New HBP Trailer!
The new trailer for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is so epic
4/6: Calculus is too easy =(
I am very lazy, so I’m using the quick-add option… which save me — what? 5 seconds? And no tags…
But alas, I am unable to write large amounts of cohesive, verbal language at a time… which is just great, since I have an AP Language practice test tomorrow with a TIME-RESTRICTED essay which I will COMPLETELY BS. Also, I’ve noticed in my usage of the internet that–
*switches to real blog-typing interface*
–when I start to randomly type in caps lock, not only do people listen (mostly out of annoyance), but in dead chats and conversations, it brings life. That being said, I DESPISE the “Caps Lock” key. It’s not just that I prefer to use Shift first; I hate it when my finger slips — usually while hitting “A” — and hits the caps lock, and, mid-word, I seem to burst into this angry rant! Seriously, are people that lazy that they need to use a key that sets the mode on capital letters only… Honestly, though, I am not an expert in the area of keyboard design and efficiency: if anyone is, feel free to inform me of prolonged uses where caps lock is necessary. Although, even then, there should be caps lock-free keyboards. And I did not plan on a paragraph about caps lock…
YOU CAN IGNORE THE ABOVE SINCE IT IS JUST RAMBLING.
[real blogging]
So today was a “red day” at school (block scheduling), so I had classes like Drafting (easy), World History (so easy and boring because I know everything that I want to just sleep!), French I (I know way more French than level 1 noob stuff!), and Calculus. Order may have changed for dramatic effect.
I’m a junior in high school, and through a Long and Confusing History that is my life, I ended up in Calculus this year. And I have to say, over the past few years, I’ve grown to like math a lot. So I looked forward to taking the Scariest Math of them all. And I will say, for the first few months I found it fascinating! And yet 6-8 months later, I have grown bored with the subject. Sure, Calculus is still insanely awesome, but I’ve just come to realize from the many youtube videos and guides and everything I’ve seen in preparation for the AP test that what we’re doing is so very easy and basic, and hardly as difficult as classmates make it seem…
So what does all this mean? Is it that when we work too hard or look deeper than necessary into something, the deconstructed result can really change our perception of it? Should we lie to ourselves and go with whatever most people are doing, or work hard to break through all of it and learn the truth, however scary… I am, by nature, tempted to go with the latter choice, as am I inclined to delve this deep into random stuff…
Anyway, however random and weird it might be, that’s one of the things that was on my mind today.
DFTBEDA
P.S. I have some interesting blog topics for the next few days, maybe….
4/5: back to last minute posts…
So today was not a very interesting day at first; this was partly because I was asleep until around noon! Ah, the weekends…
After I woke up… well I didn’t do much. I think. I should probably check my Twitter to see if I actually did anything after I woke up.
Oh yeah, today I searched on youtube for “Harry Potter Calculus” because I saw this vlog whose tags contains that. There were like 9 results! Math nerds with creative final projects indeed!
And then — well, actually now — I participated in an epic ~5 hour and running skype call, with online HP friends with whom I haven’t actually spoken ever, and haven’t talked to in ages…. It is most amazing… I don’t think a skype call with around 4 people for hours can ever not be epic.
Good day. Oh yeah, school tomorrow. Crap!
P.S. I know this is the 6th, but it’s still the night of the 5th kind of, so leave me alone =P
Day 2: Infestation
So… today I came back from school, and switched on the desktop. As usual, I ate something (school lunches leave something to be desired) and stuff, while it loaded (Windows isn’t that bad). As the log-in came up, something was up. It was really zoomed in, which was weird since my maximum resolution is 1680 x 1050. And when my desktop loaded, it was 800 x 600… Other than that, everything was fine… except everything was slow, and half the pages couldn’t load, including my mail and messenger. As I freaked out a bit, turned on the antivirus scan, which did like 10% in two hours. The scan just finished as I type this. Agh, stupid April Fools’ virus unleashing. Although, I guess we need a little deconstruction of the things we get attached to, like this guy says:
So I guess this won’t be a very tidy, well-organized post. Things that happened today:
- Waking up late
- Missing the bus
- Lameness
- Learning how to draw manual drafting stuff on the computer
- Boring history
- Calculus test: Integration
- Outed my atheism a bit in French
- Read a bit
- Computer deathness
- Meh
- BEDA
So, that’s all I got today; tomorrow is my video day on my youtube collab channel. So…
DFTBEDA
Introducing BEDA!
Blog Every Day April
“Major writer” Maureen Johnson, on her newly formed ning, started a trend in BEDA, which requires its participants to blog every day in the month of April. I will be participating.
Today, April 1st, 2009
Not much pranky happened today. Watched a lot of blogtv (Maureen, Hank, etc.) Maureen is an epic live show…-er? LOL shower. Wow. It’s almost midnight, okay?? My sentences may not contain more than like one independent clause… and not coherent….
Oh, and HP Quest 2 was started! Yay! I’m only on clue #5, though…
Okay, note to self: write BEDAs at an earlier time of the day, from now on.
What’s wrong with people?
7:28 am, March 21, 2009 · Filed under Life, Online, philosophy, religion, Society, youtube · Tagged africa, complex thinking, darfur, genocide, global problems, Hank Green, HP Alliance, imagining the other complexly, john green, killing, nerdfighters, rwanda, vlogbrothers, world, youtube comments
Today I was having a blast on Spring Break (ha! Not really…) and browsing through Youtube, because that’s what I do. Still featured on there was John Green‘s video on the Rwandan Genocide and the HP Alliance‘s idea from Rwanda to have real people light candles and show that they care for their problems, which are all of our problems. It was a funny, yet serious video about how to help stop a problem.
Then I scrolled down to see the comments, and to my horror, people had posted comments not only against HPA’s initiative, but against stopping, preventing, or helping deal with genocide in Africa. There were mainly three categories of diversion from John and most people’s philosophy on this:
Ok maybe they weren’t that articulate or intentionally harsh, but that’s pretty much their idea. And I’ll elaborate with example 3.
And this is certainly a valid argument, and I like that people are thinking compexly about this. I for one apparently love to be proven wrong (even indirectly like this), and I’m glad I can broaden my view on the matter. But it’s an act to show people that we care and are going to help – that they have support, and that it’s not their problem, it’s the world’s problem.
There’s a great value in a small thing – especially when a community collectively responds – that has a great effect on people. It may not be objective or scientifically provable, but it’s there. People in Rwanda will actually see us showing our support. Of course we have to take political action, but it starts somewhere small, and if we want the Big Guys to notice, we gotta make noise!I definitely think that we should really be taking action in donations and awareness would help a lot.
What can I say? It’s hard to believe people can be so selfish and animalistic, caring only for themselves ans seeing the world with such warped values. I’m all for diversity of opinions, which is essential to social (and any) progress, but people have to think complexly about these problems…
I mean that’s just not right. I really don’t have a problem with religion, as long as it’s well thought out, criticized, and thought about deeper than stuff like the Bible and God. And that’s not even the problem here; it’s that people can be so stupid and barbaric in simple thinking, that they completely isolete themselves emotionally from the world, and refuse to care about the world.It’s people like this that really scare me, and make me fear for the future….
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