jeffrey robert lange

So I have decided that I will be reviewing movies with a “see it” or “skip it”. I hope you like it!

As the Fourth of July rapidly approaches, I, along with three of my friends, will be traveling to Washington D.C. to meet up with yet another friend. This trip has been in planning for quite some time now, but the excitement is starting to get to me. I usually don’t get excited about things before they happen, but I have never been to D.C. before, and I miss my college friends, especially my girlfriend. Hopefully our travels will go safely and we don’t go crazy on the 10 hour trip. I’ll be taking tons of pictures and putting them in my gallery.

If you go to Google Translate and type in “heath ledger is dead” and translate that english phrase into spanish, well, let’s just say Heath Ledger doesn’t translate so well.

Is this a glitch, or does Google want Tom Cruise dead? It makes me wonder.

This worked at the time of this post. I don’t know how long it will work, since I’m not Google.

I think we can remember back to the days of 1999 when there was some strong concern for the Y2K, or Year 2000, bug. Many technologically driven devices like computers all have internal clocks, and some of the older clock systems did not foresee a year 2000, so many years were abbreviated to just the last digits. Instead of the year 1989, a programmer could save some 0’s and 1’s by just making the year 89, and then have the program translate the 2 digit year later. This problem mainly occurred in Windows based systems or programs.

Well, Y2K was not as bad as many people had thought, but it did affect some computers. The problem now lies in the year 2038, where a different kind of computer will be affected by this same general problem. These computers are servers that run Unix. Believe it or not, the internet is a large amount of computers that mainly run on a different system instead of windows. These computers are generally called servers and their size can range from anything from a normal desktop to a large refrigerator. These servers usually run a different operating system like Linux/Unix instead of Windows because Windows is user friendly, and straight up information does not need to be user friendly, it just needs to exist. Think of a server as a basic Excel document, and a user friendly operating system like Windows is like a bar graph. Same information, just presented differently.

Like all information, the time on computers is stored in 0’s and 1’s in a format called binary. The time is a strand of these 1’s and 0’s like 1101101 11011101 11000011 01111110 or something similar. Unfortunately, there will be some problem with the year 2038 because it will exceed the previously set year for 0’s and 1’s. It will roll over from all 1’s to all 0’s, like an old  odometer on a car.

This can be prevented by some updating of all systems that use Unix, but that is no small task. I just don’t want to see the internet fall into thousands of pieces because of a few missing numbers.

Every year the Trinity Youth Group, aka the FBI, or Faithful Bible Investigators, has a lock-in. A lock-in is basically a big group of people that decide to stay up (or not) and do activities like play games, eat, and learn some stuff. We start at 6 pm one day and end 8 am the next. It’s always lots of fun.

As the president of the Youth Group, I have a large role in deciding what happens during the lock-in. While I was riding my bike the other day, a great idea for a theme for the lock-in just popped into my head. My idea was to use the theme “Mythbusters” and to debunk myths about other religions and other things, like abortion. Pastor Italiano loved the idea, so we are doing it. Throughout the night we will debunk common misconceptions and we might just prove some similarities between Christianity and other religions.

The Lock-In is the 15^th and 16^th of June, 2007. It starts at 6 pm and ends at 8 am. The price is $15. For what? Food. That’s it. You get dinner, dessert, and breakfast, oh, and don’t forget snacks.