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Almost the End.

Well it's almost the end of this class. It has been a good year with lots of good memories. I hope everyone does good on their finals. With a little luck I will get through all of mine.

Instead of making a long drawn out goodbye blog I thought I would just add a funny YouTube video. It doesn't really have anything to do with anything. But I thought it was funny. So goodbye all you faithful readers. Happy Trails!

ITS ALIVE....ITS ALLLIIIIVVVVVEEEEEE!!!!!

"It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open . . ." and with that our website is now open. Here's a link.

New Cell Phone...

Right now I am trying to upgrade my phone, but it is to no avail. The three things that I want in a phone are: a QWERTY keyboard, a 3.2 megapixel camera, and a decent amount of space for some music. The sad thing for me is that since I have Verizon I can't get all of these features in a phone. Plus I have been spoiled with a really awesome phone for the past two years, the LG Env, so it is hard to find an upgrade. If only I had AT&T...

Space Bat

A long while ago there was a bat that got stuck on the shuttle, and it remained on the shuttle even after launch. There is a lot of funny things out there done as tributes for the bat. Here is all the info. And here is a wicked awesome Eulogy for the bat.



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Last few moments of space bat's life:

"Man, this giant orange thing is cold"
"Wait, what is happening now?!?"
"HOLY *****, HOLY *****, HOLY SHIIITTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Hello darkness, my old friend,
Ive come to talk with you again,
Because a vision softly creeping,
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence."

RIP Space Bat

Free Writing Part 2

So in my last free writing I finished with the idea of hope. But I'm not going to continue on hope. I think I'm going to write about how Tom Cruise didn't ruin Minority Report. First of all, Minority Report is a great movie. Sure it's not as good as the book...but honestly how many book to movie adaptations are as good as the original writing. Barely any. Either way, if anybody ruined Minority Report, it was Steven Spielberg. Who cast Tom Cruise...Steven Spielberg. End of discussion. Plus Tom Cruise is a great actor. A great human being he is not. But man can he act. Risky Business, Top Gun, THE LAST SAMURAI, Minority Report, Tropic Thunder, Magnolia, Jerry Maguire, Born on the Fourth of July, The Mission Impossible Movies...who on Earth could honestly say that Tom Cruise is a bad actor. A Yankee's fan that's who. The Yankee's epitomize everything that's wrong with professional sports in my opinion. Greed. Who's their star player...Alex Rodriguez, the highest payed player in the game at one point, someone who is so insecure about the ability that got them to the pro's that they get greedy and use steroids. Which team buys all the best players...The Yankees. Sure I can understand supporting the home team, but honestly go with the Met's. Go Red Sox! Why do we as humans put so much gravitas on sports. If you break it down it's pretty stupid. What's basketball? Guys throwing a rubber ball through an Iron Hoop. What's baseball? Hitting a ball the size of an orange enough times to make people run around a diamond shape. I think it's because we like competitiveness. Well now I'm out of time and this ends my Free Writing Part 2. This was a god one. I'll give it a solid 7 out of 10.

Special Relativity

I have many heroes. One of them is Einstein. Mostly because I believe that he was not actually a person and was a super computer sent back in time from the future to amaze us with his intellect. Yes, in the future computers are narcissistic. Anyway, one of the coolest things Einstein came up with was the Theory of Special Relativity. And let me tell you, it explains some pretty messed up stuff. Here's a link that explains it in lamen's terms if you are so interested. I actually went over this topic in my philosophy class and we discussed it as a prelude to the idea of time travel. Time travel backwards is pretty much impossible by the way. Sorry all you DeLorian owners...

This Blog...

Over the last few weeks my blog has seen little use. I personally have lost my free blogging spirit. Hopefully I can get inspired to up the ante a little bit and save my blog grade. It's crazy how easy it is to lose track of this darn thing...

Free Writing

If I had to choose I would like to rework my Solution Paper the most. It was my weakest so it is therefore the one I want to fix. Something weird happened today. I was in my philosophy class and we were discussing regret. I made the point that I personally try to have no regrets because I am happy with the person that I am. If I could go back and fix something that I regretted doing then I would not be the same person. But then I thought that it sucks that I have very few regrets. Maybe I am just a sheltered person with a perfect life but that's not true. By this point I had realized that I regretted not having regrets. But you can't fix a regret about not having something or having a lack of something. Which reminds me of something cool I learned about a long time ago. Darkness is not a something it is a lack of something with that something being light. But light isn't just the visible spectrum we can see it also extends into radio waves and radiation. Radio waves are a form of light. How odd is that? How amazing would it be if our eyes could actually detect all the forms of light. How many senses are out there that we don't have. Sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell. What else could there be. I just described upgrading our sense of sight. But that is just upgrading a sense that we already have, what if there are sense we don't even know about. It's something I can't even comprehend personally. I like eating lunch before this class. It makes me feel much more energized and awake. I usually don't eat breakfast so I am all zombie like in the morning. I have never been a morning person but maybe it's because I don't eat breakfast. They call people like me insomniacs and night owls. Night owl reminds me of a character from "The Watchmen." I personally am tired of having the same dream every night. It's just repetitive. I start out in a cave. But the cave is dark yet I can see. Maybe I have upgraded eyes...but that's besides the point. Anyway I'm in this cave and a "tinker bell" light comes up and whizzes around my head. Then it floats down one of those endless holes that caves have and naturally I jump after it. So now I'm falling in complete darkness chasing this tinker bell light. After what seems like ages we fall into this wide open room of the cave. And at the bottom of this room is a huge underground lake. The light falls into the water and naturally I follow it. But then once I'm submerged in the water I hear this odd ringing that sound like one of those whale songs. I realize that the sound is coming from the tinker bell light and I start to swim towards it. The sound gets louder and much higher pitched as I get closer. Then once I nearly have my hand around it I wake up. Soooooo annoying. I have this dream almost every night and I despise the it. Maybe the light is trying to teach me something and if one day I can grab it I will learn what that something is. Or maybe the light is just a representation of a goal that I will never reach or that my sub-conscience mind thinks I will never reach. All that I know is this dream won't leave me alone and I can't figure it out. It's too bad we can't control what we dream about. Some people think they can and they all their experiences lucid dreaming. I think that they are liars. Thats just me. I'm probably just jealous. I notice people, myself included, get jealous very easily. It's a pretty stupid emotion. Is it an emotion? Or is it a state of being? Who knows? But jealousy is something that just makes me feel immature when I look back at the times when I was jealous. My favorite emotion/state of being is when you listen to really profound music late at night. You get this feeling of wonderment and creativity. Amazing feeling. I can't think of a name for it. Maybe it's nostalgia. But that doesn't seem to fit. One day I will coin a phrase for this mind state and I will be awarded a medal. Silly goals. Maybe this is what the light in my dream is supposed to represent. My goal of coining a word for a state of mind that probably already has a name and then hoping against hope that I will get a medal. Weird phrase, "hoping against hope" is. How can you hope against something such as hope? Would you be hoping for the opposite of hope, despair. Then you are still hoping. Overall I think this free writing thing went well. I just wrote what came to mind and I even Punctuated and used grammar correctly! Hooray for me!!

Pelican or Seagull...You Decide!

This is a pelican. Notice the beak.


















This is a Seagull.















These are two Pelicans standing next to a Seagull. Once again, notice the beaks


















It seems that these two birds are extremely hard to tell apart. Luckily their beaks are just barely different enough for us to know. There are other animal species that are just as hard to tell apart. Butterflies and horses being one of them.

George Lucas in Love

This is a superbly well done video about the origins of the Star Wars idea.

Log #5

So for this week all we did was conferences. I hope all of yours went well. But since conferences don't make for a very interesting log, I have decided to write about how a perfect week in English 102-15 would go. In other words this log is a work of fiction depicting an imaginary English class. Hope you enjoy!


Monday, February 16th
Today McArdle told us to form a circle of love. Perplexed we obliged and then we began to discuss the true nature of the universe. Unfortunately, some of us had been eating our brain Wheaties and thought a little bit too hard. We then discovered the answer to life, the universe and everything, and as most of you know this answer is not supposed to be known. Unknowingly we created a rip in space/time that would come to dominate our week.

Wedensday February 18th
Today we discovered the rip we had created. Many of our class computers and chairs had been sucked in (along with McArdles well hidden toupe). With a unparalled brilliance, I came up with the idea to clog the hole. The problem is that holes in space/time are pretty hard to close. We then decided that the best course of action was to treat this hole as a God and make sacrifices to it. Andrew Prestler drew the short straw.

Friday, February 20th
Lucky for us the janitors had closed the hole for us with a nice infusion of broomsticks and floor laminate. We then had a pizza party in remembrence of our beloved computers and chairs. The now bald McArdle announced that we would not need to do our multimodal projects because without Andrew the class number is uneven. His sacrifice was not in vain.

Disturbing...

If you were like me as a child, you watched cartoons every Saturday morning. One of the better ones was Ducktales. Here's the intro to help you remember:



Now this is where I must warn you. Our world is full of truly messed up people. They hide in the shadows, lurking, waiting for the most opportune time to get you. These people would like nothing better than to destroy your childhood. If you are someone who would like to hold on to this innocence then you must not watch the video below. But if you are like me and love absolutely disturbing expressions of creativity then click play!

Space and beyond...

Well today I was bored and I began to contemplate the vast complexities of the universe. Aided by some Chopin, I looked into the Deep Field Photo. If you've never heard of it then I suggest you watch this video. As I took in the vastness I began to feel zen like, and then I began to philosophize about all types of crazy stuff like is there life somewhere else in the universe, what does it all mean, etc. My questions for you, my good people, is what makes you feel zen like? and what do you do to relax and philosophize?


The Hubble Deep Field Photograph: NASA had the Hubble telescope look at a spot in the sky the literal size of a thumbnail. This is what it saw. Each bright spot you see is a galaxy. Each galaxy is the home of billions and billions of stars. Each star could have it's own solar system. This should make anyone feel small.

Best. Song. Ever. Period.

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This woman faked getting hit by a car lol

Songs that get stuck in your head...

As you grow older you gain wisdom in many areas. You learn important lessons such as, "hey don't touch that hot stove!," or, "don't listen to english teachers who get fired for public intoxication (Loooongggg story)!" One thing that I have learned is that some songs will get stuck in your head, and they will remain there, indefinitely. These songs are to be avoided at all costs. The only way to fix this problem is to listen to the song on repeat until it leaves. Sometimes this only makes the situation worse and you may develop an acute case of what I call: Song Attachment Derangement Syndrome of Numerical Grandness or SADSONG. If you develop SADSONG there is no cure for you. The only way to fight SADSONG is to try and prevent yourself from falling victim to songs that easily remain in your head. I've compiled a small list of songs that do this. Good luck...my fair people. Shalom.

It's a Small World After All - Disney
The Adverb Song - Schoolhouse Rock
Time is Running Out - Muse
Whatever You Like - T.I.
Single Ladies - Beyonce
Welcome Home - Coheed and Cambria
Kickstart My Heart - Motley Crue
Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley
Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield
Peanut Butter Jelly Song - Family Guy

The sick thing is that I linked all these songs so that you can listen to them. You don't have to, but you know what they say...curiosity killed the cat muahaahahahaahaha. Oh and here's a link to some scientific study they did on the subject. It's boring I wouldn't recomend it...

Stains: The Cupcake Dog

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My Favorite Movies

Yay! School's cancelled! I have nothing to do all day long! So I've decided to group my favorite movies together.

It's impossible to rate my favorite movies in a straight list so I have decided to break them into groups of five, depending on the genre. Here they are, I highly recommend all of them.

Best Independent Films
1. Little Miss Sunshine
2. Clerks
3. Into the Wild
4. Babel
5. Crash
Runner-up: Juno

Best Comedies
1. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
2. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
3. The 40 Year Old Virgin
4. Pineapple Express
5. Blazing Saddles
Runner-up: Animal House

Best Sci-Fi Movies
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. The Matrix
3. City of Men
4. Sunshine
5. The Thing
Runner-up: Serenity

Best WTF Movies
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. The Prestige
3. The Fountain
4. A Clockwork Orange
5. Donnie Darko
Runner-up: Fight Club

Best Thrillers
1. Se7en
2. Rear Window
3. Jaws
4. No Country for Old Men
5. 28 Days Later
Runner-up: Nosferatu

Best War Movies
1. Saving Private Ryan
2. The Last Samurai
3. Lawrence of Arabia
4. Pan's Labyrinth
5. Braveheart
Runner-up: Hotel Rwanda

Best Dramas
1. The Shawshank Redemption
2. Schindler's List
3. American Beauty
4. The Godfather
5. Cinderella Man
Runner-up: The Green Mile

Best Blockbusters
1. Star Wars
2. The Lord of the Rings
3. Indiana Jones
4. The Dark Knight
5. Bourne Series
Runner-up: Back to the Future

Hahahaha

Thought for Today

I found this on the internet today and I thought it was rather inspirational.

One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do.
Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn't worth it to retrieve the donkey.
He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone's amazement he quieted down.
A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well. He was astonished at what he saw. With each shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing. He would shake it off and take a step up.
As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and happily trotted off!
Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our troubles is a steppingstone. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, never giving up! Shake it off and take a step up.

Remember the five simple rules to be happy:

1.) Free your heart from hatred - Forgive.
2.) Free your mind from worries - Most never happen.
3.) Live simply and appreciate what you have.
4.) Give more.
5.) Expect less

NOW ............

Enough of that crap . .. . The donkey later came back, and bit the farmer who had tried to bury him.
The gash from the bite got infected and the farmer eventually died in agony from septic shock.

MORAL FROM TODAY'S LESSON:

When you do something wrong, and try to cover your ass, it always comes back to bite you.

Thank You for Smoking

Thank You for Smoking is a movie about a guy named Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart) who is a lobbyist for Big Tobacco. He likes to say that you can argue any point and win, depending on how well you argue. In truth, all he does is deflect the argument away from him. Either way, the movie is verry funny. I had seen it before and it is definitely funnier the second and even third time through. Especially this scene.