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ThanksGiving

I wonder why we picked turkey instead of turdukken. If all of us used turdukken, we could kill three species of bird of\ver the simple one, that must be the difinitive difference. On an unrelated matter, I would like to discuss how things like John Madden's deep fried monstrosity is the cause of thousands of injuries across the United States. To many fried food is the best food, its fast its easy, hard to screw up, high in calories, and most of all, requires little to no skill whatsoever. This is marred by the fact that deep fried related injuries plague americans with grease burns. Why deep frying your turkey has become the house hold tradition over the time consuming skill-requiring basting process is the same lowest denominator thinking that allows crap shows like heroes to remain on air. However Delicious albeit risky it is. As those young one's run around they just might bump that turkey and cause a pot of boiling, or near boiling oil to fall on them and make a mess on the...

typing to get greasy

Writing is one of the most complex processes that the human mind can do. Some attribute the data processing of reading to be the epitome of analytical thinking and understanding. This claim is obviously false, as reading is inherent to writing, as well as the additional needs to process the words being written in a three dimensional fashion. One being able to see the words as they are going to be read by the reader. The second is a live editing process that must be present in order to correctly apply grammatical principles to what is being put on the page. Lastly the writer needs to keep in mind the outline and organization of thoughts that are being put on in the page, this is often considered the "flow" of the paper and the most important aspect in the difference between crap writing professional quality. the elements of writing sound simple, but the process also requires some of the most precise muscle movement the fine muscles of the human body can muster. not only does i...

Starting Early

Now that I'm an adult, the appearance of the things that I loved as a kid has really took a turn for the worse. I recently watched G.I Joe, and it brought to mind the things that I used to watch when growing up, this in turn inspired a quick backtrack to look at many of the shows I watched when I was little. Loony Toons obviously wasn't held to the same moral standards of today's TV programming, but how far the content goes into the depths of violence and racism is amazing. Everybody knows the routine of Looney Toons being hammers, guns, knives, and generally one character trying to kill the other character in any imaginable way. On top of that the characters in the cartoon are sometimes horrendously racist. I remember specifically a cartoon of Daffy Duck vs. a Nazi Commander, who was characterized by a crow, wore a monocle, and ziet hieled every minute or so in the half hour special. Other racist characters are to numerous to quantify, though almost all of them are o...

Reflect and Repeat.

In this entry I'm going to cover a few opinionated things that have been bugging me in the past. One is the inability for people to enunciate problems that they have. The second is that people have an attraction towards things that are terrible to them or for them, yet, no matter how conscious of their own self destructive tendency they are, they can not change thier habits. Through these two means, it boils down to what really bothers me: the same logical fallacies and assumptions leading to the same results, and their infinite repetition. Examples of the first issue can be seen in almost any statement, conversation, or opinion belonging to any given individual. I guess this is the same means that Socrates stomped ass on his fellow Greeks in debate. nearly one hundred percent of the time, important details of an issue are left out or simply presented in a fashoin that renders a different meaning than what the one speaking wants others to actually know. These statements are...

Have Me a problem.

I've often wanted to know how much more educated I am in a particular subject after I have taken a course. Its very hard to measure, I believe that typical tests don't do so properly. My most prevalent reason why I think that standard tests or the grading system are improper measurements is due to the inaccuracies of the standard grading system, and its bluntness in lumping students into the well known A B C D or F ratings. Especially because a C grade in some courses is more difficult to achieve than an A in others. Mostly though, I believe its hard to actually test the knowledge of students beyond rote education. Even in the free flowing essay questions, or applying complex subjects, its still mostly repetition and regurgitation of knowledge. Its rather sad in a way, as rote education is the bottom line of most courses and subjects. I can't think of a way to discern those that have learned through rote education from those who learned through application of ideas other th...

Proffessional Essayist?

Of all the thousands of people who have written essays, how do some of them reach a point where they garner a huge following? How do some people have their opinions known to matter? I guess it has to do with proper connections, and a propensity to get the right people to read your stuff. Its probably not much different than how a certain music group gets noticed, just the right people read the writing, and the right person says to themselves “This person’s got it!”. What “it” is, is also one of the things I wonder about, what is the distinguishing factor? In regards as to what makes a writer stand out there are some things within their writing that I simply cannot distinguish from most common essayists, proper proofreading and syntax aside of course. Whether the arguments are original I believe can be ruled out as a distinguishing factor, as “original” is usually the same base ideas presented in different word combinations, granted that word compilations are multifaceted and incred...

A Continueance of Education

The modern education system is the most successful form of mass education in history. according to a psychology book, issued out by the mentioned system, the IQ of individuals is going up every generation since the inception of public education. This can be seen as it facilitates knowledge and gives incentive and the ability for one generation to support and better administer education to the next. The better educated generation better educates the next and so on. Even though the pattern of improved education principally should hold true, if the precept of that psychology book were true, however the obvious truth is that public education has been a constant disaster, particularly in the united states. The primary cause of the current disaster that is the underfunded, gang-ridden and sport-driven thing that consists the public education of the modern day. continuation later still. vernation: the arrangement of the foliage leaves within the bud. gastrojejunostomy: surgery.

My education

Public education is on the third or fourth rotation down a toilet-bowl cyclone right now. The prospect of education staying afloat for many more years without a complete remake of the institutions seems nearly impossible, as the cuts being made are only inch fillings of the one hundred foot hole that is the educational budget deficit in the great state of California. What I would like to explore, at least conceptually, as current hard research escapes me due to there being a library furlough day, is the possible structural causes of the current education deficit, and a comparison of state education against traditional means of education in the past. The state public education system is one of the few social programs to exist without much hubub about whether or not it should exist. Granted, it is relatively new, as public school, to my limited knowledge, are approximately one hundred and fifty years old. Before school was institutionalized as a requirement, all education had to com...

PAT's Calander sayings.

Hard play is as much work as hard work, sometimes more. Talking is just like speaking, only you need to wait your turn. If I could undo a remake, I'd blow up every new idea. The difference between a man and a boy is the size of his toys. Communism is a form of liberalism without the freedom or equality. Capitalism is a form of Communism after somebody wins. All Governments fall, all people die, and everything is always changing. People change but humanity doesn't. Tall people are like short people, only more expensive, noticeable, and they don't live as long. If Kingdom comes is queendom satisfied? The difference between a hammer and a nail is leverage. If you want to kill somebody, join the army; if you want to piss somebody off, do anything. If Adams had his way we'd be a monarchy, and as history is a good indicator, he'll be right. If your dumb, shut the hell up and it will make you seem smarter. If your intelligent you will know to shut the hell up for an opport...

People talk, they don't communicate.

I hope the image worked. I think La professora le gusta mucho. After watching a movie called Quest for Fire I realized that all species are linked by forms of communication, and that everything about everyone can be made transparent. I realize that the word CAN is of the utmost importance as we all can misread and miscommunicate. Additionally, some thoughts simply can't be put into words, and we can only hint their presence by our ineffectual means. In the movie, a group of cavemen lose their flame, which is identical to a death sentence in the era of the characters, so the quest to retrieve fire begins. What hinted at the communication I so dearly loved was the authenticityof the languages in the movie. The filmmakers created a completely original language, designed by the same man who wrote the slang in Stanley Kubrick's Clock Work Orange . What amazed me about the movie was how, if one listened carefully, one could actually pick up the meanings of the words being used in t...

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Something soothing about insomnia.

Not being able to sleep is probably one of the most unhealthy things that can happen to somebody over an extended period of time. I just figured as it occurs, might as well make something of it. My eyes burn, and my fingers are consistently missing their marks on the illuminated keyboard of my laptop, but being awake so late at night isn't that bad. There is a peace to it. The city seems quite, the cool night air, and the inability for my mind to race. Its kind of nice, I guess its like a free way to be high, or drunk. Why does the mind wander to places we don't want it to? Is there a way to control it? If you can find one that does not involve monetary expense or has only moderate chronological expense please tell me, I could use it. sooner or later the story of Lihb will continue, there simply hasn't been enough change for the poor guy. I gotta say though, how lucky I am to have a stable relationship with my girlfriend, in light of how shitty it seems to go for so many ot...

Dany Heatley and Attack Fish

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Danny Heatly has ushered in an age where the sharks no longer have have selfish players. Cheechoo and Michalek gone, the sharks no longer have the big attention grabbers. Also with Grier and Roenik gone there is no longer the competition for headliner status on the third line. With Todd McClellan re-shuffling the line, the sarks are completely renovated. There is no longer a single dominant line. Instead, a fully functional set of three power house units make the team into a well rounded ball of destruction, rather than a pointy stick as most teams are. The blue line spending a while vacation together, have finally been able to connect before the season started. Unlike what happened with Brian Cambell's Drama last summer. The link of the blue line, has allowed McLennen to allow two point rotating system for the blue line, that will take the pressure off of Blake and Boyle. The renewed focus on the youth of the team has strengthened their core with the continued improvement of pavel...

The Ballad of Lihb

A man named Lihb sat at a table in a Spartan room and pondered about love. "What is the point of this?" he thought, "I love her, but she's so flippy floppy." The girl of Lihb's fancy was a very pretty, loving, and kind woman named Behitchit, one could say there were many things wrong with her, but primarily she just couldn't stick, she spent her life hopping from man to man, with two or more in between. Now that she's an adult, she has narrowed her options between two men, one whom she's dated for nine moons, and the other she's fancied for eight. Poor Lihb is the latter, lonely and confused, he doesn't know how his current predicament came to be, yet he continues pondering... "Why whould she tell me she loves me, then the next night go right back to him? If any sense is to be made out of this woman its past me, but oh I love her so... At night those wonderful things we do, so close and affectionate.. Then in the morning s...

judge mental

Watching the California Supreme Court in action exemplifies "American Beauty", or as John Stewart put it "Democracy inaction." The system is full of intangible complications that render one untrained in the law hemorrhagingly confused, but all the complicated methods have been proved to be necessary by the thousands of precedents since the inception of the court system. The Abstract laws of the court are an all encompassing blanket, with nearly every facet of a case brought before the court categorized into precedents and very specific types of cases. The judges that consist the supreme court have an air of omnipotence, seeming to know all about the case presented to them before hand, and still visibly listening to, calculating and weighing every individual word spoken by the lawyers during oral argument. Supreme court judges seem as though they have moved past their own wants and interests. The justices do not seem to care whatsoever about the people being victimiz...

In my own words

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Thoughts and Wonderments of the Bloggoshpere

Thoughts on a blog are like yelling words in public. Most people don't listen because they don't want to, and those that can hear are generally annoyed by something about the words being spoken. The ability to scream anything in public is also why blogs are so free, one can post up whatever gibberish imaginable with no consequence or backlash less there is a background check on the individual. Like yelling things in public, the words you say can be remembered by someone who was not intended as a listener. Hopefully I shout words harmless enough for all to hear through the ages without being droll, dull, and repetitious and all the while appealing to the most common denominator, without a bite in the ass in the future. I'm sure as the posts become more common place, my reservations will rare; however no consequence of online action is ever immediate, there is always a period of hope when one thinks they could get away, or not be victimized by something. Ordering from a scam ...