well, It's that time of year again, when all school is let out, and where children enjoy 3 months of freedom. This means that kids everywhere no longer have to turn in assignments and make up tests. Unfortunately for bloggers, that means that this blog site is going to be retired in a few days time. If you ever checked out this website regularly, than let me tell you that after reading this post that there will no longer be a need to visit this blogsite, for there will be no more updates or new entries.
As for the blogsite itself, itll still be here. If you wish to visit any of the older blogs that have been previously posted, you may do so. This remains true for the links to video's and to other websites, and blog sites. Some of the other blogsites might also be abandoned due to the fact that its not required to use it anymore. However if you want, you may go to the main link (that links to all of the other blogsites) and try them out to see if any of them are still being used. If you are willing to wait out the summer, im sure there will be many kids who will have to do this same assignment, and so you may want to watch for Mr. Ayers blog to see if he links to another kennedy blogs link.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
im sofa king we taud it
Well if you were expecting an interesting post, this isn’t it. Really, this is just a random blog with a lot of random thoughts and a random title. Actually I’m just trying to fill up space and amass as many words as possible without really typing anything. If you didn’t notice, that whole last sentence was utterly pointless; as was this one.
Ok so why are you still reading this? Don’t you have anything better to do than read this post? Honestly. STOP READING THIS. Wow you’re just addicted to this blog aren’t you? Either that or you like reading the words without stopping to consider the meaning. Hey dumb ass, I’m talking – typing to you. STOP READING THIS ENTRY. Can’t you tell that its just a compilation of random sentences that I’m obviously trying to BS, which means that it’s probably not worth reading. SO YOU SHOULD STOP READING THIS. Especially since the author doesn’t want you reading it. Ok this is getting ridiculous. I told you to stop reading this entry in the 6th sentence of this entry, and I've told you numerous times since then to stop READING THIS EFFING ENTRY. You piece of shit, you just can’t stop can you. OK well here: Anyone reading this entry needs to got get a life and STOP READING THIS. OK, I guess you still didn’t get the message so here: The person reading this essay is an ass, asshole, asswipe, a queer, a fag, a whore, a douche bag, a cross-dressing bastard, a donkey-raping shit eater (courtesy of south park), a DUMB ASS WHO DOESN’T GET THE MESSAGE, a noob, and a im sofa king we taud it. HAHA got you to read it twice!!! Wow it doesn’t get any better than this… unless you can get someone to read it THREE times - im sofa king we taud it. HAHA 3 times. im sofa king we taud it. OK its not funny anymore. Seriously, if you’ve read this entire thing, you need to go -- im sofa king we taud it. Gotcha. Ok now seriously its done; Go away and STOP READING THIS.
Ok so why are you still reading this? Don’t you have anything better to do than read this post? Honestly. STOP READING THIS. Wow you’re just addicted to this blog aren’t you? Either that or you like reading the words without stopping to consider the meaning. Hey dumb ass, I’m talking – typing to you. STOP READING THIS ENTRY. Can’t you tell that its just a compilation of random sentences that I’m obviously trying to BS, which means that it’s probably not worth reading. SO YOU SHOULD STOP READING THIS. Especially since the author doesn’t want you reading it. Ok this is getting ridiculous. I told you to stop reading this entry in the 6th sentence of this entry, and I've told you numerous times since then to stop READING THIS EFFING ENTRY. You piece of shit, you just can’t stop can you. OK well here: Anyone reading this entry needs to got get a life and STOP READING THIS. OK, I guess you still didn’t get the message so here: The person reading this essay is an ass, asshole, asswipe, a queer, a fag, a whore, a douche bag, a cross-dressing bastard, a donkey-raping shit eater (courtesy of south park), a DUMB ASS WHO DOESN’T GET THE MESSAGE, a noob, and a im sofa king we taud it. HAHA got you to read it twice!!! Wow it doesn’t get any better than this… unless you can get someone to read it THREE times - im sofa king we taud it. HAHA 3 times. im sofa king we taud it. OK its not funny anymore. Seriously, if you’ve read this entire thing, you need to go -- im sofa king we taud it. Gotcha. Ok now seriously its done; Go away and STOP READING THIS.
Microsoft office 2007 (OneNote)
There’s no doubt about it, Microsoft has outdone itself with the newest Microsoft office installments. The new Microsoft office includes 9 different programs. Of course, there are the classic programs such as Word, Power Point, and Excel. But there are some new programs that are worth checking out. For example there is one program called OneNote. This program is unique in that it lets you click anywhere on the page and you can immediately start typing there. This makes it very convenient for taking notes. And after you write something, you can click on the text box that it appears in and drag it around to wherever you want. And you can also add pictures wherever you want (and click on it to add text). Another cool feature that it has is letting you organize things into a binder/folder. So if I am taking 3 classes, or if I have 3 clients, I can put 3 different folders in the binder and keep all of my notes for each class in the designated folder, instead of having them all saved like documents. And that’s another thing about OneNote – there is no save feature; everything saves automatically.
Microsoft office 2007 (The Original Programs)
Microsoft Office 2007 is sick. Everything has been redone to make the programs easier (even though it contains a lot of the same stuff, but with a lot of upgrades). The classic programs, Word, Power Point, and Excel, all have the buttons from the drop down menus in button format. What I mean by this is, say you want to center the text. You just find the button with the centered lines. If you are unsure if this is the desired button, you can hover the mouse over the button and it’ll give you a description of what the button does. This is helpful for small things that are hard to find. So lets say you want to set margins or print in Landscape format, all you have to do is find the appropriate section of buttons and click on the setting that you want.
The same is true for Power Point and Excel concerning the button simplicity and description. For Power Point, there are some cool new features that are worth mentioning. For example when making a power point, there is a note box at the bottom of the screen that lets you write in notes, which I don’t think I need to explain how helpful that is. Also there are many new graphics and effects and backgrounds that makes power point almost like making a movie; its all so high-tech and professional. There is also a new feature that I’m sure Mr. Ayers will appreciate. After making a power point, you can do a commentary recording. So let’s say you want to make a photo essay, and you need to make a commentary. Simple; you can do it all on Power Point.
And I haven’t really explored Excel yet, so you’ll have to do that on your own.
The same is true for Power Point and Excel concerning the button simplicity and description. For Power Point, there are some cool new features that are worth mentioning. For example when making a power point, there is a note box at the bottom of the screen that lets you write in notes, which I don’t think I need to explain how helpful that is. Also there are many new graphics and effects and backgrounds that makes power point almost like making a movie; its all so high-tech and professional. There is also a new feature that I’m sure Mr. Ayers will appreciate. After making a power point, you can do a commentary recording. So let’s say you want to make a photo essay, and you need to make a commentary. Simple; you can do it all on Power Point.
And I haven’t really explored Excel yet, so you’ll have to do that on your own.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Opera
Normally, I'm not a big fan of opera. If i was forced to endure an hour of yodel-like opera, i would probably have to kill myself. As for classical music, i can sit through it and occasionally enjoy it, but i don't listen to it on my own. What i mean by this is that my dad listens to classical music and a lot of times i hear it.
Well, for Mr. Ayers' class we've been working on a video essay. Part of the requirement is to put music in the essay as well as words to relay emotion. We did our essay about ping pong. I think ultimately it is an informal essay, even though it does include other genres such as action and comedy among other things. Anyways, at the end we (me and my co-producer) have an epic last match where we wanted some very climatic music. I had an idea of a song called Lux aeterna. The thing is the song is part opera part, part classical music. This is probably the only exception to my dislike of Opera, and it's only part opera.
All in all, this is in my opinion the most epic music around. This can send shivers down your spine, especially when its paired up with the appropriate scenes.
To check out this song click on this LINK
Well, for Mr. Ayers' class we've been working on a video essay. Part of the requirement is to put music in the essay as well as words to relay emotion. We did our essay about ping pong. I think ultimately it is an informal essay, even though it does include other genres such as action and comedy among other things. Anyways, at the end we (me and my co-producer) have an epic last match where we wanted some very climatic music. I had an idea of a song called Lux aeterna. The thing is the song is part opera part, part classical music. This is probably the only exception to my dislike of Opera, and it's only part opera.
All in all, this is in my opinion the most epic music around. This can send shivers down your spine, especially when its paired up with the appropriate scenes.
To check out this song click on this LINK
Sumer
I am in desperate need of sumer. It's been too long; as a matter of fact i think that its been so long that I'm not even sure if i spelled sumer right. Oh well that doesn't matter. All that matters is that school finishes and i get a nice long 3 month break from everything. What I'm going to do with the 3 month I'm not sure yet, but as long as I'm not required to do anything, then I'll be happy.
I do have some vague plans for sumer though. I plan on getting a job to make some money. I also have a lot of football practice and weight lifting that will keep me busy and in shape during the sumer. Aside from lifting and practice, I', looking forward to a lot of pick up games (football, basketball, and probably some soccer too).
As far as an actual vacation i don't think my family has one planned, but who knows, maybe they'll surprise me. I remember hearing bits here and there about New York, and to be honest, i wouldn't be surprised if we went somewhere out of the blue. Just over memorial day weekend, we left to Minnesota. We left Saturday, but i didn't find out about it until Friday; it's great being so prepared.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining. As long as i have 3 months of nothing to look forward to, i don't care how many surprises show up, as long as i don't have school.
I do have some vague plans for sumer though. I plan on getting a job to make some money. I also have a lot of football practice and weight lifting that will keep me busy and in shape during the sumer. Aside from lifting and practice, I', looking forward to a lot of pick up games (football, basketball, and probably some soccer too).
As far as an actual vacation i don't think my family has one planned, but who knows, maybe they'll surprise me. I remember hearing bits here and there about New York, and to be honest, i wouldn't be surprised if we went somewhere out of the blue. Just over memorial day weekend, we left to Minnesota. We left Saturday, but i didn't find out about it until Friday; it's great being so prepared.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining. As long as i have 3 months of nothing to look forward to, i don't care how many surprises show up, as long as i don't have school.
I need a topic
Don't you hate it when you desperately need a topic and it just wont come to you. Ive had that happen to me a couple of time this year, and it sucks. You find yourself just staring at the screen and thinking forever just to come up with a topic. More often than not, it means that when you do think up of a topic, it'll probably just be about something in the room like a printer or how comfortable the chair you are sitting on is. Sometimes you're not that lucky. If you cant think of a topic, you Will probably have to just work on something else until you can think of something or else make a blog post about something REALLY boring.
Even if you are really good at making up topics, you'll find that you start running out of them after about a years worth of entries. This was at one point the case with me. I found that i was quickly running out of topics, even though i was good at coming up with them. So i decided to use a method that would make this task more manageable in the regard of thinking up of topics. The method is writing about topics that are recent; in other words you just write about a topic that has happened to you recently. This makes it easy because 1) it just happened, so its easy to remember and 2) its easy to write about because its recent and it's dealing with you so you'll obviously know something about it.
I guess if you wanted to, you could look at this blog site as an electronic diary. No, actually it's a MANDATORY diary, which is why i'm able to sleep at night. But i dont like to look at it that way. I like to think of it more as an easy assignment that will boost my grade. Either way, only a couple more entries and it wont be a problem anymore.
Even if you are really good at making up topics, you'll find that you start running out of them after about a years worth of entries. This was at one point the case with me. I found that i was quickly running out of topics, even though i was good at coming up with them. So i decided to use a method that would make this task more manageable in the regard of thinking up of topics. The method is writing about topics that are recent; in other words you just write about a topic that has happened to you recently. This makes it easy because 1) it just happened, so its easy to remember and 2) its easy to write about because its recent and it's dealing with you so you'll obviously know something about it.
I guess if you wanted to, you could look at this blog site as an electronic diary. No, actually it's a MANDATORY diary, which is why i'm able to sleep at night. But i dont like to look at it that way. I like to think of it more as an easy assignment that will boost my grade. Either way, only a couple more entries and it wont be a problem anymore.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
youtube
Just today i was introduced to probably the best photo essay I've ever seen. It's about a normal teenage kid who has trouble in gym class. OK well maybe he's not that normal walking around playing game boy, and with his polo tucked into swimming trunk (?). But anyways, he goes to his gym class and the gym teacher picks him to do some athletics and he fails horribly. Suddenly the whole world, it seems, is laughing at him. He gets depressed for a while and cries for a while. Then he decides that it's time to get big. So he finds himself in a weight room steadily increasing the weight used for curling. next he does some intense bench, and some hardcore running. After 2 weeks, and a lot of protein, he is in the best shape of his life, and is ready to show that gym teacher what's up. So the following day he goes to gym determined and pumped, waiting for his chance. The gym teacher chooses him to do the activity (running on a treadmill). So he gets on the treadmill and runs until the teacher is satisfied. Then he gets of the treadmill and jumps around in jubilation, thus accomplishing his dream.
to watch this photo essay click on this LINK
to watch this photo essay click on this LINK
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Sick to the stomach
The other day I found myself throwing up at 5:30 in the morning. It was weird because i didnt even feel sick at the time; i just all of a sudden felt something rising up, and i couldnt keep it down, so i rushed to the bathroom and let it spray all over in the sink. That was a mistake; i should have done it in the toilet, because the sink was a pain to clean. Anyways, since i was up i thought about just getting ready and going to school. But then i thought, "Stupid, you just threw up, you dont have to go to school". So then i just went back to lay in bed. This was a smart choice because i just went on to throw up another 3 times; i think the reason it stopped after that is because there was nothing left to throw up.
Anyways, i was sick at home and i just layed in bed the whole day, and the day after. i didnt eat anything the whole time, and barely drank any water. my dad kept saying things like "you need to stay hydrated" and "keep drinking even if you feel like you're going to throw up". So he went out and bought me a lot of gatorade bottes, which i practically lived on for the next 2 days while i was laying in bed. The weird thing was that i could probably have drank it all day, because of my 102 degree temprature.
Anyways, i was sick at home and i just layed in bed the whole day, and the day after. i didnt eat anything the whole time, and barely drank any water. my dad kept saying things like "you need to stay hydrated" and "keep drinking even if you feel like you're going to throw up". So he went out and bought me a lot of gatorade bottes, which i practically lived on for the next 2 days while i was laying in bed. The weird thing was that i could probably have drank it all day, because of my 102 degree temprature.
Monday, May 5, 2008
Contagious Yawn
You might not know it, but yawns are contagious. That's right. if you subconsciously see someone yawn, you will find yourself yawning. I'm willing to bet that a great number of the yawns that you have ever made are because you subconsciously saw someone else do it. If you dont believe it, you can just try it out on yourself or someone else. for example, go talk to someone and fervently slide in a yawn while you are in the middle of speaking with them, and you will see that they will not be able to hold back a yawn (considering that they dont know what youre up to).
There is also that new pepsi commmercial that carries this theme. One guy yawns, and another guy sees him, and so on and so forth until someone giving a public adress begins yawning and then people who are watching it begin yawning. The commercial is brought to and end when the pepsi product is drank by people and the yawning is stopped. "Wake up people" is the motto that is designed to show that this pepsi product will wake you up, hence the "wake up" part.
There is also that new pepsi commmercial that carries this theme. One guy yawns, and another guy sees him, and so on and so forth until someone giving a public adress begins yawning and then people who are watching it begin yawning. The commercial is brought to and end when the pepsi product is drank by people and the yawning is stopped. "Wake up people" is the motto that is designed to show that this pepsi product will wake you up, hence the "wake up" part.
Photo Essays
Just recently, Mr. Ayers has given us a link to check out something he refers to as "photo essays". These are not much different that a timed slideshow, or even a movie in some cases. Basically, what it is, is a slide show of pictures that is accompanied by a commentary by the author. This can be to the author's advantage, as he can show whatever pictures he wants the "viewer" to see. He can also implement pauses and breaks at his pleasure. Not only that, but he has the right to emphasize words that he feels stand out and make an impact on the viewer.
We have a similar assignment to this in which we have to either make a slide show (similar to this one), or a movie, and one more option that i just cant think of right now. Anyways, me and my partner decided to do a movie. It seems simple enough. All we have to do is write the script/essay and make a movie that fits coherently with it. We also have the same rights as the people who make the slideshows, such as breaks and emphasis. In addition to this, we can also do special effects to the film. This shouldnt be too hard since we have the programming and experince needed to do it.
We have a similar assignment to this in which we have to either make a slide show (similar to this one), or a movie, and one more option that i just cant think of right now. Anyways, me and my partner decided to do a movie. It seems simple enough. All we have to do is write the script/essay and make a movie that fits coherently with it. We also have the same rights as the people who make the slideshows, such as breaks and emphasis. In addition to this, we can also do special effects to the film. This shouldnt be too hard since we have the programming and experince needed to do it.
Head Shrinking
Ive lately been doing a lot of research on the Jivaro indians and their customs of head shrinking. Of course, there is a lot more to the Jivaro tribes than just head shrinking, but that is mainly what they are known for.
Weve been having to make several drafts of this essay and each time i make another draft, i find something new to fix or improve. This goes for anything as small as punctuation, to the whole organization of the essay. As of right now, i think i have all of the information and all of the sources that im going to use, so i think for my final draft, im just going to make sure everything is organized and coherent, and that everything is spelled right, explained well and finished up.
ive also been toying with the notion of putting the 3rd draft on google docs and having other people look at and edit the paper. i probably wont do this for this paper, since there isnt really much left to do, and since im not sure that they would be the right audience for it.
Weve been having to make several drafts of this essay and each time i make another draft, i find something new to fix or improve. This goes for anything as small as punctuation, to the whole organization of the essay. As of right now, i think i have all of the information and all of the sources that im going to use, so i think for my final draft, im just going to make sure everything is organized and coherent, and that everything is spelled right, explained well and finished up.
ive also been toying with the notion of putting the 3rd draft on google docs and having other people look at and edit the paper. i probably wont do this for this paper, since there isnt really much left to do, and since im not sure that they would be the right audience for it.
Friday, May 2, 2008
Nerds
What exctly makes a nerd? is it the pocket protector, or the love of computers, or the comb-over hair do? Some would say the obsession of school is really it. Personally, i dont think that computers or school are necessarily definitions of a nerd, but they can be. As for wearing a pocket protector, or having a comb-over hair stlye would definately classify you as a nerd. I know some people that i would classify as nerds, and i find that they sometimes like to rattle of random facts and statistics just to show that they know information about everything. For example, someone made a comment about how cloudy it was, and a nerd that i know started droning about how the stars do this, and about how many lightyears it takes, and on and on and on. (sorry trevor, nothing against stars)
i think that nerds are the product of not receiving enough affection from his parents or people around him. this in turn, will make a child find some thing else to fill that void. For some, that gap is fixed with food, for others (nerds), it is filled with "nerdy stuff" to make himself superior. Well, that's enough for today, but for anyone reading this: "live long and prosper".
i think that nerds are the product of not receiving enough affection from his parents or people around him. this in turn, will make a child find some thing else to fill that void. For some, that gap is fixed with food, for others (nerds), it is filled with "nerdy stuff" to make himself superior. Well, that's enough for today, but for anyone reading this: "live long and prosper".
C Lunch
At our highschool, we have 4 seperate luch periods. The reason for this is that we have too many students to fit in one luch room, so we have to divide it up in 4. Unfortunately, i have "c" lunch which is possibly worse than "d" lunch.
firstly let me explain the luch system. "A" luch means that you go to lunch right after 3rd hour. "B" lunch means that you go after "A" lunch, "C" is after "B" and lastly "D" luch in which you go straight to 5th hour. That was a mouthfull, not really but "metaphorically". Or is that personification?
Well anyways, I have to endure about 3/4 of my AP US class before i can go to lunch, which isnt much to be looking forward to considering that school lunch is, well, school lunch. Anyways, so i have to slave through AP US, then I get to go to lunch, but then i have to comback awake and revitalized, and endure more AP US.
The reason that "C" lunch is probably worse that "D" is that "D" lunch means that you do not have to go back to the class that you just took. That is especially nice when your class is something gay like AP US.
firstly let me explain the luch system. "A" luch means that you go to lunch right after 3rd hour. "B" lunch means that you go after "A" lunch, "C" is after "B" and lastly "D" luch in which you go straight to 5th hour. That was a mouthfull, not really but "metaphorically". Or is that personification?
Well anyways, I have to endure about 3/4 of my AP US class before i can go to lunch, which isnt much to be looking forward to considering that school lunch is, well, school lunch. Anyways, so i have to slave through AP US, then I get to go to lunch, but then i have to comback awake and revitalized, and endure more AP US.
The reason that "C" lunch is probably worse that "D" is that "D" lunch means that you do not have to go back to the class that you just took. That is especially nice when your class is something gay like AP US.
yahoo v. hotmail
Just about everyone has an email, with the special exception of old people who dont use computers. E-mail just makes everyones life easier. Seriously, you can email yourself assignments, keep in touch with people on the other side of the globe, and stay up to date with all sorts of news updates, that can be emailed to alert you og something.
The question is, what kind of email do i want to use? In other words, do i want a yahoo account or a hotmail account or a gmail account? Personally, i have all three, but i probably am more frequent with my yahoo that any other one. The truth is, i would probably have to say that after hotmail redid their email, its probably more efficient that yahoo. But i like the yahoo home page much better, and i think that if you have many email to check, it probably better to use yahoo because you can preview emails and mass delete usless stuff. But hotmail is more "pleasant" to be on. So you have like a business/busy profile v. personal take your time with a few emails a day.
There are more factors that play into this, but you'll have to check them out yourself by making a new email (if you dont already have one).
The question is, what kind of email do i want to use? In other words, do i want a yahoo account or a hotmail account or a gmail account? Personally, i have all three, but i probably am more frequent with my yahoo that any other one. The truth is, i would probably have to say that after hotmail redid their email, its probably more efficient that yahoo. But i like the yahoo home page much better, and i think that if you have many email to check, it probably better to use yahoo because you can preview emails and mass delete usless stuff. But hotmail is more "pleasant" to be on. So you have like a business/busy profile v. personal take your time with a few emails a day.
There are more factors that play into this, but you'll have to check them out yourself by making a new email (if you dont already have one).
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Can you really trust the internet?
As we all know, the Internet isn't really a safe thing. Everyone is always talking about online predators, and they are always telling people not to give out their personal information. However, that is not the focus of this blog. This blog will address the pop ups that show up so constantly, and why you should avoid them.
Firstly, i want to say that you should never trust pop ups that say "you just won a free laptop", or "you are the 1 Millionth visitor"...
Firstly, i want to say that you should never trust pop ups that say "you just won a free laptop", or "you are the 1 Millionth visitor"...
The mystery of the "Michael Ayers Blog"
Recently, many people in my AP lang class have been trying to find Mr. Ayers personal blog. For the longest time we were unsuccesful in finding the blog. But just today we actually found the blog. As it turned out, there are many Michael Ayers on google; who would've guessed?
There was the musician Michael Ayers, which was obviously the wrong M.A. After a couple more pages, we found a blog of some teenager whose boy friends name was Michael Ayers. It turns out that this was the wrong Mr. Ayers because this Mr. Ayers was black. So we kept searching in vain for the real Mr. Ayers. At this point we found that after inumerable pages of a google search, that there was no such thing as the "Mr Ayers Blog". So we asked him if there really was a such blog. He insisted that it was out there, so we kept searching. The next one we found wasn't his blog, but one of another teenage girl, who was writing about a Michael Ayers that she knew. This Michael Ayers was obviously giving the girl trouble because of the harsh things that she was saying about him. I know, i know, as hard as it is to believe, someone was bashing a Michael Ayers. She called him (i should interject here to warn in advance of the harsh language that might offend some people, but here goes) a "cum guzzling whore slut". When reading this i stared at my screen with a sense of disbelief. So i showed the other guys who were looking for Mr. Ayers blog, and told them to check out this blog. Of course, all of this commotion caused Mr. Ayers to come over and check out whether or not we actually found it. Since there was no avoiding it, i asked him if this was his. After he saw this, he laughed about it and swore that it wasn't him.
After almost 1 full class, we were still unable to find the blog, until bond found it on google; it was his second try. the funny thing is though, that i used the same search words as him, but the reason that he found it and i didnt, is because he searched it on google, and i searched it on googleblog. anyways, we asked Mr. Ayers to come check it out and see if it really was the authentic website, and it turns out that it really was. So if you want to check it out, i have it linked to my blog. i was very reluctant to make this link, because it took me a long time to find it, and to make a link would make it way too easy for other people to find it.
There was the musician Michael Ayers, which was obviously the wrong M.A. After a couple more pages, we found a blog of some teenager whose boy friends name was Michael Ayers. It turns out that this was the wrong Mr. Ayers because this Mr. Ayers was black. So we kept searching in vain for the real Mr. Ayers. At this point we found that after inumerable pages of a google search, that there was no such thing as the "Mr Ayers Blog". So we asked him if there really was a such blog. He insisted that it was out there, so we kept searching. The next one we found wasn't his blog, but one of another teenage girl, who was writing about a Michael Ayers that she knew. This Michael Ayers was obviously giving the girl trouble because of the harsh things that she was saying about him. I know, i know, as hard as it is to believe, someone was bashing a Michael Ayers. She called him (i should interject here to warn in advance of the harsh language that might offend some people, but here goes) a "cum guzzling whore slut". When reading this i stared at my screen with a sense of disbelief. So i showed the other guys who were looking for Mr. Ayers blog, and told them to check out this blog. Of course, all of this commotion caused Mr. Ayers to come over and check out whether or not we actually found it. Since there was no avoiding it, i asked him if this was his. After he saw this, he laughed about it and swore that it wasn't him.
After almost 1 full class, we were still unable to find the blog, until bond found it on google; it was his second try. the funny thing is though, that i used the same search words as him, but the reason that he found it and i didnt, is because he searched it on google, and i searched it on googleblog. anyways, we asked Mr. Ayers to come check it out and see if it really was the authentic website, and it turns out that it really was. So if you want to check it out, i have it linked to my blog. i was very reluctant to make this link, because it took me a long time to find it, and to make a link would make it way too easy for other people to find it.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Ebay
You can find almost anything that you can imagine on ebay. You can buy anything from cars to wigs to peanut butter, without even leaving your house. Of course, not everything on ebay is reliable. In an attempt to get around this problem the founders of ebay created the trust system, where all ebay users can rate each other based on how satisfactory they find the items that they buy from a certain person. This makes it especially useful when you are looking to buy something expensive, and dont want to get ripped off.
But what makes ebay so special? Many people believe that ebay is unique because you can find almost anything you can imagine on ebay. So lets say that you were looking to buy a container of jiff peanut butter. the price might be anywhere from 1 cent to, say, 10. but the shipping and handling charges might cost, say, ten dollars. meaning that if you were looking to buy some jiff peanut butter, you could find some for a cent and only pay like 10 dollars in shipping and handling. That's a bargain when you consider all the time, effort, and gas it would take to go down to the store yourself and buy the peanut butter, especially when gas prices are at a an average of 3.50 a gallon.
But what makes ebay so special? Many people believe that ebay is unique because you can find almost anything you can imagine on ebay. So lets say that you were looking to buy a container of jiff peanut butter. the price might be anywhere from 1 cent to, say, 10. but the shipping and handling charges might cost, say, ten dollars. meaning that if you were looking to buy some jiff peanut butter, you could find some for a cent and only pay like 10 dollars in shipping and handling. That's a bargain when you consider all the time, effort, and gas it would take to go down to the store yourself and buy the peanut butter, especially when gas prices are at a an average of 3.50 a gallon.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
ellipticals
I know a person who insists that elliptical are a great arm exercise. I beg to differ. I tried to tell this person that ellipticals are machines that are meant to work out your legs, like running up stairs or running in general. But this stubborn person keeps trying to tell me that she gets good arm workouts from her elliptical and that it really does workout your arms as much as you legs.
So, finally, we decided to look it up to see who was right. So I googled it and the websites I went to said that ellipticals were good for legs joints and ankles. It said nothing whatsoever about ellipticals providing arm workouts. So she decided that I used a biased search and she decided to type in the words “elliptical arm workout”. After clicking on the first website, she expected to find something that would prove that ellipticals did work out your arms. Instead what we found was a website with 3 sentences, none of them talking about arm workouts. So we checked out other websites with the word arm highlighted and bolded. Ironically, these websites were all about “good” ellipticals without any arm support; they were recommending that people use these types.
So then after all of this, the most that she was willing to admit was that ellipticals worked out MORE lower body that upper body, but she was still so obstinate that she would not admit that I was right and she was wrong. Until this day, she still believes that she is right.
So, finally, we decided to look it up to see who was right. So I googled it and the websites I went to said that ellipticals were good for legs joints and ankles. It said nothing whatsoever about ellipticals providing arm workouts. So she decided that I used a biased search and she decided to type in the words “elliptical arm workout”. After clicking on the first website, she expected to find something that would prove that ellipticals did work out your arms. Instead what we found was a website with 3 sentences, none of them talking about arm workouts. So we checked out other websites with the word arm highlighted and bolded. Ironically, these websites were all about “good” ellipticals without any arm support; they were recommending that people use these types.
So then after all of this, the most that she was willing to admit was that ellipticals worked out MORE lower body that upper body, but she was still so obstinate that she would not admit that I was right and she was wrong. Until this day, she still believes that she is right.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Epilepsy
Epilepsy is a serious neurological condition that many people are diagnosed with. Epilepsy can be defined as a series of seizure that are caused because of unknown reasons(that is, not being the cause of alcohol, or extremely low blood pressure) according to Epilepsy.com .
The seizure might be related to brain injury or it might be hereditary. Some of you might ask, "well what exactly is a seizure". The answer is simple. A seizure is a "surge of electrical activity in the brain that usually affects how a person feels or acts for a short time."
What makes seizures dangerous, is that they can happen at any time, and at any place without warning and there is no way of subduing the seizure.
At epilepsy.com there is a great indicator of pre-seizure, actual seizure, and post-seizure symptoms that one might find useful when trying to find out if they themselves had a seizure. You can find the list HERE. For more information you can visit their website at Epilspy.com.
For a visual of a seizure click HERE
The seizure might be related to brain injury or it might be hereditary. Some of you might ask, "well what exactly is a seizure". The answer is simple. A seizure is a "surge of electrical activity in the brain that usually affects how a person feels or acts for a short time."
What makes seizures dangerous, is that they can happen at any time, and at any place without warning and there is no way of subduing the seizure.
At epilepsy.com there is a great indicator of pre-seizure, actual seizure, and post-seizure symptoms that one might find useful when trying to find out if they themselves had a seizure. You can find the list HERE. For more information you can visit their website at Epilspy.com.
For a visual of a seizure click HERE
Thursday, April 17, 2008
PETA
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animanls, is a great organization that is still going strong till this day. There website can be found HERE
personally i want to thank my vegetarian friend Trevor for introducing me to this fabulous organization. They do so many wonderful things for all the neglected and abused animals of todays world. They work hard to expose the mistreatment of animals by major corporation and even the government. Some of there information is faulty, and some of it isnt proven, but if the info was not so exaggerated, it would make for a very strong argument.
I even found some ads on their website that targeted kids. There was one in particualr that i found very amusing, and that i would say was strangely effective. There was a PS2 game called Whiplash, where you are a rabbit and you have to combat all of the evil animal testers. The only problem is that when you click on it to buy it, it tells you that the game doesnt exist; this can make it difficult for people to get ahold of this game.
its no wonder that PETA is such an impact in the world today. With games like this, and campaignes like the "Kentuky Fried Cruelty" one, its only a matter of time before all of the Michael Vicks out there are reprimanded.
personally i want to thank my vegetarian friend Trevor for introducing me to this fabulous organization. They do so many wonderful things for all the neglected and abused animals of todays world. They work hard to expose the mistreatment of animals by major corporation and even the government. Some of there information is faulty, and some of it isnt proven, but if the info was not so exaggerated, it would make for a very strong argument.
I even found some ads on their website that targeted kids. There was one in particualr that i found very amusing, and that i would say was strangely effective. There was a PS2 game called Whiplash, where you are a rabbit and you have to combat all of the evil animal testers. The only problem is that when you click on it to buy it, it tells you that the game doesnt exist; this can make it difficult for people to get ahold of this game.
its no wonder that PETA is such an impact in the world today. With games like this, and campaignes like the "Kentuky Fried Cruelty" one, its only a matter of time before all of the Michael Vicks out there are reprimanded.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
wat it do, in da hood
Sum people think that they got it hard. Well lemme tell ya, dat they aint seen notin til they been forced to live in the ghetto. Life’s tuff. Cant do notin bout it sometimz. On my third birth day, sum wigger from down the street walked by without sayin hapi birth day, so I shot ‘im. Cant have people gettin up in my face, disrespectin me like dat.
The other day I was up at skol try’n to get my edukation, when sum foo got up and shot me for bein 2 smart. So i got my people and we took him out. Course by that time I bin shot 4 times already, so 1 more don’t make no dif.
Life’s tuff on the streets. I alwayz gotta make sure my steet cred’s good, so I gotta take out the trash every now and then. One time wile I was doin my drive by, some pig tryd to chase me. Well I didn’t even run. I just stepped outta the car and slapped him rite in the mouf with the bak of my hand. He aint got but a handful of teeth left. S’okey thou cuz he still be up in my hood, and we cant be havin that. Nu-uh man. By this time tomoroh that foo be dug up 6 feat up in the ground.
The other day I was up at skol try’n to get my edukation, when sum foo got up and shot me for bein 2 smart. So i got my people and we took him out. Course by that time I bin shot 4 times already, so 1 more don’t make no dif.
Life’s tuff on the streets. I alwayz gotta make sure my steet cred’s good, so I gotta take out the trash every now and then. One time wile I was doin my drive by, some pig tryd to chase me. Well I didn’t even run. I just stepped outta the car and slapped him rite in the mouf with the bak of my hand. He aint got but a handful of teeth left. S’okey thou cuz he still be up in my hood, and we cant be havin that. Nu-uh man. By this time tomoroh that foo be dug up 6 feat up in the ground.
crazy stuff
If you’ve ever been on Youtube before, then you’ll know that there are some CRAZY things that people do just to get attention. There was one video in particular about just random stuff, that I was just amazed by. Of course I’d seen a lot of stuff on Youtube, but I think that this one might just be the most deserving of being watched. Well the video is called “crazy shit”.
A lot of the stuff you might have seen before, but there are some that are just—well you’ll see. But one of the scenes involve a person in a mailbox, who pushes out the mail. Yawn, right. But eventually there is a guy who doesn’t think that its funny, and he pulls out a gun and puts it in the slot – and shoots the guy.
Then there is also another one which, I admit, made me kind of nauseous. It was a kickboxing match, where a guy A kicks guy B. Well Guy B blocks the kick, and Guy B’s calf just snaps in half. What really made it sick was not the slow motion, but the fact that after it snapped clean in half, he moved his leg back while his calf was dangling, then tried to put weight on it. But what happened was that the bottom half of his leg just gave out, and he kept sinking until his knee touched the mat. If you watch the video, youll see what im talking about it. But don’t say I didn’t warn you when you vomit.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=k4FDkQKuElg
A lot of the stuff you might have seen before, but there are some that are just—well you’ll see. But one of the scenes involve a person in a mailbox, who pushes out the mail. Yawn, right. But eventually there is a guy who doesn’t think that its funny, and he pulls out a gun and puts it in the slot – and shoots the guy.
Then there is also another one which, I admit, made me kind of nauseous. It was a kickboxing match, where a guy A kicks guy B. Well Guy B blocks the kick, and Guy B’s calf just snaps in half. What really made it sick was not the slow motion, but the fact that after it snapped clean in half, he moved his leg back while his calf was dangling, then tried to put weight on it. But what happened was that the bottom half of his leg just gave out, and he kept sinking until his knee touched the mat. If you watch the video, youll see what im talking about it. But don’t say I didn’t warn you when you vomit.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=k4FDkQKuElg
Reluctant Winter
This year it seem like winter will never leave. The snow continues to pour and pour, and when you think its gone, it snows some more. I mean its fine for it to snow during the winter, since we get snow days and all, but for it to continue snowing days before spring break, well that’s effed up. I mean, it even snowed up ‘til Easter. I thought for sure that after Easter that the snow would surely stop falling. Apparently not, as it is still snowing up ‘til this day.
As a matter of fact, I thought today aws going to be a nice day so I wore shorts to school. In the idle of the day, I looded out of a window and saw that there was a freakin’ BLIZZARD going on outside.
I was looking forward to playing some pick up football or soccer or something, but then it has to go snow, and now all I have to look forward to is shoveling. So much for spring.
As a matter of fact, I thought today aws going to be a nice day so I wore shorts to school. In the idle of the day, I looded out of a window and saw that there was a freakin’ BLIZZARD going on outside.
I was looking forward to playing some pick up football or soccer or something, but then it has to go snow, and now all I have to look forward to is shoveling. So much for spring.
Monday, March 24, 2008
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There are many mysteries in life. Why do old people smell bad? Where do babies come from? What the hell are Teletubies? But the question that we will be discussing is, Does everything lead to cancer?
Recently, the American people have become diagnosed with something I like to call Cancer-Phobia. This is the belief that everything can lead to cancer if you look hard enough for a reason. The truth is that cancer is not a joke. There are many people who have cancer, and this “joke” of everything contributing to cancer is ridiculous. At lunch the other day, there was a kid who decided to inform us of what he saw on the news the other day (Jay Kang). He started talking about how he saw a segment of the news telling about how unhealthy it is to reuse water bottles. After his little rant, he tagged on the question: “and guess what?” It was at that point that the people who were listening to him knew that he was about to say the C-word. So when he told us that it led to cancer nobody was surprised.
For those of you who Rube’s who actually stopped reusing water bottles, heed this, not everything you hear is true. If you really cared about preventing/curing cancer, you would try to support the cancer victims, or at least give something in the way of supporting cancer research, instead of naively believing the nonsense that you hear on FOX News.
Recently, the American people have become diagnosed with something I like to call Cancer-Phobia. This is the belief that everything can lead to cancer if you look hard enough for a reason. The truth is that cancer is not a joke. There are many people who have cancer, and this “joke” of everything contributing to cancer is ridiculous. At lunch the other day, there was a kid who decided to inform us of what he saw on the news the other day (Jay Kang). He started talking about how he saw a segment of the news telling about how unhealthy it is to reuse water bottles. After his little rant, he tagged on the question: “and guess what?” It was at that point that the people who were listening to him knew that he was about to say the C-word. So when he told us that it led to cancer nobody was surprised.
For those of you who Rube’s who actually stopped reusing water bottles, heed this, not everything you hear is true. If you really cared about preventing/curing cancer, you would try to support the cancer victims, or at least give something in the way of supporting cancer research, instead of naively believing the nonsense that you hear on FOX News.
The Maria Culpa AP test
Just recently I was forced to take a mini imitation of the AP multiple choice test. As innocent as it may initially seem, don’t be fooled. This test is vile, disgusting, and tricky. Let your guard down for 1 second, and you’ll find yourself falling into one of the many PURPOSELY planted traps designed to fail you on the test. For example, on this test in particular, there was a document (Doc C), that wasn’t even a real source. That’s right, it was a made up source made alluringly simple, so that you would get duped into using it. You might think that you wouldn’t fall for this trick, but the truth is that there is a very real possibility of that happening. When you’re pressed for time, and you find an article that is easy to understand and use, you’ll probably use it to support/refute your argument.
Fortunately enough, I have enough knowledge of diction and logical fallacies to understand that it was not a good source to use. However, even I, was not able to see past it not being a real source.
When Mr. Ayers told us about how the grades were graded, I felt no remorse or pity whatsoever. See, the process is that they take qualified AP lang teachers, send them to Nebraska and lock them in a room with little bread and water, chain them to a table, and force them to grade paper after paper (according to Mr. Ayers). He also mentioned something about if an essay was too confusing or debatable, that they had to go to the “table leader” and have them sort it out. What the hell is a table leader?
Well if anything it makes me feel better about taking their stupid tests knowing that they have to report to their table leaders.
Fortunately enough, I have enough knowledge of diction and logical fallacies to understand that it was not a good source to use. However, even I, was not able to see past it not being a real source.
When Mr. Ayers told us about how the grades were graded, I felt no remorse or pity whatsoever. See, the process is that they take qualified AP lang teachers, send them to Nebraska and lock them in a room with little bread and water, chain them to a table, and force them to grade paper after paper (according to Mr. Ayers). He also mentioned something about if an essay was too confusing or debatable, that they had to go to the “table leader” and have them sort it out. What the hell is a table leader?
Well if anything it makes me feel better about taking their stupid tests knowing that they have to report to their table leaders.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
How many 5 year olds can you take in a fight?
Today I was introduced to a website that gave you a quiz with no more than 25 questions that was supposed to tell you how many 5 year olds you could take in a fight, based on things like your size arm length, and other things like how much martial arts experience you have and if you’ve ever been swarmed before. Out of curiosity we made the answer to every question as good as we could (we basically engineered the perfect 5 year old fighting machine). He had a build of long stocky arms, and he had a very muscular body (like a pro body builder), and many years of martial arts, and to top it all off he had been in numerous fights. Sadly, the ultimate 5 year old fighting machine could only take 39
five year olds.
I don’t know; that seems kind of weak for a bunch of five year olds. I've seen Neo take like a whole city full of Mr. Anderson’s and still win. And here you have a guy who has maxed out in every aspect of a five year old fighting machine, and he can only take 39 “five year olds”. I think with some careful planning and precautions, it would be easy to take on and beat significantly more than 39 five year olds.
I think that one of the major set backs of our fighting machine was that he knew too much martial arts. Believe me, martial arts doesn’t get you anywhere in a fight. I took
Teak-won-do and I didn’t get anything out of it so I got my parents to stop taking me to the stupid place, and stop wasting my time. With teak-won-do, the fighter probably spends too much time calculating the karate chop to the jugular, or getting in his stupid stance to take on a swarm of five year olds at the same time. If I had his build and his attributes, I would just swing like crazy and knock out whole waves of them. It would be so easy. With five year olds, its all about intimidation and authority. One punch would knock out like 10 five year olds, and then as the next wave of them comes, they’ll see the rest of their fellow colleagues lying on the floor with their heads cracked open, and immediately the start losing momentum. Once the swarm begins to thin out, you can start grabbing their tiny little heads, and smashing them into the walls, to save energy. Once you get to say, 75 five year olds, you can start buildup of their bodies, and stand on the whole pile of them, looking down on the oncoming swarms, and posing an even more imposing image.
In a worst case scenario, if you find yourself surrounded by five year olds, all you need to do is pick up one of the unconscious/dead 5 year olds, and start swing him/her in a circle creating a sort of impromptu barrier that would effectively keep the five year olds at a safe distance until you can figure out how to get out of there.
With these methods, it would be sooo easy to getting way past the 39 kid benchmark that was previously set. And this is all done without the aid of any sort of weapon. Imagine all of the possibilities if one was permitted the use of a baseball bat (metal or wood; it doesn’t matter).
If you would like to see how many five year olds you can take, go to THIS website.
five year olds.
I don’t know; that seems kind of weak for a bunch of five year olds. I've seen Neo take like a whole city full of Mr. Anderson’s and still win. And here you have a guy who has maxed out in every aspect of a five year old fighting machine, and he can only take 39 “five year olds”. I think with some careful planning and precautions, it would be easy to take on and beat significantly more than 39 five year olds.
I think that one of the major set backs of our fighting machine was that he knew too much martial arts. Believe me, martial arts doesn’t get you anywhere in a fight. I took
Teak-won-do and I didn’t get anything out of it so I got my parents to stop taking me to the stupid place, and stop wasting my time. With teak-won-do, the fighter probably spends too much time calculating the karate chop to the jugular, or getting in his stupid stance to take on a swarm of five year olds at the same time. If I had his build and his attributes, I would just swing like crazy and knock out whole waves of them. It would be so easy. With five year olds, its all about intimidation and authority. One punch would knock out like 10 five year olds, and then as the next wave of them comes, they’ll see the rest of their fellow colleagues lying on the floor with their heads cracked open, and immediately the start losing momentum. Once the swarm begins to thin out, you can start grabbing their tiny little heads, and smashing them into the walls, to save energy. Once you get to say, 75 five year olds, you can start buildup of their bodies, and stand on the whole pile of them, looking down on the oncoming swarms, and posing an even more imposing image.
In a worst case scenario, if you find yourself surrounded by five year olds, all you need to do is pick up one of the unconscious/dead 5 year olds, and start swing him/her in a circle creating a sort of impromptu barrier that would effectively keep the five year olds at a safe distance until you can figure out how to get out of there.
With these methods, it would be sooo easy to getting way past the 39 kid benchmark that was previously set. And this is all done without the aid of any sort of weapon. Imagine all of the possibilities if one was permitted the use of a baseball bat (metal or wood; it doesn’t matter).
If you would like to see how many five year olds you can take, go to THIS website.
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Researching The ways of the Witch Doctor
Im going to be researching the long and ancient practice of ---- Witch Doctors!!!
For those of you who are reading this and are doing the same assignment, I know how envious you are feeling towards me. I know that your topics of Ancient Greece, and the Solar system might not be as exciting, but I’m sure that they are all fine topics.
Now then, back to Witch Doctors. I don’t really know what inspired me to research this topic, but I’m glad I chose it. I have done some brief research on the topic. I found that the practice of “witch doctoring (?)” has been a long one, going on since around 5000 b.c. There have been many different cultures with witch doctors, each with their own methods and customs. I found that many cultures built their traditions off of those from other cultures. For example many civilizations take their medical means from the ancient Egyptian civilization. The Egyptians were the first to have people in specific fields; people who knew how to heal your eyes, others for your head (headaches, fevers), and others for wounds.
Hopefully, I will start researching Witch Doctors more in depth. I hope to focus on the head shrinking aspect of some witch doctors, but I’m not sure how much info is available on that topic.
For those of you who are reading this and are doing the same assignment, I know how envious you are feeling towards me. I know that your topics of Ancient Greece, and the Solar system might not be as exciting, but I’m sure that they are all fine topics.
Now then, back to Witch Doctors. I don’t really know what inspired me to research this topic, but I’m glad I chose it. I have done some brief research on the topic. I found that the practice of “witch doctoring (?)” has been a long one, going on since around 5000 b.c. There have been many different cultures with witch doctors, each with their own methods and customs. I found that many cultures built their traditions off of those from other cultures. For example many civilizations take their medical means from the ancient Egyptian civilization. The Egyptians were the first to have people in specific fields; people who knew how to heal your eyes, others for your head (headaches, fevers), and others for wounds.
Hopefully, I will start researching Witch Doctors more in depth. I hope to focus on the head shrinking aspect of some witch doctors, but I’m not sure how much info is available on that topic.
Surviving in the Wild
How cool would it be, to be stranded in the wild for, say, 2 weeks? There are people who make a living by agreeing to be placed in the wild and surviving with nothing but a knife. The only person with them would be the camera man, and I think that in most cases they aren’t even allowed to talk to them.
To be honest, I don’t think that it would be that hard to do. Think about it. If you have a knife you can kill animals and get food, you can spear fish, cut wood for fire, build a shelter, pass time, and protect yourself. Even without a knife, it would still be manageable to get by with your own two hands. I once saw an episode of one of these survivor shows where the guy stranded in the wild set up a trap for catching fish out of twigs. It was pretty much a wooden cage/ box with one open side where the fish would enter, and a last side which was to be closed when the fish entered the cage. The twist, though, was that when the last side of the cage was closed, there was a roof to the cage with additional twigs that not only made sure that the fish couldn’t jump out, but since it was meant to spear the fish, it made sure that it couldn’t break out of it. Surprisingly enough, it actually worked, and he managed to catch a variety of different fish, and he had himself a “feast”.
It might sound kind of extreme and vary difficult, but in reality, it’s not. They are throwing a man in the forest, full of many animals, and full of vegetation, aaand they provide him with a knife. What I would like to see is someone going into a desert, say the Sahara desert, and have them find their way out, surviving however they can. As log as you keep in mind that the most vital thing in the desert is water, and if you know how to get that water, you should fare pretty well.
Personally, if I was in the desert, obviously I would survive off of the desert animals. For water I would find the desert plants, and I would extract the water that they store, because desert plants store their water for long intervals, due to the lack of it in the desert. During the day, I would stay cool by not overexerting myself, and if I did get too hot I would stop and rest, and cover myself with think white clothes that would repel the sun’s UV rays and keep them from heating me up. At night I would dig a hole in the desert ground deep enough for me to curl up in. This allows for me to make better use of my body heat. And if I ever got desperate, I could always find a substitute to food with a “hand” from the camera man…
To be honest, I don’t think that it would be that hard to do. Think about it. If you have a knife you can kill animals and get food, you can spear fish, cut wood for fire, build a shelter, pass time, and protect yourself. Even without a knife, it would still be manageable to get by with your own two hands. I once saw an episode of one of these survivor shows where the guy stranded in the wild set up a trap for catching fish out of twigs. It was pretty much a wooden cage/ box with one open side where the fish would enter, and a last side which was to be closed when the fish entered the cage. The twist, though, was that when the last side of the cage was closed, there was a roof to the cage with additional twigs that not only made sure that the fish couldn’t jump out, but since it was meant to spear the fish, it made sure that it couldn’t break out of it. Surprisingly enough, it actually worked, and he managed to catch a variety of different fish, and he had himself a “feast”.
It might sound kind of extreme and vary difficult, but in reality, it’s not. They are throwing a man in the forest, full of many animals, and full of vegetation, aaand they provide him with a knife. What I would like to see is someone going into a desert, say the Sahara desert, and have them find their way out, surviving however they can. As log as you keep in mind that the most vital thing in the desert is water, and if you know how to get that water, you should fare pretty well.
Personally, if I was in the desert, obviously I would survive off of the desert animals. For water I would find the desert plants, and I would extract the water that they store, because desert plants store their water for long intervals, due to the lack of it in the desert. During the day, I would stay cool by not overexerting myself, and if I did get too hot I would stop and rest, and cover myself with think white clothes that would repel the sun’s UV rays and keep them from heating me up. At night I would dig a hole in the desert ground deep enough for me to curl up in. This allows for me to make better use of my body heat. And if I ever got desperate, I could always find a substitute to food with a “hand” from the camera man…
Monday, March 10, 2008
Country Music
Wow. Country Music is really something. I mean who in their right mind can resist the amazingness of country music.
To be honest with you, amazingness isn’t even a word, but then again you can’t really consider “Country Music” to be music. It’s much more than that. If you just listen to just about any male country singer, you will notice that the whole point of the song is to glorify their trucks. Then on the other hand, you have the female singers who dedicate their songs to letting everyone know how envious they are of the attention that the truck gets, and how great it felt for them to mutilate the truck. The drama is unbelievable, its almost overwhelming.
Oops, I almost forgot to mention the impact of such great guitar playing. Some rube might think that the beat was a simple one, but the truth is its not. The Country guitar players, have tremendous skills. In many cases, the Guitar player can carry out the tune with just two fingers and make it look so simple. I don’t know how they do it.
But all of this pales in comparison to the phenomenal sound of their voices. If you’ve ever heard the sound of their voices then you probably know what I’m talking about. It’s almost like they sing from their throats, deep, deep down, almost as if they are capable of strangling their voices. I cant even fathom how they can do that, but they do. If you can believe it, there are people who don’t find this kind of music appealing. They think that it is just really annoying music revolving mainly around trucks, and they feel that the tunes are unimaginative, and they think that the voices of the singers are similar to that of a dying mule. Well, we all know the jokes on them!
To be honest with you, amazingness isn’t even a word, but then again you can’t really consider “Country Music” to be music. It’s much more than that. If you just listen to just about any male country singer, you will notice that the whole point of the song is to glorify their trucks. Then on the other hand, you have the female singers who dedicate their songs to letting everyone know how envious they are of the attention that the truck gets, and how great it felt for them to mutilate the truck. The drama is unbelievable, its almost overwhelming.
Oops, I almost forgot to mention the impact of such great guitar playing. Some rube might think that the beat was a simple one, but the truth is its not. The Country guitar players, have tremendous skills. In many cases, the Guitar player can carry out the tune with just two fingers and make it look so simple. I don’t know how they do it.
But all of this pales in comparison to the phenomenal sound of their voices. If you’ve ever heard the sound of their voices then you probably know what I’m talking about. It’s almost like they sing from their throats, deep, deep down, almost as if they are capable of strangling their voices. I cant even fathom how they can do that, but they do. If you can believe it, there are people who don’t find this kind of music appealing. They think that it is just really annoying music revolving mainly around trucks, and they feel that the tunes are unimaginative, and they think that the voices of the singers are similar to that of a dying mule. Well, we all know the jokes on them!
Youtube
There is a great website that just about called Youtube. If you haven’t heard of it, you need to get out of your cave and get introduced to it. Now then, for those of you barbarians who don’t know what it is, it is a site compiled of possibly every video ever created. This also extends to movies, music videos, songs, TV shows, commercials, and even lectures and documentaries. Now then, this website can be used both for leisure purposes and also for educational purposes. For example, just a couple of weeks ago my group in my Language Arts class used Youtube to show an electronic reading of our authors work. Otherwise, if you find that you have missed an episode of a show, say the Chappell Show, you could just log onto Youtube search the name of the episode, and Presto! You can watch the show. Let’s say that you don’t know the actual name of the title, you could just search certain keywords that you think are relevant to what you are searching for, and a powerful search engine will almost definitely find what you are looking for.
What’s that you say? “Youtube, grunt, good”! Yes Youtube Good.
Let’s assume that you just crawled out of your cave and do not know about the shows that are commonly watched nowadays. Youtube, being the great site that it is, has a section on its home page dedicated to helping you find something to watch. This is called the “what other people are watching” section and can sometimes be convenient when trying to find something to watch.
I can tell you’re interested by the way you keep beating the ground with your club. So, tell you what, on the left hand of my Blog site, there are a list of websites that I find useful or interesting. Among those websites, there is one called Y-O-U-T-U-B-E that you might find interesting. So now just guide you mouse to the link and click on it.
What’s that you say? “Youtube, grunt, good”! Yes Youtube Good.
Let’s assume that you just crawled out of your cave and do not know about the shows that are commonly watched nowadays. Youtube, being the great site that it is, has a section on its home page dedicated to helping you find something to watch. This is called the “what other people are watching” section and can sometimes be convenient when trying to find something to watch.
I can tell you’re interested by the way you keep beating the ground with your club. So, tell you what, on the left hand of my Blog site, there are a list of websites that I find useful or interesting. Among those websites, there is one called Y-O-U-T-U-B-E that you might find interesting. So now just guide you mouse to the link and click on it.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Research paper options
1) my first topic option would have to be the Lochness monster. It would be interesting to do some research to find out how real Lochy actually is.
2) my second option would be a research paper about the history of witch doctors, or specifically shrinks. It would be cool to learn how to shrink heads.
3) lastly, i would consider a research paper about different indian tribal traditions. I know some, for example, have a custom of walking on hot coals.
2) my second option would be a research paper about the history of witch doctors, or specifically shrinks. It would be cool to learn how to shrink heads.
3) lastly, i would consider a research paper about different indian tribal traditions. I know some, for example, have a custom of walking on hot coals.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
the stupidest thing ever invented
I believe that CAPS LOCK is unquestionably the most retarded invention i have ever had the misfortune of using. I mean, CAPS LOCK is one of the biggest buttons on the keyboard, and the sole purpose of it is to make every letter you type is in capital letter form. I doubt that it is used commonly by anyone, unless they have some weird affiliation with capital letters. In addition to its inconvenience, there are many other problems associated with CAPS LOCK. One, for instance, could be trying to write in an acronym. If i wanted to write an acronym for Alabama Nerd Dictatorship, I would have to Have to abbreviate it as AND, which would pose a real problem if I was typing in CAPS LOCK, since both the acronym AND and the word AND would appear as the same word and nobody would be able to tell the difference between the two.
The only thing more annoying than the actual CAPS LOCK itself is its location. It is so easy for someone to accidentally press on the CAPS LOCK button instead of hitting the button for the letter "A". And once you hit the CAPS LOCK button, who knows how long you will continue to type for until you realize that the CAPS LOCK is on, and one of your words is missing the letter "A" somewhere? If it were up to me, I would probably have the CAPS LOCK button come standard as a separate component to the computer. By this I mean that the CAPS LOCK button would have to be placed in another room entirely for it to work, meaning that if you needed to use it, you would just get up and go into the other room and activate the CAPS LOCK. There, its as easy as 1, 2, 3.
It is unlikely however that all the major computer (or at least keyboard) making companies will change the keyboard the way I feel it needs to be fixed. That's why I’m willing to settle for just swapping the CAPS LOCK button with something as less likely of being accidentally hit, as the F8 button. That way, you can drastically improve the keyboard while having all the same buttons at the same time!
The only thing more annoying than the actual CAPS LOCK itself is its location. It is so easy for someone to accidentally press on the CAPS LOCK button instead of hitting the button for the letter "A". And once you hit the CAPS LOCK button, who knows how long you will continue to type for until you realize that the CAPS LOCK is on, and one of your words is missing the letter "A" somewhere? If it were up to me, I would probably have the CAPS LOCK button come standard as a separate component to the computer. By this I mean that the CAPS LOCK button would have to be placed in another room entirely for it to work, meaning that if you needed to use it, you would just get up and go into the other room and activate the CAPS LOCK. There, its as easy as 1, 2, 3.
It is unlikely however that all the major computer (or at least keyboard) making companies will change the keyboard the way I feel it needs to be fixed. That's why I’m willing to settle for just swapping the CAPS LOCK button with something as less likely of being accidentally hit, as the F8 button. That way, you can drastically improve the keyboard while having all the same buttons at the same time!
About this Blog Site
Mr. Ayers has now required that our AP class create our own blogsite and write in it several times a week. As a result, I have made this blog site. Right now it might not seem like much, but at the end of the trimester, you will be able to browse thought the treasured works of Pink Panther Blogs, and marvel at what you once thought was a mediocre badly managed blog site.
Monday, March 3, 2008
Of imagination
Why is it that sometimes people can see things that other people cant? is it because they have some sort of ability that allows them to witness things that only they can see, or is it something else, something like a hallucination that they believe is there but really isn’t.
I had a friend who once thought that he saw Spiderman late at night in Chicago. This was very comical at the time because he sincerely thought that he saw spider man swing from one skyscraper to the next. At first we thought that he was just trying to be funny, but he still, until this day insists that he saw spider man.
So the question is, did he really see Spiderman like he claims, or are we so unwilling to believe that there is a such thing as Spiderman that we didn’t even give him the benefit of the doubt? As people who use common sense and logic, it doesn’t seem possible that a person (Spiderman actually), is actually a real person and not just a comic book. There is probably a scientific explanation to this. Who knows, maybe someone dressed up in a Spiderman costume and jumped off of a building.
I had a friend who once thought that he saw Spiderman late at night in Chicago. This was very comical at the time because he sincerely thought that he saw spider man swing from one skyscraper to the next. At first we thought that he was just trying to be funny, but he still, until this day insists that he saw spider man.
So the question is, did he really see Spiderman like he claims, or are we so unwilling to believe that there is a such thing as Spiderman that we didn’t even give him the benefit of the doubt? As people who use common sense and logic, it doesn’t seem possible that a person (Spiderman actually), is actually a real person and not just a comic book. There is probably a scientific explanation to this. Who knows, maybe someone dressed up in a Spiderman costume and jumped off of a building.
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