today is the first day of actually going to class instead of sitting in front of the internet wondering what the hell aplia is and why i can't just use web ct....
so far i've only gone to one class, as this is my 1 hour break between astronomy and physchology. i walk into the class i see people that i tried oh so hard to avoid, and have until today been able to have no classes with them in it. these are mostly people i went to high school with that slacked off and acted like preppie, annoying, bitches that don't care about learning and that are sure to make my life annoying for three hours a week.
three early morning hours....*slump* oh well. i'm also concerned about the fact that on tuesdays i have a three hour block of nothingness..
what am i going to do here for three hours? even if i drove, i wouldn't want to leave because i would have gotten a sweet parking spot, and the general rule is that you do not abandon such a sweet spot if you have to come back anyways. and besides, gas is too expensive and i'm a cheap/poor college student that refuses to pay it....
so i've got the distinct feeling that i'll be posting more blogs and bulletins here and on myspace to kill time so my brain can get over the assault of the bubblegum chewing laughs emitting from the preps that assure each other that they'll get an "a for effort" in this class.
but the day is still young, hopefully i can see someone that will brighten my day by giving me a chance to have an intelligent conversation.
8.29.2006
8.28.2006
life sucks, but not entirely....
yes!! school starts today. and while a lot of people hate school, i'm glad to be putting my brain to use after months of atrophy. it can be hard to have deep thought provoking discussions in the staples break room....
dammit!!! i had to pay $60 on top of my class fees and buying a new econ book for aplia, a program that mjc apparently goes through for their econ classes. i found this tidbit out today as i was signing in for my online class for the first time.
sweet!!!! the tool concert is this weekend and so far it's looking like i'll be able to go and hang out with my friends for some much needed "getting away from it all" time/
crap!! i think i have poison oak on my leg.....which really sucks as i've never had it before and i have pretty much until saturday morning to get rid of it.
finally!! i've found some hawaiian radio stations online that play live streams of music.
but i still can't find the lyrics to the song about mount haleakala and therefore can't find the real title, making it impossible for me to limewire....crap....
that's about it i guess, some good things, some bad, but it's all evening out i guess....i just hate poison oak right now....
dammit!!! i had to pay $60 on top of my class fees and buying a new econ book for aplia, a program that mjc apparently goes through for their econ classes. i found this tidbit out today as i was signing in for my online class for the first time.
sweet!!!! the tool concert is this weekend and so far it's looking like i'll be able to go and hang out with my friends for some much needed "getting away from it all" time/
crap!! i think i have poison oak on my leg.....which really sucks as i've never had it before and i have pretty much until saturday morning to get rid of it.
finally!! i've found some hawaiian radio stations online that play live streams of music.
but i still can't find the lyrics to the song about mount haleakala and therefore can't find the real title, making it impossible for me to limewire....crap....
that's about it i guess, some good things, some bad, but it's all evening out i guess....i just hate poison oak right now....
8.18.2006
if the us took a page out of china's book.....
i was reading the odd news today, and a chinese woman was caught with heroin soaked panties and long johns. just the fact that a person would transport drugged soaked panties seems sorta ingenious to me.
hear me out on this one. "no officer ,that's not drugs that's making my panties soaking wet, that's my pee after i watched rocketman for the first time." what officer, in the us at least, would sniff the panties, and then maybe dab his finger in the goo to taste it and determine if it's pee or heroin and water? but apparently in china, they drug test your panties and then, to determine just how much drugs you have, they weigh them.
this is a simple enough process, just weigh the drugged panties, and then....get the eight of dry panties somehow and subtract the dry weight versus the wet weight. in the us, we'd probably send the panties to some kind of drug/panty centrifuge and separate the drug from the underwear. Then there would be tests to see how pure it was, only to find out that the drugs "mysteriously disappeared", thus throwing the case out of the courts due to a lack of evidence. and the fate of the panties? they were repackaged and sold at one of the many wal-marts in china.
but what really interests me is that if found guilty, this lady faces the death penalty.
at first i thought, that's way too hard core, but then i reconsidered.
if you knew that they would kill you if you dealed drug, would you be so willing to do so? my thoughts then went to the us. look at the failing war on drugs. weed is ever rampant, and it's pretty obvious that movies like "refer madness" don't stop the drug use. in fact, i was curious if weed would help my piano skills, but i decided that piano's for people that care about their musical studes a wee bit more than i do.
getting back on track, it's my opinion that drug sales would plummet if drug dealers were executed instead of being put in prisons were they can learn about other drugs to deal and ways to deal them. with execution, the drug dealers would know that the us was serious, that it kill everyone before the youth of america picked up the piano.
but let's not stop there. know how everyone says that child molesters should have their wangs cut off? what's stopping you? if the us took a page from china's book and stared cracking down with harsher rules and penalties, child molesters would all but drop off the face of the earth. but how to ge the kids to feel comfortable talking? how about a cash award if they tell the truth and they really were touched. now that whole "'i'll kill you" or "i'll die, and you don't want that do you?" line of reasoning won't work, cuz that kid's thinking "your ass is going down and now i can buy that x box 360 i've had my eyes on." but if they lie, they get something taken away. so they won't want to lie about being touched because then their toys would start disappearing. it's practically fool-proof.
but then again, such regulations would put the concept of american democracy at stake, and if you rpolitical system changed too much, the entire world economy would change. our system (political and economical) is so unique in comparison with the world, that changes would shift the way the world markets worked, affecting everything and everyone. not every country can be changed to match the "superior democracy" of the us, because then they would consume energy, oil, and other goods just as bad as the us does. that would not be cool, especially since global warming's already happening. it would just make it worse and make it happen faster. but, if the us started consuming like other countries, places were we get our products, like china, japan, madagascar, and other nations wouldn't have a market for the products anymore because the us is the largest consumer.
so i suppose it's best we don't follow suit with other countries, but now i'm concerned about the us making those other countries follow in our large, damaging footsteps......but it's late and i want to sleep.
though now i'm sure i'll dream of his holiness the dali lama wearing juicy and carrying a prada purse, with coach glasses and sunglasses while he sports his grillz....
hear me out on this one. "no officer ,that's not drugs that's making my panties soaking wet, that's my pee after i watched rocketman for the first time." what officer, in the us at least, would sniff the panties, and then maybe dab his finger in the goo to taste it and determine if it's pee or heroin and water? but apparently in china, they drug test your panties and then, to determine just how much drugs you have, they weigh them.
this is a simple enough process, just weigh the drugged panties, and then....get the eight of dry panties somehow and subtract the dry weight versus the wet weight. in the us, we'd probably send the panties to some kind of drug/panty centrifuge and separate the drug from the underwear. Then there would be tests to see how pure it was, only to find out that the drugs "mysteriously disappeared", thus throwing the case out of the courts due to a lack of evidence. and the fate of the panties? they were repackaged and sold at one of the many wal-marts in china.
but what really interests me is that if found guilty, this lady faces the death penalty.
at first i thought, that's way too hard core, but then i reconsidered.
if you knew that they would kill you if you dealed drug, would you be so willing to do so? my thoughts then went to the us. look at the failing war on drugs. weed is ever rampant, and it's pretty obvious that movies like "refer madness" don't stop the drug use. in fact, i was curious if weed would help my piano skills, but i decided that piano's for people that care about their musical studes a wee bit more than i do.
getting back on track, it's my opinion that drug sales would plummet if drug dealers were executed instead of being put in prisons were they can learn about other drugs to deal and ways to deal them. with execution, the drug dealers would know that the us was serious, that it kill everyone before the youth of america picked up the piano.
but let's not stop there. know how everyone says that child molesters should have their wangs cut off? what's stopping you? if the us took a page from china's book and stared cracking down with harsher rules and penalties, child molesters would all but drop off the face of the earth. but how to ge the kids to feel comfortable talking? how about a cash award if they tell the truth and they really were touched. now that whole "'i'll kill you" or "i'll die, and you don't want that do you?" line of reasoning won't work, cuz that kid's thinking "your ass is going down and now i can buy that x box 360 i've had my eyes on." but if they lie, they get something taken away. so they won't want to lie about being touched because then their toys would start disappearing. it's practically fool-proof.
but then again, such regulations would put the concept of american democracy at stake, and if you rpolitical system changed too much, the entire world economy would change. our system (political and economical) is so unique in comparison with the world, that changes would shift the way the world markets worked, affecting everything and everyone. not every country can be changed to match the "superior democracy" of the us, because then they would consume energy, oil, and other goods just as bad as the us does. that would not be cool, especially since global warming's already happening. it would just make it worse and make it happen faster. but, if the us started consuming like other countries, places were we get our products, like china, japan, madagascar, and other nations wouldn't have a market for the products anymore because the us is the largest consumer.
so i suppose it's best we don't follow suit with other countries, but now i'm concerned about the us making those other countries follow in our large, damaging footsteps......but it's late and i want to sleep.
though now i'm sure i'll dream of his holiness the dali lama wearing juicy and carrying a prada purse, with coach glasses and sunglasses while he sports his grillz....
8.10.2006
the circle of life, for cameras
the other day i was heart broken when i found out that my pentax was screwing up really bad. one shot and for some reason my film was moving four frames before i could shoot again. before i knew it, six pictures took up an entire roll. i was hopeful that i could take it to my local camera shop and have the guy fix it.
the bill? at least $150 dollars for fixing a winder that was screwing up. what really irritated me was that the camera itself was only $70, including a camera bag, two lenses, a magnifier, two filters, and all the cleaning supplies a person could wish for with these things.
so while i was feeling like i got the shaft from "the man" for making dslr's all the freaking rage and therefore pushing out the trusty 35mm cameras from the market, my one consolation was the fact that my nikon was a-ok and my life using 35mm was still intact.
until i try to get a flash for it and the photo guy takes off the lens cap and says, i only see black? WTF!!! so i go home and change the battery, because mr. mirror happens to be battery operated, and it still doesn't work!!!
so now i'm really freaking, because not only is my pentax dead, but my nikon is on the fringes, and i have an advanced photography class starting in a few weeks. so i take my second trek to the photo shop to figure out what the hell is wrong with this camera. so when i get over there, it turns out that the spring is screwed up, and to fix it would cost, yet again, $150.
so i was told that it wouldn't be worth it to fix it an to just buy a new one. but what about the camera? is there anyone i can give it to? even for free, to just take so i don't throw it in my trash and and up compacting it next to trevor's diaper? nope. the camera is absolutely worthless, no one would buy it. finally we, and by we i mean the camera guy, figured out what happened and the mirror came back down and it was okay to take pictures once again. of course in this process i ended up exposing half of adams film with other frames, so now he has no film and i was still down one camera.
it was only half way home that i realized i didn't do the one thing i had gone to the shop to do, twice. i forgot to get a freaking flash for the nikon. so i went back and yay!! everything went smoothly and i was able to get a flash, $10 off, and with no tax!
so while the pentax is dead, the nikon lives on! no the hunt is on for another pentax me super or pentax that can use the same lenses, because i have all these other lenses and stuff that's still good, and i refuse to throw away.
as for the dead pentax, his body is being donated to science and i plan on taking it apart to dink around with it and have some much needed mechanical fun.
the bill? at least $150 dollars for fixing a winder that was screwing up. what really irritated me was that the camera itself was only $70, including a camera bag, two lenses, a magnifier, two filters, and all the cleaning supplies a person could wish for with these things.
so while i was feeling like i got the shaft from "the man" for making dslr's all the freaking rage and therefore pushing out the trusty 35mm cameras from the market, my one consolation was the fact that my nikon was a-ok and my life using 35mm was still intact.
until i try to get a flash for it and the photo guy takes off the lens cap and says, i only see black? WTF!!! so i go home and change the battery, because mr. mirror happens to be battery operated, and it still doesn't work!!!
so now i'm really freaking, because not only is my pentax dead, but my nikon is on the fringes, and i have an advanced photography class starting in a few weeks. so i take my second trek to the photo shop to figure out what the hell is wrong with this camera. so when i get over there, it turns out that the spring is screwed up, and to fix it would cost, yet again, $150.
so i was told that it wouldn't be worth it to fix it an to just buy a new one. but what about the camera? is there anyone i can give it to? even for free, to just take so i don't throw it in my trash and and up compacting it next to trevor's diaper? nope. the camera is absolutely worthless, no one would buy it. finally we, and by we i mean the camera guy, figured out what happened and the mirror came back down and it was okay to take pictures once again. of course in this process i ended up exposing half of adams film with other frames, so now he has no film and i was still down one camera.
it was only half way home that i realized i didn't do the one thing i had gone to the shop to do, twice. i forgot to get a freaking flash for the nikon. so i went back and yay!! everything went smoothly and i was able to get a flash, $10 off, and with no tax!
so while the pentax is dead, the nikon lives on! no the hunt is on for another pentax me super or pentax that can use the same lenses, because i have all these other lenses and stuff that's still good, and i refuse to throw away.
as for the dead pentax, his body is being donated to science and i plan on taking it apart to dink around with it and have some much needed mechanical fun.
8.03.2006
the secret life of helanpe morris
today i got a loan offer from some company on the east coast. too bad it wasn't exactly for me, but it was for helanpe morris, the mysterious girl who entered my life freshman year of high school. she kept getting offers for the national honor roll society, at first it was sorta cute, oh look, they really messed up my name...but as time went on, she kept getting these great offers and it started to annoy me that a fictional person could get better offers than me.
then i started wondering how she came about in this world. sometimes i fancy that she was created when someone was trying to say melanie, but they had a bad cold and it was over the phone where they went into a tunnel and had the service cut off. so my name couldn't be verified and the typist on the other end said "f it, i'm going home."
or maybe i sleep walk at night and i created helanpe morris. but then i realized that in order to get these honor roll society things, helanpe must be nerdy and preppy, not exactly the ideal alter ego for a person already geeky and with no social life when school starts up.
or maybe, just maybe, helanpe is my long lost twin that for some reason was never revealed to me, and at night my family steals her mail from my room to give to helanpe, who lives in the shadows of my room spying on me, waiting for the perfect moment to take over my life.
whatever the case, i think i'll start a helanpe morris file and keep track of her accomplishments through the offers she gets in the mail, because apparently some random company that's a part of slm corporations knows more about helanpe and her parents and how much they need a student loan and just because i'm geeky like that.
then i started wondering how she came about in this world. sometimes i fancy that she was created when someone was trying to say melanie, but they had a bad cold and it was over the phone where they went into a tunnel and had the service cut off. so my name couldn't be verified and the typist on the other end said "f it, i'm going home."
or maybe i sleep walk at night and i created helanpe morris. but then i realized that in order to get these honor roll society things, helanpe must be nerdy and preppy, not exactly the ideal alter ego for a person already geeky and with no social life when school starts up.
or maybe, just maybe, helanpe is my long lost twin that for some reason was never revealed to me, and at night my family steals her mail from my room to give to helanpe, who lives in the shadows of my room spying on me, waiting for the perfect moment to take over my life.
whatever the case, i think i'll start a helanpe morris file and keep track of her accomplishments through the offers she gets in the mail, because apparently some random company that's a part of slm corporations knows more about helanpe and her parents and how much they need a student loan and just because i'm geeky like that.
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