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Name: Jared
Country: United States
State: Oklahoma
Birthday: 8/29/1979
Gender: Male
Interests: Guitar, God's Word, teaching kiddos to be men of God, Hunting, Fishing, being a man of character, programming, computer related techo junk.
Expertise: Sleeping, Hiding from God's calling, and sitting on a pew.
Occupation: Computer related (Internet)
Industry: Education/Research
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
Member Since:
1/8/2005
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| Contact information: I updated my webhost on Friday and lost everything. I lost all my contact information for everyone, so I need it again. If you want me to have it, email me at jared (little at thingie) goforthandclick (dot) com | | |
| Well here is what is going on. I've switched to myspace and have a blogger as well for tracking my new guitar build. Yup, I'm building my own. It has been awhile since I got to play with my pile of wood. Last night and this morning I joined the sides and put on the neck and tail blocks. This shouldn’t be a hard thing, but apparently I need to work on my handsaw skills, or at least clamp things up better before cutting. I think it will be okay especially since I learned something when I did the tail block before I did the neck block. The neck block has a much cleaner cut and I plan on putting in an end graft. I also need to clear some space in my office so I can store materials somewhere other than my work bench. I’ll put the sides back in the mold tonight after church and prep the radius dishes for use. I also have the bracing for hte top rough cut and radiused. I'll build the gobar deck this weekend and see about getting the braces on the soundboard. I would very much like to get the box closed up before I goto Peru, but it seems unlikely. The tail block. Notice the gap? An end graft will eventually replace that.
This was me working on the neck end of the sides. I improved my clamping in one sense by using smaller wood rather than a 2x4, but it slipped on me more.
Clamping up the tail block.
Completed tailblock glue up and now the neck block is glued, clamped, and curing.
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| I read a book a couple times that shed some light on the Big Bang Theory. You see, science has long tried to figure out the origins of the Earth and our universe and there have always been some issues. How can random matter combine to suddenly explode into a massive creation event. No one seems to argue that there was a beginning to it all, but no one can really figure out how. We’ve been unable to produce such a reaction, but the theory is that given enough time anything is possible. Time is the key to our beginnings. We now believe that whatever caused the reaction that created our humble planet is still happening today. Amazing, how a perfect combination of gasses can cause something to go poof, create so much, and just keep going. Anyway, this book suggests that like most reactions that a catalyst was needed to cause this cosmic stuff to go poof and rather than just blowing up, create stuff. It concludes that a higher being caused it. It seems the most plausible explanation to me. Everything I know about chemical reactions suggests that they don’t usually form matter and even if they did, it would be a repeatable thing. We should be able to re-create the conditions. Maybe one day we will, but I find it unlikely and well, I’m not sure that would be a good idea anyway. Who knows what another poof would do. Time it seems can also create life according to science. We aren’t sure how and we can’t test it, but science considers it a fact. That same book had another theory, but we will get to that later. Now, I am no expert, but it would seem to me that life is a complicated thing and that each type of life is equally complicated. Oxygen is required for animal life on Earth, even the fishes of the sea need it and produce carbon dioxide. Plants need carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. There is a balance between the two and if that balance is tipped too far one way or the other, both forms of life could be extinguished. To much oxygen would potentially kill the plants and cause too much CO2 which would kill the animal life. It is an extreme situation, but that is the way I see it playing out one without the other. Granted that plant life could thrive off natural fires and volcanic activity, animal life cannot be sustained without plant life barring artificial circumstances. So if time created life, it must have created massive plant life first. The first plant would have had to have been algae and the first land based plant, a weed. I wonder how long it would take North America to erode into the ocean without plants? Anyway, animal life would have started with a single cell organism like the ameba. Right? I mean time must start small and work its way up. Have you ever looked at the cell? It is an amazing little factory. This gets made here, taken there, refined here, taken here, refined here, and moved there. Simple huh? Well not exactly. Each little mechanism has parts of its own and they likely have parts. Each needs built in a specific order and has to be built by another cell. So how did that first cell come to be? Well it was incomplete or it came from space. Hmm, well an incomplete cell fails to function. It cannot reproduce itself without the right parts working in harmony. Even the stem cell, which has the amazing ability to accept different blue prints requires the machines to build it. So, it came from outer space. Cool! All that does is buy time, which still seems to have a problem creating a cell. But lets say it is possible for life to be made from death. So we have a single cell body that can reproduce itself. All the goomen of the world say yippie! So the single cell evolves into 2 cells and then 100 and then into some visible form of life, say coral. Pretty stuff. I suppose other colonies of the single cell organism might turn into algae over enough time. Oh look, some almost visible microbe with legs. Okay, I can’t watch over the next who knows how many generations until we get something that resembles an animal. The change from a sea based creature to a land based creature would take about 50,000 iterations. The fossil record must be huge. Finally we get to present day with millions of major changes to the genetic and physical structure that brought us here. I wonder how many generations of animals died while genetic mutation produced the over 100+ factors that have to happen for blood to clot? Without any one of them and you may bleed to death or the clot not be dissolved eventually killing the creature. I look in the book and I see written what is evident in the world. It isn’t random. It isn’t by chance. There had to have been something start it all and the answer is God. I look inside the box of universe it everything inside it points to Him. It declares His glory. It screams it in one accord and to me science proves it. It shows that life is infinitely more complicated than even time can generate on its own. God said… and He saw that it was good. To me it takes more faith to believe in a universe created by chance than it does for one designed by God because I see His fingerprints everywhere I look. | | |
| I’m tired of catch and release… What is the point? | | |
| I was piecing together a new toy, err tool, when I decided you all deserved a new post. I don’t know why you earned it, but you must have. I was recording something earlier and I thought of you guys. Okay, so have a post. It has come to my attention that I have a phantom brother. Apparently Vicki had no clue that I have a brother, sister, and a sister in law to be. March 24th at GTAG for all you wondering. So let me introduce my secret brother. His name is Jonathan and he is an excellent musician with a degree in accounting. His to be is Amanda, a charming young lady with enough patience to put up with the Goforths. Leeann, my secret sister, is a fourteen year old girl who has more talent than her brothers combined and seems to have the best attributes of both her brothers. Ahh, the luck of the genes. | | |
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