Check this out, if you want to know what video gaming can do to a person. There's a little salty language here, for your information.

One day I'm walking on campus after a class and I happen upon a crowd of people surrounding a man with a red shirt, upon which is printed something like "No homos will go to heaven."

Not too long after that I was walking on campus and I came upon two elderly men from The Gideon's International handing out New Testaments, quietly and with dignity.

Today for Colloquium, Dr. Jason Hsu from Ohio State University will be speaking. He is a well-known researcher in the area of Multiple Comparisons, famous enough to have a oft-used procedure named after him, called Hsu's MCB (Multiple Comparison with the Best).

It turns out that in our Linear Models class we just studied this procedure, and as part of a homework assignment we are to prove some of the theory behind this method. Last I checked, I was stuck on it, but when I talked with a fellow student about it briefly a funny idea popped into my head. Yesterday we were informed that there were still slots open to meet with Prof. Hsu before Colloquium. So, in theory, I could go ask the guy who thought it up how to do it.

Scott Adams, comic artist of the strip Dilbert, endorses affirmations as a legitimate way to pursue and achieve nigh-to-impossible goals.

It sounds too easy, too good to be true, maybe even humanistic. I haven't decided what I think about them yet.

I'm sitting in my office right now. It's 8:38 p.m. as I write this. The window is open and there's a party going on outside. You see, it's the day before the Michigan game here at Penn State, and folks are pumped, even if the home team doesn't seem to be particularly stellar this year. Just a few minutes ago, a guy with a hoarse voice bellowed "We are..." and a bunch of others yelled back, "Penn State!" He did it, like, four times in a row. That's what they do here. You're walking on campus somewhere or in The Hub and someone will up and shout, "We are...", and if there's enough school spirit in the vicinity, people will yell back.

I am a Mennonite after all, so I'll comment briefly on the Amish school shooting. In short, they're making me proud to be an Anabaptist.

Say what you want about the Amish and their lack of spirituality, but they have truly lived out Jesus in a powerful way during this situation by showing virtually immediate forgiveness and even actively loving (that's nonresistance in action) the family of the man who killed their little girls.