January 2006 Archives

The Winter Semester is here. Last week started off the semester and I felt that I was ready for the change from the classes of the previous semester. When I had signed up for classes in November and spent the subsequent weeks refining and contemplating out each class I wanted to take and each class I needed to take, I had to draw out a road map to graduation for myself. The classes I initially signed myself up for in November were the ones that I was going to be taking this semester after I was done mapping out what need to be taken and in what order, but at the same time a couple of other considerations including a work schedule needed to be added into my planning.

I played Baulderdash or maybe it was 'Beyond Baulderdash' for several hours last night. I happened to be playing with some old friends from Texas, one of which attends BYU and the other who was up for a visit and to snowboard. As we were playing on of the words that came up was 'splacknuck' and as I recall the definition on the card is was something on the line of 'odd looking person or animal.' I like the word.
So let me back track some. Saturday morning I woke up before I normally would have, to go do some snowboarding with my friends. So being up before the crack of dawn [actually up before the crack of noon] threw me for a loop as I was trying to get everything that I would need to have for the day. I thought that included some Advil.

Some time ago I began a long look into the concept of having a campaign focused at my family and nosy friends who kept inquiring about my personal life. I have used the idea of misinformation for the longest time. To me the idea was to limit the amount and quality of the information given in such a way that not only could it be easily traced to the source sharing it but also to determine the validity of the source to begin with.
So in my head I tell person A a tidbit. I do the same with B, C, and D. Each person getting a tidbit shared with them that is similar but different enough to follow a path. The idea was to see how the information is shared between A, B, C, and D. The initial trail run of my plan was a small run, with the results of weeding out a person that distorted the information to make them better for it.