End of the Year

Well, this is our last full friday of the year, and needless to say that Im not sad at all. I still have one year left at kennedy and maybe even one more after that if i fail a few more classes than I usually do. Were suppose to have a baseball game in Cedar Falls today but its raining cats and dogs out there, so I doubt that will happen which also means that i dont get out of 6th hour early today. My 6th hour is spanish and were watching a depressing movie about a quadreplegic who wants euthanasia. It has that one guy from the movie No Country for Old Men. I have to do this blog entry plus one before the end of the year, and my project is already done for one class. I dont even know why the juniors have to come to school once the seniors get out because I am only learning in one class, and it was a senior math class and theres only 6 people left. In one class we are doing a community service project, one class we're watching a movie, one class we are building a cardboard boat, and my last class, we are reviewing for the final.

Well I have to say that I'm excited about the end of the year, but not so excited about the last week and finals.

Photo Essay

Our project is finally finished! We did a photo essay for our final project and bond finished editing it last night. If you want to see it go to youtube and search "becoming a champion photo essay". This graphic peice of literature tells the story of a nerd who isnt very athleteic and ends up being horribly embarassed in front of all of his other classmates. But later that night he decides to make a committment to train hard and become the most physically fit kid in his class. I'm not going to tell you how it ends, but i will tell you that it is pretty funny, plus the music's not bad either.

I was watching some other photo essays on youtube and ours blows the others out of the water. They are more of a serious nature, and arent really in an order, they are just random pics that the person took and then put them together in a random order, not really trying to geta point across. I think that our essay is very good because as a person who knows what the story was suppose to portray, its very clear and easy to understand.

So please go watch the vid.

UFC

I was watching a UFC fight the other day on t.v. when I started to wonder why someone would voluntarily get the crap beat out of em once a month for an occupation. They could just get a job at target or somewhere like that. Heck I would rather be in school for the rest of my life than be a professional fighter, well maybe not that far but you get the point. And have you ever noticed that a UFC fight never ends in a split decision? It usually gets ended becuase somebody fractured there eye socket in six places or they passed out because somebody was choking them out. If I was put in that situation I would probably just tap out because you know, it would be the smart thing to do. Plus, do you know how many hours those athletes put in on training to build muscle, and excercising to loose wait? And they dont get to eat whatever they want, they have a strict diet plan. Do you still want to be a professional fighter after all that I have just said. Although It would be pretty tight to be able to fight twelve times a year and be able to make a decent living off of it.

I hope you enjoyed this essay.

Lunch Lady

Did you ever have to work in the cafeteria when you were in middle school? I remember in eighth grade when I had to help the lunch ladies out for a day. A kid named Andrew Berger and me reported to the cafeteria at about 8 30 or so. When we got there we were a little scared because the lunch ladies at our school were a little scary (one of them was missing an eye ball and another had parkinsons disease and could never get the food on the plate). They told us to start making sandwiches that consisted of ham cheese bread and crap. We excluded the crap from our sandwhiches and they turned out to be delicious, who wouldve thought it? But anyways, while we were slaving over the hot stove making lunch for all of our classmates, the lunch ladies were playing craps in the corner. Im kidding about that but we really did do most of the work. They were pretty nice to us because they let us have free ice cream and we didnt have to pay for our lunches when it was time for us to eat.

In the end, I realized that the lunch ladies were nice but thet were really, really lazy.

Google Earth

Google Earth. What a conveinient, neat little program. But I was thinking and I started to ponder, what does google do if they take a picture and theres something thats not appropriate shows up in the picture. Do they just leave it in or do they take it out? It's not like they can just tell the entire earth not to be tanning nude outside at a certain time, and if they did, I suspect there would be a quite a bit of strange things that would be there if people knew when they were going to take a picture. I have this "friend", and if "he" knew they were taking a picture of where "he" was going to be, "he" would probably make a huge banner with an expletive on it and then try to find "himself". You know, something like a big "eat ____ google", or something along those lines. I was trying to do a little research on how often they update their pictures, but i couldnt find. However, I do know for a fact that they update it fairly often, so keep that it mind...

Google earth is a fascinating tool that can give you visuals of the entire earth with just a few clicks, but the most important thing is that it is something that was meant to be messed with. So I think that it is our duty as human beings to just sit outside our houses for a couple days at a time, and fake a picture like you have just stabbed your sister to death. Remember, we owe it to ourselves.

Crime Lab

I dont really have anything to write about so Ill tell you about my physics project. This week, we are doing this special unit where we have a few police officers come to our school to talk about their job which incurs accident reconstruction. I personally dont see how it relates to physicis, well i guess they use displacement formulas and coefficient of friction problems, but considering the fact that we did all that stuff about four months ago, i would say that they are just trying to kill some time. About the only thing that we have really done was look at bloody, gruesome pictures of horrific car accidents, so it really doesnt relate to anything physics.



Today, KCRG came to our school so that they could feature the lab on the news, but they didnt even come to our class, they went to fourth hour. Oh, by the way if that is going to be on the news, than im guessing nothing special happened today that is worth covering.

Continuing my blog...

I was presented an interesting question in class today. Should I continue to write on my blog after the school year is over? My original thought was no, but then as i started to think about it, i realized that there wouldnt be any requirements and i could do whatever i wanted to with it. You know, drop a couple of f-bombs here and there, put up some funny youtube videos that are inappropriate for a school sponsored project (by the way, if you dont go kennedy, this is a requirement). Do you know what the most interesting part of this assignment has been to me so far? I put a couple of ads from google on my blog (you probably noticed) just for the fun of it, not expecting anything to happen. A couple of weeks passed and nothing had happened, until I went to my adsense account and added a video ad. I checked my adsense account just for laughs, and what I saw next suprrised the heck out of me. I had made one thousand dollars in five days. I'm kidding about that part, but I swear to god that I made fifty-four cents off my blog. Just by being lazy, clicking on a couple of things, I made half a dollar. Isnt America great?

Back to the original point. Should I keep my blog going? The toughest part of the question is wether or not I will forget my password. You might be laughing now, but it's happened before, especially when it comes to padalocks on your gym locker. I've wasted 12 or 13 bucks buying new padalocks because I forgot the combonations. And let me tell you, nothing is more embarassing than having to break off your own lock with a weight plate.

GTA IV

I just got the video game Grand Theft Auto IV on tuesday when it came out, and let me tell you, it is sick. You start out just getting off of a ship and you have never been to the city before (the city is called Liberty City). The reason you came was because your cousin (Roman), told you that he is rich and has a mansion, and all of this stuff. When you arrive, it is quite the opposite. Throughout the game you have to work your way to the top of the crime ladder and become the biggest gangster in the city. Throughout your quest to the top of the ladder, you meet some pretty interesting people and are asked to do some interesting tasks (that i cant mention now because they are a little inapropriate). The graphics in the game are stunning, and all of the missions are like real. When you are driving a car and you hit a telephone pole, your headlights go out, or if you run over a fire hydrant, water starts shooting out of the ground. The only thing that's not realistic is that you can drive as fast as you want, or on whatever side of the road, and you can drive through stoplights and stopsigns and the cops dont care, you just cant hit a cop car though. If you get injured, to heal yourself, all you have to do is purchase some food-either from a vendor on the street, or a resturant. If I were going to rate the game, I would give it 9.25 out of 10. The reason that it looses 3/4 of a point is because the camera gets messed up when you are driving.

Other than that it's perfect, and i would suggest that you get this game.

Ayers Blog

If you want to see Mr. Ayers blog, Bond found you just have to google "michael ayers" uiowa blog.

Two Questions

This is a reading entry response to the essay that we read that was entitled Two Questions. Two Questions was written by Lynda Barry and it is basically a comic that is all about her struggle with drawing as a career. The story starts out as her asking herself two questions: Is this good, and does this suck? After this first intro, she descrbies how she fell in love with drawing and how she made picture after picture into story after story. But as the comic goes on, the more crowded each drawing gets with angry little charcters who tell her that she cant draw very well and that she needs to give it up. On the second to last picture she is trying to guess what her drawing is and the little figures tell her she has one more guess before she has to give it up. So she finally says she doesnt know what it is, which turns out to be the correct explantion. And in the very last picture, she one of her formally evil little charcters help guide her pen into what she is trying to draw. I liked this story because it was pretty easy to understand and it was minimal reading. The pictures that were the story were pretty good and easy to understand. I think that we should read more alternative forms of essays, you know to change it up a little.

My Weekend

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