http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/,ar/20/barack-obama-iran-message
Friday, March 20, 2009
4.2- Derek Dube
Iran has responded to the video message Obama sent to them to try to make ammends with the Iranian people and government. Aliakbar Javanfekr, an aide to the Iranian president stated that "The Iranian nation has shown that if can forget hasty behavior, but we are awaiting pratical steps by the United States." He also stated "By fundamentally changing its behavior, America can offer us a friendly hand. So far what we have received have been unfriendly fists." But only time will tell if Obama's video will really change our relationship with Iran.
2.1 Nick
I got to drive my truck for the first time yesterday. My mom let me blow donuts in a school parking lot. I own a 89' Chevy 2500 silverado. It is a BEAST
4.4 John
Today, I watched a video podcast that was made by Element Skateboards. It featured pro skateboarder Bam Margera skateboarding in Barcelona with some of his friends. The video featured them using local parks and other places in the area as things to do tricks off of. I thought that it was a great video that really captured the culture and fun of skateboarding.
4.1- Derek Dube
I read the review of "I Love You, Man" that I got off google reader and the article said that the movie was pretty good and that it was hilarious. I am glad that I read the review because I am planning on going to see a movie this weekend and now I want to see "I Love You, Man". But hopefully they aren't lying to me or else I will be mad. But I love to watch movies, I have watched so many movies in my life that its not even funny.
http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/la-et-love20-2009mar20,0,1745085.story
2.4 Alex
The music video for "Pork and Beans" by Weezer is probably the funniest ones I have ever seen. They video has a bunch of people that put videos up and have a lot of views, the guys that do Numa Numa, Chocolate rain, and the diet coke and mentos experiments are all on there, they also make spoofs of some videos. I think it is pretty well shot and it is hilarious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muP9eH2p2PI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muP9eH2p2PI
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
ASP!
2.1
Yesterday, I got a letter from St. Paul's School, informing me that I'd been accepted to their Advanced Studies Program this summer!
I'm really excited. I'm going in for a Studio Arts course, which I think will really, REALLY benefit me in the future. There's nothing better I could be doing at the time.
Surprisingly, I'm only one of three people from Woodsville who applied. My mom said that she thinks a lot of people are scared off by the price, but that St. Paul's is WONDERFUL about financial aid. We now have 2 of the 3 thousand dollars off the price in financial aid--we only have to pay about $800!
I'm so excited that I'll finally be meeting new people with radiant personalities, as well as participating in activities that I have a legitimate interest in, and learning about something I've always wanted to do! This is great!
~Peter
Yesterday, I got a letter from St. Paul's School, informing me that I'd been accepted to their Advanced Studies Program this summer!
I'm really excited. I'm going in for a Studio Arts course, which I think will really, REALLY benefit me in the future. There's nothing better I could be doing at the time.
Surprisingly, I'm only one of three people from Woodsville who applied. My mom said that she thinks a lot of people are scared off by the price, but that St. Paul's is WONDERFUL about financial aid. We now have 2 of the 3 thousand dollars off the price in financial aid--we only have to pay about $800!
I'm so excited that I'll finally be meeting new people with radiant personalities, as well as participating in activities that I have a legitimate interest in, and learning about something I've always wanted to do! This is great!
~Peter
2.2 Alex week 3
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090317/ap_on_fe_st/odd_dog_act;_ylt=Al39nyk1hzRy6ExL9Txlp2rtiBIF
A 32 year old Texas man was arrested in Mansfield, La when construction workers saw him walking around on his hands and knees, eating mud, and growling like a dog. The woman that he was with said that he had been wandering around the complex eating dog food. The police found a small bottle of PCP, a half pound of marijuana, and one- forth ounce of crack cocaine on the man. he was charged with possession with intent to distribute. He is at the Desoto Detention Center where jailers could keep an eye on him. I think that this guy must have been using all of those drugs if he was acting that crazy. I think he must have some brain damage from all of that drug use.
A 32 year old Texas man was arrested in Mansfield, La when construction workers saw him walking around on his hands and knees, eating mud, and growling like a dog. The woman that he was with said that he had been wandering around the complex eating dog food. The police found a small bottle of PCP, a half pound of marijuana, and one- forth ounce of crack cocaine on the man. he was charged with possession with intent to distribute. He is at the Desoto Detention Center where jailers could keep an eye on him. I think that this guy must have been using all of those drugs if he was acting that crazy. I think he must have some brain damage from all of that drug use.
Week 3
section 2.3
This relates to the academic presentation, but in a way that may not seem so obvious.
One lesson I have learned working with mentally handicapped people is that patience is key. This is always something I have been lacking in. When I want things done, I want them done now. When you work with special ed kids that is far from the case. There is one girl who I have worked closely with for the semester, and she is leaving on Friday because she will be 21. Although she will never know, she has taught me as much as I have tried to teach her. I have never experienced such raw emotion with anyone, and it can be overwhelming, but also refreshing. When she is sad, she is sad, but when she is happy it almost makes me cry because she is so content. I have never been able to express myself in simple terms, but she has helped me smile, even after she has made me frustrated. That is one of the rewards of working with these kids. They can make you love them, no matter what they have done.
I can't say that every moment has been loads of fun and exciting in the class, particularly when we have to do reading comprehension, but I would say that if I wasn't sure of what I wanted to do after college I would probably consider working with kids like this. People say I have a way with the kids, but I have also had practice with my own brother. It's not hard...just time consuming and exhausting. The mentality has to switch from a one that questions and finds answers to everything to just trying to get them to say the answer and understand it. Although my brain cells sometimes feel like they are dying (the owl is eating the mouse, what is the owl eating?) it is also such a reward to hear them shout "MOUSE!"
I suppose I will miss the girl and the way she greets me in the morning, but that's life.
This relates to the academic presentation, but in a way that may not seem so obvious.
One lesson I have learned working with mentally handicapped people is that patience is key. This is always something I have been lacking in. When I want things done, I want them done now. When you work with special ed kids that is far from the case. There is one girl who I have worked closely with for the semester, and she is leaving on Friday because she will be 21. Although she will never know, she has taught me as much as I have tried to teach her. I have never experienced such raw emotion with anyone, and it can be overwhelming, but also refreshing. When she is sad, she is sad, but when she is happy it almost makes me cry because she is so content. I have never been able to express myself in simple terms, but she has helped me smile, even after she has made me frustrated. That is one of the rewards of working with these kids. They can make you love them, no matter what they have done.
I can't say that every moment has been loads of fun and exciting in the class, particularly when we have to do reading comprehension, but I would say that if I wasn't sure of what I wanted to do after college I would probably consider working with kids like this. People say I have a way with the kids, but I have also had practice with my own brother. It's not hard...just time consuming and exhausting. The mentality has to switch from a one that questions and finds answers to everything to just trying to get them to say the answer and understand it. Although my brain cells sometimes feel like they are dying (the owl is eating the mouse, what is the owl eating?) it is also such a reward to hear them shout "MOUSE!"
I suppose I will miss the girl and the way she greets me in the morning, but that's life.
Week 3
section 2.4
http://www.anseladams.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=195 (this where I got the picture)
Ansel Adams is perhaps one of the best natural photographers in the 20th century. He was able to capture the simplicity of the scene, but add a certain beauty that only clean simple can bring. We have some of his Redwood photos in our bathroom and when I was little I thought my dad took them. It always bewildered me because whenever he took pictures of the family they turned out all blurry. I suppose now I know the truth, my dad really is a horrible photographer, but Adams is wonderful.
I picked this photo because it shows the endlessness of nature and that things will continue to grow even in the face of difficult conditions. The tree looks like it has grown over the rock, which shows the great ability the tree has to grow. I like how Adams photographed in black and white because it adds to the starkness, but beauty, of the picture.
I want to go the places he has captured on film, which is I suppose the best compliment for a photographer. Hopefully this summer I will be able to go the Redwoods again. They really are something if you haven't ever been.
2.4 John
Today, I listened to a podcast that Nick, Alex and I made last week. I have to say that it is a great piece of work and it should be renowned as the greatest work of art ever created in the history of mankind. Thank you.
2.3
http://www.cartoon-factory.com/cartoon_art/426715-Creature%20From%20Another%20Planet.html
I sometimes feel like i am from a different planet trying to get other people off it. That is from my Martian side. From Daffy's side for some places i am trying to get into but are being denied and sitting there trying not to get shot down.
I sometimes feel like i am from a different planet trying to get other people off it. That is from my Martian side. From Daffy's side for some places i am trying to get into but are being denied and sitting there trying not to get shot down.
Week 3
section 2.2
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/17/oj.simpson.site/index.html
O.J. Simpson is in the news once again, except this time it is a legal group that believes Simpson was wronged in his latest court appearance. The group, the "Society Against Legal Injustice, says Simpson's case was mishandled and he deserves an appeal. The group lists what it calls errors in the case, including the contention that Simpson was targeted because of his controversial acquittal in the killings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her companion Ronald Goldman in 1995." They are asking the public for money so that Simpson can have a chance at an appeal, which they assume will cost around $1 million. The group said that Simpson was not a wealthy man anymore, therefore was at the mercy of the Los Vegas courts. (Let's petition for everyone who has an unfair trial in this country and who is not wealthy, that would certainly help all the people with money problems currently). Simpson was charged in December of robbery and assault and was sentenced for a maximum of 33 years. He is eligible for parole in nine years.
I say to this article, "Absurd, there is no one way I would give of my money freely to a man who everyone knows killed his former wife and her friend. No matter that it wasn't proved in court, everyone knows. He even wrote a book about it. He is a manipulator and is where he belongs. Isn't it funny that people always get what they deserve in the end?
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/17/oj.simpson.site/index.html
O.J. Simpson is in the news once again, except this time it is a legal group that believes Simpson was wronged in his latest court appearance. The group, the "Society Against Legal Injustice, says Simpson's case was mishandled and he deserves an appeal. The group lists what it calls errors in the case, including the contention that Simpson was targeted because of his controversial acquittal in the killings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her companion Ronald Goldman in 1995." They are asking the public for money so that Simpson can have a chance at an appeal, which they assume will cost around $1 million. The group said that Simpson was not a wealthy man anymore, therefore was at the mercy of the Los Vegas courts. (Let's petition for everyone who has an unfair trial in this country and who is not wealthy, that would certainly help all the people with money problems currently). Simpson was charged in December of robbery and assault and was sentenced for a maximum of 33 years. He is eligible for parole in nine years.
I say to this article, "Absurd, there is no one way I would give of my money freely to a man who everyone knows killed his former wife and her friend. No matter that it wasn't proved in court, everyone knows. He even wrote a book about it. He is a manipulator and is where he belongs. Isn't it funny that people always get what they deserve in the end?
2.3 John
I have been reading some of Dean Koontz's novels in my spare time lately, and I have to say that I have been greatly impressed. The way that he writes his stories just makes me want to continue reading until I finish the book, which doesn't happen very often for me. He uses all of the literary techniques needed to make a book a great one, and he does it so well that I am not surprised that he is a famous author. I would recommend most of his books, like Velocity and Fear Nothing, because I feel that they are worth reading and will not be a waste of your time.
2.1 Alex Butler, Week 3
Last night me and my mom had to got to the baseball meeting. Baseball practice starts next Monday, even though there is no school that day. I played last year to so I know the coaches and what to expect. I also know coach Kingsbury from King Street, and I know coach Putnam from the farm that I did a vocational program at. I am pretty excited about the start of baseball but it is going to kick my butt because I am so out of shape.
2.2
700 swimmers were in a big race. A hammer head shark started surrounding them and they didn't t know a thing about it. The coast guards didn't try to get the swimmers out but diverted the sharks away from them. "There was a second shark swimming under them that could not be seen..." I think that would be bad if there was a shark following me swimming in the water.
Week 3
section 2.1
It seems that the school year has moved extremely slowly, but at the same time has flown by. I can't help but count down the days until I am out of here. The only thing I am move excited about then graduation is knowing where I will going afterwards. In the next two weeks I will hear from the rest of my colleges (Dartmouth, U of Chicago, Northwestern, and Champlain), which means the suspense of the past year will finally be over.
It seems that junior year is the start of all the college action, with people starting to take their SATS (Stupid Arduous Time Suckers). Then it starts to pick up during the fall when applications start being submitted. Christmas break comes and people rush to finish the apps before the January deadline. Then, when everything you think is fine and dandy you get nailed with financial aid deadlines. More paper and more forms. You think you can take a break after that's finished, but no...it's time for scholarship applications.
The only year is a complicated mess of paperwork, tax returns, deadlines, and recommendations. I will be able to finally rest easy after May (hopefully). I feel like I've aged about forty years in this one year. Do I have grey hair yet??
It seems that the school year has moved extremely slowly, but at the same time has flown by. I can't help but count down the days until I am out of here. The only thing I am move excited about then graduation is knowing where I will going afterwards. In the next two weeks I will hear from the rest of my colleges (Dartmouth, U of Chicago, Northwestern, and Champlain), which means the suspense of the past year will finally be over.
It seems that junior year is the start of all the college action, with people starting to take their SATS (Stupid Arduous Time Suckers). Then it starts to pick up during the fall when applications start being submitted. Christmas break comes and people rush to finish the apps before the January deadline. Then, when everything you think is fine and dandy you get nailed with financial aid deadlines. More paper and more forms. You think you can take a break after that's finished, but no...it's time for scholarship applications.
The only year is a complicated mess of paperwork, tax returns, deadlines, and recommendations. I will be able to finally rest easy after May (hopefully). I feel like I've aged about forty years in this one year. Do I have grey hair yet??
2.2 John
I recently read an article about how many people are shaving their heads to help raise funds for childhood cancer. This organization, called the St. Baldricks Foundation, has raised an upwards of 51 million dollars worldwide for cancer research. They hold shave-a-thons, which is similar to a walk-a-thon, where many people line up to have their heads shaved and they collect pledges. I think that this is a great cause, and the money is not just going to one type of cancer research like most of these things do, it is going to all types of cancer research, which makes it much better. I would definitely shave my head in order to help children in need, no doubt.
The Divine Comedy
Dante views the wretch Satan, frozen in Cocyrus, doomed to chew Judas for eternity.2.3
The first part of The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri, details Alighieri's journey into Hell, as guided by the Roman poet Virgil. Virgil and Dante travel into the Earth, through the Nine Circles of Hell. The Circles are arranged concentrically, directly below Jerusalem, moving towards the center of the Earth.
As Virgil and Dante pass through each Circle, they survey the sinners punished there as Virgil explains how and why they are so imprisoned. In the final Circle, the Ninth, Dante and Virgil encounter Satan. The fallen angel Lucifer is in the form of a monstrous, grotesque beast imprisoned in the ice of the lake Cocytus. He has three mouths, with which he eternally chews on the sinners Brutus, Cassius, and Judas Iscariot.
After leaving Hell, Dante and Virgil venture to Mount Purgatory, where they scale the heights. Along the way, Dante and Virgil encounter all of those who did not repent until the last minute, and are now forced to live out their time on Earth in Purgatory before they can gain entrance to Heaven.
At the summit of Mount Purgatory, a sleeping Dante is confronted with an angel, who purges him of the recently-accreted sin remaining from his journey through Hell, and Dante is forced to endure many of the trials of Purgatory before proceeding to Heaven.
Upon entry to Heaven, Dante's guide, Virgil, disintegrates, being a pagan. The woman Beatrice descends, and assumes Virgil's position as guide, and Dante and Beatrice journey through the Nine Spheres of Heaven.
Each Sphere, similar to Hell and Purgatory, is allotted to a single noble attribute, or one that is lacking in one of the devoted.
In the final Sphere of Heaven, Dante and Beatrice view God as a point of light, surrounded by swarming and frothing rings of angels. Beatrice leaves Dante, as at this point, theology has reached its limit. At last, Dante approaches the Almighty and views him for true.
God appears to Dante as three radiant orbs mingling with each other, in representation of the Father, Son and the Holy Ghost.
In viewing God, Dante's soul is scoured with absolution, making his life and love fit together, and Dante experiences omnipresent unity. The book ends as Dante regards the circles, trying to comprehend just how they fit together.
Dante lays eyes upon God, surrounded by rings of angels.The Divine Comedy is, without question, one of the most in-depth and penetrating analyses of religion, Heaven and Hell in existence. It is over 14,000 lines long.
The Divine Comedy, while providing inspiration for artists and authors of all variety, also frequently provides a focal point for religious antagonism. While Dante wrote the Comedy with a unifying clarity and meticulous attention to detail, many religious devotees despise a work so exact. As Dante's work is so widely accepted, they are irate at its ability to easily become the belief of many, and, at length, to become a universal belief. Some believe Dante to be a madman, while some truly believe that Dante did travel to all three sacred Realms.
In the end, as is the truth with all religions...who knows?
~Peter
The Divine Comedy, while providing inspiration for artists and authors of all variety, also frequently provides a focal point for religious antagonism. While Dante wrote the Comedy with a unifying clarity and meticulous attention to detail, many religious devotees despise a work so exact. As Dante's work is so widely accepted, they are irate at its ability to easily become the belief of many, and, at length, to become a universal belief. Some believe Dante to be a madman, while some truly believe that Dante did travel to all three sacred Realms.
In the end, as is the truth with all religions...who knows?
~Peter
2.1
I have trouble speaking in a car. I can't tell you why but its like I'm trapped in a cage and cant get out.
2.1 John Miller
Basically the only thing that I am worried about right now is just getting through this week. I think that I just need a break from the normal things that have been going on in my life. This weekend will be completely dedicated to just chilling out with some friends and just having a good time. I am determined to have a great time this weekend, and I am not going to let anything get in the way of that.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Duct Tape Prom
2.2
The students of Swainsboro High School took on a monumental project this year; for their prom, they wore tuxes, dresses and adornments made almost entirely out of duct tape.
The purpose of such a wardrobe malfuction was to participate in a contest--Duck Brand Duct Tape's "Stuck at Prom" competition. The winners could receive up to $3,000 in scholarship money, although all the duct tape did cost just short of $4,000. The school's art club helped fundraise for the "materials."
This year, 80 students participated, up from 25 last year.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/03/15/duct.tape.prom/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
~Peter
The students of Swainsboro High School took on a monumental project this year; for their prom, they wore tuxes, dresses and adornments made almost entirely out of duct tape.
The purpose of such a wardrobe malfuction was to participate in a contest--Duck Brand Duct Tape's "Stuck at Prom" competition. The winners could receive up to $3,000 in scholarship money, although all the duct tape did cost just short of $4,000. The school's art club helped fundraise for the "materials."
This year, 80 students participated, up from 25 last year.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/03/15/duct.tape.prom/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
~Peter
Friday, March 13, 2009
Seas Would Rise When I Gave the Word
3.4This is an image I made a few months ago when I was depressed and had nothing to do, so I decided to just follow a tutorial I'd found online on how to make pictures like these. Action's better than inaction, anyway.
Anyway, this picture resembles a commercial they did about a year ago for Apple's iTunes, using the above special effect and playing the song "Viva la Vida" by Coldplay. It was wicked cool, and remains to this day one of my favorite songs.
This picture is still my profile on Facebook and Myspace, just because I like it so much. I know next to nothing about Photoshop; I guess it's amazing what you can do if somebody's watching you every step of the way.
Enclosed is the URL for the music video to Viva la Vida, just so you can rock out while you look at the image.
Cheerio!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5TNK-TvIcI
~Peter
2.4-Alex Butler
I am really glad that Mrs. Wilson let us do this "Steakumms Rap" because it was really funny and we worked on it for like 2 or 3 days. I think it came out pretty good compared to what it would have been if I was the only one working on it. I think that Steakumms are great.
http://abutler392.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2009-03-09T06_18_06-07_00
http://abutler392.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2009-03-09T06_18_06-07_00
2.2 Kyle
A Lakeside, Florida police department. was called out to a bomb threat. As the police were called out a notice was sent out on Twitter. Resently many emergency service departments have been using social networking sites to inform the public about what is going on. "We think the police department has an obligation to get information out to the community through whatever means or mechanisms we have at our disposal," said Lakeland Police Assistant Chief Bill LePere. "Traditional media releases, expecting the local print media to pick it up and run it in the newspaper tomorrow, is 24 hours too late." They aren't just using social networking sites to inform the public in a quick way but they are also using them as a way to get press releases out to the public.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/13/police.social.networking/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/13/police.social.networking/index.html
2.2- Alex Butler
A woman in Spokane, Washington bought a used couch from Value Village. When she got it home there was a "mysterious mewing" coming from the couch. One night her boyfriend felt something moving around in the couch, when he moved it there was a small calico cat there. They think the cat crawled out of a small hole in the back of the couch.
If that was me I'm not sure what I would do, maybe give the cat back to the store, or maybe to the humane society.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090313/ap_on_fe_st/odd_couch_cat;_ylt=AqOpzizobRO1cfLFi2rWjJDtiBIF
If that was me I'm not sure what I would do, maybe give the cat back to the store, or maybe to the humane society.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090313/ap_on_fe_st/odd_couch_cat;_ylt=AqOpzizobRO1cfLFi2rWjJDtiBIF
2.1 Kyle
Today is an amazingly scary day. Today I learned that I got into drivers ed. The reason why today is so scary is because my mother doesn't think I can drive. I am seriously tempted to video tape her driving one day to show her how her driving is. Now that I got into drivers ed I need to find a car and a job to help pay for the car. My dad has been helping me look for cars, I haven't found anything to promising. I am going to have to pay for it because I don't see why my parents should pay for a car that I would be paying for everything else on it. So, watch out on the road for me... and my mom.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Vietnam War slideshow
I just finished studying the Vietnam War in US Military History, and I created this thematic slide show based on my experience the unit.
4.1 Mele
Out of all the "staff favorites" on reader I would have to say my overall favorite would have to be cuteness overload. I know some people might think it is dumb but it is a collection of cute pictures of animals with some commentary on the side. It is updated almost daily and has over 40 pages of cuteness. I really think some people should check it out ^.^
http://www.cuteoverload.com/
http://www.cuteoverload.com/
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
2.1 Alex
Yesterday instead of coming to school I went to town meeting day in Warren. It was pretty cool to see how everything was done but it was also pretty boring, because I couldn't vote or anything. At the end of the day after all the voting I had to count ballots, it is a really long and boring process to count all the ballots.
YOU SHALL NOT PASS
2.3
For reasons of my own entertainment, I decided to read The Fellowship of the Ring again. For those of you who don't know, that's the first book in The Lord of the Rings cycle.
I read it once when I was 10, and believe it or not, I plowed through the whole gosh-darn book.
Unfortunately, back then, I forgot almost every last thing about it.
The Lord of the Rings is about a Hobbit named Frodo Baggins who comes into possession of a malevolent Ring with the power to render its wearer invisible. It was forged by the evil lord Sauron, who lost all his power when he lost his ring. The series is about the passage of Frodo and his companions as they make their way into the dark land of Mordor to destroy the Ring. On their way, they are beleaguered by agents of Mordor: orcs, devilish Uruk-Hai, and the dreaded Nine Ring-Wraiths.
"One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them."
~inscription on the interior of the One Ring, as translated from the ancient Black Speech
The above inscription details the One Ring's ability to control the multitude of other Rings of Power, being "the One Ring to rule them all." The One Ring, however, is as evil as its master, and longs for his finger above anyone else. It corrupts its owners--including the grotesque Gollum and the lovable Bilbo Baggins--and manipulates them in dark ways to return it to the hand of Sauron. Donning the ring and using its ability only hastens the process.
What makes me mention this, you ask? What is my connexion to this cruel and devilish device?
Well, I actually happen to have one in my back pocket right now.
Yeah! Seriously!
I don't know why, but on the way to school last week, I saw something glimmer in a magpie's nest. I picked it up and lo and behold, it was the One Ring!
One could assume that if the One Ring exists, then so does Sauron, the Lord of the Shadows. Consequently, if I'm in possession of the Ring, it shouldn't be long before he deploys a ridiculous Nazgul air-strike to take back his super-duper Ring.
In conclusion, I've been using the Ring to cheat on tests. Sauron can have it if he wants, I think I'm developing, like, seven mental disorders.
I mean, this is what the last guy who used the Ring a lot looked like.
~Peter
4.2 Mele
A pet store in Philadelphia expects a to get a shipment of tropical fish and salt water, but when they open the box they found a human body instead. He learned that he got the wrong shipment and the body was a 65 year old man who died of a disease and was suppose to be shipped to a lab in Allentown instead for medical research. The delivery people were deeply sorry for their mistake.
I think that they should have been more careful with delivering and reading addresses. I would get fairly angry if I went to go open up a package and a dead body was laying inside, I bet whoever got the shipment of fish was pretty shocked as well. They should really consider punishing whoever made the mistake because seeing a dead body can be scaring for some people.
I think that they should have been more careful with delivering and reading addresses. I would get fairly angry if I went to go open up a package and a dead body was laying inside, I bet whoever got the shipment of fish was pretty shocked as well. They should really consider punishing whoever made the mistake because seeing a dead body can be scaring for some people.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Week 2-Hannah-
2.4
I recently found a song by Regina Spektor that I really like. Spektor is a songwriter from Russia who grew up in New York City. She incorporates Jewish style music with folksy beats that are quite unique. This song is interesting because the lyrics are a cynical look at the world. I like music that goes beyond the standard "I love you, but you don't love me so I'm going to go write a song that millions with listen to and think that they understand what I'm feeling but they really have no idea." Songs like that are fine and dandy and serve a certain purpose, but something with more meat is always better. (That's odd coming from a vegetarian).
Anyways, here are some of the lyrics from the song:
My rhyme ain't good just yet,
My brain and tongue just met,
And they ain't friends, so far,
My words don’t travel far,
They tangle in my hair,
And tend to go nowhere,
They grow right back inside,
Right past my brain and eyes
Into my stomach juice
Where they don’t serve my juice,
All melted calories,
Nutrition values.
And I absorb back in
The words right through my skin
They sit there festering inside my bowels
Got a soundtrack in my mind,
All the time. Kids-
Screamin' from too much beat up
And they don't even rhyme,
They just stand there, on a street corner,
Skin tucked in
And meat side out and shot,
And I’d like to turn them down
But there ain't no knob.
Run into picket fences
Not into picket lines.
All this hippie-s*** for the 60's
And another cliché for our time.
But one of these days your heart
Will just stop ticking,
And they sorta just don't find you till your cubicle is reeking.
Did you know that the gravedigger's still
Gettin' stuck in the machine
Even though it's a whole other daydream.
It's another town it's another world,
Where the kids are asleep, where the loans are paid
And the lawns are mowed.
Whad'ya think?
All the gravediggers were gone?
Just cause one song is done
There’s always another one,
Waiting right around the bend,
Till this one ends,
Then it begins
Quickly, then it starts all over again.
The weather report keeps on
Tossing and turning,
Predicting and warning,
And warning and warning of,
Possibly it could be news publications and,
Possibly it could be news TV stations. That
Very same morning right next to her coffee
She noticed some bleeding and heard hollow coughing and
National Geographic was being too graphic,
When all she had wanted to know was the traffic
“The worlds got a nosebleed” it said
“And we’re flooding but we keep on cutting
The trees and the forests!”
And we keep on paying those freaks on the TV,
Who claim they will save us but want to enslave us.
And sweating like demons they scream through our speakers
But we leave the sound on 'cause silence is harder.
And no one’s the killer and no one’s the martyr
The world that has made us can no longer contain us
And profits are silent then rotting away 'cause
The consequence of sounds
I recently found a song by Regina Spektor that I really like. Spektor is a songwriter from Russia who grew up in New York City. She incorporates Jewish style music with folksy beats that are quite unique. This song is interesting because the lyrics are a cynical look at the world. I like music that goes beyond the standard "I love you, but you don't love me so I'm going to go write a song that millions with listen to and think that they understand what I'm feeling but they really have no idea." Songs like that are fine and dandy and serve a certain purpose, but something with more meat is always better. (That's odd coming from a vegetarian).
Anyways, here are some of the lyrics from the song:
My rhyme ain't good just yet,
My brain and tongue just met,
And they ain't friends, so far,
My words don’t travel far,
They tangle in my hair,
And tend to go nowhere,
They grow right back inside,
Right past my brain and eyes
Into my stomach juice
Where they don’t serve my juice,
All melted calories,
Nutrition values.
And I absorb back in
The words right through my skin
They sit there festering inside my bowels
Got a soundtrack in my mind,
All the time. Kids-
Screamin' from too much beat up
And they don't even rhyme,
They just stand there, on a street corner,
Skin tucked in
And meat side out and shot,
And I’d like to turn them down
But there ain't no knob.
Run into picket fences
Not into picket lines.
All this hippie-s*** for the 60's
And another cliché for our time.
But one of these days your heart
Will just stop ticking,
And they sorta just don't find you till your cubicle is reeking.
Did you know that the gravedigger's still
Gettin' stuck in the machine
Even though it's a whole other daydream.
It's another town it's another world,
Where the kids are asleep, where the loans are paid
And the lawns are mowed.
Whad'ya think?
All the gravediggers were gone?
Just cause one song is done
There’s always another one,
Waiting right around the bend,
Till this one ends,
Then it begins
Quickly, then it starts all over again.
The weather report keeps on
Tossing and turning,
Predicting and warning,
And warning and warning of,
Possibly it could be news publications and,
Possibly it could be news TV stations. That
Very same morning right next to her coffee
She noticed some bleeding and heard hollow coughing and
National Geographic was being too graphic,
When all she had wanted to know was the traffic
“The worlds got a nosebleed” it said
“And we’re flooding but we keep on cutting
The trees and the forests!”
And we keep on paying those freaks on the TV,
Who claim they will save us but want to enslave us.
And sweating like demons they scream through our speakers
But we leave the sound on 'cause silence is harder.
And no one’s the killer and no one’s the martyr
The world that has made us can no longer contain us
And profits are silent then rotting away 'cause
The consequence of sounds
Week 2-Hannah-
2.3
This week I am reading Dracula for fun and it is even more interesting and terrifying the second time around. I read it during the summer when I was camping in the middle of nowhere and I didn't think it would be so scary. It is way better than any movie spin off of it because the writing is so gothic and eerie. Of course I have always preferred reading to watching a movie and I am particular when it comes to details that directors often leave out in films. Overall I think the book deserves more praise than it is given, and it should be added to the reading curriculum. The different themes that play out in the book make it more than a story about vampires and love.
One particularly interesting subtle theme that comes up is the representation of sexuality. This book was written in the Victorian Era when sexuality and expressing it was deemed filthy and unnecessary. Dracula and his three female companions represent wanton sexual desires that were being repressed in society. Even the spot that Dracula chooses to suck blood is clearly a symbolic reference because the neck was considered a private area of the body. The way the book was written, though, does not lead itself to thinking like this unless you really being to analyze the literature.
If you are looking for an adventurous novel that pulls you along then I would recommend this book to you. The gothic style of writing makes for a compelling read that will thrill you til the end.
This week I am reading Dracula for fun and it is even more interesting and terrifying the second time around. I read it during the summer when I was camping in the middle of nowhere and I didn't think it would be so scary. It is way better than any movie spin off of it because the writing is so gothic and eerie. Of course I have always preferred reading to watching a movie and I am particular when it comes to details that directors often leave out in films. Overall I think the book deserves more praise than it is given, and it should be added to the reading curriculum. The different themes that play out in the book make it more than a story about vampires and love.
One particularly interesting subtle theme that comes up is the representation of sexuality. This book was written in the Victorian Era when sexuality and expressing it was deemed filthy and unnecessary. Dracula and his three female companions represent wanton sexual desires that were being repressed in society. Even the spot that Dracula chooses to suck blood is clearly a symbolic reference because the neck was considered a private area of the body. The way the book was written, though, does not lead itself to thinking like this unless you really being to analyze the literature.
If you are looking for an adventurous novel that pulls you along then I would recommend this book to you. The gothic style of writing makes for a compelling read that will thrill you til the end.
Section 2.4 John
During the past few months, I have been listening to many of the classic rock bands from the 60s and 70s. Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Aerosmith, and many others. I can truthfully say that when you go from listening to this music to the modern music nowadays you will find that most of the new music that you hear on the radio is very bad. I mean seriously, some of this new stuff shouldn't even be considered music, because from what I can see it uses none of the essential things that makes music good. I think that if modern artists would use the techniques that most of these older bands use they would be much more popular.
Week 2-Hannah-
2.2
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/03/09/us.religion.less.christian/index.html
This article was talking about how Christianity and religion is on the decrease since 1990. The general feeling of no religion is contributed to the "radical shift towards individualism over the last quarter-century. [the author] also said the revelation that some Catholic priests had sexually abused children -- and senior figures in the church hierarchy had helped to hide it -- drove some Catholics away from religion. And, he said, it is now more socially acceptable than it once was to admit having no religion." I agree that you are not considered such an outcast if you say you don't belong to a church than you would have if you said that 10 or 15 years ago. I think this trend is a good one because religion has the power to tie down a country and strangle it in beliefs that do not necessarily pertain or hold the country's best interest in mind.
I found it interesting that the megachurch population has grown to over 8 million people. Personally, I am freaked out by megachurchs because worship to me means a private and spiritual thing. I don't see how that can be accomplished with television cameras trained on you and when you are surrounded by masses of people.
My opinion of religion has influenced my thoughts on this story, but I understand that to some religion plays a key role in staying connected to reality.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/03/09/us.religion.less.christian/index.html
This article was talking about how Christianity and religion is on the decrease since 1990. The general feeling of no religion is contributed to the "radical shift towards individualism over the last quarter-century. [the author] also said the revelation that some Catholic priests had sexually abused children -- and senior figures in the church hierarchy had helped to hide it -- drove some Catholics away from religion. And, he said, it is now more socially acceptable than it once was to admit having no religion." I agree that you are not considered such an outcast if you say you don't belong to a church than you would have if you said that 10 or 15 years ago. I think this trend is a good one because religion has the power to tie down a country and strangle it in beliefs that do not necessarily pertain or hold the country's best interest in mind.
I found it interesting that the megachurch population has grown to over 8 million people. Personally, I am freaked out by megachurchs because worship to me means a private and spiritual thing. I don't see how that can be accomplished with television cameras trained on you and when you are surrounded by masses of people.
My opinion of religion has influenced my thoughts on this story, but I understand that to some religion plays a key role in staying connected to reality.
section 2.3 John
Currently in my Government Civics class we are watching a musical called 1776. The musical portrays the representatives from each of the 13 colonies voting on whether or not to attempt to declare independence from Great Britain, using songs and dance like a musical would. I personally think that this is a waste of time considering nobody in the class seems to be learning anything that pertains to government civics.
2.4 Mele
Over the past few weeks I have been addicted to ABDC. I watched almost every episode and kept myself updated with who got voted out and such. The last episodes came near and I was sure almost positive that Beatfreakz were going to take the win because they were never in the bottom and always put on amazing performances no matter what. In the last episode they were one of the last two with quest crew. I watched excitedly and right when they when they announced the winners they said QUEST CREW. I was extremely angry and was about to break my TV. I really don't know how this happened because quest crew sucked =[ ohh well....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4H7J5HwKCg&feature=related
^^A video of their amazing dance skills haha^^ =D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4H7J5HwKCg&feature=related
^^A video of their amazing dance skills haha^^ =D
Section 2.2 John
Recently I read an article about how an old man attempted to shoplift a klondike bar and a few packages of ramen noodles by sticking them into his pants. When he was caught, he offered the owner of the store 69 dollars not to turn him in. The owner called the police, and the old man is currently being held in jail on a 500 dollar bail. Some people in this world are quite smart, and I applaud them for their intelligence.
2.3
I relate to this picture from when i was a kid. It is a dog all by himself in the rain with his mouth open. I use to do this when i lived with my dad. i would sneak out of the house in the rain and just wait for something to happen or be found there. I felt like that dog does with no one there with him and trying to be alone.
http://www.art.net/TheGallery/Navitrolla/Pages/m.html, grafic work 1996
http://www.art.net/TheGallery/Navitrolla/Pages/m.html, grafic work 1996
2.1 Nick
My mom told me last night that i cant get my license until June first. I think shes lying but how much would that suck if i couldn't get it? Needless to say it would chap my butt.
2.1 John
Yesterday I just realized that some people in my life don't have much longer to live. I think that I need to start to talk to those people more and strengthen my connections with them. I know that that will make me miss them more when they eventually pass away, but I think that it will be time well spent.
Monday, March 9, 2009
4.4-Derek
I listened to a podcast called "The Howling Monkey" and it is a pretty funny podcast. It is not only funny but it gives you world news as well. Education + Comedy= :). I thought that it was pretty good, it wasn't hilarious but it did have some humorous parts to it and it was pretty entertaining. So if you want funny in your news check it out.
Website: http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podcasts/399
4.3
I connect to this picture of a dog sitting by himself with the rain hitting his face. I use to do this when i lived with my dad. I would sneak out on to the porch and just sit there with the rain hitting me and me just waiting for it to end.
2.3 Cameron
Well I have French 2 with a bunch of sophomores this semester, and bunch of those sophomores are in English 10 Honors with Mrs. Beaudin just like I was. Well right now I have noticed they are reading the book Fahrenheit 451, which I thought was the best book I had ever read in that class. The book is definitely an eye opener of the fact that how true it really applies to the real world today. The book being about how literature is dying out and that it was a law that a person could not read because it was considered bad. Instead people would pretty much be brain washed into listening to their "sea shells" which were referred to as headphones. Hmm sound like people today? Though reading is not illegal not as many people are reading and people are becoming more illiterate because not as much reading is being done today. People, I think, do tend to follow in the direction of listening to their iPod or MP3 player all the time, rather than picking up a book for a couple hours and reading. Though I have to say I am one of those people who like never read, I will still book up a book at least once a year on my own time and try and read it. If only everyone was able to do this.
2.4 Cameron
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ikYT13_JWg
This is the link to a video of the concert Mele and I will be going to. The reason I picked this performance was because this is one of my favorite songs right now, as well as it being one of the best performances of the show. A little history about this song! This was the song that I posted about before called, If U Seek Amy, which was banned from radios until it was edited to, If U See Amy. This was because if you say If U Seek Amy fast enough, and repeat it over and over again to yourself I am pretty sure you will get the picture of what it is suppose to say. Just a little bit of the song of how this all fits into the song, "love me, hate me, say what you want about me, but all of the boys and all of the girls are begging to If U Seek Amy!" Though this song has caused a lot of controversy and many parents became livid when they heard this song playing on the radio, I think it is a clever way to go around this system of the FCC who prevent bad language from being played on the radio. Technically she is not saying it directly, it is just a clever hidden message.
This is the link to a video of the concert Mele and I will be going to. The reason I picked this performance was because this is one of my favorite songs right now, as well as it being one of the best performances of the show. A little history about this song! This was the song that I posted about before called, If U Seek Amy, which was banned from radios until it was edited to, If U See Amy. This was because if you say If U Seek Amy fast enough, and repeat it over and over again to yourself I am pretty sure you will get the picture of what it is suppose to say. Just a little bit of the song of how this all fits into the song, "love me, hate me, say what you want about me, but all of the boys and all of the girls are begging to If U Seek Amy!" Though this song has caused a lot of controversy and many parents became livid when they heard this song playing on the radio, I think it is a clever way to go around this system of the FCC who prevent bad language from being played on the radio. Technically she is not saying it directly, it is just a clever hidden message.
2.3 Mele
A really good book I recommend for everyone and anyone is the twilight series. It's about a normal average girl name Bella who happens to fall in love with a vampire. You read about them going through very difficult obstacles in the book but their love always comes out on top. The series contain Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking dawn. The second book is a little slow because it focuses on another character who is in love with Bella, later on he turns into a werewolf. A lot of twist and turns happen in this series and I was really sad to read the last book. I am really not into vampire type things but I really enjoyed this book!!!! (The movies are pretty awesome too)
Flight of the Plastiki
2.2DUN-DUN-DUN-DUN-DUNNN DUNNN, DUN-DUN-DUN DUNNN DUNNN, DUN-DUN-DUN DUNNNNN DUNNN, DUN-DUN-DUN DUNNNN
(Ride of the Valkyries - Richard Wagner)
David de Rothschild, a visionary in his own regard, has taken upon the Herculean effort of creating a fully functional sailboat (and how!) ENTIRELY FROM RECYCLED PLASTIC BOTTLES.
Construction of the boat is not complete. De Rothschild has named it the "Plastiki," after a Norse story about Thor sailing across the sea in a balsa boat called the Kon-Tiki.
While made 90% of recycled products, the Plastiki is still incomprehensibly AWESOME. It has solar panels built in with the intent to power the laptops of a small crew of scientists that will be accompanying De Rothschild.
De Rothschild's plan is to take the Plastiki and his crew and sail all the way from the coast of California to...
...wait for it...
...AUSTRALIA.
"The idea is to put no kind of pollution back into the atmosphere, or into our oceans for that matter, so everything on the boat will be composted," says De Rothschild.
That's right. He's awesome.
~Peter
Link: http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/09/plastic.bottle.boat/index.html
2.2 Mele
Beat Ettlin was awoken at 2AM by a crash through the window, he thought someone had broken into their house. But it was not a person but a kangaroo. The Kangaroo hopped everywhere breaking many things while doing it. When it started hopping towards his sons room he grabbed it, put it into a choke hold, then threw it out the door where it hoped away.
I really think this is hilarious, who would expect a kangaroo to jump like "Jackie Chan" through your window and break everything in the house. If this happened I wouldn't hesitate to shoot the thing or beat it up. But I don't think I would ever be put into this situation!!
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/03/09/kangaroo.australia.wrestles/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
I really think this is hilarious, who would expect a kangaroo to jump like "Jackie Chan" through your window and break everything in the house. If this happened I wouldn't hesitate to shoot the thing or beat it up. But I don't think I would ever be put into this situation!!
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/03/09/kangaroo.australia.wrestles/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
2.2 Cameron
Last Friday a Milford, NH woman was killed after an automobile accident. Patricia Levesque, 49, was killed after her SUV crossed onto the other side of the road, heading towards oncoming traffic and collided, head-on, into another SUV. "Her SUV crossed into oncoming traffic Friday afternoon and hit another SUV." This makes me a little mad that she could have possibly taken someone else's life when she did this. It bothers me when you hear news like this, that someone else's dumb mistake on the road could have almost cost someone else's life. Luckily the other person hit in the SUV faced nonlife-threatening injuries and will be fine. It seems a lot is going on in Milford, first there is this deadly car accident, and then on Sunday they have a diesel leak into a river. I wonder what could be next for this small town of New Hampshire?
http://www.wmur.com/news/18878250/detail.html (news article)
http://www.wmur.com/news/18878250/detail.html (news article)
2.1 Mele My Weekend
I had a really long and horrible weekend. First I had to wake up really early on Saturday (8:00) so I could go to work. Of course I hate work and my boss Lois decided that she should stand by my register half the time I work (6 hrs) and it made me extremely nervous because she yells at me for every mistake that I make so of course I made even more mistakes with her standing by me. Then she kept asking me to cover some girls shift. I felt like I had been put on the spot and without thinking I said yes. After work was over I thought things would have gotten better but they got worst. The road to my house was extremely muddy and I almost crashed several times in to ditches. Once I got home I went over to my friends house to hang out. I kept falling asleep on his bed so I finally decided to go home around 11:30. When I got home some of my parents friends were over and they parked right in the middle of my driveway so I had to wait till they left so I could move my car. Around 1:30 I finally got in bed but I was woken up by this really loud beeping that turned out to be our gas alarms. My Dad refused to take the batteries out so it kept beeping an kept me up for a while. I was about to fall asleep when my Mom started shaking me and telling me to go sleep somewhere else cause my room was right next to where the alarm was going off. I went upstairs to sleep next to my parents room but then I had to listen to them argue for a really long time about what they should do about the alarm going off. Finally I got asleep around 3:30am...the next morning I had to work at 8:30 and my Dad woke me up around 8:20 =[ so I was extremely late for work....I really hope I never have have a weekend like this again!!
2.1 Cameron
With the sun shining, and the warmth finally taking its place (for a couple days) over the weekend it caused for bad road conditions. I went to work on Saturday, taking the back roads, and they were just fine but it was a completely a different story when I came home from work. Because it reached up to 50 degrees during the day, a lot of the snow started to melt and the roads started to thaw out and it created the biggest mess I've ever seen. The mud was horrible, my car was going crazy over the road because every two seconds I was getting sucked in from the mud. Well long behold that night some friends of mine and I drove down to West Leb then White River to go comic bowling. Well when we were on the highway once I hit 70 mph my car started violently shaking and we all thought my car was gonna lose control and crash, or just die. The next day I went to my dad to let him know something was really wrong with my car and explained to him what had happened. Well then he put my car on a ramp thingy and looked at it and saw a crap load of mud all stuff in my tire rods and in the tire, and he was telling me how all the mud being stuck there caused my steering to be all messed up, the reason for the violent shaking. I was very relieved to find out that there was no real damage meaning I was gonna have to dish out hundreds of dollars to fix something in my car because of the dumb back roads. Now I have learned never to take the back roads again during mud season because it is not good for your car at all.
Friday, March 6, 2009
2.4 Alex
I think that Youtube is one of the greatest sites on the internet because you can go on and look up and kind of videos from funny stupid stuff, to how to do anything, to music videos of your favorite
band.. It is also great because most of the stuff on there is free of nudity so pretty much anyone can go on and not have to worry about that.
band.. It is also great because most of the stuff on there is free of nudity so pretty much anyone can go on and not have to worry about that.
4.1-Derek
In my google reader I read this article that said that WWE's annual wrestling extravganza, Wrestlemania, will be held in Phoenix, Arizona next year. This is good news for Phoenix because Wrestlemania usually brings in a lot of revenue for wherever it is held. People from all over the world come to see Wrestlemania and it will probably bring a lot of buisness in the Phoenix area.
4.1 Mele
In Cleveland Ohio a man by the name of Davon Crawford(33) is now wanted for shooting his new wife and five children. Four died except for one child which was a seven year old boy. The Man is now on the run from the police and may be armed.
I really don't know why anyone would want to do this especially if two of the children were toddlers. He just barely married the women and there must have been something seriously wrong if problems were already starting between the couple. No one knows what triggered the rampage and why he would do such a thing but officials are trying their best to locate him. It goes to show that you can not really trust anyone even if you think that you really know them!
I really don't know why anyone would want to do this especially if two of the children were toddlers. He just barely married the women and there must have been something seriously wrong if problems were already starting between the couple. No one knows what triggered the rampage and why he would do such a thing but officials are trying their best to locate him. It goes to show that you can not really trust anyone even if you think that you really know them!
2.3 Alex
An academic presentation that I remember was in 7th grade I was supposed to read the newest "Harry Potter" book and I though I would be smart and just rent the movie that just came out and not have to read the book at all. I mixed up the titles and watched the wrong movie so when I got up in front of the class to present I was talking about the wrong book. It was a pretty embarrassing moment but I got over it .
4.1 New Challenge
As I have reported several times, more details have emerged from the Rihanna and Chris Brown case. Chris Brown made his debut in the courtroom Thursday for the accusations against him in the case (which I have already reported earlier). His trial on Thursday resulted in Brown being charged with two felonies that being for assault and making criminal threats. Chris Brown's next court date has been pushed back until April 6th where final charges will be made as new scary details emerge from the case. As of now Rihanna has requested that the judge allow Brown to have close contact with her while the case is going on, which the judge granted. Though I l0ve Rihanna this was the dumbest decision she has ever made, why would she want to make a decision such as that. Also reports have also said that she is still considering Chris Brown as her "boyfriend" and this is causing mixed feelings with a lot of fans. People thought that Chris Brown's career was possibly coming to an end, but now Rihanna's fan base is not looking so great with the dumb decision she has made in this case, with reports also now saying she is pregnant and that this is not the first time in their relationship that Brown has violently attacked her.
IT'S THE FUTURE.
4.1
On today's "Dinosaur Comics" (3/6/09), T-Rex observes that the future of cell phones involves imparting the cell phone interface into one's ACTUAL HAND.
CRAZY? I THINK YES.
As I'm sure we've all seen, there are an assortment of futuristic cell phone concepts out there. One such example would be the Nokia Morph, a conjectural phone that utilizes nanotechnology to hook you up with your bros.
However, as Utahraptor observes, a phone cyborged directly into one's hand is, while extremely awesome, inconvenient and unrealistic. Sorry T-Rex!
~Peter
Direct link: www.qwantz.com
If that doesn't work, then: http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001422.html
On today's "Dinosaur Comics" (3/6/09), T-Rex observes that the future of cell phones involves imparting the cell phone interface into one's ACTUAL HAND.
CRAZY? I THINK YES.
As I'm sure we've all seen, there are an assortment of futuristic cell phone concepts out there. One such example would be the Nokia Morph, a conjectural phone that utilizes nanotechnology to hook you up with your bros.
However, as Utahraptor observes, a phone cyborged directly into one's hand is, while extremely awesome, inconvenient and unrealistic. Sorry T-Rex!
~Peter
Direct link: www.qwantz.com
If that doesn't work, then: http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001422.html
2.2- Alex
I think it is about time that we have an African American president. I hope that president Obama follows through on what he proposed during his campaign, especially his plan for Iraq. I think we need to get out of there because we really didn't even need to go there in the first place. All that we have accomplished is American soldiers dying and wasting a lot of money.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
4.3 John
I recently listened to a podcast called The Skateboard Addict podcast. The podcast featured a host named Shirtless Jake, and he gave useful information to his other fellow skateboarders about skateboarding with slight injuries and skateboarding in the rain. He told about how skating with injuries can limit the duration of your skating session and may even injure you even more. He also talked about how skating in the rain can be bad for your skateboard and your ability to pull of some hard tricks. Skating in the rain can warp your skateboard, and rust out the hardware that is necessary to move around. He suggested that instead of going out in the rain and risking all of those things, you might just want to stay at home and watch some skateboarding videos to fill the gap. I liked this podcast a lot and I would love to listen to more episodes given the time.
2.3 Mele
One academic presentation I will always remember throughout my life would have to be the presentation Cameron gave the teachers last week. When we started the presentation another student from student council was there to discuss dress code with the teachers. The teachers were VERY brutal about it and basically said it is there way or the highway and it really seemed as if there was no reasoning with them. Once Cameron got up to the front I was very nervous about what the teachers would think. He started off very smoothly and kind of seemed like he was a salesman for Apple. The teachers listened patiently (even though some of them were dozing off and in their own little worlds) and when the end reached they actually seemed on our side. At the end Cameron asked them to vote right there and then. All the teachers that actually voted, voted for Ipods in school.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
2.4 Nick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qit3ALTelOo
I think that this guy has A LOT of talent but at the same time doesn't have a life. Sparta is a inspiration to all cats out there. I laugh like a little girl when i see him drinking from the crapper. =]
I think that this guy has A LOT of talent but at the same time doesn't have a life. Sparta is a inspiration to all cats out there. I laugh like a little girl when i see him drinking from the crapper. =]
Nick 2.3
Back when our class first started the iPod presentation i had high doubt that anything would work because people have been trying to get iPods in the classroom for years. Good job Cameron and the rest of our class for getting this rule to pass. I am currently listening to music and i think i've gotten more work done today then i have the whole semester. It really helps people like me.
2.4- Derek
A video that I really like is a wrestling match between two of my favorite wrestlers; Shawn Micheals and Chris Jericho. It is a match they had at Wrestlemania 19 and it is probably one of the best wrestling match in my mind. I like it because they do a lot of hard technical wrestling moves in the match and the match is very interesting to watch. Theres no fake blood or any weird gimic thing in the match, which I like because when they do all that blood stuff it just makes it look way to fake and blood in a wrestling match is just unnecessary. But it was a classic match and it is my favorite match. But I am a wrestling nerd and like wrestling a lot. And yes, I know that its fake, but I think that if wrestling wasn't fake that it wouldn't be as interesting. But its a great match and if you are interested in wrestling you should definatly watch it because it is an awesome match.
website: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RR8VaqXym
2.3-Derek
a picture that I have a personal connection to is a picture of my grandpa holding me when I was a newborn. I don't remember meeting him or seeing him because he passed away when I was two and I can't remember that far back. But that picture is the only thing I have that of his and whenever I look at that picture I wish that he had lived longer so that I could've meet him.
2.2 Nick
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2009/03/03/DI2009030301458.html
I think that this article is really sad because it doesn't seem like they are going to be found anytime soon. And if they are they might be dead. The article mentions that they could be suffering from hypothermia or its a deadly factor in there survival. I hope that they are found because nobody deserves to be lost at sea.
I think that this article is really sad because it doesn't seem like they are going to be found anytime soon. And if they are they might be dead. The article mentions that they could be suffering from hypothermia or its a deadly factor in there survival. I hope that they are found because nobody deserves to be lost at sea.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
2.1 Mele
Over the weekend since it was my friends birthday I decided to bring him to funspot. We had the time of our lives, we spent most of the time wasting our coins on the slot machines and messing around with the little kids games. We took weird pictures with all of the statues and after we spent about 30 dollars in food and McDonalds. That night we stayed up till like 2 AM playing videos games and playing pool. It was def one of my better weekends!
2.1 Nick
I sometimes think that my life really sucks, at least until I visited fmylife.com. It is blocked by the WHS server but at home look at it. The people blogging on this have miserable lives and i actually fell bad for these people.
2.5 Johnny
When reading Hannah's post about how The Wizard of Oz refers to the Progressive Movement of the late 1800s, I remembered a small project that we did very recently in my Government Civics class. It was roughly based around the same topic, we had to watch The Wizard of Oz and do a packet of questions on it about how the story represented the Progressive Movement. The information backing up the claim is quite convincing, and I believe that the author of The Wizard of Oz was directly referring to this section of our nations history when writing this seemingly innocent story.
2.2-Derek: Search for NFL Players lost on a boat continues
after searching for two days for a boat that has been lost since sunday in Florida's gulf coast there has been a rescue of one of the boaters. Nick Schuyler was rescued after being found drifting on a fishing boat that must've been from the boat that is missing. But besides for him, no one else have been found, including two NFL players Marquis Cooper and Corey Smith. They said that there was four people on the boat and Rebekkah Cooper, Marquis Cooper's wife stated "I have a lot of faith for him out there" and has faith that he is still alive. But the coast guard isn't going to quit looking for them, they have roughly about 16,000 miles of ocean to search and plan on searching as much as they can.
2.2 Entry
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/03/02/flu.deaths/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
As everyone knows it is flu season, but the flu has proven to be deadly for some people. "The majority of flu deaths strike the elderly and people with pre-existing health problems. But flu also affects kids with no known medical problems and can send them into critical condition, or even death."
Four Years ago a 15 year old boy came home with flu like symptoms. He went to be early but woke up vomiting and with a temp of 102 his Mom decided to bring him to the emergency room. The doctors told them that he needed surgery right away because he had messed up his leg muscles from running that morning. After going into surgery he didn't come out alive but died.
I really think people need to realize the flu can be deathly and actually rest instead of trying to come to school. If the symptoms get worst going to the hospital is the best option so you can be treated the best as possible!
As everyone knows it is flu season, but the flu has proven to be deadly for some people. "The majority of flu deaths strike the elderly and people with pre-existing health problems. But flu also affects kids with no known medical problems and can send them into critical condition, or even death."
Four Years ago a 15 year old boy came home with flu like symptoms. He went to be early but woke up vomiting and with a temp of 102 his Mom decided to bring him to the emergency room. The doctors told them that he needed surgery right away because he had messed up his leg muscles from running that morning. After going into surgery he didn't come out alive but died.
I really think people need to realize the flu can be deathly and actually rest instead of trying to come to school. If the symptoms get worst going to the hospital is the best option so you can be treated the best as possible!
Little Soldiers? 2.2 Kyle
Monday morning a mother took her children to work. She is a military specialist and was reporting to Fort Benning. She didn't have anyone to take care of her children because member of her family didn't have time or their health hindered them from watching the children. Her husband is not at home as much because of his work. The mother, Lisa Pagan, had already did her service but was called back using the Individual Ready Reserve Program. If she was sent overseas nobody would be there to take care of her children. Her request to be reprieved is now be granted after she brought her children to the base.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/02/us.soldier.children/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/02/us.soldier.children/index.html
section 2.4 John
I have been exploring new genres of music in the last few months, and I have found a band that I have now deemed as my "New Favorite Band." That band would be, the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I first stumbled upon them when my father decided to buy their most recent CD, Stadium Arcadium. Eventually I stole it from him and started to listen to it myself, and I automatically started to love their music. The way that they are able to integrate their unique lyrics and screaming guitar has made me an automatic fan. I think that the Red Hot Chili Peppers will continue to inspire many other people like myself to listen to their music and maybe try to learn to play it.
New Challenge Part 2- Cameron
Last year I received an application to apply to NHS and I was very excited about this. But unfortunately I was not accepted last year. But this past weekend I was thrilled to learn that this years attempt to get on the National Honors Society was successful. The induction will be held on St. Patrick's day @ 7 at night. I am very excited and am very proud of this huge accomplishment, this will look very good on college applications when I start applying next year!!
2.1 Derek
I work at Aldrich's and I really want to find a new job and do something different. I am just not good at the whole store thing and some of the workers there make me feel really dumb there because I don't know some things. And I also don't make that much money there and I am going to get a car pretty soon so I will need some money. But the only thing is that there is not really that much places to work around here, except for other stores and I am sick of working at stores. But I am afraid that if I quit that I won't be able to find anything. But hopefully there is a better job out there for me!
New Challenge Responses 2.3-Hannah-
2.3
A few weeks ago in my AP History class we did a presentation on the Wizard of Oz. Apparently the author was subtly referring to the Progressive Movement of the late 1800s. Each different character had a different purpose in the book. Dorothy represented the naive citizen, her uncle and aunt represented the oppressed farmers of the Midwest. The Tinman was the overworked steel worker and the lion represented WIlliam Jennings Bryan, who ran for the Democratic nomination 4 times.
If you remember when Dorothy and her friends fell asleep in the flowers then you can understand the connection it would have to Coxy's Army when they were arrested for walking on the grass at the White House. Other interesting connections were that Oz symbolized Washington, D.C. and the Wizard symbolized the unresponsive presidents from McKinley to Roosevelt.
The Wizard of Oz actually has a significant meaning in history besides being a children's book. It is interesting to go back and analyze things in a different way.
A few weeks ago in my AP History class we did a presentation on the Wizard of Oz. Apparently the author was subtly referring to the Progressive Movement of the late 1800s. Each different character had a different purpose in the book. Dorothy represented the naive citizen, her uncle and aunt represented the oppressed farmers of the Midwest. The Tinman was the overworked steel worker and the lion represented WIlliam Jennings Bryan, who ran for the Democratic nomination 4 times.
If you remember when Dorothy and her friends fell asleep in the flowers then you can understand the connection it would have to Coxy's Army when they were arrested for walking on the grass at the White House. Other interesting connections were that Oz symbolized Washington, D.C. and the Wizard symbolized the unresponsive presidents from McKinley to Roosevelt.
The Wizard of Oz actually has a significant meaning in history besides being a children's book. It is interesting to go back and analyze things in a different way.
2.3
I relate to this picture with the man dunking the basketball because I am a big basketball player and love to play. I have actually dunked a basketball but it wasn't a real dunk because I jump off mats and dunked the ball. I almost hurt myself though cause the mat slipped on me.
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/SSPOD/SuperStock_1574R-01863A~Silhouette-of-a-Man-Slam-Dunking-a-Basketball-Posters.jpg
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/SSPOD/SuperStock_1574R-01863A~Silhouette-of-a-Man-Slam-Dunking-a-Basketball-Posters.jpg
Monday, March 2, 2009
New Challenge- Cameron
2.2
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/WinterConcert/story?id=6987543&page=1
I am pretty livid to find out that over this past weekend Chris Brown and Rihanna have reunited. Reports say the reunion happened in Miami, FL at Diddy's residence. "Chris Brown and Rihanna may be together again, thanks to the guidance of hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs." I hate Diddy so much, he is always the person to ruin something. First he breaks up a huge international band, but now he is reconciling people that should not have been reconciled.
"People magazine reported over the weekend that the two pop stars reunited and reconciled following a Feb. 8 incident in which Brown allegedly beat and bruised his pop star girlfriend. They've reportedly been spending time at Diddy's mansion on Miami Beach's Star Island." Not only am I mad at Diddy, I am also mad at Rihanna for her stupid decision. After seeing pictures of the brutal attack I don't know how someone would ever want to do such a thing.
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/WinterConcert/story?id=6987543&page=1
I am pretty livid to find out that over this past weekend Chris Brown and Rihanna have reunited. Reports say the reunion happened in Miami, FL at Diddy's residence. "Chris Brown and Rihanna may be together again, thanks to the guidance of hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs." I hate Diddy so much, he is always the person to ruin something. First he breaks up a huge international band, but now he is reconciling people that should not have been reconciled.
"People magazine reported over the weekend that the two pop stars reunited and reconciled following a Feb. 8 incident in which Brown allegedly beat and bruised his pop star girlfriend. They've reportedly been spending time at Diddy's mansion on Miami Beach's Star Island." Not only am I mad at Diddy, I am also mad at Rihanna for her stupid decision. After seeing pictures of the brutal attack I don't know how someone would ever want to do such a thing.
Post 2.2
The government is planning to use skilled immigrants with temporary Visa's for the war. They are "...offering them the chance to become United States citizens in as little as six months." I don't think we should be doing this. We should just be leaving there and letting them deal with their own problems and not have us go an fix things for them.
Your New Challenge-John
I believe that my life has been going great during the past few months. I have many great people in my life that make me feel accepted and happy, including my parents, friends, and other relatives. I'm sure that my life could be better, but right now I cannot think of anything that I feel that needs to be changed. I think that if anyone in my life were to die I would probably feel very distressed, but I know that the other people in my life would not hesitate to comfort me and make me feel much better. I am extremely thankful for all of these people and I will never take them for granted.
New Challenge Responses-Hannah-
2.1
No one really tells you how hard something is going to be until you are going through it. I knew that it would be hard being away from my best friend who is now at college, but knowing and actually realizing are two different things. Although some might say that distance is good for friendship (and I do agree) I also feel that because my best friend happens to be my boyfriend that some might think it is sappy to miss him. Since the end of last year the thought of him going to college was like a looming monster, but now that the school year is almost over I can say that yes it was horrible to go for a few weeks without seeing him, but now I appreciate the time we have together more.
Next year when I go to school wherever it may be (Chicago or elsewhere) I hope that I can take the lessons and strength I have gained this year and apply it. It seems that people, no matter who they are, are not designed to be alone.
No one really tells you how hard something is going to be until you are going through it. I knew that it would be hard being away from my best friend who is now at college, but knowing and actually realizing are two different things. Although some might say that distance is good for friendship (and I do agree) I also feel that because my best friend happens to be my boyfriend that some might think it is sappy to miss him. Since the end of last year the thought of him going to college was like a looming monster, but now that the school year is almost over I can say that yes it was horrible to go for a few weeks without seeing him, but now I appreciate the time we have together more.
Next year when I go to school wherever it may be (Chicago or elsewhere) I hope that I can take the lessons and strength I have gained this year and apply it. It seems that people, no matter who they are, are not designed to be alone.
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