Are You Missing Something?

Who here has experienced a time in their life when you were reasonably busy and were doing something purposeful, but felt like you were missing something?

College Sucks

I don't know why I feel compelled to write about this, but it could be that I am sitting here working on a humanities assignment, and the fact that I think it's a waist of a class, especially if taught on a socialist agenda. Even a right wing agenda. It all turns out to be an indoctrination class. That is my beef with a lot of schools out there. The curriculum is developed on so much of a bias that those who haven't set their own moral beliefs will believe only what they hear, and not learn all sides of the equation.

Now I'm not advocating getting rid of one bias or another. Just the perceived attitudes of a professor who will gloss over one point of view to give credence to the one they believe. I've only had one or two teachers out of the handful I've been in class with that would actually be the "devil's advocate" against their own beliefs in order to display "the other side". This is a very hard thing to do for a person, but essential for a student to understand why they take the stand that they do. This creates people who think for themselves.

There are those who will contend that students will become freethinkers even with a totally biased teacher. But that teacher who cannot "let go" enough to teach from multiple points of view will teach that their point of view is the only right one, and that leaves little room for diverse thought.

So that, my friends, is the problem I have with college in specific, and the emerging socialist system in general.

Really?

I don't know if any of you three who probably read this blog have seen this, but a six year old boy who brought his favorite camping utensil to school to eat his lunch with was forced into reform school for 45 days with hardened delinquents for it. This kid was obviously excited to be in the cub scouts. According to this Fox News report the local school board is working to change the rule that will put the boy in reform school to exclude kindergartners and first graders.

My irrelevant opinion? The school district board members and school administrators really need to use their brains, and think through a situation. The current policy means that they give this punishment out despite intent. The system of law we work on often relies on intent. Why are they exluding that as a defence for this boy?

Sweet Hubble Images

Just been checkin' out some of the images that the hubble telescope has taken. Check some of 'em out here. Really quite amazing pictures.

Can't Fathom it......

A man drowned in a jacuzzi tub after a day of drinking in florida. I can't even imagine how somebody could get so inebriated as to lose all faculties and drown in three feet of water....... Must have been some good beer and lots of good football games.

Check out Orkut- You'll Be Suprised

Just when you thought that there couldn't be room enough on the web for another social networking site, there is one more.....

Google Is Awsome

To be absolutely honest, I've been a Google customer for a long time, but have never been one to take advantage of a lot of their products outside of Gmail or the calender app. But for the past few weeks, I've been kicking myself for not learning how to program and create new apps for the internet like my younger brothers have learned to do, because if I had, I'd be working on Google wave right now, enjoying it's awsomeness. But, what I have gained from it is a new-found love for all that Google has to offer. If you haven't looked into Google beyond it's better-than-anything search function or Gmail, you must at least investigate what it has to offer. I have found tons to play around with and even more to make life easier.

Like I have mentioned, the calender function is far and away better than Microsoft Outlook because it is a whole lot easier to figure out, and it doesn't lack for features. I've dabbled with a lot of the apps for years, but like I said, the last few weeks have taught me what I can really do with Google Apps. I've really been impressed with Picasa, with it's facial recognission feature, to it's internet accessability. I enjoy the RSS reader, and have also been using it for years. I have used iGoogle as my homepage for a while as well. What I have really discovered is apps like Knol, Docs and Blogger. The genious here with google is linking it all together with one account. I don't have to sift through heaps of internet crap to get what I need. It's all here. I've found I almost always have a google tab open in my firefox window all the time.

So remember, take the time and get to know the Google Apps.