00.000-08:00

My favorite past time as a child was playing with a broken off car door. Another great memory is sailing paper boats in an old septic tank. Such is what happens when you grow up in a small town in southern Nunavut.

Christmas in October?!

2006-11-10T10:00:00.000-08:00

This was the worst year so far. I saw Christmas stuff in stores at the begining of October! I love Christmas but I also like other holidays. Please save Christmas for December.

Kellen

2006-11-10T09:58:00.000-08:00

Who knows what lurks in the mind of Kellen? I'm not sure if anyone does.

Worst Date

2006-11-06T09:57:00.000-08:00

For the safety of others, my pschiatrist has recomended that I refrain from thinking about that dark and horrible time.

Best Practical Joke

2006-11-06T09:43:00.000-08:00

Well, the only one I can remember right now was when I was pretty young. One April Fool's me and my older brother were walking down a long and lonesome road..oops wrong story. Anyway, we got up in the middle of the night and crawled under our sisters' bed ( we were both small enough to fit under there which tells you how long ago it was). In the morning my mom came and woke them up and they sat up and were talking. We started shaking the bed which freaked them out and it was funny. The end.

I apologize that you suffered through the entire reading of this horrible dialog.

Quick Costume

2006-11-01T09:57:00.000-08:00

You can get a pig nose and a small blanket and be a pig in a blanket.

Jokes (Ok only one joke)

2006-10-18T09:55:00.000-07:00

What do you call a psychic midget that escaped from jail? A small medium at large.

Languages

2006-10-16T09:57:00.000-07:00

Well due to the fact that most people look at me with a blank stare when talk to them, I have determined that I speak a language other than English. For a while I deluded myself that I was speaking English and everyone else was speaking something else. That hypothesis died as I considered Occam's Razor. I have since decided that I have stumbled onto a rare Germanic language derived from English spoken by a extremely small minority; namely me.

It has actually been very exciting! I have been collecting data for the past several years and have submitted a paper to several linguistic journals with my findings. National Geographic did a short article about the rare language with amazing results. The scientific communities and governments of the world raised such a great outcry that it was immediatly voted as a world treasure and protected by the Endangered Languages Act along with Basque, Gaelic, Cheyenne, Urdu, Algonquin, Modern Aramaic, Appalachian English, Yakut, Sanskrit, and Esperanto.

Restaraunt

2006-10-13T09:57:00.000-07:00

I like the Restaraunt at the End of the Galaxy

Scared? Who me?

2006-10-09T09:57:00.000-07:00

Right now I don't really have any phobias. When I was younger I used to be really afraid of spiders. Now I wouldn't be so happy if one was crawling on me but other than that they don't bother me. I like bungie jumping, caving, swimming, the dark, and, yes, even jello. I don't scare easily and when people do suprise me I usually don't jump. One day something will get me and I might develope a fear, but not really anything at present.

Great Scars

2006-10-06T09:58:00.000-07:00

Well, I usaully don't have short hair, partly due to the fact that I have a 1 1/2" scar on my head. I got it from a lego block. Okay it was one of those little kid legos that are really big. Anyway, my friend and I had dumped a bucket of legos on the floor and were pushing some of his trucks through them. Blocks go flying, it's fun, and life is good as a kid. Well on one of my runs, the truck got stuck and flipped me over and I landed head first on a block. Not fun. I go home screaming with copious ammounts of blood streaming down my face. Here is where it gets really fun. My mother had just got back from the hospital the day before. She had shattered her knee cap and was in a ankle to hip cast on a bed in the living room. I can't imagine what was going through her head when I came bursting in. In the end a couple of neighbor ladies took me to the hospital to get stitches and I have a story to tell whenever people see the scar.

Cool Rocks

2006-10-04T09:57:00.000-07:00

I think my favorite mineral is Galena. In terms of actual rocks, I went to the Smithsonian in January and saw some pretty cool stuff. I really liked the BIF they had in front of the building. It was pretty cool to see some Komatite (how do you spell that?) which I hadn't even seen a picture of before. They also had a piece of granite from Canada that was 3.96 billion years old! It was awsome to be able to touch it. While there I also gave the Hope Diamond a brief look but it was rather boring.

Cartoons

2006-10-02T09:55:00.000-07:00

Well my favorite cartoon of all time would have to be X-Men. It just can't be beat. However there are a few classics that I feel I should mention. Dino-riders is great and I think I had a action figure until I was 14 or so. Another good one that has to be spoken for is Captain Bucky O'Hare (anyone remember that, or am I just that old?). Oops, I almost forgot one. Thundercats is a classic among classics. There is something wrong with your soul if you can forget all your childhood cartoon shows.

Conference

2006-09-29T09:09:00.000-07:00

This conference, well today specifically, both my wife and I have mission reunions. Luckily one is a little earlier than the other so we have a little time to run from Park City where the first one is to North Salt Lake where mine is. Fun stuff.

Great Cereal

2006-09-27T09:44:00.001-07:00

One of my favorite ceareals is the malt-o-meal rip off of cinnamon toast crunch- cinnamon toasters. However I speak from experience when I tell you not to have a large bowl right before you go running. Not fun. The sugar load does not sit well in your stomach.

Musical Intrument

2006-09-25T09:53:00.000-07:00

Well technically I know how to play the contra-bass but it has been a few years. I played it 4th- 12th grade. It was a lot of fun and I wish I could find somewhere to play in my spare time.

The Best Food Storage Ever

2006-09-22T10:00:00.000-07:00

Well, having lived in a country where they don't have peanut butter candy, I learned it is possible to survive with out it. But its not pretty. In fact it kind of skews your whole vision of the world. Everything looks more dirty and grimy. Some people argue that it was just all the trash on the street, but I know better! They were in a spiritual and existential funk due to peanut butter candy deprevation! It just makes the everything so much nicer! I'd like to buy the world a Coke?!? Who likes that crap? I like to buy the world a Nutrageous candy bar! I can just see President Bush handing Kim Jong Il one of those bad boys and then all the walls come down! Its beautiful!

Anyway, I don't think they have a very good shelf life so I would probably have to get a hypoberic chamber for them.

Why I'm a Geologist

2006-09-20T09:52:00.000-07:00

Why am I a Geologist? Because rocks are cool! Do I sound like a nerd or what? Seriously though, I actually didn't start out in geology. While going to a community college I recieved a associate degree in geography. I choose that because I really like maps and enjoyed the geography class I took my first semester. However, when I transfered down here, all they had for geography majors was teaching and GIS. I don't want to be a teacher and I'm not very fond of computers (this class is good for me). I really liked my geology class that I had taken previously and had always liked physical geography the most, so I switched. Great decision, I love it.

Super Powers

2006-09-18T09:52:00.000-07:00

Personally I have always thought that it would be pretty cool to be able to stop time and then have the ability to move around while everyone else is motionless. Unless someone catches you entirely off guard you would be practically indestructable. You could even stop time and look around to make sure that wouldn't happen. Um, I guess a good name would be Chrono-Man or something similar.

Pizza!

2006-09-15T09:57:00.000-07:00

Arguably one of the staples of a college students diet, pizza is great! Anyway, my favorite toppings are Canadian bacon and pineapple. That is actually weird because I hated pineapples on pizza when I was younger.

I didn't have so much a aha moment, but I felt like I was actually getting something done instead of just fiddling around.

My problems

2006-09-13T09:55:00.000-07:00

Well, one of the things that gets me in the most trouble is I generally tend to procrastinate. Not a very good atribute for college generally. However, as a result, I am pretty good at cramming.

My aha moment today was when I finally got my hyperlink to work.

The worst movie

2006-09-11T09:49:00.000-07:00

The worst movie I have ever seen was called the Pumaman. However, I watched it on Mystery Science Theater 3000 which subsequently had me laughing my head off. At one point I was actually laughing so hard I had tears going and had to rewind the movie because I had missed so much. Despite the fact that due to the commentary I enjoyed the movie, it was horrible.

Vacation

2006-09-08T10:00:00.000-07:00

I have always wanted to go to Alaska and see the aurora borealis. I would also like to go to Switzerland and New Zealand. Why? The mountains... wow...enough said.

My Favorite Color

2006-09-06T09:36:00.000-07:00

My favorite color is black. However, I have had people state that black is a hue and not a color. If such is the case, forest green is pretty good.