Archive for December, 2007
Jumps the shark? Probably. Do I care? No.
Thanks, TV Squad.
iMovie’s being annoying and not saving my movies correctly, so it’s only the YouTube version this time. Sorry. Anyway, it’s us decorating the christmas tree. Taken from my computer’s webcam. The song is “Landed” by Ben Folds.
Only 6 more days till Christmas!
Just for the record, I don’t do these just because I’m ego-centric. Sure, that’s about 25% of it, but the other 75% is because people ask me to. And what better place to say what I want for Christmas than my blog? I’m too lazy this time around for all the pictures, sorry. I might add some more things as I think of them. The DVDs and games are suggestions, while the other stuff is a little bit more specific. Here goes…
MBP Road Tools PodiumPad - $30
It really scares me how my Macbook Pro goes over 80 degrees (celcius) when I only have one or two programs open. The heat could warp the frame out of shape, fry the battery, or who knows what else. Which is why this PodiumPad elevates it a few inches off the ground so there’s ventilation and a better air flow. That way I won’t accidentally fry an egg on my computer…
Yes, the Christmas list is coming. I’m working on it. Just a couple more days…
Yesterday when I arrived at Beacon there was a large crowd outside of the school. One of the teachers was warning kids that the Department of Education had “randomly” chosen Beacon to set up metal detectors at. We had to put all of the electronics that we had in our backpacks and wait on line for about 15 minutes outside in the below-freezing weather.
One of the policemen outside (there were 5 police vans outside the school!) told us to put all of our “Cell phones, iPods, Xboxes, PS1s, PS2s, PS3s, PS4s, if they’ve even come out yet” in our backpacks. Yeah, because people really bring entire video game consoles to school.
Once we got in we had to put our backpacks through the security conveyor belt thingy. My backpack just barely fit. Kudos to Mr. Moscow for the dozens of history packets. Then we had to walk through the metal detector walk-through thingy, just like in airports. You know, in case someone willingly took a weapon to high school when there were metal detectors set up at the entrance. Anyone who had one would have just run away. Besides, metal detectors don’t detect drugs…
They actually didn’t take cell phones or iPods. If they had, well - that would have been a bigger deal. I just happen to be writing an essay on this for community service, and it’s a very good move on their part not to take them. It caused enough of an uproar at the middle schools when they did it - but if they took them at high schools they would officially be dead stupid.
So, instead of being 2 minutes late to Spanish I was 15 minutes late, and I wasn’t screamed at. It didn’t disrupt the day that much, except that people were between 5 and 30 minutes late to class. But still, I doubt they caught anything. Anyone with anything would have just turned around when they saw the line outside the school and gone home. Kids just don’t care enough to risk it. So, in the end it was pretty pointless.
The Department of Education has to change their policy on cell phones. Maybe this is the first step in their realization of their stupidity. I’ll post my full essay here once I finish it.
