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Monday, June 9, 2014

Blogging





Ahh, As blogging is coming to an end I am happy. I do not like blogging and only do it for a grade in class, I just think it is outdated and replaced with better things. Im not sure how people still make money off of it or if they still do.  I havent seen a blog come up in a web search in a long time or even heard of blogging for a while.  I dont HATE blogging but honestly I would never do it or look at someone elses blog outside of class.

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

National Egg Day

Once again another stupid pointless holiday. I guess egg day is where we appreciate eggs and eat them. which is kind of werid. I am not a huge fan of eggs, but I see how they are very useful in bakeing and I do like baked stuff so that would be a reason for me to be grateful.  Some Real egg dishes I like are scrambled eggs, sunny side up eggs, hard boiled eggs, and raw eggs. The nutritional value in eggs is very high so sometimes when I diet I try to eat a lot of eggs, so I guess ill say thanks eggs!

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

National month of

Here in America we are a werid people. We celebrate odd things that we honestly dont need to such as Finacncial literacy month, School library month, and Polycisctic ovary month. You have probably not hear of these, maybe a few people  "celebrate" these things if they directly effect their lives, but im sure they dont every day of the month.  If I made a commerative month I would make "National why do we have so many commeritive months month" its just another pointless celebration, we could probably petiotion to throw away our old non - useful celebratory months.

Monday, May 19, 2014

Dont Tap the white tile

Their is a new game app sweeping the app store, and I am not reluctant to say that I am addicted to it. In this game you basiclly just tap black tiles as they move along the screen; avoiding the white ones. Their are different game modes that go for fastest time and longest distance. The reason this game is so addicting to me is because my friends also play it and we all try to beat eachother. I do not think it will ever end.

Monday, May 12, 2014

Violence on TV

Today, violence is a prevolent genre in media. You see it everywhere in movies, tv shows, and even games. If it does not have violence is it cool? Probably not. But do I think that its bad? No, Violence has been present in the human race ever since society was a thing, I do not believe it has a direct effect on the behavior of humans, they see things that are worse.  An example of a violent tv show that I can think of that I watch is Dexter, its a show about this man who is a serial killer because he physcologiclly needs to do it, but he only kills very bad criminals and is a good person at heart.

Monday, May 5, 2014

Cinco De Mayo

I am not very fluent in spanish. Or Spanish culture for that matter; that probably explains why I dont full know what Cinco De Mayo is.  I think it has something to do with Spanish indepencence like our 4th of July. But that is probably the extent of my knowlege about it.  Hopefully I can become more knowldgeable about Spanish in general and maybe even celebrate it one day.

Today is also national no homework day. I also did not know this but I guess it is true because I have no homework.  So I guess im going to spend it not doing homework!

Monday, April 28, 2014

Prom

I am very conflicted about prom, on one hand I think it is a waste of money and time when you can just do something way more fun for way less money. It has become ridiculous the amount of money needed so be spent on just a few hours. (for guys 150-200) (for girls it can be well over that amount) on the other hand I would not mind going if I had the money to spend and I was taking an awesome girl that wanted to go.  I also think it is more important to go senior year than freshman-junior. This year I am not going to prom but debating on just going to after prom.

Monday, April 21, 2014

Earth day 2014

Earth day is a holiday that I personally dont really participate in.  I do believe it is important to take a day to remember our earth and care for it a little extra.  In elementary school we did some earth day projects but nothing spectaculiar that I remember.  Some things that I found out about earth day are, 1) it was started by John McConnel and the first earth day was March 21,1970.
2)Leonardo DiCaprio was host of earth day in 2000
3)it is called earth day because "its practical and obvious)

Monday, March 24, 2014

Boring

This is the first time since 6th grade I have not done a spring sport, and it feels really werid! Most of the time I have no idea what to do after school; most of the time I try to workout to stay in shape.  Not doing track was the correct desicion I think.  I have more time to do homework and I can weightlift.  On the otherhand I kind of miss the team aspect of track and pole vaulting.

Monday, March 17, 2014

Cheater

I have cheated before and so has my friends, Not really on anything major, maybe a minor school assignment or a friendly game. If I saw one of my friends cheating on something like either of these I would never tell on them, Its not a big enough deal for anyone to care; plus they are my friends.  Although, if I saw my friends cheating on something major I would confront them and advise/convince them otherwise, but i still would not tell on them.

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Testing

Testing is a very both sided subject. Some people thrive for tests while others seem to do badly on them. nobody really knows the reasons why; some kids are very smart yet do not care about tests or just plain feel uncomfortable about them and therefore, do bad. I have just spent the last three days testing and I HATED it. I feel like I have a well rounded education but some sections of the test makes me feel like I have never been to school. I do not think there will ever be a precise way to determine the smarts of a student.

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Presidents

My Favorite President of all time is definitely Lincoln, without a doubt! Probably the thing I like most about him would be that we were both born on the same day. I can also add the fact that he was one of the best presidents of all time. He came up from nothing and became the most important man in America. He abolished slavery and led us through the Civil War. Without him, things would be a lot different today. He is on the 5 Dollar Bill and also on the Nickel. He also is on Mount Rushmore and has had many movies made about him!

Monday, February 3, 2014

INSECT

If I could be an insect I would choose to be a cockroach, this is because they can live a long time and are a lot smarter than other bugs! Another reason to tack on is because they have good camoflauge with a nutural color and can eat pretty much anything, they are some chill bugs!  And perhaps the most important reason of all is they can survive a nuculear attack!

Friday, January 24, 2014

Final Exam

In Exploring Technology we have visited a lot of different types of technology including, blogging, podcasting, RSS, Wikis, Bloglines, and Google Drive. of all of these specific types of technology my favorite one to use had to be Google Drive.  I could definitely use this after high school. It allows multiple google account owners to edit a certain document at one time. (as long as they have been invited by the creator.) it would be a great tool to use in college with a partner on a certain assignment if we are across campus or don't want to meet up to exchange flash drives. Another way i could use this technology is to make documents from anywhere in the world and be able to be on live feed with someone else to help me, if i am in a job making things on the computer for many people I'm going to need co workers help on the document,Google drive is perfect for that. And the last reason I would use it is just to have fun! I could start a document with a friend and just tell each other what we've been up to and they can see it whenever and wherever! All in all it is a awesome piece of technology that i think is highly underused/underrated. On the other hand, a piece of this technology that i would not use (of the six mentioned in the beginning) would be blogging. Blogging has been totally washed out by other social networking sites like facebook, if i were to create a business the first thing i would do is make a facebook page and invite people. i don't think a lot of people go out of their way to look at blogs, i could have a thousand views on facebook in a few weeks if i tried. I have had a blog this whole semester and i don't think i have broken 120 views. As for the aspect of personal use i would also go with a different social network like facebook or twitter.

Monday, January 13, 2014

Extended Winter Break

This Winter Break has ben especally fun probably my favorite thing about it was we got an extra week off of school due to the weather.  Over the break I hung out with friends and did all the holiday stuff like Christmas Partys and New Years Parties.  Other than that I went to wrestling pratice and meets or just enjoyed relaxing and watching movies. For the first time in a while i did not do much outside because it was way to cold for me, hopefully next year we get an extra week off to.