the last one

this is my last require blog post. as i am typing this we are currently having a conversation about what would happen if we didnt have our blog posts. and now, paul, you are telling me i have until tomorrow. well im sorry, but im writing this one during class. so there.

and now you told us you like our section more. darn right.

the question is, will i remain in the blogosphere after this class gets out? i cant really say.

i have an embarrassing confession to make, which is that in middle school, i had a blog. and i wrote all my middle school thoughts in it. strange right? so, i am not a stranger to blogging. the things you find out about someone over the course of a semester right?

i guess i'll say thanks. this class was nowhere near as bad as i anticipated. also, i have two 15 page term papers due next week, and refworks is my new best friend. for that, i will be eternally grateful.

bye paul, see you around. [step aerobics maybe?]

sam sadler is the man

no really. i just read his e-mail reminding all of us to be safe on blowout tomorrow, but still encouraging us to have fun. the accidentals sang at his ceremony last week, and it was really cool. proof of how cool? look at this photo of him and my friend kanene:






















he built this city on rock and roll.

[thanks for letting me be a creepy facebook stalker kanene.]

heartaches are cured by the sea

I have been missing virginia beach like is it my job. i love the life i live at the beach more than anything else. at home, everyone knows each other by their first name, we leave our chairs on the beach, because we know we are always coming back soon. the weather is swelteringly hot and the humidity unbearable. I want to ride around in my car with the windows down and yell at the tourists who don't know where they are going. I want to put by bathing suit on and take my shoes off. Williamsburg has taken its toll on me, I'm tired, I'm pale, and I have been without salt and sand for too long. It is time to go home.

home strech

i have four posts left to fulfill my quota for this semester, and as i skipped out on the in previous weeks [for lack of time, not apathy i swear] the final four will be on my "topics of choice."

i choose this photo cartoon. it is tight. as is a all "A Softer World." check em out sometime. www.asofterworld.com

the media hype

well. politics are all about the media. government and public opinion in this country are fueled by that media machine. if you are shocked to find that the government influences the media, you are in for a rude awakening. because suprise, our government is run by humans, who are not entirely perfect. sure, we love to hold our government under the light of the founding fathers and the Declaration of Independence, and the halo of democracy, but we have to admit, there is a certain amount of behavior that is tolerated in the capital which would short circuit those lights. but we as citizens may have to tolerate it if we want to keep the image up in the modern world.

i do not support the current administration. i do not support the war in iraq. i could go on for this whole posts about aspects of the current regime that i have problems with. but, all administrations, even the worst that our country could possibly elect [ahem. drop.], there are certain strategies which need to be employed. control of the media, being one of them. it is not ideal, it is not perfect, but because i cannot provide a solution or alternative to it, i cannot criticize it. i don't support it, but i have to recognize that it happens.

slacker hero

this course hero group makes sense. open resources are not totally irrational to ask for. but it is so unecessary. we are college students. we can learn on our own. god forbid we have to work a little. professors are good people, despite what we as disillusioned youth are predisposed to think. they provide us with a good amount of accessible resources, which are easy to get to. it seems like the course hero group has spouted out of two general ideas: 1) that we as liberal college students feel the need to fight the manand turn everything into a case for the ACLU, that the first amendment
entitles us to whatever we want. and 2) we are getting so lazy that we dont want to work or do research or attend classes where we actually have to pay attention. we want resources handed to us. i mean... the group has its basis on facebook.

lets find a more credible cause people. there are people in the world who have it far worse off than not getting their college education handed to them.

its a carnival get it?

fair use seems like too much laws for a concept that is not entirely concrete. america is an electronic, cyber space nation now. we are all connected by a digital web, which you cannot put boundaries on. and that which you cannot grasp, you cannot regulate. the laws seem obscure, like those writing them don't really know what they are saying. and based on the incident in florida, that seems about correct. for a student to take notes on a professors lecture and it to cross copyright laws? isnt the point of a lecture class for students to take notes? it seems like we are trying to complicate our own lives, because humans feel they need to own everything, even their words and ideas. the study kits look like they should be considered cheating, and handled within the school. not a copyright issue. there is no correct side to this issue, because it shouldnt be an issue. fair use isnt a carnival, its a circus.