My nephew, the gold digger...

My experiment update: It has been approved by the IRB! Now I am wondering what I have gotten myself into. I need to find four amendable professors for my experiment now willing enough to let me use their classes. Mnemonics and interference, here I come!

Best movie you haven't seen: Despite what Samantha Sands says, Cowboys and Aliens is an awesome movie! It has cowboys, aliens, James bond, a grumpy Indiana Jones, and the one woman in it. What more do you want (rhetorical questions)? The Rise of the Planet of the Apes is okay, as long as you don't mind it coming off as a PETA commercial. It's worth seeing John Lithgow's performance. James Franco looks lost and uninterested. I give it a B-.

So recently I got an Ipad 2. It's awesome. I took it to the dentist. I got a senior discount at the dentists because of it. It also got a me the perfect girlfriend! It is amazing! My mom loves it some much that when I'm not looking she takes it to the bathroom with her. My dad tattled on her. And then there is my nephew Hayden (he is pictured below). So he has been, well kissing up. I tells my I'm the "bestest ever". And today he told his nana and papa that Sammie (his aunt on Becca's side) was his favorite, but "trevor is my favoritists ever because of his I thingy [Ipad]." What a little gold digger. :)

For Rena, The List

Rena has asked me often what I look for in a dateable, so just for the heck of it (this a G rated blog). Here is my list with explanations. Please note, this list is somewhat facetious and somewhat serious.
1) Be female

1) Must like Foo Fighters, Incubus, and Weird Al. Weezer and QOTSA are also an acceptable answers as is The Black Keys. Actually I don't like Weird Al. Cole and Rena both like Weezer. Therefore, my dateable/significant other must like the Foos. Or at least tolerate them or one of the other bands. Or at least "like" them on facebook for my sake.

2) Vaccines: they don't cause autism and they are perfect against communicable diseases like cooties. Also great for herd immunity (sentence fragment).

3) Be illiterate: this is important. Sometimes I misspell words and use improper grammar (surprise, surprise it happens), if she is illiterate she won't know there are any problems....ignorance is bliss.
1) Be female
4) Not affiliated with a political party or able to have a political conversation if she does lean one direction or the other. I grew up more conservative/Republican. But ever sense college, I have gotten more liberal....even progressive (which in Glen Beck's bizarro world is dirty word). Plus I think conservatives have gotten more ideologically rigid. It's hard to talk about anything if you have black/white, right/wrong, left/right, conservative/liberal, patriot/traitor, us versus them dichotomous thinking.
5) Must understand the "who is the cheeseman?" reference. Cole does, but hates the cheeseman.
6) Must be my height or shorter. OR if she is taller, be willing to get height reduction surgery.
7) Have values, i.e., physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight.
8) Funnyish

Incubus, Seether, and Weezer oh my!

Everyone one has their favorite music. I believe music preference to be purely arbitrary. So when people ask me favorite band I tell them the Foo Fighters. Why they ask? Well, I started out like one of their songs, Everlong. Sometime the Foos can be screamy, but I like them for the energy of the music and the simplicity of the lyrics. Every since Everlong, their music has grown me. I think a lot people have a similar band, their first - like a first kiss. The Foos came out with a new album this spring and my favorite song on the album, Bridge Burning, begins out screamy but ends up normal. Other bands I like have recently released new albums. Incubus and Seether (both in my top ten of favorite bands) released new albums. I just found out that Weezer, who is growing on me, released another album last fall with Hurley from Lost on the cover! How cool is that. Anyway, here is are my top 10 favorite bands. I don't list them in order, mostly because I am not sure the order:
Foo Fighters
Incubus
Seether
Weezer
The Black Keys
Queens of the Stone Age
Rise Against
Jack's Mannequin
Nirvana
Them Crooked Vultures

I've found Kayla a boyfriend. In the episode of Wipeout, Kayla's own people are one of the featured groups of people! So Kayla, who will it be? The Teddy Bear Guy? The LARPer Shadow Wolf the Regulator (at 5 minutes 55 seconds) and the Jedi at ( 9 minutes and 9 seconds).

Kayla, you're welcome.

Here is your psychological question of the day:
"how many animals of each kind did Moses take on the ark?"

Scandals!

Okay, so it's been awhile since I lasted blogged. Class has ended, which means the inevitable challenging of the grades by some students. That comes with the territory. I have the next block off thankfully. I need the break. I was getting burned out going 3 years straight with no break. It will also give me time to go back and proof read my previous blogs. ;) Disclaimer: I won't proofread this blog entry, I'm multitasking.

Reading update: I love my Kindle. I'm almost finished with John Wooden on Leadership and half way through Applied Intelligence. Rena let me know if you want more of my kindle books. And cole, you can have them too. You just need to download the kindle app on your Mac.
Dating update:
Back update: still in pain - this episode is going on 4 weeks now....I an old man at the ripe age of 28!
IRB update: submitted on Wednesday. I'm nervous
Nephews update: On Tuesday we went to my great aunt's Laverne's funeral. She passed away last week. Well during the dedicticory prayer at the cemetery Rand (my brother) asked me if I had Lucas (the 2 year old). I didn't so we asked George (our dad). He did. So we looked around and Lucas was on the far side of the cemetery running away from us. We are observant people.

Tasers

I have a few items for today's blog. First, I am creating a website on google. Here is the url: https://sites.google.com/site/tmorrispsy/
It's not much but I be want to use it as a professional page. I heart google. It will be a central place to organize class materials, professional stuff, and even list books (especially psychology and education) that I recommend. I am excited about this. I don't teach second block so I will a more time. I'm trying to fill that whole in my time next block when I don't teach with productive activity. I want to read some more books, get my study through the IRB, and work on this website as well as prepare for classes in the fall.

Reading update:
I have made a concerted effort to read more instead of wasting time watching T.V. I finished a book written by my friend Rena called One Armed Freak. It was pretty good and is available as a kindle book for really cheap. Check it out if you can. Here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/One-Armed-Freak-ebook/dp/B002HHM9DU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=books&qid=1307937811&sr=8-1
Another book I am about to finish is Mindset by Carol Dweck. Here is snippet: "This growth mindset is based on the belief that your basic qualities are things you can cultivate through your efforts. Although people may differ in every which way - in their initial talents and aptitudes, interests, or temperaments - everyone can change and grow through application and experience. Do people with this mindset believe that anyone can be anything, that anyone with proper motivation or education can be become Einstein or Beethoven? No, but they believe that a person's true potential is unknown (and unknowable); that it's impossible to foresee what can be accomplished with years of passion, toil, and training."

J's doppelganger has a new video out. If you like tasers, stick around to the end.

Waitresses & 5Ks

I have often wondered this? Finally some truth on this subject! Waitresses, I'm on to you!

America's Waitresses: Are They Hitting On You?

I ran a 5k today. I got Rena to run, but couldn't convince Cole. I somehow made it in 28:33, which is amazing because I had posted 36 and 33 on my training for this 5k. That was almost as fast as the Road Runner. What's even more amazing is how many people I knew there: Carla Hendegren, Janelle Hanks, Katy Gibson, Jen Mortensen, and that one guy Brandon Platt. It's too bad Stephy and Chad weren't there. Then my 5k would have been complete.

J suggested that I mention science on my blog because of my title. So I'll do that on a later blog because I'm tired from my 5K.

The ZMAN Series.

For those of you who didn't like my last post, I beg your pardon. And as J pointed out in the comments of my last post, there should be a sign in the men's bathroom over the urinal saying "pee here".
This week, I wrote, directed, and produced a bad animated series called ZMAN. If you haven't watched it, here are all the episodes.

Episode 2

Episode 3

And the last episode!
I do hope I get a golden raspberry award for this C-list effort. That's why they call me the Mexican Spielberg (Simpsons reference, I think) .