Crazy
I have now found possibly my two favorite shirts ever.
Simple, yet proudly states what you consider yourself to be.
The other shirt is
In binary code the code for the number "2" is "10" Get it now?
Perhaps I'll buy these shirts for myself has a Christmas present. :)
I had to go this this thing, where I listen to this completely insane lady for an hour and fifteen minute. This person is a real "save the trees, love the turtles" person, and her big thing in life is helping people in other countries. Understand that I have absolutely NOTHING against helping people in other countries. She started off by saying that stores such as Walmart, Target, Old Navy, and GAP are bad stores because they have sweatshops in poor countries. She said that if we buy from these stores then we support these sweatshops, and that means we are evil. Here's what's wrong with this opinion. First of all, those people who are working are free to leave at ANY time. Better off, them working in sweatshops, and earning even a little bit of money, then not working at all, and earning no money. This person wanted to get rid of all factories in those poor countries, but that's crazy because then there are NO jobs, and those people are worse off then before. SO, in order to help them you should SUPPORT those stores mentioned above, so that they can build more factories in those countries, so more people can have jobs. This is just a tiny fraction of what this lady said. Basically, she bashed money, production, and progress the entire time. Then, I listen in shock as the people at my table start saying things like "Yeah! We need to stop buying from those stores!" She had us write down two things on a piece of paper that we were going to do, after listening to her, and I wrote down, "1. I'm going to firmly believe that your crazy, and that you shouldn't be teaching. 2. I'm going to blog about it." Some people stood up and read their papers and it was things like "I'm going to never buy from Wal-mart again, I'm going to tell my parents to only buy things that are bio-degradable, and organic, so we can save the enviroment, I'm not going to buy things that will make me excessively happy because this will be causing some person is Taiwan to not be able to get enough food" and so on it went. I have a friend who went to the class with me, so now we can make fun of it. So, when say my friend is carrying a binder I'll say something like "Hey, is that binder from WAL-MART!!!??? YOU SUPPORT SWEATSHOPS IN TAIWAN!!!???"
I had that online discussion thing again today and here's another question that came up.
Does the government have any business in the area of education? As apposed to private schools?
I say no, because if the government takes care of education then there is no initiative to teach the students well, as with private schools they want to keep the students(the students aren't forced to be there), so the school will do the best it can to teach the kids. There's other reasons I believe this but this is the main one. But, what's your opinion?
I keep adding to this post.....
My dad just got this new little recorder thing, that he's totally obsessed with(for picture click HERE) and I was thinking today, that it'd be a cool thing to record myself playing violin, or piano, and upload so you guys could hear it. Just a thought.
Not that you guys would be interested, but I started playing Vivaldi's A minor concerto third movement(for violin) and I was totally stumped on how to play the rhythm, UNTIL I look it up on the great and all powerful youtube.com, and found a recording of it. I love youtube!
At the end of this week my Christmas break begins. I will be free from Latin until Jan. 2.
Anyway, goto go now,
-Moderngeek™
Comments: 7
I just loved this blog
I am your average hippie-kid, but I am NO for bashing name-brand stores(although K-Mart DID run sweatshops for Kathy Lee-Gifford in the 80s. Ouch)
I am so pro-save-the-whales and stuff, but jeez.
You'd think we worship the Economy-Devil or whatnot
Augh
SCARY
I think she should be medicated...
I only found one vid by Gymnos for Vivaldi's A Minor Concerto Third Movement(WHAT A LONG TITLE).
It was okay, but I bet you could do better.
I've heard it, but he kinda messed up,but I bet he was REALLY good...
-SoyLlama
PS-I MUST HAVE THE
The vid by Gymnos was the one I watched. I know how nervous people get when preforming, and plus, it's SO hard to sound good on a recording. Even, when professional musicians are recorded audio editing tools are used to smooth things over.
I love the shirt also! I proudly consider myself a geek and use every chance to show it off! Somehow in every social situation I always end up being the odd kid who never pays attention yet somehow manages to get top grades, who speaks out violently for the free market, and who spends every spare moment doing something on the computer.
That lady who spoke was insane. She talked about how terrible it is that money makes our world go 'round, and while I listened to this, I thought about how much fun it would be to jump up on the table and start singing the monty python money song(To listen click HERE)
Of course, it would have been signing my own death warrant, but still it would have been fun.
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But it's better to buy a book, I got 2. 1 on games and another on equations and formulas for actionscript animation. It has trig in it which I don't use except for finding the tricky as ever make an object face to the mouse code. Flash's grid system does not work like the regular grid system, it's a lot different making equations with radians and tangents, even harder. Come to think of it I think I learned a part to the equation for that a month ago in algebra 1, go figure. I hate that, but thats how it is.
Well, Bye bye.
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