i sped up on the hill to my old high school that i dropped out of. and I turned hard and pulled on the emergency brake and the car skidded.... it skidded in to the curb and the car flew above it. my car is fucked again, and it was just the beginning of summer that i crashed my car.
i have some new year resolutions now,
1. i won't drive until i make enough money my self to pay for it. i have to self-disclipline my self.
2. i'll ride a bike up at csu.
3. i'll really dedicate myself to learning to better my self.
4. maybe i'll cut down on weed i don't know
5. electric keyboard for sure so i can practice up there.
6. man...
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Self-Reflective..
I have always seen myself as a really bad writer. Part of the reason is that I always procrastinate. It's a shitty english reality. But it's slowly starting to change.
In this class I have been reintroduced to free-rights and more creative based writing. Usually I look back on the fourth grade free-writes and the free-writes I am currently doing in college. They are strikingly similar. " A story about everyday super stories. " And while you're there you can look at the post number. I just had too much freedom for some reason and it felt kind of good. I don't like writing but for some reason I like to write stuff that really only makes sense to me.
Thats usually how I wrote at first. I only wrote to entertain me then I would go back and change things. Then it usually comes out looking weird and jutting out bizarreness at some points in the papers. From now on I’m taking a baby step everyday. Three thousand baby steps can probably make a lap around any average size house. These are the things I like to look back and pick on.
To be honest I never really cared for the work shopping but I know it was well worth it. It's essential because you can't just get to your view point of writing or else you might start overlooking things.
I see kick ass writing in every single book I read. It's kind of cool, that everything is right there and if you took time to study how they write you can improve as a writer. So basically anything that is published in the real world I find to be pretty awesome and interesting. I wish my writing can sometimes be like that, but sometimes I just don't know how important it is to be a really good writer. I kind of want to be a scientist, but I guess there is no point really not improving your writing as you grow up.
The cool thing about writing is that I can always just look on what I write about like a random journal or something. http://jonathantranucd.blogspot.com/ A my own online journal, and it will probably be here for a long time. It's nuts to think about that it's going to stay here and be a relic in our own personal lives.
I have started learning a lot about becoming a better writer though. I know that it has to be thoughtful and most of all reviewed. It's hard to make a good paper on one write through, that's why I always got mediocre grades in high school. You've taught me to re-read and go through multiple times with anything you write.(I don't think I'll do that with this one though.) Reading through over and over makes it easier to enjoy what you're reading.
My greatest strength in writing? I guess I'm a pretty good typer, so if that counts. Other than that, I don't know. My greatest strength? Hmmm, I know. It's my ability to try and like anything I write, knowing that it might suck really bad. But somehow I manage to crack my own mouth at it.
My worse is rushing through my paper, or falling victim of trying to figure out where to start in my paper. If I am assigned a particular issue, it takes me a long time to start and do it. I just don't know where to start. Then it is the random tetris breaks and naps. But then when I get to the writing process I just kind of peck away at it without a clue. The next thing I know I have 600 words of just random stuff. Then I try and caught that random stuff in to something coherent.
But I know my grammar isn't so good either, also my flow is REALLY chopping. I can tell that. That is something I have had since fourth grade. There has always been kind of a robotic chopping, just sounds nothing what a human would say.
I am working on all of these. But it's dawning on me that I only have one more required english class. Is my writing going to be staying on this child-like level? I fear it will, but maybe perhaps if I start reading a lot of books again. By the time I'm 35 perhaps I will have become a better writer through osmosis.
In this class I have been reintroduced to free-rights and more creative based writing. Usually I look back on the fourth grade free-writes and the free-writes I am currently doing in college. They are strikingly similar. " A story about everyday super stories. " And while you're there you can look at the post number. I just had too much freedom for some reason and it felt kind of good. I don't like writing but for some reason I like to write stuff that really only makes sense to me.
Thats usually how I wrote at first. I only wrote to entertain me then I would go back and change things. Then it usually comes out looking weird and jutting out bizarreness at some points in the papers. From now on I’m taking a baby step everyday. Three thousand baby steps can probably make a lap around any average size house. These are the things I like to look back and pick on.
To be honest I never really cared for the work shopping but I know it was well worth it. It's essential because you can't just get to your view point of writing or else you might start overlooking things.
I see kick ass writing in every single book I read. It's kind of cool, that everything is right there and if you took time to study how they write you can improve as a writer. So basically anything that is published in the real world I find to be pretty awesome and interesting. I wish my writing can sometimes be like that, but sometimes I just don't know how important it is to be a really good writer. I kind of want to be a scientist, but I guess there is no point really not improving your writing as you grow up.
The cool thing about writing is that I can always just look on what I write about like a random journal or something. http://jonathantranucd.blogspot.com/ A my own online journal, and it will probably be here for a long time. It's nuts to think about that it's going to stay here and be a relic in our own personal lives.
I have started learning a lot about becoming a better writer though. I know that it has to be thoughtful and most of all reviewed. It's hard to make a good paper on one write through, that's why I always got mediocre grades in high school. You've taught me to re-read and go through multiple times with anything you write.(I don't think I'll do that with this one though.) Reading through over and over makes it easier to enjoy what you're reading.
My greatest strength in writing? I guess I'm a pretty good typer, so if that counts. Other than that, I don't know. My greatest strength? Hmmm, I know. It's my ability to try and like anything I write, knowing that it might suck really bad. But somehow I manage to crack my own mouth at it.
My worse is rushing through my paper, or falling victim of trying to figure out where to start in my paper. If I am assigned a particular issue, it takes me a long time to start and do it. I just don't know where to start. Then it is the random tetris breaks and naps. But then when I get to the writing process I just kind of peck away at it without a clue. The next thing I know I have 600 words of just random stuff. Then I try and caught that random stuff in to something coherent.
But I know my grammar isn't so good either, also my flow is REALLY chopping. I can tell that. That is something I have had since fourth grade. There has always been kind of a robotic chopping, just sounds nothing what a human would say.
I am working on all of these. But it's dawning on me that I only have one more required english class. Is my writing going to be staying on this child-like level? I fear it will, but maybe perhaps if I start reading a lot of books again. By the time I'm 35 perhaps I will have become a better writer through osmosis.
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Rhetoric
There are not many robots telling kids how to live a proper life, thankfully there is Robocop. His message is to keep away from drugs. The writers use a variety of rhetorical elements to that main “idea” to you from Robocop. This would be very parallel to an ad that is selling a product. Using elements of cultural resonance and various rhetorical appeals is a vital pivot for this short commercial to get their anti-drug message through thoroughly to the children of late eighties.
“What’s bugging you Murphy?” The weight on Murphy’s (Robocop’s) mind was drugs. There was a small segment of the actor that played Robocop was in action. This is a rhetorical appeal of ethos. This idea is mostly playing on the invention of cultural resonance by releasing a movie. Robocop had a character image of a smart, powerful, and fearless mechanical-man that did everything for the force of good. So right away at this scene, there is an instant reach from the unconscious that profiles Robocop as a benevolent entity.
By juxtaposing the scene with Murphy and the man who plays Murphy is a way for the audience to understand this is a very real message. Showing Robocop allows for people to be more interested in the message that is about to shown, and allow that message to be accepted more readily. The reason why they showed Robocop in the first place and not a regular cop is because Robocop is a cultural phenomenon. Everybody knows about Robocop. However, if Robocop never became a big figure, then this message would be harder to be received.
Then by switching to a movie studio with the actor who played Robocop, this allows for the message to be taken in a very serious manner. Receiving the same message from Robocop in character can be a little weird and might not be taken seriously.
The actor who played Robocop had a very authoritative and stern voice during the public service announcement. This is to convey seriousness and alert the people that this message is important. If the actor came on with a smile on his face talking in a light conversational tone the message would come out very confusing.
Another additional ethos appearance is at the very end of the commercial. Federal Bureau of Investigation is the white text above their logo. This is the ultimate authority in the context of our real lives. They solve crimes, protect people, and generally make the country a safer place. By them sponsoring this commercial, people can be sure that this is a legit source.
While they had their ethos showcase going, there seemed to be a small exaggeration of authority over evidence. There was no evidence citing that they were drugs everywhere, and also no evidence saying that Boys and Girls club has “no pot, no pills, no crack, no smack, no coke, and no exceptions.” The writers of the commercial believed that they could say a message and have it heard with positive feedback if they used their authoritative power exceptionally.
Their use of conveying pathos is very muddled. The actor behind Robocop starts off by saying, “How do you keep away from drugs?” This sentence starts assuming that that kids want to keep off drugs. Starting off with no reasons why children should keep up drugs can be very confusing. Perhaps it could also just make kids fear drugs for no reason, which isn’t a bad thing at all.
They are also relying on the fact that it is generally known that drugs are bad. This fear is what they capitalize on in the commercial. Starting out by saying that kids need to listen to this gets their attention. Then they say that drugs are everywhere can make the kid feel uneasy.
At the end they clip they tell kids where they can go if they want to be safe, which instills a beacon of hope in to their brains. There is a place where they can go to avoid the fear that had been recently instilled in their brain. Up until the very end, there are different meanings in the message to produce different emotions at different intervals. This is a very useful technique in terms of retention of the message. If a message has “tugged on their emotions in a variety of different ways, students are more likely to remember…” (Tamblin 89) it than if it just flat out told them the logic behind not doing drugs.
In a sense, they used the general knowledge that drugs are bad as logos. They didn’t really need to point out the cause and effect of drugs. That knowledge has been saturated in through other means like posters, educators, and parents. By avoiding this redundancy, they can avoid some patronization of the audience.
This movie came out over 20 years ago and appealed to the audience of the time period. Drugs are constantly growing in terms of quantity, availability, and potency. While drugs are getting more dangerous, anti-drugs are getting more effective. They are using more powerful pathos appeals and more influential speakers. Just last year the government spent two billion dollars on the anti-drug campaign. Hopefully they’re efforts were worth it.
Tamblin, Louise. The Smart Study Guide: Psychological Techniques for Student Success. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2006
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Final Post #2
Isn't that touching. I haven't got that rhetorical argument for it yet, but that's what I'm doing. I decided right now, isn't that a trip. It's gonna be so hard to come up with it and do it but.The site where I got this photo, is like a comic site. A Softer World.
Okay, but everything is going okay. I'll just link it later.
Everything on that site is kind of depressing, but some of them are just really funny.
So much good stuff it's great. Really.
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What if you found some one that is wearing the same shirt as you? That would be so weird, because you're both guys, but you're wearing the same shirt.
As the author, I don't like to buy shirts at stores very often. Because there is that chance, that someone else is buying the same stuff. Unless you're buying the really expensive stuff too. I guess, that lowers it. But I like to buy shirts online, so there is a less of a chance of bumping in to someone wearing the same shirt as you.
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So much good stuff it's great. Really.
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What if you found some one that is wearing the same shirt as you? That would be so weird, because you're both guys, but you're wearing the same shirt.
As the author, I don't like to buy shirts at stores very often. Because there is that chance, that someone else is buying the same stuff. Unless you're buying the really expensive stuff too. I guess, that lowers it. But I like to buy shirts online, so there is a less of a chance of bumping in to someone wearing the same shirt as you.
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Man the rhetoric stuff is really hard. It is really hard to sort out. I can't really figure it out. I'm having a lot of trouble understand the assignment all together. It's going to be tough, but it's going to be a pleasant challenge.
Pleasant challenges are really nice. Like remember how to spell challenge. It's a challenge, because I haven't done school in so long.
Holy crap it feels like I haven't done school in so long.. that's a really trippy feeling. In reality, I haven't really. Last year and a half of high school before I dropped out I did nothing. No school work, I just got my GED and waited for the next semester of college to start. Man I did nothing... I just kind of sat at home, and played tetris. Check out the high score, I'm on there!
Okay, now i'm gettingb ack in to the school groove, but I might want to take a fall semester off... man my parents are going to be pissed.
Pleasant challenges are really nice. Like remember how to spell challenge. It's a challenge, because I haven't done school in so long.
Holy crap it feels like I haven't done school in so long.. that's a really trippy feeling. In reality, I haven't really. Last year and a half of high school before I dropped out I did nothing. No school work, I just got my GED and waited for the next semester of college to start. Man I did nothing... I just kind of sat at home, and played tetris. Check out the high score, I'm on there!
Okay, now i'm gettingb ack in to the school groove, but I might want to take a fall semester off... man my parents are going to be pissed.
I like to forget the post number. Final poast #1. dum dum dummmmmmm
*gasp* i forgot a lot of things. Sometimes I forgot to do propper grammar. Sometimes I get lazy, that is why sometimes I don't get things done. Ever. One two three, times. Done. Ever.
A story about everyday super stories.
You know a good example of a super story is? Page master. It was so epic, and it was. Man it's linking.. why? Page master was a really good story. I'll give a brief synapses. Kid goes in to a cartoon world with books and saves stuff. Good story.
There is a super story every day. Everyone has a super story. I had one today, just now. But sometimes everyone time I take it for granted. It's kind of bad, but sometimes I catch my self, and I understand the super story happening.
You know what stories were kind of cool. The one where they made you flip to different sections of the book at the bottom of the page. They were called Choose your Own Adventure or something like that from goosebumps.
Haha goosebumps were so weird. They were the weirdest book, like i never read them. Only one choose your own adventure. Kinda boring...
"Like this one time, I was totally hungry, and my mom like somehow just brought home pizza. It was crazy. And I ate it. But I only ate one slice, because I wasn't that hungry."
Did anyone think about being a treasure hunter when they were younger? That would be so cool, you just have your metal detector and you're just detecting things. That would be so crazy. But you would have to multitask doing that. Like you bring up Cds, or bring up a tape recorder and just talk in to it looking for metal. Like if you find a ring, you're not really finding anything.
That job actually sounds so depressing. =./
A story about everyday super stories.
You know a good example of a super story is? Page master. It was so epic, and it was. Man it's linking.. why? Page master was a really good story. I'll give a brief synapses. Kid goes in to a cartoon world with books and saves stuff. Good story.
There is a super story every day. Everyone has a super story. I had one today, just now. But sometimes everyone time I take it for granted. It's kind of bad, but sometimes I catch my self, and I understand the super story happening.
You know what stories were kind of cool. The one where they made you flip to different sections of the book at the bottom of the page. They were called Choose your Own Adventure or something like that from goosebumps.
Haha goosebumps were so weird. They were the weirdest book, like i never read them. Only one choose your own adventure. Kinda boring...
"Like this one time, I was totally hungry, and my mom like somehow just brought home pizza. It was crazy. And I ate it. But I only ate one slice, because I wasn't that hungry."
Did anyone think about being a treasure hunter when they were younger? That would be so cool, you just have your metal detector and you're just detecting things. That would be so crazy. But you would have to multitask doing that. Like you bring up Cds, or bring up a tape recorder and just talk in to it looking for metal. Like if you find a ring, you're not really finding anything.
That job actually sounds so depressing. =./
Friday, April 13, 2007
Post 17
Hahhaha-ghost. that's a ghost. ghosts aren't very scary ahough, but i swear to god i had some sleep paralysis. i thought i saw a ghost just a white ghost... holy fuck... i've actually seen that.. it really happened to me... whoa shit!
That's pretty scary dude. Like that I've actually encountered a ghost, but as you grow up you don't know if it was just your innocence, naivety, or extreme creativity.
If I saw a ghost, actually scratch that, I experienced it, and has been retained in my memory as a mystery. Fuck that !
What was he doing. I bet he was going to tell me some rhetoric.
If I could only go to the pas..... actually I have to stop my self right there. reminiscences are of the past.. and only are allowed for five seconds.
So much present like, right now. So many like what are we suppose to do with that much?
"Hey whats up with the anti-christ?"
The future can be great, and will always to be great. the mind has to know everything can be great, so start training. I have to start training my self.
Motivation is so important. But it can be overridden by self-discipline. If you have enough self disclipline, even if you aren’t motivated then you can still get things done. As you get things done you can start relying on stuff to fall your way. You can start to understand that time is going to get better and you’re going to be healing any physical or mental woes. Yep, so sometimes you should just do it. sike
That's pretty scary dude. Like that I've actually encountered a ghost, but as you grow up you don't know if it was just your innocence, naivety, or extreme creativity.
If I saw a ghost, actually scratch that, I experienced it, and has been retained in my memory as a mystery. Fuck that !
What was he doing. I bet he was going to tell me some rhetoric.
If I could only go to the pas..... actually I have to stop my self right there. reminiscences are of the past.. and only are allowed for five seconds.
So much present like, right now. So many like what are we suppose to do with that much?
"Hey whats up with the anti-christ?"
The future can be great, and will always to be great. the mind has to know everything can be great, so start training. I have to start training my self.
Motivation is so important. But it can be overridden by self-discipline. If you have enough self disclipline, even if you aren’t motivated then you can still get things done. As you get things done you can start relying on stuff to fall your way. You can start to understand that time is going to get better and you’re going to be healing any physical or mental woes. Yep, so sometimes you should just do it. sike
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Sunday, April 8, 2007
Post 14
This is a parody of a Calvin Klein ad using all three of ethos, pathos, and logos. There is a large amount of exaggeration.The ethos parody is that it has the authority of the "Calvin Klein" ad going for it. So this parody signafies that it has a large amount of importance.
It is just doing the exact opposite of the ad of Calvin Klein. In the regular ads, it shows a very alluring man that defines masculine beauty. This is totally opposite of that ad. This is kind of a repulsive man whom got some really hairy genes. The kind of disgusted experiance that you get from this is the pathos appeal.
The lothos is the logic in the parody it self. The text say's Reality then shows a picture of a hairy men. Kind of a back hand of saying to Calvin Klein to get real, if you put on this cologne you won't turn in to a hunk.
One of their arguements is exaggeration though. If they are talking about "reality," then I don't really believe that a decent amount of the population is as hairy as that men. It's just probobly the same percentage as very handsom men. (1% really hairy people, 1% really handsom people) As a parody, it totally took it to the extreme under the pretense of showing you something in the average. But that is what it is suppose to do, and in my opinion it did a good job of doing so.
Post 12
The picture intended to appeal to my sexually, and it has. What attracted me to this ad sexually? The figure of her body is amazing and draws me in instantly. It has a very waif look that compels me to look up and down at the picture many times.
Her face is an important aspect to notice as well in terms of sexual appeal. We are unable to see her eyes at all. The large bangs cover that up completely. A mysterious air is about her because of that. I can tell she has high cheek bones which is very attractive though, and her mouth has a pleasant shape. Her hand is placed near her mouth which can't help me but wonder what kind of person she is. Is she innocent, timid, or knows that gesture turns men on?
One last thing about the sex appeal is that her hand is through her shirt. This does make it hard to judge her chest, but in a way makes me intrigued even more. This ad plain out is appealing to my dream girl. It definitely got me, bad. (Also definitely appropriate, even for children.)
There was no extreme exaggeration of pathos in this ad. No slippery slope, no scare tactic, or anything. Just plain out a very attractive woman with a designer name. Although, there is a little ambiguousness though. If you buy an Calvin Klein apparel, you may or may not perhaps be stunningly beautiful. I'm guessing this woman would be in the top 98% percentile of attractiveness. (In my eyes)
This is a tough call indeed. When I see the ad I just see a beautiful woman, I could care less about the designer. But the ad is all about the designer, so who is it appealing to? I'm guessing women would be more impacted by this ad of an attractive lady. This is pathos for them, and it is indeed exaggerating. Not all woman are that beautiful, and buying a brand certainly won't make you more beautiful. Going for insecure women maybe..
In my opinion this ad is unfair for the majority of the woman who read it, as it an unreal view of most woman. So it does exaggerate pathos in that respect.
Sunday, April 1, 2007
post 11
There is no color at all. There seems to be one alignment that is dominant. The one in the middle right, which is just mostly a blob seems aligned just off center to subtract the other potential focus object. The other alignment is more near the top left of the picture. Together you can't really focus on both at the same time.
Immediately your eyes are looking for patterns. You try and make sense of webs but it seems like it is tilting. If you look at some of the main features it seems to change a little bit in your perception each time you look.
The size isn't a desktop wallpaper size thank goodness. It's just a nice modest small size. The picture is able to get in to your eyes fully at first glance.
The choice of material isn't clear at all. To this point of examining all of this, I'm not sure if it is paint, digitally rendered stuff, or what. Very absorbing topic to fall in to while gazing at the photograph.
Mysterious is one word that I would describe the overall mechanics of this paper. There is just a limited range of actual material that you can see which is placed in such a way that strains the neurons in my mind. I can't seem to grasp anything about it coherently. I believe that this is an emotional attachment because of the visual aspect of it. There is only a message that formed in the picture that came in the form of confusion that reached me.
Immediately your eyes are looking for patterns. You try and make sense of webs but it seems like it is tilting. If you look at some of the main features it seems to change a little bit in your perception each time you look.
The size isn't a desktop wallpaper size thank goodness. It's just a nice modest small size. The picture is able to get in to your eyes fully at first glance.
The choice of material isn't clear at all. To this point of examining all of this, I'm not sure if it is paint, digitally rendered stuff, or what. Very absorbing topic to fall in to while gazing at the photograph.
Mysterious is one word that I would describe the overall mechanics of this paper. There is just a limited range of actual material that you can see which is placed in such a way that strains the neurons in my mind. I can't seem to grasp anything about it coherently. I believe that this is an emotional attachment because of the visual aspect of it. There is only a message that formed in the picture that came in the form of confusion that reached me.
post 10
There were a few photos before I picked this one that seemed just as good candidates. But this photo had the advantage of being last seen, and I was too lazy to click back. This was really good.
I saw that there was no color at first. Thats what made me stay there for the first minute. I was glaring at it, first at the no color scheme, then at the shapes.
Then my mind was wondering that the picture began beating to the bass of the song. I looked back at the song and it was bouncing. I liked what it got. It got a nice pace up and down. I turned it down and started really reflecting on it.
There was this pause between the beating and the non-beating. This photo makes you reflect, but only reflect on how you're trying so hard to reflect at that same time. Thats the only thing you can think about, is reflecting over the actual reflecting process.
This photo is just eluding to my conscious, so it can only run loops. But a quick reality frame snap and I'm right back to the same beat.
Clouds in the sky is analogous to this picture. There was a memory of my childhood when I was taken back to the point where my teacher handed out marshmellows. We just ate them and looked at the sky. Since that time I just stare at the clouds and see what I've got up there. Different perspective of objects go and in my mind.
I saw that there was no color at first. Thats what made me stay there for the first minute. I was glaring at it, first at the no color scheme, then at the shapes.
Then my mind was wondering that the picture began beating to the bass of the song. I looked back at the song and it was bouncing. I liked what it got. It got a nice pace up and down. I turned it down and started really reflecting on it.
There was this pause between the beating and the non-beating. This photo makes you reflect, but only reflect on how you're trying so hard to reflect at that same time. Thats the only thing you can think about, is reflecting over the actual reflecting process.
This photo is just eluding to my conscious, so it can only run loops. But a quick reality frame snap and I'm right back to the same beat.
Clouds in the sky is analogous to this picture. There was a memory of my childhood when I was taken back to the point where my teacher handed out marshmellows. We just ate them and looked at the sky. Since that time I just stare at the clouds and see what I've got up there. Different perspective of objects go and in my mind.
Post 9
There is a snow white background. Everything varies from gray to white to dark. A large fraction of the darkness is situated in the quadrant middle-right box. A normal thirty second gaze would yield nothing. The object drags in to a center of focus.
A little below the top left is a small piece of darkness as well. A larger dark near the right center of the object in the corner is more predominant.
There is no real hint of the rainbow in this piece. Only shades are located on this canvas. (The rest of the pieces in the gallery under the artist do not have color as well.)
There seems to be a little more shade around in the third and fourth quadrants than the first and second quadrants. It some places it seems like the white seeps out to the other white that border it in general. There is a melt on to the page.
The type of technique that was put on to this piece is unknown. There is a very simple answer, but was just not found on the page displaying the gallery.
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Falling the first step of a Journey
Walking down the movie theater steps with that strip of light to the side, my heart was pounding faster than the light bulbs that I passed. It was still before the previews, so the lights were just dimmed. I got to the front of the theater where you can’t sit because you’re too close and stood in the middle. A little bar was separating me from the crowd seated for the movie “300.” There was no stopping now.
“Hey! Does anyone actually care about this?” My index fingers were pointed at the ad saying you can put ads on the movie screen. I was going to start off with telling them how bringing a kid to Victoria Secret would be the perfect occasion for holding the store up. “What’s your favorite ethnicity of kids?” A shut up is yelled and before I can start the second sentence the booing starts.
I didn’t get a chance to finish one joke walking back to the top of the stairs to rejoin my friends. So many things that I did wrong were coming to my mind on the way up, and I honestly don’t believe that one of them was that it was in a movie theater. All in all though, I had just taken my first step to being a comedian. A dream of mine was materializing for the first time in my life.
There are two main dreams in my life that but one is related to trees growing over the world replenishing a lush life that use to be.
The feasible one involves becoming a person who makes people laugh. I feel ambiguous saying this, but I really think I’m really funny. This self confidence is only reinforced through my friends. When I’m with them I can think of good jokes and such, but for some reason they all revolve around rape and pillaging. I’ve somehow to managed to diversify them a bit, so I think I can take on my jokes to a stage. Every activity I do I seem to over think things, but perhaps this pursuit will be something that favors that aspect.
Everyone has dreams in their life and for some reason very few take steps towards them. For a while I didn’t know the reason consciously but on the subconscious level I knew why. I was just scared. I was scared of embarrassment and would wonder how I would keep the terrible memory from taking over my life.
Throughout my life I have always taken the safe side. I have never gotten out of my comfort zone to do something. Sometimes I think I have, but in reality it’s nothing. “What has two thumbs and loves getting head? This Guy!” (The last part is very long and very drawn out.) It seemed ballsy to me at first, but then I realize I was getting nothing out of it. I got laughs out of girls but then what? I couldn’t continue a conversation with opener, I couldn’t do much with it. I didn’t get over my fear of opening random girls, I took a detour that took me nowhere.
But that night at the movies, I took a chance and it was totally rejected. The feeling I hated, but the experience I loved. The feeling of rejection, of hurt, and of confusion just lead to the desire of me becoming the best to show them all up. There is a possibility of becoming a star. Even if I fail, and grow up malnourished and homeless, it would be falling hard with something that I loved to do.
Everyone in the world should follow their dreams. We would have inspiration all around us and wonders through out the world. The drive everyone had for their dreams could possibly lead to a peace and a calming through the world. The world will be dream like and the people will be gods.
There is a terrible feeling that I have about how I have taken one step for one of my dreams and that has opened up that path. But the other path is currently closed off. I haven’t taken a huge chance like the movie theater with girls. And actually, there is nothing to lose, just some embarrassing memories which can easily be turned in to humorous ones.
From now on I’m taking a baby step everyday. Three thousand baby steps can probably make a lap around any average size house. That analogy could be used for life if you think about it.
The sum of this paper is explaining to my self that there is nothing to lose and everything to gain if you just go for your dreams. But why is it so hard? Why can’t I just go up to any girl and say what I want to say? These are questions that cannot be answered and should just be ignored. But…
There are so many buts in the pursuit. So much doubt follows everyone every step of their life. Your body isn’t helping either. You’re wired to take the safe side so you can higher rates of reproductive success. If a hunter and gatherers dream was to just make peace with the earth’s natural disasters like tsunamis, then he would die. But that’s not the case in today’s society of education and police! There are checks and balances and everyone knows that you need proper to apply proper physics dynamics before you can fly.
So all in all, I’ve talked a lot about “going for it.” Talk is cheap, I’m going to go back to sitting on my computer. Actually, screw that. My life can turn in to an absolute dream and fantasy if I just apply some effort and am willing to fail. Here I go.
Sunday, March 4, 2007
Post 8
This is the day right after probation. I think it's still kind of childish, and I will look back on it with a child like grin. My parent's won't be wanting me to do this, but I think they kind of expect them. I think I should slowly let them in on them so the shock isn't so bad. Maybe they won't find out.
I guess everyone misses being a child and everyone having their dreams on. I guess I don't know, I know some people still have their dreams going on ever as a teen ager and as an adult. I kind of know why I'm not, but I don't think it will be too hard to get back to it. I've got really big plans, and I really hope to go for them.
I've been thinking of this day for a while now. I've done it a lot during probation, but off probation it will be amazing. It will be free, and it will be just like good old times. I can't wait I can't wait.
I've been thinking that this 250 word count. And I'm thinking if I just do 250 words, I'll come off as abusing the new system! I don't want to come out like that?
If you read this mindless rant.. :P
When I was a child I felt like my dreams had so much more emotional intact impact on me. I dreamed of a real big dance in an oasis in the desert that lasted all day. Everyone was happy and stayed happy for ever. Ever need was catered to. People could dance socialize and be free from worry, expectation, and regret. Where did my dreams go to, it's kind of sad. I still have the dreams, but I think my grasp on reality is too hard so I believe I can't believe any more. I don't dream as intense as I do. (By dream I mean just sitting in my room day dreaming.) I think I've been influenced to reality too much. I think it's time I find a way to escape reality for long enough to remember what it's like.
My parents actually hung up a picture just like this. I love it, I wonder if they still have it.
My parents actually hung up a picture just like this. I love it, I wonder if they still have it.
I guess everyone misses being a child and everyone having their dreams on. I guess I don't know, I know some people still have their dreams going on ever as a teen ager and as an adult. I kind of know why I'm not, but I don't think it will be too hard to get back to it. I've got really big plans, and I really hope to go for them.
I've been thinking of this day for a while now. I've done it a lot during probation, but off probation it will be amazing. It will be free, and it will be just like good old times. I can't wait I can't wait.
I've been thinking that this 250 word count. And I'm thinking if I just do 250 words, I'll come off as abusing the new system! I don't want to come out like that?
If you read this mindless rant.. :P
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Post 7
These shovels were not made to be shoveling dirt. They were made to aesthetically please the rich eyes aristocrats in the seventeenth century ,also to intimidate the other neighbors who did not have the same caliber of faux shovels. These particular shovels were made by an artisan named Jefalor. There was no magic involved in making these shovels, just time and dedication above a hot forge and a sweaty brow.A century later, a poor man found these shovels in the ruins of a castle on top of a mountain surrounded by a pristine lake filled with rocks at the bottom. He was so confused by the shovels. What can he do with shovel that couldn't dig? On the walk home, he accidentally pricked himself carrying them. These shovels were razor sharp, despite all the years of inactivity. Not that they were used really, like I said, they were used to please eyes.
Later that day, there was a sky of red tint. There were warriors on wolves coming over the mountains in front of setting sun. Back then, they rode wolves. Timber wolves.
The village that the peasant lived in had about four or five huts. They lived in a valley where trees and fruits were plentiful year long. Unfortunately, because they are in a valley, it is hard for them to escape if timber wolves riding warriors come over the mountain in front of a setting sun in the hazy red sky.
The peasant who cut with him self was bleeding profusely. He was too busy dealing with that when he got cut down by the warriors on wolves. The village people were slaughtered in the matter of minutes. While the warriors were feasting on the plentiful and savory fruit and vegetables, a volcano erupts from one of the mountains. The lava didn't actually flow in to the valley, it flowed on to the other side. However, dust fell on the village for three days straight. Village was preserved in dust.
Two hundred years later, archaeologist found the shovels and found them very interesting. They took pictures.
Post 6
Opening the site in to my browser the first thing I see is The New York Times logo. Immediately I feel like this site is from a very responsible and prestigious source. I have heard this newspaper as being a great newspaper, but I don't remember where. It just seems that New York is such a big city with such a modern influence on America, it seems like it's news paper would be very exceptional.
The layout however, just seems like any one else's blog. I don't believe it's much different from any of the student blogs, except each little section is filled with information. One very notable difference is the bar at the top of the blog. It has many different topics which can be expanded in to even more topics. For example, if you click on art, there are six different sub-genres you can click on. Then if you click on a sub-genres, sometimes you can find a sub-sub-genre for that particular sub-genre. The top bar is a wealth of information for anything you are looking for.
The funny thing is that I can't seem to find the screens blog page if I go navigate the New York Times site. It might be a lower tier blog, so it can't be placed on, nevertheless the screens blog page is very interesting.
The page is totally white, black, and blue. White is the background, black is the text, and blue is the hyper-links. This is very effective in terms of a blog page, because it's very easy to read and understand. The information is clearly defined. The blogs take up 75% of the page, and the other 25% are mostly on the right side, small boxes with different stuff. (Like links to other blogs, other keywords, and some information about the author.
Getting to the content of the screens page, in the definition is proclaims it " will find, review and make sense of all those senseless new images." The author, whom I believe to be a female, is talking about internet content most likely released by amateurs in to the data world. Finding the one she finds interesting, informative, or really whatever she wants, she'll right a review about and post it on the blog.
Without even scrolling down, you can see that the most recent post is a video from youtube, not some TV footage or news source. Straight from the heart of the internet crowd, she takes it and dissects it in her own mental tools.
In all honesty, the blogs aren't that different from the ones in engl1020 section 10 class. All of ours are simplistic, just like the Screens one. We all have random stuff, just like that one. The only constraint that the Screens has is the internet base, and ours mostly deals with the internet as well. Even the language and grammar conventions seem the same as some of ours! It just seems like that one is famous.
The layout however, just seems like any one else's blog. I don't believe it's much different from any of the student blogs, except each little section is filled with information. One very notable difference is the bar at the top of the blog. It has many different topics which can be expanded in to even more topics. For example, if you click on art, there are six different sub-genres you can click on. Then if you click on a sub-genres, sometimes you can find a sub-sub-genre for that particular sub-genre. The top bar is a wealth of information for anything you are looking for.
The funny thing is that I can't seem to find the screens blog page if I go navigate the New York Times site. It might be a lower tier blog, so it can't be placed on, nevertheless the screens blog page is very interesting.
The page is totally white, black, and blue. White is the background, black is the text, and blue is the hyper-links. This is very effective in terms of a blog page, because it's very easy to read and understand. The information is clearly defined. The blogs take up 75% of the page, and the other 25% are mostly on the right side, small boxes with different stuff. (Like links to other blogs, other keywords, and some information about the author.
Getting to the content of the screens page, in the definition is proclaims it " will find, review and make sense of all those senseless new images." The author, whom I believe to be a female, is talking about internet content most likely released by amateurs in to the data world. Finding the one she finds interesting, informative, or really whatever she wants, she'll right a review about and post it on the blog.
Without even scrolling down, you can see that the most recent post is a video from youtube, not some TV footage or news source. Straight from the heart of the internet crowd, she takes it and dissects it in her own mental tools.
In all honesty, the blogs aren't that different from the ones in engl1020 section 10 class. All of ours are simplistic, just like the Screens one. We all have random stuff, just like that one. The only constraint that the Screens has is the internet base, and ours mostly deals with the internet as well. Even the language and grammar conventions seem the same as some of ours! It just seems like that one is famous.
Sunday, February 11, 2007
There is small pub on a corner of
Shaking the hands of the coordinator, I sit down at a dark maple table with her. From my field of vision, I can see two tables where speed dating is going on clearly. The men are the ones that move from female to the other female. A man with a plaid red shirt, tan khakis, and slightly dirty work boots stands up quickly without a goodbye to the female from the chair when the bell is rung. Maybe he didn’t care for the speed date he was leaving. He had a small hunch and stumbled a bit while walking to his next table. He didn’t look like he had confidence in himself which because of his stature, or he maybe just had too much to drink. With a smile and hand extended, he walks to a women out of my field of vision and begins to say his name.
The coordinator is a thirty six year old woman who looks like she is thirty four. Here is the kicker, her real name is Rebecca but she wants to be called Becca. “I’m on the fucking fast track while my boyfriend is on the fucking slow one; I’m at that age where if I want a family I need to do it now.” She got comfortable with me fast, to the point that it made me slightly uncomfortable, but she had a personality that made this observation bearable.
Seven women and five men ages thirty to forty five litter the space allotted. There are tables arranged in a cluttered fashion inside a small room like the one’s you see for private parties in country buffet. Strings of a banjo are being played softly through the speakers placed at the corners of the room, just enough to accompany any awkward silence. There are no cigarettes here, just empty drinks and beer bottles.
Before she started talking about her tribulations and woes with her relationship, she was explaining the ins-and-outs of her service. Every month she holds a few different events with all different age groups ranging from mid-twenties to late forties. Anything after that age you get menopause and erectile dysfunction. Most people are here, in her opinion, to find long term mates through an environment which lets them see many choices quickly. In the animal kingdom, this is common behavior for many species, the male and females will congregate where they can select who they wish to mate with. Becca thinks this is a more direct approach that allows people who have a hard time interacting with people can feel more comfortable because everyone is there for the same purpose.
The plaid red-shirt man was moving his fingers in a circular motion above a red card. The card rotated like how pin wheels move when blown by air. His face stared at the card. She probably had the impression that the card was much more entertaining for him. Was he just nervous and showing this tick or could it be he’s just showing active disinterest? Saying the word’s uh-huh and nodding his head to respond yes seems like his only means of communication.
When I first saw the business guy I didn’t think much of him. He had chubby cheeks, a balding head, and at most five-seven. He walked with normal confidence, head up and back straight. He was heading to the girl closest to me, though she was behind a wall so I couldn’t see her.
Business guy didn’t like this woman. At first he was doing the talking, but thirty seconds in he took the defensive position of crossing his arms. Fifteen seconds later he got up, walk toward me and Becca, and said, “Well that was short, where is the bathroom?” Becca went to talk to the woman. I caught a glimpse and saw a very surprising appearance. She was a tall and slender spiky highlighted hair woman that looked to be forty five. Garmented in army khakis and an artistic print shirt, her stature screamed a dominant personality. Words were exchanged between her and the person unloading relationship problems on me.
“I’ve never met that kind of person before.” Business person was referring to the spiky haired woman while crossing his legs in the chair in front of me. He began to tell Becca that he expected many more people here and was slightly disappointed. Somehow he threw in that he owned a house and
Out of all the men there, he was the only one that didn’t seem introverted and nervous. He could only talk about his money however when I was interviewing him. His success, his name dropping, and his confidence overwhelmed me. The woman he was hoping to find here was a “half-full, half-empty” kind of woman. “A woman who would fly to
Post 5
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Through the Spanish, alcova, from the Arabic, al-, the, and quobbah, a vault. The most common fossilized part of the internal shell is called the "guard" or "cigar" consisting of a massive, generally brown-colored, subcylindrical structure called the rostrum that encloses the chambered shell and extends to the rear where it tapers to a conical apex. It reached the United States around 1869 and — to judge from the number of newspaper references in that year — became as wildly popular as it had earlier in France and Britain. You may perhaps have been somewhat surprised my Dearest Marianne, that in the Distress I then endured, destitute of any support, and unprovided with any Habitation. To suppress or alter by elision; to strike out (a word or passage) Azna, the original developer of structured design, based on Martin and Estrin's "data flow graph" model of computation. Data flow diagrams (DFDs) are one of the three essential perspectives of SSADM. They are usually found near vegetation and occasionally near brackish waters. For example, a short-lived plant species that completes its reproductive life cycle during periods (such as a rainy season) when the salt concentration is low would be avoiding salt rather than tolerating it. Lack of wisdom. Several video clips which show the actions of Juba have been circulated through the Internet. The official website has been updated with this year's information and entry form. Teams must signup by Febuary 21st to avoid paying the $5.00 late fee. Otherwise signups may be turned in up until March 1st. The username lampback is not currently registered. Keep an eye out for us on tour with CONVERGE and PRIESTESS kicking off on Jan 26th and some newly added dates in Australia and New Zealand! Also, we've just added some US tour dates in March for the western side! At NEB, enzyme production is linked to basic research in the cloning and overexpression of restriction/modification enzyme systems. Characterized by or having small motile male gametes and large nonmotile female gametes. The Palladian, Serlian, or Venetian window features largely in Palladio's work, almost a trademark in his early career. Usually bands have stuff about themselves on their home page, & we had stuff about ourselves up for a while in the beginning, but ever since the war started its all been anti-war stuff. We are the Philippine Aluminum Wheels, Inc. (PAWI). There can be no doubt that behind all the actions of this court of justice, that is to say in my case, behind my arrest and today's interrogation, there is a great organization at work. In recent decades the tamburi or instrumental tambura (tanpura) has become popular. Polarized migrating T cells possess 2 poles, the uropod protrusion at the rear and the leading edge at the front, with specific protein composition and function. Having the shape or motion of a worm. Try to become king of the monsters by spelling as many words as you can in three minutes. Work has been as manic as usual and we’re still a couple of people down - that and the director of our department has resigned and left on Thursday. Welcome to Zareba Systems — your complete source for designing and building an electric fence that will safely control whatever animal you've got, from small pets to horses or cows.
http://www.zarebasystems.com/
Thursday, February 1, 2007
Post 4
I’m doing this for my self. I’m doing this for my future. And I’m doing it for a grade. This is perfect incentive for me to finally do it. The area of girls in my life has yet to be born in my life. Well technically speaking I have been around girls my whole life, but interacting with them besides my mom is something I have actively avoided in my most recent years. I have many lame excuses that have come about by introverted fetal curling, but in reality, it doesn’t really matter why I get nervous around girls, why I choke, and why the most physical interaction with a girl I’ve had is a tackle from a tom-boy. I just need to do it, I need to get over my fears.
"The Game" is the book that made me realize that I can build up skill to interact with girls and I can change my situation. The author wasn’t much different from me; actually I would go as far to say worse off. He was a short balding man in his thirties with a talent for writing. He had this gig to write something about a man who claimed to put “women under his spell.” He had doubts, just like I had doubts in the starting chapters of the book. Then it got interesting… (I’ll leave the rest of the book for your entertainment) In short he becomes a player in a way that it made me feel like I can also achieve success like Neil.
This isn’t some creepy way like pheromones in your cologne or chloroform rags. It’s an intimidation of “natural” men who are confident and get ladies, yet takes it to another level explanation so anyone man can do it. The reason I say any man can do it, is because the mentor of Neil, a man named “Mystery,” has said that women aren’t only attracted to men’s looks. Confidence, humor, ECT.
Alpha men can be classified as naturals. You’ve seen it everywhere, guys who just get chicks. How do they do it? What do they say? Mystery explains this in his book. Mystery is one of the many people who have a guideline to help AFCs like me. (Average Frustrated Chump.) Another name is David Deangelo, whose books focus on being cocky funny and a strong personal identity.
There are many texts to help me, and I’m going to try and use them all. Getting to the point of the actual observational essay, I’m going to write my experiences approaching women anywhere I can. If I was of legal age to enter bars and such, it would be easier as females and males congregate there to socialize, contrast to malls, where they usually have a purpose other than socializing.
I don’t expect much, I don’t expect much at all. My rationalization is that I need to build up confidence to talk to these girls, and rejection is part of it. David said that out of 100 girls that you would like to date, maybe 30 of them will actually talk to you, and only 15 are nice and friendly. I’m ready to accept that one out of 100 will talk to me, and I’m going to write about all the failures in between.
I’m not going to just go up and talk to them, like hey how are you going. That is kind of creepy and unnecessary. One point mystery made is that building comfort with them first and before hand is a big no-no, and just leaves to being blown off. Straight up, no nervous twitching, legs spread apart are some things I have to work on. But I hope to get more, and I hope to achieve some confidence with just that. Hopefully in a few months I’ll be able to keep going 2 minutes of conversation.
I’m very aware this all sounds really kind of ridiculous, and stupid. But I’m going to give it a shot, and a really good shot at it. I’ve been criticized by my friends who just it’s a load of bull shit, (which I’m sure many people think) but to me it is a chance of salvation, and I’ve heard so much success, and with Neil’s book it gives me a lot of hope.
So I’m going to do it!
"The Game" is the book that made me realize that I can build up skill to interact with girls and I can change my situation. The author wasn’t much different from me; actually I would go as far to say worse off. He was a short balding man in his thirties with a talent for writing. He had this gig to write something about a man who claimed to put “women under his spell.” He had doubts, just like I had doubts in the starting chapters of the book. Then it got interesting… (I’ll leave the rest of the book for your entertainment) In short he becomes a player in a way that it made me feel like I can also achieve success like Neil.
This isn’t some creepy way like pheromones in your cologne or chloroform rags. It’s an intimidation of “natural” men who are confident and get ladies, yet takes it to another level explanation so anyone man can do it. The reason I say any man can do it, is because the mentor of Neil, a man named “Mystery,” has said that women aren’t only attracted to men’s looks. Confidence, humor, ECT.
Alpha men can be classified as naturals. You’ve seen it everywhere, guys who just get chicks. How do they do it? What do they say? Mystery explains this in his book. Mystery is one of the many people who have a guideline to help AFCs like me. (Average Frustrated Chump.) Another name is David Deangelo, whose books focus on being cocky funny and a strong personal identity.
There are many texts to help me, and I’m going to try and use them all. Getting to the point of the actual observational essay, I’m going to write my experiences approaching women anywhere I can. If I was of legal age to enter bars and such, it would be easier as females and males congregate there to socialize, contrast to malls, where they usually have a purpose other than socializing.
I don’t expect much, I don’t expect much at all. My rationalization is that I need to build up confidence to talk to these girls, and rejection is part of it. David said that out of 100 girls that you would like to date, maybe 30 of them will actually talk to you, and only 15 are nice and friendly. I’m ready to accept that one out of 100 will talk to me, and I’m going to write about all the failures in between.
I’m not going to just go up and talk to them, like hey how are you going. That is kind of creepy and unnecessary. One point mystery made is that building comfort with them first and before hand is a big no-no, and just leaves to being blown off. Straight up, no nervous twitching, legs spread apart are some things I have to work on. But I hope to get more, and I hope to achieve some confidence with just that. Hopefully in a few months I’ll be able to keep going 2 minutes of conversation.
I’m very aware this all sounds really kind of ridiculous, and stupid. But I’m going to give it a shot, and a really good shot at it. I’ve been criticized by my friends who just it’s a load of bull shit, (which I’m sure many people think) but to me it is a chance of salvation, and I’ve heard so much success, and with Neil’s book it gives me a lot of hope.
So I’m going to do it!
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Post 3
Sometimes I can't bare to watch Micheal Scott (played by Steve Carell) in the show "The Office" say some of the things he says. I have to walk away and come back in a second because I'm way too embarassed for him, even though he seems oblivious in the show. In my opinion he is the focal point of the show. His personality is comedic in itself, but also allows the other characters in the show to play off him for more humor.
Many Americans in some way or another will instinctually understand the humor that is being played here in my opinion. These jokes all involve something American as well as ignorance that this “oddball” Michael shows. That’s why I think that any American who comes across this clip on youtube can find this humorous. It’s playing on the basic knowledge that Americans should be expected to have, and makes fun of it.
The content of this video provides a prime example of Michael Scott leads the show in a direction heading toward a really funny place. In this particular clip he is talking about a fund raising event, yet the whole office isn’t really quite sure who they are donating to. Subsequently, jokes can be placed here, and they are with Toby and Michael arguing, as well as Jim enticing Michael in a pronunciation of the Afghan race.
The clip was altered just by cropping it out of the whole episode. The before and after of the clip being questioned isn’t really that important. The whole scene is its own segment of humor, and the scenes before it are different aspects. It’s not like a story where you really have to know background about characters or anything. Michael Scott is so stand out-ish; I think anyone can understand the dynamics of his character after the first sentence he says.
I also believe that you will have the same reaction to the clip even if you watched it on the TV or on the LCD. There is no reason for the experience to be different. The television has shows that are for entertainment, and the computer can also be a source of entertainment. If you are looking for entertainment, there should be no qualms where you are. If this clip was a source of information, I also believe that the medium isn’t too important. I think the only important difference between watching it on the internet and the T.V. is that the internet can have a community buildup around anything on the internet, whereas TV it is much harder.
For example, on this clip, you can see the comments below the clip. If you were searching for clips of the office, you would probably have known about it, and not clicked randomly and got to The Office. All these people searched for the office, and all experience the clip. Now they can talk about the funny, the characters, and the drama. There is an active discussion going on at any time basically. This is not something the TV can do. They can also link to more clips, and network The Office even more. However, if a visitor, such as my self, just wanted to find a clip and watch it, the interaction stops there. I was just fortunate enough to have a medium provide it for me.
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Post 2
Who, what, when, where, and why? And who? Are the questions I’m going to be asking and answering for you in this five-hundred word post.
First is who are we going to evaluate. http://www.luelinks.net/ is what I eluded to in the previous post. The story begins in a community on the website where my cute little asian self who liked videogames of the age of 10 and 11 went to get cheats. I stumbled upon a “social” board, which differentiates from the video-game discussions by having more general kinds of topics. (I don’t even remember how I got to lue, (which stands for Life, the Universe, and Everything) For the first time in my life I saw a large community of most likely introverted people posted on a message board and had fun (in my puppy-dogged eyes). I immediately started sulking, not posting but reading the hundreds of posts posted every minute. Never for a second was I not amused by reading the forums. This lue was a personality to me, an organism that was made a collected number of social inept people with a great chance of having their gene's quest for eternal life through reproduction totally eradicated.
In regards to the second question in the first sentence, lue is a community board that uses a medium of message boards that allows many to communicate on www.gamefaqs.com. Note gamefaqs lue and luelinks are not alike! But they are kin.
When? When I was 10 or 11 to get cheats for my video games.
Where? Gamefaqs.com then luelinks.net
Why? Here we go… Why is there a luelinks with a message board and a gamefaqs message board that is called lue? Well, I loved to lurk to lue’s mumblings on gamefaqs because it was comedic to me. They had a charm, strange mix of elitism and wit in every single post. Stuff you wouldn’t say to your best friend you would openely say here to the collective conscious of lue. For a twelve year old I was grossly entertained yet horrified by pictures of things like tubse, goatgirl, and pains. I encrypted that message!, don’t bother looking for them (even though they are very old and very well known by now)
They performed group things like raid a girl in heaven’s blogspot. (Terrible, terrible, and terrible I know, but in my opinion it was funny) Bolder and more courageous lue grew, but eventually the father of the site cut them down. He didn’t allow anymore people to get on to lue except the people who registered. In reality it made them feel more bonded and more as an organism. During that time a Llama made a site called luelinks for the luesers. It was used as a code, since you couldn’t link to offensive combat, you would post a luelink code, and then go to luelinks from the gamefaqs site and put in code and get linked. Nifty. Eventually luelinks got it’s own message board, and then the split happened. More people liked luelinks because it didn’t have the nazirules of gamefaqs that resulted from a merger with cnet. (????) People started getting banned from the lue on gamefaqs, and since they couldn’t get back to lue because the man didn’t’ allow anyone to register for gamefaqs lue they went to luelinks. I got banned, I said I was twelve when I was seventeen (I KNOW ITS SAD), and you can’t be under 13. So I went to luelinks and now I’m sticking with it.
It’s sad to say but I grew up with it. I never had much of a life compared to the “ghost life” (I say ghost because I hardly even communicated, just read everyone elses) of lue. I learned all the lingo, I recognized the famous luesers (hard to explain, and kind of makes me feel a little low explaining that), and went through all the transformation.
You can pay to get in to luelinks kind of, if you know someone in there and pay them $20 dollars to them. (This kind of made me feel like luelinks is exclusive)
Who is luelinks? It’s a friend who I like to listen to talk and likes the information he gives me.
First is who are we going to evaluate. http://www.luelinks.net/ is what I eluded to in the previous post. The story begins in a community on the website where my cute little asian self who liked videogames of the age of 10 and 11 went to get cheats. I stumbled upon a “social” board, which differentiates from the video-game discussions by having more general kinds of topics. (I don’t even remember how I got to lue, (which stands for Life, the Universe, and Everything) For the first time in my life I saw a large community of most likely introverted people posted on a message board and had fun (in my puppy-dogged eyes). I immediately started sulking, not posting but reading the hundreds of posts posted every minute. Never for a second was I not amused by reading the forums. This lue was a personality to me, an organism that was made a collected number of social inept people with a great chance of having their gene's quest for eternal life through reproduction totally eradicated.
In regards to the second question in the first sentence, lue is a community board that uses a medium of message boards that allows many to communicate on www.gamefaqs.com. Note gamefaqs lue and luelinks are not alike! But they are kin.
When? When I was 10 or 11 to get cheats for my video games.
Where? Gamefaqs.com then luelinks.net
Why? Here we go… Why is there a luelinks with a message board and a gamefaqs message board that is called lue? Well, I loved to lurk to lue’s mumblings on gamefaqs because it was comedic to me. They had a charm, strange mix of elitism and wit in every single post. Stuff you wouldn’t say to your best friend you would openely say here to the collective conscious of lue. For a twelve year old I was grossly entertained yet horrified by pictures of things like tubse, goatgirl, and pains. I encrypted that message!, don’t bother looking for them (even though they are very old and very well known by now)
They performed group things like raid a girl in heaven’s blogspot. (Terrible, terrible, and terrible I know, but in my opinion it was funny) Bolder and more courageous lue grew, but eventually the father of the site cut them down. He didn’t allow anymore people to get on to lue except the people who registered. In reality it made them feel more bonded and more as an organism. During that time a Llama made a site called luelinks for the luesers. It was used as a code, since you couldn’t link to offensive combat, you would post a luelink code, and then go to luelinks from the gamefaqs site and put in code and get linked. Nifty. Eventually luelinks got it’s own message board, and then the split happened. More people liked luelinks because it didn’t have the nazirules of gamefaqs that resulted from a merger with cnet. (????) People started getting banned from the lue on gamefaqs, and since they couldn’t get back to lue because the man didn’t’ allow anyone to register for gamefaqs lue they went to luelinks. I got banned, I said I was twelve when I was seventeen (I KNOW ITS SAD), and you can’t be under 13. So I went to luelinks and now I’m sticking with it.
It’s sad to say but I grew up with it. I never had much of a life compared to the “ghost life” (I say ghost because I hardly even communicated, just read everyone elses) of lue. I learned all the lingo, I recognized the famous luesers (hard to explain, and kind of makes me feel a little low explaining that), and went through all the transformation.
You can pay to get in to luelinks kind of, if you know someone in there and pay them $20 dollars to them. (This kind of made me feel like luelinks is exclusive)
Who is luelinks? It’s a friend who I like to listen to talk and likes the information he gives me.
Post 1
Okay, so you’ve just finished typing www.luelinks.net in to your web browser and take a sip of your monster energy drink. The first thing that you cannot escape from is noticing the red tinted background at a subconscious level and a conscious level in those first bars at the bottom right corner. (Which indicates how complete the page is, so you probably have only ¼ of the page done, but you can see the colors. Personally, the color came off to me as an average bold scheme. ) The hyperlinks on the page are just the titles of some internet news article that are “a little fresh” as I would say. Maybe they are scientific breakthroughs, pop psychology, or just text like Biggest Russian Spammer Got Killed, which is enough of a justification to put those pesky ads on the right hand so the owner can make a little extra cash to fund the bandwidth hog behind the log in screen.
Of course you can see the medium is a website with interesting stuff with an average bold color scheme. BUT, with a log-in screen…..
“How are we going to get in?” is what you could be thinking. I’m a member, duh! Ok, typing in password…. And now for the log-in. Hmm I did it reverse. Voila! I’m in and I’m taken to a light blue sky vanilla color scheme, (which is the default, you can change it to whatever color you want using the codes like #FFFFFF(white) and #99CC00(color of leaves in spring)). Ah so as a member I take a look at the poll to the right, usually posted six months earlier.
I’m going to get to the jest of the game I’m playing between me and the word count. This site is a sub genre of the information sites with the regards is that it is a cumulative link site, and by links I mean links to anything regarded to anything that is on the net. Is it an ambiguous claim? Yes. Also I think it’s kind of biased because I use this site.
Luelinks is basically a site where a very private place of about 10000 members (More explanation in Post 2), has accumulated about half a 139000 links. Some examples of links in my favorites is Legend of Hidden Temple Episodes, Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory, and Sign up for a Tree!
The interface is composed of simplicity. At the top of the screen in luelinks you have a simple toolbar that directs you to over 10 areas of the site that only takes up 1/30th of the screen. Then the stuff is in the rest of that fraction to equal one.
This site is a comrade that has been around since I was a child. Looking back on this post, if I was to take the username and password in my saved password internet thingy and delete it, it would be beneficial to my life. But right now it is the only medium in which I can experience social interactions in my life!
Of course you can see the medium is a website with interesting stuff with an average bold color scheme. BUT, with a log-in screen…..
“How are we going to get in?” is what you could be thinking. I’m a member, duh! Ok, typing in password…. And now for the log-in. Hmm I did it reverse. Voila! I’m in and I’m taken to a light blue sky vanilla color scheme, (which is the default, you can change it to whatever color you want using the codes like #FFFFFF(white) and #99CC00(color of leaves in spring)). Ah so as a member I take a look at the poll to the right, usually posted six months earlier.
I’m going to get to the jest of the game I’m playing between me and the word count. This site is a sub genre of the information sites with the regards is that it is a cumulative link site, and by links I mean links to anything regarded to anything that is on the net. Is it an ambiguous claim? Yes. Also I think it’s kind of biased because I use this site.
Luelinks is basically a site where a very private place of about 10000 members (More explanation in Post 2), has accumulated about half a 139000 links. Some examples of links in my favorites is Legend of Hidden Temple Episodes, Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory, and Sign up for a Tree!
The interface is composed of simplicity. At the top of the screen in luelinks you have a simple toolbar that directs you to over 10 areas of the site that only takes up 1/30th of the screen. Then the stuff is in the rest of that fraction to equal one.
This site is a comrade that has been around since I was a child. Looking back on this post, if I was to take the username and password in my saved password internet thingy and delete it, it would be beneficial to my life. But right now it is the only medium in which I can experience social interactions in my life!
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